Crimewatch Roadshow Season 22 Episode 4

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00:00Hello, and welcome to the programme.

00:04Today, detectives are looking for this man

00:06in connection with the murder of 22-year-old Rikard Siafa.

00:10The three men surround him.

00:13He's attacked and suffers multiple stab wounds

00:16before they then run full sprint.

00:20Do you know where he might be?

00:22Welcome back to Crimewatch Live.

00:25He's been jamming the switchboard both here and at the instant.

00:30Just to remind you, this was the abduction and reno-drop campaign

00:33and the handgun debate.

00:37Hello, and welcome to Crimewatch.

00:3912 people rang and giving the same letters fantastic as Italy.

00:51Hello, and thanks for joining us this Thursday

00:53where we are coming to you live from our studios

00:56right in the middle of Cardiff.

00:57Yeah, this morning, how a heartless gang targeting workers

01:00in care homes and GP surgeries with a double scam

01:03were finally arrested.

01:05It was a highly organised, sophisticated operation.

01:09You know, you forwarded your PIN number.

01:13They certainly were.

01:18We'll be hearing how street doctors are helping debunk myths

01:22around knife crime and training up youngsters

01:24with skills on what to do if someone near them is stabbed.

01:29And we'll be hearing how asking for Angela

01:31might be the only words you need to say

01:33to keep safe on a night out.

01:35As always, the officers and team are backstage

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02:06First this morning, a family have been left in ruins

02:09after 22-year-old Rijkaard Siafa

02:11was stabbed to death in Croydon in April 2024.

02:15I call Rijkaard my Rijkaard man.

02:23He calls me his queen.

02:27Said, Mom, you're my queen.

02:31Rijkaard's love for life was unmatched.

02:36He loves his football.

02:37His first thing was football.

02:39He sleep with his ball.

02:42He was playing for Crystal Palace Academy

02:44a couple of years ago.

02:47He wanted to be a coach

02:48and his certificate came just after he passed away.

03:02On the 12th of April 2024,

03:05Rijkaard Siafa spent most of the day at a friend's house

03:08in Fellmonger's yard, Croydon.

03:12He'd messaged his girlfriend to come and collect him.

03:16So he'd come out at roughly around 6pm

03:19to meet with his girlfriend.

03:20As Rijkaard gets to the end of Fellmonger's yard

03:27at the junction with Surrey Street,

03:28he immediately meets two men.

03:36They see him and run straight into Fellmonger's yard

03:39and then there's another male

03:40that runs straight after the other two.

03:42He's attacked and suffers multiple stab wounds.

03:57The three men leave very quickly.

04:00The men who had chased Rijkaard ran from the scene.

04:05Rijkaard had been stabbed multiple times

04:08and was seriously wounded.

04:11Rijkaard managed to get up to his friend's house

04:14where he collapsed.

04:16His friends called for an ambulance.

04:19Paramedics and doctors tended to Rijkaard

04:22but unfortunately they were not able to save his life.

04:27Rijkaard Siafa was only 22 years old.

04:31Rijkaard was only 22 years old.

04:33Life changed drastically.

04:35Everything.

04:39I go to the toilet and cry.

04:42When I'm having my lunch, I cry.

04:46So it's like I'm crying every day.

04:48hours after the fatal attack police launched a murder investigation they started by taking

05:03witness statements and trawling cctv from the local vicinity surrey street generally has a market

05:10around that sort of time the market would have been clearing up but it was still quite busy with

05:15people witnesses told us that they had seen three black males and that two of the males were wearing

05:23face coverings one of the witnesses told us that he could clearly see that one of the suspects had

05:30a knife another witness told us that he'd seen one of the suspects repeatedly stabbing rykard

05:38before they then run full sprint out of felmonger's yard

05:46we searched all of the streets for cctv from business premises and the local authority

05:52so we can identify who the males were and also where they've gone in order to try and apprehend them

06:01we tracked the suspects and find that they go to the spread eagle public house

06:05and then get a taxi from there to another address and we see here that they change their clothes

