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grandmother left severely injured on a dual carriageway. Who drove the | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
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are live and we are on air every weekday morning, tackling this sort | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
of everyday crime that can affect us all. We are asking for your help to | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
get criminals behind bars. On the programme today. Maureen was mown | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
down in a hit-and-run. Her injuries were life changing. We need to find | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
the man behind the wheel. The plucky shop assistant who held | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
her nerve, in the face of two masked robbers. | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
And the devastating consequences of using a mobile whilst driving. We | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
are out with police as they crack down. | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
Our roadshow team has travelled north West two Lancashire today they | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
are in Preston market and it looks like they are getting ready to bag | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
some bargains there! Oh, yes. The traders are busy setting out their | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
stall is for the day. This market is right in the heart of Preston. The | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
good news is that overall, crime has fallen by 17%. The bag news is that | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
personal crime is on the up and 16% of that takes place right here in | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
the city centre. We are going to look at petty crime and what you can | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
do to avoid it. Stay tuned if you don't want to become a victim. | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
you. First we need your help to find a reckless driver who left one | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
blackball resident with life changing injuries. -- Blackpool | :02:10. | :02:18. | |
resident. I have never had pain like it. It was as though my leg was off. | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
The fear that must have been going through her... It was only a matter | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
of luck that Maureen is not dead. Widowed mother of three, and nursing | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
home care Maureen Langley has lived in Blackpool all her life. She is | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
immensely strong, bringing up three children on her own. She is not one | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
to get you to do anything for her. She never phones you needing you, | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
she tries to do everything very independently. She is great, she is | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
always there, she has always been there for me, always there for all | :02:55. | :03:03. | |
of us. On March the 14th this year, Maureen was planning to visit her | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
sister. I will come after I have been to the supermarket. Goodbye, | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
see you later. We are very good friends, we have | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
grown up together. She lost her husband, I lost my husband, we have | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
got really close, we are very close people. On the way, Maureen stopped | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
at the supermarket to pick up some shopping. She then headed off to her | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
sister 's house. She went to cross a dual carriageway, a road with a 30 | :03:34. | :03:44. | |
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mph speed limit. She came out of Morrisons and was crossing the dual | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
carriageway, it is a quiet area, not many cars around. There is a safe | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
central reservation in the middle. Maureen could see two cars | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
approaching on the carriageway. She thought they were far enough away | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
for her to cross safely. But the cars were travelling too fast, and | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
before she could reach the other side, a white car ploughed into her. | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
I have never had pain like it for the bid was as though my leg was | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
off, as if I didn't have a leg. force of a car driving into the back | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
of her leg ripped off her calf muscle and caused multiple | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
fractures. She was frightened for her life, she didn't know if she was | :04:27. | :04:37. | |
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going to live when she got hit. thought, and my dead? -- am I dead? | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
My husband is dead, and I am saying to him, don't come and get me add, I | :04:41. | :04:50. | |
am not ready. The police are amazed that Maureen survived the accident. | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
A second earlier and we may have been looking at a fatal collision. | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Witnesses say the cars were well over the speed limit. Two witnesses | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
described loss vehicles racing along Squiresgate Lane -- described two | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
vehicles racing. The car swerved either just before or after | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
colliding with Maureen. That would indicate the driver realised there | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
was something to avoid and he may well have collided with somebody. | :05:20. | :05:30. | |
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Despite this, the driver did not stop. The accident has had a | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
