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00:11Once I woke up, I, like, opened my eyes, and I saw, like, a figure in the dark.
00:19There was, like, a man, and he was kneeling next to my bed.
00:25And I felt, like, really panicked and scared.
00:31And then he showed me the knife.
00:36He was covering my mouth.
00:42He said, you better not tell anybody or else I will kill your family.
01:01He said, you better not tell anybody or else I will kill you.
01:07That was a great deal.
01:08He said, you better not tell anybody or else I will kill you.
01:11He thought, you better not tell anybody or else I will kill you.
01:14But only one piece of talent or something.
01:14He said, you better not tell anybody or ever.
01:22He went for a matter of gratitude.
01:30Police emergency.
01:32It's always just come back from her dad's and she's basically told us
01:35someone's broken into the house last night and has raped her.
01:40She's 11 years old.
01:43Between what times?
01:46She's saying early hours this morning.
01:50Is she any idea who it could be?
01:53No. She said she'd never seen the man before.
01:56Police officers on the way, ma'am.
02:05Following the report of a serious sexual assault on an 11-year-old girl,
02:10a forensic team led by investigator Rachel Hughes
02:13is called to the house where the attack took place.
02:18Sexual assaults on anyone, they're always horrific.
02:21But when you do hear about these things on children,
02:24it's very shocking.
02:26Their innocence is taken away from them.
02:29The victim says she's been sexually assaulted
02:31while she's been asleep in bed by a stranger,
02:34someone who's not known at all to the victim.
02:39These kind of cases are very rare,
02:42but right now we don't know what we're looking at at this stage.
02:48Whilst the victim is spoken to by officers,
02:51a forensic search of the house begins,
02:53looking for any signs of an intruder.
02:59The important areas within this crime scene are the point of entry
03:06and the child's bedroom itself.
03:09Any surfaces that might have had contact from the offender.
03:14We're looking at the doors, door handles, looking at the door frames,
03:19doing swabs for DNA and fingerprinting those surfaces as well.
03:25Obviously, we just want to make sure we don't miss anything.
03:29You've got someone who's really predatory,
03:32they've got horrible sexual tendencies,
03:34and they are very, very dangerous.
03:36You don't know what their next step could be.
03:41As Rachel's team continue their search for evidence,
03:45the case is immediately assigned to a specialist unit
03:48charged with solving the most serious crimes against children.
03:55This is a briefing in relation to Op Tetra Green,
03:59a serious sexual assault that's taken place on an 11-year-old child
04:02while she's at her father's address.
04:06Just to put some context around that,
04:08so our victim resides with her mum during the week
04:10but lives with her dad at the weekends.
04:14So we're told that she went to bed around half past ten on the evening
04:19and Dad has stated that she woke him up during the night,
04:23stating that she'd had a nightmare.
04:27Later on, then, she returned to her mum's address
04:30and it was at her mum's address that then she disclosed to her mum
04:33and her grandmother, I believe, as what has happened to her.
04:36She said that there was a man who broke into our house,
04:39he woke me up and tried to make me do things.
04:42He was trying to make me touch areas of him
04:45and trying to touch areas of me.
04:47He was putting his fingers inside me.
04:52So it seems fairly early stages,
04:54but obviously we've got a serious sexual assault
04:56of a very young child in her home.
05:00Lots of things are going through my mind.
05:02I've got the worry, is this a targeted sexual attack?
05:05Have we got a stranger who's got into the house
05:07and sexually assaulted them?
05:10Really, really concerning.
05:13I've got three children, two girls and a lad.
05:17You've got it in the back of your mind,
05:18I think you wouldn't be normal if you didn't,
05:20that this could be your children.
05:24We've got known witnesses at this point and no known suspects.
05:29So we are having to play catch up.
05:31It's an awful offence,
05:33so I think we'd all want to try and get this one as quick as we can.
05:37It is a really unusual and very distressing incident.
05:40The challenge that we have
05:42is that it's happened in a private residence.
05:44It happened in the middle of the night,
05:46so there's no other witnesses other than the victim.
05:48This is a very dangerous offence
05:50and a very dangerous suspect that's committed this.
05:55I think the million-dollar question is,
05:57why that house and why her?
06:01It was very obvious there's kids there, wasn't there?
06:03Yeah, definitely.
06:04There's a football goal, there's a rebounder thing, so...
06:07Is it opportunistic that he has just been walking down there
06:10and has seen the access?
06:12Because as soon as you come into that alleyway, it's not far,
06:14and is it opportunistic?
06:17We are up against the clock, certainly forensically.
06:20If it's a targeted sexual attack,
06:23its chances are this could be a repeat offender,
06:25somebody who may have done it before,
06:27so that forensic evidence could give me the breakthrough in this case
06:30that we need to identify him.
