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Britain's Most Evil Killers S10E02 (Oct 28 2025)
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00:00The following programme contains descriptions of violence, which some viewers may find distressing.
00:10When three airport hotel employees failed to turn up for their shift in August 2011,
00:16no one was alarmed at first.
00:18They knew that there had been a party the night before.
00:21Had they just overslept?
00:24One of the three, Attila Ban, was known as a model worker.
00:30Ban had never put a foot wrong. Indeed, he'd become Employee of the Year at the hotel.
00:36When the police entered Ban's flat, they were met with a scene of carnage.
00:42Two young people, both clearly deceased.
00:47A great deal of blood.
00:50Attila Ban was nowhere to be seen.
00:52Nothing about the scene made sense.
00:55There were no real warning signs and nothing to explain why Attila Ban went from zero to murder in one night.
01:07For taking the lives of his two young colleagues in a frenzy of violence,
01:12and for giving their devastated families no explanation for his actions,
01:17Attila Ban must be recognised as one of Britain's most evil killers.
01:23You're the only one of the victims that had been attacked in one night.
01:24The season is just a way of killing and killing and killing and killing them.
01:29THE END
01:48When Attila Ban was convicted of murdering Alice Adams and Tibor Vass in July 2012,
01:54it wasn't just the brutality of the crime that made headlines,
01:59it was the killer's actions afterwards.
02:01Inconceivably, Ban had never left the murder scene.
02:06So after Ban had been arrested and taken to the police station,
02:10there was obviously then a debrief as to how he was still in the flat
02:14after two days of forensic examination.
02:18Not only was he hiding in the murder scene,
02:21but he was actually watching the police
02:23as they were carrying out their examination of their room.
02:28Concealing himself inside a West London flat for two days
02:33raised questions about Ban's state of mind.
02:37That is a highly unusual behaviour.
02:41It's more common that if you murder somebody
02:45that you're going to want to exit the building as quickly as possible,
02:50make sure that you're not a suspect to get away from what you've done.
02:57But in some cases, rarer cases, the killer will want to keep that emotional connection
03:04to the person that they've killed because they've killed them
03:07in a very emotional state, probably with sexual connotations.
03:13And they can just keep revisiting that.
03:15They can feel that closeness to that person.
03:17The incident also raised questions about the way crime scenes are processed.
03:25You have to ask yourself about the searching of the property at that time.
03:31How much more detail could have gone into searching.
03:38It was actually quite unnerving for the officers that had been in the flat,
03:42particularly officers that had maybe been in their flat on their own,
03:46to subsequently realise that he was probably watching them.
03:52Fortunately, nothing more severe came from that,
03:55but obviously the consequences could have been a lot worse.
03:58Perhaps more than anything, the episode was a reminder to all
04:03that a killer's mind can be an unpredictable place.
04:11This killer's story begins in Hungary in Central Europe around 1980.
04:20We know very little about the Taliban's early life in Hungary.
04:23We know that he went to the United States as a young man and worked in hotels there.
04:28We know very little about his family, indeed.
04:33In 2011, Attila Ban was 31 years old.
04:36He had been working for a couple of years at this hotel,
04:39very close to Heathrow Airport.
04:42Ban worked as a receptionist at the Four Star Hotel,
04:46which was within sight of the airport's runways.
04:49All of that area is full of big hotels, which have a very transient guest list.
04:57Customers come, stay one night and fly off.
05:03Attila Ban was identified as the model professional.
05:07He was hardworking, he was devoted, and he was on the face of a very popular employee.
05:17In fact, he was so well thought of that he was chosen as employee of the year in 2010.
05:23Ban lived in a flat owned by the hotel on the edge of the premises.
05:29In August 2010, he was joined there by a new flatmate, fellow Hungarian Tibor Vass.
05:35Tibor was 20 years old and he was from Budapest, a very close family.
05:40His father died when he was 15, very close to his mother and his sister.
05:45After his father's sudden death, Tibor had taken it upon himself to get a job after school to help support his family.
05:55He first came to the UK in 2008.
05:59And according to his mother, he just fell in love with the free spirit of London.
06:06He came back to start working in the hotel industry.
