A Dreadful Revenge : Episode 472
UK True Crime Podcast
UK True Crime Podcast
4.4 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
It was such a minor event to happen, totally irrelevant in the scheme of things. But 26 year old Robert Thacker was believed to have been responsible, so his so-called friend decided he should be taught a lesson, and what he decided to do, is the stuff of our worst nightmares.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Always True Crime, a podcast network bringing you gripping real-life stories that you won't be able to stop thinking about. |
| 0:08.2 | Discover your next true crime obsession at alwaystruecrime.com. |
| 0:13.8 | Hello and welcome to the UK True Crime podcast. I'm Adam. Today's story from the Midlands is a story of a quite dreadful murder, carried out |
| 0:23.6 | one of the most cowardly ways that you can imagine. You know, I was reading a tribute to the victim of |
| 0:29.2 | this attack today which said how he was, a small but very bright light in a world too full of darkness, |
| 0:37.0 | a very moving line I think. |
| 0:39.4 | But before we begin, let's set some context for today's story with our guest |
| 0:43.8 | a month and year game. You ready? |
| 0:47.1 | Limp Biscuit topped the UK charts with Rowland and in the US top spot was Destiny's Child |
| 0:53.0 | with Independent Woman. |
| 0:55.1 | In Australia, the Beatles with One were at the summit. |
| 0:59.3 | And in the news this month, Wikipedia was launched, |
| 1:02.4 | obviously a bedrock of this podcast every week. |
| 1:05.7 | The cult film Donnie Darko, written and directed by Richard Kelly, |
| 1:10.0 | premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. |
| 1:12.4 | Are you a fan? |
| 1:14.0 | Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson resigned. |
| 1:17.5 | Again, Sven Goren Erickson, began his job as manager of the England men's football team, |
| 1:23.0 | succeeding Kevin Keegan. |
| 1:25.1 | And in UK true crime news, the High Court ruled that the identities |
| 1:29.1 | and whereabouts of the two killers of James Bulger were to be kept secret for the rest of their |
| 1:34.4 | lives. Robert Thompson and John Venables, both at this time aged 18, were expected to be released |
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