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00:00THE END
00:17Steve.
00:18Oh no.
00:20This is it, I know.
00:22I'm sorry.
00:26Getting married in a month.
00:28What the hell am I doing?
00:30Well, I am married.
00:35So I'm probably not the best person to ask.
00:39You know, I never saw myself as the plain away kind.
00:44We need her.
00:46Here we are.
01:00Here we are.
01:05What's that?
01:09It's the beams.
01:13At least it's the beams, it's fine.
01:17It's fine.
01:18Okay.
01:26That way.
01:27Art!
01:28Art!
01:29Art!
01:32Who are you?
02:02Who are you, you sick bastard?
02:14Where are you?
02:26Did you see him?
02:28Did you see his face?
02:32Now do you believe me?
02:34No!
02:35No!
02:36No!
02:37No!
02:38No!
02:39No!
02:40No!
02:41No!
02:42No!
02:43No!
02:44No!
02:45No!
02:46No!
02:47No!
02:49No!
02:50No!
02:54I'm okay, Dad. Really.
03:10You didn't sound okay on the phone.
03:12I didn't mean to worry you and disturb your night.
03:15You didn't.
03:18They gave me something. I feel much better.
03:22Look, I always want you to call when you need me.
03:24So it's all, um, it's going in the right direction?
03:31Yeah. Staff are lovely. I've made some good friends.
03:36No junkies, I hope.
03:38We're all junkies, Dad. That's kind of the point.
03:46Look, I'm worried how much this is costing you.
03:49I know it's not cheap and...
03:51Forget it.
03:52I've got a long way.
03:53Forget it.
03:54It's the best money I ever spent.
04:04I've got to go.
04:06I'm going to see you properly again tomorrow.
04:07I've got to go.
04:21Oh my God!
04:23Oh my God!
04:29Woo!
04:31Ha ha!
04:41Oh shit!
04:51Call an ambulance.
04:57Make it two.
05:03Let's get to the side, mate.
05:05Mate, come on.
05:07Wait for the ambulance in here. Come on.
05:15Mate.
05:17Let's go inside. Come inside the shop.
05:19I've called an ambulance.
05:21Mate.
05:23Ah!
05:25Ah!
05:27Ah!
05:29Ah!
05:35Ah!
05:37Ah!
05:39Ah!
05:41Ah!
05:43Ah!
05:45Ah!
05:47Ah!
05:48Ah!
05:49Ah!
05:50Ah!
05:51Ah!
05:52Ah!
05:56Ah!
05:58Ah!
06:01Ah!
06:02I'm a sponsor on the scene. Let's assume the gunman's still in the area and proceed with
06:22the courtroom. Can I answer the public? Yes, ma'am. Mickey Alexander, Politist. Jack,
06:28coach of Forensics. DCI, Jenny Beshear. DI, Claire Ferris. Hey. I'm not sure I've had the pleasure.
06:34You haven't. We're newcomers. The Bowman Centre, correct. I'm from London. Right again. Welcome.
06:40What have we got? Boy, what haven't we got? A girl in a BMW hit the insignia side on and
06:47plowed into a parked car. Van driver's okay. Just a bit of whiplash. Joyrider died instantly.
06:53You think it's a joyrider because... BMW was reported stolen earlier tonight.
06:58But all that is of secondary concern. Coworkers have ID'd it was 24-year-old Khalid Svet. He was
07:06trying to lead the insignia driver to safety, but he had other ideas. Pulled a gun, shot Khalid
07:11dead, took two shots at the van driver, then fled the scene. So we have a trigger-happy unidentified
07:17killer on my hands. ID'ing and apprehending him is our urgent priority. Good news is,
07:22he's likely concussed and half of Birmingham plot have been drafted as we speak.
07:26Come on. We have some idea of the shooter's appearance. White, 40s, fit-looking, greyish
07:35hair. The insignia can't help with an ID. Cloned plates. We're not going to get him on a DVLA
07:41check. Excuse me. Yeah, we're at the scene now, but...
07:50Looks like a through-and-through. Close, but not contact. And he was trying to help the guy.
08:00There's no significant angle disparity between entry and exit. He would have been immediately
08:07incapacitated, so he would have dropped to the ground. More or less flat out.
08:13He nicked it. Giving us a trajectory to the right. Factor in some deflection.
08:27There it is. In the mortar. Soft landing. Soft enough. Merci.
08:40A single gunshot wound to the forehead. No other obvious external injuries at this point.
09:00Some kind of clip-on pass under the body.
09:19Damaged and bloodstained.
09:28The door's clean. Drinks, litter, parking permits, loose change, nothing. I don't believe this.
09:57I can't find a single solitary print or ridge detail. You're right, I don't believe it.
