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This program me contains scenes which
some viewers may find upsetting

A whole body in a sealed freezer.

It's shocking.

It really is.

West Midlands Police forensic lead
Sonia Parkinson

has been called to investigate the
discovery of a body at a waste site.

You couldn't expect anyone
to visually identify them.

I mean, for one thing, it's just
too harrowing for someone.

You can just see how
emaciated the person is.

Almost skeletal.

Someone's died
and the body has been concealed.

Who would do that?

Why?

Have they been murdered
and put in there to hide them?

The death is suspicious,
so we need to find out

who it was and how they've ended up

being stored in a freezer.

Forensics don't lie.

We recover evidence
and the evidence tells a story.

A search of the skip yard records

shows that the freezer was dropped
off by a council removal team.

Right.

With the body removed
for a postmortem,

Sonia and the team can start
to examine the freezer.

It smells as well. Mm.

This is going to need
to be recovered.

We've got some flies from, like,
from this edge, I think.

Ancl we've still got some
liquid in there, haven't we?

We need to take a sample of that.

Obviously, the freezer
had defrosted,

the body had been removed

so all that is left
is putrefied body...

...which would indicate that
it's been there for some time.

The sample could provide a
DNA profile of the deceased,

but there's a risk its DNA volume
might already be lost

due to decomposition.

Everything degrades
over a matter of time

and that's the same for
forensic evidence, really.

Well, I know a couple of these
have come from the scene

along with the freezer.

Yeah, it's there. It's the contents
of these bags, I think.

The bags brought to the site
with the freezer

will be examined for evidence,
which may help identify the body.

Or the person who
placed it in the freezer.

You want to be able to do your job
to the best of your ability.

Any sort of evidence that's there,
you don't want to miss it.

You want to get everything that you
can to get justice for the person.

Fingerprints.

We're looking
for any potential DNA -

drinks bottles,

erm, paperwork.

The problem is
we've got contamination

because it's a skip yard that has
rubbish delivered on a daily basis

from around the West Midlands.

There are lots of things at a scene

that probably are completely
irrelevant to us.

It's got maggots all around it,
like around the stitching and stuff.

We know the body's decomposed,

but we don't know how long
it's been there.

Weird, isn't it? Yeah. Why's it
got maggots? Why's maggots...? Yeah.

Ancl maggots can give us
an idea of time of death.

The flies lay the eggs on the body,

the eggs turn into maggots,

feed off the body
cos it's full of nutrients.

They then revert back into flies
and the whole cycle goes.

Ancl depending on how many maggots
we have

and what type of maggots they are,

we can normally tell
what cycle it's in.

With the site search concluded,
the freezer can be removed

to look for clues of who the
deceased is and how they died.

Could there be
fingerprints on the freezer?

Were they alive
when they were put in that freezer?

If we find other people's
fingerprints there, then why?

What connection have they got
with that person's death?

The forensic postmortem begins with
an initial examination of the body.

Certainly profoundly decomposed.

He's got a sock on his hand. Yeah.

Strange.

Forensic pathologist Dr Matt Lyall
notes physical features,

which could help identify
the deceased.

Over the course of my career
I've undertaken a thousand or so

specifically forensic examinations.

I've never...

...seen a case quite like it before.

Certainly quite frail-looking.

The body is a very important
piece of evidence.

You will often get clues
as to why they have died.

The body was that of...

...an adult male, probably white.

Likely more advanced years.

The head hair
appeared to be grey-white.

A greying short moustache
and beard were evident.

We try to find clues
as to the identity of the body.

Does he have tattoos
that might assist us?

Are there scars on the body
that suggest previous surgery?

It might be a little scar.
It's not the best.

The body was clearly altered
by decompositional change,

with widespread discolouration

of the skin's surface.

What happens with decomposition

is largely driven by bacteria.

Those bacteria are normally
kept in check

because we're alive, we
have an immune system

and we have defences against them.

But when you die,

the bacteria multiply and
cause the body to decompose.

There are a number
of very superficial...

...ovoid areas of apparent
epidermal detachment.

The skin will start to degrade,

so it can go from green to a sort of
darker green to black in places.

Can you take a piccy of that,
Sonia, as is?

Once the initial
examination is done,

Sonia can turn her attention
to the man's identity.

Right, shall we have a go
at these fingerprints?

Normally, we take fingerprints
at postmortems by using a powder.

But this guy's fingers
were so decomposed,

in the end I photographed them.

