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NARRATOR: There's been an attempted murder

at a convenience store in Yorkshire.

One man has been shot.

He's in hospital undergoing emergency care.

Good evening, CSI control.

Zero-Victor-one-zero, go ahead.

The jobs that we get called to tend to be the more horrific cases.

Things like murder, attempt murder,

jobs involving firearms, kidnap and extortion.

Yes, I have got a CSI available.

Martin Jefferson is the on-call area forensic manager this evening.

The CSI or CSI supervisor will manage that crime scene.

They'll get their scene suits on,

and then it'll be a matter of going in

and making an initial assessment.

Because up until that point, we will have witness accounts.

We might, if we're lucky, have a bit of CCTV.

We'll have information from the first attending officers,

and that will most likely be it.

So we need to know exactly what there is there.

The evidence that we collect can be key to an investigation.

It can identify a suspect, place a suspect at the scene.

It can give a sequence of events.

The CSls are looking for anything alien to the scene.

In this case, that means ballistics evidence.

ls there a shotgun cartridge, for example, on the floor?

Is that a screw?

That's part of the wadding. Yeah.

It's just to get a bit of a sample.

Are there any more up there?

Yeah. That's part...

Yeah, you can actually see the shot on that.

Do you want a few extra bits from...?

You saw them down here. I don't know...

ls there evidence of pellet damage or a projectile damage,

depending on what kind of firearm you've got?

Ancl they'll be feeding all that back to me.

That one. Yeah.

From there, you can see the... Yeah.

I mean, it's gone in it, and then through and out this side.

Yeah, and clone these and then that.

The CSls are joined at the scene by a member of the imaging unit

who arrives to forensically retrieve the shop's CCTV.

Yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing this one again.

I can slow it down.

It's quite low. Yeah.

He comes in more than I thought, actually, but...

Then afterwards, I just wanna see if that's when the guy runs.

Right. OK. just keep it playing?

Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

Unless he's done it and angled it upwards from here...

Yeah. He must be have been stood right there, then.

Yeah.

MARTIN JEFFERSON: The CCTV video shows you

something's come out of that weapon.

But is it something that could have caused a lethal injury,

or is it something else?

Is it almost a blank fire that you just see a flash from?

We've got to link any damage, any projectiles, ballistic evidence

back to identify that individual within that scene.

And what type of firearms used.

MAN: So, the system's up in the ceiling space.

So I'm gonna take the hard drive out.

I'll then take that back to our lab and secure it for later viewing.

I'll clip a small section when I get back,

and I'll be leaving that for investigators in the morning.

Probably early team that come on. Ancl then they can run with that.

It's gone through it. Well, that's what I was wondering.

Yeah, whether it...

Whether it was from inside or outside.

Yes. We found the drive. Yes, it's detected.

So that's everything from that CCTV system.

I'll try and download that now for you.

If that's easier, if you guys are wanting it tonight.

All right, mate. Cheers.

Everyone's got a TV, everyone's consuming media,

but, you know, you scratch under the surface of that,

and there's a lot of stuff underneath.

A lot of forensic data that you can use in investigations.

Detective Superintendent Emma Winfield

has been assigned this case.

She is given a walkthrough of the scene.

She'll meet with the area forensic manager

to develop a forensic strategy around this attempted murder.

Then you can see some damage on these.

That's the victim's blood going... Yep.

How far back does the blood go?

Oh, it goes all the way through. Yeah.

Ancl we know the suspect's not come inside,

so it's all the victim's blood.

Yeah.

We're linked in with HMET throughout the enquiry.

They see us as an intrinsic part of their investigation.

Both the suspect and the gun are still at large.

They need to be found, and quickly.

There's always that chance that they may come back.

They may think they've got unfinished business.

The offence is attempt murder and possession of a firearm

with intent to endanger life.

It's the morning after the shooting,

and detectives are gathered to hear

senior investigating officer Emma Winfield's account

of the scene.

So, today...

She was given a forensic walkthrough of it

by one of the crime scene investigators

on the night of the incident.

Do we know if we've got...? No, we've just been trying to...

We were notified at 6:23 last night.

'Information that the male had blast injuries to their right side

'and then pepper injuries to his shoulders.'

You can see some damage on these.

That's the victim's blood.

Circumstances are that last night,

our victim has gone up to the store.

He is friends with the store's owner's son.

There's been some other people there

and that they've been laughing and joking.

A short time later, the door was open.

Our victim has been stood at the end of the counter.

Suspect, described as wearing a balaclava and dark clothings,

is seen to be with what's described as a long-barrels hot gun.

Makes words to the effect of, "Do you want it?"

Ancl fires twice.

How far back does the blood go?

Oh, it goes all the way through. Yeah.

I mean, we know the suspect's not come inside,

so it's all victim's blood.

There's a lot of blood spatter at the scene,

which is forensically assessed and photographed.

...trajectory and everything, can't we?

From its patterns,

a forensic biologist will be able to work out the sequence of events

in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.

The only person hit has been our victim.

It looks as though, from the CCTV,

he's probably stumbled back into the wine display.

Right. Cos he seems to run that way, doesn't he?

He then goes round the back of one of the other aisles

and into, like, a storage area and a toilet area

where he's losing his blood.

Drips on things,

and then it's come down there as well.

