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The Trials That Shocked Scotland

Series 1

Episode 1

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Scotland

Through testimony, interviews and archive footage, this series examines high-profile court cases that have shocked Scotland.

This episode features a family’s 18-year fight for justice following the 1998 murder of Surjit Singh Chhokar in Overtown. There is also the 2015 trial of William Paterson at the High Court in Glasgow. Paterson stood accused of shooting to death a well-known gangland figure in a busy supermarket car park five years earlier. Show less

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