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00:07The United States says it will publish detailed evidence linking Osama bin Laden to the attack
00:13on the World Trade Center in the very near future. Prince William arrived at St Andrews University
00:19today and an investigation is underway after a body was found this afternoon in the River Thames.
00:27I got a call on the way home to say that a body had been recovered in the River Thames
00:31and would
00:31I go to the mortuary at Popular and see the body. Lots of bodies are found in River Thames,
00:39anything from falling off a boat to suicides to people being pushed in to people being
00:45disposed of in the river but yeah on a fairly regular basis. But whereabouts in London the
00:52River Thames runs through the middle so he could have come from anywhere.
01:15I thought initially it was a tailor's dummy or a mannequin and then as it got closer I could see
01:21some fabric
01:22which was moving with the current of the water. By this time I've decided that I'm going to find out
01:29what it is. It piqued my curiosity. The tide was coming in at quite a rate and I'm about 30
01:38feet
01:38away from it and as it's passed under the bridge I can clearly see that it's not a mannequin or
01:45a tailor's dummy. It's the body of a small man or a young child.
01:54There was some bones sticking out of the upper right arm, the shoulder area and small flaps of
02:02skin were moving in the current of the water so right then and there I knew it wasn't a tailor's
02:07dummy it was something a lot more sinister. When I saw the body float under there's a moment where
02:18you try and collect yourself you just think that can't be what I've just seen.
02:24I was either in the wrong place at the wrong time or the right place at the right time.
02:31In London they have got a Thames division which have river boats that go up and down the Thames.
02:39Some 20 minutes later the bodies are covered up by the Globe Theatre just off the south bank.
02:45That's from an area a distance of about a mile so on a strong upstream tide in 20 minutes the
02:51body
02:51had moved a mile. The first thing you would normally do is seal the scene where a body is found
02:58but
02:58with this body was being in the water there is no scene as such.
03:05So the post-mortem revealed basically that this was a young black child who had had his limbs,
03:12his arms, his legs and also his head removed and in the pathologist's view skillfully removed.
03:21Probably aged between five or eight years of age, been in the water for two to five days but possibly
03:28up to one to ten. The reason we knew that was that the top layer of skin just started to
03:34peel off.
03:36In the police officer's mind and the pathologist's mind they had no doubt
03:41what they were dealing with was a murder of this young black child.
03:49As a homicide detective you see bodies on a regular basis but to see a child so young is
03:55it hits you really it hits you quite hard. The only item on the body was a pair of orange
04:00shorts
04:02and to see a child dismembered in such a way it was you know and was completely different.
04:09This is a six-part dismemberment. Dismemberment only happens really to hide identity
04:16or to transport a body parts but not the child so young this is this is totally unusual.
04:22The cause of death was a knife wound to the side of the neck and the knife had been pulled
04:28forward
04:29in almost in the way that you'd kill animals and the bloodletting of animals. They knew that because
04:35around the area of the knife wound there was the blood leaking into the sort of inner in a muscle
04:42and you saw a sort of what's known as a live reaction there so it was a clear stab wound
04:48to the
04:48neck and that was the obvious cause of death. Normally we would expect to be able to have dental
04:54records we'd able to have a visual of the face for instance we could get fingerprints so all those forms
05:02of identifying who that person was were gone they just weren't present. The only crucial item was the
05:09orange shorts the only physical item we had on the body but they were in great condition. All we had
05:15was a label on them so kids and company and size 116. Those shorts were placed on the child after
05:23death
05:23and after dismemberment there was no blood on there there was no body fluid to come out so which is
05:29weird you know why would you do that. When I saw the the body as it floated under I remember
05:40thinking that
05:42the amount of damage that had been done to it was was just incredible was it just utter disbelief
05:49really shocked. It's um quite alarming when you see it up close because I was only about 30 feet
05:57away from it at the time and the incoming tide was quite fast but it was long enough to see
06:03all of that
06:04detail all of the injuries that had been inflicted on that. I've never seen anything like that before
06:14and I'll never forget it but it's probably one of the most horrific things I've ever seen in my life.
06:22This is a vicious murder of a young child
06:26and dismemberment of the body and disposal of the body in the river.
