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COLIN: I was at home on the day
that I got the call,
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it was 7:00 in the morning.
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The on-call superintendent
was trying to get a hold of me
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because there was
a new investigation
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that I was gonna have to take.
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It was a case of get yourself down
to Twickenham with your team,
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a girl has been murdered
by being battered on the head.
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It's a stranger attack
and we don't know an awful lot else
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at the moment.
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Was this someone
who could be a serial attacker
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who could go on to strike again?
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As it turned out, yes.
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This is someone
with a real propensity
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of horrific violence to young women.
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The more I've seen
of horrible things that happen
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in the world
and some of these things
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can happen to anyone.
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This was a high-profile job
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and he was under
some serious pressure here,
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when he made a decision,
he stuck with his guns, you know.
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It's always absolutely crucial,
you think about
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what you're doing
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in the first stages
of an investigation,
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by 9:00 that morning I was down
at Twickenham police station.
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It was a crime
of almost breathtaking...
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The man who tried to kill her
will never be free to harm again.
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(INDISTINCT CROSSTALK)
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...targeted young women
unable to defend themselves.
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SCOTT PEDEN (NARRATES):
Colin Sutton
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was a Detective Chief Inspector
and senior investigating officer
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in the metropolitan police.
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He let the investigations
into some of the most complex
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and high profile cases ever,
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bringing dangerous criminals
to justice.
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He showed his cowardliness...
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(INDISTINCT CROSSTALK)
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Another 146 victims...
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In this series
he will take you inside those cases
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and show you
how he caught these criminals
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using nothing
but pure detective work.
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This is The Real Manhunter.
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Now been found guilty on all 20...
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(INDISTINCT CROSSTALK)
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The officer in charge described it
as a senseless tragedy.
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The life sentence
may provide some closure
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for his victim's families.
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Twickenham Green
on a summer's day, like we've seen,
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is normally a hive of activity,
people enjoying themselves,
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this oasis of green
in suburban London.
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But when I came here
on a summer's day in 2004,
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it was because there'd been
a murder and when I arrived here,
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the whole green was cordoned off,
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taped off preventing people
using it at all.
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Twickenham Green's sort of a big
triangular shape piece of land
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with a path running
through the middle of it
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and roads on all three sides.
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It's a cricket pitch with
a cricket club and a pavilion
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and it's where families
take their children
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and walk their dogs.
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It's in a very safe, pleasant,
quiet corner of London,
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we were certainly not used
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to conducting
murder investigations there.
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Arriving to take over
that investigation,
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the first thing that struck me
was the scale of the open space,
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the scale of the cordon.
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There was a woman had been murdered,
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there was scenes of crime tent
over there protecting
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where she'd been found
but we didn't know who she was,
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where she'd come from,
how she got here
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and that meant that
this entire swathe of green
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was potentially my crime scene.
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And trying to make
a forensic examination,
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a fingertip search
of that sort of area
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takes a huge number of resources.
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It's always absolutely crucial
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what you're doing
in the first stages
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of an investigation
because decisions
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that are made then
can have a profound effect
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on how the investigation goes,
and you need to make sure really
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that you don't miss any chances
to preserve evidence
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that you might want
to come across later,
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you know, you might
want to go back to later.
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Colin very quickly identified
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the fact that how important
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this...this...this evidence
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is going to be.
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If you make mistakes
in the beginning,
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you're almost done.
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The first thing that I did
was to get the scene widened
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so that we taped off the pavement
as well so that passers-by
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had to walk on the other side
of the roads
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which meant they weren't able
to put debris into the crime scene.
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It was really a question
of getting officers from search team
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to do a fine fingertip search
around the immediate location
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of where the body was found to see
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if there was anything
that would give us a clue
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as to who'd done it
and what had happened.
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The body was discovered
around about quarter past ten
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in the evening
when it was obviously dark here
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by a man who lived locally...
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he just went out for a quick walk
round the green to get some air.
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And he saw what he thought at first
was a bin bag or a bag of rags,
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it was only when he went over
and looked more closely he realised
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it was the body of a woman,
dressed in white,
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with a carrier bag nearby to her.
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And he found that
she was still alive,
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she was still breathing,
and he went away to get help,
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to raise the alarm.
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The police and ambulance service
turned up very quickly afterwards
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and she was taken
to the Kingston Hospital
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and what the medical staff
told us at the hospital
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was that the severity
of her injury was such
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that she couldn't have
been lying there very long
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and she survived minutes
rather than hours.
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What you need to do is to try
and find out more about your victim
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and find out the journey she had
to get here, why she was here,
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where she lived,
where she was going.
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That morning,
we didn't know any of that
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and it literally was a dead body
in the middle of Twickenham Green,
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let's go an investigate it.
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It's only as that day unfolded
that we started to know more
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about the victim
and more about what happened
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that night in August 2004,
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that we were able
to prioritise our work
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and really start making
some progress in the investigation.
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Nearby was her carrier bag
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and it had some clothing,
some shopping in it.
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But also in that bag
was a till receipt
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and it had some phone numbers
written on it, with some names.
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And one of those names
was "Olivier."
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It turned out
he was the boyfriend of the victim
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and he was able to tell them,
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"Yes her name is Amelie,
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"Amelie Delagrange, she lives
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"just near Twickenham Green"
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and that she worked as a waitress
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in a patisserie in Richmond.
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I don't think I got home
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until past 2:00
the following morning,
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so it's been a long day as well,
and it's a long day
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where I'm thinking,
double thinking everything
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that I'm doing
because it's so important
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to get things right
at the early stage.
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By the Saturday morning we went back
to Twickenham Police Station
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and we had a, what we like
to refer to as a "Scrum-down,"
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basically a team
meeting/briefing and it's...
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you know,
this is where the work's done.
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So, I've got information coming
in from my intelligence officers,
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from my inquiry officers,
some, in that case,
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from the borough as well.
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They were all feeding in
and word was getting around
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that this was a young girl
that had been
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just brutally murdered
by a stranger.
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There was a, kind of,
palpable fear in the community
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but there was also a sense that
they wanted to do something to help.
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I was part of the investigation
into Amelie Delagrange's murder
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from the beginning.
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My role was known as "receiver."
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The idea is you
identify lines of inquiry,
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the priorities, very quickly.
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Lots of people would try
to give information about
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what they thought might help.
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Our first crucial task that day
was to try to plot the movements
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that Amelie had made on the evening
before she was murdered.
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As is often the case,
CCTV came to our assistance.
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It's very important
to get CCTV recovery rolling,
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really straight away,
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because if you lose the footage,
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it's gone forever.
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The scene,
being in the middle of a green,
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per se would not be covered by CCTV.
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But you can't get there without
almost certainly being caught
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on CCTV and Colin very quickly
identified the fact that,
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how important
this evidence is going to be.
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Amelie had been at work at
the French Patisserie in Richmond.
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And after work she came here
to Twickenham to meet some friends
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in a wine bar called "Cristalz,"
over there.
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She had three
or four glasses of wine
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and while she was there
she phoned her boyfriend,
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but he was busy
and couldn't meet up with her.
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So, it got to 9:30 and she thought,
"Well, I'll call it a day"
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and she came across the road here
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and caught a bus back
to Twickenham Green.
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It was on that bus
that she missed her stop
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and that was her fateful mistake,
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because if she had got off
at the correct stop,
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she would have had
a short walk to home
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and she would never
have encountered her killer.
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The bus she got on goes
towards the bus garage
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at Fullwell where it terminates.
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And that means it takes
the southern road,
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the bottom road
along Twickenham Green.
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So, what she had to do was get off
at the stop at Twickenham Green,
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walk across the green
and to her house
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which was in Gould Road
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which was a couple
of streets north of the green.
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She had not gotten off
at Twickenham Green
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and she was still on the bus
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when it got to the terminus
at Fullwell bus garage.
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That's the bus stop that
she should have got off,
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it's a short walk across the green
and up to where she lived.
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For whatever reason, we don't know,
she missed her stop and instead,
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she's carried on for around a mile,
down Hampton Road
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until the bus garage at Fullwell.
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And when she gets there,
the bus terminates
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and she asks the driver
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when the next bus
back up to the Green would be
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and he said, "About ten minutes."
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And it was a nice summer's evening,
you can imagine,
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Amelie thought,
"Well, I've got a decision,
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"do I wait ten minutes for the bus
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"or shall I just
walk the mile back."
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Fatefully for her,
she decided to walk.
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And she's walked all the way
back up Hampton Road,
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she'd have to go across
Twickenham Green to get to her home.
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And all those buses at
Fullwell bus garage at that time
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had just been fitted
with CCTV cameras,
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and they had either
six or eight cameras
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that were facing inside and outside
and it recorded onto a hard drive,
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it was all timed
with the atomic clock,
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it was, you know,
pretty much as good as you could get
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for CCTV in those days.
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We've got CCTV pictures
of Amelie getting on the bus,
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CCTV pictures of her
talking to the bus driver
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and getting off
the bus down at Fullwell.
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So, it then became a question
of going back up her walk,
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up Hampton road,
and seeing what opportunities
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for CCTV there might be there.
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There were three or four
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static CCTV cameras,
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one at the Loch Fyne Restaurant...
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there was an accountant's
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that had CCTV as well
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and, indeed, a police car,
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a traffic police car
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that had one of the video cameras
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running at the time.
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But also, of course,
there were buses,
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other buses, going up and down
this road all the time
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and they had the CCTV running,
so by the time we were able
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to get all the buses CCTV,
we were able to get a dozen
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or so points where we could fix
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"This is where Amelie
was at that time"
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and we could plot her
walk all the way back up
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to Twickenham Green
and it was only when she went
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onto the green
that there was no more CCTV
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and she was found
in the middle of the green.
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So, we had everything apart
from the last 70 or 80 yards
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of her journey.
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What it showed us was that
about 10:05 that evening,
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she came though
this side of the pavilion,
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she'd have to walk across here,
around the Cricket wicket
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and she would be over
to where she lived.
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But we also know
she was intercepted.
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We think that her attacker came
onto the green from this side
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of the Cricket Pavilion,
followed her,
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and it was when she was
just beyond the Cricket wicket
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that he attacked her, hitting her
across the back of the head
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with something quite heavy,
and causing a fatal injury.
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One of the first things that needs
to be done in a murder investigation
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is to make sure the next of kin
are informed, it's more difficult
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when the next of kin are abroad
as they were in this case.
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Amelie's parents lived
in a little village called
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Hanvoile in Picardy in France.
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We had a couple of French
speaking officers seconded
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to the team.
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They phoned our French colleagues
and explained the situation to them.
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And essentially, at first they said,
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"Well, we'll get
their phone number for you,
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"you can phone them up,"
and we, sort of, said,
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"No, that's not how we do it,
we'll send someone round there,"
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and they said, "Well, no,
that's not how we do it."
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When Colin found out
that this was
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how they were going
to be informed,
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he asked them not to phone
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and arranged for somebody
to go round in person
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to speak to them because
he felt that was a kinder,
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more humane way
of informing somebody
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that their daughter had been killed,
and in such an appalling way.
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Eventually, I kind of...
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it was almost
a veiled threat really.
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But I said, "Well, I'm not gonna
have them phoned up
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"and told about it,
if we need to send somebody,
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"then I'll get somebody
from the British Embassy in Paris
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"and see if they will
go round there and do it."
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And I think that the prospect of me
involving the, sort of,
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diplomats in it might
have had some effect
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and the French police said,
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"Oh, OK then, we'll go round,"
sort of begrudgingly.
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I later found out
when speaking to Amelie's parents
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that what indeed they'd done
was they had gone round there,
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there were two detectives
in a car parked on the drive,
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Amelie's father came home
from work
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and they got out of the car
and said, "Are you Mr Delagrange?"
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And he said, "Yes," and they said,
"Oh, can you ring this number,
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"your daughter has been
murdered in England,"
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and they got in the car
and drove off.
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They didn't even go in the house,
they never even entered the house.
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The first time the police officers
went into the Delagrange's house
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about Amelie's murder
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was when I went over there
to the funeral.
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So, it's just, kind of, an example
of how priorities are different
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in different countries and things
are done in different ways
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I suppose.
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Even at that point
there was an awareness amongst
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all of us that this might not be
the only one of these,
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that there had been other attacks
where women had been hit
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on the back of the head
by a stranger.
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There was I suppose
the first feeling
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that this was going to be
one of those cases
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where you had this element
of pressure to succeed quickly,
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to try and protect other people.
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And I think we all realised
that pretty early on,
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and so that probably added
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to the sombre atmosphere
that there was.
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A little while
into the investigation,
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I was made aware of another case
as of Kate Sheedy, in May 2004.
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Kate had been walking home,
just got off a bus in Isleworth,
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but she had seen this vehicle
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that she thought
was laying in wait for her.
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Kate was 18 years old, she had been
to Twickenham town centre
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with some school friends
to celebrate the last day of lessons
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because they were all dispersed
and took their A levels.
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She got the bus back
from Twickenham to home,
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getting off at that
bus stop down there.
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She then had a short,
200-yard walk, to her home.
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The suspect's vehicle,
a white people carrier
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had followed the bus.
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Kate was concerned about
this particular vehicle,
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concerned enough to cross the road,
try and get out the way.
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She started walking
along the pavement
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and she saw ahead of her,
a white people carrier.
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It had blacked out windows
and she thought it was odd
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because the engine was running
but the lights were off.
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And she was intelligent enough
to sense something might be wrong
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and she'd heard stories of girls
being dragged into cars and abducted
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and so forth.
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So, to be on the safe side,
she thought "I'll cross the road."
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So, she crossed onto the pavement
on this side
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and walked on this side
until she got to this point here.
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When she was here,
the people carrier
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suddenly lurched forward at speed,
turned right and knocked her down.
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She fell to the ground,
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the front wheel
of the people carrier
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when over her body and stopped,
and then it went backwards,
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reversed over her again,
into the main road, and drove away.
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His whole intent
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was truly horrendous,
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to do that to that young person,
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probably because she's a person
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way out of his reach.
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Kate suffered terrible injuries,
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every one of her ribs was broken,
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her liver was split in two,
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but she remained
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conscious throughout.
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And she managed
to crawl a few yards,
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recovering her mobile phone
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which she'd dropped
during the incident.
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And she dialled her mother
and told her mother,
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"I'm here, I've been knocked over,
I need help,"
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and then dialled
9-9-9 to get the police
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and the ambulance to come,
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showing the courage
that she showed throughout
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this ordeal she suffered.
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You can hear in her phone call,
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how desperate
that person is, at that point.
