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#166 - The Bloody Butler - Part One (Belgravia, London, Britain)

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This is Part One of Two. On the next morning of Sunday 10th August at 09:08am, Victor Ford-Lloyd the butler to Sir William Ackroyd entered the top floor flat at 69 Eaton Place after a night out. In the master bedroom, he found his friend, his lover and the man servant to Sir William dead. Having died several hours earlier, he was lying motionless, with a sticky pool of congealed blood about his head, having had his skull brutally smashed in with a hammer. But why? Was this a robbery? A revenge killing? Or an attack on an openly gay man? With Sir William in Scotland and Victor at several clubs in the city at the time of the murder, neither witnessed the attack, or saw any potential suspects. So, what happened, and who murdered Sir William’s manservant? Date: Sunday 10th August 1966 at 9:08am (call to the police)Location: Flat 3, 69 Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, UK, SW1Victims: 1 (Frank William Hocking)Culprits: 1 (Victor Norman Ford-Lloyd)Keywords: stabbing, strangling, robbery, Blog - https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/murder-mile-uk-true-crime-podcast-166-the-bloody-butler-part-one-of-two Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive and YouTube Music. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer. FOLLOW US HERE: Facebook Twitter Instagram Murder Mile Discussion Group Youtube OTHER LINKS: Link to Murder Mile Mugs Link to YouTube Channel Link to Live Show Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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