10:02Plus the stitching marks. These are red leather gloves and the like.
10:04So what, you can just wipe down top to bottom? No, and the cloned bit suggests we're doing
10:08another pro. There must be some way to want to do this bastard.
10:11There must be some way to do this bastard. Oh, no good.
10:27Shit.
10:27Turns are cut off. Stomps are bagged. You said it was a pro. Looks like an exit wound to the anterior neck.
10:42Teeth appear to have been smashed out or removed. So if it's not on my DNA database, we're screwed, basically.
10:49Challenge, certainly. But if we ID him, we might ID our killer.
10:54I'll carry out the post-mortem as soon as we're finished here. I'll be interested to know how the limbs
10:59were removed. Analysis on the bone ends. Who knows? Micro CT might even yield an implement.
11:06But we're checking the victim's DNA first, right? As a priority. Great place.
11:25Thanks for coming in, Kit Kat. No, no, no. It's cool. I was at this electric lash place on New Street,
11:30and you know what? I just wasn't feeling it. Really? No. I was at home in bed.
11:34I need you to do a bit of a reconstruction job on this. Challenge accepted.
11:40That's it. Later, potato.
11:44Should be in being a little bit dragged from a warm bed. Now then, before we start,
11:50longest ever shift? Where and when? Not playing. Price of admission, Jack.
11:54Yours will be longer and more exotic. Uh-huh. Okay. 36 hours in Surbiton, Cinema Fire.
12:03What? You win. Finds Omega 30. Where? Earthquake. Tierra del Fuego. Yeah.
12:13Brilliant. Of course it is.
12:15Is that our airbag? No matter how careful he was. His face must have come into contact with it when
12:24it deployed. I'll mini-tip first to maximize recovery, and then I'll run a Fadabas test.
12:30It sounds like something out of Doctor Who, then.
12:33There.
12:33We're ready for the PM on the John Day from the boot.
13:01There is a stellate entry wound, two by four centimeters superior to the occiput,
13:11which corresponds with the exit wound on the anterior neck. Obvious soot deposition is consistent
13:19with a hard contact entry wound.
13:20Can it do it? Definitely. Scan confirms internal beveling deep to the entry wound, with the bullet
13:29passing forwards and down through the basal ganglia. It's clear that the wound track passes through
13:35vital centers, which will almost certainly have been the cause of death.
13:38More evidence we're dealing with a professional. Possibly.
13:42There are what looked like two stab wounds to the right buttock. Scars are pale and healed,
13:49and based on the discoloration, I would say they were sustained a year or so ago, two tops.
13:54There are permanent seizure marks where he has been stitched up.
13:58Is that a classic punishment injury?
14:00Yes. Intended to be non-fatal, but the person is left humiliated with a scar in an unusual place.
14:07Could be a gank. Or then bother with one.
14:10Mm-hmm. Both arms have been severed at the wrists. Clean incisions to the skin and tissue,
14:16then clean severing of the bone. Likely cut with a knife and then with a saw.
14:27No hesitation marks. Speaks to a high degree of competence and possibly expertise.
14:32You said micro-CT can help?
14:35Yes, but I can tell you now that the clean bone cuts and absence of mangling
14:39suggest a powerful rotary saw was used.
14:43There are colored fragments embedded in the bone.
14:46Blue, green, silver. Testing will confirm, but it could be car paint.
14:52So who dices cars with a rotary saw?
14:54Scrap yards or the shadier body shops that chop up stolen cars.
15:04No loose fragments of teeth in the mouth.
15:08Could be lurking in the oesophagus.
15:09Or the stomach.
15:11Nasal cavities.
15:13Is that what I think it is?
15:15We'll run talks for cocaine and other substances too.
15:22Okay.
15:32mustache babbling
15:35Melissa
15:44Like when all, you need to worry about your issues...
15:46Like a real challenge if you think about it...
15:47What do you think about us?
15:48That must be my skin if a heart's cutting dadurch pier 1995.
15:52ORCHESTRAL MUSIC CONTINUES
16:15Linear scar to the left infraclavicular region.
16:19Eight centimetres long.
16:24Boxes palpable in the subcutaneous tissue.
16:27What?
16:28They fitted him with a pacemaker or an implantable defib.
16:32Hopefully, the serial number will give us an ID on our victim.
16:36I'm going to retrieve the device now so that we can collect any data.
16:40It can even tell you when someone's heart stopped.
16:43Oh, in this instance, it was murdered.
16:45Only snag, if it is a defib, it can give you a hell of an electric shock.
16:49No sort of moves.
16:51And that is a difficult one.
16:53Okay.
16:54See you later.
