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00:16I've been a locksmith for 56 years.
00:22I first got into doing forensics in a previous case
00:25which involved a child murderer.
00:29Involving making scale models of locks
00:31to prove a particular part of inquiry.
00:36I was approached by the Avon police force
00:39to get involved with this case
00:41prior to my experience with other cases.
00:45I was presented with two keys.
00:47These keys looked like any other normal household keys
00:51except they had a dark history.
00:55Foot wearing was crucial in directing
00:57the inquiry forward.
01:00When we examine a pair of shoes that have been worn
01:04over a period of time
01:05this wear can become quite characteristic.
01:09So it's a bit like a fingerprint.
01:11If we can examine any crime scene mark
01:14and identify features associated
01:16with a particular shoe
01:17we may be able to say with absolute certainty
01:20that this shoe had definitely made this mark at the scene.
01:40I joined the Avon of Somerset Police in 1977.
01:44In 1998 I was working as a detective sergeant on the CID.
01:52I was in charge of a team of detectives
01:55who investigated all sorts of crimes
01:58assaults, drugs, murders, burglaries
02:03anything at all really.
02:09On the 1st of November
02:11I came into work
02:13covering the CID
02:14and
02:15I was notified by the uniform inspector
02:19that there had been a missing person reported.
02:21That person
02:22was receptionist Jenny King
02:24who hadn't been seen
02:26for more than 24 hours.
02:31Her parents
02:32who yesterday
02:33appealed for anyone
02:34with information
02:34to come forward
02:35say it was totally
02:37out of character
02:37for their daughter
02:38not to return home.
02:40They've been joining
02:41in the search
02:41along with her boyfriend
02:42of 10 months
02:43who'd spent Friday night
02:44at a separate venue
02:45to Jenny.
02:48Jenny King
02:49was a 22-year-old
02:51woman
02:52albeit not vulnerable.
02:56Her family
02:56were very concerned
02:58it was very much
02:59out of character
03:00for her.
03:02It was decided
03:03that it was
03:05to be treated
03:05as a major incident
03:06therefore a major incident room
03:08would be set up.
03:10Now in a major incident room
03:11there are lots of key roles.
03:14Me being a sergeant
03:16I was asked
03:17if I would mind
03:18being a receiver
03:18well
03:19that is in fact
03:21probably my favourite role
03:22because the receiver
03:23gets the first sight
03:25of any information
03:26coming into an investigation
03:27and decides
03:28if there's anything
03:29urgent there
03:30that needs acting upon.
03:32As detectives
03:33launched
03:34their major inquiry
03:35journalists
03:36like Sarah J Harris
03:37also began
03:39to follow the case
03:39of Jenny's disappearance.
03:43Jenny King
03:44was a 22-year-old
03:45receptionist
03:46at a soft drinks
03:47manufacturer
03:48and she also
03:49worked part-time
03:50in the bar
03:51at the social club
03:52at Warmly Community Centre.
03:55She lived at home
03:56with her parents
03:57Ray and Margaret
03:58and her older brother
04:00Andrew who's 25
04:01and her younger sister
04:03Sarah who is 11
04:04and they lived in Crane
04:05close in Warmly.
04:08She was described
04:09as a very home-loving
04:10young lady
04:11and she loved her family
04:13and her friends
04:14and her boyfriend.
04:17Neighbours described her
04:18as fun-loving
04:19and always had a smile
04:20in her face.
04:21She was seen
04:21as a very outgoing
04:22young girl.
04:25She liked going
04:26on her girls' nights out.
04:27When she went out
04:28she was very considerate
04:29to her parents.
04:30She'd tell them
04:30where she was going.
04:31She would tell them
04:32what time she'd be coming back.
04:33So this was seen
04:34as completely out of the blue.
04:39So she was actually reported
04:40as having gone missing
04:42from Chasers
04:43the last time
04:44she was sighted.
04:48And that's
04:49Chasers Club
04:50up on the left here.
04:54What we were told
04:56was that she'd got a taxi
04:57so if she did
04:58she would be
04:59coming down this route.
05:03The police wanted the media
05:05to help find Jenny King
05:07and so we were told
05:09that she'd gone missing
05:10from Chasers Nightclub
05:11in Kingswood
05:12and that her whereabouts
05:14after this
05:15hadn't been established
05:16and they wanted
05:16the media's help
05:17to raise awareness.
05:21And to get the members
05:22of the public
05:22to ring in
05:23with sightings of Jenny
05:25from inside the club
05:26and also when she left
05:27to try and track her down.
05:29Having been in the job
05:30for quite a while
05:31you do get instincts
05:32and certainly
05:33I got an instinct
05:35from speaking to the family
05:36that something was not right.
05:39Something is wrong here.
05:41Has she fallen over?
05:42Has she collapsed somewhere?
05:45Or has some other harm
05:46come to her?
05:57Two days after I started
05:59on the inquiry
06:01a call came into
06:02the incident room
06:03and it was a call
06:04from the support group
06:05who had been searching
06:06in the area
06:07at the rear of firework close.
