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999: What Happened Next - Season 1 Episode 4
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00:00In the UK, a 999 call is made to the police every three seconds.
00:23Are we going to go to a murder scene?
00:31Because it's entirely possible at that point.
00:33But not every call is as it seems.
00:36The dagger that he had is designed that could even go through somebody's skull.
00:41Oi!
00:42What's going on?
00:43Oi!
00:44I'm going to need an ambulance.
00:45It's the investigating officers who must hunt for the truth.
00:48Keep your hands out of your pocket.
00:518-6, we have a mobile phone in the bushes here.
00:54And prove it.
00:55I can't remember anything at all.
00:56My gut was saying that he was lying to me.
00:59Examining every angle.
01:01What measures are they prepared to take to try and throw us off the Senate?
01:04We don't know.
01:05To bring the guilty to justice.
01:07She needs to stop lying.
01:10To prove defeat.
01:12Yeah.
01:21Ambulance, is the patient breathing?
01:28Is he breathing?
01:29Yeah, he's breathing.
01:30Yes, he's breathing.
01:31Is the patient awake?
01:32He's not awake.
01:33He's not awake.
01:34No, he's not awake.
01:35No.
01:36Can you tell me exactly what's happened?
01:38I think he's been run over.
01:40Yeah, he's just arrived.
01:42I was on duty on the motorway at that time, so I become aware of it at the same time as
01:52it was being sent out to all officers via police radio.
01:55Then I made my way directly to the scene.
01:58Oh, there's an ambulance here.
02:01You're on the bike.
02:02Is he breathing or not?
02:05He's not breathing.
02:06He's not breathing.
02:07He's not breathing.
02:08Oh, God.
02:13A colleague of mine arrived pretty quick.
02:16Knowing colleagues well, you get a gist of how they are communicating.
02:20I knew at that point it was a serious collision.
02:23You're not breathing.
02:26Okay.
02:27You're doing really well.
02:28Okay.
02:29Okay.
02:30Are they doing CPR?
02:31She's doing CPR.
02:32Right.
02:33Okay.
02:34Bear with me.
02:35Okay.
02:36Stay on the line.
02:37Yeah, I'm here.
02:38Yeah.
02:43Within minutes of the 999 call, police arrive on scene.
02:48Witnesses say a car drove through a red light and hit a man walking with his bike.
02:52It's the 860, 7.
02:53All right.
02:54All right.
02:55It's all right.
02:56You've got the area checked out.
02:57Just have to talk to the 3-1 in.
02:58If we can request hard closures, please, at an early stage.
02:59Also, request forensic collision and CPR still in progress.
03:00Just try and speak to the cop, the other cop that's here and see if he's got these
03:05lads' details and see what they've actually seen.
03:06Is that all right?
03:07Yeah.
03:08Yeah.
03:09Yeah.
03:10Yeah.
03:11Yeah.
03:12Yeah.
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03:14Yeah.
03:15Yeah.
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03:21Yeah.
03:22Yeah.
03:23Apparently, the car that has hit him has made off towards Todrick Roundabout.
03:31Sarah?
03:32Another closure, please.
03:35Todrick Roundabout, 857 towards M1.
03:43Alright.
03:44As I was walking up, it was past that they had declared life extinct on the gentleman.
04:02It was at that part where we knew it was a fatal collision.
04:14The man was Graham Slynn. He was 81 years old.
04:36I'd been to work and I could see that my mum was trying to call.
04:41She was persistently phoning. So I phoned mum and she said, Nicola, the police are trying to contact me all day, but they won't tell me over the telephone what was wrong.
04:53She said, I've been trying to get in touch with your dad, but he's not picking up the phone and I know he went out on his bike.
04:59You just know that it's bad news.
05:01And I said, look, when they come to you, just phoned me back straight away.
05:08She phoned me back about ten minutes later.
05:11She was distraught, really distraught.
05:14And she just said, it's your dad, he's gone.
05:16He's gone out on his bike and a car's hit him and they've driven off and he's gone.
05:24It's a police emergency. Go ahead, call her.
05:50I've just had my car stolen from me.
05:53I was sat in it and someone was test driving it,
05:55they pulled a knife from me, I managed to get away.
05:57Where was it stolen?
05:59It was stolen in Great Bridgeford.
06:01So you've just had your car stolen from you?
06:03Yeah, I was in the car with him, he was test driving it,
06:05and then suddenly he pulled over, pulled the knife on me,
06:07and I managed to escape out of the car.
06:13I mean, you hear carjacking and everyone wants to get there
06:16because it's what you're enjoying the job for, really.