06:32It's obviously got all the hallmarks of being pre-planned.
06:38The pathologist said in his opinion it was possibly a ritual killing. He'd heard of ritual killings
06:45throughout other parts of the world but never to his knowledge or to knowledge of any of the
06:52investigating officers or certainly myself I've never heard of any ritual killings within London or even
06:58in England. But he said it is very similar to the way that you slaughter animals he said the possibility
07:10he's put it no more than that the possibility of a ritual killing.
07:20There was only one child murder dating back to the 60s that bore any resemblance to this and that was
07:26a
07:26domestic murder of a young child. Was this a stranger attack? Was it a domestic attack? Was it paedophilia?
07:33Was it ritualism? You know, we really weren't sure at all really what it was.
07:40The dismemberment of the child was professional and that meant that this was not an accident, it was murder.
07:49The big question was who would possibly want to murder a young child and mutilate the body in the way
07:57that this one was. Understand your victim, how they lived, where they lived, what they did,
08:02what they experienced and why was that person chosen?
08:20We had no scene, we had no witnesses and we had no identity, we had no family to give a
08:29clue,
08:29we had no community. So basically we had not a lot at all. We had contacted every school in the
08:36UK
08:37and every doctor in the UK. We found no one matching the limited description of the child that we had.
08:46When the pathologist came up with the thought of possibly a ritualistic killing,
08:51I must admit I knew nothing about ritual killings.
08:57I'm not afraid to say that, you know, my knowledge wasn't there.
09:01But at that stage we couldn't rule out there was another motive for this killing that didn't involve ritual.
09:12Clearly they were looking, the police were looking to try and understand how this could possibly happen.
09:20And perhaps there were suggestions that there were some huge cultural elements within this.
09:29At the time nobody knew where the body had come from to end up in the river.
09:34At that stage, assumptions which were being made by pathologists and scientists,
09:41because of the nature of the brutality of the things which this poor child had suffered.
09:49I think this was such a new phenomenon that it would have been irresponsible in my view,
09:58and that was the advice. To go public, to accuse the black community in essence, indirectly,
10:05of murdering children on the streets of London.
10:10The events of 9-11 meant that the media was entirely focused quite rightly on those events and
10:19the whys and what happened surrounding that. But it did mean that the media focused on something
10:25so dramatic meant that they didn't look at our case or our case didn't get the media coverage
10:32that it initially that it normally would.
10:40When you make an appeal, particularly on someone like Crimewatch, you can be very selective about
10:45what information you provide. Partly because you can't tell people everything,
10:53because if you want to verify the accuracy of information that comes in, if you've held something
10:59back and they then provide similar information, it helps you confirm that what you're being told
11:05is accurate. But when you have so little, you have to focus on the small bits that you have got.
11:12And the pair of shorts were one of those. And we had a response to that which was quite useful
11:19in that
11:20it identified the fact that there was only one retailer of these shorts and it was a group that
11:25was based out in Germany. These were girl's shorts, only solved in the girls' end of the department
11:32store and would be unlikely to be seen on a boy chart. Now, we would know that the DNA profile
11:42from
11:42that child would not be on a national DNA database. He's far too young. But one thing we could do
11:48is
11:48that you inherit your DNA half from your mother, half from your father. We knew there was 39,000
11:55people of African, African Caribbean origin that lived within London area that were on the national DNA
12:02database. And we were left with 46 individuals, 35 males, 11 females. We gave all these names back to the
12:12police officers to research. They researched those persons and eliminated every one of them.
12:21So within sort of six weeks or so into the inquiry, we're going down a forensic route,
12:27which isn't really achieving very much. We've got the shorts, which we've got a German connection,
12:33which obviously needs to be followed up. We had done some profiling work and the FBI at that stage
12:39said, this is unsolvable. We had nothing historically similar. It was getting very, very difficult.
12:47There was pressure from within. The senior officers at the time wanted to close the inquiry down.
12:58I'd just been appointed as commander to oversee all murders in London.
13:04And Will phoned me and said, can I speak to you about the case of the Torso in the Thames?
