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00:01It's emergency.
00:03When there's a fatality or a serious collision,
00:06I need to establish how and why that fatal has occurred.
00:11Is the patient breathing?
00:13Confirmed fatality.
00:14This is all quite confusing at the minute.
00:19It's the same as a murder investigation.
00:22Your story was credible until you started telling lies.
00:25When collisions are fatal...
00:27You pronounce the distinction.
00:28Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:31...or life-changing...
00:33I didn't crash.
00:34Yes, yes.
00:35...the crash team is called in.
00:37We're dealing with the worst day of somebody's life.
00:40A split second, that's it. Everybody's life has changed.
00:43You only get one chance at a collision scene.
00:45Once that road reopened, there's no going back.
00:48Police!
00:51He knows very well what's happened here.
00:54The story doesn't stack up.
00:56Using forensic detective work...
00:58The officers are there.
00:59It's just knowing where to look for them.
01:01The tiniest detail could solve a case.
01:03And the latest technology.
01:05Technical data does not lie.
01:07Dash cam, CCTV, it's everywhere.
01:09The driver's travelling 127 miles per hour.
01:13These are the people who look for answers.
01:15That damage is possibly a deliberate act.
01:17Are you the person that has killed this pedestrian?
01:21No, I'm not.
01:22If there's an offending driver, you want justice to be saved.
01:25Collision investigation is very much like a jigsaw puzzle.
01:31It's only at the end, when you've put the jigsaw together in its entirety, that you fully understand what's happened in a collision.
01:38If you're not passionate about the investigations we deal with, it's a really tough job to do.
01:54It's just being knocked off the bike on the 857.
01:55Is the patient breathing?
01:56Is the breathing?
01:57Is it breathing?
01:58Is it breathing?
01:59Is it breathing?
02:00Is it breathing?
02:01Is the patient awake?
02:02Are you awake?
02:03Are you awake?
02:04Are you awake?
02:24Not awake.
02:25No.
02:29There's plenty of ответ.
02:31Stop breathing!
02:32Right, tell me exactly what's happened.
02:48Right, OK. The ambulance is there.
02:50Are they with the patient now?
02:56We're just getting a team leader coming, OK?
02:58Oh, all right, yeah.
03:00Yeah, we're getting that sorted, OK?
03:10Lymus here, one access.
03:11Better.
03:12Stop cars coming up the A57 towards Todick.
03:15Yes, Chef.
03:19Near Sheffield, as traffic officers arrive,
03:22medics are fighting to save an 81-year-old man
03:25hit by a car at a pedestrian crossing.
03:29Another closure, please.
03:31Todick, roundabout, A57 towards M1.
03:35Yes, Chef.
03:36And if we can request hard closures, please, at an early stage.
03:40Also, request forensic collision CPR still in progress.
03:43Yes, Chef.
03:45Yes, Chef, obviously.
03:46Yes, yes, obviously.
03:47He's witnessed everything.
03:48Yeah.
03:4980, 90-mile-an-hour, it's in pointer impact.
03:51Carry on, see what direction at roundabout.
03:53Just to go.
03:54Oh, right, so it's failed to stop.
03:57It's a failed to stop RTC, this.
04:00The car that has hit him has made off towards Todick roundabout.
04:04Just confirm, is it failed to stop, basically, do you know?
04:07We're dealing with that.
04:08Yeah, Roger.
04:09Roger.
04:10With a suspected hit and run, South Yorkshire crash investigator Joe Binley is called in.
04:20We're on routes to report of a failed to stop road traffic collision which has taken place on the A57 just off of the M1 motorway.
04:30The reports are they've got a seriously injured pedestrian at this time, or cyclist, we're not sure, who's been worked on by ambulance staff.
04:39It's a vehicle detail for that.
04:42Potentially a Golf R. See if I can get your colour standby.
04:46Do you know what colour car it were?
04:49Dark.
04:50Yeah, dark blue.
04:51Dark blue.
04:52Dark blue, Golf R.
04:53CR1, apparently it's a dark blue coloured Golf R that's actually collided with the cyclist and then made off.
05:01Yes, yes.
05:02With a description of the suspect car, control dispatches a force-wide alert.
05:07CR1, she's saying it's possibly a clone that we are not going to wear off.
05:14Roger.
05:18There's a number of reasons why people decide not to stop at scenes of collisions.
