Strange But True Crime

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, understand what he intends to do and persuade him to change his mind.
BBC Yorkshire’s Home Affairs correspondent Emma Glasby tells the story of the St James’s Hospital plot, the investigation into Farouk and the extraordinary actions that later earned Nathan Newby the George Medal.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed
Reporter: Emma Glasbey
Producer: Luke de Costa
Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge
Researcher: Bethan Davies
Video Producer: Fede Marilotti
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes & Alistair Miskin
Rima Ahmed explores bizarre true crime, including audacious heists, drug smuggling, elaborate frauds, scams, catfishing, identity theft and cybercrime, alongside BBC reporters who have covered the cases first-hand.

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 journalist Marc Waddington joins Rima to trace the poison pen campaign, the clues that pointed towards its author and the fingerprint that finally gave police their breakthrough. How did a respected local figure become the man behind a campaign of anonymous abuse?
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed
Reporter: Marc Waddington
Producer: Luke de Costa
Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge
Researcher: Bethan Davies
Video Producer: Fede Marilotti
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes & Alistair Miskin
Dive into a world of bizarre true 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 true crime cases.

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?
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed
Reporter: Lewis Adams
Producer: Luke de Costa
Executive producer: Luke Eldridge
Researcher: Bethan Davies
Video Producer: Fede Marilotti
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes & Alistair Miskin
Dive into a world of bizarre true 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 true crime cases.

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.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed
Reporter: Lucy Hunt
Producer: Luke de Costa
Executive producer: Luke Eldridge
Researcher: Bethan Davies
Video Producer: Fede Marilotti
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes & Alistair Miskin
Dive into a world of bizarre true 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 true crime cases.

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.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed
Reporter: Shannen Headley
Producer: Luke de Costa
Executive producer: Luke Eldridge
Researcher: Bethan Davies
Video Producer: Fede Marilotti
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes & Alistair Miskin
Dive into a world of bizarre true 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 true crime cases.