GUEST SPEAKERS

Kerry Daynes is a registered Consultant Forensic Psychologist, known and trusted by true crime fans across the globe. With over 25 years spent as one of the most sought-after professionals in the business, her work has taken her from police interview rooms and the witness box to the cells of maximum-security prisons and wards of secure hospitals.

Donal MacIntyre is a renowned documentary maker, investigative journalist and criminologist. He made his reputation as an undercover reporter before working with ITV, BBC, Five, and an array of international broadcasters.

Madeleine Black has an unusual personal story which she uses to inspire and motivate others. She chose to forgive the two men who gang raped her at thirteen years old and she shares her story for many reasons.

Ray is the son of Brian Price and lives in the Midlands. Ray has now taken on the emotional and gruelling task of trying to discover who killed his father and his father's partner Susan Tetrault. 

Dr Mohammed Rahman is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University. 

His work as a criminologist has engaged global audiences through publications, including books, book chapters, peer-reviewed articles, and conference papers, focusing on serious violence, organised crime, and social inequalities. He has extensively researched violent offenders, their victims, and those who work within the criminal justice system.

Natalie Queiroz MBE is the Victims Advocate (Victims Commissioner) for West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner, a role which sees her hold West Midlands Police and other criminal justice agencies to account with respect to upholding Victims’ Rights. The inspiration for all her work stems from her survival in 2016 of one of the most horrific attempted domestic homicides ever seen in the UK. 

Jane Monckton Smith is a Professor of Public Protection at the University of Gloucestershire

Her specialisms are in homicide and risk and threat assessment and she has spent years analysing domestic abuse killings. Out of that came her eight-stage homicide timeline, which maps how controlling behaviour often escalates, step by step, long before anyone gets killed. 

Elizabeth McCafferty is known to audiences for her acclaimed investigative series Inside McKamey Manor, where she explored the world’s most controversial “extreme haunt”. McCafferty often navigates the edges of culture and psychology, exploring extreme experiences, underground communities, and the stories we tell to make sense of fear, creating content for VICE, The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent, and Dazed.

Darren used to spend his days dealing with liars, cheats and criminals as a police officer. Since then, he has become a regular on our TV screens radio and in the press. The media simply call him the human lie detector. He is the U.K.’s number one body language and deception detection expert used by the media to assess politicians, celebrities, royalty and other public figures.

Naomi is TV producer and host of the REAL podcast. She has produced over 250 episodes, including investigative deep dives, working alongside survivors and families of those lost to violent crime. 

Anton Sullivan is a former Cheshire Police officer with 32 years’ service and crime media consultant. A former detective and senior investigating officer, Anton has been involved in investigations into serious crime and specialised in public order, major incident response and roads policing, leading the county’s roads and crime unit for several years.  

Hayley Rhodes is the host of the True Crime Uncut podcast. An experienced true crime film maker, she has produced and directed series for broadcasters including Sky Crime, Channel 5 and Netflix.

Alan Jackaman served as a police officer for over 25 years and most of his service was in CID, much of that investigating murder. He was also chosen to be part of the Metropolitan Police first ever dedicated Murder Investigation Team which formed in 1994.

Multi-award-winning executive producer Emma Read has made and commissioned thousands of hours of television. From ‘Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons’ (Netflix) to ‘Harrow: A Very British School’ (Sky), ‘Operation Hope: The Children Lost In The Amazon’ (Prime Video), ‘Inside The Freemasons’ (Sky) and ‘Rich House Poor House’ (Channel 5), her productions are innovative and engaging.