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[Heavy breathing]

Go on you can do it, sir,

[Sandra] When the builders found this,

they called the local police, who blew it up to us

when they realised it was relevant

to an old murder case

[Jack] How long was the trap door obscured?

[Sandra] Uh, builders reckon the full ceiling was put in

some time in the fifties.

Any time after that it would have been artexed over,

oh, bloody hell, I can't do this.

Confined space, doctor's orders.

It's all right Brian, you don't have to

come all the way up, you can watch from there.

- Okay? - Yep.

Look at that

great big white fibres.

Are they real?

Certainly are.

Real white fibres?

Yeah, yeah, come and have a look.

Fantastic.

They are beautiful.

Look at them.

You all right?

Careful Brian.

That's all right, it's just psychological thing.

I think she means mind where you put your-

- [Brian screams] - [Ceiling cracks]

foot.

♪ It's all right, it's okay ♪

♪ doesn't really matter if you're old and grey ♪

♪ it's all right I say it's okay ♪

♪ listen to what I say ♪

♪ it's all right, doing fine ♪

♪ doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine ♪

♪ it's all right, I say it's okay ♪

♪ we're getting to the end of the day ♪

The suitcase had a label indicating it was the property

of a Fred tulley.

Now tulley, who was single

lived in the house with his parents

until he was murdered in November 1953.

He was a wagers clerk at battersea power station.

Hello, hello hello.

He was shot dead in the street

on the south side of battersea bridge,

on a dark foggy afternoon.

The murder weapon, which was later found

on a number 19 bus,

had been stuffed down the back of an upstairs seat.

- Prince? - White fiend.

But the witness who found the gun, an Edward chambers,

identified a man getting off the bus

as he was getting on.

That man's name was Richard Dunn,

arrested within days of the killing,

charged with murder, convicted,

refused leave to appeal,

hanged in may, 1954,

protested his innocence the whole way.

Dunn was a villain right?

Yeah, he had convictions for robbery

and at the time of the crime he was on bail

for assaulting a police officer

the prosecution argued that Dunn

had been watching tulley,

worked out that he was wagers clerk,

thought he was taking cash to the bank.

Was he carrying cash?

Nope.

And now we find he had five grand

in used fivers in his attic.

Richard Dunn has a vociferous granddaughter

who's been active recently claiming wrongful convictions.

On what grounds?

On the grounds that the police conspired

to pervert the course of justice.

Now, given the new evidence about tulley

we're going to reinvestigate the case.

All the original investigating team are now dead,

but there was a, uh, sergeant collinson who was on the case,

and he was still in the job when you first joined, Jack.

He was my first governor actually.

Really, what was he like?

Oh, he got results.

So, what'd you want.

Uh, Brian, you and I will look at Fred tulley,

see what's known about him,

Gerry, you and Jack re-examine the case

against Richard Dunn, see if it still stands up.

We'd be lucky if there are any witnesses still around

after all this time.

Was it something I said ahead?

Ahead of its time it was,

kept London's electricity flowing for 50 years.

It's amazing to think that they'd build a power station

right in the middle of the city.

Ah, but they had the technology

to tackle environmental issues.

90% of the sulphur was removed from the chimney gases.

Mr. Murray, would you mind if we talked about Fred tulley?

Come in.

Thank you.

[Door slams]

My grandfather Richard Dunn,

was the victim of a massive injustice,

and the truth has been buried for 50 years.

I don't believe that it's gonna be uncovered

by a scratch team of superannuated plods.

[Reporter] So can you tell us

why you're here today, Hannah?

I'm here to petition the home secretary,

for a full scale public inquiry.

Silly cow.

Her bastard grandad was...

Uh, beg pardon, miss.

Don't mind me?

Shit house done.

He shot down Fred tulley like a dog in the street.

What was your job at the power station, mr Murray?

Oh, stoker in the furnace.

I thought the battersea furnaces

were fed by pulverised coal.

Oh yes, they were, state of the art

as they'd say it now,

but the boilers that were installed in the war

they had retort stoker furnaces.

Get away.

That's where I was working.

That's interesting, because you're a-

not now, Brian.

Could Fred tulley, had been involved in something illegal?

Fred tulley, was his honest as the day is long,

and Richard Dunn must be burning in hell.

And I'm looking forward to being chief stoker.

[Brian giggles]

[Knocking on door]

Yes?

Sir Edward.