R-middle.

R-ring.

Fingerprints are one of the
last things that degrade,

but obviously in this case it
will be more difficult to identify

the person if they're on record.

The photographs of the man's
fingerprints will be searched

against the
police national database.

Police have traced the van that
took the freezer to the waste site

to an address in Birmingham.

Homicide detectives
join the forensic team

for a search of the flat.

We will investigate
any suspicious death.

And if you've got a body
in a freezer,

that looks like s0me0ne's
tried to get rid of it,

then it is a murder inquiry.

Your mind is racing.

You think, "What am I
going to find in here?

"What else will be here?

"Will there be a scene?
Will there be blood splatter?

"ls there a possibility of finding
other bodies in there?"

You just never know
until you open that door.

Do you want me to go first?

Any sort of evidence that we
could find in that flat

to link anyone to it,
we're looking out for.

Is the power on?

No. No.

Oh, God.

So this is the cupboard where

the freezer has been.

The reality of what has actually
happened is quite bleak.

That's liquid that's
leaked out of the freezer.

There's dead maggots
and putrefied liquid on the floor.

Whether it was here all the time,

obviously we don't know
at the moment, but...

And there's no power socket
in there? No.

There's no plug socket,
which means when the freezer

had been sitting here for however
long it had been in there for,

potentially it hadn't
even been plugged in,

which would increase
the decomposition.

KNOCKING ON DOOR

With confirmation that the body
was in the flat,

detectives start speaking
to neighbours

to find out if they noticed
anything unusual.

Hello, sorry to intrude,
my name's Pauljones.

I'm a detective from the police.

We want to find out
who's been living there,

what's been happening,
who's been in and out,

what can we find that could help us
progress our investigation.

Sorry to bother you.
We're from the police.

We're not sure, we're just doing
an investigation at the moment.

The smell, I reported this, right?
Oh, go on, who did you report it to?

I reported it to the
building administration,

which totally ignored me twice.

I said some stench and,
like, really terrible smell

is coming out of the apartment.
When was that?

That was back in Novemb...
In December, sorry.

In December? OK.

So if there's something going on,
I would like to see them. OK.

So sorry to disturb you,
but you've been very helpful.

The neighbour's saying, then,

he's reported a smell in November
or December.

Somebody's taken record...
You know, we just need

clarification around it all.
MUFFLED SPEECH

Well, yeah. Because...but then you'd
think they'd cross-reference, yeah.

If the neighbour's dates
are accurate,

the man could have been dead
nine months

before his body was discovered
at the waste site.

Are we potentially looking
at somebody who's been murdered

and put in a freezer?

Are we looking at somebody
who has died of natural causes?

There could be of fences
of concealing a body,

preventing unlawful burial
of a body.

We need to work out
what's happened to this person.

Poor guy. Been bundled up
in a freezer and dumped.

As police search records
of who lived in the flat,

photographs of the man's
fingerprints are examined

to see if he can be identified using
the police national database.

So we start off by scanning
one of the photographs on.

The national database holds seven
million sets of fingerprints.

It's a great tool,
but the limitations are

you've got to have been convicted
of an offence previously.

So all I'm doing here is marking up
the ridge characteristics.

With the national database,
there's an algorithm that runs,

looking for those ridges,
looking for those characteristics.

The first challenge
is the quality of fingerprints.

All this here, because of how
the skin has started to decay,

we can't actually use any
of that information.

So we'll actually remove those,
then mark them up myself

just to make sure
they're in the correct place.

That algorithm, it's not foolproof.

How it searches is only as good

as the fingerprints
that have been put in.

You can see things
with your naked eye

that don't necessarily show
on a computer screen.

We make sure that
all that information

that's in that deceased's
set of prints

is definitely in a fingerprint form.

So that's been launched.

Ancl our results are already back.

So the system always
sends back the top 15.

The computer is saying,

I think it's one of these
15 possible people.

So you've still got 15 people
to check.

So this is what's called
a twin loop pattern.

So it's where it loops up to the top

and then comes back down
and curves back around.

We know that this is
just a loop pattern

so just by that pattern alone, we
can say that it's not that person.

Fingerprints isn't guesswork.

You've got to be certain.

Again, our short area here
isn't in this area.

So the person that has been found,

their fingerprints are not held
within the national database.

While fingerprinting has not yielded
any clues to the man's identity,

detectives have been trying to track
down the last resident of the flat

where the freezer was removed from.

