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standing by for your calls. All month, we are on the road with the | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
police, and we are asking you to help them tackle crime. Today, the | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
brave pensioner determined not to let an intruder get the better of | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
him. I was not going to let him empty my bank account. He was only | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
getting 60 quid. And they have got the bit between their teeth - the | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
volunteers making a real difference to countryside crime. They are the | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
eyes and ears of Leicestershire police when they are out on patrol. | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
You are watching Crimewatch Roadshow. | :00:43. | :00:59. | |
Hello and welcome to the programme that shows you life at the sharp end | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
for today's police, and helps you fight back against the crooks and | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
their cons. Later in today's programme, the robbers caught on | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
camera attacking a terrified homeowner. The moment I was stood | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
face-to-face with him, I did not know what he would do. And Tim not | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
on the front line - the nurses and police keeping patients out of the | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
cells. We might need some back-up with this lady. Today we are with | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
Northamptonshire Police. Sian, where are you? | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
Northamptonshire Police. Sian, I can't tell you exactly where we | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
are in case any burglars are watching. All I can say is that we | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
have all rode this house so that we can test its home security and give | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
more advice on how they can make it a burglar proof. Lots of great | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
advice coming up. Now to a pensioner who kept his wits | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
about him, despite being badly hurt in a violent robbery in his own | :01:59. | :02:07. | |
home. If he does the same thing again, he | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
could kill somebody. Ian McCann is 83, and retired to Northampton to | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
enjoy the quiet life. I have lived in Northampton for 14 years. I have | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
retired here, and always take life easy. I have got one dog. I have had | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
him since he was two, and he is a friendly little dog and gets on well | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
with people. At five months ago, Ian's peaceful life was shattered. I | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
was sitting on the settee, watching the television, catching up with a | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
bit of news, and I heard a loud splintering sound. Ian went to his | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
back door, and came face-to-face with a man holding a large hammer. | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
He said, I have come to see your services. I said, rubbish, get out! | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
The man barged his way into the house and shoved Ian into the living | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
room. He was a lot stronger than I was, so I decided not to resist. The | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
man ripped out the phone cable and used it to tie Ian's hands behind | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
his back. I was in mobile -- in Mobile, dominated by him and there | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
was no way I could resist. Ian's dog tried to come to his aid. The dog | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
was barking and making a fuss. That was when he said, if that doesn't | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
shut up, I will kill him. Taking out a poor, harmless little dog. After | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
threatening the dog, the man turned on Ian. I want your money, he kept | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
saying. I told him I was a pensioner and had no money. But the robber | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
would not take no for an answer, and began to attack Ian. I was sitting | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
down. And he just swung the hammer sideways at me. Quite hard. It hit | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
my cheek just about here. It was very painful. He enjoyed hitting me, | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
I think. Despite the pain, Ian was still refusing to tell the robber | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
where his money was, so the man started searching him. He found | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
Ian's wallet in his jacket pocket, with ?60 on it, along with his debit | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
card. Then he asked me for the PIN number, so I told him a number which | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
was not the PIN number. Then he asked again, and I told him the same | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
number again. He wanted to empty my bank account. But he had 60 quid, | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
and that was all he was getting. Ian's quick thinking seems to | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
convince the burglar, who ran off with the debit card, leaving him | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
still tied up. I stayed quietly for a few minutes to make sure he had | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
disappeared, and I went next door to see my friend Ken. I had a cup of | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
tea and was watching the news on TV when there was this tremendous | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
banging on the front door. When I went and opened it, there was Ian, | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
