Unfinished: Shoebury's Lost Boys

- Season 1

(2020)

Charles interviews Nick Alston, the Essex police and crime commissioner who ordered the Shoebury pedophile ring case to be re-opened.

The police investigation starts but takes a series of strange turns. What is going in Shoebury?

Charity workers helping the victims cannot work out why police are acting so strangely, until a crucial new piece of information comes to light 30 years later.

Information about why police appeared to cover up the extent of a pedophile ring finally comes to light thanks to a document which was about to be destroyed.

Charles investigates how the social services department at Essex County Council failed Shoebury's lost boys.

A fresh police investigation gets underway in 2016, thanks to Charles' findings. It doesn't go as planned, but a new victim emerges just in the nick of time.

Charles uncovers disturbing links between the Shoebury pedophile ring and a notorious London gang of child-killers.

Just as Charles makes another breakthrough in the Shoebury case, he is told his newspaper is shutting down. Then, as the final episode of this podcast series is being produced, there is a last-minute twist.

Charles interviews Nick Alston, the Essex police and crime commissioner who ordered the Shoebury pedophile ring case to be re-opened.