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Britain's Most Evil Killers - Season 10 Episode 4 - 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.
01:15They 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.
01:44George Naylor in Bella
01:48When George Naylor was convicted of murder in February 1997,
02:14it brought an end to his reign of terror.
02:16It 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 I ever met in 31 years
02:33of being a police officer in Bradford.
02:36I'm absolutely convinced in my own mind
02:40that any time Naylor had his liberty, then 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.
03:07There were many opportunities to put Naylor away for life,
03:13but he managed to evade justice for years.
03:17Naylor'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, a cold, calculating brute,
03:28who 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,
04:09so 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.
04:18As 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.
04:39When 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.
05:02Now, that's a really serious offence.
05:05He'd been building up to violence for quite a long time.
05:08He 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.
05:28By 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 from 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.
07:10He 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,
08:17and 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,
08:39he 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.
08:58He knew that it was going to be
09:01a serious offence,
09:03and 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.
09:32He 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.
09:54Shards 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
10:03and charge Naylor.
10:05There were also some traces,
10:08fibres,
10:09from his pullover
10:10on her pyjamas.
10:12In the end,
10:13those small things caught Naylor.
10:16He hadn't expected them.
10:23Naylor was sentenced
10:24to 15 years
10:26for the horrific attack,
10:28but was released
10:29before serving his full term.
10:31The rape was brutal.
10:33It was horrific.
10:33And yet,
10:34he served
10:35less than 10 years.
10:38Within weeks
10:38of his release from prison,
10:40he was hunting
10:41on the streets of Bradford.
10:43He would have been
10:44honing those skills
10:45of manipulation
10:46and showing his status
10:49and gaining status
10:50for a decade.
10:51And then we
10:52let him out
10:53on the streets again.
10:55And he's not going to stop.
10:57In 1985,
11:03George Naylor
11:04walked out of prison
11:05a free man,
11:06but he was far
11:07from rehabilitated.
11:11Just eight weeks
11:13after his release,
11:14he would escalate
11:16from brutal rapist
11:17to cold-blooded killer.
11:20In 1985,
11:3240-year-old convicted
11:34rapist George Naylor
11:35was released
11:36onto the streets
11:38of West Yorkshire.
11:39Bradford in the 80s
11:47and 90s
11:48was only just
11:49recovering
11:49from the reign
11:51of terror
11:52that Peter Sutcliffe
11:53had caused.
11:55But during that time,
11:57women selling sex
11:59hadn't stopped.
12:01What had changed
12:02was the reason for it.
12:04By the time Naylor
12:07was prowling
12:08the streets,
12:09drugs
12:10and alcohol
12:11had become
12:12the main reason.
12:14So,
12:15if a young woman
12:16became addicted,
12:18that was a way
12:19to feed her addiction.
12:21The sex worker
12:22community
12:23was forced
12:24to operate
12:24in the shadows.
12:26Lindsay Walton
12:27is CEO
12:28of a charity
12:29trying to raise awareness
12:30of their stories.
12:32Street sex workers
12:34often find
12:35the need
12:35to operate
12:35in areas
12:36where they are
12:37a bit more
12:38off the beaten track.
12:40Obviously,
12:41that then
12:42increases the danger.
12:43You have to
12:43make very quick decisions
12:45on if you trust someone.
12:47The vulnerability
12:48of sex workers
12:49was about to be exposed
12:51in the most horrific way.
12:59In the early hours
13:00of the 17th of December,
13:021985,
13:04police officer
13:05Mark Plovey
13:06was on duty
13:06in the red-light district
13:08when something
13:09caught his eye.
13:12I saw a car.
13:14It was parked
13:16off City Road
13:16in an area
13:18which I found suspicious.
13:20The car,
13:21to my mind,
13:21was in the wrong place
13:23at the wrong time.
13:24So they begin
13:27to follow the car
13:28and then
13:29the car speeds up
13:30and they give chase
13:31literally
13:32through Bradford.
13:36The distance
13:37is starting
13:38to increase.
13:39He's starting
13:39to pull away
13:40from me
13:41which was concerning.
13:43The driver
13:43actually made
13:44a right turn
13:45at 70 plus
13:48miles an hour.
13:49So you can imagine
13:50what happened then.
13:51And the vehicle
13:54actually came
13:55to a rest
13:56in the middle
13:58of this traffic island.
14:00Much to my surprise,
14:01the driver's door
14:02was flung open
14:03and the mail's out
14:05and he's off running.
14:08The driver
14:09of the car
14:10continued to run,
14:12scaling numerous walls,
14:14desperate to outrun
14:15the police,
14:16closing in
14:16behind him.
