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00:00The following programme contains descriptions of violence, which some viewers may find distressing.
00:10When three airport hotel employees failed to turn up for their shift in August 2011, no one was alarmed at first.
00:19They knew that there had been a party the night before.
00:23Had they just overslept?
00:25One of the three, Attila Ban, was known as a model worker.
00:30Ban had never put a foot wrong. Indeed, he'd become Employee of the Year at the hotel.
00:36When the police entered Ban's flat, they were met with a scene of carnage.
00:42Two young people, both clearly deceased.
00:47A great deal of blood.
00:50Attila Ban was nowhere to be seen.
00:52Nothing about the scene made sense.
00:55There were no real warning signs and nothing to explain why Attila Ban went from zero to murder in one night.
01:07For taking the lives of his two young colleagues in a frenzy of violence,
01:11and for giving their devastated families no explanation for his actions,
01:17Attila Ban must be recognised as one of Britain's most evil killers.
01:22When Attila Ban was convicted of murdering Alice Adams and Teele,
01:28when Attila Ban was convicted of murdering Alice Adams and Tibor Vass in July 2012,
01:54it wasn't just the brutality of the crime that made headlines,
01:58it was the killer's actions afterwards.
02:02Inconceivably, Ban had never left the murder scene.
02:06So after Ban had been arrested and taken to the police station,
02:09there was obviously then a debrief as to how he was still in the flat after two days of forensic examination.
02:18Not only was he hiding in the murder scene,
02:21but he was actually watching the police as they were carrying out their examination of their room.
02:28Concealing himself inside a West London flat for two days
02:33raised questions about Ban's state of mind.
02:36That is a highly unusual behaviour.
02:40It's more common that if you murder somebody,
02:45that you're going to want to exit the building as quickly as possible,
02:50make sure that you're not a suspect to get away from what you've done.
02:56But in some cases, rarer cases,
03:00the killer will want to keep that emotional connection to the person that they've killed,
03:05because they've killed them in a very emotional state,
03:10probably with sexual connotations,
03:13and they can just keep revisiting that.
03:15They can feel that closeness to that person.
03:21The incident also raised questions about the way crime scenes are processed.
03:26Do you have to ask yourself about the searching of the property at that time?
03:32How much more detail could have gone into searching?
03:38It was actually quite unnerving for the officers that had been in the flat,
03:42particularly officers that had maybe been in their flat on their own,
03:46to subsequently realise that he was probably watching them.
03:49Fortunately, nothing more severe came from that,
03:55but obviously the consequences could have been a lot worse.
03:58Perhaps more than anything,
04:00the episode was a reminder to all
04:03that a killer's mind can be an unpredictable place.
04:10This killer's story begins in Hungary,
04:13in Central Europe, around 1980.
04:16We know very little about Attila Bann's early life in Hungary.
04:23We know that he went to the United States as a young man
04:26and worked in hotels there.
04:28We know very little about his family, indeed.
04:33In 2011, Attila Bann was 31 years old.
04:36He had been working for a couple of years at this hotel,
04:39very close to Heathrow Airport.
04:41Attila Bann worked as a receptionist at the four-star hotel,
04:46which was within sight of the airport's runways.
04:51All of that area is full of big hotels,
04:54which have a very transient guest list.
04:57Customers come, stay one night, and fly off.
05:03Attila Bann was identified as the model professional.
05:07He was hard-working, he was devoted,
05:12and he was on the face of a very popular employee.
05:17In fact, he was so well thought of
05:19that he was chosen as Employee of the Year in 2010.
05:24Bann lived in a flat owned by the hotel
05:27on the edge of the premises.
05:29In August 2010, he was joined there by a new flatmate,
05:33fellow Hungarian, Tibor Vass.
05:36Tibor was 20 years old, and he was from Budapest.
05:39A very close family.
05:40His father died when he was 15.
05:42Very close to his mother and his sister.
05:46After his father's sudden death,
05:48Tibor had taken it upon himself
05:50to get a job after school
05:52to help support his family.
05:55He first came to the UK in 2008.
05:57And according to his mother,
06:00he just fell in love with the free spirit of London.
06:06He came back to start working in the hotel industry.
06:11Tibor was a very creative person.
06:14He loved music.
06:15He was able to play all sorts of different instruments,
06:18and he even taught his sister how to play piano.
06:20He was also devoted to his BMX bike,
06:26which was called Daisy.
06:29And indeed, when he came to England,
06:31he brought his bike with him
06:32and did tricks in the car park.
06:36He obviously engendered a degree of fondness
06:39with his colleagues and his friends,
06:40and he was likeable.
06:42Tibor Vass had taken some time out from studying
06:45after being turned down for a university place.
06:48He began working at the hotel
06:52alongside Attila Ban.
06:56Clearly, Ban took Tibor under his wing.
06:59They both worked on reception together.
07:01They were flatmates.
