I bet you see it at your work all the time. Work colleagues getting on well, maybe a little flirtation, all totally harmless. Or is it? This episode of the UK True Crime Podcast from Surrey in 2014, looks at what happened when a little flirtation got totally out of hand. With a terrible conclusion.... Sponsors A huge thank you to the sponsor of this weeks show: Heist-studios.com . Use the promotion code HEIST15 for 15% off your first order Links https://www.uktruecrime.com https://www.facebook.c...
Aug 19, 2019•22 min
It was a cold, December night in 1995 and Celine Figard was keen to get to the hotel in Hampshire, to join her cousin. She had so enjoyed spending the summer there. So when the truck driver offered her a lift at Chieveley Services in Berkshire, she jumped in the cab, excited about the coming weeks. But Celine never arrived at the hotel. In this episode I explore just what happened to 19 year old Celine, and why. Sponsors A huge thank you to both sponsors of this weeks show. Please support both. ...
Aug 12, 2019•28 min
When the call came on the Saturday afternoon, 33 year old Warren Selkirk drove to Crosby Marina with his two young sons. He got out of the car, telling them he would be back soon, but he never returned. In this episode of the UK True Crime Weekly Podcast we look at just what happened to Warren. And why. Sponsored by Heist-studio.com For a 15% discount, use the code: HEIST15 Links https://www.uktruecrime.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime Hosted on...
Aug 05, 2019•23 min
It was December 2015 and many of us vaguely heard on the news that a sex worker had been murdered in the 'designated red light district' of Holbeck, to the south of Leeds City Centre. But who was this person and why was she killed? Links https://www.uktruecrime.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 30, 2019•22 min
Laura Bailey was murdered in Liverpool in 2006. With huge thanks to her brother William Bailey, this week I tell the story of her short life. And how she died a true hero. Links https://www.uktruecrime.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 22, 2019•25 min
The office affair, especially when one, or both, are married, can cause all sorts of problems. In the podcast this week, from Edinburgh, when Suzanne Pilley went missing they suspected the man from her office with whom she was having an affair could hold the information needed to find her. But he wasn't talking... Links https://www.uktruecrime.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 15, 2019•26 min
We return to South Wales in 2002 as the body of Joseph Kappen is exhumed from the grave where he was buried 12 years earlier, after dying from lung cancer at age 48. Was he the serial killer who had murdered 16 year old Sandra, Pauline and Geraldine? Reference For this story, I am indebted to the following article by Kevin Toolis in The Guardian newspaper: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/jan/18/wales.kevintoolis Links https://www.uktruecrime.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime ht...
Jul 08, 2019•29 min
It was a strange experience for the detectives and forensics experts at dusk by the graveside as they began digging to exhume the body of the suspect. But the families of three young girls from the Swansea area, killed 30 years before, needed to be told for certain if this was the man who killed their daughters. This two-part episode of the UK True Crime looks at the terrible murders of Geraldine Hughes, Pauline Floyd and Sandra Newton in 1973 and the efforts made to bring their killer to justic...
Jul 02, 2019•27 min
A stolen yacht was found drifting 12 miles from the coast from Senegal and it looked like it had been drifting for a month. Who had been sailing the boat and why was it here? In this episode of the UK True Crime Weekly Podcast, I track the events leading to this discovery in August 2006. https://www.uktruecrime.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 24, 2019•24 min
This is an unusual episode of the UK True Crime Weekly Podcast, as I look at the story of Louis Gillies, from Glasgow, who faced the charge that on a day between May 20 and June 7, 2002, at Eastbourne, he aided, abetted, counselled or procured the suicide of Michael Gooden, contrary to the Suicide Act 1961. I look at the background to the charges and follow events through to their shocking conclusion. Reference For this episode, I leaned heavily on this excellent article: https://www.scotsman.co...
