Episode 14 Crimewatch Roadshow

made sure there are crimes were caught on camera. Today our roadshow

team have travelled east and have arrived in Kent. Sian, where are

you? We are in Chatham with Kent police's Marine unit. They have got

hundreds of miles of coastline to police and some of the busiest

waterways in the UK. We will find out how they do it.

But first, a jewellery thief and an 85-year-old woman who was in the

wrong place at the wrong time. Sevenoaks, July last year. An

85-year-old Marjorie Andrews was on her way into town to go to the bank.

Marjorie is a widow and likes to be independent. Mum was ever so fit,

independent, a lot of walking. Never went to the doctor's. She was always

a healthy person. She is a familiar face in Sevenoaks. She spent her

working life at the jeweller's on the high street. Frances Jones is

part of the fabric of the town, and Marjorie worked there from 1943

until her retirement just four years ago. She always had an interest in

jewellery and silverware. She got to know a lot of the customers

personally because she worked there for such a long time. But there was

a thief in Sevenoaks that morning, and he also had a great interest in

jewellery. He crossed the high street and went to look through the

window of Marjorie's old shop. CCTV shows him going in. He told the

jeweller that he was looking for an engagement ring. He said he had seen

two he liked in the window. They were worth around �8,000 each.

has come back outside the shop and pointed out the rings to the owner,

who has taken the rings inside and put them on the cabinet, where they

have had a discussion about insurance and how much the rings

would cost to insure. He has had a good look at these rings for up to a

minute. Suddenly, the man grabbed one of the rings and scarpered out

of the shop. Witnesses say he moved extremely fast. He ran across the

busy road and down the side street where Marjorie was walking, and she

was in the way. He shoved her out of the way, and she fell to the ground.

Mum's recollection is that he came running towards her with his arm out

to barge her out of the way. Why he couldn't have run around her, I have

no idea. It seems a barbaric thing to do to someone in their mid-80s.

At first, Marjorie thought she had just fallen awkwardly, but soon she

was in agony. Her left hip was fractured. We were shocked, because

I had a phone call to come to Sevenoaks quickly and see mum.

has gone from a simple theft to an assault on an elderly lady who could

not defend herself. Marjorie was rushed to hospital, where she had an

emergency operation. I saw my mum go from a fit and healthy person to

somebody who could not walk. It has been a long recovery for Marjorie.

It was months before she was back on her feet. It has been a huge blow to

her confidence. She has become insecure. She does not like to go to

the heart of Sevenoaks on her own any more in case something happens.

It is not how she was. The least believe the man who knocked Marjorie

over is local. He walked into the town and knew the route well. He

took the same route when he left the scene, so we believe he lives

locally. We would love to see him caught. It had a big impact on our

family. They have no respect for anybody, and the thought of them

doing it again and putting another family through the same situation is

unacceptable. He needs to be caught. This is an awful case. I am

joined by Detective Constable Claire Beckett, who we saw in that report.

You have a good description because of that CCTV? Yes, we believe the

male is aged between 20 and 25, about six foot tall and rugged

looking and athletic, because of the speed he ran out of the shop when he

left. He was very fast on his feet. And such a coincidence that he ran

into Marjorie, who had worked in the shop that was robbed for so many

years. Yes, Marjorie was employed by the shop for 25 years and she

retired a few years ago. We believe he deliberately ran at her and

pushed her to the floor in an attempt to escape. What happened to

the ring, do you think? That is what we want to find out. Has he

approached you to sell this ring? Do you work in a pawn shop and

recognise this man? How is Marjorie now? It is a year on, and she is

recovering slowly. But this is why it is important to find out who this

man is. It has really knocked her confidence. This was a lady who was

active all her life and very much a member of the community. She has

never been in hospital in her life, and now that has changed, so we have

to find out who the man is. Now, they have been framed by CCTV

cameras. Anyone familiar here? Sutton Coldfield, in the West

Midlands. This white van has pulled up at the back of a pub, but these

guys are not here for a swift half. One of them climbs over the fence

and looks for a way to open the door for his mate. There must be a bar

around here somewhere. Aha, there is. It's a crowbar, and he uses it

to force the door open. His mate gets out of the van and joins him in

the yard. They set about stealing eight barrels of beer. Careful,

guys, you don't want to put your back out carrying them like that.

