The Black Widow: 6. Til Death Do Us Part

Gangster

BBC

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Linda spends the next 18 years behind bars with some of the UK's most notorious female killers. She shares stories of a life inside, a shock prison wedding and returning back to reality and a life on the straight and narrow.

With her criminal past behind her, Linda reflects on the effect of her crimes both on the victims, and on her two children left to grow up without their parents.

Credits Presenter: Livvy Haydock Series Producer: Kate West Producers: Patrick Kiteley and Matthew Bone Journalism Assistants: Tim Fernley and Ellie Dover Drama Writer: Paul Jones Sound Design: Richard Hannaford Assistant Commissioner: Lorraine Okuefuna Commissioning Editor: Richard Maddock Editors and Executive Producers: Carl Johnston and Clare Fordham

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's 1997 when the streets of a housing scheme erupt.
0:05.8	Angry scenes at the Raploc Estate in Stirling outside the house of a convicted paedophile.
0:11.1	At the heart of the crowd, Big Mags Haney.
0:14.0	An anti-pedophile campaigner who made headlines.
0:16.9	She wasn't the only person who stood up.
0:19.6	She just happened to shout the loudest.
0:21.8	Dubbed the matriarch of a family from hell.
0:24.6	The amount of crimes committed by that family was stuff of legend.
0:28.4	I was so scared.
0:29.9	Crime Next Door, the ballad of Big Mags.
0:32.8	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:36.1	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:39.8	You're about to listen to Gangster, the story of the Black Widow.
0:44.7	Episodes will be released weekly wherever you get your podcasts.
0:48.8	But if you're in the UK, you can listen to the full series right now, first on BBC Sounds.
0:56.4	A quick warning.
0:57.9	This episode contains strong language.
1:06.9	When I was at school when I was younger, and we'd back after six weeks holidays,
1:12.9	and they'd say, okay, where did everyone go in the six weeks?
1:16.8	And what did you do?
1:17.8	And I'd say, oh, I went to Durham, and other kids would say they went Fort Park.
1:22.4	And I thought that must have been another prison.
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