Shaun Dooley narrates this three-part BBC Two series that plants itself inside Greater Manchester Police’s Serious Sexual Offences Unit as detectives sift through decades-old allegations against former Radio Caroline DJ Ray Teret. Filmed in 2014, the cameras track the slow accumulation of evidence: officers knocking on doors of women assaulted in the 1960s and 1970s, coaxing memories from the time when Teret mentored a then-unknown Jimmy Savile. The final episode lands the conviction verdict on 11 December 2014, Teret jailed for 25 years for raping and indecently assaulting 11 girls. What sticks is the exhaustion on the detectives’ faces when the jury files back in, and the tremor in one survivor’s voice as she says she finally feels believed.
The format launched a franchise. A four-part run, Murder on the Streets (2017), swapped sex crimes for homicide, and Fighting Organised Crime (2021) widened the lens to drug cartels, but neither matched the claustrophobic focus of the original, where every interview room revelation tightened the net around one man who thought fame had buried his past.
Production Details
BBC Two / 1 Season / 3 Episodes / 2015
Main Cast
Shaun Dooley as Self - Narrator (voice)
