Peter Tobin is one of the most notorious serial killers in the UK. From 1991–2006 he raped and murdered three young girls Dinah McNicol, Vicky Hamilton and Angelika Kluk. Yet even prior to these horrific murders he had a history of violence.
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In 2015 a man visits a tarot card reader. Within an hour she's dealt out the death card and he's confessed to a murder. When cops arrive they discover he's been living at home with his victim's body for days.
In 1985, PC Keith Blakelock was murdered during a riot on a housing estate in London, triggered after a black woman died of heart failure during a house search. Nobody has been brought to justice for his murder, despite three investigations.
The tragic story of Ann Maguire, who was stabbed to death by a teenage pupil while teaching a Spanish lesson at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds.
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 series returns to take a closer look at the most horrific crimes ever committed on British soil, starting with the May 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.
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.
Hollie Gazzard's life was tragically cut short by her former jealous boyfriend, Asher Maslin, who inflicted 14 stab wounds upon her with a knife he had purchased earlier.
Police receive a distress call from two young girls who claim they've seen a man aggressively try to enter a house in their estate. That house belonged to Bethany Vincent, and the man who was trying to enter was a man named Daniel Boulton.
Peter Tobin is one of the most notorious serial killers in the UK. From 1991–2006 he raped and murdered three young girls Dinah McNicol, Vicky Hamilton and Angelika Kluk. Yet even prior to these horrific murders he had a history of violence.
In 1985, PC Keith Blakelock was murdered during a riot on a housing estate in London, triggered after a black woman died of heart failure during a house search. Nobody has been brought to justice for his murder, despite three investigations.
The harrowing story of EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie, who was murdered by her older brother in the flat they shared in east London in 2012.
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 tragic story of Ann Maguire, who was stabbed to death by a teenage pupil while teaching a Spanish lesson at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds.
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.
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