Episode 7 Crime and Punishment

We're looking at changes to policing and prisons

since the Queen came to the throne 60 years ago.

Today, how traffic police discover the dangerous things

truckers get up to while in their cabs driving.

He's sorting his mobile phone out, putting the battery in.

No arms on the steering wheel at all.

And we get inside the shoes of a killer.

The moment a scientist turned detective

to help convict a serial rapist.

In the early '80s, London was gripped by fear

of a man they called the Railway Rapist.

He struck close to stations in the South of England.

Police had lots of facts and details about the crimes but no leads.

A new approach was needed.

For weeks, the story dominated the news.

Good evening. The headlines at 6 o'clock. Police are hunting...

-..for a dangerous man on the loose.

-..a string of rapes.

It started in 1982.

Such stranger attacks are the stuff of horror movies and nightmares.

Women attacked and raped near train stations in North London.

Detectives believe they have a new clue.

The attacks continued for three years

and the so-called Railway Rapist became the Railway Killer.

In the last three attacks that we know of he has killed the victims.

Being a psychopath, he won't stop until he's caught.

The police linked 27 rapes in alleyways and roadsides,

first in a small area then spread out.

Some victims reported two attackers and others just one.

Then, in 1985, the first murder.

19-year-old Alison Day was strangled and sexually assaulted

after taking a train to meet her boyfriend at Hackney Wick.

Four months later, a Dutch girl aged 15, Maartje Tamboezer,

was raped and strangled while cycling

near a railway line near her home in West Horsley.

Unable to make headway, the police changed tactics.

They approached a social psychologist

who might be able to profile the offender and narrow the search.

Professor David Cantor had no prior contact with crime.

All he wanted was the facts.

He thought what could help him

was market research he'd conducted into how shoppers chose biscuits.

Exactly the same psychological and statistical problems

applied to criminal behaviour. When the police approached me and said,

"Can you help us catch this man before he kills again?"

I was thinking about HOW he was going about the crimes rather than WHY.

Soon afterwards a newlywed television secretary, 29-year-old Anne Lock, vanished.

After leaving work at London Weekend

she took the tube and train to her home in Brookmans Park in May, 1986.

Her bicycle was still padlocked to a fence where she'd left it.

But this disappearance wasn't initially linked to the investigation.

Professor Cantor was concentrating on the rapes.

He was pinpointing one offender

and believed the killings were happening away from where the suspect was living.

I realised that what the police ought to do, in a sense,

was to run the film backwards and to focus on that area in 1982 in Kilburn

where the offences had started.

The early crimes were more opportunistic and therefore less thought-through.

Therefore as he became more committed to thinking about the crimes

and thinking how he was going to get away with them

and go to places where he was less likely to be recognised, he was moving further away from that.

Meanwhile, the search for newlywed Anne Lock continued

and when, two months after she vanished, her body was found

in deep undergrowth near a railway embankment at Potters Bar,

her name was added to the list of rapist victims.

With the three rapes and now three murders, things are getting worse.

This man must be caught.

But then a breakthrough.

Professor Cantor used the first locations, all near railway stations,

to pinpoint a few streets in Kilburn where he thought the offender lived.

He warned that he probably had a history of violence.

One person on a long list of suspects stood out.

30-year-old John Duffy had beaten up and raped his estranged wife at knifepoint the previous year.

He was arrested but released.

Some police officers were saying, "No, that can't be an individual.

"That's a problem between those two people.

"That's not somebody who's going to go off and rape others."

My argument was that's somebody you should look at very closely.

At the martial arts club Duffy belonged to,

no one had much regard for him.

I think he only trained on and off for about two or three months.

As a martial artist, he was a bad student, really.

Just a coward, in my eyes.

He had an American how-to-do-it book on crime and violence

which showed how to kill with a garrotte,

the method used on some of his victims.

He even worked for British Rail as a carpenter.

At the Old Bailey, Duffy was convicted of the murders

of Alison Day and Maartje Tamboezer and four rapes,

but cleared of the killing of Anne Lock.

He was jailed for 30 years.

