Do Go On - The Rolex Murder - Do Go On Mini

Episode Date: June 22, 2020

If you’ve ever thought about buying a super expensive watch but thought “Is it really worth it?” Well, for one man, his luxury watch lead the police straight to his murderer.This is the podcast ...version of episode five of our new web series that we made with Stupid Old Studios. You can watch the video of the episode complete with animations, props and lots and lots of regret face right now on The Stupid Old Channel YouTube page (link below).Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/q1QAeyyMHIkOur website: dogoonpod.comSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-Topic Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: dogoonpod@gmail.comCheck out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey everybody, Jess and Dave, just jumping in really quickly at the top here to make sure that you are across all the details for our upcoming Christmas show. That's right, we are doing a live show in Melbourne Saturday December the 2nd, 2023, our final podcast of the year, our Christmas special. It's downstairs at Morris House, which usually be called the European beer cafe. On Saturday December the 2nd, 2023 at 4.30pm, come along, come one, come all, and get tickets at dogoonpod.com. This episode is brought to you by Progressive. Most of you aren't just listening right now.
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Starting point is 00:01:23 You could start your new career in months, not years. Take classes online or on campus to you know, this is another episode of our web series. It's on the Strybidold Channel. This is the audio version of it. Obviously, if you want to watch the visual version, you can do that at youtube.com slash Strybidold Channel or just click on the link in the show notes here. Then you can see as well as here enjoying it in all two of the sensors, hearing, seeing, in all two of the senses, hearing, seeing, and throwing a third. Enjoying. Anyway, this one's about the Rolex murder, but I'll let Jess take it from here. Please enjoy the episode, like, subscribe, and share, and thanks for listening on with the show. If you've ever thought about buying a super expensive watch but thought, is it really worth it?
Starting point is 00:02:26 Well, for one man, his luxury timepiece led the police straight to his murderer. This is the Rolex murder. Whoa, wait, you saw your sandwich should buy a watch? Woo! If you're gonna buy a watch, buy a mega expensive watch. Okay, thank God. It's the only one I've caught up with. So we're talking like, you know,
Starting point is 00:02:46 one that sets how many steps you've done. Yeah. All right. Obviously. Well, I'll talk to my bank manager. Okay. Okay. Hello and welcome.
Starting point is 00:03:00 My name's Jess Perkins. I'm here with Dave Warnocky and Matt Stewart. And you'll notice that none of us are wearing watches. You haven't checked my leg. I imagine. Imagine, Evan, could you put a watch on his leg? Yeah. How would you check the time if you had a bear
Starting point is 00:03:16 the whole, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, I'm not giving you much, much of an opportunity. Oh, it's like one of those flavor-flaved angry ones. You guys wear watches at all? No, I did when I was a kid, and then mobile phones are invented. Yeah, I used to always,
Starting point is 00:03:35 I used to feel naked with that, I used to love my watches, but now I'm a Fitbit girl. I love to check them steps. Yeah, but Fitbit, that's like a watch. Yeah, but as we'll find out, if you're gonna buy a watch, you should probably buy a mega expensive one.
Starting point is 00:03:53 I'm a fan of Tissot. Not expensive enough. Okay. Maybe it is, I don't know. I don't know that much about watches. I just like the name Tissot. Is that expensive? I wanted to say Tissot.
Starting point is 00:04:01 Okay, go again. Tissot. Was that fun? Yeah, that was fun. That was fun, it was fun to watch. Have a go, Matt. Tissot. Okay, go again. Tissot. Was that fun? Yeah, that was fun. How was fun? It was fun, it was fun to watch. Have a go, Matt. Tissot.
Starting point is 00:04:10 Not as good from you. Okay. So, let me begin. On July 28th, 1996, a good year. A couple of fishermen were out in their trawler around six miles off Tin moth in the UK. But instead of hauling in loads of fish, on this day they discovered a body. Loads of body. No, just, yeah, just one.
Starting point is 00:04:33 So a body of water or... No, a human body. Oh, okay, in the body of water. Never had to specify that before. Body in a body. Whoa, it's like Russian bodies. Body of water, body of human inside him, little fish. I don't know, probably.
