Crimes That Shook Britain lifts the lid on the biggest scandals ever seen and re-tells the stories of the worst crimes ever committed, through the eyes of the people placed right at the heart of the tragedies.
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In a case police described as the worst example of abuse they had ever seen, April 1996 saw the horrific torture and murder of 17-year-old Kelly Anne Bates at the hand of her boyfriend of three years, 49-year-old James Patterson Smith.
Nurse Ben Geen relished his hero status, but few would guess that the emergencies he worked on were orchestrated by him. Tens of patients would go into respiratory arrest and two would die before medics discovered that Geen was a murdering medic.
James Fairweather was a 15-year-old boy obsessed with serial killers, violent video games and extreme pornography. He stabbed two strangers to death in separate attacks. He was found unanimously guilty by a jury on 22 April 2016.
With a new baby and partner Ian back in her life, Kayleigh thought her life was complete. But his anger and controlling behaviour knew no bounds. Her family saw him as a ticking time bomb, and when he went off he took the life of a young mother.
Used to getting his own way, Elliott Turner was enraged when Emily Longley appeared immune to his charms. Detectives spent months uncovering the circumstances of his girlfriend's death and it resulted in the imprisonment of Turner and his parents.
Glyn Dix shot dead his landlady in 1979. While serving a life sentence he met and fell in love with a fellow inmate's mother. They married, but three years after his release he killed his wife.
When Janbaz Tarin married Raneem Oudeh, she didn't know he had another family and she didn't know he had a temper. But Tarin was not a man she could walk away from, and once he set his sights on her, nobody could save her.
Rochdale Groomers: Documentary examining the sex abuse scandal which occurred in the North of England and appeared to go undetected for quite some time. (S7, ep 2)
Gripping documentary examining the fatal stabbing of 21-year-old motorist Stephen Cameron during a motorway altercation in 1996.
In an emotional tribute, witnesses and victims' relatives look back on the tragic murder of 16 children and a teacher at Dunblane Primary School in Scotland, 15 years ago.
Documentary examining the unsolved murder of British TV presenter and newsreader Jill Dando, who was shot outside her house in Fulham, London, in 1999.
It's 2012 and drug dealer Dale Cregan murders police officers Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone. Dermot Murnaghan investigates.
London was brought to a standstill in April 1999 when 23-year-old political extremist David Copeland caused terror with a bombing campaign.
The hunt for five year old April Jones was the largest missing persons search in UK police history when she vanished in October 2012. But on October 6th a local man, Mark Bridger, was charged with her disappearance.
Nikitta Grender's family and friends speak out about her murder, just days before she was due to give birth.
Crimes That Shook Britain lifts the lid on the biggest scandals ever seen and re-tells the stories of the worst crimes ever committed, through the eyes of the people placed right at the heart of the tragedies.
The parents of innocent 11-year-old Rhys Jones, shot on his way home from a football club in Liverpool 2007, speak about the harrowing day when they lost their son.
A look at the case of estate agent Suzy Lamplugh, who showed a client around a house in Fulham in July 1986 and was never seen again. Dermot Murnaghan hosts.
An investigation into Jeremy Bamber's brutal murder of his family in Essex, which occurred in 1985. Sentenced for life, he still maintains he is innocent. Is the right person behind bars?
An investigation into the Moors Murderers, Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, with interviews with the family of Keith Bennett.
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