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Donal MacIntyres Killer Evidence S03E02
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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 but who is it
00:18and where are they now police must piece together the forensic evidence to unravel the mystery and
00:29find the victim of the vicious killing catching 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
00:51each piece of killer evidence brings the murderer closer to justice
01:04it's early spring and manchester city center is bustling with shoppers and day trippers
01:11two plainclothes officers become suspicious when they spot known criminal jason o'driscoll driving past
01:18they 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 when the car is finally stopped o'driscoll and
01:31his passenger are immediately arrested former detective chief inspector tony cook was on call that day
01:42the officers who are detained or 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 are evidence of drug dealing but it was the car itself
01:57that gave them calls for alarm they found that the front driver's seat was heavily bloodstained
02:08which alerted their suspicion to something more serious that might have happened or been involved
02:13and connected with this motor vehicle they then also searched the boot of the car standard procedure
02:21lifted up the mat on the floor of the boot and found in the well where the spare tire should
02:28have been
02:29quite 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 how we're doing with somebody who's been murdered or somebody's
02:44just been seriously injured i made a bold decision that this should be rested on suspicion of causing
02:49grievous bodily harm which gave us time to bring them into custody detain them so we could question
02:55them and conduct some further inquiries the car itself is designated as the scene of a major crime
03:03and is transported to a sterile garage for further examination they do what we call a full lift which
03:11is where we literally strap the vehicle around the outside put ropes around the outside of the vehicle or
03:16strapping around and then lift the vehicle up and put it onto the back of a lorry we don't often
03:22put vehicles onto flatbed lorries and then wrap them in in tarpaulin again because the rubbing of the
03:29tarpaulin might disturb any evidence on the outside of the car we just literally take them as they are
03:35and then leave them to dry out cook asks a pathologist to assess the nature of the attack
03:43i wanted the pathologist to give me an opinion about the blood what were the potential hypotheses
03:48or theories as to what might have happened to somebody who was the source of the blood
03:53had are they likely to be still alive given the amount of blood we had
03:59we're used to seeing blood staining in cars and so we get a feel for it we can't actually say
04:05well
04:05they've lost a pint or a liter or whatever it is of blood but we can say that's a significant
04:10blood loss he's
04:11got something or she's got something that's bleeding heavily and generally speaking that
04:17means that they've got some serious injury and that the likelihood is that they may well be dead
04:23the pathologist came to the conclusion that it was highly unlikely that the person who was the source
04:29of the blood because of the amount that we found in the car was likely to still be alive so
04:34now we're
04:35dealing with probably an attempt murder or murder
04:41recovering good quality samples of the blood itself is the crime scene investigators first priority
04:48generally speaking if blood's had a chance to dry from for example from a headrest you could take
04:54tapings of that because blood becomes quite fragile quite frival quite easily airborne so tapings of
05:03that would pick up sufficient blood flakes in order to get a dna profile from whatever samples there were
05:10available if there were pools of blood then you could just take some swabs from it but you would never
05:16collect all of the blood that's there cook requests a fast-track dna analysis of the blood samples taken
05:24from the car it wasn't just blood we were looking for in that car it was anything to do with
05:30any
05:30criminal activity that might be linked to anybody that i might have come to some harm so we're looking
05:35for fingerprints looking for dna fibers gunshot residue maybe as well if a gun was used during the
05:44attack gunshot residue will be found near to where it was fired gunshot residue is the smoke the powder
05:53we have partially burnt and unburnt gunpowder that comes out of the muzzle of gun gunshot residue can
05:59be used to determine the locations of individuals within a scene based on where it's deposited most of
06:06the residue comes out of the muzzle of the gun but if you have a gun like a revolver which
06:10has a gap
06:11at the back of the barrel and the front of the cylinder then you have gunshot residue that comes out