Mr. Halford, and mr Stanley.

[Jack] Good morning.

Thank you for making time to see us.

I don't think we'll detain each other very long.

In 1953 you were a witness in the case of Richard Dunn,

who was accused of murdering Frederick tulley.

That's correct.

Where re investigating the case

in the light of new evidence,

and we'd like a fresh interview with you,

to see if anything might have been missed or misinterpreted

in the original inquiry.

I regret I will not be cooperating with you

in your investigation.

Why?

Richard John's granddaughter,

Hannah Parker, contacted me sometime ago.

She had severe,

and I must say well substantiated criticisms,

of the way the original police inquiry was conducted.

Well we're going to be looking at that.

Ms. Parker takes the view

that only a full scale public inquiry

can deal with the matter.

She's asked me not to cooperate with you

and your re-investigation.

I must say she was very persuasive.

How do.

All right?

How'd you get on?

The archives of the central electricity generating board

are absolutely fascinating.

Ta-da!

Battersea power station.

[Scoffs] Landmark of London,

secular cathedral,

temple of power,

the 105 megawatt generating set,

that came into operation in 1935,

was the largest unit installed in britain or the continent.

That's not actually what I wanted to know, Brian.

No?

No.

Oh, sorry.

What about the wages office, were there any missing funds?

No.

Okay so we're not looking for a wages clerk

with his hand in the till.

No.

You know why they got rid of these, don't you?

White fibres.

Why?

Because beautiful though they were,

they were too easy to counterfeit.

Now you have told me something useful.

I'll get onto the bank of england see what they can tell us.

So you never actually knew your father, Mrs. Parker?

No, my mother married again.

I didn't find out what my real family history was

until I was a teenager.

It must have been very difficult to deal with?

Yes, it, uh,

it still is,

but if you let the fact

that your dad was hanged for murder rule your life,

then they've killed you as well.

I survived got on with my life,

there was nothing to be ashamed of.

Of course not,

but I'm afraid we do still have to talk about your father.

Yeah, look, my father was a criminal,

but he wasn't a murderer.

That's why we've reopened the case,

that's why we wanted to talk to you.

Obviously it's very difficult to find people

who knew him at this distance in time

we just wondered if you could put us in touch with anyone.

My mother started a new life.

She didn't want it to keep up

with the people that my dad had known,

and what relatives he had that they've all gone now,

so, it's just me and my daughter.

Hannah, she's very committed

to getting the verdict overturned,

she would have been here by now.

But, uh, she's been held up in court.

Anything serious?

She's a solicitor.

Oh I see.

Specialises in civil liberties cases.

Ah.

Does she?

She advised me not to answer any questions

in her absence.

[Phone rings]

Sandra Pullman.

Oh, thanks for getting back to us.

So then it's a genuine?

Really?

No, no, that's terrific, thank you,

you've been a great help.

Cheers, bye.

Well?

Those fibres were taken out of circulation

in the summer of '53, they should have been incinerated.

Where?

Well, in those days they used a furnace

at battersea power station.

[Tense music]

Hello Douglas.

We need to have another word.

When Fred tulley died he was in possession of bank notes,

bank notes that had been withdrawn from circulation,

and should have been incinerated.

You worked on the retort stoker furnace,

as you were telling us.

Oh yes I did sir, correct.

Which is where the bank of england came to dispose

of their bank notes.

Oh, well, it was all a, a long time ago.

Well, I'm sure that'll be taken into consideration

when deciding on further action,

along with whether you've been cooperative or not.

The geezers from the bank of england turn up,

and we have to stand well back while they get on with it.

Now they shoved the money

in the lowest level in the furnace,

then they bugger off thinking the job's done.

But it wasn't?

It's all wrong.

Thick wads of paper don't burn easily,

you have to put them high up in the furnace,

where the temperatures hottest.

When I rake out the ash the next day

I find the money.

So how long did this go on for?

Months and months,

until somebody noticed the were note surviving the process

so they altered the procedure, yeah,

made us stokers put it in at a right level.

Though they never knew we'd been having it away.

And tulley handled it for you?

He reckoned he couldn't fence for us now

laundering they call it now.

I don't see the point of a further police investigation.

Well, we're trying to establish the facts

about Frederick tulley's death,

and there's some new evidence,

which is so in a different light on Mr. Tulley.

I've established the facts I'm interested in,

which show that my grandfather was wrongly convicted.

