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00:02In the rural village of Brocham, Surrey, 14-year-old Roy Tuthill vanishes on his way home from school.
00:10One evening, though, when he's aged 14, in April 1968, he doesn't come home.
00:16It was so unusual for somebody to go missing, especially a child who was hitchhiking home,
00:21and they just assumed he would return home.
00:23And then three days later, on the 26th of April, the unthinkable happened.
00:27A forestry worker found Roy's body.
00:31There's an absolute shockwave through the community.
00:34People were looking at each other in the street thinking, how could this happen here?
00:38Despite the tireless efforts of Surrey police, the investigation stalls and the case eventually goes cold.
00:45You've looked at all of the leads that you've got.
00:47They've all come to a dead end, have to start shutting things down.
00:51Abilities in DNA and forensics had moved on.
00:55They were able to deliver a DNA profile and a breakthrough in this historic and unsolved case.
01:04That's what I did.
01:44It's a very picturesque village. It has the river Mole running through it and it is a very idyllic place
01:50to live with about two and a half thousand people living there.
01:54It's a village which has its own identity and a great history of the church that dates back to the
01:5913th century, one of the most photographed and picturesque cricket grounds in the country.
02:04It's right on the North Downs, very close to Box Hill, which is made famous by a scene in Jane
02:11Austen's novel, Emma.
02:13In terms of crime, this is a very low crime area. You're looking at potentially a bike theft, occasional fight
02:20outside a pub, that kind of thing.
02:21This is an area to raise children happily and safely. This is an area that you'd probably retire from if
02:26you'd lived in London for many years.
02:28This is an area that's quite close to the big city, but is definitely far enough away that it's quiet,
02:33peaceful and safe.
02:36In 1968, 14-year-old Roy Tuttle lives in Brockham with his family.
02:42Raising a family in that area are Hilary and Dennis Tuttle. They already have one older son, Colin, and in
02:491954 they have a younger son, Roy Tuttle.
02:54Roy Tuttle, a 14-year-old boy known as Tuts to his friends, he was the son of Dennis and
02:59Hilary Tuttle.
03:00He also had a brother, Colin, and they were a very close, very happy family.
03:06The Tuttles were a very close family of four. Roy was a little bit shy, a bit reserved.
03:12He didn't really go to the scouts or anything, any clubs or activities, but to those who did know him,
03:17he was your run-of-the-mill teenage lad.
03:19He was good to be around, happy-go-lucky, just mischievous, as all teenage boys are.
03:25Roy had been going to Kingston Grammar School, which is a famous old school with a famous old school uniform.
03:30It's a bright red blazer with grey stripes. This is very unusual for a British school, and it's very, very
03:37distinctive in the area.
03:39The children go from many miles away. The Tuttle's lived around 15 miles from this particular school.
03:43And anyone in the area immediately recognised children wearing this red and grey blazer as Kingston Grammar Boys.
03:51So Roy and Colin both attended Kingston Grammar School. In order to get there, they would take a bus part
03:57of the route, but then they would hitch the rest of the way.
04:00And this was because Roy was saving for a bicycle, and him and his brother Colin were saving for a
04:06train set as well.
04:07So they'd use the money for their bus fare in order to save for these things that they wanted.
04:12For some context, back in the late 60s, hitchhiking wasn't as taboo as it perhaps is viewed now.
04:19Their parents at first weren't keen on the idea, but they did resign themselves to the fact that their boys
04:24would hitchhike home.
04:25Nothing had ever happened, so why wouldn't they trust it?
04:29The late 1960s was considered to be relatively safe.
04:33I remember doing it myself in the early 70s, and you wouldn't have given it a second thought.
04:38Now it's a different thing entirely.
04:43Tuesday 23rd of April 1968, Roy leaves school as normal at 3.30, and he gets the bus.
04:50He gets the bus for the first part of his journey, but determined to save up for this much sought
04:54after bike,
04:55he decides to pocket the rest of the cash for himself.
04:58And he's seen on a lay-by near Chessington, trying to thumb a lift.
05:04However, that evening, Roy doesn't return home.
05:08As the hours ticked by, Dennis and Hillary started becoming worried about where their youngest boy was.
05:14Perhaps he was out playing with his friends for the first few hours, that's what they thought.
05:17But as the evening grew later, they decided to phone the police and report Roy as missing.
05:23So having called the police, they came round to take a missing person report from Roy's parents,
05:29but they did nothing further that evening, assuming that he was staying with friends
05:32and he would turn up the following morning.
05:34Back then, this was probably the sort of thing that police would have done,
05:37because it was so unusual for somebody to go missing, especially a child who was hitchhiking home.
