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00:03A night of reggae and celebration at the Blue Mountain Club in Bristol turns into scenes of terror
00:11when an innocent man is fatally stabbed on the dance floor.
00:15Another man lies injured on the road and in the confusion clubbers rush to leave the club
00:21trampling all the evidence in their panic.
00:24Eight knives are discovered but none of them are the weapons used in the crime
00:28and CCTV has not covered the fight, leaving the deadly events shrouded in mystery.
00:34The police must turn to the community to untangle the murderous events of the night
00:39and bring those responsible to justice.
00:42But as the number of suspects climb, finding conclusive forensic evidence is vital.
00:49Catching a killer requires conclusive forensic evidence.
00:54From clues at the scene of the crime to minute examination in the forensics lab.
01:00From the cold reality of the pathologist table to DNA sampling, digital analysis.
01:08Each piece of killer evidence brings the murderer closer to justice.
01:21Friday the 29th of December 2017, the Blue Mountain Club in Bristol is holding a black and gold reggae night.
01:30It's packed with people having a great time, including Jamal Powell, a hard-working plasterer and father of five, together
01:38with his two brothers.
01:40Suddenly, a fight breaks out.
01:43Jamal, also known as Jamma, is stabbed on the dance floor.
01:51Moments later, another man, Earl Anderson, is stabbed just outside the club.
01:57People frantically called 999 and within minutes, police arrived to discover scenes of chaos.
02:05Former Avon and Somerset Detective Chief Inspector James Riccio is assigned to the case.
02:11We're at the location where the Blue Mountain nightclub used to be.
02:14There was lots of officers who attended to help manage the scene.
02:17Obviously, it was panic.
02:18It was chaos.
02:19People realised someone had been stabbed.
02:21And another member of the public had been stabbed outside.
02:23So people were really concerned about their safety.
02:27Officers have to ensure that the remaining revellers are safe from any further attacks, whilst trying their best to preserve
02:33the crime scene.
02:34You've got a nightclub with 200 people or more, various people leaving the scene, people trampling over the crime scene
02:41there.
02:42We didn't really understand what was going on at that point.
02:45We knew Jamma Powell had been stabbed on the dance floor, but Jamma was nowhere near to be seen.
02:49We also had Earl Anderson outside, known locally as Unk.
02:53He was led on the ground on the road parallel to the nightclub.
02:57He'd been stabbed two times, and he was being treated as well.
03:00At that point, we didn't know if we had unrelated incidents, who was responsible, and we didn't know at that
03:05point if Anderson was going to survive, and we didn't know if Jamma Powell was going to survive.
03:09So for police, it was very, very confusing to try and to unpick exactly what had happened, why it happened,
03:16and who was responsible.
03:21The officers then went and identified the scene on a dance floor where he believed that the initial incident took
03:25place.
03:25It's clear from the blood on the dance floor and initial witness accounts that the attack on Jamma Powell happened
03:32here.
03:36But the first problem for investigators is that the crime scene has been trampled by the other clubbers in their
03:42rush to escape.
03:43Any post-incident activity has the potential to distort, change, remove the blood stains that I want to look at.
03:55Foot traffic is probably our worst enemy in that respect, because if I walk through a pool of blood, I'm
04:02going to now start to track that blood around that space.
04:06And if all of the bloodstain patterns have been disturbed to a point that they're no longer reflecting what was
04:15there originally, then we just have to deal with what's in front of us.
04:19The team also need to establish whose blood it is.
04:25It's quite difficult as a crime scene manager to attend a crime scene like that, because where do you start?
04:32Does all the blood relate to your victim?
04:35Or has there been several victims?
04:37Or has the offender also been injured?
04:40And therefore there's a mixture of different blood.
04:43And then that means that we have to sample lots of different areas of the blood.
04:47We would fast track them to the lab and get them DNA profiled.
04:51And then they could say if it was a single source DNA, or if there were multiple people's DNA in
04:55there.
05:01After we locked down the crime scene, we identified eight knives in the locality, the dance floor, the bar area
05:05and the kitchen area, they were seized for forensic examination.
05:10The knives may have been dumped by panicking clubbers as they rushed away, but they're sent off to see if
05:16any were used in the two stabbings.
05:18The next urgent priority is to establish quickly whether any witnesses have seen the attacks take place.
05:25So the new hour is crucial.
05:27They call it the golden hour for any strong investigation.
05:29That's what the training for all detectives and investigators comes down to, that golden hour.
05:36The golden hour is about trying to race down and corral all the key evidence as quickly as possible before
05:42it degrades.
05:43Before, in some cases, the witness walks out the door, before they forget.
