The Tragic Killing of Emily Jones

Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast

Mark Randell & Bethan Trueman

True Crime

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week we head north, to Bolton, as we cover one of the most heart-breaking cases in recent history. Emily Jones was a bright, happy, much-loved child. She was innocently enjoying the sunshine with her father when her life was stolen in a moment so brutal, so sudden, and so senseless, that it shook the entire nation to its very core. But what followed only deepened the outrage. The woman responsible for the attack was a mentally ill foreign national with a long history of violent behaviour and disturbing psychiatric issues. She was known to adult care services, known to the police, known to the entire system. And yet, somehow, she was walking free that day. This wasn’t just a case of a life taken too soon. It was a case that raised urgent questions — about mental health oversight, immigration, and how we protect the most vulnerable among us. Questions that, for many, still haven’t been answered. If you would like access to exclusive bonus content and to support us on Patreon, you can find us here: w⁠⁠ww.patreon.com/seeingredpodcast⁠⁠ If you would like to GIFT a Patreon membership to a special someone, head to www.patreon.com/seeingredpodcast/gift If you would like to buy us a coffee (or wine!), hit the link below: ⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/seeingredtw⁠⁠ Get your merch here: ⁠⁠www.seeingredpodcast.co.uk⁠⁠ Theme music arranged and composed by Holly-Jane Shears - check her work out at ⁠⁠www.soundcloud.com/DeadDogInBlackBag⁠⁠ Co-Producer: Ade Parsley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to seeing where a true crime podcast on Mark.
0:36.9	And I'm Bethan and welcome to the show.
0:39.1	Thank you for joining us once again this week.
0:41.6	Before we start, Mark's got something very exciting to talk about.
0:47.1	Are we going to do it at the beginning or the end?
0:48.7	What if people don't listen to the rest of the episode, Mark?
0:51.5	I was going to give it maybe at the end of the episode.
0:54.4	Oh, yeah. That sounds like fun. Are was going to give it maybe at the end of the episode. Oh, yeah.
0:55.7	That sounds like fun.
0:56.3	Maybe we could do that.
0:57.1	Are you going to tell them what it's going to be?
0:59.8	I can tell them.
1:00.0	Yeah.
1:00.4	Yeah.
1:00.9	So we have an exclusive Patreon code that the first 10 people signing up with will get 12 months
1:09.1	free access to our Patreon, which is more than 50 exclusive
1:14.0	bonus episodes more than 50 episodes of Crime Wave you'll get a bonus episode every month over the
1:19.4	next 12 months you'll get two episodes of Crime Wave a month over the next 12 months loads of
1:23.9	stuff for you to explore on there so yeah listen until the end and we will give you the
1:28.5	code and the first 10 people, it's first come first served. So the first 10 people to use that,
1:33.7	there's no strings attached, you will get 12 months free access. Can you imagine if we then forget
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