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ITV’s resident judge, Robert Rinder, lifts the lid on some of Britain’s worst crimes, delving deep into each real-life case using witness accounts, CCTV footage and news reports to reconstruct defining moments. From murders to

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 1 Episode 1 - Episode 1
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    #1 - Episode 1

    S1:E1

    Judge Rinder examines the case of Laura Davies who was murdered by her 22-year-old boyfriend Jordan Taylor and the case of Andreas Christopheros who was attacked at his own home when a beaker of sulphuric acid was thrown into his face, while his wife Pia and their 18-month-old son slept in the next room.

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  2. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 1 Episode 2 - Episode 2
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    S1:E2

    Robert Rinder examines a Redditch rape case from 1996, in which Victor Nealon spent 17 years trying to clear his name, and an 18-month nationwide crime spree carried out by a gang. The programme examines the combined efforts of several police forces that were able to track down the gang and declare them guilty.

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  3. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 1 Episode 3 - Episode 3
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    #3 - Episode 3

    S1:E3

    The barrister considers the case of 25-year-old Joanna Yeates, who was found strangled to death and partially covered in snow on a county lane on Christmas morning 2010. The discovery of her body ended an eight-day police search, but the authorities and the media focused on Joanna's landlord and neighbour, Christopher Jeffries, while the real killer was on the loose.

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  4. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 1 Episode 4 - Episode 4
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    #4 - Episode 4

    S1:E4

    Defence barrister Robert Rinder steps out from behind the bench to review two more real-life cases. Today he tells the story of Debbie Davey, who had a successful career, a loving family and a healthy bank balance - which made her the envy of her friend Caryn Bates, who concocted an elaborate scam to Debbie out of thousands of pounds. Plus, when mother-of-two Zoe Dronfield met Jason Smith she thought he was the man of her dreams. But soon his dark side began to surface, and after a year of his violent behaviour she ended the relationship. However, in early 2014 he talked his way back into her home - and inflicted a brutal attack that lasted eight hours.

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  5. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 1 Episode 5 - Episode 5
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    #5 - Episode 5

    S1:E5

    The cases of lovable rogue Adam Vincent, who was menaced by a neighbouring family known to Humberside Police for causing trouble and dealing in drugs. Plus, Sophie Lancaster and boyfriend Robert Maltby who were brutally attacked in a park in Bacup, Lancashire. Sophie died of her injuries, while Robert suffered brain damage.

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  6. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 1 Episode 6 - Episode 6
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    #6 - Episode 6

    S1:E6

    Barrister Robert Rinder examines two more real-life cases, looking at the events leading up to crimes, going through the police investigations and summing up the trials. He first looks at the 2014 murder of hairdresser Hollie Gazzard by her ex-boyfriend Asher Maslin in the salon where she worked, before exploring the story of Mary Turner Thompson, who discovered her husband William Jordan was a bigamist.

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  7. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 1 Episode 7 - Episode 7
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    #7 - Episode 7

    S1:E7

    Barrister Robert Rinder examines the case of James Smith, a security guard confronted by a masked man with a gun in January 2013. He also assesses the story of Tye Hawkins, an 11-year-old knocked down by a motorbike rider in a hit and run in September 2015.

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  8. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 1 Episode 8 - Episode 8
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    #8 - Episode 8

    S1:E8

    The barrister considers the case of Stephen Downing, who was convicted in 1974 of the murder of Wendy Sewell in Bakewell Cemetery and released on appeal in 2001 following a lengthy campaign by journalist Don Hale.

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  9. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 1 Episode 9 - Episode 9
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    #9 - Episode 9

    S1:E9

    Defence barrister Robert Rinder reviews two more real-life cases. When Liz and Jonathan Speirs were approached by friend and neighbour Keith Cameron to invest in a telecoms business, the offer seemed too good to be true. Sure enough, Keith was a conman with just one thing on his mind - scamming them out of as much cash as possible. Plus, the story of trainee motor mechanic Billy Dove, whose night out with friends in 2011 ended in tragedy when a fight broke out with a gang outside a nightclub and Billy was fatally stabbed.

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  10. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 1 Episode 10 - Episode 10
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    #10 - Episode 10

    S1:E10

    The case of Joe and Keith Barnett, who after trying unsuccessfully for a child looked into surrogacy. However, their chosen carrier scammed out of £10,000. Plus, Robert Rinder looks at the crimes of Liverpudlian drug lord Chris Welsh, who orchestrated a £200m cross-border cartel.

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  11. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 2 Episode 1 - Episode 1
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    S2:E1

    Barrister Robert Rinder examines more real-life cases, looking at the events leading up to crimes, going through the police investigations and summing up the trials. In the first edition, he focuses on the deaths of six children in a house fire in Derby, where Mick and Mairead Philpott quickly became prime suspects, and the murder of 67-year-old Rita Stephens in Penoced, Bridgend, for which police arrested her son Mark.

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  12. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 2 Episode 2 - Episode 2
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    #12 - Episode 2

    S2:E2

    Robert Rinder examines the case of a gang of fraudsters targeting the elderly by pretending to be the police during 2014 and 2015.

