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Baked With Love: Holiday - Season 1 Episode 8 -
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00:00The arrest is the pivotal moment in any investigation.
00:07If you get it wrong, then it's game over.
00:13Police officer with a taser!
00:18Taser, taser, taser!
00:21Taser, taser, taser!
00:39Everything they're doing is on body warm video.
00:42Police!
00:44Everything they're doing would be examined by defence lawyers.
00:49They can't make any mistakes.
00:51I haven't done anything wrong!
01:11You see a man walking to the front of the car park.
01:16He sits on the floor and then a family cycling by see him and stop and that's when the emergency services are called.
01:23The cyclists who have found him sat on the floor in the car park, emotional, with his arms bleeding, established that he has been stabbed.
01:35They contacted the police and the ambulance and say that they've got this male here who has got stab wounds.
01:42And they suggest that there's possibly someone else with injuries.
01:49The reality is there is a woman, Claire Parry, half hanging out of the driver's seat of a car and fighting for her life.
01:59Dorset police and paramedics arrive.
02:06Dorset police and paramedics arrive.
02:08To find the injured man is someone familiar.
02:11Timothy Bramer, a local police officer.
02:14The chances are they probably know Timothy Bramer.
02:25He's a fellow colleague.
02:27Dorset's not the biggest police force in the UK.
02:30So a lot of these people would know each other.
02:33Get him in there.
02:34Get him in there.
02:35We'll leave the question to you guys.
02:36We'll just medically look at it and go through that way.
02:50And so when you turn up and you see a fellow colleague in different circumstances other than work,
02:55so he's not wearing a top, he's not in uniform, he's clearly got an injury, he's very emotional.
03:01It can confuse you a little bit and, you know, you're trying to get your senses as to what's going on here.
03:06But obviously, he's a colleague.
03:09They are going to be thinking that he's honest and he's telling the truth.
03:15The account that PC Timothy Bramer gives to paramedics is noted by the police officer.
03:21Inside the ambulance, it's double-checked.
03:26I've been listening to what's been said.
03:27I've written down what you've said to me, what's been said, right?
03:30So when anyone makes comment to a police officer, ideally under caution, it's important to keep an accurate record of what that person says.
03:40And that's called a significant statement.
03:43When we first got here, when I first saw you outside, you were asked by the paramedics what was happening.
03:50And so it could become significant later on when you're having an interview with somebody, particularly if they change their account as to what they told officers at the scene.
03:58You said something to him, so I was having an affair with her. She got me to meet her here. She was going to tell my wife.
04:04Clare Parry suggested they meet at three o'clock that afternoon at the Horns Inn, which is a pub in a small village called West Parley, just outside of Bournemouth.
04:21Timothy Bramer arrived about half an hour early, actually, about 2.30 and pulled up in the car park, waiting for Clare to arrive.
04:33And 15 minutes later, about 2.45pm, Clare Parry arrived in her car, pulled up beside him, got out of her car and then got into the passenger seat of Bramer's vehicle.
04:44They'd been having an affair for 10 years while they were both married.
04:51And she said, I'm going to tell your wife, I'm going to disclose what's been going on between the two of us.
04:59He's obviously panicked by this, doesn't want that to happen and pleads with her to not tell his wife.
05:05And it appears that she grabbed his phone and texted Bramer's wife, saying, I am cheating on you.
05:13That's when a fight seems to have broken out and only one of them walked away from the car.
05:20As paramedics rush to help Clare Parry, inside the ambulance, a police officer checks the details given by Timothy Bramer.
05:41You said something to him, so I was having an affair with her, she got me to meet her here.
05:46She was going to tell my wife.
05:48And then just now, when you're given the paramedic a bit more of the details, the female arrived.
05:54You all right there? Sorry.
05:56Yeah.
05:57The female arrived after me and jumped in my car.
06:00She was so angry.
06:02She was going to tell my wife we were having an affair for years.
06:07She was going through my phone.
06:08I don't remember what happened.
06:10She was going through my phone.
06:12I think she told my wife I was going to drive off and kill myself.
06:16The wounds were caused by a pen and knife in my car.
06:19I've had it for years.
06:21Don't remember what happened.
06:26Just felt it go in, I think, three times.
06:28You're happy?
06:29That's basically what you've said to the paramedic.
06:31Obviously not word for word.
