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00:05A police chase through the streets of Manchester leads to a gruesome discovery.
00:11A car soaked in blood must surely mean someone's been murdered or severely injured.
00:17But who is it and where are they now?
00:24Police must piece together the forensic evidence to unravel the mystery and find the victim
00:29of the vicious killing.
00:31Catching a killer requires conclusive forensic evidence.
00:37From clues at the scene of the crime to minute examination in the forensics lab.
00:43From the cold reality of the pathologist table to DNA sampling, digital analysis.
00:50Each piece of killer evidence brings the murderer closer to justice.
01:04It's early spring and Manchester city centre is bustling with shoppers and day trippers.
01:11Two plainclothes officers become suspicious when they spot known criminal Jason O'Driscoll driving past.
01:19They indicate to O'Driscoll to pull over but he refuses and there follows a high speed pursuit
01:24involving multiple cars and a police helicopter.
01:28When the car is finally stopped, O'Driscoll and his passenger are immediately arrested.
01:37Former Detective Chief Inspector Tony Cook was on call that day.
01:42The officers who detained O'Driscoll and the front seat passenger did a search of the vehicle.
01:47They were looking for anything that was related to criminal activity.
01:51Officers were expecting stolen goods, weapons or evidence of drug dealing.
01:56But it was the car itself that gave them cause for alarm.
02:03They found that the front driver's seat was heavily bloodstained.
02:08Which alerted their suspicion to something more serious that might have happened
02:12or been involved and connected with this motor vehicle.
02:17They then also searched the boot of the car, standard procedure,
02:22lifted up the mat on the floor of the boot
02:25and found in the well where the spare tyre should have been
02:28quite a substantial amount of blood in the vehicle.
02:34And obviously I was very, very suspicious about what might have happened with that car.
02:39We didn't know at that stage, you know,
02:41how are we doing with somebody who's been murdered
02:43or somebody who's just been seriously injured.
02:45I made a bold decision that they should be arrested on suspicion
02:48of causing grievous bodily harm.
02:50Which gave us time to bring them into custody, detain them,
02:54so we could question them and conduct some further enquiries.
02:58The car itself is designated as the scene of a major crime
03:03and is transported to a sterile garage for further examination.
03:08They do what we call a full lift,
03:10which is where we literally strap the vehicle round the outside,
03:14put ropes round the outside of the vehicle
03:16or strapping round and then lift the vehicle up
03:18and put it onto the back of a lorry.
03:21We don't often put vehicles onto flatbed lorries
03:25and then wrap them in tarpaulin,
03:27again, because the rubbing of the tarpaulin
03:30might disturb any evidence on the outside of the car.
03:33We just literally take them as they are
03:35and then leave them to dry out.
03:38Cook asks a pathologist to assess the nature of the attack.
03:43I wanted the pathologist to give me an opinion about the blood.
03:46What were the potential hypotheses or theories
03:49as to what might have happened to somebody
03:51who was the source of their blood?
03:53Are they likely to be still alive,
03:55given the amount of blood we had?
03:59We're used to seeing blood staining in cars
04:01and so we get a feel for it.
04:03We can't actually say,
04:05well, they've lost a pint or a litre or whatever it is of blood,
04:08but we can say that's a significant blood loss.
04:11He's got something or she's got something that's bleeding heavily
04:15and, generally speaking,
04:16that means that they've got some serious injury
04:19and that the likelihood is that they may well be dead.
04:23The pathologist came to the conclusion
04:25that it was highly unlikely that the person
04:28who was the source of the blood,
04:30because of the amount that we found in the car,
04:32was likely to still be alive.
04:34So now we're dealing with probably an attempt murder or murder.
04:41Recovering good quality samples of the blood itself
04:44is the crime scene investigator's first priority.
04:48Generally speaking,
04:49if blood's had a chance to dry,
04:51for example, from a headrest,
04:53you could take tapings of that
04:55because blood becomes quite fragile,
04:59quite friol, quite easily airborne.
05:02So tapings of that
05:03would pick up sufficient blood flakes
05:05in order to get a DNA profile
05:08from whatever samples there were available.
05:11If there were pools of blood,
05:13then you could just take some swabs from it,
05:15but you would never collect all of the blood that's there.
05:19Cook requests a fast-track DNA analysis
05:22of the blood samples taken from the car.
05:27It wasn't just blood we were looking for in that car,
05:29it was anything to do with any criminal activity
05:31that might be linked to anybody
05:33that might have come to some harm.
05:35So we're looking for fingerprints,
05:36we're looking for DNA, fibres,
05:38gunshot residue maybe as well.
05:41If a gun was used during the attack,
05:44gunshot residue will be found
05:46near to where it was fired.
05:49Gunshot residue is the smoke, the powder.
05:53We have partially burnt and unburnt gunpowder
05:55that comes out of the muzzle of the gun.
05:58Gunshot residue can be used
06:00to determine the locations of individuals
06:02within a scene based on where it's deposited.