07:03Tibor clearly trusted him.
07:07Tibor kept in touch with his mother
07:08while he was in London,
07:09and in fact, he had introduced her
07:12over the phone to Attila Ban.
07:15And Ban had actually told Mrs Vass,
07:17don't worry, I'll look after your son.
07:20I'll make sure he comes to no harm
07:21while he's here in London.
07:24Mrs Vass was hugely reassured.
07:26She thought Ban was mature
07:29and friendly and intelligent.
07:33He was Hungarian as well,
07:35and he'd been in the country for much longer,
07:38and he'd been working there for longer,
07:40and he would look after him.
07:41And I think that probably gave the family
07:44a lot of comfort
07:45to feel that there was somebody there
07:47looking out for their son.
07:51As time went on, however,
07:54Ban developed feelings for Tibor
07:56that were not entirely paternal.
07:59There can be no doubt that Ban fancied Tibor.
08:05Attila Ban was openly gay,
08:06and in London,
08:07which is a very cosmopolitan city,
08:09that wasn't looked in any way different,
08:11unlike his homeland in Hungary.
08:15Tibor was a good-looking boy,
08:17and he took time to look after himself.
08:19He was grooming all the clothes he wore,
08:21or working out in the gym.
08:24We know that Attila had a fascination with Tibor,
08:30but that was not reciprocated.
08:33Tibor Vass, I think,
08:34made it quite clear to Attila
08:36that he wasn't interested in
08:38having a relationship in that way,
08:40but they were still friends.
08:44In July 2011,
08:46a new receptionist began working at the hotel,
08:50someone Attila Ban instantly saw as a threat.
08:54Alice Adams is from Ivorheath in Buckinghamshire.
09:00which is a lovely part of the home counties.
09:03She came from a very close family,
09:06and she liked the outdoors,
09:07and nature,
09:08and the environment.
09:09Alice had an on-off relationship
09:11with a young man back home in Buckinghamshire,
09:14but friends at the hotel noticed
09:16that she and Tibor Vass
09:18made an instant connection.
09:21Alice and Tibor were of a similar age,
09:2319, 20 years of age.
09:25Alice Adams was, by all accounts,
09:29bubbly, charming, cheerful,
09:31a joy to be with.
09:34She was just a really charming, pleasant young lady,
09:37and she had immediately struck up
09:39a really good friendship with Tibor.
09:44They both were musicians,
09:47and so that would have been a common interest
09:49between the two of them,
09:50and there was, to all intents and purposes,
09:52a physical attraction between the two.
09:54As Alice and Tibor enjoyed getting to know one another,
09:58hotel staff noticed Attila Ban
10:00becoming increasingly possessive
10:02towards his younger male colleague.
10:05Tibor and Ban were both at a team event
10:08organised by the hotel,
10:11and Tibor was taking photographs.
10:14And in one particular instance,
10:17Ban thought he'd been left out of the photograph deliberately,
10:20and there was a sort of antagonism between the two.
10:25And Ban absolutely hit the roof
10:27and launched into a tirade against Tibor
10:30because Ban said he hadn't been included in these pictures.
10:33I think Ban had cultivated this persona
10:39of being a wonderful, kind, caring, friendly person.
10:45It was clearly masking something else,
10:48and that mask definitely slipped in the team-building session.
10:53Where he felt so strongly about Tibor,
10:58he couldn't control the way that he was responding to things.
11:03That was a warning sign that where Tibor was concerned,
11:10he didn't really have control of the mask.
11:13In the first week of August,
11:17just three weeks after Alice's arrival,
11:20Tibor Vass received good news from home.
11:23He'd actually just been granted a place
11:26at a really well-respected university in Hungary.
11:30Tibor was excited to be returning so soon to his family
11:34and his home city of Budapest.
11:37He was going to leave the hotel on the 30th of August.
11:41It was a date that would never arrive for Tibor Vass.
11:45On Tuesday the 9th of August,
11:47a group of colleagues, including Alice Adams,
11:50gathered after work for drinks
11:51at Ban and Tibor's flat behind the hotel.
11:55A little after midnight, Alice texted her mother
11:58to say she planned to stay the night there.
12:00It would be the last time her loving family
12:03would ever hear from her.
12:14On Wednesday the 10th of August 2011,
12:18three receptionists failed to turn up
12:21for their 7am shift at a West London airport hotel.
12:2731-year-old Atiliban
12:29and his two 20-year-old colleagues,
12:31Tibor Vass and Alice Adams,
12:33were no-shows that morning.
12:39Normally if you're not going to turn up for work,
12:41you'd let your colleagues know that you're sick
12:42or something's happened to you.
12:44And then they would find other people
12:45to perform those roles, but that didn't happen.
12:51There wasn't any great concern at that point.
12:53It was just a question of had they just overslept,
12:56had something happened to them.
12:59Mystified as to the non-appearance of these three,
13:06colleagues started looking at the social media accounts.
