← Trial and Error

Season 4

2 episodes · 1995

  1. 1The Case of Brian Parsons

    26 Apr 1995

    1987: Brian Parsons, charged with murder and sentenced to life imprisonment for the beating to death of an 84-year old Devonshire woman in her own home. Ivy Batten was a popular lady, known to many people through her habit of waving to passing trains. But it appears the only reason the police knew 'Bunny' Parsons was on the scene was from reports he, a young man of childlike innocence, had made himself.

  2. 2The Case of Jason Warrfinale

    27 Apr 1995

    1992: Jason Warr, charged with murder and sentenced to life imprisonment for the brutal killing by 35 blows of a claw hammer of insurance salesman Paul Newman of Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. With Newman's estranged wife having a solid alibi, her daughter's boyfriend became the focus of the police's attention. But the trap which lured Newman to his death seems far too sophisticated for a teenager to come up with, and in any case he seemingly did not have access to any telephone to do so.