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Traffic Cops S12E28 (Feb 24 2024)
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00:01Scott straight through the red line.
00:04Damage.
00:05Damage.
00:06Don't do that!
00:07Stay still!
00:08Derbyshire traffic cops.
00:10It does have warning markers for potential firearms.
00:15Turn over!
00:16You're under arrest.
00:17Intent supply class.
00:18You're drug.
00:19Police a thousand square miles.
00:23It's a crash, crash.
00:25You got any other injury other than your head?
00:27With some of the UK's most dangerous roads.
00:30Oh, nobody's been killed out of this.
00:32I don't know.
00:33Do you know how fast you're going?
00:34It's scary when stuff like this happens.
00:36In life and death situations.
00:39Get on the ground, you'll be taken!
00:41We've got runners.
00:42Face down!
00:45Yes, yes, successful sting.
00:49Around every corner.
00:51Great acting, mate.
00:53There's a new challenge for the traffic cops.
00:57Step out of the vehicle now!
01:00I'm going home.
01:01David!
01:02Stop grabbing me like that!
01:06It's crash, crash, crash!
01:09Coming up...
01:10Got a body in the road with significant trauma injuries.
01:15A tragic death on Derbyshire's roads.
01:18It's been hit by an unknown vehicle.
01:20Yeah.
01:21You're not starting to spread on straight up there.
01:23Leads to a nationwide manhunt.
01:25We're looking for Derbyshire's most wanted at the minute.
01:28Open the doors for police!
01:32We're just looking for any evidence that somebody's been underneath that vehicle
01:35and there is evidence there to suggest that they are.
01:38For a hit-and-run driver.
01:40Follow me is your Andre Chris compliant initially.
01:47And it's a stop, stop.
02:02Stop, sir, please.
02:03Hi, it's ambulance.
02:04Could I inform you of an RTC car pedestrian believed to be fatal, please?
02:08It's on, er, Pentagon Island outside the cricket club in Derby.
02:12And it's car v pedestrian?
02:14Yeah, I believe the vehicle is made off.
02:17Is that a registration number?
02:19Nothing, yeah.
02:22Can someone try and find a, er, screen or a tent or anything like that
02:25that we can, er, try and cover up?
02:27Because, er, there's plenty of members of the public around as well.
02:29Every year, the police deal with around 17,000 hit-and-run incidents across the UK.
02:36Just the body you've seen in the road?
02:39We've not witnessed it happen.
02:40We've come across it.
02:41But the young lad who stopped to say, are you OK?
02:44He says, I've got chest pain.
02:45He's witnessed it, mate.
02:50We're en route to a call from the ambulance service
02:53stating that they've come across a body in the road.
02:56It's a confirmed fatality.
02:57And there's some suggestion that there may be a vehicle
03:02that's struck this individual and made off.
03:06At the start of a manhunt for a runaway driver,
03:09PC Dave Shaw is one of several traffic units
03:12responding to the incident.
03:15No more traffic coming through.
03:17It's quite a common occurrence for people to be involved in an incident, a collision, whereby somebody might be injured.
03:34For whatever reason, the offending driver, they make a split-second decision to scarper and leave the scene and leave the chaos behind.
03:42Clearly there's something not right with the driver if they've made off and left the scene.
03:48Given the description of the car and she's driving off.
03:52While Dave makes his way, officers receive a report from a witness.
03:57Hangar 1-0, permission.
03:58The driver of this Uber had seen a vehicle hit this pedestrian and drive off.
04:08Gone.
04:10Nottingham Road, which had directions with the police.
04:13Could be any number of reasons that they will hang around and speak to the police.
04:16Drink or drugs.
04:18Document offences.
04:19Disqualified drivers.
04:21We see the full range of it, sadly.
04:22It makes you angry, and it puts you straight into cop mode, wanting to protect the scene, protect those who evolve.
04:51And get on with the job in hand.
04:54At the moment, we just need to try and get everything shut down.
04:56It's a major, major junction here.
05:00People trying to turn around, go the wrong way round the roundabout.
05:03They don't help us out at all, do they?
05:08We've got any units that could attend, please. Acknowledge your name.
05:11Any units that can stop making their way to the area, please be obliged.
05:14As the scene is locked down to preserve any evidence,
05:17a force-wide alert is issued to find the missing driver.
05:21So there's a male who's walking through the road.
05:26It's visited by a graphite coloured BMW.
05:30BMW, the TV tyres vehicle, that's what he's describing at the moment.
05:35You know, we've got a body in the road with significant trauma injuries.
05:45And at the moment, it's a case of keeping everybody out.
05:49We don't want anybody in this scene whatsoever.