05:47Because getting the immediate account, that's invaluable.
05:51Witnesses' memory, it's fragile and often degrades.
05:55And not all of it can be relied upon, particularly after a traumatic incident.
06:00But insofar as it can be relied upon, you better get it done and get it done quickly.
06:07While the police continue to search for evidence, reports come in that Earl Anderson, the second stabbing victim, has been
06:14driven to hospital by one of the clubbers.
06:17He's an older local Bristol man, fondly known as Unc, and well known to many of the people in the
06:22club that night.
06:24Officers attended hospital and they spoke with medics and they were told that he had a head injury and he
06:29had wounds to his spleen.
06:30Anderson said he didn't know how he'd been stabbed, he was dancing, didn't really understand what happened and who'd done
06:36it.
06:36Fortunately, his wounds don't appear to be life-threatening.
06:40Meanwhile, the other victim, Jamal Powell, has also been rushed to hospital by his brother.
06:46Jamal was a 37-year-old male from Bristol East, was a father of five.
06:50He's well known around Bristol and did lots of work in the community.
06:55Even though he's a plasterer by trade, day to day he'll be helping the community and helping community members.
07:00Jamal was well-loved, well-cherished.
07:03And for him to be stabbed in such blatant circumstances, petrified, horrified the community.
07:09Jamal arrived around 20 past three at the local hospital.
07:12It was identified really quickly that he'd been stabbed.
07:15He was still alert, he was still lucid, but in a really, really serious condition.
07:19They took his T-shirt off, a Calvin Klein T-shirt, about 11 slash wounds to it.
07:24He quickly deteriorated.
07:27Staff at the hospital did their best to save him, but he had two cardiac arrests and sadly died.
07:39As DCI Riccio now upgrades this to a murder investigation, the medics bring something else to his attention.
07:46Jamal, when he went to hospital, he was searched by medical staff and there was a small folding knife found
07:51in his pocket.
07:52This was preserved by staff, handed to police to be part of the criminal investigation.
07:57Along with the eight other knives collected from the club, Jamal's pocket knife will be forensically tested.
08:04DCI Riccio needs to know whether it was used in the incident.
08:08Jamal having a knife, it certainly gives a potential line of defence to any offender in regards to self-defence.
08:15That was my initial consideration.
08:19Jamal's body is sent for a post-mortem to assess exactly how he died.
08:27Something like a stabbing incident.
08:29We're trying to be helpful to the police and say what type of knife we think it is.
08:33So we'll be looking at the injury in the surface of the skin.
08:36What does it look like?
08:38Does it look, is it a long, narrow triangle?
08:42Is it a long, narrow rectangle?
08:45Is it like an oval and an ellipse?
08:48We're very interested in examining each of the wounds and seeing if they, if they match up if you like.
08:55So that if it's one knife that could have caused all of these injuries.
08:59Or there could be more than one knife.
09:01If there's more than one knife, it could have been more than one perpetrator.
09:11So the key findings were that Jamal had been stabbed 12 times.
09:15Most of them died on the left side of his neck and his chest area.
09:19The most significant injury was the stab wound to the heart.
09:23A 13 centimetre injection, two centimetres wide, which went through the ventricle into the heart, which was fatal.
09:30In my experience, stabbing someone to a depth of 13 centimetres does need some force to get to that level.
09:40The pathologist couldn't say if it was one knife or multiple knives.
09:44And also she couldn't say if it was one or more offenders because there was nothing really significant around the
09:49wounds.
09:53The team are hoping that Jamal's clothing may be more fruitful in providing clues as to the identity or number
10:00of perpetrators.
10:01The Calvin Klein t-shirt clearly shone 11 slash wounds.
10:05All the clothing was sent for a forensic examination.
10:07We need to identify that there wasn't someone's DNA on there.
10:10Someone was close to Jamal when he was stabbed.
10:15Jamal Powell is dead after a vicious and deliberate knife attack, while Earl Anderson is in a hospital bed recovering
10:23from stab wounds.
10:24What started as a double stabbing in a nightclub is now a murder investigation.
10:30DCI James Riccio must act fast to catch the killer before all the evidence is destroyed.
10:46A black and gold reggae party in a Bristol nightclub has turned into carnage.
10:55Jamal Powell is dead, while Earl Anderson lies in a hospital bed with serious knife wounds.
11:02Blood on the dance floor, which could have provided evidence about how the attack occurred,
11:06unfolded, has been trampled by panicking party-goers.
11:11Eight knives are seized from the club, and another from Jamal's pocket.
11:16The post-mortem reveals that Jamal died from a forceful stab wound through his heart.
11:23Jamal's slash clothing is sent for forensic examination to see if there's anyone else's DNA on it.
