The Moment Of Proof
The Moment Of Proof is a TV show on BBC1. Telling the real stories of police investigations, and the vital moments when detectives realised they had cracked the case. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 26 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in July 2026.
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The Moment Of Proof
Police are left confounded by a serial burglar’s Houdini-style disappearing act. But a single piece of information brings the game of hide-and-seek to a sudden end.
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Two young women are shot dead in Birmingham on New Year’s Eve. But it takes an audacious undercover mission for police to infiltrate rival gangs and find the moment of proof.
Police suspect foul play after a meetup goes wrong. But it takes toxicology tests to reveal the deadly cocktail that convicts a killer.
Two men heading to a business meeting are kidnapped and forced to transfer a large amount of company money. Police unpick a web of calls and CCTV to find their moment of proof.
When a missing woman is found dead, family and friends raise suspicions about her boyfriend. But police need hard evidence that he was involved. And they eventually get it.
Two people die in an arson attack on their home, but police can’t get a DNA profile from matches left at the scene. However, an eagle-eyed detective clocks a problem with the CCTV.
An organised crime gang supplying large quantities of drugs is almost impossible to uncover. But painstaking surveillance leads police to the kingpin, bringing down the operation.
A fatal house fire turns suspicious two years on when it emerges the victim was visited by a stranger the night his home was destroyed. Will a plane ticket give a moment of proof?
A reclusive millionaire is found murdered in his home in west London, and police find hundreds of thousands of pounds in cash still there.
Series 3
Fingerprints found after a break-in and a brutal beating are enough to convict a man of murder, and crooks who burgled a man's home and started using his credit card are caught by CCTV.
A few specks of grey paint help to solve two brutal axe murders, and a bungling burglar is caught when his DNA is found on a rock used to smash a window at one of his break-ins.
A fingerprint on a fish and chips wrapper places a gunman in a rural location miles from his home, and a man’s laptop reveals that he is behind a luxury gift card fraud.
An ice pick is recovered from the roof of a pub and brings a murderer to justice, and an anonymous letter throws suspicion on a man who may be storing and manufacturing guns.
A man is linked to a series of murders by a shoelace with his final victim’s DNA on it, and coded information in a spreadsheet reveals the perpetrator of a campaign of blackmail.
A hammer contaminated with the DNA of both victim and killer helps police solve a murder investigation, and a burglar is caught after photographing himself at the crime scene.
A single piece of paper found on top of a hidden fax machine gives police the number of a shipping container used to smuggle millions of pounds' worth of drugs from Thailand.
A USB stick found in the raid of a woman’s house leads to the downfall of her online drugs empire, and police target the man responsible for converted weapons flooding the UK.
A blood-spattered hammer is the key to charging the prime suspect in a murder case, and a drug gang is brought down when one detective focuses on how the product is packaged.
A fingerprint from an old break-in solves a murder at the same factory months later. Elsewhere, a DNA spray means police can finally apprehend a prolific motorbike thief.