The Crime Roundup: August 2025
British Murders with Stuart Blues
Stuart Blues
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🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this monthly collaboration series, Adam from the UK True Crime podcast and I take a step back from individual cases to explore a curated selection of gripping crime stories that made headlines in August 2025. From chilling local, national, and international headlines to quirky and more lighthearted stories, this series offers a glimpse into the diverse and often shocking world of true crime.
This month's stories include:
- Father of boy sexually assaulted on campsite saw attacker
- Leeds paedophile Bernard Joyce finally unmasked as brave survivors speak out
- TikTok and Instagram accused of targeting teens with suicide and self-harm content
- Heathrow flight 'passenger from hell' vomits and 'spits wine at family' at 30,000ft
- Faces of men who ran 'lookalike' scheme to bring migrants into the UK
- Norwegian diving duo sentenced over thwarted $26 million cocaine import plot
- Kidnappings and Attacks on Humanitarian Aid Convoys Endanger the Population of Suwayda
- Cheeky Diner Tries To Avoid Paying For Meal By Releasing Rodent Into Restaurant
- Moment thieves snatch $30,000 worth of Labubu dolls in shop break-in
Join us as we dive into these extraordinary stories in the August 2025 edition of The Crime Roundup.
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The cases discussed in this episode are real and represent the worst day in many people's lives. We aim to cover such stories with a victim-focused approach, using information from publicly available sources. While we strive for accuracy, some details may vary depending on the sources used. Due to the nature of the content, viewer discretion is advised. Thank you for your understanding and support.
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| 0:00.0 | You are now listening to British Murders, a true crime podcast hosted by Stuart Blues. |
| 0:20.6 | Hello everyone, welcome to the August 2025 edition of the Crime Roundup. I am Stuart Blues of British |
| 0:27.3 | Murders and with me is Adam of the UK True Crime podcast. How are you, Adam? |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah, really good shirt. Nice to see you and after you prompted me I did actually turn my microphone on after five minutes saying I can't hear you. It would be helpful. You know, Adam messaged me. He actually spoke to me on the phone the other day and said how good this particular recording software was. And I was thinking, oh, this isn't a good start. Then just realized that he's just a thick idiot who didn't have his microphone switched on. |
| 0:58.1 | Fair point. |
| 0:58.9 | Hads up. |
| 0:59.1 | Hington roundabouts. |
| 1:00.2 | I do actually have a little introductory icebreaker game I want to play with you. |
| 1:04.9 | That I'll see it online and I want to see if it works on you, if you're a car, before we get going. |
| 1:09.8 | So this game is I am going to try and get you to say the number five or the word five, whatever. |
| 1:18.1 | Okay. |
| 1:18.7 | So we're going to do some simple maths, which hopefully you are sufficient enough at at your age. |
| 1:26.0 | So let's start with Adam, what is one plus one? |
| 1:30.7 | Two. |
| 1:31.6 | What is two plus two? |
| 1:33.9 | Four. |
| 1:34.7 | What is four plus four? |
| 1:36.7 | Eight. |
| 1:37.5 | And what is eight plus one? |
| 1:39.5 | Nine. |
| 1:40.3 | And there you go, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 1:42.0 | Adam successfully said nine. |
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