devastating impact on Maureen's life. She is 64 and she is so frail | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
and scared, and it is horrible to see, when she has always been the | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
person who tells us not to be scared. I have to have people to | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
help me all the time and I don't like that. I lived on my own, and I | :05:50. | :05:58. | |
like to do things my own way. photos show the excruciating | :05:58. | :06:07. | |
injuries that have left Maureen in a wheelchair. The person who did this | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
needs to come forward. Maureen needs to know why the person left her and | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
why they didn't stop at the scene. Her life has not changed forever | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
from that accident. If they can come forward, maybe it can give us | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
closure. My mum has been through an awful time, everything we have been | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
through as a family has been awful. I just want to go to sleep and not | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
wake up. But I know I can't do that. Because I have got a family, haven't | :06:35. | :06:45. | |
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I? Sometimes, that's how I feel. This has been a terrible time for | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
Maureen and her whole family. Chief Inspector Laura Lawson joins me. | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
Where and when did this take place? It was on Squiresgate Lane in | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
Blackpool. It was Thursday evening on the 13th of March at about 750 in | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
the evening. What can you tell us about the car involved? It was | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
similar to this one, a new model white BMW. We believe it was with | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
another vehicle which we can only describe as a dark car. We believe | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
they were both travelling at speed up Squiresgate Lane at about 60 mph | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
or 70 mph. Maureen is being supported by her daughters, how is | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
she? She is slowly recovering, she is back home but the injuries to her | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
right leg are still horrendous. She had a lot of skin taken off with the | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
collision. It will take a lot of time to get back to full recovery. | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
She is struggling to come to terms with that, I know. What information | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
do you want from viewers and the public? The key thing is for the | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
driver of the white vehicle to think about what his actions were, the | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
impact it has had on Maureen and her family and to show some remorse. | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
also need any sighting of the white BMW. And there was another car | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
involved. Do you know where the white car went afterwards? We think | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
it went left at the traffic lights on to Saint Anne 's Road and from | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
there we don't know where it has gone. Any information we get into | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
either vehicle, for people to come forward and let us know what has | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
gone on. Thank you, and if you know anything, please get in touch. | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
Cheshire police want us to make an urgent appeal for your help to find | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
this man, 37-year-old Peter Watson. He was released on the 12th of June | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
and detectives want to talk to him in connection with the rape of a | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
woman ten days later. She was attacked in the hand Bridge area of | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
Chester whilst jogging with her dog. He is considered a risk to the | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
public and please call the police if you see him. | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
Police forces around the country need your help to find these wanted | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
faces. This is Shahid Mushtaq, he failed to appear before Preston | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
Crown Court in March 2010 in connection with conspiring to supply | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
cocaine, a class a drug. A warrant was issued for his arrest. He is | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
known to be living in the Manchester area and also has possible | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
connections to Spain. This is Alexander James Edward Dooley, knee | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
was due to stand trial at the Old Bailey in April this year but failed | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
to turn up. He was accused of setting up a website advertising | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
bogus car insurance which conned 70 young drivers into paying almost | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
�50,000 per worthless policies. He has connections to Manchester and | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
Birmingham. This man is Hassan Emozozo. He is | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
wanted by police for questioning since March last year. They want to | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
talk to him about a sexual assault on a woman. He is known to have | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
links to north London and is 37. Nyron Lea Daley has been on the run | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
since October last year. He was on trial at Saint Albans Crown Court | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
