:00:12. > :00:18.Welcome to Tuesday's Crimewatch Roadshow. This morning: He is fake,
:00:18. > :00:28.and he is cool. The bogus police officer who targeted an old woman
:00:28. > :00:45.
:00:45. > :00:48.in her own home. Can you help track Hello. Welcome to Tuesday's
:00:48. > :00:53.Crimewatch Roadshow. We're live and we want your help to crack crime
:00:53. > :00:57.again today. You've been getting some great results. Some news we
:00:57. > :01:02.just have got in, one of our wanted faces from yesterday was arrested
:01:02. > :01:12.last night as a direct result of a call from you. Do keep those calls
:01:12. > :01:16.coming. Coming up on the programme today: The search goes on for a
:01:16. > :01:21.woman who has been missing for almost nine years. Can you help?
:01:21. > :01:26.Going in hard on drugs. We follow a major raid by police in West
:01:26. > :01:30.Yorkshire in a push to get drugs off the streets. And conned by a
:01:31. > :01:34.fake police officer. We need your help to track down the man who lied
:01:34. > :01:37.to a pensioner in order to steal from her. It's the roadshow team's
:01:37. > :01:40.fourth week travelling the country investigating crime where you are.
:01:40. > :01:44.They're in West Yorkshire and today they've moved down from Leeds to
:01:44. > :01:48.Wakefield. At the helm as ever is Dave Guest. Where exactly are you
:01:48. > :01:53.today, Dave? Hi, Rav. We're at West Yorkshire Police's brand new
:01:53. > :01:57.scientific support unit in Wakefield. Here they're right at
:01:57. > :02:00.the cutting edge of forensics. And as well as the scientific work
:02:00. > :02:09.going on, they're pretty good at these e-fits, and we'll be setting
:02:09. > :02:13.this lot a challenge. How exactly do they put them together? We find
:02:13. > :02:17.out later, and we set them a challenge. We'll describe a member
:02:17. > :02:20.of the crew to them and see if the e-fit matches. And joining me again
:02:20. > :02:23.today is BBC Look North's Nicola Rees. Hello. Later in the programme
:02:23. > :02:26.we'll be showing you how you can protect your cars' number plates
:02:26. > :02:32.from being stolen. And all you need is something as simple as these
:02:32. > :02:35.Thanks Nicola, looks good. Now our first appeal today. Being conned in
:02:35. > :02:38.your own home is bad enough, but when the person knocking on your
:02:39. > :02:48.front door pretends to be a police officer, it strikes at the very
:02:49. > :02:50.
:02:50. > :03:00.heart of the trust we place in the The thing that really hurt made was
:03:00. > :03:05.
:03:05. > :03:15.that that man came to my home, a If you can't trust a policeman, who
:03:15. > :03:21.
:03:21. > :03:27.can you trust? Five got 50 5pm, and Jean was at home. -- 5:55pm. Jean
:03:27. > :03:32.has mobility issues and is not in good health. She is a very
:03:32. > :03:36.intelligent lady who knows exactly what happened. These crimes are
:03:36. > :03:44.despicable in nature. It is an imprisonable offence to impersonate
:03:44. > :03:47.a police officer. I haven't slept very well the night before. I sat
:03:47. > :03:54.on the chair and fell asleep. The next thing I knew, there was
:03:54. > :03:59.someone knocking at the front door. I had been in a deep sleep, and it
:03:59. > :04:03.would me up. I looked out through the curtains at the front, and
:04:03. > :04:07.noticed that there was a policeman standing at the front door. Jean
:04:07. > :04:15.was worried that the policeman had turned up at her home, so she
:04:15. > :04:22.gestured to him to come to the back door. Hello, madam. There have been
:04:22. > :04:27.reports of a burglary in the area. He showed me his card. Looking back,
:04:27. > :04:34.it looked like a passport. To all intents and purposes, he was a
:04:34. > :04:38.policeman. So I said, you had better come in. Letting him in
:04:38. > :04:44.wasn't the only mistake she made. The next one would cost hundreds of
:04:44. > :04:49.pounds, and destroy her trust in others. I went into the living room,
:04:50. > :04:55.sat down in my chair, and he stood in front of me. How have you seen
:04:55. > :05:01.anything suspicious? Then he asked me about money. Do you keep any
:05:01. > :05:06.money here? I should have been more weight to this, but I said, yes, I
:05:06. > :05:11.keep it right here. Elderly people have a tendency to keep money in
:05:12. > :05:17.their premises rather than banks. Because of my position that I am in,
:05:17. > :05:20.I needed money in the house. would definitely say she is very
:05:20. > :05:26.switched on, but with the person purporting to be a police officer,
:05:26. > :05:29.she has allowed that travel -- level of trust to occur. Jean was
:05:29. > :05:34.led to believe that she was in the presence of a real police officer,
:05:34. > :05:39.but the conversation about money was playing on her mind. I didn't
:05:39. > :05:43.feel comfortable when he mentioned money. Bells started to ring.
