Crown Court Season 6 Episodes

Episode 1

Beauty and the Beast: Part 1

30 mins

Dr. William Ranford and John Meetham are accused of responsibility for illegal experiments on animals by their cosmetics company. The prosecution has been brought by an animals rights organisation that says the experiments were cruel and unnecessary; the defendants say their actions were justified and required for international sales.

Episode 2

Beauty and the Beast: Part 2

Dr. William Ranford defends the test known as LD50, which is used on rats to determine what could be dangerous to humans. He admits the company, he started with James Meetham, is in the red and needed a large American investment.

Episode 3

Beauty and the Beast: Part 3

James Meetham, Marketing Manager of Vanguard Cosmetics, says tests on animals were performed as specified by the USA. He believes they were necessary, and that had Vanguard failed to carry them out, the contract would have been terminated.

Episode 4

Home Sweet Home: Part 1

Ralph Gibbs was working as a stock-man and living in a tied cottage until he was sacked and evicted by farm manager Robert Aldrich. Gibbs says he and his pregnant wife were harassed and victimised by Aldrich who now stands accused in court of such offences. Gibbs says he was targeted because of his union activities. However Aldrich protests his innocence and says the accusations are false - Gibbs was a trouble-maker who neglected his work and has invented the claims as part of a wider campaign against the use of tied cottages.

Episode 5

Home Sweet Home: Part 2

Mrs. Gibbs is blamed for the death of a cow because the new stockman was not on site. The electricity was turned off to show the new stockman. However journalist Spike Fox confirms the Tide had neither electric or water and inhabitable.

Episode 6

Home Sweet Home: Part 3

John Lloyd accuses Robert Aldrich of consistently using strong arm tactics to remove unwanted tenants from tide cottages. He admits he has a conviction for assault, on a man living in one of his father's tide cottage's, who was a drunk.

Episode 7

Loved Ones: Part 1

Frederick Jackson stands accused of the rape, on two occasions, of his step-daughter Donna Dunn. While her mother, Sylvia was admitted to Fulchester Hospital, to give birth to a child, he is alleged to have raped on two occasions.

Episode 8

Loved Ones: Part 2

Donna Dunn is accused of wanting to runaway with Jackson. After turning her down she made up these allegations. Dr. Hanbroke says bruising on her arms are consistent of being held down. Jackson says that Donna Dunn started to kiss him.

Episode 9

Loved Ones: Part 3

Frederick Jackson is asked about constantly changing his story. He first denied he had sex, with a 14-year-old. He then said she took him to bed. In the Magistrate's Court, he said he took her to bed. Now he says she wanted sex both times.

Episode 10

We Are the Champions: Part 1

Ten minutes into the second half of a friendly match between Fulchester United and Strathclyde Rovers, rioting broke out. Policeman Sgt. Patrick Doyle was later found dead. John McTeague and Danny Morrison are on trial for his murder.

Episode 11

We Are the Champions: Part 2

Insp. Fielding saw McTeague kneeling on the grass, holding Sgt. Doyle, and a bloodied knife lay nearby. Morrison was unconscious, lying over Doyle. McTeague claims he saw someone in the crowd trying to put a knife in Morrison's pocket.

Episode 12

We Are the Champions: Part 3

Danny Morrison claims he was attacked by Sgt. Doyle. He says he was wearing a yellow and green scarf, Papist colours of Straidclyde's rivals. Mr. Kellie accuses Morrison of striking out because he was Finian. Doyle's scarf was plain green.

Episode 13

A Ladies' Man: Part 1

Unemployed plasterer Frank Hanlon stands accused of burgling at night a shop called The Jewel Box and stealing a watch and a ring. He was arrested in the company of a young woman with whom he was having an affair - Marion King - and found to be in possession of identical items to those stolen and a screwdriver which the Prosecution claim he used to force open the door. Hanlon denies the charge. He says he did not break into the shop or steal the items - he had bought them from a peddler and had used the screwdriver for repairs at his mother's home. His mother backs his case, as do Miss King and his wife despite his admitted infidelity.

Episode 14

A Ladies' Man: Part 2

Frank Hanlon says he was out with girlfriend Marion King. They stopped kissing in a doorway, on Queen's Road. He was ordered to stop by P.C Lomas, who told a patrol car driver, that he caught him red handed, he's just done the jewel box.