14:17It took the officers
14:19some time
14:20to catch
14:21the individual
14:22on foot
14:23and eventually
14:26they tackled him
14:27and brought him
14:27to the ground
14:27to arrest him.
14:30The man
14:31the police
14:32had captured
14:32was 40-year-old
14:34George Naylor.
14:40We arrested him
14:41on suspicion
14:42of stealing the car
14:43but then
14:44we noticed
14:45that he was
14:46sweating
14:46absolutely
14:47profusely.
14:49He was emotional,
14:51he was agitated,
14:52he was crying,
14:54he was sobbing.
14:56They've just
14:57had a chase.
14:58They know
14:58that this person
14:59has got something
15:00to hide.
15:01They then present
15:02as emotionally
15:04strange as well.
15:06It's just going
15:06to keep layering
15:07over with the
15:08suspicions
15:09that they might have.
15:10Why had he tried
15:13to get away
15:13from us
15:14had he stolen
15:15the car
15:15and then he came
15:17out with a reply
15:18which I will
15:19never forget
15:20and that reply
15:22was
15:22okay lads
15:23you've got me
15:25for murder
15:25I'm glad
15:26you've caught me
15:27which prompted
15:29me of course
15:29to ask him
15:30what do you
15:31mean by that
15:31to which he replied
15:33there's a dead
15:33prostitute
15:34in the back
15:35of the car.
15:40That one sentence
15:44says so much
15:45about him
15:46there's a dead
15:47prostitute
15:47in the back
15:48of the car.
15:49It's almost
15:50saying to the police
15:51it's not the most
15:52serious offence
15:53you've ever seen
15:54and I think
15:55that reveals
15:56about him
15:58how absolutely
15:59awful he is
16:00as a human being.
16:02A routine
16:03traffic stop
16:04had intensified
16:05rapidly
16:06and was now
16:07looking like
16:08the beginnings
16:08of a full-blown
16:10murder investigation.
16:12I had a look
16:13in the back
16:14of the car
16:15and I saw
16:17the body
16:18of a female
16:19there was blood
16:22around her head
16:23and face
16:23legs
16:25were behind
16:26the front
16:27passenger seat
16:28down in the well
16:29and her torso
16:30was on the
16:31back seat
16:32behind the driver's
16:34seat.
16:35When police
16:37looked into
16:37the name
16:38George Naylor
16:39they discovered
16:40a man
16:40with a long
16:41history
16:42of offences.
16:45We put him
16:46in the back
16:46of the transit
16:47van
16:48and then I
16:49started to
16:50take a closer
16:50look at him
16:52and I could
16:53see that
16:53he'd got blood
16:55all over his
16:56hands
16:56and he'd got
16:58blood
16:58all down
16:59the white
17:00jumper
17:00that he was
17:02wearing.
17:05Naylor would
17:06have gone
17:06through quite
17:07a few
17:07different
17:08emotions.
17:10He is
17:10trapped and
17:11he does
17:12not like
17:12being trapped
17:13so he's
17:13going to be
17:14looking for
17:15any chink
17:16in the armour
17:17to get out
17:18of that
17:19entrapment.
17:21Naylor was
17:22handcuffed
17:22in the day
17:23cell.
17:24He became
17:25increasingly
17:26agitated
17:28and then
17:29he ran
17:29to the
17:31toilet
17:31and he
17:32shoved
17:32both hands
17:33down the
17:34toilet bowl
17:34and began
17:36to very,
17:36very quickly
17:37rinse the
17:38blood off
17:39his hands.
17:40He then
17:41turned to
17:41himself
17:41and said,
17:42that will
17:43make it
17:44more difficult
17:44for you,
17:45you bastards.
17:51But the
17:52police were
17:53already one
17:54step ahead
17:55of Naylor.
17:56Mark
17:57recognised
17:58the victim
17:58from his
17:59work in
18:00the red
18:00light
18:00district.
18:01She was
18:0222-year-old
18:03sex worker
18:03Deborah
18:04Kershaw.
18:07It's really
18:08sad that we
18:09know so
18:09little about
18:10Deborah and
18:11I think
18:11that does
18:12speak to
18:13the way
18:14that sex
18:14workers were
18:15viewed at
18:15the time.
18:17That she
18:18wasn't notable
18:19in society
18:20enough for
18:21them to
18:21keep a
18:22record of
18:22this wonderful
18:23woman's
18:24life and
18:25what she
18:26meant to
18:26people.
18:28Sex workers
18:29are very,
18:30very often
18:31targeted by
18:32men who
18:33specifically
18:34want to
18:35hurt and
18:36kill women.
18:38It's not the
18:39fact that
18:40they're sex
18:40workers,
18:41it's the
18:41fact that
18:42they have
18:42access to
18:43them.
