Crime Next Door
Episodes
4. Fear of the Monster
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Bob Booth’s reputation plummets, 'The Black Panther's' is reinforced in the minds of an increasingly terrified population.For the first time, we ...
3. An Extraordinary Plan
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Faced with deceptions and dead-ends, Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Booth devises an audacious plan to catch the so-called ‘Black Panther' and s...
2. The Career Criminal
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The case takes a dramatic turn when a seemingly unconnected crime reveals a chilling back-story. Lesley Whittle’s kidnapper is far more dangerous th...
1. The Perfect Detective
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Detective Chief Superintendent Robert 'Bob' Booth from West Mercia Police is tested by the rarest of crimes. He faces an unprecedented challenge after...
Introducing The Cop, The Kidnap and The Killer
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lesley Whittle is kidnapped from her home by a man known as 'The Black Panther'.A ransom note is found and Detective Chief Superintendent Robert Booth...
8. Not Alone
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when someone you trust turns out to not exist? When ‘Chloe’ starts messaging other teenage girls on social media she is friendly...
7. Court
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when someone you trust turns out to not exist? When ‘Chloe’ starts messaging other teenage girls on social media she is friendly...
6. Cimarron, Part Two
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when someone you trust turns out to not exist? When ‘Chloe’ starts messaging other teenage girls on social media she is friendly...
5. 3500
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when someone you trust turns out to not exist? When ‘Chloe’ starts messaging other teenage girls on social media she is friendly...
4. Emily
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when someone you trust turns out to not exist? When ‘Chloe’ starts messaging other teenage girls on social media she is friendly...
3. Unmasking Chloe
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when someone you trust turns out to not exist? When ‘Chloe’ starts messaging other teenage girls on social media she is friendly...
2. Ivy and Violet
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when someone you trust turns out to not exist? When ‘Chloe’ starts messaging other teenage girls on social media she is friendly...
1. Cimarron
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when someone you trust turns out to not exist? When ‘Chloe’ starts messaging other teenage girls on social media she is friendly...
6. Downfall
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Mark McGivern endures a chilling face-to-face encounter with Mags as the Haneys are backed into a corner. With the public’s attention fir...
5. Dealer Number 1
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Daily Record launch a high profile campaign. After receiving numerous tip offs, undercover journalists find evidence that may bring matriarch Mag...
4. Hotel Haney
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hounded out, the Haneys struggle to find a new home. In a new town, they can’t escape their past as they face violence and anger on the streets once...
3. A Family From Hell
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As her public profile rises, Mags falls foul of ‘tall poppy syndrome’. It becomes clear the Haneys have numerous skeletons in their closet and, no...
2. Notorious
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mags positions herself as an ‘anti-paedophile campaigner’ and appears on national TV. Back home on the Raploch estate, anger begins to boil as she...
1. Welcome to the Raploch
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the midst of a ‘paedophile panic’, residents of a Stirling housing scheme take matters into their own hands and one woman grabs the nation’s ...
Introducing... The Ballad of Big Mags
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the mid 1990s. On the Raploch estate in Stirling, a local community is living in fear. This is a place with many young families, and word is sp...
5. Justice for my family
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Abdul Shakoor lost his wife and five children in a house fire in Harlow, Essex.He shares his shock at the discoveries we've uncovered relating to t...
4. Forensic evidence
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Police believe someone broke into their home that night and a fire was started, but no-one has ever been charged. With claims of evidence compromised,...
3. A murder investigation
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Police get a breakthrough when something was found dumped near the Shakoor family home, eleven days after the fatal house fire.The discovery means the...
2. A second fire
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The town of Harlow is in shock after a house fire left Dr Sabah Usmani and her four children dead. A fifth child is on life support in hospital. The f...
1. A family trapped in the fire
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A normally quiet residential street in Harlow is woken in the middle of the night to screams for help. Doctor Abdul Shakoor jumps from the bedroom w...
Introducing... Who Killed the Shakoors?
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A father is the sole survivor of a house fire that killed his wife and five children. On 15 October 2012, Dr Abdul Shakoor jumped from an upstairs win...
6. The Gold
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A top bullion dealer explains how the toilet could have disappeared and where the gold might be today. Meanwhile, Jimmy Sheen’s pocketed £520,000 f...
5. The Fence
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A trial begins and the three defendants plead not guilty. Details emerge about reconnaissance trips to Blenheim made days before the heist. Also, Jimm...
4. The Thief
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Four years later a toilet thief is unmasked as James ‘Jimmy’ Sheen. An investigation uncovers Sheen's dark past leading up to the Blenheim burglar...
3. The Failures and The Fakes
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the palace reopens to the public, curious visitors flock to witness the infamous crime scene. Behind the scenes, Blenheim’s Chief Executive scram...
2. The Rumour
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stunned Blenheim Palace staff are coming to terms with an early morning raid as the gang make their getaway with the £5 million gold toilet.Meanwhile...
1. The Heist
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The mystery of one of Britain’s weirdest art heists begins at an exhibition party at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, in September 2019.A £5 million s...
Introducing... The Golden Toilet Heist
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A story of art, mystery and a solid gold, fully plumbed in toilet stolen from a British palace.With behind-the-scenes access at Blenheim Palace, we ex...
20. The Repercussions
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This final episode, recorded in December 2024, considers what the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry will achieve, and what might change as a result. BBC Security ...
19. The Closing Statements
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After 7 weeks and over a hundred hours of evidence, the public hearings of the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry come to an end. In this episode, the main partici...
18. The Bottle and the Blind Spot
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When the agents suspected of poisoning Sergei and Yulia Skripal with Novichok left Salisbury, what did they do with the nerve agent and how did the de...