'And then he goes out of the property, towards that car,

'which is parked outside on the path,

'tries to get in there.

'There's some blood splattering outside.

'He's unable to get in that car. Ancl then ARVs come.'

Our victim is at LGI currently with officers.

He'll say that he didn't believe he was the intended victim.

He's got no issues with anybody.

We'll assess today whether or not we can do

a video interview with him or a statement.

Looking at the scene

and that area of the shop is quite tight.

Whoever was in that direction was at risk of being hit.

At this stage in the investigation, all detectives have to go on

is a claim that the incident could be related

to the theft of an e-bike.

As we're starting to find out further information,

and the circumstances are

that a white male and blonde-haired female

went into the shop on Thursday making inquiries

about an e-bike which had been stolen

and was concerned that it had been outside.

The store's owner will say that he put his son on the phone

so they could speak directly about the bike.

He'd warned him about he didn't want any trouble at his shop.

Ancl then the male has returned on the Friday

about a similar time, about four to five o'clock.

But how has this led to attempted murder?

Detectives begin reviewing the shop's CCTV footage

from the last week.

So, the person that we've got coming into the store here

with the black puffer jacket on,

and then he has a conversation with the shop owner

asking for his son's mobile number,

which he then rings as he leaves the store.

And this is supported by telecoms data that we've also obtained,

that that times in nicely with him making that phone call to the son.

The store owner's son, at 17:06, got a call

from a number ending five-seven.

The son has had a conversation

with what he described as an unknown male

and said he'd come down to the shop to sort it out.

The son rang the male at 17:29 to say he was at the shop,

and about ten minutes later,

that's when balaclava'd male has turned up.

So, the male just entering there, blurry camera,

walks in, discharge, and then he's left the shop.

So all that happens within seven seconds.

Walks out the store and goes off to the right.

But we're unable to ascertain whether he gets into a vehicle

at that point from that particular camera

cos it doesn't cover the street wide enough.

CCTV, there are CCTV opportunities.

But apart from the shop,

we're unable to secure that last night.

Teams are sent out to the area to gather as much CCTV as possible

in a bid to track down where the shooter went

after he left the shop.

And even how he might have arrived.

'A lot of the footage that we obtain will be from residential premises

'as we follow the potential routes that he could have taken.'

So we have a CCTV co-ordinator...

What about that junction?

...who will look at what we call "pinch points".

So we will look at junctions and obtain footage from there...

Two cameras. ..and see if we can see an individual on foot,

or look for vehicles that pass

at what we would deem a relevant time

as him leaving the store.

Ancl then we would track and trace.

Ancl there's no bikes seen there.

Householders are not required to show their CCTV footage

to the police without a court order,

and many who do have such footage do not hand it over.

There's definitely nothing else that looks out on here.

We go back up the street.

It looks like there's two ginnels either side.

We're adjacent to where the firearms incident has taken place,

and now further information, we're now tracking a gentleman

on a mountain bike, at the moment unidentified.

So, this house gives a much clearer view of this area here,

which will hopefully go forward and assist the investigation.

Can he get through that house?

With our laptops out on the ground,

we're able to view the material we've obtained,

which will hopefully give us a direction of travel.

Oh, wait a minute. That's your bike.

Right, this firearms discharge has taken place.

Now we're bike going back.

That's either someone running away scared...

or someone who's committed that offence.

And actually, that's much faster...

I think, as it goes away,

then when it was when it was coming in.

If it's one of the same people, it's from a distance.

It looks like a dark figure,

which would match up with the dark figure

of the clothing of the suspect who has committed this crime.

If it comes through here... I'm not sure

whether he can get through there, so he might have to go around.

You don't know if there are any holes or gaps in the fence? No.

just on the right-hand side here.

What we do know from other people who have downloaded the footage

and started to view footage,

they have picked up a mountain bike on their footage as well.

So we know it's been captured, but other locations away from here,

and we now need to start piecing together

what they've downloaded

to make sure that we are on with the same bike,

because there's plenty of offshoots of roads round here

where that bike could have gone.

We've got him on a bike going up that way,

so we've got him initially coming out of there. That comes out.

That's the only one now that we've not got downloaded. Right.

So we can have a look at that and see what's what.

All right, buddy.

While the CCTV enquiries continue,

the investigation gets its first breakthrough.

The theft of the e-bike, coupled with the phone calls

to the shop owner's son asking about the whereabouts of the bike

puts a name in the frame.

So, at 00:58, I declared a suspect for this offence.

My rationale being there'd been some intelligence,

there'd been a burglary whereby an electric e-bike

had been stolen, and £500.

The naming of a suspect enables the forensics team

to deploy more of their resources.

I put a call into imaging and their plan drawers

were requested to plot everything within that scene.

So they attend with 3D laser scanner,

and they run that within the scene to plot what is present.

From the CCTV footage, you see the suspect in the door.

So with the plan drawing, the hope is that we can identify

or certainly give an indication of height and build

for that individual from the scale of the door.

just doing a 3D scan now, and what this is gonna do,

it's gonna fire a laser beam.

As it bounces back,

it retrieves the physical data of the building.

And then as we move along, it generates a 3D model.

And then from this, we can provide 2D floor plans.

We've also been asked to potentially look at a height analysis.

We combine the 3D data with the CCTV still imagery.