06:09That officer had found
06:10the body
06:11of a young female
06:12and from the clothing
06:13it was quite apparent
06:15that it was Jenny King.
06:19A police officer
06:20entered a copse
06:22which was known locally
06:23as the den
06:23and it was where
06:24local children met.
06:25They'd have a cigarette
06:26or they'd just mess about
06:27and he went into the copse
06:29and he found a partially
06:30clothed body
06:31and he knew straight away
06:32it was Jenny King
06:33and this was released
06:35to the media
06:36that Jenny King's body
06:37had been found.
06:42It was obviously
06:43incredibly traumatic
06:44for the family
06:46and for the friends
06:47and we tried to report it
06:49as respectfully
06:49as possible
06:50putting out appeals
06:51for anybody
06:52who had any information
06:53to get in touch
06:54with the police.
06:56Initial investigations
06:57at the scene
06:58just a few hundred yards
07:00from Jenny's home
07:01suggested she had been murdered.
07:05Her trousers
07:06and knickers
07:07were off.
07:08They were found
07:09to be tied
07:10around her neck.
07:12The end of the trousers
07:13were pushed
07:15into her mouth
07:16to the left side
07:16of her face
07:17bruising.
07:18She'd obviously
07:19been hit
07:20either by fist
07:22or by some
07:22weapon.
07:25There was evidence
07:27of sexual assault
07:28although
07:29there was no
07:31obvious sign
07:32of any semen
07:32found on the body
07:34and never was.
07:36The officer
07:37secured the scene.
07:38This actual location
07:39is so close
07:40to where
07:41Jenny lived
07:43so she was so
07:44so close
07:44to getting home
07:45it's dreadful
07:46to think
07:46that she was
07:47virtually home
07:48and safe.
07:49the officer
07:50notified his supervisor
07:52and then that's
07:53when the incident
07:54room were told
07:54so suddenly
07:55in the incident
07:56room
07:57all hell let loose
07:59and no longer
08:00was it a missing
08:01person inquiry.
08:03We now
08:04had a definite
08:06murder inquiry.
08:22after three days
08:23of a missing
08:24person's inquiry
08:25the body
08:26of 22-year-old
08:27receptionist
08:28Jenny King
08:29was discovered
08:30by police.
08:33A PC
08:34walked into
08:35this little
08:36wood
08:36there was only
08:37one way in
08:38and one way out
08:38and there he found
08:40the partially
08:41clothed body
08:42of Jenny
08:43lying on her back.
08:47The officer
08:48came out
08:49straight away
08:50as they're
08:51trained to do
08:52and then there
08:52was a lot
08:53of discussion
08:53about
08:54when the
08:56forensic scientists
08:57when the
08:58scenes of crime
08:58officers and
08:59pathologists
09:00would need to
09:01go into that
09:02scene to
09:03recover what
09:04evidence there
09:04was
09:05how they could
09:06do it
09:06without traipsing
09:07in on that
09:08one entry
09:09route
09:12walking on
09:13potential evidence
09:15and a decision
09:16was made
09:17and it's the
09:17first time
09:17I heard about
09:19it
09:19where they were
09:20going to cut
09:21in a brand
09:22new route
09:23using hedge
09:24trimmers
09:24and axes
09:26they cut
09:27in through
09:27bramble
09:28a totally
09:29separate route
09:30on the opposite
09:31side to the
09:31colts
09:32so that people
09:33who needed
09:34to be in
09:34there could
09:35then examine
09:36the body
09:39when they
09:41examined the
09:42body in situ
09:43before taking
09:44it away
09:44there was
09:46a muddy
09:47mark noticed
09:48on her stomach
09:50now
09:51that was
09:52photographed
09:53in slightly
09:54different lights
09:54to try and
09:55get the best
09:55images
09:57of that
09:58mark
09:58because the
09:59mark
10:00was quite
10:01clearly
10:01a foot
10:03impression
10:03a sole
10:04of a shoe
10:06shoes
10:07as most
10:08people will
10:09know
10:09have varying
10:11types of
10:11tread
10:12sometimes it's
10:13wavy lines
10:13sometimes it's
10:14circles
10:14this was a
10:15block pattern
10:18footwear is
10:19produced with a
10:20vast number of
10:20patterns
10:21patterns so
10:22any particular
10:23individual pattern
10:24is only present
10:25on a small
10:26fraction of the
10:27footwear population
10:27so the chances
10:29of finding an
10:29individual wearing
10:30shoes a particular
10:31pattern is obviously
10:33very small
10:33fall if we then add to
10:35that the agreement of
10:37any wear or damage in
10:39relation to that shoe
10:40then that further
10:42restricts the number of
10:43shoes in the population
10:44could potentially have made
10:45that mark
10:47mark on the basis of pattern
10:49alone the possibility of going
10:51out in the street and finding
10:52somebody wearing a shoe of
10:54particular pattern is very very
10:56remote indeed and hence that's
10:58why footwear mark evidence even
11:00on the basis of pattern alone
11:01can be very very significant and
11:03provide a powerful link to link a
11:05shoe with a mark at a scene
11:08so once that evidence had been
11:10gathered then Jenny's body was
11:14taken away in order that it could
11:16go and have a post-mortem