13:10And around the time he was due to have started
13:13at the reception,
13:15they found a post by Ban.
13:17Attila posted on Facebook,
13:22I would like to wake up from that nightmare.
13:26At around 2.30pm,
13:29staff from the hotel call the police
13:31to report their concerns
13:33about the welfare of Tibor, Alice and Ban.
13:36Clearly, this was completely out of character
13:39for Attila to not attend work.
13:44And also the slightly unusual Facebook page
13:48gave the hotel enough concern to say,
13:50look, could you send someone out to assist us?
13:54I think any police officer who receives that call
13:59should be approaching it with sort of utmost caution.
14:05And I've had that in my situation,
14:08in my experience,
14:09where I've entered a flat
14:10and come across awful crime scenes.
14:12So you have to be hoping for the best,
14:15but preparing for the worst.
14:17You don't know what you're going to find,
14:18so you have to be prepared
14:19for every eventuality.
14:21At 3.15pm,
14:24local police officers went to the flat
14:26where the three had last been seen.
14:30The scene when the officers entered Ban's flat
14:35was worse than they can ever have anticipated.
14:40When they opened the door
14:42and walked into the flat,
14:44there was Alice's body beneath the window.
14:48Covered in blood,
14:50fully clothed,
14:51but almost as if she'd been tossed on the floor
14:53like a discarded doll.
14:57A pillow had been placed over her face
14:59and it was clear to the officers
15:01that she had probably multiple stab wounds.
15:05There was heavy blood staining in that area.
15:10A chef's knife was recovered close to Alice's body.
15:15When they moved into the bedroom,
15:18they discovered Tibor naked,
15:22lying on the double bed
15:25with his legs drawn up.
15:28Tibor's T-shirt and boxer shorts
15:30bearing signs of having been cut off his body
15:33were discarded by the front door.
15:36The way that Tibor had been found stripped naked
15:39and almost placed in a very deliberately posed position
15:42would show that someone else had done that
15:46rather than Tibor putting himself in that position.
15:50Tibor had two obvious stab wounds.
15:54I can't imagine.
15:55It must have horrified them.
15:56I mean, they were literally walking into a...
15:59..carnage, an abattoir.
16:03Officers could see that their welfare check
16:06for three missing people
16:07had turned very quickly
16:09into a double murder inquiry at the very least.
16:12Clearly, a major, major crime scene.
16:17Obviously, your first thoughts would have been
16:19to preserve the scene
16:21and to consider any suspects.
16:25But then immediately, first of all,
16:27trying to establish if there's anyone else in the flat.
16:29The police had entered the flat
16:32looking for three missing people.
16:35They had found only two.
16:37There was no sign at the moment of Ban himself.
16:42Upon finding this crime scene,
16:44you would have to be considering all options.
16:47Where is Attila Ban?
16:50Has he also been injured?
16:53Has he been assaulted as well?
16:56You know, is he the suspect?
16:58The first officers on the scene
17:01had a delicate line to tread
17:03in their search for Attila Ban.
17:06It's drilled into, from sort of day one,
17:09preservation of the scene.
17:12The first officers on scene
17:14would be incredibly conscious
17:16to disturb that scene as little as possible
17:19while still establishing
17:21that there were no other victims or suspects present.
17:25There was a search of the premises.
17:27The lost space within the premises
17:29was also searched, but there was no sign of him.
17:34The scene was very heavily bloodstained,
17:36but there were no obvious bloodstained footprints
17:39outside the flat.
17:43Quite clearly, he wasn't in the room,
17:46although it was his room,
17:47so it would have the appearance of
17:51he'd done it and he'd run.
17:52Ban had been alone with Alice and T-Ball
17:56when their other two colleagues
17:58had left the flat the night before.
18:00There were no signs of a struggle
18:02and nothing to suggest he'd left the flat
18:04against his will.
18:06And then there was the early morning Facebook post.
18:08I would like to wake up from that nightmare.
18:11On finding out about that message,
18:14the police might have started to focus far more on him
18:17as a suspect than a victim.
18:22With two dead victims
18:28and a potential suspect nowhere to be seen,
18:31the officers handed the investigation
18:33over to the Metropolitan Police Homicide Unit
18:36under the leadership of DCI Howard Groves.
18:40The senior investigating officer
18:41is the person who has overall control
18:43and responsibility for a murder investigation.
18:46It means from the moment
18:47that my colleagues inform us of a murder,
18:50I would then have to make all the decisions
18:51around what we do in relation to identifying
18:54why someone was killed,
18:56who the victim was, who the suspects are,
18:58and progress that investigation.
19:01Howard's team began gathering information.
19:05We conducted house-to-house inquiries,
19:08speak to staff,
19:10We tried to make contact with family and friends
19:13of the deceased
19:14and try and build up a picture
19:16about those two individuals.
