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Britain's Most Evil Killers - Season 10 Episode 4 -
George Naylor
George Naylor
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00:09On the 17th of December, 1985,
00:12a police officer on duty in Bradford, West Yorkshire,
00:17noticed a car parked suspiciously.
00:21When he began to follow the car, it sped off into the night.
00:26As the car speeds away,
00:30the police become ever more convinced
00:32that something's wrong with it and with the driver.
00:36After a high-speed chase,
00:38the driver crashed into a traffic island,
00:41and police managed to arrest him.
00:46Why had he tried to get away from us?
00:48Had he stolen the car?
00:50He came out with a reply which I will never forget,
00:53and that reply was,
00:55OK, lads, you've got me for murder.
01:00The driver was 40-year-old George Naylor,
01:03and on the back seat of the car was the body of Deborah Kershaw.
01:08The 22-year-old had tragically been strangled just moments earlier.
01:13They looked at his record and realized they had not only a man
01:19who had admitted to killing someone,
01:22but somebody who had for many, many years proved to be a dangerous individual.
01:32A routine traffic stop that escalated into a high-speed car chase
01:37had incredibly unveiled George Naylor as one of Britain's most evil killers.
01:44The 22-year-old was a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man who had a man
02:14it brought an end to his reign of terror.
02:17It was a relief to the women he'd spent a lifetime torturing
02:22and closure for the investigators who'd hunted him down.
02:27George Naylor was one of the few truly evil people
02:32I ever met in 31 years of being a police officer in Bradford.
02:36I'm absolutely convinced in my own mind
02:40that any time Naylor had his liberty,
02:43then women were not safe.
02:46Naylor targeted vulnerable women throughout his life,
02:51never showing remorse for what he'd done.
02:54What always saddens me is that these girls just became a headline.
03:02Naylor became the story, and the girls are almost forgotten.
03:08There were many opportunities to put Naylor away for life.
03:13But he managed to evade justice for years.
03:16Naylor's only conscience was about himself.
03:20He had no sense of anybody else, particularly when he came to women.
03:24He was a brute.
03:26A cold, calculating brute who killed because he could.
03:31This killer's story begins in West Boulding, Yorkshire, in 1944.
03:41We don't know a great deal about George Naylor's early life.
03:45We know it was troubled,
03:47but we know very little about his parents or indeed siblings.
03:50Even as a child, George Naylor showed his violent tendencies.
03:57He used violence to manipulate others.
04:00It wasn't just that he couldn't control it, it was his power.
04:06He's using violence to gain status,
04:08so that people will maybe steer clear of him,
04:13respect him, all of those kinds of things,
04:16and give himself a little bit of power and control.
04:19As a young person, his violence was noticed,
04:23and it escalated to the point where, as a teenager,
04:27he was sent to Borstal.
04:29Firstly, a series of petty crimes, robbery and theft.
04:33But then his crimes seemed to get more and more extreme
04:37and more and more violent.
04:44When Naylor was just 17,
04:46he committed his first serious offence.
04:50He's broken into a house
04:52where the resident was an elderly female.
04:55He's beaten the female occupant up with his fists.
04:58He's threatened her with a gun.
05:00He's stolen her property and her money.
05:03Now, that's a really serious offence.
05:05He'd been building up to violence for quite a long time.
05:09He also used that violence,
05:12committed that robbery on a woman.
05:14And that suggests it's that bully thing about him
05:18where he's going to target somebody
05:21who's maybe weaker than him, easy to overpower.
05:26By the summer of 1967,
05:31the now 22-year-old Naylor
05:33already had a long list of criminal charges to his name.
05:38But that didn't affect his luck with the ladies.
05:42Naylor was a charmer.
05:45Throughout his life,
05:46he managed to charm two women to becoming his partner.
05:50But very quickly they began to realise
05:53that he had a very different soul
05:56to the charming man they had fallen for.
05:58And he was violent towards them.
06:01George Naylor met his first partner in a pub
06:05and she literally fell for his charm.
06:08He was, like his character or not,
06:11capable of being truly charming.
06:13The two of them went on to have two children together.
06:15What I can absolutely guarantee
06:18is that relationship had problems
06:21from the very beginning.
06:24People like Naylor are inherently manipulative.
06:27This is a man who forces what he wants.
06:30Naylor's first partner was subject
06:32to six years of physical and sexual abuse.
06:36When you're experiencing coercive control from a partner
06:39and Naylor was undoubtedly coercively controlling,
06:43the one thing you can't do is leave, escape.
06:48Because all of those things that he's been doing to her
06:51are to trap her right where she is
06:54because he believes very strongly he owns her,
06:59he possesses her.
