Murder Investigation Team : Season 1

Sgt Matt Boyden of The Bill and an unidentified black man are both murdered in a drive-by shooting. The gunman makes a speedy getaway leaving the police with no idea which man was the intended target. Matt's copper colleagues look on, devastated, as M.I.T comb the crime scene. Meanwhile his own drug addicted daughter, Amy, hears the news from a custody cell back at the nick. Still in shock, evidence collected from his daughter and colleagues lead MIT to discover Matt wasn't always on the right s

DI Vivien Friend investigates the murder of a young woman whose remains have been found preserved in a concrete tomb at a demolition site. The only clues to her identity are a healed scar along her left hand and a puncture mark at the base of her spine from a medical procedure. The police investigation leads to a 3 year old missing persons case in which a young girl vanished from her parents' pub without trace. When the autopsy confirms it is the same missing girl, DI Friend has to break the ne

Emotions of the Murder Investigation Team run high when the dismembered body of a small child is found on a Thames rubbish barge. A painstaking search through layers of decaying rubbish reveals some clues but a discovery during the post mortem is even more disturbing. The little boy's heart has been crudely removed from his body and it looks like his murder could be African ritualistic killing. The murdered child's parents have logged a missing persons report, but their priest prevents DI Frien

The Murder Investigation Team are called out to a double murder on a run down housing estate. A middle-aged teacher, Martin Ramsey, has been pushed from his third floor window, and an old homeless man, Nelson Fairgrave, is found floating in a nearby lake - but what is the connection between the two men? A promising line of enquiry opens up when the police find out Ramsey was being intimidated by an ex-pupil, but there is little information to be had about the homeless man. When the police find

When the body of Penny Wake, a young red-haired housewife, is found in undergrowth by a couple out jogging, DI Friend and the Murder Investigation Team are called in to investigate her death. There are no signs of a struggle but her body has been cleaned inside and out with bleach - the police know they are looking for a calculating and forensically aware killer. Her husband, Henry, has no alibi for the night of her murder and is consequently their prime suspect, but when another red-haired wom

When a convicted paedophile, Barry Morton, is bludgeoned to death in his own home it looks like the work of vigilantes. The Murder Investigation Team's most promising lead in the enquiry is the phone call that the victim made to a possible associate, Peter Taylor. Barry has been calling Peter on a regular basis so when the police search his house and find photos of Barry with Peter's wife it throws up all manner of questions. Soon the police discover that Barry has recorded his own murder on hi

Natasha McKay is the woman with everything - a glamorous modelling career and a rich property developer for a husband. But when her disfigured body washes up on the banks of the Thames it becomes apparent that Natasha's life was not all that it seemed. An ex-school friend comes forward to the police to come clean about his affair with Natasha: they were in love and they were going to marry. But when the police interview her husband Dennis McKay, he has an alibi for the night of her disappearan

Tensions run high in the Bangladeshi Community when the body of journalist Ellen Merrick is found dead in a disused shop in the local market place. Witnesses are reluctant to come forward to the police so the only clue the team have to work with is a bloody trainer print and some fibres from a nylon tracksuit at the crime scene. MIT urgently need to find out what story Ellen was working on at the time of her death, but newspaper colleagues are reluctant to co-operate and with silence from the l