05:51We don't want people seeing what's gone off because that's traumatic to them.
05:54But we need to preserve any evidence that's here.
05:56Whoever's done this would clearly be aware that they'd hit a person.
06:01The priority now is to find the vehicle involved.
06:06If somebody's involved in a collision and they leave the scene
06:09before all the emergency services get there,
06:11then it's clear they've got something to hide.
06:13Dave speaks to another witness.
06:17I was pulling that here.
06:19And as I pulled that, the car come past me, sir.
06:24Did it? Yeah.
06:25Have you got any dash cam?
06:26No, I didn't have any dash cam.
06:28Have you got any idea of what the vehicle was?
06:30I ain't got a thing.
06:32No idea what it was, colour, size?
06:34If I pulled that, it just wiped me out.
06:36So I've got my hat up.
06:37Just to play.
06:42Can you tell me, is it the size of your car?
06:44Is it the size of a mini?
06:45Is it the size of a van?
06:46Definitely black enough.
06:50Definitely black.
06:51Black or dark.
06:52Anything distinct?
06:53Do you have any lights out?
06:54Nothing.
06:55Alright.
06:56You get in that, then, and we'll come and see you
06:58because we will have to see you tonight.
07:00Okay, no, pass.
07:01Are they off-skirt?
07:02I'll go 1-5.
07:04Go ahead.
07:06Just put on a log.
07:07Somebody's already taken this chap's details.
07:11He's come out of the junction just after the cricket club
07:14and he's seen what he's described as a black vehicle,
07:18similar size to his Cougar,
07:21driving at excessive speed.
07:24It's not turned down to the next left from where we are,
07:26but he thinks it's probably one of the next couple
07:28after the discipline.
07:29As soon as we've got someone free,
07:31we'll need to start having a look down those avenues.
07:34Just to see if it's been abandoned at the side of the road.
07:38With a fail to stop driver on the run,
07:42crash detective Sergeant Craig Walker arrives
07:44to lead the investigation.
07:48So, we've got the victim, who I've had a look at.
07:51I don't recognise him, so I don't know who it is at this time.
07:53I've come stumbling out of here.
07:54Yeah.
07:55He's here somewhere.
07:56Onto the road.
07:57Yeah.
07:58He's then been hit by an unknown vehicle,
08:00which we think is a grey BMW that obviously we're doing work on.
08:02Yeah.
08:03He's stopped.
08:04He's not stopped.
08:05Spread on straight up there.
08:06When you hear on the radio that a person's died,
08:08your heart hits your boots.
08:10It's the worst message you can receive.
08:13You know that that is just going to start a chain of events for a family
08:18that is going to change their lives forever.
08:22He's either come outside of Pentagon or round and round about.
08:25He said, it didn't come this way.
08:27But we won't get a pencil until good morning.
08:29No.
08:31Frustrating this time of night as well, isn't it?
08:32We can't get any CCTV from anywhere.
08:35There's all these places who's going to have it.
08:37We just can't get it.
08:39The mobile boys have to rile their old-fashioned witnesses.
08:42It is a crime scene.
08:44Everything needs to be controlled.
08:46And we've got that painstaking job ahead of us
08:48of piecing together the evidence that's left over from the scene.
08:51And also identify who the offender is and who we need to speak to.
08:56We've got a deceased on the floor there who you don't know who he is.
08:59He's not got his wallet on him.
09:00There's no phone on him.
09:02Nobody around is telling me who it is.
09:05So we've got to try and find out who this person is
09:07as quick as we possibly can for his family.
09:10Are we sure he's got nothing on him?
09:11I think he said, quick pat down.
09:13I didn't move him because James was coming.
09:15But I've been under his...
09:16and got his back pockets and I've done his top pockets.
09:21It's an hour since the pedestrian was hit
09:23and control updates.
09:25The priority is to try and identify as many key features within that first hour as we can.
09:35witnesses, CCTV, physical evidence.
09:37Try and get every little bit that we can.
09:38Because that first hour is critical to ultimately how long this is going to go on for.
09:42I'll go to that.
09:43The behind the vehicle that you think might be involved.
09:44Yeah.
09:45Sorry, can we just give priority to the car behind this suspicious vehicle?
09:46I don't know.
09:47I don't know.
09:48I don't know.
09:49It's gonna be behind this suspicious vehicle.
09:50Just give us an update.
09:51Where you are, et cetera.
09:52Well, if you're still travelling the vehicle's going to be aware that they're following it.
09:54Yes, yeah.
09:55Still travelling the vehicle's going to be where following it.
09:58So I think that's not my job.
09:59I'm not going to be behind.
10:00I know.
