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00:29Class, you are charged that you did, on the 13th of November, 1992, murder Julio Escobedo, Eduardo Ramirez, Juan Mendoza, Robert Penchard, Ian Traherne, also known as Big Gary, and Raymond Watts.
00:49It's all a misunderstanding.
00:50That you did also have in your possession controlled drugs of Class A, namely five kilos of heroin, and an unknown quantity of amphetamines, contrary to Section 4 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
01:03I've explained all that.
01:05And that you did unlawfully cause grievous bodily harm to Alice Whiteley, Grace Beattie, Agnes Swinton, and Doreen Laverne Smith, all of the Whitbury Newtown Sunshine Retirement Home, contrary to the Offences Against the Person Act of 1861.
01:22Now, that was just a mistake.
01:24Do you understand the charges?
01:26Well, no. I mean, this is all a complete mystery to me. As I was saying earlier...
01:30Do you understand the meaning of the charges, Mr. Brishus?
01:35Well, I understand the words.
01:37In that case, I must ask you to tell the court how you plead.
01:41Well, I don't think I should plead anything at all. This is all wrong. It shouldn't be happening.
01:45Just tell us whether you plead guilty or not guilty.
01:49Well, not guilty, obviously.
01:52Except possibly for the old ladies.
01:56Members of the jury, the main facts of this case are not in dispute.
02:01On the day in question, the police arrived at Whitbury Newtown Leisure Centre to find the lifeless bodies of seven men lying outside the squash courts, one of whom had been beheaded by the accused.
02:17I keep telling you, that was an accident.
02:20Why?
02:21To understand the circumstances that lie behind these extraordinary events, I must take you back to Whitbury Newtown Leisure Centre on what at first seemed to be a perfectly normal autumn day.
02:37A Friday.
02:38Friday the 13th.
02:41Carol, have a solvent, please.
02:44It's no good, Mr Brittas.
02:46Pardon?
02:46She's in a trance. I think she's having another vision.
02:50Well, do you think we could wake her up, Colin? I need a solvent.
02:52I don't think that would be wise, Mr Brittas.
02:54No, no. Not more blood in here. Not in here, please.
02:58Colin, the Borough Council employs Carol because of her skills as a receptionist, not because she claims to see into next week with an eye in the middle of her forehead.
03:05Wake her up, will you?
03:09Ah!
03:10I think she's coming round now, Mr Brittas.
03:12Where am I?
03:13Oh, Mr Brittas, how can I help you?
03:16Could I have a solvent, please, Carol?
03:17Yes, of course, Mr Brittas. I'm sorry. I just got these pictures inside my head.
03:21I think you'll find it's in the bottom drawer.
03:23I saw danger. Terrible danger from a distant land.
03:27I think she's warning of some disaster, Mr Brittas.
03:30We don't need to look to distant lands to find a disaster round here, Colin.
03:36I thought you were supposed to be sawing logs.
03:40I'm just on my way.
03:46Mr Brittas?
03:47What is it now?
03:48You've got a telephone stuck to your ear, Mr Brittas.
03:53I'm aware of that, Colin. That's why I was asking Carol for the solvent.
03:57Carol.
03:57Yes, Mr Brittas.
04:00He's, er, back then, is he, Mr Brittas?
04:03So it would appear.
04:05What are you going to do, Mr Brittas?
04:07About the maniac with the tube of superglue, Colin?
04:10Or about finding myself a deputy manager with a brain cortex?
04:13I meant about the warning. These men from a distant land.
04:16I don't know how many times I've got to tell you, Colin, these visions are not real.
04:20They're a figment of Carol's imagination, aren't they, Carol?
04:25There is no distant land. There are no men.
04:28They're back again, Mr Brittas.
04:29Who?
04:30The Bolivians.
04:31They're in the changing rooms and I still don't like the look of them.
04:33Why didn't you like the look of them, Miss Lansing?
04:39It's hard to say.
04:40Little things.
04:42They book squash courts but never actually play.
04:45And they always bought bags of kit with them but they never actually got changed.
04:48And I remember once hearing one of them say,
04:51It's perfect, isn't it?
04:53Nobody ever comes here.
