1The Fighter Gentiane Lupi is a devoted mother, a loving wife, a career actress and a formidable kickboxer. Reporter Phil Vine gained ringside seats for Gentiane’s big fight – a brutal match against a young kickboxer 14 years her junior. In the crowd, cheering Gentiane on, are her biggest supporters – her kids.
2The Wrong Man A former police officer speaks out about the Lisa Blakie murder case, which she worked on more than a decade ago. She reveals to reporter Sarah Hall why she believes her colleagues at the time made serious mistakes in the investigation and now the wrong man is still behind bars. It is an extraordinary criticism of the police force from one of its own. Ms McMenamin has taken the highly unusual step of going public, all because she believes an investigation she worked on got it wrong. Ms Blakie was just 20 when she disappeared while hitch-hiking to the West Coast of the South Island back in February 2000. Four days after she went missing, her body was found in a stream near Porters Pass. Police charged 31-year-old Canterbury man Timothy Taylor with the murder. It was a controversial trial. There were many inconsistencies, but after 18 hours of deliberations, the jury found Taylor guilty. Ms McMenamin, a police intelligence officer who worked on the case, believes the police ignored key evidence to make their theory fit.
3Imagine you stumble and hurt your foot. It’s just a minor knock but it triggers something in your body and in your head. Soon you are racked by pain, pain that becomes so severe you can no longer walk. Everyday tasks become unbearable and yet most people seem to believe there’s nothing really wrong with you. Natasha Utting meets some young sufferers who experience just that – a debilitating pain condition called CRIPS (Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome) that many doctors have never heard of. Left undiagnosed and untreated, the results can be devastating.