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Britains Almost Perfect Murders - Season 1 - Episode 08: Destined to Kill
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00:01The perfect murder, the unsolvable crime, does it really exist?
00:07In a TV first, we reveal the cutting-edge technology now used by British police to join the dots
00:15and reveal new evidence in all homicide investigations.
00:19I'm Tim Tate. I've been an investigative journalist for almost 50 years.
00:26I'm Sam Robbins, and I'm a criminal intelligence analyst.
00:30For over 20 years, I've worked alongside detectives on major murder investigations.
00:34Together, in this new series, we are going to discover the fatal mistakes
00:39which prevented the perfect murder from ever being committed.
01:18Whether William Mottishead had an innate streak of aggression,
01:24or whether he had it knocked into him in the notoriously violent atmosphere of Britain's borstalls,
01:34as a young offenders institute, as we would now term them, is unclear.
01:38What is clear is that he began offending in an appallingly violent way.
01:48William Thomas Mottishead is, without doubt, one of the most violent, vicious, and dangerous criminals
01:56in the history of the United Kingdom.
02:01William Thomas Mottishead was a largely unremarkable individual
02:07who committed extremely violent sexual offenses against women,
02:12particularly vulnerable women, and those who were older.
02:14and he was someone who would not have stopped defending had he not have been caught.
02:22He was described, rightly described, by one police officer as
02:26pure evil, sadistic, and brutal.
02:31Him choosing these victims and inflicting incredible levels of violence on them,
02:37it makes him an absolutely despicable human being.
02:45Sam, as you put together this chart, the timeline, and then the association chart,
02:51what's the most important thing that stuck out to you straight away?
02:56So this is a particularly disturbing case, and I've dealt with terrible sexual offenses
03:03in my career, and this most certainly stands out as one of the worst cases
03:09that I've ever seen.
03:12Let's start with what we know about William Mottishead.
03:17Where was he operating, and when did he start?
03:20So he was operating in the north of England,
03:24and it was over a significant period of time.
03:29William Thomas Mottishead was born in Manchester in 1946.
03:35He was a criminal from a very young age.
03:38His first recorded criminal conviction was when he was 12 years old.
03:44By the age of 12 years,
03:46he appears before the courts for offenses of dishonesty,
03:50stealing,
03:51and over the next two to three years,
03:54that behavior,
03:55that pattern of dishonesty repeats itself.
04:00He moved on to start from last days to,
04:03as that was then now theft,
04:06to burglaries.
04:09By the age of 14,
04:11he appears before the court,
04:12and he is sentenced to a detention order,
04:15a juvenile detention order,
04:17which today we would call an approved school,
04:20or certainly many years ago it was known as Borstel.
04:24And so his criminal history, if you like,
04:27really begins in earnest.
04:34Borstel's, or approved schools of that era,
04:38conditions in them?
04:40Um, very, very rough indeed.
04:42So he would have been mixing with children
04:44who also displayed delinquent behaviors.
04:48Um, it could be,
04:49it could be anything from ABHs,
04:51GBHs,
04:52fire setting,
04:53which you quite often see with young,
04:54young offenders.
04:56Not necessarily a lot of love and care,
04:58and support,
04:59and guidance is being given.
05:00It's probably more of the punishment,
05:02in order to try and,
05:04knock it,
05:05knock that sort of behavior out of them.
05:07So the stick,
05:08not the carrot.
05:08Most definitely the stick,
05:09not the carrot.
05:10It would have been,
05:10I,
05:10my guess is it would have been very harsh conditions indeed.
05:16In 1962,
05:18he was released,
05:19and he found work as a casual laborer.
05:21It was the start of an adult life,
05:24in which he would drift between dead-end jobs,
05:28with periods of unemployment,
05:30and rarely rising above the poverty level.
05:36By the age of 23,
05:38Mottishead had committed his first violent offense.
05:43And it's,
05:43it's the violence that is really important,
05:45when we talk about him.
05:48He attacked a woman,
05:49who was known to him,
05:50a friend.
05:51They had some sort of disagreement.
05:53And for no reason whatsoever,
05:55he punched her straight in the mouth,
05:57causing an injury to her lips,
05:59and her jaw.
06:02And for that,
06:03he appeared before the courts,
06:04on a charge of actual bodily harm.
06:09But when it comes to court,
06:11it appears that that wasn't taken seriously.
06:14No.
06:15And once again,
06:17something that will become a pattern in this particular case,
06:20is the level of punishment that Mottishead receives,
06:24for really very serious offending.
06:27So lenient was the punishment for this.
06:30He pleaded guilty to ABH,
06:32and was given a £45 fine.
06:35Nothing more?
06:36Nothing more.
06:36No incarceration,
06:38just a fine.
06:43The criminal mind's a funny thing.
06:45They don't see anything wrong,
06:47in what they're doing at the time,
06:48and they don't really see,
06:50why other people should bother.
06:51And a lot of them think the police,
06:53because of a lot of bad press,
06:55that they get every now and then,
06:56are not really bothered,
06:58and are not efficient enough,
07:01to catch them.
07:02So they'll keep on offending,
07:04as in the case with Mottishead.
07:08How quickly does he move on from that,
07:12to what would become his motif of offending?
07:16It's a very, very quick, um,
07:20you know, escalation.
07:21And by 1969, July,
07:24through to November 1970,
07:26he's worked out that elderly women,
07:28are a lot easier to attack,
07:30and overpower,
07:32in order to satiate his sexual desires.
07:35There's a calculation going on here.
07:37There's a calculation with,
07:38with all of this offending.
07:40There's a very clear pattern of planning.
07:43So he's a, he's a predator.
07:48We see his offending behaviour,
07:51really escalate as he matures.
07:54So he begins with quite innocuous offences,
07:57such as burglary,
07:58but then the home invasions become,
08:00about attacking women,
08:02who are within that space.
08:04So the fact that he starts offending at a very young age,
08:09the fact that those offences become much more violent,
08:13as he escalates,
08:14he enjoyed it.