04:54Frankly, I thought they were up to something.
04:59And then he told you to get a box and look for lost property.
05:03Yes.
05:04I think he was a bit upset about the glue business.
05:08Glue?
05:09There's someone in the centre who doesn't like Mr Brittas.
05:13They've been putting glue on things that they know he'll pick up.
05:17I see.
05:18So having told you not to worry about the men in the changing rooms,
05:22he then went straight down there himself.
05:25Yes.
05:26It was about the time that he'd normally do a lavatory inspection.
05:33Yes.
05:33Pine freshener, possibly a little strong, but overall impression not bad.
05:38Thank you, Mr Dittles.
05:39But surface gloss isn't everything, Gavin.
05:41It's the attention to detail that counts, such as did we clean behind the cisterns?
05:46So what?
05:46So often overlooked, but just the sort of place where an unsightly splash can hold a...
05:53What's this?
05:56Well, it looks like the key to one of the lockers, Mr Brittas.
05:59Number 124.
06:01Shall I go and find out whose it is?
06:03Think, Gavin, think.
06:05I was thinking, Mr Brittas.
06:07I thought if we found out whose it was, we could give it back to them.
06:12But how would we know if it was the right person?
06:14I mean, anyone can say, oh yes, number 124, what a duffer I am, that's mine.
06:19As you may one day learn, young Gavin Featherly, not everyone in this world is as honest as you or I.
06:25Perhaps you'd like to take that to my office, please.
06:28Yes, Mr Brittas.
06:29Then the person claiming it has only to prove some detailed knowledge of its contents,
06:33complete the necessary paperwork, pay the administration costs, and their property shall be returned.
06:38What could be simpler?
06:41Yes, Mr Brittas.
06:42So, Mr Brittas walked straight into the cubicle and picked up the key?
06:50Yes.
06:51He just found it there.
06:53Just found it?
06:55Of course.
06:57And having told you not to attempt to find the owner of the case,
07:01he asked you to take it up to his office?
07:04Yes.
07:05Is that where lost property is normally taken?
07:08Well, no, but...
07:10But what?
07:12I'm sure he had a reason.
07:14Oh, I'm sure he had, Mr Ferry.
07:17Tell me, do you know what was in the case?
07:19Well, I did have a quick look.
07:22And?
07:23It was £650,000 in £10 notes.
07:26LAUGHTER
07:27LAUGHTER
07:51LAUGHTER
07:54Can I help you at all?
08:02What?
08:02I wonder if there's some sort of problem.
08:04If it's toilet paper, we do always keep a spare roll.
08:07No, I was just...
08:08I'm fine.
08:13Excuse me.
08:14You're not Edward Barrett by any chance, are you?
08:17Why?
08:18I knew it.
08:19You're the one who's holding up my squash competition.
08:21You're what?
08:22The Whitbury-Newtown squash tournament.
08:24We were hoping to have finished it by Friday.
08:27I don't know. I was in the tournament.
08:28Ah, that's what they all say.
08:30But if you'd read your original application form,
08:33you would have noticed that you were automatically entered when you joined the centre.
08:37I'm in the final.
08:39How can I get the final?
08:41You'd be rather lucky, haven't you?
08:42You had some buys in the earlier rounds and some in the later rounds, by the look of it.
08:46The final?
08:47That's not bad, is it?
08:49Indeed.
08:50The question is, when can you play?
08:51Ah.
08:52How about now?
08:53Now?
08:54Yes.
08:54That's what that came in for, isn't it? A game of squash.
08:57Well, yeah.
08:57I happen to know your opponent is in the building at this very moment.
09:01I'll give you court number four.
09:03Don't forget your racket.
09:06All right.
09:06Timothy, you'll be pleased to hear that I have completed my inspection and was pleasantly impressed.
09:17Oh, good.
09:17Just one little worry about crevices.
09:21Sorry.
09:21As I was explaining to Gavin earlier, it's not just the bits we see, Tim. It's the little bits that get behind.
09:31Take, for example, systems.
09:33Now, things can get behind them.
09:35And when unsightly splashes, get...
09:37What is this?
09:41Oh, it looks like one of the locker keys, Mr. Brittas.