11:19whilst Jenny's body was taken to
11:21the mortuary forensic scientists
11:23started to examine the wider area
11:27it was important to take samples
11:30from the route that Jenny took
11:31home and where she was found
11:33because the police needed to
11:35provide context for that area to
11:39demonstrate that the soils in that
11:41area were unique to only that area
11:45so that if a match came on anything
11:48else we were able to link it
11:50directly back to the route that
11:52Jenny took and where she was found
11:54and nowhere else it was quite an
11:58interesting soil and very much
12:00associated with a copse environment
12:02based on the micro botanical remains
12:05so things like seeds and leaves but
12:09also the associated microorganisms so
12:12things like worm droppings and snails
12:15that helped build a picture of where
12:18this soil has come from and it was
12:20through this analysis that this soil
12:22could only have come from that copse area
12:28as forensic scientists worked the crime scene
12:31detectives needed to look at Jenny's final movements
12:36Jenny King had an older brother
12:39her brother had actually been in Chaset
12:43one thing we found out from her brother was that towards the end of the evening
12:49he gave her five pounds he knew she was nearly out of the money and he gave her five pounds
12:53in case she wanted to get a taxi home
12:59so we wanted to make inquiries with taxes
13:02to help answer some of their questions detectives turned to the public
13:10most investigations of this nature we consider doing a reconstruction
13:16when we have a fairly good idea how someone has got home
13:23we identified a young policewoman of about the right age
13:26we knew what Jenny was wearing
13:29so the policewoman dressed in similar clothing
13:32and she slowly walked the route
13:34with cameras recording her walking that route
13:44and as a result of that
13:46we received lots and lots of phone calls into the incident room
13:52among the calls triggered by the reconstruction
13:54was a potential eyewitness sighting of Jenny
13:59this is the route that she actually would have walked down
14:03and in fact we've just passed the area
14:05where there was a potential sighting of her
14:08by a lorry driver
14:14and then about half an hour later
14:17he returned to the area
14:18and he saw the same woman
14:19appearing to be pestered by a man
14:21that he was walking backwards
14:22as she was walking
14:24and he appeared to be remonstrating with her
14:27as efforts to identify the man
14:30reportedly seen with Jenny
14:32continued
14:32the autopsy offered crucial insight
14:35into how she died
14:44Jenny's body was found roughly in this area over here
14:47she had died as a result of strangulation
14:49by her trousers and knickers being tied around her neck
14:53and the actual end of her trousers forced into her mouth
14:57as if to stop her being able to scream out
15:01she'd been stamped on her body
15:03that left the foot impression on her stomach
15:08and she had scratches
15:09and she had a severe blow to the left side of her head
15:17now was this the scene of where she was killed
15:20or just where her body was dumped
15:22as far as we were concerned
15:24this was almost certainly the scene
15:26that she was actually murdered
15:30with the forensic pathologists
15:33confirming Jenny had been murdered
15:35her parents bravely faced the media
15:38to seek help finding their daughter's killer
15:42my little summer breeze
15:46is no longer with us
15:53yesterday
15:55my wife
15:56Margaret and I
16:01formerly identified
16:04the body of our dear Jen
16:07can you imagine
16:10the gut-wrenching
16:11sense of loss and grief
16:14encountered
16:14when entering a room
16:16hoping
16:17against hope
16:19that we would find
16:20our smiling
16:22loving
16:22warm
16:23chattering daughter
16:24waiting to
16:26greet us
16:27but to find only
16:29a cold
16:34battered
16:35lifeless form
16:37before you
16:42but what investigators found
16:44near her body
16:45would soon become
16:46a vital part of the case
16:49on the searching the scene
16:51they found
16:52two keys
16:54that were linked together
16:56with a key ring
17:00those two keys weren't rusty at all
17:02they appeared to
17:04not have been in the cops
17:05for any length of time
17:06and they were very close
17:07to where her body was
17:10there was also
17:1138 pence
17:13in sort of loose
17:14chain on the floor
17:15right next to it
17:15so it looked as though
17:17it had potentially been dropped
17:19either by Jenny
17:20or by her attacker
17:23to help them unlock
17:25the mystery of the two keys
17:26found at the scene
17:28detectives turned to
17:29forensic locksmith
17:30John Crummack
17:34I was presented with two keys
17:36which were the evidence
17:37one was a Yale key
17:38stamp 1A
17:39the other one
17:40was a Mr Minnick key
17:41for a WMS lock
17:42the key consists of
17:45peaks and troughs
17:46the troughs are where
17:47the pins from the upper housing
17:49sit into it
