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In the rural village of Brockham,
Surrey, 14 -year -old Roy Tuttle

his way home from school.

One evening, though, when he's aged 14,
in April 1968, he doesn't come home.

It was so unusual for somebody to go
missing, especially a child who was

hitchhiking home, and they just assumed
he would return home. And then three

days later, on the 26th of April, the
unthinkable happened.

A forestry worker found Roy's body.

There was an absolute shockwave through
the community. People were looking at

each other in the street thinking, how
could this happen here?

Despite the tireless efforts of Surrey
Police, the investigation stalls and the

case eventually goes cold.

You've looked at all of the leads that
you've got. They've all come to a dead

end. You have to start shutting things
down.

Abilities in DNA and forensics had moved
on. They were able to deliver a DNA

profile and a breakthrough.

in this historic and unsolved case.

Brockham is a village and civil parish
in the Mole Valley district of Surrey in

England.

It's a very picturesque village. It has
the River Mole running through it and it

is a very idyllic place to live with
about 2 ,500 people living there.

It's a village which has its own
identity and a great history of a church

dates back to the 13th century. One of
the most photographed and picturesque

cricket grounds in the country. It's
right on the North Downs.

very close to Box Hill, which is made
famous by a scene in Jane Austen's novel

Emma.

In terms of crime, this is a very low
crime area. You're looking at

a bike theft, occasional fight outside a
pub, that kind of thing. This is an

area to raise children happily and
safely.

This is an area that you'd probably
retire from if you'd lived in London for

many years. This is an area that's quite
close to the big city, but it's

definitely far enough away that it's
quiet, peaceful and safe.

In 1968, 14 -year -old Roy Tuttle lives
in Brockham with his family.

Raising a family in that area are Hilary
and Dennis Tuttle. They already have

one older son, Colin, and in 1954 they
have a younger son, Roy Tuttle.

Roy Tuttle, a 14 -year -old boy known as
Putts to his friends, he was the son of

Dennis and Hilary Tuttle. He also had a
brother, Colin, and they were a very

close, very happy family.

The Tuttles were a very close family of
four.

Roy was a little bit shy, a bit
reserved. He didn't really go to the

anything, any clubs or activities. But
to those who did know him, he was your

run -of -the -mill teenage lad. He was
good to be around, happy -go -lucky,

mischievous, as all teenage boys are.

I've been going to Kingston Grammar
School, which is a famous old school

famous old school uniform. It's a bright
red blazer with grey stripes.

This is very unusual for a British
school and it's very, very distinctive

area. The children go from many miles
away.

The totals lift around 15 miles from
this particular school and anyone in the

area immediately recognise children
wearing this red and grey blazer as

Grammar Boys.

So Roy and Colin both attended Kingston
Grammar School. In order to get there,

they would take a bus part of the route,
but then they would hitch the rest of

the way. And this was because Roy was
saving for a bicycle and him and his

brother Colin were saving for a train
set as well. So they'd use the money for

their bus fare in order to save for
these things that they wanted.

For some context, back in the late 60s,
hitchhiking wasn't as taboo as it

perhaps is viewed now.

Their parents at first weren't keen on
the idea, but they did resign themselves

to the fact that their boys would
hitchhike home.

Nothing had ever happened, so why
wouldn't they trust it?

The late 1960s was considered to be
relatively safe. I remember doing it

in the early 70s, and you wouldn't have
given it a second thought. Now it's a

different thing entirely.

Tuesday 23rd April 1968.

Roy leaves school as normal at 3 .30,
and he gets the bus. He gets the bus for

the first part of his journey, but
determined to save up for this much

-after bike, he decides to pocket the
rest of the cash for himself, and is

on a lay -by near Chessington trying to
thumb a lift.

However, that evening, Roy doesn't
return home.

As the hours ticked by, Dennis and
Hilary started becoming worried about

their youngest boy was.

Perhaps he was out playing with his
friends for the first few hours, that's

they thought. But as the evening grew
later, they decided to phone the police

and report Roy as missing.

So having called the police, they came
round to take a missing person report

from Roy's parents, but they did nothing
further that evening, assuming that he

was staying with friends and he would
turn up the following morning. Back

this was probably the sort of thing that
police would have done, because it was

so unusual for somebody to go missing,
especially a child who was hitchhiking

home, and they just assumed he would
return home when he'd woken up in the

morning at his friend's house.

