Hello everybody welcome back to another episode of the casual criminalist as always hello there

I'm your host Simon why I'm so you're one of my rights to this case. Matthew. Thank you. Matthew

Graham Young the teacup poisonous who we're talking about today

I don't think I've ever heard of this one. Oh, it's English though. I suppose Graham Young does. Oh, does he sound English?

I feel like Graham Young could also I don't know sometimes it's typically English and then I saw this was English

Oh, you know what's making me think of Englishness. It's teacup

I'm like this gave English vibes and then I see England there in the first word and I'm like oh

My title's got English vibes. It's not the name is the call back. These call the bloody teacup poison a teacup

Afternoon tea is very British. Let's just jump in shall we the format of the show if you're new here is Matt's written this for me

I've never read it before we're going to explore it together and find out all about someone he's poisoning people. Let's go

On the 14th of June

1856 Dr. William Palmer of Staffordshire England was led to the gallows to be hanged by this point

He had spent over one year in prison awaiting this day

But before stepping to the rope he looked down at the trapdoor on which he would soon be standing and asked the prison's hangman

If it was sturdy minutes later the doctor died in front of a crowd of 30,000 people throughout his life

Dr. Palmer often found himself heavily indebted to those around him for various reasons primarily his love of gambling and

Betting on the horse races

Why was he so in debt? I was addicted to gambling

Obviously, I mean people are in debt obviously for other reasons than that, but like gambling is a disaster

We talked about this before on the show, but gambling. I'm like it should obviously be heavily regulated and then the internet came along

And it's like holy shit

It's just like so much gambling on the internet made it so easily accessible and it's just like I don't know

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