06:19Incredibly rare, it's pretty much unheard of, really, in Stafford.
06:27So the offender was test driving your car?
06:29Yeah, yeah, yeah, they are driving my car now.
06:32OK, what's the colour-maker model of the car?
06:34It's a grey Skoda Octavia VRS.
06:43Police are immediately sent to the scene
06:45to try and catch the carjacker.
06:47The National Police Air Service is also dispatched.
06:53Can you describe the knife for me?
06:55It was a bit like, sort of like a kitchen knife.
06:58I don't know, 15 centimetres, something like that, maybe a bit longer.
07:01I didn't see the colour of the handle.
07:03OK.
07:04If I was to guess, I'd say red, but I'm not sure.
07:07The victim called us just as soon as he got bundled out of his own car.
07:11He's on the phone to us and you can hear the panic in his voice as he's calling us.
07:16Did you get a description of the offender at all?
07:18He was probably, I don't know, late 40s to 50s.
07:24Would you be a white male?
07:25I'd say probably, no, not really.
07:28Slightly Asian.
07:29It's a mixed race.
07:30We're getting information about the car, about the location, where the suspect might have gone, what the suspect looked like, their description.
07:40A crime can happen for a whole plethora of reasons.
07:42We often have crime that happens in retaliation for something that's gone on before.
07:46Something that's been pre-planned and accounted for before it happened.
07:50And then sometimes just out of the blue, random.
07:56I'm with someone, you know, I've just got in with someone who was driving past.
08:01A member of the public has kindly picked you off, you say?
08:06The car owner is now in pursuit of his stolen vehicle.
08:09Yes, a member of public, yes, I'm in their car now.
08:12And we've driven towards that junction.
08:14We haven't seen him yet.
08:16Right, one second.
08:17We need to get this across immediately.
08:22He's got into this stranger's car to try and chase the suspect down.
08:28The risk just went from bad to worse, because not only have you got the suspect armed with a knife, driving a stolen car, and he could be anywhere.
08:36Chases and pursuits are dangerous anyway.
08:41But when you've got that all happening and we're not even there yet, it's just a recipe for disaster, to be honest.
08:49Thing is, he hasn't got the keys. I've got the key.
08:51So is it a keyless car?
08:53Er, yeah.
08:54It's a keyless car. I'm not sure how long we've got to run without the key then.
08:57Can I borrow your phone? I need to call my wife.
08:59I just thought, I need to call my wife to tell her to lock the house, because you might be headed back there to try and get the keys.
09:03I've just had my car stolen from me.
09:05Someone was test driving it.
09:06They called me the keys.
09:07I've just had my car stolen from me.
09:09Someone was test driving it. They called the knife for me.
09:10Can you describe the knife for me?
09:11A bit like, sort of like a kitchen knife.
09:12I've just had my car stolen from me. Someone was test driving it. They called the knife for me.
09:14Can you describe the knife for me?
09:15A bit like, sort of like a kitchen knife. I don't know, 15 centimetres, something like that. Maybe a bit longer.
09:16I don't know, 15 centimetres, something like that. Maybe a bit longer.
09:17I've just had my car stolen from me. Someone was test driving it. They called the knife for me.
09:34Can you describe the knife for me?
09:36A bit like, sort of like a kitchen knife. I don't know, 15 centimetres, something like that. Maybe a bit longer.
09:42Staffordshire police are in pursuit of a carjacker.
09:49The suspect is still driving the car, but he doesn't have the keys.
09:54Even before the 999 call has ended, we're on route. We're just getting everyone there as fast as we can.
10:03Abandoning the chase for a stolen car, the victim is driven home by a helpful stranger.
10:09I just thought, I need to call my wife to tell her to lock the house, because he might be heading back there to try and get the keys.
10:14The suspect could be going back to his home address to wait for him, to get the keys off him, or could be following him.
10:21It'd be absolutely terrifying for that victim.
10:26It's just an incredibly dangerous situation, because we don't know what's going on in that suspect's mind.
10:32He's armed, he's on the motorway, he's not got the keys.
10:35So the danger level for us is, it's just through the roof.
10:43Police put out an alert on the vehicle's registration, using automatic number plate recognition technology, or ANPR.
10:50Fearing that the carjacker may return to his house in search of the key, the victim heads home.
10:57Officers meet him there to find out what happened before his car was stolen.
11:04Meanwhile, traffic police are on the hunt for an armed carjacker.
11:10The victim had decided to sell his Skoda Octavia VRS, and he decided to use social media to do that.
11:19At the time, the victim valued it to be around £18,000.
11:23That's what the going rate was.