Duffy, he said, behaved like a predatory animal,

behaving in a heartless and disgusting way to each of his victims.

He admitted he had had an accomplice but refused to name him, claiming amnesia.

But 18 years after their reign of terror,

he revealed that it was his lifelong friend David Mulcahy.

Mulcahy, a father of three, was convicted of three murders

and 12 rapes and given a life sentence.

In court, Duffy denounced his friend.

He even admitted his own part in the rape and murder of Anne Lock.

After the trial, a senior police officer congratulated Professor Cantor.

He said, "I don't know if what you said to us was all flannel but it was very helpful."

Then I knew that I was onto something

and this was in fact the beginning of a whole new area of research.

Because, like him, I didn't know if it was a fluke or not.

It was the first major case I'd been involved in.

I'd worked from first principles without any background research or data to work from.

The investigation had lasted for four years

and involved more than 30 police officers.

Professor Cantor received no payment for his part but it made his name.

A quarter of a century on,

his new discipline of investigative psychology is used worldwide

to fight crimes from fraud to terrorism all because of John Duffy.

If your house had been broken into,

it's likely that the last person you'd want to meet

would be the person who entered your space and stole your possessions.

Yet when Bristol student Sarah Edwards was offered the chance

to meet the crack addict who burgled her home, she didn't hesitate.

I was burgled and they came into my bedroom.

That's why it was mainly my stuff that was nicked. So...

It's a bit worse than just somebody coming into your kitchen and taking something.

They've actually been in the place where I sleep.

I just want to put a human face on them, really. Get some closure.

All of Sarah's university coursework

together with all her precious family photographs were on her stolen laptop.

Her life was completely disrupted by the burglary

and she's incredibly nervous about coming face to face with the burglar, who we are calling Sam.

He's being held in Bristol prison.

No. It's not my usual place to hang out!

Sarah's driver is PC Nick Hughes who runs Bristol prison's restorative justice scheme.

He's doing his best to reassure her about going inside the walls.

So I'm not going to pass lots of offenders?

What's about to happen could change Sarah's life.

Restorative justice is a clumsy name for a very delicate operation

to bring together victim and offender.

The point of it is firstly to give victims greater satisfaction

and a chance to, I think confront is the wrong word,

but to meet their offenders

and to talk through the impact of the crime to put across to the offender

how deeply they've been affected by the crime.

For the offender, it can be a powerful blocker to reoffending.

We're getting very close to the prison now

and Sarah is naturally concerned about her personal safety.

Why is there not going to be a table between us? Will he be cuffed?

Yes. It's just it's always quite scary if they were to get violent.

I know it's unheard of.

But with a table you have something to... You know.

What Sarah doesn't realise is that Sam,

the man who broke into her home to raise money for drugs,

is feeling even more anxious.

Nervous. And just...

I don't really know. Just to see their point of view, I suppose.

I've never done this before so I really don't know.

Sam's already been sentenced to two and a half years

for a series of burglaries including Sarah's home.

If I ever went back onto drugs and if I went to burgle a house,

there would be something in my head, this little echo saying,

"Listen, don't do them burglaries."

Outside the prison, Sarah's beginning to have second thoughts.

I'm feeling very nervous.

I'm really scared he's going to be some big, scary offender.

-He's convinced me that they're the right reasons.

-OK, I believe you.

We'll see whether Nick's faith is justified later in the programme.

Still to come on Crime And Punishment, the secret life of a trucker.

Making tea, filling in forms, calling the wife.

We get an alarming view into the cabs Britain's lorry drivers.

You were rebuilding your phone on the steering wheel while driving.

Who can forget the terrible scenes of rioting

on the streets of Britain in 2011?

Here in the West Midlands,

300 arrests and 72 charges were made immediately after the disorder.

Since then, modern police techniques mean that the hunt for the criminals can continue virtually forever.

The riots of 2011, which started in the Tottenham area of London,

very quickly spread to other major cities around England including Birmingham.

Images like these shocked the nation.

In Winson Green, three men were killed.

