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for your call. We're on the road with the police and we're asking you | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
to help them tackle crime. Today, the good is Samaritan who paid a | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
heavy price for herselfless deed. It was very very scary. I wouldn't want | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
anybody to go through that again. We're on patrol with a police dog | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
wearing body worn police cameras to capture crimes as they happen. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
You're watching Crimewatch Roadshow. Hello and welcome to the show. We're | :00:38. | :00:58. | |
out and across the country with the UK's police forces and we have the | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
low down on the criminals and their cons. Later in today's programme: | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
Taxi driver, Les Ross was murdered, but who was threatening him shortly | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
before he was killed? Somebody has got information. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
Somebody knows who has done it and why they've done it and they've not | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
said anything. And the father who fought back against the gunmen who | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
burst into his home. My partner was there and she was really hysterical. | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
I felt I had to do something. It's our second day with | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
Northamptonshire Police and Sian is in Northampton's Market Square. Yes, | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
Rav. The stalls are open. It is beginning to get busy with shoppers | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
by day and of course, its revellers by night. Later, we will be finding | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
out about these ankle tags designed to keep offenders off the drink. We | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
will be with an undercover team as they find out which off licences are | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
selling alcohol to children. First, if someone tried to flag down your | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
car on a country road, what would you do? One woman thought she was | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
doing the right thing, but it is a decision she now regrets. I'm | :02:08. | :02:16. | |
scared. We will get there as soon as we are physically able to, OK? | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
Linda is a care worker who looks after sick and elderly people. She | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
travels dozens of miles every day to visit homes across Northamptonshire. | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
My day really starts at 6.30am. Sometimes I can get home by 3pm and | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
there is times I don't get home until 10pm. Yes, they are long | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
hours. Tuesday, 7th January seemed like just another working day for | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
Linda. At around 4.30pm, she was on her way from Corby to visit a | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
patient in Oundle. I was driving along this dark country lane and it | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
was all hedges. Linda spotted a man standing by the side of the road | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
trying to flag her down. I didn't know if somebody was ill at the side | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
of the road or if somebody or if he was hurt and he wanted help. So I | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
slowed down to see what, if there was any help I could give him. The | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
man moved towards the middle of the road waving as if desperate for her | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
to stop. He came around to the side door of my car and before I stopped, | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
he had opened it. He grabbed me by the back of my hair and tried to | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
pull me out of the car and I just was terrified, I didn't know what he | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
was going to do. I thought he was either going to rape me or he was | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
going to sexually assault me or he wanted the car. I just didn't know | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
what he wanted. Linda was petrified of what was going to happen if she | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
was dragged out of the car. He was a large man, a big man. He was very | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
strong. In desperation, she clung on to the handbrake. When he realised I | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
was not going to let go and he could see that I had got nursing equipment | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
on my passenger side of the car, and he saw my uniform, he asked if I had | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
got any needles on me and I said I don't carry any, I'm a career. I | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
said I just go around and help people. Because the man asked Linda | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
for needles, it is possible that he was a drug user. He did clearly act | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
in a very erratic manner, very unpredictable manner and that might | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
back that theory up. Her attacker's next move was to try and open the | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
boot, but that was locked so he began to search inside the car. He | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
lent across me so I was hardly breathing. His body was over the top | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
of mine and he was looking on the floor, on the passenger seat, he | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
opened the glove compartment to see if there was any medical stuff | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
