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Buried assassin: mysteries of the M25

The M25, Britain’s busiest motorway, turns 30 today and is apparently full of mysteries – in the 1970s, the body of an assassin was found buried in the concrete on a stretch of the road.

That is according to author of ‘M25: A Circular Tour of the London Orbital’, Ray Hamilton, who shared his favourite M25 tales with 5 live.

Satirist Richard Stilgoe was sent on top of the flyover 40 years ago to play a song he called ‘Bridge over troubled murder’, Hamilton told us.

“It was far more ironic than he could even have imagined,” he said: “Kent CID received a tip off that an assassin had been buried there while the concrete was still wet”.

“He’d received a dose of his own medicine,” he added.

This clip is originally from 5 live Breakfast on Saturday 29 October 2016.

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