Only a direct appeal for calm by the victims' father

prevented retaliatory attacks.

Remember the three men that sacrificed their lives for this community.

Following that appeal, order returned.

But that wasn't the end for the police.

It was the start of months of scrutiny

of all the CCTV footage that came in from the city centre,

which led to a massive round-up of suspects.

Police. Open the door, please.

HE RAPS ON THE DOOR

West Midlands police are no strangers to rioting on the streets.

The 1980s saw some of the most serious riots of the 20th century.

They began in Brixton in 81, where they culminated

in the death of PC Keith Blakelock four years later.

In Birmingham in 85, they centred on Handsworth.

There was rising unemployment in a young black population

and allegations of harassment by police.

PC Steve Moore has been in the force for 28 years.

He was out policing the streets in the recent riots and the subsequent arrests

but in 1985, less than a year after joining the police,

he found himself at the sharp end on the streets of Handsworth.

I had just turned 21

and was straight into a situation

on the night the Handsworth riots broke out.

You get through it through adrenaline.

You have petrol bombs thrown at you, bricks thrown at you.

As a 21-year-old, petrifying, absolutely petrifying.

The two days of rioting in Handsworth left two people dead.

But in 2011, the riots were as much about criminality

as social deprivation.

There seemed neither rhyme nor reason in who or what was looted.

Ajay Bhatia owns a small grocery shop in Birmingham city centre.

On 9th August there were rumours of unrest in the city,

so he shut up shop early.

He will never forget that night.

I got a call from one of the people

living in the apartment that the shop is being raided.

There were about 60 or 70 of them

and they were just taking whatever they could grab in their hands.

This was the business Ajay and his wife had spent seven years building,

opening up from 6:30 in the morning until 10 o'clock at night.

Despite the danger, Ajay headed straight back,

but there was nothing he could do to save his livelihood.

The shop's CCTV cameras had caught these astonishing images

of the looters in action.

The whole operation took about five to six minutes.

Breaking the glass, getting in, breaking the till.

The fridges were not running.

The stock, cigarettes, spirits, wines.

Things which are easily sellable, you know.

It was like fun for them, as if they had just joined the party.

But it was no party for Ajay.

My heart was pumping. I came here. What's going to happen next?

Just a nightmare, the worst day of my life.

To start with the rioters had caught the Government and the police on the hop,

but they provoked a strong reaction.

When it came to identifying the rioters in 2011,

the police had one massive advantage that wasn't available in 1985.

We have cameras in the city centre.

We have footage that comes from Birmingham City Council.

We have the shops' CCTV in and around Birmingham,

Wolverhampton, West Bromwich.

We even get mobile phone footage that members of the public have recorded

of offending that's going on. They send it in to us.

Over the following months, a major police operation was carried out

to view every inch of the footage

and to try and identify every single person caught looting.

Here's something amazing.

Truckers on the motorway, driving at speeds of up to 55 miles mph,

while changing their mobile phone battery or even doing their paperwork.

Now police have a new technique for preventing this kind of driving.

Let's take a look.

We only take the truck out once every two or three months to reinforce the message.

But that message stays with drivers.

It's an urban legend, if you like.

One truck, one camera and a support car,

all it takes to police the lorry drivers

in what's known as the Birmingham Box.

On our first deployment

of the truck looking into the cabs, we found drivers doing all sorts.

This has got to stop, you know.

Literally drivers cooking meals, watching DVDs on laptops,

making cups of tea with kettles boiling in the cab on camping stoves and the like.

If Birmingham is at the heart of Britain,

then the M6, the M5 and the M42 are the arteries.

For a trucker to get north to south,

the chances are they need to use one of these roads.

We usually get tell-tale signs while the lorry drivers are driving along.

They move in the lane, or they just wander onto the hard shoulder.

That tells us they're not fully paying attention.

So we then pay them more attention, if you like.

We'll be looking in their driver's mirror, which is very big,

and gives us an initial indication of what they're doing.

You can usually see them moving round in the cab and doing something.