:05:43. > :05:51.I am not at all happy about you being here man. I would like you to
:05:51. > :05:59.leave. No worries. I asked him to leave. But the bogus policeman
:05:59. > :06:03.asked Jean to double-check them windows in her bedroom were locked.
:06:03. > :06:09.He asked me to check the bedroom window, so I made my way to the
:06:09. > :06:15.back door, and then I thought to, oh, No. So easing his opportunity,
:06:15. > :06:20.the intruder grabbed the money and made his getaway. I looked out of
:06:20. > :06:29.the front window, and outside of the next bungalow, there was a Ford
:06:29. > :06:35.Transit van. I went to check the money, and it had gone. He had seen
:06:35. > :06:40.it, followed me out and took the money. Jean realised immediately
:06:40. > :06:50.she had been conned, and the man was nothing but a crook. She called
:06:50. > :07:12.
:07:12. > :07:19.I tried to understand what makes a person's do so low. It's money. But
:07:19. > :07:23.he didn't hurt me physically, but he has heard me emotionally. Jean's
:07:23. > :07:29.recollection of the man is vivid, and she has been able to help
:07:29. > :07:34.police put together this e-fit of him. She described him with a side
:07:34. > :07:37.parting on the left, a smart appearance, athletic build, around
:07:37. > :07:44.five feet seven inches tall, and she is confident that this is a
:07:45. > :07:52.true likeness of the suspect we are seeking to arrest. I felt as though
:07:52. > :08:02.I had been duped and used. I don't feel that just at the moment I can
:08:02. > :08:04.
:08:04. > :08:09.trust anybody. And that is a horrible thing to say. What
:08:09. > :08:15.happened to Jean was so crawl. She obviously is a feisty lady, but
:08:15. > :08:19.this has taken its toll. She is saying that the only bit of
:08:19. > :08:22.independence she had is now gone because of what happened. This guy
:08:22. > :08:28.was posing as a police officer which in itself is a very serious
:08:28. > :08:32.offence? Yes, it carries a minimum sentence of six months in prison,
:08:32. > :08:39.and with the these life-savers going as well, this is very serious
:08:39. > :08:44.in nature. What help you need from the viewers? We have identified an
:08:44. > :08:50.e-fit picture. The police are seeking to identify this person as
:08:50. > :09:00.soon as possible. And obviously hear from anybody who may have seen
:09:00. > :09:03.
:09:03. > :09:06.him wandering around or seen the white van? Yes. We are linking this
:09:06. > :09:09.incident to one that happened about 40 minutes earlier in Allenby Drive
:09:09. > :09:12.in Beeston, a few miles from Jean's home. There was an attempted
:09:12. > :09:15.distraction by a man dressed as a policeman and an 83-year-old woman
:09:15. > :09:18.refused to let the suspect into her home. The incident happened at
:09:18. > :09:22.5.15pm. Jean says that this guy held summing up and she thought it
:09:22. > :09:27.was a police badge. What does a genuine badge look like? It would
:09:27. > :09:31.bear a crest belonging to the force, and identify their role within the
:09:31. > :09:38.force. And there would be no problem with you saying, wait on
:09:38. > :09:48.the doorstep, I will check it out. Absolutely not. We may not be able
:09:48. > :09:51.
:09:51. > :09:54.to get Jean's money back, but with your help, we may be able to The
:09:54. > :09:57.numbers are on the screen. And later in the programme we'll be
:09:58. > :10:01.finding out how the team here put together the e-fit picture of the
:10:01. > :10:04.suspect in this case. Rav. Well, we've got some real faces for you
:10:04. > :10:07.to look at now it's time for today's Wanted Faces. And the
:10:07. > :10:09.police need your help in tracking them down. First up today is this
:10:09. > :10:12.man, Thomas Luke Maughan. He's wanted for questioning by
:10:12. > :10:15.detectives in connection with an attack in Staffordshire in which a
:10:15. > :10:18.machete was used. It almost severed the arm of the victim. Maughan has
:10:18. > :10:20.an Irish accent and is known to have links to Stoke-on-Trent areas
:10:20. > :10:23.and also to the travelling community.
:10:23. > :10:26.Next today is this man, Ronald Brian Grimes. He was jailed for
:10:26. > :10:29.nine years in May 2004 for offences including armed robbery, but was
:10:29. > :10:32.released early on licence in April last year. He failed to keep to the
:10:33. > :10:35.conditions of that licence and has now been recalled to prison. He has
:10:36. > :10:39.a Liverpudlian accent and scarring on his left arm and knee. Grimes
:10:39. > :10:42.has tattoos of Chinese symbols on his arms and the name Emma on the
:10:42. > :10:44.left side of his chest. Next up is this man, Robin Thomas
:10:45. > :10:47.Brough. He's wanted by officers in Hampshire in connection with
:10:47. > :10:50.burglary offences and threats to kill. Brough has earrings in both
:10:51. > :10:54.ears and over 21 tattoos including the names Jack and Georgina on his
:10:54. > :10:57.left arm, a dragon covering the whole of his left arm and side of
:10:57. > :10:59.his chest and a bulldog on his chest and both forearms. He has
:10:59. > :11:01.connections to Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Oxford and North
:11:02. > :11:04.Wales. 50-year-old Vincent Toohey is our
:11:04. > :11:09.last Wanted Face today. Detectives from Devon and Cornwall police want
:11:09. > :11:11.to speak to him in connection with conspiracy to supply class A drugs.
