A Minor Embarrassment: Episode 72

This episode of the weekly UK True Crime Podcast takes us to Bristol, July 1985. A local shopkeeper is brutally murdered and the suspect is an unknown man claiming to be from the gas board. The tel...

1 Mars 201732min

Belfast, Northern Ireland. A small group of friends go for a drink on a bar on a Sunday evening where an argument leads to violence which spirals out of control, leading to a sequence of events stil...

21 Feb 201742min

Integrity is important in every profession, but in the police service it is absolutely vital. In this case, we examine the case of PC Mesut Karakas, a Police Officer working for the Metropolitan Poli...

14 Feb 201719min

This week we are back in London.  The money around casinos has always been a draw to criminals and today we look at how a 'honeytrap' gang identified and targeted a professional poker player in Mayfai...

7 Feb 201722min

This week we are examine a case spanning five UK police forces over 15 years.  This case involves police incompetence, astonishingly inept decisions from the prison service, bizarre inquest verdicts, ...

31 Jan 201737min

Today we head north of the border to Scotland.  This episode of the weekly UK True Crime Podcast examines a feud between two Glasgow families over a number of years which have left one man dead and se...

23 Jan 201721min

In September 2009 Christopher Hartley was shot at point-blank range at a layby in South Yorkshire - well known for public sex - in what appeared to be a drug deal that had gone wrong. The reality was ...

17 Jan 201729min

We head to Prestatyn, on the north coast of Wales, for this edition of the weekly UK True Crime Podcast.  We examine the events of 2012 leading to the deaths of five people - including three young chi...

10 Jan 201724min