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00:00I don't get to find out very much about the individuals who have died.
00:12I always think that the best I can do for somebody who can no longer speak for themselves
00:18is to do my level best as a professional scientist.
00:22And I don't think you can let yourself get very emotionally involved.
00:27I think you just have to do your job.
00:30The most important person in all this is the victim.
00:37She was just starting out in life, she had everything in front of her
00:41and her life was snuffed out in a very brutal, horrendous way.
00:46We have her picture on the wall in the instant room at all times
00:51and that is the person, they're known as Nominal One, the most important person.
00:55That's who we're working for to get justice.
00:59That's who we could join us at home.
01:01We enjoyed this time.
01:02That thanks for joining us.
01:04She has door to his uncle's eyes, her eyes and they go out and ask me
01:07some breaking news a teenage girl's body has been found in the early hours of sunday morning
01:22in the huff area of bolton roads around crawford avenue and the bolton institute
01:28have been closed while police search for clues
01:31the body was found at 3 30 a.m on that sunday morning by two local men
01:47a naked body was found here she was lay on the back her head was here her legs were pointing
01:56down here and her arms were in this position
01:59and it looked as though she'd been probably dragged and her arms had collapsed into her shoulders and
02:09her sides and there was dirt marks all down this side here senior investigating officer tony cook
02:17and his team soon identified the body as local girl carly bateman
02:21carly bateman was 17 years of age still legally a child um she'd just fallen into the lifestyle of
02:34drugs and prostitution to fund the drug taking um she came from a decent family but unfortunately had
02:43started to uh skip off school and go absent from home for long periods of time and ended up in this
02:49seedy world of prostitution and drugs
02:52so carly's body was found in what was once the heart of bolton's red light district
02:59so we're on crawford avenue in bolton this is just on the edge of the town center
03:09in 2001 this area was used by sex workers to bring their clients who they would pick up in
03:18the town center
03:19the reason why it was chosen by sex workers is that it was nice and quiet uh the gates that are here now
03:29weren't here so you could get easy access you could drive in at the bottom uh they could do what they
03:36needed to do around the back which was nice and dark and quiet and then this was the exit so you
03:41could drive in one end and out the other and a lot of the houses we see here big old victorian style
03:47houses were separated into bedsits so a lot of them attracted drug dealers and and sex workers themselves
04:00this area is close to bolton's red light district and it's thought carly may have been involved in
04:05prostitution in the past local people say they've been played by pimps prostitutes and drug dealers
04:11and they say this kind of tragedy was waiting to happen
04:16carly was addicted to heroin and police first suspected that she died from an overdose
04:23si o tony kirk wasn't convinced
04:27the circumstances of a possible drug overdose or an accidental death just didn't stack up to me
04:32uh why was she naked was the most obvious clue she was outside um uh gates to houses that were locked
04:41so where'd she come from if it was a drug overdose we did actually search the addresses uh nearby which
04:46were bedsits used by drug dealers as well and it just didn't stack up that was it was a possible drug
04:53overdose
05:10fortunately some really good decisions were made here at the scene because the scene was properly
05:15secured and protected which is routine procedure normal procedure for a murder investigation so this
05:21area would have been completely secure there was cordons at the bottom and at the top to make sure
05:26nobody could get in and that then allowed us to start really intense in-depth forensic examination of
05:33the scene bringing in the forensic scientists and the experts
05:51my name's caroline eames and in 2001 i was and still am a senior forensic scientist
05:57cases where a body is found outside are always difficult because you've no parameters to the
06:09scene if a murder happens in a room then you've got the walls and the doors and that contains the scene
06:15essentially but outside that person could have been brought there in a car and might have been dragged
06:21there they might have been dragged out of a house in this particular case um the main difficulty was was
06:28that the deceased was naked and the clothing and footwear is a repository for a huge amount of forensic evidence
06:41because she was naked there was only her skin her hair and her nails to think about really
06:51i don't get to find out very much about the individuals who've died
06:59i always think that the best i can do for somebody who who can no longer speak for themselves is to
07:05do my level best as a professional scientist and i don't think you can
07:10let yourself get very emotionally involved i think you just have to do your job
07:15the body was sampled and tape lifts were used to recover um cellular material and fibers hairs
07:28from the surface of the body swabs were used to recover possible cellular material from points of