05:22Sometimes it is out of fear, so they've driven off because they're scared of stopping, or they've not stopped on purpose and it's an intentional act on their part of not stopping,
05:31because they want to flee the scene, because there is something to hide from us.
05:37As Joe responds, there's an update from the scene.
05:40Open to stop, mate.
05:411535.
05:42All right.
05:46CR1, that's life pronounced extinct at 1535.
05:54I'll show every time, please.
05:56CR1, 1535.
06:02When people die, regardless of circumstances, we need to answer the questions to the family.
06:10Who?
06:12Why? And how?
06:14It's the same as a murder investigation.
06:18Yeah, just to confirm, this is now a fatal, fatality.
06:22Can I get the number for the coroners, please?
06:26Joe will now lead a manhunt for the casualty's killer.
06:30That van, that van, that's the only two witnesses.
06:34What have you seen, then?
06:36Basically, we were coming up here.
06:38We were coming to a stop, because we were behind this van.
06:40Yeah.
06:42Yeah, it's been another scene in fire up in there, and that golf shooter.
06:44I think golf slowed down, then he shot, and he went that way.
06:47Yeah.
06:48That went up in there, and then that just kept going.
06:50All right, that's fine.
06:51We've got two witnesses who were near to the traffic lights at the time of the collision,
06:57and we know that the deceased was believed crossing the road from the left-hand side into the central island.
07:02It's now important for us to start working and piecing together and confirming that vehicle,
07:06and trying to locate it, and the driver of that vehicle.
07:09Just making sure that you're aware, Paul, that that golf that you're seeing with the vehicle,
07:14it's reacted to one of my lost wayside about probably an hour ago.
07:21She might have some dash cam footage, which captures the identity of the driver,
07:25but if that's obviously any use to yourselves.
07:30Reports of a golf R before the collision could provide key evidence for Joe.
07:37Dash cam CCTV is so crucial to our investigations now.
07:44Someone's version of events can always have a spin on what happens,
07:48whereas a video doesn't lie, technical data does not lie.
07:52Yeah, it will be, mate.
07:54We think it might be this close.
07:57The finding of this vehicle and the suspect is paramount importance,
08:00not only for the evidence that the vehicle can give us to assist us with the investigation into the collision,
08:05but also there's a risk to the public.
08:07We know how the vehicle's been driven from witnesses.
08:09We know what it's just caused to the deceased.
08:12So there's a risk to the public that it may do something of a similar nature.
08:16So it's crucial that we take the vehicle, get the evidence from that vehicle,
08:19and identify the suspects.
08:22I've not been made aware of this potential job just to keep an eye out on the border.
08:25And also, I know ANPR were doing some kind of work.
08:30Have they managed to do anything yet?
08:33Police are checking automatic number plate recognition cameras for the golf that fled the scene.
08:39While we've been in process of securing the scene and closing the road,
08:44a number plate has been found at the bottom of the A7 on the roundabout itself.
08:50That number plate comes back to a golf.
08:54We've now got some CCTV footage of a golf with damage to the front end of it,
08:58without a front number plate going round Todwick Roundabout,
09:00heading in towards Kiviton Park area.
09:02It's now a matter of trying to trace that vehicle to where it is at its current time.
09:18With forensic work underway at the scene,
09:21debris in the road may also provide a vital link to the golf.
09:27It's always concerning that someone
09:29has been involved in such an incident like this one
09:33and showed disregard to anybody or anyone who's injured
09:37and left the scene with no reasonable reason why you would do that.
09:43Things do happen, mistakes do get made,
09:46but then to leave someone on the floor with no one around him is unacceptable.
09:52With Joe and the forensic team leading the investigation,
09:55the hunt is on for the cyclist's killer.
09:57It's three hours since an 81-year-old cyclist, Graham Slynn,
10:00was fatally injured at a pedestrian crossing
10:01after being hit by a speeding blue VW Golf.
10:02It's three hours since an 81-year-old cyclist, Graham Slynn,
10:04was fatally injured at a pedestrian crossing
10:06after being hit by a speeding blue VW Golf.
10:07Okay, so priorities from this point on then, Joe,
10:12in terms of where we are with that.
10:13CCTV footage has been found, showing the car speeding away after the collision.
10:19It's three hours since an 81-year-old cyclist, Graham Slynn,
10:22was fatally injured at a pedestrian crossing
10:24after being hit by a speeding blue VW Golf.
10:27Okay, so priorities from this point on then, Joe, in terms of where we are with that.