07:00She had desperately tried to seek help.
07:03They'd had children together
07:05and she'd be contacting social services to say,
07:08I need to get away.
07:09He is violent.
07:11I am frightened.
07:12And I think the thing that strikes me,
07:15the response was so typical of that era.
07:19They told her,
07:21better a bad father than none at all.
07:24In 1973, his partner managed to get away from him,
07:30but Naylor refused to let her go.
07:33He wanted to frighten her back to him.
07:36He would break into her house,
07:38he would attack her, he was stalking her.
07:40She must have been absolutely terrified.
07:49In 1974, Naylor was living in a flat in Bradford,
07:54where his crimes took an even darker turn.
07:57He broke into a neighbour's flat,
08:01a block in which he lived,
08:03and he donned a mask.
08:07And he attacked a 60-year-old woman,
08:11viciously,
08:12and raped her.
08:15He'd set upon her just because he could,
08:18and because it was another example
08:20of his growing pathological hatred of women.
08:26He committed some very serious,
08:30the most horrific acts against this woman.
08:34Stripped her naked,
08:36beat her,
08:37bitter,
08:38he raped her,
08:40and he committed serious,
08:44depraved sexual acts.
08:48This, even for him,
08:50is an escalation.
08:53I think the wearing of the mask
08:55shows the premeditation.
08:57He knew what he was going to do.
08:59He knew that it was going to be
09:01a serious offence,
09:02and he did not want this lady
09:05to be able to identify him.
09:08As a police investigation began,
09:11Naylor seemed determined to do
09:13whatever it took
09:14to cover up his crimes.
09:17He had the gall
09:19to go back to the scene of his crime
09:22and play the part of worried neighbour,
09:26concerned friend,
09:27asking if there was anything
09:30that he could do for her.
09:31He knew that if he went back,
09:34if fibres from his clothes were found,
09:37if his fingerprints were found,
09:39he could say,
09:40well, of course,
09:41I merely went to check
09:43that this poor woman was okay.
09:46It appeared that Naylor
09:48had tried to outwit the police,
09:50but there was one thing he'd overlooked.
09:53Shards from the very window he'd broken
09:56in order to access the flat
09:58were found in his coat pocket,
10:00which would lead police
10:02to eventually arrest and charge Naylor.
10:05There were also some traces,
10:08fibres,
10:09from his pullover on her pyjamas.
10:12In the end,
10:13those small things caught Naylor.
10:16He hadn't expected them.
10:17Naylor was sentenced to 15 years
10:26for the horrific attack,
10:27but was released
10:29before serving his full term.
10:31The rape was brutal.
10:33It was horrific,
10:33and yet he served less than 10 years.
10:38Within weeks of his release from prison,
10:39he was hunting on the streets of Bradford.
10:42He would have been honing those skills
10:45of manipulation
10:46and showing his status
10:48and gaining status for a decade,
10:51and then we let him out on the streets again,
10:55and he's not going to stop.
11:00In 1985,
11:03George Naylor walked out of prison a free man,
11:06but he was far from rehabilitated.
11:12Just eight weeks after his release,
11:14he would escalate from brutal rapist
11:17to cold-blooded killer.
11:19In 1985,
11:3240-year-old convicted rapist George Naylor
11:35was released onto the streets of West Yorkshire.
11:46Bradford in the 80s and 90s
11:48was only just recovering
11:49from the reign of terror
11:52that Peter Sutcliffe had caused.
11:55But during that time,
11:57women selling sex hadn't stopped.
12:01What had changed was the reason for it.
12:05By the time Naylor was prowling the streets,
12:09drugs and alcohol
12:11had become the main reason.
12:13So, if a young woman became addicted,
12:18that was a way to feed her addiction.
12:21The sex worker community
12:23was forced to operate in the shadows.
12:26Lindsay Walton is CEO of a charity
12:29trying to raise awareness of their stories.
12:33Street sex workers often find the need
12:35to operate in areas
12:36where they are a bit more off the beaten track.
12:40Obviously, that then increases the danger.
12:43You have to make very quick decisions
12:45on if you trust someone.
12:47The vulnerability of sex workers
12:49was about to be exposed
12:51in the most horrific way.
12:53In the early hours
13:00of the 17th of December, 1985,
13:04police officer Mark Plovey
13:06was on duty in the red-light district
13:08when something caught his eye.
13:12I saw a car.
13:14It was parked off City Road
13:16in an area which I found suspicious.
13:20The car, to my mind,
13:21was in the wrong place.
13:23At the wrong time.