07:35potential contact for example under the knees the ankles under the armpits where she may have been
07:43picked up I felt because her body was very clean apart from the the mud staining on her thigh her foot
07:56and one of her hands I felt that she had probably been placed there so then the question is where are
08:04her clothes when was she undressed was she alive or was she dead when she was undressed and how did
08:10she get there while the forensic team carried out their work the investigation took a sinister turn
08:19on examination on the body the pathologist found that there was indications of a strangulation and
08:27and asphyxiation and quickly ruled that she'd actually been murdered
08:31Bolton greater Manchester the body of 17 year old Carly Bateman has been found and police launch a
08:49a murder investigation post-mortem tests revealed that Carly Bateman died from pressure to her neck
09:08detectives are appealing for any information that will help catch her killer the most important person
09:15and all this is the victim she was just 17 she wasn't even an adult she was just starting out in
09:22life she had everything in front of her and her life was snuffed out in a very brutal and horrendous way
09:28we have the picture on the wall in the instant room at all times and that is the person they're
09:34known as nominal one the most important person that's who we're working for to get justice
09:39is it done in there without the bubbles
10:00Carly was loved by her family and she was the youngest of three
10:13she'd gone to school but was skiving school all the time she just fell into the wrong crowd
10:23she used drugs her parents had tried so hard to get her off the drugs they'd even
10:30sent her to a private school i know her family had moved away from the area and taken her away
10:35from the area to try and help her because she'd fallen in with the wrong crowd but she'd come
10:40back to bolton she was back in an area where she felt that she could thrive in a way she just saw
10:49prostitution as a way of getting that money to fund that drugs habit
10:52she was a vulnerable young girl in bolton and at the time there was a lot of vulnerable
11:02young girls who seemed to come to bolton because of prostitution and because
11:10they knew that they could make money doing that
11:15morning girls morning
11:27urban outreach um it was born to actually work with or serve the people of bolton who were marginalised
11:35who are not always accepted by the public people who were homeless people who were disadvantaged
11:43she's going back to see me tomorrow anyway
11:45all right it's just is she still working did she say she's still still working
11:53my name's sheila i chose really i suppose that i did once work with
11:58um street sex workers because when they went out to work at night to when we saw them during the day
12:04totally different so where the public will probably see a sex worker a prostitute and see them as that
12:13i had the privilege of seeing them in their own flats they became the real person but they'd have to go
12:21out at night to fund some kind of a habit an addiction
12:30everybody's got a story and everyone will be slightly different so i don't know what led carly up to
12:38her addiction i don't know but i know her addiction drove her onto the streets
12:44i think all you need to do is look at carly's picture and you see this lovely girl she was an
12:53amazing girl bit of a cheeky girl always laughing big smile big blue eyes you couldn't everybody saw
13:01these big blue eyes and really she did look about probably about 13 14 she didn't look very old at all
13:09carly was someone sheila had a personal connection to
13:19the police came looking for her one night she flung a window open and she jumped out i'm not sure i think
13:25she might have been carrying the trainers and she come out and she runs and she waves see you see you
13:29later bye and it was so funny and she just she was laughing i was laughing and the police were knocking
13:34on the door i think she'd already jumped out of the window and escaped that was the last time i saw carly
13:49at the crime scene the forensic team led by caroline eames needed to carry out intimate swabs which
13:55could reveal dna evidence of carly's killer
13:59when the intimate swabs came in from her mouth from other orifices um they would be routinely examined
14:13for semen and to find semen in the mouth indicates a recent contact because semen does not persist in the
14:22mouth beyond a few hours so tony cook asked me if we would then look at her stomach contents because
14:31there were only a few sperm cells and at that time in the year 2000 um dna profiling was in its infancy
14:40really still um and you needed a fair amount of material to obtain a a full dna profile
14:48so he asked us to look at her stomach contents to see if she had swallowed some semen and we could
14:56retrieve some more and we did find a further four or five sperm cells
15:05we had to look at other parts of her body the contact areas like under the arms and around the
15:11ankles and we did find traces of material which was similar to the semen in the mouth now the contact dna
15:21lasts even a shorter time than semen in the mouth so we felt that that individual
15:30was going to be probably the last contact that she'd had prior to her death
