In the age of perfect AI forgeries, seeing is no longer believing. This erosion of digital trust has created an unprecedented crisis for global justice systems, as investigators find themselves in a high-stakes technological arms race where evidence can be manufactured as quickly as it can be debunked.

In a chilling case of betrayal, IT worker Luke D'Wit spent years manipulating a trusting Essex couple through elaborate fake online personas before poisoning them with fentanyl to take control of their successful business. Through a security camera app, he coldly monitored their final moments.

Edward Lee Elmore served 29 years on death row for a crime he did not commit. In 2012, after 11’000 days in prison, he was finally a free man.

Should addiction be a mitigating factor that lessens the responsibility for crime? And should the issue of whether or not addiction is a disease make any difference to that judgement?