BBC One
Dangerous, violent and living in the community.
Across the country around 50,000 of the most dangerous convicted sexual and violent offenders are managed by a scheme called MAPPA. Under it, the Police, Probation Service...
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BBC One
For three weeks in the Spring of 2008 West Yorkshire Police, aided by hundreds of volunteers, searched for missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews, who had disappeared from her home on an estate in Dewsbury.
Against all the statistical odds...
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ITV1
Nurse Colin Norris murdered four elderly patients and attempted to murder another, by injecting them with overdoses of the diabetic drug Insulin.
Angel of Death explores the sequence of events leading to Norris’s arrest and...
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ITV1
David Bieber is often described as one of Britain’s most dangerous prisoners. On Boxing Day 2003 he murdered PC Ian Broadhurst. 34 year old Ian was the first police officer to be shot dead on the UK mainland for 10 years, and his death...
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ITV1
For six years John Darwin pretended he was dead – faking his own drowning in a canoeing accident. With his wife Anne at his side, he lived out a fantasy, changing his name, altering his appearance, and hiding from the debt-ridden world he left...
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BBC1
On Boxing Day 2003, PCs Ian Broadhurst and Neil Roper were on a routine traffic patrol around Leeds. Seeing a stolen BMW parked on the pavement, they stopped to investigate.
Taking the driver into the back of their police car for further...
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BBC1
This is the remarkable inside story of the biggest and most controversial hoax in criminal history. In the late 1970’s a series of letters and a tape were sent to detectives trying to catch serial killer Peter Sutcliffe – The Yorkshire Ripper....
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In the space of a few seconds on a snowy night in February 2001, Gary Hart was transformed from anonymous builder to one of Britain’s most notorious killers.
When his Land Rover swerved off the M62 onto the East Coast main line, the...
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