10:35CCTV footage has been found, showing the car speeding away after the collision.
10:41Obviously, we're happy that we know it's the Golf that we suspect it'd been,
10:47although on the false plates.
10:49South Yorkshire collision investigator Joe Binley is leading the case
10:53and updates Inspector Matt Collings.
10:56The footage that we've got from just after the collision at the bottom of the road,
11:00we've now established the number plate which falls off it,
11:04which we know is being used on that vehicle.
11:08You can just see, as the vehicle tries to push its way through traffic,
11:11trying to get away from the scene, the number plate falling just to the lines,
11:15so we're satisfied that we know the vehicle.
11:18As well as showing the identity of the car,
11:20the CCTV reveals other key evidence.
11:24When the vehicle then manages to squeeze its way onto the roundabout,
11:27you get the first clear view of the damage to the front end of it.
11:32And then we can see the damage to the front bumper,
11:34the headlights and the wing mirror.
11:40The police have intel that this car is regularly used by a pair of brothers
11:45who live in neighbouring Derbyshire.
11:57I'll crack on, guys.
12:02Thank you, everybody, for coming. Short notice.
12:05Eleven hours into the hunt for the suspects,
12:08Derbyshire officers working with Joe and his colleagues in South Yorkshire
12:12plan to arrest the two brothers in an early morning raid.
12:16We're going to go to two addresses in Chesterfield.
12:19First one where we've got confirmed information that Cain Byrne is tagging
12:25to that location now.
12:27That was checked probably 20 minutes ago now.
12:30There's only a finite amount of officers that we have available to an investigation,
12:33so to have the support of another force and the officers they bring
12:38is actually paramount to this investigation.
12:41Adam, can you be the arresting officer for Cain if he's located?
12:44As far as I'm concerned, we know he's in there, so we'll just go straight in,
12:48put the door in.
12:49Ned, can you be the arresting officer at the second address, please?
12:53Just be aware that both suspects have got warning markers for escaper.
13:01Cain has extensive history with the police,
13:04from minor mortaring offences, failing to stop, driving with no licences,
13:09dangerous driving and not stopping for police.
13:11They're just disqualified from driving and shouldn't be driving,
13:15so it's time that they now get processed for the full extent of the law.
13:27These brothers, they've been about the block a long time.
13:31They will do absolutely anything to stop us catching them.
13:33Just feel you, Nick, when we pull up at the address, would you yourselves be able to recover the back for us, please?
13:44The crucial evidence police need to find is the blue golf.
13:49Yeah, that's a key.
13:50It could contain forensic proof of which brother was driving.
13:56One of the brothers is on tag, and he is definitely at the address according to his tag.
14:02That gives us a power of entry under law to go into that address and get him.
14:07Multiple officers, including firearms, are called in for the raid.
14:27Police!
14:28Hello?
14:29Police!
14:30Police!
14:31Is Cain in?
14:32Where is he?
14:33Upstairs?
14:34Can you sit down there for me, please?
14:35Look.
14:36Can you sit down there?
14:37Dog unit in position.
14:38Dog unit in position.
14:39Got some clothes on, Cain.
14:40Yeah.
14:41Right, at this moment in time, you're under arrest on suspicion of causing death by danger.
14:44What?
14:45What clothes?
14:46Well, my colleague will grab clothes for you.
14:47Is that your phone on the side, Cain?
14:48Yeah, that's my mum's.
14:49Yeah, that's my mum's.
14:50Yeah.
14:51Right.
14:52Right.
14:53Right.
14:54Right.
14:55What?
14:56What clothes?
14:57My colleague will grab clothes for you.
14:58Is that your phone on the side, Cain?
14:59Yeah, that's my mum's.
15:00Yeah.
15:01Right.
15:02Right.
15:03Right.
15:04Right.
15:05Right.
15:06Right.
15:07That's my mum's.
15:08Your...
15:09Where's your phone?
15:10I ain't got one.
15:11You took my phone a couple of days ago.
15:12Nah.
15:13All right.
15:14Welcome to the car.
15:17With an incident like this, speed and time is of the essence.
15:21It takes an amount of time to get through a door in somebody's property.
15:25And in that time, they can be disposing of phones, trying to delete evidence, trying to hide or dispose of things.
15:37Yeah.
15:40At another address in Chesterfield, a second team is closing in on the other brother.
15:48All right, chap.
15:49Hey, mate.
15:50You gonna come to the door?
15:52Cheers.
