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00:00On the afternoon of the 21st of July, 2023, West Midlands Police received a call from a friend of Sharon Gordon,
00:14who had gone round to a home address and found a line at the bottom of the stairs, covered in blood, and apparently not breathing.
00:20The first responding officers were greeted with quite a distressing scene, with blood all across the floor, up the walls.
00:35But it was impossible to say at that point how Sharon had come to suffer those injuries and die.
00:43I've just lived through absolute hell, all because of the decision.
00:50That this man made.
01:00This video provided by a neighbor shows a threatening man.
01:04He's seen walking past a home holding an axe.
01:20The first responders spoke with Sharon's friends at the scene, and they told the officers that because they couldn't get hold of her, they decided to come round to see if she was OK.
01:41The officers also asked them if they knew anything about what might have happened, or if this came as a surprise to them.
01:48Sharon was still in the prime of her life, but she could have fell down the stairs, she could have suffered some medical episode, it could be a random attack, or it could be because someone has been disturbed in the process of committing a crime.
02:05There are a number of different options that could have resulted in Sharon dying.
02:11It's really important that we consider them all and gather evidence that doesn't preclude any of them.
02:21Sharon's friends told us they had no idea who would have had the motive to kill her or attack her, and we had no evidence or reason to doubt that.
02:30I received a phone call on my mobile, I was working from home at the time, and my mum's best friend called me to say, we need to go round to your mum's.
02:54I literally just rushed off the phone and ran round the corner to my mum's house.
03:03It was cordoned off, and I was trying to go into the house, and obviously I was being restrained.
03:12And I was just like, why? Why can't I go in?
03:15To be honest, it was just shock.
03:17There was no instant thoughts of anything other than what's going on.
03:30The residents were standing outside.
03:33Some of them were looking out the windows, just peeking through the windows.
03:36When we talked to a couple of the neighbours, they all expressed how much of a lovely woman she was.
03:44They all liked her. She was a known member of the community.
03:49There was a sense of shock and confusion.
03:51It was definitely the biggest emotion that was running through the area.
03:54We attended the scene with the crime scene coordinator, and we conducted a walkthrough.
04:15There were signs of some diluted blood in the hallway, which could have been caused by someone trying to dispose of evidence.
04:22Secondly, there was a significant amount of blood spatter in and around where Sharon was lying.
04:30At this stage, my experience taught me that it was more likely than not that Sharon had been killed.
04:38But I needed to confirm that evidentially.
04:44To corroborate his theory, D.I. Forrest calls a forensic specialist to look at blood spatter in Sharon's home.
04:53The scientists attended and gave me a report that same day.
05:00In that report, she explained that Sharon had been hit by more than one blow on multiple occasions.
05:09And due to the repeated nature and the different vectors, it was clear that we were dealing with an assault on Sharon and that we had a murderer that we needed to find.
05:18Growing up, me and my mum were inseparable.
05:36We were literally always together.
05:39My mum's personality was very strong.
05:46She was full of conviction.
05:48She was just one of the strongest women that I know.
05:52But she was very loving, caring, giving, friendly and fun.
06:01My son was the light of my mother's life.
06:08She absolutely adored him.
06:11She spent loads of time with him.
06:14She would spend more time with him if she could.
06:18They both lit up when they saw each other.
06:20You watching nanny walk to the grass?
06:25I always say my son loved my mum more than he loved me.
06:28He always wanted to be at nanny's.
06:30Nanny, nanny, nanny.
06:32And my mum was the same.
06:33Everything was about him.
06:35Because we had no suspect for killing Sharon, and we didn't know when, if ever, we would identify one,
07:00I'd task my team to obtain as much CCTV footage for the relevant time period as possible.
07:08Also, house-to-house inquiries.
07:11Speaking to the neighbours and the local community to see if they'd heard any noises,
07:16seen anything unusual, if they could offer any evidence about people who may have a motive against Sharon.
