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Britains Most Evil Killers - Season 10 - Episode 04: George Naylor
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00:00THE END
00:08On the 17th of December, 1985,
00:12a police officer on duty in Bradford, West Yorkshire,
00:16noticed a car parked suspiciously.
00:20When he began to follow the car,
00:23it sped off into the night.
00:27As the car speeds away,
00:30the police become ever more convinced
00:32that something's wrong with it and with the driver.
00:36After a high-speed chase,
00:38the driver crashed into a traffic island
00:41and police managed to arrest him.
00:46Why had he tried to get away from us?
00:48Had he stolen the car?
00:49He came out with a reply which I will never forget,
00:53and that reply was,
00:54OK, lads, you've got me for murder.
00:59The driver was 40-year-old George Naylor,
01:02and on the back seat of the car
01:04was the body of Deborah Kershaw.
01:07The 22-year-old had tragically been strangled
01:11just moments earlier.
01:15They looked at his record and realised
01:17they had not only a man who had admitted to killing someone,
01:22but somebody who had for many, many years
01:26proved to be a dangerous individual.
01:32A routine traffic stop that escalated into a high-speed car chase
01:37had incredibly unveiled George Naylor
01:40as one of Britain's most evil killers.
01:43and a time of violence.
01:55it was very difficult for them.
02:03So, unfortunately,
02:05they were the one of the most
02:05they were the one dead or two women
02:08And they were killed.
02:09As a kid,
02:09they wanted to take care of.
02:12Yes, we have killed them.
02:12And they had killed some of the spirits,
02:12and we don't know that.
02:14It brought an end to his reign of terror.
02:17It was a relief to the women he'd spent a lifetime torturing
02:22and closure for the investigators who'd hunted him down.
02:27George Naylor was one of the few truly evil people
02:31I ever met in 31 years of being a police officer in Bradford.
02:36I'm absolutely convinced in my own mind
02:39that any time Naylor had his liberty, then women were not safe.
02:46Naylor targeted vulnerable women throughout his life,
02:50never showing remorse for what he'd done.
02:54What always saddens me is that these girls just became a headline.
03:02Naylor became the story and the girls are almost forgotten.
03:08There were many opportunities to put Naylor away for life,
03:12but he managed to evade justice for years.
03:16Naylor's only conscience was about himself.
03:19He had no sense of anybody else, particularly when he came to women.
03:24He was a brute, a cold, calculating brute, who killed because he could.
03:34This killer's story begins in West Boulding, Yorkshire, in 1944.
03:40We don't know a great deal about George Naylor's early life.
03:45We know it was troubled, but we know very little about his parents
03:49or indeed siblings.
03:51Even as a child, George Naylor showed his violent tendencies.
03:56He used violence to manipulate others.
04:00It wasn't just that he couldn't control it, it was his power.
04:05He's using violence to gain status,
04:08so that people will maybe steer clear of him, respect him,
04:14all of those kinds of things,
04:16and give himself a little bit of power and control.
04:18As a young person, his violence was noticed,
04:23and it escalated to the point where, as a teenager,
04:27he was sent to Borstal.
04:29Firstly, a series of petty crimes, robbery and theft.
04:33But then his crimes seemed to get more and more extreme
04:37and more and more violent.
04:44When Naylor was just 17, he committed his first serious offence.
04:50He's broken into a house
04:52where the resident was an elderly female.
04:54He's beaten the female occupant up with his fists.
04:58He's threatened her with a gun.
05:00He's stolen her property and her money.
05:02Now, that's a really serious offence.
05:05He'd been building up to violence for quite a long time.
05:08He also used that violence, committed that robbery on a woman.
05:14And that suggests it's that bully thing about him
05:18where he's going to target somebody
05:21who's maybe weaker than him, easy to overpower.
05:28By the summer of 1967, the now 22-year-old Naylor
05:33already had a long list of criminal charges to his name.
05:37But that didn't affect his luck with the ladies.
05:42Naylor was a charmer.
05:45Throughout his life, he managed to charm two women
05:48to becoming his partner.
05:50But very quickly, they began to realise
05:53that he had a very different soul
05:55to the charming man they had fallen for.
05:58And he was violent towards them.
06:01George Naylor met his first partner in a pub,
06:05and she literally fell for his charm.
06:08He was, like his character or not, capable of being truly charming.
06:12The two of them went on to have two children together.
