Hometown: A Killing

Award-winning journalist Mobeen Azhar moves back to Huddersfield to cover the death of Mohammed Yassar Yaqub, who was shot dead by police on an M62 slip road in 2017. Mobeen is forced to face some ugly truths about his community and hometown.

Journalist Mobeen Azhar investigates the rumours surrounding Yassar Yaqub, and a trial linked to the night he died begins. With violence on the streets of Huddersfield escalating, Mobeen explores the aftermath of this apparently drug-related crime.

As the trial linked to Yassar Yaqub's shooting comes to a close, new revelations emerge about who he really was. Mobeen discovers that local teenagers are being groomed into dealing and he must confront the truth about who is running the drugs trade.

Mobeen joins the dots between the violence on the streets of Huddersfield and the international heroin trade linking West Yorkshire and Pakistan. Meanwhile, the revelations about Yasser Yaqub keep on coming.

Journalist Mobeen Azhar tries to find answers. Is the heroin trade in West Yorkshire the best kept secret or is his community simply turning a blind eye to what's happening in its midst? With access to the inner workings drugs trade, Mobeen comes face to face with the scale of the business and the lengths people go to keep it hidden.

As publication of Mobeen's article gets closer, a life sentence for a local gangster sheds new light on the night Yassar died and makes action against the drug trade more urgent.