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00:00Steve.
00:02Oh, no.
00:03This is it, Anna.
00:07I'm sorry.
00:09Getting married and move.
00:13What the hell am I doing?
00:16I'm sorry.
00:18Getting married and move.
00:20What the hell am I doing?
00:22I'm sorry.
00:24Getting married and move.
00:27What the hell am I doing?
00:33Well, I am married,
00:35so I'm probably not the best person to ask.
00:38You know, I never saw myself as the plane away kind.
00:43We need to.
00:45Here we are.
00:57What's that?
01:07It's the beams.
01:11It's the beams. It's fine.
01:14It's fine.
01:16Okay.
01:18Oh, no.
01:19Okay.
01:23We're here.
01:24Oh.
01:27Oh.
01:28Oh, my God.
01:30Oh, God.
01:33Oh, my God.
01:36Oh, my God.
01:38Oh, my God.
01:39Oh.
01:43Oh, my God.
01:45Who are you?
02:00Who are you, you sick bastard?
02:08Where are you?
02:15Did you see him? Did you see his face?
02:27Now do you believe me?
02:45I'm okay, Dad. Really.
03:02It didn't sound okay on the phone.
03:04I didn't mean to worry you and disturb your night.
03:07You didn't.
03:08They gave me something. I feel much better.
03:13Look, I always want you to call when you need me.
03:18So it's all, um...
03:20It's going in the right direction?
03:22Yeah. The staff are lovely.
03:24I've made some good friends.
03:26No junkies, I hope.
03:29We're all junkies, Dad. That's kind of the point.
03:37Look, I'm worried how much this is costing you.
03:40I know it's not cheap and...
03:41Forget it.
03:42I've got a long way.
03:43Forget it.
03:45It's the best money I ever spent.
03:47I've got to go.
03:48I'm not going to see you properly again tomorrow.
03:53I've got to go.
03:55I'm not going to see you properly again tomorrow.
04:17I'm not going to see you properly again tomorrow tomorrow.
04:20I'm not going to see you properly again tomorrow.
04:30Oh, shit!
04:43Call an ambulance.
04:44Let's go inside, come inside the shop, I've called an ambulance, mate.
05:12Let's see, let's assume the government's still in the area and proceed with the serene portion.
05:25I'm in the public, so please.
05:26Yes, ma'am, ma'am.
05:28Vicki Alexander, Honolidus.
05:30Jack Hogan, Forensics.
05:31DCI, Jenny Beshear.
05:32DI Claire Ferris.
05:33Hey.
05:34I'm not sure I've had the pleasure.
05:35You haven't. We're newcomers.
05:37Bowman's Centre, correct.
05:38I'm from London.
05:40Right again.
05:41Welcome.
05:42What do we got?
05:44Boy, what haven't we got?
05:45A girl in a BMW hit the Insignia side on and plowed into a parked car.
05:50The van driver's okay, just a bit of whiplash.
05:52Joyrider died instantly.
05:53You think it's a Joyrider because...
05:55BMW was reported stolen earlier tonight.
05:58But all that is of secondary concern.
06:02Coworkers have IDed it was 24-year-old Khalid Sweat.
06:06He was trying to lead the Insignia driver to safety, but he had other ideas.
06:09Pulled the gun, shot Khalid dead, took two shots at the van driver, then fled the scene.
06:14So we have a trigger-happy, unidentified killer on our hands.
06:17IDing and apprehending him is our urgent priority.
06:20Good news is he's likely concussed, and half of Birmingham plot are being drafted as we speak.
06:25Come on.
06:27We have some ID of the shooter's appearance.
06:30White, 40s, fit-looking, grayish hair.
06:34The Insignia can't help with an ID.
06:36Cloned plates. We're not going to get him on a DVLA check.
06:39Excuse me.
06:43Yeah, we're at the scene now, but...
06:46Looks like a through-and-through.
06:53Close, but not contact.
06:55And he was trying to help the guys.
06:58There's no significant angle disparity between entry and exit.
07:02He would have been immediately incapacitated, so he would have dropped to the ground.
07:06More or less flat-out.
07:14He nicked it.
07:17Giving us a trajectory to the right.
07:21Factor in some deflection.
07:23There it is.
07:29In the mortar.
07:32Soft landing?
07:33Soft enough.
07:35Merci.
07:36Dagé.
07:36Bingo, baby.
07:43Bingo, baby.
07:49Single gunshot wound to the forehead.
