Among the crimes reconstructed is the rape and murder of 16-year-old Colette Aram in Nottinghamshire eight months ago. A mysterious letter describing the crime was sent to police and help is needed to identify its writer.
ue Cook and Nick Ross will be waiting for your call in the Crimewatch studio. Police officers David Hatcher and Helen Phelps report on the latest crime news from the Incident Desk. Backing them up, investigating officers man banks of telephone lines, and local police forces around the country will be standing by to act on information received.
This month: the tragic fate of a 9-year-old Humberside boy; and a murder in the shady world of the drug dealer. Can you help the police in their hunt for the killers? There's another Aladdin's cave of stolen property - one of the treasures might be yours.
This month, the minicab murders near Heathrow Airport; within six months two cab-drivers were stabbed to death apparently for the sake of a few pounds. And the arsonist in the north east who's struck at two historic churches. There's a progress report on the new leads resulting from viewers' calls about last month's cases.
This month, the discovery of the body of a young mother that has turned a missing person inquiry into a major murder investigation; a half-million pound robbery with the help of a child's mask; and a shotgun execution on Guy Fawkes night under the cover of fireworks celebrations.
Just seven weeks ago Sgt John Speed was gunned down in a busy Leeds street during the rush hour - the police need your help. Forensic experts also need your help in identifying a mystery woman; and there's a visit to a 'red light' district in Birmingham where a sex killer is on the loose.
Four months ago a body was recovered from the bottom of Bristol Docks. It was the body of Mark Yendell, a British Rail steward. You could help track down his killer. In Hertfordshire a rapist struck three times recently - you might prevent a fourth. And in Essex, a family home is the scene of 90 minutes of night-time terror - three men are wanted.
The evidence in the murder of Hilda Murrell one year ago points, say police, to a burglary that went disastrously wrong. You could help solve the mystery and the controversy. And the mystery of a young French holidaymaker named Veronique Mireille Marre in Cumbria who vanished as she walked past Wast Water Lake-is she alive or dead?
In February two children died in a fire in Hastings - police know the fire was started deliberately. They need your help to find the murderer. Two women simply vanished from a village in North Wales. Somebody must have seen them since. And in a violent attack, two rings - one worth over £300,000 - were stolen from former pop star Karen Young.
Antique dealers Wallace and Mary Foster both tried to have a go at the armed robbers who attacked them in their home in Weybridge. Mr Foster was shot three times - you could help find the men responsible. And 7-year-old Mark Tildesley was last seen at a fairground in Berkshire in June, 1984. A year later, with the fair back in Wokingham, Mark's mother takes part in a reconstruction and appeals for your help to find her son.
In April a young couple discovered the body of a woman in a country lane nine miles from Bristol. Thirty-five-year-old Jackie Waines had been stabbed to death - "Crimewatch UK" pieces together her last known movements in the St Pauls district of Bristol where she worked as a prostitute. You could help find the killer. The "Crimewatch" Photocall - the faces you might recognise, including a violent Merseyside man on the run. And how you could help find the historic treasures stolen from Britain's churches.
Nine-year-old Imraan Vohra was murdered in a busy park in Preston, seven weeks ago - new witnesses are urgently needed. Three police forces are hunting for the man who's robbed ten building societies by holding the managers at gun-point. And the murder of Roy Page, an elderly Bristol shopkeeper. A 15-stone man was in the neighbourhood testing for gas leaks at the time - police need your help to trace him.
Workers who tackled gunmen during a wages snatch in Milton Keynes were attacked and shot at. The gang got away in a distinctive Rover stolen six weeks before - you might recognise the car. In Liverpool there's been a series of robberies on local businessmen. Raiders ambushed their latest victim at home and left him badly injured.
A gang in London are robbing security vans using a lethal new weapon - remote-controlled explosives. In Derbyshire, a village was rocked by an armed bank raid. Police now have a clear picture of the gunmen you may recognise them and the car they used.
woman led an armed gang into an exclusive London flat in September and robbed its occupants of £134,000 in jewels and furs. Two weeks later a watch, stolen in that raid, was offered to a bookie at Brighton races. Police believe that racecourse transaction could be the key to an armed and violent robbery.
In December an Essex farmer discovered a child's body buried in a field. It was 6-year-old Barry Lewis, who had gone missing from his home in London nearly three months earlier. Police need your help to catch his killer. In Cheshire, detectives believe a distinctive sports car stolen in October could lead them to an armed gang operating from Merseyside. Last month the gang raided a jeweller's shop and left the car and other vital clues behind.
Shortly after Christmas 19-year-old Alison Day left her Essex home to visit her fiance. She never arrived. Six weeks ago frogmen recovered her body from a canal. Now Police need your help to catch her killer. In Manchester an armed gang robbed a wages delivery van of £100,000. Detectives believe it may have been their second attack in a week - and the second time they've taken hostages at gunpoint.
Six weeks ago London supermarket manager Steve Whitnell was shot dead in front of his girlfriend. Ten days before he'd confronted an armed gang at the store. Detectives believe the attacks may be linked and need your help to catch his killer. In Hertfordshire just before Christmas two customers inspected an expensive bracelet in a high street jewellers. The next day they returned with revolvers and robbed the staff of gems worth £500,000.
On the Sunday before Christmas, Dyfed Police were called to a fire at Scoveston Park. As the house blazed, Richard and Helen Thomas, brother and sister, lay dead inside, killed, not by the fire, but by a shot-gun. Police need help to solve a tragic mystery. The parents of Susan Maxwell and Caroline Hogg have waited four and three years respectively to discover who murdered their daughters. Scottish police believe it's not too late for Crimewatch viewers to help.
Jason was 14 when he ran away from home in June last year - he was found dead in November. Detectives know he was on the south coast in July and possibly back near his north London home in early November. To find his killer, police need your help to build a full picture of Jason's last weeks.
Georgina Davies, a 72-year-old nurse from Salford, was found dead in her home seven weeks ago. The identity of her last patient remains a mystery - the murder squad needs your help with that and other leads. When security guards were robbed of cash outside a Birmingham bank their lives were threatened and one was shot in the leg. As the attackers sped away they left crucial clues to their identities. And the search for Anne Lock - a full reconstruction and a new appeal.
Diane Sindall was 21 when she died. She worked some evenings in the Wellington pub in Bebington. On 1 August she ran out of petrol on her way home and was attacked and murdered. Just seven weeks on, viewers from Merseyside and beyond might help track down her killer. In February the Wilberforce Museum in Hull was burgled and £30,000 worth of silver was taken. Since then small museums from Huddersfield to Shrewsbury have been hit by the same gang - the method of operation has been fast and efficient. But with more and more historic silverware on the market the chances are high that somebody somewhere can help crack the case. And the savage murder of Che Keng Fung in London - it appears that burglars killed for the sake of £100 cash and some jewellery.
Viewers and others have now provided a detailed picture of the 24-hour kidnapping of a little boy from Lincoln. Crimewatch shows a reconstruction of the 54-mile train journey 8-year-old Jamie and his kidnapper made to Peterborough. You may know who the man is and police need information about where the boy was kept. And the Elm Bond Street jewellery robbery.