When Roy still hasn't come home by the
next day, police are now very active in

their search. They're taking
descriptions of him to the local

where a young boy might have gone or
families who might have seen a young boy

might have information.

They take his description and his
information to the local area of Toll,

anyone has seen him there. They speak to
local bus drivers, but they don't get

any critical information.

Police would have asked everything about
him, what he looked like, what his

interests were, particularly what he was
wearing at that time, his route home,

where the likelihood he might be.

They put up posters and started to talk
to people about if they'd seen Roy at

any point. They also checked the
military pillboxes to see if by any

had fallen asleep in one or was hiding
in one, but there was no sign of Roy.

Police threw a whole net around that
area of Surrey, stopping cars from the

street, just questioning everybody,
producing pictures to try and get some

of lead or some sort of effort.

Media obviously was an important outlet
for it, local newspapers, even local TV

news. Anything that could put the
picture of Roy in front of the public to

if that produced any sort of response.

But as the days went on, the pressure
was on, a missing schoolboy. Every day

that goes by, people start fearing the
worst.

Once you start to publicise this, then
people help join in, try to provide

information wherever possible.

It was Brockham, Dorking, all around
that area was very much a community and

police at that time could rely on that
community to help them whatever way they

could.

With every passing hour, the Fowleys
must have just thought, their minds must

have raced, the imagination gone wild,
the worst.

Obviously, scenarios were playing over
themselves.

It just got worse and worse and worse,
the pressure higher and higher and

higher. What has happened to their lad?
It's a horrible situation for anybody to

be in.

Three days later, everyone's worst fears
are confirmed.

So the search continues for the next
three days. People are getting more and

more concerned about where Roy may be.
And then three days later, on the 26th

April... The unthinkable happened.

A forestry worker working on Lord
Breverbrook State found Roy's body.

The boy's body is found in a wooded
copse near Mickleham. Forestry workers

the red jacket of the school uniform in
the dense undergrowth and move towards

it. They horribly discover this young
boy found murdered underneath it.

So interestingly, the forest worker...

had been working in that area in the
morning. He'd gone off to take a break

had come back later on in the day, and
that's when he had found Roy, leading to

the suggestion that Roy had been put
there very recently.

Police sealed off the area where the
body had been discovered.

Now a missing person inquiry has
suddenly escalated into a murder hunt.

Examination of the body, the pathologist
told them that not only had Roy been

strangled, possibly with a ligature, the
police believed it was in fact...

quite possibly his own school type, but
that he had been brutally sexually

abused, in fact raped.

The police have a tough job, and any
policeman will tell you one of the worst

aspects of his job is having to go to a
family, particularly parents of someone

who has died in tragic circumstances,
and break the news.

It is a very, very difficult job, and
you can just imagine not only the

of the police who are having to sit down
with the parents, but the parents

themselves. Finally, they have the news
they'd been dreading for so many days.

Child murders were almost unheard of.
When a child goes missing, Leglo's found

dead, there's an absolute shockwave
through the community, through the wider

community, even across the country. The
ultimate murder of Roy Tuttle was real

front -page news, and people were
looking at each other in the street

how could this happen here?

Surrey police are under intense pressure
to locate a child rapist and murderer

and deliver justice for Roy's family.

But will they succeed?

On 23 April 1968, 14 -year -old Roy
Tuttle disappears in the quiet village

of Brockham in Surrey.

Three days later his body is found
outside Cherkley Court in Mickleham.

He has been sexually assaulted and
strangled.

Just three days after Roy first
disappeared, his family get the most

most awful news that you can imagine.

A young boy's body has been found.

The parents of this murdered schoolboy,
utterly distraught, their lives

completely ruined.

Roy's father, Dennis, was to die within
a year or two, no doubt of a broken

heart. I'm sure whatever reason he died
would have... been exasperated by what

had happened. Hillary was to die 20, 30
years later.

There's no comeback here. There's no way
you can make this up. It's always part

of your life.

Officers secure the scene to preserve
crucial evidence.

This isn't an area where something like
this has ever happened before. This is a

forest close to the estate of Lord
Beaverbrook, the Canadian press baron

part of Winston Churchill's war cabinet.

So police at that time in the late 1960s
don't have the DNA and forensic

capabilities that we have today.