05:42And they just assumed he would return home when he'd woken up in the morning at his friend's house.
05:48When Roy still hasn't come home by the next day, police are now very active in their search.
05:53They're taking descriptions of him to the local Chessington Zoo, where a young boy might have gone,
05:57or families who might have seen a young boy might have information.
06:01They take his description and his information to the local area of Toll,
06:04to see if anyone has seen him there.
06:06They speak to local bus drivers, but they don't get any critical information.
06:12Police would have asked everything about him, what he looked like, what his interests were,
06:16particularly what he was wearing at that time, his route home, where the likelihood he might be.
06:22They put up posters and started to talk to people about if they'd seen Roy at any point.
06:27They also checked the military pillboxes to see if by any chance he had fallen asleep in one,
06:31or was hiding in one, but there was no sign of Roy.
06:36Police threw a whole net around that area of Surrey, stopping cars on the street,
06:41just questioning everybody, producing pictures to try and get some sort of lead or some sort of effort.
06:46Media obviously was an important outlet for him, local newspapers, even local TV news.
06:51Anything that could put the picture of Roy in front of the public to see if that produced any sort
06:57of response.
06:58But as the days went on, the pressure was on, and missing schoolboy, every day that goes by,
07:03people start fearing the worst.
07:06Once you start to publicise this, then people help join in, try to provide information wherever possible.
07:13It was Brocombe, Dorking, all around that area was very much a community,
07:18and the police at that time could rely on that community to help them whatever way they could.
07:25With every passing hour, the families must have just thought,
07:28minds must have raced, the imagination gone wild.
07:31The worst, obviously, scenarios were playing over themselves.
07:35It just got worse and worse and worse, the pressure higher and higher and higher.
07:38What had happened to their lad? It's a horrible situation for anybody to be in.
07:44Three days later, everyone's worst fears are confirmed.
07:49So the search continues for the next three days.
07:52People are going more and more concerned about where Roy may be.
07:55And then three days later, on the 26th of April, the unthinkable happened.
07:59A forestry worker working on Lord Breaverbrook's estate found Roy's body.
08:04The boy's body is found in a wooded copse near Mickleham.
08:08Forestry workers spot the red jacket of the school uniform in the dense undergroves,
08:14and moved towards it.
08:15They horribly discover this young boy found murdered underneath it.
08:21So, interestingly, the forest worker had been working in that area in the morning.
08:26He'd gone off to take a break and had come back later on in the day.
08:29And that's when he had found Roy,
08:31leading to the suggestion that Roy had been put there very recently.
08:35Police sealed off the area where the body had been discovered.
08:38Now, a missing person inquiring suddenly escalated into a murder hunt.
08:42Examination of the body, the pathologist told them that not only had Roy been strangled,
08:47possibly with a ligature, the police believed it was, in fact, quite possibly his own school tie,
08:51but that he had been brutally sexually abused, in fact, raped.
08:58The police have a tough job, and any policeman will tell you one of the worst aspects of his job
09:02is having to go to a family, particularly the parents, of someone who has died in tragic circumstances,
09:09and break the news.
09:10It is a very, very difficult job, and you can just imagine not only the reaction of the police
09:15of having to sit down with the parents, but the parents themselves.
09:18Finally, they have the news they'd been dreading for so many days.
09:21Child murders were almost unheard of.
09:23When a child goes missing, let alone found dead, there's an absolute shockwave,
09:28through the community, through the wider community, even across the country.
09:31The ultimate murder of Roy Tuttle was a real front-page news,
09:35and people were looking at each other in the street thinking,
09:38how could this happen here?
09:41Surrey police are under intense pressure to locate a child rapist and murderer,
09:45and deliver justice for Roy's family.
09:48But will they succeed?
10:02On the 23rd of April 1968, 14-year-old Roy Tuttle disappears in the quiet village of Brockham in Surrey.
10:11Three days later, his body is found outside Cherkley Court in Mickleham.
10:15He has been sexually assaulted and strangled.
10:20Just three days after Roy first disappeared, his family get the most upsetting,
10:25most awful news that you can imagine.
10:27A young boy's body has been found.
10:30The parents of this murdered schoolboy, utterly distraught.
10:34Their lives completely ruined.
10:36Roy's father, Dennis, was to die within a year or two.
10:39No doubt of a broken heart.
10:40I'm sure whatever reason he died would have been exasperated by what had happened.
10:45Hillary was to die 20, 30 years later.
10:48There's no comeback here.
10:49There's no way you can make this up.