09:43I can see that, Tim.
09:45Shall I ask who it belongs to?
09:47No, thank you.
09:48As I was explaining to your compadre earlier this morning, the snag with that...
09:54Good Lord.
09:57You think they were breathing in there?
10:00And you've no idea what was in the case?
10:03No.
10:04No.
10:05Because you weren't allowed to find whose key it was.
10:10You weren't allowed to open the locker.
10:12And Mr. Brittas took the case upstairs to his office.
10:16Yes.
10:16One more question, Mr. Whistler.
10:20When you came into the changing room, where exactly was Mr. Brittas?
10:24He was standing at the notice board, talking to one of the customers.
10:28I believe you told the police that he had his arm around the man's shoulder.
10:34Yes.
10:35Which would imply, would it not, that they were friends?
10:39Not necessarily.
10:41No?
10:42Well, they could have just found they really liked each other.
10:45They could have been something like that.
10:48They could have just done this one.
10:53Right.
10:54Lost property forms.
10:55Julie, could you get Carol to come to my office with the solvent, please?
11:12Julie?
11:13Hello, Julie.
11:14Good morning, Carol.
11:23Oh, good morning, Mrs. Brittas.
11:24I'm sorry.
11:25I'm sorry, but I just had another one of my visions.
11:27Oh, dear.
11:28There was blood this time.
11:29Blood dripping down from the walls.
11:31In the centre.
11:32It was terrible, Mrs. Brittas.
11:33There were dead bodies.
11:34Dead bodies everywhere.
11:36His husband wasn't one of them, was he?
11:38Sarah?
11:38Oh, just the thought.
11:40Carol, you don't actually believe all this, do you?
11:43It seems terribly real.
11:46Yes, but it's just your imagination that the whole thing is...
11:49It's just your imagination.
11:51Yes.
11:52Look, Carol, I really came in to ask if Gordon had prescription.
11:54Oh, Gordon, Amy.
11:56Wish me as soon as I can, my darling.
11:59Carol, could I have a solvent, please?
12:00Yes, ma'am.
12:00I just wondered if he'd manage to pick up my prescription from the chemist, Gordon.
12:04All safely upstairs, my love.
12:06I'll get it for you as soon as I can, all right?
12:08No, no, it's all right, I'll get it.
12:08Is it on your desk?
12:09In my briefcase, yeah.
12:12What's this?
12:13I think it belongs to Colin, suspiciously.
12:15Oh, I don't believe it.
12:16Colin, can you come out here, please?
12:18Now, Colin.
12:20Sorry, Mr. Brittas.
12:22I was just syringing my ears.
12:25I felt this slight irritation, you see, and it's just as well I noticed
12:29because I appeared or flushed out a couple of wood lice.
12:34One thing at a time, please, Colin.
12:36I believe you've been using that.
12:37That's right, Mr. Brittas.
12:38And as soon as I've done the other ear...
12:40You leave an unsupervised chainsaw in a public area.
12:43Well, I...
12:43Supposing some small child came in here,
12:46mistook it for part of his Fisher-Price woodworking set,
12:49ran off into tumble-tops to show his friends.
12:52You'd have a carnage on your hands, wouldn't you?
12:53I never thought of that, Mr. Brittas.
12:55Take it straight up to my office, please,
12:57where I can make sure it's locked safely away.
13:00Right, Mr. Brittas.
13:04Hello?
13:05Yes, yes, yes.
13:06It's your wife, Mr. Brittas.
13:11Hello, my darling.
13:12Gordon, these pills are all for me, are they?
13:15Only there's a lot of people.
13:17That's right, my love, yes.
13:18The doctor said take one whenever you feel you need to.
13:21That's right.
13:22And if you run out,
13:24he'll give you some more in a couple of weeks, all right?
13:25Oh, great.
13:29Were these the pills your husband left for you, Mrs. Brittas?
13:33Yes, yes, I think so.
13:35And you presumed that they were a prescription
13:38to relieve your depression?
13:40Well, yes.
13:41I thought the doctor had finally got it right.
13:43They were the first ones that ever really worked.
13:45These pills were retrieved from the Brittas bathroom, my lord.
