#90 - The Wormwood Scrubs Police Massacre (East Acton / Shepherds Bush, London, W12)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 73 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. This is the true story of what is often referred to as The Shepherd's Bush Murders
- 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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| 0:47.7 | Welcome. Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, featuring many of of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, all set within and beyond the West End. |
| 0:57.6 | Today's episode began as an ordinary morning for three police officers going about their |
| 1:03.8 | regular duties, and what started as a simple stop and search on a West London street |
| 1:09.8 | for what would have been |
| 1:11.7 | a very minor traffic offence led to the brutal and senseless executions of three good |
| 1:18.1 | men. |
| 1:21.0 | Murder Marley's research using the original police files. |
| 1:24.6 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details, and as a dramatization of the real events, |
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