1 00:00:00,009 --> 00:00:02,361 by two separate yet equally important groups... 2 00:00:02,616 --> 00:00:04,496 the police who investigate crime 3 00:00:04,786 --> 00:00:07,346 and the Crown Prosecutors who prosecute the offenders. 4 00:00:07,575 --> 00:00:09,055 These are their stories. 5 00:00:11,130 --> 00:00:12,410 Did you get the eight? 6 00:00:12,490 --> 00:00:14,410 I'm in the changing room and she's like, 7 00:00:14,490 --> 00:00:15,770 "D'you want me to grab that in your size?" 8 00:00:15,810 --> 00:00:17,490 I'm like, "You're a shop assistant. 9 00:00:17,530 --> 00:00:19,450 Assist me. Don't make me feel like topping meself!" 10 00:00:19,530 --> 00:00:20,890 Does it fit? 11 00:00:20,970 --> 00:00:22,010 I'm not having the likes of her 12 00:00:22,090 --> 00:00:23,210 tell me I can't have a size eight 13 00:00:23,290 --> 00:00:24,570 if I want a size eight. 14 00:00:24,650 --> 00:00:25,530 It doesn't fit ya, does it? 15 00:00:25,610 --> 00:00:26,770 It's the principle. 16 00:00:26,810 --> 00:00:29,650 Hey! Get off. Get off me bag! 17 00:00:29,690 --> 00:00:30,642 Get off me bag! 18 00:00:30,690 --> 00:00:31,610 Get off! Get off! 19 00:00:31,690 --> 00:00:34,210 Someone get him! Stop him! 20 00:00:36,167 --> 00:00:38,380 Oi! Come back here! 21 00:00:42,210 --> 00:00:44,090 Oi! Come back! 22 00:00:46,770 --> 00:00:47,770 Oi! 23 00:00:49,330 --> 00:00:50,610 Oi! 24 00:00:50,690 --> 00:00:51,690 ( Horn honks ) 25 00:00:54,690 --> 00:00:56,570 James O'Doherty, crackhead, 26 00:00:56,610 --> 00:00:59,130 done time for theft, all drug-related. 27 00:00:59,170 --> 00:01:02,450 Ran straight into a car on his latest "shopping" trip. 28 00:01:02,530 --> 00:01:04,570 And we're here because? 29 00:01:04,650 --> 00:01:05,770 He asked to see you. 30 00:01:05,850 --> 00:01:07,370 Oh, CID? 31 00:01:07,450 --> 00:01:09,362 He asked for you by name. 32 00:01:10,130 --> 00:01:11,331 Really? 33 00:01:12,890 --> 00:01:15,290 ( Monitors beeping ) 34 00:01:15,330 --> 00:01:19,386 Hello. I'm DS Brooks. You wanted to see me? 35 00:01:19,970 --> 00:01:22,490 Amanda Bennet. 36 00:01:26,284 --> 00:01:27,930 I'm sorry? What did you just say? 37 00:01:27,970 --> 00:01:32,510 I killed Amanda Bennet. 38 00:01:33,170 --> 00:01:36,370 Me and Ricky, we killed her. 39 00:01:36,410 --> 00:01:37,530 ( Sustained beep ) 40 00:01:37,570 --> 00:01:39,050 Excuse me, sir. No, one second. 41 00:01:39,130 --> 00:01:40,730 Outside, please. Outside. 42 00:01:50,465 --> 00:01:53,185 Strange thing to admit to. You think he's straight up? 43 00:01:53,530 --> 00:01:55,610 I can tell you for a fact it wasn't him or 44 00:01:55,610 --> 00:01:57,650 this "Ricky" that killed Amanda Bennet. 45 00:01:58,005 --> 00:01:59,485 How d'you know? 46 00:02:00,256 --> 00:02:04,416 Because the investigating officer on that case was me. 47 00:02:42,850 --> 00:02:44,810 Sync and corrected by APOLLO 00:03:11,450 and claimed it was a miscarriage of justice. 59 00:03:11,730 --> 00:03:13,010 I don't know a copper breathing 60 00:03:13,050 --> 00:03:14,130 who doesn't think the injustice 61 00:03:14,170 --> 00:03:16,370 was Simon Bennet walking out of jail. 62 00:03:16,860 --> 00:03:19,140 The neighbors said that they heard Simon Bennet 63 00:03:19,188 --> 00:03:21,508 screaming blue murder at Amanda the night before she died, 64 00:03:21,564 --> 00:03:22,920 and apparently it hadn't been the first time 65 00:03:22,970 --> 00:03:24,770 he'd lost his cool with her. 66 00:03:24,850 --> 00:03:26,490 She was one of these unruly kids, ( phone ringing ) 67 00:03:26,570 --> 00:03:28,290 y'know, staying out late, bunking off school, 68 00:03:28,370 --> 00:03:29,530 going out with older lads... that sort of stuff. 69 00:03:29,610 --> 00:03:31,090 DS Casey? 70 00:03:31,170 --> 00:03:33,370 So why's O'Doherty claiming he killed her? 71 00:03:33,450 --> 00:03:34,850 I've got no idea, Gov. 72 00:03:34,930 --> 00:03:36,050 That was the hospital. 73 00:03:36,496 --> 00:03:38,353 Jimmy O'Doherty died ten minutes ago. 74 00:03:40,210 --> 00:03:42,890 Well, we can't just ignore a murder confession. 75 00:03:43,416 --> 00:03:44,856 No, we can't. 76 00:03:45,292 --> 00:03:47,412 You said Jimmy mentioned an accomplice. 77 00:03:47,588 --> 00:03:49,068 I think we should find out who that is. 78 00:03:50,810 --> 00:03:52,530 I'm only Jimmy's dad 79 00:03:52,930 --> 00:03:54,530 in the technical sense of the word. 80 00:03:54,613 --> 00:03:57,733 I haven't seen Jimmy in years. 81 00:03:58,951 --> 00:04:01,111 We've got some bad news, Mr. O'Doherty. 82 00:04:02,410 --> 00:04:04,050 Maybe we should go inside. 83 00:04:06,490 --> 00:04:07,970 He's dead? 84 00:04:08,050 --> 00:04:10,290 He died a couple of hours ago, sir. 85 00:04:12,826 --> 00:04:14,266 Was it the drugs? 86 00:04:14,453 --> 00:04:16,893 No. He was hit by a car. 87 00:04:20,599 --> 00:04:22,439 Thanks for letting me know. 88 00:04:23,547 --> 00:04:24,867 We're looking for someone, sir. 89 00:04:24,938 --> 00:04:26,738 We think he was a friend of your son's. 90 00:04:30,324 --> 00:04:32,444 I wouldn't know who his friends are these days. 91 00:04:32,743 --> 00:04:35,943 What about fourteen years ago? Bloke named Ricky? 92 00:04:37,917 --> 00:04:39,157 You know him? 93 00:04:39,530 --> 00:04:40,890 Ricky Phelps. 94 00:04:42,487 --> 00:04:44,287 They knocked about together since school. 95 00:04:46,565 --> 00:04:48,325 Jimmy's mum was always telling him 96 00:04:48,427 --> 00:04:50,427 hanging around with Ricky would land him in jail. 97 00:04:56,038 --> 00:04:59,158 Richard Phelps... two theft, three burglary, GBH, 98 00:04:59,199 --> 00:05:01,159 and an arson attack that landed him six years. 99 00:05:01,270 --> 00:05:03,666 Right. Well, he's out now, 100 00:05:03,696 --> 00:05:05,696 so probation'll have his address. 101 00:05:08,476 --> 00:05:10,116 I haven't seen Jimmy in years. 102 00:05:10,163 --> 00:05:11,123 How many years? 103 00:05:11,220 --> 00:05:12,980 Uh, ten, eleven. Maybe more. 104 00:05:13,270 --> 00:05:15,270 You two have some sort of disagreement? 105 00:05:15,843 --> 00:05:17,323 We drifted apart. 106 00:05:17,888 --> 00:05:20,968 Jimmy said you might know something about a murder. 107 00:05:23,068 --> 00:05:24,508 Amanda Bennet. 108 00:05:24,587 --> 00:05:26,107 Jimmy talks a load of bollocks. 109 00:05:26,218 --> 00:05:28,458 I mean, that's crack for you. Makes you delusional. 110 00:05:28,812 --> 00:05:31,612 Really? He was dying at the time, 111 00:05:31,677 --> 00:05:33,917 so he didn't exactly have a reason to lie, did he? 112 00:05:35,033 --> 00:05:36,473 Jimmy's dead? 113 00:05:36,505 --> 00:05:37,745 Yeah. 114 00:05:39,110 --> 00:05:40,470 I'm sorry to hear that. 115 00:05:40,510 --> 00:05:42,230 Well, you can send flowers. 116 00:05:42,750 --> 00:05:44,830 So why would he say that you and him 117 00:05:44,910 --> 00:05:46,710 had something to do with Amanda Bennet's murder? 118 00:05:46,790 --> 00:05:48,950 I done a lot of things in my time I'm not proud of, 119 00:05:49,768 --> 00:05:51,328 but I never killed no one. 120 00:05:52,338 --> 00:05:53,738 DS SAM CASEY: Okay, thank you. 121 00:05:53,787 --> 00:05:56,187 ( Hangs up phone ) 122 00:05:56,228 --> 00:05:59,268 Ricky gave evidence against O'Doherty in court over some drug deal. 123 00:05:59,379 --> 00:06:00,979 Jimmy got four years. 124 00:06:01,065 --> 00:06:02,665 So this could be about revenge. 125 00:06:02,736 --> 00:06:04,096 Mm. 126 00:06:04,550 --> 00:06:06,110 You sure there's no mention of them 127 00:06:06,190 --> 00:06:07,350 in the original investigation? 128 00:06:07,390 --> 00:06:10,190 Uh, well, these are all the names and addresses 129 00:06:10,230 --> 00:06:11,990 of the people who went through the Bennet house 130 00:06:12,030 --> 00:06:14,005 a week prior to the murder. There you go. 131 00:06:14,052 --> 00:06:16,172 Whoa. That's a lot of foot traffic. 132 00:06:16,237 --> 00:06:18,477 Yeah, to be fair, the Bennet's house was up for sale, 133 00:06:18,557 --> 00:06:19,997 so they were probably all viewings. 134 00:06:23,877 --> 00:06:26,357 You got the name of the estate agent that showed them round? 135 00:06:28,619 --> 00:06:31,899 No, sorry, I don't know him. 136 00:06:32,471 --> 00:06:34,031 You sure? Mm-hmm. 137 00:06:36,582 --> 00:06:37,878 What about him? 138 00:06:40,465 --> 00:06:41,905 Maybe. 139 00:06:41,945 --> 00:06:44,705 You recognize him? Yeah, I think so. 140 00:06:46,150 --> 00:06:48,310 He hasn't aged very well, has he? 141 00:06:48,430 --> 00:06:50,310 Did you show him round the Bennets' place? 142 00:06:50,834 --> 00:06:52,274 Yeah. Yeah. 143 00:06:53,090 --> 00:06:55,890 His name wasn't on the list you gave us at the time. 144 00:06:56,721 --> 00:06:59,801 Well, it's definitely the same bloke. 145 00:06:59,933 --> 00:07:01,613 You certain about that? Mm-hmm. 146 00:07:02,030 --> 00:07:04,550 Um, Davey something? 