Murder in Brighton — The Man Who Confessed 42 Years Later

Seven words reached a house one May morning in 1934. Going abroad, good job, sail Sunday, will write, Vi. The telegram carried the name of Violette Kaye, a 42-year-old dancer born Violet Watts who had worked the London music halls before coming down to Brighton the year before with a partner sixteen years her junior. She had promised a new life across the water. Yet she had gone nowhere at all. Beneath the brash seaside town that summer, something had happened to her in a basement flat, and the truth of it would stay buried for decades. Who was really responsible, and how long could a man keep such a secret? A new forgotten British case every few days. Subscribe so the next one finds you. Sources: News of the World, November 1976 Proceedings at Lewes Assizes, December 1934 The Brighton coroner's inquest, 1934 Later accounts by Cullen, d'Enno and Rose Contemporary press reporting of the period #TrueCrime #BritishTrueCrime #HistoricalCrime #Documentary