08:16He wanted to feel power over his victims.
08:19He planned his crimes quite meticulously,
08:21in terms of geographical location and victim choice.
08:27Between July 1969 and November 1970,
08:32he forced his way into a succession of homes.
08:36Sometimes he pretended to be a police officer,
08:39and attacked the women living there.
08:48He's arrested for a total of 12 offences,
08:52and he's sentenced to a substantial sentence of 10 years' imprisonment,
08:57for offences of assault, wounding,
08:59actual bodily harm,
09:01and wounding with intent,
09:03and burglary.
09:05Importantly,
09:06all the offences had an element of a sexual motive,
09:11and that's what's really important when we look at Motter's Head,
09:14as an offender,
09:15as a dangerous criminal.
09:18At the time,
09:20there were no treatment programmes
09:22for sex offenders in British prisons.
09:25Such official policy as existed,
09:28and it was minimal,
09:30was predicated on the belief
09:32that somehow you could punish
09:34repeat sex offenders
09:36out of their pattern of behaviour,
09:39and that they would emerge reformed,
09:42and would never attack people again.
09:44It is nonsense.
09:47And Motter's Head proved this.
09:54By the age of 32,
09:56he is sentenced to life imprisonment,
09:59the longest term possible,
10:01for four offences of burglary,
10:03during which he entered the premises of elderly women,
10:06and tried to attack them,
10:08and on one occasion,
10:10he uses a garden spade to enter the house,
10:13and threatens the elderly victim with the implement.
10:17For that offence, as I say,
10:19he's sent away for life,
10:21but he appeals against his sentence,
10:24and his sentence is reduced to eight years' imprisonment by the courts.
10:30It would be a fair question to ask,
10:32was that an error of judgment,
10:33a grave error of judgment,
10:35by the judiciary,
10:36when you think of what was to follow
10:39in respect of his offending?
10:43That judicial leniency would,
10:46in time,
10:48have fatal consequences.
11:06William Motter's Head was given a life sentence,
11:10but he appealed against the severity of that sentence,
11:15and a judge reduced it to eight years.
11:19Within five,
11:21Motter's Head would be out on parole.
11:26It's such a significant reduction.
11:28I was shocked when I read that.
11:30Do you think that's a tipping point in the case,
11:32or should have been?
11:33Yes.
11:33Yeah, it should have been.
11:34He isn't being treated as a sexual offender.
11:38It feels like he's being treated more as a burglar,
11:41a violent burglar.
11:43From your knowledge and your experience,
11:45how unusual is it for police forces
11:48not to take sexual crimes against women
11:52seriously in that period?
11:55Yeah, I think very sadly,
11:56back then it was fairly common.
11:59On the day of release,
12:00he breaks into a young lady's home this time
12:03and assaults her.
12:05Police are made aware,
12:07and they arrive in time for him to be found at the scene,
12:10and he assaults a police officer.
12:13Is this just somebody with anger control?
12:15Issues, or is this some deeper pathology?
12:18I think it is very much the case
12:20that it is a deeper pathology,
12:21that those five years spent in prison
12:23has been pent up to the point
12:25where the minute he comes out,
12:27there has to be a release.
12:29And the fact that the police officer arrives
12:31was not going to stand in his way.
12:33He was willing to...
12:35Assort a police officer in order to try and evade capture.
12:39He's just come out from life down to eight years,
12:43served five.
12:44Yes.
12:44He commits a serious offence
12:47on the day he's released.
12:49Yes.
12:50What does he get?
12:51So he is indicted with two counts of burglary
12:55and two counts of assault,
12:57obviously one for the female
12:58and one for the police officer,
13:00and also resisting arrest.
13:02And he's given an 18-month suspended sentence for that.
13:09He was given a suspended sentence.
13:12Now, this is for aggravated burglary.
13:14And given his previous convictions,
13:16it's a fair question to ask by the public,
13:19was that a far too lenient sentence?
13:22Because in essence,
13:24because in essence,
13:24he walked free from the court.
13:26And again,
13:27within a short time,
13:29he's again committing burglaries
13:30at the homes of elderly people.
13:34His living standards are very poor,
13:37and he's described as an unkempt individual.
13:40He frequented pubs,
13:41and any sort of interaction with young women
13:44was rebuffed pretty quickly,
13:47and this undoubtedly formed part of the core
13:50of his offending and his criminal violent behaviour
13:54that was to follow.
13:56He did have a living girlfriend,
14:00but we see that one of the most violent assaults
14:02actually took place following an argument
14:04with his living partner,
14:06and it's almost as if that was a reaction
14:09against the frustrations that he felt with his partner.
14:14What do you think was driving Mata said?
14:18It was most certainly his need to offend sexually.
14:23Need or choice?
14:25Need.
14:25Mmm.
14:27His defence is that he has impulses that he cannot control,
14:31which is a ridiculous statement to make.
14:34Obviously, you can control,
14:35but the drive,
14:37it's so high in this case of offending
14:40that you very rarely see offending of this nature.
14:45These days, alarm bells would ring very, very early on
14:49because you'd have the statements from people
14:52that would give you behaviours that you'd be looking for
14:54to know that you've potentially got
14:57a serial offender on your hand.
14:58And in those serial offences,
15:02looking forward to December,
15:04Christmas Day,
15:05Yes.
15:061983,
15:08Yes.
15:08there appears to be what I would recognise as a trigger.
15:12For a few of these offences,
15:14you can most certainly see the trigger of alcohol
15:17combined with rowing with either a partner
15:21or that he approaches a younger person
15:25and is rebuffed by them,
15:26a younger female and is rebuffed.
15:28And when he's rebuffed?
15:29And when he's rebuffed angry,
15:32he reacts angrily.
15:34Not necessarily to the women who rebuff him,
15:37but he certainly then goes out
15:39and that anger is taken out.
15:44It's very likely that he chose to target elderly
15:47and vulnerable women
15:48because they were an easy target.