around. Despite his attempts to hide his identity, Linda thinks see would | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
recognise her attacker again. When he spoke, he spoke with a Caribbean | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
accent. I deal with people of all races and I know the accent quite | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
well. Then, the man grabbed Linda's satnav and ran. He ran like nobody's | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
business across this field and I saw him for about 500 yards and then I | :05:46. | :05:56. | |
didn't see him anymore. Police emergency. A man just stopped me in | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
the middle of the road. He opened the door and asked if I had got any | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
needles or anything. I was scared. I remember saying, | :06:08. | :06:24. | |
"How long is it going to be? How long? I'm frightened. I'm having an | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
asthma attack. Don't leave me, I'm scared." The police reached Linda | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
within 20 minutes, the next day she was back at work. It took a lot to | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
get back in the car the next day when it was dark, I was worried I | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
was going down the country lanes. It was awful. I wouldn't wish it upon | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
anybody. A frightening experience for Linda | :06:50. | :06:58. | |
there and DC Rob Mannion is with me now. What description do you have of | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
man who did this to Linda? The victim has described him as a black | :07:03. | :07:12. | |
male aged 25 and 30 years old. About 5'9" inches tall and medium build. | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
He was wearing a bright orange jacket with a stripe down. We think | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
it might be a hi-visibility jacket and we would like people to consider | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
that when she provide information. He was wearing dark jeans, dark | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
trainers and a balaclava. Do you think Linda was specifically | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
targeted? No, we think it was a purely random attack and Linda was | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
unfortunate that she was in that place at that time. The wrong place | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
at the wrong time. Now, there m been a sighting of him, we think, earlier | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
that day? A witness came forward to say there was a male of a similar | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
description seen at 9am in the village that morning. So we are | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
appealing for anybody who may know this male to come forward and | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
provide any information. If you have seen that man, please get in touch. | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
Let's look at today's wanted faces. First up is this man there, is | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
24-year-old, Sean Travis Graham, he was jailed for two-and-a-half years | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
for burglary. He was released on licence, but failed to stick to the | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
conditions of his release and is wanted back in prison. Graham is | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
from the Liverpool area and has links to Costa Rica. Wanted face | :08:33. | :08:42. | |
number 18 here is Mark Johnson or mark storer. He is wanted for | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
questioning by officers in North Yorkshire in connection of unpaid | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
hotel bills of over ?4,000. He is a keen train spotter. Do you recognise | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
this man here? This is Carlos Oriel Rodrigues. The 36-year-old is wanted | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
for questioning in connection with two burglaries at homes in London. | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
He is a Portuguese speaking Columbian national has a tattoo on | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
his left wrist with the name Danjelo and on the other with the name | :09:17. | :09:27. | |
Bradley. Here is Adam Stewart Lea or Addie. He failed to stick to his | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
terms and is wanted back inside. Lea has connections to the Liverpool, | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
Crewe, chest a Carlisle -- Chester and Carlisle areas. He has a mole | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
above his top lip. If you recognise any of them, pick up the phone. You | :09:44. | :09:54. | |
can call us on: 08000 468999 Our you can text us on: 63399 Or you can | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
e-mail us. The Metropolitan Police released | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
what has been the largest world trial of technology called body worn | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
video. Tiny cameras that are attached to the officer's uniform. | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
They can film a crime as it is being committed, but also the police's | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
reaction. For year, they have been using them for years, so we have | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
been out with a team to find out how they work. It is a Friday night and | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
PC Hughes and Spires are getting ready for a busy shift. They will be | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
patrolling Northampton town centre armed with an essential piece of | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
kit. Pull the front TV down and the green light indicates it is | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
recording and at the end of what you want to be filming, push up and | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