07:52No other obvious external injuries at this point.
07:55Some kind of clip-on-past under the body.
08:13Damage done.
08:14Bloodstained.
08:14Bloodstained.
08:14Let's go.
08:44That's clean. Drinks, litter, parking permits, loose change, nothing. I don't believe this. I can't find a single solitary print or rich detail.
08:52You're right, I don't believe it.
08:53It's got some stitching marks. These are in leather gloves and the like.
08:56So what, you can just wipe down top to bottom?
08:58No, and the cloned bed suggests we're doing another pro.
09:00There must be some way to want to do this, bastard.
09:03Oh, maybe.
09:14Oh, shit.
09:25Hands are cut off. Stumps are bagged.
09:28You said he was a pro.
09:29Looks like an exit wound to the anterior neck.
09:33Teeth appear to have been smashed out or removed.
09:36So if he's not on the DNA database, we're screwed, basically.
09:39Challenge, certainly.
09:40But if we ID him, we might ID our killer.
09:44I'll carry out the postmortem as soon as we're finished here.
09:46I'll be interested to know how the limbs were removed.
09:49Analysis on the bone ends.
09:51Who knows? Micro-CT might even yield an implement.
09:55But we're checking the victim's DNA first, right?
09:57As a priority.
09:59Great violence.
09:59Thanks for coming in, Kit Kat.
10:14No, no, no. It's cool.
10:16I was at this electric lash place on New Street,
10:18and you know what? I just wasn't feeling it.
10:19Really?
10:20No. I was at home in bed.
10:22I need you to do a bit of a reconstruction job on this.
10:26Challenge accepted.
10:27That's it.
10:27Naked a potato.
10:30Should be in being good to be dragged from a warm bed.
10:34Now then, before we start,
10:36longest ever shift.
10:37Where and when?
10:38Not playing.
10:39Price of admission, Jack.
10:41Yours will be longer and more exotic.
10:43Uh-huh.
10:44Okay.
10:4636 hours in Surbiton. Cinema Fire.
10:49What?
10:50You win.
10:52Mine's Omega 30.
10:53Where?
10:54Earthquake.
10:56Tierra del Fuego.
10:56Yeah.
10:57Brilliant.
11:00Of course it is.
11:04Is that our airbag?
11:06No matter how careful he was.
11:08His face must have come into contact with it when it deployed.
11:11I'll mini-tip first to maximize recovery,
11:13and then I'll run a Fadibas test.
11:14Sounds like something about a doctor who you've had.
11:16Hello?
11:17Hello?
11:18I'm sorry.
11:19I'm sorry.
11:20I'm sorry.
11:20I'm sorry.
11:22We're ready for the PM on the John Doe from the boot.
11:44There is a stellate entry wound, two by four centimetres superior to the occiput, which corresponds with the exit wound on the anterior neck.
11:59Obvious soot deposition is consistent with a hard contact entry wound.
12:03Fair through.
12:04Definitely.
12:06Scan confirms internal bevelling deep to the entry wound, with the bullet passing forwards and down through the basal ganglia.
12:13It's clear that the wound track passes through vital centres, which will almost certainly have been the cause of death.
12:19More evidence we're dealing with a professional.
12:21Possibly.
12:23There are what looked like two stab wounds to the right buttock.
12:28Scars are pale and healed, and based on the discolouration, I would say they were sustained a year or so ago, two tops.
12:35There are permanent seizure marks where he has been stitched up.
12:38Is that a classic punishment injury?
12:40Yes. Intended to be non-fatal, but the person is left humiliated with a scar in an unusual place.
12:48Could be a ganker.
12:48Or in bother with one.
12:50Both arms have been severed at the wrists.
12:53Clean incisions to the skin and tissue, then clean severing of the bone.
12:57Lightly cut with a knife, and then with a saw.
13:06No hesitation marks speaks to a high degree of competence and possibly expertise.
13:11You said micro-CT can help.
13:13Yes, but I can tell you now that the clean bone cuts and absence of mangling suggest a powerful rotary saw was used.
13:20There are coloured fragments embedded in the bone.
13:24Blue, green, silver.
13:27Testing will confirm, but it could be car paint.
13:30So who dices cars with a rotary saw?
13:32Scrap yards.
13:33Or the shadier body shops that chop up stolen cars.
13:36No loose fragments of teeth in the mouth.
13:45Could be lurking in the oesophagus.
13:46Or the stomach.
13:48Nasal cavities.
13:50Is that what I think it is?