15:53It's coming in now.
15:54It's coming in now.
15:55It's coming in now.
15:56It's coming in now.
15:57Hello, you all know.
15:58How's it going?
15:59How's it going?
16:00How's it going?
16:01How's it going?
16:02How's it going?
16:03How's it going?
16:04How's it going?
16:05You under arrest on suspicion causing death by being just driving.
16:07What do you mean?
16:08Necessary for prompt and effective investigation.
16:10How's it going?
16:11It's going to have a ferret up stairs, all right?
16:14They know police tactics, so the reason that we needed to deal with these robustly and quickly is that they will not hesitate in disposing of evidence.
16:23They will not hesitate in trying to run.
16:26I will get boarding up arranged, but any issues, give us a call, all right?
16:38With both brothers under arrest, police assess the evidence found at the first address.
16:44By his bed, where he was located, I found a VW key.
16:48I can't see any VW parked outside at the moment.
16:51Obviously, it's a VW involved in the incident, and the key will be matched with the vehicle to see if it is the same key for the vehicle.
17:02There's another VW key in this address as well, but it's like a manual sort of key fob.
17:08The keys could be vital in linking the brothers to the hit-and-run car.
17:13Just watch your stats, mate.
17:15These are one of the most serious incidents the police investigate.
17:22It's on the same level of a homicide investigation.
17:25In this collision, the suspects are a true risk to the public.
17:29So it's important that we investigate it and prosecute them to the full extent of the law to reduce that risk.
17:34So I've just come to speak to the fine-arm sergeant that's enforced on this address.
17:45Scott arrives to oversee the investigation at the second address.
17:50There is still no sign of the blue gulf.
17:53It'd be nice to get the car out now.
17:58No, what would be nice is if one of those car keys...
18:02Yeah.
18:03..either yours or ours, cos they're both VW keys.
18:05We just need one of them to open the car, then.
18:08I think they've got enough help.
18:10I hope so.
18:11Yeah.
18:12It's got...
18:13All you hope is that they've not gone so far as to burn it out or put it in a garage.
18:17Basically, there could be enough lock-up somewhere, couldn't it?
18:20The priority for us is not letting them get to the vehicle to burn it out,
18:33destroy the evidence before we get to it,
18:35and we can get our forensic teams onto it.
18:41With the two brothers now in custody,
18:44the clock is ticking to prove who was driving.
18:47Investigators Scott and Joe need to gather enough evidence for a charge
18:53before the suspects are released.
18:59We've got the two lads, but we've not got the car.
19:02And we've really got that 24 hours,
19:05whilst they are in custody with us,
19:07to try and locate that vehicle.
19:08The first priority of continuing the tracking of that vehicle,
19:12and to hopefully find it nearby.
19:15So this needs to be a lead us to where it's parked up now,
19:17and then we can get that vehicle recovered.
19:19And look at examinations of that vehicle,
19:22both mechanically and forensically for inside,
19:25which will be able to place the driver and the suspect in that vehicle.
19:29It's a real racing time to try and get to the vehicle
19:34before the two suspects get back to it themselves.
19:3624 hours after the arrest of the two brothers,
19:40Scott receives an update from South Yorkshire.
19:42They've just been interviewed,
19:44and they're going to get bailed shortly.
19:46I knew you'd say that.
19:48I know, mate. I know.
19:49With no trace of the VW Golf,
20:05officers are forced to let the men go.
20:08Our task is to try and find that car,
20:12trying to get the word out,
20:14because as and when they come out of custody,
20:16they're... I think their main goal is to destroy that car.
20:21It's so frustrating they're going to get bailed,
20:23but evidentially, what have we got?
20:26I know.
20:27It's always frustrating when you know you're so close to something,
20:30but you're not close enough.
20:32We only have a finite amount of time
20:33we can deal with someone in custody.
20:35So it was a decision to release them with strict bail conditions
20:39to keep an eye on them so we know where they are.
20:43With the brothers out on bail,
20:45the race is now on to find the missing golf.
20:48Crash investigator Joe Binley is leading a case of a hit-and-run collision
20:49that killed an 81-year-old cyclist.
20:50Graham Slynn, who was killed in this devastating phase,
20:52was killed in this devastating accident.
20:53The crash investigator Joe Binley is leading a case of a hit-and-run collision
20:57that killed an 81-year-old cyclist.
20:59The crash investigator Joe Binley is leading a case of a hit-and-run collision
21:00that killed an 81-year-old cyclist.