10:51It's always part of your life.
10:54Officers secure the scene to preserve crucial evidence.
10:59This isn't an area where something like this has ever happened before.
11:02This is forest close to the estate of Lord Beaverbrook, the Canadian press baron
11:07who was part of Winston Churchill's war cabinet.
11:09So police at that time in the late 1960s don't have the DNA and forensic capabilities that we have today.
11:16But police work in terms of boots on the ground is very much the same.
11:19They cordon off the area.
11:20They see all the scene.
11:22They speak to anyone that's been through the area.
11:24And they're busy knocking on doors, asking, did you see anything?
11:27Have you seen this missing boy?
11:30It was a country lane, for want of a better term.
11:34There was metal railings, metal fence either side.
11:38And the body was actually about a couple of yards just over the fence.
11:43Slightly concealed, but not overly concealed.
11:46So there was no great effort.
11:47No houses nearby, no witnesses nearby.
11:50And it looked as though it was a sort of hurried dump, if that made sense.
11:54You know, no great effort was taken to conceal the body.
11:58The police were working on the theory that this had to be someone who had a previous MO
12:03for picking up boys and sexually abusing them and then disposing of them.
12:07They didn't think this was a single one-off opportunist crime,
12:11that this was someone who had a pathway and knew how to do this.
12:16The fear, of course, that the community was a child killer on the loose.
12:19All the pressure that they were under didn't change the fact that they had so little to go on.
12:23It was not impossible for someone to have picked up this boy, sexually abused him,
12:27killed him, left the county, left the area, could have gone to any other part of Britain
12:33and just disappeared way out beyond the reach of Surrey Police.
12:38Investigators begin their inquiries within the local community.
12:43Surrey Police brought in officers from over the county who were engaged in house-to-house inquiries
12:48trying to identify Roy's last movements, etc.
12:51The SIO at that time, Paddy Doyle.
12:54I know that this was very personal to Paddy
12:56because Paddy had a son of the same age.
12:58And it really was a case of trying to trace witnesses,
13:01identify Roy's potential last movements
13:04and appeal for people to come forward.
13:07Police have now got 150 officers on the scene
13:10and they are now interviewing people at mass scale.
13:13They complete 10,300 interviews in a very short amount of time.
13:18These interviews, there could be anything from sort of 20, 30 minutes to several hours.
13:23They interview pretty much anybody that might have seen anything in that area.
13:28So police had very little to go on at this point.
13:30So they put up posters in the area to ask if anybody had seen anything suspicious.
13:35And a bus driver came forward to say there had been an Austin Westminster parked in the lay-by
13:40where he should have been able to pull his bus into at the relevant time that Roy disappeared.
13:45A boy matching Roy's description was seen leaning into that window.
13:49The driver was leaning across, speaking back to him.
13:52This man was described as being short, stocky, with white, greyish hair.
13:57The same car had been reported seen near where the body was dumped.
14:04One of the most significant details about this car,
14:06not only is it a grey, silver Austin Westminster,
14:09which is quite a distinctive vehicle, but it has also got new registration plates on it.
14:13In the late 60s, the British government decided to have yellow registration plates
14:17on the back of a car and white registration plates on the front of a car.
14:21This car has those white and yellow registration plates.
14:25So following the posters being put up for information,
14:28a lady came forward to say that at about half past four on the relevant day,
14:32she had seen a boy matching Roy's description, hitchhiking.
14:36And she had said to him, being concerned, she had said,
14:38there are plenty of buses passing here.
14:40You don't have to hitchhike.
14:41But Roy, being unconcerned, said, oh, I'll be absolutely fine.
14:44So she left and she went to do some grocery shopping.
14:47And when she came back about 20 minutes later, Roy was gone,
14:50suggesting that in that time span, he had got into a vehicle.
14:54So please carry out an exhaustive search of anybody that owns an Austin Westminster.
15:00And in those days, this is a manual search in every sense of the word.
15:04You've got to get the phone book out.
15:05You've got to have paper records.
15:07You've got to go through, find somebody's phone number, phone them, speak to them,
15:11go around to their address, record it all on separate bits of paper,
15:14and then it all goes back into case files.
15:15This is an exhaustive search, and in the end, it proved a fruitless one.
15:20With the car search yielding no results,
15:23police turned to a newly emerging field of investigation.
15:28Forensic science was still in its infancy, really,
15:31when it comes to helping police detectives in the late 60s.
15:35And all the forensic examination of the scene,
15:38and the body was able to show, was a blood stain on Roy's trousers.
15:42The problem was that the blood stain could only narrow it down
15:46to either blood group A or blood group O.