We overlay them on top of each other

and try and calculate the height of the suspect.

it just gives us another piece of information to say

that this suspect is this person at this particular moment in time.

The SIM card will show when the suspect used the phone,

and this could help the investigating team

track the suspect's movements

in the days leading up to the attack.

Where is this? This is...

This is him getting... SIM cards are here.

Between the ceiling...

It's just great for pre-planning, innit?

The victim remains in hospital at Leeds General Infirmary.

I've just come back from seeing the victim in hospital.

He has had an operation to remove some pellets

from the side of his face and jawline,

and is clue to have another operation to remove further pellets.

Ancl he has nerve damage in his lip.

He's in a lot of pain and obviously, he's quite distressed

and sort of traumatised, really, about what's happened to him.

I organised the victim to be photographed at the hospital

to show the extent of his injuries,

where he's been shot, how far the shot has spread.

So from that, ballistics expert can tell us

approximately how far away the fire has been stood.

Forensic pathologists can potentially have a look at them

and tell us how close to death our victim may have come,

having been shot at close range with a shotgun.

In this case, the victim sustained injuries

to the right side of his face, shoulder and neck,

and with a shotgun injury,

what you get is multiple pellet strikes,

because within your shotgun cartridge, you've got a lot of shot.

You don't just have one bullet like you would in a handgun.

It's multiple pieces of shot that disperse.

The fact we've got the CCTV showing it's a close-range shot

fired directly at an individual, and then the individual's injuries

are to the head and neck and shoulder,

you can't expect anything than killing someone

if you're pointing a weapon at them.

He's been very fortunate to survive this.

When he enters the store the first time,

which is some 50 minutes before the discharge,

you can see that there's a female in there with two young children.

Ancl having watched the footage from the shop

for the period throughout that clay, it's a very busy shop

with a number of families, young children,

people of all ages entering the store.

Then what we've got is a male

with no regard for who could be in there,

and within seven seconds, he's discharged a firearm

that could have caused serious injury to a number of people.

So it just showed a complete lack of concern

for the safety of any individuals that would have been in that shop.

The suspect has previously been linked

to firearms investigations,

but he hasn't gone... been convicted.

Mr Chesters has authorised a firearms response.

Firearms officers have been dispatched to the streets

to try and find the suspect.

They weren't at any of their known addresses,

so the team have used police intelligence

to track the suspect's movements.

The suspect is spotted travelling in a car

with someone else at the wheel.

A suspect has been identified in the convenience store attack,

where the victim was shot at point-blank range.

Along with another person,

he is detained by firearms officers when their car is stopped,

and arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

The vehicle was located whilst it was moving.

It was stopped by the firearms officers.

They will remove them from the vehicle.

They'll be handcuffed, transported to a custody suite.

He'll be given his rights, his entitlement

to free, independent legal advice.

Ancl then we'll look to interview them today

once they've been photographed, fingerprinted, booked in

and their clothing seized for forensic processing.

With the suspect now in custody,

the forensics team are examining the car he was arrested in

for any evidence that could link him to the offence.

So, any vehicles relating to the suspect

or suspect's associates will get recovered

to one of the West Yorkshire recovery garages

where CSI will photograph the vehicle.

That could be from the shop, maybe.

A phone number on the back.

So that could be worth seizing.

Maybe that phone number could be in relation to the offenders.

Could be fingerprinted.

We will also be looking for mobile phones.

Documentation about a phone to be cut off.

We'll be looking at any clothing within that car

that links back to the suspect at the scene.

Looks like some woollen gloves or a balaclava, that could be,

in the rear of the front passenger seat.

So, I'll just photograph the location,

and then we can seize them.

Obviously, I look under the boot compartment as well

to see what's hiding under there.

Back of seats, under seats, under car mats.

We'll be doing GSR tapings, so that's gunshot residue.

Any receipts to help us track back movements.

It depends how it's linked to the suspect

and any of his associates.

A receipt dated the morning of the offence.

It's got a time and date on there,

so that will be helped to... for CCTV enquiries.

I found, I located a black Nike trainer,

that was on the rear seat as well.

So that'll go off for DNA to locate an offender.

I've packaged with the sole up, just in case.

We might have got footwear evidence from the scene to link it.

On the same day as the vehicle is being examined,

CSls are also at an address

associated with the suspect, where they're known to stay.

When a suspect has been arrested,

the suspect's custody clock starts ticking

for how long they're gonna be within custody

before they're either released or charged.

So within that time, we are under pressure to recover

or certainly identify evidence which may link that suspect

to our crime scene and the incident itself.

So the examination of suspect address or suspect vehicle,

we will try to get completed whilst that suspect is in custody,

because you may find the firearm that's been used in the offence

in their vehicle, or you may find clothing

at their address that is similar to or matches that seen

in CCTV footage, which can help the investigation team

with going to CPS for charging decisions.

So, first of all, I'm just gonna go round and have a look

before I start taking any pictures or anything.

I'm having a look in the washing machine

to see if anything's been recently washed

that might match the description that we've got from any CCTV.

But they're empty.

just have a quick look in the cupboards

to see if there's anything out of the ordinary

that might have been hidden away or stashed.

Like any phones or weapons or anything like that.

I think this is the suspect's room,

so I'm gonna be a little bit more careful where I tread.

There's a potential that there might be a weapon in here, so...