06:32If I can get you to sign your life away for us there, please.
06:34It is good practice to get significant comments signed
06:37to show there's a true and accurate record of what's being said.
06:40Now, in this day and age, even better, we have body-worn videos,
06:43so that cannot be disputed.
06:45All right, Tim, the issue says you're going to get arrested.
06:49At the moment, I'm arrest you on suspicion of attempted murder.
06:54That's quite interesting.
06:55He's sat there just signing the pocket notebook, blowing his nose,
07:00and then the officer tells him he's going to be arrested.
07:03And it's almost surprised that he's being arrested.
07:06At the moment, I'm arrest you on suspicion of attempted murder.
07:09Do you not have to say anything?
07:10It shows almost a level of arrogance
07:12to think that he was actually going to get away with this
07:14and they were just going to accept his account
07:16and let him go off to hospital without being arrested.
07:19Do you not have to say anything?
07:20Do you not have to say anything?
07:21Do you not mention my question?
07:22Somebody there at Lyman call.
07:23Anything you do so may be given evidence, OK?
07:25Obviously, we're going to let the paramedics take you down to the hospital,
07:28get you all checked out first.
07:30Obviously, you know the process from there, all right?
07:33Yeah.
07:34Yeah.
07:35I'm so sorry.
07:36I'm so sorry.
07:37That's all right.
07:38That's fine.
07:39We'll get you down to the hospital
07:41so we can get you all checked out
07:42and then we can do it from there, all right?
07:44Yeah.
07:45So, initially, he was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
07:49Claire was still alive.
07:51She was unconscious
07:52and she really was fighting for her life in that car
07:54at the back of the car park.
07:59Detectives begin their investigation.
08:02The two patients are taken to separate hospitals.
08:05The life of Claire Parry, aged 41,
08:08is now in the hands of her medical colleagues.
08:12Claire Parry was a married mother of two.
08:15She worked as a nurse in Bournemouth for 20 years.
08:18She had massive internal bleeding.
08:21She had lots of bruising along her jawline, on her neck,
08:25and there were 31 separate sites
08:28on her upper body of blunt force trauma.
08:39Despite fighting hard
08:41and despite the medics doing all they could,
08:43she passed away the next day.
08:50Bren was then rearrested on suspicion of murder
08:53at Salisbury Hospital,
08:55and there's more body-worn camera footage of that arrest.
08:58And, again, you see the hysterical Bremer
09:00that we saw in the footage from the day before.
09:04The footage, which wasn't released to the public,
09:07shows Timothy Bremer sobbing.
09:10He was very sorry, but he kept saying,
09:13I'm not a bad man, I'm not a bad person.
09:16I'm going to go to prison.
09:17I'm not going to see my son for a number of years.
09:20It's all about him.
09:21There's no real reference to Claire
09:23and what damage he's done to her, to her family,
09:26and also his wider family as well.
09:29It's all about him.
09:30He's very focused on the impact it's had on him.
09:35Self-pleading and self-serving.
09:38A policeman trying to deceive the police.
09:42It was clear to me that he was lying,
09:44and he was lying all the way throughout that process.
09:46And this is what you find in murder investigations,
09:48is that you have to lift the lid,
09:50and you start scratching around,
09:52and all sorts of things come out of the woodwork.
09:54The nurse has died after being found unconscious with serious neck injuries.
10:12Claire Parry, aged 41, a mother of two,
10:18was rushed to Bournemouth Hospital,
10:20as paramedics treated a man found nearby for knife wounds.
10:26The man who's recovering at Salisbury District Hospital
10:29has been named as Police Constable Timothy Bramer, also married.
10:33He's been arrested on suspicion of murder.
10:39How can they have an affair for ten years,
10:41and how can it come to a stage where someone's lost their life?
10:44It was a big shockwave through the community.
10:47It was a really intense case.
10:51Timothy Bramer was a 41-year-old police officer stationed in Dorset,
11:01on the south coast.
11:03He'd been at police officers for about 17 years.
11:05Most of his career was in the roads policing unit,
11:07so that's the traffic department that deal with speeding motorists,
11:11and also attend road traffic accidents.
11:13Bramer was a popular police officer.
11:15He was good at his job,
11:17and on one occasion him and a colleague were commended for their bravery,
11:21where they came across a burning building,
11:23broke into that building and rescued a family.
