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  • 2021-06-27T23:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 45m
  • 7h 30m (10 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary, Crime
Two of the UK's top criminal barristers, Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein, explore historical murders where the convicted went to the gallows pleading their innocence, in a new series for BBC One Daytime. Investigating cases which bear all the hallmarks of a miscarriage of justice, they join forces with a living member of the convicted criminal’s family and a variety of specialist experts to re-examine the crime, evidence and trial. While the barristers employ modern forensic techniques to ask whether the original conviction was safe, the family member explores the social and historical context of the crime, and their ancestor's life. Jeremy and Sasha will then decide whether they believe they have a strong enough case to present to a senior Crown Court judge, who will then determine whether he believes the conviction was safe and should be upheld, or unsafe and could be re-opened.

10 episodes

Season Premiere

2021-06-27T23:00:00Z

5x01 Jacoby

Season Premiere

5x01 Jacoby

  • 2021-06-27T23:00:00Z45m

Barristers Sasha and Jeremy explore a classic whodunnit from 1922 in which a lowly pantry boy was charged with the murder of a titled lady in a London hotel

2021-06-28T23:00:00Z

5x02 Smith

5x02 Smith

  • 2021-06-28T23:00:00Z45m

Leading criminal barristers Jeremy Dein QC and Sasha Wass QC reinvestigate a lethal shooting from 1937, when a barge captain was allegedly murdered by his best friend. Felixstowe Docks, 1937. On 23 October the deceased body of barge skipper Albert Baker was found below deck aboard his vessel. He had been shot three times at close range with his own pistol, one that needed reloading after each shot had been fired.

2021-06-29T23:00:00Z

5x03 Lee

5x03 Lee

  • 2021-06-29T23:00:00Z45m

The barristers explore the notorious case of ‘The Man They Could Not Hang’ - a house servant accused of murdering his upper-class benefactor in Devon in 1884.

2021-06-30T23:00:00Z

5x04 Yarham

5x04 Yarham

  • 2021-06-30T23:00:00Z45m

Jeremy and Sasha revisit a complex case from Victorian Britain that featured four suspects, two trials and ultimately just one man hanged for murder.

2021-07-01T23:00:00Z

5x05 Lefley

5x05 Lefley

  • 2021-07-01T23:00:00Z45m

Sasha and Jeremy examine a case from 1882, where a wife was accused of murdering her husband with an arsenic-laced rice pudding that contained enough poison to kill fifty people.

2021-07-04T23:00:00Z

5x06 Fox

5x06 Fox

  • 2021-07-04T23:00:00Z45m

Jeremy and Sasha reinvestigate a notorious case of matricide dating from the 1920s. Did flawed forensic evidence see an innocent man hanged?

2021-07-05T23:00:00Z

5x07 McLachlan

5x07 McLachlan

  • 2021-07-05T23:00:00Z45m

Barristers Sasha and Jeremy investigate an infamous Scottish murder case from 1862, in which a compelling alternative suspect may have been the true killer.

2021-07-06T23:00:00Z

5x08 Allen

5x08 Allen

  • 2021-07-06T23:00:00Z45m

Sasha and Jeremy explore a case in which the controversial killing of a police officer sparked the round-up of dozens of suspects and ended with three men going to the gallows.

2021-07-07T23:00:00Z

5x09 Grime

5x09 Grime

  • 2021-07-07T23:00:00Z45m

Sasha and Jeremy explore a grisly Victorian murder case from 1863 in which a missing pocket watch proved to be the vital evidence that saw a man convicted and hanged.

2021-07-08T23:00:00Z

5x10 Poff/Barrett

5x10 Poff/Barrett

  • 2021-07-08T23:00:00Z45m

The barristers investigate the mysterious shooting of a landowning farmer in rural Ireland in 1882. Could dubious eyewitness testimony have sent two innocent men to the gallows?

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