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If you replace being hit
on the head with being run over
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by a people carrier, then actually
the profile of the victim,
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the location,
the sort of blitz attack,
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everything was sort of similar.
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So, I kept a real, sort of,
open and undecided mind on
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whether that might be
one of our cases as well.
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When I started
on this investigation,
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I was aware
of the Marsha McDonnell murder,
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I knew Marsha
had been murdered in Hampton,
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not too far away, more than a year,
18 months previously.
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And I also knew
that it was investigated
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by another murder team,
one from Hendon
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and that they had,
what they considered to be
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a very good suspect
who was arrested.
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So, Marsha had been at the cinema
in Kingston with her friends.
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And she got the 1-1-1 bus home,
here to Percy Road.
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And it was about 20 past midnight
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when she arrived here
at this bus stop.
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Marsha McDonnell got
off the bus, walked down the road,
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turned right towards
her home address,
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the suspect followed her,
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drove around the bus
and pulled into the road behind her.
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We think he propositioned her,
then he got out of the car
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and struck her on the back
of the head with a heavy object,
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and she sadly died
from that injury.
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This was now the third case
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we were investigating
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which involved a victim
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who had just been on a bus
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and was accosted near a bus stop.
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Marsha's murder
was another big story for the media
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and a very worrying story,
I think, for the population.
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There is no
apparent explanation
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for to why
this would have happened
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other than it possibly
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being a serial attacker
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or someone
that is striking at random.
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We know from other victims
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that have been hit over the head
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with a hammer from behind
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that there was no interaction,
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he just went up behind them
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and hit them over the head
with a hammer.
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And Marsha's mother,
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having seen a picture for Amelie
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the day after her murder,
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was very struck by the similarity
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in their appearances
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as well as the similarity
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in the modus operandi,
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the method of their deaths.
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At that point, the investigation
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started to merge, and the police
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began to focus on the fact
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that there was possibly here,
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a serial attacker.
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The Metropolitan Police said
they were not linking it
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to Marsha's murder,
and the reason for that was that
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they were looking
at this other suspect,
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who they felt murdered Marsha.
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On the night
that Marsha was murdered,
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but before she was murdered,
there was another young lady,
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a 16-year-old girl who reported
being followed
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by a strange young man.
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But when you, kind of,
looked at all the detail,
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the only thing
he had actually been identified
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for was for following
this other girl,
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there was no real connection
between him and Marsha McDonnell.
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At the moment,
they're two separate offences
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and we're going after Amelie,
and we're concentrating on Amelie.
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You have to go with
the most recent job
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because you have the best chances
of getting the best evidence
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and then look at the others.
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But I was then
told that there were other,
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non-fatal attacks, nearby.
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Because of the way that it works,
whereby if you get attacked
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and you survive, your case
is investigated by a couple of DCs,
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if you get attacked badly
and you die,
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it's investigated
by a murder team of 30 odd.
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So, the non-fatal attacks
in the area
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had been left with
the borough to deal with
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and we were completely unaware
of them on the murder team.
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One of the first cases we think
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that was linked to this series
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was that of Anna-Maria Rennie
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who was attacked
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in Hospital Bridge Road
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in Whitton in October 2001,
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this was an abduction
or attempted abduction.
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A vehicle pulls up after Anna-Maria
is walking away
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from a bus stop,
and the suspect grabs hold of her,
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tries to drag her towards
the rear of the car,
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Anna-Maria screams,
struggles, gets away
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and fortunately for her, effectively
the end of that particular attack.
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Edel Harbison had been walking
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in April I think it was,
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in 2004, walking from a restaurant
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on the north side
of Twickenham Green
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to go home
and been hit over the head,
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dropping all of her shopping
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and falling flat on her face,
smashing her face,
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needing reconstructive surgery.
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We didn't know that
a lady called Dawn Brunton
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had been attacked
in the same way
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up towards Hatton Cross,
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towards Heathrow Airport,
on 5 November, 2003,
476
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,120
sustaining head injuries
to the back of her head
477
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,080
where she was hit
and facial injuries
478
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:50,560
where she fell over.
479
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:52,760
Irma Dragoshi who was attacked
480
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:54,240
in Longford Village on...
481
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,200
in December 2003.
482
00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,400
Irma was an Albanian woman
483
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:01,160
who had lived in Hounslow
484
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:02,440
with her husband.
485
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,800
She was standing at a bus stop
on her way home from work
486
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:10,000
at about 10:00 at night
when she was attacked randomly
487
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,720
by a stranger who hit her over
the head with a blunt instrument,
488
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:18,600
and then Irma woke up in hospital
with a huge injury to her head.
489
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,240
She suffered, I think,
very bad neck pain and back pain,
490
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:23,880
very bad headaches,
491
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,040
I know that she suffered
a lot for quite a long time.
492
00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:29,480
There was another
where Jesse Wilson was found
493
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:30,760
with a wound
on the back of her head
494
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:32,680
and facial injuries
and it was thought
495
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:34,080
that she had fallen over
in the snow,
496
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:35,960
it wasn't even dealt
with as a crime.
497
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:39,200
The common thing
of all these victims that survived
498
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,680
is that they recall nothing
at all of the attack,
499
00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:45,800
that's quite common, that you lose
a portion of your recent memory.
500
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,880
And it was only when Marsha
was murdered reasonably close by,
501
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,600
four weeks later, that Jesse's case
was looked at again
502
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,160
and the pathologist who had done
the post-mortem examination
503
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,360
on Marsha McDonnell looked at
the photographs of the injuries
504
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,080
that Jesse Wilson had,
and said, "I think this is...
505
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,720
"I think this is the same person
that did this."
506
00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:09,160
Because of the lack of detail
507
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:10,360
and CCTV recovery
508
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,400
and lack of potential evidence,
509
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:18,200
her case sat as a 'probable'
510
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,920
rather than a 'definite'
because we were unable to prove it.
511
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,240
My strategy very much was,
512
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,400
let's stick with Amelie
for the moment.
513
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:27,520
And the reason I said that was
514
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,440
because
it was the most recent offence,
515
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,440
it hadn't ever been investigated
by anybody else.
516
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:37,440
If and when we find a suspect,
517
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:39,840
then we can try and work backwards
518
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,520
and sort of retrofit him
to those other offences in the past.
519
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,240
The next big piece of information
that we had to consider
520
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:57,080
was the service provider
for Amelie's mobile phone.
521
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,160
They had been able to tell us
522
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:03,600
that her phone
was last on their network
523
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,160
at 23 minutes past 10
524
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,200
and that that was in the vicinity
of Walton Bridge.
525
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,280
Walton Bridge
is six, eight miles away,
526
00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:16,080
we knew that she had
been found by the passer by,
527
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,160
getting on for quarter past ten.
528
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,320
More interesting perhaps
is the handshake, in simple terms
529
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,680
it's a phone saying, "I'm here,
have you got any calls for me?"
530
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,160
And the network says,
"No, it's alright, thank you,
531
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,200
"but we know where you are now."
532
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,640
What happened with Amelie's
was that her phone was in the area
533
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:36,320
of Walton on Thames Bridge
then it just suddenly disappeared.
534
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,560
And that means one of,
sort of, three things.
535
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,480
It's either that the phone
has been put into a place
536
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:43,440
where there is no signal
and stayed there,
537
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:47,120
that the phone
has been deliberately broken
538
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:51,040
or had the battery removed
to stop it functioning straight away
539
00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:53,520
or it could been that it was thrown
into water, and, of course,
540
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,280
we're talking about Walton Bridge,
541
00:25:55,360 --> 00:25:56,840
so there is a lot of
water there actually,
542
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:58,600
it's the river Thames.
543
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,920
When we came down here, I wanted
to try to find Amelie's phone
544
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,680
and her other belongings
from her handbag.
545
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,960
So, I had the police divers
come exactly to this spot,
546
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,200
doing a dive every 15 or 20 minutes,
547
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,160
then resting
and then going back down again.
548
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:19,240
And it was remarkable, it was just
the second dive that they made,
549
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:25,000
a diver surfaces and shows us
a key ring and a Sony Discman.
550
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,520
And the Sony Discman is something
that we knew Amelie had
551
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,440
in her handbag,
but the keys were better
552
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,920
because the keys had a fob on them
553
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,360
which contained
a photograph of Amelie
554
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,160
at a theme park on a log flume.
555
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:38,920
So, we instantly knew
556
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,760
that this set of keys
must have been hers.
557
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:45,000
And that really then confirmed
the information that we had
558
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:49,040
from the mobile phone company saying
that whoever killed Amelie
559
00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:53,640
had brought her handbag
and her belongings to this spot.
560
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,520
The bridge here at Walton on Thames
and this sort of public area aside
561
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,920
it is an important location
for a number of reasons.
562
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,800
First, we had
the cell sighting information
563
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,800
from Amelie's mobile phone company
which told us
564
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,400
that the phone
was last seen on the network,
565
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,640
it was switched off
or thrown into water,
566
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:13,240
somewhere in this area.
567
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,200
That had the effect of dictating
568
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,280
to me the CCTV parameters,
569
00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:20,320
every possible route
570
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:22,520
from Twickenham Green
571
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,880
to Walton Bridge that could be done
572
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,120
by car, that was the CCTV area.
573
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,200
The mobile phone were never found
and, of course,
574
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,120
things are so variable with currents
575
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,440
and sort of different surfaces
and boats going past,
576
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,560
it's not really surprising,
we searched there for a good while
577
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,880
for I think over two or three days
but couldn't find it in the stretch
578
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,640
of area but didn't really need to,
we had her keys,
579
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:48,720
we had the mobile phone signal,
we knew
580
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:49,800
that's where
things had gone straight
581
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:50,880
after the murder.
582
00:27:53,360 --> 00:27:54,720
Normally in an investigation,
583
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:56,920
in most murder investigations
we did, we'd have one,
584
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,480
sometimes two officers
looking at CCTV.
585
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,600
Such was the volume on this case
that we had seven
586
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,560
and we'd gave them a dedicated room,
587
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,560
we got all the equipment
that we could.
588
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,680
One morning I went past there
and one of them said "Governor,
589
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,200
"you need to come and see this."
590
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,560
One of the most crucial parts
of the CCTV was a bus camera
591
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:20,200
that picked up a white van
parked alongside the green.
592
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:21,800
At almost exactly the time
593
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:23,960
that Amelie must
have been being murdered,
594
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,840
there was a little white van
parked just over there,
595
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:28,760
the other side
of the cricket pavilion.
596
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:30,680
It was only there
for less than eight minutes.
597
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,480
And by going back
to other CCTV earlier in the evening
598
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,760
and slightly afterwards,
they were able to reconstruct
599
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:38,480
what that van had been doing.
600
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:42,080
And it had been driving around
and around Twickenham Green
601
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:43,960
for 40 minutes.
602
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,200
It looked like
somebody was hunting.
603
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,440
This van had first appeared
in the Twickenham Green area
604
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,320
just after 9:40.
605
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,360
I then plotted it
and had seen it on,
606
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,280
I think
it was 14 different occasions,
607
00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,880
at various points around
the green over the next
608
00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:01,400
three quarters of an hour.
609
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:06,600
The CCTV team then spent hours
trawling through the footage
610
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:08,840
identifying the white van
611
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:10,920
from different angles, side views,
612
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,760
back views, whatever they can get
613
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,360
from whatever footage they've got.
614
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:18,000
It did not include detail
of the registration number,
615
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:22,600
but it did give
quite specific detail
616
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:23,880
about the type.
617
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,400
And luck was on our side
to a degree because the van had
618
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,520
a headlight that wasn't working,
619
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:29,840
it had a wheel trim missing
620
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:31,680
from the front nearside wheel
621
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,120
and it had some sort
of defects at the back,
622
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:38,280
which made it
easily identifiable on CCTV.
623
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:44,040
Looking at the movements of the van
and Amelie's movements together,
624
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:48,240
we can be certain that at
some point in Hampton Road,
625
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,520
the van had passed her.
626
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,920
And not only that,
her pace slowed down there,
627
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,880
as if she may have
been stopped for a while.
628
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,280
And that's why we think
that what happened was that
629
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,160
the driver of the van
had seen her walking,
630
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,760
had stopped
and engaged her in conversation
631
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:09,440
and then presumably
when the proposition was declined,
632
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:13,320
the van carried on in front of her,
parked up there,
633
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,600
and the driver had lain in wait
634
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,240
and when he saw Amelie,
very visible even in the dark green
635
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,160
because she had
all white clothing on.
636
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:23,760
He came up behind her,
637
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,560
stalked her around
the cricket wicket,
638
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:27,800
and then attacked her.
639
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:34,000
The thing about Colin Sutton,
is he thinks outside the box.
640
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,760
And there was one window
of opportunity
641
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,200
and that was around
a camera on a bus,
642
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:44,360
that had picked up
the Ford courier van around
643
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,000
Twickenham Green
at that precise time.
644
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:51,600
A brilliant job by his team in terms
of going through all the CCTV
645
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,360
from the area, a painstaking job.
646
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,600
We needed to find out
who was in that van.
647
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:58,120
Because even
if it wasn't the murderer,
648
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,080
and I had a good suspicion
649
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,320
that it probably was the murderer
but even if it weren't the murderer,
650
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,960
it would be a potential witness,
some people
651
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:07,880
above me thought I was...
652
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,880
I should be putting my time
not on CCTV and vans,
653
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:13,960
but on rounding up
local sex offenders
654
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:15,200
and the usual suspects.
655
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:19,600
There was kind of a difference
between theoretical investigation
656
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,280
and what academia might say.
657
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,680
There was no obvious
658
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,520
physical sexual dimension
to these attacks.
659
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,320
A sociopath or psychopath
is someone who has no feelings
660
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,320
about anyone whatsoever.
661
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:36,560
He just went up behind them
662
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,280
and hit them over the head
with a hammer.
663
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,280
To say that we should be
looking at sex offenders,
664
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:45,520
to the exclusion of somebody
who was there at the time
665
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:47,280
just didn't make any sense to me.
666
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,160
My immediate boss
didn't agree with me,
667
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,600
some of my team
may not have agreed with me.
668
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,160
But it was my decision,
that's what I got paid to do,
669
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,960
is to make these decisions
to strategise on the investigations.
670
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,560
I went to the Ford Motor Company
and they were able to tell me
671
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,080
from looking at the pictures
and various features of it,
672
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,720
that there were approximately
25,000 registered in the UK.
673
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,040
We needed to be able to find
the white Ford Courier vans
674
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,760
that were being used
in the Twickenham area.
675
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,480
Nowadays, that would be easy
because there's really reliable
676
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,520
automatic number plate recognition
cameras and software.