13:11And he said that the FBI had said that this case was unsolvable. And the senior investigating officers
13:20was thinking about closing the case because other murders had been coming in to be investigated.
13:26I wouldn't say the exact words that I used, but I was flabbergasted. Uh, murder of a child.
13:34I was just taken aback. I then spoke to, um, very senior officers in Metropolitan Police and said,
13:41this case is going to be closed. In fact, I'm going to declare it a critical incident,
13:46and I'll start a gold group, which meant I would oversee the investigations.
13:52Good afternoon, everyone. On the 21st September, the body of a child recovered from the River Thames.
13:58And we've not identified the child. And consequently, we've taken the unprecedented step
14:04of giving him a name. It's Adam. Until his family is identified,
14:12we will act as his family. This community will be the community of London.
14:20And we decided that the police force would be willing to put up a very large reward for information.
14:27In fact, it was 50,000, which was at the time, um, the highest reward the police had ever posted.
14:40For years, we knew that forensic scientists, they always presented evidence that we could give him
14:47call. But they also had a lot of forensics for intelligence purposes as well. And those were the
14:53boundaries that I wanted to push out. Those were the doors that I wanted to knock on. Spoke to Ray
14:58Feisch, spoke to Will O'Reilly, Ray being our scientific advisor, and said, can we pull the
15:05best that there is in this country and beyond to a conference, just give them problems and see what
15:11solutions they came up with. They came, they came willingly, all eminent scientists in the forensic
15:18world. And we just posed a problem. This is what we got. We got a torso of a little boy,
15:24been
15:24dismembered and a pair of shorts. As part of this, they invited over a pathologist from South Africa.
15:31Now, South Africa, we understood, have a relatively large number of ritual killings.
15:37So this pathologist was invited over to examine the body of Adam.
15:46It won't be one person in the group that goes and does the killing.
15:49It will be a, say there's four people in the group, all four of them will go and partake in
15:55the actual
15:55killing process. Because it's important that they're all present when this child cries out to wake up the
16:01ancestors or to awaken the supernatural forces. What really makes me believe that this is a ritualistic
16:07killing is, as I said already, the mechanism of death, the type of wounds we are seeing,
16:14the disposal of the body, the clothing, the colored clothing that the body was used, and also the body parts
16:24that were removed. I wasn't terribly surprised. But on the other hand, I felt really angry when
16:34we started talking about ritual sacrifices of humans in London. And therefore, the shock of this
16:45happening in London was just intolerable. We need help, we need assistance, and we need to reach as far
16:54and wide as possible for that assistance. We had one officer who said, why don't you try Nelson Mandela?
17:02People said, that he wouldn't do it. And I said, well, we can write to him and see what happens.
17:28The body of a young child was discovered floating
17:35in the Thames River, in London.
17:39To date, no one has yet come forward
17:43to identify the body
17:45or to provide the faintest ginkly
17:49of information
17:51that could help her to solve the murder.
17:55It may be that we're dealing here
17:57with what is often referred to
18:00as a mutin' murder.
18:03To have him
18:05give up those five hours
18:07for our case for Adam
18:09meant a lot, but more importantly
18:12gave some gravitas and weight
18:14to the appeal and work that we were doing.
18:21This was obviously a slow-moving inquiry
18:24because of the limited,
18:26the very limited information that we had.
18:29We weren't aware
18:31of the extent of ritualism within London.
18:36Our naive presumption was that this is a very rare occurrence,
18:41but it did cause us to look at the wider picture
18:44of ritualism within the UK, and particularly London.
18:51We looked in local newspapers where there was a big African community,
18:55and half the private adverts were for witch doctors
18:58who were offering these services.
19:01It was quite fascinating, quite mind-blowing that these things were advertised so widely and so easily.
19:08We wanted to prove to ourselves that these people actually were going to the extremes of doing what they were
19:16doing.
19:20We went through those as part of validating the practices which existed in London and got quite worried that there
19:29were people who were abusing vulnerable people who didn't know any better or were desperate, in fact, to improve their
19:37lives.
19:43We got a phone call from an officer based in a children's court in Glasgow to say that he was
19:50there witnessing a woman that was appealing to have her children out of care,
19:54a black African woman, an asylum seeker who was temporarily housed in Scotland.
