This is Part Two of Two of 'Fat Fred'.

On Monday 23rd of August 1971 at 9:40am, a gang of armed robbers stole £166,000 (£3.2 million today) from Preston’s Jewellers in Blackpool, and in their haste to escape, three officers were shot, many were injured, and Detective Superintendent Gerry Richardson was shot. The gang’s leader, Frederick Sewell, a gangster known as ‘Fat Fred’ was branded ‘Britain’s most hates man’ and hunted.

But what had this killing spree got to do with the murder of Malcolm Heaysman, co-owner of a fancy-dress shop in Islington outside of his remote farmhouse in Gwynfe near Llangadog, Carmarthenshire?

· Location #1: Preston’s Jewellers, 14 The Strand, Blackpool, Lancashire, UK

· Location #2: Godre Waun, Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, Wales, SA19

· Date: Monday 23rd of August 1971, at 9:40am (robbery and murder)

· Victims: Detective Superintendent Gerarld Richardson, Malcolm Heaysman

· Culprits #1: (robbery/murder): Frederick Joseph Sewell, Charles Haynes, George/Dennis Bond, John Patrick Spry and Thomas Flannigan

· Culprits #2: (murder of Malcolm): Roy Searl and (associate) Roy Owen Gibson

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This is Part One of Two of 'Fat Fred'. This is Part One of Two of 'Fat Fred'.

On Tuesday 29th of September 1971, Malcolm Heaysman, co-owner of a fancy-dress shop in Islington was brutally murdered outside of his remote farmhouse in Gwynfe near Llangadog, Carmarthenshire. Being 40 days into a 45 day man hunt, Police were seeking Britain’s no1 villain infamously known as ‘Fat Fred’ having stolen £3.2 million in a jewellery heist, and in a 3 mile car chase, he sparked a national outrage by killing a policeman, and attempting to kill three others. But what connected him to the murder of this mild-mannered fancy-dress shop owner?

• · Location #1: Beck’s Carnival Novelties, 139 Upper Street, Islington, London, W1
• · Location #2: Godre Waun, Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, Wales, SA19
• · Date: Tuesday 29th of September 1971, post 9pm (murder)
• · Victims: Malcolm Heaysman
• · Culprits: ?

Five time nominated at the True Crime Awards, Independent Podcast Awards and the British Podcast Awards, Murder Mile is one of the best UK / British true crime podcasts covering only 20 square miles of West London. It is researched, written and performed by Michael of Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name and additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer.

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EPISODE THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY: Sunday 22nd March 2020, one day before the first Covid lockdown, 29-year-old mother-of-one Rhian Beresford left her flat terrified that her two-year-old daughter was being abused by a paedophile ring. On Salisbury Street, certain that she had found one of the gang, she ran him over in her car and stabbed another. But what let to this tragic incident, and how did it all go so badly wrong?

• Location: Salisbury Street, Acton, London, W3, UK
• Date: Sunday 22nd March 2020 at 12:50pm (time police called)
• Victims: Stefan Melnyk
• Culprits: Rhian Amie Beresford

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