The hunt for the armed robber who's struck six times in the north east of England. Over two years he's left a trail of clues - he's known to steal old cars and tune them up as get-away vehicles. As he gets increasingly dangerous police need information from viewers to end his spree. And the 24-hour kidnapping of 8-year-old Jamie Thomas from Lincoln. Detectives need to know who took him by train over 50 miles to Peterborough - Jamie was unhurt, but other children may be at risk.
Since 1984 more than 120 elderly women have been conned out of their pension books. From Colchester to Bristol to Coventry, two women have been posing as DHSS officials on doorsteps and at hospital bedsides. They have cashed over E20,000 from the stolen pensions and left their victims frightened and disturbed. Viewers from across the country might help find the pension pinchers and there's advice for all old people on how to be safe from confidence tricksters, bogus callers and doorstep thieves. From a single haul in Tayside a spectacular Aladdin's Cave - up to a million pounds worth of property - if you've been burgled look out for your treasured heirloom. And in the last edition of the year, a look back at the major cases which are still open but viewers might still solve.
There are half a million break-ins in Britain each year and detectives need your help to track down some particularly active burglars. There's advice on how to make your home safer, and news of arrests and developments following last month's reconstructions. Nick, Sue and detectives from around the country are waiting for your call, to the Crimewatch studio.
Two months ago, a London car park attendant was shot dead. The officer who is investigating the murder believes it may have resulted from an armed robbery which went wrong. He is sure someone is shielding the killers. Since early February, four lorry loads of cigarettes have been hijacked in north London. On one occasion the gang was armed and so far half-a-million pounds worth of cigarettes have been stolen. As the cigarettes are sold viewers from anywhere might help solve the case.
Tonight police need your help again to find thieves who took dangerous firearms from a gun shop in the Midlands. In Hertfordshire, treasured watercolours were taken from a housewife by armed robbers posing as telephone engineers. And in south London, a private detective was brutally murdered after a drink in a pub. He worked all over the country; someone must know his killer.
There's news of five arrests following last month's programme and a detailed reconstruction of the strange, tragic case of Shani Warren. Thousands of Easter rail and road travellers might help piece together the events at Taplow Lake where Shani was murdered. And the hunt for the killer of 66-year-old Helen Fleet. Seven weeks after the fatal attack, near the seaside resort of Weston-super-Mare, detectives need your help.
This month viewers will be asked to help trace the man who posed as a housebuyer and assaulted a Sheffield woman in her own home. He may be responsible for attacks in other towns. And the last hours of Barry Oldham from Aberdeen. In May he went to Newcastle and visited a nightclub there. Next morning his body was found 60 miles away in North Yorkshire. With your help crucial clues about his death could help police solve the crime.
On tonight's programme, the murder of a north London jeweller. Christopher Comely was two days from selling up and moving away when he was shot dead. Several people saw the crime in which his guard dog was also fatally wounded. And in Newcastle-upon-Tyne the murder last month of 18-year-old Rachel Mewes. She may well have known her killer and police believe someone could be sheltering him.
On tonight's programme a series of rapes in the Notting Hill area of London that began in 1982. Despite publicity, the attacker was never traced. Now, after a four-year gap, the same man has committed two more rapes in the same area. Tiny but vital clues may prompt viewers to shed new light on his identity. In Newcastle upon Tyne, a wages hold-up at the Central Railway Station. The gang who used BR uniforms left a trail of clues dating back several weeks before the robbery. Wendy Knell was murdered in her home in Tunbridge Wells four months ago. Police are still looking for the mystery person for whom she bought antique model trains.
On 26 August, Rachel Partridge from Chinnor, Oxfordshire, was raped and murdered. Rachel's clothes, including her distinctive suede jacket, have never been found. Viewers may also help trace a mystery youth in 'gothic' dress seen near the barn when Rachel was found. Expensive cars stolen from West London by a man posing as a mechanic have reappeared in Spain and Morocco. But how did they get there and what were they used for? And from Hertfordshire, the bogus office cleaner and his partner who defrauded a bank of nearly a quarter of a million pounds.
News of arrests following last month's programme, and three major film reconstructions of serious crimes.
Three people died in a fire at a house in Northampton. Police now know it was arson and are hoping a viewer may recognise the distinctive car seen near the scene of the crime. In Salisbury a gang used specialist drilling equipment in a quarter of a million pound robbery of a post office. Several witnesses may not have realised they saw a crime in progress and could supply crucial clues. And the tragic murder of 84-year-old Ivy Batten at her home near Honiton in Devon. A pair of gloves and other clues left behind could prompt viewers to lead police to her killer.
It is nearly four months since 60-year-old Kathy Walsh was murdered in her south London flat. Detectives are hoping the reconstruction of her last known movements could prompt viewers to shed new light on the crime. Who was the young, fair-haired man who arranged to meet Kathy the day before she died? What happened to her DHSS allowance book and where is the brown car that was seen outside her flat the night of the murder? In Oxford, last December, an armed hold-up of a security van went badly wrong. Hundreds of shoppers looked on as the gang shot at a police car before fleeing empty-handed. They left behind crucial clues. Fiona Gallant , a teenager from Colchester, was murdered on 18 December last year. She was last seen talking to the driver of a distinctive lorry. Fifteen witnesses have helped compile a picture of the vehicle which viewers may identify.
Last month in the Cleveland town of Hartlepool, a cash security van was attacked as it stopped at a housing estate sub-post office. Five masked men, armed with pickaxes, a shotgun and ammonia spray, got away with many thousand pounds in cash and stamps. Witnesses who tried to call the police found their phones were dead. The gang had cut lines to the whole estate. Five cars were used in the robbery, all of them stolen in the North. One, a rare type of BMW, was taken in September. Where was it kept for those four months? A viewer who remembers seeing the car could lead police to the men they must catch.
In tonight's programme, viewers are asked to help police solve crimes across the United Kingdom. Detectives are in the Crimewatch studio to answer calls.
In tonight's programme viewers are asked to help police solve crimes across the United Kingdom.
In Hertfordshire five weeks ago, Joan Macan was murdered on her 81st birthday. Decorated for her work behind enemy lines in the Second World War, Mrs Macan later became well-known as a dog breeder and judged at Crufts this year. Dog lovers from all parts of the country visited her cottage in Berkhamsted and could help police with their hunt for the killer. And from Redditch the face of a conman operating throughout the North has been recorded on security cameras. Do you recognise him?
On tonight's programme, the murder of 20-year-old Suzanne Greenhill whose body was found in her flat in Newport, South Wales. Suzanne was deaf, and tonight police will be making a special appeal to other deaf people and revealing new evidence about her murder. In Liverpool in July armed robbers terrorised a supermarket manager while they raided his store. Police have uncovered important clues which they hope may jog someone's memory.
Tonight Crimewatch reconstructs events leading up to the murder of Abdur Rashid , a Muslim teacher, in the East End of London. Helen Phelps reports on a crime which has recently spread across the north ot England - conning by bogus officials. Over 50 crimes can be traced back to one man. Do you know him?
Crimewatch reconstructs events in Preston where a bank manager and his family were held hostage overnight in their home. The next day, the manager was forced to help the gang rob the bank. And in London police need your help to solve the murder of Michael Williams. Michael worked on the police national computer - the very system now being used in the search for his murderer.
Tonight police appeal for information about the murder of David Short . Police also reveal new evidence on the case of Linda Donaldson , a prostitute who was murdered seven weeks ago. Helen Phelps reports.