13:52An analysis has shown
13:53they are a particular amphetamine
13:54known on the street as uppers.
13:58Tell me, Mrs. Brittas,
13:59would you describe your husband as a wealthy man?
14:03Well, not really.
14:04He gets a bonus on his salary
14:06for every hundred people through the doors.
14:08And the bonus last year?
14:11I don't think there was one last year.
14:14Which is why I find myself asking
14:16how your husband could have afforded
14:18that rather nice coat that you're wearing.
14:20He didn't buy me this.
14:21No, this was a present.
14:25This bedridden uncle.
14:27Uncle Simon.
14:28He gave it to me.
14:29Did he also give you the Mercedes convertible
14:32in which you drove to court this morning?
14:34Oh, that's just been lent to me.
14:36It's been collected this morning.
14:39By your uncle's son.
14:41Well, I don't know if he can manage.
14:43Thank you, Mrs. Brittas.
14:44No more questions.
14:48You may step down, Mrs. Brittas.
14:51Yes.
14:53It's just if you finish with the pills,
14:55could I have them back?
14:58You are Mr. Brittas' secretary?
15:00Afraid so.
15:01And on the day in question,
15:03did the defendant ask you
15:04to bring a Mr. Barrett to his office?
15:06Yes.
15:07I eventually found him outside the gym
15:09making a phone call.
15:12Well, the merchandise has gone,
15:13but there's no money.
15:15No, that's it.
15:16There wasn't a key.
15:18Bernie's checking it now,
15:19but he thinks they might be pulling a fast one.
15:22He reckons a bit of heavy artillery
15:23might be in all day.
15:26You're wanted.
15:27Later.
15:28What?
15:29Mr. Brittas wants to see you in his office.
15:32What for?
15:32He wants to give you a cup.
15:35Ta-da!
15:37This is for me.
15:39Fairly won, Mr. Barrett.
15:40Mark, congratulations.
15:42And I can keep it.
15:43Take it home.
15:44Put it on the mantelpiece.
15:45Build a little display cabinet for it.
15:48The Whippery Newtown squash champions trophy.
15:51Yes, indeed.
15:53Now, while we're sailing on this particular tack,
15:55Mr. Barrett...
15:56A cup.
15:57Here you are, the town's champion squash player.
16:00I just wondered if you ever thought of using that position to help others.
16:06Sorry?
16:06I mean, it's all very easy for us with our cosy middle-class lives, Edward.
16:11But we have to remember that all the kids out there have the advantages of you and me.
16:15Eh?
16:15If we could just bring them in here, and with champions like you to attract them, I know we could.
16:21Can you imagine what miracles might happen?
16:23Miracles?
16:24The smile on the face of a child when he takes those first hesitant strokes across the pool.
16:29The look on someone's face when they win a trophy for the first time
16:33and realise that life's a little bit more than hanging around street corners,
16:37getting involved in drugs and petty crime.
16:40See what I mean?
16:41Oh, yeah.
16:42It can happen, Edward, but we need you to help.
16:45I have this dream.
16:47A dream that leisure centres all over the land.
16:50Excuse me.
16:52Britus?
16:53I'll be right down.
16:55Excuse me, Edward.
16:56Duty calls.
16:57Bear in mind, though.
16:59Comprende?
16:59Morning, gentlemen.
17:04Mr. Britus, these are the men.
17:07Yes, I can see that.
17:08Thank you, Carol.
17:09How can I help you?
17:11We are finding the squashy court.
17:14Good.
17:16You haven't been here before, I take it.
17:18Friends were meeting in the squashy court.
17:22Mr. Britus, you don't understand.
17:24What is it, Carol?
17:25Mr. Britus, these are the men I saw in my vision with the dead bodies.
17:29They look perfectly healthy to me.
17:33Just give them the tickets, will they?
17:34That's 40 pens, please, gentlemen.
17:38Let's go.
17:43Ah, Mr. Mendoza.
17:46I've brought along two of your friends.
17:48Now, they say they're only going to watch, but if they're tempted to play, you tell me and
17:54I'll organise some rackets, all right?
17:56Well, enjoy your game, gentlemen, and watch out for that back wall.