Police say they have done this three times at the same pub, stealing 17

barrels worth �1500. Once they have cleared the yard and loaded the van,

they just drive off. Do you know this year burglars? -- this beer

burglars? We are in Richmond in Surrey. This

bar is closed, but one man is having a good look around with an empty

shopping bag. Wonder what that is for. He strolls behind the bar,

which gives us a clue. Soon he leaves, and yes, a bag is full. No

cheap plonk that this thief. Police say he stole six bottles of

champagne worth �315. Call us if you know this Champagne Charlie.

It is the early hours. One night in October last year, this guy puts his

phone in his right-hand pocket and he prepares to get off the bus. But

as he gets up to go, he does not notice that the phone has fallen

onto the seat next to him. Once he has gone, the passenger opposite

with the white trainers uses his foot to help himself. Let's watch

that again. Nifty footwork. The thief pockets it. And here he is,

walking off the bus. Do you know him? If us a call.

If your phone has not been nicked, give us a call. Or you can text us

or e-mail us. Sian. Now, we think of them as safe places

to walk or exercise, but here in Kent, police are looking for a man

who attacked two women in local parks. The first was a 17-year-old

girl last June. She was walking in Ashford through Millennium Woods

when she was attacked. The second one is a 47-year-old who was

attacked in nearby Knights Park in September. She has been speaking to

us about the impact it has had on her. It has affected me hugely,

because I can't walk my dog on my own. So I have to arrange for people

to walk with me. I would not walk anywhere from the house. I only go

in the car. And I don't ride my bike on my own either. So yes, it has

affected my life massively. A traumatic case. I am joined now by

Detective Inspector Matt Banks. Luckily, you have good descriptions

from both women, despite the ordeal they have been through. Take us

through those descriptions. 47-year-old described a male between

25 and 35, wearing a beige baseball cap. The 70-year-old victim

describes a male slightly older, in his 40s, but again wearing a

baseball cap, which may be read. There are similarities between these

attacks, aren't that? Yes. There are similarities in the way the offence

has been committed. The offender approached from behind, put a hand

over each victim's face, dragged them to the floor and then committed

the offences. You are convinced that this is the same man responsible for

both crimes? Yes, we have been able to link them forensically by way of

DNA profiling. We are confident that we will identify this person

eventually. But there is no DNA match on the database at the

moment? Their recent, unfortunately, but we do have a full profile, which

means we can easily eliminate anybody we believe to be a suspect.

I would appeal to the public. I believe this man to be local. There

are people in the community who know his identity. I would urge them to

come forward. Those e-fits are on our website. Take a look.

Now, time to look at today's wanted faces. 21-year-old Fabio Robinson is

up first. He went on the run in February while standing trial for

dealing class A drugs. He was found guilty in his absence and sentenced

to four years in jail. He is six foot tall, overweight and has a

London accent. Next, 32-year-old Loyota Campbell.

She has been wanted for questioning since August 2012 in connection with

an attack in which a woman was stabbed in the neck. She is five

foot two inches talk speaks with a London accent and has a scar from a

gunshot wound on her left wrist. The today is this man, 52-year-old

Abass Ali Moslamani. He was due to appear before Harrow Crown Court in

July 2010, charged with grievous bodily harm after a glass was

smashed over a man's head. He is Palestinian, with links to London

and Oxford and is five foot nine tour, with brown eyes.

Finally, look at this woman. Police in Northern Ireland need your help

to find Julia Celia Holmes. But she goes by other names, including

Doctor Jules Watson, Julia McCaw, Celia McGoogan or just Celia

Holmes. The 61-year-old has been missing since 2010, when she was

charged with deforming a man out of �18,000 by pending to be an American

millionairess. She was released on bail but failed to appear in court.

She is known to have connections across Ireland, but also to Bedford.

Still to come on today's programme: The criminals who stole dozens of

high-end cars, then filmed themselves celebrating.

