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I'm Chief Superintendent
Bob Taylor.

An incident room is 24 hours a day,
seven days a week.

And our job is to catch the killer.

I've worked on over 100 murders
in my 26-year career in CID,

but this case stands out
because it's the brutality.

A woman should be able to feel safe
in her own home.

Wendy Speakes. 51 years old.

A single woman.

Divorcee. Lived alone.

She was stabbed to death.

ADRIAN BOWER:
'The incident room is at the heart

'of any major police inquiry.'

The incident room is the nerve
centre of the investigation.

You will live and breathe it.

'A place where the most shocking
crimes are unravelled...'

There was a skull, shoulder bone and
clavicle found lying in the open.

This may be part of a series,
and he may strike again.

'..Suspects are located...'

"You aren't going to believe this,
we've got a hit. It's 100%."

'..And murderers are interrogated.'

WOMAN: This is a different beast
altogether.

INTERVIEWER:
Did you kill Julie Hogg?

He was obviously thinking,
"If I make a mistake here,

“I'm gonna face life in prison."

'Step into the shoes of detectives
hunting down ruthless killers."

BOB TAYLOR: The monster's inside.
That's the bit you can't see.

MAN: He's a man
whose violence knows no ends.

'This is the incident room.'

We've got blood. We've got DNA.
We've got witnesses.

We've got everything.

But we've got nothing.

'In this episode,

'a high-profile murder puts
an incident room under pressure.'

BOB TAYLOR: This particular case
was so horrific, brutal.

A woman attacked and killed
in her own home.

'A northern city
is paralysed by fear.'

REPORTER: Police are warning women
in the area to take extra care.

It scared a whole community.
It scared a whole county, Yorkshire.

'The hunt for a killer,
who blends in with the crowd...'

BOB TAYLOR: This man
does not look like a monster.

And if he was a monster,
she would have shut the door.

'..And who leaves behind
a trail of puzzling clues...'

On Wendy's body
were found these blue shoes.

The daughter's absolutely adamant
they didn't belong to the mum.

'..leaving detectives consumed
by a manhunt that lasts for years.'

We scoured the country.
We went to Europe.

We tried everywhere.

BOB TAYLOR:
When it grips you, it grips you.

At times, I would have said

I would have put the investigation
before me family.

REPORTER:
News on the hour.

We're receiving reports that
a 51-year-old woman

has been found murdered
at her home in Wakefield.

We'll bring you more
when we have it.

'Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in 1994.

'Police are called
after the body of Wendy Speakes

'is discovered by work colleagues
in her home.

'Detective Chief Superintendent
Bob Taylor

'is brought in
to lead the investigation.'

BOB TAYLOR: My officers arrived
at Wendy Speakes' house

in the afternoon of 16th March.

The area had been cordoned off.

House-to-house inquiries
were being commenced.

She had been brutally murdered.

'The incident room

"at Wood Street Police Station
in Wakefield is opened.'

BOB TAYLOR: We had 24 officers
seconded from various stations.

Generally, I wouldn't take a day off

for probably the first three weeks
of a murder,

because I wanted to be there,

I wanted to be on top of it
all the time.

'One of the first detectives
from the incident room

'to visit the crime scene
was Paul Johnston.'

PAUL JOHNSTON:
I was Detective Inspector.

I worked on the Wendy Speakes murder
from day one.

Wendy had been found upstairs
laying face-down on a bed.

She'd been stabbed
in her back and her neck,

seriously sexually assaulted.

On the bed was some stockings

that had looked like
they'd been tied in a noose,

as if they'd been used
as restraints.

And also a piece of pink candlewick,

which we think was used as a gag.

And our job was to start
piecing together the investigation

to find the person
who had done this to Wendy.

'Wendy's daughter, Tracey,
arrives at the police station,

"where the incident room
is up and running.'

And I remember ending up

being in a room, sitting,
holding my husband's hand.

And then Bob came into the room
and he sat down,

and then he told us
that they'd found Mum.

He explained that Mum
had been raped and stabbed to death.

I remember he just reassured us that

he would catch the man
who'd murdered our mum.

'The crime scene will be critical
in the race to identify the killer.

'The team review slides that may
hold the key to who killed Wendy.'