06:15the sides at the same time so to examine a car for gunshot residue you use like little sticky tabs
06:27so this is an example of a gunshot residue sampling kit there's a little sticky tab inside here and
06:35if we take the plastic cover off there and then this sticky tab you dab all over the seat
06:43just dabbing at this across the seats it will pick up the gunshot residue from different types of
06:49weapons a scientist will be able to tell you what ammunition it's from
06:56while the evidence has been gathered the two suspects jason o'driscoll and his passenger are held in
07:02police custody for theft and grievous bodily harm you can keep somebody in custody initially for 36 hours
07:09but then you can apply to a magistrate for further 72 hours so we had a few days in which
07:15to question
07:15them but that also more importantly gave us an opportunity to conduct some further inquiries and
07:21try to build an evidential picture cook establishes the car belongs to 29 year old henry agillo
07:28a father of two who was reported missing three days ago henry agillo was a 29 year old male from
07:37gone gone in manchester he'd gotten the wrong side of the law but uh only for minor criminality
07:43he was um tall chap over six foot like designer clothes bought and sold cars pretty much a no mark
07:50in the criminal scene really but we knew of him rather than anybody of any nota in the criminal underworld
07:58the analysis of the adhesive stubs reveals a high concentration of gunshot residue
08:03in the back seat of the car
08:09it played into our working theory that probably a gun had been discharged and whoever been sat in the
08:14driver's seat of that car had bled heavily from gunshot injuries and then possibly they'd been put in the
08:22boot of the car which is where they continued to bleed and that was the source of the blood in
08:27the in
08:28where the spur tires should have been kept when the fast track dna results come in they're run through
08:36the national database there's a national dna database which has the profiles of everybody that's been
08:43convicted of a recordable offense and that's currently now at about seven million profiles or thereabouts
08:53given henry is known to police it's likely a record of his dna will be on the database if the
08:59blood in
09:00the car is henry's it will match this record so the set of numbers that you have from your crime
09:06scene
09:07profile is compared against all of the sets of numbers representing individuals on the database
09:12and when you have a match then that's your person the check confirms the blood is henry's
09:21the question for police now is where is he and is there any slim chance he survived what police now
09:27think is at least one gunshot wound so we had to then start working backwards and try and find out
09:33if anybody's seen henry jollo if we could find his whereabouts speak to his close family piece together
09:39what we call victimology which is that famous saying you find out how a victim lived you find out how
09:45they
09:45died but we didn't know he was dead at this stage so essentially victimology is about mapping out a
09:52person's life mapping out who they intersect with where they lived how they go about living their life
09:58and in this case henry jollo was a person who lived at the intersection of crime his routine activity uh
10:06connected him with serious criminals although he wasn't a serious criminal himself he was quite low on the
10:10criminal hierarchy but that also leaves you very vulnerable and potentially expendable
10:19detectives established that a friend of henry's last saw him three days before his car was pulled over
10:26there's a principle called the window of opportunity so my decision at that time was is that the window of
10:33opportunity for any harm having come to henry jollo would have been between the saturday on the 12th
10:39and the date when the vehicle was stopped which was the tuesday the 15th between those three days
10:45something had happened to henry jollo we had to find out what it was and we had to find out
10:50where
10:50he was and if he'd come to some harm was dead we might be searching for a body as well
10:57as well with a blood-soaked car and a missing victim who's either dead or seriously injured dci tony
11:03cook has a mystery on his hands he has to find an evidential link between his two suspects
11:09and henry agilow in order to solve the case
11:25a high-speed pursuit leads to the arrest of two men in a stolen car
11:31the headrest is heavily blood-stained
11:35and there's a pool of blood in the boot lab tests suggest a gun has been fired from the back
11:41seat
11:44and dna results on the blood confirm the victim is 29 year old henry agilow
11:51but he's nowhere to be found
11:55until the police find the victim they won't be able to charge their two suspects the race is now on
12:00to
12:01discover the relationship between driscoll his passenger and the man whose blood was all over
