An Impending Retirement: Episode 378
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It was just one of the thousands of missing persons cases that were reported in the UK that year when 63 year old Don Banfield disappeared from his home in north-west London. He had been having issues in his marriage and had talked about moving back to Trinidad - where he was born and the place he loved. But he had spoken to a number of people about being concerned for his safety: had Don come to harm? Just what happened to Don Banfield? Writing Credit: Megan Grant. See Megan's work on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/megathachristie/?igshid=MmIzYWVlNDQ5Yg%3D%3D Watch the True Crime Podcasters Roundtable - February 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XsBoMbcpEU Find out more about the UK True Crime Podcast: https://www.uktruecrime.com Join me at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime Join the UK True Crime Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime Buy my book 'Gone Fishing' about serial killer Angus Sinclair: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gone-Fishing-Unsolved-Crimes-Sinclair/dp/1914277201 Sources https://www.chippingcampdenhistory.org.uk/content/history/incidents-and-events/the_campden_wonder  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-21506482 https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20120404/281586647569181 https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/tax-inspector-killed-husband-then-fled-to-whitby-1906475 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124569/Accountant-Donald-Banfield-murdered-wife-daughter-Body-missing-decade-on.html https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/5a8ff71060d03e7f57ea6ffd https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17583485 https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/apr/03/bookmaker-murder-wife-daughter-life-sentence https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html https://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/don-banfield-murder-trial-wife-and-daughter-bookie-are-found-guilty-killing-him?sp=3&sq=relief%2520fund%2520 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17371761 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2381961/Lady-killers-Shirley-Lynette-Banfield-murder-convictions-quashed-Court-Appeal.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22544419 https://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/10585245.wife-and-daughter-accused-of-killing-wealdstone-man-don-banfield-have-murder-convictions-quashed/
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