BOB TAYLOR: When I arrived at
the scene, it was raining heavily.

I came in through
the conservatory here.

I went up the stairs,

I looked through the doorway,
I could see Wendy's body.

You could see
this was quite a small room.

It certainly wasn't
Wendy's normal bedroom.

I think she expected
she was gonna be sexually assaulted,

and she didn't want it happening
in her own bed.

Nowhere at the scene
did I see any signs of a struggle.

Whatever Wendy thought
was gonna happen to her...

...I don't think she thought
she was gonna die,

otherwise I think
she would have fought.

He came prepared
to commit a premeditated act.

He brought a knife.
He brought a gag.

He had all the tools with him.

I've no doubt he decided he was
gonna go out and rape and kill.

This guy was, without doubt,
a monster.

'So-called strange murders
are very rare in Britain.

'Most victims
are known to the killer.'

You start every investigation
exactly the same.

You have to assume

there is a connection
between the victim and the killer.

He asked me whether Mum was married,

whether she had a boyfriend,
maybe that they'd split up.

BOB TAYLOR:
We interviewed Wendy's ex-husband.

He had an alibi.

TRACEY: So, they were looking
for someone else,

maybe an acquaintance,
someone she'd worked with.

Anyone that we could think of
that might harm Mum.

BOB TAYLOR: You have to eliminate
those connections,

which we did.

She didn't have any skeletons
in the cupboard.

She didn't have anyone
who didn't like her.

There was certainly
no obvious person in the frame.

And I was becoming convinced
this was a stranger murder.

That's when the case
really opens up.

'Soon, the incident room
will have a witness

'with a potentially critical lead.'

The clothing
that the suspect was wearing

is the same as the clothing

that they used to release you
from Wakefield Prison.

The category of prisoners,
they're all high-risk.

"And the prison is less than half a
mile away from Wendy's front door.'

ADRIAN BOWER: 'March, 1994.

'A city is in fear

'after the brutal murder
of 51-year-old Wendy Speakes.'

The community in Wakefield
was at their wits' end.

You know, they really had no idea,

and nor did we, whether
the same thing was gonna happen

to some other poor,
unfortunate woman in her own home.

So, there's a massive degree
of pressure upon you

to find out who did it
as quickly as you can.

'In the incident room,

'detectives are working round
the clock to identify the killer.

'Wendy's close friends and family

'have been eliminated
as potential suspects.

'It's feared her murder
may have been a random attack.'

If there is a connection
between the victim

and the killer,
we'd expect to find them in a week.

You know you're in for a hard haul
if it's a stranger murder.

And the more I looked at it,

the more I was beginning to believe
this is what we'd got.

'Detectives carry out
door-to-door inquiries

'in the hope that someone
may have seen the killer.'

PAUL JOHNSTON:
It's imperative to identify anyone

who might have seen anything
suspicious at all.

The house-to-house inquiries
identified a witness

in the building
opposite Wendy's house.

And that witness saw Wendy
stood at this front door here...

...with a man in front of her.

He noticed that
Wendy was wearing carpet slippers.

The witness saw the same man
go down the side of the house.

And Wendy actually
peered round the corner,

as if watching the man
go up the road.

She watched him
go past the end of the house

and towards the conservatory
at the back there.

This was about 6:20 in the evening.

So, half an hour later,

the witness saw that same man
come out of this door here.

And then he turned
and ran up this hill,

underneath the railway bridge,
out of the witness's sight.

The witness described the man
as a white male,

about 35 to 45 years old,

medium build,

about 5' 6" to 5' 9" in height.

He couldn't describe him facially.

But he was able
to describe his clothing,

particularly a jacket,

which was typical
of the type of jacket

that is often issued to prisoners
when they're released from prison.

Which was, obviously, another
major line of inquiry for us,

given that Wakefield Prison

is about 500 yards away
from Wendy's front door.

'Whilst detectives searched
for Wendy's killer,

'her daughter, Tracey,
has to come to terms

'with her mother now being the focus
of a murder investigation.'

She was my mum,
and did everything mums do.

But she was also, like,
my best friend.

I spoke to her every day.

Always a little phone call
when I moved down to Essex.

Throughout our whole lives,
we'd been really, really close.

