An Impending Retirement: Episode 378
UK True Crime Podcast
UK True Crime Podcast
4.3 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Just what happened to Don Banfield?
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Sources
https://www.chippingcampdenhistory.org.uk/content/history/incidents-and-events/the_campden_wonder
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-21506482
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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