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Hello and welcome to episode 484 of the UK True Crime Podcast. I'm Adam.

Thank you so much joining me today for this episode of the podcast,

the story of which was recommended to me by Ben Edwards. Thank you, Ben. Today we're not heading

into a back alley in a city centre or a quiet suburban street where a neighbour saw too much,

or a courtroom drama built on DNA and doubt. Instead, we're going

somewhere that on paper shouldn't feel like true crime at all. We're heading to East Sussex

in the south of England to open fields and narrow lanes to a working site on a farm called

Marley Farm near Ringma, not far from Lewis, a place where

the air smells like wet soil and diesel, where the horizon is low, and where the loudest sound on

most days is a tractor in the distance. And yet on one Sunday afternoon, that quiet landscape

becomes a scene of something that looked like a war zone.

But first, let's set some context for today's story with our guests a month and year game.

You really?

Number one in UK charts was take that with patience.

In the US, it was Beyonce in the top spot with irreplaceable. And in Australia,

the top album at this time was human nature with Reach Out, the Motown record. In the news this

month, top of the cinema box office was night at the museum, the holiday and casino royale.

At 40 years and 260 days, Teddy Sherringham scored for

West Ham United to become the oldest goal scorer in Premier League history. And in UK true

crime news this month, it was dominated by the shock across the UK and especially in Ipswich,

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