And the thoughtless thieves who ripped a pair of 500-year-old brass

plaques from this medieval church. Welcome aboard the princess

Alexandra, owned by Kent Police. This is Andy had failed. Great to

be a bore. Tell me a bit about the boat.

She is a former lifeboat prototype. She was the refitted to make it

suitable for police purposes. dying to have a look, can you give

me the Grand Tour. I should be OK, I have my sea legs aren't. This is

the upper steering position. This is were the driving is carried out.

We get a good view from up there and there is navigational equipment

as well. Then we come down into the wheelhouse. This is the working

area of the boat. Looking on the dashboard, this is work most of the

navigational equipment, engine monitoring and communication

equipment is housed. We have one of the charts which shows us a map of

the area we are in at the moment. This can be changed to show a radar

picture. That could show was other vessels in the area. It could be

important if we are on a boardings operation and we are looking at

targets to board. What do you use this boat for? What operations have

you been on? One of the operations we have been involved in was the

Olympic Games operations. All our assets, vessels and people were

involved. This was used as a floating control, command platform.

We used that to effectively close the Thames down and ensure all

vessels that came in and out we checked by either ourselves or

another boat. That is one of the significant operations we were

involved in on this. You have a huge stretch of coastline you do

police on a daily basis? It goes from the Queen Elizabeth Bridge on

the River Thames, all the way around to right, the River Medway,

and any piece of water in Kent. It is a very interesting coastline.

The very accessible. It is the second largest coastline policing

area in the country behind Devon and Cornwall. A big challenge.

Later we will be going out on one of the other boats.

Now, officers from Cheshire Police need you help to identify a gang

who robbed a bank back in June last year. DC Gareth Yates, who has been

investigating the case is here to tell us more. Gareth, welcome. So

just what happened? The on the 1st June last year, a

robbery took place in Stockton Heath. That is a small village on

the outskirts of Warrington's. At around 5pm, the doors were closed

and staff were filling up the cash machines for the weekend. The two

offenders smashed away inside the bank. 5pm, broad daylight. We have

a sledgehammer, it is not the actual one. But also that they use

these pink tights, which is bizarre. But there is a CCTV clip as it is

happening. And a man in the yellow jacket? He is lucky inside the bank.

He has seen the female staff members putting their cash into the

machines. New see a black vehicle, a Volvo reversing to the bank. The

man in the high-visibility jacket get out again, has a second look,

before he is joined by a second man with the sledgehammer. We can

perceive them, they are smashing the door with the hammer. They have

reached inside and grabbed a thousands of pounds before making

their getaway in the black car. Brutal attack. Lots of people, a

busy shopping day, people will have seen what happened. They did leave

some clues behind. This was the car, this was stolen, this black Volvo?