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  13. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 2 Episode 3 - Episode 3
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    #13 - Episode 3

    S2:E3

    In October 1993, Gary Nelson, a man described as one of the most violent and dangerous men to walk the streets of the UK, murdered a bouncer and community police officer. In an investigation spanning 13 years, a determined team of police officers work to ensure Gary Nelson faces justice for his crimes.

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  14. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 2 Episode 4 - Episode 4
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    #14 - Episode 4

    S2:E4

    Barrister Robert Rinder examines the murder of 15-year-old Dawn Ashworth in Leicester in 1986, which police realised was almost identical to the killing of Lynda Mann three years earlier. He also follows the search for the courier who lost control of his car in March 2016, hitting some girls who had gone out for a Monday night jog.

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  15. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 2 Episode 5 - Episode 5
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    #15 - Episode 5

    S2:E5

    Barrister Robert Rinder recalls arguably the most audacious robbery in British criminal history, when in November 2000 an armed gang tried to steal the priceless Millennium Star diamond on display at the Millennium Dome, south-east London. Plus, the case of gamekeeper Billy Stirrat, whose life was turned upside down following a miscarriage of justice involving his wrongful arrest for the possession of £500,000 worth of amphetamine.

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  16. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 2 Episode 6 - Episode 6
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    #16 - Episode 6

    S2:E6

    In May 1996, police were called to a road-rage incident on a slip-road of the M25 that led to the stabbing to death of 21-year-old Stephen Cameron. Robert Rinder examines how the case led to an international manhunt for suspect Kenneth Noye, who fled the country and was eventually tracked down in Spain in 1998.

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  17. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 2 Episode 7 - Episode 7
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    #17 - Episode 7

    S2:E7

    The barrister examines two more real-life cases, including that of Darrell Simester, who was held against his will for 13 years on a farm in Newport, Wales. Plus, the case of Paul Roylance, who stole the money left to his mother Shelley when his father lost his life to cancer.

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  18. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 2 Episode 8 - Episode 8
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    #18 - Episode 8

    S2:E8

    The barrister examines more real-life cases, including the disappearance of Sian O'Callaghan in March 2011, who was murdered after leaving a nightclub and getting into a taxi in the early hours of the morning. Police arrested a local taxi driver named Christopher Halliwell, who led the officers to the body of Sian.

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  19. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 2 Episode 9 - Episode 9
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    #19 - Episode 9

    S2:E9

    In February 1997, Roger Andrews is confronted in his home by a man holding a gun. In a split second decision Roger fights back with his own pistol and shoots the man 3 times. The man survives and is arrested by the police. Quickly links between the man arrested and another crime emerge - the murder of a retired town clerk in Ramsgate in 1996. In June 2010, 14-year-old Lillian Groves was killed outside her home in New Addlington in Surrey by speeding motorist John Page, who had been smoking cannabis. This is the story of Lillian’s parents’ fight to change the legal system that had allowed this man to escape a fitting punishment.

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  20. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 2 Episode 10 - Episode 10
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    #20 - Episode 10

    S2:E10

    Barrister Robert Rinder recalls how the Border Force and the National Crime Agency worked together to carry out the UK's biggest ever drugs bust. He also recounts the events of February 2006, when the small market town of Tonbridge in Kent made headlines around the world as news broke of the biggest cash robbery in British history.

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  21. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 3 Episode 1 - Episode 1
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    #21 - Episode 1

    S3:E1

    The barrister examines the 1976 murder of 15-year-old Janet Commins, whose body was discovered in Flint, north east Wales, and the man who was wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter. Would the real killer now be brought to justice?

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  22. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 3 Episode 2 - Episode 2
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    #22 - Episode 2

    S3:E2

    The case of Julie Archer, who was set on fire in her home, and another involving the theft of 11 canisters of nitrous oxide, otherwise known as laughing gas, from a hospital in Darlington.

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  23. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 3 Episode 3 - Episode 3
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    #23 - Episode 3

    S3:E3

    Barrister Robert Rinder presents the 2003 case of a drive-by shooting in Aston, Birmingham, that left two girls fighting for their lives when they were caught in the crossfire of gang rivalry. He also follows the investigation to find the man who broke into a woman's Pembrokeshire home and sexually assaulted her.

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  24. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 3 Episode 4 - Episode 4
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    #24 - Episode 4

    S3:E4

    Barrister Robert Rinder looks into the investigation that followed a number of complaints to the RSPCA from people who had purchased sick and dying dogs. It led to an unscrupulous gang of puppy traders and several raids and arrests - but the complaints kept coming. Plus, the story of a murder that tore a family apart.

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  25. Judge Rinder's Crime Stories Season 3 Episode 5 - Episode 5
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    #25 - Episode 5

    S3:E5

    The case of 17-year-old Shafilea Ahmed, who was brutally murdered by her parents Iftikhar and Farzana in Warrington in September 2003. Friends of both Shafilea and her sister Mevish give exclusive interviews recalling the part they played in helping bring her parents to justice.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Episode 1" is the worst rated episode of "Judge Rinder's Crime Stories". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/20/2016. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Episode 2".