11:31Jamal Powell is dead, and DCI Riccio has commenced a murder inquiry.
11:36There were over 200 revellers on the night, but most fled the scene terrified.
11:41Police must act quickly to prevent further reprisals.
11:44But Riccio's main challenge is to persuade enough brave people to come forward and speak about what they saw.
11:55Some witnesses were treated anonymously.
11:59They were in fear of their own safety.
12:01They'd seen a male being stabbed 12 times in blatant circumstances, and they were petrified.
12:07They were horrified.
12:08To some witnesses, it had to be carefully managed, had to be very much reassured.
12:15Witness care officers, and specially trained interrogators, understand that people who've been privy to a traumatic event often find it
12:23difficult to recall.
12:24So they understand how to relax vulnerable witnesses, and they also understand that it is a very anxious and perhaps
12:31the most stressful thing they've ever seen and come across in their lives.
12:35A calm and relaxed and carefully managed witness is someone who gives a much more accurate picture of the events
12:43that they have experienced.
12:49So a key security member gave us an account very, very quickly, but Jammer was in the club, speaking to
12:55the manager, looked very relaxed, very well known, arrived about quarter to three.
13:00The same witness also told us that Anderson and a gentleman called Power were present. Power looked very agitated.
13:07The security guards suggest that Earl Anderson, the man they found stabbed outside the club, may have himself been involved
13:14in the murder.
13:15He also gives them a new name, Ian Power.
13:20Ian Power had a nickname of Ratty.
13:22Power is a 40-year-old male. He resides in Gloucester at the time of the incident.
13:26However, his links are to Bristol.
13:28He was well known, and people in the club recognised him as Ratty.
13:32He entered the club that night at about two o'clock. He was dressed in all denim.
13:37The security man's account suggests that Ian Power and Earl Anderson were looking for trouble.
13:43They approached Jammer on the dance floor, and then an incident took place.
13:48Jammer was injured on the left side. He'd been stabbed repeatedly. He was holding his left side.
13:53Other bystanders also named Power and Anderson as the attackers.
13:57There were so many witnesses to this. This was a blatant stabbing in a packed nightclub of a local community
14:03where actually people recognised people.
14:05Officers very, very quickly pieced together that Jammer had been stabbed by Power and Anderson.
14:12But police need more than just witness statements.
14:15So DCI Riccio orders an immediate review of all the CCTV from the club and the surrounding streets to identify
14:23and track Anderson, Power and Jamal.
14:25A CCTV is a crucial line of inquiry for any homicide investigation to give us a timeline of exactly who
14:31arrived, when they arrived, what they were wearing, any weapons were obvious, and how they fled the scene.
14:36In an unexpected turn of events, Power turns up at a police station in Gloucester.
14:43He's immediately arrested on suspicion of murder and transported to Bristol to be interviewed.
14:51An offender might try and gain the upper hand by bringing himself to the police station rather than being caught
14:59and then trying to dominate and steer the course of the conversation,
15:05believing that he can really control the narrative, and they have a kind of fantasy, I guess, that this will
15:12show their innocent, in his mind, he's going to be outsmarting the police.
15:27Power initially gave officers an account where he said he'd been involved in a fight.
15:31He didn't relay that he'd stabbed anyone, he didn't mention any knives whatsoever, just the fact, actually, he'd been hit
15:37on the head in the Blue Mountain Club, and he was fearing for his own safety.
15:42In custody, Ian Power mentioned that Errol Anderson was also present.
15:46He was there when Jammer was stabbed.
15:48For us, that was hugely significant and hugely beneficial for our evidence.
15:52In custody, we requested to Power's solicitor that we want to take his fingernail scrapings and hair combings.
15:58However, he refused those samples.
16:05Whenever anyone's arrested, the police will want to take fingerprints, a photograph.
16:10A DNA sample.
16:13Any suspect is entitled to refuse in exactly the same way that they have an absolute right to either answer
16:21questions in an interview or to make no comment.
16:24But if they refuse to give a sample and are subsequently charged, the judge will say to the jury,
16:30if you think there is no reasonable excuse for not giving the sample, you're entitled to hold that against them,
16:36and it will add support to the prosecution case.
16:41So, on Saturday at 2.50pm, officers attended the hospital to arrest Errol Anderson.
16:50Meanwhile, detectives are analysing the club's CCTV to identify key suspects and establish a sequence of events.
16:59They had a camera on the entrance and exit, so we were able to see everyone coming into the club,
17:05including the victim, including the suspects.
17:09When you have a potential suspect, one of the first things that you should do is do a clothing breakdown.
