S04E06 - Colin Cheetham (The Murder of Stuart Ludlam)

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

True Crime

4.7 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In the sixth episode of British Murders Season 4, I tell the story of Colin Cheetham and Stuart Ludlam.⁣⁣

Gun enthusiast Cheetham had always dreamed of committing the perfect murder with a complete stranger as his victim.

On September 17, 2009, his dream came true as he shot and killed 43-year-old taxi driver Stuart Ludlam at Cromford Railway Station.

Cheetham had zero connection to Ludlam, and most frightening of all, there was zero motive behind the killing.

Cheetham was sentenced to life imprisonment in June 2010 with a minimum term of 30 years.

He died at HMP Wakefield on May 1, 2020, at the age of 71.

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0:32.5	Music Hello everyone and welcome to British murders, the podcast that focuses exclusively on British murder cases with an occasional glimpse at horror movies.
0:54.1	I'm your host, Stuart Blues,
0:55.2	and this is now the sixth episode of season four. We're back to true crime this week after
1:00.8	having a mid-season break last week. It was a movie review episode last week, and I hope you
1:06.1	all had a chance to check it out and weren't too put off by it not been true crime. I welcome my mate David
1:11.6	John Brady to the show. He's a composer. He's also the person who created my intro music,
1:17.6	and we discussed Danny Boyle's 2002 zombie horror flick 28 days later. I do like to throw in
1:24.9	the odd movie review mid-season and post-season, because it just mixes it up for me.
1:30.1	It gives me the chance to have a chinwag with people, which you can probably tell I quite enjoy doing.
1:35.9	Seeing as we're back to the regular show format, let us firstly start with this.
1:41.9	Welcome to D'Atefacts.
1:44.5	That's right.
1:45.5	We're back with the show's opening icebreaker segment named Daddy Facts or simply Dad Facts.
1:51.5	If you're new here, then this segment involves me reading out a random Dad Fact from a pack of cards that my daughter got me a few years ago.
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