But police work in terms of boots on the
ground is very much the same. They

cordon off the area, they seal the
scene, they speak to anyone that's been

through the area and they're busy
knocking on doors asking, did you see

anything? Have you seen this missing
boy?

It was a country lane, for want of a
better term. There was metal railings,

metal fence either side, and the body
was actually about a couple of yards

over the fence.

Slightly concealed, but not overly
concealed, so there was no great effort.

houses nearby, no witnesses nearby, and
it looked as though it was a sort of

hurry dump, if that made sense.

You know, no great effort was taken to
conceal the body.

The police were working on the theory
that this had to be someone who had a

previous MO for picking up boys and
sexually abusing them and then disposing

them. They didn't think this was a
single one -off opportunist crime, that

was someone who had a pathway and knew
how to do this.

Fear, of course, that the community was
a child killer on the loose.

All the pressure that they were under
didn't change the fact that they had so

little to go on. It was not impossible
for someone to have picked up this boy,

sexually abused him, killed him, left
the county, left the area, could have

to any other part of Britain and just
disappeared way out beyond the reach of

Surrey Police.

Investigators begin their inquiries
within the local community.

Surrey Police brought in officers from
over the county who were engaged in

-to -house inquiries trying to identify
Roy's last movements, etc.

The SIO at that time, Paddy Doyle, I
know that this was very personal to

because Paddy had a son of the same age
and it really was a case of trying to

trace witnesses, identify Roy's
potential last movements and appeal for

to come forward.

Police have now got 150 officers on the
scene and they are now interviewing

people at mass.

They complete 10 ,300 interviews in a
very short amount of time.

These interviews, they could be anything
from 20, 30 minutes to several hours.

They interview pretty much anybody that
might have seen anything in that area.

So police had very little to go on at
this point. So they put up posters in

area to ask if anybody had seen anything
suspicious.

And a bus driver came forward to say
there had been an Austin Westminster

in the lay -by where he should have been
able to pull his bus into at the

relevant time that Roy disappeared.

A boy matching Roy's description was
seen leaning into that window. The

was leaning across, speaking back to
him. This man was described as being

stocky, with white greyish hair. The
same car had been reported seen near

the body was dumped.

One of the most significant details
about this car not only is it a grey

Austin Westminster which is quite a
distinctive vehicle but it has also got

registration plates on it. In the late
60s the British government decided to

have yellow registration plates on the
back of a car and white registration

plates on the front of a car. This car
has those white and yellow registration

plates.

So following the posters being put up
for information, a lady came forward to

say that at about half past four on the
relevant day, she had seen a boy

matching Roy's description, hitchhiking.
And she had said to him, being

concerned, she had said, there are
plenty of buses passing here, you don't

to hitchhike. But Roy, being
unconcerned, said, oh, I'll be

she left and she went to do some grocery
shopping. And when she came back about

20 minutes later, Roy was gone,
suggesting that in that time span, he

into a vehicle.

So police carry out an exhaustive search
of anybody that owns an office in

Westminster and in those days this is a
manual search in every sense of the

word. You've got to get the phone book
out, you've got to have paper records,

you've got to go through, find
somebody's phone number, phone them,

them, go around to their address, record
it all on separate bits of paper and

then it all goes back into case files.
This is an exhaustive search and in the

end it proved a fruitless one.

With the car search yielding no results,
police turned to a newly emerging field

of investigation.

Forensic science was still in its
infancy, really, when it came to helping

police detectives in the late 60s. And
all the forensic examination of the

and the body was able to show was a
blood stain on Roy's trousers.

The problem was that the blood stain
could only narrow it down to either

group A or blood group O.

Now, unfortunately, those are the two
most common blood groups in the world,

the police were not given any help,
really, certainly when you judge it by

modern times, by what they found at the
scene.

They would have spoken to anyone who
they considered as a potential suspect

eliminated them. Did they have any firm
idea as to who was responsible?

Absolutely not.

You know, they had no fingerprints or
anything else like that that could have

identified the suspect from. So even if
they had a suspect... trying to tie that

suspect down to the scene and to the
murder, unless there's witnesses, may

been an uphill struggle.

Fibres at that time wasn't a science.

You know, you're talking about 1968,
you're talking about fingerprints and

fact that he had a blood type. They were
the most important aspects of forensic

recovery that they had. Fibres wasn't
one of the considerations.

