The Mysterious Case of the Blackpool Street Murder
Summer in 1980 was unusually wet across England and in the Midlands town of Burton upon Trent the night of the 15th June felt unseasonably cold, with a light rain slanting in on stiffening breeze. The sliver of a new moon was masked behind a blanket of cloud, and the gloom gave the night the feel of March rather than summer. In Blackpool Street nothing stirred, except a dim flickering light in the window of Number 75. A flickering that became a flame, which became an inferno. The alarm was raised, the fire brigade arrived, and when eventually they broke through into the house, they discovered far more than a domestic house fire. They discovered a crime scene. In an upstairs bedroom, the body of a teenage girl. murdered, mutilated and abandoned in the blazing building. Welcome to the Mysterious Case of the Blackpool Street Murder
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We talk to someone who knew Francis Clarke on the inside of the prison system, and what this tells us about the reality of incarceration for an offender facing a life sentence, but also the crime itself.
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DCS Bob Stewart, in charge of the Tina Sellars murder investigation had history. He had been the lead detective a famous case two years earlier and had secured life sentences for those involved. It was lauded as a great success. So he was the perfect man to lead this investigation. Or was he....
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The jury was certain. Francis Clarke had murdered Tina Sellars. But as we discovered in the last episode, there are serious doubts as to whether the time required to commit the crime tallied with the window of opportunity that Clarke had to commit it.
As as we find out in this episode, there are other reasons to suspect there was a potentially entirely different explanation for the crime.
But what about the scientific evidence? Tha...
Francis Clarke has been convicted of the murder of Tina Sellars and starts to serve his life sentence. But something's not quite right about this case.
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For DCS Bob Stewart the pressure to solve the Blackpool Street murder was intensifying, The violent nature of the killing suggest they were dealing with a man who had the potential to murder again. He needed to break the case and he needed to do it fast.
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The night of the 15th June 1980 was drizzly and unseasonal. In the Midlands town of Burton upon Trent, an 18 year old student steps off the bus and walks back to her grandparents house. An hour later she was found murdered and mutilated, but what exactly happened in that next hour? Welcome to the Mysterious Case of the Blackpool Street Murder.
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