

UK True Crime Podcast
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The weekly UK True Crime Podcast, hosted by Adam Lloyd, has been the home of UK True Crime since 2016.Shortlisted in four categories for the 2025 True Crime Awards including Best True Crime Podcast, and with over 75 million listens, it is where you discover a wide variety of lesser known UK cases and find new perspectives and insight on stories you may already know.If you would like to sponsor the show or advertise on the show, I would love to hear from you. Just email: Sales@audioalways.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Nov 22, 2022 • 27min
A Corrupt Banker: Episode 314
Who do you trust in life - who do you really trust? If you are a small business you have to trust your bank which funds you as you grow. But in this episode of the UK True Crime, we look at a Senior Banker who treated small business owners with utter contempt, using them to fund his lifestyle of sex parties and foreign holidays as hard working business owners lost all they had worked so hard to achieve....Sourceshttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sex-lies-and-hbos-gjmrfbnzv https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/30/cash-cruises-sex-parties-hbos-manager-lynden-scourfieldhttps://www.honeycombpsg.com/the-wolf-of-hbos/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4183510/HBOS-banker-jailed-11-years-1bn-fraud.htmlhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-49727008 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 15, 2022 • 25min
Real Life Not Call Of Duty: Episode 313
This week the Uk true Crime podcast heads to a gang dispute in the north-west of London. A normal Saturday evening for 18 year old Jason Isaacs and his friends turns into absolute horror as they are chased by masked men on mopeds and wearing balaclavas. When the group is separated, Jason is brutally stabbed by the cowardly gang members...Sourceshttps://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/jason-isaacs-murder-drill-rapper-who-stabbed-teenager-to-death-in-moped-ambush-is-jailed-for-life-a4153076.htmlhttps://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gang-member-who-murdered-rival-16213543https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/jason-isaacs-murder-full-story-16147930https://totalcrime.co.uk/archives-all-chris-summers-totalcrime-stories-since-2013/https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16380759/drill-music-sons-murdered-epidemic/https://www.ealingtimes.co.uk/news/17669411.youth-18-given-20-years-murder-jason-isaacs-northolt/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 9, 2022 • 26min
His Last Fare: Episode 312
All murder cases are dreadful, with the effects rippling widely, sometimes for generations. But today, from rural Derbyshire, I cover one of those stories almost impossible to comprehend. A random murder and more than this, a murder seemingly just for fun....Sourceshttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1291093/Murderer-Colin-Cheethams-chilling-photo-album.htmlhttp://www.taxi-driver.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12285&start=40 https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jun/30/gun-fanatic-colin-cheethamhttp://johnhalley.uk/Death%20-%20Stuart%20Ludlam.htmhttps://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11586644/gun-fanatic-killed-innocent-taxi-driver-dies-jail/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/murdered-taxi-driver-stuart-ludlam-may-have-been-victim-of-feud-wmxdzqjtfnf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 1, 2022 • 24min
A Man on a Bus: Episode 311
So how many times have you been on public transport and somebody is behaving badly near you? Has it made you anxious, concerned or terrified? In the story today, we look at a bus travelling from Victoria in Central London to Lewisham. One passenger is agitated and angry and makes all 37 passengers feel uncomfortable. Just the one person on the bus, 56 year old Herbie Williams, spoke up to call out this behaviour, and in this episode of the UK True Crime podcast, I tell Herbie's story....Writing credit: Chris Wood Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 25, 2022 • 27min
The Remote Cottage: Episode 310
The peace and remoteness of The Fens, in the east of England is a big draw to many. And it was to Connie and Janice Fenn, who enjoyed their life of solitude breeding whippets. So just why would anyone want to brutally murder them for no apparent reason? In this episode of the UK True Crime podcast we examine just what happened.... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 18, 2022 • 26min
The Night Shift: Episode 309
