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