15:41so we were able to take the minute samples of evidence but would there be enough to generate a dna
15:50profile
15:55after carly's body had been removed the forensic team focused on the trail of evidence left at the scene
16:04what we did find interestingly enough as well as a lot of used condoms and obviously the
16:10evidential opportunities from carly's body itself dna fingerprints fibers the forensic scientists also
16:17found some interesting car tire marks
16:24now bearing in mind this was an area habitually used by uh sex workers to take the clients more often
16:31in cars we had to eliminate car tire marks because one of them could have been from a vehicle used by our
16:38offender so that was a really important find at the crime scene
16:44before the tire marks faded the forensic team took casts and photographs of them
16:59the investigating team now shifted their focus to people who could have passed through the alley
17:09either on foot or by vehicle in the early hours of the 11th of november 2001
17:16we had a lot of people to interview and a lot of men who were using sex workers and i ended up doing an
17:24appeal a tv appeal asking them to come forward to give the samples dna and fingerprint samples
17:30or to expect a knock on the door by a police officer
17:34we want to speak to these people who might be in their own interest to come forward voluntarily
17:38as opposed to us seeking them out and knocking on the doors if they do come forward i can give them
17:43i guarantee they were treated sensitively and in the utmost confidence
17:51and it obviously worked because uh one morning the day after i'd done the appeal is that there
17:58were a line of males outside the police station all looking very sheepish and offering themselves to be
18:04interviewed and give the samples so that was a very effective tactic at the time
18:09one by one the men were interviewed and those that owned vehicles had their tires checked to see if
18:21they matched the marks found at the crime scene no suspects were identified with a killer on the loose
18:30the red light district of bolton was a dangerous place to be despite the risk sex workers carried on as normal
18:40carly was one of the youngest girls and we had smaller women down there 30s 40
18:48and and they were tough girls as well and i think they might have seen themselves as somebody
18:52who could fight somebody off but carly didn't have that much of a chance when they heard that carly died
19:00it didn't make anybody stop working you know everybody's they knew when they got in a car they put
19:06their life at risk they knew if they went down the back on their bushes your life's at risk because girls
19:12got beaten i think the girls were like an autopilot um and they just carried on doing what they were
19:21doing you know you can't just walk out of addiction if heroin gets you it gets you it takes lives
19:29and lies before it's time
19:37we found a lot we uncovered a lot and spoke to a lot of dangerous males during the course of our inquiry
19:45who we all discussed between ourselves and thought you know they could be the next offender
19:50here and these girls put themselves at so much risk and if you look at carly bayman's murder she
19:57was a 17 year old girl she looked a lot younger than 17. um you're going to attract a particular
20:03sort of male who is looking for that age group of sex worker probably a paedophile and that was factored
20:10in to the profile of who we thought was our offender the police started to build a profile of carly's killer
20:21a team was assigned to review cctv from around bolton to track her final movements
20:29luckily we found some cctv cameras on the entrance and exit of the hostel which showed her leaving there
20:37at 11 32 pm on that saturday evening and also that was important as to what she was wearing because
20:44burning mine we were looking for clothing because she's her body was naked so that key time for us
20:50the relevant time was 11 32 pm till 3 30 a.m when the body was found what had happened in that interim
20:57period and at what time had she actually been murdered
21:00police carried out a search across bolton looking for carly's clothes they searched rivers
21:10and waterways bins and skips and knocked on doors nothing was found
21:18carly's family also made an appeal on the news anyone with any information they must come forward
21:25please come forward she's just a waste of a good life a good family a loving home nobody nobody must
21:33judge you for anything in the incident room the investigation team had received a significant
21:40police report from the morning of the murder an officer put some information in that he had stock
21:48checked a male in a car very near the vicinity of the scene where the murder had taken place
21:56and that he'd spoken to this male and when he's spoken to him he thought it was a bit suspicious that
22:01the male had some uh training shoes what looked like small females training shoes and a sports jacket
22:09or a sports coat on the back seat of his car and also a lot of condoms so he asked him about that
22:16and he said that he was mining them for a prostitute carly's body was found naked
22:25could the clothing seen in the back of the car belong to her so that's a man's uh details then
22:33entered our inquiry that man was a male named jeffrey porter
22:38what's more jeffrey porter was already known to the police
