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00:02On the 26th of May, 2013,
00:04a teenage girl leaves her home in Shropshire to meet a friend.
00:08She never makes it home.
00:12She's 17 years old. She's a child.
00:14You've then got to look at this is out of character for her.
00:18What was she wearing? Who was she with?
00:21So details and much description as possible
00:24of what was known of Georgia the last time she was seen.
00:28Her terrified friends and family searched the area.
00:32Off the main road running between Ruthen and Wrexham
00:35is through the sort of Snowdonian mountain area, valleys,
00:40and it's remote but it's very popular for campers and for hikers.
00:44This is an area where bad things don't happen to good people.
00:50Police quickly hone in on the suspect.
00:53He planned it. He lured Georgia in
00:56and he knew what he was going to do to try to get away with it.
01:00There they are.
01:28After all,
01:29the
01:33Telford is a town in Shropshire, located in the West Midlands of England.
01:38It's surrounded by scenic countryside, charming architecture, and many historic sites, including the Iron Bridge Gorge.
01:47Shropshire is a county in the United Kingdom.
01:49The main city centre of it is Telford, but there are lots of picturesque, beautiful towns in and around the
01:56area.
01:56It's got beautiful rolling countryside, huge historic sites.
02:00It's got big culture of walking, cycling, outdoor pursuits.
02:07It's stuck in the corridor between the M6 going from Birmingham to Manchester and the Welsh border.
02:12So even though it's in the centre of the British Isles, it is a fairly remote but beautiful country area.
02:19People in Shropshire are full of local people who love Shropshire and never leave.
02:24Plus other people who moved out from the Midlands, the Birminghams and the Wolverhamptons, just a few miles out into
02:31the countryside, partly in retirement or just to seek a different quality of life.
02:37It's quite a rich tapestry and a range of people who live in that part of the world.
02:42It's a lovely area, low crime, nothing special about criminality there.
02:47Gets lots of visitors. Yeah, it's a lovely place to live, work and visit.
02:52Not only is this a beautiful place to raise a family, it's also a fabulous place to grow up and
02:56be a kid.
02:57And one of those towns is Wellington.
03:00Wellington's got these very picturesque, black and white buildings for historic value.
03:05It's got a big black and white, picturesque clock in the town centre.
03:10Sunday, the 26th of May, 2013, starts out as a typical summer's day for 17-year-old Georgia Williams.
03:19Georgia was from the Shropshire area.
03:21She was born on 7th of September, 1995.
03:24According to friends and family, Georgia was a caring and fuller life girl.
03:30Georgia was a very smart young lady, full of life, lots of friends, well-liked.
03:36She was very close to her family and she lived with her father, Stephen, at the time, who himself actually
03:41was a police officer.
03:43She had a difficult start in life at school.
03:45There was an element of bullying there and that really moulded her view of life and the future.
03:50She was determined that on her watch, nobody would be bullied.
03:54So there was an inclusive feel about her work.
03:58She was a mentor, she was a student counsellor, she was head girl at a school and she was in
04:03the RAF cadets.
04:05She wanted to join the RAF and to work as a military paramedic.
04:11She was sort of devoting to helping people and devoted to serving her country.
04:17She did sports, she was keen, keen to be in the outdoors and as soon as she was old enough
04:22that she got a job working at the local petrol station.
04:28On the 26th of May, 2013, Georgia is at a family barbecue.
04:35On that fateful day, Georgia was just doing normal things that she would ordinarily do.
04:39She was at a family barbecue and she told her family that she was going on to meet her friends.
04:45It's a lovely day.
04:46She leaves to go and do this early evening photo shoot at this address.
04:49Doesn't think she's going to be there very long and they can expect her home, you know, early later on
04:54that evening.
04:56Georgia isn't seen or heard from again for several hours.
04:59This is quite unusual for Georgia.
05:00It would appear that she keeps in regular contact with her mum and would always say where she was and
05:05what she was up to.
05:07So they felt it was really out of character that she hadn't been in contact with them.
05:11Her mother did receive a text from Georgia's phone saying,
05:16Mum will I run into some friends, I'll be having a chat with them, hanging out with them for tonight.
05:20Don't worry about me.
05:22And she finished off with her trademark three exes.
05:25There was nothing at this stage for Georgia's parents to worry about.
05:31Upon receiving this text, they're assured that their daughter is absolutely fine.
05:34She's just gone out and done what any teenager would do in a small town.
05:37She's hanging out with her friends.
05:39She'll be back at some point later in the evening, possibly after they've gone to bed.
05:43But they know most of her friends.
05:45They certainly know the small town and they don't have any concern.
05:48They go to bed and, as far as they're concerned, everything is fine.
05:53The next morning, Georgia's mum woke up and found that Georgia hadn't come home.
05:57So she was starting to get a little bit worried, text Georgia, and a few hours later she got her
06:02text back.
06:03The text she received back said that she'd stayed over at her friend's, not to worry,
06:07and also that her battery was about to die on her phone.
06:11And what's really important in an investigation is patterns.
06:15And parents know, generally, the patterns of their children, almost meticulously.
06:21They know them off by heart.
06:22So the fact that Georgia hadn't replied, the fact that Georgia, since she'd stayed at her friends,
06:30this was all really unusual.
06:31This was not behaviour that Georgia would be involved in.