Quite a lot of money there. Maybe, like, two grand.

It's quite a lot of money to have in your side table, isn't it?

I mean, if he's got any links to sort of like drugs or something,

then it could be... it could be relevant.

Is that, like, a charger for an e-bike, maybe?

The police's theory is that the shooting is linked

to the theft of an e-bike belonging to the suspect.

So, I found a charger in a backpack in a wardrobe.

And it might charge an e-bike, which might prove

that this person had an e-bike at one point.

But I think there was some sort of dispute over possession of an e-bike

or someone had stolen it, so that's why we're seizing it.

Forensic investigators will be working at the address

for a number of hours.

Meanwhile, the suspect is in custody,

waiting to be questioned.

But there's a potential problem in the investigation

that they will have to solve very quickly.

Can you just state your name and date of birth, please.

The suspect has been arrested with a plaster cast on his foot.

But the shooter on the shop's CCTV isn't wearing one.

The police need to establish what happened to him and when.

So, they've stopped the car.

We've got them both at roadside. They're both arrested.

Forensic lifted the car. Right.

He's got a fresh pot on. Right.

I'll take some CCTV as soon as we can

for an image of him before.

Morning, johnno. Oh, morning, Steve. You all right?

How are you, pal? Fine.

Have we managed to locate him in the hospital with his pot on?

Yes. So we know the discharge is at 17:50.

Yeah. We've got a sighting of him walking normally,

pot-free, at 20:28.

Ancl then we've got this footage from the hospital.

We should see... There she is, running across,

entering the hospital to sort of, like, get a wheelchair for him.

All right, so she's taken him to hospital?

Yeah. I wonder how he's clone that.

I have no idea.

We'll obviously obtain medical notes

and see what the reason being is, but...

At least it clears it up.

Cos at first, it's obviously the thought

that it can't have been him cos he's got a pot on his leg.

No, that's right. But now we clearly know it's some time after.

While the forensic searches continue,

detectives go through the evidence they already have

to put to the suspect

and the person he was travelling with

when arrested.

They've assembled for an interview strategy meeting.

If I go through what I've got as the key points

and just make sure that we're all in agreement in this room.

The main reason we've got to the suspect

is through telecommunications and then CCTV.

We've got the purchase of the SIM card.

We've got CCTV footage of that purchase,

and it is the suspect that is buying that card.

We need to say in that first interview to him,

"You bought that SIM card.

"You've registered that phone that's with you.

"You've made those phone calls," and see what he has to say.

Detectives want to challenge the suspect about his movements

in the two days leading up to the shooting.

I'll just go through what I've got for the CCTV.

On the 10th of November, Craig,

we see him approaching the direction of the shop,

and then he enters the store.

Him only.

Ancl whilst in the store,

he can be seen to have a conversation.

And then after that, the suspect comes into the shop.

Ancl then he leaves the shop with this burner phone to his ear.

Ancl this is when we think the call has been made.

At 5150 and '55, suspect enters the shop.

5:50 and 38 seconds, weapon is discharged.

5:50 and 42, suspect seen leaving the shop.

Ancl all we can say, really,

is that obviously, the clothing is different,

but the height, build, etc,

to us, at this moment in time, looks similar.

Obviously, we need to do more work on that. You happy with that?

Yeah, I'll put that to him.

It would appear that from timings, he may have come on a bike,

but we're currently tracking that.

Because when he goes for the SIM card on the 3rd,

he's got a black mountain bike, hasn't he? Yeah.

The team has used CCTV and telecoms,

the evidence that's immediately available,

in a bid to get the suspect to charge with the CPS.

But it will be the forensic evidence they are currently gathering

that will help to build and cement the case.

Yes, he does. Right.

Listen, we need to make sure we keep search teams as well.

We got some information, Craig, that said he was staying

at some other address we weren't aware of.

So that's currently got CSI going through it,

and also, we'll be going to that address.

It's relatively close to the scene of the shooting.

It's whether or not you want to drop that in on interview

that we're currently looking at that address, it might elicit a response.

The PolSA are a police search adviser.

They are licensed search officers,

so they're specifically trained to search scenes.

Ancl SIO can ask them to search

for whatever is required for that investigation.

So it could be something, say, as small as a micro SD card

to a firearm, ammunition.

If it's in a room, they will find it.

The CSls don't search for items that are hidden or secreted.

We're not searching under carpets, for example,

or within wall cavities, things like that.

The police search teams look for any items

that might've been used in the shooting,

or that could suggest a motive.

This evidence will then be forensically packaged and recovered

and sent for forensic testing.

So we'll be looking for the clothing as described by witnesses,

which at present is a black balaclava, black gloves,

black and green tracksuit and a black body warmer.

It's a good shout, that being them. You see these two front bubbles,

can't you? Yeah.

Got two of the distinct sort of bubbles

on the front part of the footwear...

erm, in this bedroom,

which we suspect was the suspect's bedroom.

The only footwear that sort of matches is this,

this pair here, it's got the two sort of bubbles

at the front part of the foot.

So from the CCTV footage, when he's actually doing the job,

it's a grey hoodie underneath a black puffer jacket,

because there's a lot of grey in there

of various different shades.

I think it's a grey hoodie underneath. Yeah.

DC CRAIG: This interview is being digitally...

visually audio recorded.

