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00:00The Highlands and Islands of Scotland is Britain's biggest beat.
00:07I'm injured, with a car on fire.
00:11I've got three wounded persons.
00:13It is really easy to underestimate the Highlands.
00:17Patrolling 12,000 square miles of mountains, lochs and islands.
00:22We're going to need a launch to be able to go out and get this boy lifted.
00:27And searching for suspects deep in the wilderness.
00:30Police for the dog, anyone hiding? Show yourself.
00:32The Highland cops must go above and beyond to protect their communities.
00:38We realised it was human remains, so we came back down and phoned the police.
00:42I think in the Highlands, the blue line is very thin.
00:45Tackling traditional rural crimes.
00:47It's absolutely related to a shotgun pellet.
00:50There's clear evidence that these birds are being persecuted.
00:53And crimes that plague the nation.
00:56Oh, good effort.
01:00Bags of a white crystalline powder.
01:02If you're getting one person off the street, then it's like you've done your job.
01:07This series goes inside the UK's most distinctive police force.
01:12We are close. We live in close-knit communities.
01:14All right, let's go.
01:15We look out for each other.
01:16To find out what it takes to walk the beach.
01:20There's monkeys, there's parrots.
01:22It's all completely out of our comfort zone.
01:25And keep the peace.
01:26You're just threatening to kill it.
01:27You said you were going to strangle it.
01:29In some of the most beautiful and wild places in the UK.
01:33The A9, the main road that connects the Highlands to the rest of Scotland.
01:55For the people who live here, it's a vital artery.
02:01But it also has a darker claim to fame.
02:04The A9 is a dangerous road.
02:12But it is the main route to the north of Scotland.
02:15So we've got everything from the HGVs and the lorries traveling with all the goods up to the shops and the towns.
02:20To a huge volume of tourist traffic as well.
02:23Tonight, PC's Jamie Embry and Ross Nairn are on patrol near Avimor.
02:45When a report comes in of an accident on the A9.
02:53The A9 car bridge, call us here through via 999 to be involved in RTC.
02:58Lots of screaming heard.
03:00Yeah, control from 4-1-1-1.
03:02As the night shift in, we'll start making our way, but we're quite a distance away.
03:07This is 2-1-1-1, let's make your route.
03:11So it's plotting this side of the car bridge junction.
03:16Female is heard screaming and a male is grunting.
03:20Tourist?
03:21Come on, Jake.
03:27As the officers make their way to the scene, they receive updates.
03:32November 5-6-9-9.
03:34They've received ambulance saying the helicopter is en route, landing 15 to 20 minutes.
03:39They'll need road closed.
03:43Reports coming in suggest this is a head-on collision between two vehicles.
03:48When we hear of a head-on collision on the A9, a vehicle travelling at 60 miles an hour northbound,
03:55a vehicle travelling 60 miles an hour potentially southbound, you know, meeting together,
04:00you know, you're talking about 120 miles an hour impact.
04:03That generally means that we're going to be driving into carnage.
04:07Carnage.
04:18Don't match up.
04:18When we arrived on the scene, there was bodywork of both vehicles strewn across the road.
04:41The pickup truck was still on the road.
04:49The minivan was wedged on top of the barrier.
04:57There are three people trapped inside this minivan, all from one family.
05:03The moment the fire brigade have stabilised the vehicle,
05:08it's kind of perched on quite a steep embankment that drops down quite a distance.
05:13So they've winched up a cable to make sure that that vehicle doesn't go any further
05:17off the barrier and down into the embankment.
05:21As the fire brigade make the vehicle safe,
05:24and the paramedics tend to the family inside,
05:27Jamie and Ross need to start gathering evidence immediately.
05:31We don't know the reason why these vehicles have crashed,
05:35and we have to establish that, we have to investigate that.
05:39So, you's all witnessed it, yeah?
05:41Right, let me grab names and details.
05:44Particularly if it's a serious one where there's going to be injuries,
05:47potentially life-threatening injuries.
05:49Or did you get straight?
05:50You got straight out 4909 and rafts of you.
05:53You went in tough.
05:53Yeah.
05:54Just vaguely moved into the next lane, and there was no braking before impact.
05:58You can stay here, make sure you're on the pavement, though,
06:00and just don't go sort of past the back of this fire engine, OK?
06:04Just so you don't see anything, all right?
06:07This is one of the worst crashes on the A9 this year.
06:11And there is devastating news about the mother of the family,
06:15who was a passenger in the minifan.
06:18So it's a fatal.
06:20One female's passed away, unfortunately.
06:23It's been confirmed, so she's been confirmed life-extinct just now.
06:27The woman's husband and adult children are still being treated by paramedics.
06:39The other driver of the pickup truck, who was the sole occupant of the vehicle,
06:43is being rushed off to Rigmore Hospital in Inverness.
06:45But there are quite a few people in that other vehicle
06:48where the female is now deceased.
06:49I know that they were working on somebody else there as well.
06:56The police see, you know, on a daily basis, things that people wouldn't believe.
07:01We deal with horrific injuries and horrific incidents, which does take its toll.
07:05I get great support from my wife at home,
07:11so if I ever need to talk about something, you know, she's there for me.
07:16You know, we obviously are sympathetic towards the rest of the family who were in that vehicle.
07:21But we still have to maintain our composure and try and get on with the job
07:25and figure out what exactly went wrong for their benefit as well,
07:29just to make sure that they understand why they've suddenly lost their mother.
07:32One eye-witness did have a clear view.
07:48He was driving immediately behind the minivan.
