Episode 17 Crimewatch Roadshow

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Today, the retired doctor who foiled a pair of armed robbers. And we are

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Hello you are watching Crimewatch road show. Today, the lowest of the

low, the criminal who targeted a pensioner with a working friend. And

the man who targeted a teenager. Sian is in Wapping at the historic

docks at Shadwell basin. We will be finding out how police dive teams

retrieved evidence from London's waterways and talking to the top

brass about clamping down on gangs. First today, pensioner whose quick

thinking may have saved his life when he came face-to-face with two

armed robbers. He put his hand over my heart and I

stopped breathing. They could have been leaving him to die.

86-year-old Peter Kershaw has always made sure he keeps himself trim by

heading to the gym at least twice a week. I have always been extremely

fit. I can run for a bus or run for a train. I am very sweet indeed. I

am much better than my trainer at times. But Peter's active lifestyle

was to come to an abrupt end when one morning, a stranger came to the

door. The man refused to speak. He seemed to be using a form of sign

language. Then, without warning, he threw a punch. I was hit really hard

in the heart several times. As a doctor, I do know that a blow to the

heart can be quite dangerous when you get older. Peter fought back but

soon realised his attacker was carrying a gun. After taking a

closer look, Peter thought it may be fake. I said, that is an imitation.

You can put that one down for starters. The attacker seemed thrown

by Peter's response. He then stood back. As if to take a really big

strike at bay. I brought my knee up in his crutch as hard as I could.

Suddenly, an accomplice appeared. It was now two against one. The

86-year-old was soon overwhelmed. The level of violence used against

Peter in his home home was hideous. They punched him, kicked him, threw

him against a wall. They did not relent wish their attack against

him. They left him on the floor. They then started kicking me. As I

was making a lot of noise, they gagged me with 80 towel. One of the

men ransacked the house for valuables. Peter started to feign

illness, pretended to be sick, pretended to be faint and this

appeared to worry the attackers. I put my hand over my heart, stopped

breathing until I went pink in the face so they would have to take

notice of me. He was yelling upstairs for the other chap to come

down. The plan worked. At the sight of Peter's apparently worsening

condition, the attackers made a sharp exit. They left his house

without a second thought for Peter's health or well-being. They

could have been leaving him to die. I crawled on my hands and knees into

the study and dialled 999. They said, police or ambulance? I said, I

need both, I have been attacked and injured. Peter has been left in

constant pain. His debilitating injuries have made exercise a thing

of the past. His hurt is not just physical. Who would attack a man of

86? It is not right. There is something wrong somewhere. They have

invaded my privacy which I value very much. I felt they have brought

me down in life. This really is a very distressing

case. Peter's daughter Christine joins me now. You have seen a real

change in your father, having to? I really have. To begin with I thought

everything was OK. It has transpired that he has injured his back and

knee. He has to be on a mend is amount of morphine. The morphine has

side effects. They have caused him to lose a lot of weight. You cannot

walk far. You cannot have the life he used to lead. Used to go to town

three times a week, he used to go to the gym and he used to take the dog

for a walk. None of these he can do. I am hopeful that in six months he

can get back to normal. It has been a horrific time for him. I can

honestly say it has been a living nightmare. Lets hope does have a

speedy recovery. We can talk to DC Anish could tunic who is

investigating this case. ?6,000 of items were stolen. Let's speak about

some of them -- DC Nish could tunic. There is a Parker gold ten. We would

appeal to any dealers who have been offered this item. And also a gold

Longines watch which belonged to Peter's father. And tell us about

the descriptions? The first man was 2225, dark skinned, Eastern

European. He was wearing a cream coloured tracksuit and a pair of

white or cream trainers. He was the one who pointed the gun in Peter's

face. The second man was slightly shorter, five foot five. The other

man was 57. He was carrying a purple or dark grey cloth bag or pillowcase

which we believe the items were stolen in -- he was five foot seven.

