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