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Welcome to Murder Mile. Today I'm standing on Greek Street in Soho W1, one street of Edith McQuaid and the Black Cap Fars.

A few doors up from Raphael Chicalino and the Good Samaritan, a few doors down from Eliza Crease and the honeymoon from Hell, and a short walk from old Eliza's black hole, coming soon

to murder mile. At 18 Greek Street now stands Soho Zabrano, a cocktail bar come nightclub come

restaurant. But back in 1963, this was the establishment club, an infamous comedy and

jazz club, co-founded by the satirist Peter Cook, where an archic comedy acts like Lenny

Bruce, Pied and Dud and Frankie Howard regularly performed. But although legendary, it lasted

for just three years, closing down in 1964, just one year after this minor frackar.

Unrelated to its demise, on Saturday the 25th of May, 1963, at 1220 a.m., four men were ejected from this private member's club by the police.

They left without a struggle. No blood was spilled. No damage was done and nobody was hurt.

And yet with accusations of corruption, violence and an attempted murder in its wake.

It sparked a criminal trial and an inquiry which almost brought down the entire met police.

My name is Michael. I'm your tour guide and this is Murder Mar.

Episode 291, The Scourge of Soho.

Pinky was a terrifying thug.

That was the reputation which preceded him.

His face was known. His anger was feared, and when he walked, he loom large like a skulking shadow of death.

Standing a whopping six feet and six inches high and weighing twenty stone.

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