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UK True Crime Podcast

The Vigilante: Episode 238

UK True Crime Podcast

UK True Crime Podcast

History, Society & Culture, Uk, Serial Killer, True Crime, Murder, Uktruecrime, Robbery, Police, Crimepodcast, Fraud, Personal Journals, Crime, Guns, Drugs

4.32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On Facebook crime sites, there always seem to be videos of 'stings', where a bewildered looking man is confronted by a group of people taking the law into their own hands - usually, when the man has travelled to meet face to face with someone he believed to be a young girl from the internet.

The podcast this week, from Essex in 2015, looks at the activity of one young group of vigilantes. I look at how in their aim to out 'perverts', they ended up using extreme violence which left one innocent man dead.....

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Hello and welcome to episode 238 of the UK True Crime Podcast.

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I'm Adam.

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Thanks for joining me again today.

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The story is from Essex,

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and looks at the world of the vigilante group taking justice into their own hands.

0:47.0

Whatever your view on vigilantes,

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whether you believe it is right or wrong,

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I'm sure we can agree it can be fought with danger.

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especially the new members of this exclusive club.

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That's Rebecca Brown, Sidass and Dave Thompson.

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