147 00:07:05,202 --> 00:07:07,402 Yeah, yeah, that's him. 148 00:07:07,538 --> 00:07:08,858 How can you be sure? 149 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:14,520 Um, look, I don't make a habit of this, okay, 150 00:07:14,538 --> 00:07:16,778 it's just that, um, well, we... 151 00:07:16,827 --> 00:07:18,147 we had a one-night stand. 152 00:07:19,390 --> 00:07:22,230 He threw up in my bed and then he passed out. 153 00:07:22,380 --> 00:07:24,820 Wasn't quite the night of passion I was expecting. 154 00:07:24,860 --> 00:07:25,980 ( laughs ) 155 00:07:26,020 --> 00:07:27,180 Davey Jones? 156 00:07:27,260 --> 00:07:28,180 That's gotta be it. 157 00:07:28,260 --> 00:07:29,460 Yeah. 158 00:07:29,540 --> 00:07:31,260 You know when you interviewed him, 159 00:07:31,340 --> 00:07:32,500 did he have a cat suit on 160 00:07:32,580 --> 00:07:34,900 and a lightning strike across his face? 161 00:07:34,980 --> 00:07:36,540 I don't know what you mean. 162 00:07:36,620 --> 00:07:38,620 Davey Jones is David Bowie's real name. 163 00:07:38,700 --> 00:07:39,860 Oh, of course, yeah. 164 00:07:39,900 --> 00:07:41,860 So he's given us a false name, 165 00:07:41,940 --> 00:07:43,420 which explains why he never came up in the investigation. 166 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:44,660 Absolutely. 167 00:07:44,700 --> 00:07:46,420 But if you interviewed him, Ronnie, 168 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:47,740 wouldn't you remember his face? 169 00:07:47,820 --> 00:07:50,460 Look, Sam, I wasn't there for all the interviews. 170 00:07:50,540 --> 00:07:52,780 I mean, I did some, Bernie did some, I was, y'know... 171 00:07:52,820 --> 00:07:54,820 Who's that? Your old partner? Yeah, Bernie Rawlins. 172 00:07:56,180 --> 00:07:58,580 Your grandson filling out that Hammers shirt yet? 173 00:07:58,660 --> 00:08:01,060 Well, he's getting there, Bernie. 174 00:08:01,140 --> 00:08:03,180 Hopefully playing for the first team soon, be great. 175 00:08:03,180 --> 00:08:04,460 Ha ha ha. ( laughs ) 176 00:08:05,460 --> 00:08:07,020 Thanks, mate. 177 00:08:08,260 --> 00:08:11,060 So, anyway, this interview... 178 00:08:11,380 --> 00:08:14,820 the guy's real name is Jimmy O'Doherty. 179 00:08:15,380 --> 00:08:17,300 The estate agent reckoned that she took him back 180 00:08:17,380 --> 00:08:18,980 to her place after the viewing. 181 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:21,020 So what's this all about Ron? 182 00:08:21,860 --> 00:08:25,220 You and I both know Simon Bennet's as guilty as the day is long. 183 00:08:25,260 --> 00:08:27,980 Hmm. Well, I thought that, too, Bernie. 184 00:08:30,220 --> 00:08:31,740 And now you don't anymore? 185 00:08:32,380 --> 00:08:34,020 Well, I don't know. 186 00:08:34,140 --> 00:08:37,180 He had her blood all over his shirt. 187 00:08:37,580 --> 00:08:41,420 You tell me how it got there if he wasn't the one caving her head in. 188 00:08:41,460 --> 00:08:44,220 He did say that he cuddled her after he found her. 189 00:08:46,180 --> 00:08:47,740 What if we got it wrong? Hmm? 190 00:08:48,700 --> 00:08:50,940 What if Simon Bennet was telling the truth? 191 00:08:51,260 --> 00:08:52,660 He wasn't. 192 00:08:52,740 --> 00:08:54,980 Then why is Jimmy O'Doherty 193 00:08:55,060 --> 00:08:57,020 telling us he killed Amanda Bennet? 194 00:08:57,100 --> 00:08:58,940 Maybe he wants his fifteen minutes? 195 00:08:58,940 --> 00:09:00,580 Well, maybe he does, 196 00:09:02,100 --> 00:09:06,420 but nonetheless, the Gov wants us to look into it. 197 00:09:07,020 --> 00:09:09,660 Don't tell me she's taking this seriously? 198 00:09:10,380 --> 00:09:12,980 DI NATALIE CHANDLER: So what was O'Doherty doing at the house? 199 00:09:13,380 --> 00:09:15,220 Safe to assume he didn't have the cash to buy it? 200 00:09:15,300 --> 00:09:16,980 He was probably on a recce. 201 00:09:17,060 --> 00:09:18,740 Yeah, but nothing was taken. 202 00:09:18,820 --> 00:09:21,860 No, but it does add weight to his confession before he died. 203 00:09:22,180 --> 00:09:24,460 It's certainly enough to dig a little deeper. 204 00:09:25,380 --> 00:09:26,900 I'll call Callaghan. 205 00:09:27,300 --> 00:09:29,300 I think it's time this case was re-opened. 206 00:09:29,620 --> 00:09:31,170 I'll let the Bennets know. 207 00:09:31,940 --> 00:09:34,060 I could get someone else to do it. 208 00:09:36,820 --> 00:09:38,220 No, no. I can do it. 209 00:09:47,260 --> 00:09:49,940 Far cry from the Chelsea pad. 210 00:09:50,020 --> 00:09:53,580 Guess he lost more than his daughter and his reputation. 211 00:09:53,660 --> 00:09:55,220 ( Rings doorbell ) 212 00:10:01,660 --> 00:10:04,620 Sorry, I thought you were the MacMillan nurses. 213 00:10:04,740 --> 00:10:06,300 I'm DS Casey. This is DS Brooks. 214 00:10:07,060 --> 00:10:08,860 Mrs. Bennet, may we... 215 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:10,580 I'll deal with this, darling. You go and lie down. 216 00:10:13,860 --> 00:10:15,100 It's okay. 217 00:10:20,900 --> 00:10:22,340 DS Brooks. 218 00:10:22,420 --> 00:10:23,580 Mr. Bennet. 219 00:10:23,660 --> 00:10:24,980 What can I do for you? 220 00:10:25,020 --> 00:10:26,900 We've come to inform you that, uh... 221 00:10:27,140 --> 00:10:29,900 We're reopening the investigation into Amanda's death. 222 00:10:29,980 --> 00:10:30,780 Oh, God, no. 223 00:10:30,820 --> 00:10:32,340 Mr. Bennet, please... 224 00:10:33,620 --> 00:10:35,220 we're not here for you. 225 00:10:35,740 --> 00:10:37,220 We have a suspect. 226 00:10:37,380 --> 00:10:38,900 So why did you come here? 227 00:10:38,940 --> 00:10:40,860 We're following up some new leads. 228 00:10:40,940 --> 00:10:43,740 We thought you and your wife would want to know. 229 00:10:45,300 --> 00:10:47,580 We've spent the last fourteen years 230 00:10:47,620 --> 00:10:49,340 trying to put it all behind us. 231 00:10:51,220 --> 00:10:53,860 My wife chooses to forget. 232 00:10:53,940 --> 00:10:57,020 I'd prefer it if you weren't here forcing her to remember. 233 00:10:57,045 --> 00:10:58,445 I'm very sorry, I know it must be difficult... 234 00:10:58,494 --> 00:10:59,494 Thank you, Detective. 235 00:11:00,620 --> 00:11:02,380 Now I'd very much like you, 236 00:11:02,900 --> 00:11:04,700 and everyone who works with you, 237 00:11:05,860 --> 00:11:07,540 to go to hell. 238 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,360 I'd've thought Simon Bennet would be champing at the bit 239 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:25,920 to get his name cleared? 240 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:27,840 I get the feeling he's seen enough coppers 241 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:29,640 to last him a lifetime, Gov. 242 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,480 Ron, have you got anything to link Ricky Phelps 243 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:33,680 with the murder scene? 244 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:35,520 Not yet, Gov, no. 245 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,280 So for all we know O'Doherty was there on his own? 246 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:39,480 Phelps has got plenty of form. 247 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:41,680 He did a stretch at Ashbridge for arson. 248 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,520 Yeah, well arson doesn't carry much currency inside. 249 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,840 Maybe Ricky Phelps bragged to one of his cellmates 250 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:49,760 about doing something a little bit more impressive. 251 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:53,880 DS SAM CASEY: So Mr. McDonald, 252 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:55,680 are you sure Amanda Bennet 253 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:56,800 never came up in conversation? 254 00:11:58,200 --> 00:11:59,960 So Ricky Phelps never mentioned her? 255 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:01,720 Why would he? 256 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:03,480 So what did you guys talk about then? 257 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:05,160 On those long lonely nights in that cell? 258 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:06,960 Usual shite. 259 00:12:07,992 --> 00:12:11,672 Which screw's giving him a hard time, who spat in his spaghetti. 260 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,160 You're up for parole soon, aren't you, Neil? 261 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:16,640 Six weeks, isn't it? 262 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:17,960 What do you reckon are your chances? 263 00:12:20,554 --> 00:12:22,194 I reckon I'm going home. 264 00:12:22,242 --> 00:12:24,962 Really? Even with that last adjudication 265 00:12:25,002 --> 00:12:26,482 hanging over your head? 266 00:12:26,529 --> 00:12:28,649 It was a fight wasn't it? Yeah. 267 00:12:28,793 --> 00:12:30,393 Fight's never look good. 268 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:31,520 No, they don't. 269 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:33,280 They make the parole board 270 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:34,880 think you need a bit more rehabilitation. 