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00:00I've been a locksmith for 56 years.
00:22I first got into doing forensics in a previous case
00:25which involved a child murderer.
00:27Involving making scale models of locks
00:31to prove a particular part of inquiring.
00:36I was approached by the Avon police force
00:39to get involved with this case
00:41prior to my experience with other cases.
00:45I was presented with two keys.
00:48These keys looked like any other normal household keys
00:51except they had a dark history.
00:53Foot wearing was crucial in directing the inquiry forward.
00:58When we examine a pair of shoes that have been worn,
01:03over a period of time this wear can become quite characteristic.
01:07So it's a bit like a fingerprint.
01:10If we can examine any crime scene mark
01:13and identify features associated with a particular shoe,
01:16we may be able to say with absolute certainty
01:19that this shoe had definitely made this mark at the scene.
01:23I joined the Avon of Somerset Police in 1977.
01:43In 1998, I was working as a detective sergeant on the CID.
01:51I was in charge of a team of detectives
01:55who investigated all sorts of crimes,
01:59assaults, drugs, murders, burglaries, anything at all really.
02:05On the 1st of November, I came into work covering the CID
02:14and I was notified by the uniform inspector
02:19that there had been a missing person reported.
02:21That person was receptionist Jenny King
02:24who hadn't been seen for more than 24 hours.
02:28Her parents, who yesterday appealed for anyone with information to come forward,
02:35say it was totally out of character for their daughter not to return home.
02:39They've been joining in the search, along with her boyfriend of 10 months,
02:43who'd spent Friday night at a separate venue to Jenny.
02:46Jenny King was a 22-year-old woman, albeit not vulnerable.
02:53Her family were very concerned.
02:58It was very much out of character for her.
03:02It was decided that it was to be treated as a major incident.
03:07Therefore, a major incident room would be set up.
03:10Now, in a major incident room, there are lots of key roles.
03:14Me being a sergeant, I was asked if I would mind being a receiver.
03:19Well, that is, in fact, probably my favourite role
03:22because the receiver gets the first sight of any information
03:26coming into an investigation
03:27and decides if there's anything urgent there that needs acting upon.
03:32As detectives launched their major inquiry,
03:36journalists like Sarah J. Harris
03:38also began to follow the case of Jenny's disappearance.
03:43Jenny King was a 22-year-old receptionist at a soft drinks manufacturer
03:48and she also worked part-time in the bar
03:51at the social club at Wormley Community Centre.
03:55She lived at home with her parents, Ray and Margaret,
03:59and her older brother, Andrew, who's 25,
04:02and her younger sister, Sarah, who's 11,
04:04and they lived in Crane Close in Wormley.
04:08She was described as a very home-loving young lady
04:11and she loved her family and her friends and her boyfriend.
04:17Neighbours described her as fun-loving
04:19and always had a smile on her face.
04:21She was seen as a very outgoing young girl.
04:25She liked going on her girls' nights out.
04:27When she went out, she was very considerate to her parents.
04:30She'd tell them where she was going,
04:31she'd tell them what time she'd be coming back.
04:33So this was seen as completely out of the blue.
04:35So she was actually reported as having gone missing from Chasers
04:43the last time she was sighted.
04:48And that's Chasers Club up on the left here.
04:54What we were told was that she'd got a taxi,
04:57so if she did, she would be coming down this route.
05:00The police wanted the media to help find Jenny King,
05:07and so we were told that she'd gone missing
05:10from Chasers' nightclub in Kingswood
05:12and that her whereabouts after this hadn't been established
05:15and they wanted the media's help to raise awareness.
05:21And to get the members of the public to ring in
05:23with sightings of Jenny from inside the club
05:26and also when she left, try and track her down.
05:28Having been in jail for quite a while, you do get instincts
05:32and certainly I got an instinct from speaking to the family
05:36that something was not right.
05:39Something is wrong here.
05:41Has she fallen over?
05:42Has she collapsed somewhere?
05:45Or has some other harm come to her?
05:47Two days after I started on the inquiry,
06:01a call came into the incident room
06:03and it was a call from the support group
06:05who had been searching the area
06:07at the rear of Firework Close.
06:10That officer had found the body of a young female
06:12and from the clothing, it was quite apparent
06:15that it was Jenny King.
06:18A police officer entered a copse
06:22which was known locally as the den
06:23and it was where local children met.
06:25They'd have a cigarette or they'd just mess about
06:27and he went into the copse
06:29and he found a partially clothed body
06:31and he knew straight away it was Jenny King.
06:34And this was released to the media
06:36that Jenny King's body had been found.
06:38It was obviously incredibly traumatic
06:45for the family and for the friends
06:47and we tried to report it as respectfully as possible,
06:50putting out appeals for anybody who had any information
06:53to get in touch with the police.
06:56Initial investigations at the scene,
06:59just a few hundred yards from Jenny's home,
07:02suggested she had been murdered.