10:01There's no need to do anything.
10:02I know, but we've got no need to do anything.
10:03But that's not all in the space.
10:04But that's not getting away from now.
10:05Do you want to do something that you think you can get home?
10:06Do you want to do something?
10:07Yes?
10:08Can we just give priority to the car?
10:09I don't know.
10:10Hang on, I don't know.
10:11I don't know.
10:12I'm kind of following it.
10:13Yes, yes, still colouring. The vehicle's going to be aware that we're following it.
10:20From Oscar Tango 1-5, can I just clarify why you think this vehicle is the one we're looking for?
10:25It might be nothing, but we followed it from the same kind of area in Derby.
10:29It matches the description, and it's kind of done a U-turn through the estates
10:33when it realised we were following it, doing three left turns to do so.
10:38Yeah, OK, there's a couple of us coming from the scene. Try and stay with it.
10:43Yes, yes. Heading towards the 850.
10:47I'm going to go to the 850. Just jump in, catch us up.
11:09The deceased is in the middle of the road. He's been covered up by EMAS.
11:13So, yeah, we're going to have to have a foreclosure of the Pentagon.
11:17After a fatal hit-and-run collision between a pedestrian and a car...
11:21Whoever's doing this would clearly be aware that they'd hit a person.
11:25Traffic officer Dave Shaw and crash detective Craig Walker
11:29are leading a manhunt for a suspected hit-and-run driver.
11:33I've seen it by a graphite coloured BMW.
11:35BMW is the Davis-type vehicle. That's what he's describing at the moment.
11:43On the outskirts of the city, Dave and colleagues are tailing a BMW
11:47spotted leaving the area of the crash scene.
11:57Follow me as we're on. Vehicle has been flying initially.
11:59And it's a stop-stop just prior to 23-Alpha.
12:15Everything, thank you.
12:17I'm just going to stay until Mark's with him.
12:26It's been reported that this vehicle may have left the area
12:28at the time of the crash.
12:29The priority was to stop it, rule it out.
12:31So Mark's just speaking with the driver now.
12:34And it looks like, mate, A-OK.
12:36And this vehicle has nothing to do with it.
12:42Rich, I'm getting the thumbs up from Mark.
12:43I think we're all right.
12:45When you know that your offender is made off,
12:47it is massively time critical because you know that
12:50for every hour, for every minute, for every second
12:52that they're not with you, that you are potentially losing evidence
12:55bit by bit, trip by drip.
12:57So it is massively time critical.
13:01We need to get the driver who's involved locked up.
13:03And every inquiry, no matter how minor that we get from now on,
13:09you know, everything will be looked at.
13:11Every vehicle will be looked at.
13:13We've got a man on our hands and we're looking for Derbyshire's
13:19most wanted at the minute.
13:25As specialist forensics officers gather evidence at the scene,
13:28the identity of the deceased remains unknown.
13:32We've just got a call and an officer's going to travel down to the scene
13:36with a fingerprint scanner.
13:38While Dave continues the manhunt, a CCTV search is underway.
13:42In a case like this, CCTV is absolutely key.
13:48Getting that quick view of some CCTV, getting you the model or the make
13:52or the shape of a car, allows you to really narrow down your inquiries.
14:04I think I've got a basic area where it is.
14:05I'm just researching all the side roads off there, mate.
14:06With a new crucial lead, Dave and colleagues scour the area.
14:20It looks like you blew it once here.
14:22It's bang on at the right time as well.
14:24That's all we've got to go on at the moment.
14:28We are literally looking for a needle in a haystack.
14:32Well, yes.
14:34When all is said and done, we've got a person that's still lining the road.
14:41That person still has a family.
14:43And that family still needs to be informed
14:46that this individual is not going to be coming home tonight.
14:49So, it's a very traumatic thing for everybody involved.
14:55The vehicle that we've got an interest in has been located.
14:59And we're just round the corner from where Rich is with it.
15:03So, it's when it's ended.
15:07On there, on here.
15:09Yeah, there it is.
15:11I'll stay six feet now.
15:19Oh, mate.
15:23Traffic cop Rich Morris has found a BMW.
15:27Matching CCTV footage from a nearby chip shop.
15:31Is it on it?
15:33Well, if you look at this, it's got some...
15:37They look reasonably new.
15:39Yeah, they do, don't they?
15:40And then you've got, like along here, you've got some...
15:43These all look.
15:45This scuff mark along here all looks relatively new.
15:50Along...
15:51I mean, it has been out.
15:53We know it's been out anyway.
15:54And I'm trying to look in the arches to...
16:00To see what's what.
16:02I don't believe in coincidence, Dave.
16:04No, I don't.