271 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:36,200 That's right. 272 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:38,720 So... 273 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:43,960 Why don't you use this as a golden opportunity? 274 00:12:44,211 --> 00:12:45,811 Help us put away a murderer, 275 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:47,640 it will look good on you, won't it? 276 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:50,960 However, if you really do enjoy it in here, 277 00:12:51,252 --> 00:12:54,212 we could always have a word with the parole board, 278 00:12:54,276 --> 00:12:57,116 and say that you were uncooperative. 279 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:01,320 Maybe he mentioned her. 280 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:03,640 No. Maybe's don't score that high. 281 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,040 He reckons he was off his head at the time. 282 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:08,280 At the time of what? 283 00:13:10,119 --> 00:13:11,879 Amanda Bennet's murder. 284 00:13:12,353 --> 00:13:14,033 He told you he was there? 285 00:13:14,825 --> 00:13:16,345 He told me he strangled her. 286 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:22,240 It's pretty obvious why the blow to the head 287 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:23,960 was recorded as the cause of death. 288 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,760 There was so much edema and blood in the brain. 289 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:33,120 Barely any external bruising, and the hyoid bone was intact. 290 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:35,600 And that would definitely be broken if she'd been strangled? 291 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:36,880 Most likely, yes. 292 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:38,840 The pathologist, he, um... 293 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:41,200 he noted all these marks on the neck? 294 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:43,680 Yeah, the bruising he's documented 295 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:45,960 as pressure applied to the neck. 296 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:47,800 As in strangulation? 297 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:51,680 Possibly, but he struggled to pinpoint 298 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:54,200 exactly what time the bruising occurred, 299 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:56,400 whereas the color and consistency of the blood 300 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:58,440 meant that he could determine precisely 301 00:13:58,520 --> 00:13:59,640 when the blow to the head happened. 302 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:01,600 Yeah, but there's a chance 303 00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:04,280 that the bruising occurred after the blow to the head? 304 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:07,200 I couldn't rule it out. 305 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,240 So she could have been strangled? 306 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:13,920 It's possible, yeah. 307 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:15,160 ( Sighs ) 308 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:16,800 We need to start from scratch 309 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:18,520 and look at everything again. 310 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:19,960 I'm gonna need a lot more evidence 311 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,000 before I put this in front of the CPS. 312 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:24,960 O'Doherty's dead, but Ricky Phelps is still alive and kicking. 313 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,000 He not gonna confess to a murder, Gov. 314 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:28,960 Then talk to the people who know him best. 315 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:34,200 Me and my brother ain't spoken for two years, 316 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:35,920 and you don't wanna hear the last words I said to him. 317 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,360 Try us. 318 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,720 Ricky crashed my son's birthday party, all right? 319 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,760 He scared the kids to death, and then he nicked my boy's PlayStation. 320 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:46,040 That was the last straw. 321 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:47,920 What about fourteen years ago? 322 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,160 We're trying to find out if Ricky was involved in a murder. 323 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:51,400 Amanda Bennet. 324 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:53,000 I'm sorry. 325 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:54,960 We think your brother and his mate killed her. 326 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:57,280 I wouldn't know about that. 327 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,800 You say the birthday party was the last straw... 328 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:03,400 What else had he done to you? 329 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:06,880 Come on, Andy. 330 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:09,320 Don't make us take you down to the station. 331 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:10,800 I mean, you'd have to shut up shop. 332 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:12,840 I gave him a job, didn't I? 333 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:15,680 And the keys to close up one night. 334 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,280 I came in the next morning, and the place had been stripped. 335 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,640 Two grand's worth of coffee machine, chairs, tables, everything. 336 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:25,680 In all he took me for fifteen grand. 337 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:27,760 Your lot said it was an inside job, 338 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:29,880 so I didn't get a penny off the insurance. 339 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:32,640 You look like you've replaced everything. 340 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:35,920 Yeah, and the debt I'm in now, I can hardly sleep, so... 341 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,160 It's obvious your brother's hurt you very badly. 342 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:39,600 I understand you don't wanna get involved, 343 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:42,560 but if he ever mentioned Amanda Bennet... 344 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,000 I don't need any more trouble, all right? 345 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:49,120 Andy, if Ricky was the one who turned you over, make a new statement. 346 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:51,200 I'll personally see that it's looked into. 347 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,840 But if you know anything at all, please tell us. 348 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,000 So, we gonna pick up Ricky Phelps now 349 00:15:58,040 --> 00:15:59,880 or let him sweat a bit longer? 350 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:02,800 A confession to his brother isn't gonna be enough. 351 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:04,400 I don't wanna make the same mistake twice. 352 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:05,640 ( Phone ringing ) 353 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:07,440 Hello? Brooks. 354 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,080 Right. Thank you. 355 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:14,640 That was Lilly. She wants us at the lab. 356 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:16,800 She has something. 