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Traffic Cops S12E28 (Feb 24 2024)
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00:01Scott straight through the red line.
00:04Damage.
00:05Damage.
00:06Don't do that!
00:07Stay still!
00:08Derbyshire traffic cops.
00:10It does have warning markers for potential firearms.
00:15Turn over!
00:16You're under arrest.
00:17Intent supply class.
00:18You're drug.
00:19Police a thousand square miles.
00:23It's a crash, crash.
00:25You got any other injury other than your head?
00:27With some of the UK's most dangerous roads.
00:30Oh, nobody's been killed out of this.
00:32I don't know.
00:33Do you know how fast you're going?
00:34It's scary when stuff like this happens.
00:36In life and death situations.
00:39Get on the ground, you'll be taken!
00:41We've got runners.
00:42Face down!
00:45Yes, yes, successful sting.
00:49Around every corner.
00:51Great acting, mate.
00:53There's a new challenge for the traffic cops.
00:57Step out of the vehicle now!
01:00I'm going home.
01:01David!
01:02Stop grabbing me like that!
01:06It's crash, crash, crash!
01:09Coming up...
01:10Got a body in the road with significant trauma injuries.
01:15A tragic death on Derbyshire's roads.
01:18It's been hit by an unknown vehicle.
01:20Yeah.
01:21You're not starting to spread on straight up there.
01:23Leads to a nationwide manhunt.
01:25We're looking for Derbyshire's most wanted at the minute.
01:28Open the doors for police!
01:32We're just looking for any evidence that somebody's been underneath that vehicle
01:35and there is evidence there to suggest that they are.
01:38For a hit-and-run driver.
01:40Follow me is your Andre Chris compliant initially.
01:47And it's a stop, stop.
02:02Stop, sir, please.
02:03Hi, it's ambulance.
02:04Could I inform you of an RTC car pedestrian believed to be fatal, please?
02:08It's on, er, Pentagon Island outside the cricket club in Derby.
02:12And it's car v pedestrian?
02:14Yeah, I believe the vehicle is made off.
02:17Is that a registration number?
02:19Nothing, yeah.
02:22Can someone try and find a, er, screen or a tent or anything like that
02:25that we can, er, try and cover up?
02:27Because, er, there's plenty of members of the public around as well.
02:29Every year, the police deal with around 17,000 hit-and-run incidents across the UK.
02:36Just the body you've seen in the road?
02:39We've not witnessed it happen.
02:40We've come across it.
02:41But the young lad who stopped to say, are you OK?
02:44He says, I've got chest pain.
02:45He's witnessed it, mate.
02:50We're en route to a call from the ambulance service
02:53stating that they've come across a body in the road.
02:56It's a confirmed fatality.
02:57And there's some suggestion that there may be a vehicle
03:02that's struck this individual and made off.
03:06At the start of a manhunt for a runaway driver,
03:09PC Dave Shaw is one of several traffic units
03:12responding to the incident.
03:15No more traffic coming through.
03:17It's quite a common occurrence for people to be involved in an incident, a collision, whereby somebody might be injured.
03:34For whatever reason, the offending driver, they make a split-second decision to scarper and leave the scene and leave the chaos behind.
03:42Clearly there's something not right with the driver if they've made off and left the scene.
03:48Given the description of the car and she's driving off.
03:52While Dave makes his way, officers receive a report from a witness.
03:57Hangar 1-0, permission.
03:58The driver of this Uber had seen a vehicle hit this pedestrian and drive off.
04:08Gone.
04:10Nottingham Road, which had directions with the police.
04:13Could be any number of reasons that they will hang around and speak to the police.
04:16Drink or drugs.
04:18Document offences.
04:19Disqualified drivers.
04:21We see the full range of it, sadly.
04:22It makes you angry, and it puts you straight into cop mode, wanting to protect the scene, protect those who evolve.
04:51And get on with the job in hand.
