
Barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein investigate a gang-related murder in Clapham Common in 1953 that left one teenager dead and another man sentenced to hang. What appears to be a fistfight masks a more violent clash - someone has a knife. Three men are stabbed, and 17-year-old John Beckley later dies from his injuries. A bust-up over an insult has ended in murder.\n\nSeveral young men were initially arrested and charged, but only one - Michael Davies - was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. However, Michael was never executed - his sentence was reduced to life imprisonment. Now, more than six decades later, Michael's niece, Sharon, and family friend Ann are looking for closure. Michael protested his innocence on his release from prison, but he was never exonerated - can his relative finally clear his name?\n\nSasha and Jeremy investigate possible murder weapons and re-examine key evidence given by eyewitnesses. Can they uncover enough new evidence to bring this case before a Crown Court judge and convince him that the original conviction was unsafe?
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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 ...
26-06-2025
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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 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 ...
24-06-2025
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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, ...
23-06-2025
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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: 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 2: Episode 10
Barristers Jeremy Dein and Sasha Wass investigate the poisoning of a man by his wife in 1930s Lincolnshire, exposed by an anonymous note.\n\nWhen 44-year-old First World War vet ...
12-05-2022
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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 ...
26-06-2025
BBC 1
Series 5: 4. Yarham
Top criminal barristers Jeremy Dein QC and Sasha Wass QC reinvestigate a complex case from Victorian Britain that featured four prime suspects, two trials and ultimately just on ...
04-10-2023
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Case Closed? Series 2: 4. Thorne
The barristers return to their investigation of a curious case, a poultry farmer who buried the body of his fiancee under a chicken run but claimed to be innocent of her murder. ...
16-02-2023
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Case Closed?: Episode 3
Top barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein look back at their investigation of the murders of two policemen in the 1950s and the mysterious case, conviction and execution of Alfr ...
14-06-2023
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Series 5: 3. Lee
Leading criminal barristers Sasha Wass QC and Jeremy Dein QC explore a notorious case of a house servant accused of murdering his upper-class employer. \n\nDevon, 1884. In the ...
03-10-2023
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Series 3: Episode 9
Leading criminal barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein investigate the fatal poisoning of a 49-year-old wealthy lodger at a family mansion.\n\nLondon, 1911. Insurance salesman F ...
08-03-2024
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Series 1: Episode 9
Barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein investigate a gang-related murder in Clapham Common in 1953 that left one teenager dead and another man sentenced to hang. What appears to ...
10-03-2022
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Case Closed? Series 4: 2. Waddingham
Leading criminal barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein revisit the troubling case of a care home nurse convicted of poisoning a patient, a crime for which she would hang. \n\nNo ...
21-02-2023
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