Season 3

2018 · 10 episodes

Episodes

1Episode 1The barrister examines the 1976 murder of 15-year-old Janet Commins, whose body was discovered in Flint, north east Wales, and the man who was wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter. Would the real killer now be brought to justice?
2Episode 2The case of Julie Archer, who was set on fire in her home, and another involving the theft of 11 canisters of nitrous oxide, otherwise known as laughing gas, from a hospital in Darlington.
3Episode 3Barrister Robert Rinder presents the 2003 case of a drive-by shooting in Aston, Birmingham, that left two girls fighting for their lives when they were caught in the crossfire of gang rivalry. He also follows the investigation to find the man who broke into a woman's Pembrokeshire home and sexually assaulted her.
4Episode 4Barrister Robert Rinder looks into the investigation that followed a number of complaints to the RSPCA from people who had purchased sick and dying dogs. It led to an unscrupulous gang of puppy traders and several raids and arrests - but the complaints kept coming. Plus, the story of a murder that tore a family apart.
5Episode 5The case of 17-year-old Shafilea Ahmed, who was brutally murdered by her parents Iftikhar and Farzana in Warrington in September 2003. Friends of both Shafilea and her sister Mevish give exclusive interviews recalling the part they played in helping bring her parents to justice.
6Episode 6Barrister Robert Rinder examines the story of a woman whose ex-husband killed their sons during an unsupervised visit, as well as the case of a elderly woman's carer who was at the centre of a web of deceit and fraudulent activity.
7Episode 7The barrister examines the case of 22-year-old Adele Bellis, who decided to call time on her volatile relationship with her boyfriend Anthony Riley, unaware of the horrifying events that would follow. The barrister also looks at the case of Joanne Peacock, who discovered that her 15-week-old baby Charlie sustained brutal injuries at the hands of her partner, Paul Sykes
8Episode 8The barrister examines the case of 84-year-old Diana Bramall, who decided to install CCTV to film her carer Donna after noticing money was going missing from her handbag, but the footage captured would shock her and her family and leave Diana devastated. The barrister also examines the case of Lyndsey Vaux, who was found dead in the home she shared with her partner Becky and Becky's mother Gillian.
9Episode 9Barrister Robert Rinder examines more real-life cases, looking at the events leading up to crimes, going through the police investigations and summing up the trials. In the first edition, he focuses on the murder of five-year-old April Jones by Mark Bridger, and the carjacking of great-grandfather Anthony Mather by a gang of youths in Birmingham.
10Episode 10Barrister Robert Rinder examines the story of how Border Force cutters the HMC Seeker and HMC Searcher tracked a fishing vessel suspected of carrying a shipment of cocaine. Plus, drunken driver Thomas Burney, who drove into and killed 19-year-old pedestrian Bryony Hollands in 2015.