04:54At the moment, we just need to try and get everything shut down.
04:56It's a major, major junction here.
05:00People trying to turn around, go the wrong way round the roundabout.
05:03They don't help us out at all, do they?
05:08We've got any units that could attend, please. Acknowledge your name.
05:11Any units that can stop making their way to the area, please be obliged.
05:14As the scene is locked down to preserve any evidence,
05:17a force-wide alert is issued to find the missing driver.
05:21So there's a male who's walking through the road.
05:26It's visited by a graphite coloured BMW.
05:30BMW, the TV tyres vehicle, that's what he's describing at the moment.
05:35You know, we've got a body in the road with significant trauma injuries.
05:45And at the moment, it's a case of keeping everybody out.
05:49We don't want anybody in this scene whatsoever.
05:51We don't want people seeing what's gone off because that's traumatic to them.
05:54But we need to preserve any evidence that's here.
05:56Whoever's done this would clearly be aware that they'd hit a person.
06:01The priority now is to find the vehicle involved.
06:06If somebody's involved in a collision and they leave the scene
06:09before all the emergency services get there,
06:11then it's clear they've got something to hide.
06:13Dave speaks to another witness.
06:17I was pulling that here.
06:19And as I pulled that, the car come past me, sir.
06:24Did it? Yeah.
06:25Have you got any dash cam?
06:26No, I didn't have any dash cam.
06:28Have you got any idea of what the vehicle was?
06:30I ain't got a thing.
06:32No idea what it was, colour, size?
06:34If I pulled that, it just wiped me out.
06:36So I've got my hat up.
06:37Just to play.
06:42Can you tell me, is it the size of your car?
06:44Is it the size of a mini?
06:45Is it the size of a van?
06:46Definitely black enough.
06:50Definitely black.
06:51Black or dark.
06:52Anything distinct?
06:53Do you have any lights out?
06:54Nothing.
06:55Alright.
06:56You get in that, then, and we'll come and see you
06:58because we will have to see you tonight.
07:00Okay, no, pass.
07:01Are they off-skirt?
07:02I'll go 1-5.
07:04Go ahead.
07:06Just put on a log.
07:07Somebody's already taken this chap's details.
07:11He's come out of the junction just after the cricket club
07:14and he's seen what he's described as a black vehicle,
07:18similar size to his Cougar,
07:21driving at excessive speed.
07:24It's not turned down to the next left from where we are,
07:26but he thinks it's probably one of the next couple
07:28after the discipline.
07:29As soon as we've got someone free,
07:31we'll need to start having a look down those avenues.
07:34Just to see if it's been abandoned at the side of the road.
07:38With a fail to stop driver on the run,
07:42crash detective Sergeant Craig Walker arrives
07:44to lead the investigation.
07:48So, we've got the victim, who I've had a look at.
07:51I don't recognise him, so I don't know who it is at this time.
07:53I've come stumbling out of here.
07:54Yeah.
07:55He's here somewhere.
07:56Onto the road.
07:57Yeah.
07:58He's then been hit by an unknown vehicle,
08:00which we think is a grey BMW that obviously we're doing work on.
08:02Yeah.
08:03He's stopped.
08:04He's not stopped.
08:05Spread on straight up there.
08:06When you hear on the radio that a person's died,
08:08your heart hits your boots.
08:10It's the worst message you can receive.
08:13You know that that is just going to start a chain of events for a family
08:18that is going to change their lives forever.
08:22He's either come outside of Pentagon or round and round about.
08:25He said, it didn't come this way.
08:27But we won't get a pencil until good morning.
08:29No.
08:31Frustrating this time of night as well, isn't it?
08:32We can't get any CCTV from anywhere.
08:35There's all these places who's going to have it.
08:37We just can't get it.
08:39The mobile boys have to rile their old-fashioned witnesses.
08:42It is a crime scene.
08:44Everything needs to be controlled.
