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Barrister Robert Rinder examines more real-life cases, looking at the events leading up to crimes, going through the police investigations and summing up the trials. In the first edition, he focuses on the deaths of six children in a house fire in Derby, where Mick and Mairead Philpott quickly became prime suspects, and the murder of 67-year-old Rita Stephens in Penoced, Bridgend, for which police arrested her son Mark.
Robert Rinder examines the case of a gang of fraudsters targeting the elderly by pretending to be the police during 2014 and 2015.
In October 1993, Gary Nelson, a man described as one of the most violent and dangerous men to walk the streets of the UK, murdered a bouncer and community police officer. In an investigation spanning 13 years, a determined team of police officers work to ensure Gary Nelson faces justice for his crimes.
Barrister Robert Rinder examines the murder of 15-year-old Dawn Ashworth in Leicester in 1986, which police realised was almost identical to the killing of Lynda Mann three years earlier. He also follows the search for the courier who lost control of his car in March 2016, hitting some girls who had gone out for a Monday night jog.
Barrister Robert Rinder recalls arguably the most audacious robbery in British criminal history, when in November 2000 an armed gang tried to steal the priceless Millennium Star diamond on display at the Millennium Dome, south-east London. Plus, the case of gamekeeper Billy Stirrat, whose life was turned upside down following a miscarriage of justice involving his wrongful arrest for the possession of £500,000 worth of amphetamine.
In May 1996, police were called to a road-rage incident on a slip-road of the M25 that led to the stabbing to death of 21-year-old Stephen Cameron. Robert Rinder examines how the case led to an international manhunt for suspect Kenneth Noye, who fled the country and was eventually tracked down in Spain in 1998.
The barrister examines two more real-life cases, including that of Darrell Simester, who was held against his will for 13 years on a farm in Newport, Wales. Plus, the case of Paul Roylance, who stole the money left to his mother Shelley when his father lost his life to cancer.
The barrister examines more real-life cases, including the disappearance of Sian O'Callaghan in March 2011, who was murdered after leaving a nightclub and getting into a taxi in the early hours of the morning. Police arrested a local taxi driver named Christopher Halliwell, who led the officers to the body of Sian.
In February 1997, Roger Andrews is confronted in his home by a man holding a gun. In a split second decision Roger fights back with his own pistol and shoots the man 3 times. The man survives and is arrested by the police. Quickly links between the man arrested and another crime emerge - the murder of a retired town clerk in Ramsgate in 1996. In June 2010, 14-year-old Lillian Groves was killed outside her home in New Addlington in Surrey by speeding motorist John Page, who had been smoking cannabis. This is the story of Lillian’s parents’ fight to change the legal system that had allowed this man to escape a fitting punishment.
Barrister Robert Rinder recalls how the Border Force and the National Crime Agency worked together to carry out the UK's biggest ever drugs bust. He also recounts the events of February 2006, when the small market town of Tonbridge in Kent made headlines around the world as news broke of the biggest cash robbery in British history.