13:52We'll run talks for cocaine and other substances too.
14:24Linear scar to the left infraclavicular region, eight centimetres long.
14:54Boxes palpable in the subcutaneous tissue.
15:00What?
15:01They fitted him with a pacemaker or an implantable defib.
15:05Hopefully this serial number will give us an ID on our victim.
15:08I'm going to retrieve the device now so that we can collect any data.
15:13It can even tell you when someone's heart stopped.
15:15Oh, in this instance, it was murdered.
15:17Only snag.
15:18If it is a defib, it can give you a hell of an electric shock.
15:22No sort of moves.
15:22You.
15:30You.
15:30You.
15:32I don't know.
16:02Got it.
16:19Got it.
16:20Got it.
16:50Got it.
17:20Compare it to your father's.
17:21Oh, right, yeah.
17:23Make it official.
17:24If you like.
17:25But as I say, it's a voluntary sample.
17:27Forget it.
17:28Why should I help you?
17:29What about helping your dad?
17:31Like I'm falling for that.
17:34Sorry, you say you shot this bloke, but how do I know that's even true?
17:37Your father's DNA was recovered at the scene.
17:45Along with this.
17:47That's not your father's blood.
17:49It's the victim's.
17:52His name was Khalid's vet.
17:54We believe he was trying to help your father, who'd suffered a concussion.
17:59His girlfriend's seven months pregnant.
18:00I've just had to break the news to her.
18:01Leave me alone.
18:02Leave me alone.
18:02Leave me alone.
18:02Nice place.
18:32He pays the bills. Dad.
18:36What exactly do you think he does for a living?
18:39Hmm?
18:43How does he make his money, Kerry?
18:47I want a lawyer.
18:51Your dad is going to go down in a hail of police bullets.
18:54Unless we work out where he is and negotiate a peaceful surrender. Do you understand?
18:57His phone's offline. We have units at his house. But he isn't stupid enough, do you?
19:03I don't know where he is.
19:06But you know something?
19:07My dad got a call. Um, someone called Mel. He didn't take it, but then his mood changed and he left straight away.
19:20Does Mel have a last name?
19:21We've ordered up all the files, prioritising Mel's, Melvin's, Melanie's. Too many, boss. Too many to wade through.
19:32Need more intel to narrow the list.
19:34Yeah, like the surname.
19:35Hello?
19:38The pacemaker's serial number and DNA match on the database have given us an ID.
19:43Advertising executive John Clement.
19:46He has convictions for cocaine possession and last year was the victim of an unsolved GBH.
19:52Thought to be related to a drug dad.
20:04Susie Clemens.
20:06This about John?
20:08Yeah.
20:10DCI Jenny Bashir, DI Claire Ferris.
20:13We've got some really bad news, I'm afraid.
20:15Come in.
20:23I threw him out 18 months ago.
20:34Cocaine destroyed everything I loved about John.
20:37Everything.
20:38Your baby isn't.
20:40No, no, no. He's not John's.
20:42Was booting him out anything to do with him getting stabbed?
20:45The direct result?
20:47They came home at 4pm covered in blood, insisting ridiculously that he'd fallen on a bottle.
20:53I'd had enough.
20:56The lies, the debts.
20:58His total indifference for the danger he was putting us in.
21:00You have other children?
21:02Two daughters.
21:05You know, if I'm honest, I don't care that he's dead, but they're going to be devastated.
21:12Did John ever talk about someone called Gary Booth?
21:17How about someone called Mel or Melvin?
21:20Sorry.
21:21What about just someone involved in the murkier end of the car market?
21:25You know, chop shops, scrap yards.
21:29Susie?
21:31John knew a guy who owns a vintage car outfit by the airport.
21:36The refurbishment and stuff.
21:37I tracked him down there once when he forgot our youngest birthday.
21:43He tracked his phone?
21:45Yeah, I was so furious.
21:47Drove out there and confronted him with my daughters in the back seat.
21:50And he was there to score.
21:54I 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.
21:59I didn't know then, but that was the beginning of the end.
22:11How are we doing, Kit?
22:12You mean, have you got something?
22:13I mean, have you got something?
22:14Only one vintage car outfit near the airport.
22:16Ownership is murky.
22:17Murky?
22:17Multiple directors, classic obfuscation.
22:20I ran each company director through the PNC.
22:23One stood out.
22:24Mel Adams.
22:26Serious record for dealing.
22:27Got you.
22:54Doing coffees?