06:35And to let her phone battery get so low that it was about to run out really, really became an
06:43issue for Lynette.
06:45And she got increasingly concerned because this was really out of character for Georgia.
06:52It is now the 28th of May, two days since Georgia's parents last saw their daughter.
06:59What Lynette also knew was that on that day, Georgia had a lot of plans.
07:03She was supposed to be going to a music festival.
07:05She was supposed to have a driving lesson.
07:06And again, not the type of thing that she would just decide to abandon and not turn up for.
07:11So the whole of that day passes.
07:13Mum and Dad are getting more and more concerned.
07:15So at this point, they start phoning around all Georgia's friends,
07:18seeing whether they've heard from her, whether she's with them.
07:21That's all negative.
07:22So they become more and more concerned for her well-being.
07:26Georgia's boyfriend, Matt, put out an alert on Facebook.
07:30Parents were phoning around everywhere.
07:32Georgia's mother rang Georgia's phone direct and it went straight to voicemail.
07:38This could not continue.
07:39Police had to be summoned.
07:40And so the parents went straight to the police to report Georgia missing.
07:45A report is made either by phone or in person,
07:48where, in this case, the parents would tell police
07:53that they're concerned about their daughter,
07:55why it's out of character, which is the key thing,
07:57because depending on age is where police would assess
08:01in terms of vulnerability and urgency and danger.
08:05So all of that would be explained to the police,
08:08taken into account, added to the, you know,
08:10this is completely out of character.
08:12So, you know, what did she look like when she was last seen?
08:15What was she wearing?
08:16Who was she with?
08:17So detailed with as much description as possible
08:21of what was known of Georgia the last time she was seen.
08:25Georgia's parents tell police that two days prior,
08:28their daughter said she was going to meet a friend named Jamie
08:30for a photo shoot.
08:34Georgia's first job was working in a petrol station.
08:37This is where she met Jamie Reynolds.
08:39He also worked in a petrol station.
08:41The first thing that the parents told the police was
08:44the last person that Georgia was due to see was Jamie.
08:49Police put that name straight into the police computer
08:52for a check, and red flags were flung up immediately.
08:58It's now two days since Georgia Williams disappeared,
09:02and investigators are concerned that she's come to harm
09:05at the hands of Jamie Reynolds.
09:06They need to find out everything they can about this troubled 23-year-old.
09:26On May 28, 2013, the parents of 17-year-old Georgia Williams report her missing in Telford,
09:34Shropshire.
09:35They tell police she was last seen two days earlier,
09:38heading to a photo shoot with work colleague Jamie Reynolds,
09:41and haven't heard from her since.
09:46Georgia's parents actually thought that Jamie was polite and very friendly lad.
09:52They knew that he lived just down the road from them in a very similar house,
09:56and had nice parents.
09:58There was nothing to raise any sort of alarm
10:00about this man that their daughter knew.
10:03He knew her sister, her eldest sister, Scarlett,
10:07because they had been at school together.
10:09Even though there was a five-year age gap,
10:11Jamie immediately had his eyes on her.
10:14Jamie fancied Georgia.
10:16Georgia didn't fancy Jamie,
10:18but she was determined that he shouldn't be excluded,
10:22and so they remained friends.
10:26According to Georgia's family,
10:28they'd seen Jamie a couple of times in the workplace.
10:30He was always polite and friendly,
10:32but he was no more than just a work colleague to Georgia.
10:35Georgia really encouraging people to fulfil their dreams.
10:39That was part of her make-up,
10:42and Jamie Reynolds had indicated
10:44that he wanted to pursue a career in photography,
10:47and she encouraged him to do that.
10:49Due to Georgia encouraging him to pursue his dreams
10:52and following his liking for photography,
10:56he offered Georgia opportunities to help him
10:59by becoming involved in some of his photo shoots.
11:02She's a polite young lady, didn't want to say no,
11:04and went along with that just to help him out.
11:09Jamie's parents are away on holiday in Italy,
11:11and he announces that he's finally got the space
11:15to do this photo shoot,
11:16and would Georgia come round and be part of this photo shoot,
11:21and she agrees to.
11:23He asks her to be a model in this photo shoot.
11:25He assures her that all he needs is her to stand there,
11:28and he's going to create a sort of backdrop,
11:30and it's going to be this creative process
11:33where she's going to look like she's floating
11:35as part of a wider image,
11:37and he's going to do some manipulation of it
11:39in post-production,
11:41and she's to come round to the house.
11:43It's all above board, not to worry,
11:45and on this day in May,
11:47she's asked to attend and be his model.
11:51What is found out about Jamie Reynolds
11:53is that he has got a previous in 2008
11:56whereby he lured a 16-year-old girl
11:59on the pretense of taking part in a project
12:02and that he tried to strangle that girl.
12:05So this would raise alarm bells
12:07because this is a very similar circumstance
12:09to what Georgia is being told in terms of,
12:13will you come and model for me as part of my portfolio?
12:16Jamie Reynolds was given a warning for his behaviour in 2008.
12:22In this case, the youth offending team were involved
12:26and also some mental health services.
12:29The youth offending team's role obviously is for rehabilitation
12:33and to prevent any further involvement in crime or criminality.
12:38So it would be their role,
12:39they would have structured visits and times
12:41where they would engage with the person.
12:44The person probably on the back of some sort of order
12:48would have to comply with certain things
12:50to do with the youth offending team.