12:05his car henry agilow one thing the police know for sure is that both of driscoll and agilow were
12:11associated with criminal gangs could this be the key link
12:19the relationship between henry agilow and gerson or driscoll was a strange one actually because
12:24henry agilow was linked to a different gang than uh a driscoll was linked to
12:30we never really established what the link was other than the fact that the fact that
12:35or driscoll would be using agilow because he had good contacts he had a vehicle to drive him around
12:40and perhaps he may have been setting him up for something to use him to his own advantage
12:46driscoll was trying to get more into the gang and better known and higher up the
12:52chain of command of the gang and prove himself basically
12:56that complicates it for the investigation because you have people who know that it will stop at
13:02nothing to build his reputation and brush people aside and use violence if necessary to stop people
13:10from speaking up and giving evidence against him that's a challenge for the inquiry team
13:17this was a very powerful era in manchester gangland history they ran a huge amount of drugs in from
13:25the ports of liverpool and they got drugs from london and so this was an epicenter for crime and guns
13:32were the means by which they exerted control we're talking about a culture where instrumental violence
13:39planned admired revered and of course your status is accelerated by your fearlessness your aggression
13:48and your determination to go further than anyone else
13:53as police drill further into a driscoll's past it becomes clear he's a man who's capable of extreme violence
14:01jay snow driscoll had had a troubled upbringing in a chaotic lifestyle and had been in and out of care
14:07homes
14:07and had a lot of criminal offenses um to his name already he was only aged 24 when he was
14:13arrested
14:14so he had already been in and out of the criminal justice system quite a few times
14:20jason driscoll used the street nickname mad dog which metaphorically speaking means somebody who's
14:28erratic who's dangerous who's aggressive and is very unpredictable violence like that also gets
14:36normalized within kind of gang cultures so that the person who's inflicting it doesn't even
14:43think that it's wrong or bad all they are is in this world of extreme action and i think it
14:51is very
14:51difficult to just stop and rewind once that um those series of actions have been kind of initiated
15:01in police interview neither o driscoll nor his passenger are prepared to talk
15:08they'd want to get an account from both these people to find out if they tell us what they were
15:12doing in the car why there was bloodstaining on the uh driver's seat and then boot how would they come
15:18by the car where was the registered owner in other words we were getting as much information from them as
15:23possible but unfortunately they went uh no comment which is a lot of the people we interview do with the
15:31custody clock running down and no clues as to henry's whereabouts police will soon have to release
15:37their main suspects so it came to a stage where i had to go and speak with the prosecutor to
15:43see we
15:43had sufficient to charge them because that would then give us an opportunity to remand them in custody
15:48once they've been charged and the prosecutor agreed that we had sufficient evidence to charge
15:54for attempted murder even on what we had at that stage which was all the bloodstaining in the car
16:00and the blood pooling and the initial opinion from the pathologist
16:06with more time on their hands detectives can now carry out thorough searches of any address linked to
16:12the suspects in an address linked to jason o driscoll an officer found some washing line in a cupboard
16:21and decided to seize that rope it looked like the end had been cut and a piece had been cut
16:27off it
16:28the officer later on said well we're dealing with a missing person he could have been kidnapped could
16:32have been tied up so it was a great piece of in instinctive intuition by the officer to recover this
16:38washing line further searches reveal extensive evidence that o driscoll was involved in criminal activity
16:50we found some jewelry some electrical items phones some binoculars a full-faced balaclava it was almost
16:59like a robbers kit to be honest it was the sort of equipment you would expect to see jason o
17:05driscoll
17:06having possession of it didn't surprise me but detectives were surprised to find some of henry's
17:13personal items in amongst o driscoll's incriminating robbers kit
17:20the phone and his watch were definitely belonging to him and were able to evidentially
17:25and forensically match them to henry agillo
17:31the phone and the watch are the first clear links between o driscoll and henry
17:36when the police analyzed the phone's call log they discover o driscoll has been using it since henry's