15:49Now, unfortunately, those are the two most common blood groups in the world.
15:53So the police were not given any help, really.
15:56Certainly, when you judge it by modern times, by what they found at the scene.
16:01They would have spoken to anyone who they considered as a potential suspect
16:04and eliminated them.
16:06Did they have any firm idea as to who was responsible?
16:10Absolutely not.
16:10You know, they had no fingerprints or anything else like that
16:13that could have identified the suspect from.
16:15So even if they had a suspect, trying to tie that suspect down to the scene
16:20and to the murder, unless their witnesses, may have been an uphill struggle.
16:25Fibres at that time wasn't a science.
16:28You know, you're talking about 1968, you're talking about fingerprints
16:32and the fact that you had a blood type.
16:34They were the most important aspects of forensic recovery that they had.
16:38Fibres wasn't one of the considerations.
16:43In 1968, nobody had ever thought of a sex offenders register.
16:47This wasn't to come in for many decades.
16:49So there was no actual list of known sexual deviants.
16:53If the police were then trying to trace around the country those who had committed sexual offences,
16:58they would have to make individual inquiries to each individual police force,
17:02which, of course, would take forever.
17:04And, of course, many police forces couldn't be bothered to cooperate with over a crime
17:08that wasn't committed in their area.
17:09It was a very haphazard approach to dealing with sex crimes, partially because these sort of sex crimes,
17:18wouldn't say unheard of, but they were rare.
17:20And police were more concerned with more routine crimes, which kept on recurring.
17:25TV reconstructions of high-profile cases are a familiar thing for TV viewers today
17:30and a familiar thing on social media and TV news.
17:32However, at that time they hadn't been done.
17:34And, desperate to get a breakthrough in this case,
17:37Philip Doyle, the lead inspector on this case,
17:40creates the first TV reconstruction of this boy's final moments.
17:45He recruits his own son to walk up and down, similar to Roy Tuttle,
17:50in the same uniform, along the same road, in a bid to try and jog the memory
17:55of anybody who might watch that broadcast
17:57and anybody who might have seen something on that fateful day.
18:02Yes, the police were now under serious pressure.
18:05They'd never lost a child in these sort of circumstances, but they had no leads.
18:09The bloodstay wouldn't have helped them a great deal.
18:12The sightings that had come up had really amounted to nothing
18:15between the possible connection with the driver of an Austin Westminster Mark II,
18:21which was looking like a needle in a haystack across the country,
18:25and the fact that he was hitchhiking home.
18:27They had nothing else to go on.
18:30Detectives pursue other lines of inquiry, learning of a potential suspect
18:35whose profile bears similarities to this case.
18:38They then start to look at similar crimes and similar offenders.
18:43They know that this individual has a predilection for young boys
18:46and has a sexual interest in school boys.
18:48And so they head to the north of Scotland, Aberdeen, where police have apprehended a man
18:54who has been sexually assaulting a young boy there.
18:57In custody that day is Brian Lund Field.
19:01Field himself said he had nothing to do with the Surrey incident,
19:05nothing to do with Tattle's disappearance.
19:07Despite the obvious similarities of the two attacks,
19:10there was nothing that a Surrey police could take from this connection at all.
19:14With no evidence linking him to the murder of Roy Tattle,
19:18Brian Field is dropped as a suspect.
19:21So the investigation went on for years with very little leads.
19:26Scotland Yard were called in to assist.
19:28They couldn't find anything to further the investigation.
19:31Every now and then they would put out an appeal for information
19:34and somebody would come forward with something fresh, but it never led anywhere.
19:37Although it remained high profile, they never got anywhere with finding out who had killed Roy.
19:43There does come a period in time where you've exhausted all of your inquiries that you can conduct.
19:48You've looked at all of the leads that you've got.
19:50They've all come to a dead end.
19:51Then you have to start shutting things down.
19:54Because you start shutting things down doesn't mean to say it comes to an end.
19:58And of course over the years, if they had other pieces of information coming in,
20:02they would take the files off the shelves and they would pursue these pieces of information
20:07to see if they could identify who was responsible.
20:09Sadly, they were unlucky, unfortunate, and just couldn't identify a suspect.
20:15By 1996, almost 30 years after schoolboy Roy Tattle's unsolved murder,
20:21his parents had now passed on without knowing who was responsible for their son's death.
20:25His brother had moved to America to start a new life
20:28and police were still working away trying to catch this killer.
20:32Abilities in DNA and forensics had moved on.
20:36Studying again the trousers Roy wore on the day he was murdered,
20:39they were able to deliver a DNA profile
20:42and a breakthrough in this historic and unsolved case.
