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00:00The internet is the Wild West.
00:11You end up with people who've got ulterior motives,
00:15who seek out the vulnerable people to manipulate them.
00:24Leah uploaded a picture of a new home
00:28and that was when we knew that she had moved onto a farm.
00:31Where's the cat? Where's the cat?
00:34What we thought she was doing to what she was actually doing
00:38was two completely different scenarios.
00:42Mark Brown had other reasons for putting Leah there.
00:46No-one was going to see, no-one was going to hear
00:49and no-one was going to come and help her.
00:52Hello, police officers. Police!
00:55To have a container, no natural lights, locks on the outside.
00:59It's totally unsuitable for human habitation.
01:04We had no idea.
01:06Inside, your body's screaming.
01:08Are you capable? Have you done this?
01:10Have you done that to my cousin?
01:13Are you smiling?
01:33It's when we've got to get a tickle, but...
01:45Leah was a really loving, caring person.
01:48She was always that big cousin,
01:51especially with me, my little sister and my little brother.
01:54She'd pick us up, take us food shopping.
01:55She'd make sure that we had everything.
01:57It was always, are you guys OK? I miss you. What are you doing?
02:01It was always the big cousin checking in.
02:03That's just the way it was.
02:06She loved her animals. Her life was about her animals.
02:15She had a little dog called Laden,
02:17a little fluffy Pomeranian, and her and Leah went everywhere.
02:22She grew up initially on a farm, so she was around a lot of animals.
02:26She loved them ever since she was a child.
02:29Come on, boy. Come on.
02:31OK. OK.
02:33Her granddad used to have horses, so she grew up riding horses.
02:37She said that you can trust animals, but you can't trust humans.
02:41So, like, animals was her safe space.
02:4533-year-old Leah often needed a safe space.
02:49During her 20s, she had several periods where her mental health
02:53meant she needed to take herself away from her family
02:55to try to get herself better.
03:04But towards the end of 2019,
03:07it seemed like she was getting her life back on track.
03:09MUSIC PLAYS
03:13Social media was a massive part of Leah's life.
03:15She had about six different Snapchat accounts,
03:18countless Instagram accounts, Facebook accounts.
03:22She would post a lot of the time.
03:23There were hints through her social media accounts that there was a man in her life.
03:30She was in a new relationship, but Leah was so secretive about that relationship.
03:36She never mentioned names.
03:37From the outside, it was almost like she had got everything she had ever wanted.
03:44She was out riding Bertie.
03:47And as a family, we want that for her.
03:49We wanted her to get better.
03:50We wanted her life to get better, because she had so many struggles.
03:54MUSIC PLAYS
04:02I was happy for Leah.
04:04I was happy for her.
04:05She had a boyfriend.
04:06It seemed like he promised that he was going to guard her, keep her safe.
04:16Leah met her new boyfriend online in March 2018.
04:19By December, she'd left her home in Hastings to move into a new flat he'd rented for them in Guestling.
04:38Six months later, in June 2019, Leah was on the move again.
04:44This time, a couple of miles down the road to a piece of remote farmland
04:47her boyfriend had just started renting called Little Bridge Farm.
04:53She uploaded a picture of a caravan, and she said new home,
04:59and had really pretty flowers all outside the caravan.
05:03And that was when we knew that she had moved onto a farm and into a caravan.
05:10Leah was uploading so many pictures and videos.
05:14She had just got a new dog.
05:18Her boyfriend was giving her the world.
05:20He was giving her everything she wanted.
05:34Through her social media account, things were looking really well.
05:37During the first two years of the relationship, Leah was in touch with her family.
05:45Enough for them to feel like they knew what was going on in her life.
05:50She did go off the radar.
05:51She would post, but the interactions, the comments on our Facebook would slow down.
05:56She'd come back through the messages.
05:59It'd be, hey, I'm really, really sorry.
06:02Hope you're okay.
06:04She'd always have an explanation.
06:06She would come back.
06:07She always found her way back.
06:08But then, in May 2021, Leah's messages and social media posts stopped completely.
06:24COVID had just been, it was all really up in the air.
06:29And I think everyone just kind of drifted after COVID.
06:32Leah's family are becoming increasingly concerned by her silence on social media.
06:53Six months later, police arrive at Little Bridge Farm.
06:56I'm recording.