16:08I'm not...
16:09I'm not totally happy with this, to be honest.
16:11No.
16:15There's definitely scuffing underneath it.
16:17There is?
16:18Yeah.
16:19Jess Walker receiving Rich Morris.
16:22Mate, if you're in a position to come out to us,
16:25I think it'd be worthwhile.
16:31The biggest thing for an investigator, I think, is curiosity.
16:34Be curious.
16:35Want to know the answers.
16:36Want to know why something happened.
16:38You know, that ability to keep asking questions.
16:41Just not accepting things on face value.
16:43Test everything.
16:44Question everything.
16:45And that will get you to a just conclusion.
16:48On the front near side corner, there's scuffing on the corner of the bumper.
16:54There's like a scrape mark.
16:57Yeah.
16:58You're putting your torch at the bottom wing bay.
17:00Along there where it's mucky, there's like scuff marks along the side.
17:04It's in the foot.
17:05It's that colour.
17:06Right.
17:07The only thing that goes against it is they said black.
17:12Yeah, but in the dark.
17:15But in the dark.
17:16Yeah.
17:17As Dave and Rich plan the next step, there's an update from the scene.
17:22Found a little bit of wheel arch.
17:24Plastic wheel arch.
17:25So we are going to be looking at a car that's got some kind of wheel arch damage.
17:28Right.
17:29That, there, all tidied.
17:30They're lining.
17:31The days of mud on them.
17:33So I'm happy.
17:34It's not like a car, mate.
17:35So we can roll this one out?
17:36Yeah, roll it out, mate.
17:37Fine.
17:38Thank you very much.
17:39It's very much minute by minute with this.
17:42We're still waiting for that little bit of a breakthrough.
17:44There's some debris that's been located at the scene, which has not come from this car.
17:48So we'll get there.
17:49We'll get that breakthrough and then they'll come confident about it.
17:56Nearly four hours from the time of the collision, Dave returns to the scene.
18:02I wouldn't mind having a look at this CCTV because I'd like to have a look myself at this vehicle that people are talking about.
18:16You can see why of that, that you thought it was a BMW car, yeah?
18:19Yeah, I can see why, but I don't think it is.
18:21It's very hard to tell from that, but it's bigger than one series.
18:25That's why I said it could be an X one.
18:27Could be.
18:28We've got footage off the phone, on the phone.
18:30It doesn't get much worse.
18:32You know, we've got what we've got.
18:34It's a blue car.
18:35It's a blue car.
18:36We need somebody around, but actually, first thing in mind, we'll try and get the road.
18:39There's two things that need to happen fairly quickly.
18:41One is that we need to identify the young man and inform his next of kin, and we also need to find the vehicle that's seemingly driven over him and cleared off.
18:50So, once we've got some daylight and we can get the CCTV, we should be able to look at the footage far clearer and have a greater understanding than what vehicle we're looking for.
19:00And it's all hands on pump then.
19:03Everybody's going to be looking for it.
19:06It's a big responsibility being a police officer.
19:09You know, you take on these investigations, you're responsible for the people that's involved.
19:15You're responsible for their welfare and trying to seek that justice that people need in these cases.
19:36Shall we begin?
19:3912 hours after the accident, and the victim has been identified from his fingerprints.
19:45What we've done is we've found next to kin.
19:47We've been to see his mum.
19:48What she tells us is that yesterday, he went out at 10 o'clock in the morning with a friend.
19:56He gets back home at round about 7pm.
20:01He's worse to wear for drink.
20:04He's having some kind of anxiety matter at which points he leaves.
20:07He leaves in the clothing that he's got on, which is just a T-shirt and jeans.
20:11We've got a witness left.
20:13He's out for an evening walk, and he notices that a gentleman he doesn't know is up against the wall to the entrance to the cricket club.
20:21He's in some kind of trouble.
20:24He's slumped against the wall.
20:26He looks like he's not very well.
20:28He looks quite agitated.
20:29And the chap says to him, can you phone me an ambulance?
20:32I'm having some form of panic attack or some anxiety issue.
20:37I don't feel very well.
20:39At 2002, while he's on the phone to the ambulance service, he says he collapses on the floor.
20:46He gets up.
20:48He walks towards the road and then collapses again in the road.
20:52He says a few cars go past him, pit the horns, shout at him, get out of the road, what are you doing?
20:58That kind of thing.
20:59He said, and then out of nowhere, he describes as a gunmetal grey or graphite grey BMW estate car.
21:08Comes, he says, speeding round the island.
21:14He says it's run over him.
21:16And then shot off and carried on up Nottingham Road.
21:20We've then got another two witnesses that are there.