13:26So, they begin to follow the car
13:28and then the car speeds up
13:30and they give chase,
13:31literally, through Bradford.
13:36The distance is starting to increase.
13:39It's starting to pull away from me,
13:41which was concerning.
13:43The driver actually made a right turn
13:45at 70-plus miles an hour.
13:49So, you can imagine what happened then.
13:53And the vehicle actually came to a rest.
13:57In the middle of this traffic island,
14:00much to my surprise,
14:01the driver's door was flung open
14:03and the mail's out and he's off running.
14:06The driver of the car continued to run,
14:11scaling numerous walls,
14:14desperate to outrun the police,
14:16closing in behind him.
14:17It took the officers some time
14:20to catch the individual on foot.
14:25And eventually, they tackled him
14:26and brought him to the ground to arrest him.
14:28The man the police had captured
14:32was 40-year-old George Naylor.
14:36We arrested him on suspicion of stealing the car,
14:43but then we noticed that he was sweating
14:46absolutely profusely.
14:49He was emotional, he was agitated,
14:52he was crying, he was sobbing.
14:55They've just had a chase.
14:58They know that this person has got something to hide.
15:00They then present as emotionally strange as well.
15:06It's just going to keep layering over
15:08with the suspicions that they might have.
15:10Why had he tried to get away from us?
15:14Had he stolen the car?
15:16And then he came out with a reply,
15:18which I will never forget.
15:21And that reply was,
15:23OK, lads, you've got me for murder.
15:26I'm glad you've caught me.
15:28Which prompted me, of course, to ask him,
15:30what do you mean by that?
15:32To which he replied,
15:33there's a dead prostitute in the back of the car.
15:40That one sentence says so much about him.
15:46There's a dead prostitute in the back of the car.
15:49It's almost saying to the police,
15:52it's not the most serious offence you've ever seen.
15:54And I think that reveals about him
15:58how absolutely awful he is as a human being.
16:02A routine traffic stop had intensified rapidly
16:06and was now looking like the beginnings
16:08of a full-blown murder investigation.
16:12I had a look in the back of the car
16:15and I saw the body of a female.
16:21There was blood around her head and face.
16:24Her legs were behind the front passenger seat
16:28down in the well
16:29and her torso was on the back seat
16:32behind the driver's seat.
16:35When police looked into the name George Naylor,
16:39they discovered a man with a long history of offences.
16:45We put him in the back of the transit van
16:48and then I started to take a closer look at him
16:52and I could see that he'd got blood all over his hands
16:56and he'd got blood all down the white jumper
17:00that he was wearing.
17:05Naylor would have gone through quite a few different emotions.
17:10He is trapped and he does not like being trapped
17:13so he's going to be looking for any chink in the armour
17:17to get out of that entrapment.
17:21Naylor was handcuffed in the day cell.
17:24He became increasingly agitated
17:27and then he ran to the toilet
17:31and he shoved both hands down the toilet bowl
17:34and began to very, very quickly rinse the blood off his hands.
17:40He then turned to myself and said,
17:42that will make it more difficult for you, you bastards.
17:51But the police were already one step ahead of Naylor.
17:56Mark recognised the victim from his work
17:59in the red light district.
18:01She was 22-year-old sex worker Deborah Kershaw.
18:07It's really sad that we know so little about Deborah
18:10and I think that does speak to the way
18:14that sex workers were viewed at the time.
18:17That she wasn't notable in society enough
18:21for them to keep a record of this wonderful woman's life
18:24and what she meant to people.
18:27Sex workers are very, very often targeted
18:32by men who specifically want to hurt and kill women.
18:38It's not the fact that they're sex workers,
18:41it's the fact that they have access to them.
18:44He wanted a woman and he got a woman.
18:48Naylor had been caught red-handed
18:50and was swiftly charged with murder.
18:53But, faced with prison time, he started to change his story.
18:58He was going to put the blame on his victim.
19:01Deborah, he said, had become aggressive, uncooperative
19:04when he'd said to her that he didn't have enough money.
19:08His excuse was, she died after he'd put her in a headlock.
19:13In other words, the killer was blaming the victim for her own death.
19:21This is a man who will try every possible escape route
19:26with no moral code whatsoever.
19:29No shame, no remorse, no guilt, no nothing.
19:31Just me, me, me.
19:32I want to get out here.
19:34The trial began at Leeds Crown Court.
19:42The jury weren't allowed to know about Naylor's violent past.
19:47They had to make a judgment based purely
19:49on the evidence of Deborah's murder.
