Chester features in a ground-breaking new TV series about the Crown Prosecution Service.
The first episode of ‘The Prosecutors: Real Crime and Punishment’ will be shown on BBC Four on Wednesday (February 24) at 9pm.
The series is largely based in the Merseyside/Cheshire CPS area and there are Cheshire cases in each of the three episodes.
Shots of Chester Crown Court feature in the trailer for the TV show, which is made by London-based Gold Star Productions.
The CPS has allowed cameras to document their work for the first time.
A press release announcing the new series says the TV crews were given ‘unprecedented access’. It adds that each episode will follow a number of cases, including death by careless driving, murder investigations, allegations of indecent assaults, the prosecution of a historic murder case and of an organised gang who target cash machines.
Series goes 'behind the headlines'
Alongside testimony and first-hand experience from witnesses and victims, the work of the CPS is followed from the initial decision-making - assessing whether to charge, what charge to make, and the associated dilemmas involved - to building a case, through to the trial and final resolution.
This series will go ‘behind the headlines’ to see how the CPS makes decisions on who to prosecute and the processes they must go through in their attempts to secure convictions.
In 2014 the CPS brought nearly three quarters of a million criminal prosecutions (651,352) to court in England and Wales. Every case was carried out on behalf of the state by the CPS.
THE PROSECUTORS - TV TIMES
Episode 1 - Wednesday, February 24 (9pm BBC Four)
Episode 2 - Wednesday, March 2 (9pm BBC Four)
Episode 3 - Wednesday, March 9 (9pm BBC Four)