17:21This is obviously taken inside of a club. There's lots of people in there.
17:27And it's almost like a sauna. The lens is obviously clouded. Quality is not perfect.
17:32That's where a clothing profile is invaluable.
17:37What are they wearing? Does it have logos on it?
17:39They all give you the ability to separate the one person, perhaps, from the crowd.
17:49The CCTV team arrived to identify fully when Howard arrived at nine minutes past two.
17:54He was dressed in all denim, denim shirt, denim jeans.
17:58Anderson arrived much earlier. He was wearing a baseball cap with the word or logo Obey on.
18:04And he was wearing a dark black and red baseball-type jacket.
18:09And again, we were able to identify what Jammer was wearing very, very quickly, and he was identified.
18:15While CCTV shows the men before the attack, the actual stabbing on the dance floor is not captured.
18:22It's a huge blow to the investigation, meaning the police must search for more evidence,
18:27starting with the suspect's phone records around the time of the attack at the club.
18:35Nine minutes past three, Parra made calls to a friend while still in the vicinity
18:39at the Blue Mountain Club at the time of the attack.
18:42At 3.14, five minutes later, Parra contacted Anderson, showing direct communication
18:46between the two men immediately following the incident.
18:50At 3.38, Parra's phone activity was tagged in the Gloucester area,
18:56consistent with him leaving Bristol and returning home after the incident.
19:01The telephone records help, but they don't tell police what was said.
19:06Then a key witness comes forward with information about the stabbing.
19:11The witness wanted to give his evidence to support the family, support the local community,
19:15and that he was horrified this would take place in a public place.
19:18He was standing near the cash machine by the bar when Jammer entered the club,
19:22smiling and greeting someone. He noticed a man in a baseball cap with the words obey on it,
19:27and had a red and black jacket. We now believe this was Errol Anderson.
19:32He then describes a man in a blue denim jacket with a facial scarf.
19:36We know this is Ratty, Ian Power. He also mentions a woman in a black dress,
19:41aged around 35 to 45. He saw the man in the cap and the man in denim talking, looking towards
19:47Jammer.
19:47He also mentions the woman in the black dress spoke with both men, appearing involved in their
19:51interaction. We didn't know who that was. The witness then watches as that man in the denim
19:57then approaches Jammer. And moments later, a fight ensues. What he describes, the man in denim
20:03swinging his arms back and forward towards Jammer. He's then assisted by another man in a cap,
20:08who makes a hitting motion. After the incident, he describes Jammer staggered behind him,
20:12bleeding heavily from his left side. The witness then goes outside, and what he then sees is the
20:16man in the cap, lying on the ground. And he also sees the woman again in the black dress,
20:21speaking to him moments before police arrived. Was she involved in the conspiracy to murder Jammer,
20:27or was she involved in assisting an offender as they fled the scene?
20:31Police set up an ID procedure to confirm whether the witness can recognize Power and Anderson from
20:37the club. But ID procedures aren't guaranteed to be conclusive.
20:46So human memory is fallible. It's not like a perfect recording device. It's affected by all kinds of other
20:54factors, including, for example, stress, anxiety, arousal, confusion. If there's a lot going on and
21:02it's a highly emotional scene, that's going to impact on memory. During the identification procedures,
21:08the witness initially identified Ian Power as the man who attacked Jammer. In the second ID procedure,
21:14he identified Daryl Anderson, and that was the man who hit Jammer. While the witness's positive IDs
21:21are a key breakthrough for the investigation, with no footage of the attack itself, detectives need
21:27to corroborate his account. Gradually more witnesses come forward, including another clubber.
21:35She knew Jammer. She greeted him normally. As they gathered near the bar, she noticed Ian Ratty Power
21:41standing by the wall, repeatedly glancing at Jammer. She described him as spying on Jammer,
21:47watching him intently and pacing. Second later, Power lunged at Jammer, triggering the start of an
21:54incident. Crucial because these key witnesses were all saying the same similar thing. That Jammer
21:59come in, good demeanour, good spirits. Complete opposite for Power and Anderson. They were looking
22:05over, they were intent, and they approached him, and they committed a serious offence against Jammer
22:11Powell. Witness accounts help detectives work out a timeline, which is corroborated by footage from the
22:17club's entrance. At 1.59 in the morning, 1 minutes at 2, we know Anderson and Power entered the club.
22:23When Jammer Powell entered the club at 2.30, we know his brothers Rafiki and Mikkel were also present.
22:29At 2.45, we know there was some tension in the club, and there were some stares, some glares.