Officers have spoken
to Citizen Housing,

I think they act on behalf
of Birmingham City Council,

they're the ones that own
the property.

The tenancy was in the name
of john Wainwright. Yep.

He was the sole occupant,

although it does say that he'd been
living at the address with his son,

Damion johns on.

I think they moved in in 2015.

A search of police records reveals
that officers attended the flat

nine months ago
after reports of a disturbance.

Damion Johnson opened the door.

I want to go through the bodycam,

just to get an idea of how
he reacted towards officers.

He's initially quite obstructive,

but obviously they're
in the flat with him now.

We know that Damion isn't
actually the tenant.

We know the tenant is john.

But officers attending, they haven't
seen john in the premises.

So bear in mind, I want to look
for this freezer as well

as they're going around
on the footage.

That's the cupboard, isn't it...
On the right-hand side.

...that the freezer was found in?
Yeah. But the d00r's closed to that.

OK. So he's talking about his dad.

That's what he calls john.

He's suggesting that john
has passed away.

But obviously he hasn't reported
the death of john.

What was he thinking?

He could be panicking because he
knows that he's got a body

in that flat and the officers
are there. Yeah.

He's worried about, "God, if they
start looking around this flat,

"|'m in a lot of trouble." Yeah.

Damion has informed the officers
john has passed away.

So when they've then spoken
to the housing company

to inform them of this,
Damion was evicted.

That happened nine months
before the flat has been cleared.

We know that nobody's
been in that flat since.

It could be
john might be still alive,

we haven't got a death record.

But I think, based on what we know,
we have got to suspect

quite strongly that that is john
whose body was in the freezer.

Now detectives have a
lead on the name of the deceased...

...a photograph of john Wainwright
is sent to a specialist

in dental forensics to try
and formally confirm his identity.

I've been supplied with some,

I think it was Facebook photos
of this individual.

I've also got the CT scans
from West Midlands Police,

so 3D images of the skull,

and so we could potentially do a

superimposition of the skull

over the image I've been
supplied with by the police.

We do identification cases all
the time from dental records,

but in the absence
of any other information,

such as DNA, fingerprints

or dental information,

potentially we can use
craniofacial superimposition.

It's pushing the boundaries.

This is really the sort of
last resort

of trying to identify their remains.

From the images of the skull,

we can create almost like what
we call a hollow volume overlay.

If you've got a three-dimensional
CT scan of the skull,

it gives me a bit more leeway
to position the skull

on the software
into the right position

that the photograph's
been taken from.

Ancl then from that
I can actually use that

to create the overlay
to do the superimposition.

So we're examining the shape
of the actual skull, the cranium.

We're looking at the position
of the eye sockets themselves.

The nasal aperture,
the hole where the nose is,

and then obviously
the shape of the cheekbones.

Ancl what we're looking at is
if we can move the size

and the position of it, is that
consistent with the images

that we're seeing
of that individual?

You can never make an assumption

that it's definitely
this individual.

So there's a bit of
apprehension, thinking,

is it going to match
or is it not going to match?

Ancl if it doesn't match
then, obviously, potentially,

is it somebody else?

I can confirm that with
the shape of the skull,

the position of the eye sockets,
the shape of the cheekbones,

it certainly fits.

Anatomically, there's consistency.

So whilst it doesn't
give 100% identification,

I'm satisfied that the remains
that we're looking at

are the individual
that we suspect it is.

Four days after the
body's discovery,

police confirm the deceased
as john Wainwright.

An arrest warrant is issued for his
flatmate and carer -

Damion Johnson.

john has been put in the freezer
and nobody's reported that,

which is a crime.

And until we find out
how john has died

we are looking at the offence
of murder.

So the priority is to arrest
Damion and get his account.

POLICE SIREN WAILS

Hiya, it's Brandon from Pear Tree.

just to let you know we've got
one en route from Derby

on suspicion of murder.

Through there, to the desk, please.

In the neighbouring
county of Derbyshire...

just put your arms up for us.

...homicide detectives have located
key suspect Damion Johnson.

TAPE MACHINE BEEPS

Damion's admission means
john Wainwright's body

was concealed in the freezer, not
for nine months as police thought,

but for nearly two years.

TAPE MACHINE BEEPS

Sometimes the death
of somebody close to you

could cause some kind of breakdown,

and you can understand how people

don't want to let go
of their loved one.

Right, mate, you're coming with me.