that's it. As simple as that. 50 miles away in Kettering, PC Steve | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
Thorpe is a dog handler, the area he covers is rural, but he is using the | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
technology. The body worn video that I'm using today is intrared and it | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
will record in the dark. Tonight we're on patrol with the police dog | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
and hopefully, we'll catch some baddies, won't we? Yeah. Back in | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
central Northampton, the police had a call. Two women need their help. | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
Hello. One of the women tells the officers that a drunk girl has hit | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
her as she was walking along the street. Give us a couple of minutes. | :11:30. | :11:38. | |
Dan checks in with colleagues who have spotted a couple of likely | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
suspects. Our colleagues have got a couple of girls stopped at the bus | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
station which may or not be based on the description. I would say they | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
are about five nine. Dan and Bas head off to the bus station to see | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
what is going on. In Kettering PC Thorpe is on his way to investigate | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
a suspected burglary. This is a farm which is on the outskirts of the | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
town. They have been a victim of crime a week or so were a generator | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
was stolen. As he starts to search the area, Steve turns on his body | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
worn video to record any potential evidence. A shouted warning and the | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
search is on. Another criminal could soon be caught on camera. Since | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
Northamptonshire Police began using body worn video back in 2007, they | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
have recorded thousands of criminal incidents. But not only is the | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
footage an important tool for the police, it could be saving us money. | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
The police believe that the footage can persuade criminals caught on | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
camera to plead guilty earlier. As the evidence is so damning. That | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
could save on expensive and lengthy court cases. But will the camera | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
help Steve and the police dog as they search the farm for an | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
intruder? Go on. Find him. This is where it comes into its own. It | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
records infrared. Even though it is dark, you can see the dog. The wind | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
is coming that way. If there is any scent, he will pick up on the scent. | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
The trail has gone cold. Nobody about, no mate. Unfortunately, | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
whoever was here has gone. It is time for Steve to head back out to | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
await another call. In Northampton, Bas and Dan found their drunk | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
suspect. She has been arrested for drunk and disorderly behaviour and | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
the officers explain she is being record on their cameras. Be | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
behaviour gets worse. She spits into an officer's face. Do not spit. I'm | :13:56. | :14:13. | |
going to arrest you for assault. And that's for spitting in my face. Get | :14:14. | :14:22. | |
off. You previously spot in my face and it is for our protection. And | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
the officers space a spit hood over her head. The spitting woman can see | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
through it, but it protects the officers from disease. The PC | :14:35. | :14:45. | |
explained about the camera. It is evidence of her disorderly behaviour | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
and her spitting on me is there too. Police believes that wearing the | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
cameras offer them greater protection and reduces the number of | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
confrontations that they have to deal with. During the last incident, | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
one of the friends, of the female that was locked up, started accusing | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
us of being excessive force. As soon as I mentioned she was being | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
recorded, she turned away. There is nothing she can say and that's | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
brilliant. All I have to use is my mouth, point to the camera and job | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
done. The spitting woman was charged with being drunk and disorderly in a | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
public place and assaulting a police officer. A busy Friday night winds | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
down across the county. Officers return to base and recharge their | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
cameras ready for the next shift. How easy are the cameras to use? | :15:33. | :15:51. | |
Very simple. You just pick it up, slide the thing down at the front | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
and it works straightaway. There are different types? A variety of | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
cameras. Ones that our recording constantly, so even you put -- | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
forget to press the button, the first few seconds I captured. Give | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
us some examples of when they have been useful? Police officers and | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