Colleagues of 28 year old Samantha Eastwood were concerned when she failed to turn up for her night shift at the hospital in Stoke on Trent. When she had left them at 07:45 that morning she had been her normal self and this was quite out of character. Her family didn't know where she was and there was no sign of Samantha at her house? Just what had happened to her? Sourceshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-46424611https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/michael-stirling-samantha-eastwood-murder-2282118https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/harrowing-murder-samantha-eastwood-one-16696176https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/one-year-on-gruesome-murder-3154662https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/22/michael-stirling-pleads-guilty-murder-midwife-samantha-eastwoodhttps://www.nursingtimes.net/news/workforce/murderer-of-midwife-samantha-eastwood-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-04-12-2018/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6454693/Midwife-Samantha-Eastwoods-killer-laid-false-trail-murder.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 12, 2022 • 25min
The Walk Home: Part 2/2. Episode 308
Last week, we looked at the murder of 26 year old Jong-Ok Shin, who was walking home from a Bournemouth nightclub and just metres from the door of her home when she was attacked and she tragically died from her injuries. There were no witnesses to this crime.Shortly afterwards, local drug addict Omar Benguit was arrested and convicted of murder and over 20 years later he is still in prison. But was he guilty of this dreadful crime? He says no and many believe his conviction to be unsafe. But if Benguit wasn't responsible just who was - there are a number of suspects.....Sourceshttp://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2014/690.htmlhttp://www.homepage-link.to/justice/judgements/benguit/Scan%2018.pdfhttps://www.thejusticegap.com/omar-benguit-all-i-ever-wanted-was-the-truth-to-come-out-i-am-innocent/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280658448_A_Briefing_Paper_on_Issues_and_Events_Surrounding_the_Omar_Benguit_Case_Charminster_and_the_Murder_of_Jong_Oki_Shin_12th_July_2002https://thetab.com/uk/2021/05/05/unsolved-an-alibi-for-omar-benguit-true-crime-jong-ok-shin-case-204043http://www.omarbenguit.co.uk/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danilo_Restivohttps://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jun/29/timeline-daniel-restivo-murder-trial?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487https://casefilepodcast.com/case-114-elisa-claps-heather-barnett/https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9114927.danilo-restivo-jailed-for-life-for-murder-of-heather-barnett/https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/danilo-restivo/investigationhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jun/29/how-danilo-restivo-was-caught Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 12, 2022 • 16min
From Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper Stalks London’s War-Torn Streets
Here’s a preview of Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper. Over a single week in February 1942, a depraved serial killer stalked London’s dark and WWII bomb-ravaged streets, hunting for victims in the city’s bars and clubs. But the victims of the so-called Blackout Ripper are now all but forgotten. Using new research from police files, court transcripts and exhaustive genealogical studies, season 2 of Hallie Rubenhold’s Bad Women reconstructs the lives of the women The Blackout Ripper brutally attacked and murdered and examines why their deaths were swept from view. Listen to Bad Women at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/bwblackout?sid=uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 8, 2022 • 26min
The Walk Home: Part 1/2. Episode 307
In warm weather, Bournemouth on the south coast of England is a nice place to spend some time. On the summer evening when we join the story, 26 year old Jong-Ok Shin was walking home from a Bournemouth nightclub, and just metres from the door of her home when she was attacked and she tragically died from her injuries. There were no witnesses to this crime.Shortly afterwards, local drug addict Omar Benguit was arrested and convicted of murder and over 20 years later he is still in prison. But was he guilty of this dreadful crime?Sources:http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2014/690.htmlhttp://www.homepage-link.to/justice/judgements/benguit/Scan%2018.pdfhttps://www.thejusticegap.com/omar-benguit-all-i-ever-wanted-was-the-truth-to-come-out-i-am-innocent/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280658448_A_Briefing_Paper_on_Issues_and_Events_Surrounding_the_Omar_Benguit_Case_Charminster_and_the_Murder_of_Jong_Oki_Shin_12th_July_2002https://thetab.com/uk/2021/05/05/unsolved-an-alibi-for-omar-benguit-true-crime-jong-ok-shin-case-204043http://www.omarbenguit.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 29, 2022 • 45min
Roundtable Discussion from CrimeCon Glasgow
For International Podcast Day, something extra and a little different for you...CrimeCon Glasgow earlier this month was a lot of fun. Late on the Saturday afternoon I had the pleasure of sitting with some incredibly talented true crime podcasters - I admire every single one of them - and we discussed our podcast journeys so far. I hope you enjoy the conversation and if you want more content like this, please just let me know....And a huge thank you to Bob & Ali from the excellent Twisted Britain podcast for hosting and editing this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.