357 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,720 Yeah, the original forensic pathologist 358 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:22,360 found Simon Bennet's DNA on Amanda's body. 359 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:23,520 His saliva was on her hand. 360 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:24,880 There's no getting round DNA. 361 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:27,120 Yeah, well fourteen years ago a forensic pathologist 362 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:29,680 needed rather a large sample to glean a DNA profile. 363 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:33,040 These days we can get one from a microscopic sample. 364 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:34,720 So where are we going with this, Lilly? 365 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:38,800 I've re-analyzed the sample of saliva taken from Amanda's hand, 366 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:43,600 and I've found DNA that doesn't belong to her or her father. 367 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:45,000 You've got a match? 368 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:47,280 No. The sample's deteriorated. 369 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,640 I can't get a whole profile, but I've got a partial. 370 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:50,600 Very good, Lilly. 371 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:52,200 Don't get too excited, Ron. 372 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:54,320 Maybe she was with a boyfriend before she came home. 373 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:58,360 No, no, no, Amanda had a shower immediately before her death. 374 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:00,360 She was found in her dressing gown, her hair was still wet. 375 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:01,880 In fact, the original pathologist 376 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:03,560 said she was the perfect victim 377 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:05,000 because any evidence that was found on her body 378 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:06,600 got there through the attack. 379 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:11,200 Well, in that case I'd say someone other than her father 380 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,960 was there around the time Amanda Bennet was murdered. 381 00:17:16,360 --> 00:17:18,520 Simon Bennet went down for it, 382 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:20,760 but I think we went after the wrong person. 383 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:22,280 What makes you think you've got the right person now? 384 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:24,160 New evidence. 385 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,240 We think that Jimmy O'Doherty and Ricky Phelps 386 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:28,560 killed Amanda Bennet, only O'Doherty's dead. 387 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:31,280 Leaving Ricky Phelps to take the rap? 388 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:33,720 How much evidence have you got that Phelps was the killer? 389 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,560 O'Doherty's confession 390 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:37,760 and two witnesses who claim Phelps confessed to them. 391 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,320 The witnesses are hearsay. Anything else? 392 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:41,920 New forensic evidence... 393 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:44,840 a partial DNA sample was found on Amanda's body. 394 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:47,200 It definitely did not come from Simon Bennet. 395 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:48,880 Do you know who it did come from? 396 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:50,600 We can't be certain, once again, 397 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:52,960 but there are strong indicators within that partial sample 398 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,880 suggesting it came from Ricky Phelps. 399 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:56,520 It's not exactly concrete. 400 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:58,040 Well, one of the witnesses 401 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:00,600 claimed Phelps confessed to strangling the victim. 402 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:02,640 And the pathologist who re-examined the photos and samples 403 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:03,720 said it's a strong possibility. 404 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:05,480 Now even we didn't know 405 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:07,160 that strangulation could've been the cause of death. 406 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:09,480 We always thought Amanda Bennet died from that blow to the head. 407 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:12,880 Look, Jake, I know it doesn't look like much, 408 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:15,280 but if we put all the pieces of evidence together... 409 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:19,840 the more we look into this, the more I am certain we got the wrong bloke. 410 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:24,680 All right. Make the arrest. 411 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:26,760 Richard Phelps, I'm arresting you 412 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:28,440 on suspicion of the murder of Amanda Bennet. 413 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:30,000 You're making a mistake. 414 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:31,080 You do not have to say anything, but it may 415 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:32,080 harm your defense... I never touched her. 416 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:33,640 If you do not mention when questioned 417 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:35,160 something which you later rely on in court. 418 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:36,600 Anything you do say may be given in evidence. 419 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,240 So you arrested your suspect. 420 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:54,640 Yes, we did. 421 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:58,480 Never gonna be easy admitting we made a mistake. 422 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:00,720 "We"? 423 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:07,160 As I recall, I was teetotal, 424 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:09,080 you were a pisshead, and I carried you. 425 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,160 Well, I'm sorry you had to do that. 426 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:16,000 You more than anyone else should know what this case cost me. 427 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:19,840 'Cause I was working all the hours that God sent, 428 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:24,400 the Gov breathing down my neck for a result. 429 00:19:24,790 --> 00:19:26,470 And where were you? 430 00:19:27,350 --> 00:19:30,470 You were propping up the bar in the White Horse. 431 00:19:32,150 --> 00:19:34,150 Well, now I just wanna put things right. 432 00:19:34,832 --> 00:19:37,472 Huh? Who for? Yourself? 433 00:19:38,150 --> 00:19:40,110 Alleviating your guilt, is that it? 434 00:19:40,150 --> 00:19:42,510 No. Not for me at all. 435 00:19:42,550 --> 00:19:44,430 For Amanda Bennet and her parents. 436 00:19:44,470 --> 00:19:46,270 Oh, come on, Ron. 437 00:19:46,350 --> 00:19:48,110 I think we got it wrong. 438 00:19:48,950 --> 00:19:50,750 What makes you so sure? 439 00:19:50,830 --> 00:19:52,190 We have confessions. 440 00:19:52,830 --> 00:19:55,710 From dead crackheads and armed robbers. 441 00:19:57,670 --> 00:19:59,990 I've still got mates here, Ron. 442 00:20:00,630 --> 00:20:02,110 We have new forensics. 443 00:20:02,150 --> 00:20:06,030 Which won't stand up in court because they're maybes. Hmm? 444 00:20:06,950 --> 00:20:09,190 What about a motive? You got one of those? 445 00:20:09,270 --> 00:20:10,950 Well, like you said, Bernie, crackheads, 446 00:20:10,990 --> 00:20:13,710 you know, there is no reason or logic there. 447 00:20:13,910 --> 00:20:15,790 You've got nothing that puts Ricky Phelps 448 00:20:15,830 --> 00:20:19,310 at the Bennets' house at the time of the crime, nothing. 449 00:20:19,710 --> 00:20:21,590 You ain't got a case, Ron. 450 00:20:25,510 --> 00:20:27,270 And you know why? 451 00:20:29,630 --> 00:20:32,710 It ain't 'cause we messed up in the first place. 