17:42disappearance
17:44it was contacting numbers known and linked to jason o driscoll which obviously then heightened their
17:51suspicion that something had happened to henry agillo
17:57so the evidential picture is building but we still don't have a body that's the problem and
18:01that's the key piece of evidence we still don't know what we're dealing with and meanwhile we've
18:05got two people in custody and the clock is ticking and the family getting very anxious as to what's
18:10happened to henry henry's daughter jasmine was a young girl when he went missing but remembers him fondly
18:19our family at the time was my big brother ross and my mum tracy and my dad henry
18:30and we're a close-knit family i was obviously the daddy's girl and my brother was my father's mini me
18:39if he said he was going to do something for me and my brother he was always there
18:43and with him not turning up on that time that he'd agreed to meet my mum and my brother that
18:50rang
18:50alarm bells i just remember there was times where i would ask where daddy is and just couldn't
18:57understand where he'd gone or where he was tony cook is determined to do everything he can to find
19:03jasmine's dad henry so we put out an awful lot of inquiries and appeals for sightings of henry
19:15jillow all over including as far away as penzance all of which have got to be checked out by our
19:21investigators because this inquiry was going on for weeks and weeks we didn't get a quick closure to
19:27it at all and the longer it goes on the harder it is to sustain your case against the two
19:33people
19:33in custody which were on remand public appeals are a standard part of modern day policing but of course
19:41it comes with risks and benefits the benefits are that there often can be a volume of very fresh and
19:46important clues and of course the restrictions and the negatives of that is that many of those
19:52tip-offs may indeed be false flags they may be attempt to swerve the police away from their intended
19:58and the actual perpetrators of a particular crime but when the public come through with information
20:05the police are required to follow up every particular lead because if they don't they may miss out on
20:13something significant but also if they don't they may be criticized in court for not following up a
20:19particular line of inquiry it's now seven weeks since henry went missing and detectives are out of ideas
20:27where he is then dci tony cook receives a call on june the first there was a breakthrough uh i
20:36got a call
20:36home from the control room to say that a local farmer in the cheadle area of manchester had been
20:43alerted to a suspicious smell which was getting worse and worse and he'd gone to have a look what it
20:49was
20:50and uh found the gruesome finding of a human body once that was reported to me i knew we potentially
20:58had the body of henry agillo the two men who were driving in the car soaked in henry agillo's blood
21:06are now in custody officers have also found some of henry's possessions at suspect number one o'driscoll's
21:13home including henry's phone which o'driscoll had been using now a decomposed body has been found in a
21:21field is tony's instinct correct could these be henry's remains
21:41police suspect a car has been stolen following a high-speed chase
21:48but bloodstains on the front seat and in the boot
21:51and gunshot residue on their rear seats point towards a violent attack the likely victim whose
21:59blood it is is missing father of two henry agillo
22:05searches of the main suspect's house have uncovered a rope which may have been used to tie henry up
22:11as well as his phone and his watch
22:16to make the case against their two suspects the police first have to find henry agillo now seven
22:24weeks after the investigation commenced they discover a decomposed body on nearby farmland could this be the
22:41missing man
22:43we're back at the original crime scene so 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 was able to park the car up get the body presumably out of the
23:00boot
23:00and roll it down until it landed on the bottom of this undergrowth here
23:08so when i got here it already taped off this area and we had some stepping plates and an approach
23:13path
23:14what we call a common approach path which would lead into the area where we found the body the body
23:19was there it was well secured in terms of any anybody contaminating it or tampering with it and that
23:27allowed us to do a full scene crime scene recovery and examination whilst the body was in situ
23:35the pathologist was here i was here the coroner was here a crime scene examiner a crime scene manager
23:41a forensic biologist all were here busy putting a scene tent around the body so they could do a meticulous
23:48very fine crime scene examination and examination of the body before we even considered booming it
23:57if this is henry agillo the body itself will provide crucial clues to how he died