11:25So he was quite well known within Dorset Police.
11:29Bramer was married, he had a child,
11:31and on the face of it he was seen as this doting husband
11:34and doting father.
11:36But he had a secret life, a double life, as it were.
11:44Bramer and Clare met whilst Clare was married.
11:46Bramer met whilst Clare was working as a nurse at the Bournemouth Hospital.
11:50Bramer, being a roads policing officer,
11:52he would have had occasions to have gone into the hospital
11:55to either deal with accident victims or drink driver cases
11:59and that sort of stuff.
12:00So they struck up a friendship,
12:01which then turned into a relationship fairly quickly.
12:04But obviously at that time he was married,
12:06and Clare knew nothing about this.
12:08Now a year later Clare married a police officer, also from Dorset,
12:12but the affair continued as far as we know.
12:14You said to her I was having an affair with her,
12:20she got me to meet her here.
12:22She was going to tell my wife.
12:24The investigation confirms that Clare Parry
12:27did want the meeting with Bramer,
12:29because she'd discovered more secrets about him.
12:35I think Clare was becoming wise to who Bramer really was.
12:39I think she was so infatuated by him throughout their affair
12:43that she didn't realise that he was a womaniser.
12:46Clare Parry started to become suspicious,
12:49so she did her own detective work
12:51and she actually found out that he was seeing another police officer
12:55in the same force.
12:56So this was a second affair that he was having.
12:59Both women got together, they started to confide in each other,
13:02and they were suspicious that there might even be other women
13:05on the scene as well.
13:07That's when Clare Parry said that she was going to ruin Bramer.
13:11She described her feelings as hell hath no fury
13:15and said that she was going to bring down Manhall Bramer,
13:19as she called him.
13:21She realised who he was, wanted him to tell his wife,
13:24and that was why they met up eventually at the Horns Inn in West Parley.
13:30The arresting officer reads to Bramer the details he gave to paramedics.
13:34Yeah. The man arrived after me and jumped in my car.
13:38She was so angry.
13:40She was going to tell my wife we were having an affair for years.
13:44She was going through my phone. I don't remember what happened.
13:47She was going through my phone. I think she told my wife.
13:50I was going to drive off and kill myself.
13:53In his account, Bramer tried to play down what had happened in the car.
13:59It's very much like he was trying to control the situation
14:02and minimise the severity of what we know really did take place.
14:07He claimed that Clare Parry had refused to get out of his car,
14:10and that's where a bit of a disagreement emerged in the car,
14:14what he later described as being a kerfuffle.
14:16He said that as he was trying to drag her from the car,
14:19he accidentally applied pressure to her neck.
14:24And then she just was struggling to breathe and he left her there.
14:27So as far as he was concerned, he hadn't killed her.
14:30She wasn't in any particular danger.
14:32She was just struggling to breathe.
14:34And he then walked off to get sympathy
14:37and to get the emergency services to him.
14:42But Clare Parry's autopsy revealed a different story.
14:49She died as a result of compression to her neck.
14:52She had fractures in her neck.
14:54She also had numerous blunt force injuries to her trunk area and to her arms.
15:00And this clearly shows that there was a strong physical fight going on in that vehicle.
15:05But ultimately it was the compression to her neck which starved her brain of oxygen that killed her.
15:10The pathologist said that for those injuries to be sustained,
15:14it would have had to be done by more conventional strangulation.
15:17They threw out the idea that it was in the crook of the neck,
15:19which was Bremer's version of events,
15:21as he was trying to get Clare out of the car so he can go off and kill himself.
15:25I was going to drive off and kill myself.
15:30After the arrest, the investigation discovered the full extent of Timothy Bremer's deception.
15:40So that message is sent at 3.02 in the afternoon to Bremer's wife.
15:45And obviously she's shocked to receive that message.
15:48But what's more unnerving is three minutes later,
15:51Bremer, having had this argument with Clare,
15:54then takes this deliberate action to do a factory reset on his phone,
15:59which wipes all of the data from his phone,
16:01knowing that there's probably some incriminating evidence on there
16:04that he doesn't want anyone to see.
16:09Next, with bloodstains on his shorts and shirt,
16:12Bremer told the cyclists that he'd been the victim of an attack.
16:18He showed them his arm. He claimed he'd been stabbed.
