July 18, 2024 • 7 mins
Two missing Britons have been found dead in a burned-out car in Sweden
Investigations are still ongoing, but the case is being treated as a double murder.
UK correspondent Enda Brady says a motive has yet to be found.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Time to catch up with the UK correspondent in the
Brady again in there.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey Jack, good to speak to you again.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You too, Just tell us about these Brits. A couple
of Brits have been found shot dead in a burnt
out car in Sweden.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, big murder mystery. So the Carrie transpires was actually
hired at Copenhagen airport in Denmark. There is a five
mile bridge that spans so you can basically pick up
a vehicle in Denmark and drive to Sweden five miles
of a bridge and then you're into the town or
city of Malmo in southern Sweden. So the sequence of
(00:36):
events is that Swedish police the other night found a
burnt out vehicle. Upon closer inspection there was human remains.
There was two male bodies in the vehicle. The vehicle
have been burnt out and there are reports in Sweden
that the bodies had gunshot wounds. Now the cops have
obviously been able to trace the identity the plate on
the car back to the airport in Denmark and it
(01:00):
has been hired by two Brits. Now, this has gone
huge in Europe. Big murder mystery. Who are the victims
and then a couple of families in North London reported
two men missing who had gone on holidays. They work
as travel agents in North London and the men had
said to their families that they were going on a
business trip to Europe and they would be home to
(01:23):
watch the European Soccer Final England against Spain on Sunday night.
They never came home. So police are joining up the
dots and it looks like the two dead Brits are
these travel agents from North London. It is quite a
marky story because where the vehicle was found is an
area that is right with gangland crime in Sweden, would
(01:46):
you believe. So there's a lot not kind of making
sense at the moment. I'm sure the police know a
lot more than we're being told. But two families in
London in mourning and a murder mystery in Sweden.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, how straight? And I mean we often don't think
of gangs and organized crime being that prominent in this
part of the world, but obviously that's a concern. So
there's no word at this stage into as to a
possible motive or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
No, nothing, But I think the Swedish angle is interesting
in that Sweden has a serious issue with gun crime
and it has some gangs in Stockholm and in Malmo,
they do have organized crime groups. So the question is
I'm sure detectives would be asking what were two travel
agents from North London doing in an industrial area of
(02:42):
a southern Swedish city where gangs have been known to
do business before. It just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, very intriguing. Yeah, I'm very sad. The EU is very,
very very angry with the Hungarian PM for meeting with Putin,
Sheijin Peng and Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yes, and Zelensky as well, So he's undertaken. Victor Orban
is the Prime Minister of Hungary. He is a right
wing leader, sees himself as a big strong man. The
problem that EU has is that he's very close to
Vladimir Putin. He's also a big supporter of Donald Trump.
Would you believe He's extremely well connected and the rotating
presidency of the European Union as of last week for
(03:23):
the next six months is in the hands of Hungary.
And Auban's very first thing to do was he got
on a plane. He went to Kiev where he met Zelensky.
He went to Moscow where he met Putin he g
who believe it, went to marri A Lago and sat
down with Donald Trump. Now the European Union have sent
(03:45):
him a letter today which has been leaked to the papers,
making it clear he does not speak for the European
Union and to reign it in now. Orban has responded
by calling a foreign minister's meeting in Budapest in Hungary
at the end of August, and the European Union is
responding by saying that actually we're having our own foreign
ministers meeting in Brussels. That's where everyone needs to be.
(04:08):
So a lot of friction at the heart of the
European Union right now.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Doesn't this all just playing to Victor Aubin's hands, though.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It does to an extent. But look, he's embarked on
what they're calling freelance diplomacy. You know, the European Union
is what twenty seven members states, and he's just decided
to go wheakling around the world, shaking hands with people.
And I think ultimately he's trying to make himself out
to be the peacemaker. But the suspishon in Europe is that,
(04:38):
you know, this is a guy who blocked out for Ukraine.