17:50to form a drum
17:50so the key can rotate freely
17:54the peaks are there
17:56solely to lift the pins
17:57so to allow the key
17:58to enter into the lock
18:00these keys were mass produced keys
18:02they were everyday occurrence keys
18:04that you and possibly your family
18:06would use everyday in your household
18:09in murder investigations
18:11such as this
18:12the police have to make a determination
18:14about what they're going to release
18:15to the press
18:17and what they're going to keep to themselves
18:19because it's crucial in their investigation
18:21and in this case
18:22they kept the discovery of the keys
18:24which have been found next to Jenny's body
18:28one of the means of eliminating suspects
18:31was to try the recovered keys in the locks
18:34now that's assuming the keys are the offenders
18:38and we were reasonably satisfied that they were
18:40but you wouldn't totally eliminate someone on that alone
18:43just in case they weren't
18:46early on the police would undoubtedly have looked at
18:49a current boyfriend
18:50because he was the person closest to her
18:52I think he was eliminated very quickly from their inquiry
18:57we had people that had come into the inquiry
18:59that were persons of interest
19:03the ex-boyfriend for example
19:04we later found out that she'd described him
19:07as her psycho ex-boyfriend
19:17I know the officer
19:19who took the key out
19:21to test in the lock
19:23of the ex-boyfriend
19:24and
19:25when he tried the key in that lock
19:27and it opened the door
19:33his heart beat started racing
19:35and he was straight on the phone
19:37thinking we have got our offender
19:42he ticked quite a lot of the boxes
19:44of what you would be a suspect in a case like this
19:47he'd been very possessive
19:48he didn't like the fact that he was no longer with Jenny
19:51he had tried to get back together with her
19:57that's not what we anticipated at that point
20:00we thought oh my gosh
20:02we've got the keys
20:04that officer then contacted
20:05the senior investigating officer
20:07who by this time
20:08was Detective Superintendent Bill Davis
20:10and
20:11it was decided
20:12to arrest him
20:13so the ex-boyfriend
20:14ended up at that point
20:15being arrested
20:19the second key
20:20didn't seem to fit anywhere
20:23we
20:23approached a local locksmith
20:25who we'd used
20:26but he wasn't a
20:28forensic locksmith
20:29and we asked him
20:30could he look at
20:31the lock and the key
20:32just to say
20:33whether or not
20:34they go together
20:36and he was fairly sure
20:38that they did
20:41and you then had
20:42the headquarters
20:44management team
20:45saying to Bill Davis
20:46you need to charge this man
20:49now the interview team
20:51who were very very experienced
20:52said
20:52I've interviewed him
20:54and it is not him
20:56I'm quite happy
20:58it's not him
20:58as happy as I can be
20:59so he was bailed
21:02that's not what
21:03the headquarters wanted
21:04but it's what the SIO wanted
21:07forensic locksmith
21:08John Crummock
21:09set to work
21:10examining the lock
21:11from the ex-boyfriend's home
21:13to establish
21:14if detectives
21:16had made the right call
21:19because this particular lock
21:21was not thoroughly examined
21:22it was only
21:24because the lock
21:25was opened
21:25after some jiggling
21:26and pokery
21:27that they assumed
21:28it was the correct key
21:29for the lock
21:32I was given
21:33the lock
21:34and some keys
21:35retrieved from the scene
21:36of the crime
21:37and asked whether
21:38this key was made
21:39to operate this lock
21:42the first thing
21:43you would do
21:43is to dismantle the lock
21:46enter the key
21:46into the cylinder core
21:48and to see if there's
21:49any abnormalities
21:50where the key
21:51has been used
21:52in this lock
21:52that has left a trace
21:53of witness marks
21:54to its usage
21:55it was a lock
21:57made in Hong Kong
21:58it didn't have many
21:59diff as a key
22:00so its engineering
22:02was not that great
22:04it was possible
22:06with any effort
22:07to open this lock
22:08quite easily
22:09using any particular key
22:11as long as you raked it
22:12and sometimes it would open
22:14so I discounted that
22:18forensics had confirmed
22:20that the keys discovered
22:21at the crime scene
22:22were not from the locks
22:24at the ex-boyfriend's home
22:28there was a second suspect
22:29and he was seen
22:31as somebody
22:32who was obsessed
22:32with Jenny
22:33that he was
22:34a bit of a stalker
22:35he'd leave flowers
22:37for her at work
22:38he referred to her
22:39as his girlfriend
22:42he had learning difficulties
22:43he liked her
22:44he thought she was lovely
22:45because she always
22:46spoke to him
22:48and we had to rule him out
22:50and they took the keys
22:52along to his house
22:53where he lived
22:54with his parents
22:55in a house
22:56on Hill Street
22:56on her route home
22:57and they took the keys
22:58tried them in the lock
23:00turned it
23:01and the door opened
23:06when Mr Crummett
23:07looked at that lock
