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00:00¡Hola! ¡Police emergency!
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01:00Inverclyde, October 2016.
01:05And detectives were alerted to a missing teenager who hadn't been seen for years.
01:19From 1999, no one had ever seen Margaret.
01:30So, if she was watching this right now, what would you say to her?
01:40No, she's not dead.
01:50She was a very quiet girl.
01:53I think life in the primary school had probably been quite difficult for her.
02:00Teenager Margaret Fleming had a rare condition known as gigantism, which caused accelerated growth.
02:08During her senior school years, she was under the wing of Betty Brown, the principal teacher of learning support.
02:15Margaret would have been 12 when she came to us.
02:19And she had been identified as a child with educational difficulties.
02:25And it was my job to make sure that all the teachers in the school who would have Margaret in their class
02:32were aware that she had these moderate learning difficulties.
02:37A year after this, her parents divorced and Margaret moved in with her father.
02:42She was still very quiet and didn't communicate much.
02:46But she was, at that time, fairly secure in herself because she and her father did everything together.
02:54I left in 1995.
02:57And I didn't know until much later that her father had died, just a few months after I had left.
03:04And that would have been traumatic for Margaret.
03:07Before he died, her father had nominated his friends, Eddie Kearney and Avril Jones, to look after Margaret.
03:21So in 1997, she moved in with them to their home in Seacroft, in Inverkip.
03:28Inverkip's a small village on the west coast of Scotland.
03:31It's quite remote location, quite picturesque.
03:34Then nine years later, police were alerted to a welfare concern following a benefit claim made by Avril Jones on Margaret's behalf.
03:47The claim suggested Margaret needed 24-hour care, so the benefits agency sent the application to social services.
03:54They phoned Margaret's registered GP.
03:59It was at that point that social work became aware that Margaret hadn't seen her GP for over 70 years.
04:04That prompted social workers, on that day, to go to Seacroft.
04:15However, they get no reply to repeated knocking.
04:20They formed an impression that there was someone inside the house, but they became immediately concerned about the living conditions of the house.
04:28They phoned the police and asked the police to go along and do a welfare visit on Margaret Fleming.
04:33That evening, officers arrived at the address to check on Margaret.
04:46Once they got to the front door, they could see that the property was in quite a bit of a stare of disrepair.
04:53And on repeated knocking, I initially didn't get an answer, but could see two distinct figures moving within.
05:04They observed something to be blocking the door, and when the door was eventually answered, Avril Jones opened it.
05:09The minute he opened the door, it was a floor-to-cylind, cramp-packed with stuff.
05:17They couldn't get up the stairs.
05:19It was just full with debris, boxes.
05:23It could only be described as squalor.
05:25They explained the reason for the visit, to check on Margaret's well-being and make sure she was safe and well.
05:30At which point, Avril said that she wasn't in.
05:33She was out for a walk with her partner, Edward Kearney.
05:37One of the officers looks backwards down the hallway and observes a figure trying to hide behind the kitchen door.
05:44So, the officers say to Avril, is that your partner there?
05:47At which point, Avril says, oh, Eddie, you're back.
05:50The police are here. They're here about wee Margaret.
05:53And Eddie says, oh, she's here. She's in the kitchen. I'll just go and get her.
05:57So, he goes into the kitchen.
05:59A few minutes go by, and he comes out, and he says to the officers, she's just ran off out the back door.
06:07So, right away, the officers were a bit concerned about this.
06:11As for assistance, and other units were dispatched, were there relatively quickly, no trace of anyone.
06:18So, it was very quickly established as a missing person inquiry at that point.
06:24And given our vulnerabilities, it was risk assessed as being high.
06:28At this point, Detective Chief Superintendent Paul Livingstone from the Major Crime Unit was brought in.
06:34When I came on duty the Monday morning, things weren't adding up.
06:40The two officers were adamant that had someone left that back door, they would have seen them.
06:45But interestingly as well, the time of the year it was, a kind of dew had formed over the back lawn,
06:51and the officers noticed that there was no footprints.
06:54The property was searched, and witness statements were taken from Eddie Kearney and Avril Jones.
