An Unthinkable Crime: The Murder of Mabel Leyshon | Ep. 222
British Murders with Stuart Blues
Stuart Blues
4.6 • 876 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In November 2001, a crime unlike anything North Wales had seen before shattered the quiet Isle of Anglesey. Inside her cosy bungalow, 90-year-old Mabel Leyshon was discovered murdered in circumstances so disturbing that even veteran detectives struggled to comprehend what they had found.
What unfolded next became one of Wales’s most unsettling investigations: a bizarre crime scene, an urgent public appeal, and a growing sense of fear within a community that had always felt safe. As rumours spread and national media descended, two questions dominated every conversation: Who could have done this - and why?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Always True Crime, a podcast network bringing you gripping real-life stories that you won't be able to stop thinking about. |
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| 0:14.1 | In November 2001, a crime unlike anything North Wales had seen before shattered the quiet Isle of Anglesea. |
| 0:22.7 | Inside her cosy bungalow, 90-year-old Mabel Leishon was discovered murdered in circumstances |
| 0:28.8 | so disturbing that even veteran detectives struggled to comprehend what they found. |
| 0:34.7 | What unfolded next became one of Wales most unsettling investigations, |
| 0:39.2 | a bizarre crime scene, an urgent public appeal, and a growing sense of fear within a community |
| 0:45.1 | that until then had always felt safe. As rumours spread and national media descended, |
| 0:51.5 | two questions dominated every conversation. Who could have done this? |
| 0:56.4 | And why? In this episode of British murders with Stuart Blues, I take you through Mabel's story, |
| 1:02.7 | the police manhunt that followed, the unusual profile of the suspect living just metres away, |
| 1:07.9 | and the trial that exposed a chilling obsession, along with the legal |
| 1:12.7 | battles and ongoing questions that continue more than two decades later. Before we dive into |
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| 1:40.8 | If you live in the UK, you've probably heard of the Isle of Anglesea. It's an island located off the |
| 1:47.0 | northwest coast of Wales that somehow both peaceful and wind-swept at the same time. It's proper |
| 1:53.5 | Welsh as well, not just based on the tough to pronounce place names, more on that later, but |
| 1:59.1 | because around 56% of people living there |
| 2:02.4 | can actually speak Welsh. That's the second highest percentage by area population in Wales. |
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