20:47Finally, police have a genetic profile of the killer.
20:51But will this breakthrough lead to an arrest?
21:02Do you have any questions?
21:0730 years after the murder of 14-year-old Roy Tattle,
21:11police have finally made a breakthrough with the use of forensic science.
21:15However, their work is still far from over.
21:19by 1996 both of roy's parents had passed away colin had moved to america his at that point was
21:27the longest unsolved child murder case in britain that wouldn't be the case for much longer though
21:33in that year cold case reviews were being looked at again this was after the introduction of the
21:38dna database a year earlier in 1995 forensic technology had advanced in the three decades
21:44since roy's murder the cold case review came at the perfect time in december of 1996 a sample was
21:50recovered from roy's trousers it was semen so now police had a dna profile of roy's killer they just
21:57needed a name and a face to match in the late 90s suddenly dna sourcing exploded in this science
22:05suddenly took huge leaps forward particularly it helped in forensic police work suddenly police
22:11didn't just have a blood group to go on they had all the integral patterns of blood and semen to
22:17work on which produced like a passport it really could narrow doubt to just single people despite
22:24this progress investigators are unable to match the dna to a suspect then in 2000 a cold case unit
22:32re-examines the case i first heard about roy tootle and the murder of roy tootle in august of 2000
22:40i was basically the head of cid for surrey working through a quiet period and one of the dcis pop
22:46his head into the office and said do you mind if we start looking at the cold case and the
22:51cold case
22:51was the one of roy tootle we had time on our hands so we gave the authority for him to
22:57pull out all the
22:58case file and start seeing what we could find if there's anything further we could do it's a small
23:04team because it was a cold case and in fairness i don't solve crimes the team solve the crime i'm
23:11just the head of the team there was the dci who was like a dog with a bone and they
23:17collected all
23:18the paperwork and what they actually did was there was a thing called the national crime faculty at
23:23that time in 2000 this was down at bram's hill and they had started a section called the series
23:28crimes analysis section and they had started doing in the analysis of all sex crimes and suspects
23:35throughout the country bringing all the information together they put the files that we had we put the
23:41information that we had in respect of roy tootle into the screen series crimes and analysis section
23:46and they actually came out with the report and they had identified brian field as a potential suspect
23:53brian field re-emerges as a lead suspect detectives look into his past to get a better understanding
24:00of the man brian lundfield is born in 1936 in market raisin a market town with its own racecourse
24:09in a largely rural area he doesn't live with his parents they put him into foster care and he's put
24:15into a home called lynn woad house so paul and ruby field were actually very well
24:22known he had used all his money to buy a home that he could then adopt children into so brian
24:27had
24:2714 siblings there were 15 of them all together living in this house and it was like a bit of
24:32an experiment really but seemed to the outside world to be absolutely perfect paulfield was such
24:39a familiar name in the media at that time not only was he awarded an obe for his services to
24:44young
24:44children but he was singled out to appear on this is your life which was an enormous program in the
24:4960s presented by amon andrews prime time itv anything between 13 15 million people would tune
24:55in to watch the story of this man's life he was a familiar figure in the media and on television
25:01brian field was doing national service but he was given leave to attend the filming of this program
25:06along with his 13 14 other siblings to support his foster father and was there on television in his military
25:14he was a very beautiful on the outside in the press the home has a glowing reputation on the inside
25:21for
25:22many of the boys there this is not the case other boys at the home accuse brian of abusing them
25:28and say
25:29in later years brian had an obsession a predilection for sexual abuse age 15 brian leaves the foster home
25:37and after a brief spell in the military he goes to work for the milk marketing board fatefully this is
25:42a job
25:43that allows him to move easily around different parts of the country he sells milk machinery around
25:48the west country and for a spell in the late 60s he also lives in sorry bridefield had the long
25:56criminal record he started in 1969 when he was in his 30s with a gross indecency charge in 1972
26:05that case in aberdeen where he'd abducted a young 14 year old boy sexually abused him boy managed to escape
26:12but he was jailed for that in 1986 he was jailed for four years after abducting two boys aged 13
26:20and 16
26:20though thankfully they did manage to flee he put them in the back of his car and as he's driving
26:27along
26:27he took a tire iron out and said right you two take your clothes off the boys scared witless managed
26:35to
26:35fight and struggle and get out the car as it was driving along the road and then field was later
26:41identified as the driver arrested and convicted for that that had these boys not managed to get
26:47out of the car they would have been dead here's a man who lacked complete empathy and was bordering