11:26It's a very high-value item, a car. It's a VRS, so it's the sport model.
11:31The victim advertised the car on social media, and had interest from someone called Taylor Lewis.
11:37This is very much an offence that has a significant degree of planning to enable it to take place.
11:46It's not spontaneous at all. We've got that account. He's built it up.
11:50It's not just a skeleton account. He sets up the meeting.
11:55So there's all these elements that have to happen in order to get to the point where the offender takes the ultimate control.
12:04We knew straight away, after speaking with the victim and interviewing him,
12:09that this was a premeditated and planned meet specifically to steal that car.
12:15They never knew each other.
12:20Taylor Lewis then asks to view the car the next day, and arrives at the victim's home address by taxi,
12:26just before 6.30pm on the Sunday.
12:35A neighbour's CCTV camera captures the initial meeting.
12:39While we were driving, we were having a general conversation about how his wife would love the car.
12:50When we got to Great Bridgeford, we turned onto the Newport Road.
12:55Then Taylor turned first right again.
12:58I thought this was a bit strange.
12:59He pulled the car over suddenly, and he pulled a knife from the side of his chest area.
13:05I immediately got my seatbelt off, opened the door, and backed out the car.
13:09I looked into the car, and he was sort of pointing the knife at me, and said,
13:14Give me the keys.
13:17I started to run. I was looking behind me. He was in the car.
13:20And at that point then, because there was quite a bit of traffic, he sort of panicked and just, like, sped off.
13:27With the victim having fled the crime scene, Taylor Lewis drives away with the stolen car.
13:34What the suspect didn't know and wasn't aware of was the one camera which just captured the whole incident,
13:38which occurred just there.
13:40However, it didn't get where the suspect went.
13:42So, within minutes, the suspect could have been onto any of the major road networks around Staffordshire,
13:46or straight onto the M6.
13:50That's going to be a hot vehicle.
13:54That number plate is going to ping left, right and centre.
13:57So, it was merely minutes after joining the motorway that we had our first hit on the M6.
14:04It's just an incredibly dangerous situation.
14:07He's armed, he's on the motorway, he's not got the keys.
14:11Without the keys, the car cannot be stopped and restarted.
14:15The suspect must keep driving, but police are in pursuit on the M6.
14:19So, the danger level for us is, it's just through the roof.
14:28It was about 30 miles before we caught up to the car on the motorway.
14:32He has a wearable presence, he is hugging a vehicle in front.
14:37The empties please.
14:41Realising the police are closing in on him, the stolen car starts speeding.
14:47Speed is now 110 and increasing.
14:49The subject has just been so erratic during this pursuit.
14:55It's a late off, late off, late off.
14:58It just really showed his intent and the level of risk he was willing to put towards innocent members of the public.
15:03It's a failed stop, lights are on red.
15:05It's through a red light.
15:07It's not one, not two.
15:10The level of danger involved in that pursuit is just so high.
15:15And the decisions that we have to make are life or death.
15:18High risk, high risk, high risk.
15:20Breaking heavy, breaking heavy.
15:22Get a closure on behind.
15:23Yeah, we need a closure on behind.
15:24Yeah, we need a closure on behind.
15:25This will be able to go to the central reservation.
15:28And ultimately, he decides to go off the main carriageway towards the M42 services.
15:34We are late off, late off at the 441.
15:38Medium risk.
15:39We've got medium risk.
15:41He's going to .1.
15:43He's into the services on the wrong side.
15:45And that's where the suspect crashed the Skoda.
15:47Yeah, we've got a dick cam.
15:49We've got a male, black body warmer, jeans, baseball cam.
15:54But that run into the trees.
15:56It's fine into the trees.
15:57Like run into the trees.
15:58It's fine.
15:59And when we get around to the vehicle a few seconds later, it's empty.
16:08The suspect is nowhere to be seen.
16:14He's just vanished into the air.
16:18We know he must be on foot somewhere.
16:19And, you know, we've got this far.
16:22But there's absolutely no way we could lose a suspect at this point
16:25before we knew he was armed.
16:26He told me exactly what happened.
16:27I can't resist him.
16:28He's not breathing.
16:29He's not breathing.
16:30He's not breathing.
16:31He's not breathing.
16:32Oh, God.
16:3381-year-old Graham Slynn has been killed in a hit-and-run.
16:46A car sped through a red light as Graham was pushing his bike over the pedestrian crossing.
17:03The initial information that I had from my boss was that a gentleman called Graham Slynn had been involved in a collision.
17:20Graham was just going about his daily business.
17:22He was waiting at the pedestrian crossing to cross the A57.