06:47Before vital evidence is lost,
06:50the child has agreed to an urgent forensic medical examination
06:53accompanied by her family.
06:55OK, so we have a female, 11 years old, sexual assault,
07:00and she's attending within the hour.
07:03The forensic medical examination of the victim
07:05could be the only chance we've got of getting the offender's DNA.
07:09With the sexual assault,
07:11the victim is actually classed as a crime scene themselves.
07:15The reason being is that there's elements of the offender
07:18that have been left behind on the victim themselves.
07:25Hi, lovely. Will you just jump on this couch for me?
07:29Crucial samples from the child will be collected by a specially trained nurse.
07:35I'm just going to show you this swab I'm opening up for you,
07:38and you can have a look.
07:39It's just like a normal cotton bud swab.
07:43It must be so daunting for her to go through something like this.
07:46We can't forget, obviously, the fact that she's an 11-year-old girl,
07:48but we've got specially trained staff there,
07:51and they try and make the victim feel at ease as much as possible.
07:56I'm just going to take some swabs.
08:00OK.
08:02DNA can remain on the victim for a period of time,
08:05but there is a forensic window of capturing those samples from the victim
08:09because evidence can be lost.
08:12The problem you've got is things like the victim having a wash,
08:16the victim showering.
08:18Sperm can only stay present for up to seven days,
08:21so it's critical that this is done.
08:23The sooner they're taken, the better, really.
08:26OK. All done. There you go.
08:29You've done really well.
08:37The swabs are sent for priority testing
08:39in the hope that they may reveal the attacker's DNA.
08:53Detectives need to gather as much detail as possible from the child
08:56about what she can remember.
09:01There you go. If you can just take a seat over there.
09:07The 11-year-old is interviewed by Stacy Reynolds,
09:10who is specially trained to speak to vulnerable children.
09:14Your mum's next door and your nan's next door in the waiting room,
09:19so you just want to go and see your mum and your nan.
09:21Just let me know, I'm guided by you, OK?
09:25So, for an 11-year-old child, it is very difficult to ask them
09:29to talk about a massive trauma.
09:32Some children obviously only remember parts
09:35and don't know if it could be a dream or if it's actually happened.
09:40It's very difficult.
09:42But her account is crucial.
09:45She is the only person that knows what happened in that room.
09:51So, you're here today to tell me what's happened.
09:56So, um, when I woke up, there was, like, a man,
10:02and he was kneeling next to my bed.
10:04And, um, I felt, like, really panicked and scared
10:08because I thought I was going to get kidnapped.
10:15That's when he covered my mouth and he kept saying,
10:19um, don't say a word.
10:22And he kept touching me in places and then he started licking me.
10:28And then he got on my bed and then he...
10:32..he made me, er, touch his private area as well.
10:39OK.
10:40So, can you remember which part of your body you touched first?
10:44Er, my belly button.
10:47I was really, like, frightened because, um...
10:51I didn't know, like, if I should tell somebody.
10:55But this was before he threatened me.
11:01I know that you said something about a knife.
11:04Um, he showed me the knife and it looked like it folded.
11:08Like one of those knives that you, like, cut carpets with.
11:12He said, um, you better not tell anybody or else.
11:16I will kill your parents and everyone that lives in this household.
11:22This is horrific.
11:24A stranger has entered her address.
11:26He's sexually assaulted her in her own home
11:29when she should be safe sleeping.
11:30This is your worst nightmare.
11:32This is any parent's worst nightmare.
11:34So, can you describe this person in as much detail as possible?
11:39He was in black clothing.
11:42He was a little bit, like, fat.
11:44Like a little bit of a tummy.
11:46And then he's, like, bald.
11:50OK.
11:51Do you know what happened with an knife after he threatened you?
11:54I think he put it, like, back in his, um, pocket.
11:58And that's when, um, he took my bottle.
12:04Can you, like, tell me what the bottle is and how he's telling it plays?
12:09So, it's, um, like a reusable bottle.
12:12He said, I'm going to need to take this.
12:14He, like, opened his coat and then he, like, grabbed the bottle
12:18and put it inside.
12:20Then he stood by my door and he was saying sorry a couple of times.
12:23And then he left in the direction of the back door.
12:26OK.
12:28I'm, like, I was still really panicked and scared
12:30because the man knows where I live.
12:32And if he founds that I've told anybody,
12:34he knows where to go and where to kill people.
12:39But I know I needed to tell somebody because it was, like, really serious.
12:43So, that's why I waited till I got to my mum's house.
12:46OK.
12:49She was amazingly brave.
12:51I'm always mindful that trauma can affect memories in different ways.
12:55But considering she's 11, the detail that she went into was amazing.
