Law & Order UK Season 8 Episode 5 Customs
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00:00who prosecute the offenders, these are their stories.
00:30Come on! Come on!
00:37Go!
00:42Oh, no.
00:52Carl.
00:54Carl, get back in the car, please.
00:56Ambulance, please.
00:58Police, too. Monson Place, N10.
01:01I think someone's jumped.
01:03Carl!
01:07I'm sorry, I've got to go.
01:09Distraught!
01:21Lovely night, Frit Joy.
01:23You're not wrong, Ronnie.
01:25Right, female, late fifties, early sixties.
01:28No peas, no purse.
01:30Just this.
01:31What is it?
01:32One smashed phone.
01:34Well, let's see if the boys can salvage something out of that.
01:36So, what do you reckon, hit and run or suicide?
01:38The latter.
01:39The amount I've seen here, I'm thinking about pitching a cent.
01:42Save on petrol.
01:43Anything?
01:44No, there's nothing up there, mate.
01:47Right.
01:48Oh.
01:49Hey.
01:50Classy, get up.
01:51She wasn't short of a few quid.
01:52She's not wearing a coat.
01:53It's warmer in my freezer.
01:54I don't think the climate was at the forefront of her mind somehow, Ron.
01:57No.
01:58Maybe my old man was wired after all.
01:59Yeah?
02:00Money don't buy you evidence.
02:01Yeah, I don't be afraid of nothing.
02:02How about you?
02:03No.
02:04It was a long run, man.
02:05It's warmer in my freezer.
02:06I don't think the climate was at the forefront of her mind somehow, Ron.
02:09No.
02:10Maybe my old man was wired after all.
02:11Yeah.
02:12Money don't buy you evidence.
02:14Yes.
02:44The sim is intact, Garth, but the data is mostly in Arabic.
03:11Okay, let's get a translator over here.
03:16That's great, thank you.
03:19Phone is registered to a Rania Habib.
03:22I've got an address.
03:24Good, how's your Arabic?
03:26Hawamati Malay'a bi'azmak al-Ankhis.
03:30Blimey, you're not too shabby.
03:33Means my hovercraft's full of eels.
03:36Muslim, lad. Pendant.
03:38Big python fan.
03:40So, where are we going?
03:43Highgate.
03:44Right.
03:45No dead parrot jokes.
03:54Roy.
03:55Mm-hmm.
03:56Furnace in the bedroom, via the phone.
03:58Suicide note?
03:59It's Arabic.
04:00You're the interpreter.
04:02Well, there's a couple of numbers at 779-LHR-355.
04:07Flight number?
04:08Check it out.
04:09Right.
04:10I'll see what the neighbours have got to say.
04:12Right.
04:13I feel dreadful saying this, but I wasn't exactly her biggest fan.
04:22Oh, she wasn't the most tolerant of people, shall we say.
04:26Right.
04:27Um, did you see her last night?
04:28No.
04:29I heard her, though.
04:30Oh, she was having a right old party with someone.
04:32What time is that?
04:33Ah.
04:34Eleven.
04:35I took a sleeping pill and put my earplugs in and went straight back to sleep.
04:40Alone.
04:41Hmm.
04:42Yeah.
04:43Do you know who she was with?
04:47It was in Arabic.
04:48It was kind of like listening to burning cats.
04:52Did she live alone?
04:54No.
04:55Her husband died years ago.
04:56Right.
04:57Uh, right, Joe.
04:58Thanks.
04:59What about the people in Flat One?
05:00In the Maldives.
05:01Hmm.
05:02Well, lucky for some.
05:04Um, yeah.
05:05Do me a favour, Mr Moss, if anyone comes looking for Mrs Habib, please let me know.
05:10Yes, sir.
05:13Well rescued.
05:15900 grand.
05:19It's not exactly pocket money, is it?
05:22What does she do?
05:23Well, Habib and daughter imports.
05:26It could be anything.
05:27Yeah.
05:28Oh, look at this lot.
05:30Bit early for lunch, isn't it, Roy?
05:32Cheeky.
05:35Dinner with Tarek.
05:37Oh, yeah, Tarek Mahmood, that's her son.
05:39That was last night, and yesterday, and today, all blanked out with Y-E.
05:44Y-E, yeah.
05:45I've seen it in the contacts, but I don't think it's a person.
05:48What are you thinking?
05:50Oh, look.
05:51She's very busy for someone planning to clear her diary, so to speak, isn't she?
06:00Smell that?
06:02No.
06:03Bleach.
06:04Right.
06:05Oh.
06:06Hello again, Mr Moss.
06:07I'm sorry to disturb you.
06:08Just a piece of information.