See these on the side of vehicles, so it's magnetic,

stick it on the side of your car

and obviously transport whatever you want inside it.

Can you just state your name and date of birth for me, please?

Prison letters...

making reference to "fucking the police".

"Fuck the judge. Fuck the system.

"Fuck the government, fuck the governor."

The offence under investigation is an attempt murder.

I don't know.

So that's... Could be that, couldn't it?

That way round.

Yeah, so that's that one.

And also mentioned the potential theft of an e-bike.

So the grey hoodie under the big black coat.

Yeah. It's hard to tell the shading of the grey, though.

It's like... It's probably that.

It's hard to tell how light that is cos of the shop lighting, in't it?

Hm. They're just grey.

Forensic testing of these items will be key for this case

as the suspect is currently refusing to answer questions

in his police interviews.

Have you already had a shotgun in your possession

or have you had to go somewhere to pick that up?

Where do you go after leaving the store?

This was our second interview.

The first interview was a non-challenge interview,

so you don't put any evidence to them,

it's just general chat with him.

Would you say that's yourself who was in the store there?

We've gone back in with a second interview,

and on this interview, we've shown him CCTV footage

from inside the shop of the actual offence,

and we've read statements from the witnesses

who were all in the shop at that time.

Once again, during this interview, he's not commented.

Can you tell me somewhere that you might have been at 17:50

just that I can go find that'll prove

that you were not the person in the balaclava with the shotgun.

Doesn't really want to be there.

It's just a lot of looking away.

He knows what he's saying. He knows what he wants to answer.

He knows he's doing a no comment.

As you can see with him there, he's just not interested.

Overnight, news has come through

from the CPS that the charges the police were pushing for

have finally been approved.

I'm pleased to say through your hard work and efforts,

got a charge for attempt murder and possession of a firearm

with intent to endanger life, Section 16A of the Firearms Act.

Was charged in the early hours of this morning.

Will be remanded for court.

But for the charge to stand up in court,

the hunt for forensic evidence continues.

It's a great result for the team.

They've put in a lot of hours, and hard work's paid off.

They know as well as I do,

having been in this position a number of times,

that this is where the real work starts

in generating the evidential proof

along with the guidance from our area forensic manager,

submitting things that we think were suitable for forensic return,

gunshot residue or contact with any area

that we think that our suspect's been.

A suspect has been charged with attempted murder

and possession of a firearm.

The forensics and investigative teams

are working around the clock gathering evidence

to secure a conviction.

Crime scene investigators are currently searching a property

connected to the suspect.

A number of items are seized, including a mobile phone,

smart watch and clothes.

These will be taken for digital and forensic testing.

With the suspect remanded in custody,

the investigating team continues to track his movements

before and after the shooting.

This morning, looked at priorities around scenes,

travel of motor vehicles, travel of suspects.

So those CCTV trawls are still covering

that sort of extensive areas where we know they've been.

Right, what footage have we got on that main road?

So this is the bike going past, going.

Yeah. See if that car's still following it.

It's not exactly going speeds.

So that's the route, the bicycle has gone this way. Yeah.

It's already been established that the shooter used a bike

to travel to and from the crime scene.

Now detectives have discovered a blue car

that appears to be travelling in convoy with the bike.

We've identified the bike. We've also seen some footage

that seems to show a car following the bike.

Dark blue, though, yeah?

It's metallic. Yeah.

So now what we're trying to establish from footage

from other premises, whether the car does follow the bike

and what direction it goes once it's passed the bike,

as the guy gets off the bike and goes into the shop,

discharges the firearm.

GUNSHOT

So you got the bike. Yeah.

Headlights still on, and they've followed the bike.

And then we'll try and get the best shot of the vehicle

to try and identify a make and model.

The car and the bike are both seen outside the property

connected to the suspect where he has a room,

which has already been searched.

Please be a blue car. Please.

But there's still work to be done on where the car,

soon identified as a blue Dacia Duster, goes next...

...and all hope lies on some CCTV showing a car that looks similar

on a different part of the route.

If you look at the other cars here, they're all in silver.

Yeah, the windows are a different shape on that

as it is to that as well.

Look at it. It's totally clear.

It's more slopey, is that back one.

It's not the same car. It's different wheels.

Back to the bike. HE CHUCKLES

Oh, yeah. Start again.

We've still got the bike.

I would suggest now that being in this situation what we are

and we've lost that bottom road,

that both teams now, including yourself,

goes and hammers that area. It's a setback.

The wheel trim, car window, and rear bonnet don't match.

It's not the same car,

but it's not long before there's a breakthrough.

I've just been looking on the ANPR cameras in the area

for the last month,

and I have just suddenly come across the vehicle

that would be the potential vehicle.

AN PR cameras give detectives a number plate to work with.

It proves that the blue Dacia Duster on the CCTV

is registered to someone linked to the suspect.

From the AN PR pictures we've viewed,

it matches the description of that vehicle.

Craig? Yeah.

How long do you estimate for them warrants?

So the plan is those two are gonna be upgraded to suspects

for assisting an offender.

We're looking at getting warrants for them.

It's thought that this car could have been used

to transport the shotgun to and from the attack.

That's why it was travelling in convoy with the bike.

The plan is we'll get warrants

for both their addresses this evening.