24:04the body was found in some woodland area and it was clearly quite decomposed in that seven week period
24:11that scene has not been preserved so the body hasn't been immediately found and can be preserved really
24:17quickly you have had a lot of potential animal activity in there you might have had dog walkers you
24:22might have members of the public you might have random footprints in there that have got no relation
24:28at all to the offender so from a crime scene manager's perspective you have to really keep an open
24:33mind in a scene that's been left unpreserved for seven weeks i could see straight away match the
24:42description of henry agillo even in a decomposed state but we will take dna uh off the body to try
24:48and match it against the dna we had against henry agillo
24:53despite the open air location and the time past crime scene investigators also attempt to find any trace
25:00evidence that will implicate their main suspect jason o'driscoll
25:06things can get moved and dislodged and even the physical act of moving the body means that trace
25:13evidence which is on the surface or on the clothing can be dislodged so hairs and fiber evidence
25:20that may get lost very quickly other evidence like the dna evidence so touch dna any fluids
25:29then these tend to stick quite firmly to the skin and therefore it's much more difficult to dislodge
25:38them and that we we would certainly look for them even if after a lengthy period of time we would
25:44still
25:44be looking for any trace evidence on the skin itself rather than on the clothing
25:51one item stands out a piece of washing line that's been used to tie the hands together
25:57if it's the same as that found in a driscoll's flat it will be important evidence against him
26:05so that was another key important thing to recover carefully so we could examine it later
26:16it looks like it's the same type of rope so what we can do is we could get the rope
26:22sent off for
26:22analysis to see if they made it for the same situance so if you have a nylon rope even if
26:31it's mass produced
26:33the fact of the nylon passing through the machine through the the shape to make the the die and then
26:40make those individual fibers the longer the manufacture process goes on the more different the actual
26:47machine becomes because tiny tiny minute bits of damage happen the more an item is used even if
26:55it's mass producing something so you can say whether a piece of rope is manufactured by a particular machine
27:08the body is transferred to the mortuary for further examination in this particular case where we're
27:16talking about a potential shooting incident then one of the things that we would want to do is to x
27:23-ray
27:24the body before we do anything to the body and the body can actually be x-rayed in the body
27:29bag without
27:30being disturbed and generally speaking the radiologists prefer them to be remain in the body bag if we're
27:36taking them down to a hospital facility so once the x-rays are there we'll know whether or not we're
27:42dealing with bullets now if there's bullets found in the skull then it comes down to the pathologist to
27:48retrieve the bullets the bullets are useful for ballistic evidence in that there will be markings on the
27:56bullet which are caused as a bullet passes through the barrel of a gun and therefore it's very
28:02important that these bullets are handled with care so the post-mortem even though the body was badly
28:09decomposed revealed that he had two gunshot injuries to the back of his head and the bullets were still
28:16inside his skull as well at the same time the results from the dna tests on the body finally
28:22confirm it's henry agillo and the family are informed i remember somebody falling like someone
28:30being by the stairs and i don't think the police even had to say anything didn't they just know
28:35because they'd been gone for that long and i think it was just confirmation i remember everyone
28:39getting really upset i remember my nama saying to me constantly like you can cry you can cry like why
28:44you're not crying and i just couldn't grasp what was happening and everyone was just crying around
28:51with i just remember the room just filling with sadness straight away without the police even having
28:55to say anything the police have found jasmine's father but they still have to prove who shot him
29:02the bullets are removed and recorded as evidence that can be analyzed by a ballistics expert
29:09with bullets we're looking at the marks that are left by the rifling inside the barrel the reason we
29:16can identify those is because the tools that are used to make the rifling leave tool marks on the inside
29:22of the barrel and those tools that are used to make the rifling go through wear and tear so every
29:27barrel
29:27they make has slightly different rifling marks on the inner surface when a bullet is fired down one of