standing there, and he had been bound up with the telephone cord and | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
he said he had been robbed and beaten with a hammer. I am a tough | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
old bird, really. I was in the Army, so I have had a few | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
rough-and-tumble is in the Army. I was not going to give in. Ian was | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
interviewed by local news days after the attack. The bruises on his face | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
were still fresh, and show how violent the attack had been. There | :05:54. | :06:02. | |
was a very large lump there. It has broken all the capillaries in my | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
face. It is bleeding all the way down my face, down my neck and onto | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
my chest. Nobody should go through something like that, especially | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
nobody as frail and vulnerable as Ian. They attack has left Ian | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
feeling like a prisoner in his own home. I am much more keen on | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
security, making sure everything is locked and bolted and barred. Police | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
are still hunting for Ian's attacker. Unless this person is | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
caught, it could happen to somebody else. And it will. It is a horrific | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
attack. DI Ally White is with me now. What do you know about the | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
attacker? We are looking for a mixed male, about five foot ten tall, aged | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
about 25, but disguised his appearance with a scarf and a woolly | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
hat. He had a dark blue waterproof jacket on and dark jeans. There is | :06:56. | :07:04. | |
some CCTV footage. It is a good lead. After the attack, which | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
happened around 8:30am, he moved from the St James area of | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
Northampton today Kingsley Park Terrace. He is caught on CCTV at the | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
Nationwide bank, trying to use the bank card. He was unsuccessful, | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
because Ian used quick thinking and gave him the wrong PIN number. Then | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
he seemed to discard the card into a drain and walk off. What is your | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
appeal to the public 's we are asking anyone who might know him to | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
contact us straightaway. I am keen to arrest him as soon as possible. | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
Anyone who was in the area of either sing James or Kingsley Park Terrace | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
who might have seen this person between eight and ten in the | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
morning. We really hope someone can help. | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
Now I look at today's wanted faces. First up is 27-year-old Elisa | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
Cardoni. She was found guilty at the Old Bailey in October last year of | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
drug dealing, but failed to attend court for the hearing. She was | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
sentenced to two years in prison in her absence. She has connections to | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
the Ealing, Haringey at no areas of London and speaks with an Italian | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
accent. She has a tattoo of three stars on the left side of her neck. | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
She was pregnant at the time of the offence and is now believed to have | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
a one-year-old child. Next, Mustapha Jibril. He has been wanted since | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
June 2008. He was originally jailed for three years for armed robbery, | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
but released early on licence. He failed to stick to the conditions of | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
his release and is now wanted back in prison. Originally from Somalia, | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
24-year-old also has links to the Netherlands and Liverpool. And this | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
is 35-year-old Jamie Magee. Police want to question him in connection | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
with the 19 deaths of back cards from Jim lockers across the UK. He | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
has connections to the Coventry area and speaks with a Midlands accent. | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
He also has a tattoo of the sun on his right arm. Finally, may did | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
Ali, who may be using a number of false names. He is wanted for | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
questioning by forces across the country in connection with | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
high-value theft from employers. This is another picture of him. He | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
is originally from Pakistan. If you recognise any of these faces, pick | :09:19. | :09:36. | |
up the phone. Or you can text us. Of course, you can e-mail us as well. | :09:37. | :09:46. | |
Welcome back to Northamptonshire. Now, how would a thief see this | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
property? Easy pickings or too risky? Run prevention officer Shawn | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
Johnson is here. Give us some advice. What is wonderful about this | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
property when you see it is the natural surveillance we have. By | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
that, I mean we have neighbours who can look into the front garden. That | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
deters the offender from coming, because he can be seen. But when we | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