19:19The first priority at Bann's flat
19:21was scouring the crime scene for clues.
19:25The first thing would be to have the area cordoned off.
19:28From my experience,
19:29the crime scene was what I would describe as
19:31fairly tidy, clean.
19:34A lot of times when you have that many injuries,
19:36you'd expect to see blood all over the place,
19:38on the ceilings, on the walls.
19:40You'd find items had been tipped over.
19:43That wasn't the case here.
19:49Processing a crime scene of that nature
19:52could take several days, a week,
19:56maybe even two weeks.
19:58Pathologists came out to the scene
20:00to see the victims in situ and examine the bodies
20:04before they are removed to the mortuary.
20:08The flat would then be sealed.
20:11And once that crime scene is sealed,
20:13only relevant, authorised people can go into it,
20:17such as fingerprint officers,
20:19forensic experts,
20:20other scenes of crime staff.
20:21As soon as a manhunt is launched,
20:32police pull together a vast amount of resources.
20:36There was nothing to suggest
20:39that he'd been seen by anyone leaving the premises.
20:43There was no CCTV footage to say
20:44there was an image of him leaving at a particular time.
20:47Obviously, you would be looking at friends,
20:52associates who could potentially harbour someone
20:56or help them evade capture.
20:58You would also be looking at all possible technical means
21:01to trace them,
21:02any kind of use of their bank facilities,
21:05anything that could pinpoint their position.
21:09The initial action that was taken to trace him
21:12was by his phone,
21:13and it indicated that his phone was pinging in the area.
21:17So we had to ask ourselves,
21:19had he disposed of his phone
21:21or was he somewhere locally?
21:23While normally the police would inquire
21:26if friends and family were harbouring the fugitive,
21:29with Attila Ban, this seemed unlikely.
21:34We didn't have anywhere else to look for him,
21:37and let's be honest,
21:38Attila didn't have anywhere else to go.
21:40It was apparent during the investigation,
21:42Attila, his life revolved around working at the hotel
21:46and living close to the premises.
21:48He probably didn't have as much friends and acquaintances
21:52for him to have a life outside of work.
21:55So they had to try and exhaust all other options,
22:01looking at, like, flight manifests,
22:03if anyone was trying to leave the country,
22:06booking flights, etc.
22:08Detectives wondered if the well-travelled receptionist
22:11might be fleeing abroad
22:13or even going back home to Hungary.
22:16As it transpired,
22:18there was an Attila Ban leaving Heathrow
22:20around about that time.
22:21So the police actually did stop the plane,
22:25literally, on the tarmac.
22:27Police boarded the plane,
22:29but it wasn't the correct Attila Ban,
22:32not the one we were looking for.
22:37While the search for Attila Ban continued,
22:41detectives set about reconstructing the events
22:44leading up to the murders.
22:46What exactly had taken place in Ban's flat that night,
22:50and why had two innocent young people
22:53lost their lives?
23:07In August 2011,
23:09the Metropolitan Police Homicide Unit
23:12was investigating the murder of Alice Adams
23:15and Tibor Vass at a flat in West London.
23:18Their prime suspect,
23:1931-year-old hotel receptionist Attila Ban,
23:22was nowhere to be found.
23:25Detectives attempted to reconstruct the events
23:27of the humid summer night
23:29when Ban and the two young victims were last seen.
23:33Alice, Tibor and Ban
23:35all went to Ban's staff flat
23:39to have a party.
23:43Playing drinking games, etc.
23:45They were also joined by two other colleagues
23:51who also had some drinks with them.
23:54The other two men at the party that evening
23:56told the police that they left
23:59when Ban produced some pills,
24:02which he called poppers,
24:04and they thought that wasn't for them,
24:06and they departed,
24:07leaving Alice, Tibor and Ban together.
24:10Their colleagues reported
24:13that it was a party atmosphere,
24:16everything was fine,
24:17and certainly there was no cause for alarm.
24:23The post-mortem examinations
24:25of the two young victims
24:27told a different story.
24:32Tibor only had two stab wounds,
24:34both through the heart.
24:35Alice had suffered 22 stab wounds,
24:38a really frenzied attack.
24:43She had a stab wound to the heart.
24:46She had stab wounds to her stomach,
24:48her spleen, her diaphragm,
24:50and her lungs.
24:51So those were significant injuries
24:53and would have resulted in her death.
24:55Now, that's rage.
24:58That's anger.
25:00So somebody was taking out their rage on Alice,
25:04and it takes quite a long time
25:06to stab someone 22 times.
25:09That's not something that just happens in seconds.
25:12But Tibor's wounds were quite different.
25:16They were very, very targeted.
25:18They were targeted on his heart.
25:20There was only two stab wounds,
25:22and they were meant to end his life
25:26quickly and efficiently.
