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FROM THE VAULT - The Murder of Rachel Nickell #285

6/5/202657 min

Netflix's new drama 'The Witness' and documentary 'The Murder of Rachel Nickell' have brought Rachel Nickell's case back into public attention. For the true story behind the murder that rocked the UK, we've resurfaced our episode from February 2023.

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Rachel Nickell’s brutalised body was found on Wimbledon Common with her two-year-old son Alex wiping her bloodied face and begging her to 'wake up'. The nature of the broad daylight attack and the horrific injuries put enormous pressure on the Met to get the case solved and fast. However, none of that justifies the shoddy police work, cut corners, and tunnel vision that allowed serial rapist Robert Napper to go unchecked for years.

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Clips

Child by Mother’s Side
Honey-Trap ‘Confession’ Twist
Ignored Mother’s Warning
Blame Falls On Pedder
Entrapment Siren Banter

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Hannah Maguire· Host0:00

    [music] I'm Hannah.

  2. Suruthi Bala· Host0:09

    I'm Suruti.

  3. Hannah Maguire· Host0:10

    And welcome to Red Handed, episode 755.

  4. Suruthi Bala· Host0:15

    One day it actually will be that.

  5. Hannah Maguire· Host0:17

    Over my dead body. [laughs] [laughs] I'm kidding. We're kidding. One day it will.

  6. Suruthi Bala· Host0:20

    One day it will.

  7. Hannah Maguire· Host0:21

    One day it will, but today is not that day. I'm a liar and a bounder and a cad. We are- I've actually got a very sad story for you today, and very specifically one that would have, I mean, at least for me, I was very aware of this always.

  8. Suruthi Bala· Host0:34

    Oh, me too. Me too.

  9. Hannah Maguire· Host0:36

    So it's about time we covered it. Often perceived as a brutalist, concrete jungle, London is actually the greenest city in Europe. We have 3,000 parks and green spaces. Richmond Park is a whopping 2,500 acres, and they've got deer and stuff.

  10. Suruthi Bala· Host0:54

    Yeah, I mean, if you go stand in the middle of Richmond Park, you feel like you are in the countryside, but it's fucking far from here.

  11. Hannah Maguire· Host1:00

    So far.

  12. Suruthi Bala· Host1:00

    Sometimes w- on a Sunday I'll be like, "Should we go to Richmond Park?" And then like I, I look up how far it is and I'm like, "Nah."

  13. Hannah Maguire· Host1:05

    [laughs] [laughs] I don't think I've actually ever been.

  14. Suruthi Bala· Host1:08

    I've been once. It is so far. I just go stand in Epping Forest instead. Kind of feels- Yeah ... similar. There are cows in Epping Forest.

  15. Hannah Maguire· Host1:15

    Are there? I've never seen a cow.

  16. Suruthi Bala· Host1:17

    Big ones with, um, big horns.

  17. Hannah Maguire· Host1:19

    Really?

  18. Suruthi Bala· Host1:20

    I don't know if they're Highland, but they're like shaggy with big horns.

  19. Hannah Maguire· Host1:22

    Oh, fun.

  20. Suruthi Bala· Host1:23

    I think they're called like Longhorns, but they're there. They're there in Epping.

  21. Hannah Maguire· Host1:25

    Oh, I'll go and find them. But if you're more interested in wombles than cows or deer,

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