This is a guy who has been a thorn in
the side of the European Union for years, and the
presidency normally is just a figurehead role. You know, you
get to have some nice meetings, host people in your country,
show off the nice parts of your country for tourism
purposes and to the media. And he's making it all
(04:58):
about himself.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And Inda Kostama has welcomed the Irish Prime Minister with
the pinder Guinness.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yes, so this would have been unheard of just a
couple of weeks ago, the change of regime in London.
It's like a breath of fresh air. We've seen Starmer
reaching out to Europe. We've seen him meeting officials, talking
to President Macron of France as a friend. Liz Trust
said she didn't know whether he was a friend or
an enemy. It's hard to believe what we've been through
(05:27):
in recent years here in terms of lack of leadership,
have been falling out with your neighbors. There is no
reason in twenty twenty four that the leaders of Britain
and Ireland cannot be friends. We have so much in common.
I'm an Irish person who's lived in England, thirty one years.
I have children born here. There are so many English
people living in Ireland. We have so much in common,
(05:49):
we have more in common than divides us. But for
the best part of fourteen years, I would say the
leaders of Ireland and the UK have not been friends,
have not been in a good situation. And Starmer in
week two has invited the tea shock or Prime Minister
of Ireland Simon Harris over. They stayed in Checkers last
(06:10):
night and Starmer put a picture up on social media
of the two of them on the terrace Checkers in
Buckinghamshire drinking pints of guinness. You know, it's the way
forward friendship, reach out to your nearest neighbors and be
good neighbors, as opposed to this constant conservative rhetoric of
just hating the French and the Irish shaw forget about them.
(06:30):
Y You know Starmer, I think he's had an impressive fortnite.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, yeah, Does anyone have a problem with this with him,
like reaching out to the Irish priminis for a yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Not in the slightest. I don't think anyone should have
a problem with us. I mean, there are so many
common issues in Europe right now, first of all, migration
and all these people who want to come to the UK,
many of them are now coming over to Ireland. You know,
Ireland's a proud member of the European Union, and I
think Starmer is basically rebuilding bridges that have been not
(07:03):
just broken, burnt by the likes of Boris Johnson and
Liz Tross.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, ah, very good, Thank you Da. That is UK
correspondent in Brady. For more from hither, dupless E Allen Drive,
listen live to news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Time to catch up with the UK correspondent in the
Brady again in there.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey Jack, good to speak to you again.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You too, Just tell us about these Brits. A couple
of Brits have been found shot dead in a burnt
out car in Sweden.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, big murder mystery. So the Carrie transpires was actually
hired at Copenhagen airport in Denmark. There is a five
mile bridge that spans so you can basically pick up
a vehicle in Denmark and drive to Sweden five miles
of a bridge and then you're into the town or
city of Malmo in southern Sweden. So the sequence of
(00:36):
events is that Swedish police the other night found a
burnt out vehicle. Upon closer inspection there was human remains.
There was two male bodies in the vehicle. The vehicle
have been burnt out and there are reports in Sweden
that the bodies had gunshot wounds. Now the cops have
obviously been able to trace the identity the plate on
the car back to the airport in Denmark and it
(01:00):
has been hired by two Brits. Now, this has gone
huge in Europe. Big murder mystery. Who are the victims
and then a couple of families in North London reported
two men missing who had gone on holidays. They work
as travel agents in North London and the men had
said to their families that they were going on a
business trip to Europe and they would be home to
(01:23):
watch the European Soccer Final England against Spain on Sunday night.
They never came home. So police are joining up the
dots and it looks like the two dead Brits are
these travel agents from North London. It is quite a
marky story because where the vehicle was found is an
area that is right with gangland crime in Sweden, would
(01:46):
you believe. So there's a lot not kind of making
sense at the moment. I'm sure the police know a
lot more than we're being told. But two families in
London in mourning and a murder mystery in Sweden.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, how straight? And I mean we often don't think
of gangs and organized crime being that prominent in this
part of the world, but obviously that's a concern. So
there's no word at this stage into as to a
possible motive or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
No, nothing, But I think the Swedish angle is interesting
in that Sweden has a serious issue with gun crime
and it has some gangs in Stockholm and in Malmo,
they do have organized crime groups. So the question is
I'm sure detectives would be asking what were two travel
agents from North London doing in an industrial area of
(02:42):
a southern Swedish city where gangs have been known to
do business before. It just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, very intriguing. Yeah, I'm very sad. The EU is very,
very very angry with the Hungarian PM for meeting with Putin,
Sheijin Peng and Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yes, and Zelensky as well, So he's undertaken. Victor Orban
is the Prime Minister of Hungary. He is a right
wing leader, sees himself as a big strong man. The
problem that EU has is that he's very close to
Vladimir Putin. He's also a big supporter of Donald Trump.