18:00They come off it like bullets sometimes.
18:05Brought some more supporters, I see, Mr. Watts.
18:07You what?
18:08Oh, yeah.
18:10Have you seen Eddie?
18:12Oh, you mean Mr. Barrett.
18:13Of course, you'll need him for your foursome, won't you?
18:16Tell you what, if I see him, I'll tell him you're looking for him, OK?
18:24This is all lost property I could find, Mr. Britus.
18:27Ah, thank you, Laura.
18:29Carol's just told me about the men who've arrived.
18:31Are they up there?
18:32They are indeed, preparing to battle it out on the squash courts as we speak.
18:36And you're not worried?
18:38Why should I be worried?
18:39Those are precisely the sort of people we want in here, Laura.
18:42None of your scruffy trainers and rude T-shirts.
18:44Those are business people in suits and ties.
18:47You really can see nothing wrong?
18:49No, I can't.
18:50It's what I always hoped would happen.
18:51They're even bringing their friends in now.
18:53You're the manager, Mr. Britus.
18:55I just thought we should keep an eye on them, but...
18:58What's that?
19:00What?
19:02That noise.
19:02Sounds like a moped with a badly adjusted carburettor.
19:07Probably Helen going home.
19:09Look, I'll put this away.
19:12You go and grab yourself a cup of coffee and a flapjack.
19:16Thank you, Mr. Britus.
19:20You mean, worry, worry, worry.
19:23You've seen another body, have you, Carol?
19:39Jolly good.
19:40What I suggest you do is go and make yourself a nice mug of warm milk.
19:44And by the time you come back, all the dead bodies will have gone away.
19:48Happy now?
19:50Well, go and do it anyway.
19:51Get down, man.
20:10Get down.
20:11Come on, punk.
20:12Make my day.
20:13Is everything all right, Mr. Britus?
20:19No, Linda.
20:25A remarkable shot, wouldn't you say?
20:28Yes.
20:29And he was hardly looking when he fired it.
20:31Your employer would appear to be an accomplished marksman, Miss Perkins.
20:35Mr. Britus is good at all sorts of things.
20:37As the forensic evidence has shown, my lord, the bullets retrieved from the office wall matched those in the bodies of three of the dead men.
20:46And all were fired by the gun found in the defendant's possession.
20:52And did your employer explain why he had a gun in his office?
20:55Yes.
20:56He said he'd found it in lost property.
20:57Miss Lansing has given evidence that there was no gun in the lost property box when she gave it to Mr. Britus just ten minutes before.
21:07Yes, I know.
21:08Was there some explanation for this?
21:10Oh, yes.
21:11And what would that be?
21:12I don't know, but I'm sure he had one.
21:14Mr. Britus always does.
21:17Thank you, Miss Perkins.
21:19Oh, one last question.
21:22Did you happen to see a chainsaw in Mr. Britus's office?
21:25Yes, I think I did.
21:28One gun, white powder, £650,000.
21:37Right, lost property forms.
21:41Colleen.
21:47Julie?
21:49Julie?
21:56Wick, we need our leisure centre.
21:58How can I help you?
21:59Colleen, the very person.
22:03What?
22:04How many?
22:06I'm on my way.
22:07I'm on my way.
22:19I'm on my way.
22:21What?
22:21Help!
22:26Help!
22:37Help!
22:39Hello, police?
22:41You can't hear me because I've got a chainsaw already.
22:44Don't repeat! Don't get off!
22:51Beryl! You've got to help me!
22:53You've got to switch this thing off!
22:55Beryl! Beryl!
22:58Help me for God's sake before I hurt someone!
23:02Help me for God's sake before I hurt someone.
23:06Those were his exact words?
23:09Yes.
23:10Did you phone the police?
23:12I tried to.
23:15So?
23:16But Mr. Brittus had cut the machine in half.
23:21All the lines were dead.
23:25And what did Mr. Brittus do then?
23:28He just ran off down the car.
23:35Out!
23:36Out!
23:36Out!
23:37And down to the left leg.
23:39Out!
23:39Good job, Cullen!
23:41What have you done?
23:42They're all dead, Mr. Brittus!
23:43What?