22:55Perhaps he's tired.
22:57Looks like a bugger's so honest.
22:59Go, go, go.
23:02Go, go, go, go.
23:03Get down, let me, go.
23:05Go.
23:07Go, bro.
23:07Go, bro.
23:07Go, bro.
23:27Stay back.
23:28Stay back.
23:30Stay back.
23:35Stay back.
23:37Drop it, Gary.
23:39Think of Kerry.
23:40She needs you alive, not dead.
23:42I'm sure the staff at the Nightingale would agree with me.
23:48I'm sure the staff at the Nightingale would agree with me.
23:48Go.
24:02Turn the trigger.
24:03, platforms from the trigger.
24:04I'm sure the staff will bereek.
24:05Place the weapon on the ground!
24:09Slowly!
24:11Look at me!
24:14Drop it!
24:16Get out of here!
24:27They wouldn't have got to him so quick without you.
24:31Team effort.
24:32What's his condition?
24:34A few bruises from the arrest.
24:35No sign of any lingering concussion.
24:37But he's been checked over by medical staff.
24:39I want to be belt and braces.
24:40Get forensic documentation of his injuries.
24:43If you'd like to sign in there for me, please.
24:46They'll call me old-fashioned,
24:47but given my prisoner's propensity for violence,
24:49I'll accompany you into the cell.
24:51He's not your prisoner, Sergeant.
24:53Andrews, ma'am, Robert.
24:54With respect, he's in custody,
24:56and I'm the custody sergeant.
24:58Fine. Whatever, Sergeant Andrews.
25:15All right.
25:18I'm just urging caution, Jason.
25:43Okay, yeah, I hear you.
25:44Managing expectations.
25:46Look, okay, given that I've been knocked back twice,
25:48I would say getting leave to appeal is pretty huge.
25:50It's a step forward, certainly.
25:53Richard, the police didn't just fail to investigate Alice's stalker.
25:57Okay, they...
25:57They willfully ignored it.
25:59She only came to light when Alice's sister
26:00finally broke ranks with her parents and spoke up.
26:03That's fucking bullshit!
26:04That's bullshit!
26:06I told them about the stalker on the day of her disappearance, okay?
26:10But you're not seen as credible, is my point.
26:12Saskia is.
26:15So?
26:16So, we focus on what worked.
26:18Fresh testimony from people they can't ignore.
26:21You've worked your magic with Saskia.
26:23No, I wrote you a letter, okay?
26:25Pricked her conscience, maybe.
26:27So, more of that.
26:30Leave to appeal gives us a forum, but no more.
26:33As far as the outside world's concerned,
26:35you still killed your wife and they should throw away the key.
26:37What are you saying?
26:38To make this stalker theory stand up, we've got a way to go.
26:45You mean we need to ID them?
26:46Or at least find friends or colleagues of ours that remember having a stalker.
26:50How many times have we been over this?
26:52There is no one.
26:54There is no one.
26:55You're in so much trouble, it's hard to know where to start.
27:04But let's go with the murders of Carly Svet and John Clemens.
27:10And the attempted murder of the van driver Andy Soames.
27:15Who are you?
27:20Jack Hulshin, forensic scientist.
27:22I've asked to sit in.
27:24So, the Walter P99 used to murder Carly Svet has a flaw in the barrelling.
27:30That flaw manifests itself differently, according to the bullets used.
27:34Something you may or may not be aware of.
27:36So we test-fired the gun with a range of ammunition.
27:39And we're able to link it to three fatal shootings in Greater Birmingham over the last five years.
27:45We've got Simon Carpenter, Wesley Hearst, and Grant Johnson.
27:53You're in for life regardless, Gary.
27:55Off the record, it's not all bad news.
27:59If you start cooperating now, before you're charged, it could count greatly in your favour.
28:05I'm talking category of prison, location, visitation rights.
28:10You want to be somewhere you want Kerry to come visit, don't you?
28:14Of course you do.
28:16The judge has a lot of power there.
28:19Word to the prison board could go a long way.
28:21We appreciate the approach, DCI Bashir, but...
28:33I did my first kill when I was 19.
28:35Connor Burgess, a driving instructor, moonlighting as a courier, shot him in his car while he was eating pizza.
28:45I've worked for different people, different organisations, but I've always been a lone wolf.
28:56No allegiances.
28:57Except to the highest bidder.
28:58How many people you killed, Gary?
29:05Fifteen, sixteen, not sure.
29:07Some I buried, some I left where they dropped.
