#90 - The Wormwood Scrubs Police Massacre (East Acton, London, W12)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode began as an ordinary morning for three police officers going about their regular duties. And what started as a simple stop-and-search on a West London street for (what would have been) a very minor traffic offence, lead to the brutal and senseless executions of three good men.
- Date: Thursday 18th November 1948
- Location: outside of 57 Braybrook Street in East Acton, London, W12, Wormwood Scrubs Prison,
- Victims: 3 (Detective Sargent Christopher Tippett Head, Detective Constable David Stanley Wombwell and Police Constable Geoffrey Roger Fox)
- Culprits: John Edward "Jack" Witney, John "Jock" Duddy and Harry Maurice Roberts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, |
| 0:14.5 | featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, |
| 0:20.4 | all set within and beyond the West End. |
| 0:23.6 | Today's episode began as an ordinary morning for three police officers going about their regular duties. |
| 0:32.6 | And what started as a simple stop and search on a West London street, for what would have been a very minor traffic offence, |
| 0:41.3 | led to the brutal and senseless executions of three good men. |
| 0:48.3 | Murder Marley's research using the original police files. |
| 0:51.3 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details, and as a dramatization |
| 0:57.4 | of the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, so that no matter where |
| 1:03.7 | you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there. My name is Michael. I am your tour guide |
| 1:12.6 | and this is Murder Mile. |
| 1:15.6 | Episode 90 |
| 1:17.6 | The Wormwood Scrubs Police Massacre. |
| 1:26.6 | Today, I'm standing on Braybrook Street in East Acton, W12. |
| 1:34.8 | Two stops south of the death of eight-year-old Peter Buckingham, |
| 1:38.8 | three roads north-east of the home of Vincent Carey's killers, |
| 1:43.1 | three streets north of the Shepherd's Bush Police Station, were the murder of K Carey's killers. Three streets north of the Shepard's Bush police station |
| 1:46.0 | where the murder of Katerina Konyova ended and this story began. |
| 1:51.0 | And four stops west of Britain's most prominent pathologist |
| 1:55.0 | whose manipulation of forensic evidence |
| 1:58.0 | may have led to an innocent man being hanged. |
| 2:01.6 | Coming soon to Murdema. |
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