06:09Who cleans this stairwell?
06:10Well, we have a clean-up.
06:11And when do they come?
06:12Tuesdays.
06:13Brilliant.
06:14Thank you for your time.
06:17Does this smell three days old to you?
06:18No, it does not.
06:19So, Joe, get the boys over here, get this place frenzicated.
06:21Maybe the argument turned nasty.
06:22Ah.
06:23Get you McNulty.
06:26And, so, get up.
06:34We are not.
06:35It okay.
06:38I'm sorry.
06:39I'm not alone.
06:40I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
06:42All right, can you hear me?
06:43The room is so loud, I love this.
06:44I'm sorry.
06:45Thank you for your time.
06:48Does this smell three days old to you?
06:49No, it does not.
06:50No.
06:51We are really very sorry.
06:57Who is it, Mum?
07:07What's happened?
07:11Come on, darling.
07:13We must leave the men to talk.
07:15Go with your mother.
07:21You don't work Fridays, Mr. Mumby.
07:31I'm freelancing right now.
07:33We know this must be difficult, so when was the last time you saw your mother?
07:38She came for dinner last night.
07:40And what time did she leave?
07:45Ten o'clock, just after.
07:47You notice any signs of her not being herself lately?
07:51No.
07:51Not depressed or withdrawn at all?
07:54No, I can't believe that she would take her own life, no.
07:58Hmm.
08:00We saw the letters Y.E. in her diary.
08:03Is that a person?
08:06How should I know?
08:08Mr. Mahmoud.
08:11We're only trying to do our job.
08:17It wasn't suicide, that's for sure.
08:20You think she was pushed?
08:21Good question.
08:22Good question.
08:22Clear linear skull fracture.
08:25As you can see, an epidural bleed led to herniation of the brainstem and death, which is certainly consistent with a fall.
08:34But she didn't fall from a flyover?
08:37Precisely.
08:38Precisely.
08:38There wasn't nearly enough blood on the road, and her injuries simply aren't consistent with a fall from that height.
08:44What about down the stairwell?
08:46Yeah, more likely.
08:47Hmm.
08:48How long has she been dead when they found her?
08:49Given her body temperature, I'd say at least a couple of hours.
08:53Right.
08:54Right.
08:55So, she gets pushed down the stairs, and just someone takes her there and dumps her under the flyover.
08:59Sorry, Ron.
09:00Seems fair.
09:01Yeah, probably.
09:02Four kids.
09:03Uh-huh.
09:04Okay.
09:05All right, great.
09:06Ron.
09:07Yeah?
09:08You were right.
09:09Arab Air 779 lands at Heathrow 3.55pm daily. Someone she knew flew there.
09:15Well, he's due to. My man is on YE.
09:19There were two people with those initials on the 779 yesterday.
09:25Yozre Ibaza, a 12-year-old, travelling with her family.
09:29And the other?
09:30Yafar El Syed, in from Cairo for three days.
09:34Okay, this is him coming through customs now.
09:44Is that your victim?
09:46Absolutely.
09:47Yeah.
09:48Have you got an immigration card?
09:50Yeah.
09:51And a flight history.
09:52Bit a busy boy.
09:53That is great.
09:54Thanks very much.
09:55Let me take this call.
09:57We're staying at the Sovereign Hotel in London.
09:59There you go.
10:00Hello?
10:01Yeah.
10:02Yeah.
10:03That is brilliant.
10:05Excellent.
10:06Thanks, Ange.
10:07Joe, thank you, gentlemen.
10:09The Sovereign can wait.
10:11Doing business with the Middle East doesn't make you al-Qaeda.
10:14Ange, you know what I'm saying, don't you?
10:16No.
10:17Calm off it, Ron.
10:18So what, when rich white people travel, we call them worldly.
10:21But when Muslims do it, we call them terrorists.
10:23Hello, Joe.
10:24Look, I take your point.
10:25I'm just saying, it's something we can't ignore.
10:27What can't we ignore?
10:28Ron's terrorist radar is bleeping.
10:30Multiple payments, Gov, from Rania Habib's account to Middle Eastern recipients, including
10:36£6,000 only last week to a Mr. Yaffa El-Sayed.
10:40Yesterday, she picks him up from Heathrow Airport.
10:43Six hours later, we find her dead.
10:46Not only that, but in the last 12 months alone, Mr. Sayed has been to the Yemen, Libya and Syria.
10:52Right?
10:53I'm just saying we can't rule it out.
10:55OK, but listen, you tread carefully, yes?
10:58Yeah, yeah.
11:03Did he seem shifty at all or on edge?
11:06Did he act, I don't know, strange?
11:08Did you notice anything unusual?
