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This powerful series of programmes features dramatic reconstructions of some of Britian's most notorious crimes - a collection of cases which are exciting, moving and surprising, each demonstrating how truth can be stranger than fiction.
1993
A dramatization of workplace murders committed by Graham Young, a young man previously convicted of death by poison.
Nikola Stedul, a former Croatian Freedom Fighter, lives in Fife, Scotland with his family. A plan to assassinate him is concocted and the gun-man Vinco Sindicic is sent to the quiet Scottish town to shoot the outspoken exile. After sitting and watching the house for a week, the assassin shoots Stedul several times as he leaves his house for a walk. The plan fails and Stedul survives. Adaptation of true events.
Overwhelmed with debts and facing prosecution for fraud, MP and former minister John Stonehouse decides to fake his own death and start a new life in Australia with his mistress.
1992
A dramatization of the murder of drug world figure Martin Johnstone, a crime spanning three continents and resulting in the conviction of five men.
A dramatization of incidents involving Eddie Horner, a factory worker active in union politics radicalized to murder.
A dramatization of a murder resulting in the conviction of businesswoman Kathleen Calhaem, involving unrequited love, jealousy, and blackmail.
Muriel McKay was kidnapped from her home in Wimbledon on 29th December 1969 and her body was never found. The media was enlisted to try and help the police to find her. But the police blamed the media involvement for their failures.
A couple's cunning plan to defraud one of the world's largest oil companies of more than £20 million, by transferring money from the British company's accounts into accounts at a Swiss bank.
Erwin van Haarlem is a man of mystery. Living in London in 1986 and ostensibly a Dutch art dealer, he is in fact spying for Czechoslovakia with a mission to track down supporters of the dissident group, Chapter 77.
A 16 year-old girl becomes a pen pal to an incarcerated convict, and her subsequent murder may or may not be linked to their on-paper romance.