They went down Grey Gardens before going down an alleyway called

Adnam's Walk before turning left into rain Road South which

unfortunately is where we lost them. Police forces around Britain

have been sending us CCTV. Can you help us identify these

crooks caught on camera? New Year, a time of goodwill and

celebration but that is in short supply in Swansea. Two friends are

walking through the street in the early hours when they are approached

by a man in a white T-shirt. They are approached by -- they say the

man asks to use their mobile phone. He then returns and head-butt one

man and smacks the other in the face. Let's name and shame this

bully. Tell us who he is. A bank on Vauxhall Bridge Road in

London. This man is waiting patiently but he has big plans. He

withdraws ?4800. The money is not his. Police say he has managed to

get hold of someone else's card. They believe he later used the same

card in several other branches of the same bank. In total, it is

reckoned he steals a massive 42 ground from the same account from

someone living in Essex. Name, please.

The two guys in this restore bookies are not planning on making a bet.

They gamble on being able to distract the staff member. They

start with a con, asking her to swap bank notes, in the hope of confusing

her and keeping some of the shop's cash. But they give up when she

tells them she does not have a ?20 notes. These guys are not beaten.

One hovers around the counter while another goes to get a coffee, or

does he? He tells the staff member the machine is not working. While

she goes to help him, quick as a flash, his Powell reaches over the

counter and grabs ?110 and some blank betting slips. Why not have a

punt on naming this pair? We are with the Met police dive

team. You have got a training exercise. What would happen here? We

are going to introduce a gun into the dock. The diver will go in and

use a search pattern to find it. The gun will go in and we can get the

training exercise under way. Tell us about the role of the team. The

team. No our job is to locate any evidence that the enquiry teams are

looking for. We will go to any waterways in the London area and try

and locate it. You have got a lot of kit. Talk us through what we have

here. It is really interesting to see all of this. We do the majority

of our diving on surface supplied air. The air that is going to the

diver comes from the surface. They are not breathing from air on their

backs. They do have air on their backs in case there is a

catastrophic failure of this but this is the safest form of diving

that you can do. If the diver has any issue down there, we can keep

giving him more air. So the air is going through that cord now. Very

cheeky conditions down there, I imagine? Yes, he will be working

with no visibility, with a foot or two feet of thick silt and all the

rubbish you can think of thrown in on top of that. They've virtually

cannot see in front of the hounds? They cannot see a thing, everything

is done on touch. Is there any forensic value when it has been in

the water? You can get DNA, fingerprints and gunshot residue.

There is a very high likelihood that you could get evidence. Let's see if

he finds it later? Breaking the cycle of gang crime can

be a real challenge for the police, but the Met have come up with

a carrot and stick approach that It is 5am. We are with the Met

Police team tackling gang-related crime. They are responsible from

crimes responsible for drug dealing to muggings. But the police have

more than one tactic to overcome the problem. Police know that gangs

often recruit their members when they are young, leaving them trapped

in a criminal underworld. You have that revolving door of arrest,

charge and prison and on it goes. It could be that you have found

yourself in a situation that you do not want to be in. You just do not

know how to get yourself out. Police are trying any message they can to

break that cycle. They can give you a few pointers to give you a bigger

opportunity to get a job. They are encouraging local youths to come

here to a jobs fair. I want people to realise that the Met are also

here to help. If that means rehousing you from your peer group

or assisting you with employment training or education to get you

out, we camp that you in touch with the right people to help you exit

and turn your life around. But if they do not want to expect help,

gang members can expect a more traditional style of policing.

Police! If they continue to commit crime and

pose a risk to the community then equally the Met will target them as

well. These raids taking place across London on the same day as the

jobs fair are targeting gangs and it does not take them long to uncover

their first stash. This looks like cannabis resin and a small ball of

what looks like crack cocaine. It looks about 30 pieces in there. The

30 pieces probably have a street by you of ?600. It is a stark reminder

of the role gangs play in London's drugs market and at other raids,

offices make more seizures. We have what we believe to be uncut heroin

and uncut cocaine, together with a mixing agent, roughly a street value

of this, once it is cut down would be between two and ?3000. The gang

members here had their chance to get out, but now they are facing jail.

