Episode 4 - Omar Benguit

Oki was walking home from a nightclub in Bournemouth in July 2002
when she was attacked from behind without warning. She was
stabbed in the back 3 times, she bled to death. She was still
alive when the emergency services arrived, and in her broken
English, she explained she’d been attacked by a masked man.


Eventually, Omar Benguit would be tried and convicted for her
murder. A known drug user, Benguit had already racked up 60
convictions, including one for stabbing a man in the chest and
threatening another with a syringe.


The main evidence used to convict him came from another known
drug user with a history of false allegations. She started drip
feeding information to the police about the murder of Jong-Ok
Shin - Oki, as she was known. The witness was to become part of a
story which led to 3 trials, 2 appeals and the involvement of a
magazine and hugely popular TV programme (BBC Three’s Unsolved:
The Man With No Alibi). Listen to the facts of the case, would
you convict Omar Benguit of murder?