22:48jeffrey porter when we did a full profile on him actually came from wigan which was a neighboring town
22:56he had some uh previous convictions for indecent assault on young girls
23:06and he was who we would class probably a pedophile
23:12became within the profile of somebody who might have had interest in somebody like carly
23:16so all of a sudden jeffrey porter we're ticking some boxes in terms of this person being of interest
23:36it was now four weeks since the naked body of 17 year old carly bateman was found in an alleyway near
23:47bolton town center
23:53police were closing in on a man they believed could be connected to carly's murder
23:58a man with previous convictions for sexual offenses against young girls
24:04his name was jeffrey porter
24:08officers went to interview him and he said he knew carly bateman and he'd actually used her services
24:14previously and he had seen her the night before she was murdered he hadn't though of some real
24:21significance he said he hadn't seen her or had any intimate contact with her any sexual contact
24:28with her on the night she was murdered the officers who went to see him took some samples off him which
24:35were dna we looked at his car he owned a proton car and they found when they looked at the tires on
24:45that vehicle against the images of the tire marks we had at the scene of the crime there was a match
24:52so all of a sudden jeffrey porter might be of interest in this inquiry jeffrey porter gave a
25:04plausible explanation and police didn't have enough evidence to arrest him
25:10they did leave with a vital dna sample but they still had nothing to compare it to
25:15we just didn't have the results from the forensic examinations caroline eames i was trying to push
25:22her along but she was doing her best she could and she was using uh technology that and or just been
25:28invented in some of the cases to try and develop dna from uh samples taken from very minutiae pieces
25:36of evidence that would recover from the body externally and internally as well but it's never guaranteed
25:42i could have got a phone call from caroline eames that said i'm sorry mr cook but uh this is negative
25:49and we haven't got a match or we haven't got enough material to work on and we can't get a result
25:56it was it would have been a huge blow to the investigation
26:03there's an awful lot of work that takes a long time the fiber comparison work the mitochondrial dna
26:11we used a technique called low copy number for the touch samples on her body and that took a long
26:17time dna profiling in itself was taking much longer than it does today and to write up a case of that
26:26size alongside all the other cases i was managing at the time that that takes a lot a lot
26:32my force would be thinking this is going to go on for a long long time so i was under a lot of pressure
26:40and the local newspaper had quoted me as saying mr cook has um pledged to solve this case pretty quickly
26:49but it just added a lot more a lot more pressure to us and every time i went in and did a media
26:55repeat a while it was meant sports the media had given up day the question was why is it taking you
26:59so long as pressure mounted on the police to give answers the media cast judgment on the victim too
27:09when it comes to sex workers the media have got a lot to answer for from the way that they used to
27:15portray the the workers the women because it was always victim blaming they it was their fault and
27:23they were the ones selling their body society was saying it the media was saying it
27:32this was probably one of the cases that helped change it because people thought do you know what
27:37she comes from a nice family she's tried to help herself she was trying to help herself but the drugs
27:46had taken hold and then i think after this people started thinking well why are people doing this
27:52rather than blaming them for doing it there will always be girls out there what we can't say if we
28:00can't handhold certain girls like carla slipped through the net a lot of work went into um trying
28:07to help carla and she was a lovely girl and she was making some wrong choices but nothing could have
28:14changed that family nobody could have changed it
28:30six weeks after the murder of carly bateman police finally had a breakthrough
28:34the team of officers who were dedicated to reviewing the cctv footage found a real nugget of
28:43information from a cctv camera which is located on a building called the foundry which is right in the
28:50middle of the red light district in bolton on that footage it showed a male in a vehicle at 5am in the morning
28:58this is 5am after the after the body's been found um stopping alongside a skip a builder skip which was
29:06on the road i'm getting getting out of his car and putting something into that skip getting back into
29:13his car and driving away why was that significant well significant because it was in the red light
29:19district near to the scene of the murder it was the timing of it and more importantly could this be
29:25missing clothing so that was a really important line of inquiry and we had we didn't have a vehicle
29:30registration number but we had the outline of the vehicle
29:36so we went to a vehicle expert who told us what sort of car he thought it was
29:43the expert identified the car in the cctv as a proton saga the same make and model driven by jeffrey porter