07:05Her trousers and knickers were off.
07:08They were found to be tied around her neck.
07:12The end of the trousers were pushed into her mouth
07:16to the left side of her face, bruising.
07:19She'd obviously been hit either by fist or by some weapon.
07:25There was evidence of sexual assault,
07:29although there was no obvious sign
07:32of any semen found on the body and never was.
07:35The officer secured the scene.
07:38This actual location is so close to where Jenny lived,
07:43so she was so, so close to getting home.
07:45It's dreadful to think that she was virtually home and safe.
07:49The officer notified his supervisor
07:52and then that's when the incident room were told.
07:55So suddenly in the incident room, all hell let loose.
08:00There no longer was it a missing person inquiry.
08:03We now had a definite murder inquiry.
08:07After three days of a missing persons inquiry,
08:25the body of 22-year-old receptionist Jenny King
08:29was discovered by police.
08:31A PC walked into this little wood.
08:37There was only one way in and one way out,
08:38and there he found the partially clothed body
08:42of Jenny lying on her back.
08:47The officer came out straight away,
08:50as they're trained to do,
08:52and then there was a lot of discussion
08:53about when the forensic scientists,
08:57when the scenes of crime officers and pathologists
08:59would need to go into that scene
09:02to recover what evidence there was,
09:05how they could do it
09:06without traipsing in on that one entry route,
09:10walking on potential evidence.
09:15And a decision was made,
09:17and it's the first time I'd heard about it,
09:20where they were going to cut in a brand new route
09:23using hedge trimmers and axes.
09:26They cut in through bramble
09:28a totally separate route
09:30on the opposite side to the colts
09:32so that people who needed to be in there
09:35could then examine the body.
09:39When they examined the body in situ,
09:43before taking it away,
09:45there was a muddy mark noticed on her stomach.
09:50Now, that was photographed in slightly different lights
09:54to try and get the best images of that mark
09:59because the mark was quite clearly a foot impression,
10:04a sole of a shoe.
10:06Shoes, as most people will know,
10:09have varying types of tread.
10:12Sometimes it's wavy lines,
10:13sometimes it's circles.
10:15This was a block pattern.
10:16Footwear is produced with a vast number of patterns,
10:21so any particular individual pattern
10:24is only present on a small fraction of the footwear population.
10:28So the chances of finding an individual
10:30wearing shoes a particular pattern
10:32is obviously very small.
10:34If we then add to that
10:36the agreement of any wear or damage
10:38in relation to that shoe,
10:40then that further restricts
10:42the number of shoes in the population
10:44could potentially have made that mark.
10:47On the basis of pattern alone,
10:50the possibility of going out in the street
10:52and finding somebody wearing a shoe
10:54of a particular pattern
10:55is very, very remote indeed.
10:57And hence, that's why footwear mark evidence,
11:00even on the basis of pattern alone,
11:02can be very, very significant
11:03and provide a powerful link
11:04to link a shoe with a mark at a scene.
11:06So once that evidence had been gathered,
11:11then Jenny's body was taken away
11:15in order that it could go and have a post-mortem.
11:19Whilst Jenny's body was taken to the mortuary,
11:23forensic scientists started to examine the wider area.
11:27It was important to take samples
11:30from the route that Jenny took home
11:32and where she was found
11:33because the police needed to provide context
11:38for that area
11:39to demonstrate that the soils in that area
11:41were unique to only that area.
11:45So that if a match came on anything else,
11:49we were able to link it directly back
11:51to the route that Jenny took
11:52and where she was found
11:54and nowhere else.
11:57It was quite an interesting soil
11:59and very much associated
12:01with a copse environment
12:02based on the micro-botanical remains,
12:06so things like seeds and leaves,
12:09but also the associated microorganisms,
12:12so things like worm droppings and snails,
12:15that helped build a picture
12:17of where this soil has come from.
12:20And it was through this analysis
12:21that this soil could only have come
12:23from that copse area.
12:25As forensic scientists worked the crime scene,
12:31detectives needed to look
12:33at Jenny's final movements.
12:37Jenny King had an older brother.
12:39Her brother had actually been in Chaset.
12:43One thing we found out from her brother
12:45was that towards the end of the evening,
12:48he gave her five pounds.
12:51He knew she was nearly out of money,
12:52and he gave her five pounds
12:53in case she wanted to get a taxi home.
12:59So we wanted to make inquiries with taxes.
13:02To help answer some of their questions,
13:06detectives turned to the public.
13:10Most investigations of this nature,
13:13we consider doing a reconstruction.
13:15When we have a fairly good idea
13:19how someone has got home,
13:24we identified a young policewoman
13:25of about the right age.
13:27We knew what Jenny was wearing,
13:30so the policewoman dressed in similar clothing,
13:32and she slowly walked the route
13:35with cameras recording her walking that route.
13:39And as a result of that,
13:46we received lots and lots of phone calls
13:48into the incident room.