16:55cursor
16:56plane
16:57Alice
17:41Got it.
17:50Got it.
18:02Pulled the killer's DNA from the airbag.
18:05And?
18:05No hits, but a close match to Kerry Booth.
18:09Recently found guilty of assaulting a police officer.
18:12Brother's sister close?
18:13Dad close, I'd say.
18:14Her sentence was mitigated by substance issues and testimony from her father, Gary Booth.
18:19Court notes say she's currently in rehab, but don't specify where.
18:22A visitor's pass retrieved from the scene links to a Swiss multinational well circle.
18:26They have various outlets across the UK, but only one rehab facility in the Midlands.
18:32The Nightingale.
18:33Gary Booth.
18:35He's got a record.
18:37Arrested three times for receiving stolen goods.
18:39No charges?
18:40So his DNA wasn't kept on the database.
18:42The wipe down was intended to keep it that way.
18:44He's a pro.
18:44You've got my DNA already.
18:50We need our own sample, Kerry.
18:52Why?
18:53To compare it to your father's.
18:55Oh, right, yeah.
18:57Make it official.
18:58If you like.
18:59But as I say, it's a voluntary sample.
19:02Forget it.
19:02Why should I help you?
19:04What about helping your dad?
19:06Like I'm falling for that.
19:08Sorry, you say you shot this bloke, but how do I know that's even true?
19:12Your father's DNA was recovered at the scene.
19:20Along with this.
19:22That's not your father's blood.
19:24It's the victim's.
19:27His name was Khalid's vet.
19:30We believe he was trying to help your father, who'd suffered a concussion.
19:34His girlfriend's seven months pregnant.
19:36I've just had to break the news to her.
19:37Leave me alone.
19:38I've just had to break the news to her.
20:08Nice place.
20:10Who pays the bills?
20:11Dad.
20:14What exactly do you think he does for a living?
20:16Hmm?
20:21How does he make his money, Kerry?
20:25I want a lawyer.
20:26Your dad is going to go down in a hail of police bullets.
20:32Unless we work out where he is and negotiate a peaceful surrender.
20:35Do you understand?
20:38His phone's offline.
20:39We have units at his house.
20:40But he isn't stupid enough to.
20:41I don't know where he is.
20:43I don't know where he is.
20:45But you know something.
20:50My dad got a call.
20:52Someone called Mel.
20:54He didn't take it, but then his mood changed.
20:57And he left straight away.
20:58Does Mel have a last name?
21:04We've ordered up all the files, prioritising Mel's, Melvin's, Melanie's.
21:09Too many, boss.
21:10Too many to wade through.
21:12Need more intel to narrow the list.
21:14Yeah, like the surname.
21:18Hello?
21:19The pacemaker's serial number and DNA match on the database have given us an ID.
21:25Advertising executive John Clement.
21:27He has convictions for cocaine possession and last year was the victim of an unsolved GBH.
21:33Thought to be related to a drug death.
21:44Susie Clemens.
21:49It's about John.
21:51Yeah.
21:52DCI Jenny Bashir.
21:54DI Claire Ferris.
21:55We've got some really bad news, I'm afraid.
21:58Come in.
21:58I threw him out 18 months ago.
22:17Cocaine destroyed everything I loved about John.
22:21Everything.
22:22Your baby isn't.
22:24No, no, no.
22:25He's not John's.
22:26Was booting him out anything to do with him getting stabbed?
22:28A direct result.
22:31They came home at 4pm covered in blood.
22:34Insisting, ridiculously, that he'd fallen on a bottle.
22:39I'd had enough.
22:40The lies, the debts.
22:42His total indifference for the danger he was putting us in.
22:45You have other children?
22:47Two daughters.
22:50You know, if I'm honest, I don't care that he's dead, but they're going to be devastated.
22:55Did John ever talk about someone called Gary Booth?
23:02How about someone called Mel or Melvin?
23:06Sorry.
23:07What about just someone involved in the murkier end of the car market?
23:11You know, chop shops, scrap yards?
23:16Susie?
23:18John knew a guy who owns a vintage car outfit by the airport.
23:22Refurbishment and stuff.
23:24I tracked him down there once when he forgot our youngest birthday.
23:30He tracked his phone?
23:32Yeah, I was so furious.
23:34Drove out there and confronted him with my daughters in the back seat.
23:38And he was there to score.
23:41I mean, he didn't admit it, but it was pretty bloody obvious when he said that it wasn't safe for us to be there.
23:50I didn't know then, but...
23:53That was the beginning of the end.
23:59How are you doing, Kit?
24:00You mean, have you got something?
24:01I mean, have you got something?
24:02Only one vintage car outfit near the airport.
24:04Ownership is murky.
24:06Murky?