12:52And if they don't comply,
12:53then the youth offending team would report that back
12:56to the other various interested parties.
12:58In 2011, there's a further incident involving Jamie and a young girl
13:03where she's rejected his advances
13:06and as a result, he's rammed her vehicle.
13:09That also was reported to the police.
13:12This is someone that has severe
13:16and demonstrated problems with women
13:19and he's somebody that can't control his temper
13:22and he cannot handle rejection.
13:26The previous police reports on Jamie Reynolds
13:29paint a picture of a young man with disturbing interests.
13:34Every piece of information that is presented to the police
13:37is increasingly disturbing and provokes a great deal of alarm.
13:42Not only are they looking for their colleague's daughter
13:45from the same police force,
13:47but every single piece of information
13:49that comes out about Reynolds is disturbing and alarming.
13:54This is somebody who has used violence against young girls before.
13:58This is somebody that has designed on young women
14:03and has shown capable of using force.
14:07One of the features of this case
14:08is not only had Reynolds been apprehended by the police
14:13on more than one occasion
14:14for violent attacks towards young women,
14:18but his own parents were so alarmed by pornography,
14:23an expansive collection of pornography
14:25that they'd found on his personal computer
14:27that they too had gone to the police.
14:30This wasn't the online exploration of a teenage boy
14:33who's interested in the opposite sex.
14:36This was over 16,000 pornographic files,
14:41many of which were of an extremely violent nature.
14:46Pornography can have a huge influence on young people
14:49and their understanding of what is normal or healthy sex.
14:52In many of the cases that I've been involved in,
14:55pornography, and particularly violent pornography,
14:57has played a role.
14:58For some people, violent pornography isn't enough
15:00to satisfy what they see as a sexual desire and a sexual need.
15:04For some people, they act that out in the real world.
15:07And in many cases, if you think about violence,
15:10they might not be able to find a consenting partner
15:12to do that with them,
15:13and they choose to offend in a violent way.
15:15He clearly had vast access
15:18to vast amounts of this sexual sadism on the internet.
15:22And what was to stop him then working his own fantasies in his mind
15:26and then trying to enact them?
15:28This man needed help, and help urgently,
15:31otherwise, goodness knows what was going to happen.
15:33But nothing was done.
15:35What I'm seeing nowadays is younger and younger people, boys,
15:39are getting access to violent pornography,
15:41and it's really affecting what they see as normal
15:43and affecting their behaviour within sexual relationships later on.
15:48This was an individual who'd written multiple personal accounts
15:52of how he wanted to attack individual girls he knew
15:57in his own personal life.
15:59This was somebody who'd not only attacked young women,
16:03before, who was a proactive danger to young women,
16:06who the police knew about,
16:08but also his own parents so concerned with their son
16:12and what he might do,
16:14and the impact that pornography was having on his life.
16:17They, too, had gone to police.
16:20The police have a variety of orders that they can apply to the court
16:23to be put in place to help mitigate and reduce risk.
16:27Importantly, part of the support offered to people
16:29with unhealthy sexual thoughts and unhealthy sexual behaviours
16:32can be psychological intervention to explore that
16:35and to look at what those unhealthy thoughts are
16:37and to try and support them in developing a healthier sexual interest.
16:42But, unfortunately, for some people, a minority of people,
16:45they do go on to commit very serious offences.
16:49So, the likely next steps would be to do some research on Jamie Reynolds,
16:54trying to ascertain where he would be, what do they know about him,
16:58where to start their lines of inquiry.
16:59They would look to, you know, contact him, visit him,
17:03whichever was the most appropriate,
17:04to see whether Georgia was still with him when he saw her last
17:08or, indeed, if there was any concerns around him.
17:15Police visit Jamie's family home.
17:18So, initially, they would have done a search
17:20just to ascertain whether Georgia was there.
17:22Once they realised that he wasn't there,
17:25and this would raise their concerns that they need to find him
17:28and also to find Georgia.
17:32At this point in time, obviously,
17:34there's a lot of circumstantial evidence
17:36that suggests that Jamie is a concern to young women.
17:40There's obviously a suggestion that he has some, you know,
17:44sexual fantasies that are on the very extreme end.
17:47It also suggests that he doesn't like being scorned
17:52and that he might have some slight obsessive behaviour.
17:54So, he would become the main focus of an investigation
17:57to try and understand, you know, where is he?
18:01When was he last seen?
18:02Is he where he should be?
18:03And a very keen desire to speak to him
18:06to see when did he see Georgia last
18:08and where did she go once she left his address?
18:13West Mercia police are now urgently trying to locate Jamie Reynolds
18:17to ask him about Georgia's whereabouts.
18:20All the police are concerned with is finding Georgia.
18:24The obvious suspect is Jamie,
18:26so they use technology of CCTV and number plate recognition
18:30to try and track this prime suspect down.
18:35CCTV managed to track and trace Jamie miles and miles away
18:40up in Glasgow.
18:41He's in a van and what's also seen
18:43is that he's getting changed outside of the van,
18:46which is all quite strange, really.
18:49Why is he so far away?
18:50Why is he getting changed on the pavement outside of his van?
18:56Though Reynolds has been located,
18:58there is no sign of Georgia.
19:02The Police Scotland operate under different legislation.
19:05They're under Scottish law
19:06and we work in the English legislation,
19:09the Police and Criminal Evidence Act.