19:54The post-mortem on Deborah said that Deborah had been strangled
20:00and the strangulation was done by both hands around the neck,
20:07repeated, gripping over and over,
20:11which, in essence, caused a patchwork of bruising
20:16around the neck from the front to the back.
20:21When Naylor gets to trial,
20:23the defence make a great play of the fact
20:25that Deborah had a very frail windpipe
20:28and suggest that it was perhaps their client
20:32who was suggesting it was a tragic accident
20:34during consensual sex.
20:36In a crushing blow to prosecutors
20:39and the family of Deborah Kershaw,
20:42the jury believed Naylor's version of events
20:45and found him guilty not of murder, but of manslaughter.
20:51That was a huge error of judgment.
20:54Naylor's obviously a really clever performer
20:58to persuade a jury that somehow his crimes
21:02were not as bad as they were,
21:05that he was not a murderer,
21:07but an unfortunate killer who'd made a mistake.
21:11That's unforgivable.
21:13It was, I suppose, an indication to him
21:16that he could get away with whatever he wanted.
21:18After the verdict, the jury were made aware
21:22of Naylor's criminal background for the first time.
21:26It was clear to me, looking across
21:29at the 12 members of the jury,
21:32that they were hashing, white-faced,
21:35indeed quite shocked when they heard
21:38about his character and background,
21:39and I have no doubt in my mind
21:42that perhaps as some of them returned home,
21:45they obviously thought,
21:46perhaps we've got this one wrong.
21:52Despite escaping a murder conviction,
21:56George Naylor was still sentenced to life in prison,
21:59and even behind bars,
22:01the rage remained inside of him.
22:04At one point, he made threats
22:06that should he ever get out of prison
22:09for killing Deborah,
22:11he would pay me a visit.
22:13That's putting it politely.
22:16He's trying to assert his status.
22:20You're not better than me,
22:22so you better be careful.
22:24When I get out of here, I'm going to hurt you.
22:27Throughout his life,
22:28he's used fear to try and control people.
22:31Just the same old, same old.
22:33He had nothing else, really.
22:34Just one year into his imprisonment,
22:39Naylor appealed his sentence
22:41and went before a new judge.
22:43His legal team claimed
22:45that he no longer posed a threat
22:47to the public.
22:49Staggeringly,
22:50especially when you look at his previous history
22:52and now know what was to follow,
22:55the judge agreed with him.
22:57He said virtually
22:59that he posed no threat
23:01to the general public,
23:02that that threat was barren.
23:05And in fact,
23:06his sentence
23:07was reduced
23:08to just 11 years.
23:13Well, I don't want to use expletives,
23:15but of course,
23:15I was furious.
23:17That must have been heartbreaking
23:19for the family,
23:21friends
23:22and loved ones
23:23of Deborah.
23:28Police thought
23:29they had finally put
23:30George Naylor
23:31behind bars for life.
23:33But,
23:34in a stunning turn of events,
23:36after serving
23:37just seven and a half years,
23:39he was out again.
23:40No longer just a rapist,
23:42but a practised killer.
23:44Emboldened
23:45by the legal system,
23:47Naylor was a free man
23:48and primed
23:49to kill again.
24:00In 1993,
24:0248-year-old George Naylor
24:04was once again
24:05a free man,
24:06with a record
24:07for both rape
24:08and manslaughter.
24:10But prison
24:11hadn't slowed him down.
24:13Behind bars,
24:14he'd kept up
24:15his talent for charm
24:16and had even
24:18left prison
24:19with something
24:20no-one expected,
24:21a new wife.
24:29He managed
24:30to persuade
24:31a woman
24:32that he was
24:33a man
24:33who should be
24:34and could be loved.
24:35He was actually
24:37married in prison.
24:39The woman
24:40who married him
24:41knew nothing
24:41of his past,
24:42but this was not
24:44a man who could
24:45be tamed.
24:47When Naylor
24:48left prison,
24:49he moved
24:50with his new wife
24:51to South Shields
24:52in the northeast.
24:54She thought
24:55he was
24:56a nice person,
24:57a different person
24:58to the one
24:59he actually was.
25:01And unfortunately,
25:03when he was released,
25:05she found out
25:06very quickly
25:07what a dangerous
25:08person Naylor was.
25:11Eventually,
25:12his wife
25:12was forced
25:13to get
25:13a restraining order
25:14on him.
25:16He tried to
25:17strangle her.
25:17She thought
25:18she was going
25:19to die
25:19and the marriage
25:20was over.
25:22Naylor moved
25:23back to Bradford
25:24with tragic
25:25consequences.
25:36On the 9th
25:37of June 1995,
25:39police were called
25:40to the home
25:41of 18-year-old
25:42Maureen Stepan,
25:44where her boyfriend
25:45had found her dead.