She was one of the kindest,
most sweetest people

you've ever met in your life.

We used to go
on our holidays together,

me and my sister with my mum,
and my grandma and grandad as well.

She loved Scarborough.

And she gave me away at my wedding.

She was fretting about
having to do a really nice speech

and would she let me down.

And I said, "No, Mum,
you've never let me down, ever."

And, like, she was at my side.
She was at my side throughout.

And then she stood up
and gave this fantastic speech.

Never in a million years
did you imagine that,

you know, your wedding video
is gonna end up on Crimewatch.

And it was to try and find the man
that had murdered my mum.

'The detectives are focused
on tracing the suspect

'seen leaving Wendy's house.

'One line of inquiry

'is that he may be linked
to the notorious local prison.'

This is Wakefield Prison
in front of us.

Category A prisoners,
they're all high-risk prisoners.

'The prison is know locally
as Monster Mansion...

'..due to the number of
high-risk offenders and murderers

'kept behind its doors.

'Former inmates include
Charles Bronson and Jeremy Bamber.'

BOB TAYLOR:
We had no leads initially,

but we'd got lots of suspects.

And, of course,
another complication was that

the clothing that
the suspect was wearing

is the same as the clothing

that they used to release them
into hostels from Wakefield Prison.

So, we would have to raise an action
to trace them,

where they're living,
interview them,

establish whether
they've got an alibi or not.

'Officers in the incident room

'are given the task of eliminating
scores of registered sex offenders

'who live in the city.'

Bearing in mind that these people
working on this inquiry,

every door they knocked on
could be potentially the murderer,

so, there's a lot of tension.

'Meanwhile, the wider investigation

'is attracting a lot of attention
from the public.'

REPORTER: Much of the inquiry
hinges on a mystery man

seen calling at her home
between six and seven.

A witness in the printing firm
across the road

saw the man walk up behind the house
before talking to Mrs Speakes.

Police are warning women in the area
to take extra care.

BOB TAYLOR:
So, as a result of that,

we did get a call from a woman

who can only be called Woman A.

A man had tried to gain entrance
to her house.

The man was very much
the same description as our suspect.

When she went to work that morning,
she'd seen this man.

He walked past her a couple of times
at the bus stop.

She goes to work in Wakefield.

She finished work.

And then she arrived home by bus
at five o'clock.

Within seconds of her arriving home,
there's a knock on the door.

And there's this man.
He's asking,

"Does she know
this particular address?”

During the course
of this conversation,

she suddenly realises,

"This is the same man
who walked past me

"at the bus stop this morning.”

The alarm bells
are starting to ring now.

But she was so frightened.

She couldn't move.

And then her dog barked.

It broke her out of this spell,

and she realised she'd got to
get this man away from her door.

So, she slammed the door shut.

And, of course, we're thinking,

"Well, is that what he did
at Wendy's house?”

When she went back from the door,

he pushed her
from the real world into his world.

In my opinion,
she was the first-choice victim.

She was able to give an E-fit.

And that is what she produced.

That was our prime suspect.

"Detectives believed the suspect
may be a stalker,

'and they call in a forensic
psychiatrist to learn more.'

MAN: The job of the prof tier
is not to play at being detective,

it's to take the information
of the case

and focus on details which is then

useful to the investigation

in terms of generating
lines of inquiry.

Stalking, in this case,
is interesting.

It has both a sort of
practical aspect,

in that you're identifying a victim.

But there's also
a degree of sexual gratification

to be obtained from stalking.

You go through a process
of following a person,

or picking a person out,

and imagining what you could do
if the opportunity presented itself.

BOB TAYLOR:
It's likely that Woman A

and Wendy
were part of a stalking program me.

And he would probably have stalked
both of them previously.

But, of course,
his stalking of Woman A

ended when she shut the door.

So, he quickly reverted to
another one of his stalking victims.

He could have been stalking
numerous people.

'The profile helps investigators

'understand the killer's
state of mind.

'But hard evidence
will be needed to identify him.'

PAUL JOHNSTON: A major element
of any major crime investigation

is the initial
crime scene examination.

They coin it "the golden hour",

cos, literally, it's
your opportunity as an investigator

to get everything out of
the crime scene you possibly can.

WOMAN: Here we've got
the pair of stockings.