22:34So at 3am, Power was seen on the CCTV to approach Jammer. He was seen to take a knife from
22:39his jacket. He was
22:40seen to be assisted by Anderson. We also identified that Ian Power and Anderson tried to flee the scene,
22:46with Jammer Powell, brothers Rafiki, and Mikkel following behind.
22:55Police now have witness statements backed up by CCTV and phone data, and they decide to charge Power
23:03and Anderson with Jamal's murder. Both men are remanded in custody, and the police begin the painstaking
23:09task of gathering more forensic evidence to try and consolidate their murder case.
23:25Jamal Powell has been brutally stabbed 12 times in a Bristol nightclub.
23:37And another knife in Jamal's pocket. His clothes slashed in the attack have been sent for testing to
23:45to see if any DNA from a suspect is present. Multiple witnesses have named Ian Power and Earl
23:53Anderson as the attackers. CCTV from the club has shown them both moments before and after an
24:01altercation with Jamal. Phone records showed the two suspects talking soon after the stabbing.
24:09And now a witness has positively identified the pair. DCI James Riccio has charged both
24:16Anderson and Power with Jamal's murder. With both men on remand, the police must gather more evidence,
24:24but they must also investigate the attack on Anderson. After stabbing Jamal, both men fled the club,
24:30pursued by Jamal's brothers, Mikkel and Rafiki, who caught up with them on the road. It's a sensitive
24:36situation. Their brother had just died. Outside the club, just after 3am, we know that Anderson was
24:47fleeing the scene. Rafiki intervened and stabbed him twice. And we also know that Mikkel Powell,
24:54on arrest, admitted he hit him over the head with a champagne-type bottle.
25:03In this particular case, it's clearly an act of retribution. They've chased after the assailant
25:10of the brother. And so it will be very difficult for them to then mount an argument in favour of
25:17self-defence. Because if they give that evidence and you're prosecuting, you'll simply say, well,
25:23you didn't have to chase after them, did you? If it's an act of considered revenge, as opposed to
25:29a temporary loss of self-control, what is now called loss of control, what used to be called
25:34provocation, doesn't apply. Rafiki is charged with wounding with intent, and Mikkel the lesser charge
25:43of aggravated bodily harm. We never want to be in a position to really understand as humans what they
25:50must have been feeling his brother as knowing their brother had been stabbed and likely was going to
25:54die. This was really, really difficult because we do this for the family. We do this for community.
25:59We do this because we want to bring to justice those people who killed Jammer. But actually
26:05stabbing people is no way for the retribution to be laid out. We need to do that in the courts.
26:10So we knew as an investigation team, we need to explain that to the family. They were absolutely
26:15brilliant in regards to understanding it. Detectives turned their focus onto the identity of the woman
26:23who was with Power and Anderson. We soon identified by collating all the witness statements together
26:29that she'd been identified as Juliet Campbell. She was well known in the community. She previously ran
26:37the Black Swan as a landlady in 2009. She knew lots of people. An off-duty nurse who treated Earl
26:43Anderson outside the club also mentioned her. She said a woman appeared beside the man who'd been
26:50injured calling him uncle and saying it's me attempting to help him. This was crucial. The
26:56nurse took out her phone and dialed 999 requesting an ambulance. The woman said to her we don't need an
27:01ambulance or police. This conversation is heard on the 999 call. The nurse noticed the caplon on the
27:10ground. The same woman placed it back onto the person's head who was laying on the ground. She
27:14then heard the male say, where's my knife? On the ground nearby she saw two closed fold-in knives. Crucially,
27:23Juliet Campbell takes his knives away from the scene. Having told the nurse not to call 999 and potentially
27:30removing the murder weapons, Juliet Campbell committed one final act to stop officers catching power after he
27:37fled the club. Her instruction to the police officer to go in one direction, when we know from CCTV,
27:46actually the suspects fell in another direction. She should be coming forward and helping the police
27:50solve this crime. And she was doing the complete opposite. Those three salient points were significant
27:56for us asking the CPS to consider her conduct for a charge of perverting the course of justice.
28:06Perverting the course of justice simply means doing something deliberately or omitting to do something
28:13deliberately which has the effect of hindering the police investigation to assist somebody evade
28:20capture or evade detection. And the starting point for any offence of attempting to pervert the course of
28:26justice is likely to be an immediate prison sentence. With the two attackers and their accomplice charged
28:34and in custody, police turned their attention to gathering evidence to back up the court case.
28:40The frenzy evidence was crucial because when we considered their interviews, they both went no comment.