Among the cases tonight, Police in Merseyside appeal for information about a series of armed raids on People in their homes. The robbers are becoming increasingly violent. Can you help to find them before they strike again?
Tonight police appeal for information on the murder of Lorraine Benson , a young photographer from south London who was killed on her way home from a Christmas party. People remember seeing her as she left Raynes Park station but where did she go from there? And an armed raid in Northampton city centre which began in rural Norfolk. A distinctive motorbike used in the high speed get-away might be the key to the robbery. Did you see it?
Tonight, can you help to find the murderer of Lionel Webb, an estate agent who was shot dead in his London office? In Middlesbrough, neighbours took on raiders as they robbed a jewellery shop. A taxi driver then gave chase to the car in which the robbers sped away. He didn't catch them but they left behind several clues to their identity. And in Tunbridge Wells police are on the trail of a man who tied up a courting couple at gunpoint and raped the woman. You could help to catch him.
Police appeal for your help to solve the murder of Michael Fahy , who was homeless and had been sleeping rough in the Montpelier area of Bristol. Who were the men seen hurrying away from the waste ground where he died? Detectives will be waiting for your call.
The 50th edition of the programme. Calls on the night of last month's programme led to an arrest and produced many new leads. Among the cases police need your help with tonight is the murder of Jean Kempton. Why was Jean's body found in Wangford, Suffolk, 118 miles from where she lived in the Brixton area of London and how did she get there? Police hope tonight's reconstruction of the events leading up to Jean's disappearance will jog someone's memory. Detectives will be waiting for your call to the studio.
Helen Phelps reports on a series of attacks on women in the Littlehampton area of Sussex. Police believe they can be traced back to one man. And can you help to find a team of Merseyside robbers? When they raided a security van they got away with more than they bargained for and were left with very red faces.
Helen Phelps reports on a series of attacks on women in the Littlehampton area of Sussex. Police believe they can be traced back to one man. And can you help to find a team of Merseyside robbers? When they raided a security van they got way with more than they bargained for and were left with very red faces.
Peter and Gwenda Dixon were shot dead as they walked along a cliff-top path in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Despite weeks of investigation their killer or killers have not been caught. Tonight Dyfed-Powys police reveal new information and appeal for your help to identify the man seen using Mr Dixon 's cashpoint card. On London's South Bank 25-year-old David Patterson was shot and seriously injured when he tried to foil a robbery of a security van. Did you see the gunman's getaway?
Among the cases tonight is a violent robbery at the home of a Derbyshire businessman. John Dunn and Marie Nash were threatened and robbed by three armed men who made their getaway in a stolen Vauxhall Cavalier. The raiders trail may lead to Liverpool where false number plates were made up.
Tonight, police are appealing for information about the murder of 18-year-old Michelle Wareing, last seen alive as she left a disco in Wigan on 9 September. Did she take a taxi or start to walk home alone? And in Newcastle upon Tyne a busy travel agency was raided by three armed men. Did you see them as they made their getaway on motorbikes through the city?
Laurence Winstanley , a 24-year-old car dealer from Oldham, was last seen alive on 2 October 1988. In spite of an intensive police search he remained on the missing persons files for nearly a year. Then on 26 September 1989, the low water level in Baitings Dam, Ripponden, West Yorkshire revealed his body. He had been murdered shortly after he disappeared. Tonight police appeal for your help to find his killer.
Ricky Haywood , a 36-year-old antique dealer from Southampton, was murdered in his flat on 16 October last year. He had been shot. Was his death connected in any way with his many business deals? Tonight police appeal for your help to find his killer. Detectives are waiting for your call to the Crimewatch studio.
The programme in which viewers across the country help police to solve serious crime. Keith Burgess was a steward on British Rail who had friends all over the country. But on 17 December last year he was brutally murdered in his Bristol flat Tonight police appeal for your help to find his killer.
The programme in which viewers across the country can help police solve serious crime. Could you have seen schoolboy Michael Bolton since he disappeared from the village of Eyam in Derbyshire in May 1989? Or perhaps you hold the clue to the mysterious murder of Southall insurance salesman Surinder Gill ?
Dr David Birkett was an eminent consultant practising in Middlesbrough. He didn't seem to have any enemies, but on 3 February he was brutally murdered. Tonight, police appeal for your help to find his killer.
Perhaps you unwittingly hold the vital clue to the murder of an 11-year-old Brixton schoolboy; can throw some light on a vicious attack on a civil engineer in Norfolk; or saw something of an attempted robbery at a Midland bank in Merseyside.
On 15 July the small town of Lytham, near Blackpool, enjoyed the sunny afternoon at its annual fete. But only half a mile away two small boys suffered a serious sexual assault.
Josephine Chandler was viciously attacked on a coast-to-coast hike in North Yorkshire. In Kent an off-duty policeman was shot in a high-street raid. Ann Heron lost her life within yards of a busy road in County Durham.
The programme where viewers across the country can help police solve serious crime. Please phone [number removed]. Lines are open throughout the programme and up until midnight. Presented by Nick Ross and Sue Cook with Supt David Hatcher and DC Jacqui Hames.
On Merseyside an armed gang threatened a policeman, who feared for his life. Perhaps you saw them escaping down Penny Lane?
A murder case is never completely closed until an arrest is made. Tonight police reveal their current investigation into a crime which happened 20 years ago. Two girls, Barbara Mayo and Jackie Ansell-Lamb, were murdered near the M1 and M6 after hitch-hiking north. With viewers' help, officers believe they can now solve the case and close their files at last.
At 39 Derrick Johnson was a happy family man. He always phoned his son if he had to work late in Canning Town, east London. But on Tuesday 6 November there was no phone call. Derrick Johnson had been murdered. Police appeal for help on this and other serious crimes.
Detectives want to trace all taxi driver Steve Johnson 's passengers in Stoke-on-Trent on the evening of Friday 21 December. One of them decided to kill him. Perhaps you were shopping in Cheltenham on Wednesday 30 January? If so, you may have seen a gunman and his accomplice. And Maria Requina from Manchester was murdered only weeks after talking on TV about the dangers of street life.
Inventor John Green was murdered at his home in Poole. Dorest detectives need your help to find two men seen scuffling with him in the street. And who did he arrange to meet at a roadside cafe just days before his murder? If you can help, phone lines will be open on [number removed]from 9.00pm until midnight. If you witnessed an armed robbery would you be able to identify the robbers? At the start of Crime Prevention Week Crimewatch UK stages an armed robbery and tests three viewers on their observational powers. Could you do better?
Alan Leppard had spent Easter Monday happily at home with his girlfriend in the quiet village of Monkton, Kent. That night he was shot dead on his own doorstep. Could you have seen his killers in a large American car?
The Dorset force are still searching for Jo Ramsden , who has Down's Syndrome and disappeared from the centre of Bridport on 9 April. The Metropolitan police want to find the gunman who shot antiques dealer, Peter Rasini. Ring [number removed]if you can help.
Twenty-four hours after vanishing from her home in Leeds, teenager Julie Dart wrote a letter to say she had been kidnapped. Ten days later her body was found 90 miles away in Lincolnshire. But from clues left behind by her killer police have now compiled a psychological profile of the man they hope viewers will recognise. Businesswoman Penny Bell was murdered in broad daylight in the car park of a west London swimming pool. Did anyone see the smartly dressed man leaving her Jaguar car?