They were knotted into a loop,

as if it could be put around
wrists or ankles

in some sort of way
to restrain her movement.

There was an imprint of a knife
on the bedspread,

that he'd used to stab Wendy,

that didn't belong to the house.

We never found the knife.
It was never recovered.

On Wendy's body
were found these blue shoes.

The daughter's absolutely adamant
they didn't belong to the mum.

We established that
they'd actually been bought

from a charity shop in Wakefield
a few days before.

So we then realised that

shoes were a significant element
to the investigation.

'With exhibits from the crime scene
removed,

'investigators analysed
every surface inside the house

'for fingerprints, blood, and DNA.'

It was our job to find any traces
that there might have been

of whoever did this.

Now, the only way to do that
was to take the house to pieces.

It had to be done.

I remember even having the wallpaper
taken off the walls.

But that resulted in us finding

the fragmentary fingerprint mark
on the underside of the door handle

on the inside of the house.

There was a tiny speck of blood

not all that far away from it
on the door frame.

So, the two together indicated

that perhaps they'd been left there
by the murderer.

One of the things that
was clearly evident at the scene

was there was a lot of blood.

There was also semen found.

They did DNA profiling of the blood
to see if that matched Wendy.

It was a male profile, not Wendy's.

In 1994,
DNA was very much in its infancy.

And similarly,
with the fingerprints,

they'd have to be on the fingerprint
database to be able to be picked up.

There was no hit
for both DNA and fingerprint.

This person had no criminal record.

We've got an E-fit.
We've got a partial fingerprint.

We've got blood.

We've got DNA.

We've got witnesses
who've seen this man.

We've got everything.

But we've got nothing.

Cos we haven't found him.

"And fear was spreading about
the killer who was still at large."

TRACEY: Companies were getting taxis
to get their workers home safe,

because nobody knew
who this person was.

It scared a whole community.

It's scared a whole county,
Yorkshire.

ADRIAN BOWER: 'In March 1994, Wendy
Speakes has been brutally murdered,

'leaving a family in mourning
and a city in fear.

'The incident room has the killer's
blood and a partial fingerprint

'from the scene.

"But there is no match
on the national database.'

Our experience was that

people don't suddenly
jump into this level

of offending.

But we could find nothing at all.

We had the DNA from the scene.

That didn't match any other
crime scene that we knew of.

'Police rule out all ex-offenders
from Wakefield Prison.

'The killer is still at large."

BOB TAYLOR: The mood in Wakefield
was very sombre.

People were shocked

that such an horrific crime could
have been committed in Wakefield.

TRACEY:
Even companies were getting taxis

to get their workers home safe,

because nobody knew
who this person was.

It scared a whole community.
It scared a whole county, Yorkshire.

This was just 15 years, really,

after Peter Sutcliffe,
the Yorkshire Ripper,

had finally been caught,

and we'd had all those years
of being told,

"Don't go out on the streets
on your own at night."

And there, suddenly,
not that long after,

everybody was terrified of who
might be standing on the doorstep.

There was a great frustration,
certainly by the police,

that there was no record of this man
at all on any DNA register.

'The inquiry needs to reach the
public to help generate new leads.'

One of the most important things,
the media.

The media strategy
brought us a lot of information.

REPORTER:
The inquiry turned to houses

on the Flanshaw Estate in Wakefield,

following news that a man
fitting the description

tried to get into a house
belonging to a 24-year-old woman.

CHRISTINE TALBOT:
It was a huge news story.

It was our lead every night.

It was the lead in the Yorkshire
Post and the Wakefield Express.

Everybody wanted to help find
this very dangerous person

and get him off the streets.

'The Photofit appears in newspapers,
on television,

'in pubs, bus stops, and shops,

'in the hope that
someone will identify the man

'responsible for Wendy's death."

BOB TAYLOR:
Believe me, once you issue an E-fit,

you will generate anybody

who's got anybody who looks like it
will ring them in.

Fortunately, we had quite
a simple method of eliminating them.

A blood sample or a hair sample.

In the six months after the murder,

we must have done
about 2,000 people.

Which was good.

But it wasn't getting us
any nearer to the killer.

'The inquiry has amassed
a mountain of evidence,

'but still has no viable suspect.