19:11So you contact the Scottish police,
19:14you tell them what the circumstances
19:16of the investigation you're undertaking are
19:18and you ask them to locate whoever your subject is,
19:23in this case Jamie Reynolds.
19:24Once they've done that,
19:26they can make the arrest on your behalf.
19:29Jamie is spoken to
19:31and he denies any knowledge of Georgia
19:34or where she is,
19:35so the decision then is made
19:37to bring him back to Telford
19:39so he can be formally spoken to
19:40in relation to the disappearance of Georgia.
19:43So he would have been arrested at the time for a kidnap
19:46and then it's the case of officers
19:48from West Mercia Police
19:49going up to Police Scotland
19:51and transferring him back to that area.
19:53He was initially interviewed
19:54around the safety and the welfare of Georgia
19:57because she wasn't found with him
19:58and he denied any knowledge of where she was.
20:02Part of the interviews of Jamie,
20:05of course the key question is where is Georgia?
20:07At this point it's still not known where Georgia is.
20:10Jamie refuses to give over that information in interview
20:14and that feels like he's playing games
20:17with the officers who are interviewing him.
20:20He wouldn't reveal the whereabouts of Georgia,
20:23almost like trying to be in control,
20:25wanting to call the shots
20:27and dictate what was happening.
20:30Investigators believe Georgia Williams
20:32has come to harm at the hands of Jamie Reynolds
20:34but needs solid evidence to prove it.
20:47West Mercia Police are investigating the disappearance
20:51of 17-year-old Georgia Williams from Telford
20:54who vanished on May 26, 2013
20:57after telling her parents she was doing a photo shoot
21:00with Jamie Reynolds.
21:02Known to police for a previous attempted strangulation,
21:05Reynolds is now in custody on suspicion of kidnapping
21:08and police plan to search his home.
21:12When police search a property,
21:14which you're entitled to do when someone's in custody,
21:16you can do it under Section 18 of Police and Criminal Evidence Act
21:19and there are other parts of the act that you can utilise
21:23or you could get a warrant.
21:24You're led by a police search advisor,
21:26what we call pulses, with search officers
21:30and often they will take digital inquiry officers along on that search
21:35so if something needs to be recovered,
21:38it can be done so safely
21:39so there is a minimum loss of evidence
21:42and protects the integrity of the investigation.
21:44So they will have gone with a search plan,
21:46they will have known they were looking for clothing,
21:50anything that might be bloodstained
21:51but they will also be looking for telephones, laptops, tablets,
21:57those kind of things
21:57so they could recover them
21:59and then do the forensic searching on those items.
22:05The SIO would write their search strategy
22:08that including that search strategy,
22:10anything they thought was relevant
22:11so that might be phones, SIM cards, diaries, clothing, imagery
22:17and the strategy would be written all around that.
22:21They would brief a search team who were trained in search
22:25and those teams room by room would literally turn over every little piece
22:31that open every drawer, that look under every bed,
22:33on top of every wardrobe in the loft space
22:36and literally go through methodically with a fine tooth comb.
22:41Those teams would be wearing gloves
22:42so everything would be forensically secure
22:44and they would be forensically seized, packaged
22:47and then able to send off forensic analysis.
22:51If it was something like a phone,
22:53they would be seized and taken to the digital media investigators
22:56and again the relevant work done on those phones
22:59to the information that's held within those phones
23:01or a camera or anything that's capable of computers,
23:05anything that's capable of holding data.
23:08During the search they recovered a number of items
23:11and one was a SIM card that when examined
23:14it looked as though someone had tried to delete the contents
23:18but they hadn't done a very good job.
23:21The evidence was then recovered by the specialists
23:24and when they looked at it
23:25there was in excess of 16,000 images
23:28of a macabre sexual nature, sadism, bondage,
23:32very unusual contents
23:34and the further they looked they found images of Georgia
23:38on the same SIM card
23:40that really presented a timeline of events
23:44for the investigation as to what had happened.
23:47It starts with Georgia being completely trusting
23:51and helping and saying
23:52would you like me to do this, would you like to do that?
23:55She was noticeably not wearing the clothes
23:57that she had left the barbecue with.
23:59Clearly Jamie had brought clothes that she should wear.
24:02She was posing on a little box with a noose
24:05which had been created across the gap leading,
24:09the staircase leading to the upper loft bedroom.
24:12There was this trusting girl
24:14without a single thought that what was going to happen.
24:20Everyone's worst fears are confirmed
24:22by the contents of the phone.
24:26For some people who are seeking sexual satisfaction
24:28from any unhealthy sexual interest,
24:30the difficulty can be is that it becomes no longer enough.
24:34They seek more.
24:35Either a simulated image of what they're looking for,
24:38in this case violence,
24:39isn't exciting enough
24:40and they're stepping into the real world
24:42or it is very exciting
24:43but they want to achieve a similar hit, so to speak,
24:46a similar excitement.
24:48Now that doesn't mean that it's out of that person's control.
24:50Offending of any kind is a decision
24:52but strong urges and a strong desire for sex
24:55and sexual gratification
24:56can be a strong motivator for some offenders.
25:01You actually wonder what kind of awful individual
25:04you're dealing with as a police officer
25:06and leading that kind of investigation.
25:08It makes you think,
25:09it makes you question humanity
25:10but you just remain professional throughout.