It is the actual vehicle. It was stolen from the Merseyside area and

abandons a short distance from the bank. And also these items, a high-

visibility jacket, a sledgehammer and the bizarre pink tights they

had over their heads. It was broad daylight, people would have seen

this. You are urging those people to come forward or anybody bragging

about this in a pub, perhaps? was very audacious. Many people in

the area at the time. Potentially it they may have taken video

footage on their phones. It would be vital clues. Not only was it

scary for the staff, a reward has been put up, �15,000 for

information leading to arrests and convictions. Now let's go back to

Sian in Kent. Predicting crime before it happens

is something you would expect to see in a Hollywood movies. But

police in Kent are using an American computer programs sending

officers off to the scene of a potential crime before it has even

been committed. Ma gate, it is a traditional

seaside town and they have their fair share of crime. Police are

taking radical steps to tackle them. Predicting where crime will happen

next. It is essentially about trying to understand those high

risk areas. Locate a high risk areas where crime is likely to

happen today. Predictive policing is an American idea which was

pioneered in California, where they claim they have succeeded in

reducing some crime by a quarter of. The top brass in Ken's a light of

the look of the results they were getting and decided to give it a go

themselves. California have been using predictive policing for two

two years. The reductions they achieved in terms of property crime

was 26%. We do have a different landscape over here, but it was

important we had a further look at this and gave it a go. Fighting

crime the Californian way requires data, and lots of it. We had taken

five years of data and fed it through the system, so it

understands the behaviour of the criminals in Kent. It is based on

around 30 years of research. We feed the system every day with

crime in data and we produce daily boxes indicating those high risk

areas where crime is likely to happen today. These small squares

each represents an area covering 500 square feet, the size of two

Olympic-sized swimming pools. According to the data, these are

the zones of Margate were Crown -- crime is likely to be happening

today. And this is where good old- fashioned policing comes in, as

officers are dispatched to patrol those areas. This morning we have

eight predictive policing boxes, can you had defaults to those

predicted a policing boxes? Kent is the first force in the UK to trial

this system. The these officers it is business as usual as they patrol

on foot. The new system means they can be more focused. But they are

only a small boxes. The ideas they are intensely supervised. You have

a good chance of catching something. Those boxes are very realistic.

can spend 15 minutes in a box, and it will give you a two-hour window

of preventative crime. Proactive policing it is about getting out

into the neighbourhoods. This gives us a tool to be in the right places

at the right time. We are in Cliftonville, a busy area. One of

the locals is a man known to them, he has been in trouble with the

police in the past, so they check his current status. He is one of my

locals, just having a chat to him about what he is doing, where he is

living at the moment. A nice man to talk to, but just doing a check to

see if he is wanted. They move across to the next box and check

out a local trouble-spot. There is an abandoned bungalow being used

regularly by a local youth. It has been a hope that antisocial

behaviour around stop -- hob. This is at the centre of one of our

boxes today. No trouble here today, but predicted policing is about

anticipating what could happen. When we entered a house the other

day, we spoke to the occupants and found some class A drugs. All

persons inside were arrested. When we searched subsequently, we found

more class A drugs. It is a good example of predictive policing

working. There seems to be a lot of support from locals. But anything

technology can do to help the police is going to be a good thing.

If that can target resources, it has got to be good. The fact it is

working and proving successful is evidence it locally. The old

fashioned way is bobbies on the streets. He is early days but a

week are cautiously optimistic. We have seen a reduction of street

violence. We are seeing a reduction of other property crime. But it is

early days and we will have to try and isolate what predicted policing

has given us. It might be working for Margate, but this data

crunching approach to crime fighting is still in its infancy.

If you leave your car keys on the hall table when you go to bed, this

might make you think again. Here is how Kent Police caught two prolific

burglars who broke into homes across the south-east of England

with one aim - to get their hands on cars parked outside.

On a night-time drive, but the car did not belong to them and the

owner did not see. All over the country there has been an increase

in so called creeper burglaries, thieves breaking into your home,

normally while you are asleep, often just to steal your car keys.

This is Dave Leadbeater. And this is Sam homes, both are disqualified

drivers. During a two-month crime spree, they stole a total of 35

high end cars, worth around half a million pounds. They are both

behind bars now, but their victims have been left seriously out of

pocket. Victims are like this man and his wife. They were burgled

after a night out at the theatre. He we got back about 11pm that

evening. We went indoors. We put the lights out, locked up and went

to bed. In the middle of the night, homes and Leadbeater broke into the

house. Searching for the car keys, they even turned on the lights to

make their job easier. Then they made their escape in Dean's �40,000

Audi. When I initially got up, things appeared normal upstairs. I

opened the bedroom door. The first thing I do is to come down and feed

the cats. We noticed the front door was open and the living room lights

at once. She called me from downstairs to tell me I left the

lights on and the doors open. I knew I had not. I went downstairs

and looked around and thought, something is not right. His car had

been stolen. I felt so very violated and even more violated,

the more I thought about it. It is the fact someone came to the house

when we were upstairs sleeping. are thankful they did not come

upstairs and attack us to get to the keys. The night they were

burgled, homes and Leadbeater broke into another two houses, stealing a

further two cars. Reports of similar burglaries came in across

the county. On one other night, six cars are worth a total of �175,000

were taken. The Kent and Essex serious crime team got involved.

were aware of three per burglaries. Leadbeater was linked to six of

these are burglaries. The Serious crime directorate launched

Operation khaki to bring them to justice. This businessman also fell

prey to the prolific burglars. They broke into his home and stole the

keys of his brand-new Range Rover. I was woken in the early hours of

the morning, I heard a car engine start. I realised it was my car.