18:44He wanted
18:45a woman
18:46and he
18:47got a
18:48woman.
18:48Naylor had
18:49been caught
18:50red-handed
18:50and was
18:51swiftly charged
18:52with murder
18:53but faced
18:54with prison
18:55time, he
18:56started to
18:56change his
18:57story.
18:58He was
18:58going to
18:59put the
18:59blame on
19:00his victim.
19:01Deborah, he
19:01said, had
19:02become aggressive,
19:04uncooperative when
19:05he'd said to her
19:05that he didn't
19:06have enough
19:07money.
19:08His excuse
19:09was she
19:10died after
19:11he'd put her
19:12in a headlock.
19:14In other
19:15words, the
19:16killer was
19:17blaming the
19:18victim for
19:19her own
19:19death.
19:19This is a
19:22man who
19:23will try
19:24every possible
19:25escape route
19:26with no
19:27moral code
19:28whatsoever,
19:29no shame,
19:30no remorse,
19:30no guilt,
19:31no nothing,
19:31just me,
19:32me, me,
19:32I want to
19:33get out
19:33here.
19:39The trial
19:40began at
19:41Leeds Crown
19:41Court.
19:42The jury
19:43weren't allowed
19:44to know about
19:45Naylor's violent
19:46past.
19:47They had to
19:48make a judgment
19:48based purely
19:50on the
19:50evidence of
19:51Deborah's
19:51murder.
19:54The
19:55post-mortem
19:56on Deborah
19:57said that
19:58Deborah had
19:59been strangled
20:00and the
20:01strangulation
20:02was done
20:03by both
20:04hands
20:04around the
20:05neck,
20:07repeated
20:07gripping
20:09over and
20:10over,
20:11which in
20:13essence caused
20:14a patchwork
20:16of bruising
20:16around her neck
20:18from the front
20:19to the back.
20:20When Naylor
20:22gets to trial,
20:23the defense
20:24make a great
20:24play of the
20:25fact that
20:25Deborah had a
20:26very frail
20:27windpipe
20:28and suggest
20:29that it was
20:30perhaps their
20:32client who
20:32suggested it
20:33was a tragic
20:34accident during
20:35consensual sex.
20:36In a crushing
20:38blow to
20:38prosecutors and
20:40the family of
20:41Deborah Kershaw,
20:42the jury
20:43believed Naylor's
20:44version of events
20:45and found him
20:46guilty not of
20:47murder but of
20:49manslaughter.
20:51That was a huge
20:53error of judgment.
20:56Naylor's obviously
20:56a really clever
20:57performer to
20:59persuade a jury
21:00that somehow his
21:02crimes were not
21:03as bad as they
21:04were, that he
21:06was not a
21:07murderer but an
21:08unfortunate killer
21:09who'd made a
21:10mistake.
21:11That's
21:11unforgivable.
21:12It was, I
21:14suppose, an
21:16indication to him
21:16that he could get
21:17away with whatever
21:18he wanted.
21:19After the
21:20verdict, the
21:21jury were made
21:22aware of Naylor's
21:23criminal background
21:24for the first
21:25time.
21:26It was clear to
21:28me, looking
21:29across at the
21:3012 members of
21:31the jury, that
21:32they were
21:33hashing, white
21:34faced, indeed
21:36quite shocked
21:37when they heard
21:38about his
21:38character and
21:39background.
21:39And I have
21:40no doubt in
21:41my mind that
21:43perhaps as some
21:43of them returned
21:44home, they
21:45obviously thought
21:46perhaps we've
21:47got this one
21:47wrong.
21:52Despite
21:53escaping a
21:54murder conviction,
21:56George Naylor was
21:57still sentenced to
21:58life in prison.
21:59And even behind
22:00bars, the rage
22:02remained inside of
22:03him.
22:04At one
22:05point, he
22:05made threats
22:06that should
22:08he ever get
22:08out of prison
22:09for killing
22:10Deborah, he
22:11would pay
22:12me a
22:12visit.
22:13That's
22:14putting it
22:14politely.
22:17He's
22:17trying to
22:18assert his
22:19status.
22:20You're
22:20not better
22:21than me,
22:22so you
22:23better be
22:23careful.
22:24When I
22:24get out
22:24of here,
22:25I'm
22:25going to
22:25hurt you.
22:27Throughout his
22:28life, he's
22:28used fear
22:29to try
22:30and control
22:31people.
22:31Just the
22:32same
22:32old, same
22:33old.
22:33He had
22:34nothing
22:34else, really.
22:36Just one
22:37year into
22:37his imprisonment,
22:39Naylor
22:39appealed
22:40his sentence
22:41and went
22:41before a
22:42new judge.
