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Trial and Error

Season 5

1995 · 2 episodes

  1. 1. 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.

  2. 2. 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.

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