15:50They would be easy to overpower.
15:52They would be someone who he would feel
15:55that he had extreme dominance over.
15:58They were usually people who lived alone.
16:01Even though often that these were women
16:04who lived in supported housing,
16:06they were very easy targets as victims.
16:11They also lived close to his house.
16:13So he was able to make an escape
16:15in reasonable time
16:18without being apprehended many times.
16:26On Christmas morning, 1983,
16:29William Mottased had a row
16:31with his live-in girlfriend.
16:34He resorted to his usual pattern.
16:37He stormed out of the house
16:39and went out looking for a victim
16:41on whom he could take out his anger.
16:49Florence Kelsall was 75.
16:54She'd never married
16:55and by 1982 she was living
16:57in sheltered accommodation
16:59in Bagley Moor, Sale.
17:02She was, by and large,
17:04healthy and happy
17:05and she was very proud
17:07of her little bungalow
17:08and an on-site warden
17:10and a security alarm
17:11made her feel safe.
17:16William Mottased hammered on the door.
17:21She opened the door
17:22and Mottased pounced.
17:26He pushed her back into the hallway,
17:29beat her brutally,
17:33stripped her
17:35and raped her.
17:41Causing unbelievable injuries,
17:43bruising, swelling,
17:45fractures to her jaw,
17:46to her face
17:47and sexually assaults her.
17:50so much so
17:51that she was put into hospital
17:54for quite a considerable time
17:56and she never returned to her home
17:59and, in fact,
18:00was unable to live
18:01an independent life
18:02after that.
18:05Florence passed out
18:07during this ordeal.
18:10When she came to,
18:12she found herself
18:13completely naked,
18:15covered in bruises.
18:17Her face,
18:18her cheek,
18:19her eye socket
18:21had been broken
18:25and whoever had done this
18:27had left deep bite marks
18:30in her breast.
18:39The biting, I think,
18:41is very significant.
18:42It's very violent
18:43in this way
18:44and these are women
18:46who are in their 70s and 80s
18:47and he is a fully grown adult male
18:50in his late 30s.
18:52That level of trauma
18:53that was inflicted
18:54on his victims
18:55makes him an incredibly
18:56dangerous individual.
18:59He uses violence
19:00as an overkill.
19:02He doesn't need
19:03in this situation
19:04to be quite as violent
19:06and aggressive.
19:07He enjoys that,
19:08he enjoys that power
19:10but he only ever seems
19:11to really do this
19:12with people
19:13who are very vulnerable
19:14and susceptible
19:15to his advances.
19:18People like him
19:19belong to
19:20an almost entirely
19:21different category
19:22of offenders
19:23because if the victims
19:24he has chosen
19:25subjects them
19:26to an incredibly
19:28violent
19:29and often sustained
19:30sexual assault
19:31that puts him
19:33in an extremely dangerous
19:35category
19:36of sexual offenders.
19:37He is someone
19:38who absolutely
19:39would not have stopped
19:40had he not been caught.
19:45So what's head
19:46certainly has a high level
19:47of psychopathy
19:48in his kind of MO
19:50and the way
19:50that he's developed
19:51over time.
19:52He's shown no remorse,
19:54he's shown no regards
19:55for society's rules,
19:57he has a long history
19:58of offending
19:59and certainly his crimes
20:01are starting to escalate
20:02and he's getting enjoyment
20:04out of what he's doing
20:05and they're becoming
20:06more frequent
20:07and more violent
20:08as time is going on.
20:11Greater Manchester
20:12police went over
20:14the house,
20:15went over
20:16all the evidence
20:17with a tooth comb
20:18but this was 1983.
20:21It was just
20:22at the infancy
20:23of DNA testing.
20:28In the 1980s
20:30we did not have
20:32the National DNA Database
20:34which is effectively
20:35a library
20:36of DNA profiles
20:38from individuals
20:39and unsolved crimes.
20:41In today's context
20:42it is a powerful
20:44investigative tool
20:46that we can use
20:47to try and identify
20:49the potential source
20:51of an unknown
20:52DNA profile.
20:54And in this case
20:56of course
20:57we're dealing with
20:58body fluids,
20:59semen, saliva
21:01and in a contemporary
21:03sense
21:04those would be
21:05subjected to
21:06DNA testing.
21:07The DNA profile
21:09would then
21:10be loaded
21:11permanently
21:12onto the National DNA
21:14Database
21:14and it would be
21:16regularly checked
21:18against anyone
21:19who might
21:20have cause
21:21to be on that database.
21:23In this case
21:24in the 1980s
21:26that tool
21:27wasn't available
21:28so although
21:29they may have known
21:31that the source
21:33of the body fluids
21:34is likely
21:35to be the same
21:37individual
21:37without something
21:39to compare it to
21:40then they were
21:42essentially just
21:43results
21:44that sat
21:45on a shelf
21:46waiting for
21:48an individual
21:49to be brought
21:50to their attention.
21:54He leaves
21:55Kelsol
21:56in a pretty
21:57dreadful state.
21:58He does.
21:59Her life
22:00has changed
22:00forever
22:01at that point.
22:03She's hospitalised
22:04with injuries
22:05that she receives
22:07at Mutshed's hands
22:08and from that
22:10point on
22:11when she leaves
22:11hospital
22:12she has to go
22:12into full-time
22:13care.
22:14I found
22:15it very
22:16very hard
22:17to read
22:17the statements
22:18and the information
22:19that we managed
22:19to obtain
22:20on this case
22:21it is really
22:23horrific
22:23offending.
22:25But Mutshed
22:26isn't caught
22:27for this.
22:28He's not caught
22:29and you know
22:30this plays into
22:31him planning
22:33and offending
22:34in an area
22:34that he knows
22:35and that he's
22:36well versed with
22:37so for this
22:38particular case
22:39he did literally
22:40walk away.
22:43Having got away
22:45with the attack
22:46on Florence Kelsol
22:48I'm over the opinion
22:49and he thought
22:50he would never
22:51get caught.