11:10No.
11:11Did he say anything to you?
11:12No.
11:13What, nothing at all?
11:14Brian.
11:15Yeah?
11:16Sodium bicarbonate.
11:17Nitroglycerin.
11:18Well, that's how he made explosives.
11:19He could have made that here.
11:20He had another bag with him.
11:21Where's the other bag?
11:22I don't know, sir.
11:23You haven't seen it?
11:24What, do you know where he was going?
11:25Over there.
11:26Thanks for your help.
11:27Cheers.
11:28Wes, it's Ronnie.
11:29Give me your ring back as soon as you can.
11:30It's urgent.
11:31Well, we don't know for sure.
11:32Think about it, Joe.
11:33The risk of not taking action is far greater.
11:34I want all available units, Trojans, Teapop 1, the lot.
11:35You understand?
11:36No.
11:37No.
11:38No.
11:39No.
11:40No.
11:41No.
11:42No.
11:43No.
11:44No.
11:45No.
11:46No.
11:47No.
11:48No.
11:49No.
11:50No.
11:51No.
11:52No.
11:53No.
11:54No.
11:55No.
12:03Here you go.
12:04There's no sign.
12:05His name's on the list.
12:07Well, then, he's up there already.
12:09Yeah.
12:10We need you to perform an emergency evacuation.
12:12Get everyone out of here as quickly as you can via the south exit on the center.
12:15So quickly, please.
12:16South exit.
12:17Hey.
12:55All persons must leave the building immediately.
13:00Please leave the tower by the south exit.
13:06Hiss the stairs and leave by the south exit.
13:25Please leave the tower by the south exit.
13:55Put it in there. Wait for it. Wait for it. I'll tell you.
14:00Now.
14:00Please stand still.
14:03Don't be back.
14:05Lay down. Move forward.
14:07Put your hands out to the side.
14:09Support. Hang up.
14:11Kick it away.
14:16Ready?
14:17Okay. Go on, Joey. In you go.
14:33What is it?
14:34You just made us some run.
14:40Something funny, Dr. Alsade?
15:01The sheer levels of incompetence, T.S. Brooks.
15:05Whoever heard of a man with angina and an upset stomach bringing London to a standstill?
15:11Sodium bicarbonate.
15:13What did you think I would do?
15:16Bake everybody to death?
15:18It's used to make bombs.
15:21Same as nitroglycerin.
15:23Nitroglycerin is a vasodilator.
15:25Tell me something, gentlemen.
15:29Why are you still holding me?
15:32Are you afraid I might have a secret supply of paracetamol?
15:37When did you last see Rania Habib?
15:44Why?
15:49Just answer the question, please.
15:51Mrs. Habib paid you £6,000 last week.
15:54Why would she do that?
15:56She doesn't trust British doctors.
16:00She thinks they're incompetent.
16:03You think it's contagious?
16:05Yes.
16:14Where were you between the hours of 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. last night?
16:25What happened?
16:26Just answer the question.
16:31I was, um...
16:33I had dinner alone.
16:37Then I went straight to bed.
16:39More specific?
16:42It was the hotel restaurant.
16:43The staff can verify it.
16:57Um, what is it?
17:00Forensics found traces of blood in Rania's stairwell.
17:04It is hers.
17:05Oh, great.
17:07Told you.
17:08Thanks, Ange.
17:13If we're not out in five minutes, call the rescue team.
17:22Oh, which part of tread carefully didn't you understand?
17:36It all happened.
17:37I've just been on the phone for half an hour with the top brass defending you.
17:41Wes, he flies 2,000 miles to give Rania Habib some sort of expensive check-up.
17:48A few hours later, we find her dead.
17:51You must see that as suspicious.
17:53That's suspicious, maybe.
17:55Worthy of putting us on the nine o'clock news.
17:57Absolutely not.
17:59I want this guy out of my hair before the Egyptian embassy weighed in.
18:04Are we clear?
18:05Look, if we said, are we clear?
18:09Sorry.
18:14The translator's been working on Rania's voicemail.
18:17You're going to want to hear it.
18:19Go on, get out.
18:20Translation is, hello, mum, it's Tarek.
18:30Did Dr. Al-Sayan arrive safely?
18:32Call me to make arrangements.
18:35And he said he didn't know any YA.
18:37Well, Tarek lost his job six months ago.
18:41That's a translation of email he sent to his mother last week.
18:44You know what this is?
18:46A begging letter.
18:47That's a motive.
18:49Right, Ange, have all the cameras checked between Muswell Hill Highgate for last night
18:54and have a warrant for their place.
18:56Can you please?
18:57Why don't we get Tarek around for a nice cup of tea and a custard cream?