Jun 17, 2019•23 min
Control, domination, obsession. What makes someone exhibit these behaviours and then plan murder based on them? In today's story, from near Manchester in 2003, we look at a terrifying story of obsession that lead to an innocent man dying in the street outside his own home. https://www.uktruecrime.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 10, 2019•22 min
**This is the second part of a two part story**. The story resumes with Allan Grimson revealing to detectives details of another horror murder carried our for the elation he felt experiencing total domination and control of another person. I then explore other potential crimes carried out by this monster - did he kill as many as 15? https://www.uktruecrime.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...
Jun 03, 2019•26 min
In today's episode I look at two members of the Royal Navy who disappeared in very different circumstances. And we meet a murderer who describes killing someone as: "It was such a feeling. I have never, ever had that feeling. It was a feeling of power. I would say it was better than sex." https://www.uktruecrime.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 27, 2019•24 min
The internet allows all of us to be whoever we want to be. Of course, this can be escapist fun, but in today's episode of the UK True Crime weekly podcast from the north-east in 2009 we look at a man who posed as teenage boys for much more sinister reasons. https://www.uktruecrime.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 20, 2019•24 min
The night of 28 February was chilly in Glasgow, with a bitter wind. But one sex worker was still on the streets, earning the money to pay for her heroin habit. In this episode of the UK True Crime Weekly podcast we follow the life of Margo Lafferty. 1, Please buy tickets for my live events in London & Manchester here: www.uktruecrime.com 2, Other links mentioned in the show: https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime www.patreon.com/uktruecrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...
May 13, 2019•21 min
Luck. Is staying safe just a matter of luck? In this episode, from North London in Christmas 1986 looks at two awful abductions and one terrible accident. A series of events caused by just one man which caused such misery and ruined so many lives. A huge thank you to Chris Clarke for his help with this story. He can be found on Facebook at The Armchair Detective. Chris chose to donate his fee for this episode to www.sosad.com , a dog rescue charity in County Durham. 1, Please buy tickets for my ...
May 06, 2019•26 min
Nikki Allan was born in Sunderland on 30 August 1985 and she lived in the City with her mum, Sharon and 3 sisters. There was nothing unusual about the night of 7 October 1992, but this was the night that Nikki went missing and her body was found the next day. Nobody has been convicted of her murder. If you have any information about Nikki’s death - however small or insignificant it might seem - please speak to Northumbria Police’s major crime team on 101 ext 69191 or the independent charity Crim...
Apr 29, 2019•28 min
Stansted Mountfitchet is a quiet, pretty Essex village of around 6,000 people 35 miles north of London and close to Stansted airport. Not much happens here. But on a summers evening in July 2015 a brutal double murder rocked the community. In this episode of the UK True Crime Weekly Podcast I look at exactly what happened. And why. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 22, 2019•20 min
On the outside, they had everything. A beautiful home, the sports cars, holidays, great jobs. But beneath the surface, tension was building between Russell and Carole Packman, especially when Russell's younger lover moved into the family home in Bournemouth. Then in June 1985, Carole disappeared. In this episode of the UK True Crime Weekly Podcast I explore a quite extraordinary story stretching from the 1970's to the present day. 1, Please buy tickets for my event with top author Geoffrey Wanse...
Apr 15, 2019•29 min
Have you ever been obsessed by a film? I mean really obsessed? In todays story, we hear how one Scottish man watched one vampire film three times a day, every day, and began to believe in the characters. Then fiction merged with reality producing unimaginable horror…. 1, Please buy tickets for my event with top author Geoffrey Wansell on 16 April in Manchester and 20 May in London 'Inside the mind of a serial killer' here: www.uktruecrime.com 2, Other links mentioned in the show: https://m.faceb...
Apr 08, 2019•26 min
When Paul Morson had been missing for two weeks, detectives feared that he may have been held against his will, harmed, or worse….A few years previously, he had been in jail for his part in assisting two men guilty of a terrible racist murder. Was his disappearance related to this, or was it due to other reasons? This episode of the UK True Crime Weekly Podcast looks at all elements of the story and discovers what had in fact happened to Paul Morson. 1, Please buy tickets for my event with top a...