Firearms officers will go to the address to get them both in,

lock down the addresses to search and recover the Dacia Duster

for us to search in the morning.

Once the warrants are executed and the car is impounded,

the forensic examination begins.

HOLLIE: Particularly looking for items

for DNA to link people to the vehicle,

the clothing that's been worn by the suspect in the shooting

and a fingerprint exam.

I've removed the items

that I don't have the techniques to fingerprint here.

They need to go to the lab.

Ancl next, I'm gonna fingerprint the inside of the car

and the outside of the car.

When I'm doing my fingerprint exam, for me,

that means starting in one area, moving from top to bottom

because that's the way the powder falls.

I'm also gonna fingerprint the bottles

that I've removed from the car to do the DNA recovery from.

That's to link suspects potentially to the vehicle

and to the items in the vehicle,

cos we believe this vehicle has been used in the commission of a crime.

When I've been doing my fingerprint exam,

I've found some glove marks on the door in this area.

Ancl they're of significance because the intelligence we've got

is that the suspect was wearing gloves at the time of the offence,

and then he's potentially come to this car

to put the shotgun inside the car.

So, glove marks up here,

potentially as he's opening and closing the door.

So I'm using the natural light to see the shine of the powder

cos it's a metallic powder.

Ancl I found some ridge detail... on the bottle.

So what I'm gonna do now, I'll take some general photographs

and I'll put my fingerprint labels on,

and then I'm gonna lift the ridge detail

using my lifting tape, that gets mounted onto an acid tape

with the details of my exhibit.

That gets sent to our identification bureau.

They'll then be able to search that against the national database

to see if we can get some suspects back,

and then hopefully suspect details will progress the case.

This bit shows the pushbike, which we believe that he's on,

to go to the shop to do the discharge.

Ancl as that sets off, you'll see the same blue. That's your Duster.

And this address, unless it's all...

Yeah. Right. Yeah.

It's been decided that PolSA will come afterwards to do their search,

and their search techniques are very thorough -

looking for things that I might find

in places that I might not be able to get to.

The police search adviser is briefed by the CSI.

The suspect has left and arrived on-foot.

He's then been seen to approach this vehicle,

and it's believed this vehicle is the one that's been used

to transport the shotgun both before and after the incident.

Ancl then the next bit of footage that we've got of the Dacia,

so this location is near to a linked address.

You will see the blue Dacia park up

and then two males get out of that vehicle.

So he gets out of the passenger side,

and the clothing he's wearing matches with

what he was wearing the first time he goes into the shop.

Yeah. Ancl then you'll see

the male get out the driver's side was a lot bigger male.

A firearms dog searches the vehicle before the police search advisors.

The dog looks for firearms, ammunition,

or any component parts of this type of weapon.

The dog pays particular attention to the back seat,

which could mean there is something there

or has been there previously.

A manual search then begins...

...which results in some clothes and bottles of liquids

being put aside, but nothing is seized.

The car search ends with no clothing or weapons found

to directly connect the car to the attack.

And the associates linked to the offender

are saying "no comment".

We've clone three interviews with each.

Both shown the footage from the CCTV that we've collected

and both have "no commented" on each interviews to everything.

If anything, he had a bit of a smirk

when he watched the discharge aspect of it.

But... no, nothing at all.

With suspects refusing to disclose anything,

and the investigating team in need of hard evidence,

a forensic strategy meeting is called.

Within the investigation,

the area forensic manager or CSI supervisor

will have forensic strategy meetings

with the senior investigating officer or the investigation team

to determine what items we have found at a scene

and then which will be submitted for further examination.

So in a firearms scene,

one thing that we get there is gunshot residue, or GSR.

It's when the firearm is fired,

the firearm disperses the gunshot residue,

and it will potentially cover the firer in GSR.

In the CCTV footage, the suspect in that doorway

is likely to have it on things like his jacket,

gloves, on his face or mask, hoodie, pockets.

We've also got another pair of gloves from that car, haven't we?

A pair in the boot and a pair in the pocket

on the back of the seat, isn't there?

There's his other trainer as well. Yeah.

So we've got four potential GSR exhibits.

We can submit three under one submission. Right.

For me, I think I'd leave out the trainer

just because he's worn it after he's been running in it...

Yeah. ..any GSR most likely falling off.

The gloves are stored in the car, folded up.

We know he's got black gloves on. Yeah.

If they are the gloves worn,

they'll be covered in GSR still. Yeah.

The potential presence of gunshot residue, or GSR,

is key to this investigation going the police's way.

They need forensic evidence more than ever now.

But there's a complication.

In terms of GSR, we've got a couple of issues.

The fact that they might be shotgun users...

Yeah. ..cos there's that club.

During the searches of a bedroom the suspect is thought to use,

shooting certificates from a local gun club have been found.

These could potentially explain away

any gunshot residue that might be detected

depending on when the visit took place.

Today, I'm going up to the gun club

in relation to some items that were seized

during a address search.

The idea of the visit is to identify

when this lad has actually visited the gun club,

what he's clone up there,

the firearms that he would have had access to.

That's your barrels.

We've initially made enquiries with you

with regards to address where we've recovered these cards from.

The police want to confirm that the suspect

and another person visited the club.

Are you aware of either of those names

from the records that you hold? Not at this point.

We will have to look into it a bit more.