13:00So, I believe the child, but we do need corroborating evidence
13:04to show that it has actually happened.
13:08How are you feeling now? Obviously, a lot's happened.
13:11I feel, like, a bit, um, relieved,
13:13because it's, like, over now and then I'm glad that I told somebody.
13:18OK. That's fine. Thank you so much.
13:20I can't be curious.
13:29Armed with the victim's clear description of her attacker,
13:33detectives start a sweep for CCTV near her home,
13:36hoping to find a camera that captured him.
13:41there's somebody out there that's dangerous somebody who's doing the unthinkable thing
13:46to someone else so we really need to find them as a matter of urgency
13:52there's been an incident that took place in the early hours and i was just wondering firstly if
13:57your ring doorbell works we don't have a clue who this person is it can feel like a needle in
14:03a
14:04high stack we're trying to track him going to the offence location yeah there's no cameras here
14:12it's not really anything what's that well this is a really good alleyway because it's really long
14:20yeah and there's no cameras that cover it so if you was trying to avoid cctv yeah this is a
14:26very
14:26good route to have taken i don't suppose you know if cctv works at all there are no cctv that
14:35capture
14:36that particular house so we're looking at the surrounding areas but ultimately we're trying
14:41to identify this person we want to get justice for the victim
14:49as detectives hunt for cctv the forensic team searches for the items described by the child
14:58the knife she was threatened with and the water bottle the attacker took from her room
15:07the victim's account could be really crucial for us now become target those items that potentially
15:12have traces of the dna from the offender on there
15:18hi neil it's rachel hughes from the crime scene coordinators hello rachel with regards to this
15:23kind of scene we're very lucky actually that it's predominantly enclosed inside a house and therefore
15:28we haven't sort of lost much forensically okay we've got um like a pair of french doors and there's a
15:34and also a kitchen door we've taken dna swabs from the inside and outside surfaces of both those doors
15:42and we've also done the same on the victim's bedroom door the outside surface of that and the
15:47inside surface of that has been swabbed as well the problem you've got is when you have a family
15:53household that is actually the crime scene there can be a lot of footfall through there there can be a
15:57lot of traces of dna that are actually innocent persons that we need to rule out which makes it even
16:03more difficult there is a forensic window obviously that we do stand a chance of losing evidence but
16:09thankfully this is still a very forensically rich scene so as soon as those samples are taken we'll
16:14submit those to the lab as a matter of urgency okay we've got to try and find a forensic link
16:20between
16:20the offender and the victim what they've done to that victim is so repulsive and so scary and
16:27dangerous that we've got to do everything we can to get him in as soon as possible
16:47so members of the public have uploaded up to 300 items
16:53the search for an image of the attacker remains vital
16:58stuart has now collected over 200 hours of footage that he needs to scrutinize for any trace of the man
17:06again it was early hours the victim has described a white male with a bald head
17:13i'm looking at multiple cameras different angles did they use a car did they go by foot
17:19were they with somebody else these are the sort of things that we need to look at when it is
17:25at night
17:26the images are not always as clear as what we'd hope when you look at it it's bad cctv it's
17:32blurry
17:32it's grainy it can be very tricky because it doesn't actually show too much
17:39we're trying to identify a route that someone has taken
17:44stuart focuses on finding anyone out in the early hours of the morning
17:48who matches the description given by the 11-year-old child
17:55it's a black and white image but that is a person of interest
18:00bought in here white male
18:06he's walking down there which leads to the main road okay there aren't many other opportunities there
18:18narrowing his search stuart spots a man walk into range of a camera closer to the victim's home
18:25so this is one of the petrol galleries not too far away 3 22 in the morning and there's a
18:34figure here
18:34he's crossed the road nobody else is walking the streets at this time
18:40at that location just here bald head small in height
18:49i've got a different angle this one's from behind he's in color white male bald head that's it nick
18:59i think i've found a person okay see him there crossing the road
19:11that's the petrol garage it is yeah so he's walking the direction of a train station
19:17ah yeah right so these are the train steps yeah 3 24 a.m that's the same person it is
19:25an unusual time
19:26for somebody to be walking the streets in those early hours we need to show the route
19:32to understand his movements before during uh and after he's a person of great interest however it's
19:42not an offense to be walking around late at night doesn't show the act being carried out it's showing
19:49circumstantial evidence it's not the best picture it's quite difficult to make out the color of the
19:54clothings it's black and white it's not clear enough it's from quite some distance that's really
20:00frustrating because we really want to get a good clear image of their face this person disappears
20:07moments after that we need to identify other footage very quickly
20:15while the quest for a clearer image continues detectives are still hopeful the forensic evidence
20:22gathered from the child's house will reveal the identity of the attacker
20:27so from the actual scene itself this is going into victim's bedroom we don't think that he's
20:34actually come any further than the bedroom itself and nothing to imply that he's gone in
20:39there for a burglary because nothing's been taken we haven't confirmed that yet um but we can't rule
20:44it out we can't rule it out now right okay so let me just show you okay so we've got
20:51some items of clothing
20:52we think these are the silky pajama bottoms that were put on by the victim post-incident and those
20:58silky pajama bottoms or any clothing that she was wearing during or post-incident basically a priority as
21:05well we spoke to dad because obviously dad's give us a statement so maybe half three to four a.m.
