Expert Witness

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Factual: Crime & Justice

Factual: Crime & Justice: True Crime

True crime series revealing how some of the UK’s most serious cases were solved.

How some of the UK’s most serious and complex cases were solved by the expertise of a band of unsung heroes – the expert witnesses. Gripping true crime stories.

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Expert Witness: Series 1: Cerium and CCTV

Cerium and CCTV

Series 1

BBC One - Expert Witness, Series 1, Cerium and CCTV

Re-examining particles overturns a conviction and facial comparison solves a shooting.

A wrongful conviction is overturned by re-examining microscopic particles on a van seat and an attempted murder outside a nightclub is solved by a facial comparison expert.

We reveal how the power of forensic science not only found a killer, but also freed an innocent man. Forensic evidence is a powerful tool. So powerful, that if it’s misinterpreted it can lead to a serious miscarriage of justice. That happened in the first story in this programme, where there was a chance the wrong person had been convicted of murder. Getting to the truth needed clear thinking and a remarkable scientific experiment.

And the programme uncovers how an expert in facial comparison helped identify the suspects in a shooting at a Leeds nightclub. 

Experts reckon there are over five million CCTV cameras in the UK, all around our streets, businesses and homes. That’s one camera for every 13 citizens or so, recording footage twenty-four seven. But spotting someone on CCTV who you think is your suspect is one thing. Proving it’s them is a very different matter. And that’s where detectives call for an expert witness.

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