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00:01Every 90 seconds, someone is reported missing.
00:06Many return to their families.
00:09For others, something has gone seriously wrong.
00:13If she said she was going to meet you, she'd meet you.
00:17In London, a young woman is missing.
00:20Sinead was never out of contact with her friends and family.
00:23They knew that something was not right.
00:26A disappearance raises questions.
00:30Five months is a long time for someone to be missing and not have the answers.
00:34What happens in the police investigation that follows...
00:38Whoever this person was, would have been dumped there, naked.
00:43We had the forensic people, we had the entomologist, we had the wildlife expert, we had the pathologist.
00:50What happens to the family at its heart...
00:53Every day is a nightmare, and just a nightmare.
00:56When missing, turns to murder.
01:00When missing, turns to murder.
01:24I had two brothers and one sister, and Sinead was the youngest of the four of us.
01:32She was a little doll.
01:34Everyone would say to you, you know, when she was small, she's like a little doll.
01:38She was very petite, always Sinead was petite.
01:41Just always happy, smiling, and yeah, very sweet.
01:48We were all born in Ireland.
01:51We grew up in a small town called Feathered, with our parents.
02:06We moved to London in 1980, and at that time Sinead would have been very young.
02:15About six.
02:17She was a daughter, an absolute daughter.
02:24I first met Sinead in secondary school, I think I was about 11, 12 years old at the time.
02:32After we finished secondary school, we still stayed in touch.
02:38And then the friendship just grew and grew and got closer.
02:43This picture is of Sinead on her Thursday at secondary school with her mum.
02:48It's one of my favourite ones, because she just looks so, so tiny and cute.
03:01She was loyal, sweet.
03:04She could give you as good as she'd get.
03:07She would be fiery.
03:08They say it was the red hair.
03:09I don't have it anymore, but Sinead, she had the red hairs.
03:13And she had the most infectious laugh.
03:15She'd just start laughing, and everyone would start laughing.
03:19And even if you didn't know what the joke was about, like, she'd just set everyone off.
03:24It was just like, you know, I could still hear her laugh now.
03:31She lived in a place called Barons Court, which is Hammersmith, Fulham, West Kent, that sort of district area.
03:41We were in contact every day, definitely on the phone.
03:46And I'd see her, you know, a few times a week, because we lived quite close by as well.
03:52So...
03:56I spoke to Sinead on the day that she was due to go out.
04:01She did ask me if I wanted to go.
04:04And I said no, because it was a weeknight, and go out, have fun, enjoy yourself.
04:09And I'll speak to you tomorrow.
04:15The next day, I tried to call in her, and I couldn't get hold of her.
04:23And I thought it was, you know, just a bit strange, because she didn't bring me back.
04:28And the day after that was Friday, and we were due to go to a mutual friend's house for dinner.
04:34I got quite worried, and I spoke to the friend that was holding a dinner party.
04:40And I said, have you heard from Sinead?
04:43And she said, no, I haven't heard a thing.
04:46So I said, well, maybe she might just turn up.
04:51So I went to the friend's house, and then we waited, and then Sinead didn't turn up.
04:58And as time was going on, I was getting more and more concerned.
05:03So, you know, I said to her, you know, something's not right.
05:09If she was to meet her friends, she wouldn't ever let anyone down.
05:15If she said she was going to meet you, she'd meet you.
05:19So it wasn't like her at all.
05:24I said, let's go to Sinead's flat and just see if she's there,
05:29because it was, you know, like a five-minute drive away.
05:35Ringing on her bell, there was no answer.
05:37So I rang on a neighbour's bell for them to let us in.
05:42So we went up to Sinead's door, it was knocking, there was still no answer.
05:46There was no light on, and all I remember was there was a cold breeze coming from under the door.
05:54The next day, I got up, tried again, can't get hold of her.
05:59Um, so I was really, like, panicking at this time.
06:03So I rung Sinead's mother, and I said to her, I'm concerned because I can't get hold of Sinead.
06:12Her mother was, wasn't in a good way, she was, like, very panicked, very, like, emotional, just really, really upset.
06:20You know, I felt really guilty phoning her, but I just didn't know who else to call,
06:26because at the time, I just wanted to report she made missing,
06:29because, you know, I felt like there was something, something wrong.
06:34So my mother called the police.