But if you're evicted from somewhere
and you know that your loved one

is in that flat by themselves
in a freezer...

...how much was that person
a loved one?

With no forensic evidence
that he caused John's death,

Damion is released on bail
pending further investigation.

So the interview,
did he go "no comment" throughout?

Prepared statement or...?
He remained silent. OK.

Nicola meets with senior
investigating officer Stu

to review their next steps.

There were a few little bits
that he gave, but not much at all.

So no detail about the passing
away of natural causes?

No, he wouldn't answer
any questions in relation

to where he'd found john,
how he had found john.

Ancl then, have we got any
next of kin for Mr Wainwright?

No, we haven't.

At this moment in time we have no
friends and no family identified.

So all the witnesses
you're going to give me now

are friends or family
of the suspect? Yeah.

They all stated the same thing, that
they knew the victim

for about 20, 30 years
through the suspect.

They think that the victim
helped the suspect

with some kind of
housing arrangements.

Ancl finances -
the flat's in Mr Wainwright's name.

Anything at all on that?

That needs further work,

but due to the age gap between
victim and suspect,

which is around 20 years,

the suspect would call the victim
Dad.

OK. That's interesting.

Ancl is that because...?

I know he's 20 or 30 years older
so he was, what, early 70s? Yeah.

Our victim, was he in ill health,
did he need caring?

So Damion and his friends
say that victim had dementia,

he was falling, he was declining.

So had the friends witnessed this
themselves? Not really, no.

They would only ever see john
really for fleeting moments

if they ever went to the flat.

And Damion told them
when john's died,

his sister has come to take care of
the funeral arrangements. Yeah.

But there was no funeral. But john's
death is never registered.

Damion has given us
that prepared statement...

“but he hasn't told us
how john has died.

Potentially, Damion doesn't want
to implicate himself in a murder.

But until we get results of
the forensic postmortem,

he will still be a murder suspect.

So I just want to be 100% certain,

when he puts him into a freezer,

was he alive and suffocated
in the freezer?

Ancl is there any damage,
are there any scrapings?

We need to look at that freezer

to see if john's fingerprints
are on the inside.

We are reliant upon
the forensics to help us

piece together what
has happened to john.

OK.

Forensic technicians Kat Harold and
Dani McGarry prepare to chemically

treat the freezer to search for the
presence of fingerprints within it.

If the victim's fingerprints
are found inside,

this could suggest
he was put into the freezer alive.

This is cyanoacrylate,
superglue,

that we put in here,

and this is like a hot plate.

So this will heat up, and then that
will circulate the superglue around

the cabinet and it will rehydrate
any fingermarks that are in there.

Cyanoacrylate reacts with
our chloride irons within our sweat,

and it deposits

a white substance.

So that then is visible.

I mean, it's hard to see
on a white freezer.

The hard thing with this case is

the cyanoacrylate process
is a white deposit.

So the white deposit
on the white freezer isn't ideal.

Which is why we've got
the Basic Yellow 40,

which is a staining agent,
which can stick to,

it adheres to the cyanoacrylate.

The fingermarks are more visible
under fluorescent light.

Ancl hopefully we can enhance them
and go on to...

...get a proper fingerprint.

No. No.

No value, Kat.

Let's do the lid.

Yes. There's some stuff on there.

Oh, my... There's loads.
It goes right across. Oh...

Yeah, they're lovely, they are.

Right. I can't believe how much
has showed up now, can you?

The prints on the lid are
photographed and digitally enhanced,

so that they can be analysed
by the fingerprint bureau.

UK?

This is definitely
a case that we won't forget.

How do you explain the fingermarks
on the inside of the lid?

Are they the man that
was inside of the freezer?

Were they his trying to get out?

Fingerprint expert Claire Lynch
will compare the print

to those taken from john Wainwright
at the postmortem.

They are not suitable enough to
go into the national database,

there's just too much background
information

from the lid of the freezer.

So I'm going to first check
to make sure the pattern

that we've got matches the patterns
that this gentleman has.

So we know whose fingerprint this
is, this is from the deceased.

We don't know whose
fingerprint this is.

So we want everything to match.

So if the characteristic
isn't in the right place,

in the right position, then
it's definitely not that person.

We call it coincident sequence.

It's just where we have
the same characteristics

in the same relationship to each
other, in the same placement

from one to the other.

So we're looking for...

...this ridge ending here.

We've got a ridge ending here.

Ancl a ridge ending here.

