The Flat Cap Robber: Episode 65
UK True Crime Podcast
UK True Crime Podcast
4.3 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In his 50's, M&S jumpers, genial bloke. All sounds very innocent but from 1995 - 1998 across Central England this man was causing terror to the large number of building societies he held up at gunpoint. In this episode of the UK True Crime Podcast we find out who committed these crimes. And why.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 65 of the UK True Crime Weekly Podcast. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Adam. |
| 0:06.6 | Firstly, we're a day late today because my microphone broke last night. |
| 0:11.2 | Hopefully you can hear the difference in quality this week. |
| 0:14.7 | Of the sound that is. |
| 0:16.6 | Before we begin, I'd like to thank my new Patreon supporters this week. |
| 0:19.8 | That's JB Poppelwell, Claire Morrison, Susie Hobbday, Nick Beard and Annie Wright. |
| 0:27.1 | I really appreciate your support so much and the 12th full length bonus episode is written |
| 0:32.9 | and I'll record and release it this week. |
| 0:35.2 | It's a cracker. |
| 0:36.8 | I'll also finally record another video of me talking about the podcast this week, so there's |
| 0:41.6 | lots of exclusive content for you to hopefully enjoy. |
| 0:46.0 | We're going to take a break from murder this week and good friend of the show, Chris Wood, |
| 0:50.8 | has again done a fantastic job of researching a case I hadn't heard of before from the late |
| 0:56.6 | 90s, which he has called the flat cap robber. |
| 1:00.1 | It's a really interesting story and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. |
| 1:06.4 | Let's set some context for the story which began in 1995. |
| 1:11.8 | Remember 1995? |
| 1:13.8 | It was New Year's Day when Fred West was found hanging in his cell in Winson, Green, |
| 1:18.6 | Prison in Birmingham. |
| 1:20.7 | West, of course, was on the remind a waiting trial for the horrific acts that he and his |
| 1:26.0 | wife Rose had committed. |
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