Hello and welcome to episode 28 of the UK Weekly True Crime Podcast. I'm Adam.

Today we head back to October 2008. So let's take a look at what was in the UK charts at this time.

Number 1 was Pink with So What?

And Kings of Leon with Sex on Fire was number 4. Such an underplayed song, don't you think?

For me, Kings of Leon are elbow, are two bands I always avoid at any festival. But hey, maybe I'm missing the point.

Ladies rule, this month with Britney Spears at number 1 in the US with Romanizer. So what do you think this week? A decent couple of number 1s?

This was the month when O.J. Simpson was finally found guilty of kidnapping and armed robbery.

Quantum of Solace, the 22nd James Bond film premiered in London. And if you remember, we were in encharted financial times with everything crashing around us.

On October 3rd, the 700 billion bailout bill for the US financial system was signed by President George W. Bush.

And on October 24th, Bloody Friday saw many of the world's stock exchanges experiencing their worst declines in their history with drops of around 10% on most indices.

In today's case, we head to Ponsipole South Wales.

Ponsipole is a town of approximately 35,000 people, located around 20 miles northeast of Cardiff.

One of the earliest industrial towns and whales, Ponsipole home to among others, leading politician of the last century, Roy Jenkins.

I'm sorry, I think that is possibly the most boring fact I've ever shared. Good gracious, I think I'll move on.

The witnesses were shocked. This isn't the sort of thing that happens on a business park at New Inn near Ponsipole South Wales on a Monday morning.

One witness said, at 9am we heard shouting, they've smelled petrol and went next door. We couldn't believe what we found. The staff were tied up.

One of the men was obviously dead. Another had been hit with a ratchet, like so bad I thought he was dead as well.

The place was on fire, but we put it out and called 999. It was like a scene from reservoir dogs, someone dead, blood everywhere, and petrol sprayed around.

Another worker said that one of the hostages came out of the building, with his bloods at a hand still tied, screaming, he's dead, he's dead.

On October the 20th, 2008, Robert Carter had woken up at 4am, unable to sleep.

He'd gone downstairs to watch a film and drink coffee, before rereading a letter informing him that his house was to be repossessed the following month.

He'd a wife and a daughter. What was he going to do?

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