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Crimewatch Roadshow - Season 22 Episode 7 -
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00:00Hello and welcome.
00:03Today, do you know anything that could help solve the mystery
00:06of how mild-mannered Julius Matera ended up dead?
00:10He was a kind, quiet soul.
00:13He was taken advantage of by others.
00:16And this may be what has led to his death.
00:20Greater Manchester Police need your help to find out what happened.
00:24This is Crime Watch Live.
00:30Just to remind you, this was the induction and reno-drop campaign
00:35and the handgun debate.
00:38Hello and welcome to Crime Watch.
00:4012 people rang in giving the same message.
00:43Fantastic results.
00:52Good morning. Thanks very much for joining us.
00:55And we are starting today with a very positive update.
00:58Back in March, we were joined by D.I. Richard Stock from Cambridgeshire Constabulary
01:02who was investigating a no-body murder of a missing woman called Julie Buckley.
01:07Well, we are thrilled to say that 48-year-old Carl Hutchins
01:11has now pleaded guilty to her murder and her remains have been located.
01:16Hutchins himself is yet to be sentenced.
01:18Yeah, it just shows you, doesn't it, your calls really do make a difference.
01:21We've already had loads of reported sightings of our wanted faces
01:25and information about the appeal, so thank you so much for that.
01:29All of it has been passed over to the police now.
01:32Today, do you recognise this man?
01:36Officers from Avon and Somerset want to track him down
01:38after a vicious assault on a 70-year-old man.
01:42Also today, we'll be hearing how a calculated predator drugged men
01:46so he could sexually assault them.
01:48Thames Valley Police think there could be other victims out there.
01:52He's aware of what's going on,
01:54but he has no control over his arms and legs at all
01:56and feels utterly powerless.
01:58I think he realised that he had been spiked with something.
02:05And we'll be shedding some light on a crime
02:07that typically takes place under the cover of darkness,
02:11and that's Nighthawking.
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02:45First, Greater Manchester Police are investigating
02:47how a vulnerable man was found dead several weeks
02:51after being reported as missing.
02:53Do you have any information that might help?
02:55Julius was a 43-year-old man.
03:01He's been described as a happy soul,
03:04someone that likes to get on with everybody,
03:07likes his football, likes reggae music.
03:10Quite a timid and shy person
03:13that other people did have a tendency to take advantage of.
03:19He was more than just a cousin.
03:21He was a friend.
03:23He was a confidante.
03:25Something that always stucks in my mind about Julius,
03:30there is a time when I was in hospital for quite a while.
03:33He was there all the time.
03:35He came to see me.
03:36I can't really, you know, forget about that.
03:38It was quite emotional.
03:40Julius was very caring.
03:43He never got angry,
03:45always smiling,
03:46always happy around other people.
03:48My name is Rachel Smith.
03:55I'm a detective inspector at Greater Manchester Police
03:58and I work on the Major Insta team.
04:02On the 24th of October, 2023,
04:06Greater Manchester Police received a report of a missing person,
04:0943-year-old Julius Matera.
04:16When people are reported missing to the police,
04:18there are three grades,
04:20low risk,
04:22medium risk
04:23and high risk.
04:24Julius was elevated to a high risk missing from home
04:28because he did have some vulnerabilities.
04:31He was an alcoholic.
04:33He had very, very poor vision.
04:36He was relying on the tenancy supporting office,
04:41providing him with coupons to get food.
04:46These hadn't been collected.
04:48There were some that had addressed that had not been used.
04:49So the concern was something has happened to Julius.
04:53On the 4th of December,
04:57police had a breakthrough
04:58when a member of the public came forward
05:01raising concerns about Julius' welfare.
05:05She'd attended a gathering.
05:08When another attendee started to talk about Julius,
05:13he made the suggestion to her
05:15that Julius had come to some harm
05:17and then indicated to her
05:20there'd been a stabbing.
05:23Acting on this new information,
05:28police secured a warrant
05:29to search the property
05:30on Great Cheetham Street West, Salford.
05:33The house is a house of multiple occupancy.
05:38So initially it would be a visual search.
05:41There was no sign of Julius at the address.
05:43So then we would see if we can find any evidence in there
05:47that there's been some foul play.
05:49Officers also conducted a search
05:54of the property's rear garden,
05:55which backs onto a playing field.
05:59The address is quite elevated.
06:01You can't tell from the front,
06:03but when you go into the garden,
06:06there's quite a significant drop behind
06:08that leads to the rugby fields.
06:10The rear garden, it wasn't overgrown.
06:13There were evidence of some nettles growing in there,
06:17weeds growing in there.
06:19What we did find,
06:20there was a discarded pair of spectacles
06:24in the border of the garden.
06:30But that wasn't all the officers found.
06:33On the edge of the playing field,
06:36amongst dense Japanese knotweed,
06:38there was a body.
