The first case featured in this episode made legal history because it was the first time a British defendant was found guilty of murder without a body ever being found. The evidence which was available made up the body of the crime, and resulted in a verdict that still raises questions more than fifty years after the event.
A tale of sex and violence on the high seas, the story began on the morning of 18 October 1947, on passenger liner the SS Durban Castle, which was on its way from South Africa to London.
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