Behind The Yellow Tape
This is a podcast for those who are interested in the commission of a serious crime, particularly murder, and how they get solved by the Criminal Justice System.And for those interested in the fiction of crime, there is something here for you too.J.A. Lovelock is a Barrister-at-Law, an award-winning author, and an award-winning radio presenter. She has spent many years lecturing, training, examining, and adjudicating in the Criminal Justice and Legal System, but most importantly, she is a crime junkie.Welcome to her Podcast – where she takes you Behind The Yellow Tape.Have you ever been anywhere near a crime scene or seen the images on television and wondered, what happened behind that yellow tape? Oh yes, you have! Because you were curious. Nothing wrong with that. We are curious beings. If we were not, we would never learn – anything.And behind that yellow tape, quite a lot happens, more than a lot goes on…This podcast is part of Podcast Radio’s Original (PRO-Shows) programming.
Episodes
January 6, 2025 • 16 mins
In 1922 a solicitor Herbert Rowse Armstrong was charged, convicted and hanged for the murder of his wife even though the evidence against him was insubstantial. But before that in 1920, another solicitor, Harold Greenwood was also charged with the murder of his wife Mabel. Two lawyers. Similar circumstances. Same result?
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December 9, 2024 • 40 mins
You will have heard on a previous episode, J.A. Lovelock’s interview with Crime Scene Investigator (CSI/SOCO) Kate Bendelow discussing her work as a CSI. In this episode, J.A. Lovelock meets Andrew Langley, who for many years worked as a Crime Scene Manager. Andrew will recount real-life cases he helped to investigate and shine a light behind the yellow tape.
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November 25, 2024 • 21 mins
Step back into 18th-century London, where the cobbled streets of the historic Inns of Court witnessed a chilling murder. In this episode of Behind the Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock delves into the case of Sarah Malcolm, a laundress who found herself at the center of a brutal crime. Was she truly the mastermind behind the murders at Temple Bar, or was she an innocent woman caught in a web of deceit and circumstance?
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February 12, 2024 • 20 mins
Back in the year 2000 and until late 2015 a new fictional television show about how crimes are solved blazed onto our screens. It so captured the imagination that every man and his dog believed, after watching the episodes, they had the tools and expertise to solve crimes. The show? CSI of course. But here to separate the fact from the fiction is Kate Bendelow, a Scene of Crime Officer, otherwise known as a CSI, Crime Scene Investi...
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February 5, 2024 • 30 mins
Back in the year 2000 and until late 2015 a new fictional television show about how crimes are solved blazed onto our screens. It so captured the imagination that every man and his dog believed, after watching the episodes, they had the tools and expertise to solve crimes. The show? CSI of course. But here to separate the fact from the fiction is Kate Bendelow, a Scene of Crime Officer, otherwise known as a CSI, Crime Scene Investi...
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January 22, 2024 • 12 mins
Fairy tales. Cinderella. Wicked Stepmothers and Evil Stepsisters. It’s one thing if your stepsister treats you mean but quite another when your own flesh and blood sister wants you dead. In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape J.A. Lovelock finds out why Catherine Kinrade would want her sister dead.
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January 8, 2024 • 36 mins
Concluding her series on knife crime and its effects and impact on families and the wider community, J.A. Lovelock catches up with award-winning playwright and author Michelle Inniss to talk about her new play in development They Know Not What They Do. A play whose central theme deals with forgiveness after the murder of a loved one, and the part it plays in the Criminal Justice System.
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December 12, 2023 • 29 mins
Continuing her series on knife crime and its effects, J.A. Lovelock catches up with author Yvvette Edwards, whose teenage stepson, was the victim of a random non-fatal knife attack in 2009. Yvvette’s latest novel, The Mother, is largely based on that real-life experience where she explores the devastating impact of knife crime on a family and how they navigate the Criminal Justice System during this traumatic time.
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November 27, 2023 • 20 mins
On the 25 th of February 2017 Michelle Phillips’s life changed forever. It was the day her 28-year-old son, Jonathan McPhillips was fatally stabbed while acting as a peacemaker in a brawl outside Islington Town Hall, in north London. In an emotional recollection she tells J.A. Lovelock what really happened and how she copes with her loss.
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November 13, 2023 • 26 mins
On the 25th of February 2017 Michelle Phillips’s life changed forever. It was the day her 28-year-old son, Jonathan McPhillips was fatally stabbed while acting as a peacemaker in a brawl outside Islington Town Hall, in north London. In an emotional recollection she tells J.A. Lovelock what really happened and how she copes with her loss.
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October 18, 2023 • 13 mins
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock considers the case of Reverend John Selby Watson, a man of the cloth who bludgeoned his wife of thirty plus years to death. Will this ‘man of God’ meet his maker via the hangman’s noose, or will divine intervention come to his aid?
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October 2, 2023 • 17 mins
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock considers the case of Catherine Foster, a teenage bride convicted of killing her husband of only three weeks by arsenic poisoning. But was she guilty or innocent?
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July 25, 2023 • 20 mins
Former lawyer and crime fiction writer of the vintage age Harriet Steel has been described as a modern-day Agatha Christie. In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock catches up with Harriet to learn more.
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July 13, 2023 • 19 mins
Former lawyer and crime fiction writer of the vintage age Harriet Steel has been described as a modern-day Agatha Christie. In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock catches up with Harriet to learn more.
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June 26, 2023 • 28 mins
Her comes summer! In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock is joined again by crime fiction author G.B Williams, who shares her recommendations of crime fiction novels that will keep you gripped and entertained all summer long.
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June 12, 2023 • 18 mins
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock considers the cases of two men called Henry: both accused of killing a widow called Alice: both killings included a hammer but which of the two Henry’s is the real murderer?
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May 29, 2023 • 21 mins
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock catches up with Steven Keogh, a former Scotland Yard detective inspector. In this two-part series he tells her of his experience investigating terrorism and murder cases and what it takes to catch killers and bring them to justice.
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May 15, 2023 • 21 mins
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock catches up with Steven Keogh, a former Scotland Yard detective inspector. In this two-part series he tells her of his experience investigating terrorism and murder cases and what it takes to catch killers and bring them to justice.
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May 2, 2023 • 13 mins
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock assess the case of Ann Lawrence who in 1867, became the penultimate woman to be publicly hanged in Britain for the murder of her own child, but was she really guilty of such a heinous crime?
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March 27, 2023 • 30 mins
In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock meets Beverley Cook, curator of the Executions Exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, an exhibition covering over 700 years of public executions, to find out how and why London acquired this epithet: the City of Gallows.
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