An Incident in Bond Street, London: Episode 81
UK True Crime Podcast
UK True Crime Podcast
4.3 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
It was 2009. The jeweller Graffs caters for the super-wealthy and is no stranger to robberies. But when two armed men robbed the store in 2009 it was particularly violent and during their escape a bystander was lucky to escape with his life after being shot three times. This week on the UK True Crime Weekly Story, we tell the story of the robbery and the police investigation that followed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 81 of the UK True Crime Weekly Podcast. I'm Adam. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm delighted that this week's episode was researched and written by a friend of the show |
| 0:11.0 | Chris Wood. Thanks again Chris, another awesome job. Before we begin, a huge thank you to my |
| 0:17.2 | supporters on Patreon, especially this week's new supporters, that see Cunningham, Claire, |
| 0:24.0 | Alan Davis and Christopher Woodruff. Welcome to our group and I hope you enjoy the bonus episodes |
| 0:31.2 | and other exclusive content. If you get the moment, why not head to my website, |
| 0:37.4 | UKTrueCrum.com and check out my latest blog on that moment, some days found guilty. |
| 0:44.6 | Our story today is from 2009, the year that saw the final closures of the High Street |
| 0:50.4 | favourite Woolworths across the UK. This brought to an end 100 years of the retail chain and I think |
| 0:56.9 | we'll all agree, those of us who grew up with it, that we still miss it, particularly their |
| 1:02.0 | pick and mix suites. And more than 27,000 jobs were lost as its 813 stores gradually seized |
| 1:10.8 | trading. As True Crime fans, you will recall the case of Karam Matthews and this was the year that |
| 1:17.1 | Matthews and Michael Donovan were sentenced to 8 years in prison for the kidnapper for daughter |
| 1:22.6 | Shannon Matthews. They held the poor girl captive in Donovan's flattened use breed, |
| 1:28.3 | as a grand plan to claim £50,000 for her safe return after reporting her missing to police. |
| 1:35.3 | What a truly awful plan this was, really highlighting the fact that some people |
| 1:40.6 | will literally do anything for money. In March, comic relief raised a total of £57 million, |
| 1:47.5 | a glimpse in the previous record said in 2007, go Lenny. And in April, cases of swimfully were |
| 1:56.0 | confirmed in England, spreading mass panic and hysteria in many quarters. Several deaths were |
| 2:02.4 | sadly recorded as a result of the virus. In the summer of 2009, there was sad news as Harry |
| 2:08.8 | Patch, the last British survivor of World War I died. He was 111. It's far too easy for us to be |
| 2:16.8 | wrapped up in the often tiny problems and issues we immerse ourselves in on a daily basis. |
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