08:46And we've got that painstaking job ahead of us
08:48of piecing together the evidence that's left over from the scene.
08:51And also identify who the offender is and who we need to speak to.
08:56We've got a deceased on the floor there who you don't know who he is.
08:59He's not got his wallet on him.
09:00There's no phone on him.
09:02Nobody around is telling me who it is.
09:05So we've got to try and find out who this person is
09:07as quick as we possibly can for his family.
09:10Are we sure he's got nothing on him?
09:11I think he said, quick pat down.
09:13I didn't move him because James was coming.
09:15But I've been under his...
09:16and got his back pockets and I've done his top pockets.
09:21It's an hour since the pedestrian was hit
09:23and control updates.
09:25The priority is to try and identify as many key features within that first hour as we can.
09:35witnesses, CCTV, physical evidence.
09:37Try and get every little bit that we can.
09:38Because that first hour is critical to ultimately how long this is going to go on for.
09:42I'll go to that.
09:43The behind the vehicle that you think might be involved.
09:44Yeah.
09:45Sorry, can we just give priority to the car behind this suspicious vehicle?
09:46I don't know.
09:47I don't know.
09:48I don't know.
09:49Let's just give us an update of where you are, etc.
09:53every little bit that we can because that first hour is critical to ultimately how long this is
09:58going to go on for i'll go to that the behind the behind the vehicle that you think might be involved
10:05yeah sorry can we just give priority to the vehicle behind this suspicious vehicle just give us an update
10:12where you are etc yes yeah still covering vehicles can be aware that following it
10:20from oscar tango one five could i just clarify why you think this vehicle is the one we're looking for
10:25it might be nothing but we've followed it from the same kind of area in derby it matches the description
10:31and it's kind of done a u-turn through the estates when it realized we were following it doing three
10:35left turns to do so yeah okay there's a couple of us coming from the scene try and stay with it
10:43yes yeah heading towards the 850. i'm going to i'm going to say 50 just come just jump in catch us up
11:01the deceased is in the middle of the road he's been covered up by emas so we're yeah we're going
11:14to have to have a full close of the pentagon after a fatal hit and run collision between a pedestrian
11:20and a car whoever's doing this would clearly be aware that they'd hit hit a person traffic officer
11:25dave shaw and crash detective craig walker are leading a manhunt for a suspected hit and run driver
11:43on the outskirts of the city dave and colleagues are tailing a bmw spotted leaving the area of the crash
11:49scene follow me's around vehicle it's been flying initially
12:03and it's a stop stop just prior to 23 alpha
12:16everything thank you i'm just going to stay until mark's with him
12:26been reported that this vehicle may have left the area at the time of the crash
12:29the price was to stop it rule it out so mark's just speaking with the driver now
12:35and it looks like me a-okay in this vehicle has nothing to do with it
12:41rich i'm getting the thumbs up from mark i think we're all right
12:44when you know that your offender is made off it is massively time critical because you know that
12:50for every hour for every minute for every second that they're not with you that you are potentially
12:54losing evidence bit by bit trip by drip so it is massively time critical we need to get the driver
13:02who's involved locked up and every every inquiry no matter how minor that we get from now on you know
13:10everything will be looked at every every vehicle will be looked at we've got a a manhunt on our hands
13:16and uh we're lucky for dervishes most wanted at the minute
13:25as specialist forensics officers gather evidence at the scene
13:29the identity of the deceased remains unknown
13:33we've shot a call that an officer's going to travel down to the scene with a fingerprint scanner
13:39while dave continues the manhunt a cctv search is underway
13:43what's the time to show i don't say that uh i want some footage from the chip shops might show
13:48as an abandoned vehicle it doesn't look too dissimilar to a sort of dark blue uh bfw1 series
13:57in a case like this cctv is absolutely key getting that quick view of some cctv getting you the model
14:04or the make or the shape of a car allows you to really narrow down your inquiries
14:09i think i've got a basic area where it is i'm just researching all the side roads off there mate
14:16with a new crucial lead dave and colleagues scour the area