22:52He thought
22:52it was
22:53untouchable
22:54that he could
22:54just stay
22:55in the same area
22:56and keep being
22:56persistent
22:57in trying to attack
22:58him
22:58and nobody
22:59would really
22:59want to find
23:00him
23:00that nobody
23:01care about
23:02the age
23:03of the victims.
23:04I think he
23:05actually believed
23:06that they probably
23:07wouldn't survive
23:08to give evidence
23:09against him
23:10in the future.
23:13William Mottased
23:14had most likely
23:16got away with it.
23:17He was in the wind
23:18and feeling safe.
23:35This is December 1983.
23:37You've got
23:39a vicious assault
23:41and a rape
23:42on an elderly woman
23:43an area
23:45where
23:45a man
23:46who has
23:47from what you
23:48pointed out here
23:50a litany
23:51of offences
23:52for exactly
23:53that.
23:54What this case
23:55plays into
23:56quite nicely
23:57is to
23:58show the benefit
23:59of analysis
24:00so analysis
24:01isn't just used
24:03for major crimes
24:04and big murders
24:07or big organised
24:07crime groups.
24:09Analysis is used
24:10on everyday
24:12offences
24:13so offences
24:14such as
24:14burglary
24:15and car crime
24:16and one of the
24:18jobs of an analyst
24:20is to look
24:20for patterns
24:21so they'll look
24:22for patterns
24:23of behaviour
24:23whether that is
24:24vehicle offences
24:26or burglaries
24:28and should this
24:30have happened
24:30today
24:31I believe
24:32that this series
24:33of offending
24:34would have been
24:34picked up
24:35by an analyst
24:35a lot earlier
24:36than it was
24:37in 1980s.
24:45For almost
24:46nine months
24:47Mortis Head
24:48remained at large
24:49the police
24:50despite numerous
24:52investigations
24:53failed to trace
24:54the culprit
24:55and he was allowed
24:56to carry on
24:57with his offending.
25:00He is someone
25:01who wants
25:02power and dominance
25:04and control
25:04but doesn't have
25:06that in his
25:06normal life.
25:07He maintained
25:09some types
25:10of normal
25:11relationships
25:11but often
25:13worked dead-end
25:13jobs.
25:14He was someone
25:15who didn't really
25:16do anything
25:16that was very
25:17remarkable in his
25:18life and having
25:20these periods
25:21where he exerted
25:22such dominance
25:23and power
25:23and control
25:24over these victims
25:25would have given
25:26him a real taste
25:28of what it could
25:29have been like
25:30if he was
25:31someone more
25:32than he ended
25:33up being
25:33someone who
25:34he wanted
25:35to be.
25:39On the night
25:40of Friday
25:40September 28th
25:421984
25:44William Mortis Head
25:45went out drinking.
25:46He went
25:47to a local pub
25:48and sat there
25:49sinking beers
25:50alone.
25:51At some point
25:52before the night
25:53ended he spotted
25:54a pair of sisters.
25:56They were out
25:57for a night
25:57of pleasure
25:58in the local pub.
26:01Mortis Head
26:01approached them
26:02and tried to
26:03pick them up.
26:06They weren't
26:07interested
26:07and they rebuffed
26:09him.
26:10It infuriated
26:11Mortis Head
26:12and whenever
26:14he fell into
26:16that kind of rage
26:17he did
26:18what he always
26:19did.
26:20He went
26:21looking
26:22for a victim.
26:25He attempted
26:26to enter
26:27three separate
26:28homes
26:29occupied by
26:30elderly ladies
26:31living alone
26:31the same
26:32modus operandi
26:34or method
26:34if you like
26:35that would
26:36continue
26:37throughout his
26:37criminal history
26:39but on each
26:40occasion
26:41although he tried
26:42to fool
26:43if you like
26:43the occupants
26:44that he was
26:45a police officer
26:46he was prevented
26:47from entering
26:47and the police
26:48were called
26:49and he made
26:50off into the
26:50darkness.
26:54With all the
26:55calls coming
26:56in to the
26:57police station
26:58about a man
26:59trying to break
27:00into the
27:01bungalows
27:02the uniformed
27:04department
27:04deployed as many
27:05officers as
27:06were available
27:07to search the
27:08area and visit
27:09the three other
27:11attempted burglars
27:12and interviewed
27:13the people.
27:18Mortis Head
27:19didn't go far
27:21he traced his
27:22steps to
27:23Bagley Lane
27:26the home of
27:27Lily Morris
27:28the former
27:29home of
27:30Florence Kelsall
27:36Lily Morris
27:37had been married
27:38she had four
27:40children
27:40her husband
27:41died in
27:421973
27:44and then
27:45due to
27:46having a
27:47hip operation
27:48she felt
27:50herself a burden
27:51on her two
27:51sons who she
27:52was living with
27:53and moved
27:54into sheltered
27:54accommodation
27:55in the
27:56Sailmore area.
27:59Mortis Head
28:00startled Lily
28:01towering over
28:02her.
28:03You can only
28:04imagine how
28:05that must have
28:06felt the terror
28:07of an elderly
28:08lady seeing
28:09a stranger
28:10standing in
28:11the dark
28:11looking over
28:15Mortis Head
28:17he was
28:17assaulting her
28:18getting on
28:19top of her
28:21telling her
28:21he wanted
28:22to have
28:22sex with her
28:23but the
28:24unusual thing
28:24was that
28:25he kept
28:25saying
28:26he was
28:26going to
28:26give her
28:27the same
28:27as he
28:28gave
28:29Florence
28:30Kelsall
28:30which is
28:31a woman
28:31that was
28:32assaulted
28:32the same
28:33way
28:33in that
28:34bungalow
28:34the year
28:35before.