29:55police suspected it was porter's car on the cctv footage but they needed to prove it
30:03so we went and seized that car from him and we were able to do a reconstruction with that car
30:08and put it in the same time on the same area as the one we'd got on the cctv footage and we got an
30:16expert to look at the two pieces of footage against each other did car b porter's match car a on the cctv
30:25and our experts said they were an exact match police now believed the man in the footage was
30:32jeffrey porter if porter was disposing of carly's clothes into the skip they could prove it by finding
30:39trace evidence of carly and her clothes in the car officers handed the silver proton to forensic
30:46scientist caroline eames for examination the seats were examined for cellular material hairs were
30:54recovered from the front near side headrest they were long they were auburn colored indistinguishable
31:02from carly bateman's hair and that wasn't all tape lifts revealed even more compelling evidence
31:12caroline did a fantastic job and found some fibers on that car which were very very significant
31:18because they matched fibers which were found on carly bateman's body so we didn't have the clothing from
31:24carly but we had fibers from a body and those fibers matched exactly the fibers in porter's car so that
31:33was another piece of significant evidence that was building against porter
31:37the case against jeffrey porter was now building but one vital piece of evidence was still outstanding
31:57caroline and her team had been working around the clock to generate a full dna profile from the small
32:07amount of semen recovered from carly's body finally they had a breakthrough
32:16every time i rang tony to tell him something a development in the case he was always very interested
32:23very receptive and on this occasion he was just so excited i still remember to this day the phone
32:33call i received from caroline to say they got that match the dna matched from carly bateman's body to
32:39jeffrey porter was without doubt a eureka moment and one that i'll never forget and one that i couldn't
32:45wait to share with the teams it was great piece of information at last we have that final piece of
32:50evidence we needed to go and arrest him
33:10news just in and police in bolton hunting the killer of 17 year old carly bateman have made an arrest
33:16a 40-year-old man from wigan has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is now being questioned by detectives
33:26sio tony cook and his team prepared to interview jeffrey porter for a second time
33:34it's taken months of hard work to gather the crucial forensic evidence to use against him
33:39but would it be enough to charge porter with carly bateman's murder we knew that we had matching fibers
33:50we knew we had traces of his semen in her mouth we knew that we had traces of his dna on her body we knew
33:59about the fibers in his car that matched clothing from her and there were links between
34:06fibers on her and the car we had all the information about the tire marks we had the comparison between
34:14his vehicle and the vehicle that had been seen on cctv near the skip and we had the hairs from the headrest
34:21but caroline's work on the case wasn't over yet now she was required to help present the
34:29forensic evidence to counter porter's defense while he was being interviewed tony cook rang me up
34:37and said he's saying this what about this and i say no that doesn't fit and then he could put something
34:45else to jeffrey porter while he was being interviewed i believe they call that downstream interviewing
34:51i've never done it before uh i've never done it since but it's a very powerful way of putting the
34:59evidence to an individual he had nowhere to go in his defense it was brilliant caroline's real-time
35:09forensic intelligence enabled tony cook to dismantle porter's defense piece by piece
35:17and the biggest piece was to prove that porter had been with carly on the 11th of november 2001
35:24when she was murdered something he had denied one of the things we wanted to ask him to and to go
35:34over again and we had it in his initial statement we'd taken off him was was he still saying that he
35:40did not have any sexual or intimate or physical contact with carly bateman on the night of the murder
35:47that was really important and we had to do that before we put to him the dna evidence because i
35:54we'd done it the other way around he could have changed his mind and thought actually i need to
35:58now say uh to defend myself and give myself a chance that i'd had sexual contact luckily we got the
36:04sequence right and he he committed himself to his original statement and stuck to it that he hadn't had
36:10any sexual or physical contact on that night that was really important because it closed off a line
36:16of defense that he could have concocted
36:21after just one day of questioning jeffrey porter was charged with the murder of carly bateman
36:28it was a huge moment for si o tony cook and the news was shared with carly's family
36:34carly's mother was informed the moment we charged him and obviously she was absolutely delighted it's
36:40very very sad when something like this happens but closure for the family is that we actually find
36:46out who was responsible so that was really important for them
36:59ten months later the trial of jeffrey porter began at manchester crown court