22:43His legal
22:44team claimed
22:45that he
22:45no longer
22:46posed a
22:46threat to
22:47the public.
22:49Staggeringly,
22:50especially
22:50when you
22:51look at
22:51his previous
22:52history and
22:53now know
22:54what was
22:54to follow,
22:55the judge
22:55agreed with
22:56him.
22:57He said
22:58virtually that
22:59he posed
23:00no threat
23:01to the
23:01general
23:01public
23:02that that
23:03threat was
23:04barren.
23:05And in
23:05fact, his
23:06sentence was
23:08reduced to
23:09just 11
23:11years.
23:13Well, I don't
23:13want to use
23:14expletives, but
23:15of course, I
23:15was furious.
23:17That must have
23:18been heartbreaking
23:19for the family,
23:21friends, and
23:22loved ones of
23:23Deborah.
23:24police thought
23:29they had
23:29finally put
23:30George Naylor
23:31behind bars
23:32for life.
23:33But in a
23:34stunning turn
23:35of events,
23:36after serving
23:37just seven
23:37and a half
23:38years, he
23:39was out
23:39again, no
23:40longer just
23:41a rapist, but
23:42a practiced
23:43killer.
23:44Emboldened
23:45by the legal
23:46system, Naylor
23:47was a free
23:48man and
23:48primed to
23:50kill again.
24:00In 1993,
24:0248-year-old
24:03George Naylor
24:04was once
24:05again a free
24:06man, with a
24:07record for both
24:08rape and
24:09manslaughter.
24:10But prison
24:11hadn't slowed
24:12him down.
24:13Behind bars,
24:14he'd kept up
24:15his talent for
24:16charm and
24:17had even
24:18left prison
24:19with something
24:20no one
24:20expected, a
24:21new wife.
24:29He managed
24:30to persuade
24:31a woman that
24:32he was a
24:33man who
24:34should be
24:34and could
24:34be loved.
24:35He was
24:36actually
24:37married in
24:38prison.
24:39The woman
24:40who married
24:40him knew
24:41nothing of
24:42his past,
24:43but this
24:43was not
24:44a man who
24:45could be
24:45tamed.
24:47When Naylor
24:48left prison,
24:49he moved
24:50with his
24:50new wife
24:51to South
24:51Shields in
24:52the northeast.
24:54She thought
24:55he was a
24:57nice person,
24:57a different
24:58person to
24:59the one he
25:00actually was.
25:01And unfortunately,
25:03when he was
25:04released,
25:05she found out
25:06very quickly
25:07what a dangerous
25:09person Naylor
25:09was.
25:11Eventually,
25:12his wife was
25:13forced to get
25:13a restraining
25:14order on him.
25:16He tried to
25:17strangle her.
25:17She thought
25:18she was going
25:19to die,
25:20and the
25:20marriage was
25:21over.
25:22Naylor moved
25:23back to Bradford
25:24with tragic
25:25consequences.
25:26On the
25:369th of June
25:371995,
25:39police were
25:40called to
25:40the home of
25:4118-year-old
25:42Maureen
25:43Stepan,
25:44where her
25:45boyfriend had
25:46found her
25:47dead.
25:48A murdering
25:48cry was
25:49launched.
25:50I was a
25:51detective sergeant
25:52working at the
25:53local police
25:53station in
25:54Bradford,
25:54so I was
25:55part of
25:55the
25:55investigation
25:56team.
25:58The
25:58investigation
25:59began by
26:00learning more
26:01about the
26:0218-year-old.
26:06Maureen was
26:07a young girl,
26:08an attractive
26:08girl,
26:09came from a
26:10good family.
26:11We met her
26:12mother and
26:12father.
26:14But like
26:15many young
26:16people,
26:16she 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
26:25said,
26:26please help
26:26us.
26:28She was
26:28sent to
26:29establishments
26:30in London
26:31and elsewhere
26:31in the
26:32country,
26:33but she
26:33never could
26:34quite kick
26:35the addiction.
26:37Once she'd
26:38become addicted
26:38to heroin,
26:40then it was
26:40incredibly difficult
26:41to fund that
26:42addiction.
26:44Working in
26:45the sex trade
26:46was just one
26:46way of actually
26:48funding that
26:48heroin addiction.
26:49frequently she
26:52was found
26:52walking the
26:53streets of
26:54Bradford and
26:55looking for
26:55customers.
26:57On the
26:57night of her
26:58murder,
26:59Maureen had
26:59been working
27:00on the street.
27:01Investigators
27:02needed to
27:03figure out who
27:04she'd met
27:05that night.
27:06We just
27:07simply had
27:08other accounts
27:09from her friends
27:10who had said
27:11she was standing
27:11on this
27:12particular street
27:12corner.