06:15What I can absolutely guarantee is that relationship had problems
06:20from the very beginning.
06:23People like Naylor are inherently manipulative.
06:27This is a man who forces what he wants.
06:30Naylor's first partner was subject to six years of physical and sexual abuse.
06:36When you're experiencing coercive control from a partner,
06:40and Naylor was undoubtedly coercively controlling,
06:43the one thing you can't do is leave, escape.
06:48Because all of those things that he's been doing to her
06:51are to trap her right where she is,
06:54because he believes very strongly he owns her, he possesses her.
07:00She had desperately tried to seek help.
07:03They'd had children together, and she'd contacting social services
07:07to say, I need to get away, he is violent, I am frightened.
07:12And I think the thing that strikes me,
07:14the response was so typical of that era.
07:19They told her, better a bad father than none at all.
07:25In 1973, his partner managed to get away from him.
07:29But Naylor refused to let her go.
07:33He wanted to frighten her back to him.
07:36He would break into her house, he would attack her,
07:39he was stalking her.
07:41She must have been absolutely terrified.
07:49In 1974, Naylor was living in a flat in Bradford,
07:54where his crimes took an even darker turn.
07:58He broke into a neighbour's flat, a block in which he lived,
08:02and he donned a mask.
08:07And he attacked a 60-year-old woman, viciously, and raped her.
08:15He'd set upon her just because he could,
08:17and because it was another example
08:19of his growing pathological hatred of women.
08:26He committed some very serious,
08:29the most horrific acts against this woman.
08:33Stripped her naked, beat her, bitter, he raped her,
08:41and he committed serious, depraved sexual acts.
08:48This, even for him, is an escalation.
08:53I think the wearing of the mask shows the premeditation.
08:57He knew what he was going to do.
08:58He knew that it was going to be a serious offence,
09:02and he did not want this lady to be able to identify him.
09:07As a police investigation began,
09:11Naylor seemed determined to do whatever it took
09:14to cover up his crimes.
09:17He had the gall to go back to the scene of his crime
09:22and play the part of worried neighbour, concerned friend,
09:28asking if there was anything that he could do for her.
09:32He knew that if he went back,
09:34if fibres from his clothes were found,
09:37if his fingerprints were found,
09:39he could say, well, of course,
09:41I merely went to check that this poor woman was OK.
09:46It appeared that Naylor had tried to outwit the police,
09:50but there was one thing he'd overlooked.
09:53Shards from the very window he'd broken
09:56in order to access the flat were found in his coat pocket,
10:00which would lead police to eventually arrest and charge Naylor.
10:05There were also some traces, fibres,
10:08from his pullover on her pyjamas.
10:11In the end, those small things caught Naylor.
10:15He hadn't expected them.
10:23Naylor was sentenced to 15 years for the horrific attack,
10:27but was released before serving his full term.
10:31The rape was brutal, it was horrific,
10:33and yet he served less than 10 years.
10:37Within weeks of his release from prison,
10:40he was hunting on the streets of Bradford.
10:42He would have been honing those skills of manipulation
10:46and showing his status and gaining status for a decade,
10:51and then we let him out on the streets again,
10:54and he's not going to stop.
11:01In 1985, George Naylor walked out of prison a free man,
11:06but he was far from rehabilitated.
11:11Just eight weeks after his release,
11:14he would escalate from brutal rapist
11:17to cold-blooded killer.
11:29In 1985, 40-year-old convicted rapist George Naylor
11:35was released onto the streets of West Yorkshire.
11:45Bradford in the 80s and 90s was only just recovering
11:49from the reign of terror that Peter Sutcliffe had caused.
11:55But during that time, women selling sex hadn't stopped.
12:00What had changed was the reason for it.
12:05By the time Naylor was prowling the streets,
12:09drugs and alcohol had become the main reason.
12:14So, if a young woman became addicted,
12:17that was a way to feed her addiction.
12:21The sex worker community was forced to operate in the shadows.
12:26Lindsay Walton is CEO of a charity
12:29trying to raise awareness of their stories.
12:32Street sex workers often find they need to operate
12:35in areas where they are a bit more off the beaten track.
12:40Obviously, that then increases the danger.
12:43You have to make very quick decisions
12:45on if you trust someone.
12:47The vulnerability of sex workers
12:49was about to be exposed in the most horrific way.