28:44We know they're in the vicinity of the club. Power has admitted that on arrest. We got CCTV in the
28:49facility of the club, but we haven't got CCTV in the actual incident. They remain hopeful that tests on
28:54Jamal's t-shirt will provide vital evidence. It undergoes forensic examination to see if there
29:00was any foreign DNA there which would indicate someone else present when he was killed. However,
29:04there wasn't. The only DNA found on Jammer's clothing was his own blood. Having reached a dead end,
29:11DCI Riccio sends the clothing they see from Earl Anderson off for forensic testing to see if they can find
29:18any traces of Jamal's DNA on them. The murder weapon would always be your favourite thing if it's
29:28available. But if not, you'd have to look at an exchange of material between the deceased, the victim
29:36in this case, and anybody else that's interacted with them to try to establish a sequence of events
29:42that may have led to that person's death. If a knife has gone into a body, clearly bleeding will have
29:48happened on the inside, but the knife itself is stopping any of that blood flow flowing back even
29:55towards the person that's caused it. But once that's a flowing wound, then more impact with that same
30:01person will cause more spatter with the person who's causing the injuries. But in that environment where
30:09you're thinking about a club and there are lots of people moving around and interacting with each
30:13other, then there are opportunities for transfer to occur without that person, with the blood on them,
30:21being responsible for the attack.
30:27Earl Anderson's genes contained the DNA of Jammer Powell. Not only was on the outside of the genes,
30:33not only was on the belt area, it was also within his pocket.
30:37The scientists relayed that it looked like, actually, Earl Anderson had DNA, Jammer's blood,
30:42on his hands before they entered his pocket, hence why they were on his genes.
30:50The presence of Jamal's blood in Earl Anderson's pockets is corroborated by samples taken in the
30:56police station. When Earl Anderson was in custody, we took his fingernail scrapings,
31:01and these scrapings, when they were frenzy examined, revealed the DNA of Jammer Powell.
31:06So all the frenzy evidence brought together that Earl Anderson was in an altercation with Jammer Powell.
31:12And when Jammer Powell bled, Earl Anderson must have been very, very close. And therefore, for us,
31:18we're able to say that actually that's absolute evidence putting the two together on that dance floor.
31:23They now need to find the clothes that Ian Power was wearing at the club to carry out the same
31:28tests. When we searched Ian Power's address in Gloucester, he'd obviously had the opportunity to
31:33go home that night. So searching his address in regards, we were looking for the areas or the
31:37clothing he was wearing that night, which we know is denim. And what officer sees that from his home
31:42address in Gloucester was light blue jeans, denim shirt, and a denim jacket. Power's clothing is also
31:48tested forensically, and the results come back. On his light blue jeans, he had light bloodstain on
31:54the front, the belt, and the inside right pocket. And he also had bloodstain in on the back of the
32:00lower right leg. And the DNA on all this matched Jammer Powell. So the frenzy evidence against Power,
32:08again, similarly to Earl Anderson, placed him at the scene, in the nightclub, in the dance floor,
32:14either in direct contact with Jammer Powell when he was bleeding, or very close by. For us,
32:20again, it was absolute evidence that he was involved with Earl Anderson in the killing of Jammer
32:25Powell. When Jamal died in hospital, the nurses retrieved a folding knife from his pocket,
32:30which is also examined. So the knife was an initial concern, because actually any defendant can maybe
32:37possibly use that in their defence to say, actually, it was self-defence, it wasn't murder.
32:44This is a hinged knife. So it's got several moving parts to it. And the interesting thing about
32:55weapons and tools like this is there's quite a lot of areas where evidence can get caught.
33:01There's a lot of intricate parts of this knife where there could be DNA still lodged, hair still
33:07lodged, fibres still lodged, et cetera. And of course, you're not just looking at the blade.
33:11If I open this knife up further like this, you can see there's potential for a lot of debris
33:17actually in the device itself. And this is where we would target our examination. So we're not
33:24necessarily just swabbing the obvious parts, we're actually swabbing inside the mechanisms of the knife.
33:31That's why it's really important to search something with a torch,
33:33because you can actually see where there might be forensic evidence on a tool.
33:40The forensic examination helps massively. There was no blood on the knife, which helps us brilliantly.
33:46There was DNA on the knife, which was not linked to Power and not Errol Anderson. We were then able
33:51to
33:52infer with a great deal of confidence that actually, although Jabba Power carried that knife and had
33:57it in his pocket, he didn't withdraw it. He didn't use it in self-defense and he certainly didn't use
34:01it
34:01to stab Power and Errol Anderson first. So therefore, we were confident that that knife remained in his
34:07pocket at all times. The eight knives recovered from the scene are also tested in the hope of finding
34:11if any of them were used in the attack. The general feeling was that actually we didn't think we had
34:16the murder weapon, but all various knives were seized from around the club, in the kitchen area,
34:23in the bar area. Any we found on the floor, none of those knives had traces of blood and two
34:27knives
34:27were used in the attack. We never recovered the murder weapon. Even without the knives that were used
34:33in the killing, DCI Riccio believes he has a strong case that proves Ian Power and Errol Anderson murdered Jamal.
