Real Crime

Death On The Bay (2x25)

Air date: Dec 15, 2008

Programme investigating the deaths of twenty-three Chinese cockle pickers on Morecambe Sands. This shocking case revealed part of the hidden world of human trafficking and the awful conditions for the victims, and sparked a government investigation. But who were the people who had drowned? And who had sent them to their deaths? The tragedy led detectives to China, and to the heart of a people-smuggling operation here in Britain.