07:52One minute was fine, next minute it just veered over to the right
07:55and sadly impacted into the oncoming vehicle.
08:00So it was a pretty nasty head-on.
08:02I just told the boys to contact the emergency services
08:05and then I just approached the first vehicle.
08:08There was no braking before impact.
08:10There was nothing to suggest there was any animals across the road
08:14or anything like that, so, yeah.
08:17But there's still a lot of work to do
08:19to find out the exact cause of this crash.
08:24Specialist collision investigators have just arrived on scene.
08:28Glencoe and Fort William are among the busiest tourist destinations in Scotland.
08:52But even with thousands of people passing through in the surrounding vast wilderness,
08:58it's all too easy to disappear and perfect for somewhere to hide.
09:05This evening, Glencoe cop Stephen Cooper and Roddy Sanderman are travelling north to Fort William
09:15to meet up with some colleagues.
09:18Together, they plan to search for someone dangerous who doesn't want to be found.
09:23Later on, we'll be attempting to try and apprehend a male who's a high-priority wanted person for us at the moment.
09:31But there's a number of things he's been accused of,
09:32one of them being a knife-point robbery, so he's quite a sort of dangerous individual.
09:37But a lot of road traffic offences as well in the course of his trying to escape.
09:41This male has evaded capture on a number of occasions.
09:48I was searching and came within a few feet of him.
09:51He exploded out from underneath a load of bushes in front of me
09:54and gave me the fright of my life, if I'm honest,
09:56because I wasn't quite sure what was going on.
09:58And he ran off, came close, but no luck, unfortunately.
10:04There's a dog unit starting at Inverness at 9 o'clock
10:07that will come straight down to Fort William to help us.
10:09I mean, he's never going to outrun a dog,
10:11so hopefully that'll be the thing that changes the game for us
10:15and captures him this time.
10:24Stephen and Rory are part of a seven-strong team being deployed tonight
10:29to try to capture this 31-year-old fugitive
10:32who has been on the run for around a year.
10:36They've had a tip-off.
10:37He might be hiding in a tent in the woods near Loch Eilot,
10:42about 30 miles west of Fort William.
10:45He's in those woods.
10:49That's the lay-by there.
10:52So not too far from the road.
10:54OK.
10:55And Mark goes along.
10:57We give a very brief update on, you know,
10:59because if we can see the tent or something.
11:00The intel also suggests when the man will be in his tent.
11:06So we received some intelligence
11:08that the male's working on a fishing boat
11:11and the fishing boat's dropping him off nearby
11:13and he's staying overnight and then getting on the fishing boat
11:16early the next morning.
11:18And we have sort of times for when he's likely to be at the tent.
11:21So that's where we're going to go and find him.
11:26I tried to anyway.
11:27That means they will need to go into the woods after dark.
11:32Tonight, the team is led by Sergeant Emma Mackay.
11:36He does run.
11:37I would rather us were all there, ready and waiting.
11:40So he will like it.
11:43That's been two or three times now he's run away from the police.
11:45I can provide bulk, just not speed.
11:50Also joining the team are dog handler Adam
11:53and his German shepherd, Wolf.
11:56If he does run, then just stand still, just stop
12:00and we'll get the dog away.
12:02He is going to be quite dangerous.
12:06There's certainly intelligence about him carrying weapons
12:08and knives specifically.
12:11And given he's wanted for a knife point robbery as well,
12:13that kind of tends to ring true.
12:17Positive that we're going to get him, is what I would say.
12:19Enough resources and some good intel.
12:22So hopefully the game's stacked in our favour.
12:25OK, let's go.
12:28I think when someone's evaded cabochin for so long,
12:30you've got that bit between the teeth, I suppose, if you like.
12:34It's just like with any wanted person.
12:36We want to get them.
12:37They're wanted for a reason.
12:40Primary job of the police, isn't it?
12:41To catch the bad guy.
12:43You've got a lot of these in the shows, like bad ones, like that.
12:56Yeah, all the time.
12:58A-9's a nightmare.
12:59I was in a nightmare.
13:01Investigations are underway into a fatal two-car collision on the A-9.
13:08Police have spoken to eyewitnesses.
13:10Now, they must secure physical evidence.
13:17I've turned away the cars that are there.
13:19Every other car is pretty much turned round anyway.
13:22There's one possible vehicle that has dash cam.
13:28He can't access it just now, but he's going to try.
13:30Have you got details of it?
13:32I've got details of it.
13:33But before dash cam can be examined, it is vital that specialist crash investigators are able
13:41to examine the scene in detail.
13:44Once all the emergency crews pack up their gear and leave, the road policing units are here.
13:49They'll be taking numerous photos, videos, markings, just to establish exactly what's happened.
13:56Leading the team is Sergeant Callum McCauley.
13:58Our people from the police, who are usually first at these scenes, are our divisional colleagues.
14:05They'll attend initially, and we'll come and take things over from there.
14:10We deal with the collision to its end point.
14:13The best opportunity that we have to go and recover evidence from what's happened at the scene is just now.
14:26I'll give that to you just now.
14:28Thank you.
14:29The first task tonight is to build a technical picture of the scene before the road is cleared.
14:35The road is closed for such a long period of time, because once we open that road, all the evidence is impacted then.
14:44We'll do the guide marks, and then we'll do that vehicle.
14:47Mm-hmm.
14:47All right?
14:48Yeah.
14:49All good.
14:51Collision investigators form a conclusion about what's happened, purely worked out from the physical facts,
14:58taken from the vehicles, taken from marks left on the road, what they've found through the detailed examination.