06:43Police began the task of identification.
06:49We needed a number of experts
06:52to help us determine what had happened
06:55and recover what evidence we had from the scene.
06:58After consulting with a forensic pathologist,
07:05officers confirmed the body was that of Julius Matera.
07:10But questions remained about how he ended up
07:13at the playing field and when he had died.
07:18I made the decision to request a forensic botanist
07:22come to the scene.
07:24The forensic botanist conducted the investigation
07:27in the land between the address and the rugby fields
07:31and found something interesting.
07:34This was a torn piece of nettle.
07:38There was no nettle growing in that area.
07:40But when he examined the garden of the property,
07:45there was nettle growing there.
07:48And he opined that the nettle
07:51must have come from the garden of that address.
07:57Police believe that Julius, being visually impaired,
08:01could have stumbled from the garden
08:03through the broken fence
08:05and down onto the field below.
08:13To determine when he had died,
08:16D.I. Rachel Smith
08:17called upon the expertise of an entomologist.
08:21An entomologist is an expert in maggots and flies
08:30and can help determine from activity
08:34on the body that were recovered
08:36when eggs were laid,
08:39which can therefore indicate when that person has died.
08:44The result of the inquiries that the entomologist completed
08:49were that eggs were laid
08:51between the 16th and the 17th of October 2023.
08:58Mobile phone data confirmed their assumptions
09:01on the timeframe of Julius's death.
09:04After about half past eight at night
09:09on the 13th of October 2023,
09:11no further outgoing calls are made.
09:14The usage of his phone indicates to me
09:16that that's when he has died.
09:23Detectives are treating this as a murder inquiry
09:25and several arrests have been made,
09:29but they still haven't uncovered the whole truth.
09:34From what we were told about Julius
09:36during the investigation,
09:38he was a kind, quiet soul.
09:41He was taken advantage of by others.
09:45People would bully him, pick on him,
09:47and this may be what has led to his death.
09:51I believe answers lie within the people
09:56that were at that address.
09:58Maybe they don't feel comfortable
10:00speaking to the police.
10:03I think that there's probably been discussions
10:05in the community,
10:06and people out there know what's happened.
10:13When I heard the news that Julius had been found,
10:16I was so devastated.
10:18I thought of my mum and how am I going
10:22to deliver the news to her.
10:26I know there is somebody
10:27who knows exactly what happened.
10:31Please get in touch with the police.
10:34Please help the police with the investigation.
10:37Please have it in your heart.
10:41We need to give Julius the justice he deserves,
10:45and his family need answers,
10:47and they deserve to know what's happened to him.
10:54I'm joined now by DI Rachel Smith,
10:56who you saw from the film there.
10:57Rachel, thank you for coming in today.
10:59So Julius was last seen nearly two years exactly to the day.
11:04Just remind us the key details of this investigation.
11:07Yes, Julius was reported missing.
11:09He'd not been seen for several days,
11:12and there were some concerns raised about him,
11:15so the report was made to Greater Manchester Police.
11:18Inquiries underwent,
11:20and in December 2023,
11:24we received a call to say that Julius may have come to some harm,
11:30and this led us to the address on Great Cheetham Street West,
11:35which is in Salford.
11:38Police attended that address and conducted a search within the property
11:42and preserved the address as a scene,
11:46and checks were made,
11:48and sadly we found Julius's body in land behind that address.
11:53We can see on the map now the address that you're speaking about,
11:56and on this map we can actually see what looks like some trees behind the houses there,
12:03but there's some significance of those,
12:07well, they're not trees at all, are they?
12:08Of what that is as part of the investigation.
12:11Yes, I mean, this photograph was obviously taken in the summer,
12:15and we're talking about the 7th of December,
12:17so it was right in the middle of winter.
12:20The plant there is Japanese knotweed,
12:24so there was no greenery at all there,
12:26and Japanese knotweed is a very invasive plant,
12:30and it's got, like, very dense stalks,
12:34and because it was so dense,
12:38sadly it concealed Julius's body,
12:41so that's why it took so long to find him.
12:44Even in December, which is not when this image was taken there,
12:47so it's a very good point there.
12:48Now, in the film you've mentioned that Julius was a mild-mannered man,
12:52and you believe because of his vulnerabilities
12:54he may have been taken advantage of.
12:57Yes, everyone that we've spoken,
13:00and that includes June, who you interviewed,
13:03have said how he was mild-mannered,
13:07he was very quiet and trusting,
13:11and people would take advantage of him.
13:15We were told that he was bullied,
13:18that certain people that were supposedly his friends
13:21would take his vouchers from him.
13:24Food vouchers, that type of thing?
13:25Food vouchers, yes.
13:26Yeah, so he was a vulnerable man.
13:29Yeah, it's very, very sad to hear.
13:31So who do you want to hear from today?