29:09But I always killed people from my world, people who had it coming.
29:18Well, almost always.
29:21Alice Hill was the exception that proves the rule.
29:33Just to be clear, you're saying that you killed Alice Hill?
29:37Yes.
29:38I bludgeoned her to death and buried her on Woodruff Common.
29:44For money?
29:47No.
29:48Self-preservation.
29:49She saw me test-firing a silencer in the woods.
30:01Would you be prepared to show us where you buried her?
30:11Gary.
30:13On top of the agony of losing her,
30:17Alice's parents were denied a funeral.
30:20Her body?
30:27I'll show you.
30:29But like he was about to say,
30:32we'll need it in writing.
30:37Okay, anyone got any questions?
30:39No?
30:40Right, you've got the notes, you know what to do.
30:41So, Anne, thank you.
30:43Just get going a bit.
30:44Thanks for coming.
30:46There's been a development.
30:48So, Booth's author to tell us where he buried Alice now comes with a string attached.
30:52Taking us to the location in person.
30:55And we're agreeing to that?
30:56The upper bobs are running risk assessment now.
30:58Let me save them some time.
31:00It's risky.
31:00The disappearance of Alice Hill was a very big deal up here.
31:04Pretty big deal across the country.
31:06Sure.
31:06But we lived it.
31:08The search, the trial, the conviction of her husband.
31:11If there is a chance that we can recover her body...
31:14I remember the case, but I didn't follow it closely.
31:17Any context would be helpful.
31:19I was deputy SIO, so I'm well-placed there.
31:22Alice and Jason were childhood sweethearts.
31:26Who struck gold with an online personal training business.
31:2914, 15.
31:33Now at home, you just have to do three sets of 15.
31:36Jason's going to be doing four sets of 20 because he was on the beers last week.
31:40Two.
31:41I had two beers.
31:43And that is why we don't learn anywhere near the accounts.
31:47Two days after cutting short her honeymoon, Alice left her house to go jogging on Woodruff Common.
31:55According to Jason, she never returned.
31:58Why did she cut short the honeymoon?
32:00Because she discovered that he'd been siphoning funds from their company for a pet project.
32:05People were gripped by the simple riddle of Alice going out for a run and never coming back.
32:10That and their relationship falling apart.
32:11The happy couple weren't so happy.
32:14There was a shortage of schadenfreude.
32:15And no body.
32:29I know how hard it is to secure a conviction without a body.
32:33So, how did you do it?
32:34We bought the best circumstantial case we could based on the available evidence.
32:38Which was, apart from the money thing?
32:39Jason's lack of alibi.
32:40Neighbours hearing them argue earlier in the day.
32:44Jason's taking out a new life insurance policy.
32:46And the state he was in when we turned up.
32:51Let's go round the back.
32:52Jason Webb, you do not have to say anything, but anything you do say may harm your defence if you can't mention what...
33:03He had a cut on his cheek.
33:05He said he tricked when he was drunk.
33:07We were disinclined to believe him.
33:08If Booth did kill Alice, then Jason spent four years in prison for a crime that he didn't commit.
33:13Yeah, let's not get carried away, though.
33:15Even if it turns out that Booth did the deed, doesn't mean that Jason's innocent.
33:19Sure.
33:19Equally, we need to reassure ourselves that Booth is the killer, and hasn't just been told where the body is located.
33:27You have reason to doubt it.
33:29According to the British typology of hit men, Booth isn't a novice or a dilettante.
33:39Most likely fits the profile of a journeyman, or possibly a master.
33:43Your profile is determined by what factors?
33:46Knows how to shoot to kill.
33:47Pull it straight to the head.
33:48Negligible physical evidence left behind, and the target was associated with organised crime.
33:54However, choosing a public space to test-fire a weapon does not fit with the profile of journeyman or master.
34:00Nor does bludgeoning when he had a gun.
34:05Okay.
34:07So, if Booth comes to the common, we need to remain in full control, and not just from a security angle.
34:13Agreed.
34:13If he does lead us to find Alice, he needs to be kept back while the body is exhumed.
34:17That way, we can quiz him on specific forensic and pathology details.
34:23Booth needs to know that he's not in charge.
34:26We are.
34:40May I ask you a question, Mr. Booth?
34:42The body aside, are there any other corroborating details you can provide us with?
34:47The body aside, are there any other corroborating details you can provide us with?
34:52When she saw me with a gun, she ran.
34:55Understandably.