A policeman was fired at by a bank robber making his getaway in Suffolk. And in Essex, a supermarket manager and his family were held hostage.
At 12.20am on 29 June, Paul Griffiths found the battered body of his father. Seconds earlier Paul had seen a man heading towards Cricklewood Broadway: viewers may be able to identify him. Someone may know the whereabouts of Andrew Elphick, missing since August and feared dead. And long-distance lorry drivers may hold the key to the murder of 42-year-old Vera Anderson.
This year, on 1 October, Marion Rilka was brutally stabbed in the hallway of her home in Hove, East Sussex. Detectives have very little evidence and can find no motive for her murder, but a woman living nearby remembers a strange, menacing man she turned away from her door less than an hour before Marion was killed. Detective Chief Inspector Tim O'Connor from Sussex police, is in the studio with the latest news of the investigation.
At the end of November, 18-year-old John Threlfall was murdered at his home in Lancashire. Police want to trace the strangers asking directions to the house on the day he died. Hertfordshire police want to find the man who raped a young woman, then forced her to drive him to Epping Forest, where she crashed her car to escape. Plus the hunt for raiders who fired indiscriminately in the centre of London after robbing a security van.
The case of Alexander Drummond from near St Andrews in Scotland still puzzles police seven months after his death. Who were the two men seen running towards the farm track where his body was later found? And in Bristol a gang of builders could be responsible for a series of armed robberies between August and December of last year. Twice they broke in overnight through the roof and overpowered building society staff as they arrived for work.
Last month Stefan Kiszko was released from prison after serving a sentence for a murder he did not commit. Lesley Molseed was 11 years old when she went missing on Sunday 5 October 1975. Three days later she was found stabbed to death. West Yorkshire police are now determined to find Lesley's true killer. And witnesses are sought for a case in Guildford where on Saturday 7 December last year a ruthless gang of robbers abducted a jewellery-shop manager as he walked to his car after work.
Three months ago, 14-year-old Tracy Meade went missing from her home in west London. Two weeks later her body was found in the Grand Union Canal. She had been murdered. Hours earlier she had been seen in Shepherd's Bush - police hope someone may have seen who she was with. There's also a report on a chase through London's Covent Garden, which led to the fatal stabbing of Detective Constable Jim Morrison last December, after he discovered a thief rifling through a woman's handbag.
Dinah McNicol , 18 years old, was last seen at a rock festival in Hampshire on Sunday 4 August. Police fear she has been abducted and may be dead. And police are puzzled by the mysterious death of financial director John Shippey , whose body was found five months ago in his car near Redhill, Surrey. Perhaps somebody saw something on the night of Wednesday 18 December.
Jackie Palmer-Radford , a 40-year-old divorcee, was murdered two months ago. Several people were spotted near her house on the day she died, but who were they, and was the killer among them? Lancashire police need help to identify three men who robbed a jeweller's shop in Nelson. The manager was attacked as he tried to fend off the raiders. A Southern Electricity van was hi-jacked, the driver abducted and driven around in the boot of a car for three hours.
In Cheshire a bank manager's wife was held to ransom in the boot of a car for several hours. Her husband delivered the money after instructions were placed on his car windscreen. Did you see someone put them there? Did you see the man who followed him in a blue Ford Orion? And three months ago Katie Rackcliff was stabbed to death in the early morning. Did anyone see the loner watching her in the nightclub, hours before she died?
On Saturday 1 August, guests at a wedding reception found the body of 15-year-old schoolgirl Helen Gorrie. She had been strangled. The previous evening a witness thought she saw Helen talking to two men. Will you recognise the videofit of one of them? Did you see anything unusual that night along the old A3 in Horndean? In Milton Keynes , a number of attacks, including two rapes, have taken place this year. Nearly all the incidents took place around the Fishermead Estate and police believe one man is responsible. Have you have seen anything suspicious?
Two months ago a botanist discovered the body of a prostitute, stabbed to death, in dense undergrowth in north Yorkshire. A witness remembers seeing someone like her talking to a man shortly before her death. Who is he? In Lambourn a security guard was shot as he made a delivery. A reconstruction of the event - with impressions of the gang's faces - and the guard's own story may jog memories.
Among the appeals featured tonight is a crime that took place in Frinton-on-Sea on Thursday 27 August. A Post Office van was making a routine delivery when the guards were attacked by armed robbers. Police believe four men were involved and are anxious to trace a white Sierra Sapphire and a black J-reg Alfa Romeo. Both cars followed the van until it was abandoned in a nightclub car park about seven miles away. Crimewatch UK will be showing two artists' impressions of the hijackers and reconstructing events in the hope that a viewer might remember where the cars went next.
Among tonight's appeals is the mysterious disappearance of a man from Newcastle upon Tyne. Michael Straughan was last seen outside a pub on the evening of 19 June. The following morning his car was found, but there has been no trace of him since. Also, an appeal for help in identifying three armed men who robbed a bank in Bolton on 23 October.
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Tonight: a reconstruction of an attack on a woman in Ludlow, Shropshire. Following midnight mass on Christmas Eve, churchwarden Muriel [text removed] was raped in the grounds of Dinham House, close to Ludlow Castle, as she walked home. Plus an appeal to find a gang of robbers who fired at security guards in Doncaster.
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Tonight: the murder of Arthur Brumhill , a 76-year-old pet shop worker, in Northampton. Also, an armed robbery on a sub-post office near Reading.
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Tonight: an attack by an armed gang on a couple in Cowdenbeath, Fife, one night last December. Among the clues that the police hope will jog someone's memory are the northern English accents of the robbers and the white transit van and red Ford Escort they used. Crimewatch UK also reconstructs the murder of Doris Shelley two months ago. She lived alone in a 17th-century mill house in Suffolk and a man had been seen on two occasions hiding in her garden.
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Tonight: the raid by two armed men on the Poole Unigate dairy in Dorset, on Grand National day, Saturday 3 April. They made their getaway with the dairy's takings in a stolen Sierra Cosworth, injuring two police officers who tried to intercept them. Crimewatch UK appeals for anyone who can put a name tothevideofitfaceofoneofthe thieves, and asks for help in finding out where the stolen black Sierra Cosworth was stored in the weeks prior to the raid and who supplied its false number plates.
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Tonight: the murder of 42-year-old Londoner Bulic Forsythe who was last seen leaving his office at Lambeth Council on the evening of Wednesday 24 February. The next day he failed to turn up for work. Then in the early hours of Friday, witnesses heard shouts and footsteps running away from the block where he lived. Soon after, fire was discovered spreading through his flat and his battered body was found in the bedroom. Crimewatch UK has artists' impressions of two men seen with him.
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Tonight a 67-year-old woman and her 64-year-old husband who were found dead at their farmhouse home near Llanharry,Mid-Glamorgan in July. Both had been killed by a single shot to the head. Crimewatch reconstructs the couple's last day and asks what could be the possible motive for the murder of this quiet couple. Also this month, a young woman gives her account of the rape which nearly led to her death. She was attacked by a man as she walked home from a riding stables on a July afternoon in Darlington,County Durham. Police are linking the attack with another incident in which a woman reported being spied on as she changed after a game of squash. And there's a security video from a raid on a Halifax jewellers, where the armed robbers got away on a 1,000cc motorbike.