20:03But the reason for her going to court, and the reason she wanted her children back, she said, related to
20:10the fact that she wanted to carry out a ritual process,
20:15not a ritual sacrifice, but some ritualism involving the children.
20:19She was a Nigerian lady. Her name was Joyce, Joyce Osegivi.
20:37The purpose of visiting Joyce was to get some more detailed background into ritualism, how it works, who operates it,
20:47and what the processes are.
20:51There was a handbag was on the chair next to me, and sitting at the top of it was a
20:56letter with an address in Catford.
20:59Now, our office was based in Catford, so I'd come all the way up to Glasgow to interview this woman,
21:05and it appeared that there was a Catford connection.
21:16I went to the address that was on that, uh, the letter that, uh, Joyce was in possession of,
21:23and knocked on the door, and it was answered by, uh, a lady who, uh, I then had a, had
21:30a chat with.
21:30And I said, I've been up in Glasgow, and there was a, uh, saw a woman, and there was a
21:36letter with, uh,
21:38your name and address on it. Can, any idea what, uh, what that related to?
21:43And she said this woman came in and told me that she'd, uh, come to the UK,
21:50that, uh, she was claiming asylum, and that she'd just come from Germany.
21:56At which point, the, uh, the bells started ringing.
22:03So now we have Joyce, who's, who's actually got a connection with London,
22:07because this is where she was before she went to, uh, to Glasgow.
22:11And it now turns out that she was in Germany immediately prior to coming into, uh, to London.
22:17And, of course, we know that the orange shorts were from Germany.
22:25Joyce, therefore, moved up the scale a little bit,
22:29from someone who potentially could give us some interesting background into the case
22:33to someone who is potentially involved.
22:36She purported to come from Sierra Leone,
22:39and she appealed for asylum, uh, in the UK,
22:43and she was escaping a, uh, cult that, um, her husband was involved in.
22:48The thought was his family were even involved in part of the murder,
22:52or a relative is looking after him,
22:56and the blood family, parents, siblings, wouldn't know that he's missing or dead.
23:03But we had to have an open mind as to what the family role was
23:07in his murder, if at all.
23:32Joe, let me just explain. I've got a warrant, uh, to come in here, so, uh, if you don't open
23:37the door,
23:38I'm going to be forced, um, to force it open.
23:40Joyce had, uh, two girls.
23:44When we searched Joyce's house,
23:47there were multiple clothes from the same retailer.
23:51There's a lot of clothes here, and they're obviously your children's clothes.
23:54Where were they bought most of those?
23:56I bought most of the some from Chandler.
24:00Nick?
24:01Yeah.
24:02Same company.
24:03Size 116 from Kids and Company.
24:08And our shorts on our boy were orange pair of girl shorts,
24:14size 116 from Kids and Company.
24:19Joyce was then arrested on suspicion of being involved in the murder,
24:24and she was brought back to London to be interviewed.
24:32We asked if she knew anything about Adam, and she denied it.
24:36One of the things we had to eliminate is,
24:38was she the mother of the child or a very close relative?
24:44When someone's in custody, it gives us the opportunity to carry out a variety of tests.
24:51One of which, we can take fingerprints, and we can take DNA sample.
24:56She gave some information, particularly about her own personal circumstances,
25:01where she told me that her husband, who she was now separated from,
25:06said that he had been very high up in a group called the Guru Maharaj.
25:15And they were a religious, ritualistic group.
25:20And her plan was that she'd fled him and that group for sanctuary in the UK.
25:30My opinion at the time was that she knew a lot more than she was saying,
25:33but she was very guarded in what she was saying,
25:35and most of the time, it was no comment.
25:38Now, this was the DNA that would show whether Joyce was the mother of Adam or not.
25:43And that DNA was turned around in around 12 hours,
25:47and it proved that Joyce was not the mother of Adam.
25:51We did further work around mitochondrial DNA profiling,
25:55and that proved that Joyce was not a maternal relative.
26:01Where we got close DNA matches to the body of Adam were around northwest Africa.
26:08So that would be around the sort of Nigeria area,
26:11up as far possibly as the Canary Islands.
