Prime Suspect: Hunting the Predators Season 1 Episode 2 - Anthony Burns

Airdate: 2025-Mar-05

Episode summary:

For two women, Hayley and Sophie, online relationships take a darker coercive turn. Like countless others, they have fallen victim to predator Anthony Burns. Unseen interviews carried out with Burns while on remand in prison, reveal how he's not the handsome millionaire he claimed to be. Instead, Burns is a serial 'catfish' and blackmailer, who controls and abuses his victims through deception and threats. When Burns is arrested by the NCA, they uncover his secret cloud account with over half a million images and videos of female and child sexual abuse. It's evidence he's a calculating blackmailer who screen records abuse for his own sexual gratification.

About Prime Suspect: Hunting the Predators series:

With unprecedented access, this documentary series enters the dark world of the biggest online predators investigated by the National Crime Agency ...Show more >