Crimewatch Live – Series 17
Rav Wilding and Michelle Ackerley appeal for information about unsolved crimes.
Episodes
Episode 1
The story of a devastating crash caused by a lorry driver using his phone at the wheel, and can you help police find those responsible for a terrifying attack on a woman in her own home?
Episode 2
The hunt to catch the teenager responsible for a spate of stranger stabbings in Bristol. And can you help find the person responsible for assaulting a patient on a hospital ward?
Episode 3
The brave officer who faced up to an armed suspect and arrested him despite injury, and how an audacious gang of teenagers who carjacked and stole over 80 cars were finally caught.
Episode 4
How a 20-year investigation finally caught a serial rapist who had appeared on a TV talent show, and an appeal for information on a stabbing in Hull.
Episode 5
How Steven Craig, who spent 15 years in jail for attacking his partner, was retried for murder after she died in 2021. And the UK's fastest officer who’s never lost a chase.
Episode 6
The story of two officers stabbed during a routine stop-and-search in a busy shopping centre, and we join police on nighttime patrols as they target predatory sexual behaviour.
Episode 7
How a homeowner received a call from police telling him his tenant had tried to sell his house behind his back, and can you help police find who stole £700,000 worth of cars?
Episode 8
How a newly trained cash guard convinced a gunman to give himself up during an armed robbery, and police appeal for new information about the murder of a pensioner.
Episode 9
How a gang who stole priceless books were caught, and a forensic artist who creates facial reconstructions of missing people to show how they might look in the present day.
Episode 10
Search and rescue charity volunteers talk about their trip to help Turkey's earthquake victims, and can you identify a French woman killed in a hit-and-run more than 40 years ago?
Episode 11
The amazing story of a brave officer and his dog injured by a man with a zombie knife, and an appeal for information on the tragic stabbing of a teenager.
Episode 12
How a killer finally went to prison in the UK's oldest case of double jeopardy after new forensics linked him a billion to one to the crime.
Episode 13
The incredible story of survival of a woman stabbed 29 times by her ex-partner, and the refugee who narrowly escaped deportation and is now working as a barrister in the UK.
Episode 14
The jaw-dropping chase in which a man drove a stolen car on to railway tracks to flee police, and an appeal about a disturbing rape by a man fixated on his victims' red hair.
Episode 15
On patrol with a specialist knife crime unit in Manchester as they take weapons off the streets, and an appeal for information on the murder of a father from 20 years ago.