This was the first, nice car I had ever had. I had it two weeks before

I then saw it driven off the drive by two people and never saw the car

again. I was quite careful with the keys, but on this night, I left the

keys by the front door and did nothing anything of it. With the

knee hearing the doggo and hearing the car leave the driveway, was

less than a minute. And they had got away with another car, but the

police found them at a caravan park. At the end of June 2012, officers

were checking out a tracker on a stolen van. They make their way

there, and they did not realise it was linked to the burglaries. Homes

and Leadbeater crash to the barriers at the motorway park and

headed up the motorway. Once stolen vehicle we recovered, there were 12

other keys from the vehicles they had stolen. They were leaving

behind mobile phones, cameras on which they had taken photographs of

themselves in stolen vehicles and taking photographs of the stolen

vehicles with false number plates and videos of themselves driving a

stolen vehicles. Police eventually caught up with them and face with

the evidence against them, they pleaded guilty to conspiracy to

commit burglary and was sentenced to six years at Maidstone Crown

remorse for their actions. Modern uPVC doors are very popular

Omagh but there were no problem to Holmes and Leadbeater. Many of their

victims had these doors. There is nothing wrong with them in

themselves, it is how we lock them. That is where the potential problem

comes in. Locksmith Graham Twist can tell us all about that. You have

brought this lock with you. Tell us how it works. Most of us have one of

these. This is an example of what most householders would expect to

see on their front door. The actual lock itself consists of a latch, a

dead halt and two further bolts, top and bottom. If used correctly, we

throw the lock itself by lifting the handle. We turned the key, and it

engages all three deadlocks. That maximises the security for that type

of lock. You don't normally see this bit of the door, so the one key

turns all these deadlocks. So you have two looked in that particular

way, although some doors do lock without you looking them all?

can, yes. A lot of householders coming in the evening, close the

door and don't do anything else. Unfortunately, if you don't engage

the rest of the mechanism, you are not getting the full benefit of the

locking. What advice would you offer to people who don't know a lot about

locks? It is a fine balance between safety and security, but I would

advocate that you use the full locking mechanism to its full extent

to gain full security. And what about changing locks? You can do

that. The simplest form is to change the cylinder itself. You can buy

those for �20. You guarantee that you get an original set of keys, so

you know there are no keys floating around that could belong to somebody

else. It is of course awful if you have a break in, so there are some

key messages for you there. More CCTV now, starting with some

very cheeky thieves. A building site in Lewisham, south

London, in November last year, just before 6am. These men are definitely

not builders. They are here to help themselves to some valuable

construction materials. They choose some metal pipes, cable and cut is

worth �15,000. Police believe it was all them loaded into a waiting van.

Once they managed to get it through the door, that is. Come on, let's

help the police build a case. Names, please.

This man enters a Norwich bank in September last year. Not to access

his own account, he is after someone else's. The elderly woman in the

maroon top is about to become the victim of fraud. What is he lurks

near her. He is obviously not queueing to use the machine. He

sneaks a look over the woman's shoulder to steal her PIN number. He

then distracts her eye waving a piece of paper in front of her.

Police believe he told the victim the machine was not working. While

she's distracted, he steals her bank card out of the machine. Outrageous.

Police say the card was then used the three fraudulent transactions

worth a total of �1065. But it does not stop there. He is at it again,

this time in a different bank in Norwich. Watch the woman using the

cash machine on the far left. He spies on her entering her in, but he

is not working alone this time. It is an accomplished, who hovers

behind her, then moves in and steals the card distracting her with a of

paper. Our first thief then takes the card to another bank and manages

to withdraw �500 from the victim's account. Then, as if that was not

enough, he heads to a money changing bureau and tries to take a further

�1758. But thankfully, by this time the card had been cancelled. Police

want this man for eight offences overall. Who is he?