34:41But there's one burning question that remains unanswered.
34:44I still didn't know why Anderson and Power had stabbed Jamal on this evening. The way they've
34:50approached the outrageousness, if you like, of attacking someone on a packed local dance floor had to be
34:56premeditated because we had 12 stab wounds to the victim. We had the fact that they were on the phone
35:01before they arrived and we had the fact that two knives significantly were used. They both had weapons.
35:07Motive is important because it completes a story, completes a story for the jury. If we haven't
35:12got motive, intelligent people will always ask why. To dig deeper, DCI Riccio carries out background
35:18checks known as victimology.
35:21The victimology is essentially about mapping the social links, connections a person has, the history,
35:29how they lived their lives on a daily basis, how they lived their life in the past and who their
35:34connections are, either social media, daily interactions, friends, family and business associates.
35:40So it gives police an opportunity to think and to understand who might want to do this person harm
35:46and who perhaps is a leading suspect and whether perhaps there's any history or beef in the
35:52background which might explain the events. The checks lead detectives to an unexpected link.
35:58Errol Anderson was described as a nickname of uncle. What we didn't know at this time,
36:02he was Powell's actual uncle. With the family connection established, the background checks also
36:08finally reveal what DCI Riccio believes is a motive. We were able to establish that Power had a grudge
36:15against Jammer. This was related to an incident which occurred in Leicester in 2014 where allegedly
36:22Jammer slashed him across the face. So for me, I believe very much that it was a premeditated attack
36:27where Ian Power was seeking revenge.
36:34Grudges are fascinating to me. As a forensic psychologist, I see lots of people who have
36:40grievances. They may have legitimate grounds for their anger or their pain. They may remember an
36:48abuser or somebody who hurt them in the past. But what they can do is they can really ruminate and
36:55obsess about these experiences. It doesn't really help them to move on in any way or process the
37:03trauma, but it gives them a focus for everything, for their rage, their pain, their anger, their sense of
37:10humiliation or helplessness. So grudges can absolutely lead to committing acts of violent crime.
37:17And oftentimes, people who commit these violent acts have rehearsed them, they've prepared for them,
37:23and they've imagined over and over again, the extreme joy and satisfaction of committing that final
37:30violent act.
37:34The trial is set for the 29th of June 2018 at Bristol Crown Court. James Riccio believes he has a
37:41concrete
37:42case against Power and Anderson for the murder of Jamal Powell, who was lethally stabbed 12 times. Also on
37:50trial is Juliette Campbell, a well-known landlady for perverting the course of justice on the night of the
37:56murder. Additional defendants include Jamal's brothers, Mikkel and Rafiki, for their attack on Earl
38:03Anderson. Jamal's family are devastated by the events of just one night, but the whole community have been
38:10supporting them throughout.
38:21Father of five, Jamal Powell has been brutally murdered at a reggae night in Bristol.
38:28Detectives have uncovered CCTV footage that puts the two main suspects, Earl Anderson and Ian Power, in the club.
38:37Witnesses confirmed that the two men approached Jamal on the dance floor and attacked him.
38:43Post-mortem evidence shows that he was stabbed 12 times, including a 13cm deep wound into his heart,
38:49which killed him. Mobile phone analysis puts the two suspects together in the nightclub at the time of the attack.
38:59Forensic analysis of both men's clothing confirms the presence of Jamal Powell's blood.
39:06And detectives are also confident that they've found a motive, as Ian Power believed he was slashed by Jamal
39:13Powell in Leicester three years earlier and was seeking revenge.
39:18Ian Power and Earl Anderson are due to face trial for the murder of Jamal.
39:24Also facing trial are Juliette Campbell for perverting the course of justice, and Mikkel and Rafiki Powell for the attack
39:31on
39:31John Anderson. DCI James Riccio is confident that the evidence will secure convictions.
39:39The trial of the five defendants begins at Bristol Crown Court on the 29th of June 2018.
39:48The court is packed with people from the local community and Jamal's family.
39:54Joint trials are a very convenient way of dealing with what lawyers call multi-handed cases.
40:03Apart from anything else, it means that the trial only has to take place once.
40:10And it's generally regarded as in the public interest for people who are jointly accused of the same crime to
40:17be tried by the same jury,
40:18because then you're going to get consistency.
40:21The potential disadvantage with a multi-handed trial is that the jury lose sight of what's actually going on,
40:29because it's all a bit confusing.