:11:11. > :11:15.He speaks with a Liverpudlian accent and is known to have
:11:15. > :11:18.connections in the Merseyside, Dover and Devon and Cornwall areas.
:11:18. > :11:24.If you've seen him or any of today's Wanted Faces then please
:11:24. > :11:27.get in touch. The number to call is 08000 468 999. Or text us on 63399.
:11:27. > :11:30.Text CW, space and then your message. And please, leave the
:11:30. > :11:40.space or your message won't get through to us. Or e-mail us at
:11:40. > :11:46.Right. Earlier we saw the e-fit drawn up of the bogus police
:11:46. > :11:49.officer. The image was put together by the team in this room. Emma
:11:49. > :11:52.Rowbottom is what's known as a Facial Imaging Officer, and she put
:11:52. > :11:58.together that face. You're going to show us how the system works. Where
:11:58. > :12:01.do you start following a crime? get a request through from the
:12:02. > :12:06.investigating officer, and we go out to visit the witness, take down
:12:06. > :12:12.a description and put it together on the computer. This is the early
:12:12. > :12:18.stages, whittling it down. Here we are talking about face shape and
:12:18. > :12:22.hair. We would select a hairstyle, and I would show you nine computer-
:12:22. > :12:26.generated faces. I would then ask you to choose the nearest base to
:12:26. > :12:31.the person you have seen. Bit by bit the computer learns from the
:12:31. > :12:36.faces you select, and it should start to look more like the suspect.
:12:36. > :12:40.How accurate is it? It can be quite accurate. We have a good example
:12:40. > :12:45.here have one that led to the conviction of this man on your
:12:45. > :12:54.right. And it is an extraordinary lightness, and this was described
:12:54. > :13:04.to you by and 83-year-old man. Well, I have a challenge for you. I will
:13:04. > :13:04.
:13:04. > :13:09.describe Dave tu, and you haven't seen him. How far did we get?
:13:09. > :13:14.had chosen this particular hairstyle. I simply ask you to
:13:14. > :13:20.choose now the one that you think looks most like him. From those
:13:20. > :13:24.nine images. I will go with the this middle one,. We'll see how
:13:24. > :13:27.you've got on with that e-fit of Dave at the end of the programme.
:13:27. > :13:30.We'd better get out skates on here. Back to you, Rav.
:13:30. > :13:35.Now, we've already had some results from the the CCTV we've show you in
:13:35. > :13:40.this series. Let's see if we can get some more. Take a look at this.
:13:40. > :13:46.It is 11pm, December last year, just off Fenchurch Street station
:13:46. > :13:51.in London. These five men on a night out, and allegedly had a row
:13:51. > :13:55.with a cab driver. The man in the tie it is now arguing with a man
:13:55. > :14:00.who is out with his brother. Things get nasty, and both brothers end up
:14:00. > :14:09.in a fight with five Against 2. One of the brothers is knocked to the
:14:09. > :14:14.floor, and as he gets up, one of the group sticks the beauty in. --
:14:14. > :14:19.sticks the boot in. Then the group weighed in. Then they laid into his
:14:19. > :14:23.brother. Luckily a passing paramedic came to their aid. Police
:14:23. > :14:33.would like to talk to these men, who might hold the vital
:14:33. > :14:33.
:14:33. > :14:40.Check out this woman. It is a bank in Surrey, march many year. Using a
:14:40. > :14:45.stolen guard and PIN number she manages to bag a cool �4 500. But
:14:45. > :14:51.half an hour later, here she is again. In a different branch of the
:14:52. > :14:59.same bank. Canli, here she takes out �4 400. That is not enough.
:14:59. > :15:05.Next day, she is picked up again, this time she withdraws another
:15:05. > :15:12.�4100. All together, that is a massive �13,000. Police would like
:15:12. > :15:17.to speak to this brazen fraudster. Give us her name. Lincoln. April
:15:17. > :15:26.this year. A man leaves a nightclub, and trails behind this woman, who
:15:26. > :15:32.is making her way back home. There she is, walking through the town.
:15:32. > :15:35.There he is. In a quiet spot, he makes his move. He runs up behind
:15:35. > :15:41.her and launches an attack, grabbing her and putting his hand
:15:41. > :15:46.over her mouth. She manages to get away, and runs. Police have tracked
:15:46. > :15:52.CCTV back to earlier in the evening and would like to talk to this man,
:15:52. > :15:59.in connection with the incident. Know him? Let us know. You know
:15:59. > :16:04.what to do if you have spotted anyone or anything on those clips.