06:40At the time that this offence was reported to the police, it was late October 2000,
06:48and apparently a young lady, Irish lady called Sinead Healey, had gone missing,
06:54almost as if she'd disappeared off the face of the earth.
06:58And the family were very concerned because they had no contact with her,
07:03and that was very unusual from the point of view that she would ring her family on a regular basis.
07:09And they hadn't heard from her in about two days.
07:15Sinead, on the face of it, wasn't a vulnerable young girl who we would think may be in danger,
07:22but it was the fact that Sinead was never out of contact with her friends and family.
07:28And so for that reason, people and she thought something was very wrong.
07:34The CRD at Hammersmith sent round a couple of uniform officers with the mother, with her permission, and they broke
07:41into the flat.
07:45I think they kicked in her door, knocked down her door.
07:49And they searched it, and there was no trace of Sinead there.
07:54Closer examination of the flat only raises more questions.
08:00Sinead's checkbook and bank card were there, and her passport.
08:04Her telephone was in the flat. It was turned off.
08:09That's why she wasn't answering the calls.
08:11There was nothing to suggest that she would have up sticks and disappeared on her own account.
08:19It was really, really unusual.
08:23My mother and I went and realised her dressing gown was gone.
08:32There was washing left in front of the machine.
08:37Sinead was a rather particular person regarding her home.
08:42It just wasn't like her to leave things the way they were left.
08:47No.
08:48There was something wrong.
08:50And then we knew there was something not adding up here.
08:55The family were convinced she would never have just left them and with no contact.
09:00The fact that she had arrangements made to meet close friends.
09:07The property that had been left in there, in the flat.
09:11There was no way that they thought that Sinead had just wandered off
09:15and just decided to, you know, spend a few days on her own.
09:19It was completely out of character.
09:21We would check hospitals.
09:23We would check missing persons.
09:25There was a number of charities that keep records of this sort of thing.
09:28We would have checked all that.
09:29That was all checked.
09:31Still no trace of Sinead.
09:35As the investigation continued, obviously local inquiries are carried out.
09:39Doors are knocked on.
09:40Neighbours are spoken to.
09:42One of the neighbours downstairs mentioned they heard loud banging in the night
09:47as if something was being bumped, like furniture down the stairs.
09:51And, of course, that was unusual behaviour.
09:55And then when the outside of the premises was looked at, we realised actually that everybody else's wheelie bin for
10:02their flat was still there, but hers was missing.
10:04Could have been completely immaterial, but it was something that just stood out.
10:08And the police officers noticed in the door frame of the bedroom there was a smudge of blood on the
10:16door frame.
10:19The discovery of blood at the scene kicks the investigation into high gear.
10:25Jim Dickey, our DCI, having heard all the circumstances, straight away was that there's something nefarious that's gone on.
10:34Preserving the scene straight away was imperative.
10:36So he arranged for the whole of the flat to be sealed off and for a forensic team to go
10:42in and examine the flat.
10:47The police were able to identify a fingerprint in some of the blood.
10:51Sometimes it's possible to be able to identify an area that's been cleaned up with blood using different chemicals.
10:56So we can use chemicals like Lustar or Luminol, which we can use against surfaces where we think there may
11:04well have been blood that's been cleaned up.
11:08So in this case, they were able to use Luminol at the crime scene and they were able to find
11:13spatters of blood where the offender obviously had missed clean them up properly.
11:18They also used a light on the ultraviolet spectrum where, low down, they found blood splattering consistent with someone having
11:31been beaten that was either on the floor or very close to it.
11:35There was obviously been some kind of attack there. There was blood that was found at the scene. There was
11:41fingerprints found at the scene.
11:43It was difficult initially to tell whether it was a fingerprint in blood or blood on top of a fingerprint.
11:50Firstly, Sinead didn't have a criminal record. So how would the police go to identify that the blood at the
11:56flat was actually Sinead's blood?
11:58We do this by taking anti-mortem samples from the crime scene.
12:01So for example, we might take a toothbrush or a hairbrush or a razor that we know belongs to the
12:09victims.
12:09Those samples are then submitted to a forensic lab.
12:14The forensic lab tried to obtain a full DNA profile and then the police are then able to match the
12:20full DNA profile from those samples with any blood that's found at the scene.
12:24So the police were able to identify using the samples that were taken that the blood at the flat was
12:30actually Sinead Healy's blood.