In 1968, nobody ever thought of a sex
offenders register.

This wasn't to come in for many decades.

So there was no actual list of known
sexual deviants. If the police were to

to trace around the country those who
had committed sexual offences, they

have to make individual inquiries to
each individual police force, which of

course would take forever, and of course
many police forces couldn't be bothered

to cooperate with over a crime that
wasn't committed in their area.

It was a very haphazard approach to
dealing with sex crimes, partially

these sort of sex crimes wouldn't say
unheard of, but they were rare, and

were more concerned with more routine
crimes which kept on recurring.

TV reconstructions of high -profile
cases are a familiar thing for TV

today and a familiar thing on social
media and TV news. However, at that

they hadn't been done. And desperate to
get a breakthrough in this case, Philip

Doyle, the lead inspector on this case,
creates the first TV reconstruction of

this boy's final moment.

He recruits his own son to walk up and
down...

similar to Roy Tuttle, in the same
uniform, along the same road, in a bid

and jog the memory of anybody who might
watch that broadcast and anybody who

might have seen something on that
fateful day.

If the police were now under serious
pressure, they'd never lost a child in

these sort of circumstances, but they
had no leads.

The bloodstains wouldn't have helped
them a great deal. The sightings that

come up had really amounted to nothing
between the possible connection with the

driver of an Austin Westminster Mark II,
which was looking like a needle in a

haystack across the country, and the
fact that he was hitchhiking home.

They had nothing else to go on.

Detectives pursue other lines of
inquiry, learning of a potential suspect

profile bears similarities to this case.

They then start to look at similar
crimes and similar offenders. They know

this individual has a predilection for
young boys and has a sexual interest in

schoolboys. And so they head to the
north of Scotland, Aberdeen, where

have apprehended a man who has been
sexually assaulting a young boy there.

custody that day is Brian Longfield.

Field himself said he had nothing to do
with the Surrey incident, nothing to do

with Tuttle's disappearance.

Despite the obvious similarities of the
two attacks, there was nothing that a

Surrey police could take from this
connection at all.

With no evidence linking him to the
murder of Roy Tuttle, Brian Field is

as a suspect.

So the investigation went on for years
with very little leads.

Scotland Yard were called in to assist.

They couldn't find anything to further
the investigation.

Every now and then they would put out an
appeal for information and somebody

would come forward with something fresh,
but it never led anywhere.

Although it remained high profile, they
never got anywhere with finding out who

had killed Roy.

There does come a period in time where
you've exhausted all of your inquiries

that you can conduct, you've looked at
all of the leaks that you've got,

all come to a dead end, and you still
have to start shutting things down.

Because you start shutting things down
doesn't mean to say it comes to an end.

And of course, over the years, if they
had other pieces of information coming

in, they would take the files off the
shelves and they would pursue these

of information to see if they could
identify who was responsible.

Sadly, they were unlucky, unfortunate.

and just couldn't identify a suspect.

By 1996, almost 30 years after schoolboy
Roy Tuttle's unsolved murder, his

parents had now passed on without
knowing who was responsible for their

death. His brother had moved to America
to start a new life, and police were

still working away, trying to catch this
killer. Abilities in DNA and forensics

had moved on. Studying again the
trousers Roy wore on the day he was

they were able to deliver a DNA profile
and a breakthrough in this historic and

unsolved case.

Finally, police have a genetic profile
of the killer, but will this

lead to an arrest?

30 years after the murder of 14 -year
-old Roy Tuttle, police have finally

a breakthrough with the use of forensic
science.

However, their work is still far from
over.

By 1996, both of Roy's parents had
passed away.

Colin had moved to America.

His, at that point, was the longest
unsolved child murder case in Britain.

That wouldn't be the case for much
longer though. In that year cold case

were being looked at again.

This was after the introduction of the
DNA database a year earlier in 1995.

Forensic technology had advanced in the
three decades since Roy's murder.

The cold case review came at the perfect
time. In December of 1996 a sample was

recovered from Roy's trousers.

It was semen. So now police had a DNA
profile of Roy's killer. They just

a name and a face to match.

