
Top barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein look back at their examination of a seaside case of murder and mistaken identity from 1900 - a case involving false names, suspicious journeys and 100-year-old evidence.\n\nGreat Yarmouth, September 1900. A woman’s body was found amongst the sand dunes in this peaceful seaside town. She had been murdered. The first mystery facing police was not identifying the killer, but the woman herself - she had been staying in Great Yarmouth under an assumed name. A clue from her clothing allowed the police to name her as Mary Jane Bennett, and suspicion immediately fell upon her estranged husband, Herbert.\n\nOver 100 years later, Herbert’s great-grandson Paul had doubts about his ancestor’s guilt and teamed up with barristers Sasha and Jeremy to re-examine the case. Could a modern investigation shed new light on the evidence that was used to convict Herbert for murder?\n\nNow it’s nearly a year on from their investigation, and the barristers catch up with Paul to find out how he’s been pursuing the case. They discover that he has been back in Great Yarmouth on the trail of his great-grandfather’s mysterious brother-in-law. Could this be the breakthrough he’s been so desperately searching for to unlock this mysterious case?
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Series 4: 8. Dainton
Leading barristers Jeremy Dein QC and Sasha Wass QC examine the drowning of a wife and mother in Victorian Bath, re-evaluating the chain of evidence that led to the conviction o ...
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Series 4: 9. Brown
Top criminal barristers Sasha Wass QC and Jeremy Dein QC re-examine an infamous case of a housewife accused of murdering her young husband. She became the last woman to be publi ...
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Series 4: 7. Read
Top criminal barristers Jeremy Dein QC and Sasha Wass QC re-examine their oldest case yet - the murder of a military veteran by his estranged wife nearly 200 years ago.\n\nLeice ...
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Series 4: 10. Shaw
Leading criminal barristers Sasha Wass QC and Jeremy Dein QC investigate their first Scottish case, the murder of a reclusive pensioner nearly 70 years ago. Two men stood trial, ...
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Series 4: 6. Staunton
Top criminal barristers Jeremy Dein QC and Sasha Wass QC re-examine the complex case against a Victorian auctioneer accused, alongside his brother and two others, of murdering h ...
06-06-2025
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Series 4: 5. Dumbleton
Top criminal barristers Jeremy Dein QC and Sasha Wass QC re-examine the case against a young farm labourer convicted of the brutal murder of a travelling watch repairman in 1880 ...
05-06-2025
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Series 4: 4. Lowson
Leading criminal barristers Sasha Wass QC and Jeremy Dein QC re-examine a brutal murder of a policeman. Three men were tried for the crime, but only one was hanged. \n\nButterkn ...
04-06-2025
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Series 4: 3. Fg Browne
Top criminal barristers Sasha Wass QC and Jeremy Dein QC re-examine a notorious murder of a policeman that led to the execution of two known criminals. \n\nEssex, 1927. On a qui ...
03-06-2025
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Series 4: 2. Bainbridge
Top criminal barristers Sasha Wass QC and Jeremy Dein QC re-examine the case of an off-duty soldier who was convicted of murdering a family friend on New Year’s Eve. \n\n ...
02-06-2025
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Series 4: 1. Maybrick
Leading criminal barristers Sasha Wass QC and Jeremy Dein QC re-examine an infamous Victorian poisoning case in which a wife was convicted of the murder of her husband. \n\nLive ...
28-05-2025
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Series 4: 9. Brown
Top criminal barristers Sasha Wass QC and Jeremy Dein QC re-examine an infamous case of a housewife accused of murdering her young husband. She became the last woman to be publi ...
25-06-2025
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Series 2: Episode 2
Barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein reinvestigate the brutal killing of a young German woman at the hands of her Cypriot mother-in-law.\n\nHampstead, July 1954. In the middle ...
16-03-2022
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Series 2: Episode 6
Top criminal barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein investigate the tragic case of a failed suicide pact in which a young woman died at the hands of her lover, who was subsequent ...
05-05-2022
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Series 3: Episode 5
Leading criminal barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein investigate whether the murder of a care home resident was carried out by the nurse who was convicted of her poisoning.\n\ ...
11-09-2023
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Series 3: Episode 3
The barristers explore the case of a poultry farmer who buried the body of his fiancé under a chicken run but claimed to be innocent of her murder.\n\nCrowborough, East S ...
06-03-2024
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Series 1: Episode 2
Top criminal barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein reinvestigate the notorious case of Devlin and Burns, two thieves sentenced to death for murder.\n\nWhen Beatrice Rimmer was f ...
01-03-2022
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Series 3: Episode 8
Barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein investigate whether the murder of a gentleman farmer in the late Victorian era was really carried out by a 19-year-old rabbit poacher.\n\nS ...
07-03-2024
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Series 3: Episode 4
Top criminal barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein investigate a notorious arsenic poisoning which saw a distinguished lawyer hanged for the murder of his wife.\n\nHay-on-Wye, 1 ...
08-09-2023
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Series 1: Episode 7
Barristers Jeremy Dein and Sasha Wass re-investigate an alleged false confession that led to the hanging of William Burtoft for the brutal murder of Frances Levin in her home in ...
08-03-2022
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Series 5: 8. Allen
Leading criminal barristers Jeremy Dein QC and Sasha Wass QC investigate a complex case from Victorian Manchester. Following the shooting of a policeman during an attempt to res ...
11-10-2023
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