Unreliable Witness | Storycast
Episodes
Cheat Sheet... A new podcast from Sky News
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sophy Ridge and Wilf Frost bring you the Cheat Sheet to the day’s news in 10 minutes. On this first episode, they look at the Huntington mass s...
Introducing... The Brothel
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For more than a decade, London mum Anna has led a secret double life as a brothel keeper. But in 2024, a break-in at her brothel sparks a potentially ...
Unreliable Witness 7: The Other Trial
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
EPISODE 7: A new court case finally exposes abuse in Barrow. Jason and Liz have known about these allegations for years but they can only reveal the f...
Unreliable Witness 6: Eleanor Williams – Inside
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Police material is released, taking us to the moments they discover her battered at her flat and the night before her infamous post. They also reveal ...
Unreliable Witness 5: I’m Coming for You
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s revealed Mohammed Ramzan has been facing allegations other than from Ellie Williams. Liz and Jason meet ‘Sarah’ - who says she was groomed ...
Unreliable Witness 4: The Witness Who Went Home
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie has been sentenced to 8 and a half years in prison but questions have been raised about what evidence was presented and left out in court. One p...
Unreliable Witness 3: I’m not a Psychopath
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After Covid delays, the trial is finally held and Ellie Williams is in the dock. Liz and Jason were among the reporters at court when the extent of he...
Unreliable Witness 2: Recipe for a Witch Hunt
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The fuse has been lit...and with limited information from police or in the news, social media speculation starts fingers pointing. Barrow is about to ...
Unreliable Witness 1: Who is Ellie Williams?
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie’s family and boss share their worries about her leading up to the infamous Facebook post. Unexplained injuries. Becoming withdrawn. Incessant ...
Introducing: Unreliable Witness
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At the height of lockdown, 19-year-old Ellie Williams claims on social media she’s been trafficked by an Asian grooming gang across the North of Eng...
Patient 11: Episode 4 – Breaking free
28 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A long serving doctor and his partner agree to help Alexis break out of psychiatric care and flee the country, a decision that has the potential to ch...
Patient 11: Episode 3 – Escape Plan
28 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Enduring long periods in solitary and having descended to the darkest reaches of psychiatric care, Alexis plots an escape, one, that if successful, wi...
Patient 11: Episode 2 – In harm’s way
28 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Undiagnosed, legally detained and separated from her daughter for more than a year, Alexis is moved to an all-male psychiatric ward on Christmas Eve, ...
Patient 11: Episode 1 – Locked-up and drugged
28 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Following the death of her brother, young mother Alexis Quinn seeks temporary respite in NHS psychiatric care, never imagining that three days, would ...
Introducing: Patient 11
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Young mother and former GB youth swimmer, Alexis Quinn, agrees to enter NHS England psychiatric care following a family tragedy. She could never imagi...
StoryCast '21: EP 21/21 The Y2K Prison Bug
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The biggest, and very first story of the year 2000, involved a bug that was expected to impact tens of millions of lives all over the world.But unlike...
StoryCast '21: EP 20/21 The Queen's stuntman
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On 27 July 2012, Gary Connery pulled up his tights, adjusted his wig, and put on a dress fit for a queen. The London Olympics opening ceremony was abo...
StoryCast '21: EP 19/21 Michael Jackson - The Trial of the century
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A veteran of movie cameos and music videos, Eddie Moss was one of the most successful Michael Jackson impersonators in the world in 2005, but then he ...
StoryCast '21: EP 18/21 The Shooting
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On 22 July 2005, when Patricia da Silva learned that police marksman had killed a man at Stockwell Underground Station in London, she’d no reason to...
StoryCast '21: EP 17/21 Batman raids Buckingham Palace
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In September 2004, Jason Hatch dressed up in a Batman costume and broke into the grounds of Buckingham Palace. The Queen's home is protected by some o...
StoryCast '21: EP16/21 Escape the Taj Mumbai
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the evening of 26 November 2008, Director and photographer Daniela Federici was in the lobby of the five-star Taj Palace hotel, Mumbai, when Islami...
StoryCast ’21: EP 15/21 Tim Peake: Britain’s first spacewalk
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The UK has a long history of exploration, however by 2016, only one astronaut, Helen Sharman, had travelled to space bearing the colours of the UK fla...
StoryCast '21: EP 14/21 Taking Down Saddam
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From Pauls Valley in Oklahoma, USA, Miles Hill always dreamed of joining the US Marine Corps.Growing up, family life was coloured by US military histo...
StoryCast '21: EP 13/21 9/11 Janice Brooks: Inside the South Tower
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Saturday September 11, 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks on the US, which resulted in almost 3000 deaths and injured 25,000 people. ...
StoryCast '21: EP 12/21 The Beirut Blast: Ghassan's story
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ghassan Hasrouty wasn’t supposed to be working at Beirut’s port on Tuesday, 4th August 2020. He’d swapped shifts to allow him to attend an upcom...
StoryCast '21: EP 11/21 The Last Gun: Disarming the IRA
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In September 2005, the responsibility of securing a lasting peace in Northern Ireland fell on the shoulders of two unlikely men - a Protestant ministe...
StoryCast '21: EP 10/21 On Stage with Amy Winehouse
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Three days before Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning, she made her final stage appearance alongside her Goddaughter and musical protégée Dionne...