26:15So it was around that sort of northwest Africa part that we got matches from.
26:20So that was our first real breakthrough that would give us some sort of indication
26:26that he may have been born and bred in northwest Africa.
26:34Did we have evidence to justify charging her with a criminal offence?
26:40No, not at all.
26:42But in this case, couldn't justify keeping her,
26:46so she was released on bail.
27:01A memorial for Adam was held with,
27:04it was at City Hall at the time,
27:07and together with one of our cultural advisors, John Azar,
27:10I took a boat trip on the Thames
27:11and placed a reef into the area where the body was discovered.
27:20Even though it was a really terrible crime,
27:23at the time it was quite an honor and a privilege to be part of this thing,
27:29which was acknowledging his murder
27:33and honoring his presence in this country is very emotional.
27:48I just wanted it to be resolved.
27:51I wanted an outcome more than anything.
27:54The fact that I was a parent,
27:56the fact that I had a child of my own,
28:00and the fact that he was somebody's son,
28:04somebody's child,
28:05he needed an identity,
28:07he needed dignity in that moment,
28:10and the police gave it to him.
28:19Part of the forensic strategy was, let's say,
28:21to try and narrow down where the child was from,
28:24because we thought once you identify where the child was from,
28:26that might lead to his identity,
28:27and then you can move on.
28:29Unfortunately, in this case, we didn't have hair.
28:31We didn't have fingernails.
28:33So we were limited to bone, really,
28:37and, yeah, so we were looking at the bone structure
28:40to see what trace animals were present
28:42to try and narrow down where that child was from.
28:47We are basically what we eat and drink.
28:50We analysed Adam's thigh bone for the isotopes of strontium.
28:55UK bones, they'd been analysed in the past,
28:58and we knew what a UK bone should be.
29:00So this was the first result that showed us
29:03that Adam was not born and bred in London.
29:08Whereabouts in the world?
29:09Pre-Cameron Rock?
29:11Africa.
29:12Whereabouts in Africa?
29:14I'm talking about the area around Cameroon,
29:17Nigeria, Benin, and Togo.
29:20They have areas of Pre-Cameron Rock.
29:22So now we are getting a DNA result
29:24that's suggesting North West Africa.
29:27We're now getting bone analysis
29:29also indicating possibly that area.
29:32It's a job we had to do, basically.
29:34We realised the importance of,
29:36if we were going to take this any further forward
29:38by the science,
29:39we had to get out of there
29:40and collect the samples to build a database.
29:58Those samples were rock and geology samples,
30:02but also animal samples, bone samples.
30:07There you go, one of our first bone samples,
30:10the leg of a local goat.
30:12Bushmeat samples, which are animals being cooked
30:14by the side of the road.
30:15We had snake samples, we had even elephant bones.
30:19Okay.
30:19I'm going to get a joint.
30:20Okay.
30:22That's it.
30:22That one in there.
30:23That's it.
30:24That's all we want.
30:26Mainly animals were laid out
30:29where they were there to be sold
30:30for ritualistic practices,
30:32to make medicines, et cetera.
30:33And the officers that were with us said,
30:36without doubt,
30:37there will be human body parts here
30:39for sale in this market,
30:41but kept undercover.
30:45Now, mooty can be at a low level,
30:47just herbal sacrifice
30:49or a herbal concoction or potion
30:51made to cure an illness or for an issue.
30:55But on the extreme case,
30:57it's the use of body parts.
30:59And people are murdered there
31:02and their body parts harvested
31:03to make a medicine
31:05that someone will pay for.
31:08Let's go.
31:09Okay.
31:11What we wanted was anything
31:13that would give us
31:14a strontium isotope signature
31:16together with a geographic location.
31:19When did you get that?
31:21Where?
31:21How did you?
31:22You hunted it?
31:23I went back.
31:24He's a hunter,
31:25so he filled that with.
31:27So narrowing it down,
31:28basically getting closer and closer
31:30to where he's born,
31:31where he's raised,
31:32where he lived
31:33or somebody to identify
31:36who this boy was.
31:38I saw signs saying
31:40my child is for sale,
31:43you know,
31:44for less than $50,
31:45or the equivalent of.