Whether or not he was left unsupervised at any point

and may have actually taken any ammunition...

They're supervised all the time, but most people shoot 25,

so we count them in and count them out...

Yeah.

...because obviously it's quite important

that people don't leave with live ammunition.

Ancl also, how many times he may have visited.

Let's get the records moving forward.

I'll get the wife on it today.

We'll help you as much or as little as you need.

Hopefully, Mike here will give us a statement covering the details

in relation to their visits.

He's kind of suggesting to me

that they might have visited on a couple of occasions.

Pull!

This will enable us to show that he's actually been using firearms,

maybe even using it as a practise method

before actually going and doing the shooting.

NARRATOR: In the investigation into the shooting,

a suspect has been charged with attempted murder.

But the gun used in this unprovoked attack

has still not been located.

DC CRAIG: Have you already had a shotgun in your possession?

Have you had to go somewhere to pick that up?

Criminals don't always hold guns,

so they acquire them from other criminals

that may hire that weapon out.

So they borrow it to commit a specific offence,

and then they return it to that person

when that offence is committed.

It makes it much more difficult

cos that weapon gets quickly passed back to its keeper,

and so it disappears from the trail.

While the search for the gun continues,

the Digital Forensics Unit begins its examination of a number

of mobile phones recovered as part of the investigation.

It looks like this exhibit arrived to us damaged.

So, what we are going to try to do is to do minor repairs.

This one looks like it's actually bent.

Possibly it has been damaged on purpose.

So, what are we trying to do

is make sure this device is fully operational.

Ancl, hopefully, if I can get it to a working condition,

they'll be able to get all the information from it,

possibly evidence.

So, it looks like the device is charging well.

So, let's take a look inside.

Motherboard is probably intact.

Next step will be just replacing the screen and see,

we'll take you from there.

As we don't have the correct pin, we will use advanced technique

to acquire the data and to download this phone fully.

Once the digital forensic analysis of these devices is complete,

it helps the investigating team to develop a picture

of the suspect's movements

and who he was in communication with.

The work I've clone around identifying numbers for suspect,

I'd look at, were there any contact with the suspect's number

and the victim's number?

Who have they been contacting around the time of the offence?

Then look at the mast, has it travelled anywhere?

Like, has he travelled from his home address

to the place of the shooting? Has he travelled back?

If not, where has he gone after?

Has he discarded a firearm somewhere?

Where has he been?

So you'd pull all that data together

and end up producing a timeline of events.

The suspect's phone was in contact with the shop owner's son,

which is how the communication started

when he said he'd meet him at the shop.

The suspect's number was last in use at 6:10,

and the shooting happened at 6:50.

So, 20 minutes after the shooting, it dropped, so no longer in use.

15 minutes after that, a new number has been inserted into the handset.

Ancl then that number is only in use for two and a half hours

before that's dropped as well.

When you look at phone data, sometimes no usage in phone data

is almost as critical as somebody overusing their phone.

If he's gone to the shop,

carried out a shooting and gone home,

he's not going to be texting or ringing anybody, is he?

It's evident that he could have possibly gone

and committed that shooting, because he's not using his phone

for a period around that time.

The phone data not only connects the suspect

to the location of the shooting on the day in question.

It also puts him in repeated contact

with the person who was in the car with him when he was arrested,

and the people who own the blue Dacia Duster

immediately before and after the attack,

helping to corroborate the CCTV evidence

of their movements.

Craig has now got it at the bottom of here,

and he's got it at the shop.

What we've been trying to do is piece together the movements

of the Dacia Duster from when it leaves at 16:51 :07,

to it going to the store, which we have now clone.

So the significance of this bit is at 17:10 outside the house.

The footage on this clip shows no lights

of any stationary vehicle outside that address.

However, at 17:17,

we now have a vehicle stationary outside that address

with the headlights illuminated,

and that vehicle remains stationary outside that address until 1 7:44.

Significance of that is, at 17:44,

we've got a sighting of him on a pushbike,

and as he cycles off, at the same time,

the stationary vehicle drives off,

and that can be clearly seen on the footage.

A metallic blue Dacia Duster heading in the same direction.

This footage is important because what we're saying

is that puts the bicycle, which we believe he's on,

and the Dacia Duster together minutes before

the actual firearms discharge takes place.

Meanwhile, the shotgun, wadding and pellets

retrieved by CSls from the convenience store

are being tested by ballistics expert Andre Horn.

Shotguns can cause devastating wounds at close ranges,

so they are definitely very lethal.

If I can accurately determine the shot size,

that will assist the police, if they do recover any ammunition

from a suspect to determine if it could have been the ammunition

used in this incident.

We have a couple of lead shot pellets.

The size of the shot pellets is consistent

with the birds hot used for hunting.

Because these are impact damage,

I can't measure the diameter of the pellets,

so we do it by weight.

From my chart,

we appear to be dealing with UK shot size 7.5.

Once the size of the pellets has been correctly identified,

Andre moves on to the wadding.

This is an example of a shotgun cartridge

with the part of the case cut away.

That's the plastic wadding.

Wadding is a buffer in a shotgun cartridge

between the powder and the shot pellets.

The wadding is expelled by the shotgun

with all the shot pellets,

and it usually travels a distance of approximately 20m or so

before it drops to the floor,

and the pellets continue travelling on.

