Preventable / Kamil Ahmad / Jeffrey Barry

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 6 - EPISODE 29’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE. November 1990. South Ronaldsay in Orkney. Seven young children are taken into care by social services under ‘Place of Safet...

12 Jan 20221h 6min

Within three months, 16 children were removed from their homes in a small island community and taken into the care of social services. The media explained the reasoning behind the removal; they claime...

5 Jan 20221h 23min

“She replaced invisible handcuffs for real ones but at least then she knew where she would be. She would no longer be constantly told that everything she did was not right and wrong. She would most im...

29 Des 20211h 25min

Temperatures dropped as low as -8 degrees celsius in Coventry on Christmas Eve 2014. Sleet fell hard and fast on the street... *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** This episode was researched and wr...

22 Des 202157min

The high-pitched sound of the home telephone echoed through the Neailey household. Liz Neailey answered. Someone from her son's school was on the other end of the line. It was June 5, 1998. The staff ...

15 Des 20211h 21min

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 6 - EPISODE 24’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE. In November 1989, 22-year-old single mother Julie Hogg disappeared without a word, leaving her parents and young son distra...

8 Des 202148min

In November 1989, a 22-year-old single mother disappeared without a word, leaving her parents and young son distraught… (Part 1 of 2).*** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** This episode was researched ...

1 Des 20211h

An 83-year-old man is murdered while walking his dogs in a rural area of Norfolk. His injuries were so severe that investigators believed he had been attacked by his own dogs. The pensioner's catastro...

24 Nov 202157min