40:32Going into the trial, I was apprehensive about the defences which both were going to choose.
40:38It was very clear from Ian Power's defence that he was going to claim self-defence.
40:44Jamal Powell had a knife in his pocket.
40:47In regards to Earl Anderson, it wasn't quite so clear.
40:50We weren't sure if he was going to try and what they call cutthroat and blame Ian Power, take a
40:56lesser role.
40:57In the trial, Ian Power confirmed two key elements.
41:01One, he was present a big brawl in the nightclub.
41:04And secondly, he admitted that he grabbed a corkscrew-like object and thrusted it towards Jamal Powell.
41:12He does admit to wounding Jamal Powell, but with that, it comes a context.
41:17He's offering a self-defence, blaming Powell for the interaction.
41:23The unique feature of a murder case is that the victim is not there to give an account of what
41:30happened.
41:31And so a defendant who chooses to can advance a claim of self-defence with impunity,
41:38knowing full well that the person they are saying they were defending themselves against
41:44isn't going to be able to go in the witness box and say,
41:46that's not true. He attacked me. Any defendant running self-defence is simply going to hope that
41:53there is a doubt. Because if there's a doubt about it, the jury have to quit. The problem with it,
42:00of course, is at the end of the day, somebody's dead. And that tends to suggest that the violence
42:05is out of proportion to whatever violence the defendant claims they were facing from the deceased.
42:14The judge rejected any claim that this was self-defence. The judge concluded that Powell
42:18was the aggressor. In regards to the knife in Jamal's pocket, we always knew this was going to be an
42:23issue. However, forensic evidence to confirm identified there was no blood and there's no
42:29indication that the knife was used. And therefore, actually, this wasn't self-defence. This was
42:34aggression. This was premeditated. Powell had a grudge and he wanted to get his own back. And he sought
42:39that night with Anderson to kill Jamal Powell when he probably least expected it.
42:49The most crucial piece of evidence for me was forensic evidence. The fact that we've got
42:56victims' DNA by way of blood on areas of clothing by both suspects confirmed by the scientists to be in
43:03contact evidence means they absolutely had to be there when Jamal Powell was killed. After three
43:10weeks, the jury finds Ian Power and Earl Anderson guilty of the murder of Jamal Powell. So,
43:16Ian Power was awarded a life sentence, a minimum to serve 27 years. Earl Anderson was awarded a sentence of
43:24over 21 years. He was awarded credit for being the lesser of the two, albeit he also stabbed Jamal Powell
43:33multiple times.
43:34The other three defendants are also found guilty. Juliet Campbell is convicted of perverting the course of
43:41justice by removing the knives and diverting police from the killers. She is sentenced to three years in
43:49custody. Next to be sentenced are Jamal's brothers Rafiki and Mikkel Powell. Mikkel Powell hit Anderson over
43:57the head with some kind of champagne bottle as he fled. He received an eight-month sentence. Rafiki stabbed
44:03Anderson going away from the nightclub, stabbed him twice in the spleen. Rafiki was given a seven-year
44:09sentence for wounding with intent. Finally, the judge addresses Ian Power and Earl Anderson.
44:16In his sentencing remarks, Justice Warby highlighted a joint attack that was fueled, he said, by a grudge.
44:25He concluded that Ian Power intended to kill Jamal Powell, citing the use of a knife brought to the scene
44:32and the infliction of 12 stab wounds. In respect of joint enterprise, the judge stated that Power and
44:40Anderson jointly attacked the victim. He rejected the defense that Power had acted in self-defense,
44:50identifying him as the aggressor in the encounter.
44:58So this case, from start to finish, was confusing. It was initial chaos at the nightclub. We had a male
45:06stabbed who's no longer there. We've got another male stabbed in the street and we don't know that's
45:10related. We've got people leaving the scene and we've got a community incensed by the terrific act.
45:16Witnesses came forward initially and really helped the police develop a narrative and understanding
45:21of what happened. I like to think actually it was a community spirit in East Bristol, which was
45:26amplified, if you like, by Jamal being the victim. And together, those two ingredients
45:31helped the community come forward, helped us as police and helped us make this with the rest.
45:41Jamal, first and foremost, was known as a loving father. He was known as a community spirit.
45:47He was cherished by the community. I think that was evident in his funeral and the procession.
45:53He was vibrant, full of colors and full of love.
46:10This was a difficult and complex case from start to finish. But through diligent police work,
46:16brave witnesses and compelling forensic evidence, police brought justice to a devastated family
46:22who lost Jamal, a much-loved son, brother and father, to murder.
46:27Thank you very much, Rob.
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