26:53on the fact of being a psychopath so with all these convictions it meant that brian was well known to
27:00police by this point he was described as a bit of a jekyll and hyde a hard-working man when
27:05he was sober
27:06but give him a drink and he turned into somebody completely different so this made him prime
27:11suspect really for the disappearance of roy in 1968 now in his 60s brian field lives in the small town
27:20of
27:20solihal near birmingham where he's a respected member of the community brian field was like many
27:27pedophiles in so much that he was intensely devious and had two sides to his character outwardly he was
27:33charming to people to his family and friends was seen as a hard worker but his more sinister side
27:39would come out particularly when he was drunk and that was he had a vicious and violent temper from the
27:4580s and 90s he was working as a gardener and outdoors as a laborer and he built up quite a
27:51physique
27:52so this was an extremely dangerous character in that he had a violent temper he was very fit and strong
27:58and
27:58he had paedophilic tendencies this was a horrendous cocktail and put every school boy in danger
28:06with the evidence aligning the cold case unit is determined to link brian to the murder of roy tuttle
28:13having identified him as potential suspect was one thing been able to prove it was a different
28:19thing entirely so we started making inquiries at brian field we found out that he was living up in
28:25solihull that near birmingham and then at the same time we started to chase up if there's any forensics
28:30we found that roy's clothing had been put away at the forensic science laboratory up in huntingdon
28:37in the freezer they dug the clothes out we asked for an analysis to be made of the the clothing
28:42and
28:44much to our joy much to our surprise there was a dna hit and the dna hit came back to
28:51brian lunn field
28:54in september 1999 brian field was arrested in birmingham for drink driving after the introduction
29:00of the database it was mandatory to give a dna sample after being arrested in the year 2000
29:06the dna sample recovered from roy's trousers matched field's dna sample taken when it was arrested
29:14so we had this sort of parallel intelligence suggested it could have been dna said it was and
29:21it's a case of then of a sharp intake of breath because you're now looking at 30 years has passed
29:28and you're now on the track of a killer so we set up surveillance up in birmingham we started to
29:34watch
29:34identify where field was living and we were watching him i think he was 64 year old man who was
29:41very fit
29:42and agile so it was then a case of getting all of our eggs in one basket getting all the
29:47evidence
29:48together and then deciding right we're going to go and arrest them police immediately elated by this
29:54sudden explosive new breakthrough and they placed a field immediately under surveillance just to try
30:01and get a feel of who he is and then amass all the evidence that they have in order to
30:05finally go and
30:07arrest him we lost sight of him for a brief period in time and i remember jumping in one of
30:13the cars and
30:14we hot-footed it up to birmingham and as we got to solihull they had identified that it was in
30:20his flat
30:21and he was arrested there members of the community are stunned at his arrest for such a horrific crime
30:29after he's been released from the prison in the 80s he settled into the birmingham area his marriage
30:35broke up three children no longer live with it but he pursued his life as a gardener as a laborer
30:41offered for cash in hand which meant that he didn't have to pay tax or he virtually disappeared
30:45but those who knew him who lived around him thought what a great guy he was down the pub by
30:50a drink
30:51amiable outgoing a perfect neighbor nobody who lived in his area in his street or knew him had any idea
30:58whatsoever about this man's past he exploited trust and normalcy as a way to mask his deviance
31:06and avoided detection for decades his arrest created genuine shock among those who believe
31:13they knew him he was taken to solihull police station where he was booked in and then he was driven
31:20south down to surrey and we had each stage planned out there was going to be no conversations in the
31:27car
31:28everything was going to be done exactly by the book so we got him down to surrey and we had
31:33prepared
31:34an interview strategy with them obviously you've been arrested for the the murder of
31:41a boy called roy lindsey tuttle tuttle yeah now that boy was a kingston grammar school boy and he went
31:50missing on his way home from school in april of 1968. did you ever give any school boys a lift
31:57in your car
31:58at all no in 1960 no no are you quite sure yeah positive did you ever stop and talk to
32:06any school
32:06boys engage them in any kind of conversation no no did you murder roy tuttle no i did not i
32:14don't even
32:15know i've never seen him i'm going to show you a photograph of this boy okay okay and that's a
32:21copy of
32:22roy when he went missing no no i mean he looks like a lot of lads really yeah no i've
32:35never seen
32:36him before never seen no you're 100 sure you've never seen this boy before yeah
32:43and he was sat down and faced with all the evidence the police had accrued billion to one dna
32:49evidence his past record of identical attacks i think the police immediately expected that field
32:54would crumble he was now in his mid-60s and you could see that surely that there was no way
33:00out
33:00in fact field accepted his past behavior but said that that was all gone nothing like that now and