34:58I chased her, and she, uh, stumbled.
35:02Stumbled?
35:02On a tree root or something.
35:06The trainer came off.
35:08It was red.
35:09The left one.
35:12I only spotted it after I buried her.
35:16Threw it in the leg.
35:18After she stumbled, what happened?
35:20She carried on running, but I closed the gap.
35:27Grabbed the tree branch and hit her on the back of the head.
35:32How many times?
35:34Five or six.
35:38Enough to get the job done.
35:39You had a silencer.
35:45Why didn't you shoot her?
35:50I was out.
35:52I fired all the ammunition I came with.
35:54How are we doing, Gary?
36:11A bit further.
36:16Hang on, hang on, hang on.
36:17Stop!
36:18What?
36:19Drum.
36:20It's ours.
36:21The big one's ours.
36:23Who's is that?
36:25Might have a rogue drone over the lake.
36:27Yeah, we've seen it too.
36:30So much for the con being locked down.
36:33Boss!
36:36Looks like he's been operated by two people on the western shore.
36:39What is going on?
36:40We're on it, boss.
36:41Over.
36:48Box alarm.
36:49Box alarm.
36:49It's a dog lake.
36:50They're not piloting the drone.
36:53No, they're not.
36:54Then who the bloody hell is?
36:56We're on it, boss.
36:57Over.
36:58Let's just keep going.
36:59Come on, move it, please.
37:00Move it.
37:01There.
37:05By the oak tree.
37:22Where exactly?
37:24Right at the base.
37:25Oh, you're going to wait here, Gary.
37:32Why?
37:33Because I say so.
37:35Make sure he's facing the other direction, please.
37:37You're going to let me dance.
37:55If I'm away with a McLaurin.
37:58Now, let me know.
38:05Sounds like you found her.
38:35There's blunt force trauma to the back of the head
38:53and what looks like wood embedded in the skull.
38:57The red trainer and navy tracksuit also match what Alice was believed to be wearing.
39:01Just like he said.
39:03Dino will confirm, but...
39:05I think we can proceed on the basis that this is Alice Hill.
39:13We found her.
39:24What is it?
39:26Richard, what's happened?
39:27I want you to hear her before he gets out.
39:30They found her.
39:32They found Alice.
39:33Where?
39:43On Woodruff, come on.
39:52Are they sure?
39:56Well, yeah, they've merged her DNA.
40:01I want you to cry.
40:24I will.
40:24Pardon?
40:26I'm not right.
40:26Ron, Lois. Hi, Adam.
40:36Hello, Julie. Nice to see you, even under the circumstances.
40:39You too.
40:40Why, Saskia?
40:42No idea. We're not in touch.
40:44Sure.
40:45To me.
40:48Mum.
40:54No way.
41:01Dad.
41:03Can we have a minute, please?
41:06Pay your respects in your own time, Saskia.
41:09You're not hijacking this.
41:10What would she have wanted, Dad? What would Alice have wanted?
41:13I'm not having this conversation.
41:15She'd want us to forgive, to come together.
41:17Always about you, isn't it? Even today.
41:19She'd want us to be a family again.
41:21Look at me, look at me.
41:22That's why you went behind our back.
41:24You mean told the truth.
41:25Cosied up to him.
41:27I just wanted to do the right thing.
41:30You wanted attention.
41:32No.
41:32And you were jealous.
41:33Always.
41:33Especially of Alice.
41:35Alice did have a stalker.
41:37She told me.
41:38And you should have let me tell the police.
41:39That wasn't your call.
41:41That wasn't your call.
41:42Dad.
41:44She's not worth it.
41:45The body is that of Alice Hill, identified by DNA.
42:05The deceased disappeared five years ago, was killed, and was subsequently placed in a shallow grave on Woodruff Common.
42:13There are six lacerations to the posterior scalp, largely linear, and up to five centimeters long.
42:35The bark embedded in them is consistent with blows from a branch.
42:40The skull is visibly fractured at the base of the lacerations.
42:45Lots of falls.
42:46The occiput is the thickest part of the skull, so severely forceful blows, yes.
42:52I'd normally examine the brain in detail, but after five years, its condition makes that impossible.
42:58But given the extent of these blows, traumatic diffuse axonal injury is the likely mechanism of death.
43:04Diffuse what?
43:05Axonal injury is a widespread tearing of the nerve cells in the brain.
43:10Usually attributable to repeated heavy blows, as in this case.
43:15No defensive wounds?
