Mickey Evans
@mickeyevansukMickey Evans's Podcasts
2 podcasts
Daniel Sands: The Concrete Grave and the Stolen Bureau
Daniel Sands’ body lay hidden 18 inches beneath a newly poured concrete floor at Barleycorn Farm for 600 days before his discovery in March 1982. The investigation into his disappearance centers on brothers Richard and William Evans, who allegedly sold Sands’ valuable antiques while he was buried in their barn. This case exposes a catastrophic failure of the British legal system, where John Roberts, a man with a mental age of ten, was coerced into a false confession and sentenced to life imprisonment. Pathological evidence eventually proved that the strangulation described in the forced confession was physically impossible, leading to a long-overdue exoneration after 15 years.
Daniel Sands: The Lime That Remembered Everything
Daniel Sands disappeared from the Elephant and Castle pub in August 1980, only to be found eighteen months later buried under eighteen inches of soil at Barleycorn Farm in Shropshire. Investigators discovered his body wrapped in plastic and covered in lime, a substance intended to destroy evidence that instead preserved the fractured hyoid bone proving he had been strangled. This forensic reality directly contradicted the hammer-attack confession used to convict John Roberts, who spent fifteen years in high-security prisons like HMP Gartree for a crime he did not commit. The investigation highlights the roles of Richard and William Evans, whose conflicting accounts and a £200 debt created a ...