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Series 6: 4. Forever Home Heartbreak
A young couple are left in pieces when a cowboy builder charges them nearly £60,000 – then ruins their home. But the Defenders step in, determined to get justice on their behalf.\n\nThey also take a used car dealer to court after he’s caught selling clocked cars. In total, he’s wiped nearly 2.9 million miles from 32 cars.
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Series 5 (shortened Versions): Episode 8
Our defenders set up a secret surveillance operation and uncover a shocking case of human trafficking and modern slavery. Scores of young men and women are kept as prisoners and ...
31-01-2025
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Series 5 (shortened Versions): Episode 5
Hundreds of pensioners are left stranded after booking a five-day holiday in Torquay. They only discover they’ve been conned when the coaches that are supposed to pick the ...
30-01-2025
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Series 5 (shortened Versions): Episode 3
DVSA inspectors investigate the cause of a horrific crash in which an HGV careers out of control, smashes through a motorway central reservation and kills two people. The HGV is ...
29-01-2025
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Series 5 (shortened Versions): Episode 2
Our Defenders team up with Ed Sheeran’s manager to take on the ticket touts making millions of pounds at the expense of ordinary music fans. The National Trading Standards ...
28-01-2025
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Series 5 (shortened Versions): Episode 1
This factual series sees the return of our defenders – enforcement officers who protect us from the crooks and the cheats who exploit our trust, take our money and threate ...
27-01-2025
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Series 6: 10. Holiday Hell
The holiday scam raking in millions of pounds. But the net is closing on the shameless travel agent who is leaving families out of pocket and stranded in the sun. Also, danger o ...
24-05-2024
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Series 6: 9. River Of Sewage
Shocking river pollution – but is Britain’s biggest water company to blame? The Defenders investigate as thousands of dead fish are discovered in contaminated &lsquo ...
23-05-2024
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Series 6: 8. Deadly Toy Stories
Buyers beware! The lethal danger of button batteries in toys. In one case, a baby almost dies after swallowing a battery from a dangerous toy. The Defenders raid suspect shops t ...
22-05-2024
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Series 6: 7. Child Vaping Crisis
A teen schoolgirl goes undercover to expose shops selling illegal vapes to children, while a head teacher claims pupils can’t get through a lesson without vaping. In anoth ...
21-05-2024
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Series 6: 6. Death On The Railway
A young boy is electrocuted on a train track. But who is to blame? The Defenders investigate and make a shocking discovery. In another case, they take on a driveway conman with ...
20-05-2024
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Series 6: 3. Driving Test Cheats
The Defenders catch a man helping people cheat their driving test. He’s captured on CCTV at several driving test centres around the country, each time pretending to be a d ...
15-05-2024
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Series 1: Episode 1
Documentary series following the work of enforcement officers as they battle to protect the public from the crooks and conmen endangering our health, families and homes. The tea ...
26-11-2018
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Series 3: Episode 1
With knife crime on the increase, officers go undercover in Birmingham to find out which shops are illegally selling knives to children. They meet the family whose lives were ri ...
11-10-2021
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Series 6: 1. Falling Off The Back Of A Lorry
A couple are lucky to escape with their lives when a pallet of paving slabs and bricks falls off the back of a lorry and smashes into their car. There are thousands of incidents ...
13-05-2024
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Series 6: 4. Forever Home Heartbreak
A young couple are left in pieces when a cowboy builder charges them nearly £60,000 – then ruins their home. But the Defenders step in, determined to get justice on ...
16-05-2024
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Series 4: Episode 9
The Office of Rail and Road examines the causes behind a fatal road traffic collision in which two men died. Investigators discover that the man driving had been asked by his bo ...
07-10-2021
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Series 5: Episode 4
The Civil Aviation Authority catches a fraudster who lied to get a job as a captain with one of the UK’s largest airlines. After looking into his background, they discover ...
05-12-2023
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Series 3 (shortened Versions): Episode 2
In Oldham, enforcement agents crack down on rogue landlords housing families in squalid conditions. Officers jail a con man posing as a collector for a children’s cancer c ...
09-03-2021
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Series 4: Episode 6
Maidstone Borough Council are on the trail of three drivers caught on camera dumping bags of rubbish in a lay-by that has become a fly-tipping hotspot. They aim to find the offe ...
14-08-2023
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Series 3: Episode 9
Officers bust a tenant making over £100,000 unlawfully sub-letting his council flat in London. They take down a criminal gang running a multi-million-pound diesel fraud. T ...
30-10-2020
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