24 Hours in Police Custody
| 24 Hours in Police Custody | |
|---|---|
| Genre |
Crime Documentary |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 45 (to 2 July 2018) |
| Production | |
| Production location(s) |
Luton, Bedfordshire Peterborough, Cambridgeshire |
| Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Production company(s) | The Garden Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | Channel 4 |
| Original release | 29 September 2014 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
24 Hours in Police Custody is a British documentary television series shown on Channel 4. It primarily follows Bedfordshire Police as they investigate cases in Luton.[1] The program is made by The Garden Productions, the same production company that makes 24 Hours in A&E.
The first series of seven episodes aired in late 2014.[2] Filming took place at Luton Police Station over a six-week period[3] using more than 80 cameras.[4] Channel 4 commissioned further series, with the second airing in early 2015.[5] The sixth series comprises six episodes, and concluded airing on 26 March 2018. One of the episodes is based in Dunstable and another in Peterborough.
Episodes
All ratings are from BARB.[6] Episodes are set in Luton, unless otherwise noted.
Series 1
| No. | Title | Original air date | Viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Conspiracy to Murder" | 29 September 2014 | 2.05 |
| This episode opens with the dawn arrest of a man on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. The film documents the work of the lead detectives as they investigate and interview the suspect. | |||
| 2 | "Love Hurts" | 6 October 2014 | 2.06 |
| In this second episode of the observational series shot inside Luton Police Station, two PCs are determined to get to the bottom of two contrasting cases of domestic abuse and harassment. | |||
| 3 | "The Confession of a Paedophile" | 13 October 2014 | 2.02 |
| This episode follows the team of four detectives working full-time on child abuse cases in the dedicated Safeguarding Investigation Unit at Luton Police Station. | |||
| 4 | "Drug Drop" | 20 October 2014 | No data |
| This episode opens with a young man accidentally dropping a large quantity of cocaine from his jacket pocket outside a petrol station - all caught on CCTV. In a separate case, a man is arrested for stealing meat from Marks & Spencer. He is a heroin addict who admits theft whilst being interviewed by police and is later convicted. | |||
| 5 | "The Morning After" | 27 October 2014 | 1.98 |
| A private carer is arrested for assaulting the elderly man he is paid a carer's allowance to look after, in his house, where they both live. In a separate case, a Polish man is arrested for disturbing the peace and at the police station it is discovered that he threatened to kill his wife in during a row with her. Proceedings were abandoned in both cases. | |||
| 6 | "Honour Thy Father" | 10 November 2014 | 2.04 |
| A Muslim Pakistani man is suspected of committing an honour crime against his 26-year-old daughter after she married an illegal immigrant. She said that her father beat her with an iron and tried to force her to leave her husband and move back in with her family. The father said her husband only married her to gain British citizenship. The father was charged with kidnapping, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault. He was convicted of ABH and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment. The other two charges had been dropped. | |||
| 7 | "The Crime of the Century" | 17 November 2014 | 1.35 |
| Acting sergeant and double amputee Wil Taylor and his team investigate the case of three sex workers. Are the women victims of trafficking, or are they exploiting others? A man is arrested for an immigration offence and handling stolen goods; he is deported. | |||
Series 2
| No. | Title | Original air date | Viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "A Crime of Passion" | 6 January 2015 | 1.51 |
| A man stabs his wife in the eye - she turns her face quickly after, causing the blade to cut across her face instead of going into her brain. Straight after, he slashes his own arm. He was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 11 years in prison. | |||
| 2 | "A Short, Sharp Shock" | 13 January 2015 | 1.60 |
| Two teenage girls are arrested after a fight broke out in a nightclub. And the police also arrest a 61-year-old man who has never spent a night in the cells before. | |||
| 3 | "Human Traffic" | 20 January 2015 | 1.51 |
| This episode follows an investigation into suspected human trafficking. DC Tom Stean says 'Human trafficking is getting worse and worse. I think Luton is a magnet. | |||
| 4 | "Punchdrunk Love" | 27 January 2015 | 1.41 |