13:34We want to hear from anybody that has knowledge
13:37or have attended the address in question
13:40on Great Cheetham Street West in Salford.
13:42Anyone within the Zimbabwean community
13:45that may hold some information
13:47or have heard anything about what's happened to Julius,
13:50no matter how small it is,
13:51it could be significant to our investigation.
13:54That's a really good point, Rachel.
13:55People might think it's small, it might not matter,
13:57but it could be the missing part of the jigsaw
13:59that you and your team so desperately need.
14:01If anyone is there and they've got the information
14:03and they still need further incentive
14:05to come forward and speak to you,
14:06there is a financial reward that's been put up.
14:08Yes, Greater Manchester Police are offering
14:11a £50,000 reward for any information
14:14that leads to the charge and conviction
14:16for any person or persons responsible for Julius' death.
14:20Rachel, thank you.
14:21Well, let's hope we can get Julius' family
14:23the answers they so desperately need.
14:25All the details to get in touch with Greater Manchester Police,
14:28I should say, are on our website
14:30and our contact details are at the bottom of the screen.
14:33Now, we heard there how useful forensic science is
14:37in determining what happened to Julius Matera.
14:40Well, later, we're meeting another forensic expert
14:43who specialise in analysing clothes.
14:47I have been trying to bring awareness of forensic garments
14:51to think about it as evidence,
14:54not just as something that can be dismissed.
14:56Now that I'm with DC, Louisa Williams
15:02from Irvon and Somerset Police.
15:04She's trying to identify a man in connection to a GBH case.
15:08And it's a really nasty one, this, isn't it?
15:09Tell us about it, Louisa.
15:10Yes, so on Tuesday 1st July at 11.40am in the morning,
15:15a man in his 70s was walking with his wife
15:17along Agar Street and Bath,
15:19heading towards Portney Bridge,
15:21when a man who he'd like to talk to
15:23walked towards him, brushed shoulders with him,
15:26because the pavement wasn't that wide
15:27and there's some roadworks going on.
15:29And this man then turned, ran after the victim,
15:32pushed him over and he fell to the ground.
15:34Yeah, it doesn't feel like it makes sense, this.
15:36So let's have a look at the footage
15:38and then just explain what we're seeing here.
15:40So this is the man I'd like to speak to
15:42in relation to this incident.
15:43He's now walking over Portney Bridge.
15:46And he's dodging people as he goes.
15:48So he's brushed lots of shoulders, hasn't he?
15:50Yes, that's correct.
15:51And this is him now running after the victim.
15:54So he's turned round and ran back towards the couple.
15:58And he pushes the man to the ground.
16:01It's, I mean, it's horrendous, isn't it?
16:03I mean, you can see that's a very hard push
16:06and the victim hits his face, doesn't it?
16:09But it doesn't end there.
16:10No, so he hits his face, as you say,
16:13and his nose bleeds.
16:14But he was so determined to go on holiday,
16:17even though he's in a lot of pain.
16:20So he went on holiday with his wife,
16:22but was in too much pain.
16:23So he came back and went to hospital.
16:26And it turns out he's broken his femur.
16:29So he had to come back from his holidays as well
16:31to deal with that poor guy.
16:33So tell us about the man you're looking for,
16:35because you want to get him, don't you?
16:36Yeah, so he's been described as a white male
16:39aged in his 30s or 40s with grey balding hair,
16:44wearing dark coloured shorts, a light coloured T-shirt
16:47and wearing a dark coloured rucksack.
16:49Yeah, so hopefully someone has seen him in the area
16:52or knows who he is.
16:53And it was you, Louisa, who got in touch with us about this,
16:56because despite, obviously, working in the career
16:58for 30-odd years,
16:59you felt like this one needed talked about
17:02and needed to be heard.
17:02You want to catch this guy, don't you?
17:04Yes, I would really like the public's help to identify this man.
17:08And if anyone recognises themselves from the footage,
17:11I'd like them to come forward.
17:12Or if anyone was there at the time
17:14and saw where this person ran to,
17:17I'd like them to get in contact, please.
17:19Yeah, and how's the victim getting on?
17:21Because that is such an awful thing to happen to him.
17:23Yeah, so it's been life-changing for him and his family.
17:26He has to rely on his wife a lot night for help.
17:30He's a very active man prior to this,
17:32enjoyed playing golf,
17:33but hasn't been able to do that.
17:36He was on crutches for some time,
17:38which now has affected his upper part of his body as well,
17:41which he's getting help for.
17:43His leg is recovering,
17:45but he still finds it difficult to climb stairs.
17:48Yeah, so we need to get this guy, don't we?
17:50Louisa, thank you for coming in to talk about it.
17:52Yeah, and take a closer look at this picture
17:55on our website or Facebook page.
17:57Share it with anyone you know who lives in Bath
18:00and see if they know him.
18:01And if you have any information that may help,
18:03you can contact us on the details below.