17:25He'd had his push bike with him.
17:27He waited to cross.
17:28And he crossed exactly as he should have done.
17:31And a vehicle, appearing to have gone through a red light, collided with Graham, made off at speed and made no attempt to stop whatsoever.
17:43Category A plus road collision is the most serious of collisions where there has sadly been a death.
17:50And it requires the level and services of a senior investigating officer to oversee the inquiry.
17:55Another closure, please.
17:57Toddy, roundabout, A57 towards M1.
18:02We had no idea who, what vehicle were, or all the dynamics of how it might have come about.
18:10Several witnesses on scene attempted to save Graham's life and saw the hit-and-run.
18:16What have you seen, then?
18:18Basically, mate, we're coming up here.
18:20Next thing.
18:21This one, then, but we were coming to a stop because we were behind this one.
18:24Yeah.
18:25Next thing, I'd have seen him fly up in there and that golf shooter.
18:28He's witnessed everything.
18:29Yeah.
18:3080, 90 mile an hour it's hitting.
18:31Yeah.
18:32Pointer impact.
18:33Carried on.
18:34He could see what direction around about.
18:35Just the golf art.
18:36We appeared to have three or four key witnesses.
18:39They'd seen the car involved.
18:41They'd now identified it to be a VW Golf.
18:43Do you know what colour car it were?
18:45Dark.
18:46Yeah, dark blue.
18:47Dark blue.
18:48Go for it.
18:51That was key for us because now we've got at least an idea of the type of vehicle we're looking at.
18:57A vehicle involving a collision can provide so many forensic opportunities, particularly if the airbag has gone off.
19:02For example, it gives DNA opportunities or fingerprints around the driver's area,
19:06particularly around the wheel and dashboard, et cetera, to try and understand who may be in the vehicle
19:11and potentially who's going to be driving at that very moment when the car crash with Graham.
19:18We knew there was going to be CCTV heavy, this investigation, to try and understand who was driving.
19:28In order to catch the driver, police need to search all CCTV before and after the hit and run.
19:36That particular stretch at road, it's a dual carriageway and they have a camera on that roundabout.
19:45Along with CCTV, a car has caught a VW Golf on its dash cam moments before the collision.
19:55So what we've just seen there is when the VW Golf has travelled over the M1 roundabout at Aston, heading generally towards Todick,
20:02continues towards a pedestrian crossing and then, as we can see, a number of vehicles stop because the collision has just occurred,
20:09a number of people getting out of their vehicles.
20:11A CCTV camera picks up the suspect's vehicle immediately after the collision, travelling at speed.
20:21There's no braking, there's no attempts to stop.
20:24They've continued at speed until they've reached the roundabout, forcing the way through traffic.
20:32It's clear they know what's happened and how they're doing their damned hardest to be able to fail to stop and to leave that area.
20:41We know from CCTV it's got occupants inside it, but I can't identify a person in that driver's seat.
20:48There are two passengers in the car plus the driver, but the CCTV is not clear enough to identify anyone.
20:55But it does provide a vital clue.
20:58A crucial thing for us, what showed on that CCTV, the front number plate of that Golf fell off as it's tried to push its way through traffic.
21:07That's clearly key because it provides us with some forensic opportunities.
21:12From the number plate itself, we can look and identify who may or may not be connected with that number plate and therefore the car to help lead us in to try and identify the driver.
21:21We knew what vehicle it were because we knew it were a VW Golf because witnesses told that.
21:25We now know it's registration.
21:27Ultimately that was two golden tickets.
21:29We knew what car, now we've got a number plate from it.
21:31Intelligence sharing with a neighbouring police force gives the team a crucial lead.
21:41We got information from our colleagues that that Volkswagen Golf displaying that number plate had been stopped within the last few weeks in Derbyshire.
21:49A bar of colleagues told me that the front number plate of that Golf was a clone number plate.
21:55So yeah, it's hard to describe how frustrating that actually is.
21:58A clone plate can be used to hide the true identity of a car.
22:04They're usually from the same make and model.
22:06So at first glance it appears there's nothing untoward.
22:09Only when you compare the clone plate to the vehicle identification number can you actually establish that it's a fake.
22:18The use of a clone plate is a tried and tested method in order to avoid detection by police.
22:25Checking the clone number plate details against police records reveals that it's been used before.
22:30Through the clone plate we were able to identify intelligence links with a person called Cain Byrne.
22:4020 year old Cain Byrne is no stranger to the police.
22:45Cain is a really dangerous offender.
22:48He's got convicted of driving dangerously.
22:50I know he's on a licence from Crown Court.
