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EP4: Jean - The Real Lady Justice 'A New Jean'

REAL

Naomi Channell

Society & Culture, News, Documentary, True Crime

4.8725 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

After a fire breaks out at a mosque in Birkenhead, no one could have predicted how that would finally give Jean the answers she so desperately needed. She now knew that Chantel wouldn't be coming home.


This loss ignited something in Jean, and a 'new Jean' was born. And she was ready to fight.


This is Jean: The Real Lady Justice


To sign Jean's petition, please see here:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/761706


To visit her website, see here:

https://familiesfightingforjustice.org/




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Transcript

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0:00.0

Warning, this is a true crime podcast and is not suitable for all audiences.

0:05.5

Please use discretion.

0:09.2

A mosque is on fire in the town of Birkenhead in the north-east of England.

0:15.2

It's the 9th of July 2005.

0:18.5

Two days after London was the target of a series of bombings orchestrated by Islamic terrorists.

0:26.6

52 people, including four suicide bombers, had died and 770 people were injured.

0:36.6

Locals in Birkenhead quickly realised that this fire was in retaliation to those attacks.

0:43.3

This fire had been set on purpose.

0:47.3

Other similar attacks were being carried out across Europe.

0:52.3

An Imam had been asleep inside the mosque in Birkenhead when it was set on fire,

0:58.2

though he managed to escape unharmed and the fire was extinguished by the fire brigade.

1:05.0

Jean Taylor, like other locals, watched this news unfold and she could never have understood how this event was going

1:15.3

to change her life. I'm Naomi Channel and this is episode four of Jean, the real Lady Justice. Looking on go home.

1:50.2

Walking down go, home.

1:51.4

Walking along, go, home.

1:55.5

Looking long, go, oh.

1:59.6

Looking on, go. In the early hours of the night of July 2005, a man had been on a night out. He'd purchased a can of petrol from a local garage in Birkenhead. He'd made no

2:21.5

attempt to hide his identity, which was brazen given what he did next. He'd been out drinking

2:30.3

with friends and he'd also taken cocaine. And he was angry. Angry over what he'd seen

2:38.6

on the news. Hundreds of lives changed forever, down to four suicide bombers who had targeted

2:46.5

London over the ongoing war in Iraq.

2:51.3

He went to his local mosque on Borough Road that's nestled between rows of shops near to

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