25:48A murder inquiry
25:49was launched.
25:50I was a detective
25:51sergeant working
25:52at the local
25:53police station
25:53in Bradford,
25:54so I was part
25:55of the investigation
25:56team.
25:58The investigation
25:59began by learning
26:00more about
26:02the 18-year-old.
26:06Maureen was
26:07a young girl,
26:08an attractive girl,
26:09came from a good
26:10family.
26:11We met her
26:12mother and father.
26:14But like many
26:15young people,
26:17she eventually
26:17got involved
26:18in drugs.
26:21Her parents
26:22tried desperately
26:23to cope.
26:24They went to
26:24social services
26:25and they said,
26:26please help us.
26:27She was sent
26:28to establishments
26:30in London
26:31and elsewhere
26:31in the country.
26:33She never could
26:34quite kick
26:35the addiction.
26:37Once she'd become
26:38addicted to heroin,
26:40then it was
26:40incredibly difficult
26:41to fund that addiction.
26:44Working in the
26:45sex trade
26:45was just one way
26:47of actually funding
26:48that heroin addiction.
26:49frequently she was
26:52found walking
26:53the streets of
26:53Bradford and
26:55looking for
26:55customers.
26:56On the night
26:57of her murder,
26:58Maureen had been
26:59working on the
27:00street.
27:01Investigators needed
27:02to figure out
27:03who she'd met
27:05that night.
27:06We just simply
27:07had other accounts
27:09from her friends
27:10who had said
27:10she was standing
27:11on this particular
27:12street corner.
27:13A car pulled up,
27:14she got in,
27:15she went off,
27:16but then she came
27:17back and we saw
27:17her again later on.
27:19But then we realised
27:21after a while
27:21that after one
27:22particular meeting,
27:24then she disappeared.
27:26Clearly this would
27:27seem to be
27:28when she met
27:29her killer,
27:31went back to her
27:31house and was killed.
27:37Police had a timeline
27:39but nobody could
27:40identify her abductor.
27:42It was a dead end.
27:43Investigators went
27:45back to Maureen's
27:47body.
27:48Maybe it could
27:48provide clues as
27:50to who had
27:51brutally murdered
27:52her.
27:52Her clothing had
27:53been removed and
27:55she'd been strangled
27:56with her own
27:56tights.
27:58We saw cigarette
28:00burns on her
28:01body so she'd
28:02been mutilated
28:02after death.
28:04It was clearly
28:05a sick individual
28:07who'd done that
28:08to somebody.
28:10That shows
28:11to me a lot
28:12of rage.
28:13a lot of
28:15hatred
28:15towards what
28:17the victim
28:18represents,
28:20women.
28:21He absolutely
28:23wanted to show
28:24you are
28:25nothing.
28:26I am
28:27better.
28:28I am
28:29above you.
28:31You are
28:32literally
28:33nothing to me.
28:35to me.
28:41Investigators
28:42appeal to the
28:42public for
28:43help in
28:44catching this
28:44violent killer.
28:46Someone came
28:47forward saying
28:48they had
28:48information about
28:49a local
28:50resident,
28:52George Naylor.
28:54George had
28:56recently visited
28:58a friend of
28:59his and
29:00had asked
29:01him if he
29:01would wash
29:02some clothing.
29:04That was
29:04very unusual.
29:05Why would
29:06George Naylor
29:07need someone
29:07else to
29:08wash his
29:08clothing?
29:11So he became
29:12a very strong
29:13person of interest
29:14from our point
29:14of view.
29:16It's hardly a
29:17surprise that
29:18Naylor becomes
29:19a possible
29:19suspect.
29:20He's known as
29:21a sex offender.
29:22He's killed
29:23before.
29:24So he gets
29:26on to a
29:26shortlist very
29:27quickly.
29:28As police
29:29investigated
29:30the now
29:3150-year-old
29:32George Naylor,
29:33they found
29:34more and
29:34more red
29:35flags.
29:37We discovered
29:38that he had
29:39fled Bradford
29:40where he had
29:41a house.
29:42That in
29:43itself was
29:43unusual.
29:45In fleeing,
29:46he drew even
29:47more attention
29:48to himself.
29:50It's one of
29:51those panic
29:51decisions that
29:52really,
29:53he should
29:54have thought
29:54about it
29:55more.
29:56Police
29:56discovered
29:57that Naylor
29:57hadn't gone
29:58far.
29:59He was back
30:00at his
30:00estranged
30:01wife's home
30:02in South
30:02Shields.
