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00:00I deal with most types of digital devices, extracting data from them and interpreting
00:27what that means in terms of human behaviour.
00:33It's everything from personal computers through mobile phones and occasionally more complex
00:38devices.
00:40Because a mobile phone is a highly personal device, it tells us a lot about an individual.
00:47What we sometimes see is that after an incident there's a period where the suspect perhaps
00:53communicates more than usual with the conspirator or less than they normally would.
00:59There's a change in behaviour, particularly if they use text messages a lot, the content
01:05of the messages will tell us something about the state of mind, what they're telling other
01:09parties about what they've done or what other people are encouraging them to do.
01:23Fleetwood's a coastal town, it's just up the road from Blackpool.
01:33It's not got the same sort of glitz and glamour that Blackpool has, it's quite a small close-knit
01:37community really.
01:40It's not an affluent area especially, it's more of a working class community.
01:44It's built up around the port and the fishing trade.
01:47There is quite a fair bit of crime in Fleetwood.
01:51It can range, there's drug issues, there's antisocial behaviour to name a few, but your
01:57volume crimes like burglaries are thankfully quite low.
02:03Police officer Mike Duff joined the force in 2018 and almost immediately had his eyes
02:09opened to the kinds of crime in the area and those individuals who were known to the police.
02:17First heard about Raymond Cullen probably at say 2018, 2019, bearing in mind I pretty much
02:24joined the cops in 2018.
02:28So what I knew is he lived a lifestyle which involved a lot of alcohol.
02:34He was well known to the residents of Fleetwood.
02:37But Raymond hadn't always had his drinking reputation.
02:44To his daughters, for years he was their hero.
02:47He was a cheeky chap.
02:49Yeah, he was.
02:52He was life and soul of the party wasn't he, he just, he was happy-go-lucky, he was very
02:57funny.
02:58He'd give you the shirt off his back, he would do anything for anybody.
03:01He was really, really, a really good man.
03:04He was a brilliant dad, growing up we wanted for nothing, everything we wanted we got.
03:11He was very supportive.
03:12He used to come and watch me ride all the time.
03:14He loved watching me show jump.
03:17He was very proud of that, wasn't he?
03:19He was very proud of that.
03:20They were all farmers.
03:21So yeah, he loved, loved that I was so mad about horses.
03:27However, Raymond battled with alcohol addiction, which started through his work.
03:35In Ireland, because he was a car dealer and stuff, that's where, years ago, that's it,
03:39all right, let's go and have a deal.
03:40Yeah, we'll go do the pub.
03:41Yeah, everything was done in the pub.
03:42And that's, everyone, it's just what you did, isn't it?
03:44Yeah, everybody, I mean, still to this day, probably a lot of, a lot of them do that.
03:51When we were growing up in the 90s, that's what you did.
03:54Right, come on, we'll go and have a drink and do a deal, wouldn't you?
03:57Or they'd be bickering back and forth about the price, like, come on, we'll have a beer.
04:01I mean, he did two years without a drink.
04:03He was weird, wasn't he?
04:04So he'd, like, he'd drink and then he'd go one day to go, do you know what, and he'd stop
04:08for months and months.
04:09Months and months.
04:10I think two years was the...
04:11Two years.
04:12Yeah, he used to do it all the time.
04:14He was a good dad, he was a good man, and, you know, until it all just went wrong.
04:23After splitting from their mother in 2012, Raymond's drinking spiralled, and then he
04:29met his girlfriend, Tracey Fielding, in 2016.
04:33Oddball, like, really weird woman, wouldn't she?
04:38She'd get intoxicated and ring us and start accusing of stupid things.
04:43My dad would fall asleep, and then she'd ring and she'd cause fights.
04:46Girl used to work behind the bar, she said to me, she'd drink.
04:49The second your dad saw that she'd bought a bottle of wine, you could see he was a bit
04:54like, oh.
04:55Here we go.
04:56Here we go.
04:57And then she'd poke and poke and poke and poke and poke until he sharted at her and walked
05:02out of the pub, so that he looked like the bad guy for sharting and leaving.
05:06Very, very toxic together, she was just a very, very toxic, very toxic.
05:14Horrible woman.
05:15Yeah.
05:16Despite their issues, Raymond and Tracey's unhealthy relationship continued.
05:25There was multiple incidents involving his partner, Tracey Fielding.