12:58In the early hours of the 17th of December 1985,
13:03police officer Mark Plovey was on duty in the red light district
13:08when something caught his eye.
13:12I saw a car.
13:14It was parked off City Road in an area which I found suspicious.
13:19The car, to my mind, was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
13:26So they begin to follow the car and then the car speeds up
13:30and they give chase, literally, through Bradford.
13:36The distance is starting to increase.
13:39It's starting to pull away from me, which was concerning.
13:42The driver actually made a right turn at 70-plus miles an hour.
13:49So you can imagine what happened then.
13:53And the vehicle actually came to a rest
13:57in the middle of this traffic island.
14:00Much to my surprise, the driver's door was flung open
14:03and the mail's out and he's off running.
14:08The driver of the car continued to run,
14:12scaling numerous walls, desperate to outrun the police,
14:16closing in behind him.
14:18It took the officers some time to catch the individual on foot.
14:24And eventually they tackled him
14:26and brought him to the ground to arrest him.
14:30The man the police had captured was 40-year-old George Naylor.
14:40We arrested him on suspicion of stealing the car,
14:43but then we noticed that he was sweating absolutely profusely.
14:49He was emotional, he was agitated, he was crying, he was sobbing.
14:56They've just had a chase.
14:58They know that this person has got something to hide.
15:00They then present as emotionally strange as well.
15:05It's just gonna keep layering over
15:07with the suspicions that they might have.
15:12Why had he tried to get away from us?
15:14Had he stolen the car?
15:16And then he came out with a reply which I will never forget.
15:20And that reply was,
15:22OK, lads, you've got me for murder.
15:26I'm glad you've caught me.
15:28Which prompted me, of course, to ask him,
15:30what do you mean by that?
15:32To which he replied,
15:33there's a dead prostitute in the back of the car.
15:42That one sentence says so much about him.
15:45There's a dead prostitute in the back of the car.
15:49It's almost saying to the police,
15:51it's not the most serious offence you've ever seen.
15:54And I think that reveals about him
15:57how absolutely awful he is as a human being.
16:02A routine traffic stop had intensified rapidly
16:06and was now looking like the beginnings
16:08of a full-blown murder investigation.
16:12I had a look in the back of the car
16:16and I saw the body of a female.
16:21There was blood around her head and face.
16:24Her legs were behind the front passenger seat,
16:28down in the well,
16:29and her torso was on the back seat,
16:33behind the driver's seat.
16:35When police looked into the name George Naylor,
16:39they discovered a man with a long history of offences.
16:45We put him in the back of the transit van
16:48and then I started to take a closer look at him
16:52and I could see that he'd got blood all over his hands
16:56and he'd got blood all down the white jumper
17:01that he was wearing.
17:05Naylor would have gone through quite a few different emotions.
17:09He is trapped and he does not like being trapped
17:13so he's going to be looking for any chink in the armour
17:17to get out of that entrapment.
17:21Naylor was handcuffed in the day cell.
17:24He became increasingly agitated
17:28and then he ran to the toilet
17:31and he shoved both hands down the toilet bowl
17:35and began to very, very quickly rinse the blood off his hands.
17:40He then turned to himself and said,
17:42that will make it more difficult for you, you bastards.
17:51But the police were already one step ahead of Naylor.
17:56Mark recognised the victim from his work in the red light district.
18:01She was 22-year-old sex worker Deborah Kershaw.
18:07It's really sad that we know so little about Deborah
18:10and I think that does speak to the way that sex workers were viewed at the time.
18:16That she wasn't notable in society enough for them to keep a record
18:22of this wonderful woman's life and what she meant to people.
18:28Sex workers are very, very often targeted by men
18:33who specifically want to hurt and kill women.
18:38It's not the fact that they're sex workers,
18:40it's the fact that they have access to them.
18:44He wanted a woman and he got a woman.
18:48Naylor had been caught red-handed and was swiftly charged with murder.
18:53But, faced with prison time, he started to change his story.
18:58He was going to put the blame on his victim.
19:01Deborah, he said, had become aggressive and cooperative
19:04when he'd said to her that he didn't have enough money.
19:08His excuse was she died after he'd put her in a headlock.
19:14In other words, the killer was blaming the victim for her own death.
19:21This is a man who will try every possible escape route
19:26with no moral code whatsoever.
19:29No shame, no remorse, no guilt, no nothing, just me, me, me.
19:32I want to get out here.