So we know that we need
to get those two above that.

It takes one characteristic to say
that it's not an identification.

OK. One, two, three.

And what would be the fourth ridge
would be that ridge ending.

So one, two, three.

That's not there.

We can discount the deceased
for this print

just based on these two points
not being in the same,

in the correct position.

None of the fingerprints that we
had on the inside of the freezer lid

belonged to the deceased.

We have to assume
he was put into that freezer

when he was dead.

Detectives are searching
for any evidence

which might confirm
Damion's statement.

So this is the
recovered Facebook account

of Damion johns on,

even though it's under his previous
name -jasonjohnson.

DC Pauljones accesses
Damion's social media posts

from around the time
he claims john died.

His state of mind at the interview,
obviously he was very distraught.

His suggestion is that he just
wasn't thinking straight.

We can see an entry made by Damion.

"Still can't come to
grips with reality.

"We lived together for 21 years,
and now you're not here.

"You were my world."

It seems heartfelt.

And he's made tribute to
sort of how much he misses him.

"I can't believe
it's a year ago today

"that you've closed your beautiful
blue eyes and you've drifted away."

And the interesting thing on that
is the date

on that entry of
24th of September 2019.

So Damion's saying that john's died
a year previous to that,

so 24th of September 2018.

He's remembering the death of john

and he's put dates on those
Facebook pages, so I can backtrack.

Now, it might be that he has got
a genuine care for john

and maybe it is a relief to him
to finally think,

"At least now I can get this
out in the open."

But then there's a period
where clearly Damion's

living in that flat...

...with somebody he's saying he
cares deeply for, he loves,

in a freezer,

just next to him.

It is very, very strange.

it just makes you wonder
if this emotion's genuine.

Is it calculated?

Are these the posts of a man who
wanted to give the impression

of someone who was caring?

Right, I'll try to pick out anything
that looks like an injury.

With no obvious cause of death,

the forensic team still have
to establish how john died.

Because his death
has been concealed,

is it because someone else is
responsible for his death?

Or is this natural causes?

One of the things that I do

is shed a light on what
could have happened here.

His poor nose has had better times,
hasn't it?

It's a bit distorted.

He's definitely broken
the cheekbone.

The cheekbone's bust there.

I think we need to check it out,
don't we?

Despite advanced decomposition,

Dr Lyall is able to identify
signs of trauma.

There looked to be signs of injury
to the bones of the man's face.

If they are fractures,

have they occurred close
to the time of death,

and therefore could they be linked
to injuries

that have been connected
to the death?

Or are these older injuries?

He's lost some teeth.

Can we do these sockets?

You know, I mean, they're all
kind of distorted, and I don't know.

HE SNIFFS

I'm just wondering if he has had
some sort of bash on his face.

The injuries by themselves,
all they will do

is show that there has been
trauma to the face.

They will not of themselves

prove necessarily
how they've been caused.

Photographs of john's cheekbones
and teeth are taken

for further forensic analysis.

Right, we've got thyroid times one.

Prostate times one.

Pancreas/ liver.

Tissue samples of major
organs will also be examined

for evidence of death
by natural causes.

So we're looking at the shape
of the socket

and the actual...
the shape of the gum itself.

In Sheffield, Dr Kouble examines
the photos of the teeth

and facial trauma

to determine whether the injuries
were caused at the time of death.

So in the lower jaw, I can see
that there isn't a hole there,

there's a space where the tooth was.

Certainly on the lower jaw some
of the teeth have been lost

antemortem, so during life.

Ancl we can tell that they've
been lost during life

because the bone heals up
and the gum heals up,

and the bone actually goes smoother
so you don't have an open socket.

Ancl then moving onto the upper jaw,

there's evidence of what?

One, two, three, four, five sockets,

or open holes, where the teeth roots

will have been in
the jawbone itself.

Potentially, there's evidence there
these may have been lost

either just before death

or postmortem, after death.

But there's actually a tear

and there's damage
in the actual bone

that would be on the outer
surface of the root.

In this case there's a clear
laceration on the gum

and that's an indication
that tooth hasn't just dropped out.

That's an indication that that
tooth's actually been knocked out

or had some sort of trauma to it.

Had that occurred before death,

potentially that would
have healed up.

Ancl this is obviously an open wound.

It could be a punch or some
sort of impact from an object

or it could be some
sort of traumatic fall,

where they've knocked a tooth out.