06:05Most of the residue comes out of the muzzle of the gun,
06:08but if you have a gun like a revolver
06:10which has a gap at the back of the barrel
06:12and the front of the cylinder,
06:13then you have gunshot residue
06:15that comes out of the sides at the same time.
06:17So to examine a car for gunshot residue,
06:20you use like little sticky tabs.
06:27So this is an example of a gunshot residue sampling kit.
06:31There's a little sticky tab inside here
06:34and if we take the plastic cover off there
06:37and then this sticky tab,
06:40you dab all over the seat.
06:43Just dabbing at this across the seats.
06:46It will pick up the gunshot residue
06:48from different types of weapons.
06:50A scientist will be able to tell you
06:51what ammunition it's from.
06:56While the evidence has been gathered,
06:58the two suspects, Jason O'Driscoll and his passenger,
07:01are held in police custody.
07:05For theft and grievous bodily harm,
07:07you can keep somebody in custody initially for 36 hours,
07:10but then you can apply to a magistrate
07:11for a further 72 hours.
07:13So we had a few days in which to question them,
07:15but that also, more importantly,
07:17gave us an opportunity to conduct some further inquiries
07:21and try to build an evidential picture.
07:24Cook establishes the car belongs
07:26to 29-year-old Henry Agillo,
07:28a father of two who was reported missing three days ago.
07:33Henry Agillo was a 29-year-old male
07:36from Gorton in Manchester.
07:38He'd gotten the wrong side of the law,
07:40but only for minor criminality.
07:42He was a tall chap, over six foot,
07:46liked designer clothes, bought and sold cars.
07:49Pretty much a nomarch in the criminal scene, really,
07:51but we knew of him rather than anybody of any noter
07:55in the criminal underworld.
07:58The analysis of the adhesive stubs
08:00reveals a high concentration of gunshot residue
08:03in the back seat of the car.
08:09It played into our working theory
08:11that probably a gun had been discharged
08:13and whoever had been sat in the driver's seat of that car
08:15had bled heavily from gunshot injuries.
08:19And then possibly they'd been put in the boot of the car,
08:23which is where they continued to bleed,
08:25and that was the source of the blood
08:27in the well where the spur tire should have been kept.
08:32When the fast-track DNA results come in,
08:35they're run through the national database.
08:38There's a national DNA database
08:40which has the profiles of everybody
08:43that's been convicted of a recordable offence,
08:46and that's currently now
08:48at about seven million profiles or thereabouts.
08:53Given Henry's known to police,
08:55it's likely a record of his DNA will be on the database.
08:59If the blood in the car is Henry's,
09:01it will match this record.
09:03So the set of numbers that you have
09:06from your crime scene profile
09:07is compared against all of the sets of numbers
09:10representing individuals on the database,
09:12and when you have a match,
09:14then that's your person.
09:16The check confirms the blood is Henry's.
09:20The question for police now is,
09:23where is he?
09:24And is there any slim chance he's survived
09:26what police now think is at least one gunshot wound?
09:30So we had to then start working backwards
09:32and try and find out if anybody had seen Henry Agiló,
09:35if we could find his whereabouts,
09:37speak to his close family,
09:38piece together what we call victimology,
09:41which is that famous saying,
09:43you find out how a victim lived,
09:44you find out how they died.
09:46But we didn't know he was dead at this stage.
09:50So essentially, victimology is about
09:52mapping out a person's life,
09:53mapping out who they intersect with,
09:56where they lived,
09:56how they go about living their life.
09:59And in this case,
10:00Henry Agiló was a person
10:01who lived at the intersection of crime.
10:04His routine activity connected him
10:06with serious criminals,
10:07although he wasn't a serious criminal himself.
10:09He was quite low on the criminal hierarchy,
10:11but that also leaves you very vulnerable
10:14and potentially expendable.
10:19Detectives established that a friend of Henry's
10:22last saw him three days before his car was pulled over.
10:26There's a principle called the window of opportunity.
10:29So my decision at that time was,
10:32is that the window of opportunity for any harm
10:35having come to Henry Agiló
10:36would have been between the Saturday on the 12th
10:39and the date when the vehicle was stopped,
10:42which was the Tuesday the 15th.
10:44Between those three days,
10:45something had happened to Henry Agiló.
10:47We had to find out what it was
10:49and we had to find out where he was.
10:51And if he'd come to some harm, was dead,
10:53we might be searching for a body as well.
10:57With a blood-soaked car and a missing victim
11:00who's either dead or seriously injured,
11:02DCI Tony Cook has a mystery on his hands.
11:06He has to find an evidential link
11:07between his two suspects and Henry Agiló
11:10in order to solve the case.
11:25A high-speed pursuit leads to the arrest
11:27of two men in a stolen car.
11:31The headrest is heavily blood-stained.
11:35And there's a pool of blood in the boot.
11:38Lab tests suggest a gun has been fired
11:41from the back seat.
11:44And DNA results on the blood
11:46confirm the victim is 29-year-old Henry Agiló.
11:51But he's nowhere to be found.