walked in, I also noticed that it was a nice sunny day and people are | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
leaving their windows open. This is about simple things you can do, not | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
spending money, but making your house more secure. Through that | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
window, I can see a laptop, so despite wonderful surveillance, and | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
offender can walk through, take the laptop and run away. So if an | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
offender sees this laptop, would they be looking for something to use | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
to get into the property? Absolutely. Offenders do not wander | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
around with picking tools in their pocket. They look for what is there, | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
and immediately we can see some masonry on the floor. That can be | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
picked up and foreign straight through the window and the laptop | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
could be stolen. So it is about keeping your property clear of | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
anything like this. You don't want to spend too much money on this. | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
Absolutely. Ask yourself, if you had locked yourself out, how would you | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
get into the house? Immediately, I saw some wheelie bins lying around | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
here. You could use it as a climbing frame. Just get onto the wheelie | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
bin, onto the flat roof and then round the back. When we look at the | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
back of the premises, we know where the weak spots are. And burglary is | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
such a distressing crime and one that the police have to deal with a | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
lot. Absolutely, I have dealt with a lot of burglaries and I know that | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
victims often moved house because it is a violation of their personal | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
space. So by just doing the simple things like locking your wheelie | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
bins away, that is perfect crime prevention. Really good advice for | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
the front of the house. Later, we will be in the back garden, check | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
out the security there. If you have got CCTV cameras as | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
well, you might actually catch the crooks in the act. Watch carefully. | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
It is a dark January evening in south London. This corner is keen to | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
get into a block of flats, but no one answered the buzzer. He doesn't | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
want to draw attention to himself, so he gives the door a discreet | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
shove. But then he puts his back into it. Inside, he has a good look | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
around before heading upstairs, where police say he spends five | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
minutes Bergin two flats. He steals a laptop in one and strolls out with | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
it in a bag. I wonder what the letter P on his jacket stands for, | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
Prowler? You know what to do. Tower Hamlets, London, in May last | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
year. A woman goes to take out ?20 to pay for a taxi. Suddenly, she was | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
distracted by two women, one either side of her, who thrust newspapers | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
between her and the cash machine. The victim shoos them away, but | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
almost immediately, their mate in the striped hoody steps in, and then | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
another newspaper is deliberately placed in front of the ATM. During | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
the confusion, the thieves managed to add a zero to the 20 she has | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
already keyed in and take ?200, leaving her clearly upset. If you | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
have any information about these cash machine crooks, we want to | :13:24. | :13:32. | |
know. Now, what is up with this guy? He wants to buy a drink at this | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
Essex newsagent, why is he looking so shifty? The shop assistant keys | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
in the price, and he hands over the money. Nothing strange about that, | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
but just as the tiller opens, he lunges over-the-counter and manages | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
to grab ?220. This must be thirsty work, because he makes it with the | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
can of pop. Can you name this fifth? -- this fifth? If you recognise any | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
of them, pick up the phone or send us a text. Now, every year, | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
thousands of distressed people with mental health problems are arrested | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
by police and taken into custody for their own safety. In | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
Northamptonshire, they are currently trialling a new way of working to | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
make sure people get the care they need before things escalate. | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
It is called strict triage amperes per police officer and a community | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
psychiatric nurse on the mobile patrol together. Tonight, the nurses | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
working with PC Paul Hollins on the Saturday night shift, from six to | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
midnight. Police officers get sent to a lot of incidents where we have | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
