Murder Mile UK True Crime

On Saturday 9th May 1936, on 66 Old Compton Street, Soho prostitute “Dutch Leah” was brutally strangled and beaten to death in her flat, a crime which, over 80 years on, remains unsolved. And yet, the secret life of the Soho prostitute “Dutch Leah” is even more mysterious than her murder. Date:  Saturday 9th May 1936 Location:  66 Old Compton Street, Soho, London, W1 Victims:  1 &nb...

On Saturday 5th September 1901, two year old Thomas James Mills was brutally beaten to death by his death by his depressed, unemployed and alcoholic father, but what initially seemed like a simple case of infanticide may actually be a lot more complicated, and although almost entirely forgotten, it is a murder case which will give you a shocking insight into the brutal and cruel life as a pauper l...

On Monday 28th January 1963, the bodies of a Soho gangster (Tony Mella) and his bodyguard (Alfred Melvin) were discovered by the Police, they had been shot to death on Dean Street, but what seemed like a simple double homicide involving a turf war was anything but. Murder Mile is a true-crime podcast and audio-guided walk of London’s most notorious (and often forgotten) murder cases, all set withi...

On Saturday 16th August 1980, 42 year old convicted thief John Thompson had a petty dispute with a barman at an illegal nightclub at 18 Denmark Place (London). What began as a minor argument, soon escalated into one of Britain’s deadliest mass-murderers, and yet almost 40 years on, the story, the victims and even the perpetrator himself is almost entirely forgotten. The question you have to ask yo...