16:21So one of the cyclists called 999.
16:25The terrible thing here is, because Bremer had accused Clare of attacking him,
16:31because he claimed he'd been stabbed,
16:33that meant the 999 operator said to the cyclist who made the call,
16:37don't go near the person in the car, thinking they could be dangerous.
16:41What did that mean for Clare?
16:42It means she never got the help she so desperately needed.
16:47Bremer is thinking,
16:49oh, my goodness, what have I done?
16:52What can I do to get out of this?
16:55So he's already thinking ahead as to, you know,
16:57what are the police going to ask me?
16:59What can I say?
17:00How am I going to make this look like either an accident
17:03or that I am defending myself?
17:05So his initial account is that I was stabbed by Clare
17:09and I was trying to get her out of the car.
17:12That's a classic self-defence defence.
17:14But his story changed as he was arrested.
17:18Knowing his statement would be used as evidence,
17:21Bremer, a policeman, didn't blame Clare directly.
17:26The wounds were caused by a pet knife in my car.
17:29I've had it for years, don't remember what happened,
17:32just felt it go in, I think, three times.
17:35Now, interestingly, what he's then done,
17:37is he's then slightly changed his account,
17:39saying, I don't really know how those stab wounds appeared.
17:42His mind is whirring.
17:44He's trying to second-guess what's coming next.
17:46And he will know that when the police officers are saying to him,
17:49can you sign my pocket notebook as to what you said?
17:52Can I get you to sign your life away for us there, please?
17:55He will be thinking, yeah, they've got me on what I've said already.
17:58They've, you know, I've committed to that.
18:00So I've got to stick with that story.
18:02And if I don't, it's going to look bad for me.
18:04All right, Tim.
18:05Issue says you're going to get arrested.
18:07At the moment, I'm arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
18:10You don't have to say anything.
18:11You don't have to say anything.
18:12You don't have to mention my question.
18:13Some of you are there at Ryman call.
18:14Anything you do to say may be given evidence.
18:16OK?
18:17Obviously, we're going to let the paramedics take you down to the hospital,
18:20get you all checked out first.
18:21And, obviously, you know the process from there, all right?
18:24Yeah.
18:25Yeah.
18:26I'm so sorry.
18:28That's all right.
18:29He just gets very emotional.
18:32You know, he's sobbing uncontrollably.
18:35He's also probably trying to think about how do I play this out,
18:38so that it looks like I am a bit of a victim in all of this.
18:42In custody, Bremer's story changed a third time.
18:54Now, he confessed he stabbed himself because he was suicidal and Claire didn't care.
19:01He confessed that actually the injuries that he had sustained to his arm were self-inflicted
19:10and they weren't caused by Claire.
19:12I think he's now starting to work out that actually he knows that the police could probably
19:17show that these wounds are self-inflicted.
19:20So that kicks out his argument of self-defence straight away.
19:24Timothy Bremer stood trial, charged with the murder of Claire Parry.
19:36But the trial judge ruled that Bremer qualified for a defence of loss of control,
19:41caused when Claire Parry texted his wife about their affair.
19:47Relatives of disgraced policeman Timothy Bremer hugged in court today
19:51as he was cleared of murder.
19:53Bremer, aged 41, killed Claire Parry after she sent a text to his wife revealing their affair.
19:59Bremer claimed he never intended to hurt Claire
20:02and the jury accepted his guilty plea to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
20:09Police and prosecutors decided to challenge the sentence of just ten and a half years.
20:17Mr Bremer was a serving Dorset police officer at the time he committed this offence.
20:22Officers swear an oath to protect the public.
20:26But he did the opposite.
20:28His criminal actions on that day were contrary to all policing values.
20:34The conviction of manslaughter and the sentencing of ten and a half years caused much upset and distress for Claire Parry's friends and family.
20:47They said it was far too lenient.
20:49So the Attorney General's office referred it to the Court of Appeal and they upped that sentence to thirteen and a half years in jail.
21:01I think what's important to remember is that there's more than one victim.
21:06Claire obviously is a victim but so is her family.
21:10Her husband who actually wanted to try again with their marriage.
21:14And also Bremer's wife is a victim. She had no idea who he was effectively.
21:19He would have been a trained first aider.
21:22He would have gone to numerous road traffic accidents where people would have had serious life threatening injuries.