30:03On the
30:0416th of
30:04June,
30:051995,
30:06the police
30:07felt that
30:08Naylor was
30:08a strong
30:09enough suspect
30:10to arrest
30:11him for
30:11the murder
30:12of Maureen
30:13Stepan.
30:14Having
30:15arrested
30:15many,
30:16many people,
30:17his reaction
30:17was quite
30:18unusual.
30:19He didn't
30:19panic.
30:20He didn't
30:20protest.
30:22He wasn't
30:23shocked.
30:24One of the
30:25first things
30:25he asked
30:26is he wanted
30:26to go to
30:27the toilet.
30:28Now,
30:28something about
30:29George's
30:30manner and
30:31demeanor at
30:32that stage
30:33told me that
30:34something strange
30:35was going to
30:35happen.
30:37Turned his
30:38back on me
30:39and he began
30:39to urinate.
30:42I could see
30:42he was fumbling
30:43around and
30:43something strange
30:44was going on.
30:46George had
30:46a load of
30:47pills and he
30:49was trying to
30:49get those pills
30:50out and
30:51to swallow
30:52them.
30:57So we
30:58very quickly
30:58disabled him,
31:00overpowered him,
31:01removed the
31:02pills from his
31:03hands and
31:04took them
31:04away from him
31:05and placed
31:06them in
31:06handcuffs.
31:10Now in
31:11police custody,
31:13Naylor denied
31:14knowing Maureen
31:15and said he
31:16had nothing to
31:17do with her
31:17murder.
31:19Detectives needed
31:20to find evidence
31:21to link him to
31:22Maureen.
31:23They started by
31:24searching his
31:25marital home.
31:27We noticed
31:28that the house
31:29had a telephone
31:30answering system.
31:31A lot of calls
31:32coming into the
31:33house were logged.
31:34So we were able
31:35to see the numbers
31:36that had been
31:37ringing the house.
31:39When we spoke
31:40to his partner,
31:42she informed us
31:43that on the night
31:45of the offence,
31:46she had gone out
31:47with a group of
31:48friends and he
31:49was not happy
31:50about that.
31:50In fact,
31:50he was furious.
31:52While she was
31:53out, he kept
31:54on ringing and
31:55ringing and
31:56ringing her
31:57house to find
31:58out where she
31:58was.
32:00But that gave
32:01us a little
32:02goldmine of
32:03evidence because
32:04all those numbers
32:05that we found
32:07on the
32:07tele-on-answering
32:08machine were
32:09Bradford numbers.
32:11That allowed us
32:12to prove that
32:14George was in
32:15the red light
32:16area, very, very
32:17close to where
32:18Maureen Stepan
32:19had been last
32:20seen and had
32:21actually been
32:22working that
32:22night.
32:24Naylor was
32:25forced to admit
32:25that he had
32:26been in the
32:27Bradford area,
32:28but it still
32:29wasn't enough
32:29to charge him.
32:32Fortunately, the
32:33police were able
32:33to retrieve the
32:34clothing that he'd
32:35been wearing that
32:36night.
32:37It had been
32:38washed, but they
32:39were able to
32:39actually still find
32:41enough material to
32:42make a test on.
32:44They were able to
32:44say that the
32:45genes that George
32:46Naylor had dropped
32:47off to be washed
32:48had the blood of
32:50Maureen Stepan on
32:52the knee.
32:57Investigators now
32:58had compelling
32:58evidence that
33:00linked Naylor not
33:01just to the area,
33:02but directly to
33:04Maureen's murder.
33:05We sort of forced
33:07him into a corner
33:07where he had to
33:08admit actual
33:09contact with
33:10Maureen.
33:12George's account
33:13changed dramatically.
33:15And then what he
33:16said was, I did
33:17meet somebody that
33:18fits the description
33:19of Maureen Stepan
33:20on the night in
33:22question.
33:24She did get into
33:25my car and we
33:27did have sex, but I
33:28did not kill her and
33:30I did not go back
33:31to her house.
33:32Typically for Naylor,
33:34even when he's
33:34confronted by really
33:36clear evidence, DNA,
33:38the phone calls, all
33:39the rest, he's still
33:40trying to wriggle out
33:41of it.
33:41He's still trying to
33:42say, no, no, it's a
33:42misunderstanding, it
33:44wasn't me.
33:45As you would expect
33:46from a man whose
33:47vanity knew few
33:48bounds.
33:52Detectives were
33:53certain they had
33:54their man and on the
33:5617th of June, George
33:57Naylor was charged with
33:59the murder of Maureen
34:00Stepan.