06:09Tibor was a very creative person. He loved music. He was able to play all sorts of different instruments.
06:18And he even taught his sister how to play piano.
06:22He was also devoted to his BMX bike, which was called Daisy.
06:29And indeed, when he came to England, he brought his bike with him and did tricks in the car park.
06:34He obviously engendered a degree of fondness with his colleagues and his friends and he was likable.
06:41Tibor Vass had taken some time out from studying after being turned down for a university place.
06:50He began working at the hotel alongside Attila Ban.
06:56Clearly, Ban took Tibor under his wing.
06:59They both worked on reception together.
07:01They were flatmates. Tibor clearly trusted him.
07:07Tibor kept in touch with his mother while he was in London.
07:09And in fact, he had introduced her over the phone to Attila Ban.
07:15And Ban had actually told Mrs. Vass,
07:17Don't worry, I'll look after your son. I'll make sure he comes to no harm while he's here in London.
07:24Mrs. Vass was hugely reassured.
07:26She thought Ban was mature and friendly and intelligent.
07:33He was Hungarian as well.
07:35And he'd been in the country for much longer.
07:38And he'd been working there for longer.
07:40And he would look after him.
07:41And I think that probably gave the family a lot of comfort,
07:45to feel that there was somebody there looking out for their son.
07:51As time went on, however, Ban developed feelings for Tibor that were not entirely paternal.
08:00There can be no doubt that Ban fancied Tibor.
08:05Attila Ban was openly gay.
08:06And in London, which is a very cosmopolitan city, that wasn't looked in any way different,
08:11unlike his homeland in Hungary.
08:15Tibor was a good-looking boy and he took time to look after himself.
08:19He was grooming all the clothes he wore or working out in the gym.
08:25We know that Attila had a fascination with Tibor, but that was not reciprocated.
08:32Tibor Vass, I think, made it quite clear to Attila that, um, he wasn't interested in having a
08:39relationship in that way. But they were still friends.
08:44In July 2011, a new receptionist began working at the hotel,
08:49someone Attila Ban instantly saw as a threat.
08:54Alice Adams is from Ivorheath in Buckinghamshire,
08:57which is a lovely part of the home counties.
09:03She came from a very close family and she liked the outdoors and nature and the environment.
09:08Alice had an on-off relationship with a young man back home in Buckinghamshire,
09:14but friends at the hotel noticed that she and Tibor Vass made an instant connection.
09:20Alice and Tibor were of a similar age, 19, 20 years of age.
09:25Alice Adams was, by all accounts, bubbly, charming, cheerful, a joy to be with.
09:34She was just a really charming, pleasant young lady,
09:38and she had immediately struck up a really good friendship with Tibor.
09:45They both were musicians, and so that would have been a common interest between the two of them.
09:50And there was, to all intents and purposes, a physical attraction between the two.
09:54As Alice and Tibor enjoyed getting to know one another,
09:58hotel staff noticed Attila Ban becoming increasingly possessive towards his younger male colleague.
10:05Tibor and Ban were both at a team event organised by the hotel,
10:11and Tibor was taking photographs.
10:14And in one particular instance, Ban thought he'd been left out of the photograph deliberately.
10:19And there was a sort of antagonism between the two.
10:25And Ban absolutely hit the roof and launched into a tirade against Tibor,
10:30because Ban said he hadn't been included in these pictures.
10:33I think Ban had cultivated this persona of being a wonderful, kind, caring, friendly person.
10:46It was clearly masking something else, and that mask definitely slipped in the team building session.
10:53Where he felt so strongly about Tibor, he couldn't control the way that he was responding to things.
11:03That was a warning sign that where Tibor was concerned, he didn't really have control of the mask.
11:13In the first week of August, just three weeks after Alice's arrival, Tibor Vass received good news from home.
11:23He had actually just been granted a place at a really well-respected university in Hungary.
11:30Tibor was excited to be returning so soon to his family and his home city of Budapest.
11:37He was going to leave the hotel on the 30th of August.
11:40It was a date that would never arrive for Tibor Vass.
11:44On Tuesday the 9th of August, a group of colleagues, including Alice Adams, gathered after work for drinks at Ban and Tibor
11:52Tibor's flat behind the hotel.