05:33Their relationship was quite volatile.
05:36It wasn't the best relationship, shall we say.
05:39In October 2019, Mike would once again be called to Raymond's home.
05:49The call came in at about two o'clock in the morning.
05:51The person he phoned was obviously a friend and associate of Raymond's.
05:55My understanding is he hadn't been seen, or last contact was probably around 24 hours previously,
06:03and I think concerns were raised for him.
06:05They'd gone to obviously check on his welfare, found his property insecure, I believe.
06:10So, when I got there, I remember seeing a female who was absolutely hysterical.
06:15She just kept saying, he's dead, he's dead, he's dead.
06:19What Mike found next would stay with him, not just for what he saw, but for the crime it suggested.
06:25When inside the property and Raymond's flat was very dark, go through a hallway, turn right, and on the floor there was his body.
06:36Now, if the bedroom was on the right-hand side, he was lay over the threshold of the hallway and the bed on his right-hand side.
06:47There was an alarming amount of blood, but what was obviously more concerning was he was covered in paint.
06:54I knew Mr Cullen was an alcoholic, and I'd been a few weeks prior to an alcoholic who also passed away and hemorrhaged from the inside and bore up a lot of blood.
07:07At first, that was my initial thought that this is what could have happened.
07:11Has he stumbled around for help, stepped in the paint, the paint's gone all over him.
07:15It wasn't until we'd been there for some time where I had a look around, could see footprints in this paint,
07:23going through to the kitchen area, which was at the rear of the property, so clearly Raymond had been murdered.
07:33Whilst Mike was still assessing the scene, Raymond's daughter received a call.
07:38I woke up about 2 o'clock in the morning to a random number calling me.
07:43I didn't recognise the number, so I didn't answer it, I just, you know, turned it down.
07:50I had a small baby, so she was asleep beside me, so I walked downstairs into the living room and turned the light on.
07:57So then I rang the phone number back, and I was going, he said,
08:03I'm sorry, but we've just found you, Dad. He's dead.
08:08He's dead. He's been killed. Somebody's killed him.
08:13And I just screamed, screamed and fell to my knees.
08:19I just screamed, screamed and fell to my knees.
08:34I just screamed, screamed and fell to my knees.
08:38I was just, I was just...
08:41In a quiet flat in Fleetwood, Raymond Cullum was found dead.
08:46Flat in Fleetwood, Raymond Cullum was found dead
08:50and nothing about the scene made sense.
08:55This was a suspicious death
08:57that warranted a closer look by investigators.
09:03In 2019, it was the 10th of October.
09:06I was on call as the senior investigating officer
09:09for the forest major investigation team.
09:11I received a call from the duty detective inspector
09:15from Blackpool to say that they'd found a deceased male
09:18in a flat in Fleetwood.
09:21It was in unusual circumstances
09:24in that the male had paint all over him
09:28and there was blood at the scene.
09:35When Zoe arrived at the flat,
09:37she was met by the pathologist and the CSI team.
09:40It's absolutely critical that a crime scene
09:45is preserved as soon as possible.
09:47And that's for the integrity
09:54of the forensic evidence down the line
09:57and that is maintained with anybody that enters the scene.
10:01It's really important that we restrict access,
10:03we log access to the scene
10:05and we take precautions by wearing forensic suits
10:08in order that we don't contaminate
10:12the evidence within the scene
10:14and it has that integrity
10:15for court purposes down the line.
10:19It was quite late in the evening,
10:21it was dark outside.
10:22There's nothing really struck out of ordinary
10:24outside of the scene.
10:25I entered the scene with the pathologist
10:30and the crime scene manager.
10:34As I walked through the front door,
10:37I could see quite obvious blood spattering.
10:44As I turned further into the flat,
10:46it was a very small hallway,
10:48it was a one-bedroom flat
10:50and there I could see Ray was deceased on the floor,
10:54part in the hallway and part in the bedroom.
11:01I think it's really important
11:02that you do have to remain open-minded
11:05to understand what had happened
11:08and how this male had come to his death.
11:10To help with understanding the scene,
11:21forensic scientists are often brought in,
11:24especially when there is blood spatter involved.
11:28My name is Hazel Johnson
11:30and I'm a forensic biologist.
11:33Forensic biologists are often called
11:36to scenes of murder or serious assault
11:39to look at blood pattern analysis
11:41and blood pattern analysis
11:43can tell you what happened
11:45and perhaps how many people were involved.