23:09it was of the sort of lock
23:11you get in hotel rooms
23:13like the circular handles
23:16with the lock
23:17right in the middle
23:17of the handle
23:19and as it happened
23:20the door wasn't even locked
23:21they didn't know that
23:22at the time
23:23by putting the key
23:24in and turning
23:24you were turning
23:25the whole handle
23:27and the door just opened
23:29and Mr Crummett
23:30then eliminated
23:30the keys as being
23:31anything to do
23:32with that address
23:34the keys
23:35later on
23:36became very very
23:38significant to us
23:39after we decided
23:40on the 9th of November
23:42to release
23:43the fact that we'd
23:44recovered keys
23:45to the public
23:48the police told us
23:49that 20 duplicate
23:50sets of keys
23:51had been made
23:51and they were trying
23:53them in the locks
23:53of 300 houses
23:55in the area
23:57there was a time
23:58it was released
23:59and when it was
23:59hundreds of messages
24:01came in with people
24:02suggesting
24:02the type of door
24:03they'd seen people
24:04changing locks
24:12police put out
24:13the appeal
24:13for anybody
24:14who had lost
24:15their keys
24:15that night
24:16to get in touch
24:17with the police
24:17and tell them
24:18so we printed
24:19this story
24:19it was actually
24:20a front page story
24:21and it later
24:22transpired that the police
24:23had hundreds of calls
24:24from people
24:26about missing keys
24:27but amongst them
24:28was an anonymous call
24:29that was made
24:32and he said that his nephew
24:34had lost his keys
24:35that night
24:36and that he'd been out
24:39he'd lost them
24:40throughout the night
24:40and he just wanted
24:42to report it
24:43and he'd also encouraged
24:44his nephew
24:45Paul Hunt
24:46to report the keys
24:47missing himself
24:49who was Paul Hunt
24:52and could he have
24:53something to do
24:54with Jenny's murder
25:13Paul Hunt's uncle
25:15reported that his nephew
25:17had lost a set of keys
25:18possibly the same set
25:21found beside Jenny King's
25:23murdered body
25:25Paul Hunt himself
25:27eventually did phone in
25:30and from what I understand
25:32he phoned in
25:33because his uncle told him
25:34I phoned in
25:35so I think you better
25:36get in contact
25:37with the police
25:37so he did
25:38but once that came in
25:41I raised the action
25:43to go out
25:45question him
25:46about his losing
25:48of his keys
25:48check the keys
25:50in the lock
25:50so a team went out
25:51to do that
25:52and when they tried
25:54the keys in the locks
25:56one key fit the front door
25:57one key fit the back door
25:59that was looking
26:00very very good
26:04it was inferred
26:05that these keys
26:06that were found
26:07at the scene of crime
26:08could open many different locks
26:10because there weren't
26:11many variations
26:12which was incorrect
26:13because the 1A key
26:15had 24,000 variations
26:17of the key
26:17and the AWMS key
26:19had 6,000 variations
26:21before it was repeated
26:22so combining the two
26:24it's highly impossible
26:25that these keys
26:26would fit
26:27any other locks
26:30when you have keys copied
26:32they're never always
26:34copied exactly
26:34the key
26:35of the mother's house
26:37had been cut
26:38with a slight indent
26:39on the end
26:40of the last cut
26:41it was repeated
26:42also in the key
26:43retrieved
26:44from the scene
26:45of the crime
26:45indicating to me
26:47that it was a copy
26:48from the mother's key
26:49at this uncertain
26:53forensic testing
26:54confirmed
26:55the keys found
26:56beside Jenny's body
26:57belonged
26:57to 21-year-old
26:59Paul Hunt
26:59with that
27:00police made their move
27:10he was arrested
27:11from his home address
27:12taken away
27:13and the house
27:13was searched
27:14whilst he was taken
27:15to a police station
27:16the house was searched
27:17with his mum present
27:18and he would be interviewed
27:20police announced
27:21the breakthrough
27:22with a brief statement
27:23the 21-year-old man
27:25from Warmly
27:26has been arrested
27:27on suspicion
27:28for the murder
27:29of Jennifer King
27:30he is detained
27:31at Staple Hill
27:32police station
27:33helping us
27:34with our inquiries
27:38as police
27:39looked into Hunt's
27:40background
27:40they discovered
27:41he was already
27:42known to Jenny
27:44Paul Hunt
27:45and Jenny King
27:47they went to the
27:48same school
27:49they weren't
27:49in the same year
27:52he claimed
27:53that he didn't
27:54know Jenny
27:55he didn't know
27:55her at school
27:56he hadn't seen
27:57her that evening
27:58he had no idea
27:59what had happened
27:59to her
28:02Paul lived
28:04with his mother
28:05his parents
28:06separated
28:06when he was five
28:07and his father
28:08was a transport
28:10policeman
28:11and his grandfather
28:12was a South
28:13Gloucestershire
28:14county councillor
28:15and he actually
28:16lived a couple
28:16of doors down
28:17from the King
28:19family
28:19in Crane Close
28:22so neighbours
28:23said that Jenny
28:24would have known
28:25Paul when she
28:25was growing up
28:26they also attended