15:04They're carrying out a scan of the scene, which will be used as part of a report that will be put to the Procurator Fiscal.
15:13Investigators will also piece together a picture of those involved in the crash,
15:17to see if any personal factors could have contributed to the collision.
15:22We have inquiry officers who will go and speak with families, witnesses, and the people who've been involved in the crash.
15:28One of the investigators, Ben, finds some documents in the minivan.
15:35Yeah, this is the agreement, Sarge.
15:37The minivan is a hire vehicle, picked up earlier that day.
15:41Confirmed home address in the United States.
15:43His contact numbers aren't here as well.
15:45The fact that the driver of the minivan is not from the UK could be significant.
15:52Travelling here, for people who've never been to Scotland before, can be confusion because we drive on the left.
15:59So confusion could be something that we would consider, something that we'll look at.
16:04Fatigue contributes to nearly one-fifth of Scotland's road traffic deaths, so police are looking for signs of brake marks on the road.
16:13If there aren't any, that may suggest a driver has fallen asleep at the wheel.
16:18We keep an open mind and we try to get to the bottom of what it is that's happened,
16:23but something that we will consider is, was tiredness a factor? Was a medical condition a factor?
16:29The next step will be to take the remains of each vehicle to a garage and examine them piece by piece.
16:37It's an exhaustive process.
16:39The majority of the work that we do around these crashes is done the weeks afterwards.
16:47Once all this information's been gathered, the guys here will take it back and they will scrutinise it and analyse it.
16:59We're trying to support the families and make sure they have what they need to get them the answers for what's happened to why their loved one's no longer with us.
17:09It's nearly midnight in Fort William.
17:27In the darkness on the edge of town, police are on the trail of a wanted man.
17:31At the moment, there's seven of us and a dog heading out here.
17:36Two of us are in sort of all black clothing.
17:38The hope is that they can sort of sneak in and get eyes on the campsite and see if he's there.
17:43And then we can all come in and back up along with the dog unit.
17:47It's only intelligence we've got at the moment that he's at this campsite.
17:50He's never actually been seen there by police officers.
17:52Our roads policing colleagues have been out and have seen the tents in position.
17:56So there clearly is somebody living there. It's just whether he's going to be there tonight.
18:05So we'll go along and see what we can see from the car.
18:08As soon as we can see anything, we'll just get everyone along and we'll just rush them, I think.
18:12Ready. Let's go.
18:15Emma and Roddy will take the lead.
18:17As soon as they give the signal, the rest of the team will go in.
18:21In gear, foot on a break, ready to go.
18:30I think we'd all be lying if we didn't say we were getting an adrenaline rush out of something like this.
18:34I think we'd all be lying if we didn't say we were getting an adrenaline rush out of something like this.
18:43We're going to come through nearby.
18:45We're going to be clear.
18:46We're going to be clear.
19:16I don't think it's this way.
19:19I think it'll be that worn path.
19:24In the dark, in this dense undergrowth, there are no clear lines of sight.
19:29Police fire the door.
19:31And no signs of anyone running or hiding.
19:37The police are struggling to find anything that might point them towards a fugitive.
19:44But then, deep in the woods, they find something.
19:52There's a ten over here.
19:57Watch, Bob Dwyer.
20:01So we've found the campsite.
20:02We're just trying to figure out if he's been here or not.
20:06Or if he's in the area.
20:08So we're not sure at the moment.
20:17The search dog, Wolf, is drawing a blank.
20:20Nothing at all.
20:21I took him down that way to see, but there's no back out of here.
20:25I think there's one way from one way out.
20:29Pretty dense down that way.
20:32Well, I don't think he's here.
20:33I don't think we scared him off.
20:36There's no noise in the woods.
20:38Huh?
20:39No noise whatsoever.
20:40No.
20:40There's clothing, there's empty alcohol bottles and cans and some empty food tins and things
20:49like that.
20:50So it's quite likely that that's where he's been.
20:54Who knows how recently, but...
20:56Well, that's it.
20:57We just don't know, do we?
20:58Good effort, guys.
20:59Good effort.
21:00Just relax, you're all right.
21:03The bad man's not here.
21:05Although there's no one at home, there's enough to suggest that intel is correct on where the
21:10man has been hiding.
21:12That's his campsite, as described.
21:15Now they know his location, the police hope the net is finally closing on Fort William's
21:21most elusive resident.
21:23Just getting a grid reference of the tent in case I need to make further attempts, because
21:26I suppose part of the problem was we struggled to find the camp initially, but we did get
21:35there relatively quickly.
21:36I don't think we did disturb him, but yeah, if we need to come back again, if we can get
21:41a precise grid reference, then hopefully that means we can just get straight there
21:45and a few more of us know the layout of the woods now, so yeah, hopefully we can try
21:50again.
21:56Looks like he tried to booby trap it almost to his barbed wire across the entrance to
22:07the campsite.
22:09Where his tent's pitched and the efforts he's gone to, certainly would tend to suggest he's
22:15not looking to be found any time soon.
22:18A bit of disappointment.
22:19We've not caught him, but satisfied that we did everything we could to catch him.
22:22There's a phrase that's overused to the max that they need to get lucky every day.
22:29We only need to get lucky once.
22:30I'm sure you've heard that a million times, but it's very true.
22:33You know, you know you'll get him eventually.
22:34Case Ness, one of the most sparsely populated parts of the Highlands, and one of its most
22:53beautiful.
22:54Sergeant Andy Mackay has been policing here for 15 years.
22:59It's a really nice place to live.