11:48As the forensic team walked the room,
11:51they were met with quite a messy scenario.
11:54As well as bloodstaining present at the scene,
11:57there was also a quantity of paint
11:59that had been thrown onto his body.
12:04While it is not particularly common
12:06to find paint thrown around at a crime scene,
12:09I am aware of several other cases
12:11where this had happened.
12:12It is sometimes very difficult
12:14to actually try and work out
12:16what someone's thinking
12:17in the middle of an assault.
12:19So the paint could be an attempt
12:20to cover evidence.
12:22Equally, it could just be part of the assault
12:24because a can of paint was present
12:26close to where he was carrying out the assault.
12:32Paint on an item may cover some blood stains.
12:36And obviously, if you're examining the item for blood,
12:39you may go for blood stains
12:41that are further from where the paint is.
12:44However, if you want to examine an area
12:46under the paint,
12:48you can remove the paint
12:49either by scraping
12:50or by peeling the paint away
12:53or by going into the back of the item
12:56underneath the paint stain
12:58and actually sampling the blood from underneath.
13:03Paint doesn't affect the processes
13:05of detecting blood.
13:06It doesn't affect the tests used to detect blood
13:09and it doesn't affect DNA analysis.
13:12And in fact, in some cases,
13:13I'm aware that paint has actually protected the blood
13:16and the blood has remained in situ
13:18for several years
13:19before it's been recovered
13:21and a DNA profile obtained.
13:23Once forensics had gathered everything they could
13:31from Raymond's body at the scene,
13:33it was time to carefully remove him.
13:39We then arranged for the body of Ray
13:42to be transported to the mortuary
13:44for a post-mortem to take place.
13:47And it's really important
13:48that the post-mortem does take place
13:50because we have to understand
13:51the mechanisms of death
13:53and how Ray came to his death.
13:56That will inform us
13:58whether it's a crime or not,
14:00whether there's a third party involved.
14:09As forensic investigators
14:10worked Raymond's home for clues,
14:13police on guard at the scene
14:14were met by a distressed family member.
14:19My brother-in-law.
14:20He jumped up, didn't he?
14:24He ran around to my dad
14:27and he was stopped by police.
14:31He said, that's my father-in-law.
14:32I need to go and see him.
14:34And they told him that he couldn't go
14:36and that he was dead.
14:38And it was a crime scene.
14:43As with any death,
14:44we have to deliver what we call
14:46a death warning message.
14:48It's always very difficult
14:49for the officer that has to do this,
14:51but it's really important
14:52that we get to the family
14:53as soon as possible.
14:55I had to then go jump in the car
15:00at three o'clock in the morning
15:01and go to my sister's house,
15:04deal with police
15:05and just look at my heartbroken sister
15:10in the eyes
15:11and just
15:11know that we've
15:13they've just taken
15:19that somebody
15:20had just
15:20treated him like he was nothing
15:24and just took his life.
15:27For what?
15:29Just killed him.
15:30For what?
15:30It's really difficult.
15:39I've been a family liaison officer
15:41in my time
15:43and every time you have to
15:45deliver a message
15:46it fills you with dread.
15:49Particularly
15:49when you then have to inform the family
15:52that not only have they died
15:53but they've died in such tragic circumstances.
15:56A police family liaison officer
16:01supports and communicates
16:02with victims' families
16:04acting as the vital link
16:05between them
16:06and the investigation team.
16:09Our liaison officers
16:11they were brilliant
16:12absolutely brilliant
16:13and I don't think
16:14they get enough credit
16:15to be quite honest
16:16because they're the ones
16:17that are in our homes
16:18constantly
16:20telling us the bad news
16:22telling us this
16:23telling us that
16:24and I think people
16:25don't really know that.
16:25You wouldn't think
16:26oh you have these people
16:28that come in to help
16:29you know
16:29talk you off a ledge
16:3024-7 you know
16:32because it's just crazy.
16:34You get thrown into this life
16:35of just some crime
16:37and it's like
16:37when you
16:38you know
16:38it's
16:40yeah
16:41it's crazy.
16:45As Raymond's family
16:46were supported by officers
16:48forensic teams
16:49continued their
16:50painstaking work
16:51at his flat.
16:55A partial footprint
16:58was found
16:59at the scene
17:00in the paint.
