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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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