23:00There's lots of, like, really nice scenery.
23:04It's a small, kind of, close-knit community.
23:07You just get left, basically, to your own devices.
23:11We're kind of trusted up here to just get on with it, and it's only when things go completely
23:16pear-shaped that we would then get that input from further up.
23:19Today, Andy and his colleagues are looking for a white van, which has been reported stolen
23:27in Orkney.
23:28The police believe it may be in Wick, one of the biggest towns in Case Ness.
23:33We're going to go and see if we can find this stolen vehicle.
23:39The person that we suspected is a possibility for removing the vehicle is from a village just
23:47north of Wick.
23:49But they have associates in the town.
23:52So I'm just going to go past the area of town where they've sort of been known to frequent
24:00before and see if the vehicle is there.
24:03So we're looking for a white transit van with a bit of rust.
24:17So there's a white transit, but it's the wrong ridge.
24:24Stevie G has found the vehicle on the other side of town, so we'll just get there quickly, quickly.
24:54Apparently, the driver says the vehicle was given to him, but we've just noted a statement
25:01saying it was stolen.
25:02You know, the fact that they've got a stolen vehicle, and they're saying that it's really
25:07theirs, is a bit suspicious.
25:19Let's go see what we've got.
25:20The former member, he's been under arrest for suspicion, and suspicion of theft of a motor
25:26van, OK?
25:26Yeah.
25:27So you're not obliged to say anything.
25:28If anything, you do say maybe no to them, maybe nothing else, OK?
25:33Pass it up to me.
25:34Are you on your own?
25:35You've got something away?
25:36No, no.
25:37He's got two dogs in the van.
25:38Oh, OK.
25:38Are the dogs friendly?
25:39No.
25:40Is there a way of getting the dogs from the front of the van into the back?
25:44Or would I have to take them out of the side door?
25:46I just have to put them in the back.
25:48When did you buy the van?
25:49I didn't buy the van.
25:51It was bought by somebody else.
25:53And how have you come to be driving the van?
25:55Because they've asked me to go out and say I could borrow the van because I drive things
25:57across the van.
25:58Yeah.
25:59Like, I put bikes across here because I don't have a van on myself.
26:02Like motorbikes or?
26:03Yeah, two motorbikes.
26:04So I was delivering them to someone who bought them off here.
26:06Ah, OK.
26:06The man claims he has borrowed this van, not stolen it.
26:13A search of his clothing uncovers something suspicious.
26:16They've all got the reason to lie.
26:18What is it?
26:20I'm asking you.
26:21I knew where I did it.
26:22You know what?
26:22What is it?
26:23Yeah.
26:23I'm genuinely, I'm not being anything but implying.
26:25They've all got the reason to lie.
26:26So I was at the beach.
26:27It was a wet pouch or something.
26:29You're on the beach and you found a small white packet containing a substance and decided
26:33to pick it up.
26:33They were at Castledown.
26:34So they weren't just outside.
26:35There's all the bits.
26:36It's an odd thing to pick up, no?
26:38I don't know where I pick up on my...
26:39I pick up bits of weird rocks.
26:41There's lots of bits of weird plastic.
26:42There's lots of bits of weird wood.
26:44Sorry.
26:45What were you going to do with it?
26:46Nothing.
26:47I was like, what is it?
26:48Just a souvenir from Castledown Beach?
26:50I completely forgot to even put it in my pocket.
26:51Genuinely.
26:52We'll need to put it away for testing, OK?
26:54If it comes back in a controlled substance, you'll get a report.
26:57The man then tells the police there may be something else in the van.
27:01He said that you think there might be something in the van.
27:04I didn't say I think there might be.
27:04There could be something in the van.
27:05My friends, they do what they do.
27:08They smoke weed.
27:09You said there might be cannabis in your backy pouch.
27:11Yeah.
27:12So would that be yours?
27:14What, my tobacco or my...
27:15But I can avoid the weed, the cannabis that's in the tobacco pouch.
27:18So whose cannabis is it that's in the backy?
27:20Probably be mine, I assume.
27:23Probably be...
27:24It'll be mine if there is any.
27:25It'll be mine.
27:25OK, right.
27:27The police decide they now have enough grounds to search the van.
27:31Take it from there.
27:32More officers arrive on the scene.
27:34Sometimes with these things, you just find a little bit, and people are sort of like,
27:38oh, yeah, sorry, mate.
27:40I had it from the weekend or whatever.
27:42And kind of use it as a way to kind of subterfuge to make the police go,
27:46oh, well, he's handed it over.
27:47That's fine.
27:48No need to worry.
27:49Like, here's a wee ticket.
27:51Slap on the wrist.
27:51Don't do that again.
27:52But that's absolutely our doorway to say, right, well, what's in your van?
27:57What's in your pockets?
27:58It may turn out that, who knows, maybe there's a toolbox in the back that's got more in it.
28:03In Nairn, the two vehicles involved in a fatal crash on the A9 are being examined
28:23by Police Scotland's Specialist Collision Investigation Unit.
28:27So we're taking photographs of relevant damage.
28:40Make sure that there's no, or as best we can, rule out any pre-collision defects on the vehicle.
28:46So checking all the joints and stuff, making sure everyone's connected as it should be.
28:50Albeit with crash damage, it can be hard to tell.
28:53This is a chassis bike.
28:58Yeah.
28:58Pretty deformed than that is.
28:59Yeah.
29:00And even at the top, you see it's all twisted.
29:03Yeah.
29:03Kind of supports the fact it's been quite a high-speed head-on collision.