17:01Partial footprints
17:02can actually be
17:03very strong evidence
17:04because initially
17:06from the pattern
17:07you can actually
17:08determine the make
17:09and model
17:11of the shoe
17:12that made that mark
17:13and then
17:14if there is some
17:15particularly
17:15unique detail
17:17in the mark
17:18you can actually link
17:20that footwear mark
17:22at the scene
17:22to a pair of shoes
17:24and say those shoes
17:26made that mark.
17:30Once footprint is found
17:32the first thing
17:33the scenes of crime
17:33officers would be
17:34doing
17:35is taking
17:36photographs of the mark
17:38and they would take
17:39scaled photographs
17:40of the mark
17:41and then they would
17:42work out a way
17:43to recover the mark
17:44and that would depend
17:46what the mark
17:46was made on.
17:48If it was something
17:48like lino
17:49or flooring
17:50that could be
17:50cut out
17:51and taken away
17:51they would actually
17:52physically recover it.
18:08While forensic experts
18:10worked the crime scene
18:11the pathologist
18:12looked for more answers
18:13from Raymond's body.
18:17The post-mortem
18:18of Ray Cullen
18:18took place
18:19on the 11th of October
18:21and the pathologist
18:23determined
18:24that he had died
18:25of blunt head trauma.
18:27He also had
18:27other injuries
18:28around his body
18:29which was indicative
18:31of a violent beating
18:32and therefore
18:33we knew
18:34that a third party
18:36was involved
18:37and as a result
18:39of that beating
18:39that's how he came
18:41to his death.
18:43So therefore
18:46it was third party
18:47involvement
18:47and at that point
18:49for me
18:50it was a murder
18:51investigation.
18:52an extraordinary
19:04evolution
19:05is still
19:06found to be
19:06in 2 years
19:07to訪
19:11but
19:11more
19:12than
19:13did
19:14get
19:14in a
19:14way
19:15from the
19:15experience
19:16.
19:22In October 2019, Raymond Cullen had been found dead in his flat.
19:29Foul play was evident, but he was already in poor health.
19:34So Ray Cullen had been in hospital prior to his death.
19:37He was quite poorly. He also had cancer as well.
19:44Raymond was quite a frail and vulnerable man.
19:47Raymond was dependent on alcohol, and at the time that he was attacked, he was asleep in his bed.
19:53His daughters knew their father was unwell, but to learn he'd been murdered...
19:58..was nothing short of devastating.
20:05When they're in a vulnerable situation, when they're in their bed asleep,
20:09like, what kind of monster does that?
20:13And then just disrespect him like that, throw paint over his body,
20:18treat his dead body with such disrespect.
20:22Like, that's my f...dad.
20:27It's our dad.
20:28Not only did he kill him, he had to just disrespect him after he'd already taken his life.
20:34What kind of human being are you?
20:37What kind of monster are you?
20:39What kind of monster are you?
20:41You know?
20:41You know?
20:42Tried to just, you know, let's just embarrass you.
20:46Just, just, I'm bad enough that I've just killed you while she was, you know, woke you up from your sleep.
20:52He was frail.
20:53He was already dying.
20:54He had cancer.
20:55But who was responsible for beating to death a sick and vulnerable man in his own bed?
21:08Detectives immediately started by looking at the relationship surrounding Raymond.
21:12Tracey Fielding came into the investigation very early on.
21:19Clearly when we speak to witnesses, we speak to family, we interrogate our systems.
21:25We identified that Ray Cullen and Tracey Fielding had been in a relationship.
21:31It was quite a volatile relationship.
21:35There were previous allegations from both sides.
21:39There was animosity and the relationship did not end well.
21:43And that animosity seemed to be ongoing.
21:46During our research into Ray Cullen, we identified that in the September, so the month before his death, his window had been smashed at his flat.
21:58There were allegations that had been made, but at that time, nobody was identified as being responsible.
22:03We also know that two days before Ray's death, the windows were smashed at Tracey Fielding's home address.
22:12So there were allegations from both sides of incidents.
22:17Given Raymond's reputation around Fleetwood, detectives were convinced that someone in the local community would hold clues to who had killed him.
22:29So during the early stages of the investigation, we will always carry out house to house.
22:35So it's really important that from the scene, we identify the houses and we carry out what were called parameters.
22:41So anybody within a particular area of the crime scene will be visited by police officers and they will be asked for information.
