Airdate: True Life Crime UK

MTV will expand its True Life Crime investigative franchise with True Life Crime UK from mid-April.

The series will go deep into some of the most haunting and unsolved cases of crimes against young people in the UK that have rocked headlines and social feeds across the world.

The four-episode docuseries is hosted by BBC News journalist Linda Adey, who investigates the stories of four lives gone too soon, addressing chilling revelations and exposing new questions. These victims were young and the crimes against them were even more shocking.

Linda Adey said, “I’ve reported on a lot of crime as a journalist and True Life Crime UK is about getting under the headlines and making sure we bring these young people’s stories to the world so that they are not forgotten. By spreading awareness of their names, we hope to honor them and shed light on the cruelty of lives lost too soon.”

Cases featured in the series include:

Jayden Parkinson: Runaway or Foul Play?
Jayden Parkinson, 17, disappears in Oxford without a trace. Diving deep into the disturbing case of the missing teen who vanishes just days before Christmas, host Linda Adey’s hunt for answers leads to a heart-breaking discovery.

Kirsty Maxwell: Hen Night Horror
A Benidorm hen party turns into a nightmare as newlywed Kirsty Maxwell is found dead by her hotel pool after falling from a 10th floor balcony. An enquiry by Spanish police leaves many questions unanswered for Kirsty’s grieving family, as the episode dives into the chilling story of a happy weekend turned into a horror story.

Champion Ganda: Random Attack or Marked for Murder?
Champion Ganda, 17, was stabbed to death in broad daylight near an East London primary school. Linda Adey heads to Forest Gate to investigate a murder that sent shockwaves through the local community and is still making noise across social feeds today.

James Brindley: Mindless Murder or Calculated Killing?
When James Brindley, 26, is killed on his way home after a night out, it devastates his close-knit family and a quiet village in the West Midlands. Left with unanswered questions and a need to uncover the truth, James’s parents seek closure on why their son was brutally killed meters away from the family home.

MTV’s True Life Crime premiered in the US early 2020 and followed award-winning journalist and MTV News host Dometi Pongo as he investigated shocking crimes committed against young people, daring to ask unanswered questions that exposed the truth.

True Life Crime UK is commissioned for MTV International by Kerry Taylor and Craig Orr. The executive producers for MTV International are Orr and Lestyn Barker, the executive producer for ViacomCBS International Studios UK (VIS UK) is Jeff Anderson and the series producer is Nick Kenton.

Wednesday, 14 April at 9.30pm on MTV.