police community support officers are capturing evidence of | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
anti-social behaviour, evidence of crime, evidence of the start of an | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
incident, and they are often useful for recording witnesses and how the | :16:30. | :16:38. | |
crime is impacted on them immediately afterwards. Sometimes | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
the police get complaints. Do these help in respect of that at all? They | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
are very helpful, particularly dealing with malicious complaints. | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
When the video is available, it can quickly resolve some of those | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
complaints. Would you not be without these no? Guillemot cry certainly | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
would not go out without one. Ayes little -- a vital piece of kit. | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
Later we will find out how victims of crime and have their voices | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
heard. Still ahead: The undercover operation sending teenagers to test | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
whether off-licences sell booze to children. She has got her bag in her | :17:19. | :17:28. | |
hand. Now to a brutal murder featured on Crimewatch last year. | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
Unfortunately, it remains unsolved. Police have new information which | :17:33. | :17:33. | |
they hope you can help with. The worst thing is that somebody | :17:34. | :17:50. | |
knows something. Someone has information. Somebody knows who has | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
done it and why they have done it. They are not saying anything. We | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
have spoken to thousands of people and it has given us new lines of | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
inquiry and potential motives for the attack on legs. Les Ross, known | :18:02. | :18:10. | |
as David to his family, worked as a taxi driver in Corby. In December | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
2012 he was murdered, seemingly for no reason. His brother and friend | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
spoke to Crimewatch last February. David was one of the best brothers | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
you could ever, ever think of. A very, very kind man. You could not | :18:30. | :18:39. | |
help but like him. Lead also worked regularly as a doorman in corporate. | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
-- layers also worked as a doorman in Corby. He enjoyed the banter. He | :18:47. | :18:55. | |
enjoyed meeting people. In 2012 he took the opportunity to be part of | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
of a new nightclub in Corby town centre. It opened on the 6th of | :19:00. | :19:08. | |
December, and he was front of house. Being part of the nightclub scene | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
was always part of his dream. The night was really busy. He must have | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
shaken hands with several hundred people. Everybody wished him look. | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
He was just chuffed. Nine days after the opening night, he returned from | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
working at the club to discover an unwelcome surprise. I have just come | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
home from work... The burglars had also left the taps | :19:35. | :19:47. | |
running and flooded the house, damaging the electrics. While | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
repairs were made, he moved into the express in Corby old village. The | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
next evening, he worked in the club as usual and returned to the club | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
around 2am on the Monday morning. We know that he received a phone call | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
at quarter past seven on Monday morning. We also know that he | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
replied to a text at 7:32am that morning. That was the last anybody | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
heard of him. Somebody had got into his hotel room and attacked him. He | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
had been repeatedly punched and kicked in the head, the blows | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
causing him to lose consciousness and died. -- die. He was discovered | :20:34. | :20:42. | |
by hotel staff a few hours later. More than a year has passed since an | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
appeal was launched on carbon -- Crimewatch. Somebody was offering | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
him a substantial amount of money and could be responsible for his | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
murder. He had a ?5,000 stake in the nightclub. We believe he was offered | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
?50,000 to hand over his share. We believe the people making that offer | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
were intimidating him. They were visiting him on a regular basis. And | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
they were causing him some concern. We believe those people are the | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
people who were responsible for the fatal assault on the Monday morning. | :21:18. | :21:28. | |
If we were aware that he was being intimidated, there is a high | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
probability that we could have helped them. That is a regret we | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
have got to live with. Police have scoured CCTV from around | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
the hotel and now want to speak to the drivers of two cars, you may | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
have vital information. The first, an old style red Volvo, was seen | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
flashing its lights while parked outside the hotel early on the | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
morning of Les's death. The second, a silver grey saloon vehicle, was | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