18:07Now, in 2022, a man called Luis de Silva Nitto
18:11was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
18:13He was a sexual predator who,
18:15thanks to the bravery of his victims
18:16and Thames Valley police,
18:18is now safely behind bars.
18:20But detectives think he may have other victims out there.
18:23Now, this film does have some difficult themes.
18:31I couldn't speak with my friends about it.
18:33No family.
18:35This is the worst experience I've ever survived or lived through.
18:41We've got a predatory offender
18:43looking for victims who are drunk
18:45in order to sexually offend against them
18:47whilst they're incapacitated.
18:48Will Barton is a small village in West Oxfordshire.
18:59It's a sleepy village.
19:01Not a lot happened.
19:02This was out of the ordinary.
19:04On the 10th of November last year,
19:07a man in the village was helping someone he knew
19:09with a DIY project.
19:11He was helping do some maintenance work
19:13on the property and sand the floor.
19:15They got there quite late at night.
19:16He was offered a couple of shots of Jägermeister.
19:22It knocked me out.
19:24Instantly, like, in ten minutes.
19:26Yeah, you've got a nice place here.
19:27It's pretty cool.
19:27I was really tired,
19:28feeling like I needed to lay down
19:30because I couldn't stand on my feet.
19:34The next thing he knew,
19:35he was being sexually assaulted.
19:41I woke up in the middle of the night as well.
19:43That's how I saw what he was doing.
19:47I couldn't speak.
19:49I just tried to mumble.
19:51He's aware of what's going on,
19:52but he has no control over his arms and legs at all
19:55and feels utterly powerless.
19:57The next morning, he notices a small syringe
20:00on the worktop in the kitchen.
20:02He thinks perhaps something's been administered to his drink.
20:07I think he realised that he had been spiked with something.
20:12I couldn't sleep for, like, days in a row.
20:14Like, like, six, seven days in a row.
20:17I didn't sleep.
20:18I was going to lose my mind.
20:20You want to digest it, but you can't.
20:22A week later, the victim felt strong enough to go to the police.
20:30So the victim knew the abuser.
20:32He was Louis Ignacio De Silva Neto.
20:40De Silva Neto lived in London,
20:42but ran a bed and breakfast in Middle Barton.
20:45Detectives began to investigate.
20:50But just a month later, on the 10th of December,
20:54they got reports of another attack.
20:57The complaint came from a male in his early 30s.
21:00He'd been married for a very short time.
21:02He'd been out with colleagues the night before
21:03in a nightclub in Chelsea in London.
21:06He's trying to get home to his wife.
21:07We've got CCTV footage of him trying to get a taxi.
21:10We know he's tried to book an Uber.
21:11However, he wakes up probably around 10 o'clock
21:16the following morning in this unfamiliar house,
21:19in this unfamiliar room,
21:20probably two hours' drive away from home,
21:22with no recollection of how he's got there.
21:25All he can remember is somebody, a male,
21:29holding a little tumbler of a dark liquid to his mouth
21:32and trying to encourage him to drink it.
21:35With him in the house is a man he doesn't recognise.
21:38He fears he's been the victim of a serious sexual assault.
21:44And when he gets home to his wife, he discloses that.
21:47And concerned for his sexual health,
21:49he goes to the hospital to be checked.
21:51He'd been sexually assaulted.
21:55When he told the police,
21:57they tried to establish where exactly the attack had taken place.
22:00The victim told them his attacker had booked him a taxi home.
22:05Making inquiries with the taxi company corroborated for us
22:09that it was exactly the same location
22:10as that other offence had taken place.
22:13That location was the Bed and Breakfast in Middle Barton,
22:17run by Luis de Silva Neto.
22:19We've got two straight men who have both encountered this guy.
22:25They've both been given a drink
22:26and they've both suffered effects consistent with being spiked.
22:31We realise we've got a series emerging now
22:33and we need to act fast to do something about this
22:37to prevent this guy offending against anybody else.
22:39On December 12th, two days after the second report,
22:43de Silva Neto was arrested at his main address in London.
22:47All right, Luis, if you listen to me, put your pictures on.
22:50So, at this point in time, you're under arrest.
22:53And when he's arrested and his house is searched,
22:54we found a wash bag in the bathroom
22:57with a number of small bottles and little straws in it.
23:01The liquid was sent for testing
23:03and came back as the substance GBL,
23:06a well-known date rape drug.
23:09It's a very, very dangerous drug indeed.
23:12The body metabolises this drug
23:14extremely quickly through the liver.
23:16It's very difficult for law enforcement agencies
23:19to be able to demonstrate an overdose of it.
23:22So, we believe GBL is probably the drug
23:24that he'd used to spike the victims.
23:28But in custody, de Silva Neto denied any wrongdoing.
23:34He claimed the GBL was something he used himself recreationally
23:38and that the men who visited his home had not been intoxicated.
