Eleanor Williams is een tenger, blond meisje van negentien uit Barrow-in-Furness, een Engels stadje waar iedereen elkaar kent. Ze is een geliefde medewerker van de pub. Haar moeder en zusje zien haar steeds vaker thuiskomen met blauwe plekken, en Ellie verdwijnt regelmatig om later weer op te duiken met nieuwe verwondingen. Niemand weet wat er aan de hand is, totdat ze op Facebook een verhaal post dat Barrow op z’n grondvesten doet schudden. Ellie beschuldigt enkele mannen van verkrachting, mishandeling en mensenhandel. Haar aanklacht leidt tot een explosie van geweld, maar wat is nu echt gebeurd? In Unreliable Witness hoor je het hele schokkende verhaal.
SEASON 6: Unreliable Witness (2024/25)
Investigating the high-profile case of Ellie Williams, the young woman jailed for lying about sexual assault and grooming in her home town. Sky News’ Jason Farrell and Liz Lane look at what could have led her to make these claims and if, underneath it all, there is some other secret buried amongst the lies.
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SEASON 5: Patient 11 (2024)
Following the death of her brother, young mother Alexis Quinn seeks temporary respite in NHS psychiatric care, never imagining that three days, would turn into more than three year ordeal that would ultimately expose a national scandal.
SEASON 4: StoryCast 21 (2021)
Through extraordinary personal stories, Sky News revisits 21 of the world’s biggest news events this century.
SEASON 3: Polonium and The Piano Player (2020)
Two Russian agents release a miniature nuclear weapon in a 5-star London hotel. But former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko is not the only victim.
SEASON 2: What happened to Annie? (2019)
In 2005, the body of 30-year-old Swedish woman, Annie Börjesson, was found on Prestwick beach in Scotland. Could one of the world’s most secretive security agencies be behind her death?
SEASON 1: The Hunt for the Brinks-Mat Gold (2018)
In 1983, an armed gang stole £26m in gold bars from a high-security depot near Heathrow Airport. Dubbed the crime of the century, the heist changed the face of Britain’s criminal landscape and the life of one undercover Scotland Yard detective.
For more than a decade, London mum Anna has led a secret double life as a brothel keeper. But in 2024, a break-in at her brothel sparks a potentially deadly chain of events.
Pitted against both criminals and the police, can Anna untangle herself from this hidden world with both her secret and her safety intact?
The first episodes of The Brothel are out soon.
The series uses the voices of actors to protect the identities of those featured.
