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00:27Good morning and thanks for joining us today.
00:30We are coming to you live from our studio in the centre of Cardiff.
00:33Today officers are looking for these four men in connection to a series of thefts from the archives of Bristol
00:40Museum.
00:41Hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of rare artefacts have been stolen.
00:45Do you know who took them?
00:47We have an emotional appeal from the family of Paul McGrath who was killed almost 30 years ago.
00:54I cannot believe that anybody to this day would try and cover for these people who have done such a
01:00brutal act, an act of murder on an innocent man.
01:05Can you help detectives find those responsible for his murder?
01:09And in a case that shocked the nation, we have an exclusive interview with DCI Rebecca Woodsford, who led the
01:16case into the murder of 15-year-old Eliane Andam.
01:19She was killed at a bus stop on her way to school in Croydon in 2023.
01:25I have never dealt with cases with that level of emotion. Almost Croydon stopped for 24, 48 hours.
01:35Yeah, it really is a powerful watch that one, isn't it?
01:37We're also talking to Caroline Wilgoose to hear why she is campaigning for bleed kits to be kept in all
01:43secondary schools after her 15-year-old son Harvey was fatally stabbed at school in Sheffield last year.
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02:17The details will be on your screen down by the clock throughout the programme.
02:22Now, our first appeal this morning is from Manchester.
02:26In 1997, Paul McGrath's lifeless body was discovered in a hallway by a passer-by.
02:33Can you help solve this decades-old mystery?
02:39Paul was generous and kind.
02:43He was much loved by everybody.
02:47Paul's death has impacted every facet of our lives.
02:54We are not the same family.
03:03Paul McGrath was 34.
03:05He worked as a joiner and lived in Denton, Greater Manchester.
03:11Paul and I were really close and he was very close to my sister and he was really close to
03:17his mum.
03:18We were a very close family.
03:21He loved all his nephews and nieces and me and my sister would laugh because he would pretend he didn't
03:28like the babies.
03:29And then we'd go out of the room and we'd come back and he'd be holding them and talking to
03:35them.
03:35And, yeah, he was a great, great uncle to his nieces and nephews and he loved them all.
03:41And they miss him dearly.
03:47Paul was very, very passionate about Manchester United and my dad was very passionate about Manchester City so, like most
03:57Mancunian families, we were a split family.
04:01He got a lot of pleasure from football.
04:08In the months before Paul died, he was in a new relationship, lovely girl, and I think they had a
04:15fabulous future together.
04:17They were both really happy, they were very well suited and I think it would have led to something.
04:25On Sunday the 6th of April 1997, Paul McGrath spent the afternoon and evening with his girlfriend and friends visiting
04:34their local pubs.
04:42The last stop was the Dog and Partridge on Ashton Street.
04:47He met my father in there, they had a drink together.
04:50He was very sociable, he knew everybody in the pub.
04:54It would not be unusual for him on a Sunday night to have a few drinks in there.
05:00At approximately 11.30pm, Paul and his friends left the pub.
05:06He said goodbye to his girlfriend and one of his friends by the Crown Point, a retail park,
05:12and Paul made his way home, alone, back to his address on Holland Street in Denton.
05:18Paul went home without his girlfriend because he got work early on Monday morning.
05:24His stuff was out ready for work the next day, all his kit and his uniform.
05:29And he got into bed and went to sleep, just as he would normally do on any other Sunday.
05:40On the Monday morning, local workmen noticed the front door to Paul's property had been left ajar.
05:47And when they went to investigate, found Paul's lifeless body at the foot of his stairs.
06:00I was getting my kids ready for school and the phone went and it was my dad.
06:06And I said, oh my God, dad, what's happened?
06:08Because he wouldn't ring me normally on a Monday morning.
06:10And I thought something had happened to my mum.
06:13It never, ever occurred to me that anything would happen to my brother.
06:17You know, he was 34 years old.
06:20And then my dad had to break the news to me that my brother had been killed.
06:26I was hysterical.
06:28And I just remember pacing up and down, saying it can't be true, it can't be true, it can't be
06:33true.