06:17from this address they get a taxi to another block of flats in croydon and they change their clothes

06:23once again they're trying to change their appearance with clear images of the three suspects police used

06:32facial recognition technology in an attempt to identify them and they had a match

06:37the three people that we identified were david walcott ramon mali and jordan vincent

06:48we knew who they were it was just finding where they were to be able to arrest them

06:52within a week david walcott had been arrested we knew that ramon mali had left the country

07:03but early in may ramon mali returned to the country and was arrested at gatwick airport

07:08they were both charged with murder of rycard david walcott was also charged with possession of a knife

07:18in february 2025 they were found guilty of rycard's murder and they were sentenced to 27 years in prison

07:30but one of the suspects 28 year old jordan vincent had disappeared and police need to find him

07:39i do not know where jordan vincent is so i am actively seeking his whereabouts

07:50they took my my life it's like i'm in prison now you know without rycard

08:01i smell his clothes every day i put on his shoes and his clothes

08:05every day i'm looking at the phone and say he will text me

08:10i look over the window to see that i can see him and his voice but he's no longer there

08:17so they left me heartbroken

08:25police can't establish any reason or motive for this attack that took rycard's life

08:31but for anybody that knows where jordan vincent is i'm holding them and i'm pleading and asking for them to bring him forward

08:43i don't want it to happen to any other family please as a mother i'm asking

08:55it's just so sad i'm now with dci sam townsend you saw her from the film there

08:59from the met police sam understandably this has just been so hard for rycard's mother his wider

09:06family it's really really devastating isn't it yes it has been rav totally yeah she's absolutely

09:12distraught we can see that so let's can you just start by recapping just what happened that evening

09:18so we're talking about the 12th of april 2024 um rycard had been at a friend's house in felmonger's yard

09:24in croydon um he left around 6 p.m uh heading down towards surrey street we know that within surrey street

09:33the three suspects were there ramon malli david walcott and jordan vincent they met with him

09:39at the corner of felmonger's yard and chased him into felmonger's yard and that's where he's fatally

09:45stabbed and then afterwards we can see on this map here this is now the movements of what occurred

09:52after that fatal stabbing so the three of them then leave felmonger's yard at speed and they go to the

09:58spread eagle public house where they have a drink from that from the public house they then move to

10:04malcolm wick's house which is a tower block and from there at their address they change their clothing

10:11they then move to delta point and they change their clothing again um it's after delta point

10:16that we lose them on the cctv okay and then after that some very swift police work did lead to the

10:24arrest of two of those males so this is david walcott ramon malli we can see them here they were arrested

10:30they were charged they were convicted and they are serving very lengthy sentences for this murder but

10:35there is this one outstanding male this man this is jordan vincent he is the one you still need to

10:42find isn't he yes he is um i don't know where jordan vincent is okay well let's try and find where he is

10:50now how would you describe this this man so jordan is 28 years old he's approximately five foot nine

10:57black male he's got short um road hair and uh black beard obviously rav that could have changed

11:06um we know that he's got a tattoo on his right hand of a crown with an a and a b underneath so

11:13quite a distinctive mark in there 28 years of age only just had a birthday so he's only just turned 28

11:18but that is the man you need to find jordan vincent there and it's worth saying where this happened and

11:23when this happened croydon it's a busy part of south london isn't it 6 pm there's lots of people

11:28that's surely going to be around therefore lots of potential witnesses yeah we did have a lot of

11:33witnesses come forward um it's um very busy surrey street has a market at that time of the evening

11:39the market was closing down so there was still lots of people in the area yes we need to hear from

11:44those people and if anyone does need any further incentive to come forward there's actually a financial

11:50reward that has been put up for this case yes the metropolis police have put up a 10 up to a 10 000

11:55pound reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of jordan vincent yeah so if anyone

12:01does that information don't keep it to themselves sam it's worth saying this you are a detective with an

12:07incredibly long career in the met you're also a senior investigating officer but above all you're a human

12:12being you have dealt with reichard's mother many many times you know how much it would mean to her

