S18E09 | Steven Hoskin (St Austell, Cornwall, 2006)

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

True Crime

4.7 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 2006, emergency services were called to the foot of a railway viaduct in St Austell, Cornwall, where the body of a 39-year-old man was discovered.

His name was Steven Hoskin, and while his death initially raised more questions than answers, what investigators would soon uncover painted a harrowing picture. Not only of the cruelty he endured in his final hours, but also of the systemic failings that allowed it to happen.

Steven was vulnerable, well-meaning, and eager for friendship, but in a world not built to protect people like him, those qualities made him a target. This is a story of prolonged manipulation, unchecked cruelty, and a deeply troubling case that disability charity Scope would go on to describe as "an extreme example of disablism".

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0:32.8	Disclamor. This podcast contains elements that may be alarming to some listeners.
0:37.8	The case discussed in this episode is real and represents the worst day in many people's lives.
0:43.7	While I strive for accuracy, some details may vary depending on the sources used.
0:49.1	Due to the nature of the content, listener discretion is advised.
0:53.3	You are now listening to British Mur, a true crime podcast hosted by Stuart Blues.
1:22.0	Hello everyone and welcome to British Murders with Stuart Blues, a podcast focusing exclusively on listener suggested British murder cases.
1:29.6	This is the ninth episode of season 18, and as always we open with two icebreaker segments, the jingles of which are voiced by my daughter. The first is this. True facts that will blow your mind. Did you know
1:38.6	that the word pothole is a redundant term? Pot comes from the middle English word pit meaning hole.
1:47.0	Thus, the term pothole actually means whole hole.
1:52.0	The show's final opening icebreaker segment is this.
1:55.9	Random quote of the week.
1:58.9	Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults.
2:05.1	That's an old Indian proverb.
2:08.0	Our case this week was requested by listener Iona Lindsay Embray.
2:13.1	We're in the town of St. Austell this week, located in the southwest England County of Cornwall.
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