Horror at the Beach: Episode 416

UK True Crime Podcast

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Isle of Sheppey, Kent. A group of mates on holiday from East London went for a night out at a couple of local pubs enjoying themselves over a few drinks. But 34 year old Gary Pocock didn't come home and his body washed up on the beach the next day. Just who had killed Gary? And why?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 416 of the UK True Crime Podcast. I'm Adam. Thank you so much for
0:07.3	joining me today for this episode from the Kent Coast. With just the basic facts, it sounds like
0:12.9	a classic fictional who done it, a group of friends on holiday together, but one doesn't make it
0:18.7	home. But of course, this is no fiction, and real people's
0:23.2	lives are destroyed. And as always, there is so much more to the story. But before we begin the
0:29.2	case, let's quickly set some context for today's story. At number five in the UK music charts,
0:35.6	it was One Direction with Best Song Ever.
0:38.8	In the US, at number five was Holy Grail from Jay-Z and the Trouser Snake.
0:44.5	And in Australia, the top album this month was from Pink, The Truth About Love.
0:50.1	In the news this month, Robert Mugabe won the latest election in Zimbabwe.
0:55.1	Who would have guessed?
1:04.0	The legend is Usain Bolt edged out drugs cheat just in Gatlin to win the 100 metres at the Athletic World Championships in Moscow.
1:07.4	The film 12 years as slave premiered?
1:12.2	A helicopter crash near the Shetland Islands resulting in four fatalities amongst the oil rig workers being carried, and in true crime news, Britain's Michaela McCollum and
1:17.7	Melissa Reed, were formerly charged with attempting to smuggle one and a half million pounds
1:22.9	worth of cocaine out of Peru and remanded in custody.
1:29.1	So did you guess the month and year?
1:32.8	It was August, 2013.
1:34.1	Of course it was.
1:37.2	Today's story comes from the Isle of Shepi.
1:38.1	Have you been there?
1:42.8	It's an island of 36 square miles off the northern coast of Kent,
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