21:23We've got a passenger in a taxi and we've got the taxi driver.
21:28He's aware there's a car in front of him when he's on the roundabout.
21:31But what draws me attention to is all of a sudden, I see the car's on top of the body.
21:36He says, at that point, I realise, oh no, he's run over somebody.
21:40Again, he's consistent.
21:42He describes it as a gunmetal graphite grey car, bigger than a smaller car.
21:49We've obviously got this car that, for some reason, has not stopped.
21:52We don't know why.
21:53This person's got to have known they've gone over somebody.
21:55It's not a clip.
21:57There's a small part of a car that's come off an undertray.
22:01It's a very little bit of plastic and there's no identification marks on it.
22:04But we know it's got a fastener on it.
22:06It looks fairly fresh.
22:07And I think its position is consistent with being off our offending vehicle.
22:12So if you have a look at that, that's the part of the car.
22:16It's an inch, inch and a half kind of size.
22:20And that's the only part we've got.
22:22And if we get a car that, for whatever other reason,
22:25i.e. it matches the description we get off CCTV,
22:28or it's a driver we identify and they have that part of their car missing,
22:33then I think that that raises them up to being a suspect for me.
22:39We talk about golden hour principles in policing.
22:42It's that evidence that's immediately available after the commission of a crime
22:46that is going to give you the best chance of solving it.
22:48So this is the chip shop.
22:51If you watch this group of three or four cars,
22:55all reasonable speeds.
22:58And then there's that one there that travels a bit quicker than everybody else,
23:01which raises a bit of suspicion about why it's travelling that speed.
23:05Have you worked out exactly the time it would be passing?
23:08Yeah, it's the time checks right.
23:10That real time is two minutes past eight,
23:13which is when they say on the call that he gets run over.
23:16What we've got to do, guys, is just fill them blanks in.
23:18There are tons of CCTV opportunities on this road
23:21that are probably going to give us a better shot than that at the moment.
23:24Blue car, it's like a needle in an A-stack, isn't it?
23:27Whereas if we start getting the model of the car, the design of the car,
23:30we might be able to find ourselves in three hours' time parked on somebody's drive
23:33looking at it. That's my hope, yeah.
23:35Someone just tragically died, and it's our job to try and help identify
23:55the offending vehicle and see where it's gone,
23:58and hopefully work out where the car is now.
24:01Traffic cop Stuart Smith is looking for CCTV footage
24:06after a fatal hit-and-run last night.
24:09You know, we've got what we've got. It's a blue car.
24:13Footage recovered from a chip shop doesn't match witness descriptions,
24:18and Stuart needs to check if the timings are correct.
24:21And then there's that one there that travels a bit quicker than everybody else,
24:24which raises a bit of suspicion about why it's travelling that speed.
24:29Businesses adjacent to the crash site might provide a clearer picture.
24:41I'm doing some CCTV enquiries to do with a serious crash on Pentagon Island last night.
24:45Do you have any cameras that cover any section of the road?
24:49Um, we've got a headline, get it to the luggage.
24:53Yeah? The time we need to look at is 20.02, so two minutes past eight.
24:59It's good clear footage. It might give us an indication of what side of the car it is,
25:03what the side of the car looks like, because all we know at the moment is what the back of it looks like.
25:07And it's a bit of a blurry image, so...
25:09We'll see.
25:11CCTV can make or break a job.
25:15That's why it's so important at every scene to gather as much information as possible,
25:19as quickly as possible.
25:21Because information disappears fast.
25:23Witnesses leave or don't talk to you.
25:25CCTV doesn't always save for more than 24 hours.
25:29You need to find that information, you need to secure it as quickly as possible.
25:34I'm interested in watching that part of the screen there.
25:37Sorry.
25:38Because I'm watching for particular cars.
25:40Yeah.
25:43Look at this fella here.
25:45He's just staggered out the way of that booster, isn't he?
25:48That's him, isn't he?
25:49I've put money on that, that's him.
25:51Yeah, he's pacing about though, isn't he?
25:56We'll have blue lights in a second.
25:58Some dark-coloured car.
26:01That looks like a grey estate, a dark-coloured estate.
26:06The cars aren't the same as what's in that other footage.
26:10Right, Lado gets up.
26:1220, 30, 20, 18-ish.
26:16Can I see him walk across?
26:17Then we've got...
26:20White.
26:23Without a match, it appears the chip-shot CCTV timings were inaccurate.
26:27So the focus turns to other vehicles.
26:31White.
26:32Gold.
26:33Black.
26:35Black.
26:36Black.
26:38We're basing our first theory on that bit of footage that we had from up the road with all the vehicles going past and that car went past quickly.