27:13A car pulled
27:14up,
27:14she got
27:15in,
27:15she went
27:15off,
27:16but then
27:16she came
27:17back and
27:17we saw
27:17her again
27:18later on.
27:19But then
27:20we realized
27:21after a while
27:21that after
27:22one particular
27:23meeting,
27:24then she
27:24disappeared.
27:26Clearly,
27:26this would
27:27seem to
27:28be when
27:28she met
27:29her killer,
27:31went back
27:31to her
27:31house and
27:32was killed.
27:37Police had
27:38a timeline,
27:39but nobody
27:40could identify
27:41her abductor.
27:42It was a
27:43dead end.
27:45Investigators
27:45went back
27:46to Maureen's
27:47body.
27:48Maybe it
27:48could provide
27:49clues as
27:50to who
27:50had brutally
27:51murdered her.
27:52Her clothing
27:53had been
27:53removed and
27:55she'd been
27:55strangled with
27:56her own
27:56tights.
27:58We saw
27:59cigarette burns
28:00on her body,
28:01so she'd
28:02been mutilated
28:02after death.
28:04It was
28:05clearly a
28:06sick individual
28:07who'd done
28:07that to
28:08somebody.
28:10That
28:11shows to
28:11me a
28:12lot of
28:12rage,
28:13a lot
28:14of
28:15hatred
28:15towards
28:17what
28:17the
28:18victim
28:18represents,
28:20women.
28:21He
28:22absolutely
28:23wanted to
28:24show you
28:24are
28:25nothing.
28:26I am
28:27better.
28:28I am
28:29above you.
28:31You are
28:32literally
28:33nothing to
28:34me.
28:35me.
28:41Investigators
28:42appealed to
28:42the public
28:43for help
28:43in catching
28:44this violent
28:45killer.
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
28:57visited a
28:58friend 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
29:09clothing?
29:11So he
29:12became a
29:12very strong
29:13person of
29:13interest from
29:14our point
29:14of view.
29:16It's
29:17hardly a
29:17surprise that
29:18Naylor becomes
29:19a possible
29:19suspect.
29:20He's known
29:21as a sex
29:22offender.
29:22He's killed
29:23before.
29:24So he gets
29:26onto a
29:26shortlist very
29:27quickly.
29:27as police
29:29investigated
29:30the now
29:3150-year-old
29:32George Naylor
29:33they found
29:34more and
29:35more red
29:35flags.
29:37We discovered
29:38that he had
29:39fled
29:40Brantford
29:40where he had
29:41a house.
29:43That in
29:43itself was
29:43unusual.
29:45In fleeing
29:46he drew
29:47even more
29:48attention
29:48to himself.
29:50It's one of
29:51those panic
29:51decisions that
29:52really he
29:54should have
29:54thought about
29:55it more.
29:55police
29:56discovered
29:57that Naylor
29:57hadn't
29:58gone far.
29:59He was
29:59back at
30:00his
30:00estranged
30:01wife's
30:01home in
30:02South
30:02Shields.
30:03On
30:04the 16th
30:04of June
30:051995
30:06the police
30:07felt that
30:08Naylor
30:08was a
30:09strong
30:09enough
30:09suspect
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
30:18was quite
30:18unusual.
30:19He didn't
30:19panic,
30:20didn't
30:21protest,
30:22he wasn't
30:22shocked.
30:23one of
30:25the first
30:25things he
30:25asked is
30:26he wanted
30:26to go
30:27to the
30:27toilet.
30:28Now
30:28something
30:29about
30:29George's
30:30manner
30:31and demeanour
30:32at that
30:32stage
30:33told me
30:33that
30:34something
30:34strange
30:35was
30:35going
30:35to
30:35happen.
30:37Turned
30:38his back
30:38on me
30:39and he
30:39began
30:39to
30:40urinate.
30:42I could
30:42see he
30:42was fumbling
30:43around and
30:43something
30:44strange
30:44was going
30:44on.
30:46George
30:46had a
30:47load of
30:48pills and
30:49he was
30:49trying to
30:49get those
30:50pills out
30:50and to
30:51swallow
30:52them.
30:53So we
30:58very quickly
30:58disabled him,
31:00overpowered
31:01him,
31:01removed the
31:02pills from
31:03his hands
31:03and took
31:04them away
31:04from 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
31:16to do
31:17with her
31:17murder.
31:19Detectives
31:20needed to
31:21find evidence
31:21to link
31:22him to
31:22Maureen.
31:23They started
31:24by searching
31:25his marital
31:26home.
31:27We noticed
31:28that the
31:29house had a
31:29telephone
31:30answering system.
31:31A lot of
31:32calls coming
31:33into the
31:33house were
31:34logged.