Just goes to show how careful you have to be at a cash machine. If you

recognise anyone, get in touch. On Crimewatch Roadshow, we often

bring you stories about valuable goods stolen so that they can be

sold on. But here is a crime where the worth of what is taken lies not

in its cash value, but in the history and part of a small

community. Surrounded by beautiful

countryside, with glorious views over the Medway Valley, Saint

Michaels Church sits just outside the village of East Peckham in

Kent. It is an historic building, parts of which date back to the 12th

century. People no longer come here to worship. The judge closed in the

1970s, although it is still open to the public after being preserved as

a heritage site. So it came as a shock when earlier this year,

thieves took advantage of the church's open-door policy and made

off with a pair of 500-year-old brass plaques. These are things of

the two plaques which were stolen from this church. They are much

valued by the community, because they represent families who were

prominent in our history. There is considerable disk dust about their

removal -- discussed. At some point after ten in the morning on Saturday

the 30th of March, someone came into the church and prized the plaques

from the floor, leaving site league black holes where they used to be.

The key-holder noticed they were missing when he went back into the

church at one in the afternoon. The police were told, and word spread

through the community. The first reaction of the village on getting

to know that they had been stolen was sad this, apart from surprise,

shock and anger. But those came second to the sadness of knowing

they had been taken. They had been in place since the time of Henry

VIII macro, and although subject to debate are thought to be images of a

local couple, William and Margaret. They are not worth a large amount of

money, but the loss of the 16th century treasures is significant.

think the people who took them are misguided and selfish. Misguided in

that they are not of great financial value, and selfish. They prevented

other people the pleasure of seeing them as memorials of people who once

mattered in this village. They have been in place for 500 years and have

been enjoyed by many people. We are sorry that we are having to

advertise their absence, rather than enjoy their presence. Having lain

undisturbed for so many centuries, the community of Saint Michael's

church just want their plaques returned.

If you know anything about that, get in touch. Right now, we are out on

the water on Chatham Marina with Kent police. This is Seahorse. PC

David Lavender, you can tell me about this piece of kit. It is used

for neighbourhood policing? Yes, all sorts of things. Neighbourhood

policing and general patrol of our coastal areas. There is a big marine

community in this area. What sort of problems do they have? There is a

large leisure industry here. We have a lot of yachts and the Marines. The

problems we generally have our thefts from boats of kit and

equipment. We are gathering speed now. I know this RIP can go fast.

You have to use top speed sometimes, don't you? Yes, this boat is a seven

and a half metre RIA leave. It can go quite fast. We will not go quite

that fast at the moment, so we can hear you tell us more about those

operations. I know some of them are adventurous. You are also patrolling

this coastline to look at the begin for strip you have here? Yes, Kent

has a number of sites of interest from a security point of view that

we patrol, both on the Medway and on our coast. What are we doing in this

stretch of water? Is this something you would do on a daily basis?

patrolling the Medway and other parts of the county. Security issues

as well as crime prevention. When we were on the Princess Alexandra III,

we heard about the role that played in the security operation at the

Olympics. What about the things you have been doing as part of the wider

crew? We have had a number of issues. We were involved in the

security of the Olympics around the Thames last summer. We are of course

close to France, so a number of operations have been down in the

channel, where we have combined operations with the coastguard and

customs and immigration officers. We have looked at small craft coming

across the Channel, bringing both people and drugs. We have a

fantastic view behind us. I know you don't normally sit around in boat,

because it gets exciting. Thanks very much.

We just have time to give you a quick update. We have had what

police are calling a useful lead through on the man who stole the

ring from the jeweller's in Sevenoaks common knocking over the

85-year-old woman, breaking her hip as he fled. That is encouraging.

Yesterday, we showed you a wanted face. The man was found guilty and

sentenced for fraud case, but did a runner. Police are chasing up strong

new information on him as we speak. Let's find out where Sian is

tomorrow? We are heading south to the Channel Tunnel, where we will be

reporting live from one of the most unusually challenging places for the

police in the UK. We will also have advice on how to avoid being scammed

by conmen 's. See you then. Remember, our website has all of