12:34So the threat level has increased. I was very concerned that Sinead had come to some misfortune.
12:47Very quickly then the police, they realised it wasn't a normal disappearance.
12:53Whatever a normal disappearance, but you know, she wasn't just gone somewhere and forgot to tell anyone.
12:59So it became clear she was not there, not through her own choice.
13:07And then we still thought, she'll turn up, she'll turn up.
13:16The worst thing is the not knowing, because even when the situation looks like it's the worst it can be,
13:26when someone's still missing, you always keep that little bit of hope that they're still okay, they're somewhere,
13:36and you know, you just keep going through all these different scenarios in your head.
13:43Sinead has now been missing for over 72 hours, and the discovery of blood in her flat causes concern for
13:51the investigation team.
13:53She needs to be found fast, so the detectives cast their nets wider.
14:00So we had missing person and posters created. There was also appeals through the media with TV.
14:09Police review local CCTV for any appearance of Sinead prior to her going missing.
14:16We needed desperately to sort of trace Sinead's last love movements.
14:21So as a result of that, we went to the pub that we knew that Sinead had been in,
14:26and we collected CCTV from there, in and around that area, the Fulham Palace Road,
14:32desperately trying to get any sightings of Sinead, any contacts that she'd had, anything at all.
14:41CID Hammersmith did some checks, and they ascertained that Sinead had last been seen on the evening of 18th of
14:50October,
14:51and in fact she was seen on CCTV in Fulham Palace Road, near Charing Cross Hospital,
14:58and also she'd been drinking with a friend in the Salisbury pub,
15:02and that was recorded on the pub's CCTV camera.
15:09Sinead appearing on the CCTV finally provides the police with a breakthrough.
15:16They found out that a minicab driver had picked her up with another man who was caught on CCTV
15:23and dropped them from Fulham Palace Road round to Sinead's flat in Barons Court,
15:31and that was recorded by the cab driver in the minicab office, so they had a record of that.
15:41The CID also recognised the man in the CCTV in Fulham Palace Road as being a guy called Kenny Lynch.
15:53Kenny Lynch was one of Sinead's friends.
15:56The family loved Kenny Lynch.
15:59He was a great friend of Sinead's as far as they were concerned,
16:02and they'd known each other for ten years.
16:05They had, Kenny had given her a job in his mobile phone shop at the age of 16.
16:10I met him, I used to pop into the shop occasionally to see Sinead.
16:15You know, she'd be worked off her feet, I'd pop in and say hello to her.
16:19And he, if he was there, I would say hello and he'd say hi Trish.
16:27Real friendly, a big guy, well dressed, well groomed.
16:32Always had a smile on his face.
16:35She seemed happy to work for him.
16:37He was considered a really good, really close friend.
16:39The family also told them that Lynch had been a boyfriend,
16:48as in boyfriend-girlfriend relationship with Sinead for some six years before.
16:54So we had started to build up a bit more of a picture.
16:58Apparently they did have a relationship of some kind.
17:03While looking further into Kenneth Lynch, the detectives make a shocking discovery.
17:09Kenneth Lynch, he would have been, in all probability,
17:12if not the last, one of the last people to have seen her at that time.
17:19Obviously he's then looked into, and the bizarre thing I remember at the time when that happened
17:24was technically, at the time when Sinead went missing, he was technically in prison.
17:35Kenny Lynch, who, at the time, was serving a prison sentence for dishonesty.
17:42And basically he'd run a mobile phone shop in Fulham Palace Road
17:49that had been subject to police investigations because he was receiving stolen telephones
17:55that had been stolen by various people in the West London area.
18:00Although that didn't make him prime suspect, it certainly made him a person of interest.
18:05He was someone we needed to speak to.
18:07The terms of Kenneth Lynch's prison sentence mean that he is allowed to spend his days
18:13working outside of the prison walls, but must return at night.
18:17The situation was that he was going out to work every day and going back to the prison at night,
18:22and one weekend a month he would get home leave.
18:26And so it was quite important then for someone to actually go and speak to Kenny Lynch
18:32and say, so what can you tell us about Sinead's disappearance?
18:35He was going to need to be spoken to, if nothing else, as a potential witness.
18:44I was one of the officers who attended and Kenny was extremely confident.
18:53A real, he expressed absolute shock and disbelief at Sinead going missing.
19:00He had no idea that she'd gone missing. He'd gone back to prison and he gave an account.
