A convicted murderer walks free after serving a life sentence. The system calls him a model prisoner. Just eight weeks later, another woman is dead — strangled and stabbed in a Middlesbrough kitchen.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson examines the case of Douglas Gary Vinter: the 6ft 7in bodybuilder who murdered his colleague Carl Edon in 1995, was released on licence, and then killed his estranged wife Anne White in 2008. We look at the failures that allowed his release, the brutal details of both murders, his later attacks on fellow inmates — including Sarah Payne’s killer Roy Whiting — and the whole-life sentence that followed.

A story of extreme violence, repeated chances, and the questions left unanswered by the families of his victims.

In the winter of 2006, five women vanished from the streets of Ipswich. Their naked bodies were later found dumped in streams, ponds and woods — some posed with arms outstretched like crucifixes.

The man responsible was Steven Gerald James Wright, the Suffolk Strangler. But his killing began seven years earlier with the murder of a 17-year-old girl walking home from a nightclub.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson traces Wright’s crimes from the 1999 murder of Victoria Hall to the six-week reign of terror that paralysed Suffolk, the forensic breakthrough that finally caught him, and the whole-life sentence that means he will never walk free.

In March 2007, David William Tiley murdered his disabled fiancée Susan Hale in their Southampton flat. He bound her, sexually assaulted her, stabbed her to death… then lived with her decomposing body for over a week.

He turned on a fan. Sprayed deodorant under the bedroom door. Texted her friends from her phone. Went shopping. Pretended everything was normal.

Then her carer, Sarah Merritt, arrived for a routine visit.

What happened next is one of the most calculated and brutal double murders in modern British true crime.

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She lived just 54 days. In that short time, her father subjected her to repeated physical and sexual abuse before ending her life in a flat in Kettering in November 2005.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson examines the case of Andrew Randall — the man who admitted murdering and sexually abusing his seven-week-old daughter Jessica. From the horrific injuries discovered after her death to the systemic failures that saw her examined by around 30 health professionals without ever being placed on the child protection register, this is a story of extreme cruelty and missed opportunities.

Randall was originally given a whole-life sentence, later reduced on appeal to a 30-year minimum term.

Content warning: This episode discusses the abuse and murder of an infant in detail. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

If you have been affected by the issues raised, support is available in the UK via the NSPCC on 0808 800 5000 or at nspcc.org.uk.

One by one, taxi driver Rahan Arshad carried his three young children downstairs in their pyjamas and England kit… and murdered them with a £1.99 rounders bat.

Moments earlier he had already beaten their mother to death in the bedroom of their quiet Cheadle Hulme home. Then he covered the bodies, left the house, and flew to Thailand on a ticket he’d booked weeks in advance.

The decomposing remains of Uzma, Adam, Abbas and Henna weren’t found for more than three weeks. When police finally caught him, he tried to blame his dead wife.

This is the full story of one of Britain’s most brutal family annihilations — the crime so horrific the judge told him “life means life.”

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A man with a violent past is released… and kills again. Stephen McColl murdered his friend and his girlfriend in Greater Manchester. The system failed. The victims paid the price.

In this episode of True Crime Files, Alexander Lawson reveals the full story of the attacks, the court case, the life sentence, and the questions that still haunt the justice system.

If you think you know UK true crime, this one will shock you.

A 15-year-old girl steps out to make one quick call. She never comes home. Three days later her remains are found in five bin bags on a London estate. The killer? A former butcher, serial rapist, and predator who had already walked free after years of attacking women.

This is the full story of John McGrady — the “Beast of Belfast” — and the night he decided to go out and “look for someone.”

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Three days before her 18th birthday, 17-year-old Jeshma Raithatha left school and started the same walk home she always took. She never made it.

Hidden in the undergrowth, a man dragged her into a concealed den, strangled her, raped her, and stabbed her through the heart so she could never identify him. Her body wasn’t found for eight days. By then the killer had already fled the country.

His name was Viktors Dembovskis — a Latvian with prior rape convictions who had been living freely in London. He almost got away with it.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the full story of the crime, the evidence that finally caught him, the whole-life sentence, and the questions that still haunt the case.

In September 2004, a 24-year-old loner from Surrey put on a hockey mask, picked up a knife, and set out to become Britain’s next infamous killer. Inspired by horror films, Daniel Julian Gonzalez murdered four strangers and left two more fighting for their lives in a terrifying 72-hour rampage across London and the south coast.

His mother had already begged the system for help, asking one chilling question: “Does my son have to commit murder to get help?”

This is the full story of the “Freddy Krueger Killer” — the crimes, the trial, and the disturbing final chapter at Broadmoor.

A son walks into his mother’s kitchen and finds her severed head on the floor. The man standing over her — naked, knife in hand — calmly says: “We’ve had a little argument.”

That man was Glyn Trevor John Dix. Twenty-five years earlier he had raped and shot another woman dead. The system released him. He married the mother of his former cellmate. Then he butchered her.

This is the full, disturbing story of the killer who should never have walked free.