seen a couple of hours later being driven by a male in a shirt and tie | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
in a street near the hotel. The drivers were in the area at the time | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
and may well hold crucial information. The worst thing is that | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
somebody knows something, somebody has information, some of the worst | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
thing is that somebody knows something, somebody has information, | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
summary knows whodunnit unwise they've done it. And they are not | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
saying anything. And that is really, really tough to take. | :22:26. | :22:38. | |
Detective chief inspector Martin Kinch enjoins me. How much under | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
pressure was layers to sell his share of the Pope? He was under | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
immense pressure. We know he had received a visit at his home and at | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
this places of work. Somebody was putting a lot of pressure on him. We | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
saw in the film that there are a two drivers who would like to talk to. | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
There are other potential witnesses? That's right. There was a man | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
crossing the road and then he sees something that makes him change his | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
mind. That could be very significant to the investigation. We are also | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
keen to speak to a lady who has blonde hair and was wearing a black | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
dress. She was with Les in the early hours of the morning and was | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
probably the last person to have a significant conversation with him | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
before he died. What if people are too frightened to come forward? Your | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
safety is paramount to us. I have got experienced and trained officers | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
who will speak to you confidentially wherever and whenever you feel | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
safest. You could always call the Crimestoppers number anonymously. | :23:52. | :24:01. | |
Thank you. If you do have any information, you can text or e-mail | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
us. Now to the suburbs of Northampton, | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
where a young father coming from the school run was subjected to a truly | :24:10. | :24:10. | |
terrifying ordeal. They spoilt a home that we used to | :24:11. | :24:31. | |
call a family home. We don't feel safe with the kids in the house. | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
Businessman Dean, his partner Stephanie and their three children | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
live in Little Billing just outside Northampton. I like being a dad, it | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
is good. One is seven, one is five and one is four. I have been going | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
out with Stephanie for seven years. We get married in July. She is as | :24:52. | :25:00. | |
important to me as the kids are. I want to look after and protector as | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
much as I do my kids. On a Friday morning in March, Stephanie was | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
having a lie in. She had worked late the previous night. Team took the | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
children to school and returned home to get ready for work. When I was | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
driving into my street, approaching my drive, I saw two blokes. I did | :25:20. | :25:27. | |
not think anything of it. I approached the front door. At that | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
point they were right behind me. They pushed me against the door | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
quite viciously and they said to me, we have got a gun, let us in. The | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
men pushed him inside and locked the door behind them. They made a | :25:45. | :25:52. | |
chilling threat. We have got your girlfriend. We have got your | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
girlfriend. They said they had already found Stephanie. They | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
started rifling through my pockets. They took my phone, my wallet, | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
money, khakis. I gave them everything so they would leave | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
straightaway and that they would not harm Stephanie. The thieves were not | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
satisfied. Somehow they knew that Dean had a safe in the house. They | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
were putting pressure on me with the gun to go upstairs and get the money | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
out of the safe. The gunman waited while Dean fetched the safe. As he | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
reached his bedroom he saw that Stephanie was still safely in bed. I | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
saw Stephanie lying in bed, still sleeping, which was a sigh of | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
relief, just to know she was OK. That was a good feeling in a bad | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
situation. Being woke Stephanie and told her to call the police. I | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
whispered to her to ring the police that they were two men in the house | :27:06. | :27:14. | |
wife Stephanie Cole 999. -- called 999. But the gunman became | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
suspicious and started to come up the stairs. He came up the stairs | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
because he could hear something. That is when he saw my partner on | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
the phone and started shouting at her to get off the phone. Dean | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
