The Crime Roundup: January 2025
British Murders with Stuart Blues
Stuart Blues
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🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this new 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 January 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:
- The Disappearance of Allan Bryant
- Four jailed over cocaine empire linked to former Leeds United player
- UK bribery case linked to Saudi arms deals exposes ‘deep corruption’
- Two teenagers charged with murder of 14-year-old boy Kelyan Bokassa on south London bus
- Train stations become hotbed for crime with 25 horror offences every day in UK
- Italian police seize olives 'brightened' with copper sulphate
- Locals baffled as prankster leaves plate of peeled bananas on street every month for a YEAR
Join us as we dive into these extraordinary stories in the January 2025 edition of The Crime Roundup.
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Disclaimer:
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 | Disclaimer. This podcast contains elements that may be alarming to some listeners. |
| 0:05.0 | The case discussed in this episode is real and represents the worst day in many people's lives. |
| 0:11.0 | While I strive for accuracy, some details may vary depending on the sources used. |
| 0:16.0 | Due to the nature of the content, listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:20.0 | You are now listening to British writers. Due to the nature of the content, listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:24.2 | You are now listening to British Brothers. |
| 0:25.9 | This will cry podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to the debut episode of what we're calling the Crime Roundup, |
| 0:45.7 | name subject to change. |
| 0:47.4 | A brand new monthly series featuring Adam from the UK True Crime podcast and me, Stuart Blues, |
| 0:53.0 | from British murders. Before I go on, Stuart Blues, from British Murders. |
| 0:54.8 | Before I go on, Adam, hello. How are you? |
| 0:58.3 | Hey, it's good to see you, looking forward to this whole series this year. |
| 1:01.5 | It's going to be fun, isn't it? And it's going to be interesting in the first episode, right? |
| 1:05.7 | It is. It's going to be rough around the edges, to say the least. |
| 1:09.5 | Now, in this series, Adam and I are going to be choosing |
| 1:12.8 | a variety of true crime stories from the previous month. It's a monthly series. This first |
| 1:18.7 | episode is going to focus on January 2025. I don't know if Adam's got some stuff from December, |
| 1:23.9 | because we're recording in mid-January. That's absolutely sound. But we're going to discuss them with each other. Now, as a result, this is going to be a far more laid-back and |
| 1:32.1 | conversational show that perhaps you're used to, but we will ensure we remain respectful and |
| 1:36.7 | professional when it comes to the victims of the stories we tell. The show is going to follow |
| 1:41.3 | a specific format each month, again, subject to change. |
| 1:45.4 | I drafted this across to Adam. He's happy with it. |
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