Ancl then in addition to this

we can see there's also fractures
on the bones as well.

So the right cheekbone's
been fractured

and the maxilla, the upper jaw, has
been fractured as well

on the right side.

We've also got a fracture
of the nasal bones as well.

We've got a number of injuries

which are probably from
high-impact trauma,

trauma of sufficient force
to have knocked teeth out,

to have actually broken bones.

But facial factures per se
and dental injuries per se

generally wouldn't contribute
to somebody's death.

It's not confirmation this
individual's been murdered.

All I can comment on
is this trauma's occurred

at or around the time of death.

With evidence suggesting
john suffered injuries

at the time of his death...

...police bring Damion back in
to question his earlier account.

So, Damion, when you were arrested

you gave a prepared statement
about john.

You said that he died of natural
causes. Can you explain that to us?

Ancl how he actually died?

He just started to lose weight.

I just carried on each day
as I always did.

I'd go and check on him
to make sure he was washing

cos sometimes he'd just
sit in the bathroom.

But he just went downhill.

It was strange.

So there's a pathologist report.

What he found is that the right side
of john's cheekbone was fractured.

This fracture would have been
caused by a direct force or impact.

Not by me.

He's got a fractured nose...

...just before his death.

Can you explain that? No.

He's got, erm...

...missing teeth...

...and lacerations to his lips.

So put it into our terms,
it looks like somebody's...

Smacked him in the mouth.

Smacked him in the mouth,
to make him lose five teeth. Yeah.

Do you remember that?
I don't remember that.

Did you cause those injuries?
Not as far as I know.

That's quite a vague answer -
not as far as you know.

I would have no reason to hurt him.

So had there been any other
incidents, any more falls or any...?

Oh, he'd pinball through his...
around his room.

There was a couple of times
I went in his room and...

...he didn't have a Scooby-Doo
who I was,

and he'd get... He'd go for me.

Ancl how did you react to that?

I've...

...grabbed him. I've not grabbed
his... I've held his hands,

he's sat down and I've left.

I walk away from situations,

and I've come back about
half an hour, 40 minutes later

and it's like it never happened.

Have you ever had to strike him?
Good God, no.

I'd hurt myself first.

I'd put myself in danger first.

We'll have a little break.

Have a breather, yeah?

You can see the...

...the basic outline of
the individual tissue.

The samples from John's organs
are examined

for any signs that he died
from natural causes.

Looking at the samples
from the heart, from the lungs,

from the liver,

we can establish whether those
organs are healthy

or whether they're unhealthy.

Ancl if they're unhealthy,

is it a disease that could have
caused death?

This is the lung.

There are all these holes
you can see in the tissue.

Now, sometimes people with
a condition called emphysema

or pulmonary emphysema,

they can have large air spaces
in their lungs.

But the problem with decomposition

is that there can be a lot
of gas formation,

and that gas formation can
sometimes mimic emphysema.

These are small samples
that I took from the heart.

Ancl this is one
of the arteries here.

Ancl this bit here...

...is some fibrous atheroma

with calcium in it.

So normally that wall
should only be this,

you know, should be like that thick.

Whereas instead,
the wall here is expanded by this.

He has atheroma -

fatty accumulation
that happens within arteries.

It's very common,
usually as you get older,

people have got more
atheroma in their arteries.

This man certainly has some
coronary artery disease,

but just because he has
some coronary artery disease

doesn't mean that
that's why he's cited.

The problem is that although
we have the finding in the heart,

the degree of decomposition
means that it is difficult

to exclude or confirm
whether that caused death.

This man could have had
high blood pressure.

He could have had diabetes.

There are some early
changes of that,

but again these are kind
of background findings

that are not going to explain
why he's died suddenly.

So...we have a number
of question marks.

We've got
symptoms that potentially fit

death from some sort of
natural process,

but the internal organs, like
everything else, are decomposed.

So how this man has died

remains unclear.

So looking at john, he had a number
of regular monthly payments

into his Barclays account
for his pension,

but also from DWP.

Detectives continuing to investigate
Damion's relationship with john

have now accessed details
of john's finances.

You would expect post john's
death that there wouldn't be any

financial transactions,

but there are quite a number.

A lot of small transactions,
£15, £20, etc.

A great portion of these
transactions have come from

one of the newsagents
just around the corner

from where Damion would still have
been living at that time.

So it would strongly suggest
that Damion

had been using john's card

and fraudulently taking money
out of his account.