Starting point is 00:04:48 The body was badly decomposed from being in the water for so long, so detectives were at a loss as to how they would identify this mystery man. Their only clue was a Rolex watch on his right wrist. Ooh, right wrist. Left-handed probably, then. Probably. I wear watches on my left, and I'm left-handed. Just another thing that's super interesting about me. Just quirky.
Starting point is 00:05:11 Wow, quirky. It's fascinating. You know, you can never predict me. What's she gonna do? Left-on-left. Tell you what. Yeah. What?
Starting point is 00:05:22 Oh, you know, loss for words. Okay. So luckily because Rolex is a luxury brand, they keep meticulous records of their products and any servicing or repairs that are done to their watches. So that includes one's bought in Bali? Do they keep track of them all, Matt? Rolex is a Rolex.
Starting point is 00:05:45 Even if they've got one L2 or some other. Even if they're Rolex. There's a Z in there, somehow. It's still there. Wow. Wow. It's a powerful corporate. Honestly, they're running at a loss.
Starting point is 00:05:56 Even if it says Tissot. They'll look after it. That's so funny. They love time. Yeah. And helping you keep it. Oh. Everyone's going to have a passion. Yeah. So yeah you keep it. Oh, everyone's got a passion. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:08 So yeah, they kept really meticulous records. So the serial number and the service documents of this particular watch showed that it had been taken to a jeweler in Harrogate twice in the 80s. The customer, 51-year-old Ronald Platte, a Canadian man living in the UK and working as a television repairman.
Starting point is 00:06:26 Obviously business is going well if you're going to afford a Rolex. Right. Unless it was a gift. But I don't know. You know, the television repairman get gifts for doubt it. Not on my Rolex. Yeah, thanks for fixing the BBC here. It was a Rolex.
Starting point is 00:06:39 Oh, he fixed television. Okay. Wow, that's good. You fixed it. Oh, television repairman. Okay. Wow, that's good. Oh, television repair man. Fix all the, he comes in and this shows a bit shit what your need is. More laughs.
Starting point is 00:06:52 Yeah, and so he has a lot of laughs. I'm turning into a comedy. Yeah. His answer is always a laugh truck. The news, it's dipped in ratings. Go ahead if you're more like a lulls in. Yeah, get a clown on with a flower that has a water pistol in it. Oh, he knows comedy.
Starting point is 00:07:08 Nothing about Ronald Platt's life stuck out to the police. No criminal record, no dodgy associates. So how did he come to wash up on a fishing trawler? What happened to him? The police went to Mr. Platt's home, and his landlord suggested they speak to his best friend, a man named David Davies. Oh, fact now he's not real. Or he's a superhero.
Starting point is 00:07:32 Oh, okay, these are you two guesses so far? Yeah, he's either made it up because in a secret life, he's a superhero, or in a secret life, he fucks horses or something like that. Yeah, those are the only two options. Well, superpowers and away. Ha ha ha. Could be the same guy. Yeah, those are the only two options. Well, superpowers in a way. Ha ha ha. Could be the same guy.
Starting point is 00:07:48 Yeah, it could be. Super horse fuck. Do you have to say it? Yes. Like that. Super horse fuck. Ha ha ha. No.
Starting point is 00:08:00 And then when he does that, he turns into a flying horse. Is he safe, baby, from burning buildings or anything? No, no. No, no. Okay. Nothing like that. But he'll give him a ride once they've recovered. So I want to, super man,
Starting point is 00:08:13 or take him out, they'll recover in hospital, and go, hey, I want to clip a clip on the back of the old, super, sorry about this, mom and pop, super fuck horse, Whatever I am. Or whatever I am. He's also mostly drunk. Hey, Jessica, go on. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:08:30 So they go to speak to the best friend, David Davies, who is an American man living in the UK with his young wife. He exists. He exists. David Davies told the police that he'd given Mr. Platt some money to set up an electrical business in France, but he hadn't heard from his best friend for over a month. He was like, I don't know, last time I saw him I just gave him some money for a business,
Starting point is 00:08:51 but now I haven't spoken. I was spoken to him for that. That sounds suspicious. Does it? Yeah, it sounds like horse play to me. That's an interesting take. Stop bringing this back to horse fuck man. Stop it.
