Gillian is a shy 16-year old who becomes a pen-friend to Roy, a young prisoner. Plans for their first meeting end in tragedy. Starring Tara Simpson, Lawrence Mullin and Julia Booth.
Drama
Year 1992
49 min
Some of Britain's most notorious crimes, dramatized in this powerful series - exciting, moving, and surprising cases that demonstrate how truth can be stranger than fiction.
Erwin van Haarlem (Bernard Hill) 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.
The thoroughly unpleasant tale of Graham Young, a convicted poisoner at the tender age of 14, is told in this intriguing edition of Crime Story starring Mark Womack and Christine Mackie.
E3 • All Good Friends - The Case of The Handless Corpse
50min
TV-14
CC
HD
A sinister case of intrigue, drugs and death. In 1979 two divers discovered the body of a young man in a flooded Lancashire quarry. The body was weighted down and both hands had been removed at the wrists.
A story of jealousy and unrequited love which led to murder, based on the true story of Kathleen Calhaem, a respected business woman from Cheddar in Somerset. The murder was brutal and sinister involving battery and repeated stabbing.
Gillian is a shy 16-year old who becomes a pen-friend to Roy, a young prisoner. Plans for their first meeting end in tragedy. Starring Tara Simpson, Lawrence Mullin and Julia Booth.
E6 • Gone Too Far: The Mystery of Mrs Muriel McKay
50min
TV-PG
CC
HD
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 cunning plan to defraud one of the world's largest oil companies of more than £20 million is the subject of this programme. This is a story of intrigue and provides a dramatic reconstruction of a case that captured Europe's headlines.
John Shrapnel and Mark McGann star in this dramatisation of one of the most intriguing crime stories in British criminal history. There is rivalry at Kirtleton Hall as two members of staff compete to rob the house, which results in a fatal shooting.
Eddie Horner gave the appearance of being an average man. He worked at a wallpaper factory in the north of England, lived with his mother and had no criminal record. Yet only seven months later, as leader of a self-styled Workers Army.
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