19:02How could you think that?
19:05She was my mother.
19:09Why did you lie about Dr. Al-Said?
19:12My head was all over the place.
19:14You just...
19:16You just told me she had died.
19:24You'd lose your job.
19:26Pretty soon, you're getting desperate for money, so what do you do?
19:33You email your mum asking for £10,000.
19:36She said no, didn't she, Tarek?
19:42I don't understand what makes you think I could do this.
19:46Well, a rejection like that must make a proud man like you very angry.
19:52So where were you between the hours at 10pm and 2am?
19:56I was in bed shortly after 10pm.
20:01And my wife can confirm that.
20:13Am I arrested?
20:16No, no, no.
20:17We, um, just need a witness statement.
20:19Could really help with eliminating your husband from, uh, inquiries, so...
20:26This is Mahmood.
20:34Must have been hard on the family, Tarek losing his job.
20:39Do you work yourself?
20:41I try to be a good mother.
20:46Hmm.
20:49I mean, your husband must feel a lot of pressure to provide now.
20:53Did his mother refuse to help, or...?
20:57I don't know.
20:58They don't tell me anything.
21:02Can I go to my daughter now?
21:05She's very young.
21:06Zafia.
21:06Anyone leave the house after your mother and Lord drove home?
21:17No.
21:19We both went straight to bed.
21:20We both went straight to bed.
21:40Lev?
21:47That's great.
21:48Thanks.
21:50Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on, Ron, hang on.
21:58Look, Tariq may have lied, but I think his wife did too.
22:01Because, look, they're sleeping in separate rooms.
22:05Now, if that's the case, there's no way she could be his alibi.
22:10You know, your husband could be spending an awful long time in prison.
22:14You want to be going the same way.
22:20Safiya.
22:20If you want to be there for Layla, to take care of her,
22:24then you're going to have to start telling her that's true.
22:26You can't take me away from her.
22:29You can't.
22:31Okay, okay.
22:33Then help us.
22:45I can't tell you.
22:46They were shouting at each other.
22:54Could you hear what they were saying?
22:56It was in Arabic.
23:00It was too fast for me.
23:05Do mum and dad fight lots or not so much?
23:08They never fight.
23:09They never fight.
23:12The only other time was when dad wanted me to go to Egypt for the summer.
23:16I think they thought I was asleep.
23:20After the shouting stopped, it was quiet for a bit.
23:28Then I heard the front door.
23:31I saw him driving up the hill.
23:34And you were watching from your bedroom window?
23:39He wasn't drunk, if that's what you're thinking.
23:45He never drinks.
23:47He's a very good Muslim.
23:50You told us you didn't leave the house, but your daughter saw you.
23:54It was the previous night that I went out.
23:59She is confused.
24:00No.
24:01Your mum won't lend you the money.
24:03You have a huge row.
24:05You're desperate.
24:06You push her down the stairs and make you look like suicide.
24:09It is not true.
24:10We know that the stress built, the bills kept coming.
24:16You tried to provide for your family after you lost your job, right?
24:22And finally...
24:23Do you think I've killed my mother for money?
24:28Why would I do this?
24:31When she left almost her entire estate to Layla's trust fund.
24:36An account only she can access when she's 18.
24:40My wife and I helped set the top.
24:53You didn't know this.
24:54You didn't know this.
25:07Yeah.
25:08I need to sort it out, because I think what he's...
25:11Hey, Gough.
25:12Yes, mate?
25:13Come and have a look at this.
25:16What is it?
25:17This is the Rania Habib case.
25:19Tarek Mahmood, yeah?
25:20Oh, yeah.
25:21Watch.
25:23Oh, that's our guy, right?
25:26Let's run it back for you.
25:27It's his car, but...
25:29That's not him driving it.
25:33It's his wife.
25:41Joe.
25:43His daughter wasn't lying when she said she saw the car leave.
25:46She just never saw the driver.
25:49Let's go.
25:50Safiyah Mahmood, I'm arresting you on the suspicion of the murder of Rania Habib.
26:03You do not have to say anything but anything.
26:04No.
26:05No, no, no.
26:06He's not.
26:06Please, no.
26:08It's not.
26:08びっくり...
26:09Mummy.
26:10No!
26:10No!
26:10Mummy!
26:11He's not made everything with you.
26:13Mummy!
26:14He's gonna do everything with me.
26:15No!
26:17Mummy!
26:19Mummy!
26:20Mummy!
26:22Mummy!
26:22Mummy!
26:27You see?
26:36Sophia?
26:38Everything points to you.
26:43Where is my daughter? Where is my daughter?
26:48Can I see her, please?