452 00:20:33,590 --> 00:20:35,830 It's 'cause Simon Bennet did it. 453 00:20:38,550 --> 00:20:41,430 Bernie, you can't know that. 454 00:20:45,270 --> 00:20:46,990 There's things you don't know, Ron. 455 00:20:48,230 --> 00:20:52,390 Really? Like what precisely? 456 00:20:52,470 --> 00:20:53,590 Like his wife. 457 00:20:53,670 --> 00:20:55,990 Mrs. Bennet stood by him all the way. 458 00:20:56,070 --> 00:20:57,310 In her statement, yeah, 459 00:20:58,190 --> 00:21:00,390 but I spoke to her at the court 460 00:21:00,510 --> 00:21:02,430 on the day Bennet was sent down. 461 00:21:05,510 --> 00:21:07,590 She thanked me, Ron, 462 00:21:08,728 --> 00:21:12,197 she thanked me for locking up her daughter's killer. 463 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:29,460 Can you imagine what it's like 464 00:21:29,515 --> 00:21:31,715 to be convicted of killing your own child if you didn't do it? 465 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,000 It doesn't seem to me like you have proof of anyone else's guilt. 466 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,160 A partial DNA profile, a deathbed confession 467 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:40,240 that can't undergo the scrutiny of cross examination 468 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,120 and a couple of hearsay witnesses. 469 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,520 On their own each piece of evidence is weak, I agree, but together? 470 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:47,840 You'd have to be a conspiracy theorist 471 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:49,840 to believe that three unconnected individuals 472 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,680 all decided to pin it on the same innocent man. 473 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:56,320 Well, the evidence conspired against Simon Bennet in the original case, 474 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:57,760 look where that got us. 475 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,840 Who do you think the jury will believe killed Amanda? 476 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,520 A loving father or a couple of crackheads 477 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:05,720 with a history of breaking into people's houses? 478 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,120 75% of murder victims are killed by... 479 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:09,680 someone they know. Someone they know. 480 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:11,120 ( Thud ) 481 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,600 Bang goes McDonald's witness statement. 482 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,600 Phelps' brief is putting in an application 483 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,240 to have it excluded. 484 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:18,880 Not like you to sound defeatist, Jake. 485 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:20,240 You haven't heard his grounds. 486 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,280 He reckons McDonald qualified as a lawyer. 487 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,040 He's in prison for armed robbery. 488 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:28,120 And has put his sentence to good use down the education block. 489 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,080 My Lord, the conversation took place on the prison wing, 490 00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:32,440 over a card game. 491 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,720 Mr. McDonald's legal training is entirely coincidental 492 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,640 and in no way relevant to the confession. 493 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:39,840 It doesn't negate the fact that my client 494 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:41,920 was aware of Mr. McDonald's legal training. 495 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,320 It had a significant influence 496 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:45,880 on the nature and content of their conversation. 497 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,800 Mr. Nevins has a point. 498 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,640 If the defendant was seeking legal advice... 499 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:51,680 I think that's stretching it, My Lord. 500 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,840 The conversation must still be regarded as privileged. 501 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,280 My Lord, you cannot possibly extend privilege 502 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,760 to a convicted armed robber who's read a few law books 503 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:00,560 and completed a correspondence course! 504 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,560 Mr. McDonald graduated with honors. 505 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:04,880 The point is with a criminal record 506 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,720 he won't be able to practice. 507 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:08,760 Isn't that the distinction we have to make here? 508 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,840 If we discriminate against Mr. McDonald's legal position 509 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:13,880 because he also happens to be a prisoner, 510 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,800 then a precedent will be set, the floodgates will be opened. 511 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,200 I appreciate your concerns, Mr. Thorne, 512 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,880 but I do not believe this is the appropriate time 513 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,280 to tackle the rights and wrongs of legal privilege. 514 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,360 McDonald's evidence is excluded. 515 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,480 Judge Prentice has so little backbone, 516 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:32,120 it's a miracle he can stand up. 517 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,120 We still have Ricky Phelps' brother. 518 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,680 It's about all we do have. Let's hope he delivers the goods. 519 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,920 He told me he'd killed this girl. 520 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,560 I thought he was losing it. 521 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,320 I mean, I told him to think about what he was saying... 522 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:51,520 be careful... 523 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,120 but he just got angry, 524 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:56,520 he started shouting 525 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,000 and kept saying he'd killed her... 526 00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:01,240 over and over. 527 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:04,920 I asked him who he was talking about, 528 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,080 and then he said her name. 529 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,160 He said he'd killed Amanda Bennet. 530 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,000 No more questions, My Lord. 531 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:20,520 Mr. Phelps. Am I right in thinking that you run a cafe? 532 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,080 Yeah, I do. 533 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,840 And there was a robbery at your cafe three years ago? 534 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,280 Yeah. 535 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,160 My Lord, what exactly does a break-in at the witness's cafe 536 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:30,600 have to do with this murder trial? 537 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:31,960 I'm getting there, My Lord. 538 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,200 Get there a little faster, Mr. Nevins. 539 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,440 You made an insurance claim to cover your losses, Mr. Phelps? 540 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:39,320 I did, yeah. 541 00:24:39,360 --> 00:24:41,160 And the insurance claim was turned down? 542 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:43,080 Yeah. 543 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:45,320 So you lost a considerable amount of money. 544 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:49,280 Now who was responsible for that robbery, Mr. Phelps? 