13:52Among the calls triggered by the reconstruction
13:54was a potential eyewitness sighting of Jenny.
13:58This is the route that she actually would have walked down,
14:03and in fact, we've just passed the area
14:05where there was a potential sighting of her
14:07by a lorry driver.
14:14And then about half an hour later,
14:17he returned to the area,
14:18and he saw the same woman
14:19appearing to be pestered by a man,
14:21that he was walking backwards as she was walking,
14:24and he appeared to be remonstrating with her.
14:27As efforts to identify the man
14:30reportedly seen with Jenny continued,
14:33the autopsy offered crucial insight
14:35into how she died.
14:44Jenny's body was found roughly in this area over here.
14:47She had died as a result of strangulation
14:49by her trousers and knickers
14:51being tied around her neck,
14:54and the actual end of her trousers
14:55forced into her mouth
14:57as if to stop her being able to scream out.
15:01She'd been stamped on her body.
15:03That left the foot impression on her stomach,
15:07and she had scratches,
15:10and she had a severe blow
15:11to the left side of her head.
15:17Now, was this the scene
15:19of where she was killed
15:20or just where her body was dumped?
15:22As far as we were concerned,
15:24this was almost certainly the scene
15:26that she was actually murdered.
15:31With the forensic pathologists
15:33confirming Jenny had been murdered,
15:35her parents bravely faced the media
15:38to seek help finding their daughter's killer.
15:42My little summer breeze
15:44is no longer with us.
15:53Yesterday,
15:54my wife, Margaret, and I
15:57formally identified
16:03the body of our dear Jen.
16:08Can you imagine
16:09the gut-wrenching
16:11sense of loss and grief
16:14encountered
16:14when entering a room
16:16hoping against hope
16:19that we would find
16:20our smiling, loving, warm,
16:23chattering daughter
16:24waiting to greet us
16:27but to find only
16:29a cold,
16:33battered,
16:36lifeless form before you?
16:42But what investigators
16:44found near her body
16:45would soon become
16:46a vital part of the case.
16:49On the searching the scene,
16:51they found
16:53two keys
16:54that were linked together
16:56with a key ring.
17:00Those two keys
17:01weren't rusty at all.
17:02They appeared to
17:04not have been in the copse
17:05for any length of time
17:06and they were very close
17:07to where her body was.
17:10There was also
17:1138 pence
17:13in sort of loose chain
17:14on the floor
17:15right next to it.
17:16So it looked as though
17:17it had potentially been dropped
17:19either by Jenny
17:20or by her attacker.
17:23To help them unlock
17:25the mystery
17:25of the two keys
17:26found at the scene,
17:28detectives turned
17:29to forensic locksmith
17:30John Crummock.
17:34I was presented
17:35with two keys
17:36which were the evidence.
17:37One was a Yale key,
17:38stamp 1A.
17:39The other one
17:40was a Mr. Minnick key
17:41for a WMS lock.
17:43The key consists
17:44of peaks and troughs.
17:46The troughs
17:47are where the pins
17:48from the upper housing
17:49sit into it
17:50to form a drum
17:51so the key
17:51can rotate freely.
17:54The peaks are there
17:56solely to lift the pins
17:57so to allow the key
17:58to enter into the lock.
18:00These keys
18:01were mass-produced keys.
18:02They were
18:03everyday occurrence keys
18:04that you
18:05and possibly your family
18:06would use
18:07everyday in your household.
18:08in murder investigations
18:11such as this
18:12the police
18:13have to make
18:13a determination
18:14about what they're
18:15going to release
18:16to the press
18:17and what they're
18:18going to keep
18:18to themselves
18:19because it's crucial
18:20in their investigation
18:21and in this case
18:22they kept the discovery
18:23of the keys
18:24which had been found
18:25next to Jenny's body.
18:28One of the means
18:29of eliminating suspects
18:31was to try
18:32the recovered keys
18:33in the locks.
18:35Now that's assuming
18:36the keys are the offenders
18:38and we were reasonably
18:39satisfied that they were
18:40but you wouldn't totally
18:42eliminate someone
18:42on that alone
18:43just in case they weren't.
18:46Early on
18:47the police would undoubtedly
18:49have looked at
18:49a current boyfriend
18:50because he was the person
18:51closest to her
18:52but I think he was
18:53eliminated very quickly
18:55from their inquiry.
18:56We had people
18:58that had come
18:59into the inquiry
19:00that were
19:01persons of interest
19:03the ex-boyfriend
19:04for example.
19:05We later found out
19:06that she'd described him
19:07as her psycho ex-boyfriend.
19:16I know the officer
19:18who took the key out
19:20to test in the lock
19:23of the ex-boyfriend
19:24and when he tried
19:26the key in that lock
19:27and it opened the door
19:28his heart beat
19:34started racing
19:35and he was straight
19:37on the phone
19:37thinking we have got
19:39our offender.