28:28the same school
28:29although he was
28:30in a year below
28:31but her former
28:32headmaster gave
28:33a statement
28:33saying he found
28:34it impossible
28:34to believe
28:35that Paul and
28:36Jenny didn't
28:37know each other
28:38from their time
28:38at school
28:40undeterred by Hunt's
28:41insistence
28:42that he didn't
28:43know Jenny
28:43police scoured
28:45his home
28:45for any evidence
28:50his mum
28:51stayed at the house
28:52while officers
28:52searched the house
28:54what they found
28:55when searching
28:56the house
28:56was a pair
28:58of trucker
28:59shoes
29:02the bulk
29:03of the evidence
29:03in the case
29:05surrounded the keys
29:06but also the
29:07forensic evidence
29:07that they'd gathered
29:08from the cops
29:10that there had
29:11been a footprint
29:12that had been
29:13left imprinted
29:14on Jenny's abdomen
29:19in this particular
29:20case I was
29:20tasked with
29:21examining
29:22footwear marks
29:23on the body
29:24of Jennifer King
29:25and then subsequently
29:26comparing those
29:27with any
29:28footwear that might
29:29be submitted
29:29from suspects
29:30that were
29:31arrested in relation
29:32to this investigation
29:34I was supplied
29:36with photographic
29:37prints of the
29:38marks that were
29:39recorded on the
29:41stomach of Jennifer
29:42King during the
29:44post-mortem examination
29:45initially a pair
29:47of boots was
29:48submitted that were
29:50seized from Paul Hunt
29:51these boots were
29:53found to show
29:54far less wear
29:55than the marks
29:56that were recorded
29:57on the stomach
29:58of Jennifer King
29:59and therefore
30:00those boots could
30:01not have made
30:02the marks
30:03that were recorded
30:04on Jennifer
30:08when you looked
30:09at the sole
30:10of these shoes
30:10they had a block
30:12effect sole
30:14and they looked
30:15very similar
30:16to the mark
30:17on Jenny's
30:19stomach
30:23when the officers
30:24explained that to
30:26Paul Hunt's mum
30:27that these shoes
30:28seemed quite
30:29significant to us
30:31she said well
30:32he couldn't have
30:33been wearing those
30:33shoes on the night
30:34because I only got
30:35those from the
30:37shoe shop
30:39because I took
30:40his old pair in
30:41because they were
30:42damaged
30:42they were causing
30:43him feet to hurt
30:45so she said I took
30:46his old pair back
30:46to Master Shoe
30:47and they gave me
30:49those as replacement
30:51but what she did
30:52say it was an
30:53identical pair
30:53of replacement
30:54so one trucker
30:55shoe for another
30:55so when that
30:56information came in
30:57of course we
30:58immediately feed
30:59out to a team
30:59get to Master Shoe
31:02because she had
31:03taken her back
31:03on the 2nd of
31:04November
31:05we're now the 11th
31:07so we're thinking
31:08hopefully we can
31:09still get these
31:10shoes from Master
31:11Shoe Shop
31:14so the team
31:14go down there
31:15and the manager
31:17there says
31:17well yes
31:19we've got a
31:19returns box
31:21normally it's
31:22emptied about
31:23once a week
31:24however we haven't
31:25had many returns
31:25recently
31:26so the shoes
31:28you're looking
31:28for are probably
31:29going to be
31:29in that box
31:31and there was
31:32only one other
31:33pair of these
31:34trucker shoes
31:34so they were
31:35seized
31:37and both pairs
31:38were sent to
31:39forensics to
31:40analyse the
31:41tread patterns
31:41and to try
31:43and glean
31:43any other
31:44information
31:50in this
31:51particular case
31:52the undersurface
31:54of the shoes
31:55recovered from
31:56Master Shoe
31:56were compared
31:57in detail
31:58with the marks
31:59recorded on the
32:00stomach of
32:01Jennifer King
32:02I looked at
32:04other shoes
32:05of different
32:06sizes
32:06made by
32:08Trucker
32:09the same brand
32:09and I was
32:10provided with
32:11reference samples
32:12from other
32:12different sizes
32:14of trucker brand
32:14shoes
32:15and all these
32:16apart from a
32:17size 9
32:18could be eliminated
32:19on the basis
32:20of pattern
32:20configuration
32:24I found they
32:25were matching in
32:27pattern with the
32:28marks on the
32:29stomach of Jenny
32:30and also there
32:32was very good
32:32wear agreement
32:33between the
32:34corresponding areas
32:36of the mark
32:37and the very worn
32:38areas on the
32:39undersurface of the
32:40boot
32:40the forensic
32:42scientists
32:43turned next
32:43to the soil
32:44trapped in the
32:45soles of the
32:46boots
32:46recovered from
32:47the shoe shop
32:48hoping the
32:49ground itself
32:50might reveal
32:51where those
32:51shoes had been
32:52so when
32:54undertaking
32:55a comparison
32:56of soils
32:57that you've
32:57taken from
32:58a potential
32:58route
32:59or a
32:59potential
33:00crime scene
33:00with soils
33:01from
33:02you know
33:02suspect shoes
33:03you want to
33:05establish a
33:05match
33:06and that
33:07match can
33:08be a
33:08physical
33:09match
33:09so when
33:11you look at
33:11soil under
33:12the microscope
33:12it will have
33:13different structures
33:14to it
33:15and it will