'Detectives in the incident room
know there are hard miles ahead.

'They decide to return
to the forensic psychiatrist

'for insight into the mind
of the man they are hunting.'

BOB TAYLOR:
We briefed him on the case.

We showed him the photographs
of the scene.

What I'm always focused on, pretty
much from the outset, is motive.

What you need
is very much the what and how

in order to build up a picture
of why.

A pair of shoes appeared
at the scene which were not Wendy's.

The shoe cupboard
had been ransacked.

And that suggested quite strongly

that the person
was a shoe fetishist.

BOB TAYLOR: Richard Babcock
brought me into the world

of the shoe fetish.

He was quite sure that
everything in that scene

was part of a fantasy killing.

CHRISTINE TALBOT:
I remember being in the newsroom

when the footage first came in
of the press conference

that the SIO, Bob Taylor,
had held...

Reporter: Police said they were
anxious to speak to a mystery man.

CHRISTINE TALBOT: ..at which he'd
revealed a photo of the blue mules.

The fact that he actually
brought them to the scene,

knowing what
he was gonna do with them,

I remember that we all just looked
at each other in absolute shock.

And I thought,
"This is a very different beast.

"This is a different beast
altogether."

RICHARD BABCOCK:
The whole point of a fetish

is that it's a physical object
that you need to be with you

when you have a sexual experience

in order to achieve
full sexual gratification.

There were multiple stabbings.

There was a lot of rage involved.

The experience,
it was tension releasing to him.

The whole thing was very reminiscent
of a displaced state of...

...rage against, not a real-life
relationship with Wendy,

but a displaced relationship from
another relationship with a woman.

That was the...

primary motivating force
behind the killing of Wendy.

BOB TAYLOR: This man
does not look like a monster.

And if he was a monster,
she would have shut the door.

RICHARD BABCOCK:
It's a bit of a natural assumption

to think that somebody
who does something this extreme

must be monstrous,

not just in their actions here,

but in their general life
and in their appearance.

BOB TAYLOR: The one thing
Richard said to me was this,

"He left a lot of clues
at the scene.

"Don't expect to find that many
next time.

"He will have learnt.

"This may be part of a series,
and he may strike again.”

'And then,
detectives learn Wendy's killer

'may have already tried
to claim another victim.'

WOMAN:
It was a Wednesday afternoon.

And there was a knock
on the front door.

So, I got up, I went to the door,
I opened the door,

and there was a man standing there

with a piece of paper in his hands.

And he said,
"Oh, I'm looking for directions."

The first thing I noticed about him
was his eyes.

They were really dark
and quite piercing.

My gut was just telling me
that something...

...was not right about him.

I couldn't put my finger on it.

While I was talking to him,
he was...

not looking at me,
he was looking sort of behind me,

like he was looking to see if
there was anybody else in the house.

And I looked down

and one of his feet was sort of
shuffling towards the threshold.

And then, as I looked at him,
and he was looking behind me...

...he tipped up this piece of paper,
and there was nothing written on it.

And that was when I knew that
there was something clearly wrong.

So, I literally moved,
shut the door in his face,

and locked it.

I rang the police.

The police came.

I did an E-fit.

I had to do statements.

I went up to the police station.

I looked through loads of photos.

But nothing.
Nothing came of it.

'With active lines of inquiry
running out,

'the detectives
are released back to Division,

'and hope now rests on
the fingerprint and DNA sample.'

CHRISTINE TALBOT:
Everything did eventually go quiet.

He'd just disappeared completely
and gone off the radar again.

I think he'd left everybody
with that fear

that he could come back again
one day.

BOB TAYLOR:
12 months on from Wendy's murder...

...we've worked all the leads
that we've got.

We've still got
information coming in,

but nothing is startling or hot.

So, yes, it's very disappointing.

At times, I would have said

I would have put the investigation
before me family.

I know that's
and awful thing to say,

but when it grips you, it grips you.

'As detectives are redeployed,

'a skeleton team
is left on the investigation.'

PAUL JOHNSTON: We scoured
the country. We went to Europe.

We tried everywhere.

BOB TAYLOR: Every similar murder
that came up, we checked.

I even checked suicides.

We thought the remorse
might have been too much.

