Detective Inspector Damian Forrest speaks about the Carl Ellitts case.

Detective Inspector Damian Forrest speaks about the Carl Ellitts case to Express & Star reporter Adam Smith.

Transcript

00:00 Hello, we have Detective Inspector Damien Forrest who led the investigation into Kyle

00:05 Edditt who is being jailed for life today. How shocked were the team at the ferocity

00:13 of his four day rampage?

00:16 These offences speak for themselves and they were shocking to us as experienced investigators

00:21 as they are to members of the public that are now only discovering the extent of his

00:26 violence and that just strengthened our resolve to find him and bring him to justice.

00:31 These events happened in Wolverhampton, how important was the support you got from the

00:35 community in bringing him to justice?

00:38 The offence is a shocking for anyone to see and especially happening over such a short

00:43 sustained period, four days, and the public responded to that exactly the way that I knew

00:49 they would and they came forward and they helped us with our inquiries, they cooperated

00:53 and ultimately they provided the information that allowed us to find him and arrest him.

00:58 What kind of man is he?

01:00 Kyle Edditt is a violent bully and he's a coward. He targeted the most vulnerable people

01:05 within Wolverhampton and took advantage of their vulnerabilities to make paltry amounts

01:11 of money for himself.

01:14 And do you welcome the fact that he won't be on the streets again for a very long time?

01:19 I for one am delighted that he won't be out on the streets for a long period of time and

01:25 that's both because justice needs to be seen to be done and secondly because the public

01:30 need to be protected from him.