21:03Graham Slynn, who was killed in this devastating collision, was a man who was just about to celebrate his wedding anniversary with his wife.
21:13He had a son, a daughter, and grandchildren.
21:15And although retired, was fit, as we know, a cyclist, still had so many more years left to live.
21:30And it's the family members who now have got to come to terms with the loss of Graham in such devastating circumstances.
21:43I met Graham, ooh, 64 years ago, when I was only 15, and we were cycling all the time,
21:51because he was in Sheffield Racing Club, and I was in the bait-and-wheelers.
21:56When I saw him, I knew that's what I wanted.
22:01We got married in 1965, and we've been together ever since, so something must have worked in our favour.
22:08He was very friendly.
22:10I mean, he could go anywhere and find somebody to talk to.
22:15It was a very outgoing chattery box.
22:23Changed my life, totally.
22:25It's just such a shock. Just...
22:28Yeah. Just not expected at all.
22:30We're expecting to have another few years together.
22:33Doing things, making more memories, but...
22:37We're gone.
22:40The most challenging part of the job is that we're dealing with someone's lives being cut short and lost,
22:49unexpectedly. No build-up to it.
22:51Someone going about their normal daily business, doing nothing wrong at all.
22:55And someone else's actions has caused their death.
22:57I don't know what I felt.
23:00I just could have screamed, really.
23:02I felt so helpless.
23:05You think, that shouldn't have happened.
23:07It should not have happened.
23:09Yeah.
23:10Never want that sort of night again.
23:12Night was horrible.
23:13You're thinking about it.
23:14It's absolutely awful.
23:16So where are we up to with the footage then?
23:31Four days after the collision, there's still no sign of the suspect's car.
23:37But there is a breakthrough.
23:39We've done a lot of extensive tracking and we now know it goes in towards the Kilomarsh area.
23:44Joe's collected a large amount of CCTV and dash cam footage, showing the movements of the golf before and after the collision.
23:52So we've got the full timeline now then?
23:54Yeah, so we've got a timeline starting from 10am on the morning of the collision the 4th of April.
24:01The footage is vital evidence to prove which of the brothers was driving.
24:06It's one thing getting the vehicle, but it's trying to put that driver in the driver's seat.
24:11So we know that Cain leaves his address via his tag about 10 o'clock.
24:15There's then some movement with the golf in the morning of the 4th through to the early afternoon before the collision where they ended up in Rover Valley Country Park.
24:28And we can see into the vehicle very slightly through the sunroof of the vehicle.
24:36Joe's identified 20-year-old Cain Byrne, the younger of the two brothers, as the driver.
24:42It all goes to show that it's Cain being the driver rather than his brother, even though we know he's within the vehicle.
24:50And we can see that they're still using the cloned plates on it, so they've been on this vehicle all day.
24:56And then they've left from a valley back in towards Kilomarsh.
24:59It then ends up back towards the A57 where we start picking the dash cam up of the vehicle heading towards the collision site.
25:06We've then got the footage where the collision's now happened and they've continued.
25:17Dash cam from another car and more CCTV clearly show the blue golf speeding away from the pedestrian crossing with smoke coming from it.
25:27Followed by the aftermath.
25:37We've then got the footage where we've already looked at.
25:39The number plate coming off?
25:40Yeah, absolutely.
25:42And then it turns right and goes towards the Hart Hill area.
25:46And we can clearly see now at this point that the front number plate's missing.
25:49We can also see the damage to the front of the car.
25:51And we can also see the driver holding in his hand a yellow balloon.
25:57Balloons are often used to inhale nitrous oxide or laughing gas.
26:02It's illegal for recreational use.
26:05It wasn't just a one-off thing.
26:07This was a continued use of balloons and nitrous oxide throughout the course of the day,
26:12which seems to be proven, which can only make your driving worse.
26:16And then travels along Eckington Way towards the Waterthorpe area.
26:22Then enters into Waterthorpe on Harwood Drive.
26:26And this is all post-collision?
26:28Yeah, so this is...
26:30The last bit of footage we're up to is about 28 minutes post-collision.
26:33And we were still working on where that vehicle then goes from that point.
26:37We'll carry on with the CCTV tracking and start doing street-by-street searches to see if we can locate the vehicle.
26:43CCTV evidence linking the brothers to the Blue Golf is stacking up.
26:50But police still need to find the car.