07:00For someone who was meant to be caring for somebody, somebody who was meant to be taking on that parental role,
07:07the lack of specific detail was surprising.
07:12They told officers Margaret had disappeared to London before.
07:17Unconvinced by their statements, police began a search at the house, but that caused further confusion.
07:23It then became apparent that there was only two people living in that house.
07:29There was only two chairs in the living room.
07:31There was only two bedrooms.
07:32One was Edward's, one was Avril's.
07:35Going back and re-interviewing Edward and Avril asking about where does she stay, where does she sleep,
07:40it then changed to, well, she doesn't stay here all the time.
07:43She comes and goes.
07:44Sometimes for weeks at a time she'll go away.
07:47She has a boyfriend.
07:48Now, this is in stark contrast to what's on the PIP application form,
07:53which was quite graphic in detail about the level of care she needed.
07:57To me, it was quite clear that something's not quite right here.
08:07Growing concerned for Margaret's welfare, police run proof-of-life inquiries.
08:12We reached out to every local authority, every police force, every utility company,
08:18every women's refuge, women's aid, charities, all across the UK,
08:23and it kept coming back to us all the time that from 1999, no-one had ever seen Margaret.
08:30As detectives in Inverclyde tried to locate Margaret,
08:41a report about another vulnerable missing teenager
08:45was about to launch an upsetting investigation for detectives in Cheshire.
08:50Desire to live is burning.
09:05My stomach is turning.
09:11But all they think about is honour.
09:13In February 2004, workmen on the banks of the River Kent in Cumbria
09:30discovered the body of 17-year-old Shafilia Ahmed,
09:35who'd been missing for five months.
09:37She feared it was popular,
09:43and she had a cluster of friends that really supported her.
09:47We literally just laughed all the time.
09:50We'd have serious conversation,
09:52but we'd always, even serious conversation,
09:54I'd always end up laughing.
09:57Favourite memory of Shaf's personality was probably a laugh,
10:01because it was just that contagious,
10:03and I can still hear it now.
10:05It was hilarious.
10:07On September the 11th, 2003,
10:12Shafilia disappeared from her home in Warrington.
10:15Her parents didn't report her missing.
10:18She was reported missing by the school,
10:19which is a week later, into the 18th, September.
10:23As Cheshire police began a missing-from-home investigation,
10:27they started to learn disturbing information about Shafilia's life.
10:32She wanted to live a westernised, free life,
10:35when, in fact, at home, it was a completely different picture.
10:39She went to school and complained about being assaulted by her parents.
10:43She talked to her friends about a real worry about control.
10:48She was really worried about being forced into marriage.
10:50She ran away in February of 2003.
10:55She was helped by friends to get away from home.
10:59And then she came back to Warrington because she really was keen to carry on with her studies.
11:04Iftika, her father, found out she was back at school,
11:07and he lay in wait for her, is the best way to describe it.
11:11And he kidnapped her from the street on her way to school.
11:15And the police were called.
11:18Iftika brought her back to school
11:20and made assurances that there was no forced marriage
11:23and that she wasn't going to be taken away from home.
11:28Shafilia went back home.
11:29I don't think she ever thought she was going to be in Pakistan within two days.
11:38Her parents had flown her to a family wedding
11:41and she was told she was going to be married next.
11:50Desperate to avoid this,
11:52she took drastic steps and poisoned herself by drinking bleach.
11:59Her parents returned to the UK without her.
12:04She's there for several weeks,
12:06getting iller and iller.
12:08I think they left her there to die.
12:12Three months later, in May 2003,
12:16Shafilia returned to Warrington.
12:19Shafilia!
12:20Over the coming months,
12:22she was regularly treated at hospital
12:24for the side effects the poisoning had caused.
12:27Then one day, she failed to turn up for an appointment.
12:33Shafilia's life takes a sad twist that week.
12:37She's back to where she was, maybe,
12:39back in February,
12:40where she's rekindling old friendships.
12:42She's been in communication with male friends again
12:45and that's probably the tipping point.