06:58But they're not looking for Leah.
07:01They're searching for another woman reported missing by her family,
07:04after she failed to return to her home in Kent.
07:07Hello, please.
07:10To protect her identity, the missing woman will be referred to as Jane.
07:18The investigation has uncovered CCTV showing Jane's white mini following a gold jaguar up the path to the farm.
07:26But she never came back down.
07:32Police have retraced Jane's journey up the farm track and are searching the outbuildings,
07:37sheds and containers, looking for her.
07:40Hello, police officers.
07:41Police!
07:43Anyone in here?
07:45There's a lot of chaos there.
07:47You'd be thinking, is somebody trying to live off the grid there?
07:52Continues back over there, look, it's a knocker.
07:54Hello, police.
07:58Trying to stay under the radar.
08:00It's not like a normal place.
08:05While the officers were searching, a man arrives in a white van,
08:09wanting to know why the police were on his land.
08:12You can actually tell quite a lot from the initial reaction when you go to a suspect's house.
08:29If there's genuine surprise, you will know.
08:34If someone presents as very calm, yet they have done something heinous,
08:38that shows us that there's a brazen confidence that they're able to control the narrative,
08:43control how they present, and potentially misdirect the police down a different route.
08:48The man identifies himself as Mark Brown.
08:53He rents the land from a local farmer, but calmly claims he has no idea who or where Jane is.
09:02A criminal record check comes back clear.
09:04Police suspect Brown knows more than he's letting on.
09:08But they don't have the grounds to arrest him at this point.
09:12Where was she last seen?
09:13What was she last doing?
09:14Who was she with?
09:16If a person is missing for more than 24 hours,
09:18the chances of finding them alive and well reduce.
09:22And if it's a week, they reduce even further.
09:24And the longer the period is,
09:26the less likely you are to find that person safe and well.
09:46Police are investigating the disappearance of a woman from Kent.
09:50She was last seen following a gold jaguar up the path to Little Bridge Farm in Sussex.
09:56The land and the car are both linked to Mark Brown.
10:02Two days after police first spoke to him in his van,
10:06they are outside his home, five miles from the farm.
10:09Mate, it's the police.
10:10You want to just go inside for us, yeah?
10:12Is it Mark?
10:12Yes.
10:13Yeah.
10:13Just go inside for us, yeah?
10:15What's right there?
10:16Where's it?
10:17Have you got any lights in there, mate?
10:20Sorry, I've got two dogs.
10:22They are in place.
10:22You just hope so.
10:23Yeah.
10:24Just listen to what this officer is going to say to you, OK?
10:27We're from Kent Police, OK?
10:29And just listen to what this officer is going to say to you.
10:31Mate, it's 5.35.
10:33Yeah.
10:33I'm going to arrest you from a suspicion of murder.
10:37To protect her identity, the missing woman will be referred to as Jane.
10:42No body has been found, but police believe she's been murdered.
10:51Anything you want to say to us?
10:53Not around here.
10:54No.
10:54You're under caution.
10:57You go on body camera as well.
10:59As the last known person to see Jane alive, police are taking Brown into custody for questioning.
11:05The offence you're under arrest for today is on suspicion of murder.
11:15Our inquiries now lead us to believe that is dead and that you have killed her.
11:21It is frustrating for officers when people do say no comment in an interview.
11:30However, it's becoming more and more common.
11:33I think officers are ready for that answer and it doesn't stop the investigation whatsoever.
11:39It's incredibly difficult to find a body if people aren't prepared to cooperate with police.
11:57Bodies can be mutilated, they can be cut up, they can be burnt,
12:00they can be put into acid and then decompose over time.
12:04No comment.
12:10So there'll be pressure on them in terms of gathering evidence.
12:15As a police officer, your job is to investigate.
12:19And even though somebody continuously lies, you will continue to investigate.
12:23You know what the truth is.
12:24And your job is to find that truth.
12:28We obviously believe that you have killed .
12:34If that isn't the case, if there is some other explanation,
12:37you realise that now is the time to tell us.
12:41Don't comment.
12:44Brown eventually admits he did know Jane.
12:48He'd met her online and they'd met up in person at his farm.
12:52But he claimed she'd left 45 minutes later.
12:57However, the evidence police have been compiling is telling a different story.