19:42He ticked quite a lot
19:43of the boxes
19:44of what you would be
19:45a suspect
19:45in a case like this.
19:47He'd been very possessive.
19:48He didn't like the fact
19:49that he was no longer
19:50with Jenny.
19:51He had tried
19:53to get back together
19:54with her.
19:57That's not what
19:58we anticipated
19:59at that point.
20:00We thought
20:00oh my gosh
20:02we've got the keys.
20:04That officer
20:04then contacted
20:05the senior investigating
20:06officer who by this time
20:08was Detective Superintendent
20:09Bill Davis
20:09and it was decided
20:12to arrest him.
20:13So the ex-boyfriend
20:14ended up at that point
20:15being arrested.
20:19The second key
20:20didn't seem to fit anywhere.
20:22we approached
20:24a local locksmith
20:25who we'd used
20:26but he wasn't
20:28a forensic locksmith
20:29and we asked him
20:30could he look at
20:31the lock and the key
20:32just to say
20:33whether or not
20:34they go together
20:36and he was fairly sure
20:38that they did.
20:41And you then had
20:42the headquarters
20:43management team
20:45saying to Bill Davis
20:46you need to charge
20:47this man.
20:49Now the interview team
20:51who were very
20:51very experienced
20:52said
20:52I've interviewed him
20:54and it is not him.
20:56I'm quite happy
20:58it's not him
20:58as happy as I can be.
21:00So he was bailed.
21:01That's not what
21:03the headquarters wanted
21:04but it's what
21:04the SIO wanted.
21:07Forensic locksmith
21:08John Crummock
21:09set to work
21:10examining the lock
21:12from the ex-boyfriend's
21:13home
21:13to establish
21:14if detectives
21:16had made
21:16the right call.
21:19Because this particular
21:21lock was not
21:21thoroughly examined
21:22it was only
21:24because the lock
21:25was opened
21:25after some
21:26jiggling and pokery
21:27that they assumed
21:28it was the correct
21:29key for the lock.
21:32I was given
21:33the lock
21:34and some keys
21:35retrieved from
21:36the scene of the crime
21:37and asked whether
21:38this key was made
21:39to operate this lock.
21:42The first thing
21:43you would do
21:43is to dismantle
21:44the lock.
21:46Enter the key
21:46into the cylinder core
21:48and to see if there's
21:49any abnormalities
21:50where the key
21:51has been used
21:52in this lock
21:52that's left a trace
21:54of witness marks
21:54to its usage.
21:56It was a lock
21:57made in Hong Kong.
21:58it didn't have
21:59many diff as a key
22:00so its engineering
22:02was not that great.
22:04It was possible
22:06with any effort
22:07to open this lock
22:08quite easily
22:09using any particular
22:11key as long
22:11as you raked it
22:12and sometimes
22:14it would open.
22:15So I discounted that.
22:18Forensics had confirmed
22:20that the keys
22:21discovered
22:21at the crime scene
22:23were not from the locks
22:24at the ex-boyfriend's
22:26home.
22:26There was a second suspect
22:29and he was seen
22:31as somebody
22:32who was obsessed
22:32with Jenny
22:33that he was
22:34a bit of a stalker
22:35he'd leave flowers
22:37for her at work
22:38he referred to her
22:39as his girlfriend.
22:40He had learning difficulties
22:43he liked her
22:44he thought she was lovely
22:45because she always
22:46spoke to him
22:47and we had to rule him out
22:50and they took the keys
22:52along to his house
22:53where he lived with his parents
22:55in a house on Hill Street
22:56on her route home
22:57and they took the keys
22:58tried them in the lock
22:59turned it
23:00and the door opened.
23:02when Mr Crummett
23:07looked at that lock
23:08it was of the sort of lock
23:11you get in hotel rooms
23:13like the circular handles
23:15with the lock
23:17right in the middle
23:18of the handle
23:18and as it happened
23:20the door wasn't even locked
23:21they didn't know that
23:22at the time
23:23by putting the key
23:24in and turning
23:24you were turning
23:25the whole handle
23:26and the door just opened
23:28and Mr Crummett
23:30then eliminated
23:30the keys as being
23:31anything to do
23:32with that address.
23:34The keys
23:35later on
23:37became very
23:38very significant
23:38to us
23:39after we decided
23:40on the 9th
23:42of November
23:43to release
23:44the fact
23:44that we'd recovered
23:45keys to the public.
23:48The police told us
23:49that 20 duplicate
23:50sets of keys
23:51had been made
23:51and they were trying
23:53them in the locks
23:53of 300 houses
23:55in the area.
23:57There was a time
23:58it was released
23:59and when it was
24:00hundreds of messages
24:01came in with people
24:02suggesting the type
24:03of door
24:03they'd seen people
24:04changing locks.
24:12Police put out
24:13the appeal
24:13for anybody
24:14who had lost
24:15their keys that night
24:16to get in touch
24:17with the police
24:17and tell them.
