We kick this one off the only way we know how.

A bit tired. A bit dramatic about adulthood. Slightly over-analysing targeted ads that know we’re stressed. There’s chat about mini retirements, South London buses, and whether four ciders was really necessary on a school night.

And then we talk about Wayne.

On 19 February 1990, 11-year-old Wayne Taylor left his home in Kennington with a pound in his pocket to get the bus to Brixton to see his dad. It was half term. It was a normal journey. He knew the area. He was expected home that evening.

He never came back. Two days later, Wayne was found inside a disused community centre on the Somerleyton Estate. He had been sexually assaulted and murdered. The investigation would eventually link his death to an earlier attack on another young boy, and early DNA evidence would identify the man responsible.

The case was solved. The killer was convicted. But Wayne’s name never became one the country seemed to hold onto.

In this episode, we talk about who Wayne was, what happened in those final hours, and why his story feels like one that slipped quietly past the national conversation.

Sources include

https://chatgpt.com/g/g-p-6762b841d4108191b4c89939ef1dbbeb-sinister-south/c/6988bcfa-5448-8392-a197-6a3ee3fd339d
https://www.blackkalendar.nl/c/13323/Michael%20Wyatt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu8H9jPxHLA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0nSFGtCbzs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Ehlv70y8s
https://imsvintagephotos.com/products/1991-paedophile-killer-michael-wyatt-was-jailed-for-life-today-old-bailey-vintage-photograph-2206263?srsltid=AfmBOorfxjs59CkAzUF1Ywcf_AOqNmEDzSmuS5dcX7xnXTOPxFO5fOSG

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