545 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,160 My brother. 546 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,440 You must've been very angry with him? 547 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:56,880 I was angry, yeah, but... 548 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:58,760 Is that the real reason you're here today, Mr. Phelps, 549 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:00,800 to get revenge on your brother? 550 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:02,200 No, of course not. 551 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:03,480 But you lost everything. 552 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,680 You had to take out a loan to cover the loss? 553 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:08,440 Yes, but the insurance thing's being sorted. 554 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,160 How is it getting sorted? 555 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,520 DS Brooks took a new statement, 556 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:14,960 he's sorting it out for me. 557 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,000 DS Brooks? Yeah. 558 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:18,920 The officer investigating this case? 559 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:23,520 The same officer who brought charges against another person 560 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,720 in relation to this crime fourteen years ago. 561 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,840 Our key witness just totally discredited himself in the witness box. 562 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:33,440 Defense made it sound like he was only 563 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,040 giving evidence to get back at his brother. 564 00:25:35,120 --> 00:25:37,200 He said you made him a promise. 565 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:41,720 What sort of promise? 566 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:43,040 Reckoned if he helped you out, 567 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:44,840 you'd help him get his insurance money. 568 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,760 Made it sound like you bribed him. 569 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,640 ( Sighs ) 570 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:50,760 No, I didn't. 571 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:52,800 I was there the whole time. 572 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:54,840 I said we would take a new statement 573 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,520 regarding his break-in, which we did. 574 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,480 Yeah. Ronnie's offer was completely legitimate. 575 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,240 That's not the way the jury'll see it. 576 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,600 They'll see a witness who's done a deal with a policeman. 577 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:05,920 Unless they hear your side. 578 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,440 DS Brooks, you led the original investigation 579 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:15,960 into the murder of Amanda Bennet? 580 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:17,840 I was on the investigating team. 581 00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:20,520 Detective Sergeant Bernard Rawlins led it. 582 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,960 You and DS Rawlins had a different prime suspect first time around, didn't you? 583 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,120 That's correct. 584 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:27,800 You believed that Amanda Bennet 585 00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:31,120 was murdered by her father, Simon Bennet? 586 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:32,640 We did, yes. 587 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,360 After serving three years for the murder, 588 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,720 Mr. Bennet was released on appeal? 589 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:39,000 Yes. 590 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,560 So he wasn't the killer? 591 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:45,400 We got the wrong man. 592 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,160 Knowing how deeply flawed your original investigation was, 593 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,720 you must be desperate now to ensure that 594 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,240 another person is convicted of that crime. 595 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:58,240 I want to see the right person put in prison, yes. 596 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,320 Is it true you are an alcoholic, DS Brooks? 597 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:02,520 Relevance, My Lord? 598 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,160 Mr. Nevins? 599 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,440 I'm trying to ascertain DS Brooks mental state 600 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,960 at the time of the original investigation, My Lord. 601 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,240 Answer the question, DS Brooks. 602 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,800 I've been sober for seven years. 603 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,040 Your drinking must have had a significant 604 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,520 impact on your handling of the case? 605 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:22,920 It certainly didn't help. 606 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,160 So while you were three sheets to the wind, 607 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:27,800 is it any wonder that your partner 608 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:32,600 developed a blind obsession with convicting Simon Bennet? 609 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,880 He made some mistakes, but... 610 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:38,880 He decided who he thought was guilty 611 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,880 and went for them disregarding all the evidence, didn't he? 612 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,840 DS Rawlins was working under a lot of strain. 613 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,920 It was very hard work, long hours, he barely had enough sleep. 614 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,520 Well, it's no surprise the case was riddled with errors 615 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,320 if DS Rawlins was suffering from sleep deprivation. 616 00:27:55,360 --> 00:27:58,880 He wasn't. He decided at the time 617 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,360 to take some pills to make sure he got enough sleep. 618 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:05,386 I see, so there was one drunk investigating 619 00:28:05,471 --> 00:28:07,133 officer and another one popping pills! 620 00:28:07,173 --> 00:28:10,973 And these two self-medicating officers were responsible 621 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:15,800 for blundering through this case and charging an innocent man! 622 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,280 Bernie, wait. Please, Bernie! 623 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,920 Don't make it any worse, Ron. 624 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,360 I was under oath, Bernie. 625 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:32,440 You stabbed me in the back, trashed my reputation. 626 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:33,920 Why can't you just... 627 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,800 why can't you just admit that we got it wrong? 628 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:42,680 Make you feel better, will it? 629 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,920 All those nights you crashed in our spare room when Jean kicked you out. 630 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:52,960 We fed you, 631 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,640 got you back on your feet again. 632 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,760 I went to your first AA meeting with you, remember? 633 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,400 And when you got pissed two days later, 634 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:06,800 who scraped you off the pavement? 