Neil Root

Neil Root investigates the life and times of the notorious slum landlord

Teenage telegraph messenger boys from the General Post Office were servicing the needs of leading members of the aristocracy.

Lurgan woman Rosemary Nelson was just 40-years-old when she was murdered. The solicitor died after a bomb exploded under her car on the 15th March, 1999 – I contributed to this podcast in connection with my 2011 book Who Killed Rosemary Nelson?

I contributed to this podcast trying to find answers to the disappearance of Claudia Lawrence in York in 2009, in connection with my 2013 book Gone: The Disappearance of Claudia Lawrence, on which I worked with Claudia's late father Peter Lawrence.

This week, ITV screens A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story starring Lucy Boynton as Ellis and Toby Jones as John Bickford, her defence lawyer at her June 1955 trial. The drama should shed more light on the travesty of that trial, but there’s another

From the late 1930s until the mid-1960s, Percy Hoskins, longtime stalwart of the Daily Express who became its highly influential chief crime correspondent, had a contact list like nobody else in Fleet Street.

Did the Police and Criminal Evidence Act outpace justice? Neil Root looks at the 1992 murder of Patricia Hall and her husband’s acquittal for the crime two years later Patricia Hall disappeared from her home in Pudsey, Yorkshire more than thirty-two…

The sale of Dr Crippen and other murder memorabilia at a London auction house exactly 100 years ago reminds us that the fascination of real horrors and for some even owning a piece of them has always been part of the human psyche ‘Murder Relics Sale’…

A new documentary series puts the much-needed spotlight on miscarriages of justice and how the system has sometimes failed, leading to terrible, even fatal consequences With the current true crime documentary and drama tsunami dominating our…

By Neil RootTerry Smith was a high-profile TV pundit on crime, appearing in Channel 4’s The Heist and working as a consultant on Spike Lee’s bank robbery film Inside Man, starring Clive Owen.But the 53-year-old is now serving an indeterminate…