26:50Why did you kill your mother-in-law?
26:52Is she with my husband?
26:53Lifting a 60-kilo woman into a car
26:56must have been quite a struggle, Mrs Mahmood.
26:59You see, the forensic team will be analysing your clothes as we speak.
27:04So, you need to understand, this is just a matter of time.
27:10You don't understand.
27:13I didn't mean to do it.
27:16So it was an accident.
27:21You're telling us that you killed her now?
27:26I had no choice.
27:30I had no choice.
27:34If it was me defending her, I'd claim it was accidental.
27:39No witnesses, no weapon.
27:41Yeah, but also, no 999 call.
27:45And she'd go through an awful lot of trouble to cover it up.
27:49You think we've got enough to charge her with murder?
27:51Well, the thing that would help us most is a clear motive.
27:54Without one, we might struggle.
27:59Okay, do it.
28:00Do it.
28:05It's tricky.
28:06I mean...
28:08If it's not the money, then what?
28:10I mean, a woman doesn't kill her mother,
28:12and all just because she don't like her.
28:13But, Joe...
28:15Seriously, do we honestly believe that Dr Elside had nothing to do with it?
28:18Ronnie.
28:20And his alibi checks out.
28:21Fair point.
28:23Why do they sleep in separate rooms?
28:26Joe, that's got nothing to do with it, mate.
28:28Means absolutely nothing.
28:30I got two failed marriages.
28:31Never took it out on their mums.
28:33Anyway, look, forget about the paperwork.
28:35We'll start again tomorrow.
28:36You know what?
28:37You go ahead.
28:38I want to stay.
28:39Check something out.
28:43Do mum and dad fight lots or not so much?
28:49They never fight.
28:51The only other time was when dad wanted me to go to Egypt for the summer.
29:06Hey, Clive, you found a CV for Dr Elside, right?
29:11Yeah.
29:16Great, thanks.
29:29Yeah, hi.
29:30Is that, um, Dr Alastair Turnbull?
29:37He did some of his training here.
29:41I had no idea I was named on his CV.
29:45You don't seem too pleased about it.
29:48Well, he's...
29:51an accomplished surgeon.
29:54Right.
29:55But...
29:58My wife and I were in Cairo in 2006.
30:02I thought I'd drop in on Dr Elside.
30:04Uh-huh.
30:06There were young girls in his waiting room.
30:08Far too young to need a gynaecologist.
30:10Are you familiar with the term cutting or FGM, DS Hawkins?
30:17Female genital mutilation.
30:19The surgical removal of the external genitalia.
30:23I know what it is.
30:25You should have seen it before.
30:28I discovered it formed a substantial part of his practice.
30:35Rania Habib paid Dr Elside to cut Leila.
30:40And Safiya wasn't gonna stand for it.
30:42I think you're jumping the gun a bit.
30:43Where's the evidence?
30:45How about a six grand round trip paid for by Rania?
30:48That's not evidence, Joe.
30:49That's generosity.
30:51Why didn't she tell you about it?
30:52Because she's scared.
30:55I've seen it before, there's a wall of silence with FGM.
30:59Trust me, I'm talking about intimidation, violent retribution, the works.
31:04Well, it's definitely a motive, but it's also a defence.
31:09A hypothetical one.
31:11What might have happened doesn't justify murder.
31:13If this is true, Jake, it's premeditated child abuse.
31:17Unless Rania Habib was standing over her granddaughter with a knife in her hand, there's no defence.
31:27And my client therefore poses no threat.
31:30Thank you, Mrs Morgan.
31:32Aye, Lord.
31:33I'm not satisfied that the conditions are adequate to alleviate the risk of her absconding and interfering with witnesses.
31:47And so the application for bail is refused.
31:51The defendant will be reminded into custody.
31:54But, my daughter.
31:56Mrs Marmuth.
31:57She needs me.
31:58Please.
32:00No.
32:01Please.
32:02Please.
32:06So you and your mother argued with your wife on the night in question.
32:12Yes.
32:13And this argument, Mr Mahmood, you say it stemmed from a difference of opinion over how best to raise your daughter.
32:22I love my daughter more than anything in the world.
32:26But love does not mean giving our children whatever they want.
32:29It means protecting them, yes?
32:32It takes a lot of effort to be firm.
32:36A lot of love.
32:39My mother taught me this.
32:42She believes it very strongly.
32:43She believed it very strongly.
32:47She believed it very strongly.
32:50And your wife took exception to your mother's interventions.
32:54They never saw eye to eye.
32:58But my mother was looking out for Layla.
33:01Don't you see?
33:03Everywhere you look there is sex.
33:05Little girls dress like prostitutes.
