News reports and films
As a television journalist, Rob has broken exclusive stories which have resonated around the world and covered some of the most compelling cases of recent years. He has also produced high-end features for ITV News.
As a television journalist, Rob has broken exclusive stories which have resonated around the world and covered some of the most compelling cases of recent years. He has also produced high-end features for ITV News.
Rob had heard about - and discovered - this lost ITV News interview with mysterious graffiti artist Banksy from before he was famous. It was filmed at Turf War exhibition in London. Interview rediscovered 2019. This video has had well over half a million views worldwide on all platforms.
The ITV series ‘A Confession’ was based on real events. Robert Murphy covered the Christopher Halliwell murders in greater detail than any other journalist. This film tells the true story behind the drama.
Launching her book ‘Goldfinger and me,’ in 2018 John Palmer’s widow Marnie Palmer described her lavish lifestyle in the 1980s - paid for by Brinks-Mat gold. She describes Palmer putting a gun to her head and how she feels towards the thousands conned by Palmer in a timeshare scandal.
John and Marnie Palmer are both characters in the BBC drama ‘The Gold,’ which is a heavily fictionalised account based on a true story.
How cold case officers found the rapist of an elderly spinster attacked in 1980. Kenny Wells laughed at arresting officers when he was detained at his home in Wiltshire. The inquiry had become such a ‘cold’ case that search teams were drafted in to police storerooms to find the lost files.
Exclusive report for ITV News. How a police race relations advisor was tasered by Avon and Somerset officers - they had mistaken him for a criminal. Robert Murphy's report of the shooting of Judah Adunbi in Bristol made headlines around the world. report includes footage of the taser shooting.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the ss Great Britain’s return from the Falkland Islands, Robert Murphy looks at her revolutionary history, dramatic life and how she helped save the ancient docks in which she was built
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Army sergeant Emile Cilliers sentenced to life in prison for attempting to murder his wife Vicky by sabotaging her parachute
One of Britain’s wealthiest men, Sir Richard Sutton, was fatally stabbed by the son of his partner. ITV News report from the day Thomas Schreiber was convicted of murder
Rioters greet double-killer Christopher Halliwell when he made his first appearance after being caught after he murdered Sian O’Callaghan
What support is offered to jurors when they are confronted with horrifying evidence? In this exclusive report, Robert Murphy spoke with a juror in the Becky Watts case about the profound impact it had on her life.
How cold case detectives caught the attacker of an 18-year-old woman who was assaulted as she walked along a cycle path in 1990
Few people know that Bungee Jumping was invented in Bristol. Here, Rob speaks with the man who founded the sport - then gave it away for free. Many think it’s a New Zealand thing. But on April 1 1979, David Kirk leapt from the Clifton Suspension Bridge, the culmination of a long-held and top-secret plan.
Interview with Bernard Sumner of New Order, ahead of concert in Bristol in July 2019. Bernard talks about the first gig in the city for decades, ships in the harbour - and frozen chickens.
Miranda Meldrum stunned the medical experts when she started breaking out from Locked In Syndrome. She is one of the few patients in history whose body has started to work again. Robert Murphy has been filming her recovery over five years.
The ss Great Britain was Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s masterpiece. Why did he build the biggest, fastest, most revolutionary ship the world had ever seen? And what happened in her dramatic life?