14:21it looks like a blue one series is bang on at the right time as well
14:25that's all we've got to go on at the moment we are literally looking for a needle in a haystack
14:30and we're all said and done we've got a person that's still lining the road that person still
14:42has a family and and that family still needs to be informed that this individual is not going to be
14:48coming home tonight so it's a very traumatic thing for for everybody involved
14:52the vehicle that we've got um an interest in has been located uh and we're just around the corner
15:01from where rich is with it so it's all attended
15:07on there on here yeah there it is stay six feet now
15:22mate traffic cop rich morris has found a bmw matching cctv footage from a nearby chip shop
15:31is it on it well if you look at this it's got some they look reasonably new yeah they do and then
15:40you've got like along here you've got some these all look this scuff mark along here all looks
15:47relatively new uh along i mean it has been out we know it's been out anyway and i'm trying to look in
15:55the archers to
15:57to see what's what i don't believe in coincidence dave no i don't
16:08i'm not i'm not totally happy with this to be honest
16:11no
16:15there's definitely scuffing underneath it there is yeah
16:17yes walker receiving rich morris mate if you're in a position to come out to us um i think it'd be
16:26worthwhile
16:31the biggest thing for an investigator i think is curiosity be curious want to know the answers
16:35want to know why something happened you know that ability to keep asking questions just not accepting
16:42things on face value test everything question everything and that will get you to a just conclusion
16:49on the front near side corner there's scuffing on the corner of the bumper the there's like a scrape mark
16:57yeah yeah you're putting your torch at the bottom bottom wing bait along there where it's mucky
17:02there's like scuff marks along the side it's in the foot it's that color right the only thing that goes
17:08against it is they said black yeah but in the dark
17:17as dave and rich plan the next step there's an update from the scene
17:22found a little bit of wheel arch plastic wheel arch so we are going to be looking at a car that's got
17:26some kind of wheel arch damage right somewhere that they're all tidy they've got the lining
17:30the days of mud on them so i'm happy it's not like yeah so we can roll this one out yeah roll it out
17:36mate thank you very much it's very much minute by minute with this we're still waiting for that
17:43little bit of a breakthrough there's some debris that's been located at the scene which has not
17:47come from this car so we'll get there we'll get that breakthrough and then it'll come confident about
17:52it nearly four hours from the time of the collision dave returns to the scene i wouldn't mind having a
18:04look at this cctv because i'd like to have a look myself at this vehicle that people are talking about
18:13you see why at that that you thought i thought it was a vmw client yeah i can see why but i don't
18:21think it is it's very hard to tell from that but it's it's big it's bigger than one series
18:25that's why so it could be an x one could be got footage off the phone on my phone
18:30it it doesn't get much worse you know we've got what we've got it's a blue car we need somebody
18:36around that actually first thing in the morning trying to get the road there's two things that need
18:39to happen fairly quickly one is that we need to identify the young man and inform his next of
18:44kin and we also need to find the vehicle that's seemingly driven over him and cleared off so once
18:50we've got some daylight and we can get the cctv we should be able to look at the footage far clearer
18:56and have a greater understanding than what vehicle we're looking for and it's all hands-on pump then
19:03everybody's gonna be looking for it it's a big it's a big responsibility being a place obviously
19:09you you know you take on these investigations you're responsible for for the people that's
19:14involved you're responsible for their welfare and trying to to seek that justice that the people
19:20need in the in these cases
19:37shall we begin 12 hours after the accident and the victim has been identified from his fingerprints
19:45what we've done is we found next to kim we've been to see his mum what she tells us is that yesterday
19:51he went out at 10 o'clock in the morning with a friend he gets back home at round about 7 pm
20:01he's worst aware for drink he's having some kind of anxiety matter which points he leaves he leaves in
20:07in the clothing that he's got on which is just a t-shirt and jeans we've got a witness left he's out for an