33:08School girls have babies.
33:09This is the world my daughter lives in.
33:12It is my duty as a father to protect her.
33:17Joe's right.
33:19Her daughter's in danger when she's too scared to speak out.
33:22Tarek's not stupid.
33:23He won't do anything whilst his wife's being tried for murder.
33:26I'm sure Joe could contact social services to make sure he's closely monitored.
33:32And you're honestly okay with that?
33:34What are you suggesting?
33:36If Sophia tells Madeleine Morgan about the threat of FGM, she will argue defense of another.
33:42We offer them manslaughter.
33:44Trust me, if she hasn't told her by now, she's not going to.
33:46Our job is to prosecute.
33:48And whatever you and I think about it, she killed a woman.
33:51She's got to pay for her crime.
34:03Madeleine, I need a word.
34:06What? I'm right in the middle.
34:08Right now.
34:16You can't rely on a lack of motive being enough to save you.
34:27You could lose this.
34:30You've got to tell her.
34:32I know about Dr. El-Sayed.
34:35I really don't know what you're doing, Kate, but I think you should leave.
34:38Look, if a jury finds you guilty of murder, then Layla will be your age by the time you get out.
34:43You can't be a good mother from behind bars.
34:46Someone had to tell her.
35:03Someone had to tell her.
35:11Mr Mahmoud, you suspected your own wife of killing your mother.
35:16And you didn't tell the police?
35:18I...
35:20I thought there must be a mistake.
35:23Mistake?
35:25I couldn't believe it.
35:27Fighting, shouting is one thing.
35:30But...
35:33But what, Mr Mahmoud?
35:34Mr Mahmoud?
35:38But I know my wife.
35:43It must have been an accident.
35:45I think you should tell the court the real reason your wife took against your mother.
35:52Don't you, Tariq?
35:53I'm sorry?
35:54They were fighting about female matters, were they not?
35:58Well, it was an argument you'd heard many times before.
36:01Ever since your mother tried to send Layla back to Egypt during the school holidays.
36:08No.
36:10Your wife learned that your mother was planning to have Layla mutilated.
36:18Mr Mahmoud, could you please explain to the court the term FGM?
36:26Female genital mutilation.
36:28Now, you might call it something else, but that is what we are talking about here, is it not?
36:34My lord, I must object to the manner in which my learned friend is questioning the witness.
36:39He's not the one on trial here.
36:41My lord, if Rania Habib was planning to carry out an act of illegal abuse on my client's daughter,
36:47then my client was acting in defence of another.
36:49I'm inclined to agree with Mrs Morgan.
36:53I must remind you that you are under oath, Mr Mahmoud.
36:59Mr Mahmoud.
37:01Did your mother pay Dr Yaffa al-Sayed to fly in from Cairo and perform FGM on your daughter?
37:17Yes.
37:19And was this the nature of the argument the night your mother died?
37:28Yes.
37:36We could jeopardise the whole case.
37:38Kate, have you any idea?
37:39The jury have a right to hear all the evidence on this.
37:42And we have a duty to see justice done, however bitter the taste.
37:45Oh, what justice? You call this justice?
37:46Kate!
37:49Tell me how this changes things.
37:52They've added a parallel argument.
37:53They're now claiming it was accidental and defence of another.
37:57Which seems to me entirely reasonable given the circumstances.
38:01But she can't claim to be protecting her daughter when her daughter's in a different postcode!
38:06I know we don't always see eye to eye, Kate, but you've lost your objectivity on this.
38:09Oh, it's funny because I think I'm seeing things pretty clearly.
38:13Do I need to knock your heads together?
38:16Look, I tried to stay professional.
38:19Really, I did.
38:20But I'm sorry, Henry.
38:21I think it's best if Jake handles this one without me.
38:24I need you to build a case against Yappa al-Sayed.
38:27Oh, hey, Joe. How's it going? Not too bad, thanks, Kate. What can I do for you?
38:36I need a favour. Dr. al-Sayed.
38:37Doctor, he's gone.
38:38Okay, long gone. He's back to Egypt. We couldn't detain him forever.
38:39I've been looking through his case. He's a cutter for hire, Joe. He's here regularly.
38:40Look at this, right?
38:41Three days in May.
38:42Three days in May.
38:43I need you to build a case against Yappa al-Sayed.
38:44Oh, hey, Joe. How's it going?
38:46Not too bad, thanks, Kate. What can I do for you?
38:49I need a favour. Dr. al-Sayed.
38:52Doctor, he's gone.
38:54Kate, long gone. He's back to Egypt. We couldn't detain him forever.
38:58I've been looking through his case.
39:02He's a cutter for hire, Joe. He's here regularly.
