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UK True Crime Podcast

An Impending Retirement: Episode 378

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

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It was just one of the thousands of missing persons cases that were reported in the UK that year when 63 year old Don Banfield disappeared from his home in north-west London. He had been having issues in his marriage and had talked about moving back to Trinidad - where he was born and the place he loved. But he had spoken to a number of people about being concerned for his safety: had Don come to harm?

Just what happened to Don Banfield?

Writing Credit: Megan Grant. See Megan's work on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/megathachristie/?igshid=MmIzYWVlNDQ5Yg%3D%3D

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https://www.chippingcampdenhistory.org.uk/content/history/incidents-and-events/the_campden_wonder 
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https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20120404/281586647569181
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/tax-inspector-killed-husband-then-fled-to-whitby-1906475
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124569/Accountant-Donald-Banfield-murdered-wife-daughter-Body-missing-decade-on.html
https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/5a8ff71060d03e7f57ea6ffd
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17583485
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/apr/03/bookmaker-murder-wife-daughter-life-sentence
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
https://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/don-banfield-murder-trial-wife-and-daughter-bookie-are-found-guilty-killing-him?sp=3&sq=relief%2520fund%2520
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17371761
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2381961/Lady-killers-Shirley-Lynette-Banfield-murder-convictions-quashed-Court-Appeal.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22544419
https://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/10585245.wife-and-daughter-accused-of-killing-wealdstone-man-don-banfield-have-murder-convictions-quashed/

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0:00.0

Hello and guilty of murder without a body has been difficult and in the UK there was a

0:14.0

misconception for centuries that there could be no murder trial without a body.

0:18.0

The view was influenced by the Camden Wonder case in the 17th century, you might know it, when 70 year old William Harrison

0:27.0

vanished from the market town of Chipping Camden Gloucestershire.

0:31.1

Following an investigation, three suspects were executed for his murder.

0:35.0

It was, as you can imagine, somewhat problematic when two years later,

0:39.0

in Waltz William claiming that he'd been abducted and enslaved in Turkey.

0:45.0

But the outstanding developments in technology and forensic science

0:49.0

have meant that in recent times a murder conviction can be sought, despite the being no body much, much more easily.

0:56.4

For example, you recall in 2013 Mark Bridger was found guilty of murdering five-year-old

1:01.6

April Jones in mid Wales. Her body was

1:04.4

tragically never found, but the DNA found in Bridges House, matched him to

1:09.4

her disappearance, and her murder. Which brings us to our story today from London.

1:15.0

A man goes missing and everything suggests murder.

1:19.0

There's no body.

1:21.0

Was it murder?

1:22.0

First let's set some context of the events I'm going to

1:26.0

describe with our guest a month in the year game. Jerry Halliwell topped the UK

1:30.8

charts with her take on its reigning men.

1:34.0

Look, someone must have liked it.

1:37.0

Survivor from Destiny's Child was number one in the US,

1:40.0

and in Australia the legend that is Michael Crawford Crawford spent two weeks at number one in the

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