Introducing: Murder in Mayfair

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Coming soon: The hunt for the suspected killer of 23-year-old Norwegian student Martine Vik Magnussen, whose body was found buried under rubble in a London basement in 2008. She died after a night out with "billionaire playboy" Farouk Abdulhak, son of one of Yemen’s richest and most powerful men. Police found Martine’s remains in Farouk's apartment building. But Farouk had already fled. Fifteen years later, he’s still on the run. The BBC's Nawal Al-Maghafi was born in Yemen and has been on the case for more than a decade. This is the story of how she finally tracked down the elusive Farouk Abdulhak. Murder in Mayfair is a new four-part mini-series from The Documentary, available on 24 April.

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0:00.0	The old home movies can put a lump in your throat.
0:05.0	A toddler bundled head to toe in a thick red snow suit.
0:14.0	Take some of her first steps from mum to dad.
0:17.0	A very social, witty, popular child.
0:23.0	Very social indeed, yes.
0:25.0	People loved being around her.
0:27.0	I think so, yes.
0:28.0	Two decades later, Martina made her parents proud and her friends.
0:35.0	She was always a full of life and very confident, very bubbly, very fun.
0:42.0	She was very happy, always smiling, good sense of humor, yeah, a cool girl.
0:49.0	A glittering new life in London, beckoned.
0:52.0	We discussed all the challenges of security actually there.
0:57.0	And she reassured me with absolutely no chance of anything happening.
1:02.0	Well.
1:06.0	I was sitting here and I was called by her friend, who told us that she hadn't come back from going out with the other friends.
1:16.0	This is very out of character. That's not who she is.
1:21.0	And it was, oh, I want the butt on her, that's good, that happened.
1:26.0	We were so obsessed with just finding her.
1:30.0	They tried the last man she was seen with.
1:34.0	Leave me a message and I'll get back to her.
1:38.0	And something clicked with the police.
1:41.0	And they started to take a seriously from their own.
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