:16:04. > :16:09.Now let us go back to Nicola in Wakefield. Thank you. Well, police
:16:09. > :16:12.here say that tackling the drugs trade is a key priority for them in
:16:12. > :16:17.West Yorkshire, I have been out with operation grass lands. That is
:16:17. > :16:22.a scheme that asks the local community for information. They
:16:22. > :16:26.gather intelligence and use it to track down the dealers. West
:16:26. > :16:29.Yorkshire Police are clamping down on drug dealers.. What we are
:16:29. > :16:36.looking at is more influential dealers, people that affect
:16:36. > :16:46.communities. The villains know what we mean and we want them fob
:16:46. > :16:48.
:16:48. > :16:52.The intention is to locate drugs that have been dealt with. Officers
:16:52. > :16:57.are briefed a ahead of a major raid which is part of Operation
:16:57. > :17:00.Grassland. This operation targets suspected drug dealers, identified
:17:00. > :17:04.using information given to the police by members of the public.
:17:04. > :17:09.There are more than 20 officers involved, the culmination of months
:17:09. > :17:12.of planning. The main drugs we have got down there are cannabis and
:17:12. > :17:16.amphetamines, there is nothing to suggest that there won't be any
:17:16. > :17:20.other drugs down there, Class A drugs as well. With the briefing
:17:20. > :17:26.over it is time to hit the road we are travelling in convoy, today,
:17:26. > :17:29.police are targeting houses which are all on the same street.
:17:29. > :17:38.Maintaining an element of surprise, the officers hit all the target
:17:38. > :17:42.houses at the same time. Police! The teams are in. And so are some
:17:42. > :17:46.of their suspects. Evidence gathered before the raid gives them
:17:46. > :17:50.grounds to make some immediate arrests for suspected drug deals.
:17:50. > :17:54.Rarely are this many houses targeted at the same time on one
:17:54. > :17:58.street. Police officers have forced their way into five properties to
:17:58. > :18:03.arrest suspected drug dealers, they are carrying out detailed searches
:18:03. > :18:12.inside the houses, they are looking for drug, paraphernalia or cash or
:18:12. > :18:18.proceeds of crime. A lot of people keep drugs in the bedding. Look
:18:18. > :18:22.everywhere, everywhere you can think, that drugs can be concealed.
:18:22. > :18:26.With another suspect at home officers try to establish if he can
:18:26. > :18:30.be linked to drug dealing. It is not long before they make a
:18:30. > :18:35.discoverry In this bedroom what we have found is item that could be
:18:35. > :18:39.used to grow cannabis, the occupants agree for us to take the
:18:39. > :18:43.items from the property so that is what we will do. This suspect will
:18:43. > :18:48.not be arrested. Officers are confident there has been cannabis
:18:48. > :18:53.growing here in the past, but just not today. With so many houses to
:18:53. > :18:57.search, the sniffer dog is brought in to speed things up. The dog is
:18:57. > :19:07.continuing its search. It is having a look round this room to see if it
:19:07. > :19:08.
:19:08. > :19:18.can pick up any scents. The dog is now kept still, so it is indicating
:19:18. > :19:23.
:19:23. > :19:29.there is possibly something in here. So we have an envelope here, right.
:19:29. > :19:35.We have four wraps of tin foil, that looks to be some vegetable
:19:35. > :19:39.matter. I suspect that is the cannabis. So that is concealed in
:19:39. > :19:44.this envelope. Found by the dog. find from the dog. The the dog has
:19:44. > :19:47.done its job. It is satisfying for you today, that it has gone as you
:19:47. > :19:51.would have imagined? I am really pleased this morning, very pleased.
:19:51. > :19:55.We acted on the information we were given. We came and the main thrust
:19:56. > :20:00.of it was to put the fear back on the toes of the criminals, firmly
:20:00. > :20:03.on their toes, I feel we have achieved that today. With four
:20:03. > :20:07.people under arrest on suspicion of supplying drugs the message from
:20:07. > :20:12.the police is that the Wakefield district is a hostile place for
:20:12. > :20:16.dealers to do business.. It is about what are the priority, if
:20:16. > :20:20.your serious about policing, community problem, put your money
:20:20. > :20:25.where your mouth is and demonstrate it. Our communities we don't accept
:20:25. > :20:30.deal tong the streets, what we are saying is that is not happening we
:20:30. > :20:33.will take you out and go back to communities and tell them. Well, an
:20:33. > :20:37.update for you on the people arrested in that film, two have
:20:37. > :20:41.since been convicted of drugs related offence, one remains on
:20:41. > :20:45.bail, and the other was released without any further action being
:20:45. > :20:49.taken. Phil Wright is in charge of Operation Grassland. You are
:20:49. > :20:54.relying on local communitying tells you where you think there is drug
:20:54. > :20:57.use, how difficult is I it is to persuade them do that. It is for
:20:57. > :21:03.nem to remain anonymous. They are going to be frightened sometimes.