29:32these barrels those marks are transferred to the surface of the bullet and as long as the bullet is
29:38in good enough condition and the marks replicate with good enough quality we can compare those to one
29:43another and if we see the same marks on two bullets we can determine that they were fired from the
29:48same gun
29:51the ballistics expert told us it was one gun they came from the same gun not two so that was
29:55indicating
29:56one person had pulled the trigger of a gun twice in henry's car the gunshot residue was found in the
30:03back seat and the blood on the front headrest now detectives want to know if henry's injuries fit with the
30:09theory that the shooter was behind him with two bullets entering the back of somebody's head we know that the
30:15shooter was behind the individual that was shot while the person is usually able to move around quite a lot
30:22if
30:22they're sitting in the driver's seat of a car they're obviously contained in a fairly small space
30:26that the head is quite mobile independently of the body so even if the body's sitting facing forward the
30:32head can still move quite a lot but if the projectiles are entering the back of the head we know
30:38that the
30:38gun had to be back into the rear and probably slightly to the left of the person who was shot
30:44if somebody was shot from the front or from the side you expect the bullet impacts to be
30:49on the front side of the face or somewhere on the right side of the head and maybe on the
30:54right
30:54side of the shoulder we wanted to know where the person who'd fired the bullets had been located
31:04in that car or outside the car that was really important the ballistic expert was telling us that
31:10probably the shooter had been sat in the back of the car positioned to the rear of the victim of
31:17course
31:18we had the bloodsterning on the headrest so that also supported the view that the person who'd
31:24received the gunshot injuries had been sat in that driver's seat it takes a certain sort of person
31:32to shoot somebody at point blank range which is what we're talking about putting a gun to somebody's
31:36head and pulling the trigger not once but twice that's the level of brutality we were dealing with here
31:44it was almost an execution your dad essentially in the the nicest way possible had been butchered
31:51and just left like he was worthless like his life didn't mean anything i think it's the coldest most
31:57cruelest thing that a person can do violence that takes place within a gang culture can be seen as
32:05quite different from violence that's perpetrated by an individual something important which we know
32:11in psychology is the kind of attrition of individual responsibility so responsibility gets diffused and
32:20even if you're acting as a sole member of a gang you know in a way the person can just
32:25be thinking
32:25i'm doing it for the gang as a gang member the discovery that henry was shot by a single gun
32:32further incriminates
32:34jason o'driscoll but there are still additional lines of inquiry one of these is geographic profiling
32:41the principle that murderers will dispose of a body in a site they know well they default to what they
32:48know perpetrators so they're thinking right uh not in a very mature or developed sense but they're thinking
32:55what's the answer right now that we can do so they go to a location they know very very well
33:00they believe it's some way protected from immediate discovery so it may be something that happened in
33:05the past an early memory early location an early connection but of course that connection if
33:12established can very much link the body to the perpetrator but of course that's about detection and
33:25good police work we use a principle uh in geographic profiling called the problem analysis triangle
33:31that means we're looking for a comparison and a link between the location the victim and the offender
33:37so this location concealed as it was we were looking for a link between this and our suspect jason
33:43o'driscoll why did he pick this location how did he know it existed how did he end up here you
33:49must
33:49have had some knowledge of it we did find that link because we found out that o'driscoll had been
33:54in a care home that was very close by to this scene very close to where the body had found
33:58so that was
33:59our link under the problem analysis triangle we found a link between our victim the offender and the
34:05location everything now points to a driscoll being involved in the murder of henry agilo the rope the
34:14stolen phone and property the blood-soaked car o'driscoll was driving around in and the fact
34:20that agilo's body was found adjacent to a children's home where o'driscoll once lived both
34:26the suspects in custody have given no comment interviews but now with the wealth of evidence
34:31a mask can tony cook finally extracts a full confession
34:49jason o'driscoll and a second man have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of henry agilo