25:13There's a job to do
25:15but you feel for the poor soul, Georgia in this case,
25:18the pain and suffering should have gone through.
25:21This shows a man who for years and years
25:24has nursed and nurtured his inner cravings
25:29for serious sexual sadism.
25:32When officers have searched the home address,
25:34they've also found some stories that he's written.
25:38Within those stories,
25:39they included stories about Georgia,
25:42about what he wanted to do with her,
25:45including the strangulation
25:47and then other incidents that he was going to do.
25:50Those to the officers would show
25:52that there's premeditation,
25:54that this wasn't just a random,
25:56sudden act of anger or violence.
25:59This was premeditated,
26:00fully planned that he was going to do this.
26:03In fact, they'd been planning for months
26:04that this was going to take place.
26:06This just shows the true shocking nature
26:08of what took place.
26:09At that stage,
26:10the truth is that they now know
26:13where they're dealing with their murder investigation.
26:16Police now need to locate Georgia's body.
26:19You've got a starting point
26:21and you've got an end point in Glasgow
26:23and you look at the main arterial routes,
26:27you use ANPR inquiries,
26:29you look at the movement of the telephone
26:32and follow that route
26:34and that will take you a specific,
26:36that will demonstrate
26:37and show you the journey that he took.
26:39And that's one of the main lines of inquiry
26:42to find out exactly where they went.
26:45And if there are any stops on that route,
26:49you would look at those locations
26:52and do some research on the layout,
26:55the geography, etc.
26:57Are there any CCTV opportunities?
26:59Are there any media opportunities
27:01that you might pursue?
27:03We know, obviously,
27:04he's got a van in Scotland,
27:06so tracking that van on CCTV, ANPR,
27:10using cell site analysis of his phone,
27:12trying to work out, you know,
27:14where did he go to next?
27:16And along that way,
27:17building that picture of his journey
27:19or any journey,
27:20trying to work out, you know,
27:22where does he go before he gets to Scotland?
27:24And the key things there
27:25will be CCTV, ANPR,
27:28phone work, phone analysis,
27:29or to help build that picture.
27:33In this case,
27:34the officers realised
27:35that there was a gap of several hours
27:37from between when he left the home address
27:39and when he arrived in Scotland,
27:41and he was trying to fill the details around that.
27:43One option to do that
27:45is to go to the public
27:46to see if they can help,
27:48and that's what took place in this scenario.
27:49There was an appeal to the public
27:53via the press
27:54to show an image of the van
27:57and the registration of the van
27:58to appeal for people
27:59to come forward as witnesses
28:00to try and help fill those gaps,
28:02which would then help find where Georgia is.
28:04From the inquiries,
28:05the officers did,
28:06they managed to recover some CCTV.
28:09One of those bits of footage
28:10showed him filling up his van,
28:13which was his stepfather's van,
28:14with petrol.
28:14The shocking part of that
28:16is that the time that that was taking place,
28:18we know that Georgia
28:19would have been in the back of that van
28:21at that time,
28:23and he's there acting all casual
28:25while he fills the vehicle up.
28:28He's next spotted in a cinema in Wrexham,
28:31which is 60 miles away,
28:32where he'd clearly driven up there,
28:34and he's at a cinema,
28:36and he's watching Fast and Furious,
28:38which is a film that he obviously loved,
28:39and it's a film that he wanted Georgia
28:42to see with him.
28:43The connection, again,
28:44is clear and obvious
28:45in what is happening
28:46in Jamie Reynolds' mind.
28:50So what's surprising
28:51with the footage from the cinema
28:52is just how casual he is,
28:54having committed a murder the day before.
28:58That in itself is unusual behaviour
29:01and shocking behaviour.
29:03Police make an appeal to the public
29:05for assistance in locating Georgia's remains.
29:10So when you sort of come
29:11to a bit of a dead end
29:12and you need the public on your side,
29:15you use your media marketing department
29:17within whichever force you're in,
29:20and you strike up a media appeal,
29:22and you can do that
29:24through a lot of the social media platforms,
29:26and you can do it
29:27through the main press outlets.
29:29They did have CCTV footage of the van,
29:32they did have a registration number of the van,
29:34they'd have a rough area
29:37of where it'd been,
29:38so they knew it stopped in Wrexham.
29:40So you go to the public via the media
29:43and ask,
29:44does anyone have any recollection
29:46of this particular vehicle?
29:49Press appeal goes out at this point,
29:51now the police are aware
29:52of the van that he was in,
29:54and quite a few people come forward
29:56and the sightings of him
29:57at five o'clock in Wrexham
30:00and 10.30 in Cheshire,
30:02so he's seen by quite a few people.
30:06But there was a five-hour gap
30:07between the Wrexham film
30:09and the Cheshire sighting.
30:11What had happened in that period,
30:14that is what the police wanted to know,
30:15if they were ever going to find Georgia's body.
30:18So they appealed to the public,
30:20does anybody remember seeing
30:22this distinctive white van
30:24that Jamie was driving
30:26or could help with it in any way at all?
30:29And they came up trumps.
30:31The members of the public
30:31remembered helping a man,
30:34a young man,
30:35answering Jamie's description,
30:36with a white van
30:37who got stuck in mud
30:39on the road between Ruthen and Wrexham.
30:42And here, police had a huge breakthrough.