Starting point is 00:09:01 Stop it at once. Okay, well that's what you're talking about. You brought him up. Unbelievable. So one day, a police officer was driving out to Mr. Davies' house to get a statement from him, get a written statement. And the officer took a wrong turn and ended up at the wrong property. Whoops.
Starting point is 00:09:16 He went up in the wrong barn. Yeah. So he apologized and explained that he was looking for Mr. Davies, but that homeowner looked confused and said, Oh, but our neighbor's name is Plat. Would David Davies have lived around this, but they're young! What do you mean, David Davies, he? But Plat was a man they'd found dead.
Starting point is 00:09:36 Wow, so they luckily went down the wrong place a lot. Yeah. Otherwise they would have knocked on a dead man's door. Well, maybe. So who's David Davies? Yeah, he's answered the dead man's door. Oh, David Davies killed him. So David Davies was a horse. No, David Davies is not a horse man.
Starting point is 00:09:57 How have he come to that conclusion? Oh, literally, I can explain it in my next sentence. Please. Should we? I don't know, I want to know in my next sentence. Please. Should we? I don't know, I wanna know. Oh, she broke here. It turned out that David Davies was actually Albert Walker and he wasn't American.
Starting point is 00:10:12 He was a Canadian fraudster who had fled to the UK. So that was genuinely the fake name he came up with. No, David Davies. It's so bad, I'll never push him. David, think of something. David Z's. David Z's. David David Z's.
Starting point is 00:10:30 David David Z's, yes, that's me. That's better. Yeah, that's better. That's better. David David Z's. You're like, ah, my parents are a bit coaky. And then he says pretending to be American from that point on. Yeah, yeah, because he's like, it's the only accent I can do because it's close issue Yeah, oh David David sees and I'm American yes
Starting point is 00:10:49 I am it's very different So his name is actually Albert Walker and he's a crook and remember I was saying that David Davies was living in the UK with his young wife Yeah, turns out his young wife was actually his daughter sheena of his young wife. Yeah. Turns out his young wife was actually his daughter, Sheena, who had fled with him to the UK. Can I ask, is that also a fake name? Sheena. No, I believe that's actually a... Sheena's a great Sheena Walker. She was pretending to be his wife as a cover story. Why? Exactly. How did you get in here? Why couldn't David Davies have had a daughter? Sheena
Starting point is 00:11:20 Davies. That sounds better. Sheena Davies. That sounds like a Hollywood star. Yeah. Yeah, it does. Gina Davies. No, sheena Davies. Oh my god. She's not even listening to her own thing. Albert Walker was a high school dropout who worked a few odd jobs before getting a job
Starting point is 00:11:38 as a bank teller for a trust company. And he got some experience filing people's tax returns. And a couple of years later, he left his job to start his own company. Your name is Albert Walker. What are you going to name your company? David Davis. David Davis TV repairs. What about Walker Financial Services Incorporated?
Starting point is 00:11:56 I trust that. That sounds trustworthy. It sounds right. A guy who's accidentally done some people's tax returns. Yeah. He's had a go a couple of times. It's turned out fine. So he starts his own business.
Starting point is 00:12:07 Over time though, his business actually did really well. It grew into six branches and nearly 30 employees. What? And things were going very well for him. I think we might have actually had a tax done with him at one point. Someone equally qualified. That was until 1986 when a stock deal he'd invested in crashed. Now turns
Starting point is 00:12:26 out he'd also been embezzling money from around 70 of his clients to the tune of about $3.2 million. Well now he's facing 18 counts of fraud, money laundering and theft, so he fled to Europe in 1990 taking his middle daughter with him. Don't know why. Another kid's left the wife and kids at home. Little girl. Any, me. Alright, hang on. Okay. Alright, you guys all run around,
Starting point is 00:12:51 and then where I yell stop, I'll open my eyes, and stop. Alright. Sheena, okay. You're my pretend wife. Come with me. Thank God it wasn't the eight year old. That'd be weird. He's pointing at the cutlery draw. Alright, get in.
Starting point is 00:13:03 I'm married to some spoons. I'll need it. You're with me. LAUGHTER So, Walker became Canada's most wanted criminal and the second most wanted by Interpol. Wow. When he settled in Harrogate North Yorkshire,
Starting point is 00:13:18 he took the name of one of his Canadian clients, David Davies. So, David Davies does exist. I had a teacher at my high school called David Davies. Is he Canadian? How do I think about it? Is it an upstanding science teacher? Did he ever give you a ride on his back? No.