22:54Cain has never passed a driving test and has been disqualified from driving.
23:00It's not just driving.
23:01He's a person who's committed so many different offences.
23:03We're talking drugs offences.
23:05We're talking violence against a person.
23:08We can quite happily say at that point that we suspect that Cain is the driver at the time.
23:19Police arrest Cain in the early hours of the morning to ensure he's at the location.
23:23Entry was forced to the address.
23:30I can't see. No.
23:32Police!
23:33Police!
23:34Police!
23:35Police!
23:36Police!
23:37I got notified that Cain was where we knew he were going to be.
23:41Offered no resistance to the officers.
23:43Certainly offered no remorse or any comment at all.
23:47The station, please.
23:48Put your clothes on you.
23:58Quicks!
23:59Staffordshire police are on the hunt for an armed carjacker.
24:15I've just had my car stolen from me.
24:17I was sat in it and someone was test driving it.
24:19They pulled a knife from me. I managed to get away.
24:23After pursuing the carjacker for around 12 miles,
24:26the police have secured the stolen car.
24:28But the suspect is still at large.
24:36The National Police Air Service has already been dispatched.
24:42So the helicopter being there already was a huge advantage.
24:51So wherever the suspect's gone, he probably can't hide for long.
24:55They've got no roads to think about.
24:59They've got no other drivers to think about.
25:01They're there in the air and they're able to feed back to us the exact movements of the driver.
25:05The suspect at this time is feeling the pressure.
25:10We've not aborted the pursuit and our helicopter is in the air.
25:14As the minutes go by, there's loads of assumptions that could be the case that we just haven't picked up on him.
25:26That we've lost him or he's been able to make off or that there was more planning to it and he decided to come off at the services and has gone into another vehicle.
25:35These are all things we didn't know at the time.
25:37The intensity remained from the very start of the incident.
25:42We've still got this suspect at large with a knife who's just committed this carjacking.
25:47It's still all hands on deck. We can't come away from this. We've got to find him.
26:06After an extensive search, the thermal cameras capture something in the area nearby.
26:15And Paz, was there any description of your offender?
26:18We've just got somebody walking along Ash Lane in the direction of the Redditch Road.
26:22Described a six-ray, so in a body warmer and a cap, blue jeans.
26:26The operators inside of the helicopter were able to pick up on his heat signature coming out of the forested area, where we see a lone male matching the description of our suspect.
26:37It's Ash Lane towards the Redditch Road, just going past the last houses before he hits the Redditch Road. He has got a body warmer on.
26:45From the second he comes out, our helicopter is seeing where he is and relaying the location on the ground to the officers.
26:52Is that you towards the Redditch Road on Ash Lane? If so, it's on your left-hand side now.
26:57Very quick, the arrest.
27:00Mike Alfa, I think a police car has just pulled up with the person who we've sighted.
27:06He puts his hands up and he's very compliant, very calm and very collected.
27:18The suspect is arrested close to the abandoned car.
27:21He's brought into custody as police look for evidence that could identify him as the driver.
27:28The suspect had some cuts and grazes to his face, a couple on his body.
27:33But it's these ones to the face that we were most interested in,
27:37especially as we later recovered blood inside of the vehicle.
27:41The vehicle was its own crime scene.
27:52Because the airbag is deployed, that provides us with excellent evidential possibilities.
27:58That enables us to consider cellular contact, so looking for skin cells from the facial area,
28:05any potential saliva evidence that could be there, potentially fibres and hairs, and also blood evidence.
28:13He's a very cool cucumber in custody.
28:19He just told us his name is Leroy Simpson and his date of birth,
28:24and that's all we need to start running our background checks on him.
28:29He'd been committing crime all his life.
28:32There were similar offences back in 1996.
28:34Whilst waiting for the DNA evidence to be processed, police look for other evidence to enable the CPS to make a charge.
28:45Leroy, he gave a no-comment interview.
28:49We're still left in a position where the evidence to put to this individual is still quite anecdotal.
28:54We need to put Leroy Simpson in that car, forensically.
29:01We can't do it with his phone, and we don't have witness evidence,
29:06so we need to run an ID parade of the suspect and the forensics to say he was in that vehicle.
29:12South Yorkshire police are investigating a hit-and-run incident that killed 81-year-old Graham Slynn.
29:31Police! Police!
29:33Police!
29:34They've arrested 20-year-old Kane Byrne.
29:42We received a phone call to say that there'd been arrests.
29:48They were pretty sure that they knew who the driver was.