:21:03. > :21:08.That is the case, yeah. When these guys are put behind bars you can
:21:08. > :21:12.seize their ill-gotten gains through the crime row -- recovery
:21:12. > :21:16.act. Including their cars that you have put on display. The idea is we
:21:16. > :21:20.take their assets off them and we show the public what we have done.
:21:20. > :21:25.Showing them what they have done includes putting up posters like
:21:25. > :21:29.this. Why do you do that? We show the public that we have been pro
:21:30. > :21:34.active, we have recovered stuff and done what we said we would do. We
:21:34. > :21:37.sell the vehicles, and the proceeds of crime go back to local
:21:37. > :21:41.communitys for community project, such as football teams, or
:21:41. > :21:45.something useful in the community, to put it back where it has come
:21:45. > :21:49.from. Thank you for that. So the profits of crime going back-in to
:21:49. > :21:55.communities, can't be bad. Back to you Rav. Still to come on the
:21:55. > :22:00.programme today. Almost nine years ago, a young woman disappeared.
:22:00. > :22:04.Police are searching for clues to find out what happened. And the
:22:04. > :22:10.fuel thieves driving up the the crime rate. Is your car number
:22:10. > :22:14.plate being used by someone else to commit a crime? Now, time for a bit
:22:14. > :22:18.of CCTV action, in the last three months five armed robberies have
:22:18. > :22:21.taken place in Kidderminster in Worcestershire. Police believe they
:22:22. > :22:30.are link and we have footage of some of the incidents. Take a look
:22:30. > :22:35.at this. It is 8.30pm on the 5th April this year. This mini market
:22:35. > :22:40.is quiet until two men enter. They are about to wreak havoc. One jumps
:22:40. > :22:44.over the counter. He opens the the till, then almost drops it it. He
:22:44. > :22:47.steels cash and starts grabbing cigarettes by the handful. His
:22:47. > :22:51.accomplice, who has been threatened the owner with the machete you can
:22:51. > :22:56.see in his hand, targets the alcohol kept behind the counter.
:22:56. > :22:59.The brave shop owner confronts one of the men and there is a struggle.
:22:59. > :23:06.He manages to grab the weapon, before both offenders make a run
:23:06. > :23:10.for it. Kidderminster again, May 1st, at round 8pm. This time, there
:23:10. > :23:16.are three offenders. They make their way into a shop. One of them
:23:16. > :23:20.is brandishing a meat cleaver. The shop assistants are forced to stand
:23:20. > :23:24.behind the counter while the raiders steal cash and boxes of
:23:24. > :23:30.siingrerbgts having that weapon waived at them. The robbers exit
:23:30. > :23:35.the store with bags and armfuls of loot. A chicken shop early hours of
:23:35. > :23:39.the morning on May 12th. Two men enter, but Tay are not here to buy
:23:39. > :23:43.food. They are armed with knives and sticks. One of the men
:23:43. > :23:51.instructs the staff to kneel on the floor, while his stripey hooded
:23:51. > :23:57.mate empties the till. They leave with the night's takings. On June
:23:57. > :24:00.2nd, these three hooded gents bundle into a pizza shop. It isn't
:24:00. > :24:04.pizza on the menu for them, it is money from the till. One of them
:24:04. > :24:11.threatening staff with a knife but a pizza is thrown at them and they
:24:11. > :24:14.are chased out of the shop with a mop. And joining me is Detective
:24:14. > :24:19.Inspector Dean Jones. You and your team are investigating those, you
:24:19. > :24:23.think they are linked. What strikes me if you look at this is how close
:24:23. > :24:27.together they have occurred. Yes, within a two month time frame
:24:27. > :24:32.between April and June, we have had five offences of a very violent
:24:32. > :24:37.nature as you have seen. There are vast similarities between them and
:24:37. > :24:43.they are in close proximity, the level of violence, the the knives
:24:43. > :24:46.used, the description, so awful serious robberys in a close knit
:24:46. > :24:51.community. Very close together. What we can see here, this isn't
:24:51. > :24:53.one of the weapons that was used but is very similar to one of the
:24:53. > :24:58.ones. No-one has the right to walk round the streets with something
:24:58. > :25:02.like this, but on every single offence they have been armed,
:25:02. > :25:06.haven't they, with knives, a meat cleaver, the level of violence is
:25:06. > :25:10.so high. Yes, that is why it is so important that we appeal to your
:25:10. > :25:14.viewer, who have seen that awful seat, to get in touch with us, all
:25:14. > :25:18.these offences round the come on the hill area of Kidderminster so
:25:18. > :25:23.the people in the area, look at those image, look at the facial
:25:23. > :25:27.images you can see, look at that clothing. Some is distinctive. The
:25:27. > :25:31.weapons, these people must be known. They must be talking to each other.