24:06Multiple directors, classic obfuscation.
24:09I ran each company director through the PNC.
24:12One stood out.
24:13Mel Adams.
24:15Serious record for dealing.
24:19Got you.
24:36Two coffees.
24:46Perhaps he's tired.
24:47Looks like a bag of sarnas.
24:49Go, go, go.
24:53Go, go, go.
24:54Get down, let me go.
24:56Go.
24:58Go for work.
25:06Stay back!
25:22Stay back!
25:27Stay back!
25:30Flop it, Gary.
25:31Think of Kerry.
25:33She needs you alive, not dead.
25:35I'm sure the staff at the Nightingale would agree with me.
25:56Slowly, remove your finger from the trigger.
25:59Place the weapon on the ground.
26:03Slowly!
26:05Look at me!
26:08Drop it!
26:11Get out of your knees!
26:23They wouldn't have got to him so quick without you.
26:26Team effort.
26:28What's his condition?
26:29A few bruises from the arrest.
26:31No sign of any lingering concussion.
26:32But he's been checked over by medical staff.
26:35I want to be belt and braces.
26:36Get forensic documentation of his injuries.
26:39If you'd like to sign in there for me, please.
26:42They'll call me old-fashioned, but given my prisoner's propensity for violence,
26:45I'll accompany you into the cell.
26:47He's not your prisoner, Sergeant.
26:49Andrews.
26:50Mum, Robert, with respect, he's in custody, and I'm the custody sergeant.
26:55Fine.
26:55Whatever, Sergeant Andrews.
27:03What?
27:15What?
27:15I'm just urging caution, Jason.
27:42I hear you.
27:43Managing expectations.
27:45Look, okay, given that I've been knocked back twice, I would say getting leave to appeal
27:49is pretty huge.
27:50It's a step forward, certainly.
27:53Richard, the police didn't just fail to investigate Alice's stalker, okay?
27:57They...
27:58They willfully ignored it.
27:59She only came to life when Alice's sister finally broke ranks with her parents and spoke
28:03up.
28:04That's fucking bullshit!
28:05That's bullshit!
28:06I told them about the stalker on the day of her disappearance, okay?
28:10But you're not seen as credible, is my point.
28:13It is.
28:16So?
28:17So, we focus on what worked.
28:19Fresh testimony from people they can't ignore.
28:22You've worked your magic with Saskia.
28:24No, I wrote him a letter, okay?
28:26A prick of conscience, maybe.
28:28So, more of that.
28:31Leave to appeal gives us a forum, but no more.
28:34As far as the outside world's concerned, you still killed your wife and they should throw
28:38away the key.
28:39What are you saying?
28:41That to make this stalker theory stand up, we've got a way to go.
28:47You mean we need to ID them?
28:49Or at least find friends or colleagues of Alice that remember having a stalker.
28:53How many times have we been over this?
28:55There is no one.
28:57You're in so much trouble it's hard to know where to start.
29:07But let's go with the murders of Khalid Svet and John Clemens.
29:15And the attempted murder of the van driver Andy Soames.
29:22Who are you?
29:23Jack Hulshan, forensic scientist.
29:26I've asked to sit in.
29:28So, the Walter P99 used to murder Khalid Svet has a flaw in the barrelling.
29:35That flaw manifests itself differently according to the bullets used.
29:39Something you may or may not be aware of.
29:41So we test fired the gun with a range of ammunition and were able to link it to three fatal shootings
29:47in Greater Birmingham over the last five years.
29:50We've got Simon Carpenter, Wesley Hurst and Grant Jolson.
29:58You're in for life regardless Gary.
30:00But off the record, it's not all bad news.
30:04If you start cooperating now before you're charged, it could count greatly in your favour.
30:10I'm talking category of prison, location, visitation rights.
30:16You want to be somewhere you want Kerry to come visit, don't you?
30:20Of course you do.
30:22The judge has a lot of power there.
30:25Word to the prison board could go a long way.
30:28We appreciate the approach, DCI Bashir, but...
30:41I did my first kill when I was 19.
30:45Connor Burgess, a driving instructor moonlighting as a courier, shot him in his car while he was eating pizza.
30:54I've worked for different people, different organisations.
31:01But I've always been a lone wolf.
31:04No allegiances.
31:05Except to the highest bidder.
31:07How many people you killed, Gary?
31:12Fifteen, sixteen, not sure.
31:16Some I buried, some I left where they dropped.
31:19But I always killed people from my world.
31:23People who had it coming.
31:28Well, almost always.
31:35Alice Hill was the exception that proves the rule.
31:44Just to be clear, you're saying that you killed Alice Hill?
31:48Yes.