24:18So we printed this story
24:19it was actually
24:20a front page story
24:21and it later transpired
24:23that the police
24:23had hundreds of calls
24:24from people
24:25about missing keys
24:27but amongst them
24:28was an anonymous call
24:29that was made
24:30and he said
24:33that his nephew
24:34had lost his keys
24:35that night
24:35and that he'd been out.
24:39He'd lost them
24:40throughout the night
24:40and he just wanted
24:42to report it
24:43and he'd also
24:44encouraged his nephew
24:45Paul Hunt
24:46to report the keys
24:47missing himself.
24:48who was Paul Hunt
24:52and could he
24:53have something
24:54to do
24:54with Jenny's murder?
24:56Paul Hunt's uncle
25:15reported that his nephew
25:17had lost a set of keys
25:19possibly the same set
25:21found beside Jenny King's
25:23murdered body.
25:24Paul Hunt himself
25:27eventually did phone in
25:28and from what I understand
25:32he phoned in
25:33because his uncle
25:34told him
25:34I phoned in
25:35so I think
25:36you better get in contact
25:37with the police
25:37so he did
25:38but once that came in
25:41I raised the action
25:42to go out
25:45question him
25:46about his losing
25:48of his keys
25:49check the keys
25:50in the lock
25:50so a team went out
25:51to do that
25:52and when they tried
25:54the keys in the locks
25:55one key fit the front door
25:57one key fit the back door
25:58that was looking
26:00very very good.
26:01it was inferred
26:05that these keys
26:06that were found
26:07at the scene of crime
26:08could open
26:09many different locks
26:10because there weren't
26:11many variations
26:12which was incorrect
26:13because the 1A key
26:15had 24,000 variations
26:17of key
26:17and the AWMS key
26:19had 6,000 variations
26:21before it was repeated
26:22so combining the two
26:24it's highly impossible
26:25that these keys
26:26would fit any other locks
26:28when you have keys copied
26:31they're never always
26:34copied exactly
26:34the key
26:36of the mother's house
26:37had been cut
26:38with a slight indent
26:39on the end
26:40of the last cut
26:41it was repeated also
26:42in the key
26:43retrieved
26:44from the scene
26:45of the crime
26:45indicating to me
26:47that it was a copy
26:48from the mother's key
26:49at this uncertain
26:50forensic testing
26:54confirmed
26:55the keys found
26:56beside Jenny's body
26:57belonged to
26:5821-year-old Paul Hunt
26:59with that
27:00police made their move
27:02he was arrested
27:11from his home address
27:12taken away
27:13and the house was searched
27:14whilst he was taken
27:15to a police station
27:16the house was searched
27:17with his mum present
27:18and he would be interviewed
27:19police announced
27:21the breakthrough
27:22with a brief statement
27:23a 21-year-old man
27:25from warmly
27:26has been arrested
27:27on suspicion
27:28for the murder
27:29of Jennifer King
27:30he is detained
27:31at Staple Hill
27:32police station
27:33helping us
27:34with our inquiries
27:35as police
27:39as police looked
27:39into Hunt's background
27:40they discovered
27:41he was already
27:42known to Jenny
27:43Paul Hunt
27:45and Jenny King
27:46they went to
27:48the same school
27:49they weren't
27:49in the same year
27:50he claimed
27:53that he didn't
27:54know Jenny
27:55he didn't know
27:56her at school
27:56he hadn't seen
27:57her that evening
27:58he had no idea
27:59what had happened
27:59to her
28:00Paul lived
28:04with his mother
28:05his parents
28:06separated
28:06when he was five
28:07and his father
28:08was a transport policeman
28:11and his grandfather
28:12was a South Gloucestershire
28:14county councillor
28:15and he actually lived
28:16a couple of doors
28:17down from the
28:18King family
28:19in Crane Close
28:21so neighbours said
28:23that Jenny
28:24would have known
28:25Paul when she was
28:26growing up
28:26they also attended
28:28the same school
28:29although he was
28:30in a year below
28:31but her former
28:32headmaster
28:32gave a statement
28:33saying he found
28:34it impossible
28:34to believe
28:35that Paul and Jenny
28:37didn't know each other
28:38from their time
28:38at school
28:39undeterred by Hunt's
28:41insistence
28:42that he didn't know
28:43Jenny
28:44police scoured
28:45his home
28:46for any evidence
28:47his mum
28:51stayed at the house
28:52while officers
28:52searched the house
28:53what they found
28:55when searching
28:56the house
28:56was a pair
28:58of trucker
28:59shoes
29:00the bulk
29:03of the evidence
29:04in the case
29:05surrounded the keys
29:06but also the
29:07forensic evidence
29:08that they'd gathered
29:08from the cops
29:10that there had been
29:11a footprint
29:12had been left
29:14imprinted
29:14on Jenny's abdomen