27:08At the roundabout in a minute, the first exit is this way.
27:11It's day six of the case and the brothers are still out on bail.
27:19If we've got any traffic able to assist, the vehicle's been abandoned.
27:24Derbyshire Police has received a call from a member of the public about the whereabouts of the Blue Golf.
27:29We were on nights when we assisted our colleagues from South Yorkshire Police locking up some offenders for a fatal incident.
27:38Outstanding was a Golf R.
27:41Police hope the car will provide crucial DNA evidence linking it to the brothers.
27:46Ideally, there's still evidence that we can get from the vehicle, so it's key getting an early, since a crime officer up there.
27:55Joe is en route to the vehicle from Sheffield, along with a forensic investigator.
28:04It's key to us to be able to put that vehicle to the scene.
28:08CCTV's brilliant and shows what we need it to show.
28:12We know the registration of that vehicle, and it's crucial that if it is that vehicle that we need to get there as soon as possible to secure it and to get as much evidence as we can from it.
28:20I imagine it's down there because there's police tape.
28:43It would have been a very nice car.
28:44As you can see, it's got extensive damage to it.
28:49It's going to be quite difficult to get any forensics because it's melted and been destroyed from, obviously, the fire and the water that fire service use.
28:58Despite the car being destroyed...
29:01Your cap looks like it's out.
29:02..does it?
29:04..a forensic officer arrives to photograph and collect evidence.
29:08Well, the fact that that's been removed isn't that it was there.
29:15I don't know whether they put a rag in or something.
29:18Because you'd have thought if that was the origin of the fire, then that rubber would have gone.
29:23Yeah.
29:24But the back doesn't look as damaged, does it, compared to the front?
29:28No.
29:30Joe and Scott are now at the scene.
29:33Yeah.
29:34Yeah.
29:35Any jewelry at?
29:37Yeah, he's got a...
29:39..which one of it's got a massive, thick gold chain.
29:42Looks like a dog chain.
29:43Yeah.
29:44Like, down to his...
29:46Right, OK.
29:47..and they've both got, like, diamonds in them.
29:50OK.
29:51Yeah.
29:53OK, thank you.
29:54Well, it may seem disappointing that the vehicle's been burnt out, and, yes, we have lost some of our internal forensic work.
30:00However, the dints to the front passenger door, the wing and the bonnet, and on the roof, are all very much consistent with that damage that we've seen throughout on the CCTV.
30:11So, although we might have lost forensic evidence in terms of DNA and fibre and that type of evidence, we can still say with a lot of confidence that that vehicle is the vehicle involved in that collision.
30:26That'd be interesting. Do you reckon you get any DNA, anything off of this?
30:30The officers spot a towing strap attached to a tree and the car.
30:34Because they've clearly put that on, haven't they, to stop the car rolling down.
30:39With it being a rope, there's been friction on it when they've been pulling it, and that can also result in cellular DNA being transferred onto the exhibit.
30:47And hopefully we'll be able to get something from that.
30:50Because we've now got, sort of, two crimes.
30:52Someone's brought that vehicle here and someone's set fire to that vehicle, so I hope that we'll be able to get something from that strap to be able to say who's moved that vehicle.
31:00While the forensics officer continues to look for evidence...
31:07Even though it's burnt out, you're still getting a bit off it then.
31:10Yeah.
31:12..Joe and Scott spot something else.
31:16Do you think it could have been dropped off on a low load?
31:18It may point to a bigger conspiracy to cover the suspect's tracks.
31:23That's perfectly positioned for a recovery truck.
31:27Yeah. Well, you can see it there, can't you?
31:28Yeah.
31:29Do you know when the bed of the roller goes down?
31:31It's not rolling, right?
31:32It does that, doesn't it?
31:33Yeah, it scratches all that.
31:35It scratches there.
31:37It's not possible that that vehicle's been there since the time of the offence.
31:41So it's clearly been taken on a low loader and dumped at that location where it's been burnt out.
31:47That's fresh, fresh.
31:48No, that's fresh, because you can see where mud is.
31:50There's some scrape markings on the road which could be consistent with a bed of a truck going onto the road.
31:54So, again, I'm going to be asking for any sort of paint transfer, any marks, anything like that which might have been used,
32:01just so we can try and identify what's been used to move that vehicle to where it is now.
32:07Police think that after their release, it was arranged for the gulf to be taken to its current location and torched.
32:14There's been some real thought as to how to dispose of essential evidence into a fatal road traffic collision.