Episode 15

A Ladies' Man: Part 3

Marion King says she and Frank Hanlon were kissing in a shop doorway. P.C Lomas chased them down the road and accused Hanlon of breaking into the Jewel Box. Joyce Hanlon says she was unaware of her husband's relationship with Marion King.

Episode 16

A Matter of Faith: Part 1

Faith healer Peter Croft is seeking damages for libel against Harry McDonald. In a radio interview McDonald described Croft as a fraud who exploited patients. McDonald's wife had consulted Croft after being paralyzed - it seemed permanently - following a riding accident. The defendant says that Croft promised a miracle cure but it was soon evident this would not occur and a deeply depressed Mrs. McDonald then killed herself with an overdose of pills. McDonald and his defence team argue that Croft - whose main work is as an antiques dealer - has no training or ability as a healer and the negative comments are true. However Croft insists he has genuine gifts and his services are entirely honest and benevolent, often conducted for minimal or no charge at all.

Episode 17

A Matter of Faith: Part 2

Journalist Jack Markman admits Peter Croft gave him the names of the three people, who he claimed to have cured. Markham says he did a deal with Croft and got given three names in return. If he had smelt a rat he would done a deeper dive.

Episode 18

A Matter of Faith: Part 3

Henry Walsh praises the free treatment from Croft. Mr. Parsons asks why he built him a new bathroom suite and double glazed his living room. Marion Schofield says Croft's antique shop is losing money. Yet it stays open due to his freebies.

Episode 19

Crime Passionel: Part 1

Jasper Fortesque and Sir Harold Dupuis have been at odds for years. However matters escalated dramatically when Sir Harold objected to a letter about the future of Gibraltar from Fortesque and when to his home to confront him - this confrontation ended with Sir Harold suffering stab wounds from Fortesque's dagger. Fortesque faces a charge of GBH but insists Sir Harold was wounded by accident. Lady Dupuis witnessed events and plays a curious role in the relationship between the two men.

Episode 20

Crime Passionel: Part 2

Lady Dupois rejected Jasper Fortesque's offer of marriage as she would not leave her husband. P.C. Simpson saw Fortesque with a dagger and Sir Harold Dupuis wounded. Fortesque says Dupois' dog was barking so he countered with loud music.

Episode 21

Crime Passionel: Part 3

Lady Dupuis claims she was in an relationship with Fortesque but since the stabbing that ended. She believed her husband was unaware of the liaison. Mr. Dorney asks Lady Dubois why her answers, to who made the initial threats, so vague.

Episode 22

A Swinging Couple: Part 1

This unusual trial centres on an alleged assault in the courtroom at the end of another case. Harold Phillips is accused of striking his wife at the close of a trial where her new partner, barrister Jeremy Halstead, had been prosecuting. The prosecution he struck her in anger. Phillips does not deny that he was annoyed at the break-up of his marriage and that he wanted to speak to Halstead. However he insists his wife ran towards him and collided with him by accident. The defendant decides to take over from his own counsel and the case reveals a tale of open relationships and "wife-swapping" parties.

Episode 23

A Swinging Couple: Part 2

Sgt. Hughes says Phillips pushed his wife violently against the wall. Phillips, now defending himself, demands that Jeremy Alston, his wife's new lover, takes the stand. Phillips attempts to use him has mitigation for hitting his wife.

Episode 24

A Swinging Couple: Part 3

Phillips asked Terence Swan to mediate a meeting between, himself and his wife and boyfriend Jeremy. He feared Phillips temper and declined. Swan says the couples were all "swingers" but Jeremy and June broke the rules and fell in love.

Episode 25

One for the Road: Part 1

Petra Clennell is accused of wounding her husband Alan with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. She stabbed him with a pair of scissors after he returned home late one night. Mr. Clennell admits to a history of alcoholism and tension with his wife but insists he is now cured and that he did nothing to provoke her actions. However his wife and the defence argue he remains an alcoholic and assert that she only stabbed him in self-defence.

Episode 26

One for the Road: Part 2

Alan Clennell denies he was drunk on the night his wife attacked him but admits to alcoholism. Sally Clennell says she heard her parents arguing, then a scream. She saw her father in the centre of the room and her mother holding scissors.

Episode 27

One for the Road: Part 3

Sally Clennell says her husband was drunk when he came home. His drinking followed a pattern but her actions weren't premeditated. She believed her life was in danger and stabbed him in self defence. Sally admits she has a drink problem.