07:21The other thing which was key for us is trying to understand the last person who would have seen Sharon alive
07:30so we can get an idea of what state she was in at that point.
07:34And also, it will allow us to narrow down our inquiries around trying to trace CCTV and witness evidence.
07:51In the course of the inquiry, we spoke to a lot of people, friends and family of Sharon, who knew her really well.
07:57And you gain a picture of what Sharon was like.
08:01She was a Jehovah's Witness.
08:05And as we looked more into her life, we saw that that faith was a massive part of her life.
08:14My mum wasn't actually raised a Jehovah's Witness.
08:17She became a Jehovah's Witness and she was introduced to it by her elder sister.
08:24My mum took her faith very, very seriously.
08:28Her goal was to make sure that she lived by the vow that she took to her God.
08:36My mum was highly regarded within the Jehovah's Witness community.
08:41She did a lot of work with young ones.
08:47She held a very strong position in people's hearts and minds.
08:53And that's because of the type of woman that she was.
08:57Jehovah's Witnesses call themselves the truth.
09:16And they call anybody outside that religion worldly.
09:20As far as they're concerned, they are God's chosen people.
09:23It's very much all about working towards being the best Christian you can possibly be
09:30in order to survive God's war at Armageddon.
09:35And this belief comes from the book of Revelation.
09:40The Jehovah's Witnesses believe there is only one judge, and that is Jehovah God.
09:46So the worldly system, which is what they call it, the secular justice system will be abided by,
09:56but it's actually the rules within the congregation from the elders
09:59that's probably more important to Witnesses themselves.
10:04I directed my officers to make contact with the local Jehovah's Witness community
10:22because it was clear to me how close-knit they were,
10:25and I wanted to understand if they could offer us any evidence
10:28that could assist us with understanding what had happened and who was responsible.
10:32We spoke to various members of the community,
10:38and whilst they were able to tell us a lot about Sharon and her life,
10:42unfortunately, we weren't able to learn any information
10:45that helped us understand who would attack Sharon.
10:50People couldn't believe that this had happened to Sharon
10:53because they knew her, they knew the life that she led,
10:57they knew the strong moral compass that she had
11:00and just how unlikely it was that she would be involved in any sort of crime.
11:09To paint a clearer picture of Sharon's movements in the hours before she died,
11:15D.I. Forrest speaks with her builder, Peter Norgrove.
11:19He'd been working on her house extension that day
11:22and is thought to be the last person to see her alive.
11:28Peter told us that he was conducting building work at Sharon's home address.
11:33He'd been building a lean-to extension for her.
11:37He had retrained as a builder during the COVID pandemic,
11:40so this was the first real big job that he'd taken on.
11:45We established that he had last seen her on the Thursday afternoon,
11:51approximately 24 hours prior to Sharon's friends calling us.
11:55He told us that he'd left the address at about 3 o'clock
11:59or just before in the afternoon
12:01because he was going with his wife to collect his children from school.
12:06Peter was not an immediate suspect to me.
12:11There was nothing in Peter's history
12:13and nothing from the witness evidence
12:16or the forensic evidence that we'd gathered
12:18that suggested that Peter was the person responsible for Sharon's death.
12:26Police now have a 24-hour window in which Sharon could have been killed,
12:31but still no sense of who did it.
12:33We had no suspects at this stage.
12:39There was no one immediately apparent
12:41who would appear to have a motive for killing Sharon,
12:45would appear to have the sort of history or disposition
12:48that would suggest it's the type of thing they would do.
12:58When the autopsy report comes in,
13:01it reveals her devastating injuries.
13:03It's very difficult to provide an exact time of death
13:08from a forensic post-mortem report.
13:12So we don't have an exact time that Sharon died.
13:18But the post-mortem report told us that Sharon had suffered
13:22repeated blunt force blows to the head with a blunt object.
13:27This was key to us because it rubbed out the idea
13:32that it could have been accidental.
