Hello and welcome to episode 311 of their UK True Crime Podcast. I'm Adam. Thank you

for joining me today. I haven't mentioned the mighty lead united for a while for obvious

reasons, but just thought I would throw it in early this week. And delighted that today's

story was written by my friend and author Chris Wood, thank you Chris.

We hear the vast array of crimes on this podcast, many of which are all as confused as,

and quite frankly they sometimes terrify me. Today's case perhaps does all of these things.

A more senseless murder would be difficult to imagine, but besides this it's slightly

to provoke a question of what would I have done if any of us had been unfortunate enough

to have witnessed the incident.

But this was not some underworld killing hidden away from public consciousness, rather an

act of brutality carried out in the middle of the day in our capital city.

Now I've heard today, so don't be sad, there'll be one next week. Before we start, I just

want to thank quickly all my supporters at Patreon, especially the new members of our

community there, that is Kate Panell, Phoebe and Sean Davidson. Thank you so much for

your support.

Okay, so let's set some context for today's story, but I guess the month of New Year

game. Top of the UK charts was Jimmy Require with Deepa Underground. In the US the top spot

was filled by Boy's Mine from Brandy and Monica, and in Australia the fourth highest selling

album this year, where the Back Street Boys with Back Streets back, did it ever really go

away.

In the news this month Hong Kong's new airport opened, the Mask of Zorro and saving private

Ryan were released, the government announced a total ban on the use of land mines by the

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