EP77: Teenage Spy Games

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On June 29, 2003, a 14-year-old boy was fighting for his life, laying in a pool of his own blood in an alley in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. He had been stabbed by a contracted assassin that was working on behalf of The Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6. Listen to this week’s episode to find out why the British Government would want a 14-year-old boy dead, and the events that led up to his near-fatal stabbing. The twists and turns in this episode are straight out of a James Bond movie!

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Sources:
Vanity Fair, “U want me to kill him?” by Judy Bachrach, October 10, 2006
Grunge.com, “The Truth About the First Person in UK History to be Charged with Their Own Attempted Murder” by Richard Milner
The Guardian, “Bizarre tale of boy who used internet to plot his own murder” by Helen Carter
Casefiles Podcast, Episode 104, "Mark and John"

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0:00.0	This episode may contain content of a graphic nature,
0:03.0	including descriptions of physical and sexual violence
0:06.0	against adults, children, and animals.
0:09.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.0	Hi, everyone, I'm Tanya. And I'm Tlaia. advised.
0:12.8	Hi everyone, I'm Tanya.
0:14.3	And I'm T Leah.
0:15.4	And we are Crimes and Consequences, a true crime podcast. I'm going. How are you today? I'm great. How are you?
0:42.0	Good. I feel like you've been gone for so long. I was in Florida for five days.
0:46.7	I know I missed you. I missed you too. So I missed your true crime stories. You're gonna like this one today. Great. And actually for the
0:54.0	listeners this is one that Talea told me that she had known about and she told me I
0:59.3	ought to look into it and it is a wild story. Let's do it. All right. On June 29th, 2003 in
1:07.8	Alteringham, Greater Manchester United Kingdom, so this happened in England.
1:13.0	In the alley behind a pub, a teenage boy is lying on the ground fighting for his life.
1:21.0	There's a pool of blood around him. Emergency workers were called. And when they got there,
1:28.0	they found that he had been stabbed with a very large knife, probably the very one that was
1:32.3	laying next to him.
1:34.0	His injuries were life-threatening,
1:36.5	and when he gets to the hospital,
1:38.2	he's taken into emergency surgery right away.
1:41.6	During his surgery, he actually died on the operating table twice.
1:44.8	He ended up surviving the operation. He did lose his gallbladder though. I don't
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