23:42But he seemed absolutely fine when I met him.
23:47He was not drunk or drunk.
23:50Fine, fine, fine.
23:52Asking for kisses and, you know, cuddles and stuff.
23:56But when police searched his phone,
23:59the truth about the second attack began to emerge.
24:01His phone gave us a wealth of different information.
24:05It showed us there were a number of videos
24:07which he'd taken earlier on in the evening.
24:10In fact, he went into five pubs in about eight minutes.
24:14He'd gone straight into the toilets.
24:16He'd waited in the toilets for men to come in and use the urinals.
24:19He'd filmed them.
24:20He's trying to identify a victim
24:22who's intoxicated enough for him to prey upon.
24:25We have a photograph from his phone of our victim
24:28from the neck down, completely naked.
24:32And also videos of our victim.
24:34And we can tell that he's incoherent.
24:37Further digging revealed that de Silva Neto
24:39had used an app to hire a car on the night of the attack.
24:43That company are able to give us some fantastic data.
24:47They can give us the location of a vehicle
24:49and they can give us the speed of that vehicle
24:51every couple of minutes.
24:53It revealed that de Silva Neto
24:55had driven the man to an address in London
24:57before taking him to Middle Barton.
25:00The victim had no recollection of these hours.
25:05Which corroborates, really, the impact of a spiking of a drug
25:08that's been administered to him.
25:10And that was extremely useful in terms of being able to prove
25:12that intoxication.
25:18In July, a jury found Luis de Silva Neto
25:22guilty of administering a substance
25:24with intent to allow sexual activity and rape.
25:28He was sentenced to 22 years.
25:34I have to live with it for the rest of my life.
25:37I need to lay in a cold bathtub
25:38just to try and calm myself down.
25:40I can't...
25:42I just can't deal with it.
25:44The impact of sexual offences on our victims is massive.
25:50What this guy's been doing is targeting straight men.
25:54And he's probably targeting straight men
25:56because he thinks straight men are particularly unlikely
25:58to go to the police about it.
26:00In this case, these two guys both have the guts to do exactly that,
26:02which is how we've been able to hold him to account for his behaviour.
26:08It's a truly grim case, but great detective work there.
26:12And Thames Valley police say they're keeping an open mind
26:14as to whether de Silva Neto may have committed further offences
26:17and they would encourage anyone else who may have been targeted
26:20to please come forward.
26:21Yeah, please do.
26:23Now, the UK has a rich history with relics hidden in the soil
26:26of fields and farms all over the country,
26:29from Roman ruins to medieval medallions.
26:33But sometimes the people go looking for these artefacts
26:35can land themselves in trouble.
26:36So when does a hobby become a crime?
26:38Yes, well, we're joined now by Dan Cantal,
26:41who is from Gwent Police Rural Crime Unit, to tell us more.
26:44You've got some of the artefacts people find
26:46and the kit as well that you use to try and tackle this.
26:49But let's talk about what it is, the crime.
26:51So it's called Nighthawking,
26:53which sounds like it's something to do with exotic birds, but isn't.
26:57Yeah, so Nighthawking is basically the name given
26:59to illegal metal detecting activity.
27:02So that could be people trespassing on land,
27:05metal detecting where they don't have permission to do so,
27:07or more worryingly, where protected scheduled monuments
27:11are being targeted by metal detectorists.
27:14So how is this a big problem then?
27:16What sort of damage can be caused by people
27:18who go on the hunt for things?
27:19Yeah, so there's lots of problems associated with it,
27:22but damage-wise, obviously, is to the ground surface
27:24where digging takes place.
27:26One example we've had in our force area
27:28where a churchyard was targeted,
27:31there were over 50 holes dug in one night,
27:33including on top of people's graves,
27:36and obviously that caused a lot of upset
27:37in the local community.
27:39You can see images of some of those now, actually.
27:40That's awful.
27:41Yeah, and as you say, quite a lot of damage on people's land.
27:44What type of stuff are people finding in these halls, then?
27:48Yeah, so all sorts of items, really.
27:50Obviously, metallic objects out of the ground.
27:53Generally, we think of coins, jewellery, necklaces,
27:57bracelets, things along those lines,
27:59but it can be axe heads, arrowheads, musket balls,
28:04anything metallic, really.
28:06Yeah, we can see some of those now, actually, on screen,
28:08and we've stood the test of time,
28:10only to be taken and sold on the black market there,
28:13but it's not just about the money, is it?
28:16No, so there is, obviously, a monetary value
28:20to a lot of the items,
28:21but others, it may purely be the historical value.
28:26It's the context of where and how it was found,
28:29and where items are being removed with no records,
28:32no notification to the relevant authorities.
28:34Obviously, that information is lost,
28:36and, yeah, there's no recovery in it.
28:38That's where it's a real problem, isn't it?
28:39Yeah.
