Channel 4's Trial and Error investigated real-life miscarriages of justice in the courts' system and aimed to set them right.
Showing Season 5 of 10
Season 5
1995
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01. The George McPhee Case
1995-11-06
George McPhee, sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and assault when in 1984 a woman, Elizabeth "Totsie" Sutherland, was strangled and then stabbed during the burglary of her cottage in the Scottish Highlands. McPhee was a getaway driver in a series of burglaries, but he had an alibi to show he was committing crimes many miles away at the time of the killing.
02. The Sheila Bowler Case
1995-11-09
After the law overrode the findings of the previous episode about this case - in the main that elderly people with dementia can often surprise younger, fitter people with their physical movements - this update sources further evidence.