:25:31. > :25:36.We need to know who they are so we can put them behind bars. Some of
:25:36. > :25:39.the images are clear. Take this example here. It is very
:25:39. > :25:43.distinctive what he is wearing, someone surely will recognise these
:25:43. > :25:47.people if nay see the image, and you want names. Absolutely. Any
:25:47. > :25:51.information, of course, we are grateful for, of course we would be
:25:51. > :25:55.delighted to identify them and get their names so we can get them
:25:55. > :26:01.arrested. What is important to point out for that first offence, a
:26:01. > :26:06.general store in Kidderminster, that is before the two very violent
:26:06. > :26:09.offenders entered, they were spoken by a young man, and a young couple,
:26:09. > :26:14.male and female walking together, who wouldn't necessarily understand
:26:14. > :26:18.the significance of what they had observed before they committed the
:26:18. > :26:22.offence. We need to speak to anybody who recognisess the image,
:26:22. > :26:26.the weapons, the clothing. That couple you want them as witness,
:26:26. > :26:33.they could could hold vital information. You want them to tell
:26:33. > :26:39.you what they say. Yes, ow I labour the point. Study the image, the
:26:40. > :26:45.mannerisms, the facial features. help out this will be on the
:26:45. > :26:50.website so it will be on there for people to have another look. If you
:26:50. > :26:54.have any information, then please let us know. Back to Nicola now.
:26:54. > :26:57.Thank you. Now, when someone goes missing for a long time, it can
:26:57. > :27:01.often be a desperate wait for the families to find out what has
:27:01. > :27:04.happened to them. They can worry about whether the person is leading
:27:04. > :27:08.a double life, even maybe if they have committed suicide, or worse
:27:08. > :27:14.still, if they could have been murdered. Well, almost nine years
:27:14. > :27:16.ago in hally fax a young mum disappeared but the case has
:27:16. > :27:23.remained open and officers now are determined to figure out what has
:27:23. > :27:28.happened to her. You think am I going to be the one that solves the
:27:28. > :27:33.case. It is like, it is not possible. The answer does lie in
:27:33. > :27:41.hall far, it lies with the community of Halifax and with those
:27:41. > :27:45.people that knew Lisa and associated with her. Almost nine
:27:45. > :27:48.years after Lisa went missing in Halifax, officers are still
:27:48. > :27:58.determined to find out what happened to her. They want the case
:27:58. > :28:02.solved and her family are desperate for answers. In 2003, Lisa was
:28:02. > :28:08.living rough with her then boyfriend Dale more son. She was 34
:28:08. > :28:10.and the mother of two children who were being cared for by their
:28:11. > :28:14.patternle grandparents. Lisa was leading a tough lifestyle at that
:28:14. > :28:18.time. She was living rough on the streets of Halifax, the normal
:28:18. > :28:21.pattern of movements they would get up here from the tent, go into the
:28:21. > :28:26.town centre, where they would look to get some food or a meal, and
:28:26. > :28:30.sometimes beg for money, or just use the benefits, she lived from
:28:30. > :28:34.day-to-day, she had no regular pattern of movements as such, and
:28:35. > :28:41.she was struggling. But even though times were tufrbgs Lisa kept in
:28:41. > :28:45.close contact with her family, many of whom lived close by in Halifax.
:28:45. > :28:50.She got on with everybody. A dead easy going person. Never wanted to
:28:50. > :28:58.push anyone the wrong way, never had a bad tword say about anybody,
:28:58. > :29:02.really. On or about 14th August 2003, Lisa vanished. Lisa
:29:02. > :29:05.disappeared off the face of the earth. Sping like that doesn't
:29:05. > :29:09.happen. Her boyfriend reported her missing round about the similar
:29:09. > :29:14.time and we speak to a key person who knew Lisa who said 14th was
:29:14. > :29:18.probably the last day she saw her alive. Recently this investigation
:29:18. > :29:22.was given new impetus when detective discovered she used to
:29:22. > :29:28.spend time at the arches under Halifax railway station. A decision
:29:28. > :29:32.was made to launch a new search, with the hi-tech equipment of the
:29:32. > :29:37.ground radar team which can scan for traces of human remains. People
:29:37. > :29:47.have come forward, after all this time, presented the inquiry team
:29:47. > :30:05.
:30:05. > :30:12.with things that we thing we can A forensic archaeologist and dogs
:30:12. > :30:17.trained to locate human remains are also involved in the search. They
:30:17. > :30:23.are always open cases until they are solved. Somebody has to take
:30:23. > :30:28.ownership. My team has got this one. That is why we come to work. We
:30:28. > :30:33.have a responsibility to the public. Something like this costs of
:30:33. > :30:39.thousands of pounds to deploy specialist trained search teams.
:30:39. > :30:43.Lisa was a mum, and she was somebody's daughter. If there are
:30:44. > :30:47.any new lines of inquiry to be pursued or that can be pursued, and
:30:47. > :30:50.we feel that certainly the next course of activity we are
:30:50. > :30:57.undertaking here today is more than proportionate in those
:30:57. > :31:03.circumstances. To the team's disappointment, nothing was found.
:31:03. > :31:08.They turned their attention to the canal basin. There is no visibility
:31:09. > :31:13.at all. Everything is done by touch. The fact that the inquiry is nine
:31:13. > :31:21.years old, we are not looking for what you would expect to be a full
:31:21. > :31:31.body. It would be skeletal remains in March. Divers are having to sift
:31:31. > :31:32.
