Unreliable Witness 2: Recipe for a Witch Hunt

Unreliable Witness | Storycast

Sky News

True Crime, News, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 728 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The fuse has been lit...and with limited information from police or in the news, social media speculation starts fingers pointing. Barrow is about to hit boiling point. Asian businesses are attacked. Individuals are targeted. Meanwhile local businessman Mohammed Ramzan is arrested – suspected of being a central figure in the grooming gang. But a senior detective coming onto the case starts to find holes in the account police have been told.

Warning: This series discusses issues of sexual abuse, self-harm, violence and suicide

From Sky News Storycast, Unreliable Witness is presented by Jason Farrell and Liz Lane

Series Producer: Anne-Marie Bullock
Executive Producer: Louise Cotton
Sound Design: Matt Wareham
Additional Journalism: Sarah O’Connell
Sky Podcasts Editor: Paul Stanworth

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0:00.0	The first 100 days, bills are passed, executive orders are signed, and presidencies are defined.
0:06.7	And for Donald Trump's first 100 days, Rachel Maddo is on MSNBC five nights a week.
0:12.5	Now is the time, so we're going to do it.
0:14.4	Providing her unique insight and analysis during this critical time.
0:18.3	How do we strategically align ourselves to this moment of information,
0:22.5	this moment of transition in our country?
0:24.2	The Rachel Maddo Show, weeknights at 9 p.m. Eastern on MSNBC.
0:30.1	Just to warn you, this episode of Unreliable Witness has references to suicide, violence, and abuse.
0:36.3	Episode 2. Recipe for a Witch Hunt
0:40.3	I'm just walking up a quiet country lane in Walney Island,
0:47.3	although there is an air base at the far end of it
0:49.3	where planes are regularly coming and going.
0:52.3	But otherwise it's nice hedgerows a lovely green
0:56.4	pastured field which we're just going to go into because this because it was here
1:04.4	just on this little area where I can see geese and hedge rows and a hay feeding area.
1:12.5	It was here in May 2020 that Eleanor Williams was found,
1:18.2	bloodied, bruised, battered, with a bleeding finger that had nearly been cut off.
1:25.1	And the story began.
1:33.0	She would be taken to hospital she would go home and she would post the images of herself online and the sight of those images and what she said about how
1:41.8	they were caused would literally send this town into uproar.
1:55.6	I'm Jason Farrell from Sky News and this is unreliable witness.
2:03.1	We're in the first COVID lockdown and we're getting these updates every day.
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