31:47And these can be very large families
31:49in very rural areas.
31:51It's seen as a bit of an honour
31:53with families.
31:54They think their child
31:55is living happily somewhere.
31:58We had post-mortem samples.
32:00And we also took DNA samples
32:02off of local populations,
32:03including all the police guards
32:04that were with us.
32:05That is your DNA.
32:07Okay.
32:09So we just travelled
32:10all over Nigeria
32:11for a period of three and a half weeks.
32:13We collected,
32:14in the end,
32:16150 samples,
32:17which we took back with us.
32:34Although we know the shorts
32:35had come from Germany,
32:37this was a way
32:38of just getting a bigger picture
32:40of Joyce
32:41and some background
32:42around her.
32:43And we actually
32:44were able to establish
32:45that she had still been in Germany
32:47at the time of the murder.
32:50That was because
32:52she had two girls
32:53who were in nursery there
32:55and she was still taking her kids
32:57to the nursery in October.
32:59So that was confirmation
33:01that she was in Germany
33:03at the time of the murder.
33:04A useful development.
33:06But when we spoke
33:07to a care worker
33:09and, in fact,
33:10a caretaker
33:11for the block of houses
33:13that she was living in,
33:15they both gave us
33:16the same bit of information
33:18that in the late summer months
33:21around July, August,
33:23she was now looking after
33:24a young boy.
33:26This was a young black boy
33:28who fit the general description
33:30of our victim.
33:31Who was he?
33:32Was it Adam?
33:39The two areas
33:41that we got close matches
33:42from Abdon's Bone
33:44was a place called Ibadan
33:46and a place called
33:47Benin City.
33:48And basically,
33:50that area
33:50is just one long road.
33:52It's the Benin City
33:53to Lagos Road
33:54with villages dotted
33:57either side of the road.
33:58So that was an area
34:00of about 50 miles
34:01by about 20 miles.
34:03So we'd got it now
34:04from the Thames
34:05to one area
34:06in Nigeria.
34:07which is basically
34:09Benin City.
34:24We had discovered
34:25her passport
34:25and we were able
34:26to obtain
34:27her correct identity.
34:28So because she had lied
34:30on coming into the UK,
34:32the Immigration Services
34:34decided that she would
34:35have to go into custody,
34:37that she would
34:38have to be deported.
34:49The coincidences
34:50in this case
34:51are beginning to add up.
34:52You know,
34:53the Shorts,
34:53the fact that Joyce
34:54is from Benin City,
34:56Adam is more likely
34:57from Benin City
34:58or certainly
34:59in that area.
34:59but the coincidence
35:00of connecting the two
35:01were beginning to add up.
35:15Joyce did accept
35:16that her elder daughter
35:19had had a pair
35:20of orange shorts
35:21and she claimed
35:23and she claimed
35:23that they were still,
35:24she'd left them
35:25in her flat
35:26in Hamburg.
35:27We went there
35:28and all of Joyce's stuff
35:31was stored
35:32in a downstairs cupboard.
35:34We took it all out,
35:35we searched
35:36every bit of it,
35:37no orange shorts at all.
35:39So Joyce's claim
35:41that the shorts
35:41were in Hamburg
35:43was untrue.
35:44This was not
35:45an act
35:46that a single woman
35:48in her position
35:49could have carried out
35:50but it was very reasonable
35:52to assume
35:53that she was part of
35:55or familiar
35:57with the group
35:57that had carried it out.
36:01If you think,
36:02well,
36:02they haven't done it
36:03themselves
36:03or other people involved,
36:05you look at
36:05who their associates are.
36:07Have they talked about
36:09contacts in the UK?
36:11Where did they first go
36:13when they arrived in the UK?
36:14Are there other
36:14associated addresses?
36:17One of the best lines
36:18for inquire though
36:18is having a look
36:19at someone's phone
36:20and who are
36:22their phone contacts?
36:24And for Joyce,
36:26in the UK,
36:28she only had
36:29two UK contacts.
36:40Ojo was part
36:42of an organised group
36:44that illegally smuggled
36:47people into the UK
36:49from Europe.