20:13evening walk and he notices that the a gentleman he doesn't know is up against the wall to the entrance
20:20to the cricket club is is in some kind of trouble is is slumped against the wall he looks like he's not
20:27very well he looks quite agitated and the chap says to him can you phone me an ambulance i'm having some
20:32form of panic attack or some anxiety issue i don't feel very well the 2002 while he's on the phone to
20:43the ambulance service he says he collapses on the floor he gets up he walks towards the road and then
20:50collapses again in the road he says a few cars go past him pit the horns shout at him get out the road
20:57what you're doing that kind of thing he said then out of nowhere he describes as a gunmetal gray or
21:04graphite gray bmw estate car comes he says speeding around the island he says it's run over him and then
21:17shot off and carried on up nottingham road we've then got another two witnesses they're there we've got
21:23a passenger in a taxi and we've got uh the taxi driver he's aware there's a car in front of him
21:30when he's on the roundabout but what draws me attention to is all of a sudden i see the cars on top
21:34of the body he says at that point i realized oh no he's run over somebody uh again he's consistent he
21:41describes it as a gunmetal got a graphite gray car bigger than a smaller car we've obviously got this
21:49car that for some reason has not stopped we don't know why this person's got to have known they've
21:54gone over somebody it's not it's not a clip there's a small part of a car um that's come off an under
22:00tray but it's a very little bit of plastic and there's no identification marks on it but we know
22:05it's got a fastener on it looks fairly fresh and i think its position is consistent with being uh off our
22:11offending vehicle so if you have a look at that that's the part of the car it's it's an inch inch and
22:17off kind of size and that's the only part we've got and if we get a car that for whatever other
22:24reason i.e match a description we get off cctv or it's a a driver we identify and they have that part
22:31of their car missing then i think that that raises them up to being a suspect for me
22:39we talk about golden hour principles in policing it's that evidence that's immediately available after
22:44the commission of a crime that it's going to give you the best chance of solving it so this is the
22:49chip shop if you watch this group of three or four cars all reasonable speeds and then there's that
22:58one there that travels a bit quicker than everybody else which raises a bit of suspicion about why it's
23:04traveling that speed we worked out exactly the time it would be passing yeah if the time checks right
23:11that that that real time is two minutes past eight which is when they say on the call that
23:15he gets run over what we've got to do guys is just fill them blanks in there are tons of cctv opportunities
23:20on this road that are probably going to give us a better shot than that at the moment blue car it's
23:25like a needle in a stack isn't it whereas if we start getting the model of car the design of the car
23:30we might be able to find ourselves in three hours time parked on somebody's drive looking at it that's my hope
23:41and it's our job to try and help identify the offending vehicle and see where it's gone hopefully
23:59work out where the car is now traffic cop stuart smith is looking for cctv footage after a fatal hit
24:08and run last night you know we've got what we've got it's a blue car footage recovered from a chip
24:16shop doesn't match witness descriptions and stuart needs to check if the timings are correct and then
24:22there's that one there that travels a bit quicker than everybody else which raises a bit of suspicion
24:26about why it's traveling that speed businesses adjacent to the crash site might provide a clearer picture
24:38i'm doing some cctv inquiries to do with a serious crash on pentagon island last night
24:46do you have any cameras that cover any section of the road
24:53yeah the time we need to look at is 20 02 so two minutes past eight it's good clear footage it might
25:01give us an indication what side the car is what the side of the car looks like because all we know at the
25:05moment is what the back of it looks like and it's a bit of a blurry image so we'll see cctv can make or
25:13break a job that's why it's so important to every scene to gather as much information as possible as
25:20quickly as possible because information disappears fast witnesses leave or they don't don't talk to you
25:26cctv doesn't always say for more than 24 hours you need to find that information you need to secure it as