677
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:25,800
We didn't have that.
678
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,840
And so the only other way of
doing it was by human observation.
679
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:31,920
The resources that
were put in to trying finding
680
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,360
that included evenings,
night times in Twickenham,
681
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:36,600
in and around Twickenham
682
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,480
and me personally,
along with others,
683
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,440
stood on a footbridge
across the A316 in
684
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,440
the, kind of,
Twickenham-Whitton area
685
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,000
looking for incoming vehicles
coming backwards and forwards
686
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,760
along the A316,
had we seen any,
687
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,280
we would have made
contact with local officers
688
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,560
and they would have stopped
the vehicles there and then.
689
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:54,800
I'd read a book about
690
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,000
the Yorkshire Ripper,
the investigation,
691
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:02,920
and the investigation there
had 50,000 vehicles
692
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,960
tried to eliminate on tyre tracks.
693
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,120
And they started it
and they had far worse,
694
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,440
kind of, facilities
and equipment than we had,
695
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:12,720
because we had computers
and things,
696
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,280
they had sheets of paper and people
697
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,760
literally ruling
cars out on their hands
698
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,720
and knees on the floor
with magic marker pens.
699
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,240
And they gave up, they found
that they couldn't manage it
700
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:24,960
and they went on
to pursue other lines of inquiry
701
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,840
about halfway through
and if they'd have carried on,
702
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:32,120
Peter Sutcliffe's Ford Corsair
was in that group.
703
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:36,080
We've got to have learned
in the last 25 years that
704
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,160
if you embark upon
this sort of exercise,
705
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,080
then you have to see it through.
706
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,240
I remember at the time
thinking,
707
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:44,760
"This really is a needle
in a haystack."
708
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,240
You make your own luck,
and Colin once described himself
709
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,160
as being either a good detective
or a lucky one
710
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:51,920
and you might argue,
you make your own luck.
711
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,160
A number of us, myself included,
712
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:56,600
was spending a couple of hours
713
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,840
after work each day in Twickenham,
714
00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:00,880
around Twickenham Green
715
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,640
and just driving around
or sitting parked up,
716
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,760
hoping to spot this white van.
717
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:06,800
You know, I just had no illusions
that that was going to be
718
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:11,400
extremely time consuming
and I think if it failed,
719
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,360
somebody else would have taken
this investigation off of me.
720
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:16,680
The point was made by Colin
721
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,320
that he would put resources,
722
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,400
whatever it took,
to find that vehicle.
723
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,240
And as it happened,
it was us in the incident room,
724
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,760
or me in the incident room
that identified the right one.
725
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,640
Because of the nature
of Amelie's death,
726
00:34:28,720 --> 00:34:32,840
the fact that such a terrible crime
is so rare in that area,
727
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,680
we'd had all sorts of help
from the local community.
728
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:37,560
Jo Collins gave
some information about
729
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:38,920
her ex-partner.
730
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,600
And said his name was Levi,
she'd come across certain things,
731
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,680
blonde women being photographs
that were stabbed out.
732
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,040
"He was violent towards me,
733
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:48,280
"he's a misogamist,
734
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,360
"he hates blonde women
particularly..."
735
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,120
He also would work doors
in nightclubs and things like that.
736
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:56,880
That made him
this supposed character
737
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:58,960
who could endear himself
to young girls
738
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,440
because he could encourage
young girls to get into night clubs.
739
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,000
So, they would look at him...
740
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,680
but most of these girls
were vulnerable and very often,
741
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,520
those young girls would soon be
abused and damaged by him.
742
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,400
"He currently works
as a wheel clamper
743
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:12,720
"and he uses a white van..."
744
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:17,560
This is an illegal car clamper
who puts signs up after people
745
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:21,000
have parked and waits
for vulnerable women to come back
746
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,360
to their vehicle
before confronting them
747
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:27,040
with torrents of abuse
saying how much this person
748
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:28,880
is gonna have to pay
to get the clamp off.
749
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,480
And what that did was
to trigger somebody else's memory,
750
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,200
who said, "Oh, hang on,
when we were looking
751
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,640
"at the locally registered couriers,
752
00:35:35,720 --> 00:35:40,680
"a garage said they'd sold one
to a wheel clamper."
753
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:42,360
So, I'm wondering
if that could be the same one.
754
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,760
My brother, Dave, had been
in the police a little bit longer
755
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:48,080
than me and he had a number
of connections through policing
756
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,640
and personal life in around sort
of Kingston, Richmond, Twickenham,
757
00:35:51,720 --> 00:35:52,960
where we grew up.
758
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:54,000
Predominantly,
759
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,240
my first role was in relation
760
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,800
to the tracing of the white van.
761
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:00,160
It didn't have
a registration number,
762
00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:02,400
just had a white van
which was quite distinctive,
763
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,160
but not specifically distinctive
764
00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:06,720
because it was quite
a blurred image.
765
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,240
So, each officer had actions
to go out and trace white vans.
766
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,120
Joanne Collins information
came back into the incident room,
767
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,760
I reviewed that, in particular
the information about
768
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,440
the wheel clamper then made me
review this particular docket
769
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,080
about this particular vehicle.
770
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:25,120
The vehicle was the right type
but more importantly,
771
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,000
it was sold by a dealer
that both my brother,
772
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:29,920
Dave Leach, and I, knew.
773
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,080
Guy called John Wren
who worked for Warren Motors.
774
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,000
It was a man that I knew well,
I had a relationship with John
775
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:36,080
from way back.
776
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,240
And this was the relation that's
just built on normal policing,
777
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:39,720
you know, when you drop in
for a cup of tea
778
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:41,960
and you get a bit of knowledge,
it was that kind of relationship.
779
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:43,600
As you can imagine,
you're in the van business,
780
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,320
you're dealing with
some quite serious characters,
781
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,160
and these particular characters
that bought the van,
782
00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:49,280
a guy named Aaron Smith,
who was a traveller,
783
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,360
bought two vans from John
and one of them,
784
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:56,280
this particular van
was being driven by Levi Bellfield.
785
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,880
I knew that
there was a car clamping business,
786
00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:04,000
and I knew about a white van
that had tickets against it,
787
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,160
speeding tickets, parking tickets,
788
00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:09,360
that type of thing that
had come in from the DVLC.
789
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,640
I stressed straight away
to my brother, "I think we've got...
790
00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:13,640
"we've got this guy called Levi."
791
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,400
The dealer had seen
the vehicle recently
792
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,320
and what he had seen
is the back of the vehicle
793
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:23,480
had changed.
794
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:24,840
He said,
"There is something distinctive
795
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:26,440
"about this white van, Dave."
796
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,760
On the back of the van,
low down on both doors
797
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,320
are welded, two metal plates.
798
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:37,360
Now, my memory of watching the CCTV
was that there was something
799
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,040
on the back of the van
that stood out,
800
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,240
you couldn't recognise it
as metal plates initially,
801
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,760
unless you knew,
you wouldn't actually say
802
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:45,240
it was metal plates.
803
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,280
But there was something distinctive
about it that glared at the camera.
804
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,680
Then the other thing he'd noticed,
he said, was that the glass panels
805
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,600
on the back had been painted white.
806
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,560
This made that vehicle
in particular, unique.
807
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:58,920
And more importantly,
it now matched exactly
808
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,080
what was on the CCTV.
809
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:05,520
So, to my mind at that stage then,
I knew that we were dealing
810
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:06,840
with Levi Bellfield.
811
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:11,200
The van matched
the description absolutely bang on.
812
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:14,920
The research that goes
into that vehicle straight away
813
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,720
is enormous, everywhere it's been,
814
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,000
every camera it's done,
815
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,560
speeding offences on the M25,
bus lanes in Twickenham.
816
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:28,360
We do an intelligence check
on Levi Belfield then, to see
817
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:29,640
what was known about him.
818
00:38:29,720 --> 00:38:33,200
He had relatively
few previous convictions,
819
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:34,680
but quite a lot of intelligence
820
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:36,440
because he was always
getting into scrapes
821
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,960
and always getting stopped by police
and doing things,
822
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:44,640
one of those scrapes
was that in May 2004,
823
00:38:44,720 --> 00:38:47,880
he was arrested
for abducting a pub landlord
824
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:49,280
and no charges reported,
825
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,760
he was never convicted of anything
or indeed charged with it.
826
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:55,800
But the important thing was that
it said that he was arrested
827
00:38:55,880 --> 00:39:00,360
for abducting this man
in a Toyota Previa.
828
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,280
I gave the registration number
that was in this report to Tracy,
829
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:05,920
one of our researchers and said,
830
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,440
"Can you check on the computer
to see what colour this van is?"
831
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:11,760
Because if it's white,
I think it could be
832
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:13,440
something to do with Kate Sheedy.
833
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:16,920
And she came back two minutes later
and said, "Governor, I think
834
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,160
"we've hit the jackpot."
835
00:39:18,240 --> 00:39:20,360
What we've then got
is Levi Bellfield involved
836
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:24,600
with a white Ford Courier van,
of exactly the type
837
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,640
that we know was 70 yards
away when Amelie Delagrange
838
00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:28,920
has been murdered.
839
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,880
And we know that Levi Bellfield
had a white Toyota Previa
840
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,480
at exactly the time
that such a vehicle
841
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,040
run over Kate Sheedy.
842
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,600
From that moment onwards,
we had our suspect.
843
00:39:50,240 --> 00:39:53,080
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
844
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,200
It's 11 November, 2004.
845
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,960
I'm looking through Levi Bellfield's
intelligence print-out
846
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:07,560
and I see that in March 2002,
847
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:12,120
he's shown on that as living
848
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,560
at Collingwood Place
in Walton on Thames.
849
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:18,360
But I think if he's got connections
in Walton on Thames,
850
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,760
that's probably why he fled there
after he murdered Amelie.
851
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,440
Let's have a look at
where this place he used to live is.
852
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,640
So, I'm expecting this place
to be close to the river,
853
00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:28,840
close to where the phone
was switched off.
854
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:30,760
Instead, I find that
it's the other side of town,
855
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:32,520
it's right by the railway station.
856
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,120
Of course, I knew...
857
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:40,120
"Hang on, that's exactly where
Milly Dowler was abducted in 2002."
858
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:45,160
There was a certain amount
of interest from both the media,
859
00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:47,240
but also from local people
in Walton,
860
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:48,960
as to whether or not
there might be any connection
861
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:52,600
between what we was doing
and Milly Dowler.
862
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:57,040
We had no reason to think that
it was connected, because, you know,
863
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:58,560
abducting and murdering
864
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:00,920
a 13-year-old girl is a, kind of,
865
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:06,600
very different kind of crime
to randomly attacking adult women
866
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:08,160
by hitting them
on the back of the head.
867
00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:10,360
Milly was on her way home
from school on the train
868
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,200
and instead
of getting off at Hersham,
869
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,760
she stayed on one extra stop to go
870
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:18,280
and get some chips here at
Walton on Thames with her friends.
871
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:19,720
When she had had the chips,
872
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:23,080
she crossed over
and was walking on this pavement.
873
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,600
A friend of hers
was at the bus stop behind me,
874
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:27,720
and she saw Milly
walk past the bus stop,
875
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:29,920
but Milly couldn't get on the bus,
she didn't have any money,
876
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:31,960
so she was gonna
have to walk home.
877
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:36,440
At that time there was a building
across the road with CCTV cameras
878
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,400
on its corners
and they would have captured Milly
879
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:42,200
if she had walked past the building,
however they didn't.
880
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,280
So, what we know is that
somewhere between that bus stop
881
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:48,640
and this spot here,
Milly Dowler was abducted.
882
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:56,600
It wasn't until September 2002
that Millie's body was found
883
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,640
by two people
going to pick mushrooms
884
00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:03,520
in woods near Yateley, in Hampshire.
885
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:09,240
Surrey Police had been combing
their county for six months almost
886
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,000
to the day,
and not found Milly Dowler.
887
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:16,080
It was here in Yateley Heath Woods
in Hampshire, some 25 miles from
888
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:19,880
where she was abducted
that she was eventually found.
889
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:22,520
There wasn't much to be
told from Milly's body
890
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:24,320
and the post-mortem examination,
891
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:25,920
she'd been in the open
for six months
892
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,600
and there had been
certain animal activity.
893
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:30,560
She was in the undergrowth,
she hadn't been buried,
894
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,440
she had just been
sort of lightly concealed.
895
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:37,240
This was an area with
which Bellfield was very familiar,
896
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:38,640
just down the road there's an arena
897
00:42:38,720 --> 00:42:41,040
where he accompanied
his former partner,
898
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:44,880
Joanna Collins on many occasions
when she bought her horses here
899
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:46,320
to show-jump.
900
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:51,240
We still don't know to this day
how she met her death.
901
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,600
The only thing
of which the pathologists could be
902
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:58,480
certain was that she hadn't suffered
a severe blow to the head,
903
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:00,800
in the manner of his other victims.
904
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:05,680
Milly didn't die from
being battered with a hammer,
905
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:09,200
the most likely explanation is,
I think, that she was strangled,
906
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,480
but there was a difference between
907
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:15,400
a girl being murdered
in that fashion
908
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,840
and young women who...
909
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:20,280
early 20s,
910
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,080
Amelie was 22, Marsha was 19.
911
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:25,880
At that point, really,
912
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:27,400
the investigation was no closer
913
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,280
to finding out who did it,
than they were six months
914
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,080
previously the day
after she went missing.
915
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:35,000
Any murder case, no matter
who it is, no matter where,
916
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:36,280
and what their background,
917
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:37,920
you will work hard
to get to the truth.
918
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,040
We just get on with it,
do what we're meant to do
919
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,320
as thoroughly as we can.
920
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,320
And if we do that
and we do that right,
921
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:47,880
99 times out of 100,
we will solve it.
922
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:51,400
I realised that Levi Bellfield
was far more complex
923
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:55,240
a character than just somebody
924
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,040
who hit women
on the back of the head.
925
00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:02,040
Bellfield was also a paedophile
who sexually assaulted
926
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:03,720
and abused young girls.
927
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,480
And the more we got to know
about Levi Bellfield
928
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:08,920
the more appalling
his lifestyle appeared.
929
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,320
Bellfield had
a 16-year-old girlfriend
930
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:14,760
in addition to his partner,
Emma Mills.
931
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:18,800
He had a flat in Hanworth
which was known as the raping room
932
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:23,600
where he and a group
of vile individuals,
933
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,720
some of whom worked with him
on his wheel-clamping business
934
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:28,800
would take young girls.
935
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,600
But he was also into supplying drugs
and selling drugs,
936
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:35,520
he beats everybody
he's ever lived with,
937
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:37,680
every relationship he's had.
