Airdate: The Murder Detectives

Well this sounds downright fascinating: cameras follow a real life UK murder investigation -but the story is structured like a drama.

If you were drawn to Making a Murderer and The Jinx then The Murder Detectives should be right up your alley.

This one is up for a BAFTA Award next week.

Groundbreaking three-part UK series with unprecedented access to a police murder investigation, telling the true story, as a drama, from the perspective of the police and the victim and suspect’s families.

Filmed over 18 months, and with intimate and unprecedented access to the police major crime team, this dramatic trilogy of films creates a unique, unfolding picture of a real-life murder, weaving together the stories of three different worlds.

It follows the ripples that spread after a 19-year-old is murdered in March 2014, a young life cut short in a senseless stabbing.

Featuring a detective faced with a whodunit, a grieving family desperate for justice and another who’ll do anything to save their son from a life behind bars, the series is shot with a drama-like quality – but this is real life with genuine and far-reaching consequences.

Episode 1:
A manhunt is underway after the seemingly motiveless killing of a 19- year-old boy in Bristol. Detectives comb the city in search of their suspect, a black-hooded figure captured on CCTV feeling the crime scene.

The desperate last breaths of victim Nicholas Robinson are heard as he makes a 999 call before collapsing and dying of multiple stab wounds. He was studying at college and had recently got engaged.

The only contact he’d ever head with the police was to report his bike stolen 2 years earlier. So who would want to kill him and why? A single black glove dropped at the crime scene could provide the answer.

Tuesday, May 17 at 9.30pm, ABC2.