In the late 90s, suddenly DNA sourcing
exploded. The science suddenly took huge

leaps forward, particularly it helped in
forensic police work. Suddenly police

didn't just have a blood group to go on,
they had all the integral patterns of

blood and semen to work on, which
produced like a passport. It really

narrow down to just single people.

Despite this progress, investigators are
unable to match the DNA to a suspect.

Then in 2000, a cold case unit re
-examines the case.

I first heard about Roy Tootle and the
murder of Roy Tootle in August of 2000.

I was basically the head of CID for
Surrey. We were going through a quiet

and one of the DCIs popped his head into
the office and said, do you mind if we

start looking at the cold case? And the
cold case was...

the one of Roy Tootle. We had time on
our hands so we gave the authority for

to pull out all the case files and start
seeing what we could find, if there's

anything further we could do.

It's a small team because it was a cold
case and in fairness I don't solve

crimes, the team solved the crime.

I'm just the head of the team. There was
the DCI who was like a dog with a bone

and they collected all the paperwork.

And what they actually did was, there
was a thing called the National Crime

Faculty at that time, in 2000.

This was down at Brams Hill.

And they had started a section called
the Seated Crimes Analysis Section. And

they had started doing the analysis of
all sex crimes and suspects throughout

the country, bringing all the
information together.

They put the files that we had, we put
the information that we had in respect

Roy Tootill.

Brian Field re -emerges as a lead
suspect.

Detectives look into his past to get a
better understanding of the man.

Brian Lunfield is born in 1936 in Market
Raisin, a market town with its own

racecourse in a largely rural area.

He doesn't live with his parents, they
put him into foster care and he is put

into a home called Lynn Wode House.

So Paul and Ruby Field were actually
very well known. He had used all his

to buy a home that he could then adopt
children into.

So Brian had 14 siblings. There were 15
of them all together living in this

house. And it was like a bit of an
experiment, really, but seemed to the

world to be absolutely perfect.

Paul Field was such a familiar name in
the media at that time. Not only was he

awarded an OBE for his services to young
children, but he was singled out to

appear on This Is Your Life, which was
an enormous programme in the 60s,

presented by Eamon Andrews, primetime,
ITV, anything between 13, 15 million

people would tune in to watch the story
of this man's life.

He was a familiar figure in the media
and on television.

Brian Field was doing national service,
but he was given leave to attend the

filming of this programme, along with
his... 13, 14 other siblings to support

his foster father and was there on
television in his military uniform.

On the outside, in the press, the home
has a glowing reputation.

On the inside, for many of the boys
there, this is not the case. Other boys

the home accused Brian of abusing them
and say in later years Brian had an

obsession, a predilection for sexual
abuse.

Aged 15, Brian leaves the foster home,
and after a brief spell in the military,

he goes to work for the Milk Marketing
Board.

Faithfully, this is a job that allows
him to move easily around different

of the country. He sells milk machinery
around the West Country, and for a spell

in the late 60s, he also lives in
Surrey.

criminal record it started in 1969 when
he was in his 30s with a gross indecency

charge in 1972 that case in aberdeen
where he'd abducted a young 14 year old

sexually abused him boy managed to
escape but he was jailed for that in

he was jailed for four years after
abducting two boys aged 13 and 16 though

thankfully they did manage to flee

He put them in the back of his car and
as he's driving along he took a tyre

out and said, right you two, take your
clothes off.

The boy, scared witless, managed to
fight and struggle and get out the car

was driving along the road.

And then Fields was later identified as
the driver, arrested and convicted for

that. Had these boys not managed to get
out of the car, they would have been

dead. Here's a man who lacked complete
empathy and was bordering on the fact of

being a psychopath.

So with all these convictions, it meant
that Brian was well -known to police by

this point. He was described as a bit of
a Jekyll and Hyde, a hard -working man

when he was sober.

but give him a drink, and he turned into
somebody completely different.

So this made him prime suspect, really,
for the disappearance of Roy in 1968.

Now in his 60s, Brian Field lived in the
small town of Solihull, near

Birmingham, where he's a respected
member of the community.

Brian Fields was like many paedophiles
in so much that he was intensely devious

and had two sides to his character.

Outwardly, he was charming to people, to
his family and friends, was seen as a

hard worker. But his more sinister side
would come out, particularly when he was

drunk, and that was he had a vicious and
violent temper.

From the 80s and 90s, he was working as
a gardener and outdoors as a labourer,

and he built up quite a physique.

