Nazir Afzal OBE and Mark Williams-Thomas MA, PG Dip. know a thing or two about Crime & Justice. Having spent a combined 50+ years at the top of their prosecutorial & policing careers, they finally share their unflinching, unfiltered thoughts on the issues of the day. Neither allowed ‘Fear’ or ‘Favour’ to interfere with their pursuit of the truth. Nobody & nothing is off limits. You wish, you can show your appreciation and support Fear or Favour with a small monthly subscription via our Patre ...
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37: Recent Events and the Death of Mahsa Amini in Iran
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A mixed bag of subjects this week as so much has happened since our last episode. Mark and Nazir start by discussing the passing of Queen Elizabeth II and her impact on the monarchy as well as what lies ahead for King Charles III. They also look at the High Court action being taken by the DPP against judges refusal to detain defendants for longer. …
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Mark and Nazir start this week's episode with an update on the investigation in to the shooting of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Merseyside and then continue with the scheduled topic of racism in the criminal justice system. They discuss implicit race bias and institutionalised racism in policing and in the justice system, giving examples of…
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35: Gun Crime in Liverpool and a Look at Life Within The Fire Service
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In this episode Mark and Nazir begin by discussing the increase in gun-crime in Merseyside and in particular the recent tragic shooting of 9-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel. And they take a light-hearted look at life within the fire service; Nazir and Mark are joined this week by special guest, Leigh Hosy-Pickett, whose new book "Up In Smoke: Stories …
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34: Crime Statistics, Blackpool Children's Homes and Other Failings
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A bit of a mixed bag in this episode. Nazir and Mark tackle subjects including the latest crime statistics which show that the police are failing to tackle, or even respond to, certain crimes such as burglaries and theft. They look at the awful situation surrounding local authorities sending children in care to stay in homes hundreds of miles away …
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33: Unknown Serial Killer or Murder Suicide?
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WARNING: This episode contains detailed descriptions of injuries and crime scenes relating to multiple murder cases. Mark and Nazir are joined this week by guest, David Collins, the Northern Editor at the Sunday Times to discuss his book "The Hunt For The Silver Killer". In June 2021 Stephanie Davies, a senior coroner's officer who works for the Ch…
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32: The Impact of Online Pornography on Children
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In this episode, Mark and Nazir are joined by special guest Carolyn Bunting MBE to discuss the impact online pornography and sexting have on children. Asking is the industry doing enough to protect children and could the Government do more. They also give some important advice on how parents can address these issues with their children. Carolyn is …
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31: R. Kelly's Sentencing & Police In Special Measures
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In this episode, Mark and Nazir discuss the sentencing of disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly; sentenced to 30 years in prison after being found guilty of eight counts of sex trafficking and one of racketeering. He used his fame to sexually abuse young fans, including some who were just children. With 6 police forces being put on Special Measures, includ…
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30: Grenfell Tower, The Fifth Anniversary
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Five years on from the tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire, Mark and Nazir discuss what went wrong and ask why has nobody been bought to justice. On 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block in North Kensington, London. The fire spread rapidly up and around the exterior of the building due to sub-standard cladding having b…
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29: Robb Elementary School Shooting, Partygate and Scammers
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On 24th May 2022, 18-year-old Salvador Rolando Ramos fatally shot nineteen students and two teachers, he also wounded seventeen other people at Robb Elementary School in Texas. Nazir and Mark take a detailed look at this tragedy and question why the US Government has failed to implement necessary changes to the gun laws in order to reduce the numbe…
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28: MP Arrested, The Lady in the Lake Killer and Baby P
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There is a lot happening in the news this week. Mark and Nazir discuss the Conservative MP who was arrested on suspicion of rape and sexual assault. They take a scathing look at the failings of both the police and the pathologist in the 1987 murder of Shani Warren, known as 'The Lady in the Lake', and compare those failings to similar failings in t…
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27: Restorative Justice, Does it Work?