21:11is
21:11when we think the offenders come in and committed the offences there was mention on there as well that
21:16he produced a knife during the examination at the property we haven't found that knife but there's
21:22a water bottle a drinks water bottle it's been found in the rear garden so we've got the potential
21:29of fingerprints on that as well so we can get it into the fingerprint development lab yep sounds good
21:33are we going to be limited with the drinks bottle because it's been outside and obviously the weather's
21:37been awful it doesn't help but we always stand a chance of still recovering fingerprint evidence from
21:42that forensics is definitely the most crucial line of inquiry yeah for us as an investigation team
21:48definitely at this stage we are concerned because the nature of the offence you know is still out
21:54there we don't know who he is there's a lot of pressure on us at the moment get the name
22:00of the
22:00offender get as much evidence as we can to to find out who this individual is based on what the
22:07victim has told us we now know that the the offender has handled this water bottle so for us it's
22:13it's priority at the moment to get that examined
22:28the child's water bottle which was found discarded in the garden
22:32it's fast-tracked to the fingerprint lab for screening
22:41what i'm doing initially is light sourcing the bottle and what i'm looking for is latent finger marks
22:51a juice bottle a water bottle there's a lot of traffic
22:56so you would imagine that you'd get some sort of finger marks on there whether it be victim or the
23:03suspect
23:05so this is the uv light it will fluoresce any finger marks that may be present
23:16the water bottles that you get the refillable ones that are plastic surfaces
23:21although they generally look smooth the actual surfaces themselves are kind of like a textured
23:26plastic so don't always yield the best fingerprint evidence for us
23:33unfortunately it doesn't look like it's enhanced any further finger marks
23:39unable to visualize any marks on the bottle examiner beverly worrell turns to a superglue chamber
23:45in an attempt to enhance it so the exhibit will go in here and what the superglue adheres to
23:55is the amino acids in your fingerprints so any sweat components so the glue will stick to those and
24:03we'll be able to visualize those under the white light
24:23so you can see you've got one marks down the bottle
24:27that's where the superglue is adhered to what may have been juice on the outside of the bottle
24:36it is disappointing when you don't enhance any finger marks
24:46we're a bit of a crossroads really um the water bottle hasn't yielded anything so at the moment
24:53it's worrying that our offender remains unknown so cctv could be key
25:05cctv is like a puzzle you need to be persistent sometimes i can drive past this particular area
25:13where i've carried out cctv and remember something that's happened you don't ever forget
25:21it can be difficult knowing what someone's doing or even what they're about to do
25:29so i've come in this morning and there has been a development
25:37okay i think i've got him
25:40stewart has received cctv from a different camera that reveals a new sighting
25:47and that there is going to be our man and he's walking in the direction of the offence location
25:56zeroing in on the suspect he makes a significant discovery
26:01strange he seems to come from a wooded area so what he's done there don't know
26:09i don't know why he would go in those woods he's said to have a knife
26:13so we need to get some officers to have a look in that wooded area
26:21he could have dumped something he may have changed his clothing is he waiting to pounce on someone
26:27right now is that is that what i'm looking at why is he going in this wooded area that's what
26:32we need
26:32to find out officers are sent to search the woods for any items that may have been discarded by the
26:41suspect before or after the attack the cctv footage of the suspect coming out has been taken from the
26:49camera over there which shows him entering this woodland at 3 30 a.m he's in here and then he's
26:57popped
26:58back out the same entrance at 3 38 so he may be coming in here actually to leave things in
27:04here
27:08we haven't been able to recover the knife so my hypothesis for there is that he's been taken with
27:14the offender when he's left whether he's discarded them i don't know what's that purple thing i'm not
27:21looking at a full forensic examination of the scene but i want to know what's there just about thank you
27:31doesn't look like anything obvious like a bag or anything does it
27:36there is no trace of a knife or any further clues as to what the man was doing there
27:56what i have is pajama shorts they are child size 11 to 12 years while detectives are no closer to
28:09identifying the offender clothing from the child is tested for any bodily fluids or cells which may
28:15reveal his dna we've got to consider that the possibility of any sort of twitch dna any cellular
28:24dna that's been transferred from him to her but dna is very sensitive it will degrade over a period of
28:30time there are concerns that we could lose forensic evidence so nothing's a guarantee
28:38there may be a chance of finding the offender's saliva