for drug dealing but when the jury returned their guilty verdict | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
committee jumped from the dock escape. He has connections to Luton | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
and greater Manchester, and large letters tattooed on his left | :10:16. | :10:23. | |
forearm. If you recognise any of these, make a note of the reference | :10:23. | :10:33. | |
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numbers and give us a call. Or you Walton Park, just four miles from | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
where I am now, is one of the most peaceful parts of Preston. Back in | :10:45. | :10:55. | |
January, staff at the SPAR shop were taken by surprise when armed robbers | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
burst in. Walton Park is a relatively crime free area, it is | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
affluent, relatively expensive to live here. As a consequence, crime | :11:05. | :11:13. | |
is low. Certainly in my experience, within the last five years, there | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
has been no offence of this kind in this particular area. Walton Park is | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
a small, quiet suburb on the outskirts of Preston and it is one | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
of the safest postcodes in the UK. At its heart is the SPAR shop. | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
have worked here for just over two years. It is a very friendly | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
community, you know all the customers, everybody knows everybody | :11:35. | :11:43. | |
else. On a January evening this year, the peace and quiet was | :11:43. | :11:53. | |
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shattered. Stay on the phone, we are getting some patrols en route. | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
was the end of the police and Kirsty had just finished catching up. She | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
was about to transfer the afternoon and evening's takings to the back | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
room. I had cashed the till up, I had another one on the floor behind | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
me, the morning float, which normally contains about �60. We were | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
just about to close up at ten o'clock when one of the guys came | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
in. Two young lads walked into the shop, one holding a knife both at | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
the door. The guy at the door seemed quite nervous, maybe he could have | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
heard some people coming and he kept shouting to his mate, hurry up, | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
hurry up. The guy with the knife had a black and white hooded jacket with | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
a red scarf pulled up to his eyes. He was a skinny build and had a | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
local accent. The thief was well informed, shouting at Kirsty to get | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
her colleague out of the back room. With both shop assistants in his | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
sights, he demanded the cash from the till. Kirsty was quickwitted | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
enough to deter him. I told him the till was empty so he asked me for | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
the cigarettes. As I was doing that, he noticed I had the morning float | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
on the floor. Down there!He asked me for the money out of that. I put | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
the money in the bag, his friend for shouting hurry up. So he took the | :13:19. | :13:29. | |
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bag of me and they both ran out of the shop, we locked the door, we ran | :13:31. | :13:40. | |
the police. -- rang the police. We have just been robbed at Walton Park | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
SPAR. Two young guys have come in with a big knife and a bag. While | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
the guy was standing in front of me with the knife, all I could think of | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
was keep calm, give the guy what he wants and maybe he will go. But it | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
was very terrifying. Kirsty was very brave in the face of somebody waving | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
a large knife at her. She kept calm, which is exactly what she | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
should have done, not to antagonise him. And I think she should be | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
commended for that bravery. Officers have now been searching for the two | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
robbers for several months. They hope the distinctive top worn by one | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
of them could be an important clue. It is a two tone jacket, it has | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
light colours over the shoulders and a light coloured food with a dark | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
coloured body. He was also carrying a black drawstring bag. It has been | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
described as the type of bag that a child would take to school, perhaps | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
with sports clothing. There is a distinctive logo and we are very | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
keen to know if anyone recognises this bag. Kirsty is still working | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
behind the till but the events of that frightening January night have | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
taken their toll. Even though they were only in the shop for a minute, | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
it has an effect. Get very nervous and do not like being out on my own | :15:04. | :15:13. | |
at night. It has impacted my life a lot. | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
It was very frightening for them and I'm joined by Dave Johnson, who is | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
investigating this case. What you know about these robbers? | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