Episode 28

Such a Charming Man: Part 1

Ronald Crosby faces accusations that he deceived investors about the current state of his companies in order to fraudulently drive up share prices for his own profit. These companies later collapsed and Crosby left the country meaning he couldn't be arrested until being induced home in the belief his house had attracted a buyer. Witnesses tell of his charm and abilities as a raconteur. The prosecution insist that this charm was used for dishonest purposes; Crosby retorts that he has been a victim of the recession and his assets have also been wiped out by blackmail linked to his past homosexuality.

Episode 29

Such a Charming Man: Part 2

Nicholas Higgins met Ronald Crosby playing bridge at the exclusive Old Russell Club. He claimed he was working for a firm bringing astroturf to Britain. Higgins was advised to put money in shares of Landhope which was about to re-valued.

Episode 30

Such a Charming Man: Part 3

Ronald Crosby says his expertise was his ability to manage money. He was in his rights to deploy the money. At the time, his life was in turmoil and had a mental breakdown. He was engaged to Cynthia Watson-Horrier but is a homosexual man.

Episode 31

A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing: Part 1

Researcher Francis Galway faces the rare charge of inciting the police to disaffection, specifically towards strike action. He had been working for a right-wing pressure group who were campaigning against what they saw as "threats to democracy". The prosecution allege that Galway tried to fabricate evidence of subversion by a left-wing workers group and invited a police inspector to a meeting of fascists in Italy. Galway and his defence team say that his actions have been misunderstood. They deny he had any intent to encourage disaffection and that his motives have always been simply to conduct research and encourage new thinking.

Episode 32

A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing: Part 2

Insp. Fleming says Galway had asked about taking a hard line against pickets, demonstrations and muggings. He was invited to a Milan conference and read out a prepared manifesto but later learned Galway had said it was officially approved.

Episode 33

A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing: Part 3

Mr. Parsons asks Stephen Rabinowitz, of the Institute of Democratic Solidarity, why Galway was researching the police and why when, visited by Special Branch, that denied knowing him. He also asks why Insp. Fleming set up by the Fascists.

Episode 34

The Family Business: Part 1

Eighteen year old Navlika Patel and her younger brother Dinesh run a market stall and are accused of offences connected to a dispute with fellow market trader Henry Pegg. The prosecution allege that Dinesh stole a roll of cotton from Mr. Pegg's stall. Mr. Pegg then went to recover the roll from the Patels and in the process was stabbed with a pair of scissors in the stomach and wounded by Navlika. Both the defendants say they are innocent. Dinesh insists he did not steal the cotton; his sister admits wounding Mr. Pegg but says it was an accident in the struggle as he tried to take the roll from them.

Episode 35

The Family Business: Part 2

Mrs Pegg completes her evidence, before sales representative Arthur Johnson gives details of the sale and origin of the fabric. Navlika Patel begins her defence, addressing the events surrounding Henry Pegg's injury.

Episode 36

The Family Business: Part 3

Navlika Patel faces further questioning, followed by her younger brother Dinesh. A surprise witness appears as the jury considers the evidence and prepares to reach a verdict.

Episode 37

A Pocketful of Pills: Part 1

Gerald Peck is a self-confessed former drug addict with a number of previous drugs convictions. He is now accused of possession and dealing of drugs in connection with his role as manager of the Mandala Club. Police claim that Peck allowed the club to become a centre for drug use and dealing and that he was found with drugs in his office drawer. Peck does not deny that drugs were found in his office but says they were confiscated from a customer. He admits that he thinks soft drugs should be legalised but insists he does not condone drug use because of the legal implications for those who get caught.

Episode 38

A Pocketful of Pills: Part 2

Gerald Peck runs Mandala Club but it is owned by the Addicts Trust. He says a speed freak, new to the club, was off his head. Peck told him if left, now, he would get busted. He put his "uppers" in the desk draw, intending to flush them.

Episode 39

A Pocketful of Pills: Part 3

Glenn Peck admits he served 18 months for selling LSD. Arthur Bevis met Peck at an hostel for former prisoners and saw how interacted with addicts. He, later, asked Peck to run the club and he came up with the idea of an open door policy.

Episode 40

Capers Among the Catacombs: Part 1

Clifford Grant stands accused of various macabre offences including desecration of corpses and church property and making threats to the church's vicar and a detective investigating his case. He does not deny that he is a follower of witchcraft but insists he is only concerned with doing good and has no interest in black magic, Satanism or depraved rituals as the prosecution allege.