28:39Mortis Head
28:39knew
28:40that premises
28:41that house
28:42are the
28:42inside
28:42of us
28:43because he
28:43had been
28:43there before
28:44he mercilessly
28:46beat Lily
28:48about the
28:48head and
28:49face
28:49kicking and
28:50punching her
28:52fracturing her
28:52jaw
28:53fracturing her
28:54cheekbones
28:54fracturing her
28:56arm
28:56and leaving
28:57her bleeding
28:58and distraught
28:59on the floor
29:00of the bedroom
29:01thankfully she
29:02was able
29:03at some point
29:04to grab the
29:05alarm
29:05cord
29:06that was
29:07hanging in
29:07near her bed
29:10while one
29:11while one of the
29:11policemen
29:11was at a house
29:12that had been
29:14attempted
29:14burglars
29:15another call
29:16came in
29:16for an
29:18assault
29:19and it was
29:20the assault
29:20on Lily
29:21Morris
29:24when the police
29:25got there
29:25the
29:25mobile warden
29:27was in
29:27attendance
29:28when the
29:29warden
29:29attended
29:29the first
29:30time
29:30to the
29:31alarm
29:31call
29:32Motta
29:33said
29:33slammed
29:34the door
29:34in his
29:35face
29:35and escaped
29:35through
29:36the back
29:36window
29:36at his
29:37point
29:37of entry
29:39while it
29:39was clear
29:40from
29:40the
29:41facial
29:42injuries
29:42on Lily
29:43she was
29:44naked
29:44on the
29:45bed
29:45that she'd
29:46been
29:46both sexually
29:47assaulted
29:48and violently
29:48assaulted
29:49she had
29:50extensive
29:50bruises
29:51into her
29:51head
29:51and her
29:52body
29:52and she
29:53had
29:53back
29:54marks
29:54on her
29:55breast
29:58it was
29:59evident
29:59from
29:59the scene
30:00and from
30:01her
30:01injuries
30:02that whoever
30:03it was
30:03was a
30:03determined
30:04violent
30:04man
30:05and then
30:06taking
30:06into
30:06account
30:07that
30:07there'd
30:08been
30:08a series
30:08of
30:09attempted
30:09burglies
30:09for over
30:10an hour
30:11and a half
30:11in the
30:12area
30:12he'd
30:13obviously
30:13been
30:14determined
30:14to what
30:15he was
30:15going to
30:15do
30:16because
30:16he knew
30:17he'd
30:17been
30:17seen
30:17he knew
30:18people
30:19were going
30:19to call
30:20the police
30:20but he
30:21still
30:21persisted
30:22in
30:22what
30:22he
30:22wanted
30:22to
30:22do
30:24pretty
30:24much
30:25anyone
30:25who
30:25considers
30:26committing
30:26a
30:27crime
30:27obviously
30:27knows
30:28that
30:28there
30:28are
30:28people
30:29there
30:29who
30:29are
30:29going
30:29to
30:29be
30:30either
30:30watching
30:30them
30:31trying
30:31to
30:31catch
30:32them
30:32and
30:33to
30:33some
30:33extent
30:33there
30:34is
30:34a
30:34certain
30:34level
30:34of
30:35arrogance
30:35and
30:36belief
30:36in
30:37yourself
30:37that
30:37you
30:37are
30:38able
30:38to
30:39pull
30:39this
30:39crime
30:40off
30:40whether
30:40it's
30:41a
30:41burglary
30:41or
30:42fraud
30:42or
30:43a
30:43murder
30:43or
30:43whatever
30:44it
30:44could
30:44be
30:44so
30:45certainly
30:45in
30:45these
30:45situations
30:46we
30:46find
30:47that
30:47people
30:47at odds
30:48with
30:48the
30:48police
30:48and
30:49even
30:49when
30:49they
30:50are
30:50being
30:51investigated
30:51and
30:52shown
30:52the
30:52evidence
30:52against
30:53them
30:53they
30:53still
30:53unwilling
30:54to
30:54admit
30:54that
30:54they
30:55have
30:55been
30:55caught
30:56because
30:56they
30:57have
30:57this
30:57self
30:57belief
30:58arrogance
30:58that
30:59they
30:59have
30:59got
30:59away
30:59with
31:00these
31:00things
31:00probably
31:00on
31:01previous
31:01occasions
31:01and
31:02that
31:02they're
31:02going
31:02to
31:02do
31:02it
31:03again
31:06two
31:06night
31:06detectives
31:07were
31:08on
31:08the
31:08way
31:08to
31:08the
31:08scene
31:09when
31:09they
31:10saw
31:10Mottishead
31:11walking
31:12down
31:12the
31:12road
31:14it
31:15was
31:15completely
31:15wet
31:16through
31:16though
31:16it
31:17was
31:17only
31:17lightly
31:17raining
31:18at
31:18the
31:19time
31:19so
31:19he'd
31:19obviously
31:19been
31:20about
31:20for
31:20a
31:20while
31:21and
31:22they
31:22noticed
31:22that
31:22he
31:22had
31:23what
31:23appeared
31:23to
31:23be
31:24blood
31:24staining
31:24on
31:25his
31:26forehead
31:26and
31:27a
31:27cut
31:27to
31:28his
31:28hand
31:28his
31:29explanation
31:29was
31:30that
31:30he'd
31:30fell
31:30over
31:31they
31:32arrested
31:32him
31:32on
31:32suspicion
31:33and
31:34took
31:35him
31:35to
31:35Altrincham
31:36Police
31:36Station
31:37where
31:38he
31:38was
31:38detained
31:39awaiting
31:40examination
31:41by a
31:42police
31:42surgeon
31:45he
31:46showed
31:46no
31:47signs
31:47of
31:47remorse
31:47at
31:48all
31:48during
31:48the
31:48interview
31:50initially
31:51denying
31:52it
31:52was
31:52him
31:55one
31:55of
31:56the
31:56things
31:56that
31:56struck
31:57me
31:57reading
31:58the
31:58case
31:59files
32:00was
32:01Mottishead's
32:02reaction
32:03in
32:04that
32:04first
32:05interview
32:06at
32:06this
32:07point
32:07Lily
32:08Morris
32:08is
32:09still
32:09alive
32:10what
32:11is
32:11Mottishead's
32:12attitude
32:14and
32:14what
32:15does
32:15he