25:29When the crime scene investigators
25:34looked at the flat,
25:36it seemed to them
25:38that Tibor had been stabbed on the sofa
25:41and then subsequently moved,
25:45and his body posed
25:47in this rather remarkable way.
25:50Tibor is on the bed.
25:53He's naked,
25:55and his body's been positioned.
25:58And even though Tibor's dead,
26:02he's not really being treated
26:04as if he's dead.
26:06The killer wants to possess this man completely.
26:12For 48 hours,
26:14the homicide squad had investigated the murders,
26:18while the manhunt for Attila band
26:19continued to no avail.
26:25On Friday the 12th of August,
26:27there was a disturbing breakthrough.
26:31Some police officers went back to the flats,
26:33and one noticed that the door
26:35that he thought had been left open
26:38last time he'd there
26:39was now shut.
26:42So those officers thought,
26:43something's not quite right here.
26:46They then tried to get into that room
26:48and realised that the door
26:48had been wedged with a bed.
26:50It was the very same bed
26:54Tibor Vass's body
26:55had been found on
26:56two days earlier.
26:59The moment that they realised
27:01that they knew that
27:02somebody had to be
27:04physically in that property
27:05at that time.
27:06Knowing that no-one
27:08could have entered
27:09or left the flat
27:10without the Cordon officers seeing,
27:12there was only one conclusion
27:14about who was lurking
27:15behind the bedroom door.
27:17When the officers managed
27:19to force their way
27:19into the room,
27:20they found Band.
27:22He was lying naked
27:23on the bed,
27:25covered in blood.
27:26He was lying face down.
27:28He had injuries to his wrists.
27:30He had a craft knife
27:32sticking in his arm,
27:33and he also had another
27:35craft-style knife
27:36sticking out of
27:37one of his buttocks.
27:40Arrested at the scene
27:41on suspicion of murder,
27:43Attila Ban was taken
27:44to hospital for treatment
27:46to his wounds,
27:47which were not life-threatening.
27:51Once Ban had received treatment,
27:53he was taken to a West London
27:54police station
27:54and he was interviewed.
27:57If homicide detectives
27:59hoped for answers
28:00to the tragic deaths
28:01of Tibor and Alice,
28:03they would be sadly
28:04disappointed.
28:06When Attila
28:08was initially interviewed,
28:09he wouldn't speak.
28:11They had to use
28:12sign language
28:13to try and see
28:13if they could ascertain
28:15what happened.
28:17He just had
28:18the complete impression
28:20of a man
28:20utterly in shock
28:21and utterly incapable
28:23of describing anything
28:26which had happened
28:26in the last 48 hours.
28:27If he can't speak,
28:31he can't explain
28:32what's happened.
28:33He doesn't have to reveal
28:34anything that's happened.
28:37He might appear
28:38mentally distressed,
28:40mentally ill.
28:41So all of that
28:43could very well be
28:45self-preservation.
28:49While Ban faced interrogation,
28:51questions were also being asked
28:54about the extraordinary
28:55circumstances
28:56of his capture.
28:57So once the shock
28:59of Ban being found
29:01in the flat
29:01after a couple of days
29:04of quite intense
29:06forensic examination,
29:07after that shock
29:08had subsided,
29:09obviously there was
29:11a debrief
29:11to establish
29:12how and where
29:13he had been.
29:14He had been
29:15actually hiding
29:16under the divan
29:18part of the bed
29:19that Tibor had been on.
29:23They found
29:24any number
29:25of water bottles
29:25that he had taken
29:26in there
29:27to refresh himself
29:28over this period
29:28of time,
29:29plus his phone
29:30on which he'd
29:31updated his Facebook page
29:32and a knife
29:34which had cut
29:35the area around
29:37so he could
29:37not only get
29:39into the divan
29:40but also
29:41he could look out
29:42and see what
29:43the police were doing.
29:44I mean,
29:48not in your
29:49wildest dreams
29:50could you have imagined
29:51that he would be
29:52hiding under the divan.
29:54I think
29:54all the evidence
29:56tended to suggest
29:57that he had committed
29:58two very violent murders
30:00and had left
30:01immediately afterwards.
30:03Professor Jane
30:04Monckton-Smith
30:05believes Ban's
30:06bizarre actions
30:07stem from his desire
30:09to possess
30:10and control
30:11Tibor Vass.
30:12If you imagine
30:14this man
30:15has,
30:16in a very targeted way,
30:19killed Tibor
30:20doing the least
30:21amount of damage
30:22to his body
30:23but making sure
30:26he's absolutely dead.
30:28At that moment
30:29he finally
30:30possesses him.
30:32Is he just going
30:32to run out the door
30:33at that point?
30:36No,
30:36he's going to want
30:37to have that feeling
30:39of possession
30:39carry on
30:41so he hides
30:43himself
30:43in the room
30:45for as long
30:46as he can.
30:50After being
30:52at first
30:52apparently unable
30:53to speak,
30:55Attila Ban
30:55eventually found
30:56his voice
30:57but concrete
30:58information
30:59was not forthcoming.