Would you believe He's extremely well connected and the rotating
presidency of the European Union as of last week for
(03:23):
the next six months is in the hands of Hungary.
And Auban's very first thing to do was he got
on a plane. He went to Kiev where he met Zelensky.
He went to Moscow where he met Putin he g
who believe it, went to marri A Lago and sat
down with Donald Trump. Now the European Union have sent
(03:45):
him a letter today which has been leaked to the papers,
making it clear he does not speak for the European
Union and to reign it in now. Orban has responded
by calling a foreign minister's meeting in Budapest in Hungary
at the end of August, and the European Union is
responding by saying that actually we're having our own foreign
ministers meeting in Brussels. That's where everyone needs to be.
(04:08):
So a lot of friction at the heart of the
European Union right now.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Doesn't this all just playing to Victor Aubin's hands, though.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It does to an extent. But look, he's embarked on
what they're calling freelance diplomacy. You know, the European Union
is what twenty seven members states, and he's just decided
to go wheakling around the world, shaking hands with people.
And I think ultimately he's trying to make himself out
to be the peacemaker. But the suspishon in Europe is that,
(04:38):
you know, this is a guy who blocked out for Ukraine.
This is a guy who has been a thorn in
the side of the European Union for years, and the
presidency normally is just a figurehead role. You know, you
get to have some nice meetings, host people in your country,
show off the nice parts of your country for tourism
purposes and to the media. And he's making it all
(04:58):
about himself.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And Inda Kostama has welcomed the Irish Prime Minister with
the pinder Guinness.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yes, so this would have been unheard of just a
couple of weeks ago, the change of regime in London.
It's like a breath of fresh air. We've seen Starmer
reaching out to Europe. We've seen him meeting officials, talking
to President Macron of France as a friend. Liz Trust
said she didn't know whether he was a friend or
an enemy. It's hard to believe what we've been through
(05:27):
in recent years here in terms of lack of leadership,
have been falling out with your neighbors. There is no
reason in twenty twenty four that the leaders of Britain
and Ireland cannot be friends. We have so much in common.
I'm an Irish person who's lived in England, thirty one years.
I have children born here. There are so many English
people living in Ireland. We have so much in common,
(05:49):
we have more in common than divides us. But for
the best part of fourteen years, I would say the
leaders of Ireland and the UK have not been friends,
have not been in a good situation. And Starmer in
week two has invited the tea shock or Prime Minister
of Ireland Simon Harris over. They stayed in Checkers last
(06:10):
night and Starmer put a picture up on social media
of the two of them on the terrace Checkers in
Buckinghamshire drinking pints of guinness. You know, it's the way
forward friendship, reach out to your nearest neighbors and be
good neighbors, as opposed to this constant conservative rhetoric of
just hating the French and the Irish shaw forget about them.
(06:30):
Y You know Starmer, I think he's had an impressive fortnite.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, yeah, Does anyone have a problem with this with him,
like reaching out to the Irish priminis for a yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Not in the slightest. I don't think anyone should have
a problem with us. I mean, there are so many
common issues in Europe right now, first of all, migration
and all these people who want to come to the UK,
many of them are now coming over to Ireland. You know,
Ireland's a proud member of the European Union, and I
think Starmer is basically rebuilding bridges that have been not
(07:03):
just broken, burnt by the likes of Boris Johnson and
Liz Tross.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, ah, very good, Thank you Da. That is UK
correspondent in Brady. For more from hither, dupless E Allen Drive,
listen live to news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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