From The Times and Sunday Times, this is the story.

I'm Gabriel Pogrand.

On the story, we've been following the case of Zach Brettler, a 19-year-old boy

who jumped to his death from a balcony in London in 2019.

We've looked at the way his death was treated as though a suicide and how the Metropolitan Police

failed to secure charges against the two men involved.

And how the pre-eminent author and investigative reporter Patrick Radden Keith dismantled their methodology

in his New York article, which is now the subject of his latest book, London

falling.

He exposed failings that call into question, if not the police's verdict on the case,

then certainly the basis on which they had arrived at it.

It is now that I come into the story.

I knew Zach and his family and after Patrick's article, I asked if they might benefit from a UK-based journalist who might be able to get some answers out of local law enforcement and other authorities.

So, in 2024, their son's death became the subject of a report in the Sunday Times, which, fused with Patrick's original findings, uncovered further questions of the Metropolitan

Police. Those are questions we'll address in today's episode. Questions the police have failed

to answer at any point.

Who were the two other men in the apartment at the time of Zach's death? They were men who had criminal connections.

And why did police ignore key evidence that a suspect had lied about his every move that night?

It's some of the most disturbing police incompetence I've witnessed.

And, if you haven't listened to yesterday's episode, please go ahead and catch up.

The story today, London Falling, What Really Happened to Zach Brettler.

Part 2. Theler. Part two.

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