33:07what's more he had no knowledge of who this roy tuttle was had never been in that area at that
33:13particular time all the way back in 1968 forget it i've nothing to do with it police have his dna
33:20but they want a confession will brian field admit to the sexual assault and murder of roy tuttle back in
33:271968
33:41more than 30 years after the murder of roy tuttle police finally have dna evidence linking brian field
33:48to the crime but when questioned he denies all accountability police now have field in custody
33:56and they put to him that they have a match a dna profile that links him to the murder of
34:01roy tuttle in
34:021968 field announces yes i did have an interest in young boys yes i've been convicted of multiple
34:09assaults on young boys and the kidnap of young boys but i don't know anything about this case this was
34:15not me the lack of response from field may have taken police by surprise but they immediately went
34:22off to magistrates to apply for an extension to the custody time limits i.e to keep him in under
34:28arrest
34:28for longer before they had to make the decision whether to charge him or to release him at the
34:32end of the second day of questioning they told fields that tomorrow we're going to have to take
34:36fresh dna evidence from you and match that up the last thing we were going to do that night was
34:44get a
34:44dna sample from him so we requested a dna sample from him which he supplied and then we let him
34:51stew
34:51overnight and he obviously started to put two and two together so therefore the following day when he was
34:58brought out to for interview he sat down i've got to tell you something he confessed in detail to the
35:05abduction rape and murder of roy tuttle i'm sorry i've misled you all the time
35:14i've misled you all the time but i didn't do that i've been to prison i'm glad i'm relating my
35:20alter lines i'm sorry
35:24bye bye look at me keep me awake
35:31it's important now for everyone concerned that we finish this yeah it's gone on a long long time
35:39yeah yeah yeah okay i was driving along the road and um i saw this like come get off the
35:50bus
35:52and uh he's something for a lift i'm sure he's something for a lift he's still there
35:58and i stopped and he got in and i asked him where i was going
36:08do you mean the car yeah what do you do
36:13right i'm tightening up in okay how did you just do that
36:20and you went over the front seat
36:25and then i tried to do it on the front of the cross-league on his head
36:31for him to get thrust again
36:35but then i have a hammock and i got him in
36:38and then it became interesting
36:42and you know i just put the tie on his neck and just tighten it
36:49can you demonstrate we hated it and put it around his neck and just tighten it right now
36:56he just said it could box the leg
37:00you could cast him for a hand and i just carried out and suddenly he won't lie for me
37:07and then i got out and then i got out and put him in the boat and then i found
37:15him
37:19you've lived with this secret for 30-odd years
37:22how are you feeling
37:30he proceeded to tell us exactly how he picked up roy tootle how he got him in the car how
37:38he tried to
37:38force him to perform more sex and how he strangled them it's actually quite chilling
37:46to watch how brian field describes how he strangled roy tootle and then of course he put him in the
37:55boot of the car and he kept him in the car for a few days we've got the dna we've
37:59got his admissions
38:00etc but was it possible for him to put him in the boot of a mini so we got a
38:04mini we got someone about
38:05the size of roy tootle we tried to get him in the mini to make sure it was physically possible
38:09so we started to follow up on the results of his interview to try and find some physical
38:15corroboration as much as we had the dna and his admissions etc
38:20so an awful part about this is that brian admits that after dumping roy's body he then drives to
38:26the hospital to visit his wife who has just given birth to their child the fact that he's going to
38:32see his wife in the hospital who's just given birth and he picks a young boy up and kills him
38:37tends to
38:38suggest that lack of empathy the lack of feeling the the fact that he's you know psychopathic tendencies
38:45no emotion field's complete lack of emotion just highlighted the fact that here was a callous killer
38:54completely no interest whatsoever in the knock-on effect of his sexual activity and that a family
39:00had been completely destroyed utterly destroyed in contrast to the grief that he had caused
39:05fields life just went on as normal after compiling the full body of evidence authorities moved to
39:12prosecute brian field for the murder of roy tattle what we had was a case file which was substantial
39:21because of all the information had been gathered over the years and of course in the year 2000 2001
39:27there was a different way of presenting a case at court you had a thing called disclosure whereas we had
39:32to disclose any material that could potentially undermine a prosecution case and of course within these files
39:39there was massive potential and it had not been for the dna and the admission but nevertheless you
39:45still got to go through this disclosure process so we bought this scanner that did something like about
39:50a thousand pages a minute and we scanned every single document into this scanner so therefore we had a
39:56composite file from the paper what we put it made it electronic and that meant we were then able to
40:01disclose everything to the defense solicitor who was representing brian field so eventually the trial date