28:40And this is often happening at night,
28:42hence the name Night Talking,
28:44in very remote, rural areas,
28:46how do you tackle it, then?
28:47How do you find people doing it?
28:49Yes, so we're turning to the latest technology.
28:51We're using drones with thermal imaging cameras attached.
28:55We've got handheld thermal imaging devices as well,
28:58yeah, just to sort of level the playing field.
29:02Just this summer, we had some success
29:04with the handheld thermal imaging.
29:06We were able to identify somebody in a field
29:10where there'd been a lot of Night Hawking activity,
29:12and actually able to trace their footsteps
29:15with a thermal camera,
29:16and locate them laid face down in the field.
29:19So, yes, we've had some success.
29:21We can see the images there.
29:22That's really changed your job, hasn't it?
29:24Having kit like that, it's fantastic.
29:26And also, something that can help your job
29:29is a change in legislation
29:30that's recently come in here in Wales,
29:32but it's illegal across the UK, isn't it?
29:35It is, yeah.
29:36Yeah, so the law in Wales has been strengthened recently
29:39with the introduction of the Historic Environment Act of 2023.
29:44It was enacted in November 24,
29:47and since that time, we've already dealt with two people
29:50who've been found Night Hawking on scheduled monuments.
29:54Yeah.
29:54Brilliant.
29:55It's fascinating and amazing how the tech's helping you as well.
29:57Thank you so much for coming in, though,
29:58and explaining all that to us.
29:59It would be to see you.
30:00Thank you.
30:01Now, we're meeting another person deciphering our history,
30:05Amber Butchard.
30:06She's taken her fascination with fashion
30:08to the world of forensics.
30:14People can be very, very dismissive
30:16about the idea of fashion and clothing,
30:19but I've always believed that clothing
30:22is a really important bearer of culture.
30:29I'm Amber Butchard.
30:30I'm a fashion historian and curator.
30:33I began my career as the buyer
30:35for a vintage clothing company.
30:37I'd always loved old clothes, loved researching them.
30:40My research takes a number of different forms,
30:43whether it's books, exhibitions.
30:45I also do bits and pieces on TV for sewing beef.
30:49I do a lot of the historical research.
30:52I'm also a forensic garment analyst.
30:57My name is Carl Harrison.
30:59I am a professor of practice at the University of Exeter.
31:02Prior to this job,
31:03I was the National Forensic Advisor
31:05for the National Crime Agency.
31:07When we think about forensics in the modern day,
31:11we tend to think about DNA analysis and forensic biology,
31:14and that is a crucial part of the work that we do.
31:17But there's a breadth of different forensic disciplines.
31:20Specialisms that might only be used a couple of times a year,
31:24but for particular cases, are absolutely pivotal to their investigation.
31:29There are three sort of ways in which forensic scientists might examine clothing.
31:33We might find body fluids on clothing, and those can be examined.
31:37We could look for fibres and fibre transfer between garments.
31:41But we could look at the items themselves.
31:44So where do the garments come from?
31:45How old are they?
31:46What wear?
31:47What repairs are associated with it?
31:50It's very specialised.
31:51Only a handful of people in the UK do it.
31:54And it can provide a valuable intelligence insight
31:57into the identification of unknown bodies found by police.
32:01I was driving my car one Sunday morning, and Abba came on the radio,
32:07and she was talking about fishermen's jumpers.
32:10And I thought, that's exactly the kind of person that we need.
32:14So we talked for some time, and we developed some processes
32:16for how she would undertake examinations in the laboratory.
32:19And then ultimately we came to this case,
32:21where there was an opportunity to utilise her capabilities.
32:24This particular case was where the body of a male was found
32:32in a state of advanced decomposition on the edge of a field.
32:37At the time, his identity wasn't known,
32:39but he was found wearing footwear and some tracksuit bottoms.
32:43And that's where Abba came in.
32:48I was immediately heartened.
32:51That sounds like a strange word to use in this context.
32:55But because I knew that I would actually be able to do something
32:59that would help to date the items that we're wearing,
33:03I knew that with sportswear in particular,
33:06there are numbers on the label,
33:08and if you know what to look for,
33:10you can understand the date that that item was actually manufactured.
33:14I worked out that the trousers were manufactured in September 2013,
33:19and the trainers were manufactured in September 2014.
33:24So we knew that whoever this person was,
33:27they couldn't possibly have died before September 2014.
33:34Understanding that date meant that from a pool of missing people,
33:39a number of them were able to be eliminated.
33:42From this work, they were actually able to narrow it down
33:47and end up identifying this person.
33:56Part of what Carl and I have been doing
33:59is trying to bring awareness of forensic garments
34:03into wider practice.
34:07So through Carl, I've been doing some training sessions
34:09for crime scene investigators,
34:11just so that people have an awareness
34:13to not ignore clothing,
34:16to think about it as evidence, effectively,
34:19not just as something that can be dismissed.