43:16Not that I've seen so far.
43:18So injuries more or less fit with Booth's a kind?
43:21Yes.
43:21With one possible exception, there's an unhealed spiral fracture of the tibia, suggesting that she fell badly right before she died.
43:31Booth said she fell. That's when she lost her trainer.
43:33He said she stumbled and carried on running.
43:36This suggests a twisting injury and a serious, almost certainly, incapacitating fall.
43:43Strange you didn't mention it.
43:44Yeah, it is a bit.
43:45Is it? Five years on?
43:47Well, people forget things they did five minutes ago.
43:50Sure.
43:51But don't we have to consider the possibility that Booth had nothing to do with it?
43:55That someone got him to add Alice's murder to his charge sheet?
43:58You mean Jason Webb?
44:00What price freedom?
44:01I have considered it.
44:02There's only one reason he'd fess up to Alice if he didn't do it.
44:07Money.
44:07Hmm.
44:08A lot of money, and Jason's broke.
44:11What about the life assurance policy?
44:12Never paid out.
44:13His conviction made it null and void.
44:15Um, the spiral fracture could have come from her tripping and losing her shoe, right?
44:20As I said, a more serious fall seems likely.
44:22But it's possible.
44:24Yes, it's possible.
44:25Fracture aside, do you all find in support Booth's account of killing Alice on the common?
44:30Broadly speaking, yes.
44:33They don't undermine it?
44:35No.
44:52I share.
44:54Let's not jump to conclusions.
44:55That's what she said when Ferris suggested Jason might be innocent.
44:58I think she actually said, let's not get carried away.
45:01But suddenly she's only too ready to believe Booth killed Alice, and Jason had nothing to do with it.
45:06Key word there being suddenly.
45:08So do you see how Bashir has had a change of hearts, free country?
45:11She's not the type.
45:13She's not the type to throw in the towel, either.
45:15What are you saying?
45:15Something's got there.
45:17Don't know.
45:18Skeleton and cupboards.
45:19Don't know that I want to know.
45:21Must have something to do with Bashir working on the original case.
45:23For the last five years, she's believed that Jason killed his wife with every fibre of her being, and acted accordingly.
45:29What's changed?
45:30Booth leading us to Alice's body.
45:31Knowing all the details, like the missing trainer.
45:33Details that he could have got from Jason.
45:35Ah, come on.
45:36I'm not saying that's what I believe.
45:38I'm saying, why isn't Bashir at least considering it?
45:43To stand that up, we'd have to prove contact between Jason and Booth.
45:46Yes.
45:47Recent contact?
45:48Post Booth's arrest?
45:50I'm not sure it's our place to try, Nicky.
45:52Are you?
46:11Gary Booth, you were charged that on the 19th of June, 2021, at Woodruff Common, you did murder Alice Hill.
46:17Contrary to common law, you did not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence.
46:23If you want to fire me, you can invest in a spin doctor.
46:26No hard feelings.
46:27What are you on about?
46:28My secretary's been taking your name in vain.
46:31In light of the confession and charging of this individual with the murder of Alice Hill,
46:36and taken in conjunction with what I understand to be overwhelming forensic and pathology evidence,
46:43I have personally intervened to expedite the immediate release of Jason Webb.
46:48Jason would like to make a short statement.
46:50Today is as bittersweet as it is surprising, and it's gratifying, gratifying is the word, to finally be exonerated.
46:59I am deeply grateful to all of the people, not a lot of people there must be said,
47:04who believed from day one that I am innocent.
47:07But nothing can fill the hole of losing my dear wife, Alice.
47:11I am free, but I am bereft.
47:12All right, thank you everyone.
47:14How do we know you, sir?
47:16Just to say, I will not stop until I know exactly what happened to my wife and why.
47:21And the malign role of Birmingham police is exposed for all to see.
47:24All right, thank you everyone.
47:25Justin, stop.
47:26Just to say, I will not stop until I know exactly what happened to my wife and why.
47:30And the malign role of Birmingham police is exposed for all to see.
47:34All right, thank you everyone.
47:36Better worry up.
47:37She hates you being late.
47:38Okay.
47:40See you in a bit.
47:42Has he had any visitors or calls, Sergeant?
47:57No, Mum.
47:59Made any special requests?
48:02No.
48:03Actually, he did get a call.
48:07Yeah, um...
48:09Kerry, his daughter, yeah, she was, um...
48:12She was keen to see him, but he didn't want to see her.
