Murder Investigation Team

The Bigger the Lie (1x8)

Air date: Jun 21, 2003

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 local community, DI Viv Friend needs to move quickly if she is to catch Ellen's killer, but she certainly doesn't count on another case opening up before her eyes... [Source: MurderInvestigationTeam.com]