The case of murdered Canadian teenager Rebecca Middleton is due to be thrust into the national television spotlight tonight.

Prime-time Fox News crime show hosted by leading presenter Greta Van Susteren ? is set to examine the heavily criticised investigation into Rebecca?s death.

The 17-year-old was tortured, raped and murdered on Ferry Reach beach, while on holiday in Bermuda in 1996. No one has been convicted of her murder.

Attempts to contact Fox News to discuss the content of the programme were unsuccessful yesterday. But it is understood the show will examine the way prosecutors handled the case against two men who were arrested over the killing, Justis Smith and Kirk Mundy.

After a recent review, Bermuda?s Director of Public Prosecutions, Vinette Graham-Allen, recently ruled that Smith and Mundy could not be retried on sexual assault charges.

And it is understood that tomorrow night?s show will not discuss this decision but will instead focus on the prosecution of a case that critics and family members have long said was botched from the beginning.

A forensic pathologist who appeared at Smith?s trial is believed to be among the people interviewed for the feature.

Rebecca?s family are currently assessing their options after the DPP ruling, with the option of hiring British Prime Minister Tony Blair?s wife, Cherie Booth, to run a private prosecution still on the agenda.

This came after the DPP said that Smith and Mundy could not be charged with the offence of sexual assault, as it broke the well-established law that a man should not be twice punished for an offence arising out of the same facts. A fresh public prosecution could be deemed an abuse of court process, the review stated.

In 1996, before Police had completed forensic tests, prosecutors accepted Mundy?s guilty plea to a charge of accessory after the fact. He was sentenced to five years behind bars.

Smith was acquitted of a murder charge in November 1998 after Supreme Court judge Vincent Meerabux ruled there was no case to answer.