New Series
This is a story of a murder, a mother and a 30-year search for justice. It’s a personal tale of trauma and resilience in the face of systemic police injustice and failures, that couldn’t be more timely.
In 1992 on a council estate in Sunderland, a seven-year-old girl was murdered. It took the police 30 years to find the killer, a convicted child sex offender who lived three doors away from where Nikki Allan went missing. What happened on the night of her disappearance?
Rumours choke the case and a vulnerable suspect is arrested. The first 48 hours after a crime are crucial: what did the police get so wrong in the days after Nikki went missing?
In episode 3, the primary suspect is interrogated by police until he confesses. But it’s not until 30 years later that the right man is put on trial
Sharon’s case should be extraordinary but it isn’t. A few miles away from her, another mother was left to solve her own daughter’s murder after being let down by police
The police say they are not looking for any more victims of David Boyd. But in episode 5 we meet other women who have been confronted by the killer