19:39The trial began at Leeds Crown Court.
19:42The jury weren't allowed to know about Naylor's violent past.
19:46They had to make a judgement based purely
19:49on the evidence of Deborah's murder.
19:54The post-mortem on Deborah said that Deborah had been strangled
20:01and the strangulation was done by both hands around the neck,
20:07repeated gripping over and over.
20:12Which, in essence, caused a patchwork of bruising
20:16around her neck from the front to the back.
20:20When Naylor gets to trial,
20:23the defense make a great play of the fact
20:25that Deborah had a very frail windpipe
20:27and suggest that it was perhaps their client
20:32who's suggesting it was a tragic accident during consensual sex.
20:36In a crushing blow to prosecutors and the family of Deborah Kershaw,
20:42the jury believed Naylor's version of events
20:45and found him guilty not of murder but of manslaughter.
20:51That was a huge error of judgement.
20:55Naylor's obviously a really clever performer
20:58to persuade a jury that somehow his crimes were not as bad as they were.
21:05That he was not a murderer
21:07but an unfortunate killer who'd made a mistake.
21:10That's unforgivable.
21:13It was, I suppose, an indication to him
21:16that he could get away with whatever he wanted.
21:19After the verdict,
21:20the jury were made aware of Naylor's criminal background
21:24for the first time.
21:26It was clear to me, looking across at the 12 members of the jury,
21:32that they were hashing, white-faced, indeed quite shocked
21:36when they heard about his character and background.
21:39And I have no doubt in my mind
21:42that perhaps as some of them returned home,
21:44they obviously thought, perhaps we've got this one wrong.
21:52Despite escaping a murder conviction,
21:55George Naylor was still sentenced to life in prison.
21:59And even behind bars, the rage remained inside of him.
22:04At one point, he made threats
22:06that should he ever get out of prison for killing Deborah,
22:10he would, er, he would pay me a visit.
22:13That's putting it politely.
22:16He's trying to assert his status,
22:19you're not better than me,
22:22so you better be careful.
22:24When I get out of here, I'm going to hurt you.
22:27Throughout his life, he's used fear
22:29to try and control people.
22:31Just the same old, same old.
22:33He had nothing else, really.
22:36Just one year into his imprisonment,
22:39Naylor appealed his sentence and went before a new judge.
22:43His legal team claimed that he no longer posed a threat to the public.
22:49Staggeringly, especially when you look at his previous history
22:52and now know what was to follow, the judge agreed with him.
22:57He said virtually that he posed no threat to the general public,
23:02that that threat was barren.
23:04And in fact, his sentence was reduced to just 11 years.
23:12Well, I don't want to use expletives, but of course I was furious.
23:17That must have been heartbreaking for the family, friends and loved ones of Deborah.
23:27Police thought they had finally put George Naylor behind bars for life.
23:33But in a stunning turn of events, after serving just seven and a half years,
23:38he was out again.
23:40No longer just a rapist, but a practiced killer.
23:44Emboldened by the legal system, Naylor was a free man and primed.
23:50To kill again.
24:00In 1993, 48-year-old George Naylor was once again a free man,
24:06with a record for both rape and manslaughter.
24:10But prison hadn't slowed him down.
24:13Behind bars, he'd kept up his talent for charm
24:17and had even left prison with something no-one expected,
24:21a new wife.
24:29He managed to persuade a woman that he was a man who should be and could be loved.
24:35He was actually married in prison.
24:39The woman who married him knew nothing of his past,
24:42but this was not a man who could be tamed.
24:47When Naylor left prison, he moved with his new wife to South Shields,
24:52in the North East.
24:54She thought he was a nice person, a different person
24:58to the one he actually was.
25:01And unfortunately, when he was released,
25:05she found out very quickly what a dangerous person Naylor was.
25:11Eventually, his wife was forced to get a restraining order on him.
25:15He tried to strangle her.
25:17She thought she was going to die, and the marriage was over.
25:22Naylor moved back to Bradford with tragic consequences.
25:35On the 9th of June, 1995, police were called to the home
25:41of 18-year-old Maureen Stepan, where her boyfriend had found her dead.
25:47A murder inquiry was launched.
25:50I was a detective sergeant working at the local police station in Bradford,
25:54so I was part of the investigation team.
25:57The investigation began by learning more about the 18-year-old.
26:06Maureen was a young girl, an attractive girl, came from a good family.