:31:32. > :31:37.through the mud. We are having to go through treed debris and silt.
:31:37. > :31:42.All kinds of things down there. we are at the spot where the
:31:42. > :31:50.specialist teams will work. What have the searches brought in?
:31:50. > :31:54.great deal so far. There is a lot of work to be done down here.
:31:54. > :32:04.as the renewed investigation continues, emotions are still raw
:32:04. > :32:08.
:32:08. > :32:15.for Lisa's family. There is nothing Lisa's Marmot died not known what
:32:15. > :32:24.had happened to her daughter. was really close to her mum. She
:32:24. > :32:30.just wanted some closure. Looking at all the factors involved in this
:32:30. > :32:34.investigation, the answer lies in Halifax without a doubt, and
:32:34. > :32:40.hopefully we will continue to look for Lisa and find out what happened.
:32:40. > :32:46.If anything, it is getting worse. Every time I go to Halifax,
:32:46. > :32:56.everybody I know asks me about her. I have been saying I don't know for
:32:56. > :32:59.
:32:59. > :33:06.And de-ice Steve snow is the officer leading this section of the
:33:06. > :33:10.investigation. We have seen how stressful the last nine years have
:33:10. > :33:15.been. We have carried out some extensive searches and forensic
:33:15. > :33:20.search is a certain areas of Halifax. We are still continuing to
:33:20. > :33:27.look for Lisa. You are hoping that this national appeal might bring
:33:27. > :33:30.new information, because there have been Regional Appeals? Yes, I
:33:30. > :33:36.believe the answer lies of somebody who may have lived in Halifax at
:33:36. > :33:40.the time and has now moved on. I need to know something about where
:33:40. > :33:45.she may be now or what may have happened to her. We have to accept
:33:45. > :33:50.the fact that she could be dead, and we need to find some closure.
:33:50. > :33:56.It is vitally important. We have seen her brother there, and the
:33:56. > :34:02.family cannot move on. The family need closure. If you have got any
:34:02. > :34:10.information that might help, the numbers are on the screen. You can
:34:10. > :34:16.also call Crimestoppers anonymously If you have ever had your vehicle
:34:16. > :34:24.number plates stolen, you know what a hassle it is to sort it out. If
:34:24. > :34:27.you stop to think that the criminals use -- who stalk your
:34:28. > :34:33.plates may be using them to commit crime. And it is highly likely that
:34:33. > :34:39.they could be stealing petrol. Number plate theft is on the
:34:39. > :34:43.increase. Every day of the week we find number plates. People can
:34:43. > :34:49.steal number plates for all sorts of criminality. People are out
:34:49. > :34:51.there stealing numberplates. We are set up for catching you.
:34:51. > :34:55.Numberplate theft is a growing crime in West Yorkshire, and
:34:55. > :35:02.although it may seem a trivial crime, it is part of a much bigger
:35:02. > :35:06.problem. We began to see an increase in the amount of a number
:35:06. > :35:12.plates stolen from motor vehicles, and we realised that they were then
:35:12. > :35:18.being used what we call may cough without payment offences at petrol
:35:18. > :35:25.stations. This man was caught red- handed on CCTV, and later received
:35:25. > :35:29.a police caution. Police believe that one of the reasons there has
:35:29. > :35:34.been a rising number plate thefts is the record high in fuel prices.
:35:34. > :35:38.This has led to filling stations being plagued by thieves who fill
:35:38. > :35:42.their vehicles fitted with false plates and leave without paying.
:35:42. > :35:46.This man was caught on camera stealing fuel from a petrol station
:35:46. > :35:49.in Keighley. But because the number plate on his vehicle had been
:35:49. > :35:55.stolen from another car, police have not been able to track him
:35:55. > :36:01.down. However, there is one unlikely place that people have
:36:01. > :36:05.found evidence to help them identify the criminals responsible.
:36:05. > :36:13.Roadside drains. Criminals who don't want to be caught simply
:36:13. > :36:23.ditch them. We are in Bradford, and we are here to check the gullies
:36:23. > :36:24.
:36:24. > :36:29.for any stolen property, possibly numberplates. It is a secluded spot
:36:30. > :36:35.where people have got time to dispatch things down drains.
:36:35. > :36:40.you'd be surprised at what they find. We have found it knives,
:36:40. > :36:46.drugs, chairs. Everything but the kitchen sink. Every week we find
:36:46. > :36:51.numberplates. Sometimes bundled together. And the team can be
:36:51. > :36:55.focused about their search areas, as certain streets are hotspots
:36:55. > :37:02.than dumping plates. We are about five minutes from the closest
:37:02. > :37:06.petrol station. If you are looking at motor vehicles that hold 100
:37:06. > :37:13.litres of fuel, you are looking at a lot of money to fill them, and a
:37:13. > :37:20.petrol station is losing that when it is being taken. We have not had
:37:20. > :37:25.any joy here. We found this set in Allerton this morning, about 9
:37:25. > :37:30.o'clock. We're expecting to find some more. I will take those and
:37:31. > :37:38.get them sorted. A huge 30% of all thefts from motor vehicles in
:37:38. > :37:42.Bradford this year when numberplate thefts. It has been -- become a
:37:43. > :37:50.priority for neighbourhood police teams, who are offering mode --
:37:50. > :37:54.motorists a simple solution. Anti- theft number plates cruise.