32:15say
32:15he
32:16fabricates
32:17an
32:17entire
32:17story
32:18about
32:19having
32:20an
32:20argument
32:21with
32:21one
32:21of
32:21his
32:22male
32:22friends
32:22in
32:23a
32:23pub
32:23and
32:24he
32:24decides
32:24that
32:24he's
32:25going
32:25to
32:25go
32:26and
32:26stay
32:26with
32:26his
32:26parents
32:27for
32:27the
32:27evening
32:28so
32:28he
32:29starts
32:29to
32:29give
32:30this
32:30whole
32:31account
32:31of
32:32that
32:33he
32:33didn't
32:33have
32:33enough
32:33money
32:34to
32:34get
32:34the
32:35bus
32:35so
32:35he
32:35starts
32:35to
32:36walk
32:36and
32:37that
32:37he
32:37then
32:37thinks
32:38that
32:38there's
32:38a
32:38house
32:38that
32:39he
32:39could
32:39maybe
32:39sleep
32:39in
32:40so
32:40he
32:40finds
32:41a
32:41screwdriver
32:42the
32:42fabrication
32:43of
32:43this
32:44story
32:44is
32:45immense
32:46until
32:47police
32:48start
32:48to
32:48provide
32:49evidence
32:49to
32:49suggest
32:50that
32:50they
32:50know
32:51that
32:51that's
32:51not
32:51the
32:52case
32:52and
32:52here's
32:52what's
32:53happened
32:53at
32:54which
32:54point
32:55Moteshed
32:56then
32:57reverts
32:57to
32:58the
32:58I'm
32:59so
32:59ashamed
32:59of
33:00what
33:00I've
33:00done
33:00yes
33:00I
33:00did
33:01break
33:01in
33:01into
33:02the
33:02elderly
33:02lady's
33:03house
33:03and
33:03assault
33:04her
33:04he
33:04doesn't
33:04say
33:05that
33:05he
33:05rapes
33:06her
33:07I'm
33:08so
33:08ashamed
33:08I
33:09can't
33:10control
33:11my
33:13sexual
33:14when
33:15he
33:15was
33:15arrested
33:15he
33:16actually
33:16stated
33:17to
33:17police
33:17that
33:17he
33:17couldn't
33:18control
33:18his
33:18sexual
33:19urges
33:19but
33:20the
33:20level
33:20of
33:20planning
33:21that
33:21we
33:21see
33:21in
33:21these
33:21crimes
33:22really
33:22suggests
33:23otherwise
33:23he
33:24was
33:24quite
33:24meticulous
33:25around
33:26the
33:27victim
33:28choice
33:28he
33:29was
33:29meticulous
33:29around
33:30the
33:31geographical
33:31location
33:32of his
33:32victims
33:33and
33:34although
33:34he
33:34wasn't
33:34a
33:35particularly
33:35intelligent
33:36individual
33:37the
33:38planning
33:38that
33:39went
33:39into
33:39these
33:39crimes
33:40demonstrate
33:40that it
33:41wasn't
33:41a
33:43urge
33:43that he
33:44wasn't
33:44able
33:44to
33:44control
33:45it
33:45was
33:45something
33:46which
33:46he
33:47really
33:47really
33:48thought
33:49about
33:51eventually
33:52he admitted
33:53it but
33:54he didn't
33:54want to
33:54talk about
33:55details
33:55he always
33:56said
33:57is
33:57I'm
33:57ashamed
33:58I'm
33:58ashamed
33:58don't
33:59want to
33:59talk
33:59about
33:59that
34:00and
34:00then
34:00he
34:01kept
34:01saying
34:01is
34:02she
34:02dead
34:03and
34:03then
34:04he
34:04mentioned
34:04the
34:05previous
34:05assault
34:06on
34:07Florence
34:07Kelso
34:08and
34:09he
34:09mentioned
34:10her
34:10by
34:10name
34:12it
34:12was
34:13in
34:13the
34:13same
34:13house
34:13the
34:14same
34:14MO
34:14the
34:15injuries
34:16were
34:17a
34:17mirror
34:17of
34:18each
34:18other
34:18and
34:19all
34:19throughout
34:19he
34:20wouldn't
34:20openly
34:21admit
34:22what
34:22he
34:22was
34:23doing
34:23but
34:24he
34:24wouldn't
34:24deny
34:24it
34:25all
34:25he
34:26would
34:26say
34:26is
34:26she's
34:27telling
34:27the
34:27truth
34:30as
34:31one
34:31would
34:31expect
34:32for
34:33the
34:33horrendous
34:34attacks
34:34on
34:35the
34:35women
34:35he
34:36was
34:37charged
34:37with
34:38first
34:39of
34:39all
34:39rape
34:40indecent
34:41assault
34:41aggravated
34:42burglary
34:42etc
34:44all
34:45he
34:45said
34:45I'm
34:46ashamed
34:46but
34:47there
34:47wasn't
34:47any
34:47remorse
34:48or
34:48sorrow
34:48he
34:49was
34:49more
34:49worried
34:50that
34:50she
34:50would
34:50die
34:51which
34:52if
34:52he
34:53hadn't
34:54been
34:54disturbed
34:54during
34:55the
34:56assault
34:56I
34:57think
34:57would
34:57have
34:57been
34:57the
34:58likely
34:58outcome
34:59because
35:01within
35:01a month
35:02of
35:02the
35:02assault
35:02and
35:04the
35:04injuries
35:04that
35:04it
35:05inflicted
35:05on
35:05her
35:06that
35:07the
35:07medical
35:07people
35:08were
35:09unable
35:09to
35:09repair
35:10she
35:11died
35:15but
35:15even
35:15then
35:16Mottershed
35:17could
35:17have
35:17got
35:18away
35:18with
35:18it
35:18Lily
35:19Morris
35:20had
35:20a
35:20heart
35:20condition
35:21and
35:22this
35:22could
35:22have
35:22resulted
35:23in
35:23Mottershed
35:24getting
35:24away
35:24with
35:24her
35:25murder
35:25because
35:26in
35:26court
35:27his
35:27lawyers
35:28would
35:28have
35:28claimed
35:28she
35:29died
35:29from
35:29a
35:29pre-existing
35:30condition
35:34but
35:35thankfully
35:35both
35:36pathologists
35:37both
35:38the
35:38defense
35:39pathologist
35:40and
35:40the
35:40prosecution
35:41pathologist
35:41agreed
35:42that
35:43she
35:44died
35:44from
35:44the
35:45brutal
35:45injuries
35:46inflicted
35:46upon
35:47her
35:47by
35:47Motter's
35:48head
36:03lilly
36:05Morris
36:05died
36:06from
36:07her
36:07injuries
36:08injuries