12:19to get this last man caught apprehended and convicted for this crime don't you yeah this

12:25has devastated hasanuti and the wider family of course um so it would be really good to get the

12:32last person involved in this events um to face justice yeah you're not going to give up i know

12:37that sam thank you well if you do know anything about this case it's worth saying the bottom of the

12:44screen you can see a qr code if you scan that with your phone's camera it will take you through

12:48to our website and on that we've got all the links where you can contact sam's team with any

12:53information that you've got do take a look at that and if you want to get in touch with us of course

12:58please do so all the ways to do that the contact details are at the bottom of the screen below

13:05well reichard siafa is just one victim that has lost his life to knife crime and over the last 10 years

13:11there's been an 81 increase in police recorded offenses involving a knife or sharp instrument i'm now with

13:17martin tilbury and millie may adams from the charity street doctors who are working to tackle

13:22this national crisis in a very practical way thank you both for joining us great to see you

13:27so martin tell us what is street doctors all about yes street doctors a national charity and we train

13:32about 16 000 young people every year in the physical and psychological effects of street violence

13:37and we're supported by 250 healthcare volunteers like millie may and we do a lot of work with training

13:45young people to be young leaders and almost we empower them to support um street um the addressing

13:51of street violence yeah really important and some of this is practical training just describe some of

13:56the practical training that that people would see on this course yeah we do a lot of work around um knife

14:01injuries and how to actually illustrate things in a simple way so um millie may can just highlight a

14:07couple of those for us yes we use a really simple mnemonic called as alert and these are the steps to

14:13follow if you find someone in this situation so a is to call an ambulance so even if you can't do

14:18anything else that can make a huge difference then it's safety so is it safe for you to intervene

14:23and you apply pressure around the knife lie them down elevate their legs reassure them because they'll

14:29obviously be very worried in this situation and then regulate their temperature so keep them warm

14:33so as alert is what we're remembering but you talked about applying pressure near the wound because

14:39there's something very important you're going to give us a demonstration of right now we've got a

14:42spoon in a bottle here to help us there is good reason for that i'm sure this is important can you

14:47talk us through why it's so important that you leave the knife in yeah it's a very easy visual

14:52representation of what's going on with blood loss so this represents the knife or sharp object so the idea

14:58is with it left and it creates a plug so you don't have that much loss of blood but if you take the knife

15:04out this is the blood loss that you'll have it's quite simple but it's so effective you see that

15:09natural reaction instinct of so many people surely is to to want to just pull it out thinking they're

15:14doing the right thing but as you say apply pressure so important but a lot of people wouldn't realize

15:19going around yeah makes the difference that it does and seeing something like that hopefully makes

15:24you remember it as well but how did you get involved in the first place melanie i grew up in an

15:28area of cardiff where i witnessed quite a lot of streets and gang violence and i felt quite

15:33helpless so i was looking for something that was tackling this and street doctors focuses on

15:38prevention as well as what to do if you find yourself in that situation so it does save lives

15:43and saving lives is obviously very very important to you milie mae you're a fourth year medical student

15:48at the moment and during your medical studies you actually became miss wales yeah and you actually

15:53used that platform to really push the message about street doctors didn't you tell us about that

15:59yeah i proudly represented wales at miss world and i'm the current miss united kingdom and i had the

16:05chance to highlight the impact that street violence is having in the uk but also globally and i won an

16:10award called beauty with a purpose award for this and it's recognition of the best social impact that

16:16the girls are having globally and street doctors obviously needed to be highlighted congratulations it's

16:21amazing yeah to get that recognition globally because lots of great projects are recognized but street

16:25doctors very much up there and martin actually talking street doctors in the campaign you've got a

16:30a current campaign out at the moment um it's all about basically dispelling the idea that there's a

16:35safe place to stop someone not to kill them which is absolutely categorically not true let's have

16:40a wee look actually at that latest campaign right now where is a safe place to stop right here is

16:49probably same place if you want to just injure them like around here i lost my son through a single