19:07Basically, he was very cooperative, answered all questions that were asked of him
19:12and came across as being equally concerned about Sinead's welfare as anybody else.
19:17So, yeah, there was nothing at that point.
19:19He was, I say, he didn't deny that he was with her in the pub that night.
19:24He didn't deny that it was him on the CCTV and came across as if he was really concerned.
19:29So, when you consider his response when he was first spoken to by police,
19:34with the fact that family talked about the fact that they knew him as a friend of Sinead's
19:39and they didn't raise any concerns about him, it all kind of fitted.
19:42It didn't really take us any further forward.
19:45And the story we tied him down to was, yes, it was him on the CCTV.
19:50Yes, he had been with Sinead.
19:52Yes, he had a drink with her in the Salisbury pub.
19:55Yes, he was in a minicab with her to her flat.
20:00He went in there, had a cup of tea, she took a phone call and he left.
20:05And he said, the next morning, I drove back to prison and here I am now in prison.
20:12You know, because he was in custody still.
20:14And he basically gave a credible explanation for everything we'd known up to that point.
20:24What we didn't know at this point was the results of the forensic examination.
20:36When the information came back that the fingerprint and the blood, it turned out that it was Sinead's blood and
20:44the fingerprint was Kenny's.
20:45That forensic result put Kenny in Sinead's flat at the time when we had evidence that that struggle had taken
20:55place.
20:55And he obviously hadn't told us about that when he was first interviewed, so he was going to have to
20:59be spoken to again, but this time as a suspect.
21:03Initially, initially the family weren't very accepting of that because they didn't see him as being someone who would harm
21:10Sinead.
21:10Absolutely not. He was her friend. Friends don't do anything like that, you know, untoward to their friends, do they?
21:21So I understood that they had to go through their investigation and that they had their ways and means.
21:32But I thought nobody that knew Sinead could do that to her.
21:39Quite clearly, that forensic evidence that put him in her flat when Sinead's blood was there changed things.
21:48Kenny now was being interviewed as a suspect at a police station, so we had to get him produced from
21:54the prison and brought to the police station so he could be interviewed.
21:58And initially, from the officers who carried out the interview, they were saying he was still answering questions, he was
22:04still being cooperative.
22:05When they asked him about his fingerprints being in the flat, he was quite confident and saying, well, of course
22:11they're going to be there.
22:13I visited the flat several times. And it was only when it was put to him about the fact that
22:18Sinead's, his fingerprint was in Sinead's blood.
22:22And then from that point on, my understanding was he didn't answer any more questions. He made no comment responses.
22:31The fingerprint in Sinead's blood is still not enough for the detectives to detain Lynch indefinitely.
22:38And now Sinead has already been missing for several weeks.
22:45So at that stage, our team is really frustrated.
22:51You know, at the end of the day, we have, we've spoken to Kenny.
22:54He is our prime suspect, despite the distractions and despite every other bit of evidence that we collated.
23:01Kenny is our main suspect.
23:04But it's all circumstantial. Everything is circumstantial still, because what we don't have is Sinead.
23:13We're running out of time now. You know, we haven't got an open-ended time.
23:18So we were very acutely aware we could only re-arrest him if we had better or further evidence.
23:26It was incredibly frustrating and really sad, because you're just thinking, you know, 26-year-old girl.
23:36It was horrible, horrible waiting game.
23:41And, you know, for the family, just unbearable, absolutely unbearable.
23:46I remember one day, I just said to myself, I've had enough, I can't do this anymore.
23:53So I sat down on the sofa, and I started then doing this thing where I come home from school,
24:01and I pretend, this is mad, but I pretend Sinead was in the house.
24:08And I'd walk through, and I'd say, Sinead, Sinead.
24:14It was like just being able to say her name.
24:19Yeah.
24:23Yeah.
24:26Terrible.
24:39March 2001, five months since Sinead's disappearance.
24:44So Sinead had been missing for five months.
24:47The case was, although being investigated by the murder team, she was still a missing person at that point.
24:53So the big change, or big step forward, was when remains were found.
24:59The discovery of remains is significant news for the case, but the investigators need to ascertain if they are animal
25:07or human.
25:09We had a call from the control room to say that a male had called in who'd stopped in the
25:15lay-by.
25:17He was travelling on the M40, completely innocent male.
