S5 Uncovered

Based around a series of true events. The BBC's current affairs programme 'Panorama' undertook a sixty minute documentary / expose surrounding an elite government task force that went undercover in Sheffield over a period of twelve months. Their remit was to use the Proceeds of Crime Act to fill up the police federations coffers using illegally gained intelligence, on one hand overlooking - and in some cases encouraging - major criminal activity such as murder, kidnap and torture; whilst on the other, surreptitiously acquiring pre-bargained guilty pleas from defendants then reneging on deals, which culminated in some of the heaviest sentences ever handed out in the UK. But the programme was never aired."

• | Author: James Durose-Rayner
• | Publisher: Clink Street Publishing
• | Publication Date: Jul 19, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 908 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1910782564
• | ISBN-13: 9781910782569