21:28And the first thing you do is one of the first things you do as a police officer is to save life and limb.
21:32You know, that's what you sign up for.
21:34And he hasn't done that. He's just walked away.
21:36He's thought about himself, thought about I can't incriminate myself so I'm just going to delete my phone.
21:41And then he plays the victim to the members of the public that are walking past.
21:47Outrageous really.
21:50In terms of summing up Timothy Bremer and his character, I think, well, he couldn't have put it better himself.
21:56When in court he described himself as a devious bastard.
22:11He's driven himself to cost a coffee. He's parked his vehicle. He's walked in.
22:29What we see in this CCTV is a man sitting down and he's told staff that he's been attacked.
22:36And he appeared to be a man in great distress, crying, terrified that people were after him.
22:4836-year-old Luke Dan claims he was targeted while driving his car.
22:55Dan's story was that he was attacked by this individual.
23:00Bear in mind, this individual was on foot and Luke Dan was in a fairly sizeable vehicle at the time, his Range Rover.
23:08He said he was attacked and then he tried to get away from the attack.
23:13The Costa staff sat him down and calmed him down and said, we'll call the police, we'll help you out.
23:18Go ahead, caller, what's your emergency?
23:25Hiya, I work at Costa Coffee Marsh Mills and we've just had a man come in. He's been attacked, he's saying.
23:31He's like quite shaken up, he's got like blood on him, we don't really know what to do with him.
23:34But he's like not letting anyone leave his side.
23:37Is he still with you now, yeah?
23:39Yeah.
23:41We've got him sat down, offered him a drink and that, but he doesn't, he's like quite shaken up.
23:45The staff are trying to show some sympathy to Luke Dan.
23:50It's clearly a very unusual thing that's just happened to them.
23:53They were just about to close.
23:55OK, does he need an ambulance?
24:00I don't think so, I'll ask him.
24:02No?
24:03Does he need an ambulance?
24:07I don't think he does, he seems to find he's just quite like upset.
24:11OK.
24:12What's his name?
24:13What's your name, sorry?
24:14Luke.
24:15Luke Dan.
24:16Is that D-A-N?
24:17Is it D-A-N?
24:18Or double N?
24:19Double N.
24:20Double N.
24:21Double N on the N.
24:22He comes across as somebody who is fearful and has been shaken by the events.
24:27He's attracting quite a lot of sympathy.
24:28He's been attacked.
24:29He doesn't know whether it's male or female.
24:30Do you know anything about the person?
24:31Do you know the male or female?
24:32No, he's not responding, sorry.
24:33OK.
24:34No, he's not responding, sorry.
24:35OK.
24:36And does it look like he's been attacked with a weapon?
24:37Yeah.
24:38Yeah.
24:39Sorry.
24:40Does it look like he's been attacked with a weapon?
24:41Were you attacked with a weapon?
24:42Do you know?
24:43No.
24:44No.
24:45No.
24:46No.
24:47No.
24:48No.
24:49No.
24:50No.
24:51No.
24:52No.
24:53No.
24:54He's not responding, sorry.
24:55No.
24:56OK.
24:57And does it look like he's been attacked with a weapon?
25:00Yeah.
25:01Yeah.
25:02Erm.
25:03Sorry.
25:04Does it look like he's been attacked with a weapon?
25:07Were you attacked with a weapon?
25:09Do you know?
25:10No.
25:11No.
25:12No.
25:13No, he doesn't know.
25:14He's, like, crying.
25:16He just thinks he's in shock.
25:18The Costa staff reported what they saw, which was a man terrified seemingly for his life.
25:23You say he's got blood coming out of his ear, yeah?
25:25Erm.
25:26Not literally coming out, but there is bleeding.
25:28Yeah.
25:29Has he got any other, like, facial injuries or anything?
25:31No, not that I can see.
25:33OK.
25:34No worries.
25:35I will get that sent across.
25:36Erm.
25:37So we'll get our next available officer out to you.
25:40Lovely.
25:41Thank you so much.
25:42You're welcome.
25:43Bye.
25:44Bye.
25:45While police deal with this call, there's also a report of a serious hit-and-run
25:52driving incident just half a mile away.
25:55Eyewitnesses heard an argument between a driver and a pedestrian on a private residential road.
26:02Next, through the darkness, they saw the car run over the pedestrian.