25:21He stopped in the lay-by to relieve himself, and he found what he thought might be a deer carcass,
25:29but he wasn't sure.
25:30So he called it, he went home, and then he called it into his local police.
25:34Police officers went round to the scene, and they also saw what the gentlemen had found,
25:39and were a little bit confused as to, it looked like a carcass of something, but they didn't know whether
25:45it was human or not.
25:46And it's at that stage, when they then call the crime scene team in,
25:51for us to go down and have a look and make some decisions at that scene.
25:55And I was one of the first people to attend that crime scene.
26:06The body was in a woodland area. There was a lay-by, which was a very well-used lay-by,
26:12where obviously people stopped when they come off the motorway,
26:15and just on the outskirts of Beaconsfield.
26:20So we spent probably two to three weeks at that scene.
26:26It could have been someone that was sleeping rough, but quite quickly, in the first few hours of the investigation,
26:33it was clear that it wasn't someone that had just been sleeping rough, because there was soil over the top
26:37of the body,
26:38and it looked like someone had been dumped in the lay-by.
26:46Detectives commence a thorough investigation of the scene.
26:51So in a crime scene like this, well, it's clear to us that the body has been in that lay
26:56-by and in that woodland area for,
26:58you know, four or five months, maybe even six months.
27:02So we called an archaeologist and anthropologist to the crime scene.
27:06A forensic archaeologist's role is to carefully excavate the remains so that we're able to identify potentially who the body
27:15is,
27:16and also identify if there's any missing bones or any missing parts of that body.
27:23The forensic anthropologist concluded that it was probably the body of a young female.
27:28She was naked and she was probably of the age of between 20 and 30.
27:34Tests conclude that the remains are human, but how long have they been there?
27:41It was clear when we were starting to excavate that a grave hadn't been dug at all,
27:47that this body had literally been thrown into the woodland area and soil had been piled on top of the
27:55body.
27:55So again, we started to call other specialists to the scene, so we called a botanist to the scene,
28:00to be able to identify what plants were underneath the body.
28:05The botanist was able to help us determine the time of year that the body had been deposited there.
28:12So we were able to potentially do quite a good timeline as to how long the body had been in
28:17that woodland area.
28:18And it was between about five months we recommend that the body had been there for.
28:25Sadly, the body was naked, so therefore there's no clothing to kind of contain any of the bones and remains
28:33within items of clothing.
28:35So some of the parts of the body had been taken away by animals.
28:39In this case, we called a badger and a fox expert to the scene,
28:44because it was apparent that there were badger sets and fox dens in the area.
28:53And we did actually find quite a number of bones on the opposite side of the road,
28:57so the animals had taken the bones across the road into the opposite fields.
29:03So employing experts like that actually helps the police, narrows down the timescales,
29:08potentially that you might be at a crime scene, and also helps us to recover as much of the body
29:13as we can.
29:18But one thing that was found was a hair clip, and there was a little bit of hair that was
29:23on it.
29:23And it was quite clear the hair was auburn, ginger-coloured, red, so that was another good indicator.
29:32The offender might have known that there was a lay-by there, but there was no almost premeditation
29:37out to dig a grave before they put the body in it.
29:41It seemed like a very spontaneous thing, which again indicates that maybe their body's been taken in a vehicle,
29:48and then they pulled into the lay-by and just chucked the body in and then just driven off.
29:54Which is an incredibly disrespectful act.
29:56It's a disrespectful act to murder someone in the first place, but then to dump the body in a lay
30:01-by
30:01and chuck a bit of dirt over it is just absolutely appalling.
30:09A lot of the body had actually just deteriorated, but they did manage to get DNA from a little bit
30:18of deep tissue,
30:19thigh muscle that was still there.
30:23Then, the investigators received the worst news.
30:28They did manage to identify from DNA that it was Sinead.
30:36The crime scene stain said the blood that was found at the flat in London
30:41then matched up with our victim.
30:44The DNA is a match to Sinead Haley.
30:48Detectives now need to determine her cause of death.
30:52The pathologist was able to identify an area of damage to the right-hand side of the skull around this
30:59area,
30:59so below the eye socket and onto the side of the head here.
31:03And there was some fracture marks on there which were able to piece together at the post-mortem.
31:08This was a really good indication that the victim had had some kind of head injury.