11:55Until the police find the victim,
11:57they won't be able to charge their two suspects.
11:59The race is now on to discover the relationship
12:01between O'Driscoll, his passenger,
12:03and the man whose blood was all over his car,
12:06Henry Agiló.
12:07One thing the police know for sure
12:09is that both O'Driscoll and Agiló
12:11were associated with criminal gangs.
12:14Could this be the key link?
12:19The relationship between Henry Agiló
12:21and Jason O'Driscoll was a strange one,
12:23actually, because Henry Agiló was linked
12:26to a different gang than O'Driscoll was linked to.
12:30We never really established what the link was
12:33other than the fact that O'Driscoll would be using O'Driscoll
12:37because he had good contacts,
12:38he had a vehicle to drive him around,
12:40and perhaps he may have been setting him up for something
12:43to use him to his own advantage.
12:46O'Driscoll was trying to get more into the gang
12:49and better known and higher up the chain of command of the gang
12:53and prove himself, basically.
12:56That complicates it for the investigation
12:59because you have people who know that he will stop at nothing
13:02to build his reputation and brush people aside
13:07and use violence, if necessary,
13:09to stop people from speaking up
13:11and give evidence against him.
13:13That's a challenge for the Inquiry team.
13:17This was a very powerful era
13:19in Manchester gangland history.
13:22They ran a huge amount of drugs
13:24in from the ports of Liverpool
13:26and they got drugs from London.
13:28And so this was an epicentre for crime.
13:31And guns were the means by which they exerted control.
13:36We're talking about a culture
13:38where instrumental violence planned, admired,
13:41revered.
13:42And, of course, your status is accelerated
13:45by your fearlessness, your aggression
13:47and your determination to go further than anyone else.
13:53As police drill further into O'Driscoll's past,
13:56it becomes clear he's a man who's capable of extreme violence.
14:01Jason O'Driscoll had had a troubled upbringing
14:04and a chaotic lifestyle
14:05and had been in and out of care homes
14:07and had a lot of criminal offences to his name already.
14:12He was only aged 24 when he was arrested.
14:14So he'd already been in and out of the criminal justice system
14:16quite a few times.
14:20Jason O'Driscoll used the street nickname Mad Dog,
14:24which, metaphorically speaking, means somebody who's erratic,
14:29who's dangerous, who's aggressive and is very unpredictable.
14:34Violence like that also gets normalised within kind of gang cultures
14:39so that the person who's inflicting it
14:42doesn't even think that it's wrong or bad.
14:46All they are is in this world of extreme action.
14:49And I think it is very difficult to just stop and rewind
14:53once those series of actions have been kind of initiated.
15:01In police interview,
15:03neither O'Driscoll nor his passenger are prepared to talk.
15:07They'd want to get an account from both these people
15:10to find out if they'd tell us what they were doing in the car,
15:13why there was bloodstaining on the driver's seat and then boot,
15:17how would they come by the car,
15:19where was the registered owner?
15:20In other words,
15:21we were getting as much information from them as possible.
15:24But unfortunately, they went no comment,
15:27which is a lot of the people we interview do.
15:30With the custody clock running down
15:32and no clues as to Henry's whereabouts,
15:35police will soon have to release their main suspects.
15:38So it came to a stage
15:40where I had to go and speak with the prosecutor
15:42to see if we had sufficient to charge them
15:45because that would then give us an opportunity
15:47to remand them in custody once they'd been charged.
15:49And the prosecutor agreed that we had sufficient evidence
15:53to charge for attempted murder,
15:55even on what we had at that stage,
15:58which was all the bloodstaining in the car
16:00and the blood pooling
16:01and the initial opinion from the pathologist.
16:06With more time on their hands,
16:08detectives can now carry out thorough searches
16:10of any address linked to the suspects.
16:15In an address linked to Jason O'Driscoll,
16:17an officer found some washing line in a cupboard
16:21and decided to seize that rope.
16:23It looked like the end had been cut
16:25and a piece had been cut off it.
16:28The officer later on said,
16:29well, we're dealing with a missing person.
16:31He could have been kidnapped, could have been tied up.
16:33So it was a great piece of instinctive intuition
16:36by the officer to recover this washing line.
16:43Further searches reveal extensive evidence
16:46that O'Driscoll was involved in criminal activity.
16:50We found some jewellery, some electrical items,
16:53phones, some binoculars,
16:56a full-faced balaclava.
16:58It was almost like a robber's kit, to be honest.
17:01It was the sort of equipment
17:03you would expect to see Jason O'Driscoll
17:06having possession of.
17:07It didn't surprise me.
17:09But detectives were surprised
17:11to find some of Henry's personal items
17:13in amongst O'Driscoll's incriminating robber's kit.
17:20The phone and his watch
17:22were definitely belonging to him
17:24and were able to evidentially
17:25and forensically match them to Henry O'Driscoll.
17:31The phone and the watch
17:32are the first clear links
17:34between O'Driscoll and Henry.