22:50We will also obviously talk to the family.
22:53We need to understand, you know, would anybody hold a grudge against this particular person?
22:59And in these circumstances, Ray had clearly been violently beaten.
23:04And we needed to understand, was there anybody out there that held a grudge against Ray?
23:09Finally, word about Raymond's murder got out into the local area.
23:24When the news came out that Raymond had been murdered, it would have been a shock to the community.
23:29Raymond was known in the community as Irish Ray.
23:32He was somebody who was known around the pubs in the neighbourhood.
23:40So the investigation was moving at pace.
23:43And certainly on the afternoon for the 10th of October, we identified a number of witnesses.
23:50Some who had been approached by Tracy Fielding, who was willing to pay them to harm Ray Cullen.
23:57This obviously created a picture of what was going on with Tracy Fielding.
24:08What I learned was there was probably a more sinister side to Tracy, which I certainly didn't expect.
24:15Whenever I dealt with her, she was decent enough to deal with, albeit she could be intoxicated at times.
24:26Certainly this was the last thing I expected.
24:30Tracy, to me, certainly didn't seem capable of this level of violence.
24:36Certainly not.
24:37But it wasn't just Fielding that was implicated.
24:53David Corny came into the investigation quite early on as well.
24:57We identified that Corny was in a relationship and, in effect, was the new boyfriend of Tracy Fielding.
25:09There was one particular witness who had had a disclosure from Tracy Fielding.
25:16And Tracy Fielding had said that Corny had left Ray Cullen for dead.
25:22That was an absolute game-changer for the investigation.
25:30And again, the investigation moved at pace and led to the arrest of David Corny and Tracy Fielding.
25:40Fielding and Corny were arrested at her home for the suspected murder of Raymond Cullen.
25:46All three of them were involved in the same sort of social circles.
25:56After the relationship between Raymond and Fielding came to an end, Fielding was very callous, she was very cold and really quite nasty.
26:06Now under arrest, Corny and Fielding were taken in for questioning.
26:12David Corny was interviewed in relation to the murder of Ray Cullen.
26:15He provided what we call four pre-prepared statements.
26:20He denied any involvement in the murder of Ray Cullen.
26:24He said that he'd never met Ray Cullen.
26:27But in the interview room next door, Fielding was singing a different tune.
26:34Tracy Fielding denied any involvement in the murder of Ray Cullen.
26:39But she did say that David Corny turned up at a home address, he was covered in blood, and he'd had an altercation with Ray Cullen, and he had punched him.
26:51The investigation clearly needed evidence quickly.
26:56Upon the arrest of Tracy Fielding and David Corny, the arrest was carried out at Tracy Fielding's home address.
27:05That was held as a crime scene, and that was searched for any evidence relating to the death of Ray Cullen.
27:13The same was for David Corny.
27:17We identified a further two addresses that we could put to David Corny.
27:24They were searched.
27:26And it was a second address in Blackpool where we recovered critical evidence related to the investigation.
27:35We carried out a search, and we identified a pair of Timberland boots.
27:48They were bloodstained, and there was also what looked like white paint on the Timberland boots.
27:54And we also recovered a hooded jacket that was also bloodstained as well, which was obviously very critical to the investigation.
28:07We didn't know who that blood belonged to, but clearly we had to have that forensic analysis carried out.
28:13Whilst the lab processed the DNA evidence, the investigators looked at digital forensics to enhance their case.
28:27With any investigation, digital forensics is extremely important, particularly telephony.
28:34We looked to seize and recover devices that belong to suspects so that we can try and identify those movements.
28:44And in this case, it was really important.
28:47We had a number of days that we had to cover for Tracy Fielding and David Corny to understand where they were before the murder, during, and after.
28:57When we're thinking about a suspect and their mobile phone, there are really two areas we can look at.
29:05One is the data that the mobile network holds about them, and that will be a record of calls that they've made, text messages they've sent and received.
29:15If it's a smartphone, there is also the potential for a lot of data to be held on the servers that sit behind the apps that are on that phone as well.
29:28Those apps do record locations too.
29:31They sometimes record encrypted copies of messages and so on.
29:35Getting to them can be quite a lengthy process.
29:38Typically, with the mobile phone data, what we'll do is look at which masts it was using when it was communicating.
29:45Because of the way the masts work, that gives us quite a large geographic area to consider.