938
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:41,160
People who he could
easily intimidate,
939
00:44:41,240 --> 00:44:45,160
pay a pittance and exploit.
940
00:44:45,240 --> 00:44:47,760
One of these guys, Peter Rodriguez,
that worked with him,
941
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,760
Bellfield exploits to such a degree,
942
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:52,200
he not only stores drugs
943
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,280
at the man's mothers flat
while she was in hospital,
944
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:58,080
but he gets
his 16-year-old girlfriend
945
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:02,360
to groom a 14-year-old,
who he then takes to that flat,
946
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,640
gives drugs to her
and she's raped by him
947
00:45:05,720 --> 00:45:06,760
and his friends.
948
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,080
Rodriguez obviously
put up an objection
949
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,440
one day to
Bellfield's conduct,
950
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:15,840
Bellfield didn't like it
and as Rodriguez left the flat,
951
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,560
Bellfield carried out
a hammer attack.
952
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:23,640
And Rodriguez, I think died
three times on the operating table,
953
00:45:23,720 --> 00:45:27,600
he spent a long time in hospital,
954
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,440
recovering from his injuries.
955
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:32,680
When he finally came round,
Rodriguez said,
956
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:34,840
"The last thing I remember
before the lights went out,
957
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:36,880
"Levi Bellfield was coming
towards me
958
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:38,360
"with a mallet in his hand."
959
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,960
Bellfield had been arrested
for that attack
960
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:45,520
but bailed because
there wasn't sufficient evidence.
961
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:46,560
This was six weeks
962
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:48,560
before Amelie died.
963
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:49,640
I was also mindful
964
00:45:49,720 --> 00:45:51,240
that we now knew who he was
965
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,200
and if he murdered somebody else,
966
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:55,680
we needed to be in a position to say
967
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:57,080
that we've done
what we could to keep
968
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,440
the public
of South West London safe.
969
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:04,560
I genuinely believed
he was such a danger to the public,
970
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:09,240
that the odds were
that he was going to attack again,
971
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,360
and it was gonna be soon.
972
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:16,200
I really wanted to lock him up
the day after we identified him,
973
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,920
I'd have been happy
to arrest him then,
974
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:20,880
I was persuaded otherwise from
975
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,240
some very senior officers
in the Met,
976
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,640
who thought that we could
put surveillance behind him.
977
00:46:26,720 --> 00:46:31,080
After, kind of, myself
and my brother Dave joined the dots,
978
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,800
if you like,
between vehicle and suspect.
979
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:38,920
We went into a surveillance stage
where we were, you know,
980
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,760
looking for further evidence
against him.
981
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:43,760
From my perspective, I don't think
it changed anything,
982
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,560
it didn't lead
to any extra evidence.
983
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:50,000
While we've got Bellfield
under surveillance 24/7,
984
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,880
team behind him,
watching his every move.
985
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:56,480
It's a Sunday afternoon,
he's in Uxbridge,
986
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:58,200
in West London with a friend.
987
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:01,880
There were two girls,
and they are waiting at a bus stop.
988
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:06,360
Bellfield drives past, sees them,
gets out and engages in conversation
989
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,480
with them and the surveillance team
were watching this
990
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:11,360
and they're so close
to intervening on this
991
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:12,800
because they don't like
what's happening
992
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,280
with these two young teenage girls.
993
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:16,760
And then a bus comes.
994
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,200
When the bus comes along,
the girls get on it
995
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:21,480
and Bellfield waves
them off with a cheery,
996
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:24,480
sort of abusive...
calls them something.
997
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:27,080
And they go away on the bus
and he drives off.
998
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,760
So, the surveillance team
do absolutely the right thing,
999
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:33,040
they peel off one car,
that follows the bus,
1000
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,040
the rest of them
stay with Bellfield.
1001
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:37,200
And when these two girls
got off the bus,
1002
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:38,920
the police officers
introduced themselves
1003
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,800
and they said that he got out
and asked them how old they were,
1004
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,800
they told him they were 14.
1005
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,240
And he said, "Oh, you're nice
and young then, I like them young"
1006
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:49,600
and that made suggestions
to them of that nature.
1007
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:53,560
So, we've got here a man
who preys on women
1008
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:57,400
who have just been
on buses or at bus stops.
1009
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:02,160
Amelie Delagrange, Kate Sheedy,
Marsha McDonnell,
1010
00:48:02,240 --> 00:48:07,000
all just got off a bus
and here he is, at a bus stop,
1011
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:08,920
chatting up two 14-year-old girls
1012
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:12,280
and not chatting them up nicely,
but, you know,
1013
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:13,640
they are 14-year-old-girls
1014
00:48:13,720 --> 00:48:16,680
and he is making
suggestive sexual comments to them.
1015
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:22,560
Apart from the bus stop incident
with the girls,
1016
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,080
was that somebody else
came forward to us and said,
1017
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:30,400
"My nanny was attacked near
Twickenham Green a few years ago."
1018
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,920
We were able to trace that incident
1019
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,680
and verify it
from the triage records
1020
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:38,840
at the local hospital, which said,
1021
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:43,240
"The woman called Sonia Salvatierra
who was a Peruvian national
1022
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,160
"had gone in there
reporting discomfort
1023
00:48:46,240 --> 00:48:49,080
"and a bit of a sore head
from being knocked over
1024
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:50,400
"and having her phone stolen."
1025
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:52,840
And we made contact
in Peru with Sonia and she said,
1026
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:54,640
"Yeah, I remember the man,"
she described this man
1027
00:48:54,720 --> 00:48:57,120
with a round face and fat man
1028
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:59,320
and no neck and all the things
1029
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:00,360
that sounded
1030
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:02,160
very much like Bellfield.
1031
00:49:02,240 --> 00:49:05,960
So, to me, this was going to
be our kind of holding charge,
1032
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:07,600
I thought that would work,
if we got...
1033
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:10,840
we could get Sonia
back over here from Peru,
1034
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:12,560
put Bellfield on an ID parade,
1035
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:16,480
she picks him out, we charge him
with that serious assault,
1036
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:18,800
he's remanded in custody
and that takes the pressure off.
1037
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:21,320
So, that was the plan
we were going to arrest him,
1038
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,400
we were gonna arrest him
for Amelie's murder,
1039
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:25,840
attempting to murder Kate
1040
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:27,480
and for an assault
1041
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:30,240
and robbery on Sonia Salvatierra.
1042
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:35,280
That was when we had the bombshell
1043
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:36,320
that the News of the World
1044
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:39,520
had found out that we had a man
on surveillance
1045
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,280
and they were going
to run with the story,
1046
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:46,360
two days before we had this
huge plan in place to arrest him.
1047
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:47,840
And Bellfield would have wind of us.
1048
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,440
The best we could do
was to try to negotiate
1049
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:52,880
with the News of the World
and we negotiated
1050
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:54,520
that they would be
able to send a reporter
1051
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:56,680
and a photographer along
on the day of the arrest
1052
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:59,240
with the proviso
they never printed it
1053
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:02,520
and never published
the story until after the trial.
1054
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:06,960
I've never actually found out
who leaked the story
1055
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:08,880
of the surveillance to them.
1056
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:11,760
But the two things I've been assured
of is one that it wasn't anybody
1057
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,280
from my team and two,
there was nothing to do
1058
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:16,480
with any phone hacking.
1059
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:19,400
And the steer that I've had
is that I should be looking
1060
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:21,720
at the higher floors
at Scotland Yard.
1061
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,320
Once the decision is made to arrest,
1062
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:31,760
we would divide into two teams.
1063
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:34,680
The arrest team that went
to Bellfield's address
1064
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:38,120
in West Drayton would have
entered the house quickly
1065
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:41,760
and effected
a search of the property
1066
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:45,760
and the surrounding
sort of gardens etcetera.
1067
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,480
Initially they couldn't find him,
he was nowhere to be seen.
1068
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:53,320
And then there was an identification
via his partner Emma,
1069
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:55,600
that he was in the loft.
1070
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:57,680
It took them quite some time
1071
00:50:57,760 --> 00:50:59,480
to find him hiding in his loft,
1072
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:04,320
as he was, stark naked
and eventually brought him out.
1073
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,400
Colin then rang me at home,
I remember the phone call, he said,
1074
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:08,800
"I want you to do the following
1075
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:09,840
"interviews with him,
1076
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:11,760
"over the next few days."
1077
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:13,520
So, my reply to him was, "Boss,
1078
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:15,720
"I'm not sure that's a great idea,
1079
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:17,920
"with the greatest respect,
I'm sure someone else could do it."
1080
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,040
But he was quite adamant,
as much as he was a nice guy
1081
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:21,920
and very laid back,
when he made a decision,
1082
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:23,120
he meant it.
1083
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,600
He was very firm about it and said,
"No, I want you to do it,
1084
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:27,840
"I want you to do the interview
and don't worry about it."
1085
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:36,920
At first he was talking to us
and making denials,
1086
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:40,280
but he was represented
by a solicitor that he knew,
1087
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:41,800
that he had asked for.
1088
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:45,960
And the difficulty came that
when we started investigating him
1089
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:50,680
also for rape and abuse
of his former partners,
1090
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:52,360
this solicitor
had represented
1091
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:53,400
one of the partners
1092
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:55,400
in domestic violence
proceedings.
1093
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:56,920
So, had
a conflict of interest
1094
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:58,640
and had to withdraw,
1095
00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:02,080
and the duty solicitor
then took over
1096
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:06,040
and the duty solicitor advised him
to make no comment.
1097
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:09,440
And so for most of the hours
of interviews we did
1098
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:13,320
with Levi Bellfield thereafter,
he would say, "No comment."
1099
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:35,040
To be honest, I'd seen that
type of interview many, many times,
1100
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:38,680
and in those days, we got
a lot of "No comment" interviews.
1101
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:40,840
We still have
to cover a lot of questions.
1102
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:52,640
If they don't say
something during the interview
1103
00:52:52,720 --> 00:52:55,000
that they later rely on in court,
then it becomes relevant,
1104
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:56,520
or could become
relevant for the jury.
1105
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:59,000
If you've hit something
he was really uncomfortable with
1106
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:00,720
and he knew he was,
then he couldn't face it,
1107
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:02,360
he couldn't face you
and he couldn't face
1108
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,080
what was coming at him.
1109
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:10,120
The only time where he would
really engage with us, we noticed,
1110
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:16,000
was if we showed him photographs
or maps or some sort of document,
1111
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:18,920
then we could kind of
elicit a response from him.
1112
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:23,520
I remember images being
put in front of him in one session
1113
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,440
and him looking away
and turning around,
1114
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:27,280
looking away
from the interviewing team,
1115
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:30,840
he turned the photographs over,
but when, you know,
1116
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:32,800
the second and third interviews
were put in
1117
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:34,840
and the images
were put there again
1118
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:37,640
and he tried the same tact,
the interviewing officer
1119
00:53:37,720 --> 00:53:40,480
had put them on the back,
so as he turns the image over,
1120
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:41,840
the image is still there.
1121
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,320
It's not about playing tricks,
it's about
1122
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,080
"Face up to what you've done,
1123
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:48,520
"this is what you've done."
1124
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:50,120
And he obviously...
1125
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:52,040
he's not somebody
who could do that.
1126
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:54,240
But he had this
rather curious way of doing it,
1127
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:57,520
where he would talk to us
just every now and then
1128
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:00,920
and then realise he was meant
to not be saying anything and say...
1129
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:11,680
Sonia Salvatierra,
the Peruvian nanny was flown over
1130
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:15,680
from Lima and she was taken
to do an ID procedure
1131
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:17,160
and despite her confidently saying,
1132
00:54:17,240 --> 00:54:19,840
"Yes, I could recognise him again,"
she didn't pick him out.
1133
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:21,960
And that was a major blow
to me at the time,
1134
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:24,080
because my confidence was high
that she would pick him out
1135
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:25,400
in the ID parade,
we could charge him
1136
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:27,520
with that assault,
and that would, like,
1137
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:30,200
be our holding charge
to make sure he was in custody.
1138
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:34,440
We had the very real prospect
of having to release him on bail.
1139
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:39,680
And such was the fear of him
within the Metropolitan Police,
1140
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:44,280
that there were arrangements
in place, if he had been bailed,
1141
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:47,920
he would have been followed
by 24/7 surveillance...
1142
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:51,040
Until there was some reason
to take him back into custody again.
1143
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:52,920
While Bellfield was at
Heathrow police station,
1144
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:54,080
I had two of my officers
1145
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,000
who were trained
family liaison officers
1146
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:57,720
talking to his partner, Emma.
1147
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:00,520
It was clear that she had endured
1148
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:05,040
ten years
of a desperately oppressive,
1149
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:08,080
coercive and violent relationship
with this man,
1150
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:10,160
but she was so frightened of him
1151
00:55:10,240 --> 00:55:12,520
that she wouldn't do
anything about it.
1152
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:15,960
"He locks me in the house,
he won't let me go out,
1153
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:18,960
"so I can't have my own money,
I can't have my own phone,
1154
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:20,680
"other than with his number in it."
1155
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:23,760
And then she talks about
how often she had been assaulted
1156
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:27,040
and sexually assaulted by him,
and then told us,
1157
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:29,240
"And I'm not the only one,
because there were two other women
1158
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:31,560
"who he's lived with in the past,
and they will tell you
1159
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:32,880
"that he did the same to them."
1160
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:37,720
And if he was going to go to prison
for a long time or forever,
1161
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:39,880
then this was her chance to escape.
1162
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:41,440
We had an awful lot of support
1163
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:43,040
from his ex-partners,
1164
00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:45,240
in particular, Emma and Jo.
1165
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:47,840
Jo gave us a really,
really strong statement
1166
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:50,320
about some of the abuse
she'd suffered at his hands
1167
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:52,640
and that gave us
a real strength of evidence
1168
00:55:52,720 --> 00:55:56,280
to charge Bellfield with a variety
of offences, but in particular,
1169
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:59,640
serious offences
that would keep him in custody.
1170
00:55:59,720 --> 00:56:03,440
And that provided us
with nine charges, serious charges,
1171
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:05,640
that eventually
were the kind of holding charges
1172
00:56:05,720 --> 00:56:07,160
against Levi Bellfield.
1173
00:56:07,240 --> 00:56:09,160
Those nine offences
on that indictment
1174
00:56:09,240 --> 00:56:12,480
have never been tried
before a court, never will be now.
1175
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:18,000
And it's the mark of the man
and his kind of level of offending,
1176
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:21,560
that something... an indictment
that would be very serious
1177
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:24,960
in any other circumstances
has just been left on file,
1178
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:28,960
because in the context
of what else he's done,
1179
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:30,800
it is kind of not as important.