17. Marina Litvinenko
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The widow of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko explains why she feels lessons weren’t learned between her husband’s assassination and the Sa...
16. Protecting the Public
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As Salisbury starts to reopen in the summer of 2018, the authorities weigh up how to keep the public safe, when they know there could be more Novichok...
15. The Suspects
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two Russian men visit Salisbury just as the former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a nerve agent. They say they simply wanted to...
14. The Hunt for the Poison
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned with a nerve agent, police faced one of the most complex investigations in their history. They had to trac...
13. Science in Secret
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley were taken to hospital, the emergency services tried to piece together what had happened to them. We hear how t...
12. The Poisoned Detective
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the first police officers to go inside Sergei and Yulia Skripal’s house after they were poisoned with a nerve agent was Detective Sergeant Ni...
11. Saving the Skripals
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia collapsed on a bench in Salisbury, it was Sunday shoppers who first stepped in to he...
10. The Spy Next Door
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Who is Sergei Skripal? The former Russian spy was poisoned by Novichok in March 2018, but until now very little has been known about him, his life in ...
9. An act of war?
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An in-depth interview with the Head of Counter Terror Policing at the time of the poisonings, Neil Basu. He relives how dangerous the investigation wa...
8. What is Novichok?
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Sella, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at University College London, answers the big questions about Novichok. The deadly nerve agent killed D...
7. Russia responds
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As the inquiry prepares to move from Salisbury to London, Andy Howard and Marie Lennon review a momentous week of evidence, which saw the emergency se...
6. The 999 Calls
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paramedics and police relive the moments they were called to Charlie Rowley's flat in Amesbury. First Dawn Sturgess is found unresponsive, and then se...
5. Dawn: A mother’s tribute
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline, Dawn’s mother, speaks publicly for the first time about her daughter and sets the record straight about who Dawn was. The police apologise...
4. The Inquiry begins
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marie Lennon and Andy Howard reflect on an extraordinary first day at the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry. We hear that there was enough nerve agent hidden in a...
3. Baroness Theresa May
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Theresa May, who was prime minister at the time of the attack, recalls when she first heard about the Salisbury poisonings.Baroness May describes how ...
2. Poison Perfume
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
More people fall ill from Novichok poisoning.It’s four months since the nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yul...
1. The Novichok Attack
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Salisbury becomes the scene of a major international incident. Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are found poisoned on a park bench.Then, an aston...
Introducing...The Salisbury Poisonings
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Six years after a mum was poisoned by a Russian nerve agent in Wiltshire, will a public inquiry bring answers? In 2018, Dawn Sturgess came into con...
6. In Plain Sight
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this final episode of Death On The Farm - the community is still battling for a different verdict. We hear how the police are conducting a forensic...
5. Blood Money
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The official police report into the deaths at Ffynnon Samson is the most details account of the scene, and the events which took place. But that repo...
4. Only Murderers yn y Bwthyn
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pembrokeshire is a safe and secure place to live. But for a time in the 1980's, the feeling for many was different. Two violent murders once again had...
3. Judgment
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's a matter of weeks since the crime scene at Ffynnon Samson was discovered, but the loose ends are already being tied into a neat bow.The police in...
2. The Investigation
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
By the end 1976, the community in Llangolman was still waiting for answers. Police officers had taken over the village, conducting their investigation...
1. What The Postman Saw
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When a postman makes a grim discovery in the course of his morning rounds, the shockwaves are felt far and wide. This series begins in 1976, with the...
Introducing... Death on the Farm
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is almost fifty year since the bodies of Griff and Patti Thomas were found in their remote farmhouse in Llangolman, Pembrokeshire. And yet - exactl...
6. Hope
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The ‘Church-With-No-Name’ has flown under the radar for more than a century but today is making headlines the world over. Why? Allegations of chil...
5. Dying to Self
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The ‘Church-With-No-Name’ has flown under the radar for more than a century but today is making headlines the world over. Why? Allegations of chil...
4. Hotline
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The ‘Church-With-No-Name’ has flown under the radar for more than a century but today is making headlines the world over. Why? Allegations of chil...
3. Undercover
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The ‘Church-With-No-Name’ has flown under the radar for more than a century but today is making headlines the world over. Why? Allegations of chil...
2. Dying in the Harness
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The ‘Church-With-No-Name’ has flown under the radar for more than a century but today is making headlines the world over. Why? Allegations of chil...
1. The Truth
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The ‘Church-With-No-Name’ has flown under the radar for more than a century but today is making headlines the world over. Why? Serious allegations...
1. Glen Lyon Road
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kaye Adams returns to Glen Lyon Road in Kirkcaldy, the location of her first major news story. It was here that a shooting took place that shocked the...
2. The Black Car
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary is flooded with armed police officers as the hospital’s cardiac unit battles to save the life of Nikola Stedul.An Assassin...
3. The Swiss Passport
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The police investigation into who shot Nikola Stedul takes a dramatic turn as officers uncover shocking information about the hitman.An Assassin Comes...
4. The President In Exile
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As the full story emerges, the residents of Glen Lyon Road come to terms with the truth about the family living next door and their role on the intern...
5. The Trial
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kaye and the Stedul family relive a trial full of explosive testimony, accusation, counter-accusation and political revelation.An Assassin Comes to To...
6. The Aftermath
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The fallout from the shooting at Glen Lyon Road continues to reverberate as the Steduls take stock and look at the legacy their family has forged.An A...
Introducing... An Assassin Comes to Town
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As the hunt for a hitman gets underway, a Scottish town finds itself at the centre of an escalating political story of a disintegrating nation and a l...