25:33quickly as possible i'm interested i'm interested in watching that part of the screen there sorry
25:37because i'm watching for particular cars yeah
25:43let's look at this fella here he's just staggered out the way of that booster
25:48that's him isn't it i've put money on that sim yeah it's pacing about though isn't it
25:53you know blue lights in a second some dark colored car
26:01that looks like a a gray estate a darker estate the cars aren't the same as what's in that other footage
26:09all right ladle gets up 20 30 20 18 ish you can't see him walk across then we've got
26:17white without a match it appears the chip shop cctv timings were inaccurate
26:28so the focus turns to other vehicles white gold black black
26:39we're basing the first theory on that bit of footage that we had from up the road with all the
26:43vehicles going past and that car went past quickly but from that one it's completely inconsistent
26:48with the vehicles that drive past from what i can see i think it's the victim with a white shirt on
26:54that walked into view of the camera and i can watch it right to the point the ambulance discovers the
26:58the scene at no point did any of the cars match up so i've written down a list of what there was
27:03and hopefully that might be able to help identify the correct piece of footage that's the trouble when
27:07the camera's times are out it's it throws it all out away stuart's search continues with another
27:17business nearby oh it sounds right that's a very good bit of footage
27:27it's definitely going to get give us a bit of a picture as to what's happened and which cars have
27:31come from where street lights they definitely help in terms of lighting and seeing what you can do but
27:37it also causes a bit of an issue especially with the orange street lights it makes it difficult
27:41to make it count colors they all tend to blend they were moving more towards the idea that it's
27:47black 4x4 so we've got the three cars these are the three ones before the ambulance then
27:55black one series or something like that black saloon then there's the green insignia
28:02there then the ambulance rocks up at the lights
28:07we've been able to work out that the footage time from the chip shop was about 20 minutes out
28:26so we're actually looking at the wrong time so that what what what was the blue vehicle involved turns out
28:32wasn't involved at all but the other CCTV from the Vauxhall garage has revealed a
28:40suspect vehicle of a black BMW which we now think is the offending vehicle.
28:49First bit of footage we've got shortly before eight o'clock there's a black BMW 5 series.
29:08With the identity of the driver still unknown Craig Walker is reviewing the new CCTV.
29:14It's got blacked out rear windows, black alloy wheels and also a black grille in the front.
29:22You've got the 5 series BMW there then there's the 1 series just in front there.
29:27Significantly we also get our witnesses who are in a taxi who become the next car behind the BMW 5 series.
29:39As you see the BMW there the 5 series is just going out of shot.
29:42Well that's exactly where our victim is laid in the road.
29:50That's the point where you see our taxi the brakes realising that
29:56something's happened just in front and that's when they stop.
30:01So what you see now is that the previous cameras are over there
30:05behind those trees so your car's now travelling across the top of the screen and you can see
30:10the white dot there we know that's our victim. You can see if you look closely you can see that's
30:15a person moving around and this is the point where you see them fall to the floor.
30:22So at that point you never see that person stood up again.
30:27You can see that cars are clearly reacting to something that's in the road. There's 12 of them in
30:31total some of them come to a real crawl and then drive on so clearly they can see our victim in the
30:38road. There's no reason why our suspects shouldn't have seen him. The taxi driver stopped he put his
30:43hazard lights on but prior to that yeah 12 people and many of which have clearly seen him or failed
30:49to do anything to help him and it's gut-wrenching to think that you know you could have maybe done
30:54something to save somebody's life just a simple act. We managed to piece together a piece of work
31:02regarding an item that was broken from the bottom of the offending vehicle that was identified as a
31:07BMW 5 Series and after researching ones recording the local area or registering the local area that led
31:15us to an address.
31:45In Derby, Craig and officers locate the address and a car matching the one caught on CCTV.
32:02There's some damage under there too. That's it it's all damaged it's ripped so it's behind that yeah.
