Another Day, Another Evil

If you’ve ever heard of Robert Maudsley, you will probably know that he holds a world record for being the prisoner who has spent the longest time ever in solitary confinement. You will likely know that this was within a glass box inside HMP Wakefield Prison, and you will have probably heard him referred to as ‘Britain’s Hannibal Lecter’. But, is this media depiction of a crazed cannibal actually...

R v Brown 1994 is a landmark UK case. The court ruled that consent is not a valid defense to charges of actual bodily harm or unlawful wounding, even if they occurred during private, consensual sadomasochistic sexual acts. For our sources, please visit our website - https://anotherdayanotherevil.wordpress.com/episode-17

During WWII the German military used an enigma machine to communicate through code, which they thought was unbreakable - to put it simply.  However, early breakthroughs were made by Polish mathematicians, and later British intelligence and specifically Alan Turing. He developed a machine called Bombes which could decrypt messages at speed. This intelligence gave the allies crucial information abou...

Today, if you’re listening to this on the day of release, is the 30th anniversary of the murder of Irish investigative journalist, Veronica Guerin, who was shot to death in broad daylight for daring to expose the criminal underworld, one which the Irish police, the Guardi, were not equipped or not wanting to deal with. Veronica’s murder led to public outcry, and the government swiftly set up the C...

Grace Budd was the first known victim of serial killer Albert Fish, but his arrest in relation to that would unravel a whole world of horror. Francis McDonnell & Billy Gaffney were unfortunately known victims of Albert Fish, with many more suspected as he exploited those in the margins of society. He tortured and allegedly ate his victims and was electrocuted on 16th January 1936 at Sing Sing...

On 12th February 1993, two-year-old James Bulger disappeared from a shopping centre. His badly beaten body was found on a railway line 2 days later. The police quickly zeroed in on their suspects: two 10-year-old boys. What followed led to public outrage in the UK, alongside debates around the criminal age of responsibility today in England. For our sources, please visit our website - https://anot...

Alistair Wilson, aged 30 was shot dead on his doorstep in 2004. The murder inquiry was one of the largest carried out in Scotland and the crime remains unsolved to this day. The lack of motive and other unexplained circumstances makes it one of Scotland’s most mysterious unsolved crimes.  For our sources, please visit our website - https://anotherdayanotherevil.wordpress.com/episode-13

Calling 999 in an emergency is common knowledge now, over 30 million emergency calls are placed every year, and it’s all due to a single house fire which killed 5 people and a pissed off neighbour furious at the system.  Listen for a little history about how it came to be and why we have 999, despite it actually being one of the longest to dial on the old-school rotary dial phones. For our sources...

Here's a round up of all our outtakes this month. Have a laugh along with all our mispronunciations, interruptions & more!

Over the course of only 60 days, a newly qualified 22-year old nurse injected numerous babies and young children with lethal doses of insulin and potassium chloride, resulting in a number of unexplained collapses and leaving 4 children dead and many more traumatised or with other serious life-long injuries. Beverley Allitt was thankfully apprehended, but the children’s ward, Ward 4, of Grantham an...

Imagine a locked hotel room. No signs of forced entry. No struggle. And yet… inside, a man lies dead—with injuries that don’t make sense. Greg Fleniken was a loving husband, son, brother & friend. But his life was cut short due to the recklessness of another. But, against all odds, and due to the persistence of his wife, family & the detectives on the case, his killer was found and brought...

Mary Vincent was a 15 year old girl hitchhiking to her Grandfather's house, but unfortunately only hours later she lay at the bottom of a ravine, left for dead. But, luckily, not giving up she fought and stayed alive, helped by some strangers and managed to face the man who horrifically assaulted her. Unfortunately, the same could not be said for Roxanne Hayes due to the failings of the criminal j...

On 3rd May 2003, a 7 year old boy went outside to play on his bike in Great Yarmouth. When he didn’t return home for tea, he was reported missing by his parents. Police immediately launched a large-scale investigation and found he had been captured on CCTV in a local shop at 5.05pm. In the early morning hours, his red and white BMX bike was located, but nothing else has ever been found; no one has...

Section 12 of the Licensing Act 1872 states “every person found drunk… on any licensed premises, shall be liable to a penalty”. This law is still in place today. Today’s episode looks at the history of alcohol here in the UK and how this law came to be in place. For our sources, please visit our website; https://anotherdayanotherevil.wordpress.com/may-extra/

Robert Black was a serial killer & paedophile who was convicted of murdering 4 girls: Jennifer Cardy, Susan Maxwell, Caroline Hogg & Sarah Harper and the sexual assault and attempted abduction of Theresa Thornhill. He has been linked to countless other abductions & murders across England & Europe, however he has never been convicted of anything further For all our sources please vi...

Here's a round up of all our outtakes this month. Have a laugh along with all our mispronunciations, interruptions & more!

In the early hours of Sunday 9th June 1996, 25 year old Melanie Hall disappeared after visiting the Cadillacs nightclub in Bath city centre with her boyfriend and two friends. When her family reported her missing on the Monday evening, after being unable to get in contact with her, police immediately launched an investigation, to no avail. 13 years later, her skeletal remains were discovered on a...

Sarah Everard was abducted, raped and murdered in London on 3rd March 2021 by Wayne Couzens, a serving Metropolitan Police officer, who used his warrant card and handcuffs to stage a fake arrest for breaching Covid-19 lockdown rules. Her murder caused widespread outrage and prompted conversation about women's safety in public spaces & damaged the public’s trust in the police. Leading to the Angiol...

The case of R v R (1991) set legal precedent when the House of Lords abolished the ‘marital rape exemption’, meaning that a husband could be found guilty of raping his wife, something which, prior to this case, had not been the case. This case reflected the changing attitudes of women and their roles in marriage, viewing them more as equal partners, rather than subservients to their husbands. For...

Peter Sutcliffe terrorised the communities around West Yorkshire from 1975 until his capture in 1981. He is confirmed to have murdered 13 women, but he also attempted to murder many more. It is those confirmed survivors that we look at today. For our sources, please visit our website; https://anotherdayanotherevil.wordpress.com/april-extra/ "(00:00:00) Introduction" "(00:01:33) The Case of the Sur...

From 1975-1980, Yorkshire was terrorised by 13 brutal murders and several attempted murders, that we know of. The rampant misogyny of the police and broader public attitudes left a number of victims and victim’s families further traumatised and led to one of the notoriously botched investigations in West Yorkshire. Peter Sutcliffe was caught in early 1981, not through the police investigation into...

Claudia Lawrence, a 35 year old chef from the University of York, disappeared in March 2009. She was last seen and heard from on 18th March 2009. Despite being one of the most high profile & long running missing persons in recent British history, no body has ever been found, and no one has been charged with an offence in relation to her disappearance. The police suspect she was murdered and th...

Here's a round up of all our outtakes this month. Have a laugh along with all our mispronunciations, interruptions & more!

On Sunday 18th July 2004, the murdered bodies of twins, Claire and Diane Sanderson, were found in Claire’s flat. Later that morning, bodies of an elderly couple, James and Joan Britton, were found over 25 miles away. Despite seeming unrelated, forensic evidence later linked the two double murders and one of Britain’s largest manhunts for the killer, Mark Hobson, began, lasting over 8 days, before...

This episode marks 30 years since the Dunblane Massacre, when 16 children and their teacher were killed at Dunblane Primary School on 13 March 1996. The attack, carried out with legally owned handguns, devastated the town of Dunblane and shocked the nation. In the aftermath, grieving families led the Snowdrop Campaign, which helped bring about sweeping changes to UK gun laws in 1997, effectively b...