36:09that
36:09Mottershed
36:09had
36:10inflicted
36:11he
36:12was
36:12re-interviewed
36:13by the
36:14police
36:14but
36:14this
36:15time
36:15not
36:16on
36:16a
36:16charge
36:18of
36:19assault
36:19or
36:20GBH
36:20but
36:22for
36:22suspected
36:22murder
36:25Lily has
36:27managed to
36:28give a
36:28false
36:28statement
36:29there's a
36:30heartbreaking
36:30account
36:31actually
36:31by her
36:31daughter
36:32who sees
36:33her in
36:33hospital
36:34and
36:34Lily
36:35essentially
36:35knows
36:36that
36:36she's
36:36dying
36:37it's
36:37heartbreaking
36:38to read
36:38it
36:39Lily's
36:40statement
36:40is
36:40really
36:41detailed
36:42in terms
36:42of the
36:43language
36:43and the
36:44behaviours
36:45that
36:45Mottershed
36:45uses
36:46and it's
36:47absolutely
36:47to her
36:48credit
36:48that she
36:49was
36:49willing
36:50and able
36:51to make
36:51that
36:51statement
36:52but she
36:53does
36:53actually
36:54then die
36:54from the
36:55injuries
36:55that are
36:56inflicted
36:57on her
36:58and
36:58the
36:59information
37:00is delivered
37:00so
37:01Mottershed
37:01had been
37:02remanded
37:02by that
37:02point
37:03and
37:03the
37:04police
37:04officers
37:04visit
37:04him
37:05imprisoned
37:05to
37:06deliver
37:06the
37:06news
37:07this
37:07is
37:07a
37:08murder
37:08case
37:08now
37:09yes
37:12we
37:13interviewed
37:14him in
37:14prison
37:14and told
37:15him
37:15he was
37:15going
37:15to be
37:15charged
37:15with
37:16murder
37:17his
37:17attitude
37:17changed
37:18it wasn't
37:19him anymore
37:20that had
37:21done it
37:21he'd broken
37:22the house
37:22to steal
37:23the person
37:25who came
37:26which was
37:27the warden
37:28he said
37:29he did it
37:29after I broke
37:30up got out
37:31of the house
37:31again and slammed
37:32the door
37:32in his face
37:34they had ample
37:35evidence
37:36we actually
37:38completed
37:39like a
37:39timeline
37:40of
37:40everything
37:41he'd
37:41done
37:41so
37:42they could
37:42build up
37:43a case
37:44where
37:45he was
37:45determined
37:46to break
37:47into a
37:47house
37:48for an old
37:48lady
37:48and attack
37:50them
37:51everything
37:51was the same
37:52systematically
37:53for the assaults
37:54on both
37:55women
37:55and they built
37:56the pattern
37:56of it
37:59I'd
37:59obtained
38:00a full witness
38:01statement
38:01from
38:02Lily
38:02which is
38:03unusual
38:03that you've
38:04got a statement
38:05from a
38:05deceased
38:06which
38:09detailed
38:09the attack
38:10on her
38:10all the time
38:12and
38:13that
38:14we tried
38:15we tried to
38:15get admitted
38:16in evidence
38:18but then
38:19we couldn't
38:21unlike today
38:22in 1984
38:23you couldn't
38:24include a
38:25statement
38:25from a
38:26dead
38:26person
38:26in a
38:27trial
38:27without
38:28specific
38:29consent
38:29from the
38:30judge
38:31and at
38:32the trial
38:33he denied
38:34it was him
38:34throughout
38:36when asked
38:37why
38:38he'd
38:39signed
38:39a
38:39statement
38:40and wrote
38:41the endorsement
38:42at the bottom
38:43himself
38:43that it was
38:44his statement
38:44and a true
38:45account
38:46he said
38:48it's due to
38:49the police
38:49assaulting him
38:50in the cells
38:51that he made
38:52the confession
38:53which
38:54the jury
38:55didn't accept
38:59in July
39:001984
39:01at Manchester
39:02Crown Court
39:03after a
39:04four-day
39:05trial
39:06Mottershead
39:06was convicted
39:08of murder
39:12the judge
39:14when he
39:15sentenced
39:16Mottershead
39:16he immediately
39:18gave him
39:18a life sentence
39:19with a minimum
39:20of 30 years
39:22but
39:24he actually
39:25marked the file
39:26that he should
39:26never be released
39:27again
39:28because he saw
39:29him as a
39:30public danger
39:30and he openly
39:31said
39:31that he will
39:33be a danger
39:34to the public
39:35and especially
39:36elderly women
39:36throughout your life
39:40although it's just
39:41a judge's comment
39:42we can only hope
39:44that he
39:44William Mottershead
39:45in fact
39:47will spend the rest
39:48of his life
39:48and never be released
39:54looking back over all of this
39:56I mean what you've laid out
39:59is a criminal career
40:02that escalates
40:04and escalates
40:06by and large
40:08with impunity
40:09how in your experience
40:12can that have happened
40:15so it is
40:16this case
40:17is a classic
40:19if you were to read
40:20a textbook
40:20of escalating
40:22sexual offending
40:23it would look like this
40:25but for me
40:27it goes to show
40:28that
40:28Mosheed
40:29had really
40:30seriously offended
40:32early on in his career
40:33and had never been
40:35dealt with properly
40:37by the judicial system
40:38and for him
40:40that gave him
40:40the license
40:41to carry on offending
40:44and increase
40:45the way
40:47that he offended
40:48there's now a belief
40:50that in prison
40:53sexual offenders
40:54like this
40:54receive
40:55some form of treatment
40:57some form of intervention
40:58to interrupt
40:59their cycle
41:01of their behaviour
41:01there wasn't any of that
41:04during this period
41:05was there?
