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Dive into a world of bizarre crimes with brazen criminals that will leave you scratching your head for answers.Rima Ahmed explores audacious heists, secret drugs bunkers and stolen identities with reporters who have lived and breathed these criminal cases.Wanna get in touch?
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The Leeds Hospital Bomb Plot (opens the original)
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Nathan Newby steps outside St James’s Hospital in Leeds for a vape and finds himself face-to-face with a man carrying a bomb. Nobody else knows what’s happening, and Nathan realises that keeping him talking may be the only way to stop an attack. The man is Mohamed Farouk, an NHS worker who has built a pressure cooker bomb and planned an attack on the hospital where he worked. As patients and staff remain inside, Nathan spends more than two hours trying to move Farouk away from the building, unde
Poison Pen (opens the original)
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Liverpool councilor Christine Banks starts receiving anonymous poison pen letters at her home. They’re abusive, deeply personal and relentless. At one point, as many as five arrive in a day. And Christine has a strong suspicion about who is sending them. She soon discovers she isn’t the only target. Other people connected to Liverpool politics have received remarkably similar letters, and one name keeps coming up: former councillor and prominent community campaigner Gerard Woodhouse. BBC journal
Streetfighter (opens the original)
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Essex drugs boss, Ben Ransome, is a wanted man. Before police can arrest him he flees the UK and disappears. Ransome continues to sell drugs from his new hideout in Thailand whilst reinventing himself as a prizefighter. Police chip away at his network of trusted drugs couriers in the UK. But who will be first to deliver a knockout blow? Get in touch with us behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk Presenter: Rima Ahmed Reporter: Lewis Adams Producer: Luke de Costa Executive producer: Luke Eldridge Researcher: B
Benefit of the Doubt (opens the original)
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A mum says severe anxiety has made everyday life a struggle and left her needing financial support. But an anonymous tip-off raises questions about whether the life she has described matches the one she is actually living. Investigators start digging into Catherine Wieland’s benefit claim, using bank records, social media and covert surveillance to compare what she’s said with what they can prove. The deeper they look, the harder those two versions of her life are to reconcile. Get in touch with
House Sitter from Hell (opens the original)
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A Warwickshire couple leave their home and beloved pets in the care of a trusted house sitter while they go on holiday. But when they return, a few strange details suggest something is very wrong. Their home looks tidy, yet small clues begin to raise unsettling questions about what happened while they were away. As they look closer, suspicions grow around the woman they trusted with their keys. Get in touch with us behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk Presenter: Rima Ahmed Reporter: Shannen Headley Producer
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