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A mum of 11 is brutally murdered in her home after a night out and Police Scotland draw a blank as to who could have killed her.

Now, 40 years on, a new book reveals how the murder of Mary McLaughlin was finally solved after her killer was identified through a cigarette butt and a strand of DNA on a rope.

Nicola speaks to crime journalist Ju8797 with Gina McGavin tells the incredible story of one of Scotland’s most fascinating cold c...

Following on from the bestselling Inside Broadmoor and Inside Wakefield Prison, Jonathan Levi and Emma French navigate Britain's toughest and most renowned prison: Belmarsh.

Through gangs, drugs, attacks, and redemption, Inside Belmarsh: Banged Up in Britain's Toughest Prison is the unfiltered story of the deadly prisoners that lie within.

It’s the latest book in the Inside Prison series, published by Bonnier, and you can also listen...

A murder in Belfast of gangland’s most wanted man, Robbie Lawlor, uncovers a web of betrayal that spans out across the Irish underworld and beyond.

Follow a bloody trail that leads all the way into the heart of one of the worst gang feuds Ireland has ever seen which culminates in the Narco-style dismemberment of a teenage boy, Keane Mulready-Woods.

And as the curtain is pulled back on the inner workings of the world of organised crim...

Britain’s toughest prison HMP Wakefield is known to many as the ‘Monster Mansion’, housing some of the most dangerous criminals in the country.

Serial killers Harold Shipman and Levi Bellfield once spent time inside its cells and some 750 prisoners are kept there today.

In this extract from Inside Wakefield Prison: Life Behind Bars in the Monster Mansion, Jonathan Levi and Emma French trace Wakefield’s dark and sinister history throu...

For over 150 years, Broadmoor has contained the UK's most violent, dangerous and psychopathic.

Since opening as an asylum for the criminally insane in 1863, it’s housed sinister individuals like Jack the Ripper suspect James Kelly, serial killer Peter Sutcliffe (aka the Yorkshire Ripper), and cannibal Peter Bryan.

TV journalist Jonathan Levi and cultural historian Emma French share the full story of the high-security hospital in Insi...

How did the cocaine trade infiltrate Ireland and evolve into a billion-euro empire after the drug first washed ashore on Cork's rugged coast?

From the country's first cocaine lord and his attempts to establish a direct route from Miami to Dublin to the modern-day violence that led to the brutal dismemberment of teenager Keane Mulready-Woods, this is an extract from my book, Cocaine Cowboys.

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Delroy Grant was one of Britain’s most wanted men – a shocking sex predator known as the Night Stalker.

He had been at large for a seventeen-year reign of terror, visiting his victims after dark before committing despicable sexual assaults in their homes.

In Manhunt: The Night Stalker, detective Colin Sutton reveals how the Metropolitan Police brought one one of London’s most feared monsters to justice.

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In April 1975, a young Irish-American from Long Island headed on a mission to enlist in an elite unit of the US Marine Corps. His goal: to receive the most intensive and rigorous military training possible, and then move to Ireland to join the IRA and fight to end British occupation of the north.

John Crawley has lived an extraordinary life – working with notorious American mobster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger before working with the IRA i...

The Troubles’ most notorious and sinister figure Freddie Scappaticci was the ‘jewel in the crown’ of a British infiltration system designed to cause mayhem and chaos in the IRA’s military operations from the late 1970s through to his eventual exposure in 2003.

Codenamed Stakeknife, he headed the IRA’s secretive Internal Security Unit – also known as the ‘Nutting Squad’.

His former comrades reveal extraordinary details about Scappatic...

Journalist Chris Moore spent his career digging into the details of a story he first came across as a young BBC journalist in the 1980s.

This is an extract from his new book Kincora: Britain’s Shame – a culmination of a decades-long investigation which weaves a tangled web of sexual abuse in a boys' home in Belfast with the murky workings of MI5 and the secret activities of Lord Henry Mountbatten.

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Austin Stack was just 14 when his dad was shot and left with horrific life altering injuries at the hands of an IRA assassin. He survived for 18 months before dying from complications.

Now 42 years on, Austin says he would like to look his father’s killers in the eye and tell them how his death has affected him.

Here is an extract from his book Justice for My Father, which is published by Bonnier and available bookshops and audio str...

When Robbie Lawlor was murdered outside a house in the Ardoyne area of Belfast in April 2020, reporters were left with more questions than answers.

What was one of Ireland's most feared criminals doing in the north? Why had he crossed the border? Who had the audacity to arrange for him to be shot while up there?

Double Cross: The Murder of Robbie Lawlor was originally broadcast by Crime World Presents in November 2024.