Then we'll draw level with the suspect vehicle,

in which case the observer sat in the passenger seat there

has an excellent view, just a short distance away from the driver,

and he'll give us a commentary of what that driver's doing.

Within moments the team see their first offence.

That driver's looking at his notes with his pen on his lap.

-HGV to assisted vehicle, please.

-'Go on?'

We've got a driver using a clipboard and pen and paper

while in lane one.

That driver there, in stop-start traffic on the motorway,

decided to pick up his delivery notes.

He was driving at 5 or 10 mph with no hands on the steering wheel

and with a clipboard and pad on his steering wheel.

Writing, not paying any attention to the traffic up ahead.

You might say, "5 or 10 mph, if he has an accident it'll be minor."

But a minor accident here probably means a fatal accident a mile back.

The driver is taken to a safe area.

He's been caught on camera, fair and square,

and will be given a fixed penalty.

Back on the road and the news that the police truck is out

is filtering through on the Trucker Bush Telegraph.

This is golden now because they're going to start realising we're about.

You get the lorry drivers getting on the CB radios

telling each other that the police truck's about.

That's excellent for us. It means we're achieving compliance.

It means lorry drivers are putting their seat belts on,

hopefully not using their phones, driving correctly.

Just by our mere presence after half an hour of patrol,

we're achieving that level of compliance.

This driver up in front has got his right hand to his right ear.

I suspect he's on the phone.

There's no reason for him to have his hand to his ear for this long.

He's not scratching his ear or doing anything like that.

Because he's in lane two and I'm not permitted to go into lane three,

then unfortunately we can't get along side him to see.

He's just swerved in his lane which suggests to me he's distracted.

But he seems intent on sticking to lane two.

We'll have to put that one down to experience.

He's texting. He's messing with something.

He's putting the battery in or something.

-He's sorting his mobile phone out with the battery.

-Just record him.

No hands on the steering wheel at all. Is he on the hard shoulder?

Right, I think we need to get the car to stop him. He's on his phone, look.

Fiddling with the battery on his phone.

Right. Call the car and take him off.

The trucker's actions are so serious

that Steve wants him off the motorway as soon as possible.

Our attention was just drawn to you driving down the M5.

You had a little blue Ford Ka down in line two by your offside.

You swerved towards that driver. That alerted us to you.

The vehicle is fitted with cameras.

When we drove alongside you, you had your mobile phone in pieces.

My colleague videoed that for evidence.

-You were rebuilding your phone on the steering wheel while driving.

-OK.

You then swerved and had a chunk of the hard shoulder and came back at us.

You put your phone together and started using it.

That's what I've just seen you doing.

This officer will deal with you for those offences.

Speak to this officer. He'll deal with you.

It's a fixed penalty. An endorsable fixed penalty.

Endorsable means you get three points endorsed on your licence, OK?

And obviously the fixed penalty is £60.

-If you go to court and they watch the video...

-Yes, I'll accept that.

This driver would never have been caught

if the police were using a regular patrol car,

as he was hidden behind his curtain.

They pull it across the window, just to the point where it would obscure,

and then tie it back, as you see.

He could have been sat there

with his hand to his ear on a mobile phone and we wouldn't see that.

It's only because we're high up in the truck, looking down on him,

that we could see what he was doing.

On Steve's patch, HGVs were involved in 33% of accidents last year.

When you're driving a 44 tonne truck, it's a killing machine.

One slight mistake and you've not got a slight touch with a few dented panels,

you've got a serious collision where somebody's going to die.

'He hasn't seen it!'

A family-sized car rammed along the motorway by an oblivious trucker.

This footage shows just how powerful a lorry at speed can be.

In this instance, the driver of the small car was unhurt

and the trucker was cleared of blame,

but it was by any measure a lucky escape.

The offences that truck drivers commit

are quite similar to those that car drivers commit some of the time.

We're talking about mobile phone offences.

We've seen drivers using two mobile phones, speaking on one,

while scrolling through his address book on the other.

Occasionally drivers will build a platform on the dashboard,

create a nice flat area, where they'll put a laptop.