to deal with people with mental health issues. And we as the police | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
are not the best people to deal with them. Almost as soon as Bhavna and | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
poor start their shift, a case comes through of a distressed young woman | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
living in a shared house. I am just trying to see if she is known on our | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
system. I will go on to the GP system as well. Next, they speak to | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
the person who called 999. What has been going on? I just want to know a | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
few bits before we come out if that is OK. There has been verbal and | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
threatening behaviour? It appears more serious than they had expected. | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
We might need some back-up with this lady. Apparently, it has been going | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
on for the last week. She is drinking a lot, talking to herself. | :15:34. | :15:43. | |
Let's just go. Bhavna believes that because she will be on the spot to | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
assess the woman, she can make sure she gets the right care | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
straightaway. I can divert them directly to the services they need, | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
instead of the police then having to pick her up. If they are really | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
disturbed and mentally unwell, it can be a daunting place to be locked | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
up in a cell. It can make them more aggressive. Bhavna and Paul speak to | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
the woman's housemate. He tells them the woman has been shouting and | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
behaving very oddly. They had upstairs to speak to her. The woman | :16:18. | :16:32. | |
is distressed that they persuade her to go downstairs. She is very upset | :16:33. | :16:42. | |
and desperate to speak to her mum. They are able to leave the house | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
with the young woman knowing there is help and support for her. She has | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
experienced a lot of trauma in her life. She has been drinking quite a | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
lot and that is why it is important to get her the right help before | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
things escalate even further. Back at the office, another call comes | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
in. It is about someone whose behaviour has given the police cause | :17:11. | :17:20. | |
for concern. They check his records. He had been recently discharged, but | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
because he was doing so well. It might be worth going to see him and | :17:23. | :17:30. | |
chatting to him. Let's rock'n'roll. The man is thought not to be | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
dangerous so they head out to see if they can help him. It is just after | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
ten o'clock at night and the team ring his doorbell and wait. | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
Unfortunately he is not here so we will have to update the police and | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
maybe get somebody else to come out tomorrow to catch up with him. Each | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
call is time-consuming, but there is a simple measure of their success. | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
Fewer people with mental health issues are ending up in police | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
cells. We have reduced the amount of police arrests by 40% in | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
Northampton, which has saved a lot of police time. It also saves a lot | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
of distress for people who are genuinely unwell at the time. That | :18:23. | :18:33. | |
pilot scheme could now be rolled out across the country. I am joined by | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
Kerry Owen who campaigns on mental health issues. You were taken to a | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
cell, not in Northamptonshire, why was it the wrong place to be? It was | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
terrifying because I was dragged out of bed by the police by my ankles | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
while I was asleep. They pretty much threw me into a van. I was held | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
down, stripped naked. I was screaming with pain because they | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
were twisting my arms and hurting me and I was held down with my face to | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
the floor and people sitting on my back because I could not breathe | :19:15. | :19:23. | |
properly. Lots of people die in police cells every year. You are | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
talking about a personal experience you had. You are involved with the | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
scheme and we did see you in the film helping vulnerable young woman. | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
How does this scheme help people on both sides of the equation? Patients | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
but also the police? We work in collaboration with Northamptonshire | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
Police to raise more awareness of mental health issues in the | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
community. We work together exchanging and responding | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
appropriately. With the nurses involved, we are responding | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
appropriately to the people who ring and have mental health problems. It | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
is to avoid situations like Kerry was in. Give us some examples on how | :20:09. | :20:17. | |
you have helped people. We have come across things like substance abuse. | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
If someone is under the influence of the hole and don't need to be | :20:24. | :20:32. | |