believe they are local? Yes, they were described as having local | :15:26. | :15:34. | |
accents. Given that the store is near to Preston, it indicates that | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
they are local. They are described as young males, young white males. | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
They were described as being very nervous. There is a cashpoint | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
outside, so why would be interested in hearing from -- you are | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
interested in hearing from anyone who may have been using that? | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
We think that they may have been people waiting in cars for people | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
who had been using the cash machine, who may have seen someone enter the | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
store. And some items that people may recognise. The bag, and this | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
top. What can you tell us about those? The back is a drawstring bag, | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
possibly one that a child would take to school, similar to this one. We | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
are keen to hear from anyone who recognises the back, or knows | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
someone who has used it back like that. Also, the jacket is | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
distinctive. It might not be the same brand but the pattern is very | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
similar to the one used by the offender. And what about the shop | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
assistants? We saw Kirsty, but the other shop assistant was | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
particularly traumatised. How are they? The other girl was terrified. | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
She was very scared that night. They are both back at work now after a | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
short time off, but they are both doing fine. Kirsty was amazingly | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
brave. She stayed cool, and that was the right thing to do. She was | :17:00. | :17:08. | |
brave. I think she has been brave since. To appear on camera in | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
particular. If you recognise that bag or the top, please get in touch. | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
Still to come, drivers caught in the act. Raking the law by using their | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
mobiles. -- breaking the law. And can you help find the burglars who | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
callously stall a young girl's Poppy? We feature a lot of different | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
appeals on Crimewatch in an attempt to track down the bad guys but what | :17:40. | :17:50. | |
is it like to be a witness picking out one of them from a line-up? I'm | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
joined by an officer to debunk some myths. This is the scene that a lot | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
of people think of when we mention ID parades. But this is not really | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
the case, is it? It is all done on computers now. And it is done in a | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
safe environment. They are not confronted with their attacker, not | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
people who are the victims of violent crime, we do not want them | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
to face their attacker. It is darn computer. If it is of honourable | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
victim, we can move the equipments to the form so they can get the best | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
chance to make the identification. -- to their home. Let us look at one | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
of your officers in action. When a witness comes into the | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
identification suite, they no longer see the ID parade, BC video | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
identification. It is not how it used to be. The witness will be | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
brought into a room like this, and they will be sat down and they will | :18:46. | :18:54. | |
view on a monitor nine images, one of which is the suspect. They will | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
see these images twice before they are asked to make an identification. | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
The main surprise will be that the procedure is video identification, | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
and that they do not stand behind a mirrored wall and see a line of | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
people as in the movies. The other surprise is how quick the procedure | :19:13. | :19:22. | |
is. Witness the rings may last ten or 15 minutes. I do not think that | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
is particularly long. -- witnessed viewings. There is a number of | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
people on the video, but where do you get those people from? They are | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
stooges, as we call them, volunteers. If someone makes a | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
mistake and picks out the wrong person, we do not arrest that | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
person. We know where the suspect is, so if the person makes the | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
correct identification, and this is done independently, it is an | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
independent unit, and if they pick out the number, the right person, | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
then a raid will take place. So no body will get into trouble if you | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
pick the wrong person? Not at all. And you can take the IT suite to a | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
victim of crime? So someone in hospital, you could go to them? | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
Exactly. We could take the whole unit to a vulnerable person, or an | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