32:22Where the vehicle is at the minute, I would have suspected if it had been there since Saturday, people would have called us.
32:28It's on a footpath. It certainly looks out of place.
32:30So for my eyes, that has been moved this morning and been set on fire immediately.
32:35For me, it's what they're going to do next.
32:39Yeah, exactly.
32:41They're not going to stop till they're put in prison, these two idiots.
32:48Hopefully there's forensic opportunities on the car.
32:51They've got a lot more CCTV.
32:55Just all little pieces of the jigsaw that are coming together nicely to close the net on these two individuals.
33:02The important thing for us to focus on is that there's a victim, a victim's family,
33:09that all need justice for what is a horrendous fail-to-stop incident.
33:12Justice is, if someone is at fault, them going to court and those being sentenced to the full extent of the law
33:21and being able to provide that closure to the family that someone was at fault for this collision
33:26and they have been dealt with.
33:31When this all happened, it was on a run that we did on a regular basis.
33:37He did exactly what he should have done.
33:38He got off his bike, he waited till traffic lights had turned red.
33:42There was nothing he could have done
33:44because he didn't know that there was going to be a nutcase come past
33:48and straight through the traffic lights off his head.
33:52And what my main concern at the time was, was, did he suffer?
34:00You don't know. I don't know. Were it instantaneous?
34:04That's the only comfort I've got, that he didn't know anything about it.
34:06He wouldn't have known anything about it.
34:09It would have been a split second of absolute terror.
34:11Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it would.
34:13I have been out on my bike since he's gone and it was so, not very good.
34:22Not very good.
34:27Because I'd never been out for a long, long time without him.
34:31I mean, we never went out even with Doug.
34:33We just did everything together.
34:35And it's been so hard to...
34:38It's been so hard.
34:39It's been so hard.
34:40You were just so hard.
34:41I once asked him.
34:42It's been so hard to 10 years ago never went out.
34:43It was me now.
34:44We're just so hard.
34:45It's been so hard to when hasn't had any plans going to night are off.
34:47I mean, I think...
34:49You always may have gone.
34:50Police!
35:04One week after 81-year-old Graham Slynn was killed in a hit-and-run near Sheffield.
35:10They're not going to stop so they're going to put in prison, these two idiots.
35:12A joint investigation by South Yorkshire and Derbyshire Police
35:16has identified Cain Byrne as the suspected driver.
35:20So obviously we suspect that it's the Byrnes who are driving the vehicle.
35:28We're obviously working in an area where they're known to hang around
35:32and where they used to live before moving over into Derbyshire area.
35:35After further CCTV searches, there's another breakthrough in the case.
35:41Crash investigator Joe Binley updates Inspector Matt Collings
35:44about where the gulf went after the collision.
35:47We found the address purely by the CCTV tracking.
35:50We've got it going down the first street and then going into this cul-de-sac.
35:55The CCTV is crucial.
35:56It's an address that's linked to the Byrne.
35:58The address where the vehicle's been parked at is.
36:01Footage shows the blue gulf reversing up the cul-de-sac
36:04and parking on a driveway just 15 minutes after the collision.
36:08It's that first opportunity where we can see the rear number plate
36:12is the same number plate as that what was being, was found on the street.
36:16Crucially, the footage shows who was driving.
36:21We see Cain get out of the front driver's seat
36:25and walk around to the front of the vehicle
36:26and his first thought is he appears to be inspecting the damage to his vehicle.
36:30What we do see as well is when his brother gets out of the front passenger seat
36:34the door doesn't open fully because of the damage to it
36:37and then we see Cain trying to rub off a mark from the roof of the vehicle.
36:44With this new evidence
36:46Joe and his team are confident they have enough to re-arrest the brothers.
36:50OK, this interview has been audio and visually recorded
36:59and may be given in evidence if your case is brought to trial.
37:0320-year-old Cain Byrne has been re-arrested for further questioning.
37:0881-year-old Graham Slynn was struck by a VW Golf at 15.15 hours
37:14whilst crossing the A57 and died at the scene.
37:17We now believe that you are the driver of that VW Golf.
37:25In as much detail as you can,
37:28please tell me about your involvement in the death of Graham Slynn.
37:31No comment.
37:34Are you responsible for the death of Graham Slynn?
37:37No comment.
37:40I want to show you some CCTV.
37:43I will explain it as we go through.
