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Welcome to Tuesday's Crimewatch Roadshow. This morning: He is fake, | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
and he is cool. The bogus police officer who targeted an old woman | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
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in her own home. Can you help track Hello. Welcome to Tuesday's | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Crimewatch Roadshow. We're live and we want your help to crack crime | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
again today. You've been getting some great results. Some news we | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
just have got in, one of our wanted faces from yesterday was arrested | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
last night as a direct result of a call from you. Do keep those calls | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
coming. Coming up on the programme today: The search goes on for a | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
woman who has been missing for almost nine years. Can you help? | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
Going in hard on drugs. We follow a major raid by police in West | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
Yorkshire in a push to get drugs off the streets. And conned by a | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
fake police officer. We need your help to track down the man who lied | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
to a pensioner in order to steal from her. It's the roadshow team's | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
fourth week travelling the country investigating crime where you are. | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
They're in West Yorkshire and today they've moved down from Leeds to | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
Wakefield. At the helm as ever is Dave Guest. Where exactly are you | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
today, Dave? Hi, Rav. We're at West Yorkshire Police's brand new | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
scientific support unit in Wakefield. Here they're right at | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
the cutting edge of forensics. And as well as the scientific work | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
going on, they're pretty good at these e-fits, and we'll be setting | :02:00. | :02:09. | |
this lot a challenge. How exactly do they put them together? We find | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
out later, and we set them a challenge. We'll describe a member | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
of the crew to them and see if the e-fit matches. And joining me again | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
today is BBC Look North's Nicola Rees. Hello. Later in the programme | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
we'll be showing you how you can protect your cars' number plates | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
from being stolen. And all you need is something as simple as these | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
Thanks Nicola, looks good. Now our first appeal today. Being conned in | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
your own home is bad enough, but when the person knocking on your | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
front door pretends to be a police officer, it strikes at the very | :02:39. | :02:48. | |
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heart of the trust we place in the The thing that really hurt made was | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
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that that man came to my home, a If you can't trust a policeman, who | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
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can you trust? Five got 50 5pm, and Jean was at home. -- 5:55pm. Jean | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
has mobility issues and is not in good health. She is a very | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
intelligent lady who knows exactly what happened. These crimes are | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
despicable in nature. It is an imprisonable offence to impersonate | :03:36. | :03:44. | |
a police officer. I haven't slept very well the night before. I sat | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
on the chair and fell asleep. The next thing I knew, there was | :03:47. | :03:54. | |
someone knocking at the front door. I had been in a deep sleep, and it | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
would me up. I looked out through the curtains at the front, and | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
noticed that there was a policeman standing at the front door. Jean | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
was worried that the policeman had turned up at her home, so she | :04:07. | :04:15. | |
gestured to him to come to the back door. Hello, madam. There have been | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
reports of a burglary in the area. He showed me his card. Looking back, | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
it looked like a passport. To all intents and purposes, he was a | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
policeman. So I said, you had better come in. Letting him in | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
wasn't the only mistake she made. The next one would cost hundreds of | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
pounds, and destroy her trust in others. I went into the living room, | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
sat down in my chair, and he stood in front of me. How have you seen | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
anything suspicious? Then he asked me about money. Do you keep any | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
money here? I should have been more weight to this, but I said, yes, I | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
keep it right here. Elderly people have a tendency to keep money in | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
their premises rather than banks. Because of my position that I am in, | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
I needed money in the house. would definitely say she is very | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
switched on, but with the person purporting to be a police officer, | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
she has allowed that travel -- level of trust to occur. Jean was | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
led to believe that she was in the presence of a real police officer, | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