Then we'd appreciate it

if you'd share your findings with us.

My grandfather was a victim of judicial murder.

It's putting it rather strongly.

Instigated by the police,

so what's required isn't a fresh police whitewash,

it's a public inquiry with evidence out in the open.

[Laughs] Southend.

Did you used to go?

Yeah.

Oh, the curser, what a ride that was, eh.

Yeah, every bank holiday

we'd all bundle into my uncle's Van and go down there,

I used to love it.

Me too.

My idea of a big treat was the

candy floss on the pier.

Sweet tooth, eh?

You know, I really don't think my mother and I

have any more to say to you.

Yes, well if you should change your mind

we'd be delighted to hear from you.

We'll be in touch.

[Children chattering]

Afternoon ms Parker.

Mr. Standing.

I'm trying to tell my girls about it.

I say imagine southend pier,

one of the wonders of the world,

it stretches so far out to sea,

you need a train to get you there and back.

We had a beach hut at shoeburyness.

All I can remember of shoebury is when you went paddling

you could see right across the thames estuary to Kent,

and you had this magnificent view

of sheerness oil refinery.

That's right and then every so often,

there'd be an almighty bang, shell going off.

That's right, from the artillery range down the coast.

Funny idea for a holiday when you think about it, isn't it?

But we were happy.

Yeah, well yeah.

You know, I always thought I had it hard when I was a kid,

but what you had to deal with finding out about your dad

I'm not sure how I would've coped with that.

I'm not sure if I ever did.

I always had the feeling,

that world could suddenly turn upside down on me.

I could never believe in any kind of security,

so I suppose I didn't give it a chance,

that's how I broke up with Hannah's father, really.

Yeah, there's a lot of it about.

That is terrific.

No, no I really appreciate it.

Well as soon as she can find time basically as soon as.

Listen June, I promise you you won't regret this.

We'll do a really good job for you.

Yeah, great.

I'll speak to you soon, bye.

What was all that about?

June has squared it with Hannah.

She's going to cooperate with our investigation,

going to share everything that she's found out.

That's brilliant.

- [Gerry] Yeah. - [Jack] Terrific.

Isn't it?

How does everybody else feel?

How did you swing that, Gerry?

Oh I use the old empathy.

People skills basically, innit? [Chuckles]

Thanks for this Hannah, hopefully you won't regret it.

This is a family matter,

and I'm respecting my mother's wishes.

If it were up to me...

Well let's get on with it, shall we?

- Thank you. - Yeah.

So what's your understanding

of the case against Richard Dunn?

Well within two days of tulley being shot

Richard Dunn was taken in for questioning.

This was on the basis of information received.

From the bookie's runner David walls,

he claimed that Richard Dunn had robbed him at gunpoint.

Well, any investigator would have to follow that up.

Well, go on.

What about material evidence linking

Dunn to the crime scene?

A box of matches with Dunn's fingerprints on

was found near the scene.

Before the arrest?

No, subsequently.

Richard Dunn maintained that he was offered a cigarette,

and a box of matches by detective sergeant collinson,

during one of his interviews.

Collinson and then took the matches back.

Dunn later argued at his trial

that they were planted at the scene.

Well he would say that wouldn't he?

In 1967 the then detective superintendent collinson

was in charge of an investigation into the murder

of a prostitute.

A box of matches with the prime suspects fingerprints

was allegedly found at the scene.

It was later discovered on appeal that the log

of the investigation had mysteriously disappeared.

It would have shown that the matches

were found after rather than before

the prime suspects interview.

That's correct.

Collinson later retired on medical grounds.

I can vouch for the fact that Mr. Collinson

was under very considerable stress.

And what about in 1953?

Was he under stress when he fitted out my grandfather?

I'm in no position to make any comment on that.

You know what, the thing is in the 21st century,

this case would never get to court.

Oh lovely, thank you.

We've got a much of a Murray's prints

on the bands that held the bundle of notes together.

Cooperation.

Doesn't really get us much further though, does it?

No but there's more.

As well as tulley's prints

on the suitcase itself, they think there's a second set.

They're gonna have to do some, uh,

some clever stuff to make them usable.

And they might be from someone entirely unconnected

with the investigation.

As for instance, a railway Porter, a taxi driver,

the vendor of the suitcase, the former owner.

Yeah,

but it's worth pursuing, Brian.

Oh, certainly.

- Sandra. - Eh?

Just there, you know, about the fingerprints.