assessed under the Mental Health Act, we referred them to other | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
services, the substance misuse service. If someone has dementia, | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
Alzheimer's, and are getting forgetful then we refer them to the | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
elderly services. There are also children and adolescents. It is | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
using all of the resources appropriate for the needs of these | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
people. Thanks to you both very much for talking to us. | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
Sounds like a great scheme. Now today we've been looking | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
at ways to secure your home and later we'll be checking out | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
the newest techniques for gathering fingerprints. | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
But you may not know that your garden can hold lots of clues too. | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
Forensic Ecologist Botanist Dr Patricia Wiltshire and | :21:11. | :21:11. | |
Mycologist Professor David Hawksworth are here to explain. | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
You have both used plants, pollen and fun guy to crack cases, how do | :21:18. | :21:30. | |
you do that? Lots of ways but one thing that is important to police is | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
time. Plants can give you a lot of stories. If we look at a stinging | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
nettle, you can see the tape has started to turn round. If we just | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
hold that up. It ends round out the top? When it is on its side will | :21:53. | :22:03. | |
stop we got a date on that of about two days. What you can do a lot of | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
experiments to look at the abrasion of the angle. You can tell that has | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
been made to do that by some force? Yes. If you look at this. It looks | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
just like an old stinging nettle but you can get a lot of clues? Once | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
upon a time it was growing straight up. Something trod on it. Someone | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
then chopped the end of with a strimmer which disrupted the | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
hormonal flow down the plant. That allowed these side shoots to grow | :22:43. | :22:51. | |
and each one becomes an individual nettle. These were trodden on again. | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
We have a lot of information there. If you can work out how long it | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
takes to get those shoots coming off. It is interesting in the studio | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
but you have used this for real high profile cases? Yes, used it in the | :23:08. | :23:16. | |
Soham murders. I was able to tell the police the person who had done | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
the job, Huntly in this case had been there about two weeks before. I | :23:21. | :23:29. | |
stop experiment after 13.5 days and it was exactly 13 point days he had | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
been there. And David, fun guy is your speciality, how does that help | :23:36. | :23:44. | |
in cases? It is different ways. It is something, ranchers are broken | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
down, normally they grow this wake up. If the twigs are the other way | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
round because somebody has put them over something or broken them off, | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
this yellow and orange one is particularly interesting because | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
some objects have been placed on this. It was this coloured dark | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
green and we did some experiments to see how long it took to change | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
colour and that gave us an indication how that -- how long that | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
object have been there. You can also use pollen? Yes, it is in the air | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
because I have a runny nose today. It falls on the ground and if people | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
pick up soil, picked up pollen from the plans in any way, it sticks to | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
you. If you go outside and have a look, no place is the same. Plans | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
are always different. There is always a different assemblage of | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
plans which means there is a difference assemblage of pollen. You | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
can match the assemblage pollen at the crime with the semblance of | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
pollen on the criminal. That is brilliant, fascinating stuff. Now | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
let's go over to Sian. Talking about pollen there are plans in this | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
garden. Hawksworth are here to explain. | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
Yes, Rav, we've moved to the back garden of our house. | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
Crime prevention officer Shaun Johnson is with me again. | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
Lovely garden, but what would a burglar see here? | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
We were climbing onto the flat roof. We see a window open and the burglar | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
will see this as an opportunity. His hand will go in through the window, | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
undo the lock and then he will climb through the bigger window. If that | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
window was closed, you would have to think of another way to get into the | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
house. There is a natural larder here with this fence to climb into | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
the garden. And this spade could be used as a lever to get the French | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