but the conversation about money was playing on her mind. I didn't | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
feel comfortable when he mentioned money. Bells started to ring. | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
I am not at all happy about you being here man. I would like you to | :05:43. | :05:51. | |
leave. No worries. I asked him to leave. But the bogus policeman | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
asked Jean to double-check them windows in her bedroom were locked. | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
He asked me to check the bedroom window, so I made my way to the | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
back door, and then I thought to, oh, No. So easing his opportunity, | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
the intruder grabbed the money and made his getaway. I looked out of | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
the front window, and outside of the next bungalow, there was a Ford | :06:20. | :06:29. | |
Transit van. I went to check the money, and it had gone. He had seen | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
it, followed me out and took the money. Jean realised immediately | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
she had been conned, and the man was nothing but a crook. She called | :06:40. | :06:50. | |
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I tried to understand what makes a person's do so low. It's money. But | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
he didn't hurt me physically, but he has heard me emotionally. Jean's | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
recollection of the man is vivid, and she has been able to help | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
police put together this e-fit of him. She described him with a side | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
parting on the left, a smart appearance, athletic build, around | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
five feet seven inches tall, and she is confident that this is a | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
true likeness of the suspect we are seeking to arrest. I felt as though | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
I had been duped and used. I don't feel that just at the moment I can | :07:52. | :08:02. | |
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trust anybody. And that is a horrible thing to say. What | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
happened to Jean was so crawl. She obviously is a feisty lady, but | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
this has taken its toll. She is saying that the only bit of | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
independence she had is now gone because of what happened. This guy | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
was posing as a police officer which in itself is a very serious | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
offence? Yes, it carries a minimum sentence of six months in prison, | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
and with the these life-savers going as well, this is very serious | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
in nature. What help you need from the viewers? We have identified an | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
e-fit picture. The police are seeking to identify this person as | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
soon as possible. And obviously hear from anybody who may have seen | :08:50. | :09:00. | |
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him wandering around or seen the white van? Yes. We are linking this | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
incident to one that happened about 40 minutes earlier in Allenby Drive | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
in Beeston, a few miles from Jean's home. There was an attempted | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
distraction by a man dressed as a policeman and an 83-year-old woman | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
refused to let the suspect into her home. The incident happened at | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
5.15pm. Jean says that this guy held summing up and she thought it | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
was a police badge. What does a genuine badge look like? It would | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
bear a crest belonging to the force, and identify their role within the | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
force. And there would be no problem with you saying, wait on | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
the doorstep, I will check it out. Absolutely not. We may not be able | :09:38. | :09:48. | |
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to get Jean's money back, but with your help, we may be able to The | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
numbers are on the screen. And later in the programme we'll be | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
finding out how the team here put together the e-fit picture of the | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
suspect in this case. Rav. Well, we've got some real faces for you | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
to look at now it's time for today's Wanted Faces. And the | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
police need your help in tracking them down. First up today is this | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
man, Thomas Luke Maughan. He's wanted for questioning by | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
detectives in connection with an attack in Staffordshire in which a | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
machete was used. It almost severed the arm of the victim. Maughan has | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
an Irish accent and is known to have links to Stoke-on-Trent areas | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
and also to the travelling community. | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
Next today is this man, Ronald Brian Grimes. He was jailed for | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
nine years in May 2004 for offences including armed robbery, but was | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
released early on licence in April last year. He failed to keep to the | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
conditions of that licence and has now been recalled to prison. He has | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
a Liverpudlian accent and scarring on his left arm and knee. Grimes | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
has tattoos of Chinese symbols on his arms and the name Emma on the | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