StoryCast '21: EP 9/21 The UK Biker Wars
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On August 12, 2007, mechanic and Hell’s Angel, Gerry Tobin, was shot dead by a rival biker gang as he was riding his motorcycle on the M40 in Warwic...
StoryCast '21: EP 8/21 Terror in Brussels Airport
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Reporters typically arrive to the scene of a major news story after the event. But on March 22, 2016, Sky News National Correspondent, Alex Rossi, was...
StoryCast '21: EP7/21 A Football Fairy Tale
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In December 2012, Bradford City, a team that cost less than £10K to assemble, and then in danger of dropping out of the football league, wrote one of...
StoryCast ’21: EP 6/21 War Child
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shot and left for dead during a military attack on her village in 2017, 12-year-old Rohingya girl, Zoora, escapes through the jungles and waterways of...
StoryCast '21: EP 5/21 Trapped: The Chile Miners
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On 5th August 2010, a collapse in the San Jose copper and gold mine in the Atacama Desert, Chile, leaves 33 miners trapped. Among them, Edison Peña, ...
StoryCast '21: EP4/21 Migrant Rescue
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On January 15, 2016, Brussels based Sky News Correspondent Mark Stone received a desperate text message from Syrian refugee, Bassel Shekhany. Shekhany...
StoryCast '21: EP3/21 Marathon Man
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Vienna, on October 12, 2019, Kenyan distance runner and decorated Olympian, Eliud Kipchoge, set out to become the first person to run a marathon in...
StoryCast '21: EP2/21 The hunt for Raoul Moat
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
StoryCast '21: On 3rd July 2010, Sue Sim, Chief Constable of Northumbria Police, received a call in the middle of the night, to say there’d been a d...
StoryCast '21: EP1/21 Miracle Boy
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
StoryCast '21: On 26th December 2004, one of the deadliest disasters in modern history played out when a Tsunami led to almost 230,000 deaths in south...
Trailer: Storycast '21
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Using the timeframe of the last 21-years, Sky News’ multi-award-winning podcast returns to some of this century's biggest news stories, using the fo...
Polonium & the Piano Player: PART 4 - The Reckoning
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With relations between London and Moscow deteriorating, Derek Conlon escapes to a new life, but destiny and the nuclear poison appear to have decided ...
Polonium & the Piano Player: PART 3 - Victims and suspects
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As one of the biggest police investigations in British history gets underway, Derek Conlon is astonished to learn that he too has been poisoned. But h...
Polonium & the Piano Player: PART 2 - The Poisoning
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A former KGB agent takes us deep into the world of the Russian spies who have just poisoned Alexander Litvinenko and piano player Derek Conlon using a...
Polonium & the Piano Player: PART 1 - A Nuclear Connection
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko is lured by Russian agents to a meeting in a 5-star London hotel. What happens next will change his life, the relation...
Introducing...Polonium & the Piano Player
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Two Russians agents release a miniature nuclear weapon in a 5-star London hotel. But former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko is not the only victim? From ...
What happened to Annie? BONUS: The fight for key evidence
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Classified files, the fight for key evidence and family reaction. This bonus episode updates with developments in the case of Annie Börjesson since p...
What happened to Annie? Update: Where we're at
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A quick update as to where we're at as we explore what happened to 30 year-old Annie Borjesson - a Swedish woman whose body was found on Prestwick bea...
What happened to Annie? PART 6: The search for answers
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Was Annie Borjesson murdered or did she die by suicide? As Guje and Maria make one final journey, the investigation attempts to reach a conclusion. Na...
What happened to Annie? PART 5: The case for suicide?
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the case of Annie’s death, how might the police have arrived at their conclusion of suicide? Anyone feeling emotionally distressed or suicidal ca...
What happened to Annie? PART 4: The CIA and Prestwick
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kristina Börjesson, a campaigning US journalist with a similar name to Annie, finds herself at the centre of a story linking Annie’s death with sec...
What happened to Annie? PART 3: Testing the evidence
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As Annie Börjesson's family continue their search for answers, they are forced to consider the somewhat incredible theory, that Annie’s death may i...
What happened to Annie? PART 2: The case for murder?
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Having learned that a London funeral company notified Scottish Police about disturbing markings on Annie’s body, her mother Guje Börjesson and best...
What happened to Annie? PART 1: The body on the beach
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In December 2005, a dog walker discovers the body of a Swedish woman on Prestwick beach in Ayrshire on Scotland's west coast. Annie Börjesson’s fam...
Trailer: What happened to Annie?
29 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 2005, the body of 30-year-old Swedish woman, Annie Börjesson, was found on Prestwick beach on Scotland's west coast. The authorities told Annie’...
Beyond the hunt for the Brink's-Mat gold
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
BONUS EPISODE: Where is the missing gold? How Ian Brown got on the case and why Kent’s 'Bermuda Triangle’ changed Britain’s criminal landscape f...
The hunt for the Brink's-Mat gold: PART 2 - The Sting
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The trail to recover the £26m in stolen gold from the high security Brink’s-Mat depot in London in 1983 leads undercover detective Ian Brown and a ...
The hunt for the Brink's-Mat gold: PART 1 - The Heist
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1983, members of an armed gang break into the maximum security Brink’s-Mat depot near London’s Heathrow Airport and escape with £26m in gold. ...
Trailer: The hunt for the Brink's-Mat gold
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1983, an armed gang stole £26m in gold bars from a high-security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport. Dubbed the crime of the century by the pr...