Assume Nothing

Four people are arrested when police swoop to break up what they claim is a republican spying network operating at the heart of Northern Ireland’s volatile government. A convoluted legal process ends with an outcome nobody sees coming.
Presenter: Martin McCann
Additional Voice: Nicolas Boulton
Produced by BBC Northern Ireland

A massive surveillance operation into IRA intelligence gathering has led police to the home of a political party administrator. They recover material they believe to have been stolen from government offices, but some of the intelligence is missing. Their efforts to find those missing items turns the covert operation into a full-blown political scandal that threatens the future of Stormont’s shaky coalition.
Presenter: Martin McCann
Additional Voice: Nicolas Boulton
Produced by BBC Northern Ireland

Police investigating a daring break in, supposedly by the IRA, at their counter terrorism unit’s headquarters get a tip off. Apparently, there’s another republican intelligence operation happening and its reach extends to the heart of Northern Ireland’s volatile government.
Presenter: Martin McCann
Additional Voice: Nicolas Boulton
Produced by BBC Northern Ireland

A daring raid at the Belfast headquarters of Special Branch, the police counter terrorism unit, triggers a massive investigation. The finger of blame is pointed at the IRA, at a time when the paramilitary ceasefire is just about holding but government in Northern Ireland is far from stable.
Presenter: Martin McCann
Additional Voice: Nicolas Boulton
Produced by BBC Northern Ireland

In August 2020 Katie Simpson was brutally murdered by Jonathan Creswell, the partner of her older sister.
For months he convinces her family, the hospital, the pathologist and even the police that she'd taken her own life.
He portrays himself as the Good Samaritan, who'd tried to save her.
But for a small group of people, close friends and family, a Detective Sergeant and journalist Tanya Fowles, the truth about how she'd died might never have come out.
For the first time, Tanya reveals how in the weeks after Katie's death, while she'd been asking questions of the police about Creswell, she receives a phone call from someone employed by one of Northern Ireland's politicians.
The message is clear, unusual and unnerving.
The journalist has no idea how her caller knew she was enquiring about the case as she hadn't published a word about it yet.
But it convinces her more than ever that there is definitely more to Katie's death than suicide.