26:07His name, David Kelly, aged 42.
26:12The witnesses were clear that, yes, Mr. Kelly had been aggressive, but that the other man then drove his vehicle at Mr. Kelly.
26:21Witnesses report that the car then ran over David Kelly a second time.
26:28This Range Rover vehicle drove over him across his thigh, across his chest, which had ruptured the aorta, and across his head, causing crushed injuries to the skull.
26:39And he drove off after that, and David Kelly died as a consequence of those multiple injuries shortly thereafter.
26:46Finally, witnesses said the large, dark car drove off into the night.
26:56Meanwhile, police also respond to the man in the coffee shop, who says he's been attacked.
27:03At the time, the police officers are deployed to Costa to try and make sense of it.
27:09The police have got a lot of information coming into them from the control room.
27:14So they're getting information coming in at the same time.
27:17They're asking Luke Dan for his account of his attack.
27:22And this is where the police investigation begins, where they will try to get to the bottom of what turned out to be a very elaborate lie.
27:32So, yes, what's happened?
27:39You got attacked by who? You don't know who? How has it happened?
27:49The police officers probably received information that there's been a hit and run.
27:53He's probably got the description of that vehicle, a large black vehicle.
27:58You got attacked by who? You don't know who? How is it?
28:02And they're thinking that something's not quite right here.
28:07Here is a man who is saying he's the one who's at risk, when in fact they're getting reports that someone has been run over and sustained very serious injuries.
28:19Do you own a car, mate? Yeah. What car do you own?
28:26I own a few different cars. OK, what are they? I own a different car. OK, what do you own?
28:33I own a Range Rover car. You own a Range Rover, do you? Yeah. What colour? Black Range Rover car.
28:42OK. Is it that one out there, is it? Yeah. OK.
28:47The police officer is trying to assess who owns that vehicle.
28:51Police officers are no doubt receiving information about the vehicle which is made off.
28:56And the vehicle which is parked outside Costa answers that description.
29:03The police officer seeks confirmation that the Range Rover was used by the man being questioned.
29:09OK. Guys, have you seen anything at all?
29:21OK. And then he's come in here.
29:27OK. All right.
29:29He's now establishing from an independent witness that that individual, Luke Dan, has come from that vehicle into the coffee shop
29:36which has shown good presence of mind by an operational police officer who's getting a load of information at the moment.
29:43509, with the owner of a black Range Rover, we'll be going Code 9 shortly.
29:50OK, but at this moment in time, you're under arrest and suspicious of murder.
29:55At this point, the officer is really quick to make his decision.
29:57He's seen the vehicle outside, which he believes has been at the centre of this incident.
30:01He's seen that very evasive behaviour from Luke Dan.
30:05He doesn't believe him.
30:06And he decides to arrest.
30:08All right, do you have to say anything at all in defence?
30:09So he's made that decision.
30:11And he's now said he believes he's got enough suspicion to suspect that individual has committed an arrestable offence,
30:18on this occasion, murder.
30:20All right, do you have to say anything at all in defence?
30:21If you do not mention, we're in question of something to be related by the court.
30:23Anything to do say may be given evidence.
30:26A decision that's taken him less than two minutes to make.
30:29Do you understand?
30:36He knows what he should do, and he's done it.
30:37And he's very clear to Luke Dan, at that time, exactly what is happening to him.
30:44He's being arrested on suspicion of murder, and he's cautioned.
30:47OK, bud.
31:02At this moment in time, you're under arresting suspicion of murder, all right?
31:05Police suspect the man in Costa Coffee is the driver in a hit-and-run case.
31:15The victim, David Kelly, is dead.
31:19Under arrest, the driver, Luke Dan, proclaims his innocence.
31:23I do say maybe given evidence to him.
31:24What's going on?
31:25What are you doing to me?
31:27What are you doing to me?
31:28What are you doing to me?
31:29What are you doing to me?
31:30Out of vision, the officer is handcuffing Luke Dan.
31:36Right, stand by.
31:38What are you doing to me?
31:40Are you a police officer?
31:41Are you a police officer?
31:44Yes, I am a police officer.
31:47Right, lean forward first.
31:49He starts saying, are you a real policeman?
31:52And his voice has got this little boy sound to it.
31:58Right, stand out at the moment, this is all under suspicion.
32:01Are you a real police officer?
