Episode 008: John Winship: The Young Highwayman of Covent Garden

Podcast: Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals · Dark Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-07-07

Send us your Feedback He is seventeen, an apprentice carpenter in Covent Garden, and he has just noticed a young woman standing in a doorway. In Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals, the story of John Winship begins not with violence but with infatuation; a boy whose idle upbringing leaves him entirely unprepared for the cost of courtship, and who drifts toward the road when honest wages fall short. There is something quietly inevitable about Winship's slide from lovesick youth to mounted robber, a trajectory that feels as urgent now as it did in the 1720...