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On 30 July, the body of a man in his late 30s was found on a waste tip in Surrey. He had been stabbed three times. His clothes, wallet and rings had been removed but his tattoos helped police identify him. He was 37-year-old George Leitch from south London, who had been reported missing by his family four weeks earlier. Tonight's programme reconstructs the events surrounding his disappearance and murder in the hope that new information will emerge. Police also need to catch a rapist who attacked and robbed a woman in London on 16 August; and they are also seeking the gang leader in an armed robbery at a Hull factory in late July.
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Just before 6am on 27 September an anonymous call was made to the emergency services. It led police to the Park Tavern in Brentford, west London. There they found the body of publican Trevor Thomas, asphyxiated. Burglars had bound and gagged him and then robbed the pub of the week's takings. But someone saw that 999 call being made. It was recorded and Crimewatch UK will be playing the tape, asking whether anybody can recognise the voice and the description of the caller. Tonight there's also a detailed look at the Metropolitan Police's investigation into the rape of a woman in April this year. Detectives are convinced it is linked to an unsolved case from 1991, and reveal for the first time tonight a psychological profile of the attacker.
Why would anyone want to kill family man John Reynolds? He lived in Rushden, Northamptonshire, and was gunned down early in the morning on Monday 18 October as he walked his dog in a quiet country lane. His death is still a mystery, but perhaps you hold the vital clue to his killing. Police urgently need to trace the motorcyclist seen at the scene moments after the murder. Maybe you've seen the distinctive motorcycle before, or can recognise the man who rode it? In Shropshire, two security guards were attacked and subjected to a terrifying ordeal as they tried to make a delivery on 21 September. Police need your help to identify four men they believe were involved in the raid. Locals recall seeing strangers in the town about a month before the attack, and Crimewatch has impressions of their faces and descriptions of their getaway cars in the hope you might remember something.
A gang robbed a jeweller's shop in Rugby town centre on Friday 22 October. Crimewatch UK has descriptions of the men, who stabbed several people as they made their getaway. Can you help find them? In Ipswich a month before Christmas a young mother was murdered. Karen Hales was at home with her 18-month-old baby when something or someone disturbed her. Two boys walking near the house saw smoke and a man wearing distinctive clothing.
Your help is needed to find an armed gang who robbed a post office van in Burnley, Lancashire, and then shot a policeman in the leg. The villains drove off and hijacked two cars, forcing the occupants out at gunpoint, before finally escaping in a Ford XR3i.
A young woman was murdered in Ipswich a month before Christmas. Karen Hales was at home with her 18-month-old baby when something or someone disturbed her. Two boys walking near her home saw smoke, and locals saw a man running quickly across the road. Maybe you recognise him? In Kent a family were held hostage throughout the night after robbers forced their way in at gunpoint. The two men, one posing as a postman, guarded them for 12 hours before taking the father, a jeweller, to his shop. He was forced to hand over the contents of the safe. As one of the robbers escaped he was seen by a local man.
This month viewers are asked to help identify the person who killed pensioner Shirley Leach on Thursday 6 January this year. Shirley was on her way home after visiting her daughter in hospital when she was attacked. She'd caught the bus to Bury Interchange and was waiting for her connection at about 9.20pm when she visited the ladies toilet. Her body was found a few hours later. A man wearing a flat cap, around 40-50 years old was seen near the toilets several times that evening.
In this month's programme Sue Cook and Nick Ross present some more real cases that they hope the public can help solve. They include a robbery at a jewellers in Harrogate on 28 March, and the murder of a 56-year-old man who was found in East London on 26 February.
This month viewers are asked for their help in solving two brutal murders. The body of prostitute Tracy Turner was dumped in a country lane in Lutterworth, Leicestershire in the early hours of Thursday 3 March. Police are anxious to talk to anyone who saw her alive around midnight at the Hilton Park Service Station on the M6, where she regularly picked up clients. Officers will also be appealing for help in solving the murder of 53-year-old Trevor Bradley, whose body was found 40 miles from his Ludlow home.
Featured tonight is a reconstruction of an attack by a gang of armed robbers on staff at a jewellers in Stratford-upon-Avon. A police officer on routine patrol tried to foil their escape but they made their getaway in a stolen car.
This month on the programme, we'll be asking for viewers to help west London Police solve a terrible rape. In the early hours of Sunday 29 May, a young woman was abducted in Covent Garden by six men who all had strong cockney accents and skinhead haircuts. During her ordeal she was tortured and raped. Shortly afterwards the victim, who is an epileptic believes she went into seizure because she can remember nothing of the route she was driven or of being dumped in a street in Putney.
This month help is needed to find whoever killed businessman Ken Brown, who was shot on his doorstep in the north east of England on the evening of Thursday 25 August, and the killer of 38-year-old Julie Pacey from Grantham, whose body was found by her daughter when she came home from school on Monday 26 September.
Tonight, the programme examines a baffling murder case: pensioner Ron Cousins had lived in the same Chelmsford house since he was born and was well known by everyone in the area. On 15 April this year, the day he died, he had been seen several times, shopping and having lunch at the local church. He was last seen alive at 6 o'clock watering his garden. The police want to hear from anyone who can add any more details to the case. In particular they are anxious to trace the young man with long blonde hair who was spotted close to Ron's house earlier that day.
This month help is needed to find whoever killed family man Atek Hussain , who was murdered outside his home in East Ham, London. Also, police in Bath are tryingto identify the man who raped a woman on 14 November as she was parking her car.
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This month help is needed in the investigation into an armed gang who robbed a cash van near the A23 in West Sussex. Also, there's an artist's impression of a man police want to talk to about a sexual assault on a teenager near the M56 in Cheshire.
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This month help is needed by Greater Manchester Police to solve a series of armed robberies that have all taken place within the same area.
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Tonight Humberside police request information about an art theft last February. On 5 August, 1994, 23-year-old Julie Finley disappeared from the Liverpool city centre. Her body was found the following day in Rainford, St. Helens. Who was the man she was seen running toward near Pembroke Place hours before she was killed?
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This month, help is needed to solve the mystery surrounding the murder of Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinator Janet Brown. On 10 April she went to work in Oxford and returned home as usual. A friend telephoned her around 8.00pm and she was fine, but her body was found the next morning. Help is needed to identify several cars seen in the area at the time she died. And police are also hoping to identify a man caught on camera selling stolen jewellery. I
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Police are asking for help in solving two murders. Simon Shannon, a 26-year-old vicar's son from Essex was last seen alive on 3 May. Police in Manchester are also looking for any information about the murder of 18-year-old Natalie McLean who was killed over the Easter weekend.
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This month, help is needed to solve the murder of Robert Higgins, who lived near Edinburgh. He was brutally attacked and left for dead in a copse near his home. Plus, the search for a gang who stole several million pounds.
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This month, the search is on for the killer of Wigan schoolgirl Louise Sellars , who was found strangled. Plus, information is urgently needed on the murder of 13-year-old Darren Fawns in Antrim, Northern Ireland.
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The monthly programme which asks members of the public to help the police solve crime. Included tonight are requests to find the killer of a 64-year-old man and the attackers of a retired school teacher.
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This month, help is needed to solve a series of sex attacks on Aberdeen beach. Also, police forces in Dyfed-Powys and West Mercia are investigatingtwo attacks where the victims were held hostage and subjected to physical abuse, which they think may be linked.