11:55A little after midnight, Alice texted her mother to say she planned to stay the night there.
12:01It would be the last time her loving family would ever hear from her.
12:15On Wednesday the 10th of August 2011, three receptionists failed to turn up for their 7am shift
12:22at a West London airport hotel.
12:2731-year-old Attila Ban and his two 20-year-old colleagues, Tibor Vass and Alice Adams, were no shows that morning.
12:39Normally, if you're not going to turn up for work, you'd let your colleagues know that you're sick
12:42or something's happened to you, and then they would find other people to perform those roles,
12:47but that didn't happen.
12:51There wasn't any great concern at that point. It was just a question of,
12:54had they just overslept? Had something happened to them?
13:00Mystified as to the non-appearance of these three,
13:03colleagues started looking at the social media accounts.
13:10And around the time he was due to have started at the reception, they found a post by Ban.
13:20Attila posted on Facebook, I would like to wake up from that nightmare.
13:23At around 2.30pm, staff from the hotel called the police to report their concerns
13:33about the welfare of Tibor, Alice and Ban.
13:36Clearly, this was completely out of character for Attila to not attend work.
13:44And also, the slightly unusual Facebook page gave the hotel enough concern to say,
13:50look, could you send someone out to assist us?
13:56I think any police officer who receives that call should be approaching it with sort of utmost caution.
14:05And I've had that in my situation, in my experience, where I've entered a flat and come across awful
14:11crime scenes. So you have to be hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst. You don't know what
14:17you're going to find. So you have to be prepared for every eventuality.
14:22At 3.15pm, local police officers went to the flat where the three had last been seen.
14:31The scene when the officers entered Ban's flat was worse than they can ever have anticipated.
14:38When they opened the door and walked into the flat, there was Alice's body beneath the window,
14:48covered in blood, fully clothed, but almost as if she'd been tossed on the floor like a discarded doll.
14:55A pillow had been placed over her face and it was clear to the officers that she had probably multiple
15:04stab wounds. There was heavy blood staining in that area.
15:10A chef's knife was recovered close to Alice's body.
15:13When they moved into the bedroom, they discovered Tibor naked, lying on the double bed with his legs drawn up.
15:28Tibor's T-shirt and boxer shorts bearing signs of having been cut off his body were discarded by the front door.
15:35The way that Tibor had been found stripped naked and almost placed in a very deliberately posed position
15:43would show that someone else had done that rather than Tibor putting himself in that position.
15:50Tibor had two obvious stab wounds.
15:54I can't imagine. It must have horrified them. I mean, they were literally walking into a
16:00carnage, an abattoir.
16:01Officers could see that their welfare check for three missing people had turned very quickly
16:09into a double murder inquiry at the very least.
16:13Clearly a major, major crime scene.
16:17Obviously your first thoughts would have been to preserve the scene and to consider any suspects.
16:25But then immediately, first of all, trying to establish if there's anyone else in the flat.
16:29The police had entered the flat looking for three missing people. They had found only two.
16:37There was no sign at the moment of Ban himself.
16:42Upon finding this crime scene, you would have to be considering all options. Where is Attila Ban?
16:50Has he also been injured?
16:51Has he been assaulted as well? You know, is he the suspect?
16:59The first officers on the scene had a delicate line to tread in their search for Attila Ban.
17:06It's drilled into you from sort of day one, preservation of the scene.
17:10The first officers on scene would be incredibly conscious to disturb that scene as little as possible
17:20while still establishing that there were no other victims or suspects present.
17:24There was a search of the premises. The left space within the premises was also searched, but there was no sign of him.
17:34The scene was very heavily bloodstained, but there were no obvious bloodstained footprints outside the flat.
17:40Quite clearly, he wasn't in the room, although it was his room, so it would have the appearance of he'd done it and he'd run.
17:53Ban had been alone with Alice and Tibor when their other two colleagues had left the flat the night before.
18:00There were no signs of a struggle and nothing to suggest he'd left the flat against his will.
18:06And then there was the early morning Facebook post.
18:09I would like to wake up from that nightmare. On finding out about that message,
18:14the police might have started to focus far more on him as a suspect, um, than a victim.