1180
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,040
There is no doubt
that Levi Bellfield
1181
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:38,920
was an intelligent man,
not an educated man,
1182
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:41,040
but he was street smart.
1183
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:44,960
Where he made a mistake
in the Amelie Delagrange case
1184
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:46,920
was at Twickenham Green.
1185
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:50,280
He didn't know that just weeks
before he had attacked Amelie,
1186
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:53,320
the bus garage at Fullwell
had just fitted CCTV
1187
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,600
to all of its buses,
which recorded onto hard drives
1188
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:59,400
rather than tape,
the time stamp on the footage
1189
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:01,720
was from the atomic clock,
each bus had
1190
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:05,560
either six or eight cameras
facing inside and outside.
1191
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:08,080
Both of the roads,
either side of Twickenham Green
1192
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:09,520
had bus routes on them.
1193
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:12,320
And so, in plotting
what he was doing,
1194
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:16,760
cruising around hunting in his van
and plotting how Amelie
1195
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,080
had walked back up
from the bus garage
1196
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:23,520
towards Twickenham Green
and putting the two together
1197
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:26,720
and working out for certain
that Bellfield had passed her
1198
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:28,960
and probably
stopped to speak to her,
1199
00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:31,440
all this CCTV was invaluable.
1200
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:34,880
We were then able to spend
real time and real resources
1201
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:38,040
bringing together the other offences
that we think he is involved in.
1202
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:41,400
The first one was Kate Sheedy.
1203
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:42,640
It doesn't look quite right,
1204
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:44,320
because it's slightly
out of the area
1205
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:46,400
and the weapon is a car.
1206
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:49,920
So, initially we were working out,
1207
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,400
"Well, is it or isn't it
potentially one of ours?"
1208
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:54,880
I mean, Kate was able
to explain that the vehicle
1209
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:57,640
that had hit her
was some kind of people carrier
1210
00:57:57,720 --> 00:57:58,840
and that it was white.
1211
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:01,880
Levi Bellfield, who at the time,
provably was driving
1212
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:05,160
a white Toyota Previa people carrier
with blacked out windows.
1213
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:08,800
So, the vehicle that fitted exactly
the description that Kate Sheedy
1214
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:11,240
had given of the vehicle
that ran her over.
1215
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:14,520
We went and retrieved that
so we could examine it forensically,
1216
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:18,320
it had been professionally steam
cleaned, valeted, top and bottom,
1217
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:19,640
inside and out.
1218
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:22,040
So, there was no forensic material
on there at all
1219
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:24,960
to associate it with Kate Sheedy.
1220
00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:29,280
However, what it did have
was a defective drivers mirror
1221
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:31,440
and that was something
that she had noted
1222
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:33,400
on the vehicle that ran her over.
1223
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:35,440
So, it was, you know,
pretty likely, we thought,
1224
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:36,920
this was Bellfield's vehicle,
1225
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:38,280
it fitted everything
with Kate Sheedy.
1226
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:39,520
So, I said, "Yes, OK, let's...
1227
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:41,360
"we should take that on."
1228
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:45,440
And that was when we realised
that there was a bag of CCTV tape
1229
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:49,280
from a nearby pub
that had never been looked at.
1230
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:52,400
And it was a simple error,
human error made
1231
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:55,640
by the original investigating team
at Hounslow borough.
1232
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:58,200
Although CCTV had been
recovered by local police,
1233
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:02,240
they hadn't got the resources
to view it in as much detail as us.
1234
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:06,680
Two lots of tapes had
been seized, because the offence
1235
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:08,560
was just near midnight
and it was a bit confusing
1236
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:11,880
what days' tapes they needed,
and somebody had viewed one
1237
00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:14,200
but not realised
there was a second bag.
1238
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:16,800
And when we opened that bag
and put it in the machine,
1239
00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:21,640
we could see the Toyota Previa,
driving, stalking the bus on
1240
00:59:21,720 --> 00:59:23,840
which Kate Sheedy was riding.
1241
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:25,600
As the bus pulled in to let her off,
1242
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:28,960
the Previa overtakes it
and parks in front of it.
1243
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:31,920
What the CCTV does
is tell him exactly what it is,
1244
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:33,800
and it was a Toyota Previa.
1245
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:38,360
A Toyota Previa that was white,
had unique features about it.
1246
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:40,680
We see the Previa
going in the other direction,
1247
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:42,760
back past the pub on the CCTV.
1248
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:45,320
And we can't get a number plate,
it's dark
1249
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:47,240
and it's not particularly
good quality footage,
1250
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:51,560
but what we can see
is that there is a mark,
1251
00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:56,040
an irregular shaped, sort of,
stain by the petrol filler
1252
00:59:56,120 --> 01:00:00,000
as the Previa drives away
after the attack.
1253
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:02,600
And then I look at the photographs,
the good quality photographs
1254
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:04,840
we've taken of the Previa
we've seized
1255
01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:06,640
and there's that stain visible.
1256
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:09,760
And it kind of corresponded
so much that we could
1257
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:12,800
get expert video analysis
done to say,
1258
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:15,320
"Yes, that's the same vehicle."
1259
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:21,280
I realised immediately that had
that CCTV been viewed immediately
1260
01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:24,200
after Kate's assault,
Levi Bellfield's name
1261
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:26,240
would have come out
of the initial inquiries.
1262
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:32,160
Just a few days before Kate
was run over, he was arrested
1263
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:35,040
for a... what he described
as a prank where he'd kidnapped
1264
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:36,920
a pub landlord,
it never went anywhere,
1265
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:38,920
but the intelligence report
was there.
1266
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:41,440
So, as soon as somebody saw
that CCTV,
1267
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:43,880
somebody would've
identified it as the previa,
1268
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:45,280
very distinctive vehicle,
1269
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:47,000
they'd go
to the intelligence computer
1270
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:48,160
and Levi Bellfield's name
1271
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:49,200
would've popped out.
1272
01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:54,760
One of the lines of enquiry
that we went down
1273
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:56,720
involved a mobile phone
that was in the possession
1274
01:00:56,800 --> 01:00:59,440
of Bellfield's
16-year-old girlfriend.
1275
01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:03,920
She and her 14-year-old sister
were in the flat that Bellfield
1276
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:06,920
had sort of illegally sub-rented
from somebody else,
1277
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:09,400
and they were taking lots
and lots of clips of themselves
1278
01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:11,880
doing things
while they were getting drunk,
1279
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:13,680
dancing and this sort of thing.
1280
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:17,080
About 1:00 in the morning,
Bellfield comes into the flat
1281
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:19,760
and the girls take video of him.
1282
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:24,200
He's wearing an outdoor coat/jacket
and what he does is he comes in
1283
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:27,560
and he finds a torch
and he picks it up
1284
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:29,920
and switches it on
and you see his face illuminate,
1285
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:31,360
he's kind of checking
to see if it works,
1286
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:33,280
switches it off again and goes out.
1287
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:39,120
But the significance of this
is that just 40 minutes before,
1288
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:43,360
Kate Sheedy had been
run over by a Previa.
1289
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:46,400
And what this looked very much like
was somebody coming in,
1290
01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:49,120
getting a torch because
they wanted to go back out
1291
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:52,440
and check their vehicle over,
to see if there was any damage.
1292
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:55,360
It certainly showed that Bellfield
couldn't claim he was in the flat
1293
01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:56,520
at the time it happened.
1294
01:01:56,600 --> 01:02:00,280
The problem we've got is we know
that the time stamp on the video
1295
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:03,240
is questionable, it depends on
how the phone was set up
1296
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:05,240
and there was some sound
in the back ground
1297
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:06,920
and it sounded like...
it was music,
1298
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:10,400
and somebody on the team said,
"That's not a pop song,
1299
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:12,960
"that's a theme song,
it's 'Wheel of Fortune'."
1300
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:16,520
And so, what we were then able
to do was go back
1301
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:20,160
to that broadcaster and say,
"Can you help us at all?"
1302
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:21,880
And they were able
to look at their records
1303
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:25,200
and give us a really accurate,
you know, to the second time
1304
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:27,480
when they thought that
clip had been recorded.
1305
01:02:27,560 --> 01:02:30,840
Now, we can't say for certain
that he would have been charged
1306
01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:32,960
with trying to murder Kate,
1307
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:34,000
but obviously there is
1308
01:02:34,080 --> 01:02:35,040
a strong possibility
1309
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:37,480
he wouldn't have been free
to murder Amelie Delagrange.
1310
01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:55,240
I know that Colin became quite close
1311
01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:58,360
with Amelie Delagrange's parents.
1312
01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:01,400
He described them
as being very humble
1313
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:04,720
and they were very respectful
of the police
1314
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:06,080
and the investigation
1315
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:07,720
and understood that everyone
1316
01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:09,560
was doing their best
1317
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:12,040
in awful circumstances for them.
1318
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:17,320
The only thing I thought
I could do was to go and see
1319
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:23,240
Amelie's parents, and apologise on
behalf of my organisation, you know,
1320
01:03:23,320 --> 01:03:26,680
my colleagues that
had let them down.
1321
01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:30,880
And it was obviously going
to be a very personal and, kind of,
1322
01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:34,000
emotional conversation,
but nevertheless,
1323
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:35,640
one that I knew had to be done.
1324
01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:41,600
I explained all the situation about
Kate, the situation with the CCTV.
1325
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:44,240
I said, "Look, you do understand
what this means?
1326
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:49,160
"We should have had him
in custody at some time
1327
01:03:49,240 --> 01:03:51,840
"before Amelie was murdered."
1328
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:56,920
And they said, "Yes, of course,
we understand, we know that,
1329
01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:00,800
"thank you for telling us,
we thought that you had been honest
1330
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:03,800
"with us all the way through this
and this proves to us that you are,
1331
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:07,480
"what has happened has happened,
we cannot change the past.
1332
01:04:07,560 --> 01:04:11,400
"It's sad, we'd like to change it,
but we know we can't,
1333
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:14,840
"now will you three come back
to dinner with us tonight here?"
1334
01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:16,600
And that was it, you know,
1335
01:04:16,680 --> 01:04:22,240
it was just the most
unexpectedly generous
1336
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:25,640
but dignified and honourable,
1337
01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:29,000
mature approach
to what had happened.
1338
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:38,080
The next case to look at really
was that of Marsha McDonnell.
1339
01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:40,320
There was one line of inquiry
which wasn't resolved
1340
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:42,560
and, yes, again, it was CCTV
1341
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:45,680
and the bus on which Marsha
had gone home
1342
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:48,080
and place she had got off
of just a couple of minutes
1343
01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:49,480
before she was attacked.
1344
01:04:49,560 --> 01:04:52,640
We looked at that
and from the outside camera
1345
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:55,680
we could see that coming
towards her was a car,
1346
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:58,440
two seconds after Marsha had gone
1347
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:00,920
through the doors
to get off the bus.
1348
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:04,240
And then by using the inside cameras
1349
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:06,000
on the top deck but looking out
1350
01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:09,400
through the windows,
we could see what that car did.
1351
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:13,480
And what it did was it stopped,
slowed down and then stopped
1352
01:05:13,560 --> 01:05:16,880
in the crossroads behind the bus.
1353
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:19,280
And Marsha is walking
in that direction too,
1354
01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:22,960
but the important thing about it
was, was that from the front view
1355
01:05:23,040 --> 01:05:24,880
we could almost see a number plate,
1356
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:27,360
it was tantalising, we could
almost see a few characters
1357
01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:30,360
popping out a bit,
but there was no doubt
1358
01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:32,240
that the car was a Vauxhall Corsa.
1359
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:34,400
And one of his vehicles,
one he actually bought
1360
01:05:34,480 --> 01:05:36,880
on finance,
was a silver Vauxhall Corsa.
1361
01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:40,560
Trying to prove
that that particular Corsa
1362
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:43,880
was his Vauxhall Corsa
was very, very difficult.
1363
01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:47,560
The combinations of numbers
and letters on the number plate
1364
01:05:47,640 --> 01:05:49,080
of this vehicle that could be seen
1365
01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:51,440
and what the experts
told us they might be,
1366
01:05:51,520 --> 01:05:56,680
initially gave us over 600,000
possible combinations,
1367
01:05:56,760 --> 01:05:58,160
a lot of those
possible registrations
1368
01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:00,160
weren't on Corsa's,
1369
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:01,640
they were on completely
different vehicles,
1370
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:03,160
so you could write all them off.
1371
01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:06,320
I said as soon as we get it down
to 200 or lower,
1372
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:09,120
then we can go through them
and start eliminating.
1373
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:11,160
And that's what we did,
and it took us a little bit of time
1374
01:06:11,240 --> 01:06:13,720
but eventually,
we got those all eliminated.
1375
01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:16,200
Look at the index
of that silver Vauxhall Corsa,
1376
01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:18,920
apply that
to the Marsha McDonnell case
1377
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:20,400
and there he is.
1378
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:24,920
So, you've now got
three separate murderous attacks
1379
01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:29,400
on young women,
three vehicles involved
1380
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:31,520
and each of those vehicles
at the time
1381
01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:35,200
is identical to one
owned by Levi Bellfield.
1382
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:36,680
There is an old, much used phrase,
1383
01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:39,880
that 'Detectives
don't like coincidences',
1384
01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:42,160
and this certainly
wasn't looking like coincidence.
1385
01:06:42,840 --> 01:06:44,560
I was in a position where I thought
1386
01:06:44,640 --> 01:06:48,440
we had a lot of circumstantial
evidence pointing to Levi Bellfield,
1387
01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:50,000
but that we could get more
1388
01:06:50,080 --> 01:06:52,600
from his friends and acquaintances.
1389
01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:55,920
If first they thought he wasn't
going to come and beat them up,
1390
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:58,840
in other words, if he was gonna go
to prison and not be able to,
1391
01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:00,480
and secondly, if they understood
1392
01:07:00,560 --> 01:07:03,120
just how much evidence
we really had.
1393
01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:07,160
And I came up with the idea of
using the vehicle of BBC Crimewatch.
1394
01:07:07,240 --> 01:07:10,000
And I'd been on there
with other cases a few times
1395
01:07:10,080 --> 01:07:11,400
and I knew the guy
that was the editor,
1396
01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:12,600
and I was just honest with him.
1397
01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:14,440
I phoned him up and said,
"Look, I want to come on
1398
01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:17,480
"for an appeal about the murders
in South West London,
1399
01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:20,840
"asking for information
about the two or three vehicles.