31:34So we
31:35were able
31:35to see
31:36the numbers
31:37that had
31:37been ringing
31:37the house.
31:39When we
31:40spoke to
31:40his partner,
31:42she informed
31:43us that
31:44on the night
31:45of the
31:45offence,
31:46she had
31:46gone out
31:47with a
31:47group of
31:48friends and
31:49he was not
31:49happy about
31:50that.
31:50In fact,
31:51he was
31:51furious.
31:52While she
31:53was out,
31:53he kept
31:54on ringing
31:55and ringing
31:56and ringing
31:56her house
31:57to find out
31:58where she
31:58was.
32:00But that
32:00gave us
32:01a little
32:02goldmine
32:03of evidence
32:03because all
32:04those numbers
32:05that we
32:06found on
32:07the tele-on-answering
32:08machine were
32:09Bradford numbers.
32:11That allowed
32:12us to prove
32:13that George
32:14was in the
32:15red light area,
32:16very, very
32:17close to
32:17where Maureen
32:18Stepan had
32:19been last
32:20seen and
32:21had actually
32:21been working
32:22that night.
32:24Naylor was
32:25forced to
32:25admit that
32:26he had been
32:27in the
32:27Bradford area,
32:28but it still
32:29wasn't enough
32:29to charge
32:30him.
32:32Fortunately,
32:32the police
32:33were able to
32:34retrieve the
32:34clothing that
32:35he'd been
32:36wearing that
32:36night.
32:37It had been
32:38washed, but
32:39they were able
32:39to actually
32:40still find
32:41enough material
32:42to make a
32:43test on.
32:44They were able
32:44to say that
32:45the genes
32:46that George
32:46Naylor had
32:47dropped off
32:48to be washed
32:48had the
32:49blood of
32:50Maureen
32:50Stepan on
32:52the knee.
32:57Investigators
32:57now had
32:58compelling
32:59evidence that
33:00linked Naylor
33:00not just to
33:01the area,
33:02but directly
33:03to Maureen's
33:04murder.
33:05We sort of
33:06forced him
33:07into a corner
33:07where he had
33:08to admit
33:09actual contact
33:10with Maureen.
33:12George's
33:12account changed
33:14dramatically.
33:15And then
33:15what he said
33:16was,
33:17I did
33:17meet
33:18somebody
33:18that fits
33:19the description
33:19of Maureen
33:20Stepan
33:20on the
33:21night in
33:22question.
33:24She did
33:25get into
33:25my car
33:26and we
33:27did have
33:27sex,
33:28but I
33:28did not
33:29kill her
33:29and I
33:30did not
33:30go back
33:31to her
33:31house.
33:32Typically
33:33for Naylor,
33:34even when
33:34he's confronted
33:35by really
33:36clear evidence,
33:37DNA,
33:38the phone
33:38calls,
33:39all the
33:39rest,
33:40he's still
33:40trying to
33:41wriggle out
33:41of it.
33:41He's still
33:41trying to
33:42say,
33:42no,
33:42no,
33:42misunderstanding,
33:43it wasn't me.
33:45As you would expect
33:46from a man
33:47whose vanity
33:47knew few
33:48bounds.
33:52Detectives were
33:53certain they had
33:54their man,
33:55and on the 17th
33:56of June,
33:57George Naylor was
33:58charged with the
33:59murder of Maureen
34:00Stepan.
34:01The police had
34:02evidence to show
34:03a man with a
34:04history of violence,
34:06angry at his wife
34:07and a young woman
34:08who simply crossed
34:09his path.
34:12Maureen was
34:12obviously desperate
34:13that night.
34:15She was still
34:15on the streets
34:16at 2.30 in the
34:18morning.
34:19It was then
34:20that Naylor
34:21approached her
34:22and asked her
34:23for sex.
34:25He had spent
34:26the evening
34:26in a local pub.
34:27He was getting
34:28more and more
34:29angry.
34:30He tried to
34:30contact his wife
34:32to persuade her
34:33to take him back.
34:34and by the time
34:36his car pulled up
34:38where Maureen
34:39stood in a usual
34:40spot in Bradford,
34:42he was fuming.
34:46What he's suffering
34:47in his mind
34:48is massive
34:50injustice
34:51meted out on him
34:53by a woman.
34:55We have this
34:56massive entitlement
34:57and status issue.
35:00He's going to take
35:01it out on another
35:03woman.
35:04He was very
35:05jealous
35:05and therefore
35:07by picking up
35:08a person working
35:09in the sex trade,
35:10he was going to
35:11get his own back.
35:12He saw Maureen,
35:14George picked her up
35:15and then
35:16they ended up
35:17going back to the house.
35:19She will have had
35:19seconds to make
35:20a decision
35:21as to whether
35:22it was safe enough.