doors open or indeed the kitchen windows and affect entry into the | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
house. Windows, isn't that the main way people get in, 25%? 25% of | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
burglaries in this county art through insecurities. If we could | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
get that message through to the public, it would be fantastic. Lock | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
up your houses. A cat flap is a natural thing to have, but what | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
about for a burglar? They see an opportunity. People will leave the | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
keys in the back door. It is about looking for items to help them | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
commit the crime. A pair of barbecue tongs, leaning through the flap, | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
getting picky and pulling it out. Very simple and effective. Don't | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
leave your keys in the doors of your house. We saw that in our experiment | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
with the flap. It has been illuminating, be advised you have | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
given and hopefully some good tips for you at home as well. | :27:07. | :27:14. | |
Still to come: Recognise anyone in this battered photo? The new clue to | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
death years ago. Some of the burglars we have been talking about | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
today would be put up by CCTV cameras and dogs. But this next pair | :27:25. | :27:33. | |
could not care less. I have not been able to leave my | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
home, the mental affect it has had on me is immense. Jackie and her | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
family have lived in Kettering for 14 years, running a dental | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
technician business from their home. It is a family run business and we | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
all do our bit, as and when needed. Jackie has osteoarthritis, a | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
condition which causes severe pain. To help her manage, she needs to | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
rest for a while each day. I have two have a sleep in the afternoon to | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
be able to cope with the rest of the day. As Jackie was resting on the | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
14th of March, her home CCTV captured a man approaching the | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
house. My daughter had just come back from doing deliveries and was | :28:24. | :28:34. | |
having a shower. I heard that doorbell ring and because we have | :28:35. | :28:42. | |
patients coming to the laboratory, I thought it was a patient. After a | :28:43. | :28:44. | |
quick cigarette, the visitor left. But he wasn't gone for long, | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
returning with a second man. This time, their intentions became clear | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
as they tried to crowbar open the side door. Jackie's great Danes | :28:54. | :28:56. | |
began barking. The loud barking of a big dog usually puts off most | :28:57. | :28:59. | |
burglars. But these two were quite prepared to carry on even though | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
there were two dogs there. I heard the dogs barking, but that is usual. | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
I did not think any more. Giving up on the side door, the burglars tried | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
another way into Jackie's home and they found the gate was open and the | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
kitchen door was unlocked. Armed with their crowbars they prepared to | :29:20. | :29:26. | |
go into the house where the dogs were barking. One picked up his | :29:27. | :29:29. | |
crowbar and went into a position as if he was expecting the dogs to | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
attack. When the dogs did not attack, they headed into the | :29:35. | :29:43. | |
kitchen. By now, Jackie was wide awake. My daughter shouted to me | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
that somebody was in the kitchen. I thought it might be an elderly | :29:48. | :29:49. | |
patient. I went down because I did not want the dogs jumping up at | :29:50. | :29:57. | |
them. The men grabbed Jackie's khakis and were in and out of the | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
kitchen within seconds. They then began on bolting the double gates to | :30:02. | :30:07. | |
steal her car. I expected to be greeted by an elderly patient. As I | :30:08. | :30:14. | |
stepped out of the door behind me, I realised it was two men. The moment | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
I was stood face to face with him, I did not know what he was going to | :30:19. | :30:25. | |
do. Suddenly the man in the sunglasses lashed out at Jackie. A | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
first punch he gave me was to my left jaw. I still have flashbacks to | :30:31. | :30:39. | |
that one punch. In just over three seconds, the burglar hit Jackie five | :30:40. | :30:45. | |
times. They both ran through the side gate and I ran after them. I | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
saw them running down the adjacent road. Jackie's daughter heard her | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
cries and came to help, picking up the khakis before chasing after the | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
burglars. I collapsed. I wasn't sure what injuries I had but I knew I had | :30:59. | :31:06. | |
some. I was very frightened. Jackie's daughter took her inside | :31:07. | :31:24. | |
and called the police. The pain started almost immediately, and the | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
pounding in my head lasted for a few days. It was like I had been in a | :31:28. | :31:34. | |
boxing match. When Jackie later went to hospital, the full extent of the | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
attack became clear. I had an x-ray, and I had a crack in my jaw. I have | :31:40. | :31:43. | |
been having to eat soft food for eight weeks because of that. These | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
offenders appear to be experienced burglars who are prepared to stop at | :31:48. | :31:50. | |
