Crimes That Shook Britain

On the night of the 22nd of May 2017, at a little after 10:30PM, pop singer Ariana Grande had just finished her performance at the Manchester Arena in front of 14,200 people. Most of them were young girls, just teenagers and children. As the audience left the Arena, a terrorist bomb was detonated amidst the crowd. 22 people died with more than 250 more injured.

Leeds school teacher, Ann Maguire, was brutally stabbed by one of her pupils, Will Cornick, in April 2014. He was the first secondary school pupil to ever murder a teacher in Britain. The cold-bloodied attack shook the whole nation when it was revealed that Cornick had planned the attack and bragged about his intentions. He has shown no remorse for the murder since.

Gemma McCluskie was a television actress and was a regular cast member in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, in which she played Kerry Skinner. In March 2012, McCluskie disappeared from her home in East London; a few days later, her body was discovered in the Regent's Canal. We reveal the inside story of this tragic tale from the perspective of her own family and the Police who caught her killer.

Usually it is immediately obvious when there has been a murder. But for some time after Victorino Chua embarked on his killing spree at Stepping Hill hospital during the summer of 2011, no one really noticed. His victims were mostly, but not exclusively, elderly. All were unwell. Each was already in hospital when he secretly loaded their drips with insulin to cause a hypoglycaemic attack.

Steven Gerald James Wright is a serial killer, also known as the Suffolk Strangler and the Ipswich Ripper. He is serving life imprisonment for the murder of five women who worked as sex workers in Ipswich, Suffolk. We tell the tale of his crimes as well as the steps that have been put in place to try an educate both sex workers and police to try and minimize the risk of this type of crime.

At the end of summer 2014, three weeks apart, the bodies of two young men were found in the same east London churchyard by the same woman walking her dog. Both men were of a similar build. Both in their 20s. Both propped up in the same position in the graveyard. Both men were gay. Both died from drug overdoses. Neither came from Barking, the area in which they had been found.