The Pitcairn Trials
Hosted by Luke and Luke Jones · Always True Crime
4.7from 353 ratings
- 20
- Episodes
- 18
- Transcribed
- 353
- Ratings
- 2024
- First episode
About The Pitcairn Trials
What happens when a dangerous surgeon arrives on one of the world’s most remote islands? How much damage can he do before he is stopped? St Helena is a small British island in the South Atlantic, over 1000 miles from the nearest landmass. It is famous for hosting Napoleon in exile, and boasts the world's oldest living land animal, Jonathan the tortoise, as one of its residents. But this tiny British Overseas Territory has been gripped with scandal. When orthopedic surgeon Dr Sergio Villatoro Bran arrived in 2015 he was supposed to revolutionise care on the island. Instead he caused unimaginable harm. Was it incompetence? Or was he deliberately causing harm? And is the government of St Helena trying to block the residents' fight for justice? Following on from the critically acclaimed The Pitcairn Trials, Luke Jones investigates another scandal unfolding in one of Britain’s most isolated territories Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Always True Crime
- Category
- history · society & culture · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 4 Sept 2024
- Latest episode
- 20 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
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Published 20 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Guatemala, for example, to ensure that people practicing and people who are registered as medical doctors are fit to practice, because otherwise you are just taking it on face value. Yeah. So we're assuming that those doctors would be regulated for their home country regulators. Exactly. […]
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- 4.6 / 5
- 212 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
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