31:51I bludgeoned her to death and buried her on Woodruff Common.
31:55For money?
31:58No, self-preservation.
32:01She saw me test firing a silencer in the woods.
32:13Would you be prepared to show us where you buried her?
32:23Gary, on top of the agony of losing her, Alice's parents were denied her funeral.
32:32Her body.
32:40I'll show you.
32:42But like he was about to say, we'll need it in writing.
32:47OK, anyone got any questions?
32:52No.
32:53No?
32:54Right, you've got the notes.
32:55You know what to do.
32:56So, Anne.
32:58Just get going with it.
32:59Thanks for coming.
33:00There's been a development.
33:01Mm-hmm.
33:02So, Booth's author to tell us where he buried Alice now comes with a string attached,
33:07taking us to the location in person.
33:09And we're agreeing to that.
33:11The Offerbugs are running risk assessment now.
33:13Let me save them some time.
33:15It's risky.
33:16The disappearance of Alice Hill was a very big deal up here.
33:19Pretty big deal across the country.
33:20Sure.
33:21But we lived it.
33:22The search, the trial, the conviction of her husband.
33:26If there is a chance that we can recover her body.
33:29I remember the case, but I didn't follow it closely.
33:32Any context would be helpful.
33:34I was deputy SIO, so I'm well-placed there.
33:37Alice and Jason were childhood sweethearts.
33:42Who struck gold with an online personal training business.
33:4514, 15.
33:48Now at home, you just have to do three sets of 15.
33:52Jason's going to be doing four sets of 20 because he was on the beers last night.
33:56Two.
33:57I had two beers.
33:59And that is why we don't let him anywhere near the accounts.
34:04Two days after cutting short her honeymoon, Alice left her house to go jogging on Woodruff
34:09Common.
34:10According to Jason, she never returned.
34:15Why did she cut short the honeymoon?
34:17Because she discovered that he'd been siphoning funds from their company for a pet project.
34:21People were gripped by the simple riddle of Alice going out for a run and never coming back.
34:27That and their relationship falling apart.
34:30The happy couple weren't so happy.
34:32No shortage of schadenfreude.
34:34And no body.
34:36I know how hard it is to secure a conviction without a body.
34:52So, how did you do it?
34:53We built the best circumstantial case we could based on the available evidence.
34:57Which was, apart from the money thing?
34:59Jason's lack of alibi.
35:00Neighbours hearing them argue earlier in the day.
35:03Jason's taking out a new life assurance policy.
35:05And the state he was in when we turned up.
35:08Let's go round the back.
35:14Jason Webb, you do not have to say anything but anything you do say may harm your defence.
35:23He had a cut on his cheek.
35:25He said he tripped when he was drunk.
35:27We were disinclined to believe him.
35:29If Booth did kill Alice, then Jason spent four years in prison for a crime that he didn't commit.
35:34Let's not get carried away though.
35:36Even if it turns out that Booth did the deed, doesn't mean that Jason's innocent.
35:41Sure.
35:42Equally, we need to reassure ourselves that Booth is the killer and hasn't just been told where the body is located.
35:50You have reason to doubt it.
35:52According to the British typology of hit man, Booth isn't a novice or a dilettante.
36:02It most likely fits the profile of a journeyman or possibly a master.
36:06Your profile is determined by what factors?
36:08Knows how to shoot the kill, bullets straight to the head.
36:11Negligible physical evidence left behind and the target was associated with organised crime.
36:16However, choosing a public space to test fire a weapon does not fit with the profile of journeyman or master.
36:23Nor does bludgeoning when he had a gun.
36:25Okay.
36:30So if Booth comes to the common, we need to remain in full control and not just from a security angle.
36:37Agreed.
36:38If he does lead us to find Alice, he needs to be kept back while the body is exhumed.
36:42That way we can quiz him on specific forensic and pathology details.
36:46Booth needs to know that he's not in charge.
36:50We are.
37:05May I ask you a question, Mr. Booth?
37:07The body aside, are there any other corroborating details you can provide us with?
37:12When she saw me with a gun, she ran.
37:21Understandably.
37:23I chased her and she, uh, stumbled.
37:28Stumbled?
37:29On a tree root or something.
37:32The trainer came off.
37:34It was red.
37:36The left one.
37:38I only spotted it after I buried her.
37:42Grew it in the leg.
37:46After she stumbled, what happened?
37:51She carried on running.
37:53But I closed the gap.
37:55Grabbed a tree branch and hit her on the back of the head.
38:00How many times?
38:03Five or six.
38:06Enough to get the job done.
38:09You had a silencer.
38:13Why didn't you shoot her?
38:19I was out.
38:21I fired all the ammunition I came with.
38:25How are we doing, Gary?
