Retelling the harrowing story of the death of a 16-year-old Manchester teenager. After witnessing a fight outside a pub following a 21st birthday party, Craig Rennie and Stephen Prince set off to walk home with friends around midnight. Shortly afterwards a car ploughed into the group, killing Craig outright and leaving Stephen seriously injured and in a coma. The driver, Michael Ganson , was a local man involved in the fight the boys had witnessed. He admits hitting the boys, but despite a previous conviction for driving directly at a police officer, Michael claims this was an accident - he was on his mobile phone while driving
hen the body of 72-year-old Nigerian chief Augustine Maduemezia was found in his ransacked Manchester flat, three sets of footprints were left by the killers and minute droplets of blood were found on the walls of the crime scene. The police suspect that the murderers were desperate drug addicts searching for money and valuables, but can they bring them to justice?
Shot from behind with a shotgun, 17-year-old Ashley Bowman 's death in July 2004 was the result of an apparently motiveless attack. The award-winning documentary series offering an insight into the criminal justice system follows the Greater Manchester police force's painstaking investigation as they discover that Ashley was killed by members of a small-time drugs gang in a tragic case of mistaken identity. Despite this information, no-one is willing to come forward and give evidence. Can the detectives break through the silence and secure a conviction?
Testimonies from the police, forensic scientists, lawyers and barristers reveal the case of Sandra Tildesley , who was killed by a car that mounted the pavement. Can prosecutors build a case to charge its driver with dangerous driving?
A documentary series that uses unique access to the criminal justice system to comprehensively tell the stories of crimes from the first 999 call to beyond the jury's verdict. A Moment of Madness. A blood-stained shopping list is just one of the details highlighted in the exploration of a murder in Salford. Nasir Ali Alsenaidi, a student from Oman, was ordered to be detained in a maximum security hospital after stabbing Terezia Sternbergerova to death and seriously injuring Kathy Moore. But the subsequent decision to send him back to his homeland left his surviving victim angry and traumatised
The chilling story of Bryan Keen who was brought to justice after Manchester police re-examined DNA evidence in an 11-year-old case of kidnapping and rape. To his neighbours in leafy Cheshire, 50-year-old Keen was a respectable businessman. But in September 1994 he bound, gagged and blindfolded a 23-year-old woman in a hotel room, telling her that he was videotaping her ordeal before subjecting her to sexual assault and rape. More than a decade later, Keen's victim courageously agrees to face him in court