Starting point is 00:13:40 Every other kid though left me out. Pretty eventative. You can't do that. No. On this day, they ain't got to invite all the kids to the pool party. You can let every kid ride you at the same time. That sounded weird.
Starting point is 00:13:53 And you didn't realize, as you were saying it all before, that was going to sound a bit odd. You didn't have any thoughts about that, only after. Look, we all have regrets. That's true. This is one of mine. I don't. You really should.
Starting point is 00:14:07 Yeah, if it of the three of us you should regret the most. You brought up this horse, fucking incident. No regrets. No regrets. I respect that. I'm just speaking truth to power. Okay. Anyway, so he settled in in the UK and he met and befriended this guy Ronald Platt and his girlfriend Elaine and Platt and Walker started a TV
Starting point is 00:14:28 Repair business together. So Platt had mentioned that he missed Canada and would like to live there again and Walker saw his opportunity. He paid for a one way ticket to Canada for Platt but convinced him that he would need to leave behind his driver's license, then he would need to leave behind his driver's license, birth certificate, and a stamp of his signature. Yeah. Also a hair sample. Yeah. A little punitive giz. Some blood.
Starting point is 00:14:54 Some blood. And his mother's maiden name. Can you leave that behind, please? He told him to leave all this so that he could continue their business while plight back to Camp Nou. That's great, I support you. But just so I can keep our business running. When you rock up, people's hazards to repair their TV.
Starting point is 00:15:11 I've also got a business partner just to prove that he has his license, his birth certificate, the hair sample. I would want that from any kind of service person coming to my house. Even when I get groceries delivered, I'm like, tell me about yourself. What's going on here? I also need your fingerprints on this gun. You can just pull the trigger with the gun loaded next to your head. And we're done. Thank you very much. This episode is brought to you by Progressive. Most of you aren't just listening right now. You're driving, cleaning, and even exercising. But what if you could be saving money by switching This episode is brought to you by Progressive. Most of you aren't just listening right now. You're driving, cleaning, and even exercising.
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Starting point is 00:17:17 So yeah, look to most people. This would scream red flag, but plant seemed to be not most people. And he was like, well, that's logical. So he agreed. Trust worthy, trust. Trust, trusting. Trusting. Yeah, he's trusting. I think, you know, it's weird that we see that,
Starting point is 00:17:35 oh, it's like, oh, this idiot. He was like, oh, he believed in his friend. What a dickhead. He trusted his friend, never do that. He left his license, his birth certificate, and his signature behind, yes, what a dickhead. trusted his friend, never do that. He left his license, his birth certificate, and his signature behind, yes, what a dickhead. With his friend. Would you give me that stuff?
Starting point is 00:17:50 Did he know that his friend is the most wanted man in Canada? No, funnily enough, he hadn't mentioned that. Well, what kind of friendship is that? Built on lies. Yeah, exactly. In my mind, the real bad guy in this scenario is the one, which I can't remember the name, but one of the two. Plat or...
Starting point is 00:18:12 Plat or Walker. Or Davies. I think to me, it's the one who didn't let you ride on their horse day. That was the real criminal here. My side's teacher. Good guy, good guy. So, Platte agreed. He left behind.
Starting point is 00:18:28 He strived his license, both certificate and a stamp of his signature. And he went back to Canada in 1992, hoping to settle there, permanently. As soon as he was gone, Walker then assumed his identity. Because he already had everything that he needed to do that. So it wasn't that hard. And did he when Platt left it, he leave his girlfriend behind?
Starting point is 00:18:49 She must have gone to it. We're also going to need you, girl. We just turns that one down and says, hey, baby. It's me. It's me, your boyfriend, Platt. She's like, Dave, what are you doing here? No, look, I've got his license. He doesn't match my face, admittedly.
Starting point is 00:19:04 And I've got a stamp of my signature So I'm pretty sure um Why do you need a stamp of your own signature? Oh convenience duh? Why you been weird today? Gaslighting it works every time. I feel like the signatures was such a weird time That we had where a squiggle with your name. Oh that proves proves it's you. Like, how easy is that to learn? I think we take Signature's too seriously. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:28 Like, we're too pedantic about them. Doesn't matter. You know, when you're getting a new passport and it has to match perfectly to the signature you wrote when you got your license at 18. Yeah. And it's like, OK, well, do I still have to dot the eye with a little love life?