13:34I took the time to revisit the scene.
13:52It's important that you come back and approach it with fresh eyes.
13:55What it showed me is that there hadn't been an untidy search conducted
14:04where someone in desperation was routing through documents,
14:08looking for things to steal.
14:09There were still valuables in place.
14:11So that suggested that someone Sharon had known had killed her
14:17and that the motive wasn't perhaps to break in there and steal from her.
14:22It was important just to establish the facts and see if the motive was laid bare from there.
14:29We identified that there was home surveillance equipment at the front of the address
14:39which covered the drive around by the front door
14:42and we could see that there was a camera at the back of the address
14:46near to the back door which covered the patio and garden area.
14:51But it wasn't immediately clear whether that had been recording at the time of the offence.
14:56Frustratingly, the security video is stored in the cloud
15:01and police don't have Sharon's password.
15:07We couldn't immediately access the footage.
15:11Sharon had the details and unfortunately we couldn't find them anywhere else.
15:26The memories that my son has in this garden with his nanny,
15:34it's, you know, the unforgettable, they'd always be in the garden,
15:39she'd have him on her hip or just playing.
15:46Once somebody's gone, the last photo that you ever took together
15:50or the last video, the last voice note and things like that,
15:55it comes to the point that there's no more.
15:57You don't get any more of that.
15:59And that is really sad because then whatever you've got, that's it.
16:06Look at the look between them.
16:08They're both of them. They're so cute.
16:10Believing that Sharon was killed by someone she knew,
16:19D.I. Forrest looks more closely at the people around her,
16:23starting with her builder, Peter Norgrove.
16:25We conducted examinations of some of Peter's computers and equipment.
16:37Separately, we conducted inquiries at Sharon's home address
16:41looking for relevant paperwork or materials.
16:46Peter was conducting building work at Sharon's home address.
16:51The work had been predicted to last a couple of months.
16:55But it had carried on for well over a year.
16:59And this clearly had caused frustrations on both sides.
17:03It was quite clear that there appeared to be very little trust
17:07and respect on both sides of that relationship
17:10as the building work went on.
17:14Mum was introduced to Peter
17:16as he was in the same congregation as Mum's close friend.
17:22I know for a fact that my mum would have felt
17:28that she could trust this person
17:30because of them sharing a faith.
17:34And she also thought that if there was,
17:39for any reason, any issues or problems,
17:42that she could seek advice and support
17:45from ones within the congregation,
17:49such as the elders.
17:56Everybody knows what everybody else does for a living
17:58within the congregations.
18:00And it's extremely common for services
18:03to be provided within the community.
18:05There's this big element of trust
18:08that witnesses are expected to be truthful
18:13and honest and reliable.
18:16And as you are all God's chosen people,
18:19then why would you not rely
18:21on each other's services and skill sets?
18:23It's hard to put a time on when things went bad
18:33between my mum and Peter.
18:37All I can say is she was given timescales
18:42and they by no means were met.
18:46It was taking longer than it was meant to take.
18:53The workmanship wasn't to the standard
18:56that she thought it would be.
18:59He'd bitten off a lot more than he could chew
19:01and he wasn't able to do the job
19:04that he took on and was paid for.
19:07Sharon's house extension,
19:14which Peter told her would take six weeks,
19:16had taken 15 months
19:18and construction still wasn't finished.
19:25If Sharon was complaining
19:27about Peter's workmanship,
19:29then potentially he'd be quite angry about that.
19:37Jehovah's Witnesses are a massively
19:40highly controlled religion.
19:42Outspoken women in the Jehovah's Witnesses
19:45are not deemed in a favorable light.
19:49Men can go into positions of power,
19:51women can't.
19:56Maybe to Peter,
19:58he may have thought that she should be subordinate
20:00to him as a man.
20:03And that potentially could have been
20:05very triggering for him.
20:11It's a pressure cooker situation.
