07/09/2015
Marie Ashby talks to the mother of Colin Pitchfork's first victim and asks whether sex offenders who kill can ever be rehabilitated. Plus the slimming drug that kills.
He killed two Leicestershire schoolgirls, now Colin Pitchfork is up for parole. Tonight in a new series of Inside Out, Marie Ashby meets the mother of his first victim and asks can sex offenders who kill ever be rehabilitated? Jonathan Gibson investigates the slimming drug that kills. Plus Leicester and the legacy of Lord Richard Attenborough.
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Should you free a sadistic killer?
Thirty years ago, brutal child killer Colin Pitchfork became the first person to be convicted using DNA profiling.
The rapes and murders of Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, both 15, were all the more shocking because Pitchfork led an apparently normal family life. Now a parole board is due to consider whether he should be released from prison. So how do you decide a sadistic killer is no long a danger to society?
Toxic diet pills
A global distributor of "highly toxic" diet pills that killed a Shropshire student has agreed to stop selling them after being confronted by her mother.
Eloise Aimee Parry, 21, from Shrewsbury, died in hospital on 12 April after taking tablets believed to contain dinitrophenol, known as DNP.
Two websites that sold DNP were closed following her death but a BBC investigation found one had reopened under a different name. The site has now withdrawn the pills.
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Marie Ashby |
| Reporter | Jonathan Gibson |
| Series Editor | Tony Roe |
Broadcast
- Mon 7 Sep 201519:30BBC One East Midlands