29:07The investigators are also looking for clues about the movements of both vehicles
29:13before and immediately after the collision.
29:16So this is the part of the prop shaft.
29:19This is the bit that's been disconnected.
29:21So it was dragging underneath the vehicle.
29:23And that's quite significant because we had two grind marks on the road that led back to
29:30the prop shaft, which shows its direction of travel after impact, back to its resulting
29:35position.
29:36So it gives us evidence of where the vehicles moved after collision.
29:39So that's quite significant for us.
29:40By matching parts of the car, like this prop shaft, to marks left on the road, the police can trace
29:49the movement of the vehicles before and after the collision.
29:53This will help pinpoint exactly where on the road the collision took place and could suggest
30:00one car had left its lane, causing the head-on crash.
30:04We tie it up to certain marks on the road, and if we could place a vehicle in the road that can tell us where the collision exactly happened, and sometimes it can prove whether somebody's in the right or somebody's in the wrong.
30:18It's Sergeant Callum McCauley's job to put together a theory of what caused this crash.
30:24Collision investigators examine the vehicles in great detail.
30:28They examine the marks on the road in great detail, and it's pieced together that the Volkswagen multivan was not travelling in its own lane at the time of the collision.
30:40And that's the responsibility of this collision rests with the driver of that vehicle.
30:45And there's one final, crucial piece of evidence.
30:49We have here dashcam footage of the collision.
30:58Gives us a really good opportunity for seeing what's happened.
31:05You can see that the van has crossed the middle of the road and collided with the oncoming vehicle.
31:11The van was being driven by an American tourist.
31:14When people visit Scotland, they tend to be trying to cover a lot of the country and the time that they're here.
31:23And that can sometimes lead to tiredness.
31:26There can be fatigue.
31:27It can be a case that they don't know or can get confused or disorientated about what side of the road they should be travelling on.
31:35The thing that we can prove in this collision is that the van's been on the wrong side of the road.
31:44And the reason for that, it's almost immaterial.
31:47It's just that the van has been on the wrong side of the road.
31:50And ultimately that's led to the death of a lady and a serious injury of her children and the driver of the oncoming vehicle.
32:05As things stand currently, the driver of the Volkswagen multivan has been reported to the Procurator Fiscal for causing death by dangerous driving.
32:18And also for causing serious injury, but a dangerous driving as well.
32:25This driver has lost his wife and has seriously injured his adult children because of the way that he's driven the vehicle.
32:33The impact that that's going to have on him and on his family, that can't be changed.
32:38In Wick, police have stopped a man they believe is travelling in a stolen van.
32:49He has admitted there may be cannabis in the van, which allows them to do a more thorough search.
32:56Right, let's open the back first then.
32:59So he's been detained under Section 23 for a search of the van.
33:03Don't go near the back door. There's two angry dogs in the back.
33:06The dog's kind of adds an extra layer to it.
33:11You have to think what we're going to do.
33:13There's a health and safety aspect to it as well.
33:14That dog's barking and it appears to be aggressive.
33:16What happens if it bites me?
33:19If we were sort of closer to Inverness, we'd probably ask for maybe the dog handler to come and help us.
33:27While the van is being searched, police test the man for drugs.
33:36You've come up positive for cocaine already.
33:42Waiting for the cannabis now, it takes eight minutes, but you're positive for coke.
33:45How?
33:46Because there's obviously cocaine in your system.
33:49Which is over the legal limit.
33:51Yeah.
33:51The drive.
33:52Yeah, where was...
33:53So please don't tell me you having cocaine in your system, someone else's fault as well.
34:01No?
34:02No.
34:02No, I'm not saying it at all.
34:07You deal with swipe.
34:09Sorry?
34:09You prove to me that you've no good cocaine in your system.
34:12Me?
34:12Yeah?
34:13I'd happily take a drug test right now.
34:14Do it.
34:15Let's see.
34:16I want to prove that these aren't f***ing tests.
34:19It's not how it works, though.
34:20We're here to test you.
34:21No.
34:21Okay?
34:22There was a certain aroma of something in the air when he was talking.
34:27It was just a pile of rubbish, to be honest.
34:29Like, we kind of all saw through it straight away.
34:32Positive for a cannabis, Uncle Ken.
34:34The man has now tested positive for two controlled substances, meaning he will be arrested.
34:41But the search of the van has just started, and his troubles are just beginning.
34:47Bladed article.
34:49Where?
34:49It's more of a Stanley knife, but it's easy access.
34:52Where's the blade?
34:54It's just Stanley knife blades.
34:56Is that a locking one?
34:58It looks like it locks.
35:00The lock knife is within his reach, which means that he's therefore in possession of it,
35:05and it's an offence to be in possession of a lock knife in a public place.
35:09If it had been stored in a toolbox in the back of the van, then that would be okay,
35:15because, you know, people have legitimate reason to have lock knives and transport them about the place.
35:19This is the powerful knife so far that we've found.
35:22So we've got two pipes there, a spoon for melting, sootting drugs on, and he's already been showing that he's got drugs in his system already.
35:32Oh, another knife.
35:33And that was in the jacket pocket?
35:35That was jacket pocket wedged beside the passenger door.
35:41We'll put you in the van, we'll get you back to the office, we'll get you booked into custody, we'll get you your rights.
35:45We'll have to do the road traffic procedures, because you're giving us a positive specimen at the roadside, okay?
35:53And then once you've done that, we'll interview you.
35:55Yeah, so I arrest you in terms of Road Traffic Act 1988, so I arrest you for failing drug-barked cannabis and cocaine,
36:02so you're not obliged to say anything, but anything you do say will be noted and may be using evidence.
