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UK True Crime Podcast

A Secret Affair: Episode 376

UK True Crime Podcast

UK True Crime Podcast

Personal Journals, History, Drugs, Crime, True Crime, Serial Killer, Murder, Uk, Police, Guns, Fraud, Robbery, Crimepodcast, Society & Culture, Uktruecrime

4.32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Alethea Foster was Lead Clinical Specialist Podiatrist at King’s College Hospital NHS Trust between 1985 and 2004, where she was a top class operator in her profession winning numerous awards. But things at home with her retired journalist husband John weren't great: their sex life had stopped 17 years previously and Alethea suspected he might be having an affair with an ex-colleague Julie Simpson.

When Alethea stumbled across an email exchange between Julie and John which revealed they had been having an affair she was utterly devastated and emailed Julie to arrange a meeting. But before she left the house, she put a kitchen knife in her bag....

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0:00.0

Like some kind of Pizza Ninja, Domino's are slicing their prices.

0:05.0

Domino's price slice.

0:07.0

Small pizzas now 8 quid, medium now 10 quid,

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and large now 12 quid.

0:12.0

Yet we're making cuts too.

0:14.0

In 11th of February 24, minimum delivery spend charges and areas may apply.

0:18.0

Tous and see, see Domino's dot code at UK.

0:20.0

Hello and welcome to episode 376 of the UK True Crime Podcast.

0:26.0

I'm Adam.

0:27.0

This week the story comes from Cambridge.

0:31.0

We talk a lot here about the difference between perception and reality, which can be amplified through social channels such as Facebook, where people generally show their best sides, their best lives.

0:42.0

Some people, of course, appear to live a perfect life, but this is never

0:46.7

true as we know and what is actually happening between the four walls where people live can

0:52.0

never be known for certain. Today we hear a story of

0:55.4

love, loyalty, betrayal and violence. But first let's set some context of the

1:01.8

story with our guest a month in the year game.

1:04.4

Top of the UK charts were the Arctic Monkeys with I bet you look good on the dance floor.

1:08.8

In the US it was Gold Digger from Kenya West and in Australia top of the album charts was

1:14.9

Pete Murray with See the Sun. In the news this month like me you were no doubt on

1:20.9

the edge of your seat overcome by excitement at the end of yet another thrilling

1:25.7

F1 championship won by Fernando Alonso or was I watching paint dry I forget.

1:35.8

Saddam Hussein went on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity. Bombings in Delhi killed more than 50 people. Actor and

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