38:38Good further.
38:42Hang on, hang on, hang on.
38:44Stop.
38:45What?
38:46Drone.
38:46It's ours.
38:47The big one's ours.
38:48Whose is that?
38:49Might have a rogue drone over the lake.
38:50Yeah, we've seen it, too.
38:51So much for the combi lockdown.
38:52What?
38:53Looks like he's been operated by two people on the western shore.
38:56What is going on?
38:58We're on it, boss.
38:59Over.
39:00Box alarm.
39:01Box alarm.
39:02Box alarm.
39:03It's a dog lane.
39:04They're not piloting the drone.
39:05No, they're not.
39:06They're not.
39:07They're not.
39:08They're not.
39:09It's a dog lane.
39:10It's a dog lane.
39:11They're not piloting the drone.
39:13No, they're not.
39:27Then who the bloody hell is?
39:29We're on it, boss.
39:30Over.
39:31Let's just keep going.
39:32Come on, move it, please.
39:34There, by that oak tree.
39:56Where exactly?
39:58Right at the base.
40:04You're going to wait here, Gary.
40:06Why?
40:07Because I say so.
40:09Make sure he's facing the other direction, please.
40:34Sounds like you found her.
41:01You're willing to wait here.
41:04You're willing to wait.
41:05Go, Gary.
41:06You're willing to wait here.
41:07Take her.
41:08Come on.
41:08Come on.
41:28There's blunt force trauma to the bubble.
41:30trauma to the back of the head and what looks like wood embedded in the skull the red trainer
41:36and navy tracksuit also match what alice was believed to be wearing just like he said do
41:42you know we'll confirm but i think we can proceed on the basis that this is alice hill
41:52we found her
42:00what is it richard what's happened i want you to hear it before he gets out
42:10they found her they found alice
42:13where on would i have come on
42:25are they sure yeah they've merged her dna
42:51oh
43:00mr
43:04Come on.
43:06Come on.
43:08Adam!
43:14Von.
43:16Lois.
43:18Hi, Adam.
43:19Hello, Julie. Nice to see you, even under the circumstances.
43:22You too.
43:24Where's Saskia?
43:26No idea. We're not in touch.
43:28Sure.
43:32Mum.
43:34So far.
43:36So far.
43:38No way.
43:46Dad.
43:48Can we have a minute, please?
43:52Pay your respects in your own time, Saskia.
43:54You're not hijacking this. What would she have wanted, Dad?
43:56What would Alice have wanted?
43:58I'm not having this conversation.
44:00She'd want us to forgive, to come together.
44:02Always about you, isn't it? Even today.
44:04She'd want us to be a family again.
44:06Look at me. Look at me.
44:08That's why you went behind our back.
44:10You mean told the truth.
44:11Cozied up to him.
44:13I just wanted to do the right thing.
44:16You wanted attention.
44:17No.
44:18And you were jealous.
44:19Always.
44:20Especially of Alice.
44:21Alice did have a stalker.
44:23She told me.
44:24And you should have let me tell the police.
44:26What would that have done?
44:27Except money the waters.
44:28That wasn't your call.
44:29Dad.
44:30She's not worth it.
44:31The body is that of Alice Hill, identified by DNA.
44:40The deceased disappeared five years ago, was killed, and was subsequently placed in a shallow grave on Woodruff Common.
45:01There are six lacerations to the posterior scalp.
45:20Largely linear and up to five centimeters long.
45:26Bark embedded in them is consistent with blows from a branch.
45:31The skull is visibly fractured at the base of the lacerations.
45:35Lots of falls.
45:37The occiput is the thickest part of the skull, so severely forceful blows, yes.
45:42I'd normally examine the brain in detail, but after five years its condition makes that impossible.
45:48But given the extent of these blows, traumatic diffuse axonal injury is the likely mechanism of death.
45:55Diffuse what?
45:56Axonal injury is a widespread tearing of the nerve cells in the brain.
46:00Usually attributable to repeated heavy blows, as in this case.
46:06No defensive wounds?
46:07Not that I've seen so far.
46:09So injuries more or less fit with Booth's a kind?
46:12Yes.
46:13With one possible exception, there's an unhealed spiral fracture of the tibia, suggesting that she fell badly right before she died.
46:23Booth said she fell. That's when she lost her trainer.
46:26He said she stumbled and carried on running.
46:29This suggests a twisting injury and a serious, almost certainly, incapacitating fall.
46:35Strange you didn't mention it.
46:37Yeah, it is a bit.
46:38Is it? Five years on?
46:40Well, people forget things they did five minutes ago.
46:42Sure.
46:43Sure.
46:44But don't we have to consider the possibility that Booth had nothing to do with it?