16:55stab wound i don't want it to happen to anybody else young people are going online every week

17:03searching where is there a safe place to stab there is no safe place to stab somebody

17:12it's powerful it is powerful it's incredible to see so what was the the point of taking on like a

17:17project like this why is it so important martin it was really important for us um we know a lot of

17:21young people are carrying knives because they feel unsafe unfortunately and one of the um challenges is

17:27sometimes they might use a knife thinking they actually can't do a lot of harm and what this film

17:33is generating for us is to highlight that there's no safe place to stab somebody and it does actually

17:38loss and you have a loss of life yeah it's an important campaign for like obviously everyone to see

17:43but the people involved in it felt very strongly about it as well didn't they yeah we were very

17:47fortunate that there was a lot of brave families who were involved after losing somebody and they

17:54really wanted to share their message and highlight this campaign to really get a message out to many

17:59more young people at the moment i think it makes it all the more powerful i remember my time in the

18:03police i'd give a talk to youngsters i had a tray full of knives massive ones down to tiny little pen

18:09knives and i'd say what's the minimum that would actually kill someone and really may i think you

18:13know what i'm going to say here because the youngsters would all pick for the big ones they'd

18:17all say that one that one that one and actually really may you know the answer to this don't you

18:20it's literally any single one of them is enough to kill and that's the message part of the message

18:25you want to get across the smallest object can have catastrophic outcomes so we really need to push

18:29that message yeah well you're doing a fantastic job in you really are thank you for talking to us today

18:34and i'll tell you we've actually put a link on our website that will actually be able to to show

18:40your website on there for anyone that wants to check it out definitely have a look at that and

18:43details of how to to see them on at the bottom of the screen yeah absolutely thank you now how an

18:49opportunist group of crooks found a way to rinse as much money out of their victims as they possibly

18:54could with a theft and then a fraud scam this wasn't just a one-off it was a highly organized

19:02sophisticated operation the suspects were targeting hard-working people who were just

19:09trying to make a difference i was checking my banking app and there was two lots of money

19:15transferred out of my account and it's gone i felt sick absolutely sick just a blind panic

19:23on the 14th of april 2023 sarah went to work as usual at a residential home in lincolnshire

19:38i went into work put my bag down went and made a brew then went in for handover and then got on with my

19:47a day and it must have been about half 10 that somebody rang me and i get this man on the phone

19:55saying two girls in skegness have my purse i felt absolutely sick and running from room to room to check my

20:05handbag just a blind panic

20:07i didn't know what to do never had anything stolen before sure enough her wallet had been taken

20:21he'd said that my card had been used at a shop in horncastle and i'd spent a certain amount on a

20:26certain day and i remembered that purchase so i didn't really have any reason to doubt that he wasn't

20:32genuine he asked for some digits off the back of my card i said i don't know what numbers you want

20:40and he says well if you give me a pin i can cancel your card so that they can't take any more funds out

20:46in my head i thought they don't usually ask for that but because i was panicking it just blurted

20:52out and i just told him my pin my friend said have you given him your your pin and i said yeah she says

20:59it's trying to scam you you need to ring your bank so i was on the phone to the bank and checking my

21:06banking app and there was two lots of money trying to be transferred out of my account and um yeah it

21:14was gone the thieves stole four thousand pounds i realized that it wasn't two girls going on a shopping

21:24spree in town it was actually somebody scamming me and taking a lot of money you tell other people

21:31don't give your number out and then when it actually happens to you you just feel awful it's it's the

21:37worst feeling in the world it turned out that sarah wasn't the only victim to report a crime just like

21:45this detective sergeant adam petty works at the serious and organized crime unit with lincolnshire

21:52police in november 2023 he began investigating a spate of thefts where thieves had sneaked into

22:00places of work and stolen wallets and bank cards the suspects were targeting people who were working

22:08in doctors surgeries nurses care homes schools hard-working people who were just trying to

22:15actually make a difference the first one was at a doctor surgery in market raisin the second one was

22:22a doctor surgery in boston that was about two weeks later and then there was a further one in a