20:14So you've got Peter,
20:15who's probably getting quite irritated
20:17by Sharon's repeated complaints.
20:20He probably expects a degree of reverence
20:23and submission from Sharon
20:24coming from the church,
20:26which he's not getting.
20:27And then you've got Sharon
20:29getting increasingly frustrated
20:31that her complaints are being ignored.
20:33So it's almost like this vicious cycle.
20:3815 months is a long time.
20:40And I think we can understand
20:41how with this situation of complaints
20:44and then being dismissed
20:45and nothing being resolved,
20:47how the frustrations and the tensions
20:49can really escalate over time.
20:51my mum sought advice
20:58when things started to not go well
21:01with Peter.
21:04I know that she sought advice
21:07from the elders,
21:08but unfortunately,
21:11nothing was done.
21:13I knew it was stressing her out.
21:17I literally could see
21:18the situation taking its toll
21:21on her mentally, physically.
21:24I could see it on her face.
21:28I think it's fair to assume
21:29that Peter would have actually
21:31been quite fearful
21:32of Sharon spreading her complaints
21:34across the Jehovah's Witness community
21:37because it's a small niche group.
21:39So his reputation
21:41could have spread quite quickly
21:42of being untrustworthy
21:44or unreliable.
21:45And also,
21:46he's a new builder.
21:47He's only just recently
21:48trained in this field.
21:50So he's probably got
21:50quite a small client base.
21:52So it could potentially damage
21:54his future financial earnings.
21:56The search for video surveillance
22:02pays off.
22:08Sifting through hours of footage,
22:11police identify one camera
22:12that points directly
22:14at Peter Norgrove's house.
22:18This is Peter's home.
22:21So I can see Peter Norgrove's car
22:24was just pulled onto his drive.
22:26And you can see here
22:28that Peter's running up his drive
22:31and into his address.
22:35Shortly, we see Peter re-emerge.
22:39You can see him in the porch.
22:42He's wearing different clothing.
22:45So he's clearly ran inside
22:47and changed his clothes.
22:50And he's pulling his shoes on
22:51in such a rush
22:52that he actually jumps over
22:54his front lawn wall
22:55and drives off.
22:59That is where we identified
23:01a discrepancy.
23:05We'd already taken an account from him
23:06and that account said,
23:09I left Sharon's at a reasonable time
23:11and drove over to meet my wife
23:12to pick up the children.
23:14Well, he left Sharon's
23:17later than he said,
23:18in a rush,
23:19sped home,
23:20ran into the address,
23:21changed his clothes
23:22and then ran back out again
23:24to meet his wife.
23:25Why would you lie about such a thing
23:28unless you had something to hide?
23:29Police officers head
23:34to the builder's house.
23:40I decided it was necessary
23:42to obtain the clothing
23:44that Peter had been wearing
23:46the last time he'd been
23:47at Sharon's address.
23:53We learned that Peter
23:55had put the clothing
23:56he'd been wearing
23:57at that time
23:57into the wash
23:58as he told us
23:59that he'd spilt some things
24:01on them
24:01and there was some staining on it.
24:04Which he said
24:05was as a result
24:06of him spilling cordial
24:08on himself.
24:11The staining was reddish in colour.
24:14Additionally,
24:15Peter commented
24:16that he'd gone straight
24:17to his children's school.
24:23But his wife said,
24:24oh, don't you remember, Peter?
24:26You were late.
24:27Because she had to pop home.
24:30So with all that combined,
24:31I said, arrest him.
24:33It might have been a couple of days
24:51after that the leading investigator,
24:54Damien Forrest,
24:55said it's murder.
24:57It was just absolute shock.
25:04Looking back,
25:06I think we all
25:08had that inkling
25:09that it could have been Peter.
25:12But we all also
25:14put it out of our minds
25:16and thought,
25:16oh, no,
25:17it can't be.
25:18So maybe it was a robbery.
