S03E09 - “Devilman” David Harker (The Murder of Julie Paterson)

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

True Crime

4.7 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the ninth episode of British Murders Season 3, I tell the story of "Devilman" David Harker.⁣⁣

In April 1998, David Harker killed Julie Paterson in his flat by strangulation.⁣⁣

He then claimed to have cut off some flesh from Julie's thigh, fried it in garlic butter and ate it with pasta.⁣

David also claimed to be a necrophiliac and told psychiatrists he'd had sex with Julie's corpse before wiping it down with bleach and sawing off her head and limbs.⁣

To this day, Julie Paterson's head, arms and legs have never been found.⁣

David Harker pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 14 years.⁣⁣

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David John Brady - 'Throw Down the Gauntlet'

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https://www.britishmurders.com/davidharker/

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0:00.0	Welcome to British murders, a true crime podcast with a focus on British murder cases.
0:17.7	My name's Stuart Blues, and I'm excited for you to join me on this journey of
0:21.1	morbid discovery. I'm by no means an expert on the subjects of homicide and serial killers.
0:26.8	However, I have always had a sick fascination with them. Together, we will learn about some of the
0:31.9	lesser-known British murderers, as well as glimpsing occasionally at some of the more notorious
0:36.3	ones. The bite-sized presentation of this podcast is intentional, as we look to cover an overview of
0:42.5	the respective timelines of each case succinctly.
0:51.9	Hello everyone and welcome back to British Murders. I'm your host Stuart Blues and this is now
0:56.8	the ninth episode of season three. Last week I debuted a new segment of the show named simply
1:03.6	Dad Facts in which I randomly chose a card containing a random fact out of a pack that every
1:09.4	dad should apparently know. As a reminder,
1:12.5	my toddler bought me this a while back and I only read through them once, so naturally I've
1:17.9	forgotten them all. You might not be able to pick up the sort of name of the pack on the YouTube
1:23.1	video because it messed with the green screen last week for some reason, but it simply says,
1:28.2	facts every dad should know.
1:30.8	If anyone wants to make a jingle for this section, please feel free.
1:34.1	You can send it to me on email, British Motorspodcast at gmail.com, and I'll make sure
1:38.3	to use it in an episode so that you know which part of the show is coming up first.
1:43.0	Okay, here we go. So the fact from last week,
1:45.9	which was to charge your phone whilst in airplane mode, to make it charge faster, that's been
1:50.4	taken out of the pack. Naturally, I didn't want to leave it in there and shuffle it again because
1:55.1	that would just be Sod's law that it had appeared this week. I'm going to do my pattern to shuffle
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