06:34Because who would want to kill my brother?
06:36A decent, lovely person.
06:39There is no reason on this earth why anybody would want to kill him.
06:44Someone stabbed him 18 times in the hallway, in his boxer shorts, and left him there to die.
06:51Who would do that?
06:54They stabbed him 18 times.
06:56That's not an accident, that's a brutal murder.
07:02Almost 30 years on, Gillian and her family still haven't given up hope
07:08that one day they'll get the answers they're looking for and get justice for Paul.
07:14Paul's death has been absolutely overwhelming in every aspect of our lives.
07:23Nobody had a bad word to say about him.
07:25Nobody.
07:29I cannot believe that anybody to this day would try and cover for these people who have done
07:34such a brutal act, an act of murder on an innocent man.
07:39I can't tell you how much I miss Paul.
07:43There's not a birthday, a Christmas, a family event, where we don't think about him, where
07:52we wish he was a part of it.
07:54And that pain can only be reduced by us getting justice.
08:02If I saw Paul today, I would just say to him, I'm so sorry.
08:06We're trying to find justice for you.
08:09And I'm so sorry that you've missed so much.
08:12And tell him how much I love him.
08:22I'm now with the head of GMP's Cold Case Review Unit, Martin Bottomley.
08:27Martin, although this happened many years ago, it still clearly has such a huge, it's left
08:34such a huge impact on the family, hasn't it?
08:36Absolutely, yes.
08:37I mean, it's almost 30 years, but Paul's missed out on a lifetime of Christmases, birthdays,
08:44family gatherings, and of course, Man City, Man United, Derby's where he'd have fun with
08:48his dad.
08:49But as you can see, you know, the family's still grieving tremendously.
08:53They're never going to get over this unless we get justice for Paul.
08:57Yeah, lasting impact there.
08:58So why are you reviewing this case?
09:01Why is it so important?
09:02Well, we never close a murder case like this.
09:04And of course, with advances in DNA technology, there's always this chance that there'll be
09:08a new lead, a new investigative strand we can follow.
09:11So people who think they've got away with murder 30 years ago can very well expect a knock
09:17on the door and was there to hopefully bring justice for Paul.
09:20Yeah, that's how we can help do that.
09:22Can you just recap the events then, what happened that night?
09:25Yes, it was Sunday the 6th of April 1997.
09:29Paul had a new girlfriend.
09:30He went out with his girlfriend and a few other friends on Sunday afternoon.
09:35He called at a few pubs at the Stanford pub, a couple of others, and then ended up at the
09:40Dog and Partridge.
09:41By about half 11, closing time, the group split up and Paul went home alone to get ready for
09:48work in the morning.
09:49So then what do we know about what happened once Paul had got home that evening?
09:54Yeah, so he got home and he got ready for work, got his work clothes ready and then went to
09:59bed.
10:00And about 1am in the morning, neighbours heard some banging.
10:04So they looked out of their window and saw two men at Paul's door talking to him.
10:09Now, we don't exactly know what happened subsequently then, but 7.30am the next morning, a building firm
10:17opposite noticed Paul's door was ajar.
10:20So they went over to investigate and saw Paul in the doorway.
10:24He'd been stabbed 18 times and he was there in his boxer shorts, indicating that they'd roused
10:30him from his bed.
10:32Incredibly brutal attack there.
10:34But at this time, do you have any idea of a potential motive?
10:38Well, Paul was really well liked.
10:39He'd never been in trouble with anybody.
10:41But we do think he knew someone who was in dispute with a couple of people.
10:46So it's possible that men came round to his house trying to get information out of Paul
10:50and then decided to kill him for whatever reason.
10:54It's worth saying as part of this investigation, it's been many years.
10:57People have already been arrested as part of the investigation.
11:01Yes, two people were arrested around about the time Paul was murdered and went on trial.
11:07But we're found not guilty.
11:08So this case still remains wide open.
11:11We need to get justice.
11:13And if anyone needs any further reason to come forward, there is actually a substantial
11:18financial reward for this.
11:22Absolutely.