28:42after the child reported being licked during the assault for saliva what we're going to do is we're
28:48going to wet our amylase paper infused with starch now i'm going to place it on the item and pat
28:56it
28:56so any saliva that is on the item will be transferred onto the paper saliva can actually stay um on
29:05clothing
29:05a lot longer than actually being present on skin for and a lot of it's to do with the texture
29:10of
29:10material and fabric so we're holding out hope that we can still find the offender's dna there
29:16this is iodine working solution this reacts with the starch in the paper
29:23okay okay so what we have here is amylase positive areas which you can see here
29:35the area that has reacted positively is then cut out and matched back to the pajamas okay
29:42i'm going to place this on the item wall through the holes this shows that we have had a positive
29:50reaction for saliva in the crotch area of the victim's pajama bottoms the sample will now
29:59be sent to a specialist lab to try and extract dna that can be checked against known offenders
30:04on the police database got all the cc tv footage from yesterday
30:21stewart has been piecing together further doorbell footage
30:24in a bid to track the suspicious man after the attack took place
30:31he's just walking past
30:37okay so this is 4 41 in the morning
30:42and that there is our suspect still looking exactly the same new images showing the suspect coming from
30:53the direction of the victim's house could provide the missing link
30:57that's a cul-de-sac he's going to appear there he is and there's not many houses up there so
31:03we now need to try and work out where that person lives and then all of a sudden all these
31:08jigsaw pieces come together momentarily split second
31:15and this i think is the breakthrough that we need because this street's a cul-de-sac
31:18so the chance are this person lives in that street
31:23that there is our suspect that was 323 so that's definitely the same person
31:31stewart checks earlier footage and discovers the man leaving a house just half an hour before the attack
31:39members of the attack
32:00they find a man who resembles the person seen on cc tv
32:06What was your name, pal?
32:08Stephen Jeffrey.
32:09Stephen, you're under arrest on suspicion of sexual assault.
32:13I'll caution you that you don't need to say anything,
32:15but it may harm your offence if you do not mention one question
32:18with someone you may later rely on in court.
32:20I should have thought of it when I tried that.
32:22It should have worked, I mean, if it had.
32:26All right, just to remind you, you're under caution, Stephen, all right?
32:28I haven't run up my mind any more, and it's just...
32:31OK.
32:32Somebody get it, somebody.
32:34All right, that's one in custody.
32:42All right, out you, pop, pop.
32:45Four days since the sexual assault,
32:48the 33-year-old suspect is brought into custody.
32:57So I am authorising your detention as being necessary
33:00to secure and preserve evidence and to obtain evidence by question.
33:02It's fine, Stephen.
33:05Yeah, you just need to stay up here, though, Stephen.
33:08All right.
33:10Do you need to sit down?
33:11One, two, one, two.
33:19When we have a suspect that's brought into custody,
33:22forensically, there's quite a few things
33:23that we can try and gain from that, really.
33:25For example, the clothing that the actual offender is wearing.
33:28And also, it's really important for intimate samples
33:30to be taken from the person in custody.
33:36So I just need you to hold your penis out as far as you can for me,
33:39and I'm going to swab it.
33:41There is possibly a chance that we could get some sort of DNA evidence
33:45from her on him, based on her account.
33:51OK, that's all done.
33:53You can pull your trousers back up now.
33:56It may have been several days since the incident happened,
33:59but even if they'd washed,
34:01there could just be a small fragment of evidence there.
34:06Detectives now have 24 hours
34:08to find evidence linking the suspect to the attack.
34:16A fingertip search of his house gets underway.
34:20I'm just going to brief you about what we're searching for.
34:24Clothing, the path and the route that we believe the offender's taken
34:27is through, like, a muddy alleyway and garden,
34:31so it's probably going to be caked up in mud.
34:34Digital devices, phones, tablets,
34:36would be really helpful to the investigation.
34:46We're almost playing catch-up,
34:47and the suspect has got 24 hours-plus on us
34:51and has had opportunity to think about
34:53what they're going to do after they've committed the offence.
34:56You know, are they going to be destroying evidence?
34:58Are they going to be hiding things?
35:01We have a pair of black trainers with mud on.
35:04Has any clothing been seized?
35:06Yes, we have.
35:07OK, so there's no clothing that matched any description?
35:10It's a pity.
35:12When we look at his circumstances,
35:15he lives with his parents in a normal family home.
35:18Looking at him,
35:19he could present as just being a normal member of the public.
35:23In the kitchen,
35:25officers also retrieve a small foldable knife.
35:29Matches the description of our victim here.
35:31We'll seize that,
35:33and then that'll probably be put to the suspect in interview.
