One man killing another in a drug-fuelled brawl is nothing new; you only have to look at the crime pages of any tabloid. So what makes the case of 23-year-old Alex Morgan, brutally murdered in an extended, horrific attack by his friend Bennet von Vertes, son of an obscenely rich art dealer while both were high on drugs, special enough to warrant its own six-part podcast? The answer lies in the series title. While the first three episodes of (In)Justice: Killer Privilege do raise questions as to who is entitled to a voice in an increasingly wealth-stratified society, they also examine the roles which privilege and wealth play in allowing those born into rarified air to essentially get away with murder. 

The first episode treads an uneasy mix of wealth porn and cliffhangers, chronicling the lives that Morgan and von Vertes led in Zurich and London. But in episode two, the focus shifts to Morgan’s mother Katja Faber (pictured above). A barrister by training, she has both the emotional and legal vocabulary to tell her story in precise, harrowing detail. In doing so she gives voice to an experience the mothers of all the other sons murdered in such vicious circumstances don’t have. Wealth cannot protect anyone from such horrors. 

It can, however, protect the perpetrator, as episode three goes on to shockingly demonstrate. The podcast flits around reportage, salacious suspense and genuine emotional power, but it is Faber’s story that is by far the most moving.

(In)Justice: Killer Privilege is available now.