Police officers say they are getting results.

We are having great success, gun crime and knife crime is coming

down. If we can offer authentic measures that them to take a

different path, hopefully, we will see more success in the future.

I'm joined now by Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe,

head of the Met here in London. Some of these knives have been

recovered in the operations related to gang crime.

head of the Met here in London. We heard in the film that

gang crime is coming down. But there are still nearly 600 kids

under 17-year-olds in gangs in London.

You have a long way to go, don't you?

It is a big issue. I said three years ago I wanted to do something

about it, so we put together a team of 1200 police officers, and we are

making an impact. 3500 people in gangs, that is the size of the task.

We have locked up a third of them. We try to do two things, we will

enforce the law if they use these weapons. If we can divert them,

particularly a very young person and stop them getting involved in

criminality, we will do that. don't you?

You are using some softer ways of tackling gang crime, like

the jobs fair we saw in the film. But many people would say that

if you are involved in gang crime, you should be arrested full stop.

What would you say to them? Some are already in prison which

shows we are being ruthless. At the age of 1415, these kids become

attracted to the fringes of these gangs. Where we identify them as

being at risk, we do our best to divert them. We work with

charities. It may mean moving them to different parts of London. We

look at young girls who are traded round these gangs as sexual

playthings, or used to carry batons because the gangs think they won't

get the same sentence. That is not true. We try to target those on the

fringes to avoid them getting involved.

After the 2011 writes, there was a lot of thought about policing and

strategies. Do Londoners want water cannon on the streets?

What people want is safety. On the first night, we took an awful lot of

injuries from rocks being thrown. The water cannon is used to keep

people out of range. We have the possibility also of batten rounds.

We have to have a spectrum of things in our armoury, this is one of them.

Thank you very much. What would you say to them?

Still to come on today's programme: A robber who stalked an elderly man

through the streets before pouncing. He pinned my arms to my side so I

could not move. Still to come on today's programme:

And the police dive team reveal how they pluck evidence from the depths

of London's murky waterways. Now, just a few hundred yards away

from this old dock is the scene of a notorious East End murder.

On Saturday the 8th of February 1997, John Kennedy was stabbed to

death in the Railway Pub in Sutton Street just over there.

It has become a well-known crime because John's brother, Jade Jones,

was a member of the band Damage. We'll speak to Jade in a moment.

But, first, here's DCI John Sandlin who is leading the investigation.

Tell me what happened? John was out with his friends, there

was an altercation by the pool table in the pub. He was stabbed but died

if you hours later. There was a Crimewatch appeal and a note was

handed into the town hall. This could be a witness who we want

to speak to. And anyone else in the pub that night. There are steps I

can take to ensure there is protection for witnesses.

Jade, 17 years have passed. What would it mean for the family to get

a result and find out who did this? It would mean the world to the

family. 17 years is a long time for us to grieve. Our brother is

missed. We are urging people to come forward and do the right thing, and

be a witness. If you are in the pub, please come forward and say what

needs to be set. This has been a long campaign. It

has. Tell us about John? He was a loving father. The joker of

the family. He is really missed. A charity worker. An all-round good

guy. Somebody like that, to have their life taken away so young is

tough for us to deal with. He is missed by all his friends.

What is your message to someone out there who may know who has done

this? I think there are a lot of people

who do know. They can put things in place, the police can put things in

place to protect them. Think of us, as a family, how we are grieving.

Please come forward and say as a family, how we are grieving.

Please come forward what needs to be said.