29:51They couldn't tell us very much at all because they were gathering evidence
29:55and they didn't want to jeopardise any case that they were going to bring
29:59against a person that was driving the car.
30:05I was really lucky.
30:06I had a really good dad for 55 years.
30:09He was a northern man, yeah.
30:12Definitely a northern man.
30:14He was 81.
30:15We had a heart bypass.
30:17He'd got a pacemaker fitted.
30:20He'd walk every day with my mum out with the sausage dogs.
30:24And he enjoyed that, you know.
30:27Mum and Dad were devoted to each other.
30:30They'd been married for almost 60 years when he was killed.
30:33We grew up cycling, so he'd met my mum through cycling.
30:40And really fit and healthy and within the parameters of what he was allowed to do.
30:47He was an ordinary man, but a special person, you know.
30:52We trusted that the police would do what they needed to do to gather enough evidence and secure a conviction.
31:01While police have the CCTV footage around the accident and proof Cain had access to the vehicle,
31:12they don't have the CCTV footage of the collision.
31:15And so currently, they can't prove that he was the driver in the hit and run.
31:19Just due to insufficient evidence at that time, Cain Burnt was bailed for further enquiries with stringent conditions.
31:32Hugely frustrating to bail anybody from the police station when we're so close.
31:36We needed to obtain more evidence, so we really want to find the car.
31:41It could be key to unlocking this case.
31:44But despite all the efforts and boots on the ground, we just couldn't locate it until we received a phone call.
31:50I had two missed calls from the traffic sergeant, Sergeant Scott Riley.
31:55And then I got a text from Scott going, ring me now.
32:00So I very quickly stepped out of the conference room, and that's when Scott told me that we found the car.
32:06And also that the golf was on fire.
32:09The call was from a Derbyshire police officer who had located the car, but it was burnt out.
32:22From examining the burnt out vehicle, it was clear that this vehicle was deliberately ignited.
32:28The car clearly had some damage, and we could compare that with the footage of the CCTV
32:33and do a side-by-side comparison that visually showed that this was the same car that collided with Graham.
32:39So we knew we had the vehicle.
32:42And that somebody's going to go to those kind of lengths to burn out a car.
32:45Shows that they are quite forensically aware.
32:48They clearly don't want us to prove who was the driver.
32:50So the car being burnt out severely reduces our chances of getting anything forensically.
32:56So it was a real frustration.
32:59Despite the car being burnt, the police still managed to retrieve evidence linked to the collision.
33:05We found what, like, nitrous oxide canisters within the vehicle.
33:11Nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, is routinely used in medicine.
33:15Sedation, sedation in childbirth or dentistry, for example.
33:19It has anti-anxiety, pain-relieving and dissociative properties.
33:24It essentially causes a loss of connection between mind and body.
33:29It's generally consumed via balloons for convenience sake.
33:33And as the effects are almost instantaneous and over quickly,
33:37people tend to re-dose, taking multiple balloons in one session.
33:40In fact, it may be one of the worst drugs to consume whilst driving a vehicle.
33:47Finding nitrous oxide canisters in the burnt-out car
33:49may offer another level of understanding for why he failed to stop during the collision.
33:53It might not just have been down to the manner of his driving,
33:56more that Cainburn would have been severely impaired.
34:01We started reviewing CCTV and looking at some CCTV we already got.
34:04We saw some blurs and colour, which we couldn't work out initially of what they were.
34:12What we now suspect are, in balloons being enailed by the occupants,
34:16the driver in front, certainly the front-seat passenger.
34:19So we were straight away working out that they'd been on nitrous oxide balloons
34:23before and certainly after the collision.
34:25Over six days into the inquiry, I've lost a forensic opportunities in the car,
34:31so I want to really double down and focus even more intensely on the CCTV.
34:36We're just looking for that one little golden nugget
34:38and hoping that we will get lucky with some footage
34:41to pick out who the driver was at the time.
34:48As police now know the location of the burnt-out car,
34:51they focus on CCTV in the nearby area
34:54and find key evidence at another property.
34:58What we can see now is a VW Golf parking up a takeaway in the Killermarsh area.
35:02We can see a male matching Cainburn's description
35:04just getting out of the driver's seat.
35:06And this was captured only minutes before the collision itself.
35:11And then we found the vehicle post the incident
35:13getting parked up on someone's drive.
35:16You can clearly see Cainburn getting out of the driver's seat,
35:19going round to check the damage of the car
35:21and appearing to wipe the top of the car,
35:23potentially blood, away with his hand.
35:26And this footage just goes to show
35:28that Cainburn knew that he's collided with something
35:30more than just another car or a wing mirror.