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This week Nazir and Mark take a detailed look at restorative justice and are joined by Jacob Dunne to discuss his own experiences. Jacob served fourteen months in prison following his conviction for manslaughter, caused by a single punch on a night out in 2011, and has since developed a relationship with his victim’s parents through a Restorative J…
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26: Wayne Couzens, Ukrainian Refugees, Trolls and US Abortion Rights
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There has been a lot happening in the news this week for Nazir and Mark to cover. They look at Wayne Couzens attempt to have his whole-life prison sentence reduced, then revisit the abuse and trafficking issues affecting some of the Ukrainian refugees coming to the UK. Touching on his own recent experience, Mark discusses online Trolls with Nazir a…
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25: Porn in Parliament, Rikki Neave, Boris Becker & Madeleine McCann
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Another mixed bag of news this week falling under the scrutiny of Mark and Nazir. First to be looked at is Neil Parish MP who has now resigned after being caught watching pornography in Parliament. Mark and Nazir also have a detailed talk about the tragic murder of 6-year-old Rikki Neave, murdered in 1994 by James Watson who was just 13 at the time…
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24: Stop and Search, Child Q, War Oligarchs & Sports
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This week Mark and Nazir cover a broad range of topic in the news, including police powers in relation to Stop and Search and its disproportionate use on black people and in deprived areas. They revisit what has happened in the appalling strip search case of 15-year-old Child Q and have an in depth look at how the Russia / Ukraine war is affecting …
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23: Partygate, Sexting, Sir David Amess and Imran Khan MP
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A mixed bag of subjects in this weeks episode. Nazir and Mark discuss the ramifications of the Partygate fines, in particular, for Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak. And following on from last week, they explain what constitutes Sexting, the impact it can have on people and they look at the legal issues surrounding it. They take a look at the whole-lif…
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22: Harassment, Stalking & Contempt of Court
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In this episode Nazir and Mark examine harassment, stalking and contempt of court. They explain what constitutes harassment and stalking and have an in-depth discussion about the impact it has on the people it is targeted at, as well as discussing their own experiences being in the public eye. Contempt of Court happens when someone risks unfairly i…
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In this episode Mark and Nazir have an in-depth discussion about the Crown Prosecution Service's role in policing and prosecutions. They explain how the CPS operates and take a detailed look at its history, people and the challenges it has faced, and still faces going forward. Nazir spent most of his career in the CPS and rose to be the Chief Crown…
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This week Nazir and Mark are joined by special guest, Alastair Morgan. Alastair's brother, Daniel Morgan, was a British private investigator who was murdered in London in 1987, he was found dead in a pub car park with an axe embedded in his head. Daniel's murder remains unsolved despite there having been several police investigations, arrests, and …
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This episode looks at the truly shocking strip-search of 'Child Q' by officers from London's Metropolitan police force. As well the Met's hugely disproportionate response to squatters occupying a Belgravia mansion owned by the sanctioned oligarch, Oleg Deripaska. Nazir and Mark take a detailed look at these topics and address some of the main issue…
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Nazir and Mark take a look at Russia's invasion of Ukraine; in particular, what constitutes a war crime and what would have to happen in order for the International Criminal Court to be able bring Putin to justice. They also discuss the calls to implement a no-fly zone over Ukraine and explain why there are risks for the International community in …
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Award-winning broadcast journalist, Nick Wallis joins Nazir and Mark this week to discuss the largest miscarriage of justice in British legal history; the British Post Office scandal. Between 2000 and 2014, the Post Office prosecuted 736 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses for false accounting and theft. Some went to prison following their convi…
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16: Met Police Officers Named and Levi Bellfield's Confession
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This week Mark and Nazir discuss why the CPS finally backed-down and named the three Met Police officers charged over sharing 'racist and sexist messages' with Sarah Everard's killer, ex-police constable Wayne Couzens. They also take a close look at Levi Bellfield's recent confession that he murdered Lin and Megan Russell in 1996. Bellfield is know…
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15: Caroline Flack, Harry Dunn and the Post Office Scandal
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Another mixed-bag of topics this week. Nazir and Mark examine the actions of the police and the CPS in relation to how they handled Caroline Flack's case and its tragic outcome. They also take a look at the complexities of diplomatic immunity which allowed Anne Sacoolas to flee the country after the death of Harry Dunn. And Mark and Nazir have a fr…
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14: The Latest on Andrew, Giuffre, Maxwell & the Met Police