41:06no
41:06no
41:06none whatsoever
41:09my guess is
41:10that at the times
41:10that he did
41:11go to prison
41:12he was just allowed
41:13to mingle
41:14with the rest
41:15of the prison population
41:16in amongst those
41:18would have been
41:18sexual offenders
41:19and once you get
41:21sexual offenders together
41:22what do they like to do?
41:24they like to talk
41:24about sexual offending
41:26and so they reinforce
41:27themselves
41:28exactly
41:31Marta Shedd
41:32has by all accounts
41:33never shown
41:33any remorse
41:34for the crimes
41:35that he's committed
41:36and that's not
41:37untypical
41:38of extreme
41:39sexual predators
41:40they
41:41have
41:42absolutely
41:42no consideration
41:43for their victims
41:44it's all about
41:45their own gratification
41:46their own end result
41:47and their own
41:49wish to feel power
41:51and to feel that dominance
41:52over their victims
41:55in terms of rehabilitation
41:56I think it'd be quite problematic
41:58to try and address
41:59a lot of his behaviours
42:00not only are they
42:01quite extreme end
42:03of human behaviour
42:04in terms of their
42:05sadistic nature
42:06and the blatant disregard
42:08for the victims
42:09and the outcomes
42:11of his crimes
42:12he's also become
42:13quite ingrained
42:14in his personality
42:15he sees himself
42:16as somebody
42:17who is
42:18at odds with the law
42:20at odds with society's values
42:21he's quite an angry person
42:24and to try and
42:25sort of change
42:26those patterns of behaviour
42:27although not impossible
42:28we find that
42:29trying to alter
42:30those things
42:31through rehabilitation
42:32programmes
42:33is quite difficult
42:34to do
42:36I have no doubt
42:37in my mind
42:38that had this case
42:39have happened
42:40recently
42:41that it would have been
42:43investigated
42:44and he would have been
42:46identified much quicker
42:47apart from
42:49the biological side
42:50of the investigation
42:52in this context
42:53we would have
42:54a much more sophisticated
42:55digital platform
42:57around this case
42:59it's very difficult
43:00to evade detection
43:02it's very difficult
43:03not to be seen
43:04when we are
43:06committing these types
43:08of offences
43:09because of CCTV
43:10because of our
43:12fascination
43:14with digital technology
43:16and it places
43:17a different net
43:18around this type
43:20of investigation
43:23what is
43:24the big
43:26takeaway
43:26in terms of
43:28Moss's head
43:28and his offending
43:29and punishment
43:31the repeating
43:32pattern that you see
43:34that Moss's head
43:35can offend
43:36in a very
43:37very serious nature
43:38he's arrested
43:40he's arrested
43:41relatively quickly
43:42but the punishment
43:43does not match
43:45the offence
43:45the fact
43:47that the punishment
43:48is so lenient
43:50for such serious
43:50offences
43:51almost
43:53reinforces
43:54the behaviour
43:54he thinks
43:55that he can just
43:56carry on
43:56and actually
43:57if he spends
43:58a few months
43:58in prison
43:59so what
44:00he's probably
44:00mixing with people
44:01that share
44:02some of his views
44:03he felt invincible
44:04I think so
44:06I think so
44:06I think
44:08the judicial system
44:09really has to
44:11stop and ask
44:11itself
44:12here
44:12if they contributed
44:14to this pattern
44:15of offending
44:16by not
44:18enforcing
44:19as strict
44:20as punishment
44:21as they could have done
44:22and not
44:23taken violence
44:24against women
44:25seriously
44:26enough
44:27has allowed him
44:28to go on
44:29and offend
44:30in such a horrific
44:32manner
44:33was it always
44:35going to end
44:35in murder
44:35it didn't need to
44:37it's a cycle
44:39of offending
44:40and actually
44:42if you can break
44:42that cycle
44:43and as you say
44:44if there were
44:45appropriate
44:45sexual offenders
44:47treatments
44:47in prison
44:48which there weren't
44:49potentially
44:51that cycle
44:52could have been
44:52stopped
44:53but in this case
44:54yes
44:55it was always
44:56going to end
44:56in murder
44:58to what extent
44:59do you think
45:00he thought
45:01he'd got away
45:02with the perfect murder
45:04you know
45:05he was caught
45:06very quickly
45:07after that
45:08but
45:08the fact
45:09that he's got
45:10the absolute
45:11front
45:12to go back
45:13to an address
45:14where he
45:14so seriously
45:16injured
45:17and assorted
45:18an elderly lady
45:19shows his
45:21total
45:21disregard
45:23for
45:24the law
45:25the judicial system
45:26and most importantly
45:28for his
45:29elderly
45:30vulnerable
45:30victims
45:31essentially
45:32he thought
45:33I got away
45:34with it there
45:36I'll get away
45:37with it here
45:37yes
45:43William Mottishead
45:44remains
45:45behind bars
45:46and probably
45:48will do so
45:49until he dies
45:56I believe
45:57that he thought
45:58he wouldn't get
46:00caught
46:00because he hadn't
46:0112 months before
46:02got caught
46:03for the assault
46:04on Florence Kelso
46:06and he thought
46:07he was capable
46:08of doing
46:08the perfect crime
46:09and in this case
46:11that crime
46:12was murder
46:42and also
46:42happened in the
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