We got anybody
who fitted the description.

So, we left no stone unturned.

But still no sign of our man.

I think the fact that
every day I got up and felt,

"This is the day they'll get him,"”
I think kept me going.

I'm not just disappointed for myself
or the officers.

I'm really disappointed for Tracey

that we haven't been able
to deliver.

And the burden is quite heavy.

I still had 100% faith in the fact
they were gonna catch him.

Because he told me that day
in the incident room,

when he sat me down with my sister
and said,

"I will find the man
who killed your mum.”

'In the background,

'the Fingerprint Bureau
is still running checks

'against the national database.'

Technology wasn't as good then
as it is now.

They worked tirelessly on that.

It became a matter of routine
for them,

again, again, again,
every, single day.

'Weeks, months, years pass.

'And then a breakthrough.'

BOB TAYLOR: A man is drinking
in a pub in Bradford.

And he's openly boasting
about drinking and driving.

What he didn't know was that
one of the people he's boasting to

was a police officer...

...who quickly arranged for him
to be arrested when he left the pub.

So, after six years...

...thousands of suspects eliminated,
hundreds of witnesses spoken to...

...and then it all changed.

One Friday afternoon,
the phone rings.

"Oh, hello.”

It's the guy
from the Fingerprint Bureau.

He says, "You're the SIO
on the Wendy Speakes murder?"

"Yes, I am."

"Well, we've identified him."

Well, I have to tell you, you know,

I ain't got a lot of hair,
but it stood on end.

I said, "Is the fingerprint
good enough for court?'

"Oh, yes, it is."

So, he's got some answering to do.

How did his fingerprint
get on the inside of Wendy's door?

So I'm thinking, "Right, who is he?"

And that's when the name...

...Christopher John Farrow.

"We've got you, you bastard!"

ADRIAN BOWER:
'It's the year 2000,

'and six years since Wendy Speakes
was murdered in her own home,

'the incident room finally gets the
breakthrough it's been waiting for.'

BOB TAYLOR:
The fingerprint officer rings me.

"We've got a match.

"Christopher John Farrow.

"This is our man."

PAUL JOHNSTON:
We identified where he lived.

He lived in Cookridge in Leeds.

I immediately got together
some of my best officers,

some who knew the case
back to front,

who'd been involved in it
for all those years.

And the following morning,
at five o'clock,

we were in that house
and arrested him.

BOB TAYLOR:
Officers knocked on the door,

and he pulled the curtain back.

And when they saw his face,
the first instinct was,

"He's an absolute double
of the E-fit."

PAUL JOHNSTON: He didn't ask why,
he didn't kick up a fuss,

as you'd expect someone to do,

especially being turfed out
in the early hours of the morning.

It just increases your gut feeling
that you've got the right person.

'Detectives finally
come face to face

'with the man they'd been hunting
for six years.'

BOB TAYLOR: Christopher Farrow,
a very ordinary individual.

Of course,
it's what's behind the eyes.

The monster's inside.

That's the bit you can't see.

And this guy was, without doubt,
a monster.

'The incident room
can place Farrow at Wendy's house.

'But it's not enough
to charge him with murder.

'They need more.'

PAUL JOHNSTON: There were two
key aspects that we wanted.

One, his explanation
as to how his fingerprint

could have got in Wendy's house.

And two, a blood sample from him so
we could do the forensic analysis.

I did know that
he had been at one time, anyway,

a painter and decorator.

And I had this horrible thought

that maybe
he'd been in Wendy's house

for a legitimate reason
at some stage

and managed to leave his fingerprint
on the way out.

'Farrow has the right
to remain silent.

'But instead, he decides to engage.'

PAUL JOHNSTON: He was very calm
throughout the whole interview.

Very quiet.

Very passive.

Completely emotionless.

And when he was asked specifically,
"Do you know Wendy Speakes?

"Have you ever been to Wakefield?

"Have you ever been in her house
on Barn Lane?"

And he just looked straight at us
and said, "No.

"I've never even been to Wakefield."

Well...

...that really meant, straightaway,

that any excuse he could have had

of having legitimate access
to the house

and leaving his fingerprint
inside the house had gone.

BOB TAYLOR:
It's then explained to him

about the fingerprints
on the inside of the door,

on an immovable object.

