No Questions Asked: Part 1 Crown Court : Season 5 Episode 9
TV-14 ITV 25m int(0)
Aired: January 21st, 1976 @ 7:00 PM EST on ITV
The dismembered body of car dealer John Butlin was dumped from an aeroplane into the Irish Sea. He had been earlier been stabbed. Now Philiip Shepherd finds himself on trial for murder. The prosecution assert that he killed Butlin and pocketed the £5000 he had been carrying at the time. Shepherd passionately protests his innocence. He argues he had been asked by three criminals - Johnny the Print, Boyesie and Big Willie - to dump a load of counterfeit number plates at sea. He was then horrified to discover that it contained a dead body instead. He presumes these three men killed Butlin but they have never been traced; the prosecution claim they are the product of his imagination.