The Trials That Shocked Scotland

2022

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EP1 Episode 1 Oct 12, 2022

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.

EP2 Episode 2 Oct 19, 2022

In 2004, Luke Mitchell stood trial for the murder of his teenage girlfriend Jodi Jones, who was killed the previous year in Dalkeith, Midlothian. Her death sent shockwaves throughout the close-knit community and across Scotland. Four years later, the trial began of the man accused of murdering Shamsuddin Mahmood, 14 years after his death. British Army soldier Michael Ross was accused of shooting and killing the Bangladeshi national. It was the first murder on the island in a quarter of a century.

EP3 Episode 3 Oct 26, 2022

Following the disappearance of an Edinburgh woman, David Gilroy stood trial for her murder in 2012 at the High Court in Edinburgh. Five years later, married couple Edwin and Lorraine McLaren were in the dock accused of numerous property frauds. This complex trial would become the longest criminal court case in UK legal history.

EP4 Episode 4 Nov 02, 2022

First up is the 37-year-fight for justice following the murders of Christine Eadie and Helen Scott - aka the World's End murders - and subsequent trials of Angus Sinclair, accused of murdering the young women. Then it's an unremarkable case from the east end of Glasgow which ended up at the UK Supreme Court, resulting in huge consequences for the Scottish justice system.

EP5 Episode 5 Nov 09, 2022

In this episode, we examine the extraordinary 2011 trial of Malcolm Webster, who was accused of the murder of his first wife and the attempted murder of his second wife. Seven years earlier, a shocking murder on a quiet street on the outskirts of Glasgow led to the 2004 trial of William Gage.

EP6 Episode 6 Nov 16, 2022

In 1998, the UK's deadliest terrorist attack occurred when a Pan Am flight to New York City exploded over the town of Lockerbie, just days before Christmas. After years of negotiations, the trial of the two accused - Abdul Bassett Al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah - was held in 2000 under unique circumstances at Camp Zeist, in the Netherlands.
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Released: 12 October 2022 Returning Series
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Official Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001d2ty
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From the longest criminal trial in UK history, to headline-hitting murder prosecutions, this series revisits 12 high-profile and memorable court cases which shocked Scotland.

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