S04E02 - Anthony Antoniou (The Murder of Walter McCarthy)

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

True Crime

4.7 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In the second episode of British Murders Season 4, I tell the bizarre story of Anthony Antoniou and Walter McCarthy.⁣

In the early 1990s, Antoniou began a relationship with up-and-coming UK singer-songwriter Gabrielle.⁣

They were together for three years, but Antoniou decided to leave the R&B star on the same day their son was born - April 16, 1995.⁣

In December 1995, Antoniou and his friend Timothy Redhead drove his stepfather Walter McCarthy to the Derbyshire Peak District.⁣

Whilst pulling into a layby, Antoniou stabbed Walter 52 times with a commando knife before decapitating him with a Japanese ceremonial sword.⁣

Antoniou was handed a life sentence in March 1997 but only served 14 years behind bars.⁣

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to British murders, the podcast which focuses exclusively on British murder cases,
0:19.3	with the occasional glimpse at some horror movies.
0:23.7	I am your host Stuart Blues and this is the second episode of season four.
0:28.8	Thanks to everyone who has gotten in touch with me to give their views on last week's
0:32.7	controversial and more importantly tragic case.
0:37.2	The biggest argument amongst my listeners appears to be whether Olga Freeman, who was the subject of last week's episode, should be in a prison as opposed to being in a secure psychiatric hospital.
0:49.0	This was extremely evident on TikTok when I put a little video up sort of summarizing my episode and linking
0:55.2	it back to the podcast. A lot of people thought she should be in prison. A lot of people thought
1:00.3	poor woman. And a few of you reached out to me as well. So it's good to sort of generate that
1:05.3	feedback and get people talking about it. If you've no idea what I'm talking about, I would urge
1:10.0	you to check out last week's
1:11.1	episode. It was on the murder of Dylan Freeman, a 10-year-old boy, by his mother, Olga Freeman.
1:18.5	As ever, let's move on to the first of two opening segments. It's time for this.
1:23.5	Welcome to Daddy Facts.
1:25.8	That jingle is too cute. It said, if you didn't understand it, welcome to Daddy Facts. That jingle is too cute.
1:34.8	It said, if you didn't understand it, welcome to Daddy Fax, because that was my little girl who did the voiceover work there.
1:40.4	She speaks fine, but you know what it's like when you try and get kids to record on Q, they just will not do it.
1:45.7	Each week I read out a random Dad Facts from a pack of cards. My daughter got me a few years ago.
1:51.2	I think it was a Father's Day gift and I've already prepared the removal of said card from the pack so we're not rustling on the audio and here is this week's dad fact. In 2008, a team of Russians
2:00.3	set up a barbecue 335 feet wide and cooked over 500 sausages in a bid to host the world's longest barbecue.
2:10.6	Hmm. I wonder what kind of sausages they used. Did they use a special glaze? One that perhaps had a certain spirit in it, Mr. Vodka?
2:24.0	So it says longest. It obviously means the widest, because that said 335 feet wide. So it's not long, being a bit pedantic there.
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