34:22As I was growing up, loving the treasure hunt
34:26of Carl boot sales, of charity shops, jumble sales,
34:30it never in a million years occurred to me
34:32that that interest, that passion,
34:35could lead to what I do now in the forensics world.
34:44It's fascinating, that, isn't it?
34:45Well, Amber's route into the crime-solving world
34:47might have been unplanned,
34:48but our next guest knew from an early age
34:50that forensic science was a road she wanted to take.
34:53Joan Millington is an expert witness
34:55and world authority in analysing bloodstain patterns
34:59and is with me now to give us some insights.
35:02I mean, this is fascinating.
35:04It's full-on CSI, and that's what it feels like to me.
35:07But there is a lot of science behind this.
35:09Explain what you do, what a bloodstain analyst does.
35:13So, Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, BPA,
35:15is looking at the features and distributions of bloodstains
35:20and trying to work out how they got there,
35:23how they were produced.
35:24Yeah.
35:24How do we even start that, then?
35:26Well, slowly and methodically, usually.
35:29But I suppose BPA is a little bit like a jigsaw.
35:32We open up the box and there's all the pieces there,
35:35but we might not necessarily have the picture
35:37to start us on the right track,
35:39so we have to break it down.
35:40But you have brought pictures with you today for us to see.
35:44And just to reassure everyone,
35:45this isn't real blood, is it?
35:47But this is just a way of you kind of depicting
35:49how it works when you're working on cases.
35:52So what have we got?
35:53Yes.
35:54So these are for training purposes.
35:56So as an example here,
35:57we've got a photograph that has three circles on it.
36:00These are bloodstains.
36:01And you can see that from the shape of the bloodstain,
36:05then we can understand how they were deposited on that surface.
36:09Think of it like a muddy football.
36:11If I threw it at a wall,
36:13I might get a circular-shaped stain,
36:16and blood droplets are no different.
36:18Ah, so they're like mini footballs, essentially.
36:21They've landed and left that,
36:22so you can tell how it fell and landed.
36:25Yeah, so if I had a cut to my finger
36:26and I dripped blood onto a surface,
36:28this is the type of stain that I would expect to see.
36:32Yeah, and there's a more chaotic one underneath.
36:34What's that one?
36:35So this is an impact pattern,
36:37but what you can see here is that some of the stains are circles,
36:40but you can see that some of the stains also have these tails,
36:44and the tails tell me the direction the little droplet was travelling
36:47at the moment that it hit that surface.
36:49Right.
36:50So I can put an arrow on the end of the tail,
36:52and it was travelling across the paper.
36:55And how is that useful?
36:56Well, that's helpful,
36:58because I know that the blood originated from somewhere over here
37:02and landed on this target.
37:04And that blood obviously might be associated with an injury
37:07or someone being assaulted.
37:10So I know that they were positioned here when that impact took place.
37:14Gosh, it's fascinating.
37:15So tell me then, when you arrive at a scene,
37:18how does it work?
37:19What do you do?
37:20Well, the first thing is I wear full personal protective equipment,
37:24a scene suit, et cetera.
37:25And I'll then go into a space, there I am,
37:29and I'll go into a space and start to break down the patterns,
37:33find out where blood is, where it isn't,
37:36and then go into the detail and try and reconstruct
37:38the types of mechanisms that might have allowed those blood stains to be created.
37:43Yeah, and I imagine not all patterns are obvious straight away,
37:46so you must be there for a while trying to suss this out.
37:49Yeah, I mean, the first thing to say is that, you know,
37:52you can't answer all of the questions,
37:54so there might be some uncertainty and we need to keep an open mind.
37:59So it might be that we can't give a definitive answer,
38:02or it might be that there have been attempts to try and clean up blood.
38:05Yeah, because we've got some pictures as well
38:08that explain a bit more about the work.
38:10Tell us what we're seeing here, Jo.
38:12So we can use chemicals to enhance blood stains
38:15that aren't visible to the naked eye.
38:16In this case, blood has run under the basin in this bathroom,
38:20and the chemical that we use turns like a turquoise colour
38:24in the presence of blood.
38:26Now, there are other things there, other greens, other yellows.
38:29That's actually paint.
38:31The kids have been washing their paint brushes.
38:32Yes, because that's...
38:33Yeah, because on first, you're wondering,
38:35what are all the different colours?
38:36And so how do you then work it out?
38:39So the colour is distinctive to being a chemical
38:42that's enhanced the blood staining.
38:44But, of course, when people clean up,
38:46they only see the things that they're looking at.
38:48They don't necessarily crouch down
38:50and look under the surfaces and miss stuff.
38:53Yeah, because, like, what am I looking at here?
38:54Like, to me, that just looks like an abandoned house.
38:56You can't really see much.
38:58Yeah.