Starting point is 00:19:41 To tie it? Yes. I've had the my rental bond rejected, because to get it back at the end, because my signature didn't match. Same. Do you know how they told me they said, oh, this doesn't match.
Starting point is 00:19:52 And then they sent me a copy of what it should look like. And basically told me, just forge your own signature. And then we're happy to give you the money back. When you can prove that someone can write a signature like that, you can have the money. So you did the cock and bulls, the cock and balls and got the cash back. What can I say, 18 was a crazy time. You did the cock and balls at hotmail.com.
Starting point is 00:20:13 That was my signature, 69. You wrote that all the time, look at it. I love that squiggly A. I do, I read the beautiful character. That's squiggly A. Beautiful. Beautiful, yeah. So glad It's a beautiful character. That's squiggly A. Beautiful. Beautiful. Yeah. So glad it's in our lives.
Starting point is 00:20:27 That's maybe that could be my signature M. Squiggly A. Yes. I love this for you. Yes. It's nice and short, nice and sharp. Try changing it on Twitter first and see how it feels. Okay.
Starting point is 00:20:39 You can test it out before you commit. Try it before you buy. But anyway, now we've got two Ronald Plats. This is confusing. So the new Ronald Plats, so Albert Walker, could have gotten away with it too, wasn't for those Penske kids, except that a few years later,
Starting point is 00:20:53 the original Ronald Plat ran out of money and decided to come back to the UK, which he did in 1995. Uh oh. But how did the real Ronald Plat end up dead in a fishing boat a year later? The real Ronald Plat did. Yeah in a fishing boat a year later. The real Ronald Platt did. Yep.
Starting point is 00:21:06 Oh, I guess it feels like that the fake Ronald Platt killed the real Ronald Platt so he could continue being the fake Ronald Platt. That is a fascinating guess. To me, it seems like the real Ronald Platt fell into some sort of meat grinder and then tripped from the meat grinder into the ocean and died. Okay. Which one of us is closer? Is everything but is watch surviving? Yeah, those Rolexes they are built to last.
Starting point is 00:21:35 I'm going to, for maybe the first time, Matt's actually quite a bit closer there. Has it feel? I thought I was going with the obvious answer that was going to be wrong. I feel weird about it, if you want to. I'm sorry. I probably shouldn't have said anything. Feel like an idiot.
Starting point is 00:21:54 I accidentally guessed it kind of wrong. But I can just tell you about it now, if you like. No, that's all right. Yeah, that's fair. To meet Grindr at all. No. Any sort of Grindr's? No.
Starting point is 00:22:03 Like a Grind, monkey man? Maybe somewhere in the world at this time. Whoa! I think about that. Certainly not involved in this story. They would have been me grinders, just somewhere. You're a really good guest of this week. But there was also me grinders somewhere.
Starting point is 00:22:18 So you're both doing super well. Thank you, sir. There's a me, it's time for me grinder. That is nice. A nice little moment. I rander. That is nice. That's a nice little moment. I'm funny. I'm not.
Starting point is 00:22:28 Tap out. It was just, it was a bit of a morse code message. Yeah, it's a bit of a sweet. It was a long dash. That was send help. So until I've 1996, Walker took Mr. Plier out on his 24-foot yacht called Lady Jane. It's not the best boat name, but it's fine. We're tea-capped Mord in Dittisham.
Starting point is 00:22:53 Dittisham. Dittisham. Dittisham in the River Dart. And he knocked him unconscious with a blow to the back of his head and threw him into the sea with a 10-pound anchor tucked into his trouser belt. I've seen a couple of 10 pound acres tucking to trouser belts in my time. Yeah, you can. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:23:14 What do you mean? Look me. There's no time in this one. Who would have you assisted in murder? I've said too much. I've assisted too much. I don't, I assume Dave couldn't pull off a murder himself, so we'd have to just help someone else with it.
Starting point is 00:23:28 Can I leave him like toast? Yeah, even then he burns it. To be honest, that's how I've killed people for accident before. Toast is him to death. Yeah, well, they're in the bath and I'm like, can I have help make them to... Oh, shit! Oh, not another one. Oh, no, I don't know how the toast works.