31:01In the interview,
31:02Attila did not
31:03make any
31:04full and frank
31:05admissions
31:06as to
31:06why he killed him.
31:07All he would say
31:10is that
31:10he must have
31:11but he was unable
31:13to recount
31:13exactly what happened.
31:15He spent two days
31:16in the crime scene
31:17being very quiet,
31:18staying hidden,
31:19knowing exactly
31:21why he was
31:22in that divan.
31:24So I think
31:25that he had
31:26no memory
31:27of the crime
31:27is probably
31:28stretching things
31:29a little.
31:30There's lots
31:31of reasons
31:32why people might say
31:33they do not
31:34remember
31:34killing someone.
31:35Now some of it
31:36could be shock.
31:37Yeah, equally
31:38it could be
31:40so that they
31:41don't have
31:41to actually
31:42tell people
31:43what they did,
31:44admit to it
31:45and that
31:48may well
31:49protect them
31:51in any future
31:52trial.
31:53Ban was able
31:55to tell officers
31:56what had happened
31:57in the hours
31:57after he stabbed
31:59Alice and Tibor
32:00to death.
32:01Ban told the police
32:02that when he
32:02woke up
32:03and saw the terrible
32:04scene of carnage
32:05that he had
32:05clearly caused,
32:06he wanted
32:07to kill himself.
32:09He actually
32:10took Tibor's
32:11body and
32:13placed it
32:13in the bath
32:14with him.
32:17Ban wanted
32:17to kill himself,
32:18he said,
32:19but he didn't
32:19want to die alone.
32:24Filling the bath
32:25with water
32:25and climbing in
32:26with the body
32:27of his victim,
32:28Attila Ban
32:29switched on
32:30a hairdryer
32:30and dropped it
32:31into the water.
32:33All he found out
32:34was that the hairdryer
32:35worked underwater
32:35as well as it
32:36worked outside.
32:38So he got out
32:39of the bath,
32:40replaced Tibor's
32:42body back
32:43on the divan,
32:44double bed.
32:46He started then
32:47trying to hack
32:48his wrists
32:50and his neck.
32:51He didn't harm
32:52himself enough
32:53to take his own life
32:54and he harmed himself
32:55in some strange places.
32:57He stabbed himself
32:58in the arm
32:58and he stabbed himself
33:01in the buttock,
33:02maybe wishing
33:04he could join
33:05Tibor in death
33:07but just not having
33:09the courage
33:10maybe
33:10or the ability
33:11to harm himself
33:13in that way.
33:14Ban gave this
33:15rather complicated
33:16account
33:17that the reason
33:18he had got
33:19inside the bed
33:20was to watch
33:21the police
33:21as they were
33:22going about
33:23their business.
33:24But when the police
33:25left for the night
33:26he would come out
33:27and move a few
33:30things around
33:31and then get back
33:34into the bed again
33:34because he didn't
33:35want to be discovered
33:36he said
33:37because he thought
33:39the police
33:39would save his life
33:40and prevent him
33:41from dying.
33:43Despite his best
33:45efforts
33:4531-year-old
33:47Attila Ban
33:48was alive.
33:50Though they still
33:51didn't have
33:52the full story
33:52Howard Groves'
33:54homicide team
33:55was satisfied
33:56they had caught
33:57the right man.
33:59There was enough
34:00forensic opportunities
34:02and evidence
34:03available
34:03that we were
34:04satisfied
34:05that he had
34:06killed them
34:06but what we were
34:07not going to be
34:08able to establish
34:09significantly
34:09was why.
34:15On Saturday
34:16the 13th
34:16of August
34:172011
34:18just a few days
34:20after the murders
34:21Ban appeared
34:22at the magistrate's
34:23court charged
34:24with the murders
34:25of Tibor Vass
34:26and Alice Adams.
34:32The police
34:33would be able
34:34to provide
34:34the prosecution
34:35with the who
34:36and the how
34:37of Alice and Tibor's
34:38untimely deaths
34:39but not the why.
34:41It remained
34:42to be seen
34:42if Attila Ban's
34:44trial
34:44would bring answers
34:45for their
34:46devastated families
34:47and bring a killer
34:48to justice.
34:59On Monday
35:01the 9th
35:01of July
35:022012
35:0311 months
35:04after Tibor Vass
35:05and Alice Adams
35:07were murdered
35:07in a West London
35:08flat
35:0932-year-old
35:10Attila Ban
35:11stood trial
35:12at London's
35:13Central Criminal
35:14Court
35:15known as
35:15the old
35:16Bailey.
35:17Ban faced
35:18two charges
35:19in a very
35:19simple indictment
35:20number one
35:22murder of Tibor
35:23number two
35:25murder of Alice
35:26Ban entered
35:29an interesting
35:30plea that
35:31he said
35:31he was not
35:32guilty to murder
35:33but guilty
35:34of manslaughter
35:36on the grounds
35:37of diminished
35:37responsibility.