635 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,600 And I thought our friendship meant something. 636 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,200 Come on, what about dinner? Huh? Eh? My treat. 637 00:29:19,219 --> 00:29:21,459 I only eat with family and friends. 638 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:27,440 And I lost my family covering your arse. 639 00:29:46,586 --> 00:29:48,780 Get Phelps to plead to manslaughter. 640 00:29:50,620 --> 00:29:52,380 But we can get him for murder, Henry. 641 00:29:52,460 --> 00:29:54,860 Well, so far your witnesses aren't helping you prove it. 642 00:29:54,900 --> 00:29:56,300 But we know he did it. 643 00:29:56,380 --> 00:29:57,740 I'm not seeing him walk out of prison 644 00:29:57,780 --> 00:30:00,020 in five years time with a slapped wrist. 645 00:30:00,100 --> 00:30:02,020 The way things are going, he won't step foot in the sweatbox. 646 00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:03,820 It's not just about convicting Phelps. 647 00:30:04,580 --> 00:30:06,060 We owe it to Simon Bennet. 648 00:30:06,500 --> 00:30:09,100 He spent three years in prison for a murder he didn't commit... 649 00:30:09,180 --> 00:30:10,660 his daughter's murder. 650 00:30:11,620 --> 00:30:15,460 The CPS did that to him, it's up to us to put that right. 651 00:30:15,700 --> 00:30:17,420 If Phelps walks out of court a free man, 652 00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:19,100 we'll have wasted the taxpayers money 653 00:30:19,180 --> 00:30:21,180 on a trial that could never see a guilty verdict. 654 00:30:21,260 --> 00:30:23,020 Isn't it better to have him convicted of something, 655 00:30:23,060 --> 00:30:24,460 rather than nothing? 656 00:30:25,620 --> 00:30:28,060 Just get the plea, Jake. 657 00:30:35,140 --> 00:30:36,460 Ronnie... 658 00:30:36,860 --> 00:30:38,180 Hmm? 659 00:30:39,340 --> 00:30:41,820 We're going to offer Ricky Phelps a deal. 660 00:30:43,460 --> 00:30:45,420 But he killed Amanda Bennet. 661 00:30:45,500 --> 00:30:48,020 We can't get him. I'm sorry. 662 00:30:50,460 --> 00:30:51,940 Right. 663 00:30:51,980 --> 00:30:53,540 Phelps will still go to prison. 664 00:30:59,420 --> 00:31:00,660 I need to fix this. 665 00:31:00,740 --> 00:31:03,700 It's over! Ronnie! 666 00:31:04,660 --> 00:31:06,620 When is this gonna stop?! 667 00:31:08,020 --> 00:31:11,380 Is that how you felt when you killed her? Eh? 668 00:31:11,380 --> 00:31:12,940 I didn't kill Amanda. 669 00:31:12,980 --> 00:31:14,340 The only reason I'm angry 670 00:31:14,380 --> 00:31:16,180 is because her killer's still out there 671 00:31:16,260 --> 00:31:17,980 and you're wasting your time on me! 672 00:31:19,220 --> 00:31:21,460 Let's have another look at your alibi, shall we? 673 00:31:21,540 --> 00:31:24,900 Oh, I told you, I was driving home from work. 674 00:31:24,940 --> 00:31:26,780 There's no witnesses to support that statement. 675 00:31:26,860 --> 00:31:29,100 I got a speeding ticket. There'll be a time on that. 676 00:31:29,180 --> 00:31:31,180 Yeah. I checked it. Yeah. 677 00:31:32,060 --> 00:31:34,860 You still could've got home in time to murder her. 678 00:31:35,020 --> 00:31:38,500 There was someone. A man. 679 00:31:38,540 --> 00:31:40,340 He was in the road. 680 00:31:40,820 --> 00:31:43,060 I nearly knocked him over. He swore at me. 681 00:31:44,620 --> 00:31:48,980 He had dark hair. He had this tattoo on his forearm. 682 00:31:49,060 --> 00:31:53,500 It was a... it was a... a spider, or a scorpion... 683 00:31:55,340 --> 00:31:56,900 Sam, come and have a look at this. 684 00:32:00,140 --> 00:32:03,940 He had this tattoo on his forearm. 685 00:32:03,980 --> 00:32:09,900 It was a... it was a... a spider, or a scorpion... 686 00:32:10,540 --> 00:32:12,300 He was describing Ricky Phelps. 687 00:32:12,500 --> 00:32:14,060 Simon saw Phelps near his home 688 00:32:14,140 --> 00:32:15,740 moments before he found his daughter's body. 689 00:32:15,820 --> 00:32:17,260 Ricky Phelps was never on our radar 690 00:32:17,340 --> 00:32:19,300 because he wasn't on the original interview list, 691 00:32:19,340 --> 00:32:22,540 although O'Doherty was, but used a false name, Davey Jones. 692 00:32:22,620 --> 00:32:24,580 Bernie Rawlins initialed "Davey Jones" 693 00:32:24,620 --> 00:32:27,060 as being interviewed but then ruled it out. 694 00:32:27,140 --> 00:32:29,900 But it puts O'Doherty in the house two days before the murder 695 00:32:29,980 --> 00:32:32,220 and Ricky Phelps on the street immediately afterwards. 696 00:32:32,580 --> 00:32:34,300 So you think we've got enough? 697 00:32:34,740 --> 00:32:36,340 I think we need to talk to Simon Bennet. 698 00:32:39,020 --> 00:32:40,580 We have a photograph of the man 699 00:32:40,660 --> 00:32:41,780 we think you saw outside your house 700 00:32:41,860 --> 00:32:43,260 the day Amanda was murdered. 701 00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:44,660 If you were to give us a positive I.D... 702 00:32:44,740 --> 00:32:46,420 I can't do this now. I've got to get to the hospice. 703 00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:47,460 We can make an appointment for... 704 00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:49,060 My wife's dying! 705 00:32:50,460 --> 00:32:51,780 I'm so sorry. 706 00:32:53,780 --> 00:32:55,300 I have to go. 707 00:32:55,340 --> 00:32:58,180 Mr. Bennet, we don't think the man you saw was a witness. 708 00:32:59,380 --> 00:33:01,180 We think he was the killer. 709 00:33:06,140 --> 00:33:07,580 I'm sorry. 710 00:33:07,620 --> 00:33:09,540 Mr. Bennet, I don't understand why you wouldn't want us 711 00:33:09,620 --> 00:33:12,100 to get the man who killed your daughter? 712 00:33:16,460 --> 00:33:21,860 I was locked up for three years, with murderers, pedophiles, 713 00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:25,420 all thinking I'd killed my own daughter. 714 00:33:28,340 --> 00:33:29,860 While I was gone, 715 00:33:31,100 --> 00:33:33,620 Lynn was diagnosed with breast cancer. 716 00:33:36,060 --> 00:33:39,940 She's spent thirteen years beating this disease... 717 00:33:41,940 --> 00:33:43,620 only now it's back. 718 00:33:47,260 --> 00:33:50,820 The last thing I want is for it all to be dragged up again. 719 00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:56,620 She deserves to die with some sense of peace. 720 00:33:57,140 --> 00:34:00,500 I can't even begin to imagine how hard this is for you, 721 00:34:01,420 --> 00:34:05,380 how angry you must be with the police, with us. 722 00:34:06,340 --> 00:34:09,620 But this is a new case, and, with your help, 723 00:34:09,660 --> 00:34:12,700 we believe we can convict the man who destroyed your lives. 724 00:34:15,780 --> 00:34:18,980 They've given Lynn a few weeks at best. 725 00:34:21,820 --> 00:34:25,180 Losing Amanda broke her. 726 00:34:28,860 --> 00:34:30,900 I'm not putting her through all that again. 727 00:34:33,180 --> 00:34:36,220 He is a victim of a miscarriage of justice. 728 00:34:36,260 --> 00:34:38,940 Every faith he had in the criminal justice system's been ripped apart. 729 00:34:38,980 --> 00:34:40,620 And he doesn't want to clear his name? 730 00:34:40,700 --> 00:34:43,260 I think he's past caring what anyone else thinks. 731 00:34:43,340 --> 00:34:46,140 Without the I.D., we're back where we started. 732 00:34:47,860 --> 00:34:49,860 I'll call Phelps' brief. 733 00:34:50,580 --> 00:34:52,500 Let's get this over with. 734 00:34:53,940 --> 00:34:57,060 Just for the comedy value, what are you proposing? 735 00:34:57,340 --> 00:34:59,900 I might consider accepting a plea to manslaughter. 736 00:34:59,980 --> 00:35:02,940 Ha. You're always good for a laugh, Jake. 737 00:35:03,460 --> 00:35:05,740 Simon Bennet told DS Rawlins 738 00:35:05,780 --> 00:35:07,980 he saw a young man with dark hair and a tattoo, 739 00:35:08,060 --> 00:35:10,740 identical to your client's, outside his home 740 00:35:10,780 --> 00:35:13,140 moments before he went inside and found his daughter's body. 741 00:35:13,180 --> 00:35:15,620 You're telling me my client was the only man in London 742 00:35:15,700 --> 00:35:18,300 fourteen years ago with a scorpion tattoo? 743 00:35:18,340 --> 00:35:19,780 The only one sporting that look 744 00:35:19,860 --> 00:35:20,900 and hanging around the Bennet's place 745 00:35:20,980 --> 00:35:22,780 at that specific time, yeah. 746 00:35:22,860 --> 00:35:26,580 And Simon Bennet's picked him out of an I.D. parade, has he? 747 00:35:27,180 --> 00:35:29,860 No. We wouldn't having this cozy little conversation 748 00:35:29,940 --> 00:35:31,020 if you thought, for one moment, 749 00:35:31,100 --> 00:35:32,780 that you could convict my client. 750 00:35:34,260 --> 00:35:36,500 Fine. Let's leave it to the jury. 751 00:35:36,860 --> 00:35:41,420 The jury? I'm considering a half-time submission of no case to answer. 752 00:35:41,460 --> 00:35:42,780 ( Knock on door ) 753 00:35:43,380 --> 00:35:44,940 Jake? 754 00:35:44,980 --> 00:35:46,540 Give me a minute. 