39:05Look at this, right?
39:07Three days in March. Before that, January.
39:12September last year. Before that, April.
39:15Or two or three days.
39:19You need a badge and a desk.
39:24Look, Kate, even if he does come back, it's not going to be easy.
39:29Please, Joe.
39:30I'd need to find someone willing to give evidence against him.
39:33You know what a nightmare that's going to be.
39:37What?
39:40We go back to Tarek.
39:42Look, there's no way he's going to give evidence.
39:44Look, I don't think he knows what FGM really entails.
39:49I think that his mother took control, just like she did with everything else.
39:53And he just went along with it.
39:55Well, maybe she kept the details from him, you know, just told him that it was something that had to happen.
40:01He was completely under her thumb.
40:05And now she's gone.
40:07He might listen to reason.
40:12Hmm.
40:13The conspiracy to commit FGM is a criminal offence, Mr Mahmood.
40:22With respect, DS Hawkins, I don't think you understand.
40:27It is a custom which dates back thousands of years.
40:30So unless you are from my country, I don't think you'll understand.
40:33Do you even know what it is?
40:36Or is it all just women's business to you?
40:40To you.
40:41So it is your business now.
40:43Isn't it?
40:44Especially if you're going to have to raise Layla on your own.
40:48I don't.
40:55It's okay, Habibti.
41:00Go with Yasmin.
41:03My sister.
41:06She's coming from Cairo.
41:09She's helping out.
41:13We're not interested in you, Tariq.
41:15We want El Saeed.
41:16If you agree to give evidence against him, I'll recommend that you're not charged.
41:23Okay, now you want what's best for your family, right?
41:33I must ask you to leave.
41:34Safiya, could you explain to us why your mother-in-law would wish to mutilate her own granddaughter?
41:47She thought it would keep Layla clean.
41:48It would keep her...
41:49...pure.
41:50When did you find out that she was planning to have Layla cut?
41:54I heard her telling Layla about a special trip back home to Egypt.
41:55I knew what it meant.
41:56And what did you do?
41:57First, I went to Tariq.
41:58First, I went to Tariq.
41:59But he would not listen.
42:00She had...
42:01...poisoned his mind.
42:02...you know.
42:03And what?
42:05Then what happened?
42:08I heard her telling Leila about a special trip back home to Egypt.
42:15I knew what it meant.
42:17And what did you do?
42:18First, I went to Tariq, but he would not listen.
42:23She had poisoned his mind, you know?
42:28And then what happened?
42:31I received a letter.
42:34What did this letter say, Safiya?
42:36You are dirty.
42:39Your daughter is a slut, and you bring shame on your family.
42:43Who wrote this letter?
42:44I do not know.
42:46Who do you suspect wrote it?
42:49Rania, my mother-in-law.
42:52Safiya, did you go to Rania's house with the intention of killing her?
42:57Of course not.
42:59But I had to stand up to her for Leila.
43:03So how did she die?
43:04Her face was this close to me.
43:11She was shouting at me, pushing me, telling me I am whore.
43:16Leila is a whore.
43:18Her spit was going in my face.
43:20I didn't mean...
43:21You must believe me.
43:23I did not mean for her to die.
43:29You must believe me.
43:31All right, that is every call made from Dr. Elsa, it's pay-as-you-go phone.
43:41Cheers.
43:42And these calls coincide with the dates he was in the UK?
43:45Yeah.
43:46Parents of FGM victims.
43:47Um, we pulled up some of the addresses, made some house calls.
43:52I feel a book coming on.
43:54Yeah, you know, it's just, they invite me in, right, and it's all chat, chat, chat.
43:59But then the minute I mention FGM, obviously, they just go quiet.
44:04Who's they?
44:06The mothers or the fathers?
44:08It's mainly the mums.
44:09So let me try.
44:10The staircase at Brandy's apartment is made of stone, is it not?
44:20Yes.
44:21Pushing a 62-year-old grandmother down such a staircase clearly carries with it the risk of death.
44:27You are aware that intent to cause serious bodily harm is grounds to convict in a murder trial?
44:34It happened very fast.
44:36As I said before, it was an accident.
44:41I was protecting my daughter.
44:43Protecting your daughter.
44:48Can I ask you, where was your daughter on the night in question?
44:52She was at home.
44:53Tucked up safely in bed.
44:56In no immediate danger.
45:00It is not so simple as that.
45:03I thought the danger, it is gone away, but then Rania pays Dr. El Saeed to come here.
45:11He was right here in London to cut her.
45:14Why not run away with Leila?
45:16I tried.
45:18I said to Tariq, we must leave, we must go anywhere, but he does not understand how bad it is.