But wadding is important for us because we can use this to determine

the gauge of the shotgun that was involved in the incident.

It is impact damaged and it is slightly deformed,

but I'm satisfied that it is 12 gauge in size.

These are all pieces of a puzzle that help the police

to put together evidence that would be required

in court to prosecute someone.

There's also an important update

on the suspect's visit to the local gun club.

GUNSHOT

We've made further enquiries with the gun club.

The visit to the gun club

was 12-18 months prior to the commission of his crime.

There would never be any GSR issues in relation

to them being able to say,

"Well, the GSR that you may find on any clothing or skin

"is from that because it is too far in the past."

GUNSHOT

NARRATOR: A man has been shot at point blank range

in a convenience store, in Yorkshire.

The suspect has been charged with attempted murder.

The investigation now switches to the search

for gunshot residue, or GSR...

...with a number of items recovered during police

and forensic searches being examined.

This includes a black man bag.

If gunshot residue is found on the bag,

it will firmly place the bag

in the same location as the gun and the suspect.

Firstly, taking a quality control sample,

I will sample myself and the brown paper,

which we'll examine the item on.

We analyse these, if an item is positive,

to show that any GSR on the item hasn't come from us.

So, when I first put an item on the bench,

I'll assess the item to see what I have.

So, I've got at least one pocket.

Check it because you don't want to open the bag

and find ammunition in it.

I've got an inside pocket and an inside zip pocket.

In order to recover any GSR that was present,

we use a device called GSR stub,

that has a sticky carbon adhesive,

and we'll dab this over certain areas of the item

and put them into the scanning electron microscope

to visualise and analyse for GSR.

Other items that are tested and photographed

include a pair of joggers...

Assess what you've got.

...and the GSR mini tapes that were taken

from the blue Dacia Duster

when it was forensically analysed by the CSI.

The police force themselves, this time,

have sampled the vehicle, and they've used a mini tape,

so it's a piece of acetate plastic with an adhesive on one end.

Ancl they've used that to sample certain areas of the vehicle.

When we receive those, we have to cut the tapes down

to enable them to go into the scanning electron microscope.

The GSR stubs will then be analysed on the scanning electron microscope.

Gunshot residue are very small particles

that are produced when a primed ammunition is discharged in a gun.

The particles have specific elements present in them.

Ancl to actually do the chemical analysis,

we need a powerful microscope called the scanning electron microscope.

Gunshot residue can deposit within about 3m of gunfire,

but potentially further.

So, these gunshot residue particles can deposit

on someone who might fire the gun, a close bystander or other surfaces.

So, electrons are now being produced by the filament

and will start to interact with the sample.

Each of the samples that have been taken from the items,

in this case, are analysed,

and then the results are collated into a report.

Ancl I'll explain what the findings mean,

whether there's gunshot residue there or not.

Ancl that report will be sent to the Area Forensic Manager

for West Yorkshire Police.

The GSR report forms part of a much larger package of evidence

that the police are compiling.

This package will be taken by the team to a pre-trial hearing,

where all the evidence prepared by the prosecution will be assessed.

Prior to trial, we will have a pre-trial sitting at court,

and the defence will argue

that it's not sufficient to proceed to trial,

and we'll argue that it's sufficient to put it before a jury,

and that it shouldn't be down to barristers to argue

whether it's continued or discontinued.

The judge will have the final say

on whether it gets discontinued at that point,

or whether we proceed to put it before a jury.

The GSR test results are in,

and the laboratory report is being written.

It reveals there was no gunshot residue found

on the item sent for analysis.

Despite this setback,

the team are determined to do their best for the victim,

and with the strength of the evidence they have,

as a whole, take it to trial.

When you look at the evidence, both pre-offence and post-offence,

then there is sufficient for us to put it before a jury to decide

whether the defendant is guilty.

The attempted murder is brought to trial,

and the team believe they have a strong case.

The fact is, it's a really serious offence.

A firearm has been used in public and somebody's been injured,

so we would always push as far as we can for the victim.

It has taken 14 months to get to this point,

and the jury has reached their verdict.

For the victim,

the closure they and their family wanted hasn't happened...

...and they all now have to try and come to terms

with the fact no-one has been held to account for what happened.

He is very down. He's very depressed.

He's still coming to terms with what's happened to him.

Ancl I think that the impact that it's had on him mentally

will also take a long time for him to recover from.

Um, yeah. He's just in fear. He's having nightmares.

He's struggling to sleep, um, and just sort of overplaying

what's happened in his mind continuously.

The victim has been left with PTSD

and is no longer the happy, outgoing person they once were.

The victim struggles with anxiety

and has installed CCTV and guard dogs into his home.

The incident hasn't just changed the victim's life,

but the lives of their entire family,

all of whom are finding it hard to accept

what the victim has been through.

Next time...

'West Yorkshire Police, what's the emergency?'

'Hello, mate. We've just found human remains.'

We've got the thigh bone. It's got a kneecap.

Can see it now. Yeah.

What's your thoughts at this stage? Are we thinking body dumped there.

Or are we looking at potentially being brought to the site?

We still don't know whether we have just one body

in the site or multiple bodies.

This will require the exchange

of police data across countries' boundaries.

The hope, if they would find a body and that DNA would match,

that would bring maybe a conclusion to this case.