:37:54. > :37:58.replace the screw with a bolt that will make the number plate secure.
:37:58. > :38:07.The only way to get the number plate of is to repeat. If the
:38:07. > :38:10.number plate is broken, it cannot be used and another car. I don't
:38:10. > :38:14.want stolen number plates, and then somebody knocking on my daughter
:38:14. > :38:20.said that my car was involved in a crime. It stops them cloning your
:38:20. > :38:25.car. I think I feel more secure. This district has already seen a
:38:25. > :38:28.drop in numberplate thefts, but the police are certainly not complacent.
:38:29. > :38:32.If you think you can come to Bradford, steel numberplates and
:38:32. > :38:38.use them in criminality, we have systems and processes set up, and
:38:38. > :38:42.we will catch you. Well, last year the number of
:38:42. > :38:47.people deliberately driving away without paying for their fuel
:38:47. > :38:51.actually cost petrol stations �16 million, and you can solve the
:38:51. > :38:58.problem with these simple screws. Cheap to buy and easily available,
:38:58. > :39:03.and it stops the thieves from getting hold of your number plates.
:39:03. > :39:12.As we saw in the film, the number plates themselves can yield
:39:12. > :39:19.evidence. It is down to people like John to collect the evidence.
:39:19. > :39:26.people wear gloves, we can still get fingerprints. We can test Rees
:39:26. > :39:36.using powder. Let's have a look at this number plate. It looks plain.
:39:36. > :39:36.
:39:36. > :39:42.We take some powder on a brush, and gently... And as if by magic, there
:39:42. > :39:50.are no fingerprints. We lift them with the this tape. It is heavy
:39:50. > :39:57.duty. You place it on carefully, so that you don't get any bubbles. And
:39:57. > :40:01.then lift that off. Can we see that on-camera? We have
:40:01. > :40:07.got the fingerprints there. So those are put on an evidence card
:40:07. > :40:12.to be checked against the database. And yes, we pass those to the
:40:12. > :40:22.bureau and they can be checked. And you have a little technique to
:40:22. > :40:24.
:40:24. > :40:27.show us over here. We have got a set-up with adhesive pads. A lot of
:40:27. > :40:36.people who still numberplates will stick them on to an existing number
:40:36. > :40:46.plate with adhesive pads, and we can get some fingerprints off here.
:40:46. > :40:46.
:40:46. > :40:51.This is messy but straightforward. It is more like a liquid. It is
:40:51. > :41:00.just a matter of applying it to the surface, rinsing off, and as it
:41:00. > :41:08.rinses away, there are other fingerprints appearing. Amazing.
:41:08. > :41:11.And then what? We leave them to drive. You cannot lift them off
:41:11. > :41:17.with tape because of the adhesive surface, but we can lift them
:41:17. > :41:21.electronically. Thank you very much, John. If you are tempted to Nick
:41:21. > :41:27.number plates, they will gather evidence against you. Nicola, how
:41:27. > :41:34.are we doing with this e-fit? The results are in, and this is
:41:34. > :41:37.today's prime suspect. I think that is a remarkable likeness.
:41:37. > :41:40.It is probably me on a fairly rough day.
:41:40. > :41:45.If I think she has taken years of you!
:41:45. > :41:50.I have had my fingerprints taken, I have had my footprints taken, I
:41:50. > :41:55.have had my face put on a poster saying am a shoplifter. Crimewatch
:41:55. > :42:00.Roadshow executives, you will be hearing from my lawyer's!
:42:00. > :42:04.Does time to give you a very quick update. The bogus policeman story
:42:04. > :42:07.we showed you earlier who stole �700 from a pensioner near Leeds,
:42:07. > :42:12.we have done some good sending information including a potential
:42:12. > :42:17.name. A lot of you have been so touched by this story, you have
:42:17. > :42:22.kindly offered money to Jean so that she gets her money back. Dave,
:42:22. > :42:27.what are you up to tomorrow? We are moving on, going to South
:42:27. > :42:30.Yorkshire, a new county, new police force. We are going to the city to
:42:30. > :42:33.made its name with steel to find out more about the problem of metal
:42:33. > :42:37.theft. We are going to Sheffield railway
:42:37. > :42:39.station and talking to passengers there about the impact that metal
:42:39. > :42:42.theft has on them. And we are looking at how they are
:42:42. > :42:50.catching up with those metal thieves.
:42:50. > :42:53.See you both tomorrow. Remember, are wanted faces and the CCTV clips
:42:53. > :42:56.are on the website. If you can't wait that long, you can have