stepped between the gunman and his girlfriend. At this point I was | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
thinking they were going to shoot me anyway. The fact that my partner was | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
there and she was really hysterical, I felt I had to do | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
something. In desperation, Dean kicked out one of the banister | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
spindles. I used that to try to defend myself and my partner. I | :28:03. | :28:09. | |
started running at him and shouting back at him. I went chasing him down | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
the stairs. Thankfully the threats worked. The robbers began backing | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
off down the stairs. As I pushed them down the stairs, when I got to | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
the bottom of the stairs I took the opportunity that McVeigh took the | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
opportunity and ran out the door. At this point it was a relief, knowing | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
how lucky we were that nobody got hurt. With the robbers out of the | :28:36. | :28:43. | |
house Stephanie rang the police. DC Donna Fleming was on the scene | :28:44. | :29:00. | |
soon after the robbery. When I interviewed Dean he was still in a | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
state of shock. He was also angry about what had happened. They have | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
spoilt a home that we used to call a family home. We do not feel safe | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
with the kids in the house. It worries me that even now they could | :29:16. | :29:28. | |
have taken Stephanie. That goes through my mind all the time. And DC | :29:29. | :29:36. | |
Donna Fleming is with me now. A terrifying ordeal for this couple. | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
What descriptions do you have of the two men? The first male is a white | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
male. He is in his 40s and of a skinny build. He has stubble on his | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
face and he was wearing a long jaofd grey hooded top and the second male, | :29:51. | :29:58. | |
he was white and in his 40s and of a bigger build and wearing a grey long | :29:59. | :30:08. | |
sleev hooded top. How were the males be having? Very aggressive. The | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
first male was carrying the gun and appeared to be more in charge of the | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
situation. The second male appeared to be more passive to the situation | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
and a bit more nervous. And he was the first one to run off, wasn't he? | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
He was, indeed. It was shocking when you think what happened to these | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
people. Horrendous. What's your appeal to the public? Clearly, this | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
was a terrifying ordeal for Dean and Stephanie in their own home. It is | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
clear on the 999 call how frightened Stephanie was to have the males in | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
her home and I would appeal to the public, if they think back to that | :30:44. | :30:48. | |
time of day, between 9am and 9.30am, did they see these two males? Is | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
there anything they can think of now, that they didn't think much of | :30:53. | :30:55. | |
at the time, if they can give us a call and let us know what | :30:56. | :30:58. | |
information we've got and it would be really helpful. Donna, thank you | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
very much. Crimes like that have a big impact | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
on the victims and the justice system can be a scary thing for | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
them. A new code is helping change that. This is to make sure those | :31:14. | :31:20. | |
people who are affected by crime are supported? We in Victim Support look | :31:21. | :31:27. | |
after people who are affected. We give them the strength to recover | :31:28. | :31:31. | |
from the crime. The Victim's Code is about making sure that those people | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
who are affected by crime know how they will be treated by the system | :31:36. | :31:38. | |
to ensure they have the confidence to report the crimes and give | :31:39. | :31:42. | |
evidence in court and to ensure offenders are convicted. Tell me | :31:43. | :31:47. | |
what a victim personal statement is? The victim personal statement let's | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
the victim have their say and what's important about it is it let's them | :31:52. | :31:54. | |
get across, not just the physical, but also the emotional impact that | :31:55. | :31:58. | |
the crime has had on them. OK, we can see an example now. We can hear | :31:59. | :32:02. | |
from a victim who did just that. This is 20-year-old Rhys Wilson from | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
Cardiff. He was out in friends in March when he was attacked by a man | :32:07. | :32:12. | |
carrying a knife. He cut my face and my ear with a knife. It happened so | :32:13. | :32:19. | |
quick. It was just unreal. When the police asked me to do a victim | :32:20. | :32:25. | |
impact statement, I wasn't sure about doing it, but I thought I | :32:26. | :32:28. | |
might as well do it because then it gets my part of the story across and | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
show how I was feeling and how my family and friends were feeling | :32:35. | :32:39. | |
about it. It is like you are getting everything off your chest like how | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
everything panned out in on the night and how stuff has gone since | :32:44. | :32:46. | |
that night. We can see there the clear difference to a normal | :32:47. | :32:49. | |
statement which is just where the offence happened and describing the | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
offender perhaps, this is how it affected him, his life and his | :32:54. | :32:56. | |