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Mark and Nazir have a lot of developments in the news to discuss this week. They take a detailed look at the impact of Prince Andrew agreeing to settle the sexual assault case filed against him by Virginia Giuffre. They also analyse the positioning of Maxwell's defence team in relation to a retrial and they look at the potential for change within t…
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13: Prosecutions, Police, Boris and Starmer
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A bit of a mixed bag this week, Nazir and Mark discuss Boris Johnson's claim that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile when he was the Director of Public Prosecutions as well as the aftermath of the claim. They also take a detailed look at changes within the police force that have led to public confidence in the police be…
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In 1987 David Fuller killed Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce in two separate attacks in Tunbridge Wells. Then between 2008 and 2020, he filmed himself abusing corpses, including children as young as 9, in two Kent morgues while working as a hospital electrician. Nazir and Mark discuss the details of the case and take a very critical look at the fail…
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11: News Flash 28/Jan/22 The Sue Gray Report & Prince Andrew Update
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In this, the first of our News Flash bonus episodes, Mark and Nazir discuss the latest developments in the UK Government's 'partygate' scandal, in particular Sue Gray's report, as well as giving their views on the actions taken this week by Prince Andrew and his legal team.Av Fear or Favour
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This week Nazir and Mark are joined by their first ever guest on Fear or Favour; BBC television producer, Charlotte Rowles. Charlotte has an extensive knowledge of the Stephen Port case, his victims and their families as well as the police failings that may have contributed to the deaths of three men. It is widely accepted that the police failed to…
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9: Prince Andrew, Government Parties & Djokovic
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This week Nazir and Mark discuss a wide range of subjects, including an update on Prince Andrew and his legal options, the Government parties during lockdown and Novak Djokovic's deportation from Australia. They also take a look at serial killer couple Fred and Rose West and have a frank discussion about how race and class affects the way suspects …
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In this episode Nazir and Mark take a broad look at technology and discuss how it has changed the way that criminals operate and the challenges that both the police and the courts face in trying to keep up. Just how different are the forensic methods shown in television drama's from what is possible in real-life investigations?…
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7: Special Update: Ghislaine Maxwell & Prince Andrew
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In this special episode; Nazir and Mark give their thoughts on Ghislaine Maxwell's trial, her being found guilty on five counts and ask why she is being treated so differently by the media. In addition they take a very frank look at the ramifications her guilty verdicts could have for Prince Andrew in the lawsuit brought against him by Virginia Giu…
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6: Jimmy Savile Predatory Sex Offender
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In 2012 Mark's TV programme "Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile" exposed Savile as a prolific paedophile and predatory sex offender. Savile sexually abused hundreds of victims, many when they were children, and is considered by police to be the most prolific paedophile in British history. Nazir and Mark discuss the challenges Mark faced in br…
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Nazir and Mark take a very frank look at hypocrisy in Government, in particular the Government's own breaches of COVID regulations, and ask why does there appear to be one rule for the public and another rule for the rich and famous? Just how impartial are our police? And has public confidence in the police been badly damaged?…
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Content Warning: This episode discusses acts of violence in relation to child abuse and the murder of 6-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. Arthur endured months of pain and suffering at the hands of his father, Thomas Hughes, and his father's partner, Emma Tustin, which ultimately led to his death in 2020. Mark and Nazir also discuss the details of ca…
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Nazir and Mark discuss the issues around modern terrorism, policing and preventing it, as well as sharing their personal experiences. Todays threats are very different to those of just a few decades ago. The Internet has made it very easy to spread radicalisation and extremism.Av Fear or Favour
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Nazir and Mark have a very frank discussion about the murder of Sarah Everard and the deeply rooted issues of mysogyny and violence against women. Sarah, 33, was kidnapped and murdered by a Metropolitan Police officer who falsely arrested her, as she was walking home, under the pretence of having breached COVID-19 regulations.…
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1: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew
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"I'm the only person in the world to have ever prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell..." Nazir and Mark share their experiences of what will happen in the upcoming trial of Ghislaine Maxwell as well as what happened to Jeffrey Epstein. They examine the options open to the prosecution and to the defence, as well as the ramifications the case will have for HR…
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