left side of his chest. Next up is this man, Robin Thomas | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
Brough. He's wanted by officers in Hampshire in connection with | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
burglary offences and threats to kill. Brough has earrings in both | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
ears and over 21 tattoos including the names Jack and Georgina on his | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
left arm, a dragon covering the whole of his left arm and side of | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
his chest and a bulldog on his chest and both forearms. He has | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
connections to Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Oxford and North | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
Wales. 50-year-old Vincent Toohey is our | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
last Wanted Face today. Detectives from Devon and Cornwall police want | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
to speak to him in connection with conspiracy to supply class A drugs. | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
He speaks with a Liverpudlian accent and is known to have | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
connections in the Merseyside, Dover and Devon and Cornwall areas. | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
If you've seen him or any of today's Wanted Faces then please | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
get in touch. The number to call is 08000 468 999. Or text us on 63399. | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
Text CW, space and then your message. And please, leave the | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
space or your message won't get through to us. Or e-mail us at | :11:30. | :11:40. | |
Right. Earlier we saw the e-fit drawn up of the bogus police | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
officer. The image was put together by the team in this room. Emma | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
Rowbottom is what's known as a Facial Imaging Officer, and she put | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
together that face. You're going to show us how the system works. Where | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
do you start following a crime? get a request through from the | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
investigating officer, and we go out to visit the witness, take down | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
a description and put it together on the computer. This is the early | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
stages, whittling it down. Here we are talking about face shape and | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
hair. We would select a hairstyle, and I would show you nine computer- | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
generated faces. I would then ask you to choose the nearest base to | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
the person you have seen. Bit by bit the computer learns from the | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
faces you select, and it should start to look more like the suspect. | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
How accurate is it? It can be quite accurate. We have a good example | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
here have one that led to the conviction of this man on your | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
right. And it is an extraordinary lightness, and this was described | :12:45. | :12:54. | |
to you by and 83-year-old man. Well, I have a challenge for you. I will | :12:54. | :13:04. | |
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describe Dave tu, and you haven't seen him. How far did we get? | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
had chosen this particular hairstyle. I simply ask you to | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
choose now the one that you think looks most like him. From those | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
nine images. I will go with the this middle one,. We'll see how | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
you've got on with that e-fit of Dave at the end of the programme. | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
We'd better get out skates on here. Back to you, Rav. | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
Now, we've already had some results from the the CCTV we've show you in | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
this series. Let's see if we can get some more. Take a look at this. | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
It is 11pm, December last year, just off Fenchurch Street station | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
in London. These five men on a night out, and allegedly had a row | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
with a cab driver. The man in the tie it is now arguing with a man | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
who is out with his brother. Things get nasty, and both brothers end up | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
in a fight with five Against 2. One of the brothers is knocked to the | :14:00. | :14:09. | |
floor, and as he gets up, one of the group sticks the beauty in. -- | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
sticks the boot in. Then the group weighed in. Then they laid into his | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
brother. Luckily a passing paramedic came to their aid. Police | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
would like to talk to these men, who might hold the vital | :14:23. | :14:33. | |
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Check out this woman. It is a bank in Surrey, march many year. Using a | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
stolen guard and PIN number she manages to bag a cool �4 500. But | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
half an hour later, here she is again. In a different branch of the | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
same bank. Canli, here she takes out �4 400. That is not enough. | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
Next day, she is picked up again, this time she withdraws another | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
�4100. All together, that is a massive �13,000. Police would like | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
to speak to this brazen fraudster. Give us her name. Lincoln. April | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
this year. A man leaves a nightclub, and trails behind this woman, who | :15:17. | :15:26. | |