18:26With two dead victims and a potential suspect nowhere to be seen,
18:31the officers handed the investigation over to the Metropolitan Police Homicide Unit,
18:37under the leadership of DCI Howard Groves.
18:40Senior investigating officer is the person who has overall control and responsibility for a murder
18:44investigation, which means from the moment that my colleagues inform us of a murder,
18:49I would then have to make all the decisions around what we do in relation to identifying why someone was
18:55killed, who the victim was, who the suspects are, and progress that investigation.
19:01Howard's team began gathering information.
19:05We conducted house-to-house inquiries, speak to staff. We tried to make contact with
19:12family and friends of the deceased and try and build up a picture about those two individuals.
19:19The first priority at Ban's flat was scouring the crime scene for clues.
19:25The first thing would be to have the area cordoned off. From my experience, the crime scene was what
19:30I would describe as fairly tidy, clean. A lot of times when you have that many injuries,
19:36you'd expect to see blood all over the place, on the ceilings, on the walls. You'd find items have been
19:42tipped over. That wasn't the case here.
19:45Processing a crime scene of that nature could take several days, a week, maybe even two weeks.
19:58Pathologists came out to the scene to see the victims in situ and examine the bodies before they
20:05are removed to the mortuary. The flat would then be sealed. And once that crime scene is sealed,
20:13only relevant authorised people can go into it, such as fingerprint officers, forensic experts,
20:20other scenes of crime staff. In the meantime, an operation began to locate Attila Ban.
20:30As soon as a manhunt is launched, the police pull together a vast amount of resources.
20:38There was nothing to suggest that he'd been seen by anyone leaving the premises. There was no CCTV
20:44footage to say there was an image of him leaving at a particular time.
20:47Obviously, you would be looking at friends, associates, who could potentially harbour someone
20:56or help them evade capture. You would also be looking at all possible technical means to trace
21:02them, any kind of use of their bank facilities, anything that could pinpoint their position.
21:09The initial action that was taken to trace him was by his phone. And it indicated that his phone
21:15was pinging in the area. So we had to ask ourselves, had he disposed of his phone, or was he somewhere
21:22locally? While normally the police would inquire if friends and family were harbouring the fugitive,
21:29with Attila Ban, this seemed unlikely. We didn't have anywhere else to look for him. And let's be honest,
21:37Attila didn't have anywhere else to go. It was apparent during the investigation, Attila, his life
21:43revolved around working at the hotel and living close to the premises. He probably didn't have as much
21:50friends and acquaintances for him to have a life outside of work.
21:55So they had to try and exhaust all other options, looking at, like, flight manifests,
22:02if anyone was trying to leave the country, booking flights, et cetera.
22:07Detectives wondered if the well-travelled receptionist might be fleeing abroad or even
22:14going back home to Hungary.
22:17As it transpired, there was an Attila Ban leaving Heathrow around about that time.
22:23So the police actually did stop the plane literally on the tarmac.
22:27Police boarded the plane, but it wasn't the correct Attila Ban, not the one we were looking for.
22:38While the search for Attila Ban continued, detectives set about reconstructing the events
22:44leading up to the murders. What exactly had taken place in Ban's flat that night? And why had two
22:51innocent young people lost their lives?
23:07In August 2011, the Metropolitan Police Homicide Unit was investigating the murder
23:14of Alice Adams and Tibor Vass at a flat in West London. Their prime suspect, 31-year-old hotel
23:21receptionist Attila Ban was nowhere to be found. Detectives attempted to reconstruct the events of the
23:28humid summer night when Ban and the two young victims were last seen.
23:33Alice, Tibor and Ban all went to Ban's staff flat to have a party.
23:41They were also joined by two other colleagues who also had some drinks with them.
23:54The other two men at the party that evening told the police that they left when Ban produced some
24:01pills, which he called poppers, and they thought that wasn't for them and they departed, leaving
24:07Alice, Tibor and Ban together.
24:12Their colleagues reported that it was a party atmosphere, everything was fine and certainly
24:18there was no cause for alarm.
24:23The post-mortem examinations of the two young victims told a different story.
