#277 - The Cuckoo (Barnes, London)

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🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Sunday the 1st of December 2019 was the last time 53-year-old William Algar, a talented jazz trumpeter was seen alive. One month later, parts of his dismembered body were found in his flat at 7 Nowell Road in Barnes, having been the victim of cuckooing by a drugs gang. But who had murdered him?

Date: Sunday 1st December 2019 (time of murder impossible to tell)
Location: Ground Floor Flat, 7 Nowell Road, Barnes, SW13
Victims: 1 (William Hugh Blaise Algar)
Culprits: 1 (Emeka Kabiru Dawuda-Wodu, Zimele Dube, Janayo Lucima, Marc Harding)

Note: Wodu, Emmons & Dube were found guilty of the later murder of Ebrima Cham. In the murder of William Algar, all were convicted of perverting the course of justice, but unable to prove who had killed William, Wodu, Emmons & Dube were found ‘not guilty’ of his murder or his manslaughter.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Murder Mile.
0:10.0	Today, I'm standing on Noel Road in Barnes, SW30, 5 minutes west of the killing of George Heath.
0:23.0	Four minutes south of where Hectorina McClellan met Reg Christie.
0:27.8	Six minutes east of the Chiswick Cat Ladies.
0:31.8	An assured walk from the slaughtered nudes of Hammersmith.
0:35.6	Coming soon to murder mile.
0:41.3	Judge slaughtered nudes of Hammersmith, coming soon to murder mile. Just shy of the river Thames sits Noel Road,
0:44.3	a residential tree-lined street full of two-story semi-detached houses from the 1920s and 30s.
0:52.3	There's a working-class area.
0:59.8	Some are pristine and neatly manicured, being owned by old-timers who lament the days before the scum moved in.
1:02.8	And the newbies, whose gardens resemble a tribute to scrapyards, a museum of dog turds,
1:10.2	art shaped like a deflated paddling pool,
1:12.6	and the complete history of every broken fridge, microwave, foot spa and telly they've ever owned.
1:19.6	At the top of the road sits a terrace of three houses with number seven on the left.
1:33.3	Across the 2010s, this ground floor council flat was the home of William Algo,
1:37.1	a talented trumpeter who was no bother to anyone,
1:41.0	and as a kind man who struggled with his mental health,
1:47.6	all he wanted was to get back on his feet. Classified as vulnerable, what he needed was help and support. But being isolated and neglected, what
1:55.5	he got was a criminal gang who took over his flat, his mind, and would end up taking his life.
2:04.0	My name is Michael. I'm your tour guide and this is Murder Mile.
2:10.3	Episode 277, The Cuckoo. William Hugh Blaise-Alger, known as Willie or Blaze, was born on the 10th of August, 96, in the district of Hounslow, where he was raised and would live for the rest of his life.
2:37.0	Coming from a good family and being a semi-regular churchgoer, it may seem a cliché, but everyone who knew him said he was lovely, gentle, polite and sweet.
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