32:09PC Matt Cork looks for damage where the small piece of plastic was ripped from the car after hitting the
32:15pedestrian. There's like like vent isn't there yeah up behind that vent like so to the as you're
32:22looking at it to the right of it yeah is there a damaged bit there yeah yeah yeah it's a matter in
32:28there yeah I need some rats to go around the back yeah is that all right if you flip around the back
32:33of course you go to sleep with the car yes mate open the door it's the police
32:50obviously we've found the vehicle so it's linked to this address where apparently the guy that drives
32:56this car lives I can't get any answer there so we're just doing some more inquiries at the minute
33:01to find out if this guy is still in the area but we do need to get hold of him and get him in the
33:05traps because he's got some questions to answer. I can see here coming underneath the car the damage
33:12matches with what we'd expect uh with a drag injury somebody coming underneath the vehicle and it would
33:19appear whether some of this damage has occurred um it has potentially collected um some dna evidence from the scene
33:32forensics are just having a look underneath at the minute now whilst it's in the air
33:35it's a lot easier for him to do it like this um they're just looking for any evidence that somebody's
33:40been underneath that vehicle and there is evidence there to suggest that they are
33:44the team confirms the car was involved in the hit and run but with no sign of the driver they need
33:53to force entry into his home there's a warrant thank you yeah let me just check it make sure oh yeah
34:03so i've got firearms appear to drill a lot so less mess
34:12you're sort of walking out are you fantastic just can pop me in
34:22yeah go on gentlemen that concrete yeah yeah you crack over that
34:28i'm looking for mobile phones evidence mobile phones evidence phone purchases i need to link into
34:33phone so i need to find him anything that's going to tell me where he is
34:35mm-hmm man did just fly up yeah all that maybe he's got a car key there that's on the tables he
34:40that needs season how much clothes he got i mean there's that's obviously what he's been wearing
34:45isn't it it's obviously more recent clothes there the stuff that's been washed yeah this is all dirty
34:50i mean you can see the dirt on this the issue is going to be if he's gone under the car yeah
34:56one of the things you've been thinking about is that if he's made attempts to clean the car
35:00work on the car you could get transfer of that body matter that we know is under the car
35:04if you're going to see things dna wise then it needs to be done professionally and properly by the
35:09scenes of crime officers in the way that they do it to make sure its integrity is maintained
35:13so i'm going to make a decision to lock the scene down we'll we'll get a briefing in the morning with
35:18task force and socco and come up with a proper thorough strategy on how we're going to deal with
35:22the property
35:39this is just a timeline of the scene just the what you call material time frame so it's in second detail
35:46as to what happens and when within the scene taking the cctv so you're looking for your gaps
35:52looking for things that overlap things that don't fit things that do fit cases of this are intense
35:58you're chasing a suspect you're piecing together what's happened you're getting to that point of
36:03trying to show who did this um it is intense it's hard work private lives get put on hold appointments
36:09get changed things get missed at home but as a team you work together everybody does the same
36:15you know they give up every spare minute of the day is now on this case after finding the suspect's
36:22car and home address craig examines more cctv we're able to plot that vehicle all the way around on the
36:29individual roads as it gets back to its home address gets back to the dress about three minutes after
36:35the collision you see him get out of the vehicle and he appears at the front from the driver's side
36:39you see him break the two lines of the lights he's checking two or three times around that front area
36:45where you'd expect to find damage in that collision he's pushing something down on the bonnet there
36:50you can see him put a bit of weight on the car or lean forward into the car and then after a short
36:55period he gets into the car and he moves off that can only lead you to one thing in my mind is that
37:04he knows he's been responsible for a collision he knows he's potentially killed somebody he's seen
37:09what damage is under the car and then he's decided to hot foot it rather than report what happened
37:15or talk to the police or contact anybody
37:20this is the home address this piece of footage is key because you can identify somebody using the vehicle
37:26and that's our suspect again it's the lighter top lighter bottoms the dark top