24:29Tibor only had two stab wounds both through the heart. Alice had suffered 22 stab wounds, a really frenzied attack.
24:43She had a stab wound to the heart, she had stab wounds to her stomach,
24:48her spleen, her diaphragm and her lungs. So those were significant injuries and would have resulted in her death.
24:56Now that's rage, that's anger. So somebody was taking out their rage on Alice and it takes quite a long time to
25:06stab someone 22 times. That's not something that just happens in seconds. But Tibor's wounds were quite
25:15different. They were very, very targeted. They were targeted on his heart. There was only two stab wounds
25:22and they were meant to end his life quickly and efficiently.
25:32When the crime scene investigators looked at the flat, it seemed to them that Tibor had been stabbed
25:41on the sofa. And then subsequently moved and his body posed in this rather remarkable way.
25:50Tibor is on the bed. He's naked and his body's been positioned. And even though Tibor's dead,
26:01he's not really being treated as if he's dead. The killer wants to possess this man completely.
26:13For 48 hours, the homicide squad had investigated the murders,
26:17while the manhunt for Attila Band continued to no avail.
26:21On Friday the 12th of August, there was a disturbing breakthrough.
26:31Some police officers went back to the flats and one noticed that the door that he thought had been
26:37left open last time he'd there was now shut.
26:42So those officers thought, something's not quite right here. They then tried to get into that room and
26:48realized that the door had been wedged with a bed. It was the very same bed Tibor Vas's body had been
26:56found on two days earlier. The moment that they realized that they knew that somebody had to be
27:04physically in that property at that time. Knowing that no one could have entered or left the flat
27:10without the cordon officer seeing, there was only one conclusion about who was lurking behind the bedroom door.
27:17When the officers managed to force their way into the room, they found Band. He was lying naked on the bed,
27:25covered in blood. He was lying face down. He had injuries to his wrists. He had a craft knife
27:32sticking in his arm and he also had another craft style knife sticking out of one of his buttocks.
27:39Arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder, Attila Band was taken to hospital for treatment to his
27:46wounds which were not life-threatening. Once Band had received treatment, he was taken to a West
27:53London police station and he was interviewed. If homicide detectives hoped for answers to the tragic
28:01deaths of Tibor and Alice, they would be sadly disappointed. When Attila was initially interviewed,
28:09he wouldn't speak. They had to use sign language to try and see if they could ascertain what happened.
28:17He just had the complete impression of a man utterly in shock and utterly incapable of describing
28:25anything which had happened in the last 48 hours.
28:27If he can't speak, he can't explain what's happened. He doesn't have to reveal anything that's happened.
28:37He might appear mentally distressed, mentally ill, so all of that could very well be self-preservation.
28:46While Band faced interrogation, questions were also being asked about the extraordinary circumstances
28:56of his capture. So once the shock of Band being found in the flat after a couple of days of quite
29:05intense forensic examination, after that shock had subsided, obviously there was a debrief to establish
29:12how and where he had been. He had been actually hiding under the divan part of the bed that Tibor had been on.
29:23They found any number of water bottles that he had taken in there to refresh himself over this
29:28period of time, plus his phone in which he'd updated his Facebook page, and a knife which had cut the area around so he could not only get into
29:39the divan, but also he could look out and see what the police were doing.
29:48I mean, not in your wildest dreams could you have imagined that he would be hiding under the divan.
29:53I think all the evidence tended to suggest that he had committed two very violent murders and had left
30:01immediately afterwards.
30:03Professor Jane Monckton-Smith believes Band's bizarre actions stem from his desire to possess and control
30:11Tibor Vass.
30:14If you imagine this man has, in a very targeted way,
30:18killed Tibor doing the least amount of damage to his body, but making sure he's absolutely dead.
30:28At that moment, he finally possesses him. Is he just going to run out the door at that point?
30:36No, he's going to want to have that feeling of possession carry on, so he hides himself in the room for as long as he can.
30:48After being at first apparently unable to speak, Attila Ban eventually found his voice,
30:57but concrete information was not forthcoming.
31:01In the interview, Attila did not make any full and frank admissions as to why he killed him.
31:09All he would say is that he must have, but he was unable to recount exactly what happened.