is making her way back home. There she is, walking through the town. | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
There he is. In a quiet spot, he makes his move. He runs up behind | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
her and launches an attack, grabbing her and putting his hand | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
over her mouth. She manages to get away, and runs. Police have tracked | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
CCTV back to earlier in the evening and would like to talk to this man, | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
in connection with the incident. Know him? Let us know. You know | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
what to do if you have spotted anyone or anything on those clips. | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
Now let us go back to Nicola in Wakefield. Thank you. Well, police | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
here say that tackling the drugs trade is a key priority for them in | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
West Yorkshire, I have been out with operation grass lands. That is | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
a scheme that asks the local community for information. They | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
gather intelligence and use it to track down the dealers. West | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
Yorkshire Police are clamping down on drug dealers.. What we are | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
looking at is more influential dealers, people that affect | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
communities. The villains know what we mean and we want them fob | :16:36. | :16:46. | |
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The intention is to locate drugs that have been dealt with. Officers | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
are briefed a ahead of a major raid which is part of Operation | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
Grassland. This operation targets suspected drug dealers, identified | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
using information given to the police by members of the public. | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
There are more than 20 officers involved, the culmination of months | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
of planning. The main drugs we have got down there are cannabis and | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
amphetamines, there is nothing to suggest that there won't be any | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
other drugs down there, Class A drugs as well. With the briefing | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
over it is time to hit the road we are travelling in convoy, today, | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
police are targeting houses which are all on the same street. | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
Maintaining an element of surprise, the officers hit all the target | :17:29. | :17:38. | |
houses at the same time. Police! The teams are in. And so are some | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
of their suspects. Evidence gathered before the raid gives them | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
grounds to make some immediate arrests for suspected drug deals. | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
Rarely are this many houses targeted at the same time on one | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
street. Police officers have forced their way into five properties to | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
arrest suspected drug dealers, they are carrying out detailed searches | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
inside the houses, they are looking for drug, paraphernalia or cash or | :18:03. | :18:12. | |
proceeds of crime. A lot of people keep drugs in the bedding. Look | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
everywhere, everywhere you can think, that drugs can be concealed. | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
With another suspect at home officers try to establish if he can | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
be linked to drug dealing. It is not long before they make a | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
discoverry In this bedroom what we have found is item that could be | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
used to grow cannabis, the occupants agree for us to take the | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
items from the property so that is what we will do. This suspect will | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
not be arrested. Officers are confident there has been cannabis | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
growing here in the past, but just not today. With so many houses to | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
search, the sniffer dog is brought in to speed things up. The dog is | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
continuing its search. It is having a look round this room to see if it | :18:57. | :19:07. | |
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can pick up any scents. The dog is now kept still, so it is indicating | :19:08. | :19:18. | |
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there is possibly something in here. So we have an envelope here, right. | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
We have four wraps of tin foil, that looks to be some vegetable | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
matter. I suspect that is the cannabis. So that is concealed in | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
this envelope. Found by the dog. find from the dog. The the dog has | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
done its job. It is satisfying for you today, that it has gone as you | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
would have imagined? I am really pleased this morning, very pleased. | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
We acted on the information we were given. We came and the main thrust | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
of it was to put the fear back on the toes of the criminals, firmly | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
on their toes, I feel we have achieved that today. With four | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
people under arrest on suspicion of supplying drugs the message from | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
the police is that the Wakefield district is a hostile place for | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
dealers to do business.. It is about what are the priority, if | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
