A Family Affair: Episode 315

This was the time. Sameena Imam knew that her lover Roger Cooper felt the same as her and he was going to leave his partner this Christmas Eve 2014. They were then going to spend Christmas together in...

11 Feb 202023min

It was September 2011 in Chatham, Kent. Melissa Crooks, her son Noah and the rest of the family had gone to bed when the fire started. The flames soon took hold and afterwards, detectives suspected ar...

4 Feb 202023min

2017 in Northern Ireland. This episode looks at two men who had been part of a paramilitary organisation and how they tried to leave the group. It is a tragic tale of intimidation, violence and ultima...

28 Jan 202026min

The shocking conclusion of the story from last week from the South of England in 2003.  At the UK True Crime Podcast we hear many tales of greed and ruthlessness. But in this case, the lengths someone...

21 Jan 202024min

February 2013, near Heathrow Airport. Kenneth Regan was a violent criminal, with a history of drug dealing who had already turned on his previous colleagues as he became a supergrass. But on his relea...

14 Jan 202025min

As humans, most of us have been kind to strangers on some occasions. But rarely as kind as Tracey Wilkinson, from Stourbridge, who took a homeless person into her family home, fed him and her husband ...

7 Jan 202023min

The two men had both served time for murder but had been released from prison. They now worked together on a legitimate business, near Sunderland. But the evening of horror they had planned for someon...

31 Dec 201921min

In 2004 Bryan Drysdale had decided to end his own life. After finishing work, he drove to a nearby level crossing in Berkshire, stopped on the tracks and turned off his engine. The 300 passengers on t...

17 Dec 201924min