1400
01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:23,720
"What I need is the public
to understand that we know
1401
01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:26,000
"who was driving it, you know,
we've got these vehicles
1402
01:07:26,080 --> 01:07:27,640
"and we know
these vehicles were involved,
1403
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:32,360
"because that will make them
realise that it's our man
1404
01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:35,480
"and come forward and give evidence.
1405
01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:38,680
"And so, we went on to Crimewatch
and we showed these pictures
1406
01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:42,800
"of the Previa and the Corsa
and the white Courier van
1407
01:07:42,880 --> 01:07:46,680
"and suddenly witnesses started
coming forward as a result of that.
1408
01:07:46,760 --> 01:07:48,280
"There's a man
called Richard Hughes,
1409
01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:51,160
"he was more a friend
of Levi's partner than Levi himself.
1410
01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:53,560
"He told us about him
modifying the white van,
1411
01:07:53,640 --> 01:07:55,880
"so that they couldn't be
seen through
1412
01:07:55,960 --> 01:07:57,360
"and then cutting a little spy hole,
1413
01:07:57,440 --> 01:08:00,960
"and he could sit
in the back and spy out.
1414
01:08:01,040 --> 01:08:03,360
"He talks about
a blood-stained shirt
1415
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:04,920
"that Bellfield had soon
1416
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:07,440
"after the disappearance
of Milly Dowler."
1417
01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:10,720
Bellfield said things shortly
after Marsha's murder, for example,
1418
01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:14,720
"You don't know what I've done,"
and things like this.
1419
01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:17,280
So, he was kind of
a really important witness
1420
01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:19,440
who had been close to Bellfield
and was able to give us
1421
01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:21,440
lots of little bits of information.
1422
01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:24,880
There was Joe Ryan, who was another
acquaintance of Bellfield's,
1423
01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:26,680
he'd helped him out
with wheel clamping.
1424
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:29,920
He told us about
Bellfield hitting a kerb
1425
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:31,840
with the front nearside wheel,
1426
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:33,240
and because the van at that time
1427
01:08:33,320 --> 01:08:34,280
had alloy wheels on it,
1428
01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:36,120
it damaged it so much that
1429
01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:38,560
he had to put a steel black wheel on
1430
01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:41,280
and that was very visible
in the CCTV.
1431
01:08:41,360 --> 01:08:46,280
He also told us about the headlights
and how the headlight bulb had gone
1432
01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:49,320
out on the near side
and that Bellfield had got
1433
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:50,880
some old headlights
from a Ford Escort
1434
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:52,600
in his garden at the house.
1435
01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:56,920
When we searched Bellfield's house
we found this Ford Escort headlight
1436
01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:58,760
with the bulb missing
in the garden, so it, kind of,
1437
01:08:58,840 --> 01:09:00,520
corroborated Joe Ryan's story.
1438
01:09:00,600 --> 01:09:02,960
The other man that came forward
that was really, really important
1439
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:04,920
as a result of this, was a guy
called Simon Redstone.
1440
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:09,760
He remembers cycling home
at about 10:00, 10:15,
1441
01:09:09,840 --> 01:09:13,280
the night Amelie was murdered,
and his statement said,
1442
01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:15,320
"He was overtaken
by a little white van
1443
01:09:15,400 --> 01:09:17,200
"being driven at crazy speed."
1444
01:09:17,280 --> 01:09:19,680
And he kind of tried
to memorise the number,
1445
01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:21,280
although he hadn't got it
completely correct,
1446
01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:24,800
he'd got enough digits
accurately to show
1447
01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:26,800
that it must have
been Bellfield's van
1448
01:09:26,880 --> 01:09:27,960
that he was talking about.
1449
01:09:28,040 --> 01:09:31,520
And, indeed, when we then
went back to static CCTV
1450
01:09:31,600 --> 01:09:34,600
from the Loch Fyne restaurant
in Hampton Road,
1451
01:09:34,680 --> 01:09:39,720
we saw Bellfield's van go past
and then sort of two frames later,
1452
01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:43,400
there is Simon Redstone on his bike,
so that corroborated that as well.
1453
01:09:45,480 --> 01:09:51,400
We were now able to overlay the path
that we knew Amelie had taken back
1454
01:09:51,480 --> 01:09:53,720
from the bus garage back
to Twickenham Green,
1455
01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:56,760
with the movements
of Bellfield's white van.
1456
01:09:56,840 --> 01:10:00,840
And what that showed was that
as Amelie was walking back up
1457
01:10:00,920 --> 01:10:02,640
Hampton Road towards
Twickenham Green,
1458
01:10:02,720 --> 01:10:05,720
Bellfield at first was behind her.
1459
01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:08,200
He came out of this side road,
I think it was Fourth Cross Road
1460
01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:10,520
and turned left into Hampton Road
1461
01:10:10,600 --> 01:10:13,880
and the footage
from cameras on buses
1462
01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:19,560
show Amelie walking along,
and then the van being behind her.
1463
01:10:19,640 --> 01:10:21,680
And then right up near the green,
1464
01:10:21,760 --> 01:10:26,720
the, sort of, virtually
the last footage we get,
1465
01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:30,880
there is a change and the van
is 62 seconds ahead of Amelie.
1466
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:33,480
Amelie is on the pavement
and the van has gone past,
1467
01:10:33,560 --> 01:10:37,080
62 seconds
or a minute in front of her.
1468
01:10:37,160 --> 01:10:40,880
But then when we look
at Amelie's pace,
1469
01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:43,840
she seems to have
slowed down at that point
1470
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:45,280
and that is exactly the time
1471
01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:48,440
when the van would
have overtaken her.
1472
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:51,880
So, what we deduced from that is
that she didn't actually slow down
1473
01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:54,880
her walking,
she was stationary for some while.
1474
01:10:54,960 --> 01:10:58,000
And she was stationary because
Levi Bellfield was also stationary
1475
01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:02,800
at that point, propositioning her
from the window of his van.
1476
01:11:02,880 --> 01:11:05,640
And that fits in what we think
we know about why he committed
1477
01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:10,080
these blitz attacks,
that he would proposition a woman,
1478
01:11:10,160 --> 01:11:13,680
she would decline, and he would
then be triggered by that
1479
01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:15,400
and get out and assault them.
1480
01:11:15,480 --> 01:11:18,120
So, what we have not
got is reliable evidence
1481
01:11:18,200 --> 01:11:21,800
that Bellfield had this white van,
what we need then to do
1482
01:11:21,880 --> 01:11:25,400
is to be able to prove
that it was him driving it
1483
01:11:25,480 --> 01:11:27,440
on the night Amelie was murdered.
1484
01:11:27,520 --> 01:11:30,720
One of the difficulties
was that the scene itself
1485
01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:33,040
on Twickenham Green,
we had not been managed
1486
01:11:33,120 --> 01:11:35,960
to get any forensic evidence,
no weapons been found,
1487
01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:37,640
the vehicle hadn't been recovered.
1488
01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:40,080
Not for the only time
in this investigation,
1489
01:11:40,160 --> 01:11:43,520
Bellfield's partner, Emma,
came up trumps for us.
1490
01:11:43,600 --> 01:11:46,640
Emma Mills remembered
the night that Amelie Delagrange
1491
01:11:46,720 --> 01:11:49,520
was murdered quite vividly.
1492
01:11:49,600 --> 01:11:51,720
The plan was that
he was to pick her up
1493
01:11:51,800 --> 01:11:54,720
so she could go shopping in Tesco's,
1494
01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:56,800
but he was late,
and he didn't turn up at home,
1495
01:11:56,880 --> 01:11:59,520
so she phoned for a minicab
and came here in that.
1496
01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:01,960
When Bellfield got home
and found that she wasn't there,
1497
01:12:02,040 --> 01:12:04,200
he phoned her
and asked her where she was,
1498
01:12:04,280 --> 01:12:07,120
she explained, he said,
"I'll come up and meet you."
1499
01:12:07,200 --> 01:12:09,520
An important thing is that
he came up to meet her
1500
01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:11,600
in the white Ford Courier van.
1501
01:12:11,680 --> 01:12:14,400
He drives to Hayes,
goes and meets her in Tesco,
1502
01:12:14,480 --> 01:12:18,560
he takes the two older children
across the road to Toys 'R' Us.
1503
01:12:18,640 --> 01:12:21,640
And there is a few phone calls
between Bellfield
1504
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:22,880
and Emma at the time.
1505
01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:25,120
That's important because it gives us
a time stamp and it gives us
1506
01:12:25,200 --> 01:12:29,160
the fact that we know the number,
which of his mobile phones Bellfield
1507
01:12:29,240 --> 01:12:30,800
was using on that night.
1508
01:12:30,880 --> 01:12:35,280
Emma then told us they left here
in the white Ford Courier van
1509
01:12:35,360 --> 01:12:39,720
and went home to Little Benty
arriving there just after 9:00.
1510
01:12:39,800 --> 01:12:42,400
She said Bellfield had reversed
on the drive, hadn't even gotten out
1511
01:12:42,480 --> 01:12:44,120
of the van, he left her to unload
1512
01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:45,920
all the shopping
and the three children.
1513
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:48,600
As soon as the shopping is out
of the van, Bellfield drives off,
1514
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:52,160
Emma tells us
that it's about 9:10 now.
1515
01:12:52,240 --> 01:12:54,240
A short time
after he had driven off,
1516
01:12:54,320 --> 01:12:56,600
she realised that
she had forgotten some milk
1517
01:12:56,680 --> 01:12:59,400
and wanted to call him to see
if he could bring some in.
1518
01:12:59,480 --> 01:13:01,400
Looking at Bellfield's
mobile phone usage,
1519
01:13:01,480 --> 01:13:03,400
when he knows
he is going to commit a crime,
1520
01:13:03,480 --> 01:13:04,440
he switches his phone off.
1521
01:13:04,520 --> 01:13:08,360
He made a mistake on this occasion,
because that call from Emma to him
1522
01:13:08,440 --> 01:13:11,440
about the milk hit his phone.
1523
01:13:11,520 --> 01:13:14,080
And it only rang once
and it went to voicemail.
1524
01:13:14,160 --> 01:13:17,240
But that one ring meant
that the call had hit the mast
1525
01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:19,880
where his phone was,
and that mast was the one
1526
01:13:19,960 --> 01:13:21,400
that served Twickenham Green.
1527
01:13:21,480 --> 01:13:26,760
So, that story from Emma gave us
Bellfield in the white Courier van,
1528
01:13:26,840 --> 01:13:29,560
with his own mobile phone
in his hand
1529
01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:31,360
and in the area of Twickenham Green,
1530
01:13:31,440 --> 01:13:33,720
it was to be
a crucial piece of evidence.
1531
01:13:33,800 --> 01:13:35,800
And I can just imagine,
he's sitting in a van,
1532
01:13:35,880 --> 01:13:37,240
he hears the phone ringing,
and he thinks,
1533
01:13:37,320 --> 01:13:39,560
"I didn't turn it off,"
and grabs it and pulls
1534
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:42,120
the battery or switches it off.
1535
01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:46,240
But that one ring was enough
to leave a trace on the local mast,
1536
01:13:46,320 --> 01:13:48,080
we're kind of
proving that he is the one
1537
01:13:48,160 --> 01:13:50,280
who's driving the white van.
1538
01:13:50,360 --> 01:13:53,840
The CPS asked us to just try
and firm Emma's evidence up,
1539
01:13:53,920 --> 01:13:56,000
she'd paid cash for her shopping
1540
01:13:56,080 --> 01:13:57,800
but what my officers did,
1541
01:13:57,880 --> 01:13:59,800
and it was a fantastic
and spontaneous
1542
01:13:59,880 --> 01:14:02,000
piece of investigative work
by them,
1543
01:14:02,080 --> 01:14:04,360
they asked Emma
to list what she bought.
1544
01:14:04,440 --> 01:14:06,560
And they came here to Tesco's,
they asked the manager
1545
01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:10,160
if they had the copy till rolls,
they found her receipt and,
1546
01:14:10,240 --> 01:14:12,360
of course, it had a date
and time stamp on it
1547
01:14:12,440 --> 01:14:15,480
and it proved her story was correct.
1548
01:14:15,560 --> 01:14:19,320
So, that was a really crucial part
of the evidence, in fact,
1549
01:14:19,400 --> 01:14:21,560
it was the clinching part
of the evidence
1550
01:14:21,640 --> 01:14:23,960
as far as the crown
prosecution service was concerned
1551
01:14:24,040 --> 01:14:25,280
and when we managed to prove
1552
01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:26,480
all that to their satisfaction,
1553
01:14:26,560 --> 01:14:27,960
that they authorised
1554
01:14:28,040 --> 01:14:29,000
the murder charge
1555
01:14:29,080 --> 01:14:32,920
in respect of Amelie.
1556
01:14:32,920 --> 01:14:37,240
It was back in November 2004 that...
1557
01:14:37,320 --> 01:14:39,840
when I first identified
Levi Bellfield really,
1558
01:14:39,920 --> 01:14:45,200
that I saw how close he lived
to where Milly Dowler was last seen
1559
01:14:45,280 --> 01:14:46,280
before she was abducted.
1560
01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:48,400
In my phone I still had
the mobile number
1561
01:14:48,480 --> 01:14:49,720
for Brian Marjoram,
1562
01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:51,680
and he was the senior
investigating officer
1563
01:14:51,760 --> 01:14:54,280
for the Milly Dowler investigation
in Surrey.
1564
01:14:54,360 --> 01:14:57,240
I told him all that we knew
about Levi Bellfield
1565
01:14:57,320 --> 01:14:59,680
and where he was living
at the time.
1566
01:14:59,760 --> 01:15:02,920
And I'll never forget his reply,
it was, "The hairs on my neck
1567
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:04,200
"are standing up, Colin."
1568
01:15:04,280 --> 01:15:06,120
What I found surprising
was that kind of...
1569
01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:08,120
there was a degree of inertia
1570
01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:10,480
within Surrey police in taking up
1571
01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:12,280
Levi Bellfield as their suspect,
1572
01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:13,480
they didn't feel
1573
01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:15,600
that they were in a position
to drop everything they were doing
1574
01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:17,360
and look at this man instead.
1575
01:15:17,440 --> 01:15:20,000
And what they sort of said was,
"We'll put him on the backburner
1576
01:15:20,080 --> 01:15:21,440
"and we'll carry on with
what we're doing
1577
01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:24,000
"and if that comes nothing,
we'll have a look at Bellfield."
1578
01:15:24,080 --> 01:15:28,320
Eventually what happened was that
a new senior investigating officer
1579
01:15:28,400 --> 01:15:29,680
took over in Surrey.