34:55after being found driving henry's car police now have substantial evidence that one or both men murdered
35:02henry the discovery of extensive blood staining on a headrest and pooled blood in the boot gunshot residue
35:11in the back seat dna tests on the blood itself at o'driscoll's address police have found a suspicious
35:20piece of rope henry's phone which o'driscoll had been using plus his watch seven weeks after their
35:28arrest henry's body is finally found dumped near a children's home that o'driscoll used to live in
35:35a post-mortem has discovered that henry died from two gunshots to the back of the head
35:44the police must now re-interview their two suspects o'driscoll and the second man in the car
35:51both men so far have given no comment interviews but now with henry's body found the police know
35:57where and how henry died can tony cook persuade both men to talk
36:08an interview strategy is is pre-prepared so we we had plenty of time to prepare for this
36:13ready for the body being found on the re-interview so we would stage uh the evidence and the disclosure
36:20of material to o'driscoll and his defense team so that we got the maximum sort of impact and
36:28tried to prompt a response almost once the suspect begins to speak then that's an opportunity for
36:39officers and they're well experienced at being able to target the vulnerabilities in their narratives
36:44the little inconsistencies and the officers are obviously in control of all the information
36:50they're disclosing tiny little bits and they're doing that strategically so that leaves the suspect
36:55really in a huge information deficit they knew they were not going to get a confession but they may
37:03get something nearly as good and that is a provable lie when detectives tell o'driscoll and the other
37:10man they found henry's body they begin to talk the first explanation we got was that they'd been in an
37:18address with a jollo and it was a dress of a gang member and this gang member had punched him
37:25to the
37:25floor and then shot him twice at this point the interviewers disclosed that the bullet wounds were
37:31in the back of henry's head o'driscoll then changes his story and provides a written statement somebody had
37:38come up to the car he wound the window down was talking to him and shot him from outside the
37:43vehicle
37:43whilst he was sat in the driver's seat and that he panicked he pulled a jollo's body out of the
37:49driver's seat and put him into the boot and disposed of it but the evidence from the car and post
37:55-mortem
37:56strongly suggest o'driscoll is lying we had the gunshot residue that came from the back of the car we had
38:03the bloodstaining on the headrest and more importantly we had the gunshot wounds which looked to be inflicted in the
38:11back of the head
38:11so it was the position of the shooter was probably sat in the rear seat of the car and that
38:16was the
38:17conclusion of our ballistics experts o'driscoll's story is further undermined by the laboratory tests
38:23on the rope found tied around henry's hands the forensic examination of the rope revealed that it
38:30was highly likely that the rope around the jollo's hands had been cut from the same piece that we found
38:37in o'driscoll's property had o'driscoll's aversion been true why did a jollo have his hands bound in
38:45front of him and why did the rope match to rope which was found in o'driscoll's property it was very
38:51very compelling evidence as the police review their evidence against o'driscoll henry's family are coming
38:58to terms with his death i asked when daddy was coming home from heaven um not quite obviously grasping
39:07the concept of life and death at the time i remember waking up and just crying and really understanding
39:16and then like he wasn't he wasn't here anymore and that that's when i really started to grasp it and
39:26i think then i got quite upset quite often but yeah it took a while to process and for me
39:33to fully understand
39:37just before the case goes to trial police receive a final key piece of evidence we had information
39:44that a third male called christopher lewis had assisted in the disposal of a jillow
39:51he did make an admission that he'd assisted a driscoll in disposal of the body and it dumped him
39:59with a driscoll at the location where we found him but i'd take no part in the murder
40:04he admitted that at court and was given a two-year custodial sentence this rules out the second man
40:11in the car who was arrested with o'driscoll he claims that o'driscoll had turned up at his home
40:16to show him henry's body he hadn't informed the police as he was worried about his safety
40:22he also told us that he was told later that the body of a black man who knew to be
40:29a jillow
40:30had been dumped in a field somewhere that's the story he gave us which to be fair every indication
40:35was that that was probably true because we had the body disposal being admitted by christopher lewis