They might say it's for satellite navigation purposes.

It has that screen on it.

When the police car comes, because they can see the police coming from a distance,

they press a button and just swap it over

so they're no longer watching the DVD that they were watching.

It shows the satellite navigation screen.

In the truck we're able to creep up on them and look inside the cab

to see what they're doing before they realise it's the police.

Left hand.

Yes, slowing down.

What is it?

-Got him?

-Yeah.

-OK.

Seven-zero to three-four.

As the weather worsens,

another trucker is going to wish he was hands-free.

And so will his wife, who rang him.

As you were driving along the motorway in lane one,

you had a silver phone, not a flat phone, in your left hand.

We saw it there for a few seconds and then you raised it to your left ear.

Obviously, using a mobile phone is an offence.

My colleague will take you in the vehicle

and deal with you for that offence. All right? OK.

His wife had washed his trousers with his Bluetooth device in it,

so although he normally drives with a Bluetooth available,

he got a phone call from home

and has admitted picking his phone up and answering that call.

He's been issued with a fixed penalty.

Obviously it's raining, the visibility at the time was poor.

Using a mobile phone in those conditions

deserves to be dealt with by means of a fixed penalty.

There's often a story behind why people are doing these things.

It's bad luck for him, really.

His previous lorry this morning had broken down

and he had to be recovered and taken back to his yard and take a second lorry. He's had a bad day.

After a day policing the Birmingham Box,

the police truck will disappear for a while.

Using it on rare occasions helps to keep up its urban legend status.

We still have drivers asking us,

"Is it true? Do you have a police truck? Do you go on the motorway in a truck?" And we do.

With commercial vehicles making up 25% of traffic on the roads,

the truck makes policing those vehicles that bit easier.

Sarah Edwards's home was burgled last year.

Today she's going to meet one of the men involved.

He wants to explain why he did it and she wants an apology.

I feel nervous but I don't want him to know that I'm nervous.

There he is. He's just walked through now.

Can you sit there, please?

We're here to discuss the burglary that happened at your home,

an address in Fishponds back on the 5th November.

The idea is that we have a civilised discussion about that

and we will try and keep emotions relatively in check.

It's quite an emotional experience.

First, Sam tells about the day he and another addict burgled Sarah's home.

I knocked at the door and there was no answer

so we walked round the side and tried the door.

It opened and we just went in.

I was having a look around and I just picked the latch off, I think.

A couple of bits and bobs, like, and then we left.

We took a bike that was locked to the post.

Then we just rode off with the stuff.

Why did you think it was OK to go in and take things?

I don't know why. It's not OK, is it, really?

I suppose because I was on drugs I wasn't really thinking.

Just in one frame of mind, really,

trying to get some money to buy drugs.

Did you ever consider the effect it would have?

Not at the time, no. Now I do.

Not at the time because, like I said, I was on drugs.

I stole off my mum and dad.

If I stole off them, I'm surely going to do something to someone I don't know.

Sarah needs to know what would have happened if she'd been in at the time.

I would probably try and run off, I suppose.

Nick asks whether Sam understands how Sarah had been affected.

Probably, like, mentally. Might be scared to go back into your house.

People's gone through her stuff, took her stuff.

I don't really know because it never happened to me.

Sam's passiveness is beginning to upset Sarah.

You can do whatever the hell you want to yourself

but when it starts to affect other people then it becomes a real issue.

Time to hear from Sarah about what she found when she returned home.

The irony is that she is describing somewhere that's familiar to Sam.

You know where you walk straight in and I've got that cabinet,

and that had all been broken off and opened

and then I began to clock that, actually, that wasn't me.

And then I started to look around, and it took a good few hours

to realise everything that had gone, because I was just in shock.

I just couldn't believe someone had been into my room, my bedroom.

So when you say it affected me, you're right.

I didn't want to go in there

and if I was to go in there I wanted to clean it, reclaim my room.

And obviously my laptop has...

..All of my notes that I worked so hard in my degree to put together.

All the photos that I had taken from my family when I was younger.

Same with my camera.