1580
01:15:29,760 --> 01:15:31,440
I went down there with Jo Brunt.
1581
01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:35,280
We had a meeting at
Surrey headquarters and we...
1582
01:15:35,360 --> 01:15:38,440
well, Colin put to them
that we think Levi Bellfield
1583
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:41,640
was a very good suspect
in the case of Milly Dowler.
1584
01:15:41,720 --> 01:15:44,040
We'd already muted it and been
1585
01:15:44,120 --> 01:15:46,760
stone walled about it, basically.
1586
01:15:46,840 --> 01:15:51,440
They showed me a still
from the CCTV, it's of a red car
1587
01:15:51,520 --> 01:15:53,120
that they thought
was a Mark 2 Vauxhall Astra,
1588
01:15:53,200 --> 01:15:54,480
it was actually a Daewoo,
1589
01:15:54,560 --> 01:15:57,360
turning left out of the road
that led to
1590
01:15:57,440 --> 01:16:00,240
where Bellfield's
and Emma's flat was.
1591
01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:02,000
I kind of said,
"Yeah, that's Emma's car,
1592
01:16:02,080 --> 01:16:04,520
"that's the car he was driving
that day, it was a Daewoo,
1593
01:16:04,600 --> 01:16:05,640
"and it's the only...
1594
01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:09,520
"it's the only red one registered
in the whole of Surrey.
1595
01:16:09,600 --> 01:16:11,120
"Not a very common car at all."
1596
01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:13,000
They just wouldn't want to listen,
1597
01:16:13,080 --> 01:16:15,280
they just didn't want to listen
and eventually Colin said,
1598
01:16:15,360 --> 01:16:19,840
"Can I just ask, why don't you want
to solve the case of Milly Dowler?"
1599
01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:24,960
At which point they erupted,
Colin walked out of the room.
1600
01:16:25,040 --> 01:16:26,440
With hindsight,
it was obviously gonna be
1601
01:16:26,520 --> 01:16:28,400
a red rag to a bull
to any investigator.
1602
01:16:28,480 --> 01:16:29,880
I said,
"Well, what I don't understand,
1603
01:16:29,960 --> 01:16:31,680
"is why you don't want
to solve this?"
1604
01:16:31,760 --> 01:16:35,480
And the reaction I got was
the reaction that comment deserved,
1605
01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:38,000
which was indignation.
1606
01:16:38,080 --> 01:16:40,120
And it was quite
forceful indignation
1607
01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:41,600
by the superintendent.
1608
01:16:42,960 --> 01:16:47,720
We established that in March 2002,
Emma Mills, Levi Bellfield's
1609
01:16:47,800 --> 01:16:52,120
long-term partner, was living
in this ground floor flat here.
1610
01:16:52,200 --> 01:16:54,680
She'd moved here because
of domestic violence at home,
1611
01:16:54,760 --> 01:16:57,560
she'd split up with him,
but he'd persuaded her
1612
01:16:57,640 --> 01:16:59,160
to take him back.
1613
01:16:59,240 --> 01:17:02,120
She wasn't at the time
staying at the flat,
1614
01:17:02,200 --> 01:17:03,840
she was house sitting for a friend
1615
01:17:03,920 --> 01:17:06,720
in West Drayton,
but when Bellfield came
1616
01:17:06,800 --> 01:17:09,800
to that house on the evening
that Milly was abducted,
1617
01:17:09,880 --> 01:17:12,920
Emma knew that
he'd been to the flat in Walton,
1618
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:16,160
because he was wearing clothes,
he'd changed his clothes
1619
01:17:16,240 --> 01:17:18,480
and she knew the clothes
he was wearing
1620
01:17:18,560 --> 01:17:21,840
were from the wardrobe
of the Walton flat.
1621
01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:24,080
He also had the keys to this flat
1622
01:17:24,160 --> 01:17:27,080
because he was driving
Emma's red Daewoo car
1623
01:17:27,160 --> 01:17:29,520
and the keys to the flat
were on the same key ring.
1624
01:17:29,600 --> 01:17:32,080
When Bellfield drove
that car from here,
1625
01:17:32,160 --> 01:17:35,560
drove away,
was Milly inside it?
1626
01:17:35,640 --> 01:17:36,720
We don't know, we can't tell.
1627
01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:41,960
20 minutes after Milly Dowler
was last seen, to when her remains
1628
01:17:42,040 --> 01:17:46,920
were found six months later,
we have no idea of the timeline,
1629
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:49,240
we don't know
what happened and in what order.
1630
01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:52,440
All we can say is
that Levi Bellfield
1631
01:17:52,520 --> 01:17:57,360
was exactly here on this spot
at the time that she was abducted.
1632
01:17:57,440 --> 01:17:59,320
We don't know
whether he abducted her
1633
01:17:59,400 --> 01:18:02,800
by force
or whether he used his charm
1634
01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:07,320
or persuasion
to get her to come with him.
1635
01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:11,040
What we do know is
that while Emma was away,
1636
01:18:11,120 --> 01:18:15,680
house sitting for a friend,
Bellfield was using her flat
1637
01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:19,360
as a base
for his depraved activities.
1638
01:18:19,440 --> 01:18:22,320
It was quite sad
that there is this friction between
1639
01:18:22,400 --> 01:18:25,960
police services,
police forces, the Met versus...
1640
01:18:26,040 --> 01:18:28,240
I mean, we should
all be in it together
1641
01:18:28,320 --> 01:18:31,120
and we should all be
working for the same cause
1642
01:18:31,200 --> 01:18:34,560
and that sometimes
I didn't find it was like
1643
01:18:34,640 --> 01:18:36,920
that with other forces
that we dealt with.
1644
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:39,240
It was tragic obviously
1645
01:18:39,320 --> 01:18:41,160
that they didn't find that clip
1646
01:18:41,240 --> 01:18:43,800
with the red Daewoo
and it took them quite a while
1647
01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:45,880
to even acknowledge that.
1648
01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:53,080
I think the real mistake was made
where they visited Emma Mills' flat
1649
01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:55,000
during that week
when Milly went missing
1650
01:18:55,080 --> 01:18:56,840
and there was no response
from the flat,
1651
01:18:56,920 --> 01:19:00,000
but it was a loose end
that wasn't sewn up.
1652
01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:02,040
They were sending officers
1653
01:19:02,120 --> 01:19:04,160
to reported sightings
all over the country
1654
01:19:04,240 --> 01:19:08,800
and yet didn't get the house
to house inquiries completed nearby.
1655
01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:11,840
The results and the consequences
of that were tragic
1656
01:19:11,920 --> 01:19:17,280
because from 2002, March 2002,
the following year,
1657
01:19:17,360 --> 01:19:19,080
Bellfield killed Marsha.
1658
01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:24,960
He left Kate Sheedy
within an inch of her death
1659
01:19:25,040 --> 01:19:27,800
and then finally murdered
Amelie Delagrange.
1660
01:19:29,880 --> 01:19:33,040
Later that evening I'm at home
and my wife then worked
1661
01:19:33,120 --> 01:19:35,640
for Surrey Police, she said,
"Oh, the superintendent
1662
01:19:35,720 --> 01:19:37,080
"has asked for your phone number,"
1663
01:19:37,160 --> 01:19:39,600
my mobile ringed and he says,
"Do you know, I've had a think
1664
01:19:39,680 --> 01:19:41,480
"about what you've said today
and I think you're right,
1665
01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:43,640
"we are on board with it.
1666
01:19:43,720 --> 01:19:45,800
"He's our number one now."
1667
01:19:50,600 --> 01:19:53,360
18 months after Amelie Delagrange
was murdered,
1668
01:19:53,440 --> 01:19:57,040
in March 2006
we were finally able to charge
1669
01:19:57,120 --> 01:19:59,160
Levi Bellfield with her murder.
1670
01:19:59,240 --> 01:20:03,560
I read the charges out to him,
he was charged that he had murdered
1671
01:20:03,640 --> 01:20:08,320
Amelie Delagrange, that he had
attempted to murder Kate Sheedy,
1672
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:11,760
that he had abducted
Anna-Maria Rennie
1673
01:20:11,840 --> 01:20:13,320
and that he had attempted
1674
01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:16,280
to murder Irma Dragoshi.
1675
01:20:16,360 --> 01:20:19,440
In May 2006, he was charged
1676
01:20:19,520 --> 01:20:22,040
with murdering Marsha McDonnell.
1677
01:20:23,800 --> 01:20:25,880
I was looking
directly into his eyes,
1678
01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:29,160
they were just cold black,
he had no emotion,
1679
01:20:29,240 --> 01:20:32,280
but I could tell
he hated me at that moment
1680
01:20:32,360 --> 01:20:34,440
and I quite enjoyed being hated.
1681
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:37,640
Because he knew
if he got convicted of those,
1682
01:20:37,720 --> 01:20:39,440
he wouldn't see
the light of day again.
1683
01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:42,200
But we knew at that point,
there is still a long way to go.
1684
01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:45,320
You know, in major crime
that charging and getting somebody
1685
01:20:45,400 --> 01:20:48,680
in custody is step...
almost step one.
1686
01:20:48,760 --> 01:20:52,080
From that point on, proving it,
we had a lot of work to do
1687
01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:55,320
to pull the offences together,
join the cases up
1688
01:20:55,400 --> 01:20:57,360
and get enough
of a case to make sure
1689
01:20:57,440 --> 01:20:59,400
that he would get found guilty.
1690
01:21:04,680 --> 01:21:09,200
The trial started on 1 October,
but the first two weeks
1691
01:21:09,280 --> 01:21:11,800
virtually were spent up
choosing a jury,
1692
01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:13,360
where you don't
have forensic evidence,
1693
01:21:13,440 --> 01:21:15,840
where you haven't got
a DNA profile or fingerprints
1694
01:21:15,920 --> 01:21:20,760
or things like that, there is always
the chance that the jury will say,
1695
01:21:20,840 --> 01:21:22,000
"You haven't proved this."
1696
01:21:22,080 --> 01:21:24,800
I'm somebody who has spent
quite a lot of my life
1697
01:21:24,880 --> 01:21:29,080
around courts and to be honest
I quite enjoy the theatre
1698
01:21:29,160 --> 01:21:33,520
and the drama of a court trial,
but this time, you know,
1699
01:21:33,600 --> 01:21:34,640
the stakes were really high.
1700
01:21:34,720 --> 01:21:38,000
This was something that I'd put
a lot of time and effort into,
1701
01:21:38,080 --> 01:21:41,680
all my team had put an awful lot
of time and effort into.
1702
01:21:41,760 --> 01:21:45,080
Amelie Delagrange's parents
were there for the entire trial,
1703
01:21:45,160 --> 01:21:48,280
other families were here as
and when it was relevant to them
1704
01:21:48,360 --> 01:21:52,760
and also we had the victims
whose cases we couldn't charge
1705
01:21:52,840 --> 01:21:54,600
because there wasn't any evidence
but nevertheless,
1706
01:21:54,680 --> 01:21:57,080
they came along,
they wanted to see justice done.
1707
01:21:57,160 --> 01:21:59,040
I guess the victims
and the victims' families,
1708
01:21:59,120 --> 01:22:02,400
the thing that I would say
overall to describe them,
1709
01:22:02,480 --> 01:22:04,600
is just the dignified way
in which they conducted
1710
01:22:04,680 --> 01:22:06,280
themselves throughout.
1711
01:22:06,360 --> 01:22:10,720
And that was in stark contrast
to the sneering
1712
01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:13,120
and damn right
offensive way
1713
01:22:13,200 --> 01:22:15,600
that Bellfield
sometimes conducted himself
1714
01:22:15,680 --> 01:22:16,920
during that trial.
1715
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:18,920
He came across as,
sort of, arrogant man
1716
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:21,480
who kind of swaggered
his way into the dock,
1717
01:22:21,560 --> 01:22:25,720
Bellfield had little respect
for anybody involved,
1718
01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:27,480
he was not a likeable character.
1719
01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:31,120
He called
Amelie Delagrange parents "scum."
1720
01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:33,160
How dare somebody
like him having done
1721
01:22:33,240 --> 01:22:37,440
what he has done,
call these dignified,
1722
01:22:37,520 --> 01:22:40,480
wonderful people
whose daughter he had slain...
1723
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:43,960
how can he call them "scum?"
1724
01:22:44,040 --> 01:22:47,360
He really still genuinely
believed at that point
1725
01:22:47,440 --> 01:22:49,680
that he would be able to
talk his way out of this one,
1726
01:22:49,760 --> 01:22:52,840
like he had virtually
everything throughout his life.
1727
01:22:52,920 --> 01:22:54,840
We knew that if this man
1728
01:22:54,920 --> 01:22:56,520
were allowed back
out on the streets,
1729
01:22:56,600 --> 01:22:58,240
he would offend again.
1730
01:22:59,880 --> 01:23:02,120
The turning point came
when Bellfield
1731
01:23:02,200 --> 01:23:04,240
was under cross examination
and he got a little bit
1732
01:23:04,320 --> 01:23:07,800
kind of unsettled by this
and eventually said,
1733
01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:09,440
"Look, you've got to understand,
1734
01:23:09,520 --> 01:23:11,640
"I'm fighting for my life here,"
1735
01:23:11,720 --> 01:23:14,280
and using those very words...
1736
01:23:14,360 --> 01:23:18,000
as soon as he used them I looked
at the judge, I looked at the jury
1737
01:23:18,080 --> 01:23:20,440
and realised they were thinking
the same as me, that
1738
01:23:20,520 --> 01:23:23,640
"You're saying you're fighting
for your life, Bellfield,
1739
01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:26,680
"but you never gave that
chance to Amelie Delagrange,
1740
01:23:26,760 --> 01:23:29,720
"you never gave that chance
to Marsha McDonnell.
1741
01:23:29,800 --> 01:23:32,880
"Why should we care
that you are fighting for your life,
1742
01:23:32,960 --> 01:23:34,560
"when you've taken some?"
1743
01:23:34,640 --> 01:23:38,680
Gradually, as he realised
the strength of the evidence
1744
01:23:38,760 --> 01:23:41,160
and the relentlessness
of the questioning
1745
01:23:41,240 --> 01:23:43,680
and the bringing up
of these circumstances
1746
01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:45,320
which showed what he had done,
1747
01:23:45,400 --> 01:23:47,120
you could virtually see in his face
1748
01:23:47,200 --> 01:23:50,120
the realisation
that it was going south,
1749
01:23:50,200 --> 01:23:51,880
that it wasn't going well for him.