family as well. Yeah, no, it is really important that people feel | :32:57. | :33:00. | |
that they have got the confidence to give evidence. Our Witness Service | :33:01. | :33:04. | |
will look after those who are called on to give evidence in court. They | :33:05. | :33:10. | |
can provide familiarisation visits to make them comfortable when they | :33:11. | :33:13. | |
go to court and for the witnesses who are vulnerable or are | :33:14. | :33:19. | |
intimidated, they can ask for special measures and these include | :33:20. | :33:22. | |
having screens or giving their evidence by vie yo link. We -- | :33:23. | :33:28. | |
videolink. We provide support for those who need it, after they have | :33:29. | :33:34. | |
been to court. If the court sees the impact. It must be benefital for the | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
judges to see that as well? You can see from what Rhys said, the impact | :33:40. | :33:43. | |
statement gives a sense of the emotional impact on them and their | :33:44. | :33:47. | |
family. That's what really makes a difference and that's what makes the | :33:48. | :33:51. | |
evidence really compelling for the judge. Absolutely. I remember we | :33:52. | :33:57. | |
used them when I was in the police and very effective and a useful tool | :33:58. | :34:01. | |
as well. Sian, oh, they are in Northampton. | :34:02. | :34:04. | |
Well, later tonight this part of Northampton will be teeming with | :34:05. | :34:10. | |
people drinking and going to the pubs and clubs. Most of them, of | :34:11. | :34:15. | |
course, will be adducts, but how prevent shops and pubs selling to | :34:16. | :34:18. | |
those who are under-age? Well, we have been out with one team designed | :34:19. | :34:20. | |
to do just that. We're doing a test purchase op | :34:21. | :34:31. | |
today. PC Rod McKenzie is leading the operation in Corby. Many of | :34:32. | :34:36. | |
these officers regularly operate underdiscover and their identities | :34:37. | :34:43. | |
have been -- undercover and their identities are hidden. We have seen | :34:44. | :34:47. | |
an increase in anti-social behaviour. That's what we are trying | :34:48. | :34:51. | |
to, just nip that in the bud. Selling alcohol to a minor is a | :34:52. | :34:57. | |
criminal offence. Rod and the team are targeting specific shops. Well, | :34:58. | :35:03. | |
it is not a fishing exercise, it is intelligence-led. We gather | :35:04. | :35:05. | |
information and information from officers and that's how we've drawn | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
up our top list of the premises we want to check today. Police cadets | :35:11. | :35:15. | |
aged under 18 will be sent to try to buy alcohol in the off licences. The | :35:16. | :35:20. | |
first premises that we're going to check, if we go back three or four | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
weeks, on that occasion they sold to the test purchaser. They failed the | :35:27. | :35:31. | |
test last time. A cadet goes and tries to buy alcohol, but comes out | :35:32. | :35:36. | |
empty-handed. It looks like the test purchase is coming out and she | :35:37. | :35:39. | |
hasn't got anything with her. That looks like it has been a refusal. So | :35:40. | :35:49. | |
it looks like the job is done. It is a positive effort that they have | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
refused. It looks like they have tightened up their procedures. The | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
next two off licences refuse to sell to the cadets of the third which | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
failed in a test purchase a few months ago, also says no. He's out. | :36:04. | :36:08. | |
Nothing in his hand. He what had a refusal. A month earlier, a similar | :36:09. | :36:14. | |
operation tested 12 premises. Three did sell alcohol to under-age | :36:15. | :36:18. | |
children and were fined. These operations are not only about | :36:19. | :36:21. | |
checking if off licences are following the law. Young people who | :36:22. | :36:26. | |
get the alcohol and then become, they drink too much and are unsup | :36:27. | :36:33. | |
viced, they are vulnerable to maybe being assaulted or worse. Their | :36:34. | :36:36. | |
fifth visit of the day and the team are off to a Tesco's on the | :36:37. | :36:42. | |
outskirts of town. Police say they are acting on intelligence. This | :36:43. | :36:45. | |
location we have got information that they are using the self-service | :36:46. | :36:50. | |
check-out and when they are purchasing their alcohol it is not | :36:51. | :36:56. | |
being checked as well as it should. It looks like she has got something. | :36:57. | :37:01. | |
Right, so we have possibly got a sale there. She has got a bag in her | :37:02. | :37:07. | |
hand. The cadet and officers return and the alcohol is bagged as | :37:08. | :37:14. | |
evidence. Chose alcohol. Went to the self-service till. The sale of | :37:15. | :37:18. | |
alcohol needs to be authorised, that's being authorised by a member | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
of staff. It looks like the check hasn't been done on this occasion. | :37:23. | :37:30. | |
One of the undercover officers, Greg, heads in to speak to the | :37:31. | :37:35. | |
manager. Is the manager about or assistant manager? Greg explains | :37:36. | :37:38. | |
that the female member of staff who verified the sale will have to speak | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
with his uniformed officer. There is going to be a certain amount of | :37:43. | :37:45. | |
heartache involved in this, I can tell you that now. It is possible | :37:46. | :37:49. | |
she is going to get some form of sanction. Greg calls in his team to | :37:50. | :37:58. | |
speak with the staff member. He explains that she sold alcohol to a | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
minor. The way that I propose to deal with this is by way of Fixed | :38:04. | :38:08. | |
Penalty Notice. We will issue a Fixed Penalty Notice for the sum of | :38:09. | :38:12. | |
?90. There is a few things I need to go through. If you have any | :38:13. | :38:16. | |
questions then just please ask. Whilst the ticket is issued, the | :38:17. | :38:19. | |
manager is warned that if another offence is committed within three | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
months, the store's licence would have to be reviewed. She is a little | :38:24. | :38:31. | |
bit upset as a result of, you know, the police presence and how we've | :38:32. | :38:33. | |