11:22So the GMP are offering a £50,000 reward for information which leads to the arrest and
11:27conviction of those responsible.
11:28And we need to get that information.
11:31Loyalties have changed over time.
11:33Someone should come forward, examine the conscience and make that call.
11:37Yeah, do the right thing.
11:38Martin, thank you for joining us.
11:40And hopefully we can get answers for Paul's family.
11:43Do get in touch if you can help with this case.
11:47Well, now I'm with DI Jason Chijit, who is from Avon and Somerset Police, who need your
11:52help after a theft at a popular museum in Bristol.
11:56Jason, thanks for coming in to tell us about this, because this is quite a haul they got
11:59here.
12:00So tell us what we know, what happened.
12:02Hi, Steph.
12:02We know that in September of 2025, the same location in the Cumberland Basin area of Bristol
12:09was burgled.
12:10The first offence took place between the 15th and 17th of September and the second on the
12:1525th during the early hours.
12:17We know that on both occasions, the stepladder was used to access the external fire exit
12:22and a door was forced, which gave access inside to the location where all of these items
12:27were stored.
12:27Yeah.
12:28So this is the museum getting broken into twice and then the people doing it, heading
12:32off on foot with rucksacks and stuff stuffed in their pockets.
12:36And we can have a look at the types of things they store, because we're talking hundreds
12:39of artefacts here.
12:41We are 600 plus, really brazen, taken away in pockets and rucksacks afterwards.
12:46As you can see, it's really unique jewellery, but it also included medals, coins, carvings
12:54from ivory, lots and lots of different pieces from the British Empire Commonwealth collection.
12:59Yeah.
12:59And very valuable because they're one-off pieces, aren't they?
13:03They are very, very valuable.
13:05It's very difficult to put a price tag on some of these items because provenance from
13:10the pre-war Commonwealth era is really difficult to put a price tag on.
13:13Kind of late 18th, 20th century, and we're talking up to £5 million in some cases.
13:18Yeah, 18th to 20th century pieces, anywhere from hundreds of thousands up to and into the
13:23millions.
13:24Yeah.
13:24So irreplaceable, one-of-a-kind artefacts.
13:26You want to get them back.
13:27You also want to find out who did it.
13:29And we've got a clip we can show our viewers here.
13:32So tell me what we know.
13:33It's four people, isn't it?
13:34It is.
13:35We'd love to find out who did it.
13:36These are certainly four people that we've got an interest in understanding who they are
13:40to see if they can help us with our inquiries.
13:43This bridge you can see is a footbridge which crosses roughly from where the burglaries took
13:47place into a part of Bristol called Ashton.
13:50And you'll see from their descriptions that they're all wearing various different pieces
13:54of clothing.
13:55The orange and black coat is obviously very distinctive.
13:58Yeah.
13:59Their builds are from small to large.
14:04Specifically, there's a chap at the back who's a white male.
14:08And he walks with a limp on his right leg.
14:11So this is this guy at the back here with the hoodie up, the kind of light-coloured pale
14:16green, possibly, hoodie.
14:17So he's got a limp.
14:18So that might be something people notice.
14:20It might also be the artefacts that people recognise as well.
14:24It might be someone who's maybe bought it as a collector, not realising that it's part
14:29of this collection.
14:30What are you thinking that's going to be happening to him?
14:32What's the plan with these?
14:33Well, I'm really worried that people have inadvertently bought some of these items, whether that be
14:38from an auctioneer, from the high street, from an online auction in some way.
14:43So part of the appeal is to ask those people to come forward if they recognise some of these
14:47unique items.
14:48Yeah.
14:49So that we can try and return them to where they need to be.
14:52Yes, because unsurprisingly, these items are very collectible.
14:54And there might be someone out there who might have bought one not knowing it was stolen.
14:58And they haven't done anything wrong.
14:59So they should come forward, shouldn't they?
15:01Absolutely.
15:01We'd love for them to come forward.
15:02Some of these items are culturally, historically so important.
15:05They're irreplaceable.
15:06Yeah.
15:07And so who are you appealing to today?