35:25And with certain
35:25individuals
35:26like Naylor,
35:27I think that
35:28if she hadn't
35:29got in willingly,
35:30he probably would have
35:31forced her in anyway.
35:33police were confident
35:40that they had
35:41a watertight case
35:42against Naylor.
35:45But he'd managed
35:46to evade justice
35:47once before.
35:49Investigators
35:49were desperate
35:50to make sure
35:51that history
35:52wouldn't repeat itself.
35:54But George Naylor
35:55was going to do
35:56whatever it took
35:57to try and get away
35:58with murder
35:59again.
36:09In 1997,
36:11George Naylor
36:12was already
36:13a convicted
36:14killer and rapist.
36:16And now he once again
36:17faced prison
36:18for the murder
36:19of 18-year-old
36:20Maureen Stepan.
36:22The trial began
36:23at Sheffield Crown Court
36:24with Maureen's family
36:26in attendance.
36:32Now, I did
36:33meet Maureen's family
36:34at court.
36:36We did everything
36:37we could
36:37to comfort them,
36:39to give them support,
36:40to assist them
36:41in whatever way
36:42we could.
36:44Families
36:44want to know
36:46the facts,
36:47even if those facts
36:48are incredibly painful.
36:50and to add to that,
36:52you've got somebody
36:54who you know
36:55has done it.
36:56All the evidence
36:56is pointing that way,
36:58who's going to start
37:00throwing out
37:00every kind of defense.
37:03Blame the victim,
37:05make himself seem
37:06like a wonderful,
37:07lovely person,
37:08and all the time
37:09they've just got to
37:09sit there in silence
37:10and try and maintain
37:12dignity.
37:14So hard.
37:16By 1997,
37:18the law had changed,
37:19and unlike his trial
37:20over a decade earlier,
37:22the jury were now
37:23allowed to hear
37:24a lot more
37:25about Naylor's
37:26violent past.
37:27With Naylor,
37:28his two offenses
37:30were so incredibly
37:31similar
37:32in so many ways.
37:35The MO,
37:36the way that
37:37the women died,
37:39we can say,
37:41jury,
37:41you need to know
37:42about this.
37:42The prosecution
37:48laid bare Naylor's
37:50history of raping
37:51and killing,
37:52and Maureen's DNA
37:53on his trousers
37:55left him nowhere
37:56to hide.
37:58Finally,
37:59George Naylor
37:59was found guilty
38:00of murder.
38:02Justice had,
38:03seemingly,
38:04been served.
38:05On the 6th of February,
38:071997,
38:08he was given
38:09a life sentence.
38:10However,
38:12Naylor was an
38:13arch-manipulator,
38:15not just of women,
38:16but of the system.
38:18And he appealed
38:20that murder conviction.
38:23He'd been successful
38:24before.
38:25He was a man
38:27willing to just
38:28keep trying
38:30and trying
38:30and trying.
38:31Work for him
38:32in the past,
38:33worth a punt,
38:34I think,
38:35is probably
38:35how he would have
38:36seen it.
38:36In 1999,
38:39Naylor was granted
38:40a retrial
38:41on the grounds
38:42that the jury
38:43should not have
38:44been told
38:44about his
38:45previous manslaughter
38:46conviction.
38:48On this trial,
38:49we weren't allowed
38:50to mention anything
38:51about the previous
38:52offence
38:52where Deborah Kirchhoff
38:53had been killed.
38:55It went simply
38:56and solely
38:57on the evidence
38:57relating to
38:58Maureen Stepan.
38:59The prosecution
39:00needed to try
39:01a new tactic
39:02to convince the jury
39:03of Naylor's
39:04bad character.
39:05Both his estranged
39:06wife and the
39:07mother of his
39:08children were
39:09brave enough
39:10to speak against
39:10him.
39:11Naylor's previous
39:12partners testify
39:14that he is a
39:15violent man
39:16towards women,
39:17that he is not
39:18of good character,
39:20that he is,
39:20in a sense,
39:22hiding in plain sight.
39:24He looks charming
39:26and nonchalant
39:27and ordinary,
39:29and yet he truly
39:31isn't.
39:32Both women
39:33were certain
39:33of one thing.
39:35If Naylor was
39:36released,
39:37then he would
39:38kill again.
39:43After yet another
39:44trial,
39:45the jury found
39:46Naylor guilty
39:47for the second time.
39:49He tried to escape
39:50justice,
39:51but he was ordered
39:52to serve at least
39:5320 years behind bars.
39:56For Maureen's family,
39:57the seemingly endless
39:59trials were finally over.
40:01I do believe that
40:03there was a big sense
40:04of relief at the end,
40:05that this was finally
40:06the end of this saga.
