A Charmed Life: Episode 12
UK True Crime Podcast
UK True Crime Podcast
4.3 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This week we are examine a case spanning five UK police forces over 15 years. This case involves police incompetence, astonishingly inept decisions from the prison service, bizarre inquest verdicts, armed robbery, rape, a drowning, murder and conspiracy theories. What is there not to like? In this edition of the weekly UK True Crime Podcast we look at a deeply disturbing case where a series of unsolved crimes allow the sadistic perpetrator to grow in confidence, resulting in increasingly violent attacks and murder. Listen now and let us know your thoughts via our social channels.
References:
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/mapping-murder
http://www.nickdavies.net/1999/09/17/getting-away-with-serial-rape-the-story-of-clive-barwell/
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/
https://www.thefreelibrary.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 12 of the UK True Crime Podcast. I'm Adam. Today we're |
| 0:06.7 | back in England for a case involving police incompetence, prison service incompetence, |
| 0:12.1 | robbery, rape, drowning murder and a good dash of conspiracy theory as well. What on earth |
| 0:18.7 | is they not to like her? In December 1982, the UK pop charts were varied to say the very least. |
| 0:26.4 | Top of the charts for one week were the excellent band The Jam with Beat Surrender, |
| 0:30.9 | a song that has stood the test of time. I'm not quite sure you could say the same about the |
| 0:35.9 | tune that topped the charts for the rest of the month. Save Your Love by Rennie and Renato. |
| 0:41.8 | Remember that? In the US that month it was Mickey by Tony Basil, one for the karaoke fans out there, |
| 0:49.7 | maybe, followed by Manita by Hall and Oats. It was also the month that saw Michael Jackson |
| 0:56.7 | release his album through there. In December 1982, 25-year-old Clive Barwell drove his car into the |
| 1:04.0 | centre of Bradford, which is a city 14 miles west of Leeds in West Yorkshire. Barwell was |
| 1:10.8 | six-foot tall and powerfully built with lank, unkempt hair hanging alongside his face. |
| 1:17.2 | It was a cold and foggy night, typical of the bleak winters evenings that are often |
| 1:23.2 | experienced in Yorkshire. As he pulled onto Derridaq land in the city, he knew exactly what he had |
| 1:29.3 | planned for that night. He waited patiently until he saw what he was looking for, a woman |
| 1:34.8 | alone in the car. Moving quickly, he pounced and brutally raped the 30-year-old victim. |
| 1:42.1 | Those of you familiar with the case of the Yorkshire Ripper will know that Peter Suckliff lived in |
| 1:46.6 | Bradford and he committed numerous crimes in the area. It was just two years earlier on the second |
| 1:52.6 | of January 1981 that Suckliff's reign of terror had ended when he stopped by the police with |
| 1:58.0 | their prostitutes in nearby Sheffield. As you will know, the Yorkshire police were crucified for the |
| 2:05.2 | mess they made of the Ripper case. In 1982, the West Yorkshire force was still reeling from criticism |
| 2:12.4 | of the Ripper inquiry and Bradford was a very sensitive area locally. Suckliff and Barwell, |
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