25:20There's no explaining,
25:24there's no understanding
25:27around it.
25:29It's just shocking.
25:34Sharon could have been anybody.
25:36We all have builders,
25:37we all have workmen,
25:38we all have plumbers,
25:39electricians coming to our homes,
25:40and you trust them.
25:42You have to,
25:42they're there to do a job.
25:44But at the same time,
25:45you don't know who they are
25:46and you don't know
25:47what could happen.
25:48And unfortunately for Sharon,
25:49in that one in a million case,
25:52she's ended up
25:52being the murder victim here.
25:53Although D.I. Forrest believes
26:05Peter Norgrove killed Sharon,
26:08he needs to build his case
26:09against him.
26:12We had a motive
26:14for Norgrove lying to us
26:16and that motive
26:17was to prevent us
26:18recovering evidence
26:20or uncovering his lies
26:22that would cast him
26:24as a suspect in the matter.
26:27But he doesn't fit
26:29a traditional profile
26:32of someone
26:33who would kill someone
26:35using force,
26:36someone who would attack someone.
26:37Additionally,
26:38he had no criminal history.
26:42So what we didn't have
26:44as clear a motive for
26:45was why he would kill Sharon.
26:52For the Jehovah's Witness community,
26:56it was utter dumbfounded shock.
27:01I feel that after the shock,
27:04it was also very much
27:05a lockdown.
27:08What do we do here?
27:11I do feel as though
27:14they were very concerned
27:15about how the reputation
27:18of the organisation
27:19itself would look.
27:26I would say
27:27from being a former
27:29Jehovah's Witness myself
27:30that it's very rare
27:33that Jehovah's Witnesses
27:35murder other people.
27:39Jehovah's Witnesses
27:40don't agree with violence
27:43will stop.
27:46Most are law-abiding.
27:48That is important
27:50because there's a moral code
27:51that they go by
27:53from the Bible.
27:55Within the community,
27:57I would imagine
27:58all of her fellow
28:00Witness friends,
28:01family members
28:02would have been
28:03so shocked
28:05and so saddened
28:07by her death.
28:09But the Jehovah's Witness
28:10organisation as a whole
28:12have a reputation
28:13at stake
28:14and they have people
28:16who are meant
28:18to be law-abiding,
28:20meek and mild.
28:21So it probably
28:23would have been
28:23encouraged
28:24not to have been
28:24talked about.
28:29With Peter Norgrove
28:31in custody,
28:32police receive
28:34an unexpected call
28:35from his wife.
28:37It was very unusual
28:42to have a wife
28:44of someone
28:45arrested for murder
28:46contact us.
28:48But I have to
28:50give credit
28:51to her
28:52for doing so.
28:54When she had been
28:56thinking about
28:56the events
28:57over the last
28:58couple of days,
28:59she remembered
29:00that after they
29:02had picked the children
29:02up from school,
29:04they had attended
29:05another family address
29:06and Peter had put
29:07something in the bin.
29:09They had gone
29:10to that bin
29:11and recovered
29:12the item
29:12and found it
29:13to be
29:14blood-stained
29:15sponges
29:16and other such
29:17things
29:18wrapped within
29:19some home
29:21delivery packaging
29:22that bore
29:23the name
29:24of Sharon Gordon.
29:29Police head
29:30to Norgrove's home
29:31to recover
29:31the blood-stained
29:32items retrieved
29:34from the waste bin
29:35by his wife's
29:36family.
29:42This led us
29:44to conduct a review
29:45of the home
29:45surveillance footage
29:46that was present
29:47there.
29:57As he arrives,
30:00he pulls up
30:00outside the house.
30:03You see that
30:04whilst family members
30:06come and speak
30:08to the occupants
30:09of the car,
30:10his family,
30:11he actually goes
30:13to that bin
30:13that contained
30:15the gloves
30:17and clothing.
