Award-winning Daily Mail crime writer Stephen Wright talks to top detectives, lawyers, victims and relatives to take an in-depth look at crimes that have shocked Britain (and the world), as well as revisiting some of his landmark stories and campaigns. From serial murderers to child killers, ruthless gangsters to corrupt police, psychopaths to paedophiles, celebrity criminals to audacious conmen, he untangles the mysteries and the secrets behind the headlines.
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Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Catching the Night Stalker (00:35:10)
For 17 years serial rapist and burglar Delroy Grant – who became known as the ‘Night Stalker’ - terrorised elderly people in south London, cutting phone lines before breaking into homes and carrying ...
Putin’s poisoners (Pt 2): Marina Litvinenko’s fight for justice (00:16:07)
With her murdered husband’s powerful last statement still echoing in her ears, Marina Litvinenko has fought a long and lonely battle to bring two justice the two ‘businessmen’ thought to have poisoned...
Putin’s poisoners: Marina Litvinenko on her husband’s murder (00:23:49)
Fifteen years ago, Putin critic Alexander Litvinenko, who had fled Russia to safety in Britain, was hospitalised with a mystery illness after a business meeting with two Russians in a London hotel. A ...
Virginia vs Andrew: The Prince and the courtroom (00:39:36)
This Monday, in a New York courtroom, a pre-trial hearing began. The complainant was Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the defendant was Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. She alleges that when aged 17, she was...
‘Scotland Yard on trial’: a question of leadership and accountability. (00:34:00)
In a grand house in South London, a group of seven remarkable people gathered together for the first time - all victims of or witnesses to gross injustices at the hands of the police. Award-winning Da...
How I tracked down Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs… and was charmed by him! (00:42:44)
When Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs was sentenced to 30 years for his part in the biggest robbery in British history, it wasn’t the end of his story - he disappeared over the wall of Wandsworth Priso...
Last Days of Diana: Forgeries and Fake News (00:24:43)
What lead to the conspiracy theories that swirled in the aftermath of Diana’s death - and what role did BBC journalist Martin Bashir play in the final years of Diana’s life? In the final of our seven-...
Last Days of Diana: Diana’s life on trial (00:22:54)
The inquests into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales officially began on 2 October 2007, ten years after her death - but would the findings of Operation Paget satisfy those who still believed she h...
Last Days of Diana: No one’s above the law (00:35:38)
Central to the conspiracy theories around Princess Diana’s death was an accusation that Princes Charles and Prince Philip had been involved in a plot to kill her in a staged car crash - fears voiced b...
Last Days of Diana: Blood Conspiracy (00:34:21)
Mysteries still remained after Diana’s death - was the Princess pregnant? Why did it take so long for emergency services to get her to hospital... and could she have been saved? In the fourth of our s...
Last Days of Diana: A Note From the Grave (00:26:19)
Princess Diana’s tragic death would prompt a three-year investigation by Scotland Yard - but what crime had been committed… and who was really to blame? In the third episode of a new seven-part Beyond...
Last Days of Diana: A World in Shock (00:38:49)
The death of Princess Diana in a car crash in a tunnel in Paris sent shockwaves around the world, with mourners taking to the streets in Britain and in Paris - and photographers surrounding the French...
Last Days of Diana: The crash (00:36:40)
On August 31, 1997, a Mercedes carrying Diana, Princess of Wales crashed into a pillar in a tunnel in Paris, and the world would never be the same again. A new seven-part Beyond Reasonable Doubt podca...
NEW SERIES: Last Days of Diana (00:02:14)
On August 31, 1997, a Mercedes carrying Diana, Princess of Wales crashed into the wall of a tunnel in Paris, and the world would never be the same again. A new six-part Beyond Reasonable Doubt podcast...
Bent cops and cover ups: the axe murder of Daniel Morgan (00:22:49)
In March 1987, private investigator Daniel Morgan was brutally killed in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, with an axe embedded in his skull - but more than three decades later, no one ...
Fred West's missing 'victim': the Mary Bastholm mystery (00:28:04)
Mary Bastholm vanished from a Gloucester bus stop in January 1968, while en route to visit her boyfriend. She was just 15 years old and her disappearance was completely out of character. Within months...
Justice for Joan: The inspirational story of a family's historic pursuit of a murderer (00:39:17)
On Boxing Day 1994, 27-year-old gynaecologist Dr Joan Francisco was found strangled in her London flat - but her family faced an agonising five-year legal battle before her volatile ex-boyfriend was f...
Blowing the whistle: One detective's battle against the Met (00:35:44)
When police raided the homes of VIPs Lord Brittan, Field Marshal Lord Bramall and Harvey Proctor on the basis of ludicrous false child abuse allegations from ‘Nick’ - aka paedophile Carl Beech - one b...
Hounding of Heath: Bogus claims of satanism, child abuse and murder against former PM - and a £1.5 million police farce (00:43:41)
Ten years after former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath died, he was smeared with vile and bizarre false claims of satanism, child abuse and murder, including using a bear-claw glove to disembowel chil...
Liar, liar: How I fell in love with 'fake spy' conman (and lost £850,000) (00:42:53)
When dashing Swiss banker (and secret MI6 agent) Mark Conway walked into the Gloucestershire shop she worked in, divorcee Carolyn Woods fell head over heels and they began planning a life together. Th...
Licensed to kill: An interview with Britain’s most controversial police marksman - Part 2 (00:27:24)
Police marksman Tony Long was dubbed ‘the Met’s very own serial killer’ by a senior officer after shooting three men dead, including two security van robbers gunned down in seconds in a hail of bullet...
When police kill: An interview with Britain’s most controversial police marksman - Part 1 (00:30:18)
For 25 years, police ‘top shot’ Tony Long served in Scotland Yard’s elite specialist firearms unit, becoming Britain’s most lethal police marksman (and at one point facing trial for murder over a spli...
The night the Krays moved into my house (after shooting dead a rival gangster) (00:34:06)
The night the Krays moved into my house (after shooting dead a rival gangster) After shooting dead a rival gangster in full view of drinkers in an East End pub, the Kray twins took over a young man's ...
Sex lies and videotape: the Hamiltons’ ‘rape’ scandal (00:36:29)
Twenty years ago, former Conservative Minister Neil Hamilton and his TV personality wife Christine were arrested over false rape allegations - with documentary maker Louis Theroux filming it all. Thei...
‘Get your trousers on, you’re nicked!’ (00:27:59)
John Thaw’s hard-drinking, rule-bending detective Jack Regan was a 70s TV icon - and amazingly, he was inspired by a real policeman. Acclaimed scriptwriter Ian Kennedy Martin gives Stephen Wright the ...