Still nothing.

What we needed was just that
final icing on the cake,

that the DNA that he left
at the scene of the murder

actually came from him.

So, once the blood
was out of his arm,

we had it shipped down to the
laboratory in London by motorbike.

And I remember, just whilst
the interview was going on,

keeping an eye out
for the phone ringing

or anyone coming into the office
and say,

"We've got a hit,"
or, "We haven't got a hit."

BOB TAYLOR: There's a phone call
from the forensic lab to say

his blood is the same
as the blood at the scene.

So, this is put to him.

PAUL JOHNSTON:
"Look, we know it was you

"because we've got forensic proof
that it was you."

All of a sudden,
you could see the coldness in him.

And, er, he just turned round
and says, "Yeah, it was me."

You know, after all those years,

you've eventually got someone
who's saying, "Yes, it was me."

Farrow has never, ever...

...explained why he did what he did,

why he chose Wendy Speakes,

even why he was in Wakefield.

And I remember thinking,

"You've come across
as a very placid type of individual.

"But now that it's undoubtedly you
and it's proven to be you,

"all you can do is say,

" 'Someone was gonna get it
that day.' "

BOB TAYLOR:
He admitted the murder,

but still insisted
he didn't have a shoe fetish.

He explains that his partner
was about eight months pregnant

and was turning sex down,

so he'd decided he'd go
and he'd rape a woman.

RICHARD BABCOCK: In his eyes,
the killing was something

that he'd been forced to do

because of the way he'd been treated
by other women.

DOOR BANGS SHUT

'Farrow was charged
with the murder of Wendy Speakes.

'In November 2000, he goes on trial
at Leeds Crown Court.'

TRACEY: He came briefly
into the witness box.

And he didn't say anything.
I think they said...

They read the charges to him,

and he just said, "Guilty".

And he wouldn't give me eye contact.

He didn't say sorry.
He didn't look at the family.

He never once
would look me in the eye.

He just looked at the judge, said,
"Guilty",

and then was taken away again
and that was it.

That was it.

CHRISTINE TALBOT:
He'd decided to plead guilty,

so he didn't actually have
a full trial in court.

So, a lot of the questions

about what he was doing there,
why he did it,

we wanted those questions answered,
and they weren't.

TRACEY: And I remember,
as he came out of the van...

...I remember
he wasn't that far from me.

And I just kept looking at him
thinking,

"That's the last person
my mam saw...

"..before she died."

'Christopher Farrow
receives a life sentence

'with a minimum term of 18 years
for the murder of Wendy Speakes.

'He also receives
two 14-year sentences

'for rape
and other serious sexual of fences,

'and four years for attempted
burglary at Woman A's house.'

TRACEY:
I didn't understand the system.

I thought life meant life,
so he'll stay in prison for ever.

Because 18 was the longest sentence,
and the others were concurrent...

if he'd have been serving
the sentences consecutively,

and not concurrently,

he'd still be in prison
for 50-odd years.

Which is the right sentence
for someone like that.

As a person,
I think Farrow is an animal.

And this predatory killer
takes her life needlessly,

just to satisfy
his own sexual urges.

And destroys a family.

Totally destroys a family.

He has not shown any remorse.

I don't think
he's fit to be released, ever.

I don't think a woman is safe
from this man.

TRACEY: Me and my mum and my sister
used to come here on our holidays.

We used to walk up to the castle.

And she just loved Scarborough.

It was so peaceful.

She loved the sound of the seagulls.

And we always used to come and visit
Anne Bronte's grave,

cos Mum always found it so sad
that she'd died so young.

And then we'd walk round the castle,

and Mum loved the bit
where the castle splits

and you can see
both bays of the sea.

And that's where she said she wanted
to have her ashes scattered.

She had a lovely life up until...

you know, that awful day in March.

And she had a lovely life
ahead of her

with her family
and to be a grandma.

But, erm...

that's why I will
never let her be forgotten.

TRACEY: My mum believed in
an eye for an eye.

I think a lot of people
believe in an eye for an eye,

especially when it's your loved one

that's been murdered
in such a horrific way.

And I was never given that option.
So, the only option I have

is he stays in prison
and we throw away the key.

And that's what
I'll continue to fight for.