Crimestoppers works with ITV1 on new Reward Show

[16th January 2007]

The charity Crimestoppers, will play a vital part in a new ITV1 programme, 'Reward' which will make national appeals for information to help solve crimes where the offenders are wanted and where there's an outstanding reward for information leading to an arrest or conviction.

The programme will be broadcast on 18 January, 1TV1 at 9pm. The programme will take a fresh look at cold cases where there are outstanding rewards and aims to engage the public with detailed appeals. Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 number will be the only number shown on the programme to give the public the incentive to call Crimestoppers anonymously with information.

Reward is a brand new ninety-minute show which sees Mary Nightingale head up ITV1's own crack team of highly experienced investigators including Jackie Malton - the detective that the character Helen Mirren plays in Prime Suspect is based on, Roy Ramm, a former Commander of the Serious Crimes Squad at New Scotland Yard, Dave Barclay, a forensic investigator who worked at the National Crime Faculty, Anne Davies, a behavioural scientist specialising in rape cases, Nat Cary, a forensic pathologist and Noah Charney who is an expert on art crime.

The show features Jackie Malton investigating the vicious attacks of two young women after a night out. Former DCI Malton discusses the case with Mary Nightingale and the investigating team appealing for anyone who was in the club that night to come forward with information. The programme also features an 84-year-old woman who was viciously attacked and raped in 1994 by a youth while walking her dog on a local woodland path. Behavioural scientist, Anne Davies, takes us through the events and helps to shed new light on this crime. Will the £10,000 reward offered prompt any witnesses to relive that day thirteen years ago?

A £100,000 reward is offered for help in solving a crime of a very different nature - a crime that shocked the art world - the theft of a two ton Henry Moore sculpture that is valued at £3million. Bizarrely this huge bronze statue appears to have vanished.

Reward was made by ITV productions for ITV1.