40:08You can never forget
40:09your family members
40:10that have been killed
40:10like this,
40:11but people have to
40:12move on,
40:13have to try and
40:14build a life again.
40:15But knowing that
40:16the killer's been caught
40:17and properly punished
40:18is a big factor
40:20in moving on
40:21and getting over
40:22and grieving properly.
40:25Naylor had a
40:25significantly negative
40:27impact on so many
40:30different lives.
40:31And those are just
40:32the ones we know
40:34about.
40:35So this is a man
40:36who was trashing
40:38his way through life,
40:39hurting everybody
40:41who came into
40:42his path.
40:44Naylor didn't appear
40:45to see his victims
40:46as people.
40:47It was as if
40:48Maureen's and
40:49Deborah's lives
40:50meant nothing to him.
40:52It's vital that we
40:53give a voice
40:55for Maureen and Deborah.
40:57They need to be heard.
41:00They are someone's
41:01best friend,
41:02someone's mum.
41:03They are good people
41:05and do not deserve
41:07to be thrown away
41:08in the way that
41:09society treats them.
41:13Often these men,
41:15these killers,
41:16these vicious,
41:17violent,
41:18sadistic men,
41:19excuse their behaviour
41:21by saying,
41:22oh, well,
41:23she was only
41:24working the streets.
41:26I always like
41:28to switch it around.
41:30To say Naylor
41:32was the weak,
41:34pathetic
41:34individual here.
41:37The girls
41:38were sad victims
41:39of the circumstances
41:40that they had
41:41found themselves in.
41:43Drugs
41:44drive young women
41:45then,
41:47as now,
41:48to sell sex.
41:49And we have to
41:50accept that
41:51is a fact.
41:52And as such,
41:54they are too
41:55easily prey
41:56for violent,
41:58vicious killers
41:59like Naylor.
42:07Naylor was finally
42:08back behind bars,
42:10but many people
42:11involved in the case
42:12feel that he should
42:13never have been
42:14freed to kill
42:15for a second time.
42:17I don't think
42:18justice was served
42:19in the end
42:19because he should
42:20never have got out
42:21from a killing
42:22having done
42:22seven and a half years
42:24and Maureen
42:25should still be alive
42:26to this date
42:27because he should
42:28have been in prison.
42:31The tragedy
42:32of this case
42:32is the warning signs
42:33were always there.
42:36I think Naylor
42:37should have been
42:38stopped much earlier.
42:40There is no question
42:40in my mind
42:41that justice
42:42was not served,
42:43particularly
42:44in the case
42:44of Deborah.
42:45He was a man
42:47with, I believe,
42:47an evil gene
42:48and a man
42:49who would not
42:50be satisfied
42:51unless he satisfied
42:52himself,
42:53and his objectives
42:54were always women
42:55and therefore
42:56any woman
42:57who came across
42:58his bowels
42:58was in danger
42:59from him.
43:00on the 17th
43:09of December
43:102021,
43:12George Naylor
43:13died of a brain
43:14aneurysm
43:15in HMP
43:16Franklin
43:17in Durham.
43:19He was 77
43:20years old.
43:22I suppose really
43:23only at that point
43:24did I really,
43:25truly believe
43:26that he was no longer
43:27a danger to the public.
43:28And if George
43:30would have been released
43:31even as an elderly man,
43:33I still think
43:33he would have had
43:34the potential
43:34to do harm
43:36to women.
43:37So in that context,
43:39the public
43:40no longer need
43:41to be in fear
43:42of George Naylor.
43:45He's an insignificant
43:47predatory killer
43:49who died
43:50where he should have
43:51been a lot sooner
43:52in prison.
43:55I just want people
43:56to remember
43:57behind the headlines
43:58are two young women
44:00who fell in
44:02with the wrong crowd
44:03as teenagers
44:05and met a man
44:07who was prepared
44:08to end their lives
44:09without a thought.
44:19Naylor was a callous killer
44:21who bottled all the hatred
44:23he had for women
44:24and distilled it
44:25into the most shocking
44:26violence.
44:28After managing
44:29to avoid a murder
44:30conviction for killing
44:31Deborah Kershaw,
44:33his lust for brutality
44:35wasn't curbed in prison.
44:37And when Naylor
44:38was released early,
44:40he couldn't help
44:41but kill again,
44:42squeezing the life
44:43out of 18-year-old
44:45Maureen Stepan,
44:47leaving no doubt
44:48that George Naylor
44:49will forever be remembered
44:51as one of Britain's
44:52most evil killers.
44:54Maureen Stepan
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45:12Maureen Stepan
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45:20the Lord
45:20Asone
45:21and Zaal
45:21the vampire
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