When Kids Kill

This episode features the case of two 15-year-olds who carried out a vicious hate crime.

A gang of 20 high-achieving students attacked 15-year-old Sofyen Belamouadden with Samurai swords and kitchen knives in front of horrified rush hour commuters, leading to what is believed to be the largest joint enterprise murder investigation in British legal history.

Trainee accountant Stuart Harling was obsessed with an ultra-violent video game, and in 2006 he stabbed nurse Cheryl Moss 70 times. A-level student Steven Miles watched nothing but 'Dexter', and in 2014 he dismembered his girlfriend. Aaron Roach Bridgeman speaks to experts who were associated with the cases. Can any connection be proven between extertainment and action?

Aaron Roach Bridgeman looks at the case of 17-year-old Marcel Addai, who was cruelly chased down and murdered by members of a rival gang after an ongoing rap video feud.

Aaron Roach Bridgeman looks at the cases of Hannah Windsor and Melissa Mathieson, both murdered by fellow care home residents. Can mental health conditions be a defence for murder?

Aaron Roach Bridgeman explores court restrictions and anonymity orders placed on child murders, meaning the media cannot name perpetrators until the age of 18, through the murders of Elizabeth Edwards and Angela Wrightson.