dealt with the matter, but she understands the importance of that | :38:34. | :38:37. | |
and the fact that we need to get that message out not to sell alcohol | :38:38. | :38:41. | |
to young people. It doesn't matter how busy you are or what you are | :38:42. | :38:45. | |
doing, if you have any doubt, you don't authorise that sale. Ought of | :38:46. | :38:49. | |
the seven stores -- out of the seven stores test purchased, only one sold | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
alcohol to the cadets and for the team, that's a successful day. Let's | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
hope that in itself is enough because that will potentially stop | :38:58. | :39:02. | |
one, two, maybe countless numbers of young people purchasing alcohol and | :39:03. | :39:05. | |
putting themselves in a vulnerable position as a result of that. Tesco | :39:06. | :39:10. | |
told us when it comes to selling alcohol they have a strict Think 25 | :39:11. | :39:14. | |
policy, that's where they ask for prove of age from anyone who looks | :39:15. | :39:18. | |
under the age of 25. The firm says they are disappointed that this | :39:19. | :39:21. | |
wasn't observed on this particular occasion. They have taken a number | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
of steps in the store including retraining of the team there. The | :39:26. | :39:32. | |
Northamptonshire Police take alcohol related incidents seriously and | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
chief inspector Dave Spencer is here. We're run ago six month pilot | :39:37. | :39:42. | |
with alcohol tags. You wear them on the ankle, there are there 24/7. | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
Every half an hour, it will analyse the sweat from the person wearing it | :39:48. | :39:51. | |
and it will detect how much alcohol is in the system. That gets | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
transmitted back to a computer that logs this and we can see if people | :39:56. | :39:59. | |
are complying with what they have agreed which is to be sober. Lisa is | :40:00. | :40:02. | |
wearing this. What does it feel like? It does feel a bit unusual. Is | :40:03. | :40:08. | |
that strange? Is it heavy? What's it like for somebody wearing it? Well, | :40:09. | :40:13. | |
I wore one for ten days, it is light. It is five ounces. The first | :40:14. | :40:18. | |
day, the first 36 hours, it can feel different. You are not used to | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
wearing things on your leg, once you get through that, you hardly notice | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
it is there. Well, who would end up wearing a tag? This pilot, we're | :40:28. | :40:34. | |
targeting your binge drinker or the person who gets too much and that | :40:35. | :40:39. | |
would cause them get involved in minor assaults, and scuffles. It is | :40:40. | :40:43. | |
a condition that would keep them out of the court system and the | :40:44. | :40:46. | |
condition would be to wear this for four weeks and not drink. Tell us | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
about how it went? What was your experience. Wearing it was | :40:52. | :40:55. | |
comfortable, you hardly noticed it after the first day. On the grass, | :40:56. | :41:01. | |
that you can see, the black line is my alcohol -- on the graph that you | :41:02. | :41:08. | |
can see, the black line is my alcohol consumption. The blue line, | :41:09. | :41:13. | |
that's what we call the tamper line, I did try and break or disrupt the | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
tag and you can see that with a high peak where I put silver foil between | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
my leg and the tag. The red line measures the temperature around the | :41:24. | :41:26. | |
tag, if someone cuts it and removes it, the temperature will alter so | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
you will know they have removed it. You have put that into the graph. If | :41:32. | :41:37. | |
somebody was wearing it for real, what would you be doing working with | :41:38. | :41:41. | |
that person? If someone was drinking with the graph that I produced, if | :41:42. | :41:46. | |
it was just the first peak on its own, the one drinking episode, we | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
would speak them and give them advice and if it was the whole | :41:52. | :41:55. | |
graph, we would bring them in, if they weren't taking it seriously, we | :41:56. | :42:00. | |
would charge them with the offence which they were originally arrested | :42:01. | :42:01. | |
for. Good luck with that project. Police are chasing up a potential | :42:02. | :42:09. | |
new lead in the case we featured today of Linda, remember, the care | :42:10. | :42:14. | |
worker robbed in her car. We have had a great sounding call through on | :42:15. | :42:19. | |
wanted face number 17, that's Sean Travis Graham. We have had names | :42:20. | :42:24. | |
given for the men seen on CCTV attacking a woman who runs a dental | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
business from her home in Kettering. Thank you very much to everyone who | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
got in touch. Sian, tell us where you are going to be on Monday. Well, | :42:33. | :42:37. | |
Rav, at the start of our second week, I will be with one of the | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
biggest UK police forces, that's West Midlands Police and I will be | :42:42. | :42:46. | |
live from a fake cannabis farm where I'm going to be seeing the dangers | :42:47. | :42:49. | |
that the officers go through when they are searching for drugs and | :42:50. | :42:53. | |
we're with a potential new recruit. He is very cute. He is called | :42:54. | :43:01. | |
Stavros. He will be put through his paces and before he can corks he has | :43:02. | :43:08. | |
to be -- before he can, he has to get over his fear of the vacuum | :43:09. | :43:11. | |
cleaner! We will leave you with our wanted | :43:12. | :43:15. | |
faces. If you know where any of them are, please get in touch. Have a | :43:16. | :43:19. | |
great weekend. We will see you on Monday. | :43:20. | :43:54. | |
The average person moves home eight times during their life. | :43:55. | :44:00. | |
So that's eight times we have to move the sofa. | :44:01. | :44:04. | |
Eight times we have to redecorate. | :44:05. | :44:07. | |
Eight times we have to locate the stopcock. | :44:08. | :44:11. | |
But there's one thing that's easy to do when you move - | :44:12. | :44:15. |