12:47Police searched Shafilia's bedroom
12:50after she was reported missing
12:52and they found some of her writing.
12:54I wish my parents would be proud of what I've done.
12:58Instead, it's, you've brought shame.
13:01I don't pretend like we're the perfect family.
13:04Desire to live is burning.
13:07My stomach is turning.
13:09But all they think about is honour.
13:10Given her troubled relationship with her parents
13:19and their behaviour following her disappearance,
13:23detectives grew increasingly suspicious.
13:26You know, externally, they're saying,
13:28this is a girl who's run away
13:30and we don't know why and everything was fine.
13:32I knew differently
13:33and I suspected that they'd done something to Shafilia.
13:37They didn't really do anything to try and find her
13:40and that's striking.
13:42Her mother and father became the prime suspects.
13:46I decided, looking at all the elements,
13:49that, as a minimum,
13:50they've kidnapped her and held her somewhere.
13:52So we arrested them on suspicion of kidnap.
13:56Under questioning, they gave nothing away
13:59and so, with little other evidence to go on,
14:02they were released on bail.
14:04Creating a difficult situation
14:08for their family liaison officer.
14:11The role was to keep them updated.
14:14But obviously, we had to be careful with how we did that
14:16because they were suspects.
14:18Felt there was a lack of questions from parents
14:22wanting to know what's happened to their daughter.
14:25And, you know, that raises suspicions when we're there.
14:28You know, at the back of my mind,
14:30I'm thinking, why aren't you asking us more?
14:31Or, you know, surely you'd want to know as a parent.
14:36To capture potential evidence,
14:39police planted a listening device in the Ahmed's house.
14:42The recordings revealed a tense atmosphere.
14:45The behaviour in that house was enough, you know,
15:01to tell me that these aren't grieving parents.
15:03These are people who probably know what's happened to her.
15:06They talk about her in a past tense, really,
15:08rather than a present tense.
15:09Heavy rain is causing flooding and...
15:16Three flood warnings enforced there from here.
15:17We're a very angry-looking river, Kent.
15:20Then five months after her disappearance,
15:23floods in Cumbria washed up Shafilia's body.
15:26A murder inquiry was launched.
15:28This wasn't a missing person.
15:29This was a dead person that had been murdered.
15:32Struck home with everyone, I think.
15:33Then, during a press conference,
15:36Shafilia's parents made an unexpected appearance,
15:39along with a lawyer,
15:41where he claimed they had no involvement
15:43in their daughter's murder
15:44and said the public were making racist judgments.
15:47That inquiry should be conducted with transparency,
15:52rather than being based upon any form of ethnic stereotyping.
15:59Wanting to present themselves as grieving parents,
16:03they gave several TV interviews.
16:06I'm not a strict parent in any way whatsoever, right?
16:09I'm as English as anybody can picture me, right?
16:12But, obviously, the police portrayal of me is different.
16:15They even made the extraordinary claim
16:19that the coroner's verdict of an unlawful killing was wrong.
16:24The family's behaviour was odd,
16:26in that they sought to overturn that.
16:29But the evidence stood up, and the verdict stood.
16:33She'd been unlawfully killed.
16:36The evidence was conclusive.
16:38Shafilia had been murdered.
16:40But detectives didn't have enough evidence
16:42to prove who was responsible.
16:45Two years later, the case took a significant twist.
16:50The Ahmed's family home was the target of an armed robbery
16:54involving one of Shafilia's sisters.
16:57She's got into trouble,
16:59and she's got into the wrong crowd, perhaps.
17:00I don't know.
17:01But there's been a robbery at that house.
17:04She's become a suspect.
17:05This meant that Shafilia's sister had an opportunity to speak to police away from her family.
17:12She finally had the confidence to come forward and say what her mum and dad had done.
17:18She describes mum picking up Shafilia from outside work at 9 o'clock that night,
17:25and mum getting really cross about what Shafilia was wearing.
17:29She's then gone home.
17:32Situation in the house has deteriorated.
17:33No one!
17:34Then what?
17:35Then what?
17:36Then what?
17:37Then what?
17:38Then what?
17:39Mum!