nothing to commit their crimes. There was no need for them to | :31:51. | :31:54. | |
assault Jackie, but they did so anyway. They are dangerous. It has | :31:55. | :32:00. | |
changed everything we do. Every time I past the front door, I see them | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
putting the crowbar in. When I come down the garden, I see the attack at | :32:06. | :32:10. | |
the gates. I don't go out on my own, I don't stay here on my own. It is | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
just a life changing experience that you never expect. And DS Dave Harley | :32:16. | :32:23. | |
is here. What can you tell us about the attackers? The first man is | :32:24. | :32:30. | |
described as white, five tall, aged in his early 20s. He is medium build | :32:31. | :32:34. | |
and was wearing a dark jacket, a blue baseball cap, mirrored | :32:35. | :32:39. | |
sunglasses and carrying a green bag. The second man was slightly | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
shorter, also aged in his mid-20s. He was slim build and wearing a | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
green overall type garment, with a hood. He was also wearing a baseball | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
cap and was carrying a bag similar to this. With a distinctive logo. It | :32:55. | :33:05. | |
is quite distinctive. And you have some new information? Yes, since we | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
started the investigation, we have had a witness come forward who saw | :33:11. | :33:12. | |
two men matching the description getting into a silver VW Passat, not | :33:13. | :33:17. | |
far from the scene in Hallwood Road. Have a registration number for | :33:18. | :33:24. | |
that vehicle, which was FY62 VYX. We know that is a cloned registration | :33:25. | :33:28. | |
plate, so there is a proper car out there bearing those numbers, but | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
they used a cloned plate on this one. We are anxious to trace those | :33:32. | :33:37. | |
numberplates. If you recognise that car or the descriptions of these | :33:38. | :33:40. | |
men, get in touch. Now, we urgently need to find this | :33:41. | :33:45. | |
guy, who pulled a knife on supermarket staff in Bristol. Avon | :33:46. | :33:50. | |
and Somerset Police need to find him after an incident at a Tesco express | :33:51. | :33:56. | |
store on Westerns waitress before 5:30pm on Jews did the 14th of | :33:57. | :34:01. | |
January. Staff challenged the shoplifter -- on Tuesday the 14th of | :34:02. | :34:05. | |
January. He pulled out what looks like a kitchen knife and pointed it | :34:06. | :34:08. | |
towards the staff member before running off. He is described as | :34:09. | :34:12. | |
being white, mid-to-late 20s, medium build and five foot nine to ten | :34:13. | :34:18. | |
tall. He had short brown hair and was clean-shaven. If you know who he | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
is, call us now. Or you can speak to Crimestoppers anonymously. Now to | :34:24. | :34:33. | |
the sad case of a man who died more than a decade ago, whose body was | :34:34. | :34:41. | |
found in 2002 at a nature reserve, Lings Wood. There are no suspicious | :34:42. | :34:44. | |
circumstances here, but no one has got in touch about this man. Neil | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
McMahon is from the cold Case team. You look at unsolved crimes. What | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
can you tell us about this man 's we know he had been in situ for | :34:54. | :34:57. | |
possibly as long as 12 months. He was a mature male, would have been | :34:58. | :35:03. | |
at least 25 years old. Possibly up to 50. And he was about five foot | :35:04. | :35:07. | |
nine in height. He was decomposed when we found him, though some of | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
the usual ways we identify people are unavailable. And destruction is | :35:13. | :35:19. | |
important. Tell us about his appearance -- description. Yes, a | :35:20. | :35:24. | |
clay model was put together which might indicate what he would have | :35:25. | :35:28. | |
looked at. This was done with experts from another field. We did a | :35:29. | :35:34. | |
media Expose on that at the time, and it has not brought us any fresh | :35:35. | :35:40. | |
information. But there is a possession that might shed light on | :35:41. | :35:43. | |
this and could help people watching at home? Yes, the indications are | :35:44. | :35:47. | |
that this gentleman was living rough in the woods and had been for a | :35:48. | :35:55. | |
while. And amongst those possessions were an old black-and-white | :35:56. | :35:57. | |
photograph which appears to depict a social scene. That picture was | :35:58. | :36:05. | |
poorly damaged. It seems to be from a different era as well. You can | :36:06. | :36:07. | |
just about make out the clothes people were wearing at a black-tie | :36:08. | :36:14. | |
dinner. How important is it that people help you after such a long | :36:15. | :36:17. | |
time? Nearly 12 years since we found the deceased. I am anxious to | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
identify who use. Someone out there will no. It is a sad case in that we | :36:23. | :36:28. | |
have not yet been able to identify him using traditional ways. If it | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
rings any bells or you recognise the photograph, we are waiting for your | :36:33. | :36:34. | |
call. Now, we all know about neighbourhood | :36:35. | :36:37. | |
watch schemes, but in Leicestershire, they have roped in | :36:38. | :36:42. | |
some new recruits to help crack down on rural crime. | :36:43. | :36:47. | |
One of the jewels in the crown of the Midlands, there is no doubt that | :36:48. | :36:51. | |
Rutland water is home to some of England's most stunning scenery. But | :36:52. | :36:55. | |
the countryside can cultivate a certain type of crime. There are | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
lots of farms in this county and thefts of diesel or oil, theft from | :37:02. | :37:07. | |
Barnes, which can often be remote. But putting bobbies on the beach to | :37:08. | :37:10. | |
tackle such crimes is tricky in such a rural setting. The officers have a | :37:11. | :37:16. | |
very large geographical area to cover, 152 square miles. So the | :37:17. | :37:23. | |
reality is that it is a large area, with few officers. So Leicestershire | :37:24. | :37:25. | |
police have thought of another way to increase their presence on the | :37:26. | :37:29. | |
ground, and it involves four legs instead of two. I got the idea for | :37:30. | :37:35. | |