35:35So it's a great find.
35:37Awesome.
35:49I'll start by thanking everyone for the hard work today.
35:52Our suspect is in custody now.
35:54Will you just give us a little brief of where we are with our victim?
35:57Yeah, so, um, victim and family were updated yesterday
36:02in relation to the arrest of the suspect.
36:05Obviously, Mum was understandably emotional.
36:08Mum has stated that her daughter isn't sleeping.
36:12Mum has to sleep in the room with her,
36:14cos she's just petrified.
36:16But hopefully, with the suspect in custody,
36:19it can offer some sort of comfort.
36:22So, let's see what he's got to say,
36:24if he's going to say anything.
36:34It's all counting on this interview, really,
36:36to try and get the suspect to prove or disprove
36:40their involvement in an offence.
36:44We need to try and place him in that bedroom.
36:49So, you was arrested for sexual assault of a child
36:52under 13 years.
36:54So, firstly, are you guilty of that offence?
36:57I've provided my client to answer no comment
37:00to all questions during the interview.
37:02Stephen, obviously, you've had your advice off your solicitor.
37:05It is advice, so it is completely your choice.
37:08So, if you do choose that you want to answer the questions,
37:11that is your choice, OK?
37:13And, so, I just need to ask you
37:15just about some significant comments
37:17that were made after you was arrested.
37:19So, at 16.54 hours,
37:21so after you was cautioned,
37:23you said,
37:24I should have died when I tried.
37:26It should have worked.
37:28I haven't got a mind anymore.
37:30Can you tell me about that, please?
37:33My advice is no comment.
37:39Well, no comment to most.
37:42It's just...
37:46It's got nothing to do with any allegations.
37:49This is just in me.
37:50I should have died.
37:55My advice is no comment to all questions.
37:59That's my advice.
38:10The victim is 11 years old.
38:13She has described in detail to me
38:14what's happened to her.
38:17She states that she's woke up to a man
38:20kneeling next to her.
38:23She said that then you've put your hand over her mouth.
38:26Tell me about that.
38:31She's saying that she was shown a knife
38:33and she describes it as
38:34it was like a pocket knife
38:36and she was told
38:37that she wasn't allowed to tell anybody
38:39while this man has said
38:41that he will kill everyone in that house.
38:44Tell me about that.
38:49Is that fair that an 11-year-old child
38:52should be scared in their own home?
38:55How does that make you feel?
38:59The suspect is very agitated.
39:04He's fidgeting a lot.
39:06He just looks like that he is hiding something.
39:12Did you use that knife to threaten her?
39:16Was it a pocket knife?
39:19Can you tell me the colour of the pocket knife?
39:22Was it blue?
39:24Do you own a blue pocket knife?
39:25I mean, I mean...
39:31Where did you get the knife from, Stephen?
39:33I'm coming.
39:36I'm coming.
39:37I'm coming.
39:38Stephen?
39:39I'm coming.
39:41Stephen, you're going to hurt your head.
39:43Stephen?
39:43I'm coming, please.
39:45OK, OK.
39:46Stephen?
39:46Stephen, would you like a break?
39:49Stephen?
39:50Stephen?
39:50Please, yes.
39:50Stephen, you're going to have to stop.
39:52OK.
39:52OK.
39:56He wants the interview to end and he wants me to stop asking him the questions so it can just
40:01go away.
40:03I do believe that it's incriminating, so I will try and probe as much as possible to get the truth.
40:12No comment.
40:14He's probably done what we said he would do, admitted it all to his solicitor, and then his solicitor told
40:20him to go no comment, because all he's going to do is incriminate himself further, isn't he?
40:23No comment.
40:39With the suspect refusing to talk and the custody clock ticking, the focus moves to searching his phone for anything
40:46that connects him to the crime.