17:40And that Iftika and Farzana are both suffocating her, holding her down,
17:43and both of them carrying out the act of murder in front of them all in the house.
17:49And she describes Iftika punching Shafilia in the chest as a final act,
17:57and then removing Shafilia from the house later on that night, she believes.
18:01So they all witnessed their mum and dad murdering Shafilia.
18:09In September 2011, eight years after she first disappeared,
18:14Shafilia's parents went on trial for her murder,
18:17with Shafilia's sister as a key witness.
18:22She's having to give evidence in court to say that her mum and dad have killed her sister.
18:30Massively brave.
18:32How difficult that must have been for her.
18:34You could hear a pin drop throughout the time she was given that evidence in court.
18:39And as the trial progressed,
18:42a letter emerged written by another of Shafilia's sisters,
18:45which described how she, too, had witnessed her parents' attack.
18:51They tried to kill her so many times.
18:54They achieved it third time, didn't they?
18:57The jury unanimously found Iftikar and Farzana Ahmed guilty of murder.
19:03They were sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 25 years.
19:07There was no celebrating, it was just good to see justice prevail.
19:13It took great satisfaction that eventually we've got justice for Shafilia.
19:20A lot of us had to hold back tears because of the impact it has had on us.
19:30You can talk about science, forensic evidence, lots of different things you can do,
19:35but at the end of the day, it's people, witnesses,
19:39giving that evidence to send killers to prison.
19:41For the officers in Cheshire, missing had become murder.
19:50But 230 miles north, detectives are still searching for their teenager.
20:01Margaret Fleming, a vulnerable young woman with learning difficulties,
20:06hasn't been seen for 17 years.
20:09Today, police are renewing their call for anyone with information
20:14concerning the whereabouts of Margaret Fleming to come forward.
20:19Having searched the house of Eddie Kearney and Avril Jones,
20:23Detective Paul Livingstone decided to send police dogs in
20:26for a complete search of the grounds.
20:29I was told at that point that it was one of the best indications
20:34that the handler had ever seen from his dog
20:36in terms of potential human remains.
20:39Ultimately, that led to saying we have to excavate the whole garden
20:43and found some evidence of burning burnt soil.
20:48And when we eventually excavated that area,
20:51we found in excess of 290 small bone fragments.
20:54And we get some interim results back from the soil analysis that is a really high indication
21:04of human tissue decomposition within that soil.
21:08At that point, I decided to declare Eddie and Avril as official suspects in this investigation.
21:18The burnt remnants that had been excavated were too badly damaged to prove they were human,
21:24let alone Margaret.
21:25But the search did reveal other significant evidence.
21:29Avril loved to take photographs and out of thousands of photographs,
21:36we found about nine of Margaret, which again struck a chord with inquiry team.
21:43They found it really strange.
21:44If you are caring for somebody, if you are treating them like a member of your family,
21:48if you love taking photographs, why have you got so little of them?
21:51The few photos they did find showed Margaret's appearance was changing
21:57as she was left on the outskirts of her supposed family.
22:01What we could see from round about 96 onwards, we could see changes.
22:06Her hair was getting shaved.
22:08She was losing weight.
22:10It was clear it was Eddie's clothes she was wearing.
22:13There was one photograph in particular,
22:15and it was taken at Avril's mum and dad's Ruby wedding anniversary.
22:18The photograph that was captured just has Margaret on the edge of that shot.
22:24It's quite haunting.
22:26We felt that it really did speak volumes about the relationship
22:31that Avril and Eddie had with Margaret.
22:35When we speak to Avril's family,
22:38we know that Eddie and Avril go to their house on Christmas Day that year,
22:42but Margaret's not there.
22:44Very strange.
22:45We think we've established that something criminal's happened to Margaret
22:50sometime between the 17th of December and Christmas Day, 1999.
22:59Despite the investigation escalating to a murder inquiry,
23:03Eddie and Avril insisted Margaret had simply run away,
23:08remarkably, even going onto TV to argue the point.
23:11This is the house where Margaret lived.
23:15This is the man who was one of her carers.
23:19Police say her disappearance is a mystery.
