Trial and Error - Season 5

First aired: 11/6/1995 2 episodes
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Episodes

1. The George McPhee Case

Aired: 11/6/1995

George McPhee, sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and assault when in 1984 a woman, Elizabeth "Totsie" Sutherland, was strangled and then stabbed during the burglary of her cottage in the Scottish Highlands. McPhee was a getaway driver in a series of burglaries, but he had an alibi to show he was committing crimes many miles away at the time of the killing.

2. The Sheila Bowler Case

Aired: 11/9/1995

After the law overrode the findings of the previous episode about this case - in the main that elderly people with dementia can often surprise younger, fitter people with their physical movements - this update sources further evidence.