26:45But from that one, it's completely inconsistent with the vehicles that drive past.
26:51From what I can see, I think it's the victim with a white shirt on that walked into view of the camera.
26:56And I can watch it right to the point the ambulance discovers the scene.
26:59At no point did any of the cars match up.
27:02So I've written down a list of what there was.
27:04And hopefully that might be able to help identify the correct piece of footage.
27:07That's the trouble when the camera's times are out.
27:09It throws it all out of the way.
27:15Stuart's search continues with another business nearby.
27:19It's definitely going to give us a bit of a picture as to what's happened and which cars have come from where.
27:33Streetlights, they definitely help in terms of lighting and seeing what you can do, but it also causes a bit of an issue, especially with the orange streetlights.
27:40It makes it difficult to make it count colours.
27:43They all tend to blend.
27:45They were moving more towards the idea that it's black 4x4.
27:50So we've got the three cars. These are the three ones before the ambulance then.
27:55Black 1 Series or something like that.
27:57Black Saloon.
27:59Then there's the Green Signia.
28:02There.
28:03Then the ambulance rocks up at the lights.
28:10There.
28:13Having uncovered new evidence, Stuart heads back to update the team.
28:19We've been able to work out that the footage time from the chip shop was about 20 minutes out.
28:27So we're actually looking at the wrong time.
28:29So what was the blue vehicle involved, turns out, wasn't involved at all.
28:33But the other CCTV from the Vauxhall garage has revealed a suspect vehicle of a black BMW, which we now think is the offending vehicle.
28:44First bit of footage we've got, shortly before 8 o'clock, there's a black BMW 5 Series.
29:05With the identity of the driver still unknown, Craig Walker is reviewing the new CCTV.
29:14It's got blacked out rear windows, black alloy wheels, and also a black grille in the front.
29:21You've got the 5 Series BMW there, then there's the 1 Series just in front there.
29:27But significantly, we also get our witnesses, who are in a taxi, who have become the next car behind the BMW 5 Series.
29:38As you see, the BMW there, the 5 Series, is just going out of shot.
29:43Well, that's exactly where our victim is laid in the road.
29:45That's the point where you see our taxi, the brakes, realising that something's happened just in front, and that's when they stop.
30:02So what you see now is that the previous cameras are over there, behind those trees.
30:07So your car's now travelling across the top of the screen, and you can see the white dot there.
30:11We know that's our victim.
30:13You can see, if you look closely, you can see that it's a person moving around, and this is the point where you see them fall to the floor.
30:22So at that point, you never see that person stood up again.
30:26You can see that cars are clearly reacting to something that's in the road.
30:31There's 12 of them in total. Some of them come to a real crawl, then drive on.
30:35So clearly they can see our victim in the road.
30:38There's no reason why our suspects shouldn't have seen him.
30:42The taxi driver stopped. He put his hazard lights on.
30:45But prior to that, yeah, 12 people, and many of which have clearly seen him, or failed to do anything to help him.
30:51And it's gut-wrenching to think that, you know, you could have maybe done something to save somebody's life.
30:56Just a simple act.
30:57We managed to piece together a piece of work regarding an item that was broken from the bottom of the offending vehicle.
31:06That was identified as a BMW 5 Series.
31:10After researching ones, recording the local area, or registering the local area, that led us to an address.
31:17That was an interesting statistic.
31:18That was kind of a problem for us.
31:19That's a simple thing.
31:20That was the greatest job of being in that area.
31:21That was a little bit of a lot of stress.
31:22You know, we're in a lot of stress.
31:23In Derby, Craig and officers locate the address
31:50and a car matching the one caught on CCTV.
31:54Is it there?
31:55Yeah.
31:56Yeah.
31:56Yeah.
31:57Got it.
31:58Got it missing.
32:02There's some damage under there to it.
32:05That's it.
32:05It's all damaged.
32:06It's ripped.
32:07So it's behind that.
32:08Yeah.
32:09PC Matt Cork looks for damage where the small piece of plastic
32:12was ripped from the car after hitting the pedestrian.
32:16There's like a vent, isn't there?
32:18Yeah.
32:18Yeah.
32:18Up behind that vent, like, so to the, as you're looking at it,
32:23to the right of it, is there a damaged bit there?
32:26Yeah.
32:27Yeah.
32:27Yeah, it's a matter in there.
32:29Yeah.
32:30Did someone have to go around the back?
32:32Yeah.
32:32Is that all right?
32:32If you could stick around the back.
32:34Let me do.
32:34Cool.
32:34Can you go to sleep with the car?
32:35Yes, mate.
32:45Open the door, it's the police.
