When Alice Grant died, it was sad but not unexpected. The 84-year-old needed round-the-clock care from her nurse, Alison Firth. What nobody expected was how much Firth would resent the extra care her vulnerable patient required or what lengths the lazy nurse would go to in order to avoid the work...

10. Alison Firth

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True Crime

They are the angels who patrol the wards. The men and women we trust with our lives. But some are there not to cure - but to kill.  Why do they do it? In this docu-drama true crime series, top medical, criminal and psychological experts will analyse the motives of these nurses who kill, how they get away with it, and how hard it can be to prove their guilt. 

Nurses Who Kill

Series 3

They are the angels who patrol the wards. The men and women we trust with our lives...

ITV News

National and international news with reports and analysis from ITV's Correspondents.

ITV Evening News

Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters

Celebrities embark on a dangerous journey to the Bahamas to swim with man-eating sharks.

The celebrities fend off circling reef sharks without the safety of a cage, Helen faces her fear of the sea, and Ade has an equipment failure while surrounded by sharks.

After saving her family from their burning home, Karen Pedley was hailed as a hero. But this began an obsession that would see Pendley try to recreate her moment of glory again and again. When she found work in a nursing home, it was inevitable that somebody would die...

1. Karen Pedley

Mary Logie's family was grateful for the care and support Sandra Weir gave to their elderly mother. They had no idea that Weir had been stealing from the 82-year-old to fund her heroin addiction. An addict will go to any length for their next fix; nothing can get in their way….as Mary Logie would tragically discover

2. Sandra Weir

Life was good for New York paramedic Paul Novak. Following his wife Catherine's death, he had custody of his children and set up home with his pretty young girlfriend in the lavish house he bought with the insurance money. Novak had boasted of committing the perfect murder, but the past has a habit of catching up with you….

3. Paul Novak

Shaun "The Guv'nor" Cummins was a champion boxer whose life was turned upside down after an accident left him paralysed. Thomas Dunkley became Shaun's right-hand man. But debt-ridden and dissatisfied, he grew bitter.
When Shaun's dismembered body was discovered, police knew they were only looking for one man...

4. Thomas Dunkley

Beverley James led a double life: carer by day, sex worker by night. The mother of three lived by debt and would do whatever she could to get money. When frail Harriet Davison was found beaten to death, police looked closer at her carer....it was only a matter of time before James' shocking secrets would be revealed.

5. Beverley James

Rendered disabled by muscular dystrophy, Greg Baker relied on a team of carers. Thelma Purchase was one to whom Greg was particularly attached. He tutored her sons, gave her money, and even wrote her into his will - a decision which would prove to have fatal consequences...

6. Thelma Purchase

When politician Kathy Augustine's husband died, she found solace in the arms of his handsome young nurse, Chaz Higgs. After a whirlwind romance, the couple married, but it was not to last. As Kathy's political career was at its peak, her personal life was in sharp decline. Higgs made no secret of how much he hated his wife, but nobody guessed how far he would go…

7. Chaz Higgs

Bunthawee Rimmer had come a long way since selling donuts on a Thai beach. She enjoyed a comfortable lifestyle as a live-in carer to Paul Norfolk. When she was made the main beneficiary in Paul's will, Rimmer stood to inherit almost £350,000... unless Paul changed his mind. Armed with a claw hammer, she made sure that would never happen.

8. Bunthawee Rimmer

When Eric Lloyd died unexpectedly, his family were devastated. None more so than his grieving widow, nurse Marie Whiston. When an autopsy revealed high levels of insulin in his body, detectives started to dig deeper. They would uncover a tale of greed and deception from a nurse who used her medical skills not to care but to kill...