Episode 41

Capers Among the Catacombs: Part 2

Rev. Davies says Grant is possessed by the devil. Anna Jeal claims Grant initiated her as a witch. She was invited to be his high priestess, danced in the nude in the cemetery before a wedding took place. Saying that Satan will show them.

Episode 42

Capers Among the Catacombs: Part 3

Clifford Grant says he is of the Wicker religion and a white witch. He claims he is fighting black magic so took Anna to the church. He stayed outside when she went in. She screamed and he saw a vampire and denies dancing on the graves.

Episode 43

Kiss and Tell: Part 1

Three packing operatives - Rhoda Benson, Avril Bullen and Freda Miller - face charges of actual bodily harm and indecent assault against electrician David Moston. He claims that he was tricked into attending their party at work and then they held him down, gave him love-bites, marked his shirt and stomach with lipstick and poured a drink on his groin. All the women proclaim their innocence. Benson and Bullen admit they had light-hearted physical contact with him but that he was a very willing partner; Miller says she took no part at all. The Defence claim that Mr. Moston is only playing the victim on his wife's instruction.

Episode 44

Kiss and Tell: Part 2

Mr. Bass asks Moston whether he saw Mrs. Miller commit any offence. He says she apologised for cuts made by her ring. Ms. Forrest accuses Lindsay Moston of forcing her husband to go to the police because was she concerned about the neighbours.

Episode 45

Kiss and Tell: Part 3

Rhoda Benson says the factory girls were having a party for Freda. The company allowed it and they were often rowdy with men entering at their peril. David Moston was happy to join the group and the girls had fun with him which he enjoyed.

Episode 46

Down Will Come Baby: Part 1

Four year old Leonie Klein was seriously injured after falling from a fire escape at the home of unregistered child-minder Sylvia Kelly. Mrs. Kelly is now on trial accused of ill-treating and neglecting Leonie. The prosecution argue that Mrs. Kelly was trying to look after six children and was unable to properly care for Leonie. They allege that she was annoyed with her and sent her out onto the balcony even though she knew it was unsafe. Mrs. Kelly denies the charges. She says she was properly caring for Leonie who got on to the balcony unexpectedly, her fall being a dreadful and unpreventable accident.

Episode 47

Down Will Come Baby: Part 2

Leonie Klein says she believed Sylvia Kelly did not like her and never stopped her going on the fire escape. Vera Tilley, from the Social Services, admits the Council only reacted to unregistered child minders following a newspaper exposé.

Episode 48

Down Will Come Baby: Part 3

Sylvia Kelly returns to the stand for a second day. Saying she had looked after Leonie for over two years but other children complained that she misbehaved. After the accident Mrs Klein put pressure on the council to end her child minding.

Episode 49

The Silencer: Part 1

Barbara Truscott, whose husband is a solicitor and aspiring politician, is accused of the theft of a tin of salmon from a supermarket. There is no question that Mrs. Truscott took the salmon but the case hinges on whether she intended to do so. The prosecution assert that she did and the only reason she has pleaded not guilty is because her husband has told her to. The defence case is that Mrs. Truscott is a troubled woman who was confused on the day because of the medication she was taking - she did not know what she was doing.

Episode 50

The Silencer: Part 2

Dr. Moreton expands how Mrs. Truscott's reliance on anti-depressants increased due to her husband's political aspirations and her daughter leaving home. Mrs. Truscott was asked to take them when needed but instead mixed them with alcohol.

Episode 51

The Silencer: Part 3

Prosecuter Rosemary Davenport accuses Barbara Truscott of lying about taking tranqulisers when she was caught shoplifting. Adding that her husband has influenced her to change her evidence based on something he heard during the trial.

Episode 52

Home: Part 1

Billy Baker faces two charges of wounding with intent against Jimmy Witt. The Prosecution allege that Baker slashed Witt's face with a razor and later arranged for the squat he was living in to be demolished while he was still living there leaving him with a broken leg. Witt claims that these attacks were part of a remorseless campaign of bullying by Baker. At the start of the trial Baker dismisses his counsel and defends himself. He does not deny a long criminal record but insists he is a friend of Witt and has been falsely accused. He asserts that Witt cut his own face and the later injuries were the fault of the demolition driver.