15:09It's the people who might have collected these.
15:11Who else?
15:12Yeah.
15:12So it's the people who may have inadvertently bought some of these items to come forward,
15:16but also anybody that's got any information on the group that we'd like to speak to that's
15:20back on the screen now.
15:21So whether that's individually or whether they recognise the four together as a group.
15:27Yeah.
15:27I mean, Jason, thank you very much.
15:28Let's hope this helps.
15:30And if you know anything at all that can help, all the ways to contact us are on the screen
15:35below.
15:37Yeah, just a quick reminder, actually, about getting in touch.
15:40Then the lines are open now.
15:42Don't wait till the end of the show.
15:43If you've got information about the case that Steph just brought you or any of the cases
15:47throughout the series, do get in touch straight away.
15:50Now, though, it is time for a film about a crime that really shocked the nation, throwing
15:56subjects like toxic masculinity into the public consciousness.
16:01It's about the murder of schoolgirl Eliane Andam, who was killed in Croydon in 2023.
16:08Now, as you can imagine, this film does have some upsetting themes.
16:23Eliane, she brought joy to so many people.
16:29She had a wonderful sense of humour.
16:34She loved life.
16:37Dancing, singing.
16:38She was very talented from a very young age.
16:42I used to bring her along to my studio because she loved music.
16:46So everything I do, I do it all to you.
16:50I do it because you love me.
16:52There were times where she would tell me from, like, five years old, yeah, that song's not
16:56good.
16:57Don't release that song.
17:00She was the little sister that I didn't have.
17:04How was school?
17:05Good.
17:06Every single time, same thing.
17:08How was school?
17:09Good.
17:12Eliane Andam loved school.
17:15And at 15 years old, she already knew the career she wanted.
17:20She wanted to be a lawyer.
17:23My wife is a lawyer as well, so there were times where they would discuss things and plan
17:29to, hopefully, when she finishes school, to do an internship at her law firm.
17:32But, yeah, she was really big on justice.
17:40On the 27th of September, 2023, Eliane and two of her friends set off to the Witt Gift shopping
17:46centre in Croydon on their way to school.
17:53the girls had arranged to meet one of their friend's ex-boyfriends
17:5717-year-old Hassan Sentamu to exchange belongings
18:04that relationship had ended quite recently particularly she wants her teddy bear back
18:12initially Eliane and her friends and Hassan did meet in the underground car park of the
18:18Wittgift Center Eliane's friend has given back the belongings to Hassan as planned and he's turned
18:26up empty-handed they leave the underground car park and they walk along the main road which takes
18:32them past the Wittgift Center Eliane's posted a snapchat video where she says you know her
18:39friends gone to exchange belongings and she hasn't got them back
18:50there's no malice there it's ultimately Eliane showing solidarity for her friend
19:00Eliane runs and she grabs the bag out of his hand and you actually see on the CCTV her smiling
19:07and
19:07laughing but within seconds the laughter turned to terror he immediately draws a knife and he chases
19:19after Eliane he catches her and he stabs her in an explosive rage sentamu then run off leaving Eliane fighting
19:38for her life
19:39her friends couldn't do anything the shock the horror the distress you can't really describe it
19:52all Eliane did was stand up for her friend
19:58a bus driver ran towards Eliane to give her first aid he held her hand and he said that he
20:04wouldn't leave
20:05her and he stayed with her until the emergency services arrived it took minutes for police
20:15officers to get to the scene well some took over from the bus driver others questioned Eliane's friends
20:22about sentamu the bravery they showed in being able to give that information when going through such trauma I
20:31just think is exceptional officers identify where his last known address was and a description a
20:42response officer who picked up the alert spotted sentamu getting off a bus
20:48show me your hands what's your name mate what's your name what's your name John you got any idea
20:56any right I'm looking for someone who should stab someone the officer was incredibly brave
21:01he's able to handcuff him very quickly
21:24and what you actually see in that footage is the message comes out that Eliane's died and he says
21:29it's now murder wow well the statistics around knife crime in the UK make for sobering reading and
21:44what's particularly stark is the number of young people who are caught up in this now sadly our next
21:50guest is painfully aware of the dangers of knives Caroline Wilgus tragically lost her son Harvey in
21:57February 2025 after he was fatally stabbed inside his school in Sheffield Caroline thank you so much for
