First Conviction: Update
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RTÉ Documentary on One
4.4 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Just a quick message to say we’re pausing the release of the concluding episode of this series until this day next week - Wednesday November 12th, the same day on which our TV documentary from RTÉ Investigates airs on RTÉ One at 9.35pm.
If you do have any knowledge or information on this story please contact us immediately and in confidence by emailing documentaries@rte.ie or investigations@rte.ie or you can leave an anonymous tip on our website www.rte.ie/firstconviction
Credits: First Conviction is hosted by Ruth Negga. It's written and produced by Tim Desmond and Liam O’Brien working together with the RTÉ Investigates team of reporter Pam Fraher, producer Philip Gallagher, assistant editor Aoife Hegarty and Editor David Doran. Sound design by Ciarán Cullen. Sayeed’s words are given voice by Steve Hartland and Halawa’s by Esosa Ighodaro. Legal advice from Deirdre Ann Kelly & Eleanor Bleahene. Original music written by Mel Mercier & performed by Karl Nesbitt, Paul O’Donnell, Niwel Tsumbu, Clara Sanabras with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra conducted by Gavin Maloney. Orchestral String Arrangements by Áine Delaney. Music recording engineers, Donncha Moynihan and Ciarán Cullen. Studio voiceover recordings by Ronan Kelly. Readings are by Dawn Bradfield, Razib Chatterjee, Patrick Dunne, Gerry Gill and Louise Lewis. Production assistance from Shauna McGreevy and Nicoline Greer. Audio product support by Nigel Wheatley. Promo Producer, Fiona Savage. Marketing by Christopher Hayes and Maria Buckley. Design and creatives by Michael McKeon, Sean Malone, Scott Bryan, John Kilkenny and Darragh Treacy. Publicity by Laura Fitzgerald. Socials by James Hartigan & Kate Smyth. London recording engineer, Luke Nagy. Additional online editorial content by Anna Joyce. Publishing weekly.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. It's Ruth Naga here. Just a quick message to say a huge thank you to the hundreds of thousands of you who've been listening to First Conviction over the last four weeks. |
| 0:12.7 | We know this isn't always an easy story to listen to, but it's such an important one to tell right now. |
| 0:20.3 | We're pausing the release of the concluding episode of this series |
| 0:23.7 | until this day next week, Wednesday, November 12th. |
| 0:27.9 | And on that same day at 9.35pm on RTE 1, |
| 0:31.6 | we'll bring you our TV documentary from RTE Investigates, |
| 0:35.2 | which will also become available on the RTE player. |
| 0:39.0 | We thank you for your patience as we bring this series to its conclusion. |
| 0:43.4 | And remember, if you do have any knowledge or information on this story, |
| 0:48.1 | please contact us immediately and in confidence by emailing Documentaries at RTE.com. Or Investig documentaries at RTE.e or Investigations at RTE.com. |
| 0:58.2 | Or you can leave an anonymous tip on our website, |
| 1:02.2 | RTE.e. forward slash first conviction. |
| 1:06.8 | And in the weeks after this series finishes, |
| 1:09.9 | we'll also release a bonus episode where all of those involved in the production after this series finishes, we'll also release a bonus episode |
| 1:11.7 | where all of those involved in the production of this series |
| 1:14.7 | will give a behind-the-scenes insight into how we told this story. You know, |
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