Mm?

I was telling you stuff you already knew, weren't I,

stuff you could have worked out for yourself?

Strictly speaking, yes.

Well, that was the feedback I was picking up

from your body language.

Oh.

I'm sensitising myself to the reactions of others.

Jolly...

Jolly good.

I thought you'd like that, you know,

Esther's all for it.

We still have the evidence of the guy who found the gun.

Edward chambers, posh background,

national service officer on leave.

I mean are you telling me that the police lent on him

to make him tell porkies?

Very credible witness.

I'm sure the police were delighted when they managed

to manipulate him into making an identification.

His, uh, pa said she could probably find

a window for us this afternoon.

Brian, come and take a look at this.

It's from forensics.

Sorted out those fingerprints.

No, no, look, there's something hidden in the lining

of the suitcase.

Oh, yeah, interesting, do they know what it is?

They think it's a fragment of a document of some kind,

they're going to try and get at it,

but it's a bit of a delicate job.

Thank you for your cooperations, redwood,

bit of a tall order asking you to recall events

of some 50 odd years ago.

No, 50 years ago is easy,

but when you're knocking on a bit,

last week fades into the mist,

don't you find?

So you're still clear about the circumstances

of finding the gun.

Oh, yes.

According to the case papers you were on leave

from the army at the time.

Yes, second lieutenant chambers, 19,

still thoroughly wet behind the ears.

And you caught a number 19 bus from battersea bridge?

Yes, i-I didn't have to go far,

but, um, I was feeling the cold after the tropics.

I went upstairs, I was a smoker in those days,

and I was passed by a man in a hurry in his way to get off.

And this was the man that you later identified

as Richard Dunn?

Yes, yes it was.

Yes, well more of him later.

So you, so you took a seat on the bus?

Yes.

And I thought well this isn't very comfortable,

even by the standards of London transport

that I was aware of.

There was something down the back of the seat,

so I, I felt around and encountered the familiar shape

of a webley service revolver.

Is this the weapon

that was used in evidence?

Yes, the quickly came up the stairs at that point

rather pretty blonde actually.

I told her we needed to contact the police.

Did you describe the man you saw to the police?

Yes, but not in any great detail

because I had no reason take notice of him.

But you subsequently picked Richard Dunn

out in an identity parade.

Yes, the truth is,

that as I was being escorted through the police station

before the identity parade,

I caught a glimpse of a man in handcuffs,

being led down a corridor by the detective collinson.

I thought it was just a chance encounter,

but when Hannah contacted me,

I realised that had been very cleverly staged managed.

And that man was Richard Dunn.

Yes, and when I saw him in the identity parade

I suppose he must be the man.

Collinson was blatantly breaking the rules, yet again.

Was the identification challenged at the trial?

Not with any great vigour,

and I made up my mind that Dunn

was the man I seen leaving the bus, I'm afraid,

and there was so much more evidence against him.

All worthless.

Have to admit it Hannah,

you've done a good job for your grandfather.

Couldn't someone done it better one at the time?

[Giggles] Look what I found.

Candy floss.

But it's a tub, it used to be on a stick.

Yeah, well health and safety,

you know, my mum used to bring us here all the time.

I only really remember the fun fair,

but I thought the park was much bigger.

No, it used to be much smaller

which is true.

And I'll tell you something else, to be honest...

This stuff's disgusting.

Yeah, yeah.

I'll tell you what, why don't we pretend we're grown up,

and go and have a drink.

Yeah.

So where exactly do we stand with this inquiry Sandra?

Well we now know that Fred tulley,

far from being a squeaky clean pillar of society,

was involved in a fiddle with big white fibres.

Which means the motive for killing him

needn't have been a straightforward street robbery.

And the prime suspect Richard Dunn was convicted

on the flimsiest of evidence.

In fact there is no evidence connecting Dunn and tulley

that stands up to serious examination.

The police stitched him up.

Yeah, well as far as policing is concerned

I'm delighted to say that the past is another country.

They do things differently there.

Lp hartley.

He wrote that.

Yeah, I know that Brian.

Oh, sorry.

Right, is there anything else?

Yes, we also know that Douglas Murray was involved

in this scam with tulley and he's been lying about it

for the last 50 years.

Of course, we don't know that Murray's

telling us the truth even now,

maybe he thought he'd been jipped out of the money,

and took it out on tulley.

Of course, that's just speculation on my part.