29:51So it could be anywhere within a few hundred metres or even a few kilometres, depending on where in the world we're considering.
29:58Often that area is too big to be particularly meaningful in the context of investigation.
30:08But if we then have like a camera capturing an image of the person within that zone, it's a much stronger piece of evidence and actually puts them not just within the coverage of the mast, but actually at a specific point within that coverage.
30:23So we can use the coverage of the mast to identify potential CCTV to look for, and then narrow it down by looking just at the CCTV in that area to see if they've actually been captured on camera.
30:41And whilst another team started searching CCTV, the digital forensics team were unlocking messages from the suspects' phones.
30:50Their mobile phones were taken for the usual examination.
30:56During that, the call histories and the text messages were recovered, and that showed that they had been in communication.
31:04There were a number of messages between David Carney and Tracey Fielding.
31:11But also to other family members.
31:14And there was quite a chilling text message that David Carney sent, and it said that he'd sorted out Ray, and he would not be a problem again.
31:44At approximately 2am, on the 8th of October 2019, Raymond Cullen had been murdered in his home, his body found two days later.
31:57And after just 18 hours, detectives had arrested Raymond's ex-partner, Tracey Fielding, and her new lover, David Carney.
32:06There would have always been a sense of unease that people that were known in the community could do something so wicked and terrible.
32:15But detectives were still trying to prove it beyond reasonable doubt.
32:21Thankfully, the forensic analysis of David Carney's clothing had returned results that would prove vital to the investigation.
32:28When we examined David Carney's flat, we found a black North Face hooded jacket with blood on it.
32:40On further examination, that blood belonged to Ray Cullen.
32:48We also found Timberland boots.
32:51They were blood-stained.
32:52And again, when we examined them, not only did we find that the blood belonged to Ray Cullen,
32:58there was also what looked like white paint on the Timberland boots.
33:10The first thing that would be done with a book recovered from a suspect
33:14would be to do an initial examination for blood,
33:17because you're trying to preserve the DNA evidence
33:19and make sure there's no contamination of the DNA.
33:22To recover blood from a book that had both blood and paint on it,
33:28the first thing you would do is do the examination for blood.
33:32And you would be particularly looking for areas of blood that was away from the paint.
33:38If you find a particularly significant stain of blood that you wanted to sample
33:43that was perhaps contaminated by the paint,
33:46you would try to remove the paint,
33:47either by peeling it off, scraping it off,
33:50or if it was a canvas-type piece of footwear,
33:53you might be able to cut into the area below the stain
33:57and sample the blood from behind the paint.
34:01Finding DNA on a suspect's footwear that matches the victim
34:07is extremely strong forensic evidence,
34:10linking him to being present with the victim at the time of the assault.
34:14The presence of paint on the book would actually increase the strength of the evidence,
34:21because not only have you got paint on the book,
34:24but you've also got paint at the crime scene.
34:27So you've got a two-way link of evidence in relation to the paint.
34:32It wasn't just the paint that matched, either.
34:37At the crime scene where Ray Cullen was found dead,
34:43we obviously found footprints.
34:45Those footprints, when examined, were from Timberland footwear,
34:51and they were the same impressions as the boots that we found from Carney's address.
34:57And on the architrave of the bedroom,
35:03we identified what looked like a fingerprint in blood,
35:07but on further examination,
35:09this was a partial palm print belonging to David Carney.
35:16So this was crucial and key forensic evidence
35:21that put David Carney at the scene with blood belonging to Ray Cullen.
35:27The evidence was just overwhelming.
35:32But with Carney and Fielding denying the charges,
35:35detectives needed more.
35:37So investigators hoped their trawl through Fleetwood's CCTV
35:40would provide further proof.
35:43So with any investigation, we will have a CCTV strategy.
35:48It's really important that we create what we call parameters.
35:51So we'll start at where the scene is.
35:54In this case, it was Bold Street.
35:56We have to identify people coming and going to the scene.
36:01It's really important then that any other persons
36:04who come into the investigation,
36:06so in this case, Tracy Fielding and David Carney,
36:09we then extend those CCTV parameters to other areas
36:14where we know that our suspects and our victim may have been.
36:17With CCTV and phone data now under scrutiny,
36:26detectives began to track movements,
36:28building a digital map of where everyone was
36:31in the hours leading up to Raymond's death.