37:45Prior to the hit-and-run,
37:48witnesses report seeing a blue golf driving at high speed through a red light.
37:52Witnesses described that golf travelling at speed,
37:56approaching a crossing.
37:58It did not slow.
38:00It didn't falter.
38:02They then see a male and a bike being launched into the air.
38:07The golf hits this male and sends this male at least 15 feet into the air.
38:16Are you aware of that?
38:18No comment.
38:18Are you the male responsible for that?
38:21No comment.
38:23The CCTV footage shows the cyclist lying on the ground
38:26just seconds after the collision
38:28and the blue golf speeding away.
38:37The car then arrives 10 miles away
38:39at the address linked to the brothers.
38:41You can see here the VW has now pulled onto the driveway.
38:50Do you recognise any of these people?
38:52No comment.
38:52Are you one of those people on that CCTV?
38:55No comment.
38:56Is this male here in this blue tracksuit
38:58kind of inspecting some damage to the roof?
39:01Is that you?
39:04No comment.
39:05The damage is from the collision with the cyclist.
39:14Covering this car up,
39:15is that something that would normally be done
39:17or is this only being done because of what has just happened?
39:23No comment.
39:24Police suspect that soon after covering the car up,
39:28it was taken away and hidden.
39:30Have you got anything you want to say
39:31about those clips of footage that you've now seen?
39:34No comment.
39:36Further CCTV reveals more evidence.
39:39It shows the plates being changed
39:41the morning before the hit and run.
39:44Typically, this is done to hide criminal activity.
39:49And other footage appears to show the driver
39:52inhaling laughing gas from a balloon
39:55immediately before and after the collision.
39:58You can clearly see that the males that you're present with
40:06are inhaling balloons.
40:10Police suspect Kane was inhaling laughing gas,
40:13a powerful drug.
40:15Do nitrous oxide balloons, do they have any impact on you?
40:19No comment.
40:20Is it appropriate to use them whilst driving a vehicle?
40:24No comment.
40:26Having not passed a driving test,
40:29would you consider yourself capable to drive a car?
40:32No comment.
40:33Have you received any training at all to drive a car?
40:37No comment.
40:38The victim's family pay a tribute.
40:43They describe Graham as a husband, a dad,
40:46and a grandad,
40:48and his family describe him as a gentle,
40:52funny and kind to his core.
40:54How does it make you feel hearing that about Graham?
41:02Well, come on.
41:06Are you the person that has killed Graham Slynn?
41:09No comment.
41:09No comment.
41:09Eight days after killing 81-year-old Graham Slynn,
41:32Kane Byrne is charged with causing death by dangerous driving.
41:37It's the selfishness.
41:39I can't get over.
41:41The only thing that is important to them is not being caught.
41:48They've seemingly got no care or responsibility
41:51for anybody else that they hurt.
41:55There's always a feeling of
41:57what else could we have done with investigations?
41:59I always operate on the
42:01would I be happy if that was a family member of mine
42:03who had been killed?
42:05Would I be happy with how the investigation was run?
42:07Would I be satisfied that all the lines of inquiry
42:09has been completed?
42:11And that's how I run my investigations.
42:12At court, Kane Byrne pleaded guilty to causing death
42:24by dangerous driving, driving whilst disqualified
42:28and with no insurance.
42:33The passenger faced no charges in relation to this incident.
42:38One of the most important investigations we'll ever look into
42:40is how someone's died.
42:42They're not just the thing.
42:43That's someone's loved one.
42:46It's my investigation.
42:47I'll always deal with it at the best of my abilities,
42:48but I will never feel the same way
42:51that the family feels about the loss of Graham.
42:55Graham Slynn's family was in court
42:57to see Kane Byrne sentenced to prison.
43:02He's got a sentence of 16 and a half years
43:05with 11 and a half years behind bars.
43:08And he won't be able to even apply for parole
43:11for at least seven years.
43:16It seems harsh because he's only 21,
43:21but he's been given chance after chance after chance.
43:25At some point, you have to face the consequences,
43:31and now that time is now.
43:33When I go to church, I light a candle for Graham,
43:39and at the same time, I pray for him.
43:45And I know some people probably won't understand,
43:47but I pray for that young chap as well
43:50because he is only a young chap,
43:52and I pray for his children because he's got two children.
43:55What sort of life have they got with his dad in prison?
43:59And you can only hope that he will change his behaviour
44:04and come to realise that what he has done is wrong
44:09and he didn't need to do that.
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