26:11We met her mother and father.
26:14But like many young people, she eventually got involved in drugs.
26:21Her parents tried desperately to cope.
26:24They went to social services and they said, please help us.
26:27She was sent to establishments in London and elsewhere in the country,
26:32but she never could quite kick the addiction.
26:37Once she'd become addicted to heroin,
26:39then it was incredibly difficult to fund that addiction.
26:43Working in the sex trade was just one way
26:47of actually funding that heroin addiction.
26:50Frequently, she was found walking the streets of Bradford
26:54and looking for customers.
26:56On the night of her murder, Maureen had been working on the street.
27:01Investigators needed to figure out who she'd met that night.
27:06We just simply had other accounts from her friends who had said
27:10she was standing on this particular street corner.
27:13A car pulled up, she got in, she went off,
27:16but then she came back and we saw her again later on.
27:19But then we realized after a while that after one particular meeting,
27:23then she disappeared.
27:26Clearly, this would seem to be when she met her killer,
27:30went back to her house and was killed.
27:37Police had a timeline, but nobody could identify her abductor.
27:42It was a dead end.
27:44Investigators went back to Maureen's body.
27:47Maybe it could provide clues as to who had brutally murdered her.
27:52Her clothing had been removed and she'd been strangled with her own tights.
27:58We saw cigarette burns on her body, so she'd been mutilated after death.
28:04It was clearly a sick individual who'd done that to somebody.
28:09That shows to me a lot of rage, a lot of hatred towards what the victim represents.
28:19Women.
28:21He absolutely wanted to show you are nothing.
28:26I am better.
28:28I am above you.
28:31You are literally nothing to me.
28:41Investigators appealed to the public for help in catching this violent killer.
28:46Someone came forward saying they had information about a local resident.
28:52George Naylor.
28:55George had recently visited a friend of his and had asked him if he would wash some clothing.
29:03That was very unusual.
29:05You know, why would George Naylor need someone else to wash his clothing?
29:11So he became a very strong person of interest from our point of view.
29:16It's hardly a surprise that Naylor becomes a possible suspect.
29:20He's known as a sex offender.
29:22He's killed before.
29:25So he gets onto a shortlist very quickly.
29:28As police investigated the now 50-year-old George Naylor,
29:33they found more and more red flags.
29:37We discovered that he had fled Bradford where he had a house.
29:42That in itself was unusual.
29:45In fleeing, he drew even more attention to himself.
29:50It's one of those panic decisions that really he should have thought about it more.
29:56Police discovered that Naylor hadn't gone far.
29:58He was back at his estranged wife's home in South Shields.
30:03On the 16th of June, 1995, the police felt that Naylor was a strong enough suspect to arrest him for
30:11the murder of Maureen Stepan.
30:14Having arrested many, many people, his reaction was quite unusual.
30:19He didn't panic. He didn't protest.
30:21He wasn't shocked.
30:24One of the first things he asked is he wanted to go to the toilet.
30:28Now, something about George's manner and demeanour at that stage told me that something strange was going to happen.
30:37Turned his back on me and he began to urinate.
30:41I could see he was fumbling around and something strange was going on.
30:46George had a load of pills and he was trying to get those pills out and to swallow them.
30:57So we very quickly disabled him, overpowered him, removed the pills from his hands and took them away from him
31:05and placed him in handcuffs.
31:10Now in police custody, Naylor denied knowing Maureen and said he had nothing to do with her murder.
31:19Detectives needed to find evidence to link him to Maureen.
31:23They started by searching his marital home.
31:26We noticed that the house had a telephone answering system.
31:30A lot of calls coming into the house were logged.
31:34So we were able to see the numbers that had been ringing the house.
31:39When we spoke to his partner, she informed us that on the night of the offence, she had gone out
31:46with a group of friends and he was not happy about that.
31:50In fact, he was furious.
31:51While she was out, he kept on ringing and ringing and ringing her house to find out where she was.
31:59But that gave us a little gold mine of evidence because all those numbers that we found on the tele
32:07-on answering machine were Bradford numbers.
32:11That allowed us to prove that George was in the red light area, very, very close to where Maureen Stepan
32:19had been last seen and had actually been working that night.
32:24Naylor was forced to admit that he had been in the Bradford area, but it still wasn't enough to charge
32:30him.
32:31Fortunately, the police were able to retrieve the clothing that he'd been wearing that night.
