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Episode 010: John Wigley: The Lone Highwayman of Finchley Common
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- Jul 20, 2026
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- 211
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Send us your Feedback A plasterer by trade, John Wigley abandons honest work early and slides into what Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals calls 'felonious methods of getting money.' His is a solitary brand of criminality; he rides out alone onto the dark roads around the commons north of London, trusting no one, convinced that gangs always betray themselves in the end. This true crime story from the early eighteenth century carries the smell of damp hedgerows and cheap brandy. Wigley d...