32:02Yes, sir, I'm a real police officer, OK?
32:04It's time to be in, all right?
32:05It's under suspicion, all right?
32:06What are you doing to me?
32:07Look, Dan, give out the impression that he's frightened, he's afraid.
32:13But actually, in my view, it's a sham.
32:16It's a complete act.
32:18Five-zero nights, I've been speaking to staff in Costa.
32:20Mail's come in with a black Range Rover,
32:22driven into the retail park.
32:24He has blood to his ear, he's confused,
32:26not providing much circumstantial information
32:28as to how this has occurred,
32:30and has then come into the store.
32:37What are you doing to me?
32:38What are you doing to me?
32:39What's your name, sir?
32:40What are you doing to me?
32:41What's your name?
32:42You've been arrested for the moment of suspicion.
32:43What?
32:44What's your name?
32:45Yeah, go ahead.
32:46My name's Luke.
32:47Your name's Luke, is it?
32:48What's your surname?
32:49Dan.
32:50What's your surname?
32:51Dan.
32:52What's your surname?
32:53Dan.
32:54Dan.
32:55OK.
32:56I remember thinking, this isn't Luke.
32:57This isn't the man I've, I've sort of followed for the last 10 years and reported on.
33:13For most of his 36 years, Luke Dan had been well known in the city of Plymouth.
33:31When he was younger, he was diagnosed with leukaemia, went to hospital, spent quite a lot of time in there, lost out on schooling.
33:40And when he recovered from that, he seemed to dedicate himself to raising money for other children who were suffering cancers.
33:52Luke Dan made a full recovery and turned his fundraising skills into making money for himself.
34:00From a young age, Luke had borrowed money from his dad, sold his first set of cars, kept reinvesting it, making more money,
34:07moved into selling high-end jewellery, invested in properties abroad, nightclubs, having shares in a taxi firm.
34:16And he really enjoyed a really quite high profile within the community in Plymouth for exactly that.
34:22His entrepreneurship, his fundraising efforts, that's how he was well known across the city.
34:30His main business was second-hand cars. He was also known for sort of driving around in a flash white Lamborghini.
34:39There was a saying, if there's too much bling, ring it in.
34:43And Luke was enjoying a high profile there, and some may have suggested that he was enjoying a profile that was beyond his means.
34:50Luke Dan's expensive lifestyle was being financed by more than second-hand cars.
35:07Luke Dan first came across my radar with intelligence and information received about potential misuse of drugs for dealing and possibly firearms offences.
35:16A raid was carried out at Dan's home, in one of the city's most expensive neighbourhoods.
35:23I commanded the operation.
35:26We knew the house was well protected with fences.
35:30There were a number of CCTV installations round about the house, and floodlights as well.
35:36He was clearly security conscious.
35:39He had something else there to protect, and he didn't want anybody coming anywhere near that.
35:44Drugs, a gun, and £40,000 in cash were seized.
35:51But the case was thrown out of court because of an error in the prosecution process.
35:58Luke Dan walked free.
36:00Not a lot seemed to stick to Luke, as with any criminal.
36:06If you evade the police and the court system, you can be emboldened.
36:15And I think there was that concern by the police that this may embolden him, so we'll have to keep our eye on him.
36:21I believe he started taking the view that he would always find a way of avoiding due process and avoid feeling the weight of law, which by now, in my view, he was clearly pushing.
36:34Luke had possibly overstepped the mark with a well-established gang within the city.
36:41Police are investigating five fire bomb attacks in a suspected turf ward between rival drug gangs in Plymouth.
36:56I phoned up an inspector I knew and said, is it true that a motorbike gang in the city have gone to a war with Luke Dan?
37:06And he was like, oh, God, who told you?
37:09And I just went, well, you just have.
37:11A car showroom, vehicles, properties, a gym, and a tattoo parlor were all set alight in what's believed to be a series of tit-for-tat attacks.
37:22Plymouth is not a high crime area. It's actually got a very low crime rate.
37:27So a firebombing of a house while somebody is in it is very, very rare.
37:32No injuries are reported. Police are appealing for calm.
37:37The police, they basically brought the hammer down and said to the people who were involved,
37:44or whoever was orchestrating it, stop now or else.
37:51An uneasy truce was called between Luke Dan and the motorbike gang.