Episode 53

Home: Part 2

Jimmy Witt admits going back to live with the men who slashed his face with razor. Billy Baker, now defending himself, introduces a paper, signed by Witt, absolving himself of blame. The Judge, however, accuses him of fabricating evidence.

Episode 54

Home: Part 3

Homeless Charles Allenby Smythe tells the court that Witt was regularly beaten by Baker or people who worked for him. Baker highlights his ongoing drug problems. When Baker finally takes the stand he distances himself from any violence.

Episode 55

A Place to Stay: Part 1

22 mins

Arthur Barnard is warden of a hostel for homeless women. John Wragg and Richard Livesey wrote a letter and issued leaflets alleging that Barnard sexually harassed Mr. Wragg's wife who was staying at the hostel and that he generally managed the hostel in an unpleasant way with the aim of forcing residents to leave. They also claimed that magistrate Lady Corrie Stott failed to properly oversee Barnard's performance and acted in a biased manner. Barnard and Lady Stott are now suing Wragg and Livesey for libel, arguing that all the allegations are false.

Episode 56

A Place to Stay: Part 2

23 mins

John Wragg claims he took his wife's sexual harassment complaint to Lady Corrie Stott but she told him that if he carried on he would find himself in big trouble. Marcus Golding QC accuses Wragg of being a scrounger rather than homeless.

Episode 57

A Place to Stay: Part 3

24 mins

Alderman Archer says the Welfare have introduced harsh measures, against the Shelley Road Hostel, to force out old tenants out and bring in new. Lady Stott adds she wants to shut down the Shelley Road Hostel and let the homeless squat.

Episode 58

Safe as Houses: Part 1

Olive Hope stands accused of harassing her tenant and next-door neighbour Audrey Taylor. The Prosecution allege that the two women fell out and then Mrs. Hope tried to drive out Mrs. Taylor by playing loud music at night, banging on the walls, asking her to leave at short notice, burning down her shed and even staging a burglary in which Mrs. Taylor's house was ransacked. The Defence case is that Mrs. Taylor has imagined the attacks due to a recurrence of serious mental illness and that she has been extremely well-treated by a compassionate Mrs. Hope.

Episode 59

Safe as Houses: Part 2

Olive Hope's son Colin says he befriended Audrey Taylor and offered to help her should his mother intimated her. Late one night he was obliged to visit his mother and found her in the living room holding a hammer wearing just a nightdress.

Episode 60

Safe as Houses: Part 3

Olive Hope is questioned why she broke the lease agreement with Miss. Taylor by changing the locks which Audrey needed to access her own flat. Evidence also shows Hope had large telephone bills for the period of the alleged harassing.

Episode 61

Street Gang: Part 1

Paul Adams is accused of the murder of Cyril Hubbard who was stabbed during a mugging. The Defence do not deny that Adams and various witnesses were involved in street robberies. However they argue that the victim was stabbed accidentally in a struggle. They suggest that bringing a knife was the idea of Vinny White. The Prosecution assert though that Adams was too intelligent and confident to be led by White, that he wielded the knife quite deliberately and is simply trying to deflect responsibility for his offence.

Episode 62

Street Gang: Part 2

Andrew Flint QC cross examines Vincent White about the night of the robbery. He asks about Ian Parker, the third member of the gang who was the look out. White recalls Adams saying "I think I've killed him" after stabbing Cyril Hubbard.

Episode 63

Street Gang: Part 3

Paul Adams believes the stabbing of Cyril Hubbard was accidental. He says that Vincent White chose their target, Cyril Hubbard and it was he who told them to take the knife, this time. Adams says that his bottle had gone and White knew it.

Episode 64

An Upward Fall: Part 1

In a bizarre and protracted case Cosmic Planning Consultants are suing the Rosenberg Research Foundation for libel. The latter accused the former of irresponsibility in building an old people's home at the top of a Himalayan mountain with the toilets sited three thousand feet below. The plaintiffs insist their unusual choice of location was the right one and they have been unfairly maligned.

Episode 65

An Upward Fall: Part 2

Expert witness Professor Upshott, who was part of the Cairngorm pilot scheme, says he preferred the toilets to be at the bottom of the mountain. On cross examination he conceded geriatrics may have problem with their footing, at night.

Episode 66

An Upward Fall: Part 3

Sherpa Solo Khombu flies in, from the Himalayas, to explain how he helped pensioners climb back up the mountain following a call of nature. Timothy Hapsburg-Jones QC calls Solo an unreliable worker, who when not on duty would go home.