22:28at a care home in woodhall spark the suspect was wearing a mask covered mask baseball cap

22:35he would walk around the doctor surgeries or care homes or hospices the team started by working to

22:42identify the vehicles used in the thefts and a vw tiguan quickly caught their attention

22:49that vehicle traveled all the way from coventry and that vehicle was insured to use by a daniel sutherland

22:57he had some previous offending four similar offenses so we thought potentially

23:02he would be the suspect for this when they looked into sutherland further they found he also owned a

23:09van and that van was in lincolnshire for the other two offenses there was a clear link now to show that

23:17it was there when the sneaking offenses happened it was a key breakthrough police put markers on the

23:23vehicles so they'd be alerted if they turned up in lincolnshire and on the 3rd of may one of them did

23:31police went to arrest the driver

23:35you're under arrest in suspicion of conspiracy to commit burglary you do not have to say

23:38anything inside the car was daniel sutherland he was with a second man called darren wikes

23:45who was also arrested

23:48the vehicle itself had all sorts of things in it had lots of different workwear type clothing

23:53different lanyards but most importantly was the same jacket that the male suspect was wearing

23:59in the offenses in the cctv there was also a purse stolen an hour before police seized their phones

24:07and carried out complex data analysis on what they'd downloaded this painstaking work revealed a link to

24:15the number that had called the victims posing as the banks one number was very active and was linked to a

24:22man called george quinn

24:27all it did was to call doctor surgeries care homes schools hospices and mobile numbers

24:34i then started contacting the mobile numbers and there's 19 further offenses

24:41clearly there was a lot of work i had to do to actually get all the evidence for that i would

24:46obtain the statements from all the victims themselves liaised the different forces to get all the cctv did

24:52all the ampr work they weren't just targeting lincolnshire they were targeting all over the country

24:59there was no sort of link between the different forces and and it was only when i really started

25:04looking at i could establish how big this was and how far and wide they were traveling

25:10it was a highly organized sophisticated operation police were now building a clear picture of how

25:17the gang were working wikes would enter a premises posing as a builder or delivery man once in he'd steal

25:25any wallets or purses he could find from the staffs bags and coats he'd then call quinn giving him card

25:32details and any receipt information he'd found so that quinn could win the trust of the victims

25:39george quinn was very very good at making people believe that he was from the bank

25:43hello it's richard marcham here from lloyd's bank card services how are you this afternoon two young

25:48girls have gone into a tesco superstore and tried to buy goods on a lloyd's visa debit card in your name

25:55you know your four digit pin number i can put a block on it via that way for you

25:58i would always tell we shouldn't give the four four digits though yeah i'll just i'll just confirm to you

26:04your date of birth i'll get up on the screen he would say i can i can provide you details of

26:09any recent transactions you remember going to asda in kiddo minston you spent 1049 yeah i remember

26:16that yeah that's just to confirm we why obviously we didn't know that verification number on the back

26:20of your card if you've got that four digit pin number to handle i can put a block on it via that

26:23way for you now okay yes once quinn had the pin code he'd pass it on to wikes who'd go to atms or

26:32travel agencies where he'd be able to withdraw large sums of money the gang's deceit spanned 13

26:39counties and lincolnshire police collaborated with 12 other police forces they uncovered enough

26:46evidence that linked the gang to 46 separate offenses on the 29th of may 2024 both wikes and quinn were

26:57arrested at darren wikes address we found some money um hidden in a cooker hood several thousand uh

27:06euros but what was key was the fact that we got the clothing um which matched recent offenses

27:14sutherland handed himself in and all three were convicted of conspiracy to commit burglary

27:21and theft wikes the sneak thief was sentenced to five years and five months in prison

27:29quinn the cold calling con man was given five years and sutherland the driver was given a 21

27:37month suspended sentence for two years i'm really really pleased that finally justice has caught up

27:44with them and they have no morals at all and they were targeting people at their most vulnerable

27:49and all this was about was making money for them darren wikes put 123 000 in cash through his bank