37:56But his life of crime continued to make headlines.
37:59He was jailed for 12 months for causing actual bodily harm.
38:13And shortly after release, jailed for another year for perverting the course of justice.
38:20I do remember encountering Luke's dad in court.
38:24He came up to me, sort of nose to nose, and he was like, why do you keep writing about my son?
38:29And I kind of just had to be honest and go, because he keeps getting arrested and charged.
38:34If somebody's going to commit a crime, they'll commit a crime and then I'll write about them.
38:37I just wasn't expecting it to be this crime.
38:41This crime would be the most serious of all and put Luke Dan behind bars for years.
38:58For the police, CCTV and eyewitness statements revealed what really happened.
39:03How two strangers clashed, one died, the other lied.
39:11This was a chance encounter.
39:13Luke Dan had been at a snooker club.
39:15He was driving back to his home.
39:18But by the chance, he encountered David Kelly,
39:22who was clearly off his head on drugs and alcohol that night.
39:26Witnesses do report hearing a row, an argument between two people.
39:35They then hear an engine revving and a thud.
39:42He turned around, went back, drove his car back,
39:46and he slowly rolled over Kelly's body, starting with his legs, then his chest,
39:50and then his head.
39:53Drove a few yards, stopped, started making a phone call to the police.
39:59Someone's just attacked me in my lane.
40:02In your lane?
40:03In my lane, I've tried to drive away from them,
40:05and they just attacked me and drove to...
40:08Right, okay.
40:09They just attacked me and hit my car.
40:11Okay, so you're in your car.
40:12Are you safe now if you manage to move away?
40:14No, no, they just attacked me.
40:15They just hit my car, attacked my car.
40:18Okay.
40:19They hit me, and I pan around, and they literally run...
40:23They just...
40:25Oh, my God.
40:26Do you know who they are?
40:27No, I don't know.
40:29I don't know. I'm driving home up in the...
40:32Do you know who they are?
40:33No, I don't know. I'm just...
40:35I'm just panicking now.
40:38It was all about, I've been attacked, I'm being targeted.
40:44It's...
40:45It was all about him.
40:46And there was no way you couldn't have known that you'd rolled over Kelly.
40:53He knew he'd done wrong.
40:56And instead of calling 999 to ask for help for that man,
41:01he'd called 999 as part of his defence.
41:03After being arrested at Costa Coffee, Luke Dan's apparent confusion continued.
41:14Are you a real police officer?
41:16Yes, sir, I'm a real police officer, okay?
41:18It's time to be in, all right?
41:19It's under suspicion, all right?
41:20Give it to me!
41:22Luke is street smart, very street smart.
41:28I was watching it thinking, this doesn't seem like the guy who I've kept my eye on for the last decade.
41:33It's almost as though the acting is preventing the real emotion.
41:42He's so determined to try to convince the officers that this is all just a big mistake.
41:48I think this video evidence, this body-worn video, turned out to be crucial in convincing the jury that Luke Dan was somebody capable of coming up with a lie and sticking to it.
42:01A 37-year-old man is tonight starting a 15-year prison sentence.
42:12Luke Dan was cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter for driving over and killing David Kelly.
42:22Friends and people who knew David Kelly really well were moved to tears as the verdict came in.
42:31They wanted to be there that day to see justice done for their friend.
42:38The judge called it a dark and foul night.
42:42Two strangers had clashed but only one was to blame.
42:48The judge said that he believed Luke Dan's ego had a really big part to play in what happened.
42:55He said Luke Dan wanted to show David Kelly he wasn't the kind of man who you should mess with.
43:04Luke's character was in effect his downfall.
43:09He could have just driven away.
43:10The circumstances of an arrest, any arrest, where you're going to deprive somebody of their liberty is always a big step for any police officer to take.
43:21We can see quite clearly this police officer has been diligent in his approach to it.
43:26He's taken the appropriate, proportionate steps for it.
43:29And I think that people should be satisfied that on this occasion they got it absolutely right.
43:35To be continued...
43:37In the next edition, I'm sure we're out of the hunt, we're going to be the steps...
43:40...sort of an arrest for that on this occasion.
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43:45Theer-assist man was in charge of a man.
43:48Theer-assist man was in charge of a man, the gun being on the same side,
43:52he was mothers and the man rode.
43:54Theer-assist man was only one man.
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