Episode 5 - Jack Whomes

05/07/20 • 20 min

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Jack Whomes was convicted in 1998 of the triple murder of Pat Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe, 3 local drug dealers. It’s alleged that he held a grudge against these men for the tragic death of Leah Betts in 1995 - something which made national headlines at the time as she died after taking ecstasy provided by the murder victims.

It can be proved Whomes was in the area at the time, and there’s even a witness who accused him of the crime. However, to this day he maintains his innocence. He believes phone data proves he was at a pub nearby when the murders took place. The so-called witness, Darren Nicholls, had good reason to accuse Whomes. Nicholls had acted as the getaway driver, but he claimed he knew nothing of the plan to murder. Join us as we unpick the evidence with defence barrister, Matt Stanbury and former Met police detective, Colin Sutton.

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Episode 4 - Omar Benguit

Oki was walking home from a nightclub in Bournemouth in July 2002 when she was attacked from behind without warning. She was stabbed in the back 3 times, she bled to death. She was still alive when the emergency services arrived, and in her broken English, she explained she’d been attacked by a masked man.

Eventually, Omar Benguit would be tried and convicted for her murder. A known drug user, Benguit had already racked up 60 convictions, including one for stabbing a man in the chest and threatening another with a syringe.

The main evidence used to convict him came from another known drug user with a history of false allegations. She started drip feeding information to the police about the murder of Jong-Ok Shin - Oki, as she was known. The witness was to become part of a story which led to 3 trials, 2 appeals and the involvement of a magazine and hugely popular TV programme (BBC Three’s Unsolved: The Man With No Alibi). Listen to the facts of the case, would you convict Omar Benguit of murder?