37:05the prosecution team were very confident we had a strong case but you just never know with these
37:12cases there's always a loophole or some defense angle that you've not considered we had a strong
37:18case but a lot of it rested on forensic evidence which was going to be heavily scrutinized
37:26carly names and the team were going to give evidence and robustly defend the processes and
37:31procedures that they were watertight and 100 accurate jeffrey porter is was quite a quiet man
37:39he was hiding of course this real secret which is the fact that he had an interest in in young girls
37:45and he didn't show any remorse he was just he just sat in the in the dock listened to all the
37:50evidence he didn't give evidence himself after a two-week trial and more than a year since carly
37:56bateman's naked body was found dumped in an alleyway jeffrey porter was found guilty of her murder
38:03and sentenced to life in prison
38:07with a minimum term of 14 years
38:13mr justice holland told porter it was you who used carly bateman for sexual relief it was you who
38:20continued that encounter by killing her he went on to say that porter was a serious risk to young girls
38:27he said he would recommend to the home secretary that porter was a very serious danger to young children
38:37when the jury did deliver the uh guilty verdict that was a huge sense of relief
38:42uh for not just me for my team for the victim's family who were sat there uh and for the community
38:50too that we'd uh got some closure on what was a a really really distressing case and it's a great
38:56feeling a great sense of achievement to bring a case like that to a successful conclusion
39:05they're all the friends in this case as with most criminal investigations these days is vitally
39:10important we depend heavily on the scientific approach to the investigation of crime and the
39:17support that they give us and in this case obviously that was a vital contribution by caroline
39:22ames and a team and you know well worth it because we got the right result at the end
39:30this case is one that i i won't forget because of the amount of work we did on it
39:36but without tony cook's urging and intervention and persistence we wouldn't have done that amount of work
39:47he was a man you just couldn't say no to really
39:50it's six years since phyllis porter has been buried with her family grieving at her graveside and
40:10mystery has always surrounded her death the police decided to exhume her body when her father was
40:17convicted of murdering a young prostitute in bolton jeffrey porter is currently serving a life
40:23sentence for the murder tony cook's investigation into jeffrey porter hadn't finished yet
40:30we found out that he had a daughter named phyllis porter who died uh some five or six years
40:39before the murder of caroline bateman in very mysterious circumstances uh she was just found
40:46uh in a bed dead an investigation uh revealed that the there was no cause of death and it just
40:53raised alarm bells with me because knowing that jeffrey porter and pedophile tendencies how did his
40:58daughter die he's 11. i definitely wanted to reopen the case and uh that led to us
41:06exhuming phyllis's body and re-examined the body again using forensic evidence
41:14and we did find some dna that linked back to jeffrey porter the dna evidence was sperm heads
41:20found in around her mouth so we thought yeah this is very similar to the caroline batman murder
41:26the pathologist uh did change his view as to the cause of death and said it was probably something
41:36called vagal inhibition which is a fear factor when somebody's put under so much fear and pressure of
41:42some activity that they die and we thought a sex attack had occurred and on that basis with the dna
41:49evidence we got permission to charge porter with murdering his own daughter and we took him to court
42:00the defense team brought porter's wife as a witness and she came and gave evidence for him and that was
42:09enough to get our case um ruled out of court unfortunately
42:19i think it was right that we charged him with the um murder of his daughter
42:25he was acquitted of that but um he was a very dangerous individual who had um serious issues in
42:32in terms of uh his sexual preferences and i'm just glad he was pulled out of harm's way into prison
42:41actually because i think he was pulled to danger to young females
42:49the people of bolton were shocked to find out that he had such a vivid past and a troublesome past
42:58and he was walking the streets of the town but they were happy that justice had happened and they
43:05were relieved and happy for the family of carly that they got the justice that she deserved
43:13carly's murder had a lasting impact on the people of bolton and also the wider area it led to calls for
43:22safer environments for sex workers and also for them to be seen more as victims rather than criminals
43:33it was the talk of the streets oh yeah they've got him brilliant brilliance you know the girls were
43:39so happy i think they were happy for carly's family as well i hope people remember carly as that cheeky
43:49face lovely girl but don't think about sex with what do you think about her just think about this
43:56amazing young woman whose life was taken too short
44:19so
44:26so
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44:36you
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