30:21This forensic evidence
30:23was a crucial
30:26element
30:26to this investigation.
30:33DI Forrest
30:34broadens the search
30:35to all of
30:36Peter's family
30:37and gathers
30:39security camera
30:40footage from
30:40his mother-in-law's
30:41address.
30:46We were actually
30:47able to see
30:48that on the
30:49morning after
30:50Sharon had been
30:52killed,
30:53Peter had gone
30:54back to this
30:54family address
30:55and deposited
30:57something into
30:59the shed
30:59which contained
31:00hundreds of
31:02tools.
31:02I sought
31:06the assistance
31:07of a
31:08specially
31:09trained
31:10police
31:10sniffer dog
31:11that can
31:11scent blood.
31:15The dog
31:16searched the
31:18shed
31:18and indicated
31:20that it
31:21could smell
31:22blood
31:22on a
31:24lump hammer.
31:27Forensically,
31:28we were able
31:29to identify
31:30that Sharon's
31:31blood was
31:32present on
31:33the hammer
31:33and that
31:35her blood
31:35was present
31:36on the
31:36clothing that
31:37he'd been
31:37wearing when
31:38he left
31:39the address.
31:41Because of
31:41that, we
31:42were able to
31:43speak with
31:43the Crown
31:43Prosecution
31:44Service and
31:45charge him
31:45with murder.
31:58Jehovah's
31:59Witnesses
31:59have an
32:00evening
32:00meeting on
32:01a Thursday.
32:02So the
32:03fact that
32:04Sharon was
32:04killed on
32:04a Thursday
32:05could be
32:07important in
32:08the fact that
32:09if she had
32:10perhaps said
32:11she was going
32:11to tell the
32:12elders that
32:12evening at
32:13the Kingdom
32:14Hall,
32:15then maybe he
32:16would have been
32:17really scared
32:18that she would
32:19honour her
32:19promise of
32:20doing that.
32:24If she had
32:25gone to them,
32:26then he may
32:26well have been
32:27reprimanded in
32:28some way.
32:29And in the
32:31Jehovah's Witnesses
32:31community, that
32:33could lead to
32:34being removed
32:35from the
32:36religion.
32:37So it's really
32:38high stakes.
32:40He may have been
32:42really angry at the
32:44power that she had
32:45there that could
32:46have affected his
32:48standing and the
32:50potential for him to
32:51lose that promise of
32:53everlasting life.
32:53death and death
32:54at Armageddon
32:55would have been
32:56potentially his
32:57greatest fear, as
32:58it is for many
32:59Jehovah's Witnesses.
33:08Police finally get
33:09access to the
33:10password-protected
33:11footage from the
33:12video cameras at
33:13Sharon's home.
33:14Receiving this
33:26footage on top of
33:27all the evidence
33:28we'd already
33:28gathered was
33:30crucial to the
33:31inquiry because
33:33what it allowed us
33:34to do is
33:35understand Peter
33:37and the actions
33:39that he took at
33:40the scene and
33:41it allowed us to
33:43understand his
33:43mindset.
33:47We formed a
33:48timeline of the
33:48events that
33:49happened at
33:49Sharon's house on
33:51the day of her
33:52murder and we
33:53could see that
33:54Sharon was at
33:55home working
33:57when she was
33:58visited by some
34:00of her friends.
34:02She was in the
34:03back garden with
34:03them laughing and
34:05joking, talking
34:06about the
34:07ordinary things and
34:09bits of gossip
34:09that friends do
34:10talk about.
34:12All at the same
34:12time she was
34:13had a builder in
34:15her address, that
34:16was Peter
34:17Norgrove.
34:19Her friends left
34:21the address and
34:23Sharon was left
34:24there alone with
34:25Peter.
34:29Shortly before 2pm,
34:31Peter is seen in
34:32the garden.
34:34He then goes inside
34:35where Sharon is
34:37working from home.