32:48Obviously, we've found the vehicle, so it's linked to this address
32:54where apparently the guy that drives this car lives.
32:58I can't get any answer there, so we're just doing some more inquiries
33:00at the minute to find out if this guy's still in the area,
33:03but we do need to get hold of him and get him in the traps
33:06because he's got some questions to answer.
33:08I can see it coming underneath the car.
33:12The damage matches with what we'd expect
33:14with a drag injury, somebody coming underneath the vehicle,
33:19and it would appear whether some of this damage has occurred
33:22that has potentially collected some DNA evidence from the scene.
33:27Forensics are just having a look underneath at the minute now.
33:35Whilst it's in the air, it's a lot easier for him to do it like this.
33:38They're just looking for any evidence
33:40that somebody's been underneath that vehicle
33:41and there is evidence there to suggest that they are.
33:44The team confirms the car was involved in the hit and run.
33:51But with no sign of the driver,
33:53they need to force entry into his home.
33:58There's a warrant.
34:00Yeah.
34:01Hang on, let me just check it, make sure...
34:03Oh, yeah, it's fine.
34:04I should hope so.
34:05I've got firearms up here to drill a lot, so less mess.
34:12You're a sort of walking out, aren't you?
34:14Fantastic.
34:16I'm just going to put my head in.
34:22Yeah.
34:24Go on, gentlemen.
34:25Crack on, Craig.
34:25Yeah, yeah, you crack on with that.
34:28I'm looking for mobile phones.
34:30Evidence of mobile phones, evidence of phone purchases.
34:32I need to link him to phones, I need to find him.
34:34Anything that's going to tell me where he is.
34:36Bang, did just fly out.
34:37Yeah, all that.
34:38He's got a car key there that's on the table,
34:40see that, and he sees him.
34:41How much clothes have you got?
34:43I mean, that's obviously what he's been wearing, isn't it?
34:46It's obviously more recent clothes there, the stuff that's been washed.
34:49This is all dirty.
34:50I mean, you can see the dirt on all this.
34:52The issue's going to be if he's gone under the car.
34:55Yeah.
34:56One of the things you've been thinking about is that if he's made attempts to clean the
34:59car, work on the car, you could get transfer of that body matter that we know is under
35:04the car.
35:05If you're going to see things DNA-wise, then it needs to be done professionally and properly
35:08by the scenes of crime officers in the way that they do it to make sure its integrity
35:12is maintained.
35:13So I'm going to make a decision to lock the scene down.
35:16We'll get a briefing in the morning with Task Force and Socko and come up with a proper,
35:21thorough strategy on how we're going to deal with the property.
35:23This is just a timeline of the scene, just what you call material time frame.
35:44So it's in second detail as to what happens and when within the scene, taking the CCTV.
35:50So you're looking for your gaps, looking for things that overlap, things that don't fit,
35:55things that do fit.
35:57Cases of this are intense.
35:59You're chasing a suspect.
36:00You're piecing together what's happened.
36:01You're getting to that point of trying to show who did this.
36:05It is intense.
36:06It's hard work.
36:07Private lives get put on hold.
36:09Appointments get changed.
36:11Things get missed at home.
36:12But as a team, you work together.
36:14Everybody does the same.
36:16You know, they give up every spare minute of the day is now on this case.
36:20After finding the suspect's car and home address, Craig examines more CCTV.
36:27We're able to plot that vehicle all the way around on the individual roads as it gets back
36:32to its home address.
36:33Gets back to the address about three minutes after the collision.
36:36You see him get out of the vehicle and he appears at the front from the driver's side.
36:39You see him break the two lines of the lights.
36:42He's checking two or three times around that front area where you'd expect to find damage
36:47in that collision.
36:48He's pushing something down on the bonnet there.
36:50You can see him put a bit of weight on the car or lean forward into the car.
36:53And then, after a short period, he gets into the car and he moves off.
37:01That can only lead you to one thing in my mind is that he knows he's been responsible
37:05for a collision.
37:06He knows he's potentially killed somebody.
37:08He's seen what damage is under the car.
37:10And then he's decided to hot-foot it rather than report what happened or talk to the police
37:16or contact anybody.
37:20This is the home address.
37:22This piece of footage is key because you can identify somebody using the vehicle.
37:29And that's our suspect.
37:31Again, it's the lighter top, lighter bottoms, the dark top.
37:35What's chilling when you watch this is that, at that moment in time, he's only a few hundred
37:43yards from the victim's home address.
37:45To think that the victim's family might have been walking down the pavement and unknowingly
37:50walked past him or his friends and might have just walked down the same road as the person
37:57responsible for doing this without knowing.