22:04coming in to talk about this because I know you've got an important campaign around all of it but tell
22:09us a bit
22:10about Harvey he was a big Sheffield United fan wasn't he massive blade um he was so popular popular with
22:16the
22:16children at school teachers he had friends all over he was just a crazy kid yeah so he was a
22:23happy full of life lad and
22:25what happened we don't really know the reasons but he didn't go he didn't want to go to school and
22:32the week before when the
22:33school was in lockdown he told us that someone had got a knife in in school for him and we
22:37were like us if our babes if
22:39anybody's going to take a knife into school the next time he goes into school he didn't make dinner time
22:45so he was worrying about going into school because of a problem already there with knives
22:49and so now I mean how do you even begin to start with with coping with this I know you
22:56now want to put
22:56your energy into this campaign to stop it happening don't you I'm just campaigning to get knife archers
23:01into schools and bleed kits into schools we don't know whether a bleed kit could have saved our RV but
23:07we'll never know that answer because they didn't have one in place so yeah we've given 30 hour up to
23:12now uh to schools in Sheffield never want to carry on and go beyond Rotherham yeah and and in the
23:20inside
23:20these bleed kits you've got things like tourniquets haven't you you've got pressure dressings chest
23:25seals all things that hopefully will save lives yeah they do save lives yeah it's not just it's not just
23:32for stabbings it's for accidents self-arming all sorts of reasons yeah so you want schools to have
23:39these bleed kits you're also doing loads around going in to talk to kids as well aren't you tell
23:43us about that going in to talk to children I know it's sad but young children as well from about
23:48age
23:49six because I think that's where we've got to start do it delicately and that's what six wow I mean
23:54I've got a six-year-old and you think that's how young we should be talking yeah we've got to
23:59get in
23:59there young now we know it's barrelling out of control and what what are the six-year-olds saying
24:05to you when you're telling them about this well they're shocked but I've been doing it delicately
24:09so and say it's a one-off but we don't want it happening again yeah and I guess it's it's
24:15about
24:16the people being hurt but it's also about the people doing it as well isn't it because there's
24:20a big impact on on families there yeah so I go into schools and I talk about like I say
24:25all the time
24:26there's no winners here this lad that's killed our RV he's locked up for a long time he's not with
24:30his
24:30family he's not with his friends he's ruined his life through one mistake one split second
24:36yeah and when you're going into schools what kind of reaction are you getting from the these children
24:41you're talking to the children won't want me to go into their schools the children want knife
24:46arches in their schools they want bleed kits in their schools children know there are knives in schools
24:51yeah and when you're saying knife arches this is like the security systems that you get at an airport
24:55so there's kids saying to you that that's what they want because that's how worried they are about it
25:00I get messages all the time from children what would you say to parents as well because you know
25:04you saying that to me about talking to six-year-olds feels like right that I should be doing something
25:08as a parent here what would you say to parents I'd say talk to your children and I also say
25:14to them
25:14if you don't think there's a problem with knives ask your child if they've ever thought ever known
25:20of anybody taking a knife into school and I think you'd be very surprised at their answer
25:24yeah it's incredible and so tell me about Harvey's hub as well because that's part of this and we've
25:29got this brilliant um poster here because there's there's lots of ways you're trying to help with all
25:34this this is a poster that's going uh into shops um doctors libraries and it's got a qr code that
25:41goes
25:41to feeler so children can scan it and and report things anonymously so if they know someone's carrying
25:48a knife they can do it they can do it anonymously yeah because that must be the other side of
25:54this
25:54just kids worried about getting in trouble if they report something so what you're saying is
25:58if they're worried about anything this is an anonymous way of doing it yeah and what what do
26:04you want to see change caroline and all of this because it sounds like a huge undertaking all of this
26:10but it's so important it is so important and one of the other things that we're doing with harvest