That camera had been around everywhere with me,

and that corn jar, as little money as there was in there

I need all that at the end of the month. I'm a student.

So, again, that's why I want to meet you, just to put a human face on you,

so that I don't think you're going to come back and be this monster

who takes away my room and my things and affected me, in my life.

Two months after the event, it's affected Sarah's outlook.

I already have a dim view of humanity, because,

as most people will, because people hurt us through life,

but that just absolutely confirms how bad people can be.

Sam explains how he plans to stay away from his old haunts

once he's released.

My family is what I'm hurting.

They are the victims.

And I just don't want to put everyone else

back in that situation again,

so, I'm going to try and go out of Bristol,

stay drug-free, get back into work, plastering

and go on the weekend down to my mum's

and just slowly do it like that.

I think if you're doing something that you don't want your family

to know about, the chances are it's probably going to go really well,

because the family's a good thing to stick around.

Definitely.

Mick has drawn up a pledge for Sam to try to stay clean

and away from his old habits.

But there is one important thing left to say.

But, I just hope you don't get burgled again, and I'm sorry.

Sarah's looking a little happier, and she has no more questions.

Didn't think there was going to be any closure,

but you just gave me the closure.

So, I've heard how you did it, which has answered some questions,

you put a human face on it, you've shown remorse

and given me an apology,

as well as what you're going to do in the future.

-So, you're forgiven.

-Thanks.

I wish you all the best. I know it's hard.

I think that's everything that there is to say.

Thank you both very much. Hopefully, the nerves are over now

and it's a process you're both glad you went through

something, that you can take something away from.

-Were you really nervous before it?

-Yeah. Definitely.

I heard you sort of go (SHE EXHALES) when you came in.

He was more nervous than I was,

which immediately made me feel less nervous.

And the fact that he was more or less, well,

he was shaking when he sat down.

And when I said that I might be jobless,

he actually started to well up.

I didn't want to show any emotion in front of him,

because obviously he is somebody who has wronged me,

and you don't want to, so I had to have a little cry afterwards,

but you could see, with him, he was the uncomfortable one.

I was able to relax.

He said that, his mum being disappointed in him,

and I saw his face.

And that's a really good thing.

And once he realised, you know, she wants me to say sorry,

he kept saying it.

Um, so, very apologetic.

Good luck. I needed to forgive, and I think he needed to be forgiven.

And he fulfilled all the steps.

And he can't really do anything more.

He can't turn back time. He's done everything that he can.

Those kind of meetings aren't just taking place in prison.

The police are also using them to bring together

offenders and victims, and Dan is doing just that.

How are the police using restorative justice?

We use restorative justice with a lot of low-level crime.

We are looking at schoolkids fighting in the playground.

Vehicle crime, some hate crime, and it's really, really impacted.

You've got an excellent story that shows us how it works,

of a man who had his camper van stolen.

Yes, his camper van was stolen overnight.

The lad who stole it got chased by the police,

got bitten by a police dog, ended up in custody,

and when we spoke to the victim, the victim wanted to meet the offender.

-And that's not normal business for us.

-Sounds extraordinary, yes.

It really was. The officers approached me,

and we got them both in the same room, the victim and the offender,

and explored the consequences of the actions of the offender.

The victim explained that he bought the camper van

as part of the grieving process because his wife had recently died.

And they were always going to travel around Europe together,

and this was helping him get over that.

The camper van got stolen,

and he explained that that had ruined it for him,

and he wanted to sell that camper van and it had really ruined the memory.

The young lad who had stolen the van didn't realise,

got really emotive, really upset, really remorseful,

to the point where they were both really upset in the room.

And they discussed the issues, the consequence of his actions.

The victim explained he didn't want compensation

for the damage to the van.

And he didn't want to prosecute?

Not at all. He just wanted to know that he wouldn't do it again.

The young lad hadn't got a job.

The victim basically said, I want to know, in a month's time,

that you're not in trouble. Please send me a letter.

He sent that letter, and they're still in contact?

Still in contact now, both of them happy with the outcome.

