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The Big Cases

Season 1 2022 - 2024

  • 2022-04-08T23:00:00Z on BBC News
  • 42m
  • 22h 16m (40 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Crime, News
The biggest crime stories and court cases in the UK. The fights for justice, the investigations, and the stories of those affected by the crimes.

41 episodes

Series Premiere

2022-04-08T23:00:00Z

1x01 The Murder of Sabina Nessa

Series Premiere

1x01 The Murder of Sabina Nessa

  • 2022-04-08T23:00:00Z15m

Primary school teacher Sabina Nessa was killed at random by a man with a history of violence.

2022-04-14T23:00:00Z

1x02 Stabbed in a Sanctuary

1x02 Stabbed in a Sanctuary

  • 2022-04-14T23:00:00Z15m

Sir David Amess MP was murdered by an IS fanatic, at a meeting in a church in Southend-On-Sea in Essex, UK.

1x03 The Abuser Working for MI5

  • 2022-05-20T23:00:00Z15m

This is the story of a dangerous MI5 agent, which the government tried to keep secret.

1x04 27 Years to Catch a Killer

  • 2022-06-24T23:00:00Z25m

Rikki Neave left for school but never came home. Decades on his killer has been jailed.

1x05 Logan Mwangi: A Boy Betrayed

  • 2022-07-01T23:00:00Z27m

Logan Mwangi was five years old when he was murdered by the people he trusted.

How a lorry driver, looking at dating sites while driving, went on to kill three.

1x07 My Baby: Taken, Failed, Killed

  • 2022-08-06T23:00:00Z16m

Leiland-James was taken from his mother in hospital and placed in care. He went on to be killed by the woman who wanted to adopt him.

2022-09-29T23:00:00Z

1x08 The Doorstep Murder

1x08 The Doorstep Murder

  • 2022-09-29T23:00:00Z23m

It's one of Scotland's longest unsolved murder cases. Alistair Wilson was shot on his doorstep almost 20 years ago. Are police any closer to finding who killed him and why?

2022-10-27T23:00:00Z

1x09 The Suitcase Murderer

1x09 The Suitcase Murderer

  • 2022-10-27T23:00:00Z42m

Revealing the killer who decapitated her friend and dumped her body.

1x10 Catching The Cult Movie Killer

  • 2022-11-10T00:00:00Z22m

Jacqueline Kirk was badly disfigured after being set alight in 1998 by her ex-boyfriend Steven Craig.

She then died in 2019 from complications relating to the injuries she suffered.

1x11 Killing My Children's Abuser

  • 2022-11-23T00:00:00Z24m

Sarah Sands stabbed to death a convicted paedophile who was accused of abusing three more young boys. BBC News can reveal, for the first time, that they were all her children.

Now all three boys have become adults, they speak, alongside their mum about the killing, and subsequent events.

2022-12-14T00:00:00Z

1x12 Killed Walking Home

1x12 Killed Walking Home

  • 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z42m

Zara Aleena was killed walking back from a night out by a sexual predator, only recently released from prison, labelled a "danger to any woman".

1x13 Groomed, Radicalised, Gone

  • 2023-01-03T00:00:00Z42m

The schoolgirl charged with terrorism, but found to have been exploited. Rhianan Rudd, 15, was the youngest girl to be charged with terrorism offences in the UK. She took her own life in 2022. Her mum says investigators should have seen her daughter as "a victim rather than a terrorist".

2023-02-07T00:00:00Z

1x14 Found Under The Floor

1x14 Found Under The Floor

  • 2023-02-07T00:00:00Z42m

The story of Bennylyn and Jellica who were murdered after starting a new life in the UK.

2023-02-24T00:00:00Z

1x15 Twenty Minutes of Terror

1x15 Twenty Minutes of Terror

  • 2023-02-24T00:00:00Z20m

A gunman kills five people within minutes. Could the shootings have been prevented?

2023-03-11T00:00:00Z

1x16 Homegrown Terrorist

1x16 Homegrown Terrorist

  • 2023-03-11T00:00:00Z24m

How was Salman Abedi from Manchester radicalised to the point where he could kill, and could the Manchester Arena bombing have been stopped?

1x17 The Lie That Destroyed a Town

  • 2023-03-17T00:00:00Z42m

The story of false accusations about being the victim of a grooming gang and how it sent shockwaves through a small town in the North of England.

2023-04-02T23:00:00Z

1x18 Caught In The Crossfire

1x18 Caught In The Crossfire

  • 2023-04-02T23:00:00Z42m

Nine year old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was killed when shots were fired into her family home

2023-04-09T23:00:00Z

1x19 30 Years For Justice

1x19 30 Years For Justice

  • 2023-04-09T23:00:00Z26m

Nikki Allan's murder shocked Sunderland. Why did it take so long to catch her killer?

This BBC News investigation by reporter Daniel De Simone identifies a new suspect in the Stephen Lawrence murder. Stephen’s killing in 1993 changed policing and race relations in Britain forever, and its shadow hangs over the Metropolitan Police to this day. For decades, five men have been suspected of the attack, and in 2012 two of them were found guilty. Daniel De Simone has seen secret evidence and spoken to dozens of witnesses to publicly identify a sixth suspect for the first time. Evidence uncovered in this investigation also further implicates other suspects in the attack, and raises serious question of the police handling of the case over many years.

Season Finale

2023-06-26T23:00:00Z

1x21 Sunshine Scammer

Season Finale

1x21 Sunshine Scammer

  • 2023-06-26T23:00:00Z42m

Lyne Barlow is a bogus travel agent from County Durham, conning hundreds of holidaymakers and her family in a £2.6 million scam, which also saw her lie about a cancer diagnosis.