13:02Police were able to use CCTV to track down her last movements.
13:11And when we talk about CCTV, we don't just talk about CCTV, which is fixed cameras.
13:16We talk about mobile phone technology.
13:18We talk about dash cams in cars.
13:20We talk about ring doorbells.
13:22There's a whole host and variety of technological data that can help find people.
13:31Working backwards from the CCTV they had of Jane's Mini,
13:34police found footage of her earlier that morning at a nearby petrol station.
13:39The missing female was seen in a garage filling her car up with petrol.
13:55She's then seen in her car following Mark Brown in his vehicle going up to his address.
14:01And then on the CCTV troll, it's found that the car is seen coming back down the lane,
14:12but she's not the driver.
14:15Three days later, it wasn't Jane driving the Mini back down the path.
14:21Brown put on a false number plate and duped a friend into driving it off the farm,
14:26where police tracked it down, four miles away.
14:29Mini keeper, white.
14:34Vehicle is locked. No signs of disturbance within.
14:40The evidence against Brown is building.
14:43But there still isn't enough to charge him with murder.
14:48You've got your security job in Brighton. You also work doing groundwork and stuff.
14:54But how regular is your pattern of movement in a week?
14:57No comment.
14:59No comment.
15:03Then, 24 hours after his arrest, one single witness interview gave police what they needed.
15:11Mark Brown was a ground worker.
15:14During the investigation, police officers spoke to Mark Brown's co-workers,
15:18and one of the co-workers remembered that Mark had asked if he could throw something into one of the skips.
15:29It was actually an oil drum.
15:31Something had been burned inside that oil drum.
15:37When they were searching, they found some jewellery.
15:42Some partial remains, some teeth.
15:45When those remains were examined, they were identified as belonging to the woman that was missing.
15:56The body was burnt that badly that all we could identify her through was the teeth.
16:00Now that takes some doing and taking some planning, and he obviously thought by doing this that he could sort of eradicate any knowledge or evidence of that missing person being with him.
16:16That's a really brutal way to dispose of someone.
16:25He not only took someone's life, but he also burnt their body.
16:29There's no regard for human life.
16:31It's calculated, it's brutal, it's emotionally detached.
16:35And it takes a person with very strong antisocial tendencies to behave in such a way.
16:43On November 28th, 2021, Mark Brown is charged with Jane's murder.
16:49You're talking about a psychopath, somebody incredibly dangerous.
16:54People who are seeking to do evil, people who want to commit murder,
16:58they'll be seeking the next victim.
17:02If you look at the setup at the farm, it's a very, very chaotic place.
17:07I wouldn't be surprised if there are further victims.
17:16During their meticulous examination into Brown's cluttered farmland,
17:20police have come across a piece of evidence that indicates there could be a further victim.
17:24Brown had several vehicles, but when police searched his work van, they found a prescription.
17:34Not in his name, but that of a second woman.
17:38One who's been missing for six months.
17:40It was made out for Leah Ware.
17:44There was no connection with this other woman, Leah Ware and Mark Brown.
17:48There's something really odd going on here.
17:54The fact that the police searched Mark's property for an unrelated matter and discover
17:59a prescription is very significant.
18:02This is definitely a lead worth following.
18:06The police will be thinking, who is Leah Ware?
18:08How does Leah Ware know Mark Brown?
18:11What's the background between her and Mark?
18:14How have they met?
18:16Why is there a prescription in his car?
18:20First and foremost, where is Leah?
18:31First and foremost, what's the case of the police?
18:43Mark Brown has been charged with the brutal murder of Jane.
18:46Her real name has been changed to protect her identity.
18:51But now Brown is under suspicion for his connection to another woman, Leah Ware.
18:56Leah had last been in contact with her family six months before Jane was murdered.
19:02If somebody goes missing, the police will grade it either high, medium or low.
19:06If somebody leads a life where they are possibly in a vulnerable situation or a vulnerable person,
19:14then that would be escalated to high.
19:17The police come to ask if any of us had heard or knew where Leah was because they had found
19:22a prescription belonging to her and needed to speak to her.
19:25But we didn't know why they were looking for Leah.
19:31It wasn't until the police came looking for her that I went and really looked at the message
19:46and realised that at a certain point they had stopped delivering.
19:50But there's nothing, there's no posts, there's nothing out there.