34:40The timestamp was
34:42crucial to us in
34:44relation to allowing
34:45it to lock into the
34:46evidence we'd already
34:47gathered.
34:49So on the screen
34:50time of 14.02.55,
34:53you can see that
34:54there's no one in the
34:55back garden, but
34:56there has been some
34:57sort of activation on
34:58the camera.
34:59The home surveillance
35:03footage was motion
35:04activated, and at
35:07one point it would
35:08appear that a motion
35:10outside the wind, the
35:13clothes on the washing
35:14line, activated it at
35:16the same time as a
35:18high-pitched piercing
35:20scream could be heard.
35:25Police think that that's
35:26Sharon screaming out
35:27during the attack.
35:31Nineteen minutes later,
35:33Peter comes outside
35:34and can be seen
35:35packing up.
35:39In this clip now, you
35:41can see Peter Norgrove.
35:43He's moving with a
35:44pile of things under his
35:46arm, putting them into
35:48the back of the car.
35:51Peter, going about his
35:53business in the aftermath,
35:54did not appear like a
35:56person who was immediately
35:57regretting what had
35:59happened.
36:03In this clip, Peter's
36:05walking back towards that
36:06front door, notchalantly
36:07whistling when he knows
36:08that lying on the other
36:10side of that door is
36:12Sharon, who is most
36:14likely fighting for her
36:15life at that point.
36:17Even if there had been
36:19any other reason for how
36:21Sharon had come by her
36:22injuries and Peter had
36:23tried to help, or it
36:24had been an accident, then
36:26he would have had an
36:27opportunity to tell us
36:28about that.
36:31He was moving calmly.
36:34He didn't appear to be
36:35distressed.
36:36He didn't at any point say
36:37there'd been an accident or
36:39that something had happened
36:40or he didn't mean to do
36:41anything or that someone else
36:43had been in the address.
36:44What it showed us was that
36:45his actions were not the
36:47actions of someone who had
36:48been involved in an
36:50accidental death.
37:02My name is Nick Barrero.
37:04I'm a former police detective
37:05and a certified audio-video
37:07forensic analyst.
37:08If we had only looked at this
37:11video one time, it looks very
37:13ordinary.
37:14There's nothing remarkable at
37:16first glance.
37:17So that's why it's extremely
37:18important that we use critical
37:21viewing techniques and we watch
37:23these videos repeatedly, very
37:27carefully, to make sure we're
37:28not missing anything.
37:32The benefit of this video being
37:34recorded by a home surveillance
37:36system is that we also have a
37:39timestamp for these images and we
37:42know that he left the house about
37:45five hours after he arrived and
37:48during that five hours, these red
37:51stains appeared on his pants.
37:53This is the footage from the
37:55backyard.
37:57He's not really acting like he just
38:00killed someone.
38:02He's acting very nonchalant.
38:05He's going about his day.
38:06He's cleaning up his tools.
38:07But if we take a closer look, if we
38:10zoom in and we make some
38:13adjustments to the brightness, to
38:15the contrast and the saturation, we
38:17can actually see there are bright red
38:20stains on his pants.
38:22And then if we look at a different
38:25angle when he's leaving, we go from
38:28this to this, revealing bright red
38:33stains.
38:34It's quite disturbing to realize what
38:37had just happened, but he's still
38:38going about his business so casually
38:41with blood all over him.
38:48Since he was doing work on this house,
38:51he must have been aware that there
38:52was cameras.
38:54This is potentially a very good
38:56example of a murderer who knows that
39:00they're actually being recorded to
39:03deceive and make it look like he was
39:06completely innocent and using that to
39:10their advantage.
39:13The enhanced video footage further
39:16zeroed in on Peter and allowed us to
39:19show a forensic link between Peter's
39:23clothing and the injuries that occurred
39:26to Sharon.
39:26What happened in the address, we couldn't
39:31visually say, but upon a review of the
39:35evidence, we see Peter moving to and from
39:38the address.