injured person, so they have the best chance to make the right | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
identification in a comfortable environment. We are going to show a | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
mock crime in a moment and I'm going to have to pick out the defender. | :20:27. | :20:37. | |
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Let's look at the crime. Watch carefully. You are at an advantage, | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
but we need you to look at the face. It is difficult to see the face | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
because it is so quick. That is why get? Know you're going to show me | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
some cases. Normally, we would have nine. We are going to show four. | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
That is the first. Is this how you would do it normally? Both sides, | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
but you would have more time. You could look through it twice and then | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
again. So you're not pressured into doing it. We want to reassure | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
victims that they have the best chance of giving the right evidence. | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
I have the right answer. There is one more. They are also similar but, | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
in reality, this is it. If it is a white male, you will see nine white | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
males. It has to be fair to the suspect. Similar here, even Marx and | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
scars? Yes. So who is it? It was very but I'd think it was number two | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
Mac. You would make an excellent witness because that is the correct | :21:45. | :21:55. | |
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answer. It was really quick, but in reality you would have more time. | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
And now we are away to make the arrest. | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
He is innocent! Let's look at some criminals that have been caught on | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
camera. It is well past closing time at this | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
It is well past closing time at this point But this customer is not | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
breaking down the door in search of a drink. He is having a good look | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
around. What is he after? He eventually finds what he is looking | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
for and leaves with �500 in cash. On his way out, the sports the CCTV and | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
covers it up. Too late for that. We have already got you on camera. If | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
you recognise this space, give us a call is. -- give us a call. We are | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
in Teddington in Middlesex now. This man really loves beauty products. He | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
visits this branch of boots not once but twice in the same week. The | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
years on the 22nd of January stealing a variety of creams and | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
cosmetics. They all disappeared on his jacket. It must have Magic | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
pockets. Two Mac days later, he is back again, more confident, and even | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
taking things while other customers are nearby. On this day alone he got | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
away with more than �1000 worth of goods. Do you recognise them? | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
-- do you recognise him. It is the middle of the night on a | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
bus to Barnett and want passenger is fast asleep, holding a phone in his | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
hand. This man spotted and just cannot resist. Watch now, as he | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
painstakingly prices the phone out of the passenger's hand without | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
waking him up. What a nerve! He slipped it into his pocket and waits | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
for the bus to stop. The victim starts to wake up, but it is too | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
late. The phone snatcher is getting away. Those glasses are quite | :23:51. | :24:00. | |
distinctive. And does that had ring a bell? If it does, we need to know. | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
a bell? If it does, we need to know. -- does that had. Recognise anyone? | :24:02. | :24:12. | |
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If you did, you know what to do. Or drop us a text. Or e-mail us, and | :24:14. | :24:23. | |
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remember, you can call Crimestoppers anonymously. | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
Things have changed since the days of these. Most of us now have a | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
mobile phone. But using your mobile while driving makes you four times | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
more likely to have an accident. Despite that, many of us still do | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
it. So we joined Lancashire Constabulary's campaign to crack | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
down on this dangerous habit. It is early on Friday morning and | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
Mark says and Ciaran Williams are hitting the road. Their task today, | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
to track down drivers breaking the law by using their mobile phones. An | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
unmarked car is parked of the disguise. Today, we are working on | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
the rot away network. -- motorway network. We are looking for people | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
using their mobile phone whilst driving. It is not all about | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
prosecuting people, I would suggest our main role is to educate people, | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