36:51He particularly
36:52had contacts
36:53in Italy and Germany.
36:54This was a guy
36:55who was involved
36:57in trafficking
36:58on an industrial scale.
37:00Our information
37:01suggested that
37:01this was not just
37:03adults who were coming
37:05here as economic migrants
37:06but women
37:08who had been moved in
37:09for the sex trade
37:10for the sex trade
37:10and potentially
37:11children as well.
37:15We'd put him
37:16under surveillance
37:16to see what he's doing,
37:19who he's doing it with.
37:20We watched him
37:21come in and out
37:22of the UK
37:24bringing people
37:25back with him.
37:27And there was a network
37:28that he was running
37:30and involved in
37:30who were producing
37:31the documents
37:33that facilitated
37:34that trafficking.
37:39He had
37:40a regular travel
37:42where he would come
37:43into small airports
37:45in the east of England
37:47late at night
37:48when there's very few
37:49law enforcement
37:50customs around.
37:51And we also found out
37:53that he was recognised
37:54as a high priest
37:57in a certain cult
37:59of religion
37:59in Nigeria.
38:08There was a sort
38:09of wall of silence.
38:10You know,
38:11if someone
38:12did know something
38:13they would be very guarded
38:14to tell you
38:15because they think
38:16that a bad spell
38:17would come upon them.
38:19I'm not a person
38:20of religion
38:21or anything like that
38:23but I do believe
38:24that if you've got
38:25a conscience
38:26it's there
38:26and you will
38:27think it through.
38:29What was the potential
38:30that people could get
38:31out of trafficking
38:32in children?
38:34For the first time ever
38:35it would appear
38:36that trafficked in
38:38for human sacrifice
38:39potentially had happened here.
39:00you hear today
39:01about human trafficking
39:03and it's a business
39:04it's an organisation
39:05it was going on then
39:07it was just
39:08a lot more
39:09under the radar
39:09but it wasn't
39:11so much
39:11in your face
39:12it wasn't so obvious.
39:15If we believe
39:16that Kingsley Ojo
39:17was a trafficker
39:18of Adam
39:18then we believe
39:19or must suspect
39:21that he was involved
39:21in his murder.
39:25How do we know
39:26that Adam
39:26was sort of
39:27killed
39:28in London?
39:30He could have
39:31surely been brought
39:32in Upper Thames
39:33on a boat
39:33and tipped over the side
39:35already
39:35been killed elsewhere.
39:37If we were
39:38against
39:39or if they were
39:40going to charge
39:40anybody
39:41with his murder
39:42in London
39:43that we actually
39:44proved he was alive
39:45in London.
39:45So we came up
39:47with the suggestion
39:48that we look
39:49at pollen
39:50and then
39:51went and looked
39:52at lower intestines
39:53where we found
39:54a pollen assemblage.
39:55Basically
39:56if you look
39:57at that pollen
39:57assemblage
39:58and look at
39:59a pollen assemblage
40:00from London
40:00in September
40:01it would be
40:03very very close
40:04if not identical
40:05to each other.
40:06So that gave us
40:08the proof
40:08that Adam
40:09was alive
40:10and breathing
40:11in London.
40:14whilst we were
40:15looking for pollen
40:16assemblage
40:17in the lower
40:18intestines
40:18it became obvious
40:20there was certain
40:21other materials
40:21in the
40:22in the intestines.
40:24So we got
40:24sand,
40:25bone,
40:26herbs
40:26which had been
40:27burnt
40:27and then
40:29other
40:30vegetation
40:31that nobody
40:32could identify.
40:46there is no other
40:47realistic suspects
40:48in this case.
40:49We're at a loss
40:50really
40:50where else we can go.
40:52It's do or die
40:53now really.
41:00It was a very big operation
41:03carefully planned through
41:04by Will O'Reilly
41:05and his team
41:06involved about
41:07200 officers
41:08searched nine
41:09addresses
41:10in
41:11south-east
41:12London
41:12and beyond.
41:14So the objective
41:15is to arrest
41:15Kingsley Ojo
41:16in relation to
41:17the trafficking
41:18but keep our eyes
41:19open for anything
41:20which may be related
41:21to our murder.