19:52Like, all of a sudden it just stops.
19:57At that point, Leah hadn't told her family the name of the man she was in a relationship with
20:03until the police gave them the name.
20:04Mark Brown, a man they'd just charged with murder.
20:10Me and my family just wanted to find everything that we could about him.
20:15Where he was, what his background was, things just wasn't adding up.
20:20We got on Facebook, we got on Instagram, we got on Snapchat and we just searched and searched
20:28through everything. We went through pictures, we went through profiles, we went through
20:35everything you could imagine and then we found him.
20:42We found him following her on her socials.
20:46Alice discovered that Leah's mysterious boyfriend had a partner, children and lived with them five
20:54miles away from Little Bridge Farm.
21:00And that he'd started renting the land just before he moved Leah onto it.
21:05Mark's mother had passed away and left him some inheritance.
21:10And that's how Mark could then fund his criminality.
21:19The fact that Mark Brown had a family that was functioning and was also able to keep a girlfriend
21:24separate says a lot about him. It really highlights his ability to compartmentalize parts of his life
21:32and really reflects a calculated, emotionally detached person.
21:37You've been completely fine with me. If you start to misbehave, the pain has to go straight on.
21:43As Leah's family continued their search online for information about Brown,
21:47their discoveries were getting more and more worrying.
21:52A lot of people use usernames that mean something to them and they can be quite telling. So for example,
21:58people might use their football club or a pet name or a date of birth and it's easier for them to remember
22:06and it's personal to them. And Mark Brown's was quite telling.
22:13He had weird names on his Instagram.
22:16That wasn't just his Instagram. That was his work email.
22:27Leah's family were relieved to hear that finding her was now the highest priority for the police.
22:34With Brown in custody, charged with Jane's murder, the police started to investigate his relationship
22:39with Leah, which went back to March 2018 when they first met online.
22:46Mark was never in any of the posts. No one knew that the relationship had started at that point.
22:52She had just come out of a relationship. She was very vulnerable. She was going through it.
22:58And he was going to save her. And he was going to make everything better for her.
23:04But she was so secretive. It was really hard.
23:09It appears that when the relationship between Mark Brown and Leah Ware started,
23:14she had met someone that she connected with.
23:16They had progressed to a point where she was able to call the farm home.
23:20And for someone like Leah, who loved animals, it was perfect.
23:30And for about 18 months, it probably did seem perfect.
23:36It just looked really well. Even when I look back on it now,
23:39I've beat myself up about it so many times. But when you look back on it,
23:43there's nothing that would scream, I'm in danger.
23:46But that is the power of social media. You could be having the worst day in your life
23:57and upload a smiley face and a video of you and everyone would just think you're fine.
24:02But Leah was far from fine.
24:07And the man her family now know was her boyfriend is on remand at Belmarsh Prison,
24:12having been charged with murder.
24:13Police have summoned him back to Kent to see if he can help give Leah's family some answers.
24:21Hey Mark, everything that we say from now on is going to be recorded.
24:27I want to talk about your relationship with Leah.
24:30And what you know about her disappearance.
24:33No comment.
24:38Do you know where Leah is?
24:40No comment.
24:44Specifically, we're looking at, you know, the time that Leah disappeared.
24:49So, is there somebody else that would have better knowledge of what happened to Leah around that time?
24:55No comment.
24:57As with his first victim, Brown chose not to help the police with their investigation.
25:02The difficulties are, again, there is no body. We can't get any DNA or forensic evidence from the body.
25:10But circumstantial evidence can build up a picture of what may have happened to that person from their
25:18interactions on social media. We can recover the conversations and that would all build a picture
25:25of circumstantial evidence in relation to the case.
25:30The challenges in digital forensics are that people are using their phones constantly and
25:34it's creating a lot of data. Whether that be internet searches, it could be website visits,
25:41it could be photographs, videos, voice notes. If you think about how many text messages you send,
25:48or how many times you call someone, that creates a huge amount of data for the police to sift through,
25:56especially if that's over a large time frame. However, the police did find something.
26:10The search through three years of messages between Leah and Brown since they first met online
26:15indicated that by the end of 2020, the relationship might have been in trouble.
26:26Three months after sending these messages, the place Leah had told the world was her dream home
26:31had become her nightmare. Brown had burnt down the caravan.
