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Murder in Mayfair

In 2008, student Martine Vik Magnussen was killed after a night out. The only suspect, the son of a billionaire, fled the UK to Yemen. Reporter Nawal Al-Maghafi is determined to speak to him.

In 2008, 23-year-old Norwegian student Martine Vik Magnussen was killed after a night out in Mayfair. Hours after her death, the only suspect in the case, Farouk Abdulhak, the son of one of Yemen’s richest and most powerful men, fled the UK to Yemen.

Nawal Al-Maghafi seeks answers to what happened to Martine and uncovers how money, political power and Yemeni law protected Farouk once he had absconded to Yemen, which has no extradition treaty with the UK.

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58 minutes

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Wed 7 Feb 202421:00
BBC Two

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ReporterNawal Al-Maghafi
DirectorGard Andressen
DirectorFreddie Martin
ProducerNawal Al-Maghafi
ProducerKate Mead
ProducerMadelaine Jansen
Executive ProducerTim Awford
Executive ProducerMonica Garnsey
Executive ProducerStyrk Jansen
Executive ProducerChristopher Mitchell
Executive ProducerAnn Christin Siljan
Executive ProducerJan Salling
Executive ProducerSarah Waldron

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