your serious about policing, community problem, put your money | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
where your mouth is and demonstrate it. Our communities we don't accept | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
deal tong the streets, what we are saying is that is not happening we | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
will take you out and go back to communities and tell them. Well, an | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
update for you on the people arrested in that film, two have | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
since been convicted of drugs related offence, one remains on | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
bail, and the other was released without any further action being | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
taken. Phil Wright is in charge of Operation Grassland. You are | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
relying on local communitying tells you where you think there is drug | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
use, how difficult is I it is to persuade them do that. It is for | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
nem to remain anonymous. They are going to be frightened sometimes. | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
That is the case, yeah. When these guys are put behind bars you can | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
seize their ill-gotten gains through the crime row -- recovery | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
act. Including their cars that you have put on display. The idea is we | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
take their assets off them and we show the public what we have done. | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
Showing them what they have done includes putting up posters like | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
this. Why do you do that? We show the public that we have been pro | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
active, we have recovered stuff and done what we said we would do. We | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
sell the vehicles, and the proceeds of crime go back to local | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
communitys for community project, such as football teams, or | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
something useful in the community, to put it back where it has come | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
from. Thank you for that. So the profits of crime going back-in to | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
communities, can't be bad. Back to you Rav. Still to come on the | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
programme today. Almost nine years ago, a young woman disappeared. | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
Police are searching for clues to find out what happened. And the | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
fuel thieves driving up the the crime rate. Is your car number | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
plate being used by someone else to commit a crime? Now, time for a bit | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
of CCTV action, in the last three months five armed robberies have | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
taken place in Kidderminster in Worcestershire. Police believe they | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
are link and we have footage of some of the incidents. Take a look | :22:22. | :22:30. | |
at this. It is 8.30pm on the 5th April this year. This mini market | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
is quiet until two men enter. They are about to wreak havoc. One jumps | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
over the counter. He opens the the till, then almost drops it it. He | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
steels cash and starts grabbing cigarettes by the handful. His | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
accomplice, who has been threatened the owner with the machete you can | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
see in his hand, targets the alcohol kept behind the counter. | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
The brave shop owner confronts one of the men and there is a struggle. | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
He manages to grab the weapon, before both offenders make a run | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
for it. Kidderminster again, May 1st, at round 8pm. This time, there | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
are three offenders. They make their way into a shop. One of them | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
is brandishing a meat cleaver. The shop assistants are forced to stand | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
behind the counter while the raiders steal cash and boxes of | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
siingrerbgts having that weapon waived at them. The robbers exit | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
the store with bags and armfuls of loot. A chicken shop early hours of | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
the morning on May 12th. Two men enter, but Tay are not here to buy | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
food. They are armed with knives and sticks. One of the men | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
instructs the staff to kneel on the floor, while his stripey hooded | :23:43. | :23:51. | |
mate empties the till. They leave with the night's takings. On June | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
2nd, these three hooded gents bundle into a pizza shop. It isn't | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
pizza on the menu for them, it is money from the till. One of them | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
threatening staff with a knife but a pizza is thrown at them and they | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
are chased out of the shop with a mop. And joining me is Detective | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
Inspector Dean Jones. You and your team are investigating those, you | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
think they are linked. What strikes me if you look at this is how close | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
together they have occurred. Yes, within a two month time frame | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
between April and June, we have had five offences of a very violent | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
nature as you have seen. There are vast similarities between them and | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
they are in close proximity, the level of violence, the the knives | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