23:44I'm trying to get through to the police because they're following all the phones!
23:48It's all right, Laura, I've cut the lines!
23:49If there's one inside on the fly here, Mr. Brittus, he might still be alive!
23:51Right, let's get the door open!
23:53What?
23:54You'll have to speak up, Mr. Brittus!
23:54I think it must be the chainsaw!
23:58Let's get the door open!
23:59Get a sledgehammer!
24:00Get a saw!
24:01Get a sledgehammer!
24:02Get a sledgehammer!
24:03Get a saw!
24:04Right, stand back, both of you!
24:08Oh, my God!
24:09I'm not on the fly here, Mr. Brittus!
24:10He might still be alive!
24:11Right, let's get the door open!
24:12What?
24:13You'll have to speak up, Mr. Brittus!
24:15I think it must be the chainsaw!
24:18Let's get the door open!
24:20Get a sledgehammer!
24:22Get a saw!
24:23Right, stand back, both of you!
24:27Get a sledgehammer!
24:50Oh, my God!
24:55We'll soon know if he's all right!
25:06Just the last cut!
25:15Hello, darling.
25:17I brought you some sausage rolls.
25:20I'm a bit off sausages at the moment, my love.
25:23So, how do you think it's going?
25:31What?
25:32I don't think it's all bad, do you?
25:35No.
25:35I mean, what have they got?
25:37I mean, apart from circumstantial evidence,
25:41they haven't got a motive, have they?
25:43I mean, why would you want to kill all those people?
25:47I think they thought the money.
25:49Money?
25:50Money.
25:51They've got the gun.
25:53The bodies, the drugs, the fingerprints.
25:56Oh, I'm sure it'll all turn out all right.
25:59You know what hurts the most, Helen?
26:01That prosecutor saying that a man like me
26:04should never have been given a position of trust in the community.
26:07To see everything you've devoted your life to
26:09just get thrown back in your face.
26:12Oh, come on, Gordon.
26:13Never say die.
26:14Perhaps the judge will make it look better when he does his summing up.
26:20So, members of the jury, you may decide to believe the defendant when he says he stumbled across
26:29the drugs and the money as the result of a lavatory inspection, and that when he decapitated Mr. Ramirez,
26:38he was merely trying to get through a door in order to administer first aid.
26:42Jake, on the other hand, you find it easier to believe, as the prosecution does.
26:47Stop, stop, stop.
26:49I'll have to speak.
26:51I was there.
26:52I saw what happened.
26:54Well, why didn't you come forward and say all this before?
26:57Well, I know I should have done me, Lord, but
26:59I suppose I was scared of going to prison for 20 years,
27:02or being murdered by me gangmates.
27:06I can't hide anymore.
27:08I cannot stand by and watch an innocent man suffer.
27:10I'm not after what he's given me.
27:14What has he given you, Mr. Ramirez?
27:17A sense of worth as a human being, Lord.
27:21Dignity.
27:22The knowledge that I don't have to spend the rest of my life in the gutter.
27:26That I can use my talents to help others.
27:30I've spent the last six months in a leisure centre in Wincanton,
27:34teaching small children to swim,
27:37coaching adolescents at badminton,
27:39helping others find the path to self-reforming that this man offered me.
27:45He showed me what life can be like.
27:49He has given me...
27:51He's given me a dream.
27:53Yes.
27:54Yes.
27:56Oh, my God.
27:59Ladies and gentlemen, the first and foremost thing is that it's a super verdict.
28:04We had to let him go, David.
28:06I know.
28:07It's just that there are some cases you really hate to lose.
28:10I know.
28:11Do you know that man barred my children from the leisure centre?
28:14Just because he found one of them chewing gum.
28:16I thought he'd get 30 years at least.
28:19There's more than one way to skin a cat, David.
28:21I have a sense to run.
28:23Come on, my darling.
28:24Off we go.
28:25Further questions will be answered, but at a later date.
28:27All right.
28:28Come on, my darling.
28:29In you go.
28:30There we are.
28:31My entire family were barred because I forgot to use the footbath.
28:44A present for you and a suggestion.
28:48No one's done the lavatory seat in the executive washroom.
28:51Come on.
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