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Nga Pham
Chinese-born billionaire of accused profiting from $70bn global scam industry
Fri 16 Jan 2026
How applicants that failed vetting became Met police officers
8 mins • S1, E1278
James Tapper
The likely impact of Maduro’s seizure on the global cocaine trade: none
Tue 13 Jan 2026
What’s really happening on the ground in Iran
33 mins • S1, E303
Martha Gill
Criminals are restyling Britain’s barbers as hairdressers are forced to cut back
Wed 7 Jan 2026
John Simpson
Ex-husband among six on drugging and rape charges
Sun 28 Dec 2025
Jon Ungoed-Thomas
The Bradford jeweller who turned dirty money into a trail of gold
Fri 26 Dec 2025
Fred Harter
Jewish people, once again, are grieving on a sacred holiday
Tue 16 Dec 2025
Kenan Malik
Defending trial by jury is crucial in a society where democracy is being eroded
Sat 29 Nov 2025
Catherine Neilan
More MEPs investigated over Russian bribes
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Jeevan Vasagar
Mystery rubbish: who dumped the 150-metre pile in Oxfordshire?
Fri 21 Nov 2025
Phoebe Davis
West Midlands attacks have left Sikh women fearing for their safety
Tue 18 Nov 2025
Helen Garner
The crime writers addicted to the mushroom murders
Sat 15 Nov 2025
Adam Weymouth
Letters from prison: the protesters locked up for trying to change the world
Sat 15 Nov 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Thousands to lose the right to trial by jury in drive to fix court logjam
Fri 14 Nov 2025
Poppy Sebag-Montefiore
Crypto queen’s £5bn rude awakening
Fri 14 Nov 2025
James Tapper
Smugglers cash in as dancing parrots go viral
Sun 9 Nov 2025
Andrew Anthony
The murderer who writes the truth of crime from a prison cell
Fri 7 Nov 2025
Carolina Unzelte
Rio favelas mourn as deadliest police raid exposes deep divisions
Sun 2 Nov 2025
John Simpson
Missing sex offender asked police how to find train station
Sun 26 Oct 2025
Vanessa Thorpe
Pros ‘stealing to order’ in the Great Louvre Robbery
Sun 26 Oct 2025
John Simpson
‘Lawless London’ is safer than it’s been in decades
Fri 24 Oct 2025
Catherine Neilan
‘Jail is inevitable’ for politician awaiting bribery sentence
Thu 23 Oct 2025
Lawless London
9 mins • S1, E1218
Kim Willsher
Louvre heist was 800 metres from police headquarters
Tue 21 Oct 2025
Vanessa Thorpe
Lostprophets singer convicted of child sex crimes is killed in jail
Sun 12 Oct 2025
Leroy Logan
The Met isn’t sullied by a few ‘bad apples’. The barrel is rotten
Sat 4 Oct 2025
Kim Willsher
Gisèle Pelicot faces more court trauma after appeal
Sat 4 Oct 2025
Manchester synagogue terror attack
31 mins • S1, E274
Kim Willsher
Nicolas Sarkozy’s ‘corruption pact’ and France’s fractious politics
Mon 29 Sept 2025
Notes on… JADE breaking the girl group curse and our true crime problem
35 mins • S1, E1
Andrew Anthony
A brush with the ‘world’s best art forger’
Fri 12 Sept 2025
Fred Harter
Joseph Kony is being tried in the ICC – without him
Thu 11 Sept 2025
Xavier Greenwood
Nepal faces a dangerous power vacuum
Wed 10 Sept 2025
Erica Wagner
The haunting of Pitcairn Island
Fri 5 Sept 2025
Wendy Ide
Caught Stealing, The Thursday Murder Club and more
Sun 31 Aug 2025
Katie McQue
Guns and bomb threats target US politicians
Sat 23 Aug 2025
Haiti’s cultural heritage at threat from violent gangs
9 mins • S1, E1166
Francisco Garcia
Teenage boys claimed by growing knife crime crisis
Sun 10 Aug 2025
Nga Pham
Bangladesh war crimes tribunal puts its founder in the dock
Fri 8 Aug 2025
David Challen
‘The torment that drove my mother to kill my father’
Thu 31 Jul 2025
Edward Helmore
Potential pardon for Maxwell is a political ploy
Sun 27 Jul 2025
Rachel Sylvester
How DNA discovery freed a mother jailed for killing her children
Tue 22 Jul 2025
Martha Gill
Court backlogs mean rape victims are giving up on justice
Sat 19 Jul 2025
Tim Leunig
Summer jobs scheme lacks scale and ambition
Sat 19 Jul 2025
The future of pro-Gaza protests
7 mins • S1, E1149
Andrew Hankinson
The Sycamore Gap sentencing: ‘they know not what they do’
Wed 16 Jul 2025
Martha Gill
In a tech race against crime, the scammers are streaking ahead
Sun 13 Jul 2025
Andrew Anthony
Mock trial tackles the mystery of stolen Greek treasure
Sat 12 Jul 2025
Kim Willsher
Arms deals, French mercenaries and a murdered ANC leader
Sat 12 Jul 2025
Michael Mansfield
If we don’t fight for our juries, trial by AI is coming
Wed 9 Jul 2025
Xavier Greenwood
The human impact of the Post Office scandal will go down in history
Wed 9 Jul 2025
John Simpson
Rape trials collapse in record numbers as victims walk away
Sun 6 Jul 2025
Martha Gill
If we want less crime, we need to lock up fewer people
Sat 28 Jun 2025
Caroline Fraser
A toxic legacy: serial killers and environmental pollution
Sat 28 Jun 2025
Jon Ungoed-Thomas
Grooming gang victims want justice, not yet another inquiry
Sat 21 Jun 2025
John Simpson
People smuggling replaces drugs at top of NCA caseload
Sat 21 Jun 2025
Phoebe Davis
‘I can finally get on with rebuilding my life’: MPs vote to decriminalise abortion
Wed 18 Jun 2025
John Simpson
Grooming gang failures rest on poor data
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Philip Collins
Sexual harassment is rife, but most think it’s not worth reporting
Thu 29 May 2025
David Aaronovitch
David Aaronovitch: the assassins who think murder is protest
Sun 25 May 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Two crisis-hit prisons get a ‘Scandi beige’ conversion
Sat 24 May 2025
The Observer leader
It's time for Starmer to get smart on crime
Tue 20 May 2025
Andrew Hankinson
‘It was as if someone had been murdered’
Fri 16 May 2025
Xavier Greenwood
Uncontacted tribes are under threat from influencers
Thu 1 May 2025
John Simpson
‘Satanists’ are stalking vulnerable young victims online
Sun 27 Apr 2025