And we prevented that lad, I believe, from re-offending.

And that is kind of key, isn't it?

Because people coming out of jail, the re-offending rates are not good.

It's massive. It's proven, two thirds of people going to prison

are back in prison within two years. Something is not right.

Obviously, this is a great opportunity to explore in the future.

And what do you say to people watching you think,

what an extraordinary thing to do. Why would you want someone

who's caused you that amount of upset not to be punished for it?

Until you're the victim, you don't know.

People get closure in different ways.

I'm a firm believer that it's not for everybody,

the right victim and the right offender.

You can't make people come together like this,

but if you get the right people together, the outcomes are fantastic.

Thank you very much. It's been fascinating.

Six months after the August riots,

West Midlands police have a special team of officers

dedicated to bringing everyone who took part in them to justice.

If these looters in Birmingham thought they'd get away scot-free,

they had another thing coming.

Unlike the riots in the 1980s, it was all caught on CCTV.

In the months following, West Midlands police have been examining

every single frame to try and identify the culprits.

The person we've seen in this clip, is this individual here.

You'll see that he runs towards the broken window of Sainsbury's

and then he'll go in.

A short while later, he'll come out, having removed bottles of spirits.

I'll just play the footage on for you.

As you can see, he's got a scarf, a baseball cap on. Into the premises.

Other individuals coming out with property.

Just gives you an idea of the numbers of people

who have actually gone in to steal property.

And here he is, coming out of the premises.

You can see he's got one item in his right hand.

We believe that's a bottle of spirits.

Looks like it's still got the security tag on it.

And, not content with that...

Seconds later at the same location, same individual, potentially,

stashed whatever he's taken near to the scene, he's now going to go back

into Sainsbury's, back in through the broken window to steal more property.

Here he is again, here, entering the premises.

And here he is here, coming out,

carrying about four bottles of spirits.

Once they've put a name to the face caught looting and vandalising,

Sergeant Mark Walters and his team set off to make the arrest.

Mark was out on the streets when the riots broke out in Birmingham.

Mobile phones and social networking sites

made it easy for the looters to spread information.

The social networking has taken policing to another level.

We were just about equipped to deal with it at the time

and, particularly the early part,

they were one step ahead of the policing.

They knew how to organise themselves.

They were sending messages saying, "we're at JD Sports",

and let us know they were outside JD Sports, then move to another area

with no police, and they organised that. Before, you never had that.

Now, the looters caught on CCTV are about to pay the price.

Mate, open the doors, please?

Open the door, please.

Hi, how you doing? Sorry to bother you at this time.

-BLEEP

-- Is he in there?

THEY CONFER INAUDIBLY

He's not, no?

His mother's claiming the suspect's moved out and is living in a hostel.

We have to come in and have a quick look.

Searching the flat reveals nothing, but that's not the end of it.

Mark calls in for help from another unit to check out the hostel.

We just had some intel that the lad we were after earlier from that

tower block, he's going to be there, he's staying there.

If you can go there, just make some enquiries,

and see if his present at that address.

Mark and his officers get on with tracking more rioters down.

-Are you all right? We're after

-BLEEP.

-Yes, he's in bed.

-We'll have a quick word and explain what's going on.

KNOCKING AT DOOR

-Police! Open the door, please. Hello, are you all right? Is

-BLEEP

-in?

-Sorry to trouble you. We're looking for

-BLEEP.

The raids continue thick and fast.

Then, there's good news about the man

they were told had moved into the hostel.

That was PC Newman-Smith, who informed me they've arrested him.

Can you step up to the desk, mate, please?

The young man is already in custody.

He will be processed along with all the other suspects.

For Mark, it's been a successful day,

but their work is nowhere near finished.

We've had over 600 arrests. A lot of them have been charged.

A lot of them have gone to court,

and an awful lot of them have gone to prison as a result.

Even after this is finished, enquiries will go on to identify

the people who still haven't been arrested,

but, no stone will be left unturned and they will get caught.

They've had their bit of fun in August. Now they're paying for it.

That's it for Crime And Punishment. See you next time.

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