36:34Carney's phone was shown by the network records
36:37to be moving from Blackpool towards Fleetwood,
36:41and around the time of the attack,
36:43the phone was attached to a mast
36:45that covered the address where the attack happened.
36:49So it was strongly suggestive
36:51that Carney was actually commuting
36:54towards the site of the attack.
36:58And CCTV backed this up.
37:00We identified that a male walked past
37:05and appeared to be wearing a black hooded top
37:09with a white emblem on.
37:13We further identified that this was David Carney,
37:17and the black hooded top he was wearing
37:20was a North Face hooded top.
37:22It was an exact match to the hoodie found
37:26in David Carney's home.
37:29The CCTV showed Carney very close to the premises,
37:33but as is typical with CCTV,
37:35it didn't capture the incident itself.
37:37However, it did have audio recording capability
37:40and captured the sound of the attack in progress.
37:45And putting two and two together,
37:46the only person who could have carried out
37:48that attack was Carney.
37:52Detectives were certain they had their killer,
38:02and now the questions left were,
38:04why and who set this in motion?
38:08The only reason that David Carney knew about Ray Cullen
38:13was because of Tracy Fielding.
38:18Fielding and Carney were charged with murder,
38:21but Fielding didn't accept this.
38:24She said she only asked Carney to go round
38:27and give Ray a slap
38:29and did not intend him to suffer serious harm.
38:33Knowing the evidence didn't place her at the scene,
38:37authorities accepted a lesser charge.
38:40We accepted a plea of manslaughter
38:43from Tracy Fielding
38:45and a plea of murder from David Carney.
38:50This meant that we didn't have to have a trial.
38:54The family didn't have to go through the heartache
38:57of listening to the evidence unfolding,
39:02and we were able to get both Carney
39:05and Fielding, sentenced.
39:28In January 2021, Fielding and Carney came to court together
39:33and sat side by side in the dock to face the charges.
39:37Carney pleaded guilty to murder, which is really unusual.
39:41Normally, with a life sentence imminent,
39:45they've got nothing to lose by running a trial,
39:46but he did.
39:48He pleaded guilty to murder,
39:49and Fielding pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
39:51This admission of guilt didn't stop the pain
39:56Raymond's daughters felt,
39:58especially when they saw their father's killers in court,
40:01admitting to their offences,
40:03showing no remorse.
40:06Once they realised the evidence that was against them,
40:09to say,
40:10oh, OK, yeah, I've been caught,
40:13and hold my hands up,
40:15and, yeah, I'm guilty.
40:16And then for her to get...
40:18She actually laughed.
40:18She laughed.
40:19She laughed at me in court.
40:20To sit there, stand up there in court,
40:25and be so brazen and so brass,
40:28and not care
40:29that his two children are there,
40:32crying, sobbing,
40:34you know,
40:35and his ex-wife,
40:36a woman that loved him
40:37for many years,
40:40and to just have such disrespect
40:42and no remorse.
40:45There was no remorse.
40:46On the day of sentence,
40:52Judge Robert Altham,
40:54the recorder of Preston,
40:55said that without Fielding,
40:57the attack on Raymond wouldn't have happened.
41:00He said she set the wheels in motion for the attack.
41:02Tracy Fielding pleaded guilty to manslaughter,
41:09and she received nine years and nine months' imprisonment.
41:14David Corney pleaded guilty to murder,
41:17and he received a life sentence of 16 years and seven months.
41:23So that means that he will serve 16 years and seven months
41:27before he will be eligible for parole
41:30or consideration of parole.
41:37It would have provided some reassurance to the community
41:40when Carnie and Fielding got sent to prison.
41:44They'd know that two dangerous people were off the streets.
41:48It's always difficult when you think about justice being served
41:51because for a family,
41:52they will never have their loved one back.
41:55But in terms of identifying those responsible
41:57and putting them behind bars,
42:00yes, justice was served for Ray and his family.
42:07I want my dad to be remembered as the dad I remember him as, yeah.
42:10And a good granddad.
42:12Cheers.
42:14He should be remembered for, you know,
42:18the man that we remember growing up
42:20as the kind-hearted life and soul of the party
42:25that would do anything for anybody,
42:28who loved his family
42:30and would do anything for his family,
42:33who idolised his mother,
42:36who loved love
42:38and wanted to give his family
42:42the best life possible.
42:44And...
42:44and...
42:45and...
42:45And...
43:01and...
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