1750
01:23:51,960 --> 01:23:54,920
And I have to say
perhaps it's wrong of me
1751
01:23:55,000 --> 01:23:56,000
but I loved it, I loved
1752
01:23:56,080 --> 01:23:58,440
to watch him crumble like that.
1753
01:23:58,520 --> 01:24:02,480
The day of the verdict,
the court room was absolutely packed
1754
01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:06,240
to the brim with press,
police and everyone
1755
01:24:06,320 --> 01:24:08,400
who had anything
to do with Bellfield
1756
01:24:08,480 --> 01:24:11,200
and it is so nerve wracking
waiting for that sentence,
1757
01:24:11,280 --> 01:24:14,040
because you're thinking,
"This could go either way,
1758
01:24:14,120 --> 01:24:18,040
"it can always go either way
depending on the jury."
1759
01:24:18,120 --> 01:24:22,320
The first verdict that came
was on the Marsha McDonnell case
1760
01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:27,120
and the foreman said
that by a majority verdict
1761
01:24:27,200 --> 01:24:31,400
he was guilty, and I remember
saying to Jo,
1762
01:24:31,480 --> 01:24:34,080
"That was actually our weakest case
1763
01:24:34,160 --> 01:24:37,600
"and if they've convicted him
of that,
1764
01:24:37,680 --> 01:24:40,080
"he's going to be
convicted of the next two."
1765
01:24:40,160 --> 01:24:45,680
And we sat there, and we heard
from that foreman the words
1766
01:24:45,760 --> 01:24:47,720
we'd wanted
for so many months,
1767
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:50,040
that everything we had done
was worthwhile
1768
01:24:50,120 --> 01:24:51,480
and Bellfield was guilty
1769
01:24:51,560 --> 01:24:52,680
and we knew at that point
1770
01:24:52,760 --> 01:24:54,520
that the only thing
that would happen to him
1771
01:24:54,600 --> 01:24:56,000
was going to be a whole life tariff,
1772
01:24:56,080 --> 01:24:59,240
he was gonna be in prison forever.
1773
01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:01,320
And, you know,
that's what he deserved
1774
01:25:01,400 --> 01:25:03,160
and what we had been working for.
1775
01:25:03,240 --> 01:25:06,000
This was it,
this was game over for him.
1776
01:25:06,080 --> 01:25:08,360
His life was done.
1777
01:25:08,440 --> 01:25:12,320
When we got that conviction,
I think most of us burst into tears
1778
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:14,800
because it was
absolutely overwhelming,
1779
01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:17,160
including Colin.
1780
01:25:17,240 --> 01:25:19,560
Just absolutely
overwhelming feeling.
1781
01:25:19,640 --> 01:25:21,160
I don't believe that
1782
01:25:21,240 --> 01:25:25,520
justice being served gives closure.
1783
01:25:26,560 --> 01:25:28,560
I don't believe that families
1784
01:25:28,640 --> 01:25:30,240
who have lost a loved one
1785
01:25:30,320 --> 01:25:33,840
to murder ever have closure.
1786
01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:35,480
The beginning of this year
1787
01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:38,920
was the most difficult I was in,
1788
01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:41,080
going through
all the motions
1789
01:25:41,160 --> 01:25:42,120
of pain...
1790
01:25:44,280 --> 01:25:45,800
backflashes...
1791
01:25:46,840 --> 01:25:50,640
details
and, of course,
1792
01:25:50,720 --> 01:25:52,840
missing Marsha
more than ever.
1793
01:25:52,920 --> 01:25:55,520
Over this period of time
it's been hard to watch someone
1794
01:25:55,600 --> 01:25:58,720
who's killed your daughter,
but he was arrogant in court
1795
01:25:58,800 --> 01:26:01,000
and he acted
as if he was above the law.
1796
01:26:01,080 --> 01:26:03,360
All we've done
for the families of the victims
1797
01:26:03,440 --> 01:26:08,160
that have been murdered
is the very best we could.
1798
01:26:08,240 --> 01:26:13,040
And a very small part
of helping them to go on
1799
01:26:13,120 --> 01:26:15,680
and adjust to live
their life afterwards.
1800
01:26:15,760 --> 01:26:16,720
Of course,
I will never be
1801
01:26:16,800 --> 01:26:18,040
able to forget
what happened to me,
1802
01:26:18,120 --> 01:26:19,480
the scars on my body
1803
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:20,680
and the memories I have
1804
01:26:20,760 --> 01:26:22,080
are something
I will never be rid of,
1805
01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:24,840
but hopefully I can move on.
1806
01:26:24,920 --> 01:26:27,520
Attending court and facing
my attacker was very difficult,
1807
01:26:27,600 --> 01:26:29,680
but something I felt was important.
1808
01:26:29,760 --> 01:26:30,960
The court process has been
1809
01:26:31,040 --> 01:26:32,120
a long and arduous one
1810
01:26:32,200 --> 01:26:33,800
that has stirred up
many unwelcome memories
1811
01:26:33,880 --> 01:26:35,800
and a lot of evidence
has been hard to listen
1812
01:26:35,880 --> 01:26:38,280
to, but it is finally over
1813
01:26:38,360 --> 01:26:39,320
and the fact that Bellfield
1814
01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:40,360
has been found guilty means
1815
01:26:40,440 --> 01:26:41,880
more to me than I can possibly say.
1816
01:26:41,960 --> 01:26:44,520
The life sentence may provide
some closure
1817
01:26:44,600 --> 01:26:46,040
for his victims' families,
1818
01:26:46,120 --> 01:26:49,400
but the file
on Levi Bellfield is still open.
1819
01:26:52,960 --> 01:26:54,960
The people we've really helped
1820
01:26:55,040 --> 01:26:56,400
in Bellfield's case,
1821
01:26:56,480 --> 01:26:58,480
by locking him away, are the people
1822
01:26:58,560 --> 01:26:59,840
who he would have assaulted
1823
01:26:59,920 --> 01:27:01,000
and who would have become
1824
01:27:01,080 --> 01:27:02,160
his victims in the future
1825
01:27:02,240 --> 01:27:03,240
and they don't know it,
1826
01:27:03,320 --> 01:27:04,280
but they are the ones
1827
01:27:04,360 --> 01:27:05,520
we've really helped.
1828
01:27:06,320 --> 01:27:09,800
Having been convicted
of Amelie and Marsha's murders
1829
01:27:09,880 --> 01:27:12,080
and the attempted murder
of Kate Sheedy,
1830
01:27:12,160 --> 01:27:14,160
post-trial, the media were allowed
1831
01:27:14,240 --> 01:27:17,800
to run a background
on Levi Bellfield.
1832
01:27:17,880 --> 01:27:21,360
There were huge appeals to try
and find the red Daewoo
1833
01:27:21,440 --> 01:27:25,640
which he had undoubtedly
used to transport Milly's body.
1834
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:31,400
Another offence
that was part of the series
1835
01:27:31,480 --> 01:27:34,000
was that of Rachel Cowles
1836
01:27:34,080 --> 01:27:37,160
who was subjected
to a potential abduction
1837
01:27:37,240 --> 01:27:41,600
on 20 March, 2002,
as it happens was the day
1838
01:27:41,680 --> 01:27:43,040
before Milly Dowler was abducted.
1839
01:27:43,120 --> 01:27:46,640
Rachel Cowles offence occurred
in Shepperton, she was aged 11,
1840
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:48,680
her mother reported it
to the police,
1841
01:27:48,760 --> 01:27:49,840
not a great deal was done,
1842
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:52,160
there was the registration
of the crime,
1843
01:27:52,240 --> 01:27:54,280
but more importantly,
three years later
1844
01:27:54,360 --> 01:27:55,840
when there is an appeal regarding
1845
01:27:55,920 --> 01:27:58,720
a red vehicle related
to Levi Bellfield.
1846
01:27:58,800 --> 01:28:02,080
Rachel's mother made the connection
and contacted police again
1847
01:28:02,160 --> 01:28:05,200
to flag up the fact that
that vehicle almost certainly
1848
01:28:05,280 --> 01:28:08,240
was the same one used in the offence
against her daughter.
1849
01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:11,520
That being the case,
it made the incident
1850
01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:14,960
against Rachel become
particularly relevant.
1851
01:28:15,040 --> 01:28:17,960
Because it showed
that he was in that area.
1852
01:28:18,040 --> 01:28:22,960
He was living in that block of flats
where Milly was literally walking
1853
01:28:23,040 --> 01:28:25,040
by when she vanished.
1854
01:28:25,120 --> 01:28:28,640
Eventually, it ended up
with Bellfield standing trial
1855
01:28:28,720 --> 01:28:30,040
for Milly's murder.
1856
01:28:30,120 --> 01:28:33,400
We have some breaking news
concerning Levi Bellfield,
1857
01:28:33,480 --> 01:28:34,880
he has been found guilty
1858
01:28:34,960 --> 01:28:36,320
of the abduction and murder
1859
01:28:36,400 --> 01:28:38,440
of Milly Dowler.
1860
01:28:38,520 --> 01:28:40,840
Levi Bellfield who is,
1861
01:28:40,920 --> 01:28:42,240
of course, already convicted
1862
01:28:42,320 --> 01:28:43,680
of two other murders,
1863
01:28:43,760 --> 01:28:45,800
is now convicted of the murder
1864
01:28:45,880 --> 01:28:47,640
of Milly Dowler,
which for many years
1865
01:28:47,720 --> 01:28:50,040
was one of the most
1866
01:28:50,120 --> 01:28:53,080
notorious unsolved murders.
1867
01:28:53,160 --> 01:28:54,600
He now officially, because
1868
01:28:54,680 --> 01:28:56,360
he is convicted of a third murder,
1869
01:28:56,440 --> 01:28:57,760
now becomes officially
1870
01:28:57,840 --> 01:29:00,120
at least a serial killer.
1871
01:29:01,400 --> 01:29:03,600
It was the most difficult
investigation I've ever done
1872
01:29:03,680 --> 01:29:06,520
because it was so wide ranging
and so complicated.
1873
01:29:06,600 --> 01:29:08,680
And there's no doubt
of all the people
1874
01:29:08,760 --> 01:29:12,440
I've met in 30 years,
he is the most dangerous,
1875
01:29:12,520 --> 01:29:13,920
he is the most unpredictable
1876
01:29:14,000 --> 01:29:15,160
and the most violent.
1877
01:29:15,240 --> 01:29:20,480
He is the person I am proudest
of being able to play a part
1878
01:29:20,560 --> 01:29:22,720
in taking out of circulation.
1879
01:29:22,800 --> 01:29:27,000
Because I seriously think
that that's the most I could do
1880
01:29:27,080 --> 01:29:31,280
for the community of London,
was to put him away,
1881
01:29:31,360 --> 01:29:33,600
more than any other criminals
I've ever dealt with.
1882
01:29:33,680 --> 01:29:36,040
It wasn't an easy case,
it was difficult to solve
1883
01:29:36,120 --> 01:29:38,800
and it had to be solved,
as far as my career goes,
1884
01:29:38,880 --> 01:29:41,840
it was undoubtedly
a standout point, yes.
1885
01:29:41,920 --> 01:29:44,800
Some people have described
the Bellfield case,
1886
01:29:44,880 --> 01:29:47,720
the investigation,
as an old-fashioned detective case,
1887
01:29:47,800 --> 01:29:50,120
we had no forensic evidence,
1888
01:29:50,200 --> 01:29:52,800
there were no fingerprints,
there was no DNA.
1889
01:29:52,880 --> 01:29:56,640
That's why we had to piece together
this circumstantial case
1890
01:29:56,720 --> 01:30:01,200
and although the bedrock
of that was CCTV and phone data,
1891
01:30:01,280 --> 01:30:04,600
an awful lot of time
spent by my very talented
1892
01:30:04,680 --> 01:30:06,880
and dedicated officers,
pacing around the streets,
1893
01:30:06,960 --> 01:30:08,640
knocking on doors,
taking statements,
1894
01:30:08,720 --> 01:30:10,520
getting small pieces of information
1895
01:30:10,600 --> 01:30:14,360
that we were able to
assemble to make the case.
1896
01:30:14,440 --> 01:30:17,000
Colin handled
the case brilliantly.
1897
01:30:17,080 --> 01:30:18,680
I mean, this was a high-profile job,
1898
01:30:18,760 --> 01:30:20,320
and he was under
some serious pressure.
1899
01:30:20,400 --> 01:30:22,160
I don't think, to be
honest with you, you know,
1900
01:30:22,240 --> 01:30:25,960
that anyone else could have
done a better job to be fair.
1901
01:30:27,320 --> 01:30:29,440
Personally, I think
there is other offending,
1902
01:30:29,520 --> 01:30:30,840
I think
there is other things wrapped
1903
01:30:30,920 --> 01:30:33,960
around Levi Bellfield
that could come to light,
1904
01:30:34,040 --> 01:30:37,120
given the right set
of circumstances.
1905
01:30:37,200 --> 01:30:38,800
I don't think it's a done deal.
1906
01:30:38,880 --> 01:30:40,600
If there is the opportunity
and the resources
1907
01:30:40,680 --> 01:30:42,640
and a set of circumstances exist,
1908
01:30:42,720 --> 01:30:47,080
I think there could be further
investigation work to carry on.
1909
01:30:47,160 --> 01:30:48,920
The victims should be
the most important people
1910
01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:50,800
involved in the case,
1911
01:30:50,880 --> 01:30:52,760
is my thought on it,
1912
01:30:52,840 --> 01:30:53,800
so it's important
1913
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that they are remembered.
1914
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They were the innocent people
1915
01:30:56,440 --> 01:30:58,280
who very unfortunately
1916
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and sadly for their families,
1917
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were hurt by him.
1918
01:31:01,600 --> 01:31:04,440
During that inquiry
which lasted four years,
1919
01:31:04,520 --> 01:31:08,080
I met a lot of people
of whom family members,
1920
01:31:08,160 --> 01:31:10,120
friends, some of them
1921
01:31:10,200 --> 01:31:11,480
I'm still friends with today,
1922
01:31:11,560 --> 01:31:12,760
standing there at the old Bailey
1923
01:31:12,840 --> 01:31:13,800
at that conviction
1924
01:31:13,880 --> 01:31:16,440
was the highlight of my career.
1925
01:31:16,520 --> 01:31:19,600
I've no doubt that at some point
if I'm fortunate enough
1926
01:31:19,680 --> 01:31:21,520
to outlive him, that somebody
will come to me and say,
1927
01:31:21,600 --> 01:31:23,400
"What are your comments?"
1928
01:31:23,480 --> 01:31:25,560
You know,
I won't mourn Levi Bellfield
1929
01:31:25,640 --> 01:31:27,680
and I think very few people will.
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