34:01The police had
34:02evidence to show a man
34:03with a history of
34:04violence, angry at his
34:06wife and a young woman
34:08who simply crossed his
34:10path.
34:12Maureen was obviously
34:13desperate that night.
34:15She was still on the
34:16streets at 2.30 in the
34:18morning.
34:19It was then that Naylor
34:21approached her and asked
34:23her for sex.
34:24He had spent the evening
34:26in a local pub.
34:27He was getting more
34:28and more angry.
34:30He tried to contact
34:31his wife to persuade
34:32her to take him back.
34:34And by the time his
34:36car pulled up where
34:38Maureen stood in a usual
34:40spot in Bradford, he
34:42was fuming.
34:46What he's suffering in
34:48his mind is massive
34:50injustice meted out on
34:53him by a woman.
34:55We have this massive
34:56entitlement and status
34:58issue.
35:00He's going to take it
35:01out on another woman.
35:04He was very jealous and
35:06therefore by picking up a
35:08person working in the sex
35:10trade, he was going to get
35:11his own back.
35:12He saw Maureen, George
35:14picked her up and then
35:16they ended up going back
35:17to the house.
35:18She will have had seconds
35:20to make a decision as to
35:21whether it was safe
35:23enough.
35:25And with certain
35:25individuals like Nayla, I
35:27think that if she hadn't
35:29got in willingly, he
35:30probably would have forced
35:32her in anyway.
35:38Police were confident that
35:40they had a watertight case
35:42against Nayla.
35:43But he'd managed to evade
35:46justice once before.
35:49Investigators were desperate
35:50to make sure that history
35:52wouldn't repeat itself.
35:54But George Nayla was going
35:56to do whatever it took to try
35:58and get away with murder
35:59again.
36:01In 1997, George Nayla was
36:13already a convicted killer
36:14and rapist.
36:15And now he once again
36:17faced prison for the murder
36:19of 18-year-old Maureen
36:20Stepan.
36:22The trial began at Sheffield
36:23Crown Court with Maureen's
36:25family in attendance.
36:31Now, I did meet Maureen's
36:34family at court.
36:36We did everything we could
36:37to comfort them, to give
36:39them support, to assist them
36:41in whatever way we could.
36:44Families want to know the
36:47facts, even if those facts
36:48are incredibly painful.
36:51And to add to that, you've
36:53got somebody who you know
36:55has done it.
36:56All the evidence is
36:57pointing that way, who's
36:59going to start throwing out
37:00every kind of defence.
37:03Blame the victim, make
37:05himself seem like a
37:06wonderful, lovely person.
37:08And all the time, they've
37:09just got to sit there in
37:10silence and try and
37:12maintain dignity so hard.
37:16By 1997, the law had
37:18changed.
37:19And unlike his trial over a
37:21decade earlier, the jury were
37:23now allowed to hear a lot
37:24more about Nayla's violent
37:26past.
37:27With Nayla, his two
37:29offences were so incredibly
37:31similar in so many ways.
37:35The MO, the way that the
37:37women died.
37:39We can say, jury, you need to
37:42know about this.
37:42The prosecution laid bare Nayla's
37:50history of raping and killing,
37:52and Maureen's DNA on his
37:54trousers left him nowhere to
37:56hide.
37:58Finally, George Nayla was found
38:00guilty of murder.
38:02Justice had seemingly been
38:04served.
38:05On the 6th of February, 1997,
38:08he was given a life sentence.
38:10However, Nayla was an arch
38:14manipulator, not just of women,
38:16but of the system.
38:18And he appealed that murder
38:22conviction.
38:23He'd been successful before.
38:26He was a man willing to just
38:28keep trying and trying and
38:30trying.
38:31Work for him in the past,
38:33worth a punt, I think, is
38:35probably how he would have
38:36seen it.
38:36In 1999, Nayla was granted a
38:41retrial on the grounds that the
38:43jury should not have been told
38:44about his previous manslaughter
38:46conviction.
38:48On this trial, we weren't allowed
38:49to mention anything about the
38:51previous offence where Deborah
38:53Kershaw had been killed.
38:55It went simply and solely on the
38:57evidence relating to Maureen
38:58Stepan.
38:59The prosecution needed to try a new
39:01tactic to convince the jury of
39:04Nayla's bad character.
39:05Both his estranged wife and the
39:07mother of his children were brave
39:09enough to speak against him.
39:11Nayla's previous partners testify
39:14that he is a violent man towards
39:17women, that he is not of good
39:19character, that he is, in a sense,
39:21hiding in plain sight.
39:23He looks charming and nonchalant
39:27and ordinary, and yet he truly
39:31isn't.