48:16It's in the log.
48:16Yeah.
48:17Good luck.
48:19Constable?
48:19Uh, Nesbitt.
48:20Come on.
48:21David Nesbitt.
48:30We're going to make a move, Jase.
48:33What, already?
48:33I mean, we haven't even caught up yet, sir.
48:35Sorry, mate.
48:36Got an early one.
48:36What, all of you?
48:39Yeah.
48:39Yeah.
48:41Hope you enjoy the free food.
48:43I just need to be sure about this booth guy.
48:46I need to be certain, Rich.
48:47You know what?
48:48He's guilty?
48:49He's been charged, Jase.
48:50I don't know how much more certain we can be.
48:52What, so you think he could be Alice's stalker?
48:55It doesn't sound like it.
48:56I mean, he didn't know her.
48:57Okay, then who was it?
48:59Who?
48:59Who?
48:59Tenacity, P.T. was very public-facing, yeah?
49:29And Alice and I, we were the face of it.
49:31Yeah, well, I had concerns about that at the time.
49:33So what if it was one of the subscribers?
49:35Yeah, you know, one of the really overexcited ones
49:37who thought they knew us?
49:38Like, yeah, I had my share, but Alice, she had way more.
49:41Look, as far as we know, he was a professional hitman,
49:43and she was just in the wrong place.
49:45Jason?
49:53Just ask you.
49:57Oi, oi, oi.
49:58So, uh, this is Richard, my solicitor.
50:05Hi.
50:06Saskia, Richard.
50:07I'm sorry I'm late.
50:07No, don't be daft.
50:09Well, how is everyone?
50:11Ah, without you, there might not be anything to celebrate.
50:13What do you mean?
50:14What was your testimony?
50:15It got me my leave to appeal.
50:16It really softened the ground for my release.
50:18Really?
50:18Yeah, yeah, even before Booth confessed, so.
50:22Oh, I...
50:23Jason, I'm honoured.
50:24How have your parents taken the news of my release?
50:30Oh.
50:31How bad.
50:31They're just, you know, computing everything.
50:35Right.
50:36Well, I mean, uh, give them my best.
50:39No, it's...
50:40Really.
50:42I mean it.
50:43My sister always spoke very fondly of you, Richard.
50:51She did?
50:52Mm.
50:53You're cool-headed in a crisis.
50:56Especially when the business was taken off and...
50:58It was all going crazy.
51:00I certainly didn't feel very cool-headed when I was thrashing out contracts and begging...
51:04Jason and Alice to hire a corporate lawyer.
51:07Killer.
51:07Killer.
51:08Should have been the key.
51:11Ignore him.
51:12Ignore him.
51:12Add one on me, killer.
51:14Killer.
51:15No.
51:16Jason, wait, wait, wait, don't pay.
51:17Jason, fuck.
51:18Leave him.
51:18Leave him.
51:20Jason, fuck you, girl.
51:22Down.
51:23Price.
51:24Jason, this was supposed to be a celebration.
51:25What is this, fuck off, Richard, yeah?
51:27Get the fuck out of my face.
51:32Just, uh, make sure he gets home safe.
51:34Please, Saskia.
51:36There you go.
51:36Off you go.
51:37Cheerio.
51:38Alice Hill was described by her family as a bright, dynamic young woman with an infectious
51:46zest for life.
51:48She built a successful online fitness business alongside her husband, Jason.
51:52This seemingly happy couple, seen here hosting one of their many social gatherings, were attractive
51:56and vivacious, both naturals in front of the camera, with the ability to capture and hold
52:01an audience.
52:06It's clear to see how they acquired a mass following and became online sensations, with
52:11many loving tenacity PT, as being on the cusp of becoming a global fitness empire.
52:16These images of happier times at the peak of their success are now a stark and striking
52:21contrast to the reality Alice's murder has left behind for all those who loved her.
52:26Is it on us that he's out?
52:29Unless you called the home secretary and didn't tell me.
52:31No room.
52:35It's not.
52:38I thought you were going to kill him.
52:39I was just completely decked instead.
52:42Oh, I feel bad about Richard.
52:44Oh, darn.
52:45He's used to be the old windbag.
52:47He's not a windbag.
52:48Ducky!
52:49Ducky!
52:51He's like me.
52:53Wife is no fair on the outside.
52:55Sorry.
53:12Sorry.
53:14You want me to be here, va?
53:21Sorry, come on, sir.
53:22I don't know so much, Sassi.
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