17:36When the police analysed the phone's call log,
17:39they discover O'Driscoll
17:40has been using it since Henry's disappearance.
17:44It was contacting numbers
17:47known and linked to Jason O'Driscoll
17:49which obviously then heightened our suspicion
17:51that something had happened to Henry Jillo.
17:57So the evidential picture is building,
17:59but we still don't have a body.
18:00That's the problem.
18:01And that's the key piece of evidence.
18:03We still don't know what we're dealing with.
18:04And meanwhile, we've got two people in custody
18:06and the clock is ticking
18:08and the family getting very anxious
18:09as to what's happened to Henry.
18:13Henry's daughter, Jasmine,
18:14was a young girl when he went missing,
18:16but remembers him fondly.
18:19Our family at the time
18:21was my big brother, Ross,
18:23and my mum, Tracy,
18:26and my dad, Henry.
18:30And we're all close-knit family.
18:33I was obviously the daddy's girl
18:34and my brother was my father's mini-me.
18:40If he said he was going to do something for me
18:41and my brother, he was always there.
18:43And with him not turning up on that time
18:46that he'd agreed to meet my mum and my brother,
18:49that rang alarm bells.
18:51I just remember there was times
18:54where I would ask where daddy is
18:55and just couldn't understand where he'd gone
18:58or where he was.
19:00Tony Cook is determined to do everything he can
19:03to find Jasmine's dad, Henry.
19:06So we put out an awful lot of inquiries
19:08and appeals for sightings of Henry.
19:11And that becomes challenging in itself
19:13because we've got sightings of Henry Agillo all over,
19:16including as far away as Penzance,
19:18all of which have got to be checked out
19:20by our investigators
19:22because this inquiry was going on for weeks and weeks.
19:26We didn't get a quick closure to it at all.
19:28And the longer it goes on,
19:29the harder it is to sustain your case
19:32against the two people in custody,
19:34which were on remand.
19:37Public appeals are a standard part
19:39of modern-day policing,
19:40but of course it comes with risks and benefits.
19:43The benefits are that there often can be
19:45a volume of very fresh and important clues.
19:47And of course, the restrictions.
19:50And the negative of that
19:51is that many of those tip-offs
19:53may indeed be false flags.
19:55They may be attempt to swerve the police away
19:57from their intended
19:58and the actual perpetrators of a particular crime.
20:02But when the public come through with information,
20:06the police are required
20:07to follow up every particular lead
20:10because if they don't,
20:12they may miss out on something significant.
20:14But also if they don't,
20:15they may be criticised in court
20:18for not following up a particular line of inquiry.
20:22It's now seven weeks since Henry went missing
20:25and detectives are out of ideas where he is.
20:28Then DCI Tony Cook receives a call.
20:32On June 1st, there was a breakthrough.
20:35I got a call home from the control room
20:37to say that a local farmer
20:39in the Cheadle area of Manchester
20:42had been alerted to a suspicious smell,
20:45which was getting worse and worse.
20:47and he'd gone to have a look what it was
20:50and found the gruesome finding of a human body.
20:55Once that was reported to me,
20:57I knew we potentially had the body of Henry Agillo.
21:02The two men who were driving in the car
21:05soaked in Henry Agillo's blood
21:06are now in custody.
21:08Officers have also found some of Henry's possessions
21:11at suspect number one O'Driscoll's home,
21:14including Henry's phone,
21:15which O'Driscoll had been using.
21:18Now, a decomposed body has been found in a field.
21:21Is Tony's instinct correct?
21:23Could these be Henry's remains?
21:41Police suspect a car has been stolen
21:43following a high-speed chase.
21:47But bloodstains on the front seat and in the boot
21:51and gunshot residue on the rear seats
21:54point towards a violent attack.
21:57The likely victim, whose blood it is,
22:00is missing father of two, Henry Agillo.
22:05Searchers of the main suspect's house
22:07have uncovered a rope
22:08which may have been used to tie Henry up,
22:10as well as his phone and his watch.
22:16To make the case against their two suspects,
22:19the police first have to find Henry Agillo.
22:23Now, seven weeks after the investigation commenced,
22:26they discover a decomposed body on nearby farmland.
22:30Could this be the missing man?
22:42We're back at the original crime scene,
22:45so looking over to my left here are the trees and the undergrowth
22:48where the body was found pretty well concealed.
22:54So whoever left the body here
22:57was able to park the car up,
22:59get the body, presumably out of the boot,
23:00and roll it down
23:02until it landed on the bottom of this undergrowth here.
23:07So when I got here,
23:09it already taped off this area,
23:11and we had some stepping plates
23:13and an approach path,
23:14what we call a common approach path,
23:16which would lead into the area where we found the body.
23:19The body was there.
23:20It was well secured
23:22in terms of anybody contaminating it
23:25or tampering with it,
23:27and that allowed us to do a full scene,
23:30crime scene recovery and examination
23:31whilst the body was in situ.