Thank you for coming in to talk to us. Good luck with the

investigation. There is a ?30,000 reward for an

arrest and prosecution in this case. Now it's time to have a look

at today's Wanted Faces. First up is this man,

Lloyd Douglas Trainer. The 24-year-old is wanted

for questioning by officers in Sussex in connection with

a burglary at an antiques shop. Trainer has links to Glasgow,

Surrey and London. He has a mole on the left side

of his chin and a tribal style Wanted Face number 66 is

Antonio Alho. The 23-year-old is wanted

for questioning in connection with a robbery

and car jacking in which a woman Alho has links to London, Essex,

Kent and Leighton Buzzard. He was found guilty of two counts

of burglary at Bristol Crown Court The 22-year-old has links to the

Irish Republic and Gloucestershire. He has numerous tattoos

including Danny I Love You, He also has two large scars

on his left leg. And finally today, do you

recognise Teviksem Binatli? The 24-year-old was charged with

affray, and granted bail, He is six feet tall,

and of slim build. He has an identical twin brother,

who is not wanted by police. Binatli has links to the Grays area

of Essex, and Lambeth in London. If you recognise any of these faces,

please pick up the phone. Some network and mobile operators

will charge for these calls. Text CW, space,

and then your message. If you don't put it in, your

message won't get through to us. Texts will be charged

at your standard message rate. Now, can you help us track

down the man who brutally assaulted a teenager on her way home

from a party here in the East End? Both the written and her mum has

spoken to us. We have changed their names to protect their identities,

and their voices are spoken by an actor.

Jade had had a busy week at college and was looking forward to spending

Saturday night with friends, letting her hair down.

Even after college, I still revise when I get home. But, at the

weekends, I just want to go out and have some fun.

Because she is a good girl, I do trust her, so I do let her out. But

I normally say, be in by a certain time.

It was a Saturday evening. Jade and her friends were excited

about a party they had heard about, and were waiting for details.

You get their number from Facebook, you call them up. My friend called

them, and they said it was near Canning town. So, we just went.

Jade and her friends jumped on a chain. The party was being held in

an industrial estate opposite the station entrance on Cody Road.

When we got off the Tube, we had the music, and we could actually see

it. We started getting excited. The friends had to queue before they

could gain entry to the underground party. But, earlier excitement was

replaced with trepidation, as Jade had attracted some unwanted

attention. I felt a bit uncomfortable, because

someone was staring at me. While she was standing in the queue

to enter the party, she saw this man looking at her. She felt

uncomfortable with it. I would tell my friend, but she

said, don't worry about it. So, we went in. The friends enjoyed

an evening of dancing until the early hours. At 4am in the morning,

her friends were ready to head home. My two friends told me to come. I

didn't want to go yet. They left me. Her decision to stay at the party

would leave her alone in an unfamiliar part of London.

I knew that I was at Starling, but I did not know how to get home from

there. She walked out of the industrial

estate, and turned right, heading towards the Docklands light

Melbourne. She had a sense someone was following her.

At first, I didn't think anything of it. But after he started gaining

speed. She decided to cross a road in an

attempt to get away from this man. Unfortunately, he also continued

following her. Then, I was worried. I knew

something was going to happen. Her attacker finally caught up with

her. She was then subjected to a

terrifying assault. We believe another man of African

descent was walking past. The potential witness was talking

loudly on a mobile phone, and police think it was this interruption that

spooked the attacker, causing him to flee.

I still felt scared. I was still crying. I was emotional.

It was the early hours of the morning before Jade made her way to

a phone box near Canning Town bus station. In a state of shock, she

called for help. When I heard from the place what

happened, I got upset. I started crying. In an instant, I stopped

crying and thought, I had to be there for my daughter.

What happened to Jade was every parent's worst nightmare.

At first, I didn't go to college for a week, I didn't even want to leave

my house. But I had to go. Jade, before, was bubbly, laid-back,

always laughing and smiling. Afterwards, she would not go

outside. If she did want to go somewhere, she would ask me to go

with her. I don't really go to parties

anymore. Because I am scared it is going to happen again.

We believe the man staring at the queue for her to get into the party

was the man who followed her and attacked her.

I think, the hardest part is knowing that he is still out there.

from a party here in the East End? Detective Chief Inspector Simon

Moring has been investigating this disturbing case.

And Simon, I think you have one big clue.

The man had a very distinctive tattoo on his face.

We have tried to recreate it here. From the victim's description,

it is a skull and crossbones tattoo, and it is just

below the man's right eye. What else do we know about the man?

