DESCRIPTION:
Following a call to the emergency services just before 5 PM on February 22nd, 2023, the police, and paramedics from the East Midlands Ambulance Service, were dispatched to a property on Queens Park Way in Leicester. They found an elderly man lying on the kitchen floor, bleeding profusely from a deep wound to his chest. His ex-wife had witnessed the attack, and the suspect had been seen fleeing the area by several other witnesses. Still, no one knew who he was or why he had targeted 79-year-old Gerald Wickes…
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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.
Edited by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions.
Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton.
Narration, additional audio editing, script editing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.
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MUSIC:
Fight To The Finish by Joshua Spacht
Enigma by Hill
Invisible Line by Stephen Keech
The Plot Thickens by Joshua Spacht
Spooked by jshirts
Endless Night by Moments
Those Lost by Moments
Unexpected Turn by Moments
R Naught by Kevin Graham
Sussex by Stephen Keech
Mystery by Third Age
Left For Dead by Wastelander
SOCIAL MEDIA: https://linktr.ee/TheyWalkAmongUs
REFERENCES:
LEGISLATION
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/25/introduction
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2015/2.html
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1964/84
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/25/section/.2
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/28/contents
NEWSBANK
Evening Standard: Web Edition Articles (London, England), October 2, 2023
Independent, The/The Independent on Sunday: Web Edition Articles (London, England), October 2, 2023
Press Association Newswire (UK), October 2, 2023
WalesOnline (Wales), October 2, 2023
Leicester Mercury (England), October 4, 2023
Leicester Mercury (England), October 9, 2023
Leicester Mercury (England), February 24, 2024
MailOnline (London, England), April 8, 2024
Daily Mail (London, England), April 10, 2024
Leicester Mercury (England), April 11, 2024
Daily Mirror, The: Web Edition Articles (London, England), April 16, 2024
Evening Standard: Web Edition Articles (London, England), April 16, 2024
Express, The/The Express on Sunday: Web Edition Articles (London, England), April 16, 2024
Independent, The/The Independent on Sunday: Web Edition Articles (London, England), April 16, 2024
Leicester Mercury (England), April 16, 2024
MailOnline (London, England), April 16, 2024
Press Association Newswire (UK), April 16, 2024
WalesOnline (Wales), April 16, 2024
Daily Mail (London, England), April 17, 2024
Daily Mirror, The (London, England), April 17, 2024
Express, The (London, England), April 17, 2024
Glasgow Times (Scotland), April 17, 2024
Herald, The/Sunday Herald, The (Glasgow, Scotland), April 17, 2024
Leicester Mercury (England), April 17, 2024
Manchester Evening News: Web Edition Articles (England), May 4, 2024
Birmingham Mail: Web Edition Articles (England), July 6, 2024
ONLINE ARTICLES
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/eyres-monsell-teen-stabbing-gerald-9120249
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/teen-18-go-trial-eyres-9211377
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/killing-gerald-wickes-79-random-8797650
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/teenager-walked-house-fatally-stabbed-8813038
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/teen-daniel-rounce-admits-stabbing-9217104
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13285359/pensioner-fatally-stabbing-chest-20cm-knife.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-68768037
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-66985190
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-67052351
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-68817502
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-68822449
https://qsc.law/news/fitness-plead-magistrates-court/
https://news.sky.com/story/leicester-teenager-stabbed-great-grandfather-to-death-after-walking-uninvited-into-house-court-hears-12975186
https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/national/23828578.teenager-fatally-stabbed-pensioner-randomly-walking-house-court-told/
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/national/23828578.teenager-fatally-stabbed-pensioner-randomly-walking-house-court-told/
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/uk-world-news/gerald-wickes-killed-random-stabbing-8798550
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/homicideinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2023#homicide-in-england-and-wales-year-ending-march-2023-data
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8224/CBP-8224.pdf