Killer Britain

It was an unholy alliance. Lovers, Maynard Ellis and Leelsey shared a love of the macabre, their home was a shrine to horror. Maynard Ellis had long fantasised about turning fiction into fact and when he met the unsuspecting Julia Rawson, her fate was sealed and his fantasies became fact.

He started out as a peeping Tom, but Pawel Relowicz's appetites grew. He was a sex pest who preyed on young women, and when Libby Squire was drunk and alone he stalked her and he pounced.

Mark Jewitt was a man with issues. Depressed and isolated, he grew obsessed with the noise that came from the flat downstairs. Jewitt was a time bomb and the night that Vera Hudson forgot her keys, he went off.

Young women disappeared without trace, their naked, dead bodies unearthed as Ipswich found itself in the grip of a serial killer. Steven Wright played a game of cat and mouse with detectives before they caught the man dubbed "The Suffolk Strangler".

When Janbaz Tarin married Raneem Oudeh, she didn't know he had another family and she didn't know he had a temper. But Tarin was not a man she could walk away from - and once he set his sights on her, body could save her.

His life was defined by privilege and partying. Accustomed to getting his own way, he was enraged when Emily Longley appeared immune to his charms. Detectives would spend months uncovering the circumstances in which his beautiful young girlfriend died and it would result in the imprisonment of Turner and his parents.

He thrived on adrenaline and relished his hero status, but few would guess that the emergencies he worked on were orchestrated by him. Tens of patients would go into respiratory arrest and two would die before medics discovered that Ben Geen was a murdering medic.

They called it an honour killing: murdering their 17 year old daughter because she would not marry man she didnt know. Detectives would take years to bring Shafealia's killers to justice and unravel the mystery that surrounded her disappearance and death.

He wanted money and would stop at nothing to get it. Not even the imprisonment of young women who he held in his hand made coffins. When kidnapping led to murder, there was no knowing just how far Michael Sams would go to achieve his goals.

With a new baby and Ian Paton back in her life, Kayleigh Hanks thought her life was complete. But his jealousy, anger and controlling behaviour knew no bounds. Her family saw him as a ticking time bomb when he went off, he took the life of a young mother.