31:14He spent two days in the crime scene being very quiet, staying hidden, knowing exactly why he was in
31:23that divan. So I think that he had no memory of the crime is probably stretching things a little.
31:31There's lots of reasons why people might say they do not remember killing someone. Now, some of it could be
31:37shock, yeah. Equally, it could be so that they don't have to actually tell people what they did, admit to it,
31:46and that may well protect them in any future trial.
31:53Ban was able to tell officers what had happened in the hours after he stabbed Alice and Tibor to death.
32:00Ban told the police that when he woke up and saw the terrible scene of carnage that he had
32:05clearly caused, he wanted to kill himself.
32:09He actually took Tibor's body and placed it in the bath with him.
32:17Ban wanted to kill himself, he said, but he didn't want to die alone.
32:20Filling the bath with water and climbing in with the body of his victim,
32:28Attila Ban switched on a hairdryer and dropped it into the water.
32:32All he found out was that the hairdryer worked underwater as well as it worked outside.
32:38So he got out of the bath, replaced Tibor's body back on the divan, double bed.
32:45He started then trying to hack his wrists and his neck.
32:51He didn't harm himself enough to take his own life and he harmed himself in some strange places.
32:57He stabbed himself in the arm and he stabbed himself in the buttock.
33:03Maybe wishing he could join Tibor in death, but just not having the courage maybe,
33:10or the ability to harm himself in that way.
33:14Ban gave this rather complicated account that the reason he had got inside the bed
33:20was to watch the police as they were going about their business.
33:24But when the police left for the night, he would come out
33:29and move a few things around.
33:31And then get back into the bed again because he didn't want to be discovered, he said,
33:38because he thought the police would save his life and prevent him from dying.
33:44Despite his best efforts, 31-year-old Attila Ban was alive.
33:50Though they still didn't have the full story, Howard Groves' homicide team
33:55was satisfied they had caught the right man.
33:58There was enough forensic opportunities and evidence available
34:03that we were satisfied that he had killed them.
34:06But what we were not going to be able to establish significantly was why.
34:15On Saturday the 13th of August 2011, just a few days after the murders,
34:21Ban appeared at the Magistrates' Court charged with the murders of Tibor Vass and Alice Adams.
34:28The police would be able to provide the prosecution with the who and the how
34:37of Alice and Tibor's untimely deaths, but not the why.
34:41It remained to be seen if Attila Ban's trial would bring answers for their devastated families
34:47and bring a killer to justice.
35:00On Monday the 9th of July 2012, 11 months after Tibor Vass and Alice Adams were murdered in a West London flat,
35:0932-year-old Attila Ban stood trial at London's Central Criminal Court known as the Old Bailey.
35:17Ban faced two charges in a very simple indictment.
35:21Number one, murder of Tibor.
35:24Number two, murder of Alice.
35:29Ban entered an interesting plea that he said he was not guilty to murder,
35:33but guilty of manslaughter and the grounds of diminished responsibility.
35:40Which basically means he accepted that he had killed Alice and Tibor,
35:44but that he didn't know what he was doing at the time.
35:47Given the circumstances of the crime and the fact that he clearly was obsessed
35:59about Tibor and had behaved so erratically,
36:05it's quite possible that that diminished responsibility would be able to be made plausible in court.
36:13The prosecution argued at Ban's trial that he had fancied Tibor and that some kind of sexual jealousy
36:26had taken place on the night of the party at Ban's flat.
36:36The prosecutor claimed that Ban's frustration had reached a desperate pitch
36:41because he knew that time was running out to ensnare the object of his affections.
36:48We knew that Tibor was going to be going back to Hungary.
36:52Therefore, Attila's opportunities to form a relationship with him were even less likely.
37:03At some point during the evening, sexual activity had taken place between
37:08Tibor, Alice and Attila Ban.
37:12DNA was found on Alice's chest and they related to both to Attila and Tibor.
37:22However, it was asserted in court that witnessing Alice and Tibor's attraction towards one another
37:29was what finally tipped Ban over the edge.
37:31The prosecution case was that Ban had seen Alice and Tibor kissing and through drink
37:39and other drugs had acted in a violent rage.
