84: The Sadistic British 'DEATH CULT' Who Tortured an Innocent Man to Death – Jimmy Prout

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🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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0:00.0	Hi everyone I hope you're all doing so well and welcome back to the Criminal Makeup podcast.
0:14.9	Each episode we dive into the minds of some of the worst criminals in history and today we are talking
0:21.2	about the case of the North Shields death cult.
0:25.3	So the North Shields death cult, they were this small cult-like group living in the north of England
0:32.1	in a town called North Shields and they were led by an
0:35.9	evil man by the name of Zahid Zaman. And Zahid was a narcissist, a con man, a fraud, he also had a tendency for extreme violence.
0:48.0	And some of the acts of violence committed in today's case are absolutely horrific. Like seriously some of the worst acts of
0:56.0	violence I've heard about in UK like UK cases and this is also a pretty recent case
1:02.0	and it's pretty unknown and I was actually shocked
1:05.0	about how undercovered this case is, how under the radar it's gone because of how
1:10.5	horrific it is and caught up in this cult was a vulnerable man named Jimmy Prought and his story is
1:17.6	absolutely heartbreaking. So that is what we are getting into today the North Shields Death Cult. So let's dive in.
1:25.6	So we're going to start with the leader of the cult, the evil Zahid Zaman.
1:38.0	I just know that you guys are going to feel the same as I do about this man.
1:42.8	Zahid Zaman was born on the 19th of December 1973 making him a Sagittarius.
1:50.1	And I don't really know anything about his background. I don't know where he was born, don't know where he grew up, don't know anything about his family, his school, nothing. And I actually find that a lot with British cases. I don't know what it is I can just never
2:04.3	already find that much background on the majority of the perpetrators from the
2:09.1	UK I find that so weird so we start today's case and Zahid is 30 years old and he was living in Sheffield but we do
2:17.1	know at 30 years old and I assume he was like this before 30 years old he was a a complete con man. He was just one of those people that you couldn't
2:26.0	trust a single word that came out of his mouth. He lied about absolutely everything. He would tell people
2:31.5	how rich he was. When he wasn't, he would tell people how rich he was when he wasn't. He would tell people that he had an amazing job that paid so much money, but he was unemployed.
2:39.5	And then something happened in his 30s, Zahid got into a pretty serious car accident.
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