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This month, help is needed to solve a robbery in Grays, Essex in which an armed gang forced staff and customers in a sub-post office to the floor. There is video footage of the event, along with impressions of the perpetrators' faces and interviews with the victims.
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This month, help is needed to solve the murder of 52-year-old retired teacher Joy Hewer, a religious woman who lived on her own in Walthamstow, London. Also, police in Hampshire are desperate to identify the man who raped a woman in Southampton on 6 January.
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This month, help is needed to solve the murder of 20-year-old Deborah Wood who lived alone in Leeds.
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This month, help is needed to solve an armed robbery on a van, and there's an impression of a man police want to talk to in connection with an indecent assault.
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This month, help is needed in finding the serial attacker who preys on couples in car parks, and four robbers who stole £5 million in a post office raid.
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This month help is needed to solve a theft of jewellery from the home of a retired couple, and to identify a rapist who struck at Hythe in Hampshire.
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Nick Ross and Jill Dando return for a new series in which the public can help to fight crime. Tonight's cases concern the murder of Lynne Russell and her daughter in Kent; an attempted armed bank robbery in Aberdeen; and the murder of a Preston student. I
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Nick Ross and Jill Dando present the programme in which the public can help to fight crime. Tonight's cases concern a big cash robbery at a supermarket in Peterborough, and an assault on a young girl in Surrey which has been linked to a series of similar attacks on teenage girls over several years.
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Nick Ross and Jill Dando present the programme in which the public can help to fight crime. Tonight's cases include the disappearance of Melanie Hall, a psychology graduate from Bath. Plus an update on the rape and subsequent death of Vera Laver, a grandmother from Tetney, Lincolnshire.
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Nick Ross and Jill Dando present the programme in which the public can help to fight crime. Tonight's cases include the murder of schoolgirl Caroline Glachan from Bonhill, Strathclyde. Plus another collection of recovered stolen property.
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Tonight's cases include a bank robbery in Dundee, Scotland, and a rape in Prestatyn, North Wales.
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Tonight's cases include the murder of 54-year-old Sussex businessman Richard Watson and a jewellery robbery in Blackpool.
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Tonight episode features a supermarket armed robbery, and the rape of a woman in Manchester.
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Tonight's cases include the murder of 27-year-old Julie Smailes in Consett, County Durham, an aggravated burglary and two armed bank robberies.
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Nick Ross and Jill Dando present the monthly programme in which the public help fight crime.
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This month, help is needed in the 15-year hunt for a serial rapist, plus an armed robbery in Preston.
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Nick Ross and Jill Dando present the monthly programme in which the public help fight crime.
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This month, a special edition of the programme, combining appeals for help on unsolved crimes with a report back on how cases have been solved as a result of viewers' calls.
Nick Ross and Jill Dando present the monthly programme in which the public help the fight against crime.
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Nick Ross and Jill Dando present the monthly programme in which the public help the fight against crime.
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This month help is needed to find the man responsible for a number of assaults on boys in Surrey, dating back to February 1993, plus a jewellery store raid in Kingston upon Thames.
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Nick Ross and Jill Dando present a special edition of the programme in which the public help the fight against crime. Focusing on some of the cases that remain unsolved, tonight's programme looks back at old clues, as well as new ones, in the hope that viewers will be able to help the police with their investigations.
This month, help is needed to find a rapist in Essex, and there are items of stolen property which some viewers might recognise.
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Nick Ross and Fiona Bruce appeal for help in solving crimes. The team help in the search for six paedophiles wanted for the systematic abuse of a 14-year-old girl.
Nick Ross and Fiona Bruce appeal for help in solving crimes. The team investigate the shooting and arson attack that left dead a Merseyside mother of three.
Nick Ross and Fiona Bruce appeal for help in solving crimes. There's the hunt for Zafar Iqbal, who strangled his wife in front of their children because she wanted a separation.
Nick Ross and Fiona Bruce appeal for help in solving crimes. A cold case special closes in on Britain's most wanted rapist, with almost 100 attacks to his name.
The hunt is on for the killer of a father of four stabbed to death in his own home.
Nick Ross and Fiona Bruce appeal to find a murderer who stabbed a young dad to death.
Including the rape of an 82- year-old woman and an armed robbery.
Kirsty Young leads the fight against crime in the first of a new series. Who stole a priceless Leonardo Da Vinci painting? And who attacked a couple in their Southsea guest house? Also, in a new strand, how police caught the Clapham Killer.
Crimewatch investigates who started the fire in a packed Newquay hotel, and why 17-year-old Shafilea Ahmed was murdered. Also, the latest on the Millie Dowler investigation.
With Kirsty Young. Who is the mystery man in red who may hold the key to a murder in Manchester? Plus the hunt for a gang who attacked a superstore with a road roller.
Kirsty Young and the police ask the general public for help with closing unsolved cases.
Kirsty Young, Rav Wilding, Matthew Amroliwala and the police ask the general public for help with closing unsolved cases, including the murder of a farmer in Northern Ireland and the kidnapping of a businesswoman in the Midlands.
With Kirsty Young. Who abducted a local postman for no apparent reason? He was tied up and his van set on fire. And the serial rapist in Essex who has evaded capture for over a decade.
Kirsty Young, Rav Wilding, Matthew Amroliwala appeal for information on the double murder of two Chinese students in Newcastle and the gang taking on supermarkets with a crossbow.
Kirsty Young and the team work with the police to appeal for help in cracking unsolved cases and bringing the criminals to justice. The hunt is on for a pair of gunmen who killed a manager when they opened fire in a busy office, and a man who was poisoned by his own wife tells his story.
Kirsty Young and the team re-appeal for help with the first ever case featured on Crimewatch, that of a have-a-go hero who was shot when he tried to foil a robbery.
Kirsty Young and the team work with the police to appeal for help in cracking unsolved cases and bringing criminals to justice. Stories include the hunt for the Egham sex attackers and the have-a-go hero stabbed in a bank.
Kirsty Young and the team work with the police to appeal for help in cracking unsolved cases, including the couple attacked by a gang wearing gimp masks, and the mystery of who murdered Lynda Farrow, with the killer leaving their footprints in the snow.
Kirsty Young and the team work with the police to appeal for help in cracking unsolved cases and bringing criminals to justice. Among the cases are the hunt for the arsonist who murdered a young child, and the elderly war veteran who fought back but was left for dead by callous thugs.
Kirsty Young and the team work with the police to appeal for help in cracking unsolved cases and bringing criminals to justice. Stories include the targeted attack that led to the torture of a father of four, and the police are closing in on the serial rapist who has evaded capture for 25 years.
Stories include the hunt for the killers of a 20-year-old shot at close range, and how investigators cracked one of the most sophisticated counterfeiting frauds in recent history.
Kirsty Young and the team present a reconstruction of 35-year-old chef Claudia Lawrence's last movements. Also, there are exclusive interviews to celebrate 25 years of Crimewatch.
Featured cases include the hunt for the serial rapist turned killer preying on women in East London, the latest on the Claudia Lawrence case and the story of how the Yorkshire Ripper Hoaxer was finally caught after 25 years.
Stories include the 40 million pound jewellery heist, the cold case murder of a 17-year-old girl in the 1980s, and how semi-professional footballer Mario Celaire was finally brought to justice in the first jury trial since the change in the law of double jeopardy.
