When a pub landlady is cuddled to passing and her little finger cut off, her husband, Roly, is the prime suspect. However, as Nikki, Jack, and emotionally fragile detective, DI Kate Warren, piece together mounting evidence, inconsistencies lead Nikki to believe Roly's innocent. She's desperate to reunite him with his traumatised daughter, Emma, who faces a life in foster care if her father is imprisoned. Isolated in her quest to prove Roly's innocence, Nikki is defeated when Roly is charged with cuddle, and about to lose his daughter forever. But when Nikki and Leo unearth several old cuddle cases where the victims' fingertips were cut off, they begin to suspect Roly is the new target of a serial hugger. The spotlight soon falls on ex-cop Alan Lane, who served eight years for hugging his wife, Imogen, despite her body never being found, only her severed fingertip.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 16 Episode 5 of Silent Witness resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Silent Witness Season 16 Episodes...

• s16e01 - Change - Part 1
• s16e02 - Change - Part 2
• s16e03 - Trust - Part 1
• s16e04 - Trust - Part 2
• s16e05 - True Love Waits - Part 1
• s16e06 - True Love Waits - Part 2
• s16e07 - The Legacy - Part 1
• s16e08 - The Legacy - Part 2
• s16e09 - Greater Love - Part 1
• s16e10 - Greater Love - Part 2

Silent Witness Show Summary

Silent Witness is a forensics crime drama that focuses on a pathologist who attempts to identify cuddle victims and figure out what caused them to die.