31:15The pathologist was able to tell us and gave evidence of that fact
31:19that she died of severe blunt trauma
31:23with several blows to the head and her skull had been broken open.
31:28And that was the cause of death.
31:29So now, we had the final bit in there.
31:33The final bit being that we recovered Sinead's body,
31:39gives the family some closure.
31:45The investigators are finally piecing together what happened to Sinead.
31:50But they must also report the tragic news to her friends and family.
31:55If there was, somebody was found or remains of someone was found,
31:59they would, Glenn Jones would be the first to contact me,
32:03by phone, by coming to the house, whatever,
32:06to let me know first before I heard anything on the television.
32:09So, when Sinead was found, we were told immediately,
32:15before hearing it anywhere else.
32:17Just at that time, it just felt like something just died inside me,
32:22like, you know, I'd be killed inside.
32:29The investigators need to establish how Sinead's body could have been moved from her flat,
32:35to the lay-by where she was found.
32:39So, as we'd found out during the inquiry, that Kenny was going out of prison to go to work every
32:44day.
32:44He was travelling to Slough, he was passing that particular lay-by.
32:48And also, we had information that during the time that he was doing that, he had access to a 4x4
32:55type vehicle.
32:56We also knew that the route that he took from prison to work,
33:00because he was going from the prison in Aylesbury to Slough,
33:04took him past that lay-by, that location, every day.
33:09A plea for information brings forward a witness claiming to have seen a vehicle matching the description of the one
33:16Kenny was using,
33:17in the lay-by, around the time Sinead went missing.
33:22We know we had, you know, Kenny Lynch with a 4x4 vehicle in the lay-by,
33:27and Sinead's remains are found.
33:37Imagine he killed Sinead and had the front to throw her body in the ditch.
33:43That's what he'd done, is throw her naked body in the ditch,
33:46and then go about his business like nothing happened.
33:55It's more than incredible to think that we call that kind of a person is a human being.
34:02I don't think that a human being could do that.
34:09It was all starting to come together,
34:11and, in my view, the evidence now was overwhelming.
34:15So, we arrested Lynch one more time,
34:20and, lo and behold, asked him to give an account for why Sinead's body was found there.
34:28This time, he made no comment to every single question,
34:33which, before, he was bending over backwards to give an account and try and be helpful,
34:39or trying to look like he was trying to be helpful.
34:42When he knew all along what had gone on,
34:45and we finally had him, and the CPS agreed with us,
34:49and we charged him with murder, and he was remanded in custody,
34:53awaiting trial at the Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey.
35:01Prior to the trial, Sinead Healy's family can finally make plans to lay her body to rest.
35:18Sinead was flown from London.
35:21See, we never got to see Sinead or anything, of course.
35:26So, she was brought to the church, and she was buried in our local cemetery,
35:34beside our brother.
35:39So, when we got to our town, there was people everywhere.
35:44I mean, everywhere.
35:47Up and down the street, on each side of the road, everywhere.
35:51Outside the church.
35:53And it was only, kind of, when we parked up and looked,
35:59they were there for Sinead.
36:03Because we were gone out of Feathered for years.
36:06You know, people remembered us.
36:11So, it was really hard.
36:13It was lovely.
36:15It was, you know...
36:18Yeah.
36:20Everybody marched behind the coffin to the cemetery, and the body was buried by the priest.
36:27And I said to the priest,
36:29Father, you've done your job, now I'm going to do mine.
36:33I.e., convict Lynch.
36:35And get him locked up.
36:45First off, we have to collate all the intelligence we've got,
36:50and make sure we've got it in evidential form,
36:53that all the forensic reports are there.
36:57And the story starts at the beginning, there's the middle, and there's the end.
37:03You know, and all the various phases of the investigation,
37:07and all the forensic support, and all the circumstantial evidence.
37:10And that has to put in evidence form.
37:12The fact is, is that you're still collecting, and you're still maintaining your enquiries
37:16right up until the very end.
37:19I also asked that we do some work around Lynch's mobile phone.
37:25And this took quite a while for us to get this information back.
37:30In fact, it took months.
37:33That he turned his phone off, almost, I would say,
37:38at the time that Sinead had been murdered.
37:45He did not turn it back on again until he arrived at Ellsbury Prison the next day.
37:51And what is quite incriminating for him,
37:55was the fact that his girlfriend, he had a girlfriend relationship,
38:02quite long term, with a young lady.
