The chilling story of an ex boxer and bodyguard who was murdered - A Killers Mistake

Shaun Cummins

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Watch how detectives cracked this ‘grotesque’ murder case in which former boxer and bodyguard Shaun Cummins was killed by his ‘friend and carer’ Thomas Dunkley in September 2012. Everything turns on one piece of evidence…fail to find it, and a killer stays free. Ten iconic murder stories from the last three years that were solved because of one fatal error. Intrigue, jeopardy, layered story-telling and a series which is both moving and revelatory of the detective process.

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