27:57accounts that paid in at post office and over half a million pounds gone through his bank accounts

28:01not bad for someone that's not working the fact that they'd actually come into my place of work

28:08and taken something that didn't belong to them and we have people living there as well

28:15that was really scary my advice to anybody would be if somebody rings you asking for your pin number off

28:24your bank card don't give it out always double check ring your bank because they will know

28:35great advice there never ever give out your pin code absolutely not intense investigation there but

28:41great result in the end now we have a couple of quick appeals for you first officers in south

28:47yorkshire are hoping to identify this man in connection with an allegation of rape at 4am on

28:54the 1st of january of this year a woman reported that she had been raped by an unknown male in a room at

29:00a hotel in st mary's gate in sheffield now police have been conducting extensive inquiries since the

29:07incident was first reported to them and are now appealing for the public's help to identify the

29:13man in this image who they believe may have vital information that could help with this investigation

29:20he is described as being five foot ten tall slim with short black hair a stubbly beard and a slit

29:27across one of his eyebrows so take a good look does he look familiar to you this image was taken in

29:34sheffield so perhaps you've seen him locally in that area maybe get in touch if you recognize him

29:41now our second appeal is from police in north wales who want your help in connection with what they call

29:46a series of highly sophisticated thefts of keyless cars have a look this is them in action in total eight

29:54cars were stolen by a gang across north wales and cheshire between january and march of this year

30:00valuing more than half a million pounds staggering amount of money there police believe a crime group

30:06traveled on public transport from or to north hamptonshire and then drove the stolen cars on cloned plates

30:13down to the south of england although one car was recovered by police from a garage in norfolk detectives

30:20now want to speak to this man this is jugus clinovichus in connection with the thefts believing he could have

30:28vital information he is originally from lithuania 22 years old and he's now known to have links

30:35to northampton so have a good look if you see either of these men then please do get in touch

30:42and the details how to do that is on your screen now our next guests are here to talk to us about

30:48ask for angela a scheme designed to keep women safe when they're out on dates and bars and clubs

30:54it's named in memory of angela phillips who in 2012 was killed by her then husband thomas crompton

31:01and we're joined now by angela's daughter holly and selvia oates who is the ceo of ask for angela

31:07thank you both so much for coming in uh holly i'm going to come to you first because tell me a wee bit

31:12about your late mum angela what was she like and the circumstances that led to her name being used in this

31:18week she was really fun very creative vibrant smart funny she was always the fun parent and

31:26everyone wanted to be around um she met a man who she soon went on to marry and then shortly after

31:34that he killed her in their home um so a victim of domestic violence um and then it was actually a

31:43mutual friend of hers who was a police officer at the time and she's the one who set up and named it

31:49in her uh memory yeah horrific circumstances but an incredible legacy to leave behind

31:55and selvia what is the ask for angela campaign and how does it work in practice because i've been out

32:00i've been in the the toilets of a bar and i've seen the posters like it is very visible it is out and

32:05about everywhere yeah it's everywhere isn't it yeah it's great yeah so it's an an initiative that's

32:09been going for about 10 years um and it's now supported by a not-for-profit company um to try

32:14and make sure that it's successful wherever it's implemented and there's around 5 000 uh plus venues

32:21that operate this initiative as you say it's everywhere um about 10 000 people have been trained

32:26and what that means is um it tends to be nighttime economy staff so far but actually this initiative

32:31would work anywhere um and those people are trained to ensure that if you if they spot someone

32:38that's vulnerable so they're trained to spot as well as support vulnerable people and if they spot

32:42someone or someone comes and ask for help they know how to react in that moment appropriately to

32:46provide the help that they need yeah so if you're out and about in a public environment that operates

32:51ask for angela you can go up to a member of staff and ask for help or ask for angela or you know if

32:57you're in bar you could say is angela working tonight something like that yeah so as simple as using

33:01those words you can just say is angela it's simple as using that word if the word angler is heard at a bar

33:07then the presumption is that you're asking for angela that's how we train in you know even if

