Crush (UK)

"Crush"
←	UK, Episode 5.03	→
Production number: First aired: 24 July 2011
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Written By Nicholas Hicks-Beach Directed By Mat King

Summary

Prostitute Katka Cizek is stabbed to death in her rented flat with four thousand pounds under her mattress. The porter may have tried to blackmail her but the DNA of history professor Gavin Williams is found in her finger-nails. Furthermore the murder weapon matches a knife missing from his kitchen, the money was drawn from his account and the prosecution allege Katka was about to expose his arrangement to his wife Jane. Chosen to cross-examine Jane at Gavin's trial, Alesha is unhappy with certain aspects of Jane's evidence and draws her own conclusions.

Cast

Main Cast

• Bradley Walsh as Detective Sergeant Ronnie Brooks
• Jamie Bamber as Detective Sergeant Matt Devlin
• Harriet Walter as Detective Inspector Natalie Chandler
• Dominic Rowan as Senior Crown Prosecutor Jacob Thorne
• Freema Agyeman as Junior Crown Prosecutor Alesha Phillips
• Peter Davison as Crown Prosecution Service Director Henry Sharpe

Guest Cast

Background information and notes

• Adaptation of the Law & Order episode "Humiliation".