S8 Ep24: Case Reopened: The Tragic Death of 7-Year-Old Hakeem Hussain
Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast
Mark Randell & Bethan Trueman
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | One two three shake your body down. |
| 0:03.0 | Shig your own name. |
| 0:04.0 | One two three. |
| 0:06.0 | Thanks to Fever tree, making a delicious |
| 0:08.8 | Mejito is as easy as one two three. |
| 0:12.0 | Ice. I said two. Rum. easy as one two three ice rum |
| 0:15.8 | fever tree mohito mixer and stir a perfect mohito as simple as |
| 0:21.4 | as simple as just three steps new cocktail mixes from Fever Tree as easy as one |
| 0:27.7 | two three please enjoy responsibly hello and welcome to seeing Red I'm Bethan and I'm Mark. We are on our end of season break right now busily preparing season 9 which premieres on the 8th of March |
| 0:40.7 | But we didn't want to leave you hanging. We've delved into our archives and over the next two weeks we'll be taking it in turns to reopen a case that has stayed with us. |
| 0:48.6 | This week it's my turn. I wanted to replay the tragic death of 7-year-old |
| 0:52.8 | Hakeem Hussein, an episode which originally aired in season 7. |
| 0:57.0 | Hakeem's short life came to an abrupt end in the early hours of the 26th of November in 2017. Gasping for air in the garden of the crack den he was |
| 1:06.8 | living in with his mother, Hakim collapsed and died clutching a leaf in his hand. |
| 1:12.2 | The neglect he suffered at the hands of his mother caused his untimely death, |
| 1:16.0 | and the detail we go into in this episode is truly heartbreaking. Now I know I've said it before, |
| 1:21.3 | but I think because we churn out an episode pretty much every week |
| 1:24.9 | sometimes we don't really have time to process what we've immersed ourselves in for a particular |
| 1:30.0 | episode some cases just stay with us and perhaps they stay with you too. And this is one that |
| 1:36.7 | definitely stayed with me. It takes place in my home city of Birmingham. Obviously |
| 1:42.4 | there is a child involved that's probably the reason why |
| 1:46.1 | it stayed with me and I feel a lot of frustration at her Kim's mother and also at |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mark Randell & Bethan Trueman, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Mark Randell & Bethan Trueman and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

