Hello and

welcome to episode 385 of the UK True Crime Podcast, I'm Madam.

Thank you so much taking the time to join me today.

The story this week comes from Birmingham and is yet another example of how the most terrible

violence can take place unexpectedly on what is just another normal day.

So let's set some context of our story with our

guest a month and year game. At number two in the UK charts was seven years

from Lucas Graham. At number two in the US charts was friend of the show it was the beba with love

yourself and in Australia number two in the album charts was Keith Urban with Rick

Chord in the news this month US College was Keith Urban with Rick Cord.

In the news this month, the US college student Otto Wombia was sentenced to 15 years hard labor for trying to steal a political poster in North Korea.

Batman, the Dawn of Justice, starring Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill, premiered.

There still seems to be a big market for this stuff.

British magician Paul Daniels died at age 77.

No, I'm not going to do the impression.

And in UK True Crime News, former English international footballer Adam Johnson, were sentenced to six years

in prison for sexual activity of a schoolgirl, and four of the gang of brazen burglars involved in the Hatengold and Jewelry

heist were sentenced to seven years in the slama whilst the fifth was given six years.

So did you get the month in year? It was March 2016. Of course it was.

Birmingham is the UK's second city and did you know that tennis was invented on the lawn in the Edgeston district in 1859?

It's home to more canals than Venice with 100 miles of canal navigations.

Birmingham was also the location of the Alexander Stadium, the biggest athletic stadium in the country.

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