the police volunteers on horseback. I am a writer myself, so I know that | :37:36. | :37:38. | |
where I write, I know it really well and I know when something is out of | :37:39. | :37:52. | |
place -- when I ride. To help our community in Rutland. We spend a lot | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
of time on the roads, in fields. We. We thought we would be of great help | :37:57. | :38:02. | |
to them. The volunteer riders all weapons are -- special police | :38:03. | :38:06. | |
branded jackets. It is a bigger visual presence within the | :38:07. | :38:09. | |
community, and it helps deter crime doing that we are out and about, and | :38:10. | :38:16. | |
we are quite visual. And being on top of a horse definitely gives the | :38:17. | :38:19. | |
volunteers a unique perspective on crime. We have the added benefit of | :38:20. | :38:24. | |
being slightly higher up than any patrol cars or people walking, and | :38:25. | :38:28. | |
we can see over hedges, over the valley. We can see anything | :38:29. | :38:34. | |
suspicious or irregular. Despite only operating for a few months, the | :38:35. | :38:38. | |
volunteers have already been able to aid the police in fighting crime. | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
When we are out patrolling, we are looking for suspicious vehicles. If | :38:44. | :38:49. | |
we see anything, we report it to the police. We have had reports from our | :38:50. | :38:56. | |
riders about suspicious vehicle activity. When riders tell us about | :38:57. | :39:02. | |
it we sent police officers to investigate. The volunteers' high | :39:03. | :39:06. | |
visibility has also made the area safer in other ways full up the | :39:07. | :39:10. | |
biggest benefit is people telling me that the traffic on the roads has | :39:11. | :39:16. | |
slowed down. That is one of the biggest complaints I have as their | :39:17. | :39:20. | |
commander for this area, so it is a huge benefit. The scheme has been | :39:21. | :39:25. | |
more popular than the police could have imagined. We now have 49 | :39:26. | :39:28. | |
volunteers, who are all exercising their horses, and they are the eyes | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
and ears of Leicestershire police when they are out on patrol. Seeing | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
our volunteers on horseback makes people feel safer. | :39:37. | :39:43. | |
Four legs definitely better than two there. Now, inside our house, we are | :39:44. | :39:47. | |
imagining that the thieves have got in and escaped with some valuables. | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
The question is, what clues would they leave behind? We are going to | :39:53. | :39:56. | |
talk about fingerprints with Dr John Bond, an expert in forensic and also | :39:57. | :40:02. | |
an inventor. You have come up with this invention that we want to know | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
more about. We are going to do something different testing. I will | :40:08. | :40:10. | |
do a quick thumbprint, and let's hope that reveal something. What do | :40:11. | :40:15. | |
you do with that 's eye am being that into the machine, the | :40:16. | :40:19. | |
commercial version of the invention. We pressed the button, and that will | :40:20. | :40:24. | |
now develop your fingerprint by applying heat to that paper. It is | :40:25. | :40:30. | |
special paper that you get from petrol stations and supermarkets and | :40:31. | :40:35. | |
so on, till paper. It uses a dive rather than Inc. So really something | :40:36. | :40:43. | |
the police could come across a lot when investigating a theft or | :40:44. | :40:47. | |
burglary. And it could not be correctly tested in the same way. It | :40:48. | :40:51. | |
was a blackspot for the police? Yes, it was difficult to get fingerprints | :40:52. | :40:57. | |
from this paper chemical, because the chemicals react with the dye | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
ascending the paper black and obliterating any finger prints. | :41:03. | :41:05. | |
While that is cooking, you are also working on something else. Yes, this | :41:06. | :41:10. | |
is a new idea to complement this. It is just a light source where you can | :41:11. | :41:15. | |
see fingerprints that might be found on the paper. If you look at that | :41:16. | :41:20. | |
till slip, you can see that the fingerprint becomes visible when you | :41:21. | :41:23. | |
switch the light on and disappears when you switch it off. We can just | :41:24. | :41:29. | |
see that thumbprint on the till receipt. So that will work alongside | :41:30. | :41:37. | |
the current system. Ready to come out? Yes, it is finished. There we | :41:38. | :41:43. | |
are, you can see your fingerprint. Let me show you that till paper. | :41:44. | :41:50. | |
There is a blotchy fingerprint that I put on at the beginning of this | :41:51. | :41:53. | |
conversation. How long did that take? No more than 45 seconds. | :41:54. | :42:00. | |
Absolutely vital for police forces. Thanks for showing us that. Really | :42:01. | :42:06. | |
interesting, and I know you are working on new stuff all the time. | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
This latest element could soon be rolled out to police forces as well. | :42:11. | :42:16. | |
A quick update now. Some interesting calls on our faces today, | :42:17. | :42:18. | |
particularly Jamie McGhie, wanted for theft of bank cards from Jim | :42:19. | :42:22. | |
lockers. And also Elisa Cardoni, wanted the drug dealing. Also names | :42:23. | :42:28. | |
given for the young men wanted for a vicious attack in Cardiff that we | :42:29. | :42:33. | |
showed you on CCTV yesterday. Lots of information on the man wanted for | :42:34. | :42:37. | |
a series of burglaries in sports changing rooms. The police are | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
following that up. Thank you to everyone who got in touch. Sian, | :42:42. | :42:45. | |
where will you be tomorrow? I hope that you at home have had some good | :42:46. | :42:48. | |
advice today on how to make your home more secure. Tomorrow, we will | :42:49. | :42:54. | |
be in Northampton market, where we will be finding out about body worn | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
cameras that the police use to gather evidence in their fight | :42:59. | :43:04. | |
against crime. For more on today's programme, head to the website. The | :43:05. | :43:08. | |
now, we leave you with a final look at our wanted faces. Someone | :43:09. | :43:13. | |
watching knows where these people are. If you are that person, get in | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
touch. Thank you for watching. Until tomorrow, take care. | :43:18. | :43:24. |