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ITN Productions for Channel 5 and Paramount+ UK
For 18 days in the summer of 1982, Barry Prudom was the most wanted man in Britain. 1,000 officers from 12 forces spent two weeks scouring West Yorkshire for the fugitive who had shot dead two police officers and a local pensioner.
Hiding out in forests and villages, Prudom managed to evade capture in a series of extraordinary escapes which earned him the nickname The Phantom, using survival techniques he'd learned on an SAS course.
As pressure on the police grew, desperate measures were called for. Step forward the man who'd taught Prudom on a survival course. His task was to track down the man who apparently couldn't be caught...
Mixing never-previously-seen archive with cinematic reconstruction, this is the story of Barry Prudom, 'The Phantom in The Forest'.