So this was an extremely dangerous
character in that he had a violent

was very fit and strong, and he had
paedophilic tendencies.

This was a horrendous cocktail and put
every schoolboy in danger.

With the evidence aligning, the cold
case unit is determined to link Brian to

the murder of Roy Tuttle.

Having identified him as a potential
suspect was one thing. Being able to

it was a different thing entirely.

So we started...

Making inquiries at Bryanfield, we found
out that he was living up in Solihull,

near Birmingham.

And then at the same time, we started to
chase up if there was any forensic. We

found that Roy's clothing had been put
away at the forensic science laboratory

up in Huntingdon, in Fraser.

They dug the clothes out. We asked for
an analysis to be made of the clothing.

And much to our joy, much to our
surprise, there was a DNA hit.

And the DNA hit came back to Brian Lund
Field.

In September 1999, Brian Field was
arrested in Birmingham for drink

After the introduction of the database,
it was mandatory to give a DNA sample

after being arrested.

In the year 2000, the DNA sample
recovered from Roy's trousers matched

DNA sample taken when he was arrested.

So we had this sort of parallel.

Intelligence suggested it could have
been. DNA said it was.

And it's a case of then of a sharp
intake of breath because you're now

at 30 years has passed and you're now on
the track of a killer. So we set up

surveillance up in Birmingham. We
started to watch, identify where Phil

living and we were watching him. I think
he was a 64 -year -old man who was very

fit. and agile so it was then a case of
getting all of our eggs in one basket

getting all the evidence together and
then deciding right we're going to go

arrest them police immediately elated by
this sudden explosive new breakthrough

and they placed a field immediately
under surveillance just to try and get a

feel of who he is and then amass all the
evidence that they have in order to

finally go and arrest him

We lost sight of him for a brief period
in time, and I remember jumping in one

of the cars and we hot -footed it up to
Birmingham.

And as we got to Solihull, we had
identified that it was in his flat and

arrested there.

Members of the community are stunned at
his arrest for such a horrific crime.

After he's been released from prison in
the 80s, he settled into the Birmingham

area. His marriage broke up, three
children no longer live with him,

pursued his life as a gardener, as a
labourer, often for cash in hand, which

meant that he didn't have to pay tax or
he virtually disappeared.

But those who knew him, who lived around
him, thought, what a great guy. He was

down the pub by a drink, amiable,
outgoing, a perfect neighbour. Nobody

lived in his area, in his street, or
knew him, had any idea whatsoever about

this man's past.

He exploited trust and normalcy as a way
to mask his deviance and avoided

detection for decades.

His arrest created genuine shock among
those who believed they knew him.

He was taken to Solihull Police Station,
where he was booked in, and then he was

driven south down to Surrey. And we had
each stage planned out. There was going

to be no conversations in the car.

Everything was going to be done exactly
by the book.

So we got him down to Surrey and we had
prepared an interview strategy with him.

Obviously you've been arrested for the
murder of a boy called Roy Lindsay

Tuttle. Now that boy was a Kingston
grammar school boy and he went missing

his way home from school in April of
1968.

Did you ever give any schoolboys a lift
in your car at all? No. In 1960?

No, no.

Are you quite sure about that? Yeah,
positive.

Did you ever stop and talk to any
schoolboys?

Engage them in any kind of conflict? No,
no.

Did you murder Roy Tuttle? No, I did
not. I don't even know, I've never seen

him. I'm going to show you a photograph
of this boy, OK?

OK, and that's a copy of Roy when...

You won't miss him?

No, no, never.

I mean, he looks like a latter lad,
really.

No, I've never seen him before.

You're 100 % sure you've never seen this
boy before?

Yeah.

He sat down and faced with all the
evidence the police had accrued, a

-to -one DNA evidence, his past record
of identical attacks.

I think the police immediately expected
that Field would crumble. He was now in

his mid -60s and could see that surely
there was no way out. In fact, Field

accepted his past behaviour but said
that that was all gone, nothing like

now. And what's more, he had...

No knowledge of who this Roy Tuttle was.
Had never been in that area at that

particular time all the way back in
1968.

Forget it, I've nothing to do with it.

Police have his DNA, but they want a
confession.

Will Brian Field admit to the sexual
assault and murder of Roy Tuttle back in

1968?