33:15have different
33:16particle sizes
33:20the soils
33:21that were
33:22analysed from
33:23the copse area
33:24demonstrated
33:25like a unique
33:27signature
33:31they matched
33:32in terms of
33:32where that
33:33soil had come
33:34from
33:34that the
33:35shoes
33:36had been
33:36in the
33:36copse area
33:37had picked
33:38up soil
33:38from the
33:39copse area
33:40and had put
33:41the suspect
33:42in that area
33:44where Jenny
33:45had walked
33:47the forensic
33:48evidence was
33:49mounting up
33:50but when
33:50detectives
33:51checked
33:51Hunt's
33:52phone records
33:53the investigation
33:54kicked up
33:55a gear
33:58lots of
33:59criminal
33:59psychologists
34:00will talk
34:01about people
34:02that commit
34:03murders
34:04likely
34:05it's not
34:06their first
34:06crime ever
34:07so when we
34:08actually looked
34:09at Paul Hunt's
34:10background
34:10there was a
34:12record of him
34:14harassing people
34:15in an indecency
34:17sort of nature
34:18making indecent
34:19comments to them
34:19over the phone
34:20indecent exposures
34:22there was someone
34:23there was someone who
34:23reported the fact that
34:25he'd actually stolen
34:26her knickers off her
34:27washing line
34:29and he'd been
34:30cautioned and warned
34:32for harassing someone
34:34phoning them up
34:34heavy breathing
34:35this type of thing
34:37we then decided to look
34:38at the phone calls
34:39he was making
34:41in the six months
34:43preceding
34:44Jenny's murder
34:45he made
34:464,000
34:46obscene
34:47phone calls
34:48to women
34:48in the surrounding
34:49area
34:50from his phone
34:51in his house
34:52and these
34:52lasted in duration
34:53from a few seconds
34:54to 20 minutes
34:55and many of these
34:56were threats
34:57to kill
35:00and on the night
35:01Jenny was murdered
35:02in the few hours
35:02before
35:03he set out
35:04that night
35:04he made
35:0580 obscene
35:06phone calls
35:07it was clear
35:08from the evidence
35:08that Paul Hunt's
35:09behaviour was escalating
35:11that night
35:12when he was telling
35:13people that he was
35:14looking to go out
35:15on the pool
35:15it felt like he was
35:17actually looking
35:17for a victim
35:21and unfortunately
35:22that victim
35:23was Jenny King
35:4121-year-old Paul Hunt
35:43had been arrested
35:44on suspicion
35:45of murdering
35:46Jenny King
35:46he was now
35:47being questioned
35:48by detectives
35:49Jenny King's
35:51partially clothed body
35:52was found
35:52in a copse
35:53near her home
35:54she'd been strangled
35:55with her own trousers
35:56Jenny knew Hunt
35:57from school
35:58a set of keys
35:59was found
36:00at the murder scene
36:00they fitted perfectly
36:02in Hunt's door
36:04the keys
36:05were just one part
36:06of the case
36:07against Hunt
36:08detectives also had
36:10nuisance phone calls
36:11soil traces
36:12on his shoes
36:13and one final piece
36:15of evidence
36:16that could tie him
36:17directly
36:18to Jenny's body
36:20the other thing
36:21the forensic scientists
36:22did at the time
36:23was tapings
36:25now what tapings
36:26are
36:26it's like
36:27a very large piece
36:30of sellotape
36:33and they would use
36:34this large piece
36:35of sellotape
36:36and they would dab it
36:37on the body
36:38or on areas of clothing
36:39they would note
36:40from where they took it
36:41and the purpose of it
36:43was to capture
36:44any fibres
36:47any bits of hair
36:49any bits of skin
36:51that had dropped off
36:53any particles
36:54that could be picked up
36:55on an item of clothing
37:01extraneous material
37:02was recovered from the surface
37:04of Jennifer King's clothing
37:05by taping
37:07on these tapings
37:09were numerous green fibres
37:12those green fibres
37:13we learnt very early on
37:16they were cotton
37:16and polyester
37:17so we knew the type of thing
37:19we were looking for
37:22the police
37:24discovered in Paul Hunt's house
37:25a green
37:26Ralph Lauren shirt
37:27that belonged to Paul Hunt
37:29the fibres
37:30were a match
37:31to the fibres
37:32that were found
37:33on Jenny's body
37:36and it was when
37:37police were scouring
37:38CCTV
37:39piecing together
37:40Hunt's movements
37:41that they found evidence
37:43he was wearing
37:44that same green shirt
37:45on the night
37:46of Jenny King's murder
37:50Paul Hunt worked
37:52in a washing machine factory
37:54and his friend
37:55also worked
37:56in the same factory
37:57and they'd been out together
37:58the night that
37:59Jenny disappeared
38:01they went to
38:02a separate nightclub
38:03it was McCluskey's
38:04in the centre of Bristol
38:06and had spent
38:07the evening there
38:07but Paul had boasted
38:09that he was out
38:10on the pool
38:11even though his girlfriend
38:12was at home
38:13with a headache
38:15his friend said
38:16he became separated
38:17from Paul Hunt
38:18in the club
38:19he'd waited for him
38:20but couldn't find him
38:21so CCTV
38:22showed Paul Hunt
38:24leaving about 1.30
38:25leaving McCluskey's
38:27and then about 3.30
38:29he returned home
38:30without his key
38:31and he'd had to