or re-educate them in the error of their ways. The number of people | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
breaking the law is on the increase. In 2004, just 85 people in the North | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
West were convicted of using a hand-held mobile phone whilst | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
driving. In 2010, the figure reached almost 5000, and it is still | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
growing. Soon, the team spot a driver using his mobile. He is still | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
on his mobile phone. They pull them over. We need to chat to you about | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
what you were doing at around about. Lancashire, offenders are issued | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
with a traffic offence report and the report is used by several police | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
forces, giving the driver a choice. They can pay a penalty, contest the | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
charge or opt for a training course highlighting the risks of using a | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
hand-held mobile in the car. We see its time and time again, not just | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
having conversations on the phone but texting friends, using Facebook, | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
checking their e-mails. There is so much available to them on the phones | :26:23. | :26:31. | |
nowadays. It is a big problem. Out on the motorway, the team spot a | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
van driver. He has clearly got his mobile phone to his ear. We will | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
wait for him to pass us and then we will have a word. The driver is soon | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
pulled over and his rights are explained to him. This piece of | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
paper, I'm going to tell you that you have been reported for the above | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
that sense, and consideration will be given to other offences. -- the | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
above offence. This is a note of intended prosecution. Many of these | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
seem minor offences but the police are too familiar with the | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
consequences of accidents caused by drivers on their phones. One of my | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
roles is to break news to the families that one of their loved | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
ones has been killed in a road traffic collision. It is so | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
important that we educate these motorists in the dangers of not | :27:24. | :27:32. | |
using their mobile phones whilst driving, to avoid these outcomes. | :27:32. | :27:42. | |
December 2010, Judy's husband was involved in such a collision. | :27:42. | :27:48. | |
a larger-than-life character. He was very quickwitted, funny, he was a | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
publican for 20 years, so everyone knew him. A family man and his | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
grandchildren loved him to bits because he was unique. On the day of | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
the crash, Mark had gone to visit a friend. -- Bob had gone to visit a | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
friend but tragically he never made it back. These photos show the | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
catastrophic damage done to his car when a lorry ploughed into them. He | :28:11. | :28:18. | |
died at the scene. The police went to break the news to Judy. It was | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
absolutely sickening. It was like being punched in the stomach but | :28:24. | :28:30. | |
worse. Before the crash, the lorry driver had been speaking and texting | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
on his mobile phone. He was convicted of causing death by | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
dangerous driving and given a sentence of five and a half years. | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
The judge described him as grossly distracted by his mobile phone in | :28:42. | :28:52. | |
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the moments before the crash. Nobody deserves to end their life | :28:55. | :29:02. | |
being catapulted across the dual carriageway. And he certainly did | :29:02. | :29:10. | |
not deserve it. Back on the road, Kieran and Mark spot a man breaking | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
the law blatantly. There is a car repaired, and we have seen him on | :29:14. | :29:22. | |
his mobile phone. We're going to stop him and chat with the driver. | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
As the police drive alongside the vehicle, the evidence is damning. | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
The driver is pulled over to discuss what the officers have seen. | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
need to speak to you about being on your phone. The reason we have | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
stopped you, you are using your mobile phone whilst driving. I was | :29:37. | :29:43. | |
just plugging it in and I was hands-free. What you mean? On the | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
speakerphone. That is not hands-free. Hands-free is when you | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
have a unit and you press a button to talk. You had it in your hand so | :29:51. | :29:56. | |
it is not hands-free. Then there is another shock. Please checks reveal | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
that this driver has been caught using a mobile phone before. We'll | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
being caught a second time teacher may lessen? You are more likely to | :30:05. | :30:15. | |
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have a crash. You are not constrained by things around you. | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
use your phone when you are driving and to be text in when you are | :30:21. | :30:26. | |
driving, you cannot believe people do it. There is nothing that is that | :30:26. | :30:29. | |
important that involves you answering your phone or sending a | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