Apr 01, 2019•24 min
Crime was almost unheard of in this peaceful village in the north of Cornwall. But in November 2003, all that changed when the violent murder of Joan Roddam rocked the rural community of Delabole. With two other brutal murders nearby, was there a serial killer loose in Cornwall? And 10 years later, Joan's killer was still on the loose…. 1, Please buy tickets for my event with top author Geoffrey Wansell on 20 May in London here 'Inside the mind of a serial killer': http://bit.ly/uktruecrimekille...
Mar 26, 2019•26 min
Here's the thing: you and I wouldn't fall for the wash-wash scam would we. Would we? In Leicester, as a group of men attempted to con local business associates over a property deal, the situation quickly escalated out of control with terrible consequences. 1, Please buy tickets for my event with top author Geoffrey Wansell on 26 March in London here 'Inside the mind of a serial killer': http://bit.ly/uktruecrimekillerstalk 2, Other links mentioned in the show: www.uktruecrime.com https://m.faceb...
Mar 19, 2019•23 min
Just how well do you know your family and friends and what they could be capable of doing? The podcast this week looks at a man who killed three people. A 'normal' (whatever that means) guy who was popular, had a range of interests and had a broad circle of friends. But when under stress in life, he went to a very dark place and carried out the most dreadful of crimes. 1, An excellent source of information on Blackpool Crime I referred to in this episode is below: https://blackpoolcrime.wordpres...
Mar 12, 2019•23 min
Their first date was due to take place at a trendy bar in Shoreditch, East London. Carl sounded great and Katie was incredibly excited as she travelled to their meeting on 23 December, 2015. How was Katie to know that the man she had met on Plenty of Fish was a monster? www.uktruecrime.com https://m.facebook.com/groups/1479468325433430 www.patreon.com/uktruecrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 05, 2019•24 min
Northern Ireland, October 1993. It was a terrible week as violence surged leaving innocent people on all sides of the troubles dead or injured. I look at the reasons for two of the most horrendous attacks in the history of Northern Ireland, what happened and why, and over 25 years later I remember the victims. www.uktruecrime.com https://m.facebook.com/groups/1479468325433430 www.patreon.com/uktruecrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 26, 2019•32 min
Some people have dark, twisted and violent sexual fantasies. So long as they stay just a fantasy and no innocent people are harmed, then it remains a fantasy. But when those feelings cross the line into into actions, especially when the fantasy is the abuse of children, the consequences are dire. This week, in the UK True Crime weekly podcast I look at just what happened at Little Ted's nursery in Plymouth - and the lives destroyed. www.uktruecrime.com https://m.facebook.com/groups/1479468325433...
Feb 19, 2019•34 min
Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire 2003. 32 year old Dave King had just left the gym when the white transit van slowed down and the passenger carefully took aim and let fire a torrent of bullets from the AK47. In this episode of the UK True Crime weekly podcast I look at events leading up to this shooting and what happened next. www.uktruecrime.com https://m.facebook.com/groups/1479468325433430 www.patreon.com/uktruecrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 12, 2019•26 min
Kilburn, North London. Two men. One a gentle, harmless eccentric gentleman living a peaceful, solitary life. The other, a rich playboy with every advantage possible for a successful life. Then early in 2000, their lives combined with terrible consequences. www.uktruecrime.com https://m.facebook.com/groups/1479468325433430 www.patreon.com/uktruecrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 05, 2019•30 min
New Years Eve should be a night of celebration and excitement about what is in store for the following year. But in 1996, one 17 year old went out to celebrate with her friends in Sutton Coldfield, but tragically she didn't make it home. In this episode of the UK True Crime Weekly Podcast I look at exactly what happened. www.uktruecrime.com https://m.facebook.com/groups/1479468325433430 www.patreon.com/uktruecrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 29, 2019•24 min