40:44driscoll had quite a reputation he was trigger happy look what he'd done to a jillow
40:50people were frightened of him not just because of his nickname mad dog people were genuinely frightened
40:58of him with the witnesses who he is ensuring are too scared too intimidated to come forward
41:06it really shows us the kind of entitled individual he is that he believes he has the right as it
41:15were
41:15to ensure that his crime goes undetected i think there's an arrogance in that and also something
41:23quite self-deceptive about this belief that he has this power and that he will somehow be able to
41:30continue to perpetrate crimes and never pay the price for that tony cook and his team have finally
41:38assembled enough evidence to charge jason o'driscoll with the murder of henry agillo
41:44the cps agree and a date is set for the trial at manchester crown court the prosecution deliberate
41:52whether to put forward a motive for henry's murder if the prosecution had to prove motive in every
41:58single murder case then there'd be many many cases where you simply couldn't prove it and although
42:03the evidence was overwhelming that the defendant was the killer if you had to prove a motive you'd
42:09be struggling and that's why if you've got a motive great because it adds strength to your case
42:15but if you don't know what the motive is or you haven't got one at all then you just have
42:21to front
42:22up to the jury and say we don't have to prove motive and there may not have been any motive
42:26here at all
42:28in this case they agree that the attack had to do with gang rivalries
42:34the prosecution mounted the case on the basis that the motive was that the victim henry agillo
42:41was an associate of a rival gang and o'driscoll wanted to build this credibility and repetition
42:48by murdering a member of a rival gang o'driscoll's defense that the killer was outside the car was
42:55taken apart by the ballistics expert he was quite easily able to counter his claim basically by the
43:03position of the two bullet holes in the back of his head which couldn't have come from the side they
43:07were clearly coming from the rear so somebody who shot him was positioned to the rear not to the side
43:13ballistics evidence can be incredibly powerful and it's probably one of the areas of
43:21expert evidence which is even further beyond the knowledge of the jury than things like forensic science
43:29and pathology in this particular case that we're discussing clearly the evidence was very strong that
43:37this was a shooting to the back of the head at close range and it would be very difficult for
43:43the defense
43:43to try and undermine that o'driscoll's story fails to convince the jury who convicted him of the murder
43:51of henry agillo he is sentenced to life imprisonment when o'driscoll was finally found guilty i think
44:00the whole team because we worked as a team felt uh as though justice had been done for agillo and
44:07his
44:08family it was a brutal murder this uh an execution and o'driscoll was a very dangerous individual so
44:14i'm glad he was put out of harm's way and given a substantial uh sentence of imprisonment let's not
44:22forget henry agillo's family here because they went through a lot of stress and trauma having to wait
44:28seven weeks to have found the body they were still hoping he might be found alive they had to hear
44:33all
44:34the gruesome facts of how he was recovered if i was to meet tony today i'd like to thank him
44:42for bringing
44:43that person to justice and bringing some closure to the family and in bringing him home to us
44:52there will not be any time in life that i'll ever let his name just fade into the background or
44:58his
44:58presence fade into the background he was who he was he was a lovable rogue that's what they used to
45:04call him it's a lovable rogue he was a family man you know he wasn't always perfect but
45:09they suppose he was to me and my brother he was anyway
45:17the crucial evidence in this case was the recovery of the vehicle that was what started the whole
45:24investigation going it's what contained the blood staining on the driver's seat it's what
45:28contained the gunshot residue it hooked the blood pooling in the boot of the car that was the killer
45:34evidence for me it was that's what started the investigation and linked it all together because
45:39without that we would never ever have been successful with proving a murder against driscoll
46:00jason mad dog driscoll was a violent and unpredictable man who thought he could get away with murder his
46:07lust to prove himself to his gang and his arrogance in stealing henry's possessions and driving around in
46:13his blood-soaked car was his undoing the painstaking police investigation and detailed forensic evidence
46:21insured he was convicted of a brutal execution and jailed for life
46:52so
46:53yeah
46:56you
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