37:38what's chilling when you watch this is that at that moment in time it's only a few hundred yards from
37:43the victim's home address to think that the victim's family might have been walking down the pavement and
37:49unknowingly walked past him or his friends and might have just walked down the same same road as
37:55as the person responsible for doing this without knowing so walk walking back in back to his home
38:05address at the moment we know that he's an albanian national who has twice been deported from the
38:13country and found his way back in he is under investigation from the border agency for being
38:19here illegally we're aware that he may have links to organized crime we've got a bulletin out there
38:25so other forces will know that he's actually wanted at some point he will come to police
38:29attention i'm sure if he tries to leave the country he'll be stopped at the ports because there's a
38:34marker on him so it's any one of those um if we can get to him before uh before that then that's what we'll look to do
38:51at derby police station there's a major development in the hunt for a suspected hit-and-run driver
39:07eight o'clock last night we got a phone call to say that he'd handed himself in at uh
39:11st mary's wolf police station and we have asked him today why he handed himself in what made him
39:17think he was wanted because we'd certainly not told him uh he's not told us that he's not told
39:21us why but uh and i suppose we'll never know what truly brought him back obviously we we searched his
39:26house uh which we then secured after we took his car and seized that so you can only wonder if all
39:32these things and bits and bobs that we did and all this work we put in has made him realize that the
39:36gravity of what's happening evidence will be put to him uh in the hope that that will um you know
39:42encourage him to to give an account of what's happened uh he was there i wasn't so there's
39:48only him really could tell us truly what he could see in that car and why he did what he did
39:52after a night in the cells you can book him out to me if you like an interview team arrives to
40:11question the suspect come on that's sweet did you hit anything in the road did you drive over anything
40:33uh it's um we distracted by anything at that point when you were driving
40:56you're using your phone i'm going to be changing the radio
41:01so i've got no further questions now that has my colleague i'll end the interview there
41:16he's answered no comment to all the questions really shown no emotions just quite flatly
41:25quite stoically answering no comment to everything we've shown him you know what we're talking about is
41:31he's absolutely tragic he's a lad in his 30s he's a dad he leaves behind a child and and to show no
41:38emotion at all through this case is really quite hard to see and and makes you wonder what sort of
41:44person it is that you you sat in the room with the only way we can guarantee that he doesn't get out to
41:51to do this again is to charge him whilst he's here so that's what we'll be trying to do
42:04i just want to come and stand here just stand here first okay i'm just going to get the interpreter on the phone
42:19hello hello now i'll be here i'll be an interpreter thank you very much it's sergeant rich pricey a
42:24caller from darby custody uh i have with me a gentleman who's about to be charged with several offenses by one of my colleagues
42:30so the first charge is caused the death of grant sturgis by driving a mechanically propelled vehicle
42:39without due care and attention
42:46i don't have any comment about it
42:50a very selfish person he's shown no remorse ultimately he's putting himself above our victim and our victim's family
42:56okay based on the seriousness and nature of the offence i'm going to remand you into police custody
43:04court in the morning
43:08thank you very much interpreter much appreciated thank you
43:12what was the reason why he didn't stop was he on drinks was he on drugs
43:23was he on his phone we'll probably never know that but at the point you know you've hurt somebody
43:28it's got to be a natural human instinct to try and help to try and put things right and he hasn't
43:33he's just looked after himself and he's cleared off and i'm convinced with the work that we've done
43:38or we'll continue to do that we'll get a positive results for that effect at court
43:58you know it's worthwhile when you get that thanks from the family when you feel that you've got a sense
44:04of justice served the court or you've gone to coroners and you've been able to sit with a family
44:10and take them through every question they've got about how their loved one died and give them the
44:15answers that allows them to move forward that's when you know you've done a good job and that's
44:20when you remind yourself why you do what you do and why we do what we do
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