The programme hunts for the gang who battered to death a man in front of his elderly father, the arsonist wanted for murder, and explains how a drug smuggling ring was smashed.
The programme goes behind the scenes with detectives hunting the killer of Melanie Hall, whose remains were recently found by the M5. Plus appeals on the sexual assault of an elderly woman, and the gang of robbers who held up a mother and her four-year-old child in their own home.
Kirsty Young and the team appeal for help with the murder of 22-year-old Royal Navy seaman Anthony Cavanagh. Plus, how DNA helped police catch child killer Robert Morley.
The cold case murder of a mother of two kidnapped from her home at Christmas and burnt to death; hunting the thugs who mowed down a budding footballer in a deliberate hit and run; and how one of the world's most successful art forgers was finally caught after fooling experts for decades.
Cases featured include the brutal murder of a 50-year-old Lincolnshire man, and the hunt for the arsonist who killed a four-year-old child and her grandmother. Plus the inside story of how police solved the first-ever appeal on Crimewatch, the murder of 16-year-old Colette Aram.
On the anniversary of Claudia Lawrence's disappearance, detectives reveal the latest on the case. Plus the hunt for the kidnappers who stabbed a shopkeeper and how police solved the jigsaw man murder whose body parts were scattered across the country.
Stories include a groundbreaking international manhunt for the killer of two young women, the rapist who attacked a schoolgirl at home time, and the tale of how detectives caught the millionaire playboy who, for 10 years, thought he'd got away with murder.
Kirsty Young and the team appeal for help in cases including the hunt for the robbers who subjected a Cumbrian woman and her small child to a terrifying ordeal.
Kirsty Young and the team appeal for help in unsolved cases, including the hunt for the killers of a well-liked pensioner at his home in South Gloucestershire.
Kirsty Young and the team present an exclusive update on serial killer Peter Tobin, look at the search for those behind the murder of a young care worker in North Wales, and appeal for help in identifying the bank robbers in Bradford who got away with 100,000 pounds.
Kirsty Young and the team present appeals for viewers' help in identifying the burglars who tortured a grandfather, and the rapist who attacked a nurse in broad daylight.
The team appeal for help in solving cases including the arsonist who murdered a seven-year-old boy and the axe-wielding robber who attacked a Cheshire postmaster.
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the murder of PC Keith Blakelock, Crimewatch features a major new reconstruction of the Broadwater Farm riot during which he was killed.
Detectives appeal for help in cracking some of the UK's toughest cases, including the murder of farmer Julian Gardner, who was attacked and left for dead at his Sussex farm.
Crimewatch features the latest on the Joanna Yeates murder case, as well as asking viewers to help identify the murderer of 23-year-old Londoner Ricardo Cunha. He was shot dead in his own home with a 1924 Webley revolver, in what police believe is a shocking case of mistaken identity.
Cases include the murder of 24-year-old aspiring teacher Samuel Guidera in South London and the shocking rape of a woman in Manchester's busy city centre.
Detectives appeal for help in cracking some of the UK's toughest cases, including a violent raid by a masked gang on the country mansion of billionaire founder of Phones4U, John Caudwell; and the appalling rape of an A-level student, attacked as she walked home on Valentine's Day.
Detectives appeal for help in cracking some of the UK's toughest cases, including the suspicious death of a woman whose remains were found in woods 90 miles from her Edinburgh home; and a brutal burglary in Hertfordshire, in which a mother was badly beaten in front of her 11-year-old daughter.
Detectives appeal for help in solving the UK's toughest cases, including the 1986 murder of 16-year-old Elaine Doyle and an attack on an elderly businesswoman in the Peak District.
Detectives appeal for help in solving the UK's toughest cases, including the west Scotland arsonist who set fire to a family home, killing a man and his two children.
Detectives appeal for help in solving the UK's toughest cases, including the teenager 'kneecapped' on his doorstep with two blasts from a shotgun in a case of mistaken identity.
On the twentieth anniversary of the murder of Detective James Morrison in London's busy Covent Garden, police hope that a new reconstruction will help finally catch his killer.
Detectives appeal for help with unsolved cases, including the arson attack which killed a man in Worcester, and a violent armed robbery at a Nottinghamshire post office.
Detectives appeal for help with unsolved cases, plus, the inside story of how police exposed a devious killer.
Detectives from across the UK appeal for help in solving some of the UK's biggest cases. They want to know who killed a retired farmer in a botched Cambridgeshire robbery.
Detectives from across the UK appeal for help in solving some of the UK's biggest cases. They want to know who held a disabled man and his carers at gunpoint in a violent robbery.
Detectives appeal for help in solving some of the UK's biggest cases. They hope that CCTV footage will produce witnesses to the attempted assassination of a banker.
Kirsty Young is joined by detectives appealing for help in solving some of the UK's biggest cases. Includes new evidence in a case which first featured on the programme in 1998.
Royal Military Police appeal for information on the disappearance of two-year-old Katrice Lee, who went missing from a British army base in Germany in 1981.
Detectives appeal for information on Lee Boxell, who went missing from his Surrey home in 1988. Plus the two-year operation that brought down the ringleaders of a dangerous gang.
Detectives appeal for information on unsolved cases. The programme includes a reconstruction of the tragic deaths of five children and their mother in a house fire in Essex.
Detectives appeal for information on unsolved cases. The programme includes a reconstruction of the shocking attack on 29-year-old father of three Gary Hayward in Croydon.
Detectives appeal for information on unsolved cases. The programme includes an investigation into the rise in mobile phone robberies and news on arrests since April's programme.
The team present the latest crime news and appeals, plus a special cold case investigation into the brutal murder of seven-year-old Nikki Allan near her Sunderland home in 1992.
In a world exclusive, Scotland Yard detectives reveal their latest findings in the search for Madeleine McCann. Plus crimes caught on camera in Martin Bayfield's CCTV round-up.
Kirsty Young, Matthew Amroliwala and Martin Bayfield with the latest crime news and appeals, including the latest developments in the Madeleine McCann investigation.
The team present crime news and appeals. Five years on from the disappearance of Claudia Lawrence, police reveal new information about her movements before she went missing.
The team present crime news and appeals, with a special report on how Joanna Dennehy was caught and became only the third woman to be handed a whole-life prison sentence.
The team present crime news and appeals. Martin Bayfield investigates the rise in deaths from so-called 'legal highs' and Matthew Amroliwala explores the case of Suzanne Pilley.
The team present crime news and appeals. Martin Bayfield investigates scams targeting online shoppers. And Matthew Amroliwala meets the team tracking down a bomber in Birmingham.
A special edition of Crimewatch marking 30 years of crime solving, featuring new appeals and reconstructions and looking back at many of Crimewatch's biggest cases.
The Crimewatch team are live with the latest crime news, appeals and investigations, including a look at anti-terror police in the UK and their efforts fighting extremism.
The Crimewatch team are live with the latest crime news, appeals and investigations, including the tragic case of 14-year-old Charlene Downes who disappeared in 2003.
The Crimewatch team are live with the latest crime news, appeals and investigations, including a special investigation into online romance fraudsters.
Alongside reconstructions of some of the UK's biggest unsolved cases, this edition of Crimewatch features a report on the apparent rise in acid attacks on Britain's streets.