38:58This is a murder inquiry in which the victim went missing,
39:03and the house had been effectively emptied of all of the furniture
39:08and we started to reveal blood stains
39:11that weren't visible to the naked eye
39:13but had been enhanced with chemicals.
39:15And these repeating patterns, these block-shaped patterns,
39:19started to be revealed on the floor in the living room.
39:23And that shape matched the foam or sponge end of a mop
39:29which had been used to kind of clean the blood from that surface.
39:34And that mop was found outside that property
39:36and on the handle was a bloodstain fingerprint.
39:40Oh, wow.
39:41So then you were able to directly link it
39:44because you could say that was the mop that created that pattern.
39:47Yeah, and then that information obviously goes into the investigation
39:50and the police can then start to narrow down the net around the suspect.
39:55Yeah, because it's amazing how your theory on things
39:58like you were saying, you know, drawing arrows and stuff
40:00and working out patterns can actually lead to arrests then, can't it?
40:03Just observation-based with added interpretation and opinion ultimately.
40:09Yeah, and can we have a look at the other pictures
40:11because there's a footprint there as well
40:12and I guess that's what's going on here, someone who's studying blood.
40:16So again, everything is about what you see.
40:18So we can see this kind of repeating pattern.
40:20This is a footwear mark in blood.
40:22And the kind of the good thing about this
40:27is it demonstrates that whoever wore these shoes
40:29was around when blood was available.
40:32So it allows us to say that they were in that space
40:35after injuries have been sustained
40:38and it can sort of narrow down the time frame for their actions.
40:42Yeah.
40:42How would you get into a job like that then?
40:44Because it's fascinating.
40:45I've always wanted to do forensic science
40:47and in fact, when I was in Miami doing some training,
40:50I met the bloodstained guy out in America
40:53and that was the beginning of my path to being a BPA scientist.
40:56And you thought, I want to be like that?
40:58I want to be that guy.
40:59Yeah, amazing.
41:00Jo, it's fascinating.
41:01Thank you so much for coming in
41:02and chatting to us and showing us those pictures as well.
41:07The bloodstained guy.
41:09My own spogles.
41:11We've just got time to ask if you've seen any of our wanted faces.
41:17And first, we have this man.
41:20This is Jamie McKenna,
41:22but he also uses the names Nick
41:23and the surname Hill, Hooper
41:26and the nicknames Flopper, Hopper and even Hopper.
41:30Police in Kent have charged him with assault,
41:32but he failed to attend court.
41:34He is 33.
41:34His left ear is pierced.
41:36He has a scar on his face
41:37and a number of tattoos,
41:39including a praying Jesus,
41:41the word mum and a flower.
41:43Now, he has connections in Rochester,
41:45Gillingham, Chatham,
41:46Snodland and also Maidstone.
41:48All of those are in Kent.
41:50What about this man?
41:51This is Byron Peter Ford,
41:53known as Fordy.
41:54He often uses the surname Macraith.
41:57Northumbria police want to speak to him
41:59about a case of criminal damage.
42:00The 39-year-old has a lot of tattoos.
42:02In fact, his neck is covered
42:04and he has a tribal emblem,
42:06bulldog and grim reaper on his arm
42:07and the word patience.
42:09You can probably see above his right eyebrow.
42:12Last for today is Damien Skorski.
42:14Police in Northumbria are looking for him
42:16in relation to an attempted murder
42:17in Gateshead from earlier this year.
42:19He's 18 with fair hair.
42:21He's thought to have links
42:22to the northeast of England,
42:23but also Colchester in Essex,
42:25possibly Belgium too.
42:27So please call a 999
42:29or us if you know
42:30where any of these men currently are.
42:32The number is right down the bottom
42:33of your screen by the clock.
42:35That brings us to the end
42:36of today's programme.
42:37Thank you for watching.
42:38Remember, you can catch up
42:39on any episodes you may have missed
42:40on iPlayer for up to 30 days
42:42after broadcasting.
42:44Steph, you're going to be back
42:45with us on Monday.
42:46I'm putting in a full shift next week.
42:47Full shift?
42:48A full week.
42:48Well, I look forward to that.
42:49Tomorrow I'll be with Jennifer
42:50re-hosting the show together.
42:52Yeah, and tomorrow
42:53more cracking stories for you.
42:55We've got a nail-biting film
42:56when a man armed with a sledgehammer
42:58goes on a rampage
42:59on the streets of London.
43:00It takes the extraordinary bravery
43:02of two police officers
43:03to step in and stop him.
43:05It was like he was watching
43:08a horror movie
43:09and he was waiting
43:09for the jump scare.
43:11And then we heard
43:12a blood-curling scream
43:13coming from the back room.
43:18We'll see you for that and more.
43:19Same time at 10.45 tomorrow.
43:21Yeah, have a lovely day.
43:22Bye-bye.
43:22Bye-bye.
43:52Bye-bye.
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