Overview
- Lucy Hargreaves was shot dead in her Liverpool home in 2005 and the house was then set on fire while her partner and small child escaped upstairs through a window.
- A major police probe led to arrests and a trial that ended when the judge accepted a defence submission of 'no case to answer', the defendants were formally acquitted, and the murder remains unsolved.
- Rob Rinder, who served as junior defence counsel at the original trial, has made a documentary that brings him together with the victim’s family, lead defence counsel Rod Johnson KC, and former detective Peter Bleksley.
- The programme is due to be available to watch or stream on Crime + Investigation from Monday 8 June and it asks whether modern forensic techniques or legal routes could open new lines of inquiry.
- Coverage notes problems that hampered the original case, including alleged witness intimidation, community mistrust of police and reliance on early cell-site and mobile-phone evidence, which may shape any future review or prosecution decisions.