used, the description, so awful serious robberys in a close knit | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
community. Very close together. What we can see here, this isn't | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
one of the weapons that was used but is very similar to one of the | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
ones. No-one has the right to walk round the streets with something | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
like this, but on every single offence they have been armed, | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
haven't they, with knives, a meat cleaver, the level of violence is | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
so high. Yes, that is why it is so important that we appeal to your | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
viewer, who have seen that awful seat, to get in touch with us, all | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
these offences round the come on the hill area of Kidderminster so | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
the people in the area, look at those image, look at the facial | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
images you can see, look at that clothing. Some is distinctive. The | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
weapons, these people must be known. They must be talking to each other. | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
We need to know who they are so we can put them behind bars. Some of | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
the images are clear. Take this example here. It is very | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
distinctive what he is wearing, someone surely will recognise these | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
people if nay see the image, and you want names. Absolutely. Any | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
information, of course, we are grateful for, of course we would be | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
delighted to identify them and get their names so we can get them | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
arrested. What is important to point out for that first offence, a | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
general store in Kidderminster, that is before the two very violent | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
offenders entered, they were spoken by a young man, and a young couple, | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
male and female walking together, who wouldn't necessarily understand | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
the significance of what they had observed before they committed the | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
offence. We need to speak to anybody who recognisess the image, | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
the weapons, the clothing. That couple you want them as witness, | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
they could could hold vital information. You want them to tell | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
you what they say. Yes, ow I labour the point. Study the image, the | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
mannerisms, the facial features. help out this will be on the | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
website so it will be on there for people to have another look. If you | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
have any information, then please let us know. Back to Nicola now. | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
Thank you. Now, when someone goes missing for a long time, it can | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
often be a desperate wait for the families to find out what has | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
happened to them. They can worry about whether the person is leading | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
a double life, even maybe if they have committed suicide, or worse | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
still, if they could have been murdered. Well, almost nine years | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
ago in hally fax a young mum disappeared but the case has | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
remained open and officers now are determined to figure out what has | :27:16. | :27:23. | |
happened to her. You think am I going to be the one that solves the | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
case. It is like, it is not possible. The answer does lie in | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
hall far, it lies with the community of Halifax and with those | :27:33. | :27:41. | |
people that knew Lisa and associated with her. Almost nine | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
years after Lisa went missing in Halifax, officers are still | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
determined to find out what happened to her. They want the case | :27:48. | :27:58. | |
solved and her family are desperate for answers. In 2003, Lisa was | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
living rough with her then boyfriend Dale more son. She was 34 | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
and the mother of two children who were being cared for by their | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
patternle grandparents. Lisa was leading a tough lifestyle at that | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
time. She was living rough on the streets of Halifax, the normal | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
pattern of movements they would get up here from the tent, go into the | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
town centre, where they would look to get some food or a meal, and | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
sometimes beg for money, or just use the benefits, she lived from | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
day-to-day, she had no regular pattern of movements as such, and | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
she was struggling. But even though times were tufrbgs Lisa kept in | :28:35. | :28:41. | |
close contact with her family, many of whom lived close by in Halifax. | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
She got on with everybody. A dead easy going person. Never wanted to | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
push anyone the wrong way, never had a bad tword say about anybody, | :28:50. | :28:58. | |
really. On or about 14th August 2003, Lisa vanished. Lisa | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
disappeared off the face of the earth. Sping like that doesn't | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
