#98 - The Petty Grudge of Victor Castigador (Chinatown, London, W1)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 2 July 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
At just before midnight on Sunday 2nd April 1989, Victor Castigador and his small gang of cohorts robbed the Leisure Investments amusement arcade at 23 Gerrard Street in Chinatown, but owing to a very petty grudge, Victor would turn a simply robbery for a few thousand pounds into one of London's worst and most horrific mass-murders.
- Date: Sunday 2nd April 1989 to Monday 3rd April 1989
- Location: 23 Gerrard Street, Chinatown, London, W1 (now the 'Play 2 Win' arcade)
- Victims: 4 (Ambikalpahan Anapayan, Kandiahkanapathy Vinayagamoorthy, Deborah Bernadine Alvarez and Yurev Alejandro Gomez)
- Culprits: 5 (Victor Morales Castigador, Calvin Graham Nelson, Paul Stephen Clinton, Karen Dunn and Allison Linda Woodside) - note: only Victor & Calvin were charged with murder and attempted murder, the others were charged with robbery.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, featuring many of London's |
| 0:14.6 | untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, all set within and beyond the West End. |
| 0:23.8 | Today's episode is about Victor Castigador, a liar, a thief, and a deluded |
| 0:30.8 | fantasist who held such a petty grudge, having been rejected for a promotion in a West End |
| 0:36.5 | arcade, that his simple plan for some |
| 0:39.5 | quick cash would leave two innocents fighting for their lives and two others dead. |
| 0:47.3 | Murder Mile is researched using authentic sources. |
| 0:50.3 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details. |
| 1:00.3 | And as a dramatization of the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, |
| 1:07.2 | so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there. |
| 1:13.6 | My name is Michael. I am your tour guide. This is Murder Mile. |
| 1:21.6 | Episode 98, the petty grudge of Victor Castigador. |
| 1:33.7 | Today, I'm standing in Gerard Street, W.1. |
| 1:38.5 | One street north of the charred remains of Reginald Gordon West. |
| 1:44.0 | Two streets west of the shooting of Michael Barry Porter in the Rosendale Club, a few doors |
| 1:45.8 | north of the stabbing of David Knight in the Latin Quarter, and 200 feet west of James |
| 1:51.7 | MacDonald, the bank robber who may not have known that he was robbing a bank, coming |
| 1:58.8 | soon to Murder Mile. To most visitors, Gerard Street is commonly known as Chinatown, |
| 2:08.6 | as although this area consists of Rupert Street, Newport Place, Newport Court, Lyle Street, |
| 2:15.6 | Coventry Street, and bits of Chaspere Avenue and Wardle Street, |
| 2:19.3 | as the most central and decorated part. It's also the most visited. |
| 2:25.3 | After the blitz bombing by the German Luftwaffe of the city's largest Chinese enclave |
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