40:08arrives and brian is taken to the old bailey where his case is heard brian pleads guilty to the murder
40:14of roy tattle but denies the sexual assault and the reason for this is that he will know that he
40:19could
40:20be given extra time if he admitted to a sexual assault on top of the murder charge so he only
40:25admits to
40:25the murder and is found guilty of the murder of roy tattle he didn't plead guilty to the sexual assault
40:32had he pleaded guilty to the sexual assault and he'd gone to prison as a sex offender like that
40:38then of course the regime within prison would have treated him differently so being a murderer is one
40:43thing being a murderer with serious sexual assault a young boy would have been something else
40:48in november 2001 brian field is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 14 year old roy tattle
40:57he would serve 22 years the judge's open court remarks emphasized the importance of dna technology
41:05and how it was essential for bringing justice for roy's family field's confession was the first time that
41:13the police realized that what field was driving was a white mini not an austin westminster mark ii all
41:21that period of time searching for austin westminster mark ii had been completely wasted police at the
41:28time obviously weren't to know that that was the only lead they had uh but it's come as a blow
41:32to the
41:33pride of the police that they had been chasing a complete red herring for so long there was a lot
41:39of
41:39relief the fact that field was convicted there was a lot of relief within the team that he was convicted
41:44but there was also a lot of relief is that field was a predator from the day that he lived
41:51in the
41:52foster home to the day that he died was a danger to society so there was a great relief the
41:58fact that
41:59after the conviction field couldn't harm anyone else this was a huge story for the media not only was
42:09but it was a huge story for the fact that it was a killer caught after 33 years but the
42:14throwback to those of us who were there in the in the 60s the newspapers the black and white pictures
42:20of roy looking this this schoolboy pictures of what happened in chessington in 1968 remarkable how
42:27evocative those pictures can be field was a persistent aggressive paedophile who'd proven that he was
42:34capable of taking school boys off the streets and abusing them this was somebody that kidnapped
42:39two young boys after roy tuttle's death thankfully they escaped and had abused another 14 year old boy
42:45on another occasion police looked at his profile and were linking him to any number of assaults and
42:51any other number of missing children for cases that they hadn't found but as yet they don't currently
42:56have the dna breakthrough to convince him on any other charges field is a practiced psychopathic offender
43:02he is able to behave without any empathy without any humanity even though he's able to keep up a
43:09veneer of respectability as a working man a family man he's somebody that was an ever-present danger
43:14to children and somebody under drink or without drink was able to act on these inhuman beastly impulses
43:22in the middle of the day this is somebody that snatched the child off the road at the end of
43:26the
43:26school day this is somebody that acts in broad daylight that acted in public and acted even though
43:31he had multiple sentences for this kind of behavior this is somebody that was not going to be stopped
43:38field ultimately died behind bars at the age of 87 in 2024 at hmp full sutton from natural causes
43:46a serenity he denied his victims you meet with the brother and you meet with
43:53parry doyle and you saw what it meant to them and you then get this stark realization that after 30
44:01years if this was solvable then potentially any cold case is solvable all you really have to do is look
44:08hard enough and look for the opportunities and look for the clues and it gave me confidence in going
44:14forward that cold cases are actually worth investigating because had we not arrested
44:22brian field then he would have continued to offend and potentially kill other people despite finally
44:30closing the case on his murder there weren't many left alive who knew roy to witness justice being
44:36served so tragically the parents of roy never got to see justice done they never got to learn who
44:42had killed their child but the reaction to brian being found guilty or even being accused of this crime
44:48was incredible he had built a whole new life in birmingham and people there thought he was just
44:55wonderful he was a regular at the pub they had a whip round for his 60th birthday something which was
45:01unheard
45:02of he was a really popular man and when people heard of his arrest they absolutely said the police
45:08had got the wrong person could not believe that he could be responsible for anything quite so heinous
45:13as this murder of a young boy the roy tuttle story has stayed with me for countless years when he
45:21was
45:22killed he was 14 and i was 12. i had a bike i had a train set the two things
45:27he'd set his heart on as
45:28well and i went to school in 1968 on a bus and i look back on all those years how
45:34lucky i was to lead
45:36a life that i have and how lucky i've been to live as many years as i have and if
45:42only roy had even a
45:43slice of the luck that i had he would never have ended in such a gruesome degrading humiliating terrifying
45:51murder that he had to undergo
45:53that he had to undergo
46:24so
46:25so
46:26so
46:32so
46:33You
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