30:47When you get a location
30:49that there's been a period of time
30:50and there's been a problem
30:51for the witnesses to become involved
30:53and say they helped him,
30:55and it's a rural area,
30:57it's a wooded area to the side,
31:00that's a great start
31:01for where you're going to put your search effort.
31:03That particular route,
31:04it was a mountain pass
31:07between Ruthen in North Wales
31:09and Wrexham.
31:11It's largely wooded
31:12and steep valley sides
31:15for a lot of the way,
31:17but once they located the area
31:20that they had been given assistance
31:21by members of the public,
31:23that was where they started
31:24with the search efforts.
31:26The police went,
31:27they will have used the search officers,
31:29and they found George's body
31:30not too far away
31:32from the side of the road.
31:33There wasn't a real concerted effort
31:36to conceal her body,
31:37and they found, as I say,
31:39very near to the location
31:40where members of the public
31:42had helped him off,
31:43you know, get back onto the road,
31:44and it must have been
31:46an awful experience
31:46for the officers,
31:48because you want people
31:50to come back alive.
31:52Where the body was found
31:53was just off a mountain track road,
31:56really.
31:57It's mountainous,
31:58it's very remote,
31:59there's a valley
32:00that was running through nearby
32:01with a stream.
32:03So the priority then,
32:04once the body is found,
32:05is to preserve the area around that
32:08to make sure that nothing
32:09is lost forensically.
32:10That would be done first,
32:12and again,
32:13our crime scene coordinator
32:14would be allocated
32:15to that location
32:16to make sure all possible evidence
32:19can be gathered.
32:20The main challenge
32:21to the location
32:23where Georgia was found
32:24is that it's open
32:25to the elements,
32:26it's in a wooded area,
32:27so it's open to other animals,
32:30that sort of thing.
32:31So it's really important
32:32to, once she's been found,
32:35is to make sure
32:35that area is cordoned off
32:36and secure
32:37and for it to be dealt
32:39with expeditiously
32:40and as quick as we can.
32:41He hadn't even bothered,
32:43really,
32:43to dig any sort
32:44of makeshift grave,
32:45he just sort of discarded it,
32:46he dumped it
32:47in the most obscene fashion.
32:49This now being
32:50three or four days later,
32:52nature had taken its course
32:53and the only way
32:54her body could be identified
32:56was through dental records.
33:00As a journalist tasked
33:01with writing stories
33:03and summing up the horror
33:04in some of these cases,
33:05you reach for words
33:07like monster,
33:08evil, wicked,
33:10but in this case,
33:11those words truly apply.
33:12There isn't any other word
33:14other than monster,
33:15there isn't any other word
33:16other than evil.
33:18There's a complete absence
33:19of empathy and humanity
33:21in this individual,
33:22both in the way
33:23he's behaved to women
33:25previously
33:26and in the way
33:27he's tricked
33:29a wonderful young girl
33:31and snatched her life away
33:33in the most deplorable way
33:34for nothing other than
33:36to satisfy
33:37a personal design
33:40he had.
33:42On the 31st of May 2013,
33:45five days after
33:46the disappearance
33:47of 17-year-old
33:48Georgia Williams,
33:49Jamie Reynolds
33:50is formally charged
33:51with her murder.
33:52The 23-year-old
33:54maintains his innocence
33:55and preparations
33:56for the trial
33:57are now underway.
34:10On the 1st of June 2013,
34:1223-year-old Jamie Reynolds
34:14appears at the Telford
34:16Magistrates' Court,
34:17charged with the murder
34:18of 17-year-old
34:19Georgia Williams,
34:20whose body was discovered
34:22the day previous
34:23in remote woodland
34:24near Rithin
34:25in North Wales.
34:26Reynolds maintains
34:28he is innocent.
34:30Jamie Reynolds
34:31embarked
34:31on a game
34:32of cat and mouse
34:33with the police.
34:34He'd obviously
34:35worked out in his mind
34:36that at some stage
34:36he was going to be arrested
34:37and that he had
34:39in his mind
34:39his defence.
34:41So to start off with,
34:42he denied any connection
34:43to Georgia
34:44and said that she'd
34:45left his house
34:46perfectly alive
34:47and well.
34:48When confronted
34:49with various stages
34:50of the evidence
34:51that they had found,
34:52he suddenly claimed
34:53to have amnesia,
34:54that he'd forgot,
34:55he had no knowledge
34:56of this,
34:57it's all something
34:58that he couldn't
34:59possibly help them with.
35:00Later on he thought
35:01that, oh,
35:02he had flashbacks
35:03of memories
35:03about carrying her body
35:05but ultimately
35:06he showed
35:06no remorse whatsoever
35:08and no inclination
35:09to help the police,
35:11let alone
35:11stop the grieving
35:13or help the grieving
35:14parents of Georgia Williams.
35:19the police
35:20are convinced
35:21that Reynolds
35:21is responsible,
35:22he's the last person
35:23to see her alive,
35:24he's located
35:25at this area
35:27in these woods
35:28near Wrexham,
35:29his van's been spotted there,
35:30he's been spotted there
35:31and now,
35:33tragically,
35:34they've located
35:35Georgia
35:36in these woods too.
35:38They charge Reynolds
35:39and police
35:42having made
35:44so many mistakes
35:45around Reynolds' life
35:47previously
35:47are desperate
35:48to get the case
35:50solved
35:51and get a conviction.