26:38However, evidence from the nearest phone mast showed that Leah was still living on the farm.
26:45But where?
26:47I'll go back here.
26:49No, please.
26:50You know, how can a human being be living in that chaos? You've got cars, you've got abandoned
26:59bits and pieces. It's like a scrap metal yard almost.
27:03Somebody's got some ulterior motives for wanting to be in that place. It gives you seclusion,
27:09it gives you isolation, gives you an opportunity to do things that you don't want other people to see.
27:14It's not a normal place where somebody would live.
27:16Initially, Leah was living in a caravan on the ground, so she would have had access to fresh air.
27:23She would have been able to go out and come in as she pleased.
27:27That changed.
27:29Everything that I saw Leah living like on the farm may have been true at the beginning,
27:33but it wasn't true.
27:38Leah lived in a shipping container. She was locked away in a cabin, in a big metal cabin,
27:43in a shipping container with three locks on the outside. Leah wasn't living luxury. Leah was locked away.
27:56Inside the container that you rented, inside that was a smaller container with sleeping arrangements
28:05and maybe a little kitchen.
28:06No comment.
28:08It's totally unsuitable for human habitation.
28:15No natural lights, locks on the outside.
28:20It seems like it's a prison-like situation for somebody to be living in there.
28:26It does point to Mark, isolating Leah, and keeping her as a prisoner.
28:30It's not a pleasant sight.
28:35Who slept in there?
28:36No comment.
28:39When Leah Ware moved in with Mark Brown at Little Bridge Farm,
28:43he had other reasons for putting Leah there. It was private, it was out of the way,
28:49and he could do whatever he wanted. No-one was going to see, no-one was going to hear,
28:54and no-one was going to come and help her, if she needed help.
28:58How did Leah get in and out of the container?
29:02No comment.
29:11You don't want these things to Leah?
29:13No comment.
29:15Despite Brown's refusal to help again,
29:18the picture being built was of someone who controlled every aspect of Leah's life,
29:24where she lived, how often she was allowed out of the container, and where her money went,
29:30including proof he was rerouting financial benefits Leah was entitled to into his account.
29:38We can see that Mark Brown not only attempted to, but successfully took more and more control over
29:43Leah Ware's life. He took control over her finances.
29:47Now, this wasn't about him being helpful and caring and compassionate.
29:52This was about his need for control and domination.
30:00In the build-up to Leah's last known movements, Brown's behaviour is escalating.
30:07When looking at Mark Brown's web history and search history, his access to pornographic sites
30:13and the search terms entered into them was very interesting to the investigation
30:18and telling of his state of mind.
30:20He saw Leah as a possession, something to be contained and housed, as opposed to a human
30:33who deserved to be looked after and related to and cared for.
30:37And now the forensics team have uncovered a completely new line of inquiry.
30:45Brown has made contact with a third woman online, someone he'd known 20 years ago from school.
30:53Murderers sometimes have this desperate need to talk to somebody about what they've done.
30:57The messages that Mark Brown sent to his old school friend are actually quite telling.
31:08They may have been an attempt for Mark Brown to offload some emotional tension
31:13to test the boundaries of the relationship.
31:15He talks about things weighing heavily on his heart.
31:28The social media exchanges are taking place after Leah has disappeared, but before he'd met up with Jane.
31:36These 700 pages of evidence are giving the investigation vital insights into Brown's mindset.
31:42The social media messages can be extremely crucial in a criminal case.
31:47Sometimes people will be so arrogant they think I've deleted everything,
31:49not realizing that the deleted messages can be recovered.
31:56they don't want to be so arrogant they don't want to be so arrogant.
32:09But they cannot be so arrogant.
32:10Why would you need to be assured her that you're not going to do monstrous things or hurt her?
32:15In all 700 pages there's one exchange in particular that rings a worrying alarm bell.
32:26So he actually talks about five litres of diesel burning things and, hey presto, there's nothing left.
32:38Using the date and time stamps of those messages, police believe this was about six months prior to the original killing.
32:47He doesn't actually admit that he's burnt a human being.
32:51It takes a lot to actually do that to another human being.
32:54It may be that he didn't want to shock his friend because that would be a shocking confession for anyone to make.
33:03The timeline that police are putting together is pointing towards Leah being Brown's first victim and that Jane was his second.
