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Child cruelty. Victoria Adjo Climbié (2 November 1991 – 25 February 2000) was an eight-year-old Ivorian girl who was tortured and murdered by her great-aunt and her great-aunt's boyfriend. Her death led to a public inquiry, and produced major changes in child protection policies in the United Kingdom. Born in Abobo, Côte d'Ivoire, Victoria ...
BBC One. Release. 26 February 2018. ( 26 February 2018) –. present. Murder, Mystery and My Family is a BBC One series featuring Sasha Wass KC and Jeremy Dein KC ., [1] [2] which examines historic criminal convictions resulting in the death penalty in order to determine if any of them resulted in a miscarriage of justice.
Showtrial is a British legal drama television series created by Ben Richards and starring Tracy Ifeachor and Céline Buckens. The five-part first series aired on BBC One from October to November 2021 and starred Tracy Ifeachor and Céline Buckens.
Main article: List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom 1990s Year Name of victim(s) Location body found Notes 8 January 1990 William Howe Worthing, West Sussex The body of the 63-year-old retired vet was found tied up in his flat on 9 January. Because the flat had been ransacked, and because Howe had tens of thousands of pounds hidden in a safe there (which the offender/s did not find ...
Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal. Savile at the Highland games in Lochaber in 2006. It emerged in late 2012 that Jimmy Savile, a British media personality who had died the previous year, had sexually abused hundreds of people throughout his life, mostly children but some as old as 75, and mostly female. He had been well known in the United ...
4 ft 7 in (140 cm) Patrick Warren (b. 1985) and David Spencer (b. 1983) were two English schoolboys who disappeared on 27 December 1996 in the town of Solihull, near Birmingham. Although initially treated by the police as runaways, they are now presumed deceased. [1] Despite a BBC Crimewatch special report on the boys, along with numerous ...
Newsnight began on 28 January 1980 at 22:45, although a 15-minute news bulletin using the same title had run on BBC2 for a 13-month period from 1975 to 1976. Its planned September 1979 launch date was delayed by four months by the Association of Broadcasting Staff, at the time the main BBC trade union.
Shafilea Iftikhar Ahmed (Punjabi and Urdu: شفیلیہ افتخار احمد; 14 July 1986 – 11 September 2003) was a British-Pakistani girl who was murdered by her parents in a suspected honour killing at the age of 17, due to her refusal to accept an arranged marriage.
The Winterbourne View hospital inquiry occurred at Winterbourne View, a private hospital at Hambrook, South Gloucestershire, England, owned and operated by Castlebeck. [1] A Panorama investigation, broadcast on television in 2011, exposed the physical and psychological abuse suffered by people with learning disabilities and challenging ...
Rachel Jane Nickell (23 November 1968 – 15 July 1992) was a British woman who was stabbed to death on Wimbledon Common in south-west London on 15 July 1992. The initial police investigation of the crime resulted in the arrest in controversial circumstances of an innocent man, who was acquitted.