| Three men are arrested for separate domestic violence incidents. One is not charged, one is cautioned and the other is sent to prison for three months. | |||
| 5 | "Age Concern" | 3 February 2015 | 1.35 |
| Three separate cases of young men who have committed crimes against the elderly. One is detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act after he committed a series of sexual assaults. Another is sent to prison for hitting his grandmother and another is sent to prison for harassment and criminal damage against a relative. | |||
| 6 | "Frequent Flyers" | 10 February 2015 | 1.74 |
| One of Luton's most prolific burglars. | |||
Series 3
| No. | Title | Original air date | Viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Bad Blood" | 27 July 2015 | 1.80 |
| 2 | "Guilty Little Secrets" | 3 August 2015 | 2.30 |
| 3 | "Partners in Crime" | 10 August 2015 | 2.04 |
| 4 | "Mother's Day" | 17 August 2015 | 1.86 |
| 5 | "A Sixth Sense" | 24 August 2015 | 1.75 |
Series 4
| No. | Title | Original air date | Viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Human Cargo" | 20 April 2016 | 1.94 |
| The Romanian driver of a refrigerated lorry hears noises from the back of the truck, which he opens and finds illegal immigrants. He is arrested and questioned, but he is not charged with any offence. | |||
| 2 | "To Catch a Paedophile" | 27 April 2016 | 1.77 |
| Vigilante paedophile hunters trap two men by pretending on Internet sites to be underage girls. Both men were sent to prison. | |||
| 3 | "Love Thy Neighbour" | 5 May 2016 | 1.94 |
| Three cases are featured. A mother and son are arrested for public order offences after shouting at their neighbour; she was fined for disorderly conduct; he was cautioned for threatening behaviour. They both moved away from Luton. A Bangladeshi woman escaped from her husband, who is an Islamic State supporter, tried to force her to go to Syria; she moved to a hotel, and later to a refuge. Tommy Robinson is arrested for assaulting an inmate when they were both in Peterborough Prison - the case against him is dismissed. | |||
| 4 | "One Punch" | 12 May 2016 | 2.30 |
| Police investigate a man who killed another man with a single punch outside a nightclub, attempting to establish if he was the aggressor or acted in self-defence. The attacker was convicted of manslaughter. | |||
| 5 | "The Black Balaclava" | 19 May 2016 | 2.09 |
| Police investigate a series of armed robberies all involving the victims being threatened at knifepoint. Two men are convicted of and imprisoned for the robberies: one is sentenced to seven years, the other to twelve years. | |||
| 6 | "Home Truths" | 26 May 2016 | 1.60 |
| Cases of domestic abuse. | |||
| 7 | "Lethal Weapon" | 1 June 2016 | 2.18 |
| The gun crime unit investigate a robbery at a hotel. A blank-firing pistol was used which had been converted to be able to fire live rounds. A man was convicted of possession of a firearm and two counts of assault, for which he was sentenced to five and a half years imprisonment. | |||
| 8 | "In Plain Sight" | 8 June 2016 | 2.36 |
| Police search thousands of hours of CCTV to find a man who sexually assaulted two children in their home. He was convicted and sent to prison for nine years. In a separate case, a Romanian man was convicted of trying to meet a 14 year old girl after grooming her. He was sent to prison for two years. | |||
| 9 | "A Complaint of Rape" | 15 June 2016 | 1.82 |
| Police investigate a woman's complaint of rape against a man she met in a bar. The man is not charged due to lack of evidence. | |||
Series 5
| No. | Title | Original air date | Viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "A Moment of Madness" | 5 June 2017 | 2.70 |
| A Latvian man who arrived in the UK a week ago beat an Indian man in a hotel using a fire extinguisher. He was charged with attempted murder. Three months later, the victim died of his injuries and the charge was raised to murder. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and sent to a secure psychiatric hospital indefinitely. | |||
| 2 | "Their Time Will Come" | 12 June 2017 | 2.21 |
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A 76-year-old married grandfather is arrested for having sexually assaulted a boy for years during the 1970s, when the victim was seven. He denied the crimes whilst being interviewed by the police, but later pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual activity with a child. He was sentenced to six years imprisonment. A man is arrested for sexually assaulting a pupil of his when he was 26 and she was 15. He denied it, but another teenage female pupil came forward and showed text messages that he sent to her. He later pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual activity with a child and was sentenced to two years imprisonment. | |||
