Beyond Reasonable Doubt

Princess Diana’s tragic death would prompt a three-year investigation by Scotland Yard - but what crime had been committed… and who was really to blame? In the third episode of a new seven-part Beyond Reasonable Doubt podcast from Mail+, award-winning crime writer Stephen Wright speaks to the people who knew Princess Diana to unravel the conspiracy theories around her death - as a bombshell note from the Princess suggested that someone was plotting to kill her, and that person was, ‘My husband’. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The death of Princess Diana in a car crash in a tunnel in Paris sent shockwaves around the world, with mourners taking to the streets in Britain and in Paris - and photographers surrounding the French hospital where the Princess lay dead. In the second episode of a new seven-part Beyond Reasonable Doubt podcast from Mail+, award-winning crime writer Stephen Wright speaks to the people who were there that day - including Father Yves-Marie Clochard-Bossuet, the priest who attended her, and driver Colin Tebbutt, who secured the room where Diana lay in bed - and whose own children thought he had died in the crash.

Produced by Rosie Gillott

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On August 31, 1997, a Mercedes carrying Diana, Princess of Wales crashed into a pillar in a tunnel in Paris, and the world would never be the same again. A new seven-part Beyond Reasonable Doubt podcast from Mail+ finally reveals what really happened that night - in the words of the people who were there, including an exclusive first interview with surgeon Monsef Dahman, who fought to save Diana's life that night. Presented by award-winning Daily Mail crime writer Stephen Wright, the podcast offers a minute-by-minute breakdown of the events of 1997 - and how it changed the Royal family forever. Produced by Rosie Gillott.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On August 31, 1997, a Mercedes carrying Diana, Princess of Wales crashed into the wall of a tunnel in Paris, and the world would never be the same again. A new six-part Beyond Reasonable Doubt podcast from Mail+ finally reveals what really happened that night - in the words of the people who were there. Presented by award-winning Daily Mail crime writer Stephen Wright, the podcast includes an in-depth interview with Lord Stevens, who ran the public inquiry into Diana’s death - and a minute-by-minute breakdown of the events of 1997.From Dai Davies, then head of royalty protection to Colin Tebbut, Diana’s Driver, and one of the first people who arrived in France to identify her body, ‘Last Days of Diana’ explores the tragedy - and how it changed the Royal family forever. The six-part podcast also includes exclusive interviews with medical staff who have not spoken to the media for decades.‘Last Days of Diana’ launches on Monday 21st at 11pm, only on Mail Plus. Tune in every Monday for a new episode of ‘Last Days of Diana’, available first via mailplus.co.uk/diana.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In March 1987, private investigator Daniel Morgan was brutally killed in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, with an axe embedded in his skull - but more than three decades later, no one has ever faced justice for his death. Award-winning crime writer Stephen Wright talks to Daniel’s campaigning brother, Alastair, about how the Metropolitan Police repeatedly failed Daniel, and why current Met Chief Cressida Dick should resign ‘as a matter of honour’ over a murky investigation mired in allegations of police corruption.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mary Bastholm vanished from a Gloucester bus stop in January 1968, while en route to visit her boyfriend. She was just 15 years old and her disappearance was completely out of character. Within months, police shelved the investigation after running out of leads – despite detectives believing she had been abducted. A police file on her case was gathering dust for a quarter of a century until 1994, when Fred and Rose West were arrested over the brutal murders of 12 girls and young women. Psychopath Fred West was quickly linked with Mary's disappearance but repeatedly denied being responsible before killing himself. In this exclusive interview, Stephen Wright speaks to ex Det Supt John Bennett, who led the Cromwell Street investigation in the 1990s (and who as a young detective worked on Mary’s disappearance in the late 1960s) to discuss her case and the recent police dig at the site of a former Gloucester cafe in a new bid to find her remains. Why is Bennett convinced Fred West abducted and murdered Mary, and will her body ever be located?
 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Boxing Day 1994, 27-year-old gynaecologist Dr Joan Francisco was found strangled in her London flat - but her family faced an agonising five-year legal battle before her volatile ex-boyfriend was finally brought to justice. Did police and prosecutors treat them differently because they were black? Award-winning crime writer Stephen Wright talks to Joan’s sister Margaret about how the Stephen Lawrence case inspired the family to pursue a landmark civil case, their joy at finally getting ‘Justice for Joan’, and the lessons that the case offers for the Black Lives Matter movement.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When police raided the homes of VIPs Lord Brittan, Field Marshal Lord Bramall and Harvey Proctor on the basis of ludicrous false child abuse allegations from ‘Nick’ - aka paedophile Carl Beech - one brave detective stood up against the ‘witch-hunt’. Award-winning crime writer Stephen Wright speaks to former Detective Chief Inspector Paul Settle on how he was hounded to the brink of suicide by senior officers, leading to his early retirement (the Met denies this). Settle talks about the Met’s ‘cover-up culture’ relating to the VIP abuse scandal, how the force he loved became ‘like the Gestapo’ and why he is prepared to testify against them in any new inquiry.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ten years after former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath died, he was smeared with vile and bizarre false claims of satanism, child abuse and murder, including using a bear-claw glove to disembowel children. Why did police believe the claims against him - and was it to do with Heath’s sexuality? Award-winning crime-writer Stephen Wright talks to Heath’s godson, Lincoln Seligman (who knew him as ‘Uncle Teddy’), and his former political secretary and biographer, Michael McMannus about how - unlike other establishment figures falsely accused of similar crimes - Heath had no children to defend him, and why police chose to believe the ‘wicked and cruel’ allegations against him. And they explain why Home Secretary Priti Patel should ensure officers are held to account over their shocking blunders.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When dashing Swiss banker (and secret MI6 agent) Mark Conway walked into the Gloucestershire shop she worked in, divorcee Carolyn Woods fell head over heels and they began planning a life together. There was just one problem, she tells award-winning crime writer Stephen Wright: ‘Conway’ was actually notorious conman Mark Acklom, who span a web of lies including taking fake calls from the King of Spain, and slowly tore Carolyn’s life apart, isolating her from her friends and robbing her of £850,000.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.