What does everyone else think?

Well what I think is the budgets aren't infinite,

perhaps we should spend hours on more productive avenues.

Look, look, look, the Dunn family have been living

with a wrongful conviction for 50 years.

Don't you think they're entitled to a complete answer?

Or maybe some things are too deep in the past

to be satisfactorily resolved, Gerry.

We're not here to provide family therapy.

We are still waiting on some forensic material, sir.

Yeah, well the best of luck, but the metres running.

When I tell my kids how I grew up,

you'd think I was talking about another century.

Well you are, actually.

Yeah, [laughs], I suppose technically, yeah.

But have you got a bain-Marie?

A what?

Well what a blender, then?

No.

You've got no kit in this kitchen.

It's a wonder you haven't starved to death.

It's designed for a working woman, not a celebrity chef.

All right, well i'm gonna have to improvise.

Now...

June.

You didn't think it was appropriate to come to my place,

so we've come to your place, and you're still wound up.

I'm sorry

come on, come on,

sit down, have a delicious glass of wine,

and relax.

We're just having a nice meal and a chat,

I mean you're not selling your soul to the devil [laughs].

That's not the way Hannah would see it.

[Door slams]

Hello darling, it's me.

Esther?

[Esther] I'm in here.

Ahem.

Red and white roses?

What?

Oh, Brian.

[Esther sighs]

Mm.

Yeah, that's, that's really good.

And why are you so surprised?

Well, I do wonder.

With all that '50s nostalgia,

I thought it might be brown windsor soup

followed by toad in the hole.

Now they're all limits, the past wasn't that good.

No.

So,

how about the future?

Remind me Gerry,

how many times have you been divorced?

Three.

Yeah, but I didn't have the maturity then.

No.

So, um, what's changed?

Oh everything.

My three marriages went sideways

'cause I was always firing after glamorous glitzy blondes,

but with you it's different.

Oh yeah?

Oh definitely.

I mean you're not my type at all.

That's terrific, Gerry, thank you.

Oh, no, no, I didn't mean that.

I didn't mean-

shh, shh.

When you're in a hole, stop digging.

[Classical music plays]

Oh, Esther, come on, of course, I haven't forgotten

your father's funeral.

It's just the composition

of the floral tribute that slipped me mind.

Esther.

[Jack] Morning.

[Gerry] Morning all.

[Sandra] Morning.

[Brian] This is a turn up.

What is?

Usable prints have been retrieved from the suitcase.

Yeah?

And we've got a much for them.

Richard Dunn.

So there was a connection between him and tulley?

Yeah,

and this puts Dunn right back in the frame.

Oh shit.

Who's gonna tell the family?

Well I suppose I'd better.

Mr. Empathy himself.

Shut up Brian

What this is bullshit?

[Gerry] Oh, Hannah, please.

I knew we should never have cooperated with you

it's a coverup, the establishment just can't admit

it hanged in innocent man.

I'm sorry, but the evidence is very clear.

You people have faked evidence before

and you're faking it again now.

I think you better calm down.

I am taking this matter directly

to the independent police complaints commission.

We are only trying to get at the truth.

We have no more to say to you,

would you please leave my mother's house immediately?

June.

You'd better go.

[Sombre music]

You've told a lot of lies over the years Douglas,

we don't want any more.

You, Fred tulley, Richard Dunn,

you were all in this money scam together, weren't you?

I never met Richard, Fred dealt with him.

What sort of dealings are we talking about?

Well, Richard was villain,

he had contacts who could put the money about, launder it,

take a cut, give us back loaded nomination notes,

we could use without showing out too much.

How did Fred and Richard meet?

Oh well, Fred was having a drink in a pub,

and Richard was knocking out stuff falling off a lorry,

they got talking, felt they could do a bit of business.

How do they get on with each other?

Well, I mean what Fred was up to was white collar,

more like fiddling really.

Richard was more dangerous, you know,

he was, uh, he could use violence.

Are you saying he used or threatened violence

against Fred tulley?

Well somebody did, didn't they?

And you kept quiet about all of this,

during the original investigation, and the trial.

It suited me,

if it looked like a street robbery gone wrong.

Maybe it suited you that Richard Dunn went down for it?

It seemed to me he did it.

I certainly didn't.

You think otherwise, you prove it.

[Phone rings]

Excuse me.

Jack, hi.

Okay, thanks we'll be right there.

We're not finished with you.