35:53Given the fact
35:55that they've got
35:56all the evidence
35:57from the SIM card
35:59and photographic evidence
36:00and now they've got
36:02Georgia's body
36:02and the witness evidence
36:04from people helping him
36:05get back on the road,
36:08there's sufficient evidence
36:09to go to the
36:10Crown Prosecution Service
36:11and ask for authority
36:13for charges.
36:14Once Jamie's charged,
36:16that's only just
36:16the beginning
36:17of the investigation.
36:18Afterwards,
36:19there's a lot of work
36:20that has to go in
36:21to be able to present
36:22the case at court
36:22and that is to give
36:24a fuller picture
36:25of what's took place,
36:26an understanding
36:27of the movements
36:28before,
36:29during and afterwards
36:30to put together
36:32a picture around
36:33the forensic evidence.
36:34There's a lot of hours
36:36spent gathering CCTV
36:37trying to identify
36:38witnesses
36:40to understand
36:40any of the data
36:41that's in the ANPR.
36:43Those items
36:44that would have been
36:44seized from the home address,
36:45all of those
36:46would have to be examined
36:48to understand exactly
36:49what's been talked about,
36:51any photographs
36:51that have initially
36:53been found
36:53is to make sure
36:54we've got all those
36:54in an evidential format.
36:56It's to be able
36:56to explain to a jury
36:58exactly what Jamie did
37:00to ensure
37:01that he's found guilty
37:02at court.
37:04Crucial evidence there
37:05that's found
37:06on that camera
37:07that very clearly shows
37:09exactly what happened,
37:13coupled with his diaries
37:14and the intention
37:15that he had formed
37:16and the stories
37:17that he'd written
37:17around what was
37:18going to happen,
37:20following then his path
37:21post the murder
37:23of Georgia,
37:24where he goes to,
37:26what routes he travels,
37:28how he goes about
37:29disposing of her body,
37:30how he's calm,
37:31making sure there's
37:32a real clear picture
37:34of that actual evidence.
37:37There was 40 stories
37:39written almost
37:40as if film scripts
37:41by Jamie,
37:43naming people,
37:45girls he knew,
37:46including one entitled
37:47Georgia Williams Surprise.
37:50This really suggests
37:52someone who's preoccupied
37:53with violent sexual fantasies
37:54and I'd be really concerned
37:56about needing to act
37:57to help make sure
37:58that this person
37:59didn't progress any further
38:00if this were found early on.
38:02Reynolds had actually
38:03made plans to meet
38:04two other young women
38:05in the days after the murder.
38:07Who knows what would have happened
38:08had that occurred.
38:15The evidence is
38:16absolutely overwhelming.
38:18There is absolutely
38:18no way in my mind
38:19that a jury would ever
38:20find Jamie Reynolds
38:21not guilty of murder
38:23because it's there
38:24in black and white,
38:26sadly, what he did.
38:28First court appearance
38:29that Jamie Reynolds made
38:30was noticeable
38:31in the way that
38:32he could clearly be seen
38:33before entering court
38:35to face the charges,
38:37laughing and joking.
38:38And yet the moment
38:39he was brought into court
38:41and suddenly the spotlight
38:42was on him,
38:43suddenly he went
38:44all meek and childlike.
38:45This was clearly
38:47something again
38:48that he had planned
38:48in his mind
38:49to try and portray himself
38:50almost as a victim,
38:52that this,
38:52I'm just a weaker man
38:54and couldn't possibly
38:55kill anybody.
38:58Now what's interesting
38:59about that
38:59is that it's been suggested
39:01that perhaps
39:01what was in the courtroom
39:02was fake,
39:03somebody who was scared
39:04and looking afraid
39:05and anxious.
39:06But actually it could have been
39:07one or the other.
39:08It could have been
39:08that the joking around
39:09is a persona,
39:10something he puts on
39:11to act confident
39:12in front of others
39:13when actually underneath that
39:14is someone anxious
39:15who might offend
39:16to overcompensate
39:17for their anxiety
39:18as well as sexual motivation.
39:20Or it might be
39:21the other way around
39:21that he was putting
39:22on that front in court
39:23to affect the sentence
39:24that the judge
39:25would give him.
39:27All the way through this
39:28from the moment
39:28he was arrested
39:29including his appearances
39:30in court
39:30Jamie Reynolds
39:31has given the impression
39:32that he had planned
39:33this in his mind
39:34and that he's acting out
39:35possibly another one
39:37of his fantasies
39:38about how he was going
39:39to convince the police
39:41of his innocence.
39:42It was a pathetic attempt
39:44which racked up
39:45the pressure
39:46and the grief
39:47on George's parents.
39:50Literally he pleaded
39:51not guilty
39:51at the magistrate's court
39:52but when he went
39:54to the Crown Court
39:54he pleaded guilty.
39:56This isn't unusual.
39:58Often there won't be
39:59a plea
40:01at the magistrate's court
40:02they'll send it
40:04straight to the Crown Court
40:05but it's not unusual
40:06for people
40:08to plead guilty
40:09at the first opportunity
40:11especially when
40:12there's such an amount
40:14of overwhelming
40:15and damning evidence
40:16against an individual.
