UK True Crime Podcast

Raising young children is rewarding but also very challenging. In 2018, Louise Porton was a single mum of two young children living in Rugby. But tragically, within the space of three weeks both of her daughters died. Was it just terrible luck, or was there another explanation? Sponsor - Get 15% off using the code MOTHER before 14/3/21 https://auraframes.com/ Writing Credit Steve Percival UK True...

Do you remember July 2012, the London Olympics, long summer days and a feeling of the UK coming together. PC Ian Dibell, from Clacton on the east coast of Essex was not at work when he heard a disturbance in the road where he lived. In this episode of the UK True Crime podcast, I describe what happened next...... Sponsored by Best Fiends. Download this game today https://download.bestfiends.com UK...

When Malcolm Webster's wife, Claire, was tragically killed in Scotland 1994, he was distraught. He moved away to start a new life, but everywhere he went, misfortune seemed to follow. Until one day in New Zealand, everything changed..... Sponsored by: https://www.worldcarparts.co.uk/ Writing and Research Haze at 'Murder She Wrote' podcast CrimeCon UK Get discounted tickets for this event in June 2...

April 2015. It was just a normal Saturday night in Leeds, and 20 year old Billy Mankelow and his friends were having a great time. They could never have realised that a chance encounter in a nightclub, could have such a tragic outcome. Sponsored by Best Fiends. Download this game today https://download.bestfiends.com CrimeCon UK Get discounted tickets for this event in June 2021 using the code: UK...

Felixstowe is a small town on the east coast of England where some suggest that nothing much happens. But in 1993, there was a bank robbery that put the Suffolk town on the front pages of the papers, along with the name 'Fast Eddie'. Today, on the UK True Crime podcast, I tell that story. Sponsored by: https://www.worldcarparts.co.uk/ Writing and Research Haze at 'Murder She Wrote' podcast CrimeCo...

When three sex workers were killed in Hull in the late 1990's, it was feared that a serial killer was operating in the area.  In this episode of the UK True Crime podcast, I examine just what happened to 25 year old Natalie Clubb, 20 year old Hayley Morgan and 29 year old Samantha Class. Sponsored by Best Fiends. Download this game today https://download.bestfiends.com Get discounted tickets for t...

If you could call a number and say you’re sorry, and no one would know…what would you apologize for? For fifteen years, you could call a number in Manhattan and do just that.  This is the story of the line, and the man at the other end who became consumed by his own creation. He was known as “Mr. Apology.” As thousands of callers flooded the line, confessing to everything from shoplifting to infid...

It was May 2006 and nineteen year old Tom Grant was heading home to Gloucestershire, after a successful first year at St Andrews University. He could never have believed that a minor incident at the platform in Carlisle, as he changed trains, could lead to such shocking consequences. Sponsored by YARN.  Download on this app today CrimeCon UK Get discounted tickets for this event in June 2021 using...

It was 2009 in Walthamstow, when he first struck. In the early hours of the morning he attacked and raped a stranger. This was followed by two more terrifying attacks of increasing ferocity. The next time this man attacked, he raped and murdered his 35 year old victim, Michelle Samaraweera, in a children's playground. Detectives knew he needed to be stopped. In this episode of the UK True Crime po...

Many people dream of winning the lottery. In 2009, a convicted rapist from Milton Keynes did just that, scooping over £2.5M. But everything wasn't quite as it seemed. This week, on the UK True Crime podcast, I tell that story - of brutal violence, sexual assault and greed. CrimeCon UK Get discounted tickets for this event in June 2021 using the code: UKTC https://www.crimecon.co.uk Referenced site...

This week, the story comes from a small town west of Edinburgh in 1999. When mum of three Yvonne Davidson was found dead, it seemed that it was a terrible accident. But a year later, a friend of her partner went to police telling how he had made threats to murder Yvonne. Just what was the truth? CrimeCon UK Get discounted tickets for this event in June 2021 using the code: UKTC https://www.crimeco...

When solicitor Vina Patel didn't pick up her daughter from work, her daughter was immediately concerned. It was most unlike her mum. She called her Dad and they went to her office at Cort & Co in Leicester, but in their worst nightmares they couldn't have imagined what they would find..... Sponsored by Best Fiends. Download this game today https://download.bestfiends.com CrimeCon UK Get discou...