He was black, with dark skin. Not massively tall,

but certainly taller than the victim who is five foot three inches tall.

We believe that, on the night of that party on Cody Road,

on November 30 last year, he was wearing a blue Nike tracksuit.

Do you think he was from further afield? We think people attending

would have been drawn from a large catchment area.

wearing a blue Nike tracksuit. Now it's time

for our second round-up of criminals caught on camera.

And, just so you know, the first one is pretty nasty.

We are outside a pub in the Brent area of London, and these men are

having a bright con slab. The skinny guy looks properly wound up, and

appears to act out an attack, making punching and striking motions. His

stocky part isn't bothered, and keeps appearing in to the pub. They

split up, and the big guy comes back out soon after. This time, he is

with someone else. But things take a sinister turn when the skinny man

puts on workman's gloves and walks back to them holding a hammer behind

his back. Police think he gets it from a nearby van. He marches

towards the man and clubs him in the head with a hammer, falling in the

process. The victim staggers back and it struck again. A car passes

between them, giving the victim a chance to escape. He flees and is

followed down the road by the two men where police say he is beaten

again. This appalling attack happened in a busy street and would

have been witnessed by many people. Were you one of them? We need your

help now. into a south London petrol station

and decides he wants to fill up on money. He lunges over-the-counter

and takes around 100 quid for the till. Let's see it again. The camera

gets a good view of him before he walks through the door and grabs the

cash. Reckon you can identify him? What are you waiting for?

Next, DC Elaine Dodd needs your help in catching someone who has attacked

a man seemingly just for being gay. He has gone out of the club and

attacked a gay man. He he was left with a broken nose, a broken eye

socket which on the brain. Where did this happen? It occurred in

Birmingham city centre. The club is on Hurst Street. We have got some

CCTV of the person you really want to identify. Talk me through this.

It is this man coming on to the left of the screen. A white male in his

20s, with dark hair, a T-shirt, a dark jacket and a pair of jeans with

a white the on the back. That is very distinctive. Someone will have

a look at those jeans and recognise those or the person as a whole. We

need as many names as possible for who this person might be. The victim

has not just had physical injuries, has he? It has affected him mentally

and psychologically. He has lost his confidence, he suffers anxiety. He

cannot stay in his own property. It is a nasty hate crime. That is how

you are treating this? It is a homophobic hate crime. We clearly

need to find this guy. If you recognise him, please do get in

touch? The numbers or on your screen now.

Our next case involves calculating thief who robbed an elderly victim

when he arrived home at his sheltered housing.

A is just a number for 90 rods one Lord. He enjoys living life to the

full. In the morning I might do a little bit of shopping. In the

afternoon I meet a lady friend and dance for a couple of hours. That is

my day. On the morning of April the 1st, Ronald headed out from his car

home on Green man lain down to Ealing Broadway. I crossed the road.

I went to the cash machine and took ?200 out. Ronald is pretty active

but he does not get out and about as quickly as he once did. With my

three wheeled walker, I do not walk for a fast. I'd walk half the speed

of a normal person! -- I do not walk very fast. Waddled was on his way to

a nearby supermarket but he was not on his own. -- Ronald was on his way

to a nearby supermarket. A man was tracking his movements. The first

time we see this man is on camera when one Lord and this man enter

Sainsbury's. He headed down the street just biding his time. I did

my shopping. I had my shopping bags on the handle of the trolley. One

Lord -- Ronald's route home makes him go towards the pedestrian

crossing. He went straight past the suspicious man. He then turns the

corner. And then this man also turns this corner and walks in the same

direction behind him. He knows where Ronald is going. He has walked ahead

of Ronald and then he is waiting for him again. As Ronald reached his

care home, the man opened the door for him and then made his move.

Somebody came from behind me, put their arm around me and pinned my

arm to the side so I cannot move. I nearly lost my balance. I thought it

was just someone drunk. He was only there for a couple of minutes and

then he walked past. As I came in I saw my wallet had gone. The mother

made off with around ?90 in cash as well as Ronald's credit cards. I

ended up changing my credit card and the PIN number. This is a robbery

which happened in London in the middle of the day and it is

something that I as a police officer take very seriously. I do not want

other people who are not quite as tough as Ronald to deal with this. I

want to stop him from doing this to me again and anybody else.

