British Murders with Stuart Blues

A 63-year-old grandmother spends Christmas Day 2009 exactly as she always did, relaxing at home in her fourth-floor flat in Cranhill, Glasgow, watching television and looking forward to seeing her beloved granddaughters later that evening. When Hannah Smith fails to answer her door, her family assume she has simply fallen asleep. But as Christmas turns into Boxing Day and bey...

A 21-year-old mother disappears from her home in the Merseyside town of Southport just days before Christmas in 1998. Lynsey Quy’s family know immediately that something is wrong. She adored her children, kept in regular contact with loved ones, and would never have walked away without explanation. Yet as concern grows and police begin searching for answers, suspicion quickly...

A 57-year-old woman is enjoying retirement in the quiet Worcestershire countryside just days before Christmas 2009. After more than two decades of marriage, Melinda Palmer and her husband Jonathan have recently moved into an isolated detached house surrounded by fields and woodland in the tiny village of Wadborough. Friends and neighbours describe them as a devoted couple beg...

In the early hours of May 11, 2012, a devastating fire tore through a council house on Victory Road in Allenton, Derby. Inside the smoke-filled home were six sleeping children: 10-year-old Jade, nine-year-old John, eight-year-old Jack, six-year-old Jesse, five-year-old Jayden and 13-year-old Duwayne. Despite desperate rescue attempts from neighbours and firefighters, all six ...

A 20-year-old woman is working in Cardiff’s docklands district in the early hours of February 14, 1988. She is trying to earn enough money to get through another night and return home safely by morning. Instead, Lynette White was subjected to a savage and sustained attack in a flat above a betting shop in Tiger Bay. By sunrise, she is dead, and one of the most notorious murde...