40:20normally in a case
40:21such as this
40:22prior to any sentencing
40:23a pre-sentence report
40:25is required
40:26by the judge
40:27and that is generally
40:28done by a psychiatrist
40:29who will give their view
40:31on this person
40:32and in the case of Jamie
40:34that psychiatrist
40:35said it was in their view
40:36that had he not been caught
40:37he would have gone on
40:38to harm more women.
40:40Jamie did in fact
40:41receive a whole life term
40:42which is the most you can get
40:46no discount given
40:47reduced off that
40:49and at the time
40:50he was one of the youngest
40:51people in the UK
40:52to receive that sentence.
40:54The most extreme tariff
40:56is whole of life
40:56that means that
40:57there is no way
40:58that that offender
40:59is ever going to come out
41:00from prison.
41:01In this case
41:02because of the concerns
41:04that Jamie has to the public
41:05should he ever be released
41:07it's the nature of
41:08the build up
41:09of what we know
41:10about his offending
41:11it's the when the letters
41:14and the stories
41:15that he'd written
41:16were recovered
41:16to show what he took place
41:18he clearly has no regard
41:20for female young victims
41:22that he befriends
41:23it would be a danger to others
41:25in this case
41:27it was clear that
41:28he wasn't just targeting Georgia
41:30he was looking that
41:31potentially other victims
41:32could have take place
41:33we know that there was a girl
41:34that went there a month before
41:36we know he'd got plans
41:37to meet up with girls afterwards
41:38that he cancelled
41:39having killed Georgia
41:41he would be a risk
41:43if ever released
41:44the judge has given
41:46a whole of life
41:46to protect the public
41:47and to show the severity
41:49of the crime
41:50that he's committed.
41:52Mr Justice Wilkie
41:53tells the court
41:54that Reynolds
41:55showed the potential
41:56to become a serial killer
41:57and sentences him
41:58to life in prison
41:59Reynolds appeals the decision
42:02but his appeal
42:03is rejected.
42:06the police in this investigation
42:08worked tirelessly long hours
42:10to bring about this conviction
42:12absolutely vital at the beginning
42:14to build that picture
42:16to understand who that offender is
42:17and once you know who that is
42:18to bring that person
42:20into custody
42:21as quickly as possible
42:22to prevent any other possibility
42:24of any offending
42:26the officers involved in this
42:28will have worked long hours
42:29to do that
42:30and then to make sure
42:32that the trial is successful
42:34the reason he pleaded guilty
42:36at the first day of the trial
42:37is because of all the hard work
42:39that was put in
42:39to make sure
42:40that all the evidence was there
42:42that it was all gathered correctly
42:43it was detailed
42:45sufficiently for them
42:47he knows that there's no other option
42:48for him to say
42:49I'm guilty of this crime.
42:53Reynolds was at the time
42:54the youngest person ever
42:56to receive a whole life tariff
42:57and even now
42:58there are less than 100 prisoners
43:00in England and Wales
43:00serving a whole life sentence
43:02it appears in this case
43:04a whole life sentence
43:04was imposed
43:05because of the meticulous planning
43:07and deliberate motivation
43:09to target a young woman
43:11for sexual violence
43:12the judge clearly looked upon that
43:14unfavourably
43:15and he gave a whole life order
43:17to reflect the seriousness
43:18of what he'd done
43:21despite the conviction
43:22the loss of Georgia Williams
43:24is still felt
43:25by her family
43:26friends
43:26and local community
43:31whatever sentence is given
43:33and in this case
43:34a full life sentence
43:35it's never enough
43:37it doesn't bring back
43:38their child
43:41whilst there might be
43:42a little sense of
43:44well at least
43:45he's behind bars
43:46for 30 years
43:47that protects any other
43:48women
43:49in this case
43:50from him
43:51the fact that their child
43:53is dead
43:53and will never
43:54you know
43:55she was young and bright
43:56never had that life
43:57ahead of her
43:58I would imagine
43:59it actually brings them
44:00little comfort
44:01in terms of
44:02moving forward
44:04when you've never met somebody
44:06and not met their family
44:07you see the impact
44:08that that individual
44:09had
44:10on their community
44:11and their friends
44:12by
44:12the reaction
44:13when their life ends
44:15and in this case
44:16you see
44:17the huge outpouring
44:19of grief
44:20but also a celebration
44:21of her short life
44:22in 17 years
44:23it was clear
44:24that she'd had
44:24a big impact
44:25on anyone
44:26that she met
44:27and her community
44:27they let go
44:28thousands and thousands
44:30of lanterns
44:31in a show of their love
44:32for a vigil
44:33there was a garden
44:35and a bench
44:36that the community
44:37paid for
44:38and I know
44:39that a family
44:40put together a charity
44:41in Georgia's name
44:42to help young people
44:44pursue their goals
44:45and their dreams
44:45which was something
44:47that she was very
44:49driven by
44:50but also something
44:51that horribly
44:52she never got to pursue
44:55Georgia was very much
44:57a part of that community
44:58where she lived
44:59and her death
45:00touched
45:00lots and lots of people
45:02there were minutes
45:03of silence
45:03held
45:04for her loss
45:06there was a
45:07collection
45:08for a memorial bench
45:10for Georgia
45:11and she's a huge loss
45:13to her family
45:15and to
45:16the wider community
45:17and she's a huge
45:49to her
45:49to complimentary
45:49Over
45:49the
45:49the
45:49the
45:49the
45:49the
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