35:38which basically
35:40means he accepted
35:41that he had
35:42killed Alice
35:43and Tibor
35:44but that he
35:45didn't know
35:46what he was
35:46doing at the
35:47time.
35:50Given the
35:51circumstances
35:52of the crime
35:54and the fact
35:56that he
35:57clearly was
35:58obsessed
35:58about Tibor
36:01and had
36:01behaved
36:02so erratically
36:04it's quite
36:06possible
36:06that that
36:08diminished
36:08responsibility
36:09would be able
36:11to be made
36:11plausible
36:12in court.
36:15The prosecution
36:16argued at
36:17Ban's trial
36:19that he had
36:20fancied
36:22Tibor
36:22and that
36:24some kind
36:24of sexual
36:25jealousy
36:25had taken
36:27place
36:27on the night
36:28of the party
36:29at Ban's
36:31flat.
36:31The
36:36prosecutor
36:37claimed
36:38that Ban's
36:39frustration
36:39had reached
36:40a desperate
36:41pitch
36:41because he
36:42knew
36:42that time
36:43was running
36:43out
36:44to ensnare
36:45the object
36:46of his
36:46affections.
36:47We knew
36:48that Tibor
36:49was going
36:49to be
36:49going back
36:50to Hungary
36:51therefore
36:53Attila's
36:54opportunities
36:55to form
36:56a relationship
36:57with him
36:57were even
36:58less likely.
37:01At some
37:03point during
37:04the evening
37:05sexual activity
37:06had taken
37:07place between
37:08Tibor Alice
37:10and Attila
37:11Ban.
37:12DNA
37:13was found
37:14on Alice's
37:15chest
37:15and they
37:16related both
37:17to Attila
37:17and Tibor.
37:21However,
37:22it was
37:23asserted
37:23in court
37:24that witnessing
37:25Alice and
37:26Tibor's
37:27attraction
37:27towards one
37:28another
37:28was what
37:29finally
37:30tipped Ban
37:31over the
37:31edge.
37:32The prosecution
37:33case was
37:35that Ban
37:36had seen
37:36Alice and
37:37Tibor kissing
37:37and through
37:38drink and
37:40other drugs
37:40had acted
37:41in a violent
37:42rage.
37:45We were able
37:46to show
37:47that the
37:48level of
37:49injuries that
37:49Tibor received
37:51was significantly
37:53less to what
37:54Alice received.
37:56so we're
37:59going to
38:00try and
38:00show the
38:01jury that
38:02Attila had
38:03this deep
38:04rooted anger
38:05or hatred
38:06towards Alice.
38:07There's no
38:08doubt that
38:09in that
38:09moment he
38:11saw Alice
38:11as an
38:12obstacle
38:13to his
38:15affection.
38:16It was
38:16a rush
38:18of blood
38:18which had
38:18been building
38:19up for a
38:19very long
38:19time.
38:20Though his
38:25lawyer confirmed
38:26that Attila
38:27Ban accepted
38:28he had
38:29stabbed Tibor
38:30and Alice,
38:31Ban did
38:32not take the
38:32stand to
38:33explain his
38:34actions.
38:35I don't find
38:36that particularly
38:36surprising because
38:38he would have
38:39to admit and
38:40talk about
38:40things that
38:41he really
38:42would not
38:43want to
38:44talk about.
38:46Ban looked
38:47a lost soul
38:48in the dark
38:49through the
38:50weeks of
38:50that trial
38:51and he
38:51was gazing
38:52around the
38:52court.
38:54He was
38:54making no
38:54contribution
38:55to passing
38:56notes or
38:56anything to
38:57his defence
38:57team.
38:58He was
38:58just walked
38:58in with
38:59his prison
38:59officers and
39:02walked out
39:02again.
39:05He didn't
39:05seem engaged.
39:07He didn't
39:07seem remorseful.
39:09He didn't
39:09seem in any
39:10way fighting
39:10to win this
39:12case.
39:12He just
39:13seemed utterly
39:13detached.
39:17Ban's
39:17lawyer,
39:19told the
39:19court that
39:20Ban was
39:21deeply
39:22remorseful and
39:23he really
39:24wanted to
39:24explain what
39:25he'd done to
39:25the families
39:26of both
39:26Ybor and
39:27Alice.
39:28Jane
39:28Monckton
39:29Smith doubts
39:30that Attila
39:31Ban's offer
39:32of an
39:32explanation was
39:34made in
39:34good faith.
39:37That offer
39:38was not
39:38made through
39:40remorse.
39:41That's
39:42control.
39:43He still
39:44wants to
39:44possess him,
39:45even in
39:46death.
39:46what makes
39:47him think
39:48that he
39:50could give
39:50them any
39:52relief from
39:53their pain,
39:54the man who
39:55killed their
39:55son.
