The Missing Flatmate: Episode 459

UK True Crime Podcast

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In Greenock, west of Glasgow, the two flatmates had been taking part in something of a drinking session and had for many hours been putting the world to rights over multiple drinks – as you do. Soon six bottles of super strength wine and cider had been consumed and this ensured the pair were more than just a little inebriated. Then, in a drunken haze, Allan Napier suddenly asked housemate John: ‘Can you keep a secret? And what happened next would change both their lives forever...

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0:00.0	They did it again. Flower, instead of flowers, on my birthday. And 95 minutes late, but it's hard to leave when you've shared so much. Your postcode, your gluten intolerance. Then I saw it. 25% off your first Akado shop, plus free delivery. And I just knew I'd found the online supermarket of my dreams.
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0:32.4	Hello and welcome to episode 459 of the UK True Crime Podcast. Hi, Adam. Thank you so much for joining me today
0:40.6	for the regular weekly episode. Today's story comes from the west of Scotland, not too far from
0:47.0	Glasgow, and it really is the stuff of nightmares. It's a murder story unlike any other I have covered in the last nine years or so. But before we
0:57.4	get into it, let's set some context for today's story. You ready? At number one in the UK
1:03.9	music charts this week, it was a Chemical Brothers with Setting Sun. In the top spot in the US, it was
1:10.6	a Macarena from Los Del Rio. And in Australia,
1:15.0	the fourth best-selling album this year was Oasis with What's the Story Morning Glory? Whatever
1:21.0	happened to them? In the news this month, Rupert Murdoch launched Fox News. Racing Driver Damon Hill won the Japanese Grand Prix, so clinching the driver's World
1:31.9	Championship.
1:33.1	I think I miss this as I'll split between the excitement of F1 and watching two flies on
1:38.4	the ceiling.
1:40.0	The BBC also lost F1 TV rights to ITV after this race.
1:45.4	In cinema, the Disney film Up made the most money in the UK this month.
1:50.2	And depending on your age, this could make you feel a little bit on the old side.
1:55.1	Singer Louis Capaldi was born this month.
1:59.1	And finally, in UK true crime news,
2:01.5	a double car bomb was carried out by the IRA
2:04.1	at a British barracks in Lisbon, Northern Ireland.
2:07.7	31 people were injured,
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