Donald Hume and the Setty Case | Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century

It was almost the perfect crime. When police found the dismembered torso of car dealer Stanley Shetty in 1949, they eventually suspected and arrested his business associate, Donald Hume. But they could not find the murder weapon or any forensic evidence to prove that he had killed Setty other than bloodstains in his home. Hume claimed that he had been forced to help gangsters dispose of Setty's murdered body, and all that he could be charged with and convicted of was being an accessory to Setty's murder.

9 years later, after his release from prison and while he was safely in Switzerland, Hume confessed that police had been right about him all along, and sold the confession to the Sunday Pictorial for £2,000. Thanks to the law of double jeopardy, he could not be tried for Setty's murder again, but Hume's criminal nature would ensure that he would not escape justice forever.

One of the Great Crimes and Trials missing episodes. Had to blur out one part since A+E thinks they own footage of the Old Bailey.