The Monster of Medomsley - Revisited
UK True Crime Podcast
UK True Crime Podcast
4.4 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week saw a report by the Prisons & Probation Ombudsman about the terrible abuse that occurred at Medomsley Detention Centre in County Durham. I covered this case in July 2017 so this is a re-release this episode with an introduction and a conclusion including some of the findings of the report and what happens next.
If you haven't listened to this episode before or are unfamiliar with the events that took place at Medomsley I urge you to listen as it really as one of the most shocking stories you will ever hear.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Always True Crime, a podcast network bringing you gripping real-life stories that you won't be able to stop thinking about. |
| 0:08.2 | Discover your next true crime obsession at alwaystruecrime.com. |
| 0:14.3 | Hello and welcome to this special episode of the UK True Crime Podcast. I'm Adam. |
| 0:20.2 | Back on the 18th of July 2017, I released the podcast that you're about to hear. |
| 0:26.8 | It's certainly one of the most disturbing stories I've ever covered |
| 0:29.7 | about the Madam's The Detention Centre in County Durham. |
| 0:34.3 | And this week in the news, you may have seen it, |
| 0:36.7 | Adrian Usher, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman for England and Wales, |
| 0:41.6 | has released a 202-page report on the conduct of staff at Medemsley from 1961 to 1987, |
| 0:49.0 | in which he describes one of the staff, Neville Husband, |
| 0:52.7 | as possibly the most prolific sex offender in British history. |
| 0:57.7 | I've not altered the recording in any way, so please do take a listen, and at the end I'll go into more details about this most recent report. |
| 1:05.1 | Please be aware, it isn't an easy lesson. |
| 1:09.3 | I appreciate that I cover some pretty disturbing material on this podcast, but I've had |
| 1:14.0 | some feedback from some listeners saying that I haven't made them aware enough, so please |
| 1:18.2 | be aware that this case does involve some very disturbing material. |
| 1:22.7 | On the 23rd of August 2013, Neville Husband died at his house on Snow's Green Road, Shotley Bridge. |
| 1:31.2 | This is a village in the Derwent Valley near the town of Concert in Durham, in the northeast of |
| 1:36.2 | England, which is around 15 miles southwest of Newcastle. His death certificate says the |
| 1:42.7 | primary cause of death was congestive cardiac failure, |
| 1:46.1 | with the secondary cause being type 2 diabetes. |
| 1:49.8 | He was aged 72, a married father of one, and listed on the death certificate as being a former |
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