26:15hope is trying to get youth clubs set up for children for somewhere to go because children
26:19lost their social skills around our harvest age through covid and that's we need to bring this social
26:27back into into kids lives yeah and and i guess stop the kind of glorification around it and the all
26:34these different trends around it you just want to stop that happening don't you kids want it kids
26:39want somewhere to go and be themselves play the music watch a football uh march whatever just be
26:46together and it's not just sheffield where you're from that you've been doing this you're going to
26:50schools in birmingham and all sorts aren't you yeah this bleed keeps actually going into birmingham
26:55next thursday yeah um and they're showing me things that they're doing for lockdown and
26:59they put things in place to protect children so that'll be interesting yeah well thank you so much
27:05for doing what you're doing because you know it really does show harvey's legacy doesn't it that
27:09hopefully this will stop this happening yeah again and thank you for coming in i really appreciate it
27:14now it is time for the second part of our film on the murder of elliane andham a response officer
27:23has
27:23just arrested their suspect but now they need to know why he committed such a violent act
27:35teenage boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 15 year old girl was stabbed to
27:40death in south london on her way to school this morning a tragic shocking and avoidable loss of life
27:47the words of the croydon mp after the fatal stabbing of a 15 year old girl
27:55on the 27th of september 2023 17 year old hassan sentimu had brutally stabbed elliane andham in croydon
28:05in the 28th of september 2022 17 year old hassan sentimu had been arrested on the 27th of september
28:13me and my wife and my young daughter we were on our way on holiday
28:18when we landed my sister kept calling kept calling so i picked up
28:23and i remember just freezing my wife took the phone from me and my sister told her that she's been
28:30killed
28:31and we just started crying i remember calling elliane's mom i wanted to hear from her
28:41and so she confirmed it and just was just breaking down crying
28:46she was only 15.
28:49it was a horrible horrible time
28:58our hearts are broken and we are overwhelmed by sorrow and grief
29:06our faith in the lord is strengthening us
29:10we would like to express our gratitude to those who have taken the time
29:17to send us thoughtful and compassionate messages and prayers
29:37i have never dealt with cases with that level of emotion
29:43i think almost croydon stopped for 24 48 hours
29:50the community were absolutely devastated by what happened to elliane
29:57the outpouring of grief people wanting to be there they wanted to support the family
30:05they were angry
30:12police knew who had killed elliane what they didn't know was why
30:19officers began to trawl through all the cctv and witness statements
30:23to piece together what happened in the lead-up to this shocking crime
30:29they were in the wit gift center the day before hassan was with his friend elliane
30:36was with her group of friends which included hassan's ex-girlfriend
30:40they were challenging him around his swearing and how the relationship had ended
30:49we see them throw water over him and we see them all walking away very calmly
30:54you see hassan sort of mopping it off of his face but that's the end of that incident
31:01through witness testimonies looking at mobile phones that night hassan went home he seethed
31:08and he was angry and he felt disrespected
31:13and he said that he wouldn't let that go
31:22when he left his home the following day he was armed with a face mask two pairs of gloves
31:29and he took a knife from his kitchen and took that to the meeting
31:36when hassan sentimu was arrested there was no sign of the knife whilst he was held in police custody
31:43detectives had to work quickly to gather evidence what we see on cctv is hassan running away
31:50we see him take his gloves and his face mask off we believe that he's dumped those in a bin
31:56and he's continued to run away
31:59he then goes on to dispose of the knife in a front garden
32:07he gets on the 130 bus
32:11after he gets off that bus at 9 42 he gets onto the route 64 bus which is where he
32:17makes his way
32:17towards his home and when he exits that bus it's where the arresting officer sees him and obviously
32:23runs towards him to make that arrest
32:27the knife was recovered and then sent to the lab urgently
32:33forensics confirmed sentimu's dna was on the knife they had the cctv footage and the murder weapon
32:40but police couldn't understand what triggered such a violent attack
32:46the arresting officer had described hassan being very calm not acting in a way you would expect
32:52for somebody that had just stabbed a young girl in such an explosive rage
