Friday Night At The Pub : Episode 474
UK True Crime Podcast
UK True Crime Podcast
4.4 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
For Kenneth Bastow, from Yorkshire, it was his usual Friday night routine. A few drinks with his old pal at the pub to round off the week and put the world to rights. But this time as he waved goodnight to his friend as he drove away after dropping him home, he didn't know that his house wasn't empty. There was someone waiting there for him with deadly intentions.
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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. |
| 0:13.1 | Hello and welcome to episode 474 of the UK True Crime podcast. I'm Adam. |
| 0:19.7 | Thank you so much for joining me for today's story. |
| 0:22.5 | When we head to Yorkshire for a murder that had police baffled, there really appeared to be no |
| 0:27.4 | motive. But as we know for nearly all crimes, the motive was, with hindsight, actually incredibly |
| 0:35.0 | clear. But before we get into it, |
| 0:38.0 | let's quickly set some context for today's story |
| 0:40.8 | with our guests a month and year game. |
| 0:43.2 | You ready? |
| 0:44.3 | The shame room we're at the top of the UK music charts |
| 0:46.8 | with Ebenezer Good. |
| 0:48.1 | What a crazy video that was. |
| 0:50.4 | In the US, it was a less crazy video. |
| 0:53.1 | The end of the road from boys to Men, it was at number |
| 0:55.6 | one for a whopping 13 weeks. And in Australia, the top album this year was the soundtrack for |
| 1:02.1 | Jesus Christ Superstar. Irish pop singer Schneido Connor tore up a picture of Pope John Paul |
| 1:08.9 | II on Saturday Night Live. |
| 1:12.6 | Action thriller film Under Siege, directed by Andrew Davis and starring Stephen Seagal in his most famous role, was released. |
| 1:21.2 | In Egypt, over 500 people were killed in Cairo as a large earthquake hit. |
| 1:27.6 | Commodore UK released a new Amiga-1200 computer. |
| 1:32.4 | And in UK true crime news, there were two IRA bombs detonated in London, fortunately with no injuries. |
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