37:59So here he is, walking back in, back to his home address.
38:07At the moment, we know that he's an Albanian national who has twice been deported from the
38:13country and found his way back in.
38:16He is under investigation from the border agency for being here illegally.
38:20We're aware that he may have links to organised crime.
38:23We've got a bulletin out there so other forces will know that he's actually wanted.
38:27At some point, he will come to police attention, I'm sure.
38:31If he tries to leave the country, he'll be stopped at the ports because there's a marker
38:34on him, so it's any one of those.
38:37If we can get to him before that, then that's what we look to do.
38:41At Derby Police Station, there's a major development in the hunt for a suspected hit-and-run driver.
39:058 o'clock last night, we got a phone call to say that he'd handed himself in at St Mary's
39:11Wolfe Police Station.
39:13We have asked him today why he handed himself in, what made him think he was wanted, because
39:18we'd certainly not told him.
39:20He's not told us that, he's not told us why, but I suppose we'll never know what truly
39:24brought him back.
39:24Obviously, we searched his house, which we then secured after, we took his car and seized
39:30that, so you can only wonder if all these things and bits and bobs that we did and all this
39:33work we've put in has made him realise the gravity of what's happening.
39:38Evidence will be put to him in the hope that that will encourage him to give an account
39:44of what's happened.
39:46He was there, I wasn't, so there's only him really that could tell us truly what he could
39:50see in that car and why he did what he did.
40:03After a night in the cells...
40:05You can book him out to me if you like.
40:09An interview team arrives to question the suspect.
40:14Good man.
40:15That's sweet.
40:20Did you hit anything in the road?
40:27A place in the New General Road?
40:30No problem.
40:31Did you drive over anything?
40:34It's in Bidichka.
40:36No problem.
40:39Any questions on that, please?
40:43Were you distracted by anything at that point when you were driving?
40:47In the past, when you were driving, are you thinking about what you want to do?
40:56Are you using your phone?
40:57Or are you using your phone?
40:59No.
41:00Changing the radio?
41:01Or are you making any other adjustments in the car?
41:06Or are you doing something else in the car?
41:09No problem.
41:09Okay.
41:10So, I've got no further questions now that I asked my colleague or end the interview there.
41:16He's answered no comment to all the questions, really shown no emotions, just quite flatly,
41:25quite stoically answering, no comment to everything we've shown him.
41:29You know, what we're talking about is, he's absolutely tragic.
41:32He's a lad in his 30s, he's a dad, he leaves behind a child.
41:36And to show no emotion at all through this case is really quite hard to see and makes you
41:43wonder what sort of person it is that you're sat in the room with.
41:47The only way we can guarantee that he doesn't get out to do this again is to charge him whilst
41:53he's here.
41:53So, that's what we'll be trying to do.
41:55You just want to come and stand here for us?
42:10Just stand here for us.
42:12Okay, I'm just going to get the interpreter on the phone.
42:19Hello.
42:20Hello, I'll be here, I'll be an interpreter.
42:22Thank you very much.
42:23It's Sergeant Rich Price here, a caller from Derby Custody.
42:26I have with me a gentleman who's about to be charged with several offences by one of my
42:30colleagues.
42:31I understand.
42:32So, the first charge is, cause the death of Grant Sturgis by driving a mechanically
42:38propelled vehicle without due care and attention.
42:44I don't have any comment about it.
42:50I'm a very selfish person.
42:52He's shown no remorse.
42:53Ultimately, he's putting himself above our victim and our victim's family.
42:58Okay, based on the seriousness and nature of the offence, I'm going to remand you into
43:02police custody for court in the morning.
43:05I understand.
43:08Thank you very much, interpreter.
43:09Much appreciated.
43:11Mural passing.
43:14Would you like to follow me in the nancy room?
43:15What was the reason why he didn't stop?
43:22Was he on drinks?
43:23Was he on drugs?
43:23Was he on his phone?
43:25We'll probably never know that.
43:26But at the point you know you've hurt somebody, it's got to be a natural human instinct to try
43:30and help to try and put things right.
43:32And he hasn't.
43:33He's just looked after himself and he's cleared off.
43:36And I'm convinced with the work that we've done, and we'll continue to do, that we'll get
43:40a positive result for that effect at court.
43:42You know it's worthwhile when you get that thanks from the family, when you feel that
44:04you've got a sense of justice served at court, or you've gone to coroners and you've been
44:08helped to sit with the family and take them through every question they've got about how
44:13their loved one died, and give them the answers that allows them to move forward.
44:17That's when you know you've done a good job, and that's when you remind yourself why you
44:21do what you do, and why we do what we do.
44:38We'll see you next time.
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