Starting point is 00:23:44 I just want to butter toad. That's all we all want. So the officer in charge of this murder case was detective, Superintendent Phil Sincock. And he said there was one bit of luck in terms of the Essex policeman going to the wrong door. But other than that, it was down to painstaking police work. Yeah, I couldn't claim that film card.
Starting point is 00:24:03 And some new groundbreaking scientific inquiries. So it was like, yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure. Well, a little bit of luck. Mostly excellent police work. Mostly science, OK, calling up Rolex and reading out a number over the phone. Yeah. Well, they did a lot of stuff.
Starting point is 00:24:18 So the police seized an entire van load of documents from Walker's house. And in amongst all that paper was a tiny receipt that told them that he'd recently purchased an anchor. And they were like, hang on a second. Who keeps their documents in a van? No, they got the documents out of the house and put them in their place.
Starting point is 00:24:35 Right, what? They took steps. And you thought that was his filing case? It's been seven to my office, it's this van. Look at it. That's him, sir. I like how he's this van. Look at that. That's himself. I like how he's keeping the receipts though. I don't need that at tax cost.
Starting point is 00:24:48 The thing I used to murder my friend. You go to the shop and they're like, do you want a receipt? Oh, yes, please. Yes. I'd be like, no, and I was never here. Can I claim? Can I claim this?
Starting point is 00:24:57 Can I claim this? So they also took the yacht's GPS navigation system back to its manufacturer. Rolex? I only can only assume. Yeah, Tissot. Of course. And the best.
Starting point is 00:25:08 And the manufacturers were able to plot coordinates which gave the police the time and date it had been switched off and proved that it had been very near to where Mr. Platt's body had been found at the time that he was killed. Case closed? Yeah. He found like he was trying to be caught. Yeah, it's pretty... I'm going to use a GPS. He basically turned the homie beaconosed. Yeah. He sounds like he was trying to be caught. Yeah, it's pretty... I'm going to use a Jeep.
Starting point is 00:25:26 He's basically turned to the homie beacon on. Yeah. Tracking device. Maybe he should have just stuck to, like, fraud, you know? You're trying to run with the big dogs, trying to get into murder. It's like, stick to what you know. You don't have it, mate. Okay.
Starting point is 00:25:40 But I think, yeah, maybe... Believe in paper trails. What I would have done is not killed my friend. I would have just said, hey man, funny story. I am living as you now. What will it take for this to keep going on? Can I give you some money? Can I send you back to Canada?
Starting point is 00:25:55 You're broke now. You want to go back? Oh, fun that. Yeah, yeah. I've got another idea. Let's fake your death. We'll leave you a watch on. Oh.
Starting point is 00:26:04 We need a meat grinder. I'll take the fall. Then you can reassume your identity when I'm in jail. As you do you think? Maybe. I still want to break his little heart. He looked so excited. Should have crushed him.
Starting point is 00:26:23 So they also did some tests on Rolex watches and they found that it took 44 hours for a watch to wind down. Oh yeah they work so hard you know what I mean? Have a little scotch. 44 hours you're going to put four hours off between shifts. You know after that big buzz you get on stage, what I call the stage the rest. And you know, your turn is man the time. Well, it takes me ages to the clock off. Normally watch a few episodes of Gossip Girl, have a little scotch, kick back. But yeah, my mind's still ticking over.
Starting point is 00:26:56 You know, that's what it does. But even off the clock I tick as well, yeah. Yeah, for about 44 hours then I'm able to rest. Until I'm wearing that again! I don't get worth it! I'm a little bit of a boss again! Oh, yeah, right again, 7% tent. So the watch stopped and it stopped on June 22nd, which meant that he had died on June
Starting point is 00:27:18 20th, based on how long it took for the watch to wind down. Please don't act that out again. They found Platte DNA inside the cabin of the yacht and zinc traces from the anchor on Mr. Platts belt. So they've got all this evidence. During the investigation, police also found gold bars to the value of 25,000 pounds in various locations. So this is what I mean, you had so much money to pay him off.