36:06Do you understand that?
36:06Yeah.
36:08Okay, mind your head.
36:09No.
36:15With the man in custody, the police now need to negotiate with the dogs.
36:26Come on, there you go.
36:29It's all right.
36:31Have you got another treat?
36:33Yeah.
36:34It's all right, he's just terrified, that's all.
36:36He's not going for me, he's just a bit scared.
36:40There you go.
36:41There you go.
36:43Yeah, he likes a treat.
36:45With the dogs happy, officers can finally make a thorough search of the van.
36:58And although nothing else significant is found, there is already enough to charge this man with drugs and weapons offences.
37:05On the face of it, he doesn't appear to be the kind of Pablo Escobar of Orkney, but the fact that he has a little bit of cannabis on him,
37:14that's absolutely our gateway to make these further inquiries just to be doubly sure of what we're dealing with.
37:20North and west of Inverness, the landscape empties of people.
37:36The hills and mountains here are amongst the wildest and most remote parts of the United Kingdom.
37:48Usually, officers of the police mountain rescue team, like Katie Johnson, would expect to be sent here to rescue a walker or climber in distress.
38:00But today, they have a different and upsetting job to do.
38:05There has been a discovery of some human remains.
38:11It's really difficult to get to.
38:13So we're there to make sure everyone gets their stuff there safely, and then recover the remains out of the area once we're done.
38:22You try not to jump to any conclusions of why they're there and who they are,
38:26but definitely raises just a lot of questions in your mind about what's happened.
38:30The body is unidentified.
38:32It's in a remote location, and the remains don't appear to be linked to any missing persons report.
38:38The task of the police is to help identify this individual and decide if they have been a victim of crime.
38:46So quite a lot of it is really unexplained.
38:50But what we do know is that the remains have been there for quite a long time.
38:55We have to treat it like there's potentially some suspicious circumstances until we rule it out.
39:01So we are going to preserve any evidence that has been left there.
39:05Police are managing this incident from a small station, deep in the Western Highlands.
39:17Katie and her team are briefed on the body's discovery by crime scene manager Kevin Bunn.
39:24About 1,500 hours on Wednesday, two local residents were walking their dogging area
39:28when they became aware of what they appeared to be hiking boots and items of clothing scattered nearby.
39:35They've then felt what felt like a bone inside the leg, and it's been identified as a femur.
39:41It's possible the remains have been there for a prolonged period of time, possibly over a year.
39:47It raises a lot of questions of why they were there and who they are.
39:51Yet you always expect if the remains of somebody is found, there is information out there that someone's looking for them.
40:00So it is really unusual to have somebody found and not know any circumstances surrounding it.
40:07It's supposed to rain this afternoon, so good chance we're all getting soaked.
40:12I'll leave it to your discretion, Mountain Rescue guys, if you think the weather's closing in,
40:15and when you go off the hill, then let me know and we'll make that decision.
40:19Yeah, four o'clock, I think, the weather is really meant to change,
40:22so it'll be good if we kind of get towards that time that we'll just take stock and see where we are with it.
40:28Yeah, any other issues?
40:30OK, we'll go for it then.
40:38The biggest challenges today is the location.
40:41The terrain is very remote, it's boggy.
40:48We're very much open to the elements.
40:50We look to try and establish, is there any criminality involved in the first instance?
40:55On the face of it, it looks like it's maybe someone who's lost in the hillside,
40:59but we have to keep an open mind.
41:04A team of forensic anthropologists will accompany Katie on the mountain,
41:09which will be treated like any other crime scene.
41:13Once we get to the locusts and start the recovery of the remains,
41:17it's a process that will take them as long as it takes.
41:20It's something that needs to be done methodical
41:22to make sure that they capture everything there that we need.
41:26And it's something you can't always plan,
41:28because you just don't know what you're going to find once you start moving things.
41:32Our first and foremost role is policing.
41:35So if it's not a sightseeing spot, if it's not a well-known walking spot,
41:39why have they taken themselves there?
41:40So it could be that they've gotten themselves in some sort of confusion.
41:43If people are suffering from hypothermia,
41:47they can do strange things that you wouldn't normally do,
41:50and they could take themselves into that kind of area.
41:56Out here, it's the end of the road.
42:00The only way forward is on a specialist vehicle loaned by a local gamekeeper.
42:05I've been on one before, and yeah, they're sturdy, but they are not comfy.
42:11See whose breakfast comes first.
42:15So the area itself, it was pathless.
42:18Very difficult ground to walk in.
42:20It was on a large estate that we had to access via 4x4 trucks,
42:26and thereafter an Argo cat to assist us to get to the location.
42:30You can see a road, but that's way off in the distance,
42:34and there are no paths to get into the area that we were.
42:37So it's not somewhere you'd expect anyone to go walking,
42:41especially someone with no equipment with them.
42:53Four hours after leaving Inverness,
42:56Katie finally reaches the spot where the remains lie.
43:00And her investigation can begin.
43:07Were you thinking that for the forward?
43:09Yeah, that's where we've gone up and looked.
43:10They've come here.
43:11They've not fallen after the fact.
43:13Pretty sure this is them.
43:16There's what we're hoping is maybe a hat with a lot of moss on it.
43:20If someone hadn't pointed out initially
43:22and you were walking at a little bit of a distance,
43:24you wouldn't have even seen the remains there.
43:26The moss has grown over,
43:29so it almost looks as if it's become part of the earth itself.
43:34So it had been there for some length of time.
