Best Laid Plans - Part 1

The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

The True Crime Enthusiast

True Crime, Murder

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🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The quiet evening of Sunday 25th February 2018 in the Hinckley Road area of the city of Leicester was an unremarkable one - it was a cold night, and families were at home, glad to be in in the warmth.

That quiet was to be disrupted, and the lives of so many people forever changed irreprably, when at 7:01pm, an explosion ripped through the night sky, a blast which claimed the lives of five people. A tragic accident, like so many before it?

Or was it something else....?

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, including descriptions of injury detail, that some listeners may find disturbing or distressing, so discretion is advised whilst listening in.

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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.
0:08.2	Discover your next true crime obsession at alwaystruecrime.com.
0:23.6	Discover your next true crime obsession at alwaystruecrime.com. The The The
0:40.3	The Hello all and the very warmest of welcome to the True Crime Enthusiast podcast, a regular
1:13.7	jaunt into the world of true crime from my spare room in North Wales, and where I seek out
1:19.0	those tales of true crime that are unfamiliar, sometimes unbelievable or long forgotten, from
1:24.9	the darkest recesses of the world now. The eye doing so is myself,
1:29.9	Paul, or create a host and true crime enthusiast of the show's title. My true crime
1:34.0	enthusiacat, Peexie is here with me, fast asleep in his bed as he always is, never far from me.
1:40.4	And me and Peeks are completed by yourselves, the wonderful enthusiasts that make the show.
1:45.2	It is as simple as that. It is as fantastic as always having you joining us today,
1:49.7	which I thank you kindly for doing so, and I hope that as you have,
1:53.3	it's for a tale that finds you and yours all good, all safe, and all well.
2:01.4	So on the day this episode drops, which is the first part of a multi-part story, it marks
2:07.6	exactly not only eight years to the day, but eight years to the very minute since the
2:14.2	terrible and tragic events I'm about to describe over this and the next couple of
2:19.0	episodes took place, which is done specifically for a reason that I hope will become apparent.
2:26.5	It was a day that changed the lives of many irreparably, and is an account that not just
2:31.3	demonstrates the level of greed, ruthlessness and barbarity that some can display,
2:37.5	but is also one of the most shining examples I've ever come across whilst doing the show of the dignity that some people can show,
2:44.8	just how loved and missed some people are following events such as these,
2:49.6	and how a community can come together in support,
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