39:39A scream can be heard inside and we see him
39:43with a hammer.
39:44We see him moving about with bloodstained
39:46clothing before driving off, visiting his home
39:50address to change his clothes, later lying about that to us,
39:54and then going to pick up his children before moving to a
39:59family address where he disposed of evidence he knew would
40:03link him to the murder of Sharon Gordon.
40:05Peter Norgrove is charged with Sharon Gordon's murder.
40:17He pleads guilty, avoiding trial.
40:21Six months after the killing, he appears in court for
40:25sentencing.
40:27Journalist Kelly Ann Kiernan follows the case.
40:30It's unusual in the British courts.
40:37Most people want to have their day in court.
40:39They want to, you know, try the evidence and see what they
40:43can do to get out of things.
40:48I'm not sure why.
40:49Maybe because the weight of the evidence against him was so
40:51strong.
40:52They had the CCTV.
40:53They had the murder weapon.
40:54I remember the judge saying that the murder was brutal and
41:00savage.
41:01I mean, anybody being hit over the head eight times with a
41:04hammer, it's going to be brutal and savage.
41:07What an awful way for someone to die.
41:11And Norgrove didn't seem affected by that.
41:17It's always been his case that he cannot actually remember
41:21killing Sharon.
41:21I would find that very convenient and it perhaps offers Peter the
41:31opportunity to admit to what he's done without having to explain or
41:38take responsibility for what he's done.
41:43Peter's claim that he had absolutely no memory of the
41:47killing whatsoever can be linked to a psychological phenomena known as
41:51dissociative amnesia.
41:56This is when an individual is in such an aroused hyperstate that they
42:01can't recall or record memories of the actual event itself.
42:06And it can either be a partial or a full memory lapse.
42:12I am somewhat skeptical about whether he was suffering from dissociative
42:17amnesia for a couple of reasons.
42:19Firstly, because his behavior at the time was very nonchalant.
42:22He didn't see him in this hyperaroused state.
42:25And also his behavior afterwards was very normal.
42:29I would imagine that somebody who's woken up from this confused,
42:33fugue state covered in blood would be worried.
42:36They would investigate what had just happened.
42:38And there's no evidence that Peter did that.
42:44Peter Norgrove is sentenced to life in prison for killing Sharon Gordon with a minimum of 15 years.
42:51Peter has never shown any remorse for this crime.
43:00It's perhaps telling that the judge, when sentencing Peter, commented on the difference between regret and remorse.
43:11One can regret their actions, perhaps for the consequences that they've brought on,
43:16without having remorse for what those actions are.
43:19And I think that very much applies to Peter.
43:24I couldn't and wouldn't say that there's something that the Jehovah's Witnesses could have done
43:31to stop Peter's actions.
43:36We are all individuals.
43:39We can say we align with any faith or way of life,
43:47but each individual is going to do that completely different to the next.
43:54His actions prove that he was not a true Jehovah's Witness at heart.
44:01I don't know for certain the reason that Peter had for attacking Sharon.
44:09We will never know for certain because Peter refuses to share anything else with us.
44:21I think he was out of his depth.
44:23He went to build an extension for Sharon and had no idea what he was doing
44:29and just didn't know how to back out of it.
44:34What an awful way to just not say, I don't know what I'm doing.
44:39I don't know if Peter Norgrove understands the damage that he caused
44:47when he murdered Sharon Gordon.
44:51Sharon's family suffered a devastating trauma
44:55that unfortunately I don't think will ever receive from their lives.
45:00The impact on me and my family
45:11after what he has done and taken away from us
45:15is indescribable.
45:22He stripped me and my family of what seems like everything.
45:27Just the fact that she's no longer around.
45:38Just the fact that my kids no longer have a nanny in their lives.
45:46I've not been able to just deal with that.
45:51I've just lived through absolute hell
46:00since this has happened
46:02all because of the decision that this man made.
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