35:32So from the volume of CCTV that we've now got,
35:36we are starting to see that Cainburn was the driver
35:39throughout the whole journey.
35:42Not only that, well, he's holding what looks like a balloon,
35:44an item that is used to help consume nitrous oxide.
35:47So looking at this footage,
35:50we can see, edging closer now to the time of the collision,
35:53the VW Golf speeding across the road
35:55with what appears to be the driver holding a yellow balloon,
35:59presumably with nitrous oxide.
36:03So again, now, continuing towards Torek Roundabout,
36:06goes round the roundabout,
36:07and you can clearly see still a balloon in his hand there.
36:10As it's rapidly cleared from the bloodstream,
36:17within minutes, nitrous oxide is practically impossible
36:20for a forensic laboratory to test for it,
36:22as by the time the blood sample's been taken and tested,
36:25it's already too late.
36:26Having that footage of Cainburn on balloons
36:36at the time of the collision,
36:38just after the collision,
36:39continuously throughout afterwards,
36:41it really, really concerned me.
36:44He never passed the driving test,
36:46and coupled with the fact that he's on nitrous oxide,
36:48it creates a real danger to the public.
36:51Home security footage also provides vital evidence
36:55before Cain got into the car that day.
36:59So what we've just seen there
37:00is some hours before the collision,
37:02Cainburn applying the false registration plate
37:04to the VW Golf.
37:07Inevitably, after hitting Graham,
37:09the registration plate fell off moments after the collision.
37:13Luckily, we were able to connect the clone plate
37:15to Cainburn, which gives us that real breakthrough in the case.
37:19We wanted to make sure that he was arrested
37:20and taken off the streets as soon as possible.
37:41Staff to a police emergency, go ahead, call her.
37:42I've just had my car stolen from me.
37:44They pulled a knife from me.
37:45I managed to get away.
37:48He's going to decamp, decamp.
37:50Yeah, we're going to decamp.
37:52Like, run into the trees.
37:53It's fine. Into the trees.
37:54Like, run into the trees. It's fine.
37:59Staffordshire police have arrested a man for carjacking.
38:02As they await the DNA results,
38:04they focus on the other evidence
38:06to support a charge against Leroy Simpson.
38:10These clips I'm viewing now
38:12are really important into the investigation
38:14because, firstly, they showed us exactly what our suspect looks like.
38:18Secondly, this is the camera that had the audio also onto it.
38:23When I listened in closely at a later stage in the investigation,
38:37when we were at custody,
38:38I was able to pick up the accent that Leroy was speaking in
38:42and also agreement that it was him in the driver's seat at the time.
38:46So, I'm now just pulling up the second video,
38:50which is from the cul-de-sac itself.
38:53It's filmed from quite afar.
38:54It's quite grainy,
38:55but it clearly shows the crucial moment that we needed.
38:59And this was the moment
39:00when the knife was pulled on him at the victim.
39:02And this clip was so important
39:04because it just sort of really corroborated
39:06the victim's account
39:08when he said that he'd been lured into this cul-de-sac
39:11and had this knife pulled on him.
39:12And Leroy, down the line,
39:13could never have said that it was an innocent meeting.
39:18It was really, really helpful for us
39:20to have these smaller snippets, perhaps, of evidence,
39:24the CCTV, the positive ID.
39:27The victim was able to choose the suspect from a line-up successfully.
39:31And him being in the location
39:32was enough for us to secure our charges against Leroy.
39:37And, ultimately, the court decided to remand him into custody.
39:42With Leroy now charged,
39:47police buy vital time for the DNA results to return.
39:53When they come back, it's irrefutable.
39:57We had Leroy's DNA evidence all over the airbag.
40:02There was blood on the gear stick as well.
40:04It was perfect for us to place him into the driver's seat.
40:07This offence was his most serious offence, really,
40:12when looking at his offending history.
40:14It carries a maximum term of life improvement.
40:17The case didn't go to trial.
40:19Once the forensic evidence came back,
40:22it was like the final nail in the coffin for him.
40:28Ultimately, at that point,
40:30Andy had no option but to plead guilty
40:32for his discounting sentence.
40:34We were really pleased to hear he'd been caught.
40:54It's one of those things you never think is going to happen to you.
40:57And not many people are genuinely threatened in their lives.
41:04I like to think that it's not going to affect me
41:08or my family in the future.
41:10But, yeah, you just don't know.
41:12South Yorkshire police are investigating a hit-and-run
41:34that has killed 81-year-old Graham Slyne.
41:42With all the evidence gathered,
41:44police are now ready to arrest their main suspect,
41:46Kane Byrne, for the second time.