38:33wake up his mother
38:33by banging on the door
38:36there was no denying it
38:38he was wearing
38:39that green shirt
38:40and now
38:41attention turned
38:42to Hunt's body
38:43when he was arrested
38:45part of the arrest process
38:47is to examine someone
38:50so he was examined
38:52for any injuries
38:53some injuries that were
38:55noticed on his buttocks
38:56was some scratches
38:59they were sort of
39:00parallel scratches
39:01long scratches
39:03and they were photographed
39:05Jenny herself had scratches
39:08there were brambles about
39:09in the copse
39:10where her body was found
39:11so it was thought
39:13possibly
39:13could he have injured
39:14himself there
39:15and they looked
39:16quite recent scratches
39:18his explanation
39:19for those scratches
39:20ultimately
39:21was he sat down
39:22on some sharp
39:24bit of metal
39:24at work
39:26wasn't recorded
39:27anywhere at work
39:28he didn't think
39:28it was worth it
39:29it was just a very
39:30minor scratch
39:31now the pathologist
39:34said if you were
39:35wearing underpants
39:36and trousers
39:36and you sit
39:37on something sharp
39:38yes you can scratch
39:39yourself
39:40but the scratch
39:41wouldn't be continuous
39:42because the metal
39:44would be catching
39:44in the material
39:45so the pathologist
39:47was able to say
39:47that scratch he got
39:48is not consistent
39:50with his explanation
39:51is consistent
39:52with someone
39:54having their trousers
39:54and underpants
39:55down
39:55when they got the scratch
39:57now you tie that in
39:58with his keys
40:00on the floor
40:00and 38 pence
40:02consistent with
40:03falling out of a pocket
40:04when you take
40:05your trousers off
40:05those things together
40:07helped the story
40:10this jigsaw
40:10as to what happened
40:17police finally felt
40:19they had their man
40:25this morning
40:26a 21 year old man
40:28from warmly
40:29will be appearing
40:30in court
40:30charged with the murder
40:32of jennifer king
40:36cases like
40:37this
40:38you've got
40:39what you consider
40:39is overwhelming evidence
40:41but you're not the one
40:42making the decision
40:44you hope someone's
40:46going to plead guilty
40:48and avoid a trial
40:51but hunt
40:52but hunt wasn't going down
40:53without a fight
40:54he wanted his day
40:56in court
40:58he pleaded not guilty
40:59and he claimed that
41:01he didn't know jenny
41:02he didn't know her
41:03at school
41:04he hadn't seen her
41:05that evening
41:06he had no idea
41:07what had happened
41:07to her
41:09when the jury go out
41:12that's when you start
41:14that's when you start
41:14getting worried
41:16then when you hear
41:18the jury are coming
41:18back in
41:19and you're sat there
41:20and you're just waiting
41:21for hopefully
41:23the word guilty
41:24being said
41:27and when
41:28the jury said guilty
41:32everyone in the court
41:34myself included
41:35were fighting back
41:36our emotion
41:40Paul Hunt had told
41:41the court that
41:41if he'd murdered jenny
41:42he would admit it
41:43to save the family
41:44from suffering
41:45the judge said
41:46that was a wicked
41:47barefaced lie
41:48the evidence against him
41:49was overwhelming
41:53the fact that
41:54I worked on that case
41:55and worked so hard
41:56on it
41:56and it was so difficult
41:57yet we got the result
41:59that we got
42:00and he got
42:01a minimum of 20 years
42:06he appears to be
42:07evil personified
42:09and I got nothing
42:11but the utter
42:12most loathing
42:14for him as a person
42:18at the time
42:19it was very upsetting
42:20to cover the
42:21jenny king case
42:22to see the grief
42:23of the family
42:27and obviously
42:28they felt relief
42:29that
42:30Paul Hunt
42:31had been convicted
42:32and had got
42:33a life sentence
42:34but for them
42:36that didn't take away
42:37from the fact
42:37they'd lost their daughter
42:38and that grief
42:39was going to save
42:40with them
42:40for the rest
42:41of their life
42:43I saw
42:44I saw Jenny's mum
42:45many years later
42:46I had occasion
42:47to go to her house
42:50and I sat in her lounge
42:52talking to her
42:53and there was still
42:55a corner of the lounge
42:56set to one side
42:58with photographs
42:59of her
43:00and even me looking
43:02at them
43:02because I'd seen
43:03lots of images
43:04of Jenny
43:06throughout the investigation
43:07it still brought it
43:08back instantly
43:11and mum was still
43:12feeling it
43:13I didn't see
43:15dad at the time
43:18it brought it back
43:19instantly to me
43:21I've seen
43:22post-mortem photographs
43:23I've seen
43:24injury photographs
43:27and it's all there
43:29in your brain somewhere
43:32but to see a picture
43:33of Jenny
43:35a nice picture
43:36of Jenny
43:37it just reminds you
43:38of what a beautiful
43:39kind
43:41individual she was
43:42and you start thinking
43:43and how old
43:44would she be now
43:45and would she have children
43:47would she have grandchildren
43:49all that
43:50that was taken away
43:51and would she have
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