The Many Faces of Crime - A True Detective's Chronicle

Dennis McGookin was born in Belfast in 1953. In 1970, a family tragedy occurred which changed his career plans, when the Provisional IRA targeted his maternal uncle. Instead of joining the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and for the sake of his parents, he decided to join the Kent County Constabulary in England.

At the age of 21, McGookin was made a Detective Constable in the Criminal Investigation Department, and over the following 28 years he worked on some of the UK-s most high-profile criminal investigations, including the infamous -M25 Road Rage- killing and the subsequent hunt for notorious criminal, Kenneth Noye, to the death of 58 Chinese nationals found dead in a container at Dover Docks - still the largest human smuggling homicide investigation in UK history.

With forensic detail, McGookin also highlights other extraordinary cases he has investigated, including traveling 9,000 miles to Pitcairn Island in the Pacific Ocean where a sexual assault led