40:52we've got specialist software that we can use and we'll take the media from our extraction
40:56and place it into it we can quickly run through and see what's on the handset digital investigator
41:03Jack McCauley manages a full download of data from the device I'm just going through some of
41:10the web history here and there is 33,000 searches on here you get such an insight into someone's life
41:19looking at their mobile you don't just see the crime that's happened in front of you you see the
41:24person you see their personality develop and what they've been searching for you can see those silly
41:30questions that we all ask or do some shopping online or whatever so I can see he's got snapchat
41:37installed Instagram installed all of these apps you can communicate across was this a targeted
41:43sort of crime or was this just by chance I want to have a look to see if there's any
41:49link to that
41:49victim does he have an interest in children can I prove that so just going through the media on the
42:02device there's images that are children at the beach no one would look at this and go this is a
42:10normal amount to have it's children he doesn't know it gives you a mindset of that person behind the
42:17scenes and that's exactly what your digital devices do he's got them in such quantity we found screen
42:29recordings which look to be of webcam sessions for adult content where the users can chat to the
42:38model and there's a chat here which is saying hi it's Steve can you please show me your belly button
42:45can you please show me your belly button up close can you press your belly button and scream belly button
42:53we've got belly button searches which then also relate to pornographic websites on the next search
43:00he's searching for children's belly buttons pornography which includes belly buttons so he's been looking
43:05for these images searching for these terms it's quite disturbing searches for people who are sleeping
43:12passed out defenseless sort of those vulnerable people the internet is generally just the wild west so
43:21people will try and hide their search history part of forensics is going through the sort of the
43:25additional data the stuff that sits behind it all it's all logged it's all tracked in the back end
43:31and that's what we view we're not viewing it as the user sees it so I've just come across my
43:37first
43:37illegal image this is child sexual abuse material or CSAM so we split the illegal material into different
43:44categories currently found one cat B which is sexual activity with a child and five cat C's which is
43:52sexual posing as a child age in between the ages of four to ten it's horrific but unfortunately in terms
44:03of
44:04this case there's nothing here that relates directly to the crime there's no evidence that he was there
44:09or anything along those lines however there's illegal files the searches that are starting to look
44:15indicative to the crime and we're painting this picture of his mindset although there is now enough
44:25to charge the suspect with possession of illegal images if you just go in that room here to the left
44:32there is still no forensic proof that he committed the sexual assault your mobile phone I believe
44:40that you have this and when you was arrested and is this your mobile phone so on this mobile
44:49phone there's been extensive and sexualized search history around belly buttons tell me about that
45:01do you have a sexual infraction people's belly buttons there's also searches for sleep attack pornography
45:15yeah tell me and also there was searches for raid and is that something that you get sexual
45:23gratification from so we've got a map here we believe that you have entered and gain access to the back
45:35of these properties can you tell me if that is the route you've took do you know that area well
45:43we don't
45:47want this offender to be walking out from custody the whole job is riding on the forensic evidence to
45:53prove that he has actually entered that address and he's the person that's actually committed that
45:58crime in a specialist forensic lab the complex process of trying to extract DNA from saliva found on the
46:14Charles pyjamas shorts is underway but this can take up to 48 hours to complete with no guarantee they can
46:34extract a full DNA profile from the shorts Rachel meets with Neil to plan their best next steps
46:44so it's it's pretty disturbing what's been found on his phone to be fair many many searches around
46:51paralyzed or sleeping women so all pretty pretty disturbing pretty disturbing pretty horrific so you
46:58know it definitely we've got a sex interest yeah in children and belly button fetishes obviously the
47:05swabs that were taken from our victim's stomach if he has sort of licked around or put his mouth on
47:09a
47:10stomach area that's obviously a priority submission so they're in for DNA profile yeah yeah we've
47:18established that the offender has a fetish about belly buttons because of the sexual nature of the
47:25incident we're looking for any traces of either his saliva or his semen that could be present on the
47:31victim herself on her stomach area we're holding out so much hope now that this is going to be the
47:41area that's going to give us the breakthrough I have thought swabs to examine today forensic samples
47:55taken from the victim's stomach area are now prioritized for testing I'm going to be teasing the fibers apart of
48:05the
48:05swab heads to loosen up any of the cellular material that is in these swabs so next we're going to
48:12add the
48:19solution and then we're going to put this into the centrifuge and we're going to spin it down so that
48:24we get a pellet
48:28the centrifuge the centrifuge separates heavier particles such as semen to make it easier to detect
48:37so this will contain themselves now what we have to do is stain the stain that we've made and we're
48:45going to use this using Christmas tree staining it stains any sperm heads present in the sample a pink color
49:10so what we can see down the microscope is these little pink heads here are the semen heads
49:22it's a very good result for us but we can't automatically assume that we're going to get a
49:28DNA hit from that it depends on the amount of sperm heads that are left behind so we won't know
49:32until we
49:32actually send off the samples from that to establish whether it gives us a full DNA profile or not the