2023-07-03T23:00:00Z

1x22 Killed on Christmas Eve

1x22 Killed on Christmas Eve

  • 2023-07-03T23:00:00Z42m

Elle Edwards was shot dead as she celebrated Christmas Eve, in a murder that shocked the UK. We follow her dad Tim as he deals with the devastation of his daughter’s death.

2023-07-11T23:00:00Z

1x23 The Killing in the Lane

1x23 The Killing in the Lane

  • 2023-07-11T23:00:00Z42m

Lilia Valutyte died from a single stab wound in her chest. Her killer was found unfit to plead, but a jury determined in a trial of the facts he killed the nine-year-old.

2023-07-18T23:00:00Z

1x24 Killed on Duty

1x24 Killed on Duty

  • 2023-07-18T23:00:00Z42m

Sgt Matt Ratana was shot and killed on duty by a handcuffed prisoner just three months before he had been due to retire.

2023-08-01T23:00:00Z

1x25 Unmasking a Fugitive

1x25 Unmasking a Fugitive

  • 2023-08-01T23:00:00Z31m

The story of Nicholas Rossi - the US fugitive who came to the UK with a new identity after faking his own death. He claims he is called Arthur Knight and is a victim of mistaken identity, but a sheriff in Scotland is sending him back to Utah to face rape charges. We speak to the people who knew Nicholas Rossi in his previous life in America and chart his story from there to his discovery by police in a hospital bed in Glasgow.

2023-08-31T23:00:00Z

1x26 Deadly Influence

1x26 Deadly Influence

  • 2023-08-31T23:00:00Z26m

The story of a social media influencer, her mum and a murder plot.

2023-09-27T23:00:00Z

1x27 The Missing Mum

1x27 The Missing Mum

  • 2023-09-27T23:00:00Z42m

This is the story of Linda Razzell who vanished on her way to work more than 20 years ago. Her husband was found guilty of her murder. Now, in 2023, will he reveal where her body is in order to be released on parole?

2023-10-12T23:00:00Z

1x28 The Commons Criminal

1x28 The Commons Criminal

  • 2023-10-12T23:00:00Z42m

The MP who rose from obscurity to being imprisoned for fraud. The story of Jared O'Mara.

2023-10-24T23:00:00Z

1x29 Killed By My Boyfriend

1x29 Killed By My Boyfriend

  • 2023-10-24T23:00:00Z42m

The story of a young mum killed by her boyfriend of eight weeks. When Christopher McGowan was released on bail from a prison in Scotland, a court ordered he should stay at the home of his new girlfriend, Claire Inglis. He was a known criminal with a string of previous convictions and within weeks Claire was dead.

2023-12-19T00:00:00Z

1x30 The Doping Ward

1x30 The Doping Ward

  • 2023-12-19T00:00:00Z26m

The hospital unit where patients were drugged to keep them "quiet and compliant".

1x31 The Student Who Never Came Home

  • 2023-12-21T00:00:00Z25m

Kidnapped and murdered in France while on a university placement. Is it finally time for justice for 20 year old Joanna Parrish?

2024-02-02T00:00:00Z

1x32 Killed In The Park

1x32 Killed In The Park

  • 2024-02-02T00:00:00Z42m

Brianna Ghey was stabbed to death - two teenagers tried to get away with murder.

1x33 Held Captive And Left To Die

  • 2024-03-01T00:00:00Z42m

Shakira Spencer was 35 years old when her body was found by the police. She had been tortured and starved by people she considered friends.

2024-03-07T00:00:00Z

1x34 The Nottingham Attacks

1x34 The Nottingham Attacks

  • 2024-03-07T00:00:00Z42m

Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates were killed in a series of stabbings by one man on the streets of Nottingham in the summer of 2023.

2024-03-08T00:00:00Z

1x35 The Executioner Next Door

1x35 The Executioner Next Door

  • 2024-03-08T00:00:00Z42m

The quiet Irishman behind the high hedge had a history his neighbours could have never guessed: the man they knew as 'Frank' was really Freddie Scappaticci, a man with many secrets. Not only had he been an Irish Republican Army killer, he was at the same time an agent for the Army – perhaps their most important source inside the IRA, with access to their most sensitive secrets.

2024-04-07T23:00:00Z

1x36 The Dance Floor Murder

1x36 The Dance Floor Murder

  • 2024-04-07T23:00:00Z42m

The story of footballer Cody Fisher who was stabbed to death in a nightclub in Birmingham.

2024-04-11T23:00:00Z

1x37 Killer in the Attic

1x37 Killer in the Attic

  • 2024-04-11T23:00:00Z42m

When Michael Riddiough-Allen is stabbed to death outside a nightclub in Cornwall, armed police track down his killer to a nearby house where he was found hiding in the attic.

2024-05-02T23:00:00Z

1x38 The House Party Murder

1x38 The House Party Murder

  • 2024-05-02T23:00:00Z42m

How a house party turned into a murder scene - the fatal stabbing of Mikey Roynon.

1x39 Crushed: The Six Year Nightmare

  • 2024-06-11T23:00:00Z42m

Monika had moved to the UK from Poland for a better life. She had work, a new place to stay but then was hit by a drink driver. He served time for injuring her so badly she could never walk or talk again. Six years later, Monika died. It was time for justice, again.

2024-06-30T23:00:00Z

1x40 The Abuser Headteacher

1x40 The Abuser Headteacher

  • 2024-06-30T23:00:00Z42m

North Wales headteacher Neil Foden abused children over a four-year period, but could he have been stopped?

1x41 Trying to Kill Holly

  • no air date16m

The case of a plot to kidnap, rape, and murder TV presenter Holly Willoughby.

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