46:48That someone got him to add Alice's murder to his charge sheet?
46:51You mean Jason Webb?
46:53What price freedom?
46:54I have considered it.
46:56There's only one reason he'd fess up to Alice if he didn't do it.
47:00Money.
47:01Mm.
47:02A lot of money and Jason's broke.
47:04What about the life assurance policy?
47:06Never paid out.
47:07His conviction made it null and void.
47:09Um, the spiral fracture could have come from her tripping and losing her shoe, right?
47:14As I said, a more serious fall seems likely.
47:16But it's possible.
47:18Yes, it's possible.
47:20Fracture aside, do you all finding support Booth's account of killing Alice on the Common?
47:25Broadly speaking, yes.
47:28They don't undermine it?
47:30No.
47:48Bashir.
47:50Let's not jump to conclusions.
47:52That's what she said when Ferris suggested Jason might be innocent.
47:55I think she actually said, let's not get carried away.
47:58But suddenly, she's only too ready to believe Booth killed Alice.
48:01And Jason had nothing to do with it.
48:03Keyword there being suddenly.
48:05So do you see how Bashir's had a change of hearts, free country?
48:08She's not the type.
48:10She's not the type to throw in the towel, either.
48:12What are you saying someone's got there?
48:14Don't know.
48:15Skeleton and cupboards.
48:16Don't know that I want to know.
48:18Must have something to do with Bashir working on the original case.
48:21For the last five years, she's believed that Jason killed his wife with every fibre of her being and acted accordingly.
48:26What's changed?
48:27Booth leading us to Alice's body.
48:29Knowing all the details like the missing trainer.
48:31Details that he could have got from Jason.
48:33Ah, come on.
48:34I'm not saying that's what I believe.
48:36I'm saying, why isn't Bashir at least considering it?
48:42To stand that up, we'd have to prove contact between Jason and Booth.
48:45Yes.
48:46Recent contact.
48:47Post Booth's arrest.
48:49I'm not sure it's our place to try, Nikki.
48:51Are you?
48:52Gary Booth, you were charged that on the 19th of June 2021 at Woodruff Common, you did murder Alice Hill, contrary to common law.
49:07You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defense.
49:24If you want to fire me, then invest in a spin doctor.
49:27No hard feelings.
49:28What are you on about?
49:29My secretary's been taking your name in vain.
49:32In light of the confession and charging of this individual with the murder of Alice Hill,
49:37and taken in conjunction with what I understand to be overwhelming forensic and pathology evidence,
49:44I have personally intervened to expedite the immediate release of Jason Webb.
49:50Jason would like to make a short statement.
49:53Today is as bittersweet as it is surprising, as gratifying, gratifying is the word, to finally be exonerated.
50:02I am deeply grateful to all of the people, not a lot of people, it must be said, who believed from day one that I am innocent.
50:09But nothing can fill the hole of losing my dear wife, Alice. I am free, but I am bereft.
50:16Alright, thank you, everyone.
50:17Jason, how do we know you first?
50:19Just to say, I will not stop until I know exactly what happened to my wife and why.
50:24And the malign role of Birmingham Police is exposed for all to see.
50:28Alright, thank you, everyone.
50:29Jason!
50:30Just to say, I will not stop until I know exactly what happened to my wife and why.
50:34And the malign role of Birmingham Police is exposed for all to see.
50:38Alright, thank you, everyone.
50:40Better hurry up. She hates you being late.
50:43Okay.
50:45See you in a bit.
50:46Have you had any visitors or calls, Sergeant?
50:47No.
50:48No.
50:49No.
50:50No.
50:51No.
50:52No.
50:53No.
50:54No.
50:55No.
50:56Actually, he...
50:57He did get a call.
50:59Yeah.
51:00From Kerry.
51:01His daughter.
51:02Yeah, she was keen to see him, but he didn't want to see her.
51:06It's in the log.
51:07Yeah.
51:08Good luck.
51:10Constable?
51:11Nesbitt.
51:12No.
51:13David Nesbitt.
51:14Come on.
51:15David Nesbitt.
51:16Come on.
51:17David Nesbitt.
51:18Come on.
51:19We're going to make a move, Chase.
51:21What, already?
51:22I mean, we haven't even caught up yet, so...
51:23Sorry, mate.
51:24I've got an early one.
51:25But all of you?
51:26Yeah.
51:27Yeah.
51:28Yeah.
51:29Yeah.
51:30Yeah.
51:31Hope you enjoyed the free food.
51:32Yeah.
51:33Yeah.
51:34Yeah.
51:35Yeah.
51:36Yeah.
51:37Yeah.
51:38Yeah.
51:39Yeah.
51:40Yeah.