33:12The working theory is that, as with Jane, Brown got rid of all the evidence by incinerating Leah's body too.
33:19But in between these two murders, are these social media messages indicating he's grooming his old school friend to be another victim?
33:30When we look at the phrase, a psychopath with a conscience, that's incredibly interesting.
33:39There's an admission to his behaviour, but by presenting it with a conscience, there's a sense that there's a human element to it,
33:47which I think is designed to evoke concern and care from the person who's receiving it in a way that may absolve him from responsibility.
33:54I'm not sure that there's any desire for a friendship here.
34:00This is about manipulation. This is about him seeking his next victim, the next person that he can put into that container and do the most horrendous evil things, the next person who he's going to kill.
34:12I want to talk about the fact that Leah Ware has disappeared.
34:33Police are convinced that Mark Brown is a double killer.
34:37The police believe that Leah is dead.
34:40The school friend he'd been messaging was found alive and well, but police think Brown has murdered two women he'd met online.
34:47The first, we are calling Jane, to protect her identity. And the other, is Leah Ware?
34:53Is Leah Ware?
34:55He wants to be in charge. He wants to control the narrative. He's been asked continuously to provide information about where her body is. He's refused.
35:08The search of Brown's rented farmland has uncovered evidence he's been keeping Leah locked in a container that was housed inside another container.
35:15He controlled her every single move. He controlled what she ate when she came out, when she was allowed to see daylight, when she wasn't. He controlled everything about her. She literally couldn't do anything.
35:34But to the police, it was no comment.
35:37No comment.
35:38He doesn't care what it looks like, how it comes across.
35:42Unfortunately, this is not unusual, where killers refuse to give details of where her body is.
35:48But we know that Mark Brown preyed on vulnerable women on the internet.
35:54Although there's no direct evidence, police continued with their investigations.
35:58And it is almost like building that picture up with each piece of a jigsaw. And every single piece matters.
36:07The police are desperate to find answers for Leah's family.
36:10With no evidence of a body near the farm buildings, police widened the search.
36:16And it paid off.
36:18They've discovered some bones.
36:21When they went down to the bottom of the farm, there was a big lake.
36:25And just next to the lake, there was a kettlebell, which had a dog chain to it.
36:31And at the end of that was Lady Leah's little dog.
36:37It was her remains, her bone remains.
36:42The fact that the collar's been recovered, jawbone's recovered,
36:46it would suggest that the dog has been murdered and disposed of in local waters.
36:51Where are the dogs?
36:53No comment.
36:57Where's Lady?
36:58No comment.
37:00When did you last see Lady?
37:01No comment.
37:03Leah would never, never in a million years lay a hand on an animal, a child or even a human.
37:11Where's the cat? Where's the cat?
37:13Leah would never have done that to her animals.
37:15If someone can inflict that sort of cruelty on an animal, then what can they do to a human being?
37:25The evidence points to somebody whose psychotic behaviour is resulting in the murder of women and animals that they love.
37:35There's a sense that Mark Brown's in clean-up mode.
37:38This is about getting rid of the evidence, resetting his farm, so to speak, so he can continue with his life and potentially source his next victim.
37:51It would help build that picture.
37:54The fact that he's then attacked and killed another woman, that would suggest that Leah Ware is no longer alive.
38:02But the piece of evidence the first alerted police to start searching for Leah.
38:09Her prescription found in Brown's van suggests she might still be alive.
38:15Leah had last been in contact with her family back in May.
38:22But police have tracked down CCTV of Brown collecting her prescription six months later.
38:27The focus of the investigation now turns to what digital forensics might be able to tell them.
38:38Mobile phones are absolutely essential in forensic examinations.
38:43They give you the footprint of where somebody's been, but they will also have information around who people are contacting,
38:50when they've contacted them, and details of messages that may be on the phone.
38:54Leah's phone was never recovered, but police have her phone number and her social media profiles.
39:04The discovery that neither has been used for more than six months is now a vital focus for their investigation.
39:13Cell site technology is really important in proving someone's location or where they were at a specific time.
39:18Disconnection from a network can be for a multitude of reasons.
39:23So, for example, it can be that the battery died or the phone was put in flight mode.
39:29However, if someone is missing from home and there's been no contact from them, that would be more cause for concern.