45:25Do you have any actual evidence, anything at all, to support your claims that your daughter was in danger?
45:31But there would not be any evidence until it was too late.
45:35And you think taking another person's life is a reasonable and proportionate response?
45:40You don't understand girls bleed to death because of this.
45:45Or they die from infections from the dirty blades.
45:48If you are lucky, you don't die.
45:50It is only luck.
45:52Mrs. Mahmood, I am asking you.
45:54Going to the bathroom can hurt every time.
45:58Sometimes to have a baby it is hard.
46:00To give birth, it hurts to run.
46:03It hurts to walk.
46:04It hurts to bleed every month.
46:05And not just the body.
46:09The mind, too.
46:13Nightmares that will not go away.
46:15Not ever.
46:16How do you know these things?
46:37Because it happened to me.
46:44I was nine.
46:46They had no instruments, only the scissors.
46:53There was no anesthetic.
46:58I screamed for three days.
47:04They had not stitched me properly.
47:06They had no idea how much she'd see her.
47:24I was 10,000-footed.
47:26They were 10,000-footed.
47:27But they were 19,000-footed.
47:27They were 19,000-footed.
47:28They were 16,000-footed.
47:29You had no idea how much she'd see you.
47:30I was 13,000-footed.
47:31Yeah, yes.
47:31I was 17,000.
47:32You had no idea how much she'd suffered, did you?
47:38My mother said Sophia was exasperated.
47:44And I believed her.
47:50We really need your help, Tariq.
47:52I'm trying to stop Dr. Al-Sayed from mutilating other young girls.
48:01Even if I...
48:02Think of the girls we'd be saving.
48:05Young, extraordinary girls, just like Leila.
48:18Sophia's decision to speak out took an enormous amount of courage.
48:24When her own daughter's well-being was threatened,
48:27she did what every mother in this room would have done.
48:31She protected her.
48:35Now the prosecution have tried to persuade you that...
48:39They must never!
48:40You're the only one who's in the room.
48:45And you're the only one who's in the room.
48:49You're the only one who's in the room.
48:50What is this?
48:51What is this?
48:52You're the only one who's in the room.
48:53I will...
49:02I will...
49:03The court is dismissed for the day,
49:06whilst I hear from the interpreter what was said
49:09during the previous exchange.
49:12A reduced sentence is no good to Sophia
49:27if her only concern is Layla being cut
49:29But if she knew that Layla was safe
49:32she'd accept a manslaughter charge
49:33Then how do we know she is safe?
49:36Tarek's agreed to give evidence against El Sayed
49:38But Henry, if the judge is compassionate
49:41she'll get three or four years
49:43and we've still made our point
49:44What do you think, Jake?
49:52I don't believe I'm saying this
49:53but maybe Kate's right
49:56This should be a manslaughter trial
50:01Safiya Mahmood
50:07You are charged with manslaughter
50:09How do you plead?
50:11Guilty
50:14Safiya Mahmood
50:21You are responsible for the death of a 62-year-old woman
50:25And I've heard all I need regarding your state of mind
50:30and the perceived danger to your daughter
50:33And I hereby sentence you to a term of imprisonment of four years
50:38You will serve the first half in custody
50:42And then you'll be released to serve the remainder in the community
50:46Hey
50:55You did a good thing, you know?
51:12Well, given the bigger picture, I'm not exactly doing cartwheels
51:15All right, but get this, right?
51:18One of El Sayed's victims called the NSPCC asking to help us, right?
51:23This girl is brave as a lion
51:25I'm telling you, that man's cutting day is over
51:29But he's still in Egypt
51:31Not for long
51:32Got a heads up, right?
51:34Turns out he's flying into Heathrow in a few days
51:37So, stop practicing those cartwheels
51:40Miss Barker
51:42Thank you
51:45Mr. Mahmood
51:50I wanted to thank you
51:54She's out in maybe two years, inshallah
51:57Miss Mullen said you pushed hard for this
52:01When did you last speak to her?
52:07Why?
52:08Your wife still believes that Layla is at risk
52:13I think the actions of your sister
52:15What are you saying?
52:16I'm afraid it's very unlikely that you'll be granted custody
52:20Before your wife gets out
52:22I'm sorry
52:24But I don't know her father
52:26It may only be temporary
52:28Until the authorities are satisfied that she's safe with you
52:34I'm sorry
52:39I got you five minutes
53:09I'm sorry
53:09It's not any longer
53:10Come on
53:12Please, I'm gone
53:23Don't be okay
53:28Please, I'm gone
53:36You're battle, son
54:04Your glory
54:05The FAU outside
54:16I'm arresting you on the Section 3 of the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003
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