Journalist Mobeen Azhar returns to Huddersfield to write about the death of Yassar Yaqub, but a wall of silence and violence in the streets suggest there is a bigger story in town
Mobeen Azhar investigates rumours about Yassar Yaqub, and a trial linked to Yaqub begins. With street violence escalating, Mobeen explores drug-related crime in the area.
As the trial linked to Yassar Yaqub’s death closes, revelations emerge about who he really was, and Mobeen learns the truth about who runs the drugs trade in his hometown.
Mobeen joins the dots between street violence in Huddersfield and the international heroin trade linking West Yorkshire and Pakistan.
Journalist Mobeen Azhar tries to find answers. Is the heroin trade in West Yorkshire the best-kept secret, or is his community simply turning a blind eye to what’s happening?
As publication of Mobeen’s article gets closer, a life sentence for a local gangster sheds new light on the night Yassar died and makes action against the drug trade more urgent.
After publishing a story about drugs and violence in his hometown, journalist Mobeen Azhar returns to Huddersfield to face his critics. Meanwhile, with one drugs kingpin dead and another behind bars, a spate of murders suggests a turf war in West Yorkshire in which more and more extreme violence is being used to get to the top.
Another tragic killing leads Mobeen to examine the tactics police are using to deal with the new threat of extreme violence that is spilling out onto the streets. Mobeen’s investigation reveals new information about Yassar Yaqub’s rival, King Meggy, and uncovers a promising new front in the war on drugs.
Journalist Amber Haque returns to her hometown of Manchester and finds a community still reckoning with the death of Yousef Makki, a 17-year-old scholarship boy at a private school, who was killed in one of the city’s wealthiest suburbs in 2019. With Yousef’s killing and a subsequent murder trial still the talk of the town, Amber tries to understand the circumstances surrounding his death.
Amber digs deeper into what happened after Yousef’s death by revisiting the police investigation, as well as the rumours that were swirling around the community at the time. Meanwhile, with an alarming number of knife crime incidents happening around her, Amber expands the investigation in an attempt to understand what’s going on across her city.
After hearing about a stabbing on the other side of town, Amber arrives at the scene and discovers another 17-year-old has been stabbed to death. As Amber attends the trial of the four young men charged with killing Mohamoud Mohamed, unexpected revelations in the courtroom push her to explore a potential link between Manchester’s past and what’s happening on the streets today. In court, police point to long-standing rivalries playing out on social media and the streets, but it’s a music video posted on the day of sentencing that motivates Amber to try and understand what, if anything, can stop the cycle of violence.
As one of the teenagers at the centre of the trial into the killing of Yousef Makki returns to court for an unrelated matter, a confidential report gives Amber a shocking new insight into the weeks leading up to Yousef’s death. Suggestions of a potential missed opportunity for a police intervention lead Amber to question if there is bias in the justice system. Meanwhile on the other side of town, a community is challenging three joint enterprise convictions which many say are unjust.