S09E04 | Albert Dryden | The Murder of Harry Collinson

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

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4.7 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I tell the story of Albert Dryden and Harry Collinson.

In 1988, Albert Dryden built a sunken bungalow on his land without planning permission.

Over the next three years, he had a constant back-and-forth battle with Derwentside District Council, who demanded he demolish the bungalow.

On June 20, 1991, the council, led by principal planning officer Harry Collinson, arrived at Albert's land, intent on demolishing it themselves.

Confronting the councilman with a gun, Albert shot and killed Harry in an incident captured by TV news cameras.

Albert received a life sentence for Harry's murder on April 1, 1992, and passed away 26 years later on September 15, 2018.

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0:00.0	You are now listening to British Murders.
0:03.5	Let's my podcast.
0:18.8	Hello everyone and welcome to British Murders, the podcast that focuses exclusively on British murder cases and serial killers.
0:26.6	I'm your host Stuart Blues and this is the fourth episode of season nine.
0:31.3	Before we get into it, let's break the ice.
0:33.5	The show's first opening icebreaker segment is this.
0:37.2	True facts that sound like both?
0:40.3	Did you know the Greenland shark, a large sleeper shark that inhabits the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans,
0:47.6	has the longest known lifespan of all vertebrate species?
0:51.7	Their lifespan is estimated to be between 250 and 500 years.
0:57.2	Now it's time for the show's final opening icebreaker segment.
1:01.0	Random quote of the day.
1:03.2	You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters.
1:11.5	That was said by Amy Jo Martin, an American entrepreneur.
1:15.9	This case was suggested by Nick Carroll via British Murders.com's contact page.
1:21.1	We're in and around the town of Concert this week, located within the northeast county of
1:25.8	County Durham.
1:27.3	Here are five quick fire facts about
1:29.1	concert. Number one, concert was the first town in the world to have a Salvation Army Corps band.
1:36.4	The band was formed in December 1879 and went out on the streets playing at Christmas.
1:42.5	Number two, well known for its steel industry in the past,
1:46.2	concert provided the steel that was used in the building of Blackpool Tower.
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