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On the 22nd of April 1972, the police in the southeast London borough of Lewisham were alerted to a house fire on Doggett Road. On the second floor of the building, they discovered the body of 26-year-old Maxwell Confait.
Three boys later confessed to the murder. In this episode of Bad People, Dr. Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen examine what went wrong in the police interviewing process, the major legal reforms that followed and their implications for police practices in the UK today.
Warning: This episode contains strong language and references to murder and suicide.
Academic Consultants for The Open University:
Commissioning Assistant Producer: Adam Eland
Bad People is produced in partnership with The Open University and is a BBC Audio Science Production for BBC Sounds
#BadPeople_BBC
By BBC Radio 5 Live4.3
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On the 22nd of April 1972, the police in the southeast London borough of Lewisham were alerted to a house fire on Doggett Road. On the second floor of the building, they discovered the body of 26-year-old Maxwell Confait.
Three boys later confessed to the murder. In this episode of Bad People, Dr. Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen examine what went wrong in the police interviewing process, the major legal reforms that followed and their implications for police practices in the UK today.
Warning: This episode contains strong language and references to murder and suicide.
Academic Consultants for The Open University:
Commissioning Assistant Producer: Adam Eland
Bad People is produced in partnership with The Open University and is a BBC Audio Science Production for BBC Sounds
#BadPeople_BBC

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