51:41Yeah.
51:42Yeah.
51:43Yeah.
51:44Yeah.
51:45Yeah.
51:46Yeah.
51:47Yeah.
51:48Yeah.
51:49The free food.
51:50I just need to be sure about this booth guy.
51:53I need to be certain, Rich.
51:55What?
51:56He's guilty?
51:57He's been charged, Jason.
51:58I don't know how much more certain we can be.
52:00What, so you think he could be Alice's stalker?
52:03Yeah.
52:04Doesn't sound like it.
52:05I mean, he didn't know her.
52:06Okay, then who was it?
52:07Who?
52:19Yeah.
52:20Yeah.
52:21All right.
52:22I don't know.
52:23I don't know.
52:24The NASA TPT was very public-facing, yeah?
52:39And Alice and I were the face of it.
52:41Yeah, and I had concerns about that at the time.
52:43So what if it was one of the subscribers?
52:46You know, one of the really overexcited ones who thought they knew us.
52:49Like, yeah, I had my share, but Alice, she had way more.
52:51Look, far as we know, he was a professional hitman,
52:54and she was just in the wrong place.
52:56Jason?
53:05Saskia.
53:14So, this is Richard, my solicitor.
53:17Hi.
53:18Saskia, Richard.
53:19I'm sorry, I'm late.
53:20No, don't be daft.
53:22Well, how is everyone?
53:23Ah, without you, there might not be anything to celebrate.
53:26What do you mean?
53:26What was your testimony?
53:28It got me my leave to appeal.
53:29It really softened the ground for my release.
53:30Really?
53:31Yeah, yeah, even before Booth confessed, so...
53:34Well, I...
53:35Jason, I'm honoured.
53:40How have your parents taken the news of my release?
53:43Oh.
53:44How bad.
53:45They're just, you know, computing everything.
53:49Right.
53:50Well, I mean, uh, give them my best.
53:53No, it's...
53:54Really.
53:56I mean it.
53:57My sister always spoke very fondly of you, Richard.
54:06She did?
54:07Mm.
54:08You're cool-headed in a crisis.
54:10Especially when the business was taken off and...
54:13It was all going crazy.
54:14I certainly didn't feel very cool-headed
54:16when I was thrashing out contracts
54:18and begging Jason and Alice to hire a corporate lawyer.
54:22Killer.
54:22Killer.
54:23Should have been the key.
54:26Ignore him.
54:27Ignore him.
54:28Add one on me, killer.
54:29Killer.
54:31Jason, wait, wait.
54:33Don't pay.
54:33What?
54:33Leave him.
54:34Leave him.
54:35Stop.
54:36Jason, sit down.
54:37Fuck you, girl.
54:38Down.
54:39Christ, Jason.
54:40This was supposed to be a celebration.
54:41Get the fuck off, Richard, yeah?
54:43Get the fuck out of my face!
54:48Just, uh, make sure he gets home safe.
54:50Please, Saskia.
54:52There you go.
54:53Off you go.
54:54Cheerio.
54:58Alice Hill was described by her family
55:00as a bright, dynamic young woman
55:02with an infectious zest for life.
55:05She built a successful online fitness business
55:07alongside her husband, Jason.
55:08This seemingly happy couple seen here
55:11hosting one of their many social gatherings
55:13were attractive and vivacious,
55:15both naturals in front of the camera
55:17with the ability to capture and hold an audience.
55:20The people are such a bird.
55:22That's amazing.
55:24It's clear to see how they acquired a mass following
55:27and became online sensations,
55:29with many dubbing Donocity PT
55:31as being on the cusp of becoming a global fitness empire.
55:35These images of happier times at the peak of their success
55:38are now a stark and striking contrast
55:40to the reality Alice's murder has left behind
55:43for all those who loved her.
55:45Is it on us that he's out?
55:48Unless you called the home secretary
55:50and didn't tell me.
55:53No, it's not.
55:57I thought you were gonna kill him.
55:59I was just completely dacked it instead.
56:00Oh, I feel bad about Richard.
56:04Oh, don't.
56:05He's used to me, the old windbag.
56:06Oh, my God.
56:07Windbag?
56:08Taxi!
56:09Taxi!
56:10I think you'd like me.
56:13Life is no fair on the outside.
56:15Oh, my God.
56:16Oh, my God.
56:16Oh, my God.
56:32Sorry.
56:34Sorry.
56:38You're moving me, va.
56:39I just missed her so much, Sassy.
57:10Sassy?
57:17Rob? Sassy?
57:39Sassy?
57:41No?
57:47Sassy?
57:51Sassy?
57:55Sassy?
57:56Hostess is sweet, sweet, sweet, nice to meet you.
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