More than 30 years after the murder of
Roy Tuttle, police finally have DNA

evidence linking Brian Field to the
crime.

But when questioned, he denies all
accountability.

Police now have Field in custody and
they put to him that they have a match,

DNA profile that links him to the murder
of Roy Tuttle in 1968.

Field announces yes.

I did have an interest in young boys.
Yes, I've been convicted of multiple

assaults on young boys and the kidnap of
young boys. I don't know anything about

this case. This was not me.

The lack of response from Field may have
taken police by surprise, but they

immediately went off to magistrates to
apply for an extension to the custody

time limits, i .e. to keep him under
arrest for longer before they had to

the decision whether to charge him or to
release him. At the end of the second

day of questioning, they told Field that
tomorrow we're going to have to take

fresh DNA evidence from you and match
that up.

The last thing we were going to do that
night was get a DNA sample from him.

So we requested a DNA sample from him,
which he supplied, and then we let him

stew overnight.

And he obviously started to put two and
two together. So therefore the following

day when he was brought out for
interview, he sat down, I've got to tell

something.

He confessed in detail to the abduction,
rape and murder of Roy Tuttle.

I'm sorry, I've misled you all the time.

I didn't do that. I've been to prison.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

All right.

All right.

Look at me.

Give me a minute.

It's important now, for everyone
concerned, that we finish this.

Yeah, it's gone on a long, long time.

Yeah, yeah.

OK.

I was driving around it.

to the road.

And I told him, you know, come, get off
the bus.

And the son -in -law, I'm sure he's son
-in -law, he stood there.

And I stopped and he got in.

And I asked him where he was going.

Do you mean the car?

Yeah. What do you do?

Right, I tried to go in.

Okay, how did you just do that?

You went over the front seat.

And I tried to do it on the front of the
crosswalk on the seat.

I thought you'd get thrust again.

But no, I've only come out the other
way.

Okay, how did you stay in?

You haven't yet.

Put the tie down, isn't that?

Tighten it.

Can you demonstrate?

Re -age it.

And put it around it now.

Tighten it right now.

You've got to put it through the box a
bit.

Put it, cast them for a while and have
them carry down. And then suddenly you

won't like them anymore.

Tighten it. You've got to help.

Thank yourself for it.

He proceeded to tell us exactly how he
picked up Roy Tootle, how he got him in

the car, how he tried to force him to
perform oral sex.

and how he strangled them it's actually
quite chilling to watch

how Brian Field describes how he
strangled Roy Tootle and then of course

him in the boot of the car and he kept
him in the car for a few days We've got

the DNA, we've got his admissions, etc.

But was it possible for him to put him
in the boot of a mini? So we got a mini.

We got someone about the size of Roy
Tuttle. We tried to get him in the mini

make sure it was physically possible.

So we started to follow up on the
results of his interview to try and find

physical corroboration as much as we had
the DNA and his admissions, etc.

So an awful part about this is that
Brian admits that after dumping Roy's

He then drives to the hospital to visit
his wife who has just given birth to

their child.

The fact that he's going to see his wife
at the hospital who's just given birth

and he picks a young boy up and kills
him tends to suggest that lack of

the lack of feeling, the fact that he's,
you know, psychopathic tendencies.

No emotions.

Complete lack of emotion just
highlighted the fact that here was a

killer, completely no interest
whatsoever in the knock -on effect of

activity, and that a family had been
completely destroyed, utterly destroyed.

In contrast to the grief that he had
caused, Field's life just went on as

normal.

After compiling the full body of
evidence, authorities moved to prosecute

Field for the murder of Roy Cuttle.

A case file which was substantial
because of all the information that had

gathered over the years and of course in
the year 2000 -2001 there was a

different way of presenting a case at
court.

You had a thing called disclosure
whereas we had to disclose any material

could potentially undermine a
prosecution case and of course within

there was massive potential and it had
not been for the DNA and the admission

but nevertheless you still got to go
through this disclosure process.

So we bought this scanner that did
something like about a thousand pages a

minute and we scanned every single
document into this scanner so therefore

had a composite file from the paperwork
we put it made it electronic and that

meant we were then able to disclose
everything to the defence solicitor who

representing Brian Field.