| 3 | "Human Chains" | 19 June 2017 | 1.86 |
| A man goes to a police station, where he says that he has escaped from an Irish Traveller halting site, where he was being kept as a slave. After police raided the site, a resident was charged with slavery offences. That case was dropped - but he was convicted of an unrelated fraud, for which he was imprisoned. | |||
| 4 | "Code of Silence" | 26 June 2017 | 1.95 |
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In a crowded pub in September 2015, a man is knocked out and his skull is fractured when he is hit by another man. The victim is on the floor for 30 minutes before someone phones the police. When they arrive, the many witnesses refuse to tell the police what happened. The attacker initially denies it, but after photographic evidence is presented to him by the police, he admits it was him. He is charged with GBH, but the charge is reduced to ABH, after it was discovered that the victim had been involved in a fight on the same night and therefore his injuries may not have been inflicted solely by the accused. He is convicted of ABH; he receives a 12 month community order and is ordered to do 120 hours community service. In a separate case, the victim is convicted of affray and possession of an offensive weapon after having attacked a man in the street. He is sentenced to five months imprisonment. | |||
| 5 | "The Golden Bracelet" | 3 July 2017 | 2.23 |
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A care worker is accused of stealing a golden bracelet from the elderly woman she is caring for. The police recovered the bracelet from Cash Converters and returned it to the victim. She was convicted of theft, fined and given 40 hours community service. A man who was on the run hands himself into the police - they charge him with GBH or having hit a man in the street, fracturing his jaw. He was convicted of GBH and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment. A man is arrested for stabbing a shopkeeper after trying to steal meatballs. He is bailed, because there is insufficient evidence against him. He is picked out at an identity parade and is charged with GBH. At his trial, he is acquitted. He was convicted in a separate case of possession with intent to supply heroin and cocaine, for which he was sentenced to four years imprisonment. | |||
Series 6
| No. | Title | Original air date | Viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Sex and Corruption" | 19 February 2018 | 3.76 |
| A man in Luton reports he is being blackmailed. Someone has discovered he has visited a prostitute and is threatening to reveal it to his wife unless paid £1,000. Detectives arrange an undercover operation in which the victim drops off the money as instructed, but the blackmailer does not come to collect it. After wondering how he could have been tipped off about the operation, they realise that the blackmailer was one of their own detectives. A detective from the Major Crime Unit is arrested, charged and dismissed from Bedfordshire Police for gross misconduct. He is convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison, later increased on appeal to 3 years. | |||
| 2 | "Car Attack" | 26 February 2018 | 3.68 |
| Police are called to Dunstable town centre, where a man deliberately drove a car into a group of people on the pavement outside a kebab shop in the early hours of the morning before fleeing on foot. The car attack left a 50-year-old man with a shattered pelvis, which he may never recover from. After an extensive investigation into the crime, police arrested 22-year-old Bradley Vine, from Milton Keynes, on suspicion of attempted murder. Vine had been attacked by a group of young men in the street earlier that night and drove his car at them in revenge. The injured man had not been involved in the earlier attack and was not the intended target of the vehicle-ramming. Vine was later charged with grievous bodily harm with intent. He was convicted of the offence and was sentenced to seven years imprisonment. The injured man was in hospital for three months before returning home. | |||
| 3 | "Left for Dead" | 5 March 2018 | 3.57 |
| The body of a man was found in a park in Peterborough by a female passerby. The body was identified as Stuart Wilkinson, a homeless man who had been addicted to heroin for years prior to his death. Cambridgeshire Constabulary believe the death to be suspicious after finding bruising around the man's neck, and launch a murder investigation. Police arrest 34-year-old Kelly Almond on suspicion of murdering Wilkinson after CCTV evidence shows her moving Wilkinson's body on a mobility scooter before dumping his body in the park. A post-mortem discovered that Wilkinson died naturally. Almond was charged with disposing of a corpse to obstruct the coroner and perverting the course of justice. Almond was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to the former charge. She was found not guilty of the latter charge. | |||
