Lucky Boys | Lucky Boy Ep4

Elon's Spies | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Sally Anne Bowen doesn’t want to speak about her relationship with Gareth, but it turns out there is a way of hearing her version of events. And after months of searching, Chloe gets a message from another ‘lucky boy’.

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Reported and produced by: Chloe Hadjimatheou and Gary Marshall

Sound design: Hannah Varrall

Podcast artwork: Lola Williams

Executive producer: Basia Cummings

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0:00.0	Your home. Day, done. Work, done. Being crammed onto a packed bus. Done.
0:07.5	Phoning your friend back, the one who likes to talk. A lot. Done.
0:12.1	And wearing a bra? Yeah, that's definitely done.
0:17.5	Taking your bra off feels great. And so does getting your breast screening sorted.
0:21.6	It can detect cancer long before you can even feel it, or more likely, put your mind at rest.
0:26.2	So when the NHS invites you, save the date. It could save your life. Tautus.
0:41.4	Just a warning before we start.
0:44.2	This episode includes descriptions of sexual abuse and strong language.
0:50.8	Last time on Lucky Boy.
0:53.4	1. At no point did any pupil, parent, colleague or senior manager ever confide in me
1:00.1	at the time or thereafter.
1:02.5	There's a closing of ranks then and now.
1:05.3	I would have made an intervention and reported it.
1:07.7	A 14 years old, having sex with a 27-year-old teacher,
1:12.4	that's going to have a certain effect on it.
1:15.5	But I think what it's done is fossilised him emotionally. So I would have been about 20, yeah, I'd have been about 20, I'd say.
1:34.8	And what happened was, because I was on the tube, I was mind my own business on the tube,
1:38.8	going from Golders Green to Hendon.
1:41.1	At first, Gareth doesn't really notice when this pretty ordinary looking man gets on a
1:47.1	Golders Green tube station. And he decided to come and sit next to me on the tube opposite me.
1:53.4	He seems to be staring at him, so Gareth looks up and eventually he places the guy. He was a couple of years above him at Christ College school.
2:04.2	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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