32:37It had been washed, but they were able to actually still find enough material to make a test on.
32:44They were able to say that the jeans that George Naylor had dropped off to be washed had the blood
32:50of Maureen Stepan on the knee.
32:56Investigators now had compelling evidence that linked Naylor not just to the area, but directly to Maureen's murder.
33:06We sort of forced him into a corner where he had to admit actual contact with Maureen.
33:11George's account changed dramatically.
33:15And then what he said was, I did meet somebody that fits the description of Maureen Stepan on the night
33:21in question.
33:24She did get into my car and we did have sex, but I did not kill her and I did
33:30not go back to her house.
33:32Typically for Naylor, even when he's confronted by really clear evidence, DNA, the phone calls, all the rest,
33:39he's still trying to wriggle out of it. He's still trying to say, no, no, it's a misunderstanding.
33:43You know, it wasn't me.
33:45As you would expect from a man whose vanity knew few bounds.
33:52Detectives were certain they had their man.
33:55And on the 17th of June, George Naylor was charged with the murder of Maureen Stepan.
34:01The police had evidence to show a man with a history of violence,
34:05angry at his wife and a young woman who simply crossed his path.
34:11Maureen was obviously desperate that night.
34:14She was still on the streets at 2.30 in the morning.
34:19It was then that Naylor approached her and asked her for sex.
34:24He had spent the evening in a local pub.
34:27He was getting more and more angry.
34:29He tried to contact his wife to persuade her to take him back.
34:34And by the time his car pulled up where Maureen stood,
34:39in a usual spot in Bradford, he was fuming.
34:46What he's suffering in his mind is massive injustice meted out on him by a woman.
34:55We have this massive entitlement and status issue.
35:00He's going to take it out on another woman.
35:04He was very jealous.
35:06And therefore, by picking up a person working in the sex trade,
35:10he was going to get his own back.
35:12He saw Maureen, George picked her up, and then they ended up going back to the house.
35:18She will have had seconds to make a decision as to whether it was safe enough.
35:24And with certain individuals like Naylor, I think that if she hadn't got in willingly,
35:30he probably would have forced her in anyway.
35:38Police were confident that they had a watertight case against Naylor.
35:44But he'd managed to evade justice once before.
35:49Investigators were desperate to make sure that history wouldn't repeat itself.
35:54But George Naylor was going to do whatever it took to try and get away with murder.
36:00Again.
36:09In 1997, George Naylor was already a convicted killer and rapist.
36:15And now he once again faced prison for the murder of 18-year-old Maureen Stepan.
36:21The trial began at Sheffield Crown Court with Maureen's family in attendance.
36:32Now, I did meet Maureen's family at court.
36:35We did everything we could to comfort them, to give them support,
36:40to assist them in whatever way we could.
36:44Families want to know the facts, even if those facts are incredibly painful.
36:51And to add to that, you've got somebody who you know has done it.
36:56And all the evidence is pointing that way.
36:58Who's going to start throwing out every kind of defense?
37:03Blame the victim, make himself seem like a wonderful, lovely person.
37:08And all the time, they've just got to sit there in silence.
37:11And try and maintain dignity.
37:14So hard.
37:16By 1997, the law had changed.
37:19And unlike his trial over a decade earlier,
37:22the jury were now allowed to hear a lot more about Naylor's violent past.
37:27With Naylor, his two offenses were so incredibly similar in so many ways.
37:34The MO, the way that the women died.
37:39We can say, jury, you need to know about this.
37:46The prosecution laid bare Naylor's history of raping and killing.
37:52And Maureen's DNA on his trousers left him nowhere to hide.
37:57Finally, George Naylor was found guilty of murder.
38:01Justice had, seemingly, been served.
38:04On the 6th of February, 1997, he was given a life sentence.
38:11However, Naylor was an arch manipulator,
38:14not just of women, but of the system.
38:18And he appealed that murder conviction.
38:23He'd been successful before.
38:25He was a man willing to just keep trying and trying and trying.
38:31Worked for him in the past.
38:33Worth a punt, I think, is probably how he would have seen it.
38:38In 1999, Naylor was granted a retrial
38:41on the grounds that the jury should not have been told
38:44about his previous manslaughter conviction.
38:48On this trial, we weren't allowed to mention anything
38:50about the previous offence where Deborah Kirscher had been killed.