39:56No, he
39:57wants them
39:59now in
40:00his life.
40:02It's cruelty.
40:03guilty.
40:11On
40:12Wednesday,
40:12the 18th of
40:13July,
40:14Ban was
40:14found guilty
40:15by the jury
40:16of the
40:16murders of
40:17Alice and
40:18Tibor.
40:19people.
40:21It's quite
40:22telling, I
40:23think, that
40:23the jury
40:24only took
40:24five hours
40:25of deliberation
40:26to find
40:28Ban guilty.
40:31I mean,
40:31this, in my
40:32experience, was
40:32an incredibly
40:33short time
40:34and, I
40:36think, points
40:36towards the
40:37strength of
40:37evidence against
40:38Ban.
40:39Ban was
40:40sentenced to
40:41life with a
40:42minimum tariff
40:43of 26 years.
40:44The judge, in
40:46his sentencing,
40:47described Ban
40:48as a vain and
40:49paranoid young
40:50man who killed
40:51two decent
40:52young people.
40:55He also
40:56commented on
40:56the fact that
40:57because Ban
40:58was still
40:59refusing to
41:00accept full
41:01responsibility
41:01and give an
41:03accurate account
41:03of what
41:04happened, it
41:05still left
41:05their families
41:06not knowing
41:07what happened
41:08in their last
41:09few moments.
41:12In the wake
41:13of the verdict,
41:15Alice's mother
41:16made a
41:17statement and
41:20it was
41:20extremely moving.
41:22What she
41:22asked for
41:24was the
41:24details of
41:25why her
41:27daughter, her
41:28lovely daughter,
41:29had lost her
41:30life in this
41:30extraordinary
41:31way.
41:34She said,
41:34I don't mind
41:35if the details
41:36are horrific,
41:37but at least
41:37it stopped me
41:38wondering what
41:39had happened
41:40and you have
41:41to feel for
41:41her for that.
41:42And it was
41:43very moving
41:44that Alice's
41:45mother said
41:46that she felt
41:47that she had
41:47failed to
41:48protect her
41:48daughter when
41:49of course there
41:50was nothing
41:50she could
41:50possibly have
41:51done.
41:55Tibor's mother
41:55said that her
41:56grief was
41:57multiplied countless
41:58times because
41:59the murder of her
42:00son had taken
42:01place really just
42:02a matter of
42:02weeks before he
42:03was due to
42:04leave London
42:04and come back
42:05to Hungary.
42:05And it was
42:09extra agony
42:10to Tibor's
42:11mother that
42:12the person
42:13that had
42:13committed this
42:14awful crime
42:14was somebody
42:15that they
42:16had come to
42:16trust and
42:18believe would
42:18actually look
42:19after Tibor,
42:20but in fact
42:21the opposite
42:21couldn't be
42:21further from
42:22the truth.
42:26Those
42:27investigating
42:28this dreadful
42:29crime had
42:30to conclude
42:31Ban's actions
42:32were driven
42:32simply by
42:33hatred,
42:35jealousy
42:35and resentment.
42:37In many ways
42:38he was like
42:39a loner.
42:39His life
42:40revolved around
42:41the hotel
42:42whereas the
42:44other two
42:44were youngsters
42:45who were
42:46happy to go
42:47out and have
42:47a good time
42:48with their
42:48friends and
42:50Attila didn't
42:51like that.
42:53What you can
42:53surmise is that
42:54he has acted
42:55out of rage
42:56and jealousy
42:57and taken
42:58away the lives
42:59of two
43:00thoroughly
43:00decent
43:01innocent
43:01young people
43:02for nothing
43:04and it's
43:04just absolutely
43:05heartbreaking.
43:10The day
43:11after the
43:11trial,
43:12Alice's
43:12family
43:13announced
43:13that they
43:14wanted to
43:14raise £100,000
43:15for a
43:16treehouse
43:16playground
43:16in her
43:17memory.
43:19In
43:19January
43:202016,
43:21the treehouse
43:22was officially
43:23opened in
43:24Black Park,
43:25Ivor,
43:25as a joyful
43:26tribute to a
43:27much-loved
43:28young woman.
43:32In the
43:34summer of
43:342011,
43:36hotel receptionist
43:37Attila Ban
43:38stole the
43:39lives of two
43:40young,
43:40vibrant
43:41colleagues who
43:42had their
43:42whole future
43:43ahead of them.
43:44For lashing out
43:45in a rage
43:46born of jealousy
43:47and frustration
43:48and causing
43:49devastation that
43:50is still felt
43:51to this day,
43:52Attila Ban
43:53has cemented
43:54his place
43:54as one of
43:55Britain's most
43:56evil killers.
43:57At
43:59the
44:00time
44:00to
44:00see you
44:02in a
44:03future.
44:03See you
44:03next time.
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