| 4 | "Shallow Grave" | 12 March 2018 | 3.43 |
| This episode focuses on the murder of Natalia Doherty, who disappeared in 2003 at the age of 50. Her husband Gerald Doherty confessed to murdering Natalia before committing suicide. The police receive information from witnesses that there were other people involved with Natalia's murder. The police start with the people that were closest to Natalia and Gerald - Gerald's brothers, Joseph and Daniel. Daniel, who lives in Luton, and Joseph, who lives in Port Glasgow, have both been arrested on suspicion of assisting the murder. After bailing them, police start to dig up the back garden in Daniel's home and find a skeleton. Joseph and Daniel were both re-arrested on suspicion of murdering Natalia and eventually charged with perverting the course of justice, disposing of a corpse to obstruct the coroner and preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body. Daniel was found not guilty of all charges, but Joseph was found guilty of perverting the course of justice. He was sentenced to three months in prison, suspended for twelve months. | |||
| 5 | "Frequent Flyers" | 19 March 2018 | 3.33 |
| A couple, Iftikhar Ahmed and Jade Carrey, who are drug addicts, have taken over the flat of a young woman. Ahmed was convicted of 21 counts of fraud and 3 counts of handling stolen goods. He was sentenced to 20 months imprisonment. Carrey was convicted of possession of a bladed article in public. She received a 12 week suspended prison sentence. | |||
| 6 | "Too Close for Comfort" | 26 March 2018 | 3.17 |
| A woman reports to the police in Luton that she is being stalked by a former friend - a married, middle-aged Asian man. He says that he is a happily-married man, that he was just being friendly and that she stalked him. He was arrested and questioned, during which he was shown photographs of Valentine's gifts from him to her. He was later charged with stalking her. The case against him was later dismissed due to insufficient evidence. | |||
Series 7
| No. | Title | Original air date | Viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Body in the Grass" | 21 May 2018 | 3.89 |
| Mother-of-two Sharon Fade, aged 45, is found dead in long grass in a field, on 12 September 2017.[7] Her neck had been cut with a broken glass bottle. Police arrest her partner, Dean Robinson. They are puzzled at how calm he is and him having made a spreadsheet about the couple's relationship. They interview him, during which he says that he had nothing to do with her death. He says that she was an alcoholic who was violent towards him. Blood is found on his front door, prompting the police to authorise their detention of him for an additional twelve hours. Police release him without charge and later determine that she committed suicide. | |||
| 2 | "The Kane Line" | 28 May 2018 | 3.07 |
| Police mount a covert surveillance operation against organised drug-dealing gangs. They carry out ten simultaneous armed dawn raids. The leader of the gang is sent to prison for 8 years, two suppliers are sentenced to 5 years and 4 months each, and a street dealer is sentenced to 3 years. An accomplice is given a 12 month community order and tagged for possessing criminal property. | |||
| 3 | "A Knife Through the Heart" | 4 June 2018 | 3.21 |
| On 30 June 2017 in a Cambridge street, 27-year-old drug dealer James Cromwell is stabbed through the heart and killed. An argument with Abdul Karim Ali, a drug dealer whom he had known for years, escalated to Ali stabbing Cromwell. Ali was convicted of murder and sentenced to life with a minimum of 23 years. His brother, Abdul Salam Ali, was sent to prison for 3 years for intimidating a witness. | |||
| 4 | "A Second Chance" | 11 June 2018 | 3.28 |
| Police are called to a block of flats, where a woman has been attacked and stabbed in the neck with scissors. The suspect is her partner, Mark Cutmore, who has a long criminal record. There is a flashback to 2015, when he was arrested for possession of an offensive weapon - a dumbbell bar. He was further arrested for affray and attempted GBH after the police saw CCTV footage of a street altercation. He was charged with those offences and spared from jail. In the present day, he is arrested the following day for attempted murder. The injuries are not life-threatening, the victim does not want to press charges and the police cannot tell who started the fight, so he is instead charged with GBH with intent. He pleads guilty and is sentenced to 4 years imprisonment and the couple split up. | |||