29:15in this particular case
29:20I was tasked
29:21with examining
29:22footwear marks
29:23on the body
29:24of Jennifer King
29:25and then subsequently
29:26comparing those
29:27with any footwear
29:28that might be submitted
29:29from suspects
29:30that were arrested
29:32in relation
29:32to this investigation
29:33I was supplied
29:36with photographic prints
29:38of the marks
29:39that were recorded
29:40on the stomach
29:42of Jennifer King
29:43during the post-mortem examination
29:45initially a pair
29:47of boots
29:48was submitted
29:49that were seized
29:50from Paul Hunt
29:51these boots
29:52were found
29:53to show
29:54far less wear
29:55than the marks
29:56that were recorded
29:57on the stomach
29:58of Jennifer King
29:59and therefore
30:00those boots
30:01could not have made
30:02the marks
30:03that were recorded
30:04on Jennifer
30:05when you looked
30:09at the sole
30:10of these shoes
30:10they had
30:12a block
30:12effect sole
30:14and they looked
30:15very similar
30:16to the mark
30:17on Jenny's
30:19stomach
30:20when the officers
30:24sort of explained
30:25that to Paul Hunt's mum
30:27that these shoes
30:28seemed quite significant
30:29to us
30:31she said
30:32well he wouldn't
30:32he couldn't have been
30:33wearing those shoes
30:34on the night
30:34because I only got those
30:36from the shoe shop
30:39because I took
30:40his old pair in
30:41because they were damaged
30:42they were causing
30:43him feet to hurt
30:44so she said
30:46I took his old pair
30:46back to Master Shoe
30:47and they gave me
30:49those as replacement
30:49but what she did say
30:52it was an identical pair
30:53of replacement
30:54so one trucker shoe
30:55for another
30:56so when that information
30:57came in
30:58of course we immediately
30:58feed out to a team
30:59get to Master Shoe
31:00because she had taken her
31:03back on the 2nd of November
31:04we're now the 11th
31:06so we're thinking
31:08hopefully we can still
31:09get these shoes
31:10from Master Shoe Shop
31:12so the team go down there
31:15and the manager there
31:17says well
31:17yes
31:19we've got a returns box
31:20normally it's emptied
31:23about once a week
31:24however we haven't had
31:25many returns recently
31:26so the shoes you're looking
31:28for are probably
31:29going to be in that box
31:29and there was only
31:32one other pair
31:33of these trucker shoes
31:34so they were seized
31:36and both pairs
31:38were sent to forensics
31:40to analyse the tread patterns
31:41and to try and glean
31:43any other information
31:45in this particular case
31:52the undersurface of the shoes
31:55recovered from Master Shoe
31:56were compared in detail
31:58with the marks
31:59recorded on the stomach
32:01of Jennifer King
32:01I looked at other shoes
32:05of different sizes
32:06made by trucker
32:09the same brand
32:09I was provided
32:10with reference samples
32:12from other different sizes
32:14of trucker brand shoes
32:15and all these
32:16apart from a size 9
32:18could be eliminated
32:19on the basis
32:20of pattern configuration
32:21I found they were
32:26matching in pattern
32:28with the marks
32:29on the stomach of Jenny
32:30and also there was
32:32very good wear agreement
32:33between the corresponding
32:35areas of the mark
32:37and the very worn areas
32:39on the undersurface
32:40of the boot
32:40the forensic scientist
32:43turned next
32:43to the soil trapped
32:45in the soles of the boots
32:46recovered from the shoe shop
32:48hoping the ground itself
32:50might reveal
32:51where those shoes had been
32:52so when undertaking
32:55a comparison
32:56of soils
32:57that you've taken
32:57from a potential route
32:59or a potential crime scene
33:00with soils from
33:02you know
33:02suspect shoes
33:04you want to establish
33:05a match
33:06and that match
33:07can be a physical match
33:09so when you look at soil
33:12under the microscope
33:12it will have
33:13different structures to it
33:15and it will have
33:15different particle sizes
33:17the soils
33:21that were
33:22analysed
33:23from the copse area
33:24demonstrated
33:25like a unique signature
33:27they matched
33:32in terms of
33:32where that soil
33:33had come from
33:34that the shoes
33:36had been in the copse area
33:37had picked up soil
33:38from the copse area
33:40and had put the suspect
33:42in that area
33:44where Jenny had walked
33:45the forensic evidence
33:48was mounting up
33:50but when detectives
33:51checked Hunt's phone records
33:53the investigation
33:54kicked up a gear
33:55lots of criminal psychologists
34:00will talk about
34:01people that commit murders
34:03likely
34:05it's not their first crime ever
34:07so when we actually looked
34:09at Paul Hunt's background