[Tense music]

Jack.

This is the document that was found in the lining

of the suitcase.

You can hardly read it,

it's all singed around the edges,

but there's some reference to Kenya,

and the massacre of the kikuyu,

but it's all torn at the bottom,

and there's a date, 6th of the 12th '53.

No, no, hang on, that doesn't make sense,

December 1953 would have been after tulley was killed.

No, no, no.

Not December, June, the 12th of June.

I think this is American.

You know, the way they have the dates

the other way around from us.

As in 9/11.

This is from the American embassy.

How can you know that?

Brian, how on earth could a document

from the American embassy

have found its way into the possession of Fred tulley?

From the power station.

What, battersea power station?

They didn't just burn bank notes there.

The American embassy

used to bring their confidential documents for incineration,

it's all in here.

And this is the first time you thought to mention it.

It's a bit obsessional going on

about power station history, isn't it?

I didn't want to bore people.

I'm trying to sensitise myself to negative feedback.

Sandra!

Something else you haven't told us about dougy.

Ah, yeah, the embassy,

the bank of england, we're just

gentleman amateurs by comparison.

It was a real circus when the yanks came,

convoy of jeeps, armed military police.

And this happened how frequently?

It was part of the routine.

And like the bank notes,

some of these documents clearly survived the furnace.

Well, now and again.

I couldn't see that were worth anything,

but when I told Freddy he said you never know,

they take all that trouble to get rid of this stuff,

might be worth something to somebody.

So you passed the documents to Fred tulley.

What did he do with them?

Search me, I never heard any more about it,

didn't interest me, to be honest,

all I wanted was the bread and honey.

[Brian] 1953, the British army is fighting

the mau mau rebellion, in Kenya.

Yeah but that was all about the natives

getting restless and killing white settlers, wasn't it?

Well the mau mau certainly had blood on their hands.

By the time the state of emergency ended,

they'd killed around a hundred white people,

but also 2000 africans suspected of collaboration

with the colonial authorities.

I'm sorry, but what's this got to do with our case?

Well, hang on Gerry I'm getting there.

What we didn't hear about at the time

was the casualties on the other side,

at least 11000 africans died at the hands

of the colonial authorities, either killed in battle,

or tried, and executed,

or in some cases massacred.

Document's been enhanced listen to this.

"CIA head of station Nairobi,

reports reliable account of killing

of 15 unarmed kikuyu civilians,

in Kenya central highlands, by Somali troops,

under command of British officer..."

And the rest has been torn off.

Our Edward chambers was on leave from the army

when he found the gun and ID'd Richard Dunn.

So if chambers had served in Kenya,

he could be the officer that this document is referring to.

And tulley could have found the document,

and blackmailed chambers.

Did any of you gentlemen actually do national service?

When I was already down for the police, I was exempt.

God no, far too young.

Yeah me too.

You must understand that they did rather drop one in it.

I went from school to national service,

and was shipped out to Kenya to hold down a fraying corner

of the empire.

A mau mau emergency?

The shorthand term for a very complex situation.

Nationalism, tribalism.

Most of the killing

was done by the africans themselves

during the time of the emergency

there were instances of civilians being killed by troops,

under British command

now, certainly that is true.

In fact one British officer was prosecuted for murder

were you ever involved in such an incident?

Certainly not.

You come from a very wealthy family, sir. Edward.

Well, it depends what you're used to really.

But I, I can see the point.

Back in 1953 was any attempt made to blackmail you,

over allegations that you ordered

a massacre of African civilians in Kenya?

What on earth would lead you to suggest that?

This was found in the possession of Frederick tulley

at the time of his death.

I don't see how this implicates me in any conceivable way.

Since you were instrumental

in getting Richard Dunn hanged for killing tulley,

I think it's a remarkable coincidence.

Coincidence,

not very remarkable.

How many people go on about conserving energy,

but this place was pumping its exhaust steam

under the thames to provide hot water

and heating for the council estate in pimlico.

Magnificent.

Of course, the outside appearance

was down to sir giles Gilbert Scott,

architect of liverpool cathedral,

and what he's given us here is a quasi religious building.

A temple of power.

I thought we'd established,

you are interested in power station history?

When it's relevant to the case, Brian.

Here's the bus.

Over here!

God, it takes you back, doesn't it?

You know, it was on the top deck of one of these in 1961

I had my first adult experience.

I don't think I wanna know about that.