33:10there's someone called angela working it's you know if angela's mentioned it's someone that needs

33:14some help first and foremost and you know yeah um so you go to the bar you ask for angela or you can

33:19just say i need some help whatever you feel comfortable with and the people there will be

33:23trained if they operate the scheme they'll be trained to take you to a place of safety and understand

33:28you don't need to explain exactly you know why you need help just that you do need some help

33:32and they'll support you however you want to be supported and that's you know we put the power

33:36back to the person that's feeling unsafe so that can mean you know phoning a friend or family member

33:41or a taxi for them to get home reconnecting them with their friends in the venue if they've perhaps

33:46lost their friends or even um we like to empower people to stay actually so getting rid of the person

33:51or kicking out the person from a if it's say for example a pub or something there's someone that's

33:55really causing them some distress it's actually getting that person out of the venue so that the

33:59person that feels unsafe can stay very much so that's brilliant that's so important exactly it's

34:04about sort of empowering that person and making them feel like it's not their fault and actually

34:09this is you know something to support them and actually it's not just for women either anybody

34:13can use the scheme so that's also a common misconception that it's just for girls but actually

34:17it's for anybody to use that is amazing and a very important message how did you actually get

34:21involved in asphalangela savia well i've been working in hospitality for a long time um how i cut my

34:26teeth really and i came across the initiative through working you know with hospitality and

34:30then i kind of transitioned to working with police forces and councils around kind of safe safer

34:35nighttime spaces and i recognized the um the benefits of the scheme but also that it needed a bit of

34:41extra support so we set up the not-for-profit organization um developing you know taking down

34:45the barriers for anybody to implement the scheme by doing sort of free materials and sadly you know even

34:51now there's still a real need for it so statistics show that seven in ten women have experienced sexual

34:57harassment of some form and of those victims 75 have experienced it in a public space now obviously

35:03hospitality is only only a part of that picture of course um but hospitality like to do what we can to

35:09help and also there's some compelling reasons to do it so 63 percent of women say that they would

35:15choose a venue that they know is operating this kind of safety initiative so um yeah we want people to

35:20feel that if they are going to a venue um and they see ask for angela they can get help if they need

35:25it and they can be reassured that they can socialize safely in that space and those stats speak volumes

35:30obviously as needed people want to feel safe and that makes so much sense and you're holly looking to

35:36make this mandatory because it sounds like it's already been picked up by so many places but you

35:39want it to be mandatory talk us a bit through that yeah i mean having worked in these kinds of environments

35:45and also visiting as a customer i've seen how important it is to have these in place in practice

35:51um it's just such a simple scheme i mean you guys have worked really hard to make it pretty much

35:56foolproof for everyone to use and to follow whether it's people needing the help or people offering the

36:00help so it just seems silly for it to not be mandatory in these places um unfortunately i think half the issue

36:08is creating these safe spaces and the other half of the issue is like tougher prosecution for people

36:14doing these things yeah absolutely and if there are any venues watching and they want to get involved

36:19how can they find out more so we have a website askforangela.co.uk and there's a range of different

36:24options um from free up to you know paid training and other support and it's not just for venues so any

36:30public space we are able to work with transport providers and lots of different types of organizations to

36:34implement an effective scheme amazing and holly just finally how do you how do you think your mum

36:39would react to knowing that the incredible legacy that her name has now i think she'd be really proud

36:44i think now the ask for angela scheme is actually worldwide so the us um australia as well now so i

36:50think she'd just be really happy to know that her name is being used to help other people in need yeah

36:55well it's clearly already having a positive impact and that's only going to continue to grow thank you

36:59both so much for coming and telling us a bit more about it and you can find out more or sign up with

37:04the campaign at askforangela.co.uk now we're meeting a man who's combining his influence as an imam

37:13and police officer to tackle issues in his local community

37:18my name is imam chowdhury i'm a police officer for westman police

37:22i grew up in an area called sparkbrook an inner city area within beamingham

37:30it's a place i'm really proud of and i still call it my home

37:37growing up one of the things that i noticed was that spark brook has some challenges