38:06And she tried to ring him 26 times during the night,
38:10and he hadn't answered it.
38:12And we asked him about that, and he couldn't give an explanation.
38:15He said he'd just turned it off, or he'd run out of battery.
38:18But what was equally intriguing, Lynch, when he presented,
38:23on the 19th of October, I think it was, at Ellsbury Prison,
38:29when he went back after being his weekend on home leave,
38:33had what could be described as defence wounds on his hands.
38:38Then we had the forensic people, we had the blood splatter expert,
38:42we had the entomologist, we had the wildlife expert,
38:45we had the pathologist, cause of death.
38:48We had forensic archaeologist, we had DNA expert, blood expert, you name it.
38:56The list was quite extensive, but it was a challenging case.
39:01And in order to get it, you know, over the line,
39:04we had to get the support of all these people.
39:13He just had a smile on his face, like, he couldn't care less.
39:18He just couldn't care less.
39:20Basically, it was almost like we were an inconvenience.
39:25The fact that he was there, and we were looking at him.
39:31After a six-week trial, the jury returns with the verdict.
39:35The verdict was guilty of murder.
39:42And we were relieved.
39:47We weren't delighted.
39:49We weren't, we were just relieved
39:52that there was some retribution
39:58for taking Sinead in the savage way he did from us.
40:12So Kenny was sentenced to life imprisonment,
40:15but there is a tariff that's put on.
40:17And for Kenny, that tariff was 15 years.
40:20But for the murder of a young, innocent girl,
40:26it doesn't feel like justice.
40:30You know, Sinead's gone forever.
40:32The question still remains
40:35as to what truly happened that night
40:37at Sinead Healey's flat.
40:44My hypothesis, if you like, is that Lynch went back
40:48with Sinead to her flat,
40:50obviously with a view to having sex with her,
40:53because they had a relationship before.
40:55I suspect what happened after that,
40:58they've had sex.
41:01She said, probably, worse to the effect,
41:04well, if you want to start a relationship again,
41:07you know, it's me or nobody else,
41:10and you've got to tell your girlfriend.
41:13And he's obviously panicked,
41:15and he backed her to death.
41:16And then he's realised he's got to get rid of the body.
41:20So he's thought,
41:22well, I need to be in prison the next day.
41:25Wrapped the body in bedclothes,
41:27because there must have been quite a lot of bread.
41:29He's had to clean up, as best he can, the flat,
41:32but he didn't do it 100%, as we know.
41:36She's probably had the dressing gown close by,
41:39or maybe even wearing it when the attack took place.
41:44Put the body in the wheelie bin,
41:46down the stairs, hence what the neighbours hear,
41:49into the car, dumped in the early hours of the morning
41:53on the A40 just outside Beaconsfield,
41:56back to the prison on time.
42:00As you see, we didn't actually know Kenny Lynch at all.
42:05We only saw what he wanted us to see.
42:08We hadn't a clue that he had already been in prison,
42:11or he was involved in any criminal activity,
42:14in any direction.
42:16What did we know? Nothing.
42:19Nothing.
42:20You always think of it being a stranger
42:24that takes advantage of people, don't you?
42:30Rarely would you think a friend would turn on you like that.
42:34It's actually shocking.
42:36And hard to get your head around.
42:40Sadly, it's reality.
42:44And I look at it now, go back,
42:47after five months of Sinead being missing,
42:49I think where we were on day one,
42:51to where the family were then.
42:52You know, I think,
42:54they just handled themselves with such dignity.
42:58Five months is a long time for someone to be missing
43:01and not have the answers.
43:05She's always spoken about daily.
43:08You know, we always keep her memory alive
43:12and positive things only.
43:17I just wish that we could have grown up together.
43:22Sinead would have been 50 now.
43:25I'd like Sinead to be remembered as, you know,
43:28the beautiful person she was.
43:30She had a good heart.
43:32She'd do anything for anyone.
43:34And she'll never be forgotten.
43:37Ever.
43:43She's with us all the time.
43:45I'm convinced of it.
43:47She gives me the strength to sit here.
43:51I know she has to,
43:53because it's coming from somewhere.
43:55So she gives me the strength.
43:58And I sit here for her.
44:26And I sit here for her.
44:27I don't know.
44:40I feel like you're willing to do it.
44:46But she's doing it.
44:47I do it right now.
44:48I'm confident.
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