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Defenders: Busting the Bad Guys

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Factual: Crime & Justice

Following the work of enforcement officers as they battle to protect the public.

Crooks, cheats and con artists beware! This series follows the work of enforcement officers across the UK as they take on the bad guys and bring them to justice.

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Defenders: Busting the Bad Guys: Series 2: Episode 8

Episode 8

Series 2

BBC One - Defenders: Busting the Bad Guys, Series 2, Episode 8

Officers catch up with a travel company boss leaving holidaymakers high and dry.

Officers catch up with a travel company boss who’s taking holidaymakers’ money, booking their flights and then cancelling them, leaving them high and dry.

Officers team up with the parents of 15-year-old Megan Lee. who died after suffering an allergic reaction to a meal ordered from a takeaway. Megan’s parents, Adam and Gemma, have made a video encouraging food premises to take allergen control more seriously. 

Trading Standards officers catch up with a travel company boss who is taking holidaymakers’ money, booking their flights and then cancelling them, leaving them high and dry. And they crack down on a water company after a sewage leak pollutes a stream running through a picturesque Oxfordshire village.

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