#294 - Sheer 'Bloody' Ignorance (‘Robyn’ Browne, Fitvrovia, UK)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

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🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

On Friday 28th of February 1997 sometime after 7pm, at 6b Gosfield Street, a brutal and bloody attack on a lone sex-worker occurred in this first floor flat. Barely reported in the newspapers and ignored by television, the murder of ‘Robyn’ Browne is a case which was largely forgotten… yet the truth of what happened could be hidden among a scattering of facts, being drenched by a deluge of bigotry, racism and fear which helped derail the investigation.

Date: Friday 28th of February 1997 after 7pm (time of murder)
Location: First Floor, 6B Gosfield Street, Fitzrfovia, London, W1
Victim: 1 (James Darwin Errol Browne , known as 'Robyn')
Culprits: 1 (James Hopkins).

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1:11.1	Welcome to Murder Mile. Today, I'm standing on Gosfield Street in Fitzrovia W1.
1:31.5	One street west of Georgia Antonio and the Deadly Soap, opposite the missing pieces of Juliet
1:36.8	Merrill, two doors up from the blackout ripper's killing of the lady, and a short walk
1:43.0	from the lovesick arsonistist coming soon to murder mile.
1:50.0	As a place we've been to many times before, Gottsfield Street is a mix of five-story
1:55.0	Victorian mansion blocks and townhouses, split into flats and bed sits, being accessible by a communal door.
2:03.6	Close to the bustling hum of Oxford Street.
2:06.6	It's oddly quiet, as only residents of any reason to be here, with no shops and just a few offices.
2:14.6	Most of the business occurs in the secret world behind its closed doors.
2:20.3	On Friday the 28th of February 1997, sometime after 7pm, at 6B Gosfield Street,
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