34:10there was a record
34:13of him harassing people
34:15in an indecency sort of nature
34:18making indecent comments
34:19to them over the phone
34:20indecent exposures
34:21there was someone
34:23who reported the fact
34:24that he'd actually stolen
34:26her knickers
34:26off her washing line
34:27and he'd been cautioned
34:31and warned
34:32for harassing someone
34:34phoning them up
34:34heavy breathing
34:35this type of thing
34:36we then decided
34:38to look at the phone calls
34:39he was making
34:39in the six months
34:43preceding Jenny's murder
34:45he made 4,000
34:46obscene phone calls
34:48to women
34:48in the surrounding area
34:50from his phone
34:51in his house
34:52and these lasted in duration
34:53from a few seconds
34:54to 20 minutes
34:55and many of these
34:56were threats to kill
34:57and on the night
35:01Jenny was murdered
35:02in the few hours
35:02before he set out
35:04that night
35:05he made 80
35:06obscene phone calls
35:07it was clear
35:08from the evidence
35:08that Paul Hunt's
35:09behaviour was escalating
35:11that night
35:12when he was telling people
35:14that he was looking
35:14to go out on the pool
35:15it felt like he was
35:17actually looking for a victim
35:18and unfortunately
35:22that victim
35:23was Jenny King
35:2421-year-old Paul Hunt
35:43had been arrested
35:44on suspicion
35:45of murdering
35:46Jenny King
35:46he was now
35:47being questioned
35:48by detectives
35:49Jenny King's
35:51partially clothed body
35:52was found
35:52in a copse
35:53near her home
35:54she'd been strangled
35:55with her own trousers
35:56Jenny knew Hunt
35:57from school
35:58a set of keys
35:59was found
36:00at the murder scene
36:00they fitted perfectly
36:02in Hunt's door
36:03the keys
36:05were just one part
36:06of the case
36:07against Hunt
36:08detectives also had
36:10nuisance phone calls
36:11soil traces
36:12on his shoes
36:13and one final piece
36:15of evidence
36:16that could tie him
36:17directly
36:18to Jenny's body
36:19the other thing
36:21the forensic scientists
36:22did at the time
36:23was tapings
36:25now what tapings are
36:26it's like
36:27a very large piece
36:30of sellotape
36:31and they would use
36:34this large piece
36:35of sellotape
36:36and they would dab it
36:37on the body
36:38or on areas of clothing
36:39they would note
36:40from where they took it
36:41and the purpose of it
36:43was to capture
36:44any
36:46fibres
36:47any
36:48bits of hair
36:49any
36:50bits of skin
36:51that had
36:52dropped off
36:53any particles
36:54that could be picked up
36:55on an item of clothing
36:56extraneous material
37:02was recovered
37:03from the surface
37:04of Jennifer King's
37:05clothing
37:05by taping
37:07on these tapings
37:09were numerous
37:09green fibres
37:11those green fibres
37:13we learnt very early on
37:16they were cotton
37:16and polyester
37:17so we knew the type
37:19of thing
37:19we were looking for
37:20the police
37:24discovered in
37:24Paul Hunt's house
37:25a green
37:26Ralph Lauren shirt
37:27that belonged
37:28to Paul Hunt
37:29the fibres
37:30were a match
37:31to the fibres
37:32that were found
37:33on Jenny's body
37:34and it was
37:37when police
37:37were scouring
37:38CCTV
37:39piecing together
37:40Hunt's movements
37:41that they found
37:42evidence
37:43he was wearing
37:44that same green shirt
37:45on the night
37:46of Jenny King's murder
37:48Paul Hunt
37:51worked in a
37:52washing machine
37:53factory
37:54and his friend
37:55also worked
37:56in the same factory
37:57and they'd been out
37:58together the night
37:59that Jenny disappeared
38:00they went to
38:02a separate nightclub
38:03it was McCluskey's
38:04in the centre
38:05of Bristol
38:06and had spent
38:07the evening there
38:07but Paul had boasted
38:09that he was out
38:10on the pool
38:11even though his
38:12girlfriend was at
38:13home with a headache
38:14his friend said
38:16he became separated
38:17from Paul Hunt
38:18in the club
38:19he'd waited for him
38:20but couldn't find him
38:21so CCTV
38:22showed Paul Hunt
38:24leaving about
38:251.30
38:25leaving McCluskey's
38:27and then about
38:283.30
38:29he returned home
38:30without his key
38:31and he'd had to
38:33wake up his mother
38:33by banging on the door
38:35there was no denying it
38:38he was wearing
38:39that green shirt
38:40and now attention
38:42turned to Hunt's body
38:44when he was arrested
38:45part of the arrest process
38:47is to examine someone
38:50so he was examined
38:52for any injuries
38:53some injuries that were
38:55noticed on his buttocks
38:56was some scratches
38:57they were sort of
39:01parallel scratches
39:02long scratches
39:03and they were photographed
39:05Jenny herself had scratches