43:37If it had been another couple of years that it hadn't been discovered,
43:40it might never have been discovered at all.
43:42At the moment, I'd go white male.
43:45So what determined it was male?
43:47So at the back of male skulls,
43:49there's a really big bumpy bit because males have heavier heads.
43:53They have more muscles that go back to the neck,
43:55so the bone produces more bone
43:57because it needs a bigger surface area for that muscle to attach.
44:01It's a start,
44:03but it's all the forensics team can conclude
44:05from these remains and the clothes nearby.
44:08As the weather closes in,
44:12the team must leave the mountainside for the day.
44:17The body was in a difficult position,
44:19so we have to get the remains out of that in a respectful way,
44:25but also in a safe way that we are taking it up hills
44:28and through an area with no paths and everything like that.
44:31So our responsibilities are both to make sure
44:34that we're gathering everything respectfully,
44:37but also the forensic opportunities are saved.
44:44It's bringing up more questions than answers at the moment.
44:48The choices for footwear and outerwear
44:52is not really what you generally see for hill walkers
44:57or anything like that.
44:58And they had a fluorescent vest on again,
45:01which is more for somebody that's by the roadway
45:04and in the dark,
45:07so it doesn't kind of really fit in with that.
45:09So again, it just kind of...
45:10It leaves us with more questions at the moment.
45:14The police will need to return to this hillside again
45:17to see if there are any more remains or clothing
45:20which could help solve the mystery of who this was
45:24and why he died out here.
45:25I think it's difficult to put into words
45:29how each sudden death feels to you.
45:33You feel a sense of sadness
45:35that this person has died alone in this remote area.
45:41It's difficult to not know who they are
45:44and not be able to provide a family with answers
45:47of where their loved one has come to rest.
45:50It's not something you want to leave unknown,
45:57so we have to look at every avenue we can
46:00to try and identify this person.
46:02In Inverness, PC's Dan Shield and Jimmy Sutherland
46:19are responding to a call from the post office.
46:23We've had a call from the mail sorting office
46:26to say that they've got a package that possibly contains cannabis
46:31and this mail of it is the tell-tale signs.
46:37We're just going to go down there and have a look
46:39and see if it is cannabis, take it back for testing.
46:42Drugs coming through the post is on the increase.
46:47It's easier to distance yourself when it's coming through the post
46:50because you're not in possession of them,
46:53so it's a lot harder to find the person
46:56that's actually sent the items itself.
47:00Because the mail is becoming a more popular method of drug supply,
47:04police across the UK are sending sniffer dogs
47:07to sorting offices on a regular basis.
47:10This morning, a police dog got a whiff of two packages.
47:16So, both of the items are here.
47:20It was the police dog that sniffed them out.
47:22In fact, the police dog actually tore that one.
47:26It was so convinced there was something in it.
47:31The dog has identified one of the packages
47:33as containing some kind of controlled drug.
47:37We'll just get them opened up.
47:38We'll make sure that they do contain drugs
47:40and then we'll get the packages seized.
47:45Yeah, there's not really much of a smell, to be honest.
47:48I don't think...
47:49Is that the one the dog's done?
47:50And that's been torn open as well, so...
47:53I think if it wasn't for the dog, I think...
47:55It's a wee bit of a smell, but...
47:57I think it might be what we call as cannabis edibles.
48:02Ah, I see.
48:02So, it might be a kind of a liquid kind of form of cannabis.
48:14I'm not even going to open that here, just in case.
48:15So, I won't open that just now, Ali,
48:20just because I'm just seeing that there is quite a lot of sort of powder, etc.
48:25Obviously, we don't know what that is.
48:26I don't want to open it up in case it is anything of kind of harmful nature
48:30or anything like that at all.
48:32So, we'll just seize that
48:33and we will do our own testing on it back at the office
48:37just so that we're not opening it up, obviously, in here.
48:40Thank you.
48:42Whilst the officers can't say yet what this first package is,
48:46there's little doubt what's in the second package.
48:50Strong smell of cannabis coming from that one.
48:52Yeah, that one was more straightforward.
48:56Cannabis is kind of a sort of sweet, sort of sickly sort of smell.
49:00Yeah, they've obviously...
49:01You can see they've wrapped it up a number of times
49:04in an effort to disguise it,
49:05but they've not done it very well.
49:09Then, an unexpected breakthrough.
49:12The gentleman who says this is for him
49:15is at the customer service point right now.
49:18Oh, is he?
49:18Yeah.
49:19Oh, that's Andy.
49:19I was going to say, that's never happened before.
49:21That's what...
49:22But he's coming to get this.
49:24Oh, right.
49:25He's obviously wanting him in a hurry.
49:27Dan and Jimmy will give the bad news to the waiting man.
49:32Not perhaps the delivery he was expecting.
49:35So we've obviously been taken here or asked to come here
49:39because they have seized a package
49:41which strongly smells of cannabis.
49:43At this moment in time, you're under caution
49:45that you're not obliged to say anything,
49:47but anything you do say will be noted
49:48and may be using evidence.
49:48Do you understand that?
49:49Yeah.
49:50What have you got to say about that?
49:52No comment.
49:53No comment.
49:54OK.
49:55No worries, Tom.
49:56We'll see where we're going to go from here just now.
49:57OK.
49:59Obviously, we need to go back to the station.
50:01We obviously need to test it.
50:02Just to obviously make sure that it does obviously contain a drug.
50:05You can't be ordering your controlled drugs through the post.
50:08You're eligible for what we call a recorded police warning.