happen. Her boyfriend reported her missing round about the similar | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
time and we speak to a key person who knew Lisa who said 14th was | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
probably the last day she saw her alive. Recently this investigation | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
was given new impetus when detective discovered she used to | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
spend time at the arches under Halifax railway station. A decision | :29:22. | :29:28. | |
was made to launch a new search, with the hi-tech equipment of the | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
ground radar team which can scan for traces of human remains. People | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
have come forward, after all this time, presented the inquiry team | :29:37. | :29:47. | |
:29:47. | :30:05. | ||
with things that we thing we can A forensic archaeologist and dogs | :30:05. | :30:12. | |
trained to locate human remains are also involved in the search. They | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
are always open cases until they are solved. Somebody has to take | :30:17. | :30:23. | |
ownership. My team has got this one. That is why we come to work. We | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
have a responsibility to the public. Something like this costs of | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
thousands of pounds to deploy specialist trained search teams. | :30:33. | :30:39. | |
Lisa was a mum, and she was somebody's daughter. If there are | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
any new lines of inquiry to be pursued or that can be pursued, and | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
we feel that certainly the next course of activity we are | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
undertaking here today is more than proportionate in those | :30:50. | :30:57. | |
circumstances. To the team's disappointment, nothing was found. | :30:57. | :31:03. | |
They turned their attention to the canal basin. There is no visibility | :31:03. | :31:08. | |
at all. Everything is done by touch. The fact that the inquiry is nine | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
years old, we are not looking for what you would expect to be a full | :31:13. | :31:21. | |
body. It would be skeletal remains in March. Divers are having to sift | :31:21. | :31:31. | |
:31:31. | :31:32. | ||
through the mud. We are having to go through treed debris and silt. | :31:32. | :31:37. | |
All kinds of things down there. we are at the spot where the | :31:37. | :31:42. | |
specialist teams will work. What have the searches brought in? | :31:42. | :31:50. | |
great deal so far. There is a lot of work to be done down here. | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
as the renewed investigation continues, emotions are still raw | :31:54. | :32:04. | |
:32:04. | :32:08. | ||
for Lisa's family. There is nothing Lisa's Marmot died not known what | :32:08. | :32:15. | |
had happened to her daughter. was really close to her mum. She | :32:15. | :32:24. | |
just wanted some closure. Looking at all the factors involved in this | :32:24. | :32:30. | |
investigation, the answer lies in Halifax without a doubt, and | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
hopefully we will continue to look for Lisa and find out what happened. | :32:34. | :32:40. | |
If anything, it is getting worse. Every time I go to Halifax, | :32:40. | :32:46. | |
everybody I know asks me about her. I have been saying I don't know for | :32:46. | :32:56. | |
:32:56. | :32:59. | ||
And de-ice Steve snow is the officer leading this section of the | :32:59. | :33:06. | |
investigation. We have seen how stressful the last nine years have | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
been. We have carried out some extensive searches and forensic | :33:10. | :33:15. | |
search is a certain areas of Halifax. We are still continuing to | :33:15. | :33:20. | |
look for Lisa. You are hoping that this national appeal might bring | :33:20. | :33:27. | |
new information, because there have been Regional Appeals? Yes, I | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
believe the answer lies of somebody who may have lived in Halifax at | :33:30. | :33:36. | |
the time and has now moved on. I need to know something about where | :33:36. | :33:40. | |
she may be now or what may have happened to her. We have to accept | :33:40. | :33:45. | |
the fact that she could be dead, and we need to find some closure. | :33:45. | :33:50. | |
It is vitally important. We have seen her brother there, and the | :33:50. | :33:56. | |
family cannot move on. The family need closure. If you have got any | :33:56. | :34:02. | |
information that might help, the numbers are on the screen. You can | :34:02. | :34:10. | |
also call Crimestoppers anonymously If you have ever had your vehicle | :34:10. | :34:16. | |
number plates stolen, you know what a hassle it is to sort it out. If | :34:16. | :34:24. | |
you stop to think that the criminals use -- who stalk your | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
plates may be using them to commit crime. And it is highly likely that | :34:28. | :34:33. | |
they could be stealing petrol. Number plate theft is on the | :34:33. | :34:39. | |
increase. Every day of the week we find number plates. People can | :34:39. | :34:43. | |
steal number plates for all sorts of criminality. People are out | :34:43. | :34:49. | |
there stealing numberplates. We are set up for catching you. | :34:49. | :34:51. | |
Numberplate theft is a growing crime in West Yorkshire, and | :34:51. | :34:55. | |
although it may seem a trivial crime, it is part of a much bigger | :34:55. | :35:02. | |
problem. We began to see an increase in the amount of a number | :35:02. | :35:06. | |
plates stolen from motor vehicles, and we realised that they were then | :35:06. | :35:12. | |
being used what we call may cough without payment offences at petrol | :35:12. | :35:18. | |
stations. This man was caught red- handed on CCTV, and later received | :35:18. | :35:25. | |
a police caution. Police believe that one of the reasons there has | :35:25. | :35:29. | |
been a rising number plate thefts is the record high in fuel prices. | :35:29. | :35:34. | |
This has led to filling stations being plagued by thieves who fill | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
their vehicles fitted with false plates and leave without paying. | :35:38. | :35:42. | |
This man was caught on camera stealing fuel from a petrol station | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
in Keighley. But because the number plate on his vehicle had been | :35:46. | :35:49. | |
stolen from another car, police have not been able to track him | :35:49. | :35:55. | |
down. However, there is one unlikely place that people have | :35:55. | :36:01. | |