39:08there were brambles about
39:09in the copse
39:10where her body was found
39:11so it was thought
39:13possibly
39:13could he have injured himself
39:15there
39:16and they looked
39:16quite recent scratches
39:17his explanation
39:19for those scratches
39:20ultimately
39:21was he sat down
39:22on some sharp
39:24bit of metal
39:24at work
39:25wasn't recorded
39:27anywhere at work
39:28he didn't think
39:28it worth
39:29it
39:29it was just
39:30a very minor scratch
39:31now
39:32the pathologist said
39:34if you were wearing
39:35underpants and trousers
39:36and you sit on
39:37something sharp
39:38yes you can scratch
39:39yourself
39:40but the scratch
39:41wouldn't be continuous
39:42because the metal
39:44would be catching
39:44in the material
39:45so the pathologist
39:47was able to say
39:47that scratch he got
39:48is not consistent
39:50with his explanation
39:50is consistent
39:52with someone
39:54having their
39:54trousers and
39:55underpants down
39:55when they got
39:56the scratch
39:57now you tie that
39:58in with his keys
40:00on the floor
40:00and 38 pence
40:02consistent with
40:03falling out of a
40:04pocket when you
40:05take your trousers
40:05off
40:06those things together
40:07helped the story
40:10this jigsaw
40:10as to what happened
40:11police finally felt
40:19they had their man
40:21this morning
40:26a 21 year old man
40:28from warmly
40:29will be appearing
40:30in court
40:30charged with the
40:32murder of
40:32jennifer king
40:33cases like
40:37this
40:38you've got
40:39what you consider
40:39is overwhelming
40:40evidence
40:41but you're not
40:42the one making
40:42the decision
40:43you hope
40:45someone's going
40:46to plead guilty
40:46and avoid a trial
40:49but hunt
40:52wasn't going down
40:53without a fight
40:54he wanted
40:55his day
40:56in court
40:57he pleaded
40:59not guilty
40:59and he claimed
41:00that he
41:01didn't know
41:02jenni
41:02he didn't know
41:03her at school
41:04he hadn't seen
41:05her that evening
41:06he had no idea
41:07what had happened
41:07to her
41:08when the jury
41:10go out
41:11that's when
41:13you start
41:14getting worried
41:15then when you
41:17hear the jury
41:18are coming back
41:19in and you're
41:19sat there
41:20and you're
41:21just waiting
41:21for hopefully
41:23the word guilty
41:24being said
41:25and when
41:28the jury
41:29said guilty
41:30everyone
41:32in the court
41:33myself included
41:35were fighting
41:35back our emotion
41:36Paul Hunt
41:40had told the court
41:41that if he'd
41:42murdered jenni
41:42he would admit it
41:43to save the family
41:44from suffering
41:45the judge said
41:46that was a wicked
41:47barefaced lie
41:48the evidence
41:48against him
41:49was overwhelming
41:50the fact that
41:54I worked on
41:54that case
41:55and worked so
41:56hard on it
41:56and it was
41:56so difficult
41:57yet we got
41:58the result
41:59that we got
42:00and he got
42:01a minimum
42:02of 20 years
42:02he appears
42:07to be evil
42:08personified
42:08and I got
42:11nothing but
42:11the utter
42:12most loathing
42:14for him
42:15as a person
42:15at the time
42:19it was very
42:20upsetting to cover
42:21the jenni
42:21king case
42:22to see the
42:22grief of the
42:23family
42:24and obviously
42:28they felt
42:29relief that
42:29Paul Hunt
42:31had been
42:31convicted
42:32and had got
42:33a life sentence
42:34but for them
42:35that didn't take
42:37away from the fact
42:37they'd lost their
42:38daughter
42:38and that grief
42:39was going to
42:40save with them
42:40for the rest
42:41of their life
42:42I saw
42:44I saw Jenny's mum
42:45many years later
42:46I had occasion
42:47to go to her
42:48house
42:48and I sat
42:51in her lounge
42:52talking to her
42:53and there was
42:55still a corner
42:55of the lounge
42:56set to one side
42:58with photographs
42:59of her
43:00and I mean
43:01even me looking
43:02at them
43:02because I'd seen
43:03lots of images
43:05of Jenny
43:06throughout the
43:06investigation
43:07it still brought
43:08it back instantly
43:09and mum was
43:12still feeling it
43:13I didn't see
43:15dad at the time
43:16it brought it
43:19back instantly
43:20to me
43:21I've seen
43:22postmortem
43:22photographs
43:23I've seen
43:24injury photographs
43:26and it's all
43:28there
43:29in your brain
43:30somewhere
43:31but to see
43:33a picture
43:33of Jenny
43:35a nice
43:35picture of Jenny
43:37it just reminds
43:37you of what
43:38a beautiful
43:38kind
43:40individual
43:41she was
43:42and you start
43:43thinking
43:43and how old
43:44would she be now
43:45and would she
43:46have children
43:47would she have
43:48grandchildren
43:48all that
43:50that was taken
43:51away
43:51to see
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