I smoked a woodbine.

Look, can we get on with the reconstruction?

Yes.

So, I am Edward chambers,

19 years old, public school boy, officer and gentleman.

We'll use our imaginations.

You're the clippy.

[Bell rings]

Alright then, who are we?

Well that what a couple of passengers on the top deck,

down the front end,

they weren't in a position to see anything

and weren't called as witnesses.

You can be them.

Oh, thanks.

Come on, age before beauty.

Pearl before swine.

[Brian] Hurry up.

Alright, move down the bus.

Now I, lieutenant chambers,

have secreted about my person, the murder weapon,

but far from discovering the gun,

I am in fact attempting to hide it.

[Gerry and Jack laughing]

Any fares, please.

For the webley 38, it's a large weapon,

difficult to wholly conceal.

Now, you're the bus conductress,

what are you concentrating on

when you get to the top deck?

New faces, people who haven't paid yet.

So you're looking at me,

so now I have to make a split second decision.

"Uh, miss, I say..."

"What, guv?"

"I think we're gonna have to call the police."

"Cor, stone the crows."

"Did you notice that man who just got off

was in rather a panic?"

Now, I wouldn't be bothered with someone getting off,

I'd only be interested in the people who hadn't paid.

[Jack] So it was chambers.

Yeah, ds collinson wanted Dunn to go down for it whatever,

so he let chambers see him

on the way to the identity parade.

And chambers is home and dry.

Identifies Dunn, and collinson does the rest.

Well we can tell each other the story

till the cows come home,

are we actually going to be able to make it stand up?

No.

Not with what we got so far.

Douglas Murray's behind all this,

he's a conniving little sod.

Let's have another go at him.

Yeah. Mob handed.

[Children's toy bleeps]

[Dramatic music]

[Door creaks]

Back-up's on the way.

We'd better call an ambulance just to make sure but...

Okay, cheers.

Bye.

Preliminary post-mortem shows,

that Murray died from head injuries

resulting from blunt trauma,

and there's also signs that a TV

and a video recorder went missing.

Or maybe it was a blind,

just to make it look like a burglary.

Now we put chambers in the frame for killing tulley,

because we thought he could have been a blackmail victim

back in '53.

Are you saying Murray was blackmailing him as well?

Well at least it has the virtue of consistency.

No, no, hang on a minute, Murray's been living

in a low rent flat for the last 50 years,

if he had anything on chambers worth money,

what's kept him so long?

I can't answer that.

Are you telling me that, sir. Edwards chambers

jumped in his roller, swanned off down to battersea,

and battered a retired stoker to death?

Do me a favour.

Takes you back, done it?

At least we're not on offer these days.

[Car brakes]

Here we go.

[Police officers talking indistinctly]

[Battering ram banging]

Do you miss it, the old adrenaline rush

when you're on a spin?

No.

I do.

It was an interesting opportunity

to look over different people's houses.

Aye, got your message.

What's going on?

Forensic found a DNA match

at the scene of Murray's murder.

Guy who lives in the house, Ferris,

has got form for violence.

[Sombre music]

That's him!

Didn't they make a wrong number phone call

to make sure he was in?

What do they teach the kids these days?

[Car brakes screeching]

Drive Jack.

Good job's a man on beta blockers.

[Dramatic music]

[Police siren wails]

Armed police, stand still.

All right, all right, all right.

Jason Ferris.

It's quite a file you've got here Jason,

kept yourself very busy.

[Brian] Ooh, a few years in the army.

Including six months in the glass house.

Then civvy street,

civilian crimes, civilian prison.

And then you went abroad for awhile.

Bit of a gap year, was it?

Travel the world,

meet new people, kill them?

You've got it all written down there.

Yes, but we want to hear about it from you.

I spent a few years doing contract work

for security firms.

Where exactly?

Africa mostly.

Sierra Leone, Liberia,

the Democratic republic of Congo.

So what used to be called a mercenary?

Call it what you like.

It says here that you specialise in close protection work,

bodyguard for vips.

Yeah, I've done a bit of that.

You must have met some very interesting people.

That's confidential.

Two years ago your firm provided security

for transnational minerals in the Congo.

The chairman of the transnational board,

sir. Edward chambers, made a high profile visit,

did you meet him?

It's possible.

For the benefit of the tape,

I'm now showing Jason Ferris a newspaper cutting.

That's sir. Edward, on that visit with a bodyguard

at his shoulder.