DC Matt Spring who we saw the film joins me now. It is pretty shocking

this one? Yes, it is a shocking incident. It is an attack in the

middle of the day on a vulnerable man. He is walking towards his

sheltered accommodation and using his walking frame. That makes him a

target as a vulnerable person. A terrible thing to have happened and

then after the attack he withdrew money. We think the man who robbed

him has seen Ronald use the PIN number and made a note of it. He has

gone to a bank and taken out ?1000 and then to a cashpoint and taken

out another ?3000. You have got some CCTV? No the is of good quality. He

is a man wearing a distinctive grey blue jumper. He is wearing dark

trousers and lighter coloured trainers. I would like to know who

he is. You really want to catch this man before he strikes on the

vulnerable again. Could you bring yourself to sit

face-to-face with a person who had That's exactly what Restorative

Justice Schemes aim to do. Sue Frame is from the

Probation Service This brings an offender and a victim

into communication. This can be face-to-face, as close as we are

now. That must be a pretty scary prospect for the victims. It is a

scary prospect. The victims are nervous because they are victims of

terrible crimes. They are supported throughout the process. It is a

voluntary process so they can pull out at any stage but I have not had

a victim who has done this yet. We can hear from one victim. Mrs Helen

Smith from South Wales. She decided to meet the man who burgled her

house. I cannot replace a ring my mother bought for me. It is

irreplaceable. I want to put a face to the name, I wanted to know who

broke into my house. I think he was genuine that he really wanted to try

and get his life on track. Now, it is my face he's going to see. It is

not a victor many more, it is a person. Helen found it very

worthwhile and she also hopes it stops the offender reoffending and

that is another point of the scheme, isn't it? Yes, the offender also

benefits. It gives them a sense of doing the right things so it

increases their sense of self-worth which motivates them to change which

makes it less likely that they will go on to offend. Hopefully when they

see the victim and they see how much hurt and upset they have caused will

get to them and that will stop them reoffending? Exactly because victims

are often faceless when an offender commits a crime. Restorative justice

brings that to the forefront. It is early days but we hope it will be a

great success. Thank you for joining us.

Sian. Earlier, we saw the Met Police dive team trying to retrieve a

weapon from the murky waters of the Thames. Stewart, how have you got

on? No he went to find the weapon. We can see him coming up now. There

is the diver. That cable you were talking to me about. The gun has

come out of the water. If you were going to use it for evidence, what

would happen to it then? We would hand it to detectives or scenes of

crimes officers and they would take it away to do forensic examinations

on the weapon. Very challenging conditions in these waterways and

many different types of waterways in London. What are some of the

challenges you have been up against and you have had to respond to? We

respond to all sorts of incidents from missing persons to murders and

assaults. Our biggest challenges are no visibility and the rubbish that

is in there and the fact the diver cannot see anything in front of him.

He is doing everything by touch. He uses a search pattern using a

weighted line on the bottom of the water. He will be using one hand on

the weighted line and the other. He will lift the weight, move it a

metre and work back. The area is covered at least twice. It is a slow

process but very thorough. It is like a fingerprint search

underwater. A quick update for you now. Some

information coming on the gold pen which was stolen from Peter Kershaw

in the attack in Hornchurch. Also a woman was tricked into parting with

800 pounds of euros. We have strong leads on that case. And two men who

were posing as gardeners stole money from a pension's home. Sian, where

will you be tomorrow? Tomorrow we are going from dive into driving. We

will be at the Met's driving school at Hendon. I have had a go. I have

been doing some pretty radical manoeuvres. You can see how I get

on. We will have the police officers doing some impressive tricks live on

air. I will look forward to that. To have another look at today's CCTV,

head to the website. Finally, I will leave you with today's Wanted Faces.

If you can find any of them, get in touch. Until tomorrow, take care.