23:34The pathologist was here,
23:36I was here,
23:37the coroner was here,
23:39a crime scene examiner,
23:41a crime scene manager,
23:42a forensic biologist,
23:43all were here busy,
23:45putting a scene tent around the body
23:46so they could do a meticulous,
23:48very fine crime scene examination
23:51and examination of the body
23:52before we even considered moving it.
23:57If this is Henry Agillo,
23:59the body itself will provide crucial clues
24:02to how he died.
24:04The body was found in some woodland area
24:06and it was clearly quite decomposed.
24:09In that seven-week period,
24:11that scene has not been preserved,
24:13so the body hasn't been immediately found
24:15and can be preserved really quickly.
24:18You have had a lot of potential animal activity in there.
24:21You might have had dog walkers,
24:22you might have members of the public,
24:24you might have random footprints in there
24:27that have got no relation at all to the offender.
24:30So from a crime scene manager's perspective,
24:32you have to really keep an open mind
24:34in a scene that's been left unpreserved for seven weeks.
24:40I could see straight away,
24:41he matched the description of Henry Agillo
24:43even in a decomposed state,
24:45but we would take DNA off the body
24:48to try and match it against the DNA
24:49we had against Henry Agillo.
24:53Despite the open-air location and the time past,
24:57crime scene investigators also attempt to find any trace evidence
25:00that will implicate their main suspect,
25:03Jason O'Driscoll.
25:06Things can get moved and dislodged,
25:09and even the physical act of moving the body
25:11means that trace evidence which is on the surface
25:15or on the clothing can be dislodged.
25:18So hair and fibre evidence,
25:20that may get lost very quickly.
25:22Other evidence, like the DNA evidence,
25:25so touch DNA, any fluids,
25:28then these tend to stick quite firmly to the skin
25:34and therefore it's much more difficult to dislodge them
25:38and we would certainly look for them
25:41even if after a lengthy period of time
25:43we would still be looking for any trace evidence
25:47on the skin itself rather than on the clothing.
25:51One item stands out,
25:53a piece of washing line that's been used to tie the hands together.
25:57If it's the same as that found in O'Driscoll's flat,
26:00it will be important evidence against him.
26:05So that was another key important thing to recover carefully
26:08so we could examine it later.
26:16It looks like it's the same type of rope.
26:19So what we can do is we can get the rope sent off for analysis
26:24to see if they're made up of the same situance.
26:29So if you have a nylon rope,
26:31even if it's mass produced,
26:32the fact of the nylon passing through the machine,
26:36through the shape to make the dye
26:39and then make those individual fibres,
26:42the longer the manufacture process goes on,
26:45the more different the actual machine becomes
26:48because tiny, tiny, minute bits of damage happen
26:52the more an item is used,
26:54even if it's mass producing something.
26:57So you can say whether a piece of rope
27:00is manufactured by a particular machine.
27:06When all the tests are completed at the crime scene,
27:08the body is transferred to the mortuary for further examination.
27:13In this particular case,
27:15where we're talking about a potential shooting incident,
27:19then one of the things that we would want to do
27:23is to X-ray the body before we do anything to the body.
27:27And the body can actually be X-rayed in the body bag
27:30without being disturbed.
27:31And generally speaking,
27:32the radiologist prefer them to be remained in the body bag
27:36if we're taking them down to a hospital facility.
27:40So once the X-rays are there,
27:41we'll know whether or not we're dealing with bullets.
27:43Now, if there's bullets found in the skull,
27:45then it comes down to the pathologist to retrieve the bullets.
27:50The bullets are useful for ballistic evidence
27:54in that there will be markings on the bullet
27:56which are caused as the bullet passes through the barrel of a gun.
28:00And therefore, it's very important
28:02that these bullets are handled with care.
28:06So the post-mortem,
28:08even though the body was badly decomposed,
28:10revealed that he had two gunshot injuries to the back of his head.
28:14And the bullets were still inside his skull as well.
28:18At the same time,
28:19the results from the DNA tests on the body
28:21finally confirm it's Henry Agillo
28:24and the family are informed.
28:27I remember somebody falling,
28:30like someone being by the stairs,
28:31and I don't think the police even had to say anything,
28:33I think they just know.
28:35Because they'd been gone for that long,
28:36and I think it was just confirmation.
28:38I remember everyone getting really upset.
28:40I remember my nan was saying to me constantly,
28:42like, you can cry, you can cry.
28:43Like, why are you not crying?
28:45And I just couldn't grasp what was happening.
28:50And everyone was just crying around me.
28:51I just remember the room just filling with sadness straight away,
28:54without the police even having to say anything.
28:57The police have found Jasmine's father,
29:00but they still have to prove who shot him.
29:02The bullets are removed and recorded as evidence
29:05that can be analysed by a ballistics expert.
29:09With bullets, we're looking at the marks
29:12that are left by the rifling inside the barrel.
29:15The reason we can identify those
29:17is because the tools that are used to make the rifling
29:19leave tool marks on the inside of the barrel.
29:23And those tools that are used to make the rifling
29:25go through wear and tear,
29:26so every barrel they make
29:27has slightly different rifling marks on the inner surface.
