Murder 24/7 review – it feels so iffy watching brutal hour-by-hour death

The investigation into the callous murder of DPD driver Aurman Singh is compelling telly. But the horrific details are totally prioritised over the motives and the victim. Why are we still gawking at true-crime horrors?In August 2023, delivery driver Aurman Singh was viciously attacked and killed by a group of eight men in Shrewsbury, suffering a traumatic head injury that led to his death. He had been struck with weapons including a golf club and an axe, before his mask-wearing assailants fled in two cars. One eyewitness – whose doorbell camera footage is analysed by police – says Singh’s eyes were “fixed open … it was like someone just pressed stop”.Singh’s killing – dubbed “The DPD Murder” by the programme-makers – was unusually callous and brutal, making for what lead investigator DCI Mark Bellamy describes as a “beast of a job”. It also makes for compelling television, although you may well wonder whether you should be watching it all, in such harsh detail. As its title suggests, Murder 24/7 is wall-to-wall, hour-by-hour death, its six episodes a sobering experience, during which – in spite of the care it affords its cases – you can’t help but feel voyeuristic. Continue reading...

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