37:43some of those challenges are around education depravity lack of role models

37:48i felt like i need to do something there and i realized that one of the things that would really

37:55make me feel fulfilled is to give back one of the ways you give back is you become a service to people

38:01and i felt like i can be myself within policing

38:09i also have another role within the community i'm an imam of a mosque there's an onus of duty upon me

38:15towards community members so i serve in that particular platform as well

38:24my faith islam and the law are massively connected if you look at it from a from basic perspective

38:31my faith talks about being good being a good person and being good to people and creating some

38:37form of peace and harmony around us so that the place where we live is is is nicer

38:45the pride of birmingham award winning the pride of birmingham award was a complete surprise to me

38:54not something i expected at all it was a really humbling experience it was to recognize how i'm

39:02unique being a police officer and being an imam at the same time marrying the values of both together

39:08and tackling an issue within our community in this particular case it was knife crime

39:15and it was really nice not just for myself to be recognized but more so for the work to be recognized

39:21project guardian is a unique project by westmillians police in response to the rise in knife crime and

39:28violence mainly concerning those under the age of 25. i spent probably the best one and a half year so far

39:35of my policing career aligned to that project knife crime carries huge risk of the loss of life and in

39:41my experience as a police officer that has a huge impact on communities families the individuals

39:47themselves for me as somebody who sits as part of society in a role that's influential i feel like i

39:56need to do something pre-emptive because i don't believe that communities can remain passive about the

40:02issue we need to do something about especially for our young people who are our future so what we did

40:08we designed a mosque-led community-led initiative that reduces the risk of criminality and serious

40:15violence amongst young people things like peer-to-peer mediation so how do young people resolve issues

40:20amongst themselves amicably peacefully a session around exploring opportunity exploring who you want to be

40:27having that mindset where i want to achieve the best so what that does to young people it makes them

40:34feel empowered that i can actually do something and i can bring a positive influence because too often

40:39you tell young people that they're this negative influence and also for the elderly members of our

40:44community it paints the young people in a better light that they're not all like that and there's a lot

40:48of good people out there well said emad now before we get to today's wanted faces we thought it'd be

40:58worth sharing that around 40 percent of the faces we feature each series are subsequently located and

41:05locked up one of those is this man kevin david castle he was arrested in april of this year

41:11having been recognized by an eagle-eyed crime watch viewer he was quickly returned to prison and this

41:18man cole searl was found after our appeal and on friday the 12th of september 2025 he was sentenced to

41:24six years and nine months for imprisonment for a rape that took place in may 2024 let's hope we get

41:30some more good results with today's faces first have you seen stuart faulkner he sometimes goes by the

41:40name taylor northumbria police want to speak to him about importation of class a drugs the 38 year

41:47old is stocky with a scottish accent he has links to netherburn in scotland as well as to ashington

41:53lynmouth and morpeth in northumberland what about this man this is jack parfit wiltshire police are

41:59looking for him regarding an assault against a number of people one of whom was hit with a bottle he's 24

42:05stocky and is known to have connections in swindon bristol manchester and also dorset and lastly for

42:13today anyway have you seen jazvir singh police in northampton have charged him with fraud by

42:19false representation after it was alleged that he took thousands of pounds from a victim however

42:25he failed to appear in court and has since disappeared he's 46 with a full beard and a mole

42:31under his mouth police believe he has links in northamptonshire as well as in the west midlands

42:37specifically coventry oldbury solihull and also wolverhampton so if you see any of them out and

42:44about do pick up the phone and report it thank you for watching today please do catch up on iplayer if

42:50you've missed any episodes from this week remember they're there for 30 days yes and don't forget you

42:55can share our appeals from our facebook page or website so that more people view them and hopefully give

43:00information that's what we want yes tomorrow how a trio of officers gave chase to a known criminal

43:08over the air dear help us help us flight let's turn to fight he could have pulled the gun and

43:15shot any of us at any point you also have the rest session of the firearm we'll see you tomorrow at the

43:22same time of 10 45 bye for now

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