38:54It went simply and solely
38:56on the evidence relating to Maureen Stepan.
38:59The prosecution needed to try a new tactic
39:02to convince the jury of Naylor's bad character.
39:05Both his estranged wife and the mother of his children
39:08were brave enough to speak against him.
39:11Naylor's previous partners testify
39:14that he is a violent man towards women,
39:17that he is not of good character,
39:19that he is, in a sense, hiding in plain sight.
39:23He looks charming and nonchalant and ordinary,
39:29and yet he truly isn't.
39:31Both women were certain of one thing.
39:34If Naylor was released, then he would kill again.
39:43After yet another trial,
39:45the jury found Naylor guilty for the second time.
39:48He'd tried to escape justice,
39:51but he was ordered to serve at least 20 years behind bars.
39:56For Maureen's family,
39:57the seemingly endless trials were finally over.
40:01I do believe that there was a big sense of relief at the end,
40:05that this was finally the end of this saga.
40:08You can never forget your family members
40:10that have been killed like this,
40:11but people have to move on,
40:13have to try and build a life again.
40:14But knowing that the killer's been caught
40:17and properly punished is a big factor in moving on
40:20and getting over and grieving properly.
40:24Naylor had a significantly negative impact
40:28on so many different lives.
40:31And those are just the ones we know about.
40:34So this is a man who was trashing his way through life,
40:39hurting everybody who came into his path.
40:43Naylor didn't appear to see his victims as people.
40:47It was as if Maureen's and Deborah's lives meant nothing to him.
40:51It's vital that we give a voice for Maureen and Deborah.
40:57They need to be heard.
40:59They are someone's best friend, someone's mum.
41:03They are good people and do not deserve to be thrown away
41:08in the way that society treats them.
41:13Often these men, these killers,
41:15these vicious, violent, sadistic men,
41:19excuse their behaviour by saying,
41:22oh, well, she was only working the streets.
41:25I always like to switch it around.
41:29To say Naylor was the weak, pathetic individual here.
41:37The girls were sad victims of the circumstances
41:40that they had found themselves in.
41:43Drugs drive young women then, as now, to sell sex.
41:49And we have to accept that is a fact.
41:52And as such, they are too easily prey
41:56for violent, vicious killers like Naylor.
42:07Naylor was finally back behind bars,
42:09but many people involved in the case feel that he should never
42:13have been freed to kill for a second time.
42:17I don't think justice was served in the end
42:19because he should never have got out from a killing
42:22having done seven and a half years,
42:24and Maureen should still be alive to this date
42:27because he should have been in prison.
42:31The tragedy of this case is the warning signs were always there.
42:36I think Naylor should have been stopped much earlier.
42:39There is no question in my mind that justice was not served,
42:43particularly in the case of Deborah.
42:45He was a man with, I believe, an evil gene,
42:48and a man who would not be satisfied
42:51unless he satisfied himself.
42:53And his objectives were always women,
42:55and therefore, any woman who came across his bowels
42:58was in danger from him.
43:07On the 17th of December 2021,
43:12George Naylor died of a brain aneurysm in HMP Franklin in Durham.
43:18He was 77 years old.
43:21I suppose really only at that point did I really truly believe
43:25that he was no longer a danger to the public.
43:28And, you know, if George would have been released,
43:31even as an elderly man,
43:33I still think he would have had the potential
43:34to do harm to women.
43:37So, in that context,
43:39the public no longer need to be in fear of George Naylor.
43:45He's an insignificant predatory killer
43:49who died where he should have been a lot sooner, in prison.
43:55I just want people to remember,
43:57behind the headlines are two young women
44:01who fell in with the wrong crowd as teenagers
44:05and met a man who was prepared to end their lives without a thought.
44:19Naylor was a callous killer
44:21who bottled all the hatred he had for women
44:24and distilled it into the most shocking violence.
44:28After managing to avoid a murder conviction
44:31for killing Deborah Kershaw,
44:32his lust for brutality wasn't curbed in prison.
44:37And when Naylor was released early,
44:40he couldn't help but kill again,
44:42squeezing the life out of 18-year-old Maureen Stepan,
44:46leaving no doubt that George Naylor
44:49will forever be remembered
44:51as one of Britain's most evil killers.
45:11The
45:12part of the film of the film is not dull.
45:13The film is usually the only one who has passed the film
45:18The film is also the only one whose worth is
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