Channel 5's A Very British Sex Scandal: Who was the Earl of Shaftesbury Anthony Ashley-Cooper, how did he die, and was anyone convicted?

Channel 5's A Very British Sex Scandal: The Earl and The Escort tonight (Wednesday) will feature the very first interview with a woman convicted of her involvement in the murder of one of the UK's wealthiest men. The documentary follows the investigation into the disappearance and murder of the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley-Cooper.

The Earl, who went missing in 2004, was eventually discovered dead in a ravine at the foothills of the Alps. Jamila M'Barek, the Earl's estranged wife, and her brother were subsequently convicted in the circumstances of his death.

The program from Channel 5 also features contributions from Jamila's lawyers, detectives, and reporters who worked on the case

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper was one of Britain’s wealthiest men. Part of a historic family based in Dorset with grand properties in the UK and France, they owned a 9,000-acre estate and works of art worth tens of millions of pounds.

In his youth, he attended Eton and Oxford. After his father died when he was nine, he moved to France for a time with his French mother.

When he was older - and having served in the military, he was married three times - first, to an Italian national. She divorced him after 10 years because he cheated on her with another woman.

His second marriage was to a Swedish national, with whom he had two sons. They divorced in 2000, after his mother died.

Subsequently, the Earl split his time between the ancestral family home in the South West of England and the French Riviera. There, he enjoyed a hedonistic lifestyle of drink, drugs