755 00:35:49,100 --> 00:35:51,700 Simon Bennet's had a change of heart. 756 00:35:51,740 --> 00:35:53,460 He's agreed to do the I.D. 757 00:35:57,580 --> 00:35:59,540 Mr. Bennet, thank you. 758 00:36:00,580 --> 00:36:02,100 I'm Jake Thorne. 759 00:36:03,140 --> 00:36:04,900 What made you change your mind? 760 00:36:06,180 --> 00:36:07,740 My wife's dead. 761 00:36:09,940 --> 00:36:11,740 I'm so sorry. 762 00:36:13,140 --> 00:36:17,220 I think all she wanted was to die so she could be with Amanda. 763 00:36:27,302 --> 00:36:30,320 They got to her you know, the police. 764 00:36:32,740 --> 00:36:34,940 They took me away before she got home. 765 00:36:35,580 --> 00:36:37,140 You never got to talk to her? 766 00:36:37,580 --> 00:36:39,700 They worked on her bit by bit, 767 00:36:40,860 --> 00:36:43,420 till they'd convinced her I was guilty. 768 00:36:45,060 --> 00:36:48,100 It was nearly a year before she'd see me. 769 00:36:54,300 --> 00:36:57,220 She looked into my eyes, and she knew I... 770 00:36:57,220 --> 00:37:00,140 I couldn't do that. 771 00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:05,700 When I got out of prison we made this pact, 772 00:37:05,780 --> 00:37:09,100 we'd try our hardest to forget what had happened. 773 00:37:11,980 --> 00:37:14,260 It was her way of protecting herself. 774 00:37:16,420 --> 00:37:18,860 She thought it would stop the cancer coming back. 775 00:37:21,660 --> 00:37:24,700 You have all these images in your head 776 00:37:27,020 --> 00:37:28,980 that you wish weren't there. 777 00:37:32,460 --> 00:37:33,980 What he did to her. 778 00:37:36,060 --> 00:37:37,460 All that blood. 779 00:37:40,380 --> 00:37:42,180 Our beautiful girl. 780 00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:49,900 For my wife's sake, I tried not to think about what happened, 781 00:37:50,900 --> 00:37:54,780 but Amanda was my only child. 782 00:37:58,900 --> 00:38:00,820 She was my life. 783 00:38:13,180 --> 00:38:15,420 I need to know what happened to her. 784 00:38:17,620 --> 00:38:19,980 DS Brooks is waiting for us to do the I.D. 785 00:38:35,325 --> 00:38:37,207 Make sure you get it right this time. 786 00:38:39,380 --> 00:38:40,574 Please. 787 00:38:51,260 --> 00:38:56,140 Mr. Bennet, how long exactly did you see Mr. Phelps for? 788 00:38:56,940 --> 00:38:58,700 I can't remember. 789 00:38:58,740 --> 00:38:59,940 You can't remember? 790 00:39:00,380 --> 00:39:03,220 Two or three seconds. 791 00:39:06,759 --> 00:39:10,759 Three seconds, fourteen years ago, 792 00:39:11,540 --> 00:39:15,020 on what was presumably the most stressful day of your life, 793 00:39:15,685 --> 00:39:18,845 and yet you remember exactly 794 00:39:18,980 --> 00:39:21,100 what this stranger looked like? 795 00:39:22,078 --> 00:39:25,198 I have lived in that day for fourteen years. 796 00:39:25,999 --> 00:39:30,959 Replayed it over and over, every last detail. 797 00:39:33,119 --> 00:39:37,439 So, yes, I remember exactly what he looked like. 798 00:39:38,269 --> 00:39:41,749 And you wouldn't have to ask me any of this 799 00:39:41,845 --> 00:39:44,325 if the police had investigated my daughter's 800 00:39:44,380 --> 00:39:46,900 murder properly fourteen years ago. 801 00:39:49,140 --> 00:39:51,940 What were you doing walking away from the Bennet's house? 802 00:39:52,757 --> 00:39:54,477 I went there with Jimmy. 803 00:39:54,872 --> 00:39:57,952 Had Jimmy O'Doherty ever been to the Bennets' house before? 804 00:39:57,978 --> 00:40:01,098 Yeah. He used to borrow his old man's suits... 805 00:40:01,620 --> 00:40:03,900 go and look at houses pretending he wanted to buy them. 806 00:40:03,940 --> 00:40:06,260 You went to the Bennets' house as a lookout for Jimmy 807 00:40:06,340 --> 00:40:09,180 while he went inside to commit a burglary? 808 00:40:10,125 --> 00:40:12,725 Yeah, that's right. Didn't do nothing else. 809 00:40:13,980 --> 00:40:17,580 While you were "standing guard ," did you see Amanda Bennet? 810 00:40:19,100 --> 00:40:21,100 Yeah, I saw her through the window. 811 00:40:21,700 --> 00:40:24,420 She was coming down the stairs, she was wearing a dressing gown. 812 00:40:25,302 --> 00:40:27,699 I heard her yelling at Jimmy to get out. 813 00:40:29,020 --> 00:40:30,520 I saw him kill her. 814 00:40:31,460 --> 00:40:34,700 And you saw all this from where you were standing at the front of the house? 815 00:40:35,500 --> 00:40:37,020 Yeah. 816 00:40:37,060 --> 00:40:39,420 Amanda Bennet was killed in the kitchen at the back of the house. 817 00:40:39,860 --> 00:40:41,988 You wouldn't have been able to see her from the front? 818 00:40:46,900 --> 00:40:49,527 Maybe... maybe it was when I was round the back... 819 00:40:50,222 --> 00:40:53,102 when I was seeing what was keeping Jimmy. 820 00:40:53,820 --> 00:40:58,340 We heard forensic evidence that a DNA sample was found on Amanda's body 821 00:40:58,380 --> 00:41:01,380 and that there is a 60% probability that it belongs to you. 822 00:41:01,501 --> 00:41:05,741 That DNA puts you in the house with Jimmy and with Amanda. 823 00:41:06,380 --> 00:41:07,780 That's not mine. 824 00:41:07,820 --> 00:41:10,220 That's an extraordinary coincidence, isn't it? 825 00:41:10,860 --> 00:41:14,140 That a DNA profile which is almost certainly yours 826 00:41:14,180 --> 00:41:18,140 is found on a victim killed by your friend while you stood guard outside? 827 00:41:18,660 --> 00:41:20,100 I dunno. 828 00:41:21,780 --> 00:41:24,140 You and Jimmy thought the house was empty, didn't you? 829 00:41:24,700 --> 00:41:26,580 Jimmy said that it was empty. 830 00:41:27,340 --> 00:41:28,980 Only Amanda was there? 831 00:41:29,060 --> 00:41:31,420 Jimmy was the one that hurt her, not me. 832 00:41:31,847 --> 00:41:34,567 You didn't go to the house with the intention of killing anybody, did you? 833 00:41:35,780 --> 00:41:36,940 No. 834 00:41:36,980 --> 00:41:40,780 But then she came down the stairs yelling at you to get out? 835 00:41:40,820 --> 00:41:42,380 At Jimmy, she was yelling at Jimmy. 836 00:41:42,460 --> 00:41:45,260 She must have been terrified, two strangers in her home. 837 00:41:45,340 --> 00:41:47,740 She was chucking all this stuff at Jimmy's head, 838 00:41:48,632 --> 00:41:51,192 and he started freaking out, he went mental. 839 00:41:52,340 --> 00:41:53,620 He went mental. 840 00:41:55,860 --> 00:41:58,660 And he went at her with this metal doorstop. 841 00:42:00,580 --> 00:42:03,340 And I was screaming at him, I was begging him to stop. 842 00:42:04,900 --> 00:42:06,780 I tried to pull him off her... 843 00:42:07,014 --> 00:42:08,894 From outside the window? 844 00:42:11,620 --> 00:42:14,540 I know you didn't want to hurt her, Ricky. 845 00:42:15,140 --> 00:42:16,460 I know that. 846 00:42:16,540 --> 00:42:20,300 But you were there, weren't you? 847 00:42:23,420 --> 00:42:24,780 Trying to stop Jimmy? 848 00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:28,740 Trying to pull Jimmy off her? 849 00:42:30,340 --> 00:42:32,820 Tell us what really happened, Ricky. 850 00:42:43,260 --> 00:42:44,660 He wouldn't stop. 851 00:42:46,660 --> 00:42:48,180 I mean, he wouldn't stop. 852 00:42:49,527 --> 00:42:51,287 And he just kept going at her. 853 00:42:53,460 --> 00:42:55,020 She was on the floor. 854 00:42:56,260 --> 00:42:58,500 I just remember there was so much blood... 855 00:43:02,020 --> 00:43:03,980 then suddenly he's yelling at me, 856 00:43:04,060 --> 00:43:06,060 saying, "Look what you done to her." 857 00:43:06,940 --> 00:43:08,460 And she's looking at me, 858 00:43:08,540 --> 00:43:10,500 and she's thinking that I done that to her, 859 00:43:10,580 --> 00:43:12,220 she's thinking I done that to her? 860 00:43:12,300 --> 00:43:14,340 Then I'm thinking the old bill, the old bill are gonna come 861 00:43:14,420 --> 00:43:16,780 and she's gonna tell them that it was me. 862 00:43:17,420 --> 00:43:19,300 I mean, I couldn't think straight. 863 00:43:20,980 --> 00:43:22,340 I just... 864 00:43:24,980 --> 00:43:27,460 Put my hands around her neck... 865 00:43:32,220 --> 00:43:33,860 and started to squeeze... 866 00:43:38,660 --> 00:43:40,300 until she stopped fighting. 867 00:43:51,780 --> 00:43:53,460 The right man's behind bars. 868 00:43:53,500 --> 00:43:54,900 Fourteen years too late. 869 00:43:54,940 --> 00:43:57,180 He'd still be a free man if it wasn't for you. 870 00:43:57,260 --> 00:44:00,100 Alesha, if it wasn't for me, we wouldn't've been here. 871 00:44:05,380 --> 00:44:07,660 How many more are gonna come back and bite me? 872 00:44:10,500 --> 00:44:12,060 We all make mistakes. 873 00:44:14,079 --> 00:44:16,359 Anyway, you fancy a Chinese? On me? 874 00:44:18,860 --> 00:44:20,660 Yeah. Gimme an hour. 875 00:44:41,940 --> 00:44:45,620 ( No audible dialog ) 876 00:44:53,260 --> 00:44:55,614 Sync and corrected by APOLLO www.addic7ed.com 877 00:44:55,664 --> 00:45:00,214 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0