text, nothing at all, and it is unbelievable, how many people have | :30:34. | :30:42. | |
accidents these days because of mobile phone usage. To echo Judy's | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
words, no phone call, text or e-mail is that important that it can't | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
wait. It is an important lesson for all of us. Crime here is falling | :30:51. | :30:58. | |
overall. But personal theft of items like laptops, purses and handbags is | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
on the up. It has risen by 7% and it seems that the thieves are getting | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
ever more clever in the way they are snatching peoples belongings from | :31:07. | :31:12. | |
right under their noses. Earlier in the programme, a member of our team | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
had their phones White, did you spot this? It is happening in the | :31:18. | :31:22. | |
background, it is not a conman or a thief, he is very clever, he is very | :31:22. | :31:29. | |
quick. He is a magician, Mike Keach. How did you do it? You didn't see it | :31:29. | :31:35. | |
happen, really. I wasn't watching myself and that is what happens to | :31:35. | :31:41. | |
the people who get their pockets picked. You cause a diversion. I got | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
your research to look at the phone while my left hand was... Sorry, the | :31:45. | :31:51. | |
book, taking the phone out of her pocket and I came away like that, | :31:51. | :31:54. | |
she was unaware because she was focused on what I wanted her to | :31:54. | :31:58. | |
focus on. Absolutely, they are automatically drawn towards it, you | :31:58. | :32:03. | |
don't really think about it. There are other tricks and distractions. | :32:03. | :32:07. | |
If people are working in gangs, a couple could cause a bit of a | :32:07. | :32:10. | |
disturbance over there, we look at it. I have already spotted the phone | :32:10. | :32:14. | |
or the keys or the purse and it is gone because you're looking over | :32:14. | :32:20. | |
there. It is the stock in trade of a magician and a thief, we call it a | :32:20. | :32:24. | |
misdirection, they just call it their way of earning a living. | :32:24. | :32:29. | |
Sometimes they are working as a network? Absolutely. It is a | :32:29. | :32:33. | |
commonly known thing. People will distract and the magician or the | :32:33. | :32:37. | |
thief is there. Thank you for drawing our attention to it, some | :32:37. | :32:45. | |
really good advice. PCSO Stephen Connelly is here, you can give us | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
some tips. If somebody is common to this market later, what should they | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
do? A big one is to make sure that valuables such as your purse or | :32:53. | :32:57. | |
mobile at the bottom of your bag and making them difficult to got to. | :32:57. | :33:03. | |
Make sure your bag is it all" times, preferably with the opening facing | :33:03. | :33:13. | |
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two wards your body -- open or closed at all times. It sounds | :33:13. | :33:17. | |
simple but sometimes we forget to do that. You have been involved with a | :33:17. | :33:21. | |
scheme that helps to make longings less attractive to thieves, how does | :33:21. | :33:27. | |
it work? It is the national property register. You can register any | :33:28. | :33:36. | |
valuable electronic item, bicycle, unit, for free on the website. In | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
Lancashire we are giving out these property marking stickers which are | :33:39. | :33:45. | |
visual deterrents to the sea. It was them that the property can be traced | :33:45. | :33:52. | |
by the police -- deterrents to the thief. And these are not as Mr Grace | :33:52. | :33:57. | |
and, let's look at these bells. What would you suggest you do -- these | :33:57. | :34:02. | |
are not Christmas decorations. you attach them to your purse, if | :34:02. | :34:08. | |
somebody tries to go and get your purse, it lets off a jingle. It is a | :34:08. | :34:13. | |
really good idea! It is time to take a look at our | :34:13. | :34:20. | |
second batch of CCTV. Watch carefully. | :34:20. | :34:28. | |
We are on boat Lane in London on June evening last summer. -- Bow | :34:28. | :34:32. | |
Lane. This man is using a cash machine and doesn't notice a group | :34:32. | :34:37. | |
of men gathering around him. Working as a team, they start to distract | :34:37. | :34:43. | |
him. One moves into tap him on the shoulder whilst another cancels the | :34:43. | :34:49. | |
transaction and takes his card. Let's see that again. It is really | :34:49. | :34:54. | |
say -- really sly. The card is used to steal �200 from another cash | :34:54. | :35:03. | |
machine just minutes later. Call us if you know who these men are. It is | :35:03. | :35:06. | |
kicking out time on the high street in Essex but this man doesn't want | :35:06. | :35:11. | |
to go home. He appears to get into a row with another man, he hits his | :35:11. | :35:15. | |
victim so hard in the face that he falls to the floor. Another man | :35:15. | :35:20. | |
rushes over to help but our fighter lays into him as well. He seems to | :35:20. | :35:25. | |
note how to handle himself and police believe he has martial arts | :35:25. | :35:29. | |
or boxing experience. He is certainly not messing around with | :35:29. | :35:35. | |
those punches. Do you know him? Give us a call. | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
Figtree this year in the alcohol section of a shop in Middlesex, and | :35:39. | :35:43. | |
these three women are working together. One of them chooses some | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
bottles and puts them down on another shelf, so she can get them | :35:46. | :35:51. | |
into her bag. Now it is her friend's turn. She has the bottles | :35:51. | :35:57. | |
in a basket, and transfers them into her bag. Now the one in the grey top | :35:57. | :36:02. | |
is at it again, moving a bottle onto a shelf so her friend, yes, you | :36:02. | :36:09. | |
guessed it, can knit it. -- nick it. Altogether they take ten bottles | :36:09. | :36:16. | |
worth more than �200. Do you know these alcohol thieves? | :36:16. | :36:23. | |
Call us on the usual number. If you recognise anyone. Or you can text. | :36:23. | :36:33. | |
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Eight-year-old Izzy Duffy from Whitworth in Lancashire saved her | :36:36. | :36:43. | |