Starting point is 00:27:43 Yeah, just pay him off. Don't kill him. But instead he's hidden it around the place in case he had to do a runner. He had like hiding spots. Wow. Yeah, so if he couldn't go that way, he could go that way. And get some money. I'm speaking like, I'm looking at a map. Right, not like, oh it's left or right, that's true.
Starting point is 00:28:00 Yeah, not saying that door or that door, you know. But yeah, behind one of these doors, it's £25,000 and gold. That's really sucks, the guy who trusted his friend and up dying. Don't trust your friends, if you're less than here. My other thing is, you've just taken the Rolex off. You've been going on with it, right?
Starting point is 00:28:18 Yeah, but I mean, how do you convince someone to, oh yeah, you could have taken a lot of off you'd hit him over the back of the head. Yeah. Hmm. I don't know, Dave, I don't think these things through like a psycho. I guess he just wouldn't have,
Starting point is 00:28:31 he probably wouldn't have thought that Rolex would have such a identifiable watches, I guess. What kind of self-respecting crook sees a Rolex and just leaves it, right? Yeah. Have some pride in your work. He's really more into money fraud rather than stealing things. He stole a watch and someone ended up going,
Starting point is 00:28:53 Hey, I reckon you've stolen that watch. Let's trace it back. Oh no, it does belong to Mr. Platter. Yeah. You're all good, on with your day, sir. That'll be a weird conversation. I reckon you've stolen that watch. I'm just ordering a coffee.
Starting point is 00:29:05 You're a TV repair man. Oh sure, you're a bad baby saying they gave you this one. Yeah, that's exactly what happened. Okay, great. Well, on your way, thank you for your service. Thanks for stopping by in my cafe. And I'm sorry that you just sorted a nice meal. Sorry, I haven't had a coffee yet and I'm a little lazy.
Starting point is 00:29:21 And a bit defensive for no reason. So the brister hasn't had a coffee yet? Yeah, no. Come on, man.'t had a coffee yet? Yeah, no. Come on, mate. Come on, mate. You've got to help yourself before you have others. Yeah, can't get from any of the car. One for you, one for me.
Starting point is 00:29:32 In the court proceedings, the judge stated, it is in my judgment. Oh, which is what they do best? Yeah, judge things. A callous, pre-meditated killing designed to eliminate a man you had used for your own selfish ends. And he said the walker found plot to be firstly inconvenient, then increasingly a possible threat to your continued freedom. He became not merely expendable but a danger to you and he had to die. This judge a poet. Yeah, he really sizzled in the story. The judge is also going, I get why you did it. Yeah, he had to die. He had to The judge is also going, I get why you did it.
Starting point is 00:30:05 Yeah. He had to die. He had to die. Yeah, too. I get it. Still not a good thing to do. What is on the stand going? That's what I say. He had to die. He had to die. Later that day, the judge also bought the rights of the story. I think it's been a great mini-series. I get it. It's so gritty. Albert Walker was found guilty in 1998 and received an automatic life sentence for murder. But in 2007, he was transferred back to Canada where he faced additional charges of fraud, theft,
Starting point is 00:30:33 and money laundering, and we'll see at the rest of his days in prison. Wow, the role looks murder, and if you chose in the quality watch like a TISO, this never would have happened. Yeah, get a TISO. I got given a Tisso once Put in the bin
Starting point is 00:30:48 I said don't I don't need your rubbish here. Yeah, good idea. Unless they wanted to give us any kind of Sponsorship. Yeah, I'll retract. We'll edit that out. Yeah, and we'll edit Tisso's under all that Yeah problem we offer sale Ding just in case between now. I did the ding, but even if you could put the little light there, ding, thank you. Well, we're even willing to create a new character like a sort of a marketing logo for Tisseur.
Starting point is 00:31:16 In my head, just a bit boring. Maybe some sort of a super powered horse who used to be a man who fucked a horse. But now, that's just top of the, that's top of a horse. But now it's a horse. But now it is a horse. So maybe it's the son of that man. Yeah. Or is it the son of himself?
Starting point is 00:31:31 I was saying that that was the punishment, like, you're a man who fucked a horse, now you must be a horse. But that horse, just above his little hoof, beautiful, tis-so-watch. It's a horse. Well, that's it for the Rolex murder. This is a spin off of our podcast do go on with over 200 episodes to listen to. If you liked this topic, you can check out
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