Episode 40 - Colin Ireland: A New Year, A New Level of Depravity

Having made a murderous New Year's resolution, Colin Ireland studied serial killers before putting his own plan into action. Then, in the spring of 1993, he tortured and killed five gay men: Peter Walker, Christopher Dunn, Perry Bradley III, Andrew Collier, and Emanuel Spiteri. Posing as a BDSM practitioner at the Coleherne Arms pub in West London, Colin preyed on a vulnerable community who was often targeted rather than protected by the police. His need for recognition manifested in staged crime scenes and phone calls to the police, and ultimately, all his precautions came to naught when a series of slip-ups led investigators right to him.Sources: https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/colin-ireland https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/37/part/I/enacted/data.xht?view=snippet&wrap=true https://www.nationaljusticemuseum.org.uk/museum/news/borstal-blogs-part-1-timeline https://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/legal/glossary/blackmail https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/fraud-act-2006 https://athenaforensics.co.uk/fraud-making-or-supplying-articles-for-use/ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/oct/04/why-is-gay-leather-scene-dying https://sentencingcouncil.org.uk/about-sentencing/types-of-sentence/life-sentences/#:~:text=For%20the%20most%20serious%20cases,never%20be%20released%20from%20prison. https://www.crimemagazine.com/gay-slayer https://www.mylondon.news/news/gallery/west-london-neighbourhood-once-soho-26179815 https://www.cluttons.com/area-guides/guide-to-living-in-earls-court/ https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/09/24/police-pride-march-lgbtq-community-mistrust-tension/ https://www.licencetoqueer.com/blog/agents-provocateur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcCpESctqNc https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/science/geographic-profiling https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/calculating-murderer-who-preyed-on-gays-terry-kirby-builds-up-a-picture-of-a-man-with-a-lethal-wish-to-prove-he-was-someone-of-consequence-1468747.html https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shadow-boxing/201210/i-just-wanna-be-a-serial-killer https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-17117441 https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/may/15/gayrights.ukcrime https://news.sky.com/story/gay-slayer-serial-killer-dies-in-jail-10480796 https://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/crime/22037541.serial-killer-whose-victims-included-brent-librarian-dies-prison/ https://www.the-independent.com/news/serial-killer-locked-up-for-life-to-take-one-human-life-is-an-outrage-to-take-five-is-carnage-says-judge-1468716.html https://www.foxtons.co.uk/local-life/willesden https://www.the-independent.com/news/man-on-homosexual-murder-charge-1486307.html https://www.garringtonlondon.co.uk/living-in-kensington/ https://www.galop.org.uk/about https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/killer-may-have-left-pub-with-gay-victim-1493622.html https://www.theguardian.com/society/2001/jan/31/prisonsandprobation1 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-thursday-edition-1.6306526/this-u-k-man-convicted-under-an-anti-gay-law-40-years-ago-may-finally-get-a-pardon-1.6306529 https://www.pridecorner.org/glossary/leather https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/23/fifty-years-gay-liberation-uk-barely-four-1967-act