A couple from Manchester were enjoying their retirement on the Caribbean island of Jamaica, but then in 2018 they were the victims of a fraud amounting to £100,000. Weeks after reporting the crime they were brutally murdered in their home.

On Christmas Day 2011, aid worker Khuram Shaikh from Rochdale was on holiday in Sri Lanka when he broke up a fight in a bar. His selfless act would end in murder.

A British couple's dream retirement in Thailand turned into a nightmare when pirates boarded their yacht. 64-year-old Malcolm Robertson was bludgeoned to death and thrown overboard while his wife Linda was tied up.

In January 2002, 19-year-old Caroline Stuttle from York set off backpacking around Australia. Months later, her body was found by Queensland Police at the foot of a 65ft high bridge in Bundaberg, north of Brisbane.

When the dead body of a Royal Navy sailor was found in a park in the capital city of the Seychelles, his parents believed something sinister had happened to him the night he died.

With London still reeling from the 7th July 2005 terrorist attacks, a couple try to get away from it all on a scuba diving holiday in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. But the holiday resort is hit by a series of terrorist attacks.

Helicopter pilot Roger Gower worked helping to spot illegal poachers operating in Tanzania. In 2016, Roger failed to return to base from one of his routine missions.

40-year-old Stephen Bennett was on holiday in Goa, India in 2006, when he accidentally got himself involved in a series of events that led to him fearing for his life.