found evidence to help them identify the criminals responsible. | :36:01. | :36:05. | |
Roadside drains. Criminals who don't want to be caught simply | :36:05. | :36:13. | |
ditch them. We are in Bradford, and we are here to check the gullies | :36:13. | :36:23. | |
:36:23. | :36:24. | ||
for any stolen property, possibly numberplates. It is a secluded spot | :36:24. | :36:29. | |
where people have got time to dispatch things down drains. | :36:30. | :36:35. | |
you'd be surprised at what they find. We have found it knives, | :36:35. | :36:40. | |
drugs, chairs. Everything but the kitchen sink. Every week we find | :36:40. | :36:46. | |
numberplates. Sometimes bundled together. And the team can be | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
focused about their search areas, as certain streets are hotspots | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
than dumping plates. We are about five minutes from the closest | :36:55. | :37:02. | |
petrol station. If you are looking at motor vehicles that hold 100 | :37:02. | :37:06. | |
litres of fuel, you are looking at a lot of money to fill them, and a | :37:06. | :37:13. | |
petrol station is losing that when it is being taken. We have not had | :37:13. | :37:20. | |
any joy here. We found this set in Allerton this morning, about 9 | :37:20. | :37:25. | |
o'clock. We're expecting to find some more. I will take those and | :37:25. | :37:30. | |
get them sorted. A huge 30% of all thefts from motor vehicles in | :37:31. | :37:38. | |
Bradford this year when numberplate thefts. It has been -- become a | :37:38. | :37:42. | |
priority for neighbourhood police teams, who are offering mode -- | :37:43. | :37:50. | |
motorists a simple solution. Anti- theft number plates cruise. | :37:50. | :37:54. | |
replace the screw with a bolt that will make the number plate secure. | :37:54. | :37:58. | |
The only way to get the number plate of is to repeat. If the | :37:58. | :38:07. | |
number plate is broken, it cannot be used and another car. I don't | :38:07. | :38:10. | |
want stolen number plates, and then somebody knocking on my daughter | :38:10. | :38:14. | |
said that my car was involved in a crime. It stops them cloning your | :38:14. | :38:20. | |
car. I think I feel more secure. This district has already seen a | :38:20. | :38:25. | |
drop in numberplate thefts, but the police are certainly not complacent. | :38:25. | :38:28. | |
If you think you can come to Bradford, steel numberplates and | :38:29. | :38:32. | |
use them in criminality, we have systems and processes set up, and | :38:32. | :38:38. | |
we will catch you. Well, last year the number of | :38:38. | :38:42. | |
people deliberately driving away without paying for their fuel | :38:42. | :38:47. | |
actually cost petrol stations �16 million, and you can solve the | :38:47. | :38:51. | |
problem with these simple screws. Cheap to buy and easily available, | :38:51. | :38:58. | |
and it stops the thieves from getting hold of your number plates. | :38:58. | :39:03. | |
As we saw in the film, the number plates themselves can yield | :39:03. | :39:12. | |
evidence. It is down to people like John to collect the evidence. | :39:12. | :39:19. | |
people wear gloves, we can still get fingerprints. We can test Rees | :39:19. | :39:26. | |
using powder. Let's have a look at this number plate. It looks plain. | :39:26. | :39:36. | |
:39:36. | :39:36. | ||
We take some powder on a brush, and gently... And as if by magic, there | :39:36. | :39:42. | |
are no fingerprints. We lift them with the this tape. It is heavy | :39:42. | :39:50. | |
duty. You place it on carefully, so that you don't get any bubbles. And | :39:50. | :39:57. | |
then lift that off. Can we see that on-camera? We have | :39:57. | :40:01. | |
got the fingerprints there. So those are put on an evidence card | :40:01. | :40:07. | |
to be checked against the database. And yes, we pass those to the | :40:07. | :40:12. | |
bureau and they can be checked. And you have a little technique to | :40:12. | :40:22. | |
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show us over here. We have got a set-up with adhesive pads. A lot of | :40:24. | :40:27. | |
people who still numberplates will stick them on to an existing number | :40:27. | :40:36. | |
plate with adhesive pads, and we can get some fingerprints off here. | :40:36. | :40:46. | |
:40:46. | :40:46. | ||
This is messy but straightforward. It is more like a liquid. It is | :40:46. | :40:51. | |
just a matter of applying it to the surface, rinsing off, and as it | :40:51. | :41:00. | |
rinses away, there are other fingerprints appearing. Amazing. | :41:00. | :41:08. | |
And then what? We leave them to drive. You cannot lift them off | :41:08. | :41:11. | |
with tape because of the adhesive surface, but we can lift them | :41:11. | :41:17. | |
electronically. Thank you very much, John. If you are tempted to Nick | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
number plates, they will gather evidence against you. Nicola, how | :41:21. | :41:27. | |
are we doing with this e-fit? The results are in, and this is | :41:27. | :41:34. | |
today's prime suspect. I think that is a remarkable likeness. | :41:34. | :41:37. | |
It is probably me on a fairly rough day. | :41:37. | :41:40. | |
If I think she has taken years of you! | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
I have had my fingerprints taken, I have had my footprints taken, I | :41:45. | :41:50. | |
have had my face put on a poster saying am a shoplifter. Crimewatch | :41:50. | :41:55. | |
Roadshow executives, you will be hearing from my lawyer's! | :41:55. | :42:00. | |
Does time to give you a very quick update. The bogus policeman story | :42:00. | :42:04. | |
we showed you earlier who stole �700 from a pensioner near Leeds, | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
we have done some good sending information including a potential | :42:07. | :42:12. | |
name. A lot of you have been so touched by this story, you have | :42:12. | :42:17. | |
kindly offered money to Jean so that she gets her money back. Dave, | :42:17. | :42:22. | |
what are you up to tomorrow? We are moving on, going to South | :42:22. | :42:27. | |
Yorkshire, a new county, new police force. We are going to the city to | :42:27. | :42:30. | |
made its name with steel to find out more about the problem of metal | :42:30. | :42:33. | |
theft. We are going to Sheffield railway | :42:33. | :42:37. | |
station and talking to passengers there about the impact that metal | :42:37. | :42:39. | |
theft has on them. And we are looking at how they are | :42:39. | :42:42. | |
catching up with those metal thieves. | :42:42. | :42:50. | |
See you both tomorrow. Remember, are wanted faces and the CCTV clips | :42:50. | :42:53. | |
are on the website. If you can't wait that long, you can have | :42:53. | :42:56. |