#284 - Dead Man's Hand (Bayswater, London, UK)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Monday 31st of October 1960, at 5:30pm, the body of 53-year-old William Davies was found inside the top-floor flat of 5 Westbourne Park Road in Bayswater, London, W2. There was no sign of a break-in, no struggle and no obvious robbery. He was found on his knees, with a knife in his chest, and even though all the evidence pointed to this being a suicide, the police knew it wasn't.

Date: Sunday 30th of October 1960 (at 12:20am+, likely time of murder)
Location: top floor flat, 5 Westbourne Park Road, Bayswater, London, UK, W2
Victim: 1 (William Davies)
Culprits: 1 (Istvan Szabo)

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0:00.0	Calling all holiday lovers, welcome to Passports Please, the podcast that hacks your holidays.
0:05.0	I'm Chelsea, also known as the cheap holiday expert online.
0:08.1	And I'm James, the one that just loves a holiday.
0:10.6	Fancy, finding out how to blag your way through a city break without a plan?
0:14.3	Covered.
0:15.0	Wondering what you should do if you ever forget your passport?
0:17.7	Speaking from experience, James.
0:19.4	No comment.
0:20.4	So grab your headphones and your carry on
0:22.6	and let's make your next trip unforgettable
0:24.7	for the right reasons.
0:26.1	Passports, please, is available to listen
0:27.7	wherever you get your podcasts.
0:43.2	Welcome. Welcome to Murder Mile.
0:50.6	Today, I'm standing on Westbourne Park Road in Bayswater W2.
0:58.0	One Street north of the suicide pact of Barbara Shuttleworth's unrequited lover. One street west of the old lady killer. Two streets north-west of the fake S-A-S initiation. And one street
1:05.4	south of the Cat Patee, coming soon to Murdema. At 5, Westbourne Park Road stands a three-story
1:17.3	brown-bricked Georgian terrace. As is typical in this area, it has pretentious white
1:23.6	Doric columns on either side of the door, as if the ancestor of Julius Caesar still lives
1:28.8	there.
1:30.8	When it's probably a corporate lawyer called Farquhar, his Russian dial-a-bride whose name
1:35.5	looks like somebody fell on the keyboard, their two sons, Tarquin and Fortescue, a daughter
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