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Detectives thought it was a case of mistaken identity. March 2000 Craig Mirfield Leeds: Mirfield, a 34-year-old car dealer, was shot in his car in Gipton on 15 March 2000 while trying to drive away from a gunman. A man was prosecuted for Mirfield's murder, but his trial ended early due to reservations about the reliability of the two main ...
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.
The 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder, commonly known as the Nirbhaya case, involved a rape and fatal assault that occurred on 16 December 2012 in Munirka, a neighbourhood in South Delhi. The incident took place when Jyoti Singh, a 22-year-old physiotherapy intern, was beaten, gang-raped, and tortured in a private bus in which she was travelling ...
The Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal consists of the organised child sexual abuse that occurred in the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Northern England from the late 1980s until 2013 [9] and the failure of local authorities to act on reports of the abuse throughout most of that period. [10] Researcher Angie Heal, who was hired by ...
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 ...
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 Television Centre (1992–2012, 2019–2020) The Maidstone Studios (2013–2018) Running time: 60 minutes (pre-recorded version, 1992–2018; Even Later, 2019–2020; BBC Four compilations 2022) 45 minutes (2020- ) 30 minutes (live version, 2008–2018; pre-recorded version, 2019–2020) Production companies: BBC Studios BBC Music: Original ...
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 ...
The Daily Global. BBC News Now. Impact. Verified Live, also called Verified Live with Matthew Amroliwala, is a news programme that premiered on both the UK feed and international feed of BBC News channel on 22 May 2023 as part of a refresh following the merger of the two news channels. [1] The programme is mainly hosted by Matthew Amroliwala.
The murders of Harry and Megan Tooze, also known as the Llanharry murders, [4] were the high-profile killings of an elderly couple at their remote Ty Ar y Waun farm near Llanharry, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, United Kingdom, on 26 July 1993. The couple were shot dead at point blank range with a shotgun in an execution -style killing, and their ...