The Big Cases - Season 3 / Year 2023

The schoolgirl charged with terrorism, but found to have been exploited. Rhianan Rudd, 15, was the youngest girl to be charged with terrorism offences in the UK. She took her own life in 2022. Her mum says investigators should have seen her daughter as "a victim rather than a terrorist".

The story of Bennylyn and Jellica who were murdered after starting a new life in the UK.

A gunman kills five people within minutes. Could the shootings have been prevented?

How was Salman Abedi from Manchester radicalised to the point where he could kill, and could the Manchester Arena bombing have been stopped?

The story of false accusations about being the victim of a grooming gang and how it sent shockwaves through a small town in the North of England.

Nine year old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was killed when shots were fired into her family home.

Nikki Allan's murder shocked Sunderland. Why did it take so long to catch her killer?

Lyne Barlow is a bogus travel agent from County Durham, conning hundreds of holidaymakers and her family in a £2.6 million scam, which also saw her lie about a cancer diagnosis.

Elle Edwards was shot dead as she celebrated Christmas Eve, in a murder that shocked the UK. We follow her dad Tim as he deals with the devastation of his daughter's death.

Lilia Valutyte died from a single stab wound in her chest. Her killer was found unfit to plead, but a jury determined in a trial of the facts he killed the nine-year-old.

Sgt Matt Ratana was shot and killed on duty by a handcuffed prisoner just three months before he had been due to retire.
BBC News tells the story of the case.

The story of Nicholas Rossi - the US fugitive who came to the UK with a new identity after faking his own death.

He claims he's called Arthur Knight and is a victim of mistaken identity - but a sherriff in Scotland is sending him back to Utah to face rape charges.

We speak to the people who knew Nicholas Rossi in his previous life in America and chart his story from there to his being traced by police to a hospital bed in Glasgow.

The story of a social media influencer, her mum and a murder plot.

This is the story of Linda Razzell who vanished on her way to work more than 20 years ago. Her husband was found guilty of her murder. Now, in 2023, will he reveal where her body is in order to be released on parole?

The MP who rose from obscurity to being imprisoned for fraud. The story of Jared O'Mara.

The story of a young mum killed by her boyfriend of eight weeks.

The hospital unit where patients were drugged to keep them 'quiet and compliant'.

Kidnapped and murdered in France while on a university placement. Is it finally time for justice for 20 year old Joanna Parrish?