pocket money for months to buy her perfect puffy. -- puppy. Getting | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
Skittles was like a dream come true but one night, the unthinkable | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
happened. It was the early hours of Tuesday | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
morning and the Duffy family were in bed, fast asleep. Downstairs, | :36:55. | :37:00. | |
thieves had broken in. They had forced open a window and stolen | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
thousands of pounds worth of possessions. As well as cash, they | :37:04. | :37:09. | |
stole electrical items including a laptop, cameras and mobile phones, | :37:09. | :37:16. | |
along with the family's BMW. But it was the mean-spirited thieves' | :37:16. | :37:21. | |
decision to steal the family's puppy, Skittles, that left | :37:21. | :37:25. | |
eight-year-old easy and her brother Alister devastated. Alistair went to | :37:25. | :37:32. | |
the kitchen and shouted out that Skittles had gone. By this time, my | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
daughter was also getting, heard the scream and was distraught. | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
wandered around, looking for where she was and I found she wasn't there | :37:39. | :37:43. | |
at all. I burst into tears and ran upstairs and locked myself in my | :37:43. | :37:49. | |
bedroom. I couldn't believe they did this. I felt like swearing at them | :37:49. | :37:57. | |
but I knew not to. They still haven't found the thief. I just feel | :37:57. | :38:06. | |
like kicking them or something. member of our family has been taken. | :38:06. | :38:11. | |
Getting her back was the most important bit. The car was found | :38:11. | :38:15. | |
abandoned nearby but there was still no sign of Skittles. The family | :38:15. | :38:19. | |
launched an appeal on the internet, asking people to look out for her, | :38:19. | :38:25. | |
and the response was amazing. 200,000 people viewed the Facebook | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
site. The advice from the police was to try to make the puppies too hot | :38:29. | :38:34. | |
to handle, so they would not be able to sell her on, so hopefully she | :38:34. | :38:39. | |
would be abandoned and returned. tactic seemed to work because after | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
four agonising days, family heard the news they had been waiting for. | :38:44. | :38:48. | |
Skittles had been found, a few miles away in a Tesco car park. We got a | :38:48. | :38:53. | |
phone call saying, I think I have found your dog. Fortunately, I was | :38:53. | :38:57. | |
able to drive down and see, and Skittles came running towards me and | :38:57. | :39:07. | |
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I brought her home. I brought Izzy and Alistair -- I woke Izzy and | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
Alistair and there were screams of delight. It was the best day of my | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
life when I got her back, I couldn't believe it, the best day of my | :39:16. | :39:26. | |
:39:26. | :39:27. | ||
entire life. I am joined by a very special guest, Skittles. Her owners, | :39:27. | :39:34. | |
Izzy, Alister, her brother, and mum, Shona. Thanks for coming. Is she | :39:34. | :39:41. | |
recovered now? Yes, she is a lot better but still her cheeky normal | :39:41. | :39:49. | |
self. Stealing potatoes. She is cheeky, is she? She is a very fast | :39:49. | :39:55. | |
runner, she begs us at the table to try to get some roast chicken. | :39:55. | :40:00. | |
are glad to have her back? It must be a delight that Skittles is back | :40:00. | :40:05. | |
and an awful time for you all. children were very upset when she | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
was taken. They were worried about where she was, was she being looked | :40:09. | :40:15. | |
after, fed and cared for? Luckily, she was. That is very good news and | :40:15. | :40:21. | |
she is back safe and sound. Police believe that this burglary and the | :40:21. | :40:25. | |
theft of Skittles was linked to an incident involving a stolen car. A | :40:25. | :40:31. | |
red Citroen was stolen from Todmorden Road in Rochdale on Monday | :40:31. | :40:36. | |
6th of May. When the family's house was burgled in Whitworth, the | :40:36. | :40:40. | |
family's BMW was stolen and the red Citroen was found dumped nearby. | :40:40. | :40:48. | |
Later on the same day, the BMW was found abandoned on David Street in | :40:48. | :40:54. | |
Rochdale and the PC is here with me. It was a Citroen C one vehicle, a | :40:54. | :41:02. | |
three door, a 2009 registration. you know about the thieves? | :41:02. | :41:06. | |
believe they are from the Rochdale area based on where they can be | :41:06. | :41:13. | |
stolen from. Skittles was left in a Tesco car park, you particularly | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
want to appeal to anyone who may have seen her being abandoned, tell | :41:17. | :41:22. | |
us about that. She was left on the car park so we are keen to note if | :41:22. | :41:26. | |
anybody saw her being abandoned, all running around, or anybody in the | :41:26. | :41:36. | |
area. She was stolen two days before she was found. A lot of items have | :41:36. | :41:40. | |
been stolen in this burglary including credit cards and a laptop. | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
Skittles is back and I know you're going to be keeping a very eye on | :41:44. | :41:52. | |
her. She is not off the lead, apart from in the park. Back where she | :41:52. | :41:56. | |
belongs. Some good sounding information has | :41:56. | :42:00. | |
come in on the wanted face we showed you earlier, Alexander James Edward | :42:00. | :42:05. | |
Dooley, accused of setting up a website advertising bogus car | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
insurance. Hopefully that leads to him being caught. And calls on the | :42:10. | :42:14. | |
robbery in the SPAR shop in Walton Park, I hope that leads to an | :42:14. | :42:22. | |
arrest. Let's find out what shone is going to be up to tomorrow. -- | :42:22. | :42:27. | |
Sian. We will be in Blackburn and finding out how police and fire | :42:27. | :42:32. | |
crews are working together to tackle drink driving, and we will be | :42:32. | :42:36. | |
appealing for information about a vicious, unprovoked attack on a man | :42:36. | :42:41. | |
who was out walking his dog. That's tomorrow. Thank you. For more | :42:41. | :42:45. | |
details about all the crimes on today's programme, head to our | :42:45. | :42:51. |