33:00sentimu's past would offer police an insight into his behavior
33:07when he was very young 12 years old he'd taken a knife into a school and he'd actually threatened to
33:13hurt himself although the police had only ever been notified about one incident
33:20actually when you took all the records of his different schools and he had been excluded from
33:24some for violence where he'd threatened and harmed pupils where he'd threatened animals
33:30this was a pattern of behavior it showed that actually when he doesn't get his way where he was cross
33:38he would use violence
33:42on the 13th of march 2025 hassan sentimu was sentenced to life imprisonment for elian's murder
33:51throughout this whole investigation hassan sentimu shown no remorse whatsoever for the murder of elian
33:58he gave no explanation for his acts that day
34:03a little girl's lost her life no justice or verdict will ever bring her back
34:13our world was shattered and our hearts were broken
34:19her death has left a void in our lives that can never be filled we will continue to fight against
34:27the
34:27violence that took elian from us working toward a world where no family has to endure such heartbreak
34:36following elian's death a mural was created in honor of her life
34:45one of the ways to honor elian was to have some sort of physical memory of her
34:52and so that the mural came about and we have a right in the heart of croydon where she was
34:58sadly killed
35:02we are sharing who she is
35:06and we are looking at different ways to continue her legacy
35:15what a beautiful mural there well in march last year we spoke to the sisters of 25 year old lisa
35:22dorian who
35:22disappeared in february 2005 she was last seen in a caravan in bally halbert and county down now
35:29police believe she was murdered but her body has never been found well now there has been a major
35:36development last week two people were arrested a 40 year old woman in northern ireland and a 42 year
35:42old man in scotland both arrested on suspicion of murder assisting offenders withholding information
35:48and preventing a lawful and decent burial and this week two more men were arrested a 40 year old on
35:55suspicion of assisting offenders and withholding information and a 48 year old on suspicion of
36:01murder assisting offenders and preventing a decent and lawful burial well this year marks the 21st
36:08anniversary of lisa's disappearance and the police service of northern ireland are urging anyone with any
36:14information to do the right thing and come forward time now for wanted faces
36:25and first today we have liam patrick weaver though you may know him as paddy police in lincolnshire
36:33want to talk to him about a burglary he's 36 and has several tattoos including a dragon a sword and
36:40the
36:40words paddy and england next today we've got jonathan scott but he has a range of nicknames including
36:47bomber bomber scott and little bomber he was charged with conspiracy to supply class a drugs and pleaded
36:54guilty in court but has since disappeared 35 year old has a liverpudlian accent with connections across
37:01merseyside carlisle and also cheshire and last for today anyway we have dermot quilligan he's been
37:08charged with fraud offenses relating to misleading a number of homeowners about roofing work he's 46 with
37:17an irish accent and has connections in harlow in essex and also limerick in ireland if you know
37:24any of the whereabouts of any of these men please do pick up the phone and get in touch now
37:30this
37:30weekend marks international women's day a day to celebrate women everywhere and in honor of that
37:35we've got a cracking story for you now four generations of one family who have all joined the
37:41police force pc ellie james from greater manchester police is here with us so you're 18 months in to
37:48the job aren't you you're following a line of women who've done the same but tell us a bit about
37:53how
37:53it's going so 18 months feels a bit like a lifetime to be honest and so i joined in september
37:582024 where
37:59i then did uh 21 weeks of training out of sedgly park and i had my passing out parade february
38:042025
38:05um i'm on the response team now um and it's amazing the team's fantastic it's a bit like an
38:12overbearing overprotective family um supervision of fantastic as well um yeah knowing that they've got
38:19my back and i can go to them with anything and i'm just a bit of a sponge at the
38:23moment sort of
38:23absorbing um any information and wisdom that they're sort of passing down to me yeah because you've done
38:28some interesting jobs before this as well haven't you yeah so i didn't want to join straight away at
38:33sort of 18 or 19 i wanted to get a little bit of life experience um so i was an
38:38air hostess i've
38:38worked in marketing um i was also a beauty therapist um so i mean looks wise probably a small