23:22Have you heard from her since she left?
23:24Yes, I've heard from her.
23:25You have?
23:25Right, where has she been for the past year?
23:28She's been in Poland.
23:29Doing a, what do you call it, a gangmaster.
23:31Do you know what that is?
23:32She has become, in spite of her difficulties,
23:38she has become a person who recruits and hires out agricultural workers.
23:43So Margaret is alive and well, and she is, has come to know her.
23:49That's right.
23:50She's got harm in the last couple of weeks.
23:52Right.
23:52Are you worried that she's okay?
23:56Are you, are you annoyed at her?
23:58My lover.
23:58For what she's put you through?
24:00My lover.
24:00We're not annoyed at her at all.
24:02What would you say to her?
24:03Because we understand.
24:04Since she was a wee child, we were going to have lulled it in her welfare.
24:06So if she was watching this right now, what would you say to her?
24:15It wasn't long after that, that I think they began to feel the pressure
24:19and maybe realised the error of their ways in doing that interview
24:23because we got information that they were London bound.
24:29Soon after giving the interview,
24:31they were arrested at Glasgow's Central train station.
24:36In their possession at that point,
24:40they had quite a few thousand pounds cash,
24:42personal belongings and a key for a bank safe deposit box,
24:47which we later found out had over £25,000 in it.
24:52It was clear to me that they were fleeing and they were coming back.
24:58But in custody, they continued to say Margaret was alive,
25:03claiming that she had written them letters back in 2000
25:06which, they argued, proved she was alive and well.
25:10In your statement, there was a type letter.
25:14Eddie still has it.
25:15I don't remember exactly when it arrived.
25:17It was a type that's signed in Margaret's handwriting.
25:20It had been posted.
25:22Can you tell me about that type letter?
25:24No comment.
25:25What's more, police had found an invoice from 2000
25:40showing that Eddie and Avril had stayed in the exact same hotel in London
25:45that the headed paper of the letters was sent from?
25:50Detectives were convinced Eddie and Avril had typed and posted them to themselves
25:55to make it appear as if Margaret was still alive.
25:59Is Margaret Fleming alive?
26:02Yes.
26:03Where is she?
26:05No comment.
26:05Did you dispose of her body?
26:16Did Eddie dispose of her body?
26:17No.
26:18Well, what happened?
26:20My answers are no comment.
26:22I don't have comments.
26:24Did Eddie do it and you're covering for him?
26:26No.
26:27Did you kill Margaret Fleming?
26:30No comment.
26:31Did Avril kill Margaret Fleming?
26:34No comment.
26:34Did you kill her together?
26:36No comment.
26:38Was it an accident?
26:39No.
26:40Would you stop this?
26:41No.
26:41Did she die of an accident or natural causes?
26:46What are you asking for that, man?
26:47I'm not asking you.
26:48Well, I've already told you she was not dead.
26:50Right.
26:52Was Margaret buried in your garden?
26:54No.
26:55Has she ever been buried in your garden?
26:57No, she's not dead.
27:01Despite their claims of innocence, Eddie Kearney and Avril Jones were charged with murder and benefit fraud.
27:13In June 2019, they were found guilty of killing Margaret Fleming in a majority verdict at Glasgow High Court and later sentenced to life imprisonment.
27:26I certainly was very happy that they were found guilty.
27:33I can only say that I was extraordinarily grateful that the police found enough evidence to convict them.
27:40This type of inquiry was extremely challenging because we didn't have a body.
27:48If you have a body, you can have a post-mortem.
27:50You can find out the cause of death.
27:52We feel that we do know what type of person Margaret was from speaking to those who knew her and loved her.
28:01She was a kind, generous, trusting person.
28:06She just wanted to be loved.
28:08But she's been targeted by two very, very ruthless individuals through no fault of her own.
28:15She was vulnerable and they exploited that and she deserves far better than that.
28:22Also, if women, one of them also had that.
28:23So, here's a couple of things.
28:30This year, young man, have got a power b Santos Lyons.
28:41The second, a Musque собствен.
28:44Gracias por ver el video.
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