So eventually the trial date arrives and
Brian is taken to the Old Bailey where

his case is heard. Brian pleads guilty
to the murder of Roy Tuttle but denies

the sexual assault. And the reason for
this is that he will know that he could

be given extra time if he admitted to
the sexual assault on top of the murder

charge. So he only admits to the murder
and is found guilty of the murder of Roy

Tuttle.

He didn't plead guilty to the sexual
assault.

Had he pleaded guilty to the sexual
assault and he'd gone to prison,

a sex offender like that, then of course
the regime within prison would have

treated him differently.

So being a murderer is one thing, being
a murderer with serious sex assault on a

young boy would have been something
else.

In November 2001, Brian Field is
sentenced to life imprisonment for the

of 14 -year -old Roy Tuttle. He would
serve 22 years.

The judge's open court remarks
emphasised the importance of DNA

how it was essential for bringing
justice for Roy's family.

Field's confession was the first time
that the police realised that what Field

was driving was a white Mini, not an
Austin Westminster Mark II. All that

of time searching for Austin Westminster
Mark II had been completely wasted.

Police at the time obviously weren't to
know that. That was the only lead they

had. But it's come as a blow to the
pride of the police that they had been

chasing a complete red herring for so
long.

There was a lot of relief, the fact that
Field was convicted.

There was a lot of relief within the
team that he was convicted.

But there was also a lot of relief is
that Field was a predator from the day

that he lived in the foster home to the
day that he died was a danger to

society.

so there was a great relief the fact
that after the conviction failed

harm anyone else this was a huge story
for the media not only was it the

-running cold case success and that it
was finally a killer court after 33

but the Throwback to those of us who
were there in the 60s. The newspapers,

black and white pictures of Roy looking
at this schoolboy. Pictures of what

happened in Chessington in 1968.

Remarkable how evocative those pictures
can be.

Field was a persistent, aggressive
paedophile who'd proven that he was

of taking schoolboys off the streets and
abusing them. This was somebody that

kidnapped two young boys after Roy
Tuttle's death. Thankfully, they escaped

had abused another 14 -year -old boy on
another occasion.

Police looked at his profile and were
linking him to any number of assaults

any other number of missing children.

for cases that they hadn't found, but as
yet they don't currently have the DNA

breakthrough to convict him on any other
charges.

Phil is a practised psychopathic
offender. He is able to behave without

empathy, without any humanity.

Even though he's able to keep up a
veneer of respectability as a working

family man, he is somebody that was an
ever -present danger to children.

and somebody under drink or without
drink was able to act on these inhuman,

beastly impulses in the middle of the
day. This is somebody that snatched a

child off the road at the end of the
school day. This is somebody that acted

broad daylight, that acted in public and
acted even though he had multiple

sentences for this kind of behaviour.

This is somebody that was not going to
be stopped.

Field ultimately died behind bars at the
age of 87 in 2024 at HMP Full Sutton

from natural causes.

Of serenity, he denied his victims.

You meet with the brother and you meet
with Paddy Doyle and you saw what it

meant to them and you then get this
stark realisation that after 30 years,

this was solvable, then potentially any
cold case is solvable. All you really

have to do...

is look hard enough and look for the
opportunities and look for the clues.

And it gave me confidence in going
forward that cold cases are actually

investigating. Because had we not
arrested Brian Field, then he would have

continued to offend and potentially kill
other people.

Despite finally closing the case on his
murder, there weren't many left alive

who knew Roy to witness justice being
served.

So tragically, the parents of Roy never
got to see justice done. They never got

to learn who had killed their child.

But the reaction to Brian being found
guilty or even being accused of this

was incredible.

He had built a whole new life in
Birmingham and people there thought he

wonderful. He was a regular at the pub.
They had a whip round for his 60th

birthday, something which was unheard
of. He was a really popular man. And

people heard of his arrest... They
absolutely said the police had got the

person. I could not believe that he
could be responsible for anything quite

heinous as this murder of a young boy.

The Roy Tuttle story has stayed with me
for countless years.

When he was killed, he was 14 and I was
12. I had a bike, I had a train set, the

two things he'd set his heart on as
well, and I went to school in 1968 on a

And I look back... On all those years,
how lucky I was to lead a life that I

have, and how lucky I've been to live as
many years as I have. And if only Roy

had even a slice of the luck that I had,
he would never have ended in such a

gruesome, degrading, humiliating,
terrifying murder that he had to