29:30When a bullet is fired down one of these barrels,
29:33those marks are transferred to the surface of the bullet.
29:37And as long as the bullet is in good enough condition
29:39and the marks replicate with good enough quality,
29:42we can compare those to one another.
29:44And if we see the same marks on two bullets,
29:46we can determine that they were fired from the same gun.
29:50The ballistics expert told us it was one gun.
29:53They came from the same gun, not two.
29:55So that was indicating one person
29:56had pulled the trigger of a gun twice.
29:59In Henry's car, the gunshot residue
30:02was found in the back seat
30:03and the blood on the front headrest.
30:06Now detectives want to know if Henry's injuries
30:09fit with the theory that the shooter was behind him.
30:12With two bullets entering the back of somebody's head,
30:14we know that the shooter was behind the individual that was shot.
30:18While the person is usually able to move around quite a lot,
30:22if they're sitting in the driver's seat of a car,
30:24they're obviously contained in a fairly small space,
30:26that the head is quite mobile independently of the body.
30:30So even if the body's sitting facing forward,
30:32the head can still move quite a lot.
30:34But if the projectiles are entering the back of the head,
30:37we know that the gun had to be back into the rear
30:41and probably slightly to the left of the person who was shot.
30:44If somebody was shot from the front or from the side,
30:48you would expect the bullet impacts
30:49to be on the front side of the face
30:51or somewhere on the right side of the head
30:53and maybe on the right side of the shoulder.
30:59We wanted to know where the person who'd fired the bullets
31:03had been located in that car or outside the car.
31:06That was really important.
31:08The ballistic expert was telling us
31:10that probably the shooter had been sat in the back of the car,
31:14positioned to the rear of the victim.
31:17Of course, we had the bloodsturning on the headrest.
31:20So that also supported a view that the person
31:24who'd received the gunshot injuries
31:26had been sat in that driver's seat.
31:30It takes a certain sort of person
31:32to shoot somebody at point-blank range,
31:34which is what we're talking about,
31:35putting a gun to somebody's head
31:37and pulling the trigger, not once, but twice.
31:40That's the level of brutality we were dealing with here.
31:44It was almost an execution.
31:47Your dad, essentially, in the nicest way possible,
31:50had been butchered and just left like he was worthless,
31:53like his life didn't mean anything.
31:55I think it's the coldest, most cruelest thing
31:57that a person can do.
32:02Violence that takes place within a gang culture
32:04can be seen as quite different
32:06from violence that's perpetrated by an individual.
32:09Something important, which we know in psychology,
32:13is the kind of attrition of individual responsibility.
32:17So responsibility gets diffused,
32:19and even if you're acting as a sole member of a gang,
32:23you know, in a way, the person can just be thinking,
32:25I'm doing it for the gang, as a gang member.
32:29The discovery that Henry was shot by a single gun
32:32further incriminates Jason O'Driscoll.
32:35But there are still additional lines of inquiry.
32:39One of these is geographic profiling,
32:41the principle that murderers will dispose of a body
32:44in a site they know well.
32:47They default to what they know, perpetrators.
32:49So they're thinking, right,
32:52not in a very mature or developed sense,
32:55but they're thinking, what's the answer right now
32:57that we can do?
32:58So they go to a location they know very, very well.
33:00They believe it's some way protected
33:02from immediate discovery.
33:04So it may be something that happened in the past,
33:06an early memory, early location,
33:08an early connection.
33:09But of course, that connection,
33:11if established, can very much link
33:14the body to the perpetrator.
33:17But of course, that's about detection
33:19and good police work.
33:26We use a principle in geographic profiling
33:29called the problem analysis triangle.
33:31That means we're looking for a comparison
33:33and a link between the location,
33:35the victim and the offender.
33:37So this location, concealed as it was,
33:40we were looking for a link between this
33:41and our suspect, Jason O'Driscoll.
33:44Why did he pick this location?
33:45How did he know it existed?
33:47How did he end up here?
33:48You must have had some knowledge of it.
33:50We did find that link
33:51because we found out that O'Driscoll
33:53had been in a care home
33:54that was very close by to this scene,
33:56very close to where the body had found.
33:58So that was our link
33:59under the problem analysis triangle.
34:01We found a link between our victim,
34:04the offender, and the location.
34:09Everything now points to O'Driscoll
34:11being involved in the murder
34:12of Henry O'Driscoll.
34:13The rope, the stolen phone and property,
34:16the blood-soaked car O'Driscoll
34:18was driving around in,
34:19and the fact that O'Driscoll's body
34:21was found adjacent to a children's home
34:24where O'Driscoll once lived.
34:26Both the suspects in custody
34:27have given no comment interviews.
34:29But now, with the wealth of evidence amassed,
34:32can Tony Cook finally extract
34:34a full confession.
34:49Jason O'Driscoll and a second man
34:52have been arrested on suspicion
34:53of the murder of Henry Agillo
34:55after being found driving Henry's car.
