The Day I Should Have Died

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The survivors who cheated death - True Crime UK from CBS Reality

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Series 1

1. Gill Hicks

True Crime UK from CBS Reality. On July 7th 2005, Gill Hicks lay trapped in a smoke-filled train carriage. She was the last living person to be rescued after the attack.

2. Mo Lea

True Crime UK from CBS Reality. Mo Lea was attacked with a hammer by Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe. The attack almost ruined her life, but now she lectures art at university.

3. Steven Gault

True Crime UK from CBS Reality. Steven Gault was stood beside his father when a bomb exploded, killing his father and 10 others instantly. Since then he has campaigned for justice.

4. Margaret Mountney

True Crime UK from CBS Reality. Peter Tobin married Margaret Mountney when she was seventeen, a whirlwind romance which quickly descended to violence and rape.

5. Caroline Langlade

True Crime UK from CBS Reality. Caroline Langlade hid with 40 other people as ISIS gunmen opened fire in the Bataclan concert hall in 2015. Now she supports traumatised survivors.

6. Pam Warren

True Crime UK from CBS Reality. Pam Warren was engulfed by a fireball in a rail disaster that left hundreds dead or injured. She suffered burns and had a string of operations.

7. Declan Brady

True Crime UK from CBS Reality. Declan Brady was on a flight from London to Belfast when the aircraft crashed. He managed to escape, but had to crawl over dying people.

8. Amanda Wright

True Crime UK from CBS Reality. Amanda Wright's mum was strangled to death by a family friend. He tried to do the same to Amanda before laying their lifeless bodies on the bed.

9. Sameem Ali

True Crime UK from CBS Reality. Sameem Ali was taken to Pakistan and made to marry a stranger. She became pregnant and was left isolated from her peers back home.

10. Breivik Survivors

True Crime UK from CBS Reality. This episode tells of the massacre on Utoya island in 2011, with accounts of human bravery, including a boy who threw himself in front of the gun.