50:10It was beneficial just to give him the recorded police warning
50:13because it just gets the matter sort of dealt with.
50:15Accepting a recorded police warning isn't an admission of guilt.
50:18I said it's a warning, OK, for you.
50:20If he was to re-offend or if he was to be found in possession of drugs again,
50:26then he would not be eligible to then receive the recorded police warning again.
50:29The man is sent on his way without his post.
50:35Finding suspicious items in the post, predominantly drugs,
50:39happens about two or three times a week on average.
50:43This system, we like to think, proves highly effective.
50:47We've both got a record of it happening,
50:48so there is the proof that these items are being intercepted.
50:54It is a banned substance, it's a controlled substance,
50:57so if it gets sent through the Royal Mail network and we intercept it,
51:02then our job is to contact the police and that's what we do.
51:05That's one thing that I would love to change,
51:08would be to have no drugs within Inverness.
51:10I know that's probably an unrealistic goal,
51:12however, fighting the war against drugs, crime,
51:15that's ultimately what I joined the job for
51:18and that's what I will keep on doing and I will carry on doing.
51:22You'd think he would have seen the police farm.
51:24I thought.
51:26Maybe that's for me.
51:28I thought, oh, yeah, I'm ordering cannabis.
51:30In the mountains of the North West Highlands,
51:40police still have to confirm the identity of the man
51:43whose remains were found on a remote hillside.
51:47Today, Dan Sutherland, who is part of the mountain rescue team,
51:51is heading back to the location to continue the investigation.
51:55I don't know who they are, but we're coming back today
51:59to undertake further searches, to see if we can find further remains.
52:02So we've got victim recovery dogs with us today.
52:05They're trained in recovery and sniffing out of human remains,
52:10so fingers crossed we can get some good results with them today.
52:16The remains couldn't provide enough DNA to help identification.
52:20Police hope Dan and the dogs unit might be able to find more remains
52:26for DNA testing or any clothing and effects
52:30that might have been missed in the original search.
52:34This is the first job I've come across
52:37where it's been really difficult to identify a body.
52:41The majority of bodies that we find tend to have some form of ID
52:46or there is an outstanding missing person
52:48where we've got a very good idea of potentially who they could be.
52:52But in this case, it's a bit more difficult.
52:56We just don't know anything about him or the family
52:59and how he's come to be and how he's even got here.
53:04These boys are going to have to move, eh?
53:06First challenge of a day.
53:11Go on.
53:12Go on.
53:13Let's go.
53:23I always worry with young calves as well, like cows and calves, never great.
53:30That's it. Good girl.
53:38Where the body is located, it's just quite a really remote section of land.
53:43Very little mobile phone signal, if any.
53:45It's not a place where generally the public would be seen at all.
53:50So it was really quite surprising to find out that someone had been found there.
53:54Obviously, we don't know how he's died,
53:56but it is sad that you can just lay down or fall down on the ground
54:01and you won't have come across you for years and years.
54:04Dan will be accompanied by cadaver dogs Cooper and Gus
54:14and dog handlers Adam and Daniel.
54:16So I think the body was here, was it?
54:28Was the body just here by the lock?
54:30Yeah, sure.
54:30If there are more human remains on this hillside,
54:34the hope is the dogs will find them.
54:37Today we've got two different dogs, both trained to the same standard.
54:40One's obviously a cocker spaniel.
54:41He's nice and energetic.
54:42He's ready to go.
54:43And we've got a slightly younger Labrador.
54:46Both dogs are trained to indicate on decomposition by means of barking.
54:50Come!
54:52No, come!
54:54All right, he's going to go back.
54:55Fine.
54:55Before long, it looks like Cooper has found something.
55:01Come on!
55:03Whether there's a scavenger that's a burrow and it's taking something.
55:08That's quite a bit cool.
55:11The dog's given indication.
55:14There's a hole here, so just see if anything's been taken down there by any animals.
55:20The body, the bone of some.
55:23What not?
55:24What are you moving at all?
55:25It looks like a burrow because there's obvious marks of burrowing further in.
55:30Some sort of small animal.
55:32Where the body was found, obviously, just behind it, just over to our side here, like so.
55:37Dogs are indicating here.
55:39But the burrow is too narrow and deep for the officers to see anything themselves.
55:46Cooper's indicated at a sort of burrow relatively near to the recovery site.
55:50We just can't get to at the moment.
55:51It's impossible to say what it is,
55:52but I suspect it's a bone and it's very specific and very close to the body's site location,
55:58which would indicate he's definitely right.
56:01The team search for the rest of the afternoon,
56:04but the dogs don't find anything else.
56:07If there are more remains on this hillside,
56:09it looks like they may be buried forever.
56:12I don't think it was completely unexpected.
56:34It's always going to be difficult.
56:35But I was kind of hoping we'd get at least a bone or two.
56:41Maybe that's just an indication of how long the body's been there.
56:44There will be no more searching on this hill,
56:50but the investigation into this man's identity and clues about his fate will go on.
56:57They're going to have to start doing a lot more digging through historical records of missing people
57:04from not within, not just within Scotland,
57:06across all the UK forces and potentially international as well.
57:13Some people just don't get traced.
57:15They don't get found.
57:15And when we are found like this,
57:19then they don't necessarily all can be identified.
57:21They don't think so.
57:24They don't think so.
57:25They don't think so.
57:25They don't think so.
57:26They don't think so.
57:27But they don't think so.
57:27It's just a bit of time.
57:33input.
57:39What are we talking about?
57:41I think so.
57:41Great.
57:42I think so.
57:46I think so.
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