39:32Both women were certain of one
39:34thing.
39:35If Nayla was released, then he
39:37would kill again.
39:43After yet another trial, the jury
39:46found Nayla guilty for the second
39:48time.
39:49He tried to escape justice, but he
39:51was ordered to serve at least 20
39:53years behind bars.
39:56For Maureen's family, the seemingly
39:58endless trials were finally over.
40:02I do believe that there was a big
40:03sense of relief at the end, that
40:05this was finally the end of this
40:06saga.
40:08You can never forget your family
40:09members that have been killed like
40:11this, but people have to move on,
40:13have to try and build a life again.
40:15But knowing that the killer's been
40:16caught and properly punished is a big
40:19factor in moving on and getting
40:21over and grieving properly.
40:24Nayla had a significantly negative
40:27impact on so many different lives.
40:31And those are just the ones we know
40:34about.
40:35So this is a man who was trashing his
40:38way through life, hurting everybody
40:41who came into his path.
40:44Nayla didn't appear to see his victims
40:46as people.
40:47It was as if Maureen's and Debra's
40:49lives meant nothing to him.
40:52It's vital that we give a voice for
40:54Maureen and Debra.
40:57They need to be heard.
41:00They are someone's best friend,
41:02someone's mum.
41:03They are good people and do not deserve
41:07to be thrown away in the way that
41:09society treats them.
41:10Often these men, these killers, these
41:16vicious, violent, sadistic men excuse
41:20their behavior by saying, oh, well,
41:23she was only working the streets.
41:25I always like to switch it around.
41:30To say Nayla was the weak, pathetic
41:34individual here.
41:37The girls were sad victims of the
41:39circumstances that they had found
41:41themselves in.
41:43Drugs drive young women then, as now,
41:47to sell sex, and we have to accept
41:50that is a fact.
41:52And as such, they are too easily
41:55prey for violent, vicious killers
41:59like Nayla.
42:07Nayla was finally back behind bars,
42:10but many people involved in the case
42:12feel that he should never have been
42:14freed to kill for a second time.
42:16I don't think justice was
42:18served in the end because he should
42:20never have got out from a killing
42:22having done seven and a half years,
42:24and Maureen should still be alive
42:26to this date because he should
42:28have been in prison.
42:31The tragedy of this case is the
42:32warning signs were always there.
42:36I think Nayla should have been
42:38stopped much earlier.
42:40There is no question in my mind that
42:41justice was not served, particularly
42:44in the case of Deborah.
42:44Deborah. He was a man with, I believe,
42:47an evil gene, and a man who would not
42:50be satisfied unless he satisfied
42:52himself, and his objectives were
42:54always women, and therefore any woman
42:57who came across his bowels was in danger
42:59from him.
43:00On the 17th of December, 2021, George Nayla died of a brain
43:14aneurysm in HMP Franklin in Durham.
43:19He was 77 years old.
43:22I suppose really only at that point did I really,
43:24truly believe that he was no longer a danger
43:27to the public, and if George would have been released,
43:31even as an elderly man, I still think he would have
43:34had the potential to do harm to women.
43:37So in that context, the public no longer need to be
43:41in fear of George Nayla.
43:43He's an insignificant predatory killer
43:49who died where he should have been
43:51a lot sooner
43:52in prison.
43:55I just want people to remember
43:57behind the headlines
43:58are two young women
44:00who fell in with the wrong crowd
44:03as teenagers
44:05and met a man
44:07who was prepared to end their lives
44:09without a thought.
44:11Nayla was a callous killer
44:21who bottled all the hatred he had for women
44:24and distilled it
44:25into the most shocking violence.
44:28After managing to avoid a murder conviction
44:31for killing Deborah Kershaw,
44:33his lust for brutality
44:35wasn't curbed in prison.
44:37And when Nayla was released early,
44:40he couldn't help but kill again,
44:42squeezing the life
44:43out of 18-year-old Maureen Stepan,
44:47leaving no doubt
44:48that George Nayla
44:49will forever be remembered
44:51as one of Britain's
44:52most evil killers.
45:22is that a woman who now
45:24should be used to be
45:33to be her,
45:34to be an innocent person.
45:34It's a daughter who passed away
45:36and she was trapped in prison.
45:36But I couldn't help but
45:37get to her,
45:38if you don't have just
45:39all the people have not to be
45:40in prison,
45:41no doubt they don't have to be
45:42in prison.
45:42But I can't help but
45:43even if you don't have to be
45:44in prison,
45:46so you can help with
45:47a man that loves girls
45:48and good food,
45:50do not have to be
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