39:36Where there is a huge timeframe, you would start by potentially narrowing down that timeframe.
39:43So, if you can narrow it down to one or two days, then you would focus in on what was happening on the device to guide the rest of your investigation.
39:51The forensic team are focusing in on the specific 48-hour period they knew Leah's phone was last in use.
40:04Leah was a regular user of Lloyd's banking app. However, the last usage of this was at 5.26pm.
40:14Leah's phone was at Little Bridge Farm, with Brown arriving at around 6.25pm.
40:18Her phone reconnected at 9.30, however, her calls were not being answered.
40:28Leah's phone activity indicates that it was only when Brown was on site to unlock the container that she was able to use her phone and connect to the network.
40:37Leah's phone ceased to be visible on the network at around 10.01, and then Brown left the farm at 10.41pm.
40:45Brown returned to the farm just after 8.30, and Leah's phone connected to the network just after this.
41:02Her phone last connected at 2.38 on May the 8th.
41:05Leah Ware completely went off the radar, and there were no further signs of her.
41:14On that same day, Mark Brown bought six litres of petrol.
41:19This would have been of interest to the investigating officers.
41:26Straight away, alarm bells would ring.
41:29What's he done with the petrol?
41:31Was that almost a confession?
41:34And what has he burned with that amount of petrol?
41:36The police may have evidence that points to when the murder occurred, but then they'll be looking at what was this person doing in terms of disposal of the body.
41:45And I think what you're seeing is the purchase of petrol as a significant piece of evidence in terms of a plan to dispose of the body.
41:56Police now feel they have enough information to charge Brown with Leah's murder.
42:09The news Leah's family had been dreading.
42:11All of a sudden, I got a phone call to say that they weren't looking for Leah anymore.
42:21They were going to have an officer come and speak to us.
42:25Obviously, they told my dad at that point that Leah had been murdered.
42:28On October 17th, nearly a year after CCTV of a white mini going up a farm track first alerted police to Mark Brown's existence, he is on trial for the double murder of Jane and Leah.
42:51It's the hardest thing because inside your body's screaming, you just want to start screaming at him and you can't.
42:58You're in a courtroom, you have to just sit and look at him thinking, are you capable? Have you done this? Have you done that to my cousin?
43:12It was the hardest, hardest time of my life to sit there every single day and listen to what Leah had to live through.
43:19We had no idea.
43:22During the trial, Brown eventually admits that Jane had died at Little Bridge Farm.
43:28But he claimed she'd had an accident.
43:31Burning her body was a panic decision to avoid becoming a suspect.
43:40However, when it came to Leah, Brown claimed he thought she was still alive somewhere.
43:45What the police officers did, they presented everything they had at court and fortunately it was the right thing to do and Mark Brown was found guilty.
43:57There was enough evidence there to actually convict him.
43:59The severity of the crimes and Brown's refusal to cooperate with the police investigation led the judge to sentence him to a minimum of 49 years for both murders.
44:17Mark Brown has never told anybody what happened to Leah Ware or where her body is.
44:29I think that for the family, there's no closure.
44:34They're aware that they no longer have Leah in their lives.
44:38However, because there's no body, they can't get a death certificate.
44:41They're constantly in this space of limbo of grieving someone that they dearly love, who they cannot lay to rest.
44:51He won't give us that. He will not tell us. He will not tell us where she is.
44:58Because he might be in prison.
45:00But nothing changed for us.
45:02Everything's still exactly the same.
45:04There's no answers.
45:06It takes nothing to just say,
45:08she's gone.
45:10And if you do that, we could get that.
45:12We could get that death certificate.
45:14And Leah could have a little bit of respect.
45:17The internet is the Wild West.
45:21You end up with people who've got ulterior motives,
45:25who are manipulative, who want to take advantage of people.
45:32If someone in your family is in a relationship and you don't like it, that's fine.
45:37But still love that person, still check in on that person.
45:41Just because you think someone's okay, that can be so wrong.
45:44Just because someone's social media might look like they're happy and might come across like they're living their best life.
45:51It could be so wrong.
45:53So many women are losing their lives to their partner.
45:58She was a loving person. She was a caring person.
46:01She was a lovely person to be around.
46:05She had her whole life to live.
46:07She was robust.
46:09She was aあり.
46:10This is the case where they live
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