41:48On this occasion, with the bail conditions,
41:51we knew where he would be at any one time.
41:54We managed to affect the arrest safely
41:56and Kane Byrne come compliantly.
41:59We wanted to search Kane Byrne's property
42:01because now we had the CCTV,
42:03we had a good understanding of what clothing he was wearing.
42:07We were able to locate the clothing worn by Kane Byrne
42:09as the same clothing he was wearing at the time of the collision,
42:13which further supported the evidence
42:15to suggest that Kane Byrne was the driver of the car.
42:17Once in custody,
42:22Kane Byrne is interviewed under caution.
42:26Can you just confirm for me your full name?
42:28Kane Julian Byrne.
42:29Thank you, Kane.
42:30And your date of birth, please?
42:31First August 2004.
42:33Thank you very much.
42:34Any suspect interview is really, really important.
42:36So through some careful planning,
42:38the interview took place later on that day.
42:40You were arrested early hours of this morning
42:42on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
42:46In as much detail as you can,
42:49please tell me about your involvement
42:51in the death of Graham Slyne.
42:53No comment.
42:54Despite being in his early 20s,
42:55Kane Byrne's got a long history of criminal offending
42:58and him not answering the questions
43:01and being cold and quite callous,
43:04he just shows you exactly what kind of character
43:06Kane Byrne's all about.
43:07Are you responsible for the death of Graham Slyne?
43:10No comment.
43:11He showed no remorse.
43:13He acted very cold.
43:14Even when some key emotive questions were put to him
43:17on behalf of the family,
43:18what they thought,
43:19the impact that that's had on them.
43:22They describe Graham as a husband,
43:25a dad and a granddad,
43:27and his family describe him
43:28as a gentle, funny and kind to his core.
43:32How does it make you feel hearing that about Graham?
43:35In terms of the evidence,
43:39it didn't affect how we were perceived with things.
43:41We had strong evidence.
43:43We built a good case,
43:44a case that was sufficient to put to the CPS
43:46for a realistic prospect of a conviction.
43:55Death by dangerous driving now can carry up
43:57to life imprisonment.
43:58The same offences as murder.
44:01Someone's dead.
44:02Someone's being killed
44:02by the actions of another person.
44:05It's also quite nail-biting
44:07waiting for that final approval to charge.
44:11It was another 60, 90 minutes
44:14that the form rang
44:15and it was the Crown Prosecutor
44:17who said,
44:18yeah, I'm happy.
44:20In court,
44:34his defence team
44:35explained to the judge
44:37that he actually thought
44:37that he clipped a wing mirror
44:39of a car
44:40rather than actually colliding
44:41with a person.
44:43However,
44:44when you check the CCTV
44:45just shortly after the collision,
44:47you can see him
44:48checking the vehicle
44:49on top
44:50for damage,
44:51wiping something off
44:52that could have been blood.
44:54So,
44:54looking at that
44:55and knowing full well
44:56what he'd done,
44:58Cain Byrne pleaded guilty
44:59to all three charges.
45:03The evidence of Cain's dangerous
45:05and lethal attitude
45:06to driving
45:07was comprehensive.
45:09The manner of driving,
45:12the red light,
45:13disqualified from driving,
45:15he's got no insurance,
45:16they include number plates,
45:18and then
45:18evidence of impairment
45:19through this nitrous oxide.
45:21It doesn't ever
45:22take this balloon
45:23out of his mouth.
45:24The judge deemed
45:25that he was
45:26a dangerous offender.
45:27My dad always said
45:40when we went out
45:40on our bikes,
45:42if you're going over
45:43a junction,
45:44you look that driver
45:45in the eye,
45:46you see the whites
45:46of that eye
45:47and you make sure
45:48that they've seen you
45:49before you take a step
45:50across that road.
45:51I want people
45:53to understand
45:53that a car
45:55in the wrong hands
45:56is a really dangerous weapon.
46:00I've lost my dad.
46:02I miss my dad,
46:03but my mum's lost somebody
46:04that she saw every day.
46:06Yeah, it is.
46:06It is hard.
46:08I think it's just sadness.
46:11It's absolute,
46:11sort of desolation.
46:14I think it's just sadness.
46:44I think it's just sadness.
46:46It's just sadness.
46:46It is all why
46:50it's just sadness.
46:51It's just sadness.
46:52things run.
46:52It is all aside now,
46:53but I cannot incorporate
46:54your baby energy
46:56with theirosaxling
46:58in the same time.
46:59We'll give you apparently
47:00some
47:09one last time,
47:11further to the
47:13Sasha Wendland
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