34:58Police now have substantial evidence
35:00that one or both men murdered Henry.
35:03The discovery of extensive blood staining
35:06on a headrest and pooled blood in the boot,
35:10gunshot residue in the back seat,
35:13DNA tests on the blood itself.
35:16At O'Driscoll's address,
35:18police have found a suspicious piece of rope.
35:21Henry's phone, which O'Driscoll had been using,
35:24plus his watch.
35:27Seven weeks after their arrest,
35:29Henry's body is finally found,
35:31dumped near a children's home
35:33that O'Driscoll used to live in.
35:35A post-mortem has discovered
35:37that Henry died from two gunshots
35:39to the back of the head.
35:44The police must now re-interview their two suspects,
35:47O'Driscoll and the second man in the car.
35:50Both men so far have given no comment interviews,
35:53but now, with Henry's body found,
35:56the police know where and how Henry died.
36:00Can Tony Cook persuade both men to talk?
36:08An interview strategy is pre-prepared,
36:11so we had plenty of time to prepare for this,
36:14ready for the body being found and the re-interview.
36:16So we would stage the evidence
36:19and the disclosure of material
36:21to O'Driscoll and his defence team
36:24so that we got the maximum sort of impact
36:27and tried to prompt a response, almost.
36:34Once the suspect begins to speak,
36:37then that's an opportunity for officers
36:39and they're well experienced
36:41at being able to target the vulnerabilities
36:43in their narratives,
36:45the little inconsistencies,
36:47and the officers are obviously in control
36:49of all the information.
36:50They're disclosing tiny little bits
36:52and they're doing that strategically.
36:53So that leaves the suspect
36:55really in a huge information deficit.
37:00They knew they were not going to get a confession,
37:02but they may get something nearly as good
37:05and that is a provable lie.
37:08When detectives tell O'Driscoll and the other man
37:11they found Henry's body,
37:12they begin to talk.
37:15The first explanation we got
37:17was that they'd been in an address with a jail
37:20and it was an address of a gang member
37:23and this gang member had punched him to the floor
37:25and then shot him twice.
37:27At this point, the interviewers disclosed
37:29that the bullet wounds were in the back of Henry's head.
37:33O'Driscoll then changes his story
37:34and provides a written statement.
37:37Somebody had come up to the car,
37:39he wound the window down,
37:40was talking to him
37:41and shot him from outside the vehicle
37:43whilst he was sat in the driver's seat
37:45and that he panicked,
37:46he pulled a jailer's body out of the driver's seat
37:49and put him into the boot
37:51and disposed of it.
37:53But the evidence from the car
37:55and post-mortem
37:56strongly suggest O'Driscoll is lying.
37:59We had the gunshot residue
38:01that came from the back of the car.
38:02We had the bloodstaining on the headrest
38:05and more importantly,
38:07we had the gunshot wounds
38:08which looked to be inflicted in the back of the head.
38:11So it was the position of the shooter
38:13was probably sat in the rear seat of the car
38:16and that was the conclusion of our ballistics experts.
38:20O'Driscoll's story is further undermined
38:22by the laboratory tests on the rope
38:24found tied around Henry's hands.
38:27The forensic examination of the rope
38:29revealed that it was highly likely
38:31that the rope around O'Driscoll's hands
38:33had been cut from the same piece
38:36that we found in O'Driscoll's property.
38:39Had O'Driscoll's aversion been true,
38:42why did O'Driscoll have his hands bound in front of him
38:45and why did the rope match to rope
38:47which was found in O'Driscoll's property?
38:49It was very, very compelling evidence.
38:53As the police review their evidence
38:55against O'Driscoll,
38:57Henry's family are coming to terms with his death.
39:01I asked when Daddy was coming home from heaven,
39:05not quite obviously grasping the concepts
39:08of life and death at the time.
39:11I remember waking up and just crying
39:14and really understanding then.
39:16Like, he wasn't, he wasn't here anymore.
39:21And that, that's when I really started to grasp it
39:25and I think then I got quite upset quite often.
39:30But yeah, it took a while to process him
39:33for me to fully understand.
39:37Just before the case goes to trial,
39:39police receive a final key piece of evidence.
39:43We had information that a third male called Christopher Lewis
39:47had assisted in the disposal of a jillow.
39:51He did make an admission that he'd assisted O'Driscoll
39:56in the disposal of the body
39:57and he ducked him with O'Driscoll
40:00at the location where we found him.
40:02But I'd take no part in the murder.
40:04He admitted that at court
40:06and was given a two-year custodial sentence.
40:09This rules out the second man in the car
40:12who was arrested with O'Driscoll.
40:14He claims that O'Driscoll had turned up at his home
40:16to show him Henry's body.
40:18He hadn't informed the police
40:20as he was worried about his safety.
40:22He also told us that he was told later
40:26that the body of a black man who knew to be a jillow
40:30had been dumped in a field somewhere.
40:32That's the story he gave us.
40:33Which, to be fair,
40:34every indication was that that was probably true
40:37because we had the body disposal
40:39being admitted by Christopher Lewis.
