Dr Richard Shepherd is the UK’s foremost forensic pathologist, his job to understand the deaths which may have no natural cause. From crime scene to court room, his findings are crucial to the pursuit of justice. His work has seen killers put behind bars, exonerated the innocent, and turned open-and-shut cases on their heads.
Involved in some of the most high-profile cases of recent times – the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the Hungerford massacre, the Marchioness disaster, and the aftermath of 9/11 – Shepherd doesn’t flinch from counting the personal cost of a life spent bearing witness to humanity’s darkest corners.
