DVSA inspectors investigate the cause of a horrific crash in which an HGV careers out of control, smashes through a motorway central reservation and kills two people. The HGV is found to have a defective braking system and is one of a fleet of vehicles operated by a company putting profits before safety. The haulage company’s boss faces the prospect of jail after our defenders discover he ignored warnings about the defective brakes.\n\nIn a separate case, Trading Standards take strong action against a prolific cowboy builder who keeps changing his name to avoid detection and uses 30 different bank accounts to hide the thousands of pounds he charges people for work that’s never finished.
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Series 6: 10. Holiday Hell
The holiday scam raking in millions of pounds. But the net is closing on the shameless travel agent who is leaving families out of pocket and stranded in the sun. Also, danger o ...
24-05-2024
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Series 6: 9. River Of Sewage
Shocking river pollution – but is Britain’s biggest water company to blame? The Defenders investigate as thousands of dead fish are discovered in contaminated &lsquo ...
23-05-2024
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Series 6: 8. Deadly Toy Stories
Buyers beware! The lethal danger of button batteries in toys. In one case, a baby almost dies after swallowing a battery from a dangerous toy. The Defenders raid suspect shops t ...
22-05-2024
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Series 6: 7. Child Vaping Crisis
A teen schoolgirl goes undercover to expose shops selling illegal vapes to children, while a head teacher claims pupils can’t get through a lesson without vaping. In anoth ...
21-05-2024
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Series 6: 6. Death On The Railway
A young boy is electrocuted on a train track. But who is to blame? The Defenders investigate and make a shocking discovery. In another case, they take on a driveway conman with ...
20-05-2024
BBC 1
Series 6: 5. Asbestos Dump
Dangerous asbestos is found illegally dumped in a storage container near a school. But who put it there? The Defenders are determined to hunt them down and bring them to justice ...
17-05-2024
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Series 6: 4. Forever Home Heartbreak
A young couple are left in pieces when a cowboy builder charges them nearly £60,000 – then ruins their home. But the Defenders step in, determined to get justice on ...
16-05-2024
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Series 6: 3. Driving Test Cheats
The Defenders catch a man helping people cheat their driving test. He’s captured on CCTV at several driving test centres around the country, each time pretending to be a d ...
15-05-2024
BBC 1
Series 6: 2. Danger In The Skies
Can the Defenders find the pilot of a rogue drone that nearly caused a catastrophic mid-air collision with a World War II Hurricane? The incident is captured by an amateur photo ...
14-05-2024
BBC 1
Series 6: 1. Falling Off The Back Of A Lorry
A couple are lucky to escape with their lives when a pallet of paving slabs and bricks falls off the back of a lorry and smashes into their car. There are thousands of incidents ...
13-05-2024
BBC 1
Series 4 (shortened Versions): Episode 10
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency investigates a collision involving a party boat on the River Thames. The boat had been hosting a Christmas party, and there were well over 100 ...
08-04-2022
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Series 5: Episode 6
A seven-year-old boy suffers a fatal electric shock during a family visit to their local pub. Investigators discover a catalogue of electrical faults, including 12 defects that ...
07-12-2023
BBC 1
Series 5 (shortened Versions): Episode 4
Our defenders catch a fraudster who lied to get a job as a captain with one of the UK’s largest airlines. The Civil Aviation Authority looks into his background and discov ...
18-05-2023
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 4
The Civil Aviation Authority catches a fraudster who lied to get a job as a captain with one of the UK’s largest airlines. After looking into his background, they discover ...
05-12-2023
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Series 3 (shortened Versions): Episode 2
In Oldham, enforcement agents crack down on rogue landlords housing families in squalid conditions. Officers jail a con man posing as a collector for a children’s cancer c ...
09-03-2021
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Series 5 (shortened Versions): Episode 7
Our defenders investigate an £800,000 home improvement scam. The elaborate con involves fraudsters using a kitchen extension built by someone else as a fake show home and ...
23-05-2023
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 9
Enforcement officers investigate the death of a worker at one of the UK’s largest recycling plants. They seize more than 300 hours’ worth of CCTV footage that shows ...
02-02-2023
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 10
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency investigates a collision involving a party boat on the River Thames with over 100 people on board. £1.5 million worth of damage was caus ...
18-08-2023
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 10
Investigators crack down on companies deliberately bombarding the elderly with marketing phone calls and pressuring them into taking out insurance policies and setting up direct ...
03-02-2023
BBC 1
Series 4 (shortened Versions): Episode 3
Investigators take action against a cowboy builder who conned several customers out of tens of thousands of pounds. His work was so bad, he was dubbed the worst builder in Wales ...
30-03-2022
BBC 1