MYW: Aberdeen’s Audacious £23m Affair

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

Comedy, True Crime

4.3 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Listener Chris sends Iain to 1980s Aberdeen, where a simple game of bridge between two secret lovers sparks one of the boldest fraud plots in Scottish history. What follows is a wild £23 million scheme involving fake passports, forged identities, and an international chase stretching from Aberdeen to Abu Dhabi to the United States.

Meanwhile, Laura investigates the case of a sketchy seagull causing havoc in the shops!

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at [email protected]

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0:53.4	Hello, Living Legends. Welcome back to Morda, you wrote, where we tell true crime stories from around the UK and Ireland that have been recommended by you, the Living Legends.
0:58.5	That's right. I love doing these deep dives into all these different places.
1:02.2	And the city we're going to do today has a very special place in both of our hearts and in the hearts of this podcast.
1:08.1	Can you guess where it is, Laura?
1:11.4	I'll guess.
1:12.8	It's very special to us.
1:14.6	It's very special to us.
1:15.5	It's very special to us.
1:15.8	It's very special to us.
1:15.8	It's got to be Scottish because it's you.
1:16.9	It is the place that we performed.
1:19.7	Amberdeen.
1:20.6	Eberdeen.
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