| 5 | "Fifty Shades of Abuse" | 18 June 2018 | 2.73 |
| A 19-year-old woman who is in a relationship with a violent, controlling older man arrives at hospital, her skull having been fractured - but then goes missing. Six days later she goes to the police station, and tells police that that he falsely imprisoned her and raped her. The police discover that he has convictions for rape and violent disorder. He arrives at the police station, where the police question him. The Crown Prosecution Service decide that there is insufficient evidence to charge the man, so he is released. | |||
| 6 | "What Lies Beneath" | 25 June 2018 | 2.96 |
| A 20-year-old gang member, Nyaar St Juste, phones the police to report a body buried in a garden. He arrested and interviewed, but he refuses to talk to them. He is taken to court because he was due there the previous day in connection to possessing a taser and did not attend. The police search the garden that St Juste mentioned, but do not find anything. They find that a hole has recently been dug in another garden in the same street, but that nothing is buried in it. Days earlier, his brother Malaki St Juste - who is also a gang member - had been shot. He goes home, from where his other brother phones the police to report that St Juste has stabbed his mother. She is taken to hospital and St Juste is arrested for the attempted murder of her. He is severely mentally ill and the police want him taken to a psychiatric ward, but there is not a bed available. The charge is downgraded to GBH with intent. He is acquitted due to being insane, having been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He is sectioned. | |||
| 7 | "Lost in Translation" | 2 July 2018 | 2.77 |
| Vladimir Lubinof is arrested at Luton Airport after arriving on a flight from Bulgaria with a 12-year-old girl, Gyula Imalola Mitova. Her father, Emil Mitov, who lives in Margate, is also arrested. The police question the men individually. They are charged with child trafficking offences and remanded in custody. Gyula is sent back to Bulgaria, where she lives with her siblings and mother. A third man, Gencho, is arrested at his flat in Margate. Gencho paid for the plane tickets for Vladimir and Gyula. Gencho is released without charge. There is insufficient evidence to prosecute any of the men. Emil stays, whilst Vladimir returns to Bulgaria due to not having the correct permit to work in the UK. | |||
| 8 | "Living Among Us" | 9 July 2018 | 2.72 |
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The police receive a phone call to say that an old man has been beaten by other men. They find the victim, James Smith, badly beaten, and he is taken to hospital, where he is found to be suffering a bleed on the brain. Details of his convictions for sexual offences were posted online and he had been lured to what he believed to be a meeting with a 13-year-old girl, Emily, with whom he had been chatting online. An online video is found of Smith having been confronted by a man who is a vigilante paedophile hunter who lured him there, posing online as Emily. The video then shows the vigilante being joined by several other people, who throw eggs at him and hit him. The police become aware that Smith had previously been targeted by vigilantes when he had been living in Yorkshire. Smith is discharged from hospital and police find him a hotel for him to stay at for the night. Smith is sent to prison for two-and-a-half years for facilitating a sexual offence against a child. No-one is charged in relation to him having been attacked. The police receive a call to say that a man in his thirties is viewing child pornography online. He is arrested at home and brought to the police station, where child porn images and videos are found on his mobile phone and he is questioned. He is charged with four offences: distributing child porn, and with making category A, B and C indecent images of children. He is bailed and told to appear at the Magistrates Court. He receives a two-year suspended sentence and is put on the Sex Offenders' Register for 10 years. | |||
References
- ↑ "24 Hours in Police Custody, Channel 4, review: 'masterful'". The Daily Telegraph. 2014-09-29.
- ↑ "Factual Series". The Garden Productions Ltd. Archived from the original on 25 May 2015. Retrieved 2015-01-06.
- ↑ "Channel 4 series to take 'warts and all' look at Luton police station". The Guardian. 2014-09-23.
- ↑ "24 Hours in Police Custody Episode Guide". Channel 4. Retrieved 2015-01-06.
- ↑ "24 Hours in Police Custody Programme Information". Channel 4 Press Office. 2014-10-14.
- ↑ "Weekly top 30 programmes". BARB. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ↑ Sharon Fade death now being treated as 'non-suspicious' by police
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