This is a story set in rural North Wales.  It's a close knit community, and some members receive threatening letters that create fear.  The author is a trusted member of their community, but who is it? why did they do it? and what other shocking and macabre findings do the investigating detectives discover?

You'll find out all the answers during this series of 2 podcasts.

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See photos, case notes and bonus material at http://truecrimeinvestigators.co.uk/

Researched and presented by John & Sally of True Crime Investigators UK.

Produced and edited by the team at Carrotcruncher Media

This is a story set in rural North Wales.  It's a close knit community, and some members receive threatening letters that create fear.  The author is a trusted member of their community, but who is it? why did they do it? and what other shocking and macabre findings do the investigating detectives discover?

You'll find out all the answers during this series of 2 podcasts.

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See photos, case notes and bonus material at http://truecrimeinvestigators.co.uk/

Researched and presented by John & Sally of True Crime Investigators UK.

Produced and edited by the team at Carrotcruncher Media

This is a story set in rural North Wales.  It's a close knit community, and some members receive threatening letters that create fear.  The author is a trusted member of their community, but who is it? why did they do it? and what other shocking and macabre findings do the investigating detectives discover?

You'll find out all the answers during this series of 2 podcasts.

For detailed resources about this series, please visit: https://truecrimeinvestigators.co.uk/

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See photos, case notes and bonus material at http://truecrimeinvestigators.co.uk/

Researched and presented by John & Sally of True Crime Investigators UK.

Produced and edited by the team at Carrotcruncher Media

This is a story of unbelievable evil and how three generations of the same family were held hostage when a remand prisoner goes on the run having seriously injured two prison officers to facilitate his escape.

For detailed resources about The Pottery Cottage Murders, please visit: http://truecrimeinvestigators.co.uk/case_pottcott.html

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See photos, case notes and bonus material at http://truecrimeinvestigators.co.uk/

Researched and presented by John & Sally of True Crime Investigators UK.

Produced and edited by the team at Carrotcruncher Media

This is a story of unbelievable evil and how three generations of the same family were held hostage when a remand prisoner goes on the run having seriously injured two prison officers to facilitate his escape.

For detailed resources about The Pottery Cottage Murders, please visit: http://truecrimeinvestigators.co.uk/case_pottcott.html

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See photos, case notes and bonus material at http://truecrimeinvestigators.co.uk/

Researched and presented by John & Sally of True Crime Investigators UK.

Produced and edited by the team at Carrotcruncher Media

This is a story of unbelievable evil and how three generations of the same family were held hostage when a remand prisoner goes on the run having seriously injured two prison officers to facilitate his escape.

For detailed resources about The Pottery Cottage Murders, please visit: http://truecrimeinvestigators.co.uk/case_pottcott.html

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See photos, case notes and bonus material at http://truecrimeinvestigators.co.uk/

Researched and presented by John & Sally of True Crime Investigators UK.

Produced and edited by the team at Carrotcruncher Media

We've been busy researching, interviewing and recording our next case, and it's finally ready for you.

Episode 1 of The Pottery Cottage Murders is available on Thursday November 2nd, 2023. Please use your podcast app to FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE to this podcast, so you don't miss the upcoming episodes.

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Eventually Tony is released to the UK but the police are on to him, he is once again the subject of police surveillance. He goes to ground, he puts together a gang of ‘misfits’, a prison governor, a boxer, a banker and others. But the police have set up an operation to catch Tony and his accomplices.

The story is familiar, but how does it all end? Is there an inevitability to it? A well respected barrister who defended Tony at some of his trials gives his thoughts on the man that he knew, a rare insight into the professional relationship that a lawyer and client have.

The story has been told in these episodes, largely by Jason, Tony’s youngest son, the author of ‘The Old Man and Me’. But what does he make of the life his father lived? How has the family been affected by Tony’s criminality? And what can he now do to help the forgotten children of those people who commit crime and are incarcerated as a result.

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By now he is in the Netherlands. He’s been inside for a long time and his trusted workers have either given up on a life of crime or have made their money and scarpered. So he is dealing with those he knows less well and whose ‘work’ ethics are different, harsher, more brutal. There’s a shoot out. Tony takes a bullet to the chest and a drug rival lies dead. He fights for his life.

During his period of recovery, Tony sets up again in Spain and for a few years he sends drugs from Morocco and the continent into the UK using boats and lorries to convey the products.

But the past has a way of catching up. He’s extradited for the death of the drug rival. What’s the verdict?

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Produced and edited by the team at Carrotcruncher Media

Whilst serving his prison sentence, he is the model prisoner and as he readies himself for release he indulges in the prison’s art classes. Is he turning a corner? Is this a new career path? Of course not, it's his next adventure, counterfeiting millions of American dollars and he uses the art as a guise for perfecting the production of cash notes.

Within months of release Tony’s on the run from the Police. He meets Crystal and deceives her with his charm and lies. After capture, trial and conviction he is handed a lengthy prison sentence but Crystal remains loyal until he embarks on his plan for release - drugs. She cannot expose her family to this criminality and the marriage that was conducted within the prison walls ends in divorce.

The drugs business leads him to another trial but his charm is not lost on the jury. After acquittal he drinks with them and suspicions arise that the jury has been ‘nobbled’.

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Researched and presented by John & Sally of True Crime Investigators UK.

Produced and edited by the team at Carrotcruncher Media

Listen to the early years of Tony Spencer’s life.

A young man finding his way in the world but crime plays a part. He meets Jane, they are just teenagers when they marry and she falls pregnant with their first child. But Tony’s criminality sees him sent to Borstal. Over the next few years their family grows but Tony’s is still involved in criminality. He builds an empire of second hand shops and gymnasiums, this is legitimate business and delivers a level of success. But then he needs crime to support the businesses.

Tony turns to the one thing he thinks will bring him the cash injection he needs to keep his businesses afloat; crime. He robs a bank at gunpoint. The consequences of his actions are grave, 10 years imprisonment. Whilst Tony and Jane spin a story that Dad is at ‘college’ to protect their young children, the truth is it’s a strain on the relationship.

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See photos, case notes and bonus material at http://truecrimeinvestigators.co.uk/

Researched and presented by John & Sally of True Crime Investigators UK.

Produced and edited by the team at Carrotcruncher Media