24 Hours in Police Custody

Following the investigation into one of the biggest murder inquiries ever conducted by the Bedfordshire Police. . On Friday 13 September 2024, police receive a 999 call from a block of flats after gunshots are heard. Bedfordshire Police immediately scramble all available resources to the scene. It's clear that the shots have killed some of the occupants.

Detectives from the Major Crime Unit have a suspect in custody but they're shocked when what their investigation reveals is even more devastating and important than their worst fears. Forensic analysis of his life online demonstrates that he craved notoriety by becoming the most deadly mass school shooter in history, and that he had based his plans on what he had found online about other school shooters.

The UK's biggest and most successful true crime documentary series returns with a two-part special which follows the investigation into a dispute over the custody of a child which ends in the fatal shooting of a father and son. On the evening of 29 March 2023, police receive a 999 call to an address in the quiet Cambridgeshire village of Bluntisham after a shotgun has been heard. A man has been fatally shot. The perpetrator has fled the scene. The murder has all the characteristics of an execution. Within minutes, a new emergency call is received for another shooting in another village just a 10-minute drive away. A second victim is discovered fatally wounded. The new victim is the father of the first man found dead. Detectives from the Major Crime Unit establish that the motive for the double murder could lie in a dispute over who should have custody of the child of the first victim - and they identify two potential suspects. Cameras follow the twists and turns of a double manhunt as police discover that their first suspect is holed up in a nearby hotel with the mother of the child while their second suspect - the grandfather of the child - is heading to the west in a camper van and still armed. In time, with both suspects now in custody, the interviews begin. What caused the apparent escalation of a family dispute into a brutal double execution? This is real real-life documentary where the drama is more compelling and disturbing than the best crime fiction.

A 32-year-old man and his 57-year-old father have been murdered, each man shot dead with a shotgun at point blank range at their homes in villages 10 miles apart in a quiet part of Cambridgeshire. After a county-wide manhunt, police have three suspects in custody. At the centre of the tragic crime is a dispute over the custody of a child. Detectives believe that they have compelling evidence that the child's grandfather was directly responsible. But did he act alone? Can text messages and CCTV prove a wider conspiracy to murder? Cameras follow as the double murder investigation reaches its final dramatic conclusion.

A deep dive into Bedfordshire Police's covert investigation into the individuals using the encrypted phone network EncroChat to organise criminal operations. Plus, how the investigation helped inquiries into a shotgun attack in Luton after police discovered the culprit had been sharing their plans with others through the phone network.

An investigation into the epidemic of knife crime violence that left 97 young people murdered in 2025, 17 of whom were under the age of 16. Part of the problem is the zombie-style knives and swords, which were finally banned from being sold in 2024. The documentary reveals how two brothers, Adam and Eddy Eliaz, made it their business to run companies importing and selling blades, and tells the stories of Ashraf Habimana, Omar Khan and Ronan Kanda - all murdered by children with zombie-style knives that they'd bought online.

The inside story of the investigation into one of the country's worst serial paedophiles, who is currently serving a life sentence for his crimes. After Carson Grimes was convicted of abusing nine children in 2021, Bedfordshire Police received a flood of new reports of his crimes - and officers soon realised the scale and extent of criminality was far greater than they had feared.

The inside story of the cold case investigation into the murder of an 86-year-old who was stabbed multiple times in 2013, before her body was set on fire. More than a decade later, detectives from the Major Crime Unit decide to reopen the investigation hoping that advances in DNA science will mean they can finally identify the killer.

The second of a two-part special looking into the murder of 86-year-old Una Crown, who was stabbed multiple times in 2013. Forensics get a partial DNA match to a man who had previously been arrested but released due to lack of evidence. Police decide to bring him in once more in the hope that after 13 years of denial, he will finally confess to the killing.

The case of a 17-year-old boy who was left critically injured on the roadside after suffering catastrophic head injuries. At first it looks like a hit-and-run, but it quickly becomes obvious there's something out of the ordinary. As police try to identify the victim, it is discovered that 17-year-old twins are listed on the national missing persons database.

A 17-year-old boy is in a coma fighting for his life after a serious assault. Officers believe he was attacked as part of a territorial dispute between different drug gangs. The investigation raises disturbing questions about the consequences of drug dealing as the police work around the clock to try to bring justice to the young man fighting for his life