38:45female officer it's not typically what people think of with police officers um but again it's
38:50breaking those barriers and stereotypes yeah and all those transferable skills as well it just shows
38:54you people that might be watching this going oh i could do that yeah absolutely um i think coming
38:59here today was important as well to show that sort of no matter what your background is in
39:04terms of careers um height as well um that you can do it i've done it well many people in
39:11your family
39:11have especially the women well let's talk about that then how many women in your family
39:18starting on the left is ivy baxter she's my great great great great auntie look at that uniform
39:24yeah i wouldn't want to run in that skirt no so she joined in 1937 she um saw a ad
39:32in the newspaper
39:33for volunteer women police officers to go over to the isle of man um so she was over there and
39:39she was
39:40dealing with sort of high-risk prisoners um in port erin and port st mary um and after three years
39:45she was promoted to sergeant so she was doing that during the war um and yeah some fantastic stories from
39:52her um and then second on the left is my great great great great aunt joyce um so she joined
39:59in
40:00the 50s she was um one of the first women police officers to drive so she was one of six
40:06um that was
40:07amazing it's quite ironic because i can only drive automatic cars sorry joyce um but she did 26 years
40:15and in the 70s did they have a little nickname yeah the fly girls fly girls uh so yeah the
40:20first six
40:21women uh officers to drive so um in the 70s she was also one of the founding members of the
40:26metropolitan police women's association um and that's for serving female officers and retired female
40:32officers um and they're celebrating 50 years of friendship this year um they were again breaking
40:37down the barriers the stereotypes and obviously a male-dominated industry yeah um and she married
40:42a police officer burt davis who was a driver for the bomb squad in london gosh just a history and
40:48then we get to your mom don't we so my mom joined in 1996 um she was a response cop
40:54and she worked
40:55lady diana's funeral as well which she says was probably one of her proudest moments um she met my
41:02dad um at peckham um yeah yeah of course i worked with my dad and i have to say that
41:16both your parents
41:16have a very good reputation in the police so big shoes for you to fill no pressure yeah um so
41:22yeah
41:22my mom worked up uh literally five days before giving birth to me in 2000 oh did she yeah yeah
41:28so i think
41:29hopefully that um sort of hard work ethics passed down to me i don't know about five days before
41:33birthday um and yes my dad retired four years ago as a detective sergeant he did his 30 years
41:39um and then it's obviously me fantastic yeah so it's obviously early days for you at the moment 18
41:44months in yeah where where do you see your path going within policing at the moment so at the moment
41:48i'm on response that's obviously responding to 909 calls um we call it the blues and twos when you put
41:53your sirens on i can't do that just yet but hopefully soon um and i'm really really enjoying it i
41:58mean
41:58every day is so different i i could sit here all day and tell you the sorts of jobs that
42:03we do um but
42:05a prominent one for me was um about a month ago i was one of the first officers on scene
42:09um to a fatal
42:10stabbing um and you never know how you're going to do in that situation um but i mean the teamwork
42:18from the paramedics the doctors all the other officers we worked fantastic as a team um and just
42:24sort of being in that environment it was it was amazing to be part of the support of the team
42:29as
42:29well yeah yeah it was fantastic yeah supervision as well were amazing we were debriefed um by mitt as
42:36well yeah um and then hopefully in the future probably follow my dad's footsteps and yeah and
42:40one day chief constable yeah absolutely yeah thank you for coming in i think that is the end of the
42:48shows for this week actually but we've had some heavy subjects so if you have been affected by any of
42:53the
42:53issues from today's program or any this week do visit bbc action line where you can find links
42:57that provide support and stephan you're going to be back with us next week but the end of next week
43:01yes i will be uh yeah you've got michelle with you on monday with a nail-biting film actually as
43:06two
43:07officers face a life or death situation as a woman is stuck in some rocks as the tide is coming
43:13in
43:16i remember thinking to myself if we don't do something now then we're gonna watch this woman die
43:26goodness isn't it yeah yeah have a great weekend whatever you're up to
43:29and we'll see you monday 10 45 bye for now yeah bye
43:54you
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