49:39sample is urgently sent for DNA analysis to see if it matches the suspect in custody
49:55I just wanted to give you a phone call I'll email you over the timeline we're just looking for an
49:59extension his time is up in four hours so it would take us half one in the morning with the
50:08custody clock
50:08running out detectives request a 12-hour extension to keep the suspect behind bars while they wait for
50:15the forensic results he might come out with reasonable lines of inquiry that we need to do
50:20while he's in custody we are looking at going as a red case to CPS
50:27yes okay that's fine I'll do that now all right thanks boss bye there is always that risk that we
50:35are going to have to
50:36release our suspects from custody that we can't gather all the evidence within the custody time limit that we have
50:42that is frustration if we have to release him so we need a real breakthrough
50:47forensically as soon as possible
50:56the results of the DNA extraction process on both the saliva and semen samples have come through and are fast
51:05-tracked for analysis by senior reporter Charlotte Hargreaves
51:10in effect a DNA profile is just a string of numbers but they are known to differ between individuals so
51:15we look at 16 areas
51:18and from that sample we obtain the full DNA profile what you can see is that the major DNA profile
51:25which is all of the very large
51:27pieces of DNA that indicates that it's from a female and we know that this profile matches that of the
51:33injured party herself what we are interested in is
51:37this is these smaller bits of DNA here
51:41Charlotte compares the DNA profile to find out if it matches to that of the suspect
51:48these numbers basically comprise this individual's DNA profile
51:55so this is a number 14 which obviously when I go to the semen profile that matches that same number
52:0314
52:03we've got some smaller areas here 14 15 and then a 17 and then a 12 over here
52:09we come back to this and you can see that these 14 15 the 17 they match the person whose
52:18profile we've obtained from the semen
52:19it being a billion times more likely that the DNA originated from that person rather than some of the unrelated
52:26to them
52:39the DNA profile that we've got from the semen on the stomach swabs and saliva and I can see that
52:46that profile does match
52:48so does the DNA match to the person that we have in custody
52:54we've had some really good news through his DNA has been found on the victim on her clothing
53:00how can you explain that you there's no explanation for that
53:04it absolutely confirms that he was the offender in this case
53:09so your semen has been bound on the victim's stomach
53:12how can you account for that
53:15not coming
53:17I believe that the fact may be due to you taking part in the commission of that offence
53:23I just want the truth
53:31I know what you've advised but I have to say one thing
53:37this is exactly why my mind needs to be shut down
53:41it's not just
53:44on the age of one
53:47sexual is it
53:53massive all of it
53:57I'm sorry but
53:59so from what you're saying to me there was that
54:02it doesn't matter what it is
54:04you get sexual gratification
54:08my mind seems to be a labyrinth
54:11and I haven't got the scheme
54:15now I'm sorry but can we stop the sectors
54:17I'm here to toilet and I'm here to be sick
54:18ok
54:19interview paused at 14.34
54:28the final decision on whether to charge the suspect
54:32rests with the Crown Prosecution Service
54:34yeah
54:35we've got his semen on her stomach
54:38there's no reasonable explanation for that
54:41yeah that's perfect
54:43just getting charged here
54:45thank you
54:46lovely bye
54:49that's a really good result
54:49that's a fantastic result
54:50we've got a really strong case now
54:53because we've got our offender
54:55his DNA is confirmed
54:57it's a match
54:58there's nothing better than being able to tell your family
55:01that we've caught him
55:02we've absolutely got him nailed on for this
55:05because we've got the forensics etc
55:07and we've got our victim on board and everything
55:09the victim throughout this has been so unbelievably brave
55:13she's shown immense strength in actually telling somebody about what happened
55:18given the threats that the suspect made to her family
55:22it's a really great feeling to know that he's going to get charged with this horrific offence against this really
55:27young girl
55:31less than a week after the 11 year old child awoke to find an intruder in her room
55:36her suspected attacker is taken to be charged
55:41so you're charged with following offences
55:42knowing or recklessly trespassed on premises with the intention of committing a relevant sexual offence on those premises
55:50your second one intentionally penetrated the vagina of a girl under the age of 13
55:55with a part of your body namely fingers and that penetration was sexual
55:59your next one intentionally touched a girl under the age of 13 and the touching was sexual
56:04and namely touching and masturbating your penis
56:07conscious section 8 1 and 3 of the sexual offences act 2003
56:11so those are charges they've come back with
56:13can i ask you to sign on there to say i've read those charges out to you
56:21i'm very pleased that we've successfully secured a charge
56:25i think it's an amazing result and that we get a paedophile off the streets
56:31okay steven
56:32because of the nature of the offences
56:34you're not going to be getting bail
56:35you will be staying with us overnight to be collected in the morning to taken to court
56:39all right
56:40is there any questions you need to ask me?
56:42no
56:43no
56:43okay
56:45there's no way i don't feel that we could have secured this kind of positive result
56:49against such an individual without the forensic evidence that we've got
56:52okay steven if you want to come with me okay
56:55so for us to get him off the streets a predator like that behind bars is that's the result we're
57:00after
57:18as a mother this kind of job does stay with you unfortunately but what it does do it kind of
57:23makes you more
57:24more aware that we've made a difference here
57:27let's not forget how crucial the victim's been in all of this
57:30she's been brave she's provided all those friends examples for us
57:34she's been so strong in all of this
57:36your heart just goes out to the victim and her family so
57:39for him to be behind bars is a relief for everyone
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