40:44O'Driscoll had quite a reputation.
40:46He was trigger-happy.
40:47Look what he'd done to a jillow.
40:50People were frightened of him,
40:51not just because of his nickname, Mad Dog.
40:53People were genuinely frightened of him.
40:58With the witnesses who he is ensuring
41:01are too scared, too intimidated to come forward,
41:06it really shows us the kind of entitled individual he is,
41:12that he believes he has the right, as it were,
41:15to ensure that his crime goes undetected.
41:19I think there's an arrogance in that
41:22and also something quite self-deceptive
41:25about this belief that he has this power
41:28and that he will somehow be able to continue
41:30to perpetrate crimes and never pay the price for that.
41:36Tony Cook and his team have finally assembled
41:39enough evidence to charge Jason O'Driscoll
41:41with the murder of Henry A. Gillum.
41:44The CPS agree and a date is set for the trial
41:47at Manchester Crown Court.
41:50The prosecution deliberate whether to put forward a motive
41:53for Henry's murder.
41:55If the prosecution had to prove motive in every single murder case,
41:59then there'd be many, many cases
42:01where you simply couldn't prove it.
42:03And although the evidence was overwhelming
42:05that the defendant was the killer,
42:07if you had to prove a motive,
42:09you'd be struggling.
42:10And that's why, if you've got a motive, great,
42:13because it adds strength to your case.
42:15But if you don't know what the motive is,
42:18or you haven't got one at all,
42:20then you just have to front up to the jury
42:23and say, we don't have to prove motive.
42:24And there may not have been any motive here at all.
42:27In this case, they agree that the attack
42:30had to do with gang rivalries.
42:34The prosecution mounted the case on the basis
42:37that the motive was that the victim, Henry A. Gillum,
42:41was an associate of a rival gang.
42:44And O'Driscoll wanted to build his credibility
42:47and reputation by murdering a member of a rival gang.
42:52O'Driscoll's defence that the killer was outside the car
42:55was taken apart by the ballistics expert.
42:58He was quite easily able to counter his claim,
43:02basically by the position of the two bullet holes
43:04in the back of his head,
43:05which couldn't have come from the side.
43:07They were clearly coming from the rear.
43:09So somebody who shot him was positioned to the rear,
43:12not to the side.
43:14Ballistics evidence can be incredibly powerful.
43:17And it's probably one of the areas of expert evidence
43:22which is even further beyond the knowledge of the jury
43:27than things like forensic science and pathology.
43:31In this particular case that we're discussing,
43:34clearly the evidence was very strong
43:36that this was a shooting to the back of the head
43:39at close range.
43:41And it would be very difficult for the defence
43:43to try and undermine that.
43:47O'Driscoll's story fails to convince the jury
43:49who convicted him of the murder of Henry Agillo.
43:53He is sentenced to life imprisonment.
43:58When O'Driscoll was finally found guilty,
44:00I think the whole team,
44:02because we worked as a team,
44:03felt as though justice had been done for Agillo
44:07and his family.
44:08It was a brutal murder, this, an execution.
44:12And O'Driscoll was a very dangerous individual,
44:14so I'm glad he was put out of harm's way
44:17and given a substantial sentence of imprisonment.
44:22Let's not forget Henry Agillo's family here
44:24because they went through a lot of stress and trauma,
44:27having to wait seven weeks to have found the body.
44:30They were still hoping he might be found alive.
44:31They had to hear all the gruesome facts
44:35of how he was recovered.
44:37If I was to meet Tony today,
44:40I'd like to thank him
44:42for bringing that person to justice
44:45and bringing some closure to the family
44:49and bringing him home to us.
44:52There will not be any time in life
44:54that I'll ever let his name just fade into the background
44:57or his presence fade into the background.
45:01He was who he was.
45:03He was a lovable rogue.
45:04That's what they used to call him.
45:05It's a lovable rogue.
45:06He was a family man.
45:07You know, he wasn't always perfect,
45:09but to what he was.
45:11To me and my brother, he was anyway.
45:17The crucial evidence in this case
45:19was the recovery of the vehicle.
45:22That was what started the whole investigation going.
45:25It's what contained the bloodstaining on the driver's seat.
45:28It's what contained the gunshot residue.
45:30It hooked the blood pooling in the boot of the car.
45:33That was the killer evidence for me.
45:35It was...
45:35That's what started the investigation
45:37and linked it all together
45:39because without that,
45:40we would never, ever have been successful
45:43with proving a murder against a juristical.
46:00Jason Mad Dog, O'Driscoll,
46:02was a violent and unpredictable man
46:04who thought he could get away with murder.
46:07His lust to prove himself to his gang
46:09and his arrogance in stealing Henry's possessions
46:12and driving around in his blood-soaked car
46:15was his undoing.
46:16The painstaking police investigation
46:18and detailed forensic evidence
46:21ensured he was convicted of a brutal execution
46:24and jailed for life.
46:30The murder of hisению
46:55was the Long Right
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