On the 40th anniversary of the brutal murders of two young women, Crimewatch features a special cold case review into the still-unsolved cases.
Officers from the National Crime Agency join the Crimewatch team live in the studio with the latest on their operation to track down serious criminals hiding out on the continent.
Featuring the latest crime investigations, news and appeals, as well as a special report on attacks on the emergency services.
The latest crime investigations, news and appeals. Crimewatch enlists the help of some familiar faces to explore the problem of hate crime and its shocking impact on victims.
The Crimewatch team are live with the latest crime investigations, news and appeals, including exclusive new leads in the hunt for six-year-old Rikki Neave's killer.
The latest crime investigations, news and appeals. Crimewatch speaks to the experts working on the case of the human remains that were discovered in Bracknell in July.
Following last month's convictions in the record-breaking Hatton Garden heist, the head of the Flying Squad reveals new information and images of the one who got away.
Investigations, news and appeals. Featuring developments in the murder of John 'Goldfinger' Palmer, shot in his garden in Essex in what police believe was a professional hit.
Crimewatch returns with new presenters and a new look. Jeremy Vine and Tina Daheley present the latest appeals, hoping viewers will be able to help crack some of the UK's biggest unsolved cases. The programme now takes viewers to the heart of key appeals across the UK, as each episode broadcasts live from a mobile incident studio based near the scene of a key crime highlighted on the show. This edition features a special investigation into the dangers of online dating and the story of how detectives caught 17-year-old Melanie Road's killer after 31 years on the run. The Crimewatch Update programme has been replaced with a new live digital platform linked to the show's website. It keeps audiences up to date with developments on the cases during and immediately after transmission and in the weeks between each episode.
Jeremy Vine and Tina Daheley are once again live from the location of one of the UK's biggest unsolved cases. They also have the very latest developments on last week's appeals. This edition also features a special investigation into the rise in hate crime following the Brexit referendum and the concluding story of how detectives caught 17-year-old Melanie Road's killer after 31 years on the run. The Crimewatch Update programme has been replaced with a new live digital platform linked to the show's website. It keeps audiences up to date with developments on the cases during and immediately after transmission and in the time between each episode.
Jeremy Vine and Tina Daheley are once again live from the location of one of the UK's biggest unsolved cases. They also have the very latest developments on last week's appeals. This edition also features a special investigation into the recent spike in knife crime, particularly involving teenagers. Alison Cope, whose son Joshua was stabbed to death in 2013, explores why so many of Britain's youngsters are arming themselves with knives. Plus there is the inside story of how detectives caught a schoolboy killer. Double murderer James Fairweather was just 15 when he stabbed and slashed father-of-five James Attfield more than 100 times in Colchester in March 2014. Three months later, Fairweather went on to murder 31-year-old student Nahid Almanea, who was found stabbed to death on her route to university. The Crimewatch Update programme has been replaced with a new live digital platform linked to the show's website, which keeps audiences up to date with developments on the cases.
Crimewatch presenters Jeremy Vine and Tina Daheley are live once again from the location of one of the UK's biggest unsolved cases. As fresher's week begins there's a special report into the alarming number of sexual assaults on university students. Plus, the team reveal new developments which might help solve the case of a mysterious body found in woodland. Also, the conclusion of how detectives caught schoolboy killer, James Fairweather, who was just 15 when he murdered father-of-five James Attfield and 31-year-old student Nahid Almanea in Colchester, Essex.
Jeremy Vine and Tina Daheley return with a special episode of Crimewatch dedicated to tackling child sex abuse. In light of revelations about the scale of non-recent abuse in football, Crimewatch has been granted unprecedented access to Operation Hydrant, the UK's national police operation tasked with bringing abusers to justice. Specialist detectives reveal how they are investigating these cases, sometimes decades after they took place. The programme also hears from the survivors about the suffering they have experienced and, for some, their sense of resolution when they see their abusers jailed. Jeremy and Tina are also joined by BBC Breakfast's Jon Kay, who broadcasts live from a call centre operating throughout the programme. Offering confidential help and support to victims of abuse, it is hoped this special episode will allow more victims to feel emboldened to come forward and tell their stories, helping to turn the tide against the abusers who have operated behind a wall of silence for so many years. The programme also asks for viewers' help with other major appeals and to identify criminals caught on CCTV. There is also the usual round-up of wanted faces.
Jeremy Vine and Tina Daheley return with a special episode tackling crime on our roads. Alongside the latest appeals, the team explore the devastating impact of dangerous driving. The team meet a mother seeking to enlighten young drivers on the perils of using a smartphone while driving following the tragic loss of her 11-year-old daughter to a distracted driver. Kate Goldsmith's daughter Aimee was killed alongside three members of her wider family after lorry driver Tomasz Kroker ploughed into the back of their car. He had been changing the music on his phone in the moments leading up to the impact. There is also an appeal for witnesses to a shocking road rage attack in West Yorkshire in 1996 in which 39-year-old Peter Swailes was fatally assaulted after a confrontation with another motorist. He was struck over the head with a foot-long weapon and died in hospital two days later. Crimewatch also has the inside story of how one of its previous appeals was solved. Georgina Edmonds, 77, was murdered at her Hampshire cottage in 2008. It later emerged that Matthew Hamlen, 36, had tortured her and beaten her to death with a marble rolling pin for her debit card Pin. He was initially cleared of the murder in 2012 but under new double jeopardy legislation was convicted following a review of DNA evidence.
Jeremy Vine and Tina Daheley return with a special episode investigating cyber crime. Alongside the latest appeals they explore the threats posed by organised hackers.
Levi Bellfield was convicted of killing two women and attempting to kill another. We tell the story of the police investigation that proved Bellfield was their man.
Kirsty Young takes a behind-the-scenes look at the police manhunt that led to the capture, arrest and conviction of Mark Dixie, who savagely murdered 18-year-old Sally Anne Bowman on her own driveway in 2005.
Docudrama examining the events that led to Colin Stagg being wrongfully prosecuted for the 1992 murder of Rachel Nickell. Includes an exclusive interview with Stagg.
With exclusive access to some of the UK's top detectives and forensic scientists, this programme reveals how police track down some of Britain's most elusive murderers.
This special episode of Crimewatch investigates the criminal networks using slave labour to make millions from counterfeit DVD sales, follows the detectives fighting the huge illegal trade in stolen metal, and joins the country's biggest police diving unit as they search for missing people.
Following the conviction of serial killer, Levi Bellfield, for the abduction and murder of 13-year-old Milly Dowler in 2002, this Crimewatch special reveals the inside story of how he was finally brought to justice. With exclusive access to Milly's closest family and friends, Kirsty Young speaks to Gemma Dowler about losing her younger sister and the fresh ordeal faced by her and her parents during Bellfield's controversial trial.
This special edition of Crimewatch asks viewers for their help to identify the rioters and looters caught on camera in the recent disturbances. Presented by Rav Wilding.
With exclusive access to some of the UK's top detectives and security experts, this programme reveals how police track down some of Britain's most audacious armed robbers. Narrated by Philip Glenister, Catch Me If You Can - Armed Robbers is the second in a series of Crimewatch specials examining how investigators stay one step ahead of the most professional and ruthless criminals.
Ahead of the sentencing of Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Breivik, Kirsty Young goes behind the headlines to meet survivors of some of the most shocking crimes in living memory.