37:46We were able to show that the level of injuries that Tibor received
37:51was significantly less to what Alice received.
37:59So we're going to try and show the jury that Attila had this deep-rooted anger or hatred towards Alice.
38:08There's no doubt that in that moment, he saw Alice as an obstacle to his affection.
38:15It was a rush of blood which had been building up for a very long time.
38:25Though his lawyer confirmed that Attila Ban accepted he had stabbed Tibor and Alice,
38:31Ban did not take the stand to explain his actions.
38:35I don't find that particularly surprising because he would have to admit and talk about things that he
38:41really would not want to talk about.
38:47Ban looked a lost soul in the dock through the weeks of that trial.
38:51He was gazing around the court.
38:54He was making no contribution to passing notes or anything to his defence team.
38:57He was just walked in with his prison officers and walked out again.
39:03He didn't seem engaged. He didn't seem remorseful. He didn't seem in any way fighting to win this case.
39:12He just seemed utterly detached.
39:17Ban's lawyer told the court that Ban was deeply remorseful and he really wanted to explain what
39:25he'd done to the families of both Tibor and Alice.
39:27Jane Monckton-Smith doubts that Attila Ban's offer of an explanation was made in good faith.
39:37That offer was not made through remorse.
39:42That's control. He still wants to possess him, even in death. What makes him think
39:49that he could give them any relief from their pain, the man who killed their son?
39:56No, he wants them now in his life. It's cruelty.
40:11On Wednesday the 18th of July, Ban was found guilty by the jury of the murders of Alice and Tibor.
40:19It's quite telling, I think, that the jury only took five hours of deliberation to find Ban guilty.
40:31I mean, this in my experience was an incredibly short time.
40:34And I think points towards the strength of evidence against Ban.
40:39Ban was sentenced to life with a minimum tariff of 26 years.
40:44The judge in his sentencing described Ban as a vain and paranoid young man who killed two decent young people.
40:52He also commented on the fact that because Ban was still refusing to accept full responsibility
41:02and give an accurate account of what happened, it still left their families not knowing what happened in their last few moments.
41:09In the wake of the verdict, Alice's mother made a statement and it was extremely moving.
41:22What she asked for was the details of why her daughter, her lovely daughter, had lost her life in this extraordinary way.
41:31She said, I don't mind if the details are horrific, but at least it stopped me wondering what had happened.
41:40And you have to feel for her for that.
41:42And it was very moving that Alice's mother said that she felt that she had failed to protect her daughter
41:49when, of course, there was nothing she could possibly have done.
41:54Tibor's mother said that her grief was multiplied countless times because
41:59the murder of her son had taken place really just a matter of weeks before he was due
42:03to leave London and come back to Hungary.
42:08And it was extra agony to Tibor's mother that the person that had committed this awful crime
42:15was somebody that they had come to trust and believe would actually look after Tibor.
42:20But in fact, the opposite couldn't be further from the truth.
42:22Those investigating this dreadful crime had to conclude Ban's actions were driven simply by hatred,
42:34jealousy, and resentment.
42:37In many ways, he was like a loner.
42:39His life revolved around the hotel, whereas the other two were youngsters who were happy to go out
42:47and have a good time with their friends. And Attila didn't like that.
42:53What you can surmise is that he has acted out of rage and jealousy and taken away the lives of two
43:00thoroughly decent, innocent young people for nothing. And it's just absolutely heartbreaking.
43:06The day after the trial, Alice's family announced that they wanted to raise £100,000 for a treehouse
43:16playground in her memory.
43:17In January 2016, the treehouse was officially opened in Black Park, Ivor, as a joyful tribute to a much-loved young woman.
43:33In the summer of 2011, hotel receptionist Attila Ban stole the lives of two young, vibrant colleagues
43:41who had their whole future ahead of them. For lashing out in a rage born of jealousy and frustration,
43:48and causing devastation that is still felt to this day, Attila Ban has cemented his place
43:55as one of Britain's most evil killers.
44:25well defined, Evarium's pro-time stores expected artists.
44:28Well done.
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44:34Wonderful, excellent.
44:38Well done.
44:40Melanie L kinda
44:45Do you?
44:48Good.
44:49See you in school.
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