Frankland prison in Durham has housed some of the worst human being to be born in the UK, including Peter Sutcliffe and Ian Huntley. Today, we look at the terrible crimes of three men who were all sent to Frankland to serve their time. But what happened there in October 2011, was shocking..... CrimeCon UK Get discounted tickets for this event in June 2021 using the code: UKTC https://www.crimecon....

Nineteen eighty was going to be Dorothy Stratten’s year. Playboy’s Hugh Hefner thought it might even be her decade. She was just 20 years old, the girl next door with the shy smile and whispery voice who didn’t know her own beauty. But who was Dorothy really? And how did her rise to fame ultimately lead to her death? This is a six-part series about love, sex and murder in 1970s Hollywood when glit...

Life had been good for Jonathan Dore, from Essex. A close family, talented footballer, good-looking with lots of personality. Then he met Kim and they got a house, had a baby - the future all looked so positive. But then suddenly, on Kim's birthday in January, everything changed. Please support my sponsors Better Help. Claim your 10% discount on professional counselling today. https://www.betterhe...

In this second part of a two-part story, I return to Northern Ireland to cover the shocking events following the attack on the Droppin Well by the INLA in 1982, ending with the murder of the leader of the INLA (at the time of the attack on the Droppin Well) in February 1994. CrimeCon UK Get discounted tickets for this event in June 2021 using the code: UKTC https://www.crimecon.co.uk Referenced si...

It was 11:15pm on the evening of 6 December 1982 when the bomb went off in the Droppin Well bar in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland.  The INLA bomb killed 6 civilians and 11 British soldiers.  In this episode of the UK True Crime podcast I tell the story of what happened on that terrible day. Best Fiends. Download this game today. https://download.bestfiends.com CrimeCon UK Get discounted tickets for...

Ipswich in the summer of 2009. In the space of two days, two people were found murdered at their homes. Who had killed them? This episode of the UK True Crime Podcasts explores the sub-culture of street drinking as we explore just what happened to these two people and why. And shockingly, how these events were linked to two further deaths.... CrimeCon UK Get discounted tickets for this event in Ju...

In November 2015, 36 year old Sian Roberts was found dead at her home in Salford. But just who had killed Sian? There were a number suspects and was Sian's death in any way related to the death of her housemate 18 months before? Please support my sponsor Better Help. Claim your 10% discount on professional counselling today. https://www.betterhelp.com/uk CrimeCon UK Get discounted tickets for this...

In 1987, John Kendall was serving an 8 years stretch at Gartree Prison near Leicester. But he didn't want to continue to stay in the regimented environment and plotted to escape. With £250,000 and a network of contacts, on 10 December, it was time for the plan to be activated. In this episode of the UK True Crime podcast, I tell the stories of the men involved in the escape and what happened to th...

The CCTV clearly showed Rui Lui leaving Poole hospital, where she worked, in her distinctive silver porsche. But days later she was still missing - just where could she be? A police investigation into her life with her husband uncovered swinging, sex work, bigamy and complex finances - could any of these factors be related to her disappearance? Sponsor Play this brand-new, exciting interactive det...

It was just a chance meeting on a train. But following the conversation, Stuart Hodgkins knew that he could exploit his new friend for money. And he did just that, moving in that very day. But nobody could have predicted just what happened when the money ran out.... Sponsor Play this brand-new, exciting interactive detective game today.... https://www.inthehiddencity.com/moriartys-game-a-killer-in...

It was our days before Christmas at the supermarket and spirits were high and people cheerful as they completed their Christmas shopping. Nobody would have taken much notice as the ordinary middle-aged man entered the store. And nobody would have guessed he had in his possession a knife and an axe. But what happened next nobody present would ever forget.... Sponsor Witchy Woo Kitchen Claim your 20...

It was just a normal November morning. Just another day in Ilford, East London as Sana Muhammad - who was 8 months pregnant - prepared dinner, her husband pottered around and the five children were all upstairs. Then just after 7am, all their lives changed forever.... Sponsors The incredible new crime thriller everyone is talking about: The lie she told - by Catherine Yaffe https://www.amazon.co.u...

In March 2016, 45 year old bodybuilder Michael O'Hanlon was crowned 'Mr Scotland'. An amazing achievement, and he and his fiancee Elaine were looking ahead to their castle wedding in August. But there was just one problem: Elaine's ex kept sending them abuse. And one day in July, he challenged Michael to a fight via Facebook. Michael went to meet him telling Elaine, 'I won't be long', as they were...