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Podcast: Murder Mile UK True Crime
Episode: #112 – Savvas Demetriades and the Code of Silence (Soho, London)
Description: On Monday 25th October 1943, at roughly 3:30pm, a businessman called Savvas Demetriades was murdered in broad daylight on a public pavement outside of the Helvetia pub at 23 Old Compton Street. The Police's investigation should have collapsed owing to the code of silence in Soho’s Greek-Cypriot community. But this would collapse owing to how petty the murder was.Date: Monday 25th October 1943Location: 23 Old Compton Street, Soho, W1 (pavement outside)Victims: 1 (Savvas Demetriades)Culprits: 1 (Christos Georghiou)Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with the main mu...