41:28Please!
41:29Please!
41:29Please!
41:30Please!
41:31Please!
41:33I followed
41:34up the stairs
41:35and found
41:35a toilet door
41:36smashed completely
41:37and Ojo
41:38in his bedroom
41:39so I guess
41:39he may have been
41:41in the smallest
41:41room in the house.
41:42We have found
41:43some substances
41:44in here
41:44with Ojo
41:45some traditional
41:46substances
41:46he says
41:47are remedies
41:49for ailments
41:49now obviously
41:51we've got to
41:51bear in mind
41:52what was found
41:52in the intestine
41:54of our child
41:56that could be
41:57potentially interesting.
42:00Amongst the other
42:00things we found
42:01were little packets
42:02containing sand
42:04mixed with clay
42:05with an instruction
42:06on when they
42:07should be taken
42:08that was quite
42:09clearly more
42:10ritualistic material.
42:11We found
42:13lots of evidence
42:15around ritual
42:16and ritualism
42:17artifacts
42:18but we also
42:19found documentation
42:21that's used
42:21in trafficking
42:22of human beings
42:23false passports
42:24duplicate passports
42:26Kingsley had a number
42:27of passports
42:28with his photograph
42:29and different names
42:30so pretty well
42:32organized
42:32pretty well
42:33very sophisticated
42:34there wasn't
42:36any direct evidence
42:37or indirect evidence
42:38that tied him
42:39into the murder
42:40there was no
42:40forensics
42:41we undertook
42:42a lot of inquiries
42:44even whilst he was
42:45in custody
42:46but there wasn't
42:48any evidence
42:48to put a case
42:50to the Crown
42:51Prosecution Service
42:52for a charge
42:53of murder.
43:29So we've got sand,
43:31bone, herbs
43:33which have been burned
43:34and then other vegetation
43:37and it was known
43:38as the Calabar bean
43:41now the Calabar bean
43:43is a very toxic bean
43:52what it means
43:53that Adam was given
43:54a concoction of material
43:56so he would be paralyzed
43:57but remain conscious
43:59when the knife
44:00is stabbed
44:01into his neck
44:02so he'll be able
44:03to call out
44:13a whole bean
44:14a whole bean
44:14will kill an adult
44:16but in small doses
44:17and this was a very
44:18tiny element of it
44:27we knew that when he died
44:29he was held upside down
44:31we knew that he was conscious
44:33which is very important
44:34apparently for that
44:35type of ceremony
44:36although he was paralyzed
44:38he couldn't move
44:39to achieve what
44:42they were looking for
44:43his killers
44:45and the people
44:46who were sacrificing him
44:48they would expect him
44:49to go through a lot of pain
44:51and would have screamed
44:53in a particular way
44:55at a particular time
44:56when he was being murdered
44:58the killers of Adam
45:01must have been
45:03people who
45:07passionately believed
45:08in achieving
45:10the objectives
45:11through human sacrifices
45:12these are Bavarians
45:15who take part
45:15in these practices
45:21when you think
45:22what that child
45:23went through
45:24someone out there
45:26knows what happened
45:27whether that's
45:28the murderer
45:29himself
45:31or those involved
45:32in the murder
45:41so
46:00that's
46:00why
46:01it's
46:01correct
46:01so.
46:04I'm sorry.
46:07Sorry I couldn't save you.
46:11I felt helpless on that bridge
46:14because there was nobody else there.
46:18So trying to understand that,
46:22trying to figure that out,
46:23that's been my own journey.
46:26But the fact that I was completely helpless to do anything,
46:28he was too late to be saved at that point.
46:32But, yeah, it would probably just be, I'm sorry.
46:35Sorry I couldn't do more.
46:37There must be a crime scene somewhere.
46:40There must be, and it's in London,
46:43there must be a place where Adam was laid upside down,
46:49tilted head down,
46:51and then brutally dismembered
46:54and had his throat cut in such a violent way.
46:59There will still be traces of blood
47:02at that premises.
47:04So even now I'd appeal to anyone who knows anything,
47:07if they know where it is,
47:08we can go and get that forensic evidence.
47:11And then it starts again.
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