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Defenders: Busting the Bad Guys

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Defenders UK

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 - 30-minute cutdowns: Episode 8

Episode 8

Series 2 - 30-minute cutdowns

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Officers catch up with a travel company boss who has left holidaymakers high and dry.

Officers catch up with a travel company boss who has been taking holiday-makers’ money, booking their flights and then cancelling them, leaving them high and dry.

Enforcement 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. 

Meanwhile, trading standards officers catch up with a travel company boss who has been taking holiday-makers’ 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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