It's you, isn't it?

I won't argue.

Now let's get serious,

did you burgle Douglas Murray's flat at the instigation

of sir. Edward chambers?

No.

Whatever he's paying,

surely it's not worth all those years inside.

No comment.

Every effort will be made to trace

and seize anything you've earned illegally.

I don't think I have anything more to say to you people.

[Jail cell door slams]

I get offered bodyguards in many of the places I visit.

None of them tend to become personal friends

have you had any dealings with Jason Ferris

since that time?

Not to my recollection.

Has Douglas Murray made a fresh attempt to blackmail you?

No action of mine could have laid me open to blackmail,

therefore there could be no attempt in 1953,

and therefore there'll be no fresh attempt.

It's a matter of record

that kikuyu tribesmen were massacred by British troops

in the emergency.

And kikuyu were massacred by kikuyu,

and so on and so forth.

People weren't civilians or combatants,

they were farm workers by day

and mau mau guerillas by night.

Are you saying there was a justification for what went on?

I'm not a moral philosopher,

but what I can tell you is our experiences in Kenya

produced the tactics for counter insurgency,

and are still being applied.

Dirty tricks for dirty little conflicts,

with no honour or glory.

We're not here to discuss that,

we're here to talk about your responsibility

for two murders.

You killed tulley yourself,

then you contracted Ferris to kill Douglas Murray.

And that's the truth,

isn't it sir. Edward?

Well you've made a quite fascinating trawl

into a long lost world, and I have nothing

but praise for the team's diligence and persistence,

but I've spoken to the cps at the highest level

and there's no prospect of bringing charges against

sir. Edward chambers.

You've got nothing that'll stand up in court.

We are still investigating.

Nor are you likely to find anything substantial

at this distance in time.

A man was hanged on corrupt evidence.

Exactly.

The investigation and trial of Richard Dunn

is a totally separate issue.

The papers will be handed to the home office

and there's every possibility

that the verdict will be overturned.

The family may well be in line

to make a claim for compensation.

But that's not what they want, they want justice,

and justice is nailing the bugger who really did it.

All right, Gerry, that's enough.

Win some, lose some,

the further pursuit of this inquiry

is not in the public interest, end of story.

[Gerry scoffs]

[Sombre music]

[June] Hi.

Hi, I'm so glad you got in touch.

I just wanted a chance to tell you-

don't, Gerry, it wouldn't have worked out.

I've done emotional upheaval, I want a quiet life,

and you are not the man for that.

No, but I'm getting quieter all the time, I promise.

Listen in a couple of years you're gonna have

to keep checking my pulse.

It's not a runner Gerry, you know that.

So, why all the secrecy, the hush-hush meeting,

I was hoping that you were going to say-

Hannah sent me, and she wants it keep strictly unofficial.

Well, if she's got something for us.

It's a bit difficult, because officially we're off the case.

Sir. Edward's a very influential man.

Can't comment on that.

All right.

What does Hannah want me to do?

She doesn't want you to do anything.

She wants something from you.

Have you seen this?

Yeah it's all over the net as well.

Hannah Parker's website.

She had a letter from Douglas Murray

only to be opened in the event of his death.

Murray had the other half of the document all the time.

Which stated that the Somali troops

were under the command of lieutenant Edward chambers.

Fred tulley had left it with Murray,

but Murray never understood the meaning of it.

Until we showed him the half we found in the suitcase,

and that was when he tried to put the black on sir. Edward.

All the African countries that chambers does business with

are up in arms and he's had to resign

as chairman of ec mining limited.

So there is a bit of justice left in the world.

Nevermind about justice,

the point is how the hell did Hannah Parker

get hold of our half of the document, eh?

Nothing to do with me sir, I'm can assure you of that.

Strickland.

[Playful music]

Yes, thanks.

Hannah Parker is on the BBC news.

I'm not prepared to reveal my sources,

but I will say that even in

the most reactionary, corrupt and incompetent institutions,

that there are one or two individuals

who still know the meaning of integrity.

[Gerry sighs]

♪ It's all right, it's okay ♪

♪ doesn't really matter if you're old and grey ♪

♪ it's all right, I say it's okay ♪

♪ listen to what I say ♪

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♪ doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine ♪

♪ it's all right, I say it's okay ♪

♪ we're getting to the end of the day ♪

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♪ 'cause you can't teach an old dog a brand new trick ♪

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