There's a total of over £17,000.

Although Damion referred to
his relationship with john

as father and son,
he didn't actually have any rights

to john's money or
any of his belongings.

One hypothesis around
Damion's motivation

is he gains financially

by not reporting john's death.

I've just noticed something.

This is the computerised record for
the purchase of the chest freezer.

The freezer was ordered

on the 25th of September.

Alarmingly, that would coincide to
when the Facebook entries are made,

when Damion is saying
that john's cited.

I expected the freezer to have been
in the property long beforehand.

But Damion Johnson has ordered
the chest freezer himself.

This new evidence raises questions

about whether Damion concealed
John's body for financial gain.

So between September 18 andjuly 20,

£17,000 is taken
from John's bank account.

Did you take that money?

No.

No? No, I didn't.

You carried on claiming
the Carer's Allowance for john

after he's passed away.

That's £258 a month.

And you'd probably,
if we hadn't discovered John,

still be claiming that benefit now.

No comment. Oh, my God.

We'll move on now to
the freezer itself.

When you placed John
into the freezer,

has anybody assisted you placing him
into the freezer?

No, I did that.

All by yourself?

Yes, unfortunately.

I didn't... Oh, it's vile.

I didn't expect him
to go in the way he did.

His head, oh, went down.

So just going slightly back to
the dental injuries, the teeth.

Could any of those injuries
have been caused

as you placed him into
the chest freezer?

I don't know.

I wanted it over and done with.

How long had you had that
freezer before John passed away?

It was bought for food.

I saw a cheap chest freezer.

"Oh, I'll have that.
Oh, that looks good."

just...

That freezer was purchased
on the 25th of September,

and that's the same day john's cited.

Are you trying to tell us
it's just a fluke?

It's been delivered three clays
later, on the 28th of September,

and you placed him
into a chest freezer.

It wasn't bought for that.

Your original prepared statement
you'd given,

you were overcome with grief,
you're absolutely distraught

about what's happened.

I'll tell you that there's a motive
for not reporting what's happened.

No... No.
There is. There isn't.

I'll put it to you that the reason
you haven't reported John's passing

is for your own selfish...
No. ..gains. Nope.

Let's face facts.

You knew if you'd reported his death

that the flat
would be taken off you.

You were living in that flat
for an extra 18 months rent-free,

all the bills paid for and you still
got access to John's bank account.

Is that not the case? No.

Absolutely not.

Damion doesn't seem to
have any job or income.

He had a lifestyle with john.

He had his Carer's Allowance,

and he appears to have just
continued in that

with the passing of john.

Our investigation shows this is
a calculated decision-making process

to conceal the body.

With all forensic examinations
completed,

the pathologist meets with
the police forensic team

to review his conclusions
on John's cause of death.

Within the limits of
what we've had to work with,

very decomposed...

...adult male,

major findings of note are,
he has...

...fractured right cheekbone.

He has fracturing of his nose,

more to the right side.

The further work on those
show that they could be caused

by some sort of heavy fall.

In terms of natural disease
he does have some atheroma,

you know, the sort of fatty deposits
in blood vessels.

Ancl he's certainly got quite a bit
in the aorta,

the biggest artery in the body.

He's got some calcification and
atheroma to the coronary arteries,

but the disease there doesn't strike
you immediately

as an explanation for his death.

So, I think, cause of death -
unascertained.

I mean, it will probably
never be ascertained.

It is frustrating,

but it's not always possible
to say how that person has cited.

We're looking at this
two years down the line,

and when there's a delay
it's a lot trickier for us.

At the end of the clay
you can't go for a murder charge

when you haven't got the evidence
in front of you.

The Crown Prosecution Service
authorises charges

for Damion Johnson
of three counts of fraud

and of preventing the lawful burial
of john Wainwright.

Very sad story, unfortunately.

That is the one thing I'm left with,

it's an overwhelming feeling
of how sad the whole thing is.

It matters to do the right thing
when someone's cited.

That is why I do this job.

That is part of forensics.

Forensics was critical in this case

in helping identify the deceased,

so that he is treated

with the dignity and respect

that, up until this point,
he hasn't had in death.

What happened to john,
it's just horrific.

It's just,
you just can't do that to people.

I think that Damion kind of owed it
to john to be upfront and honest

and just say what happened.

Ancl I suppose to a degree
he's clone that by pleading.

People have a right to be buried,

a right to be laid to rest,

and that had been taken
away from him.

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