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We're live once again and waiting for your calls.

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The callous robber who beat up and robbed a visually impaired man.

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Within seconds of that I was feeling blows to my head.

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And football fans are hoping for a trophy at the Euros,

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but this is the Jules Rimet World Cup and it's had

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Hello and welcome to Crimewatch Roadshow.

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We're live for the last time this week, tackling crimes

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A beloved pet dog killed and dumped in a canal.

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I just wanted to know the reasons why,

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And a savage attack on a vulnerable woman in broad daylight.

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He shouldn't pick on people with learning difficulties,

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because it's not nice to be knocked around.

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Today Michelle's is in her home town of Manchester.

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Good morning, Michelle. We are home in Manchester.

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Manchester is home of two of the world's biggest football

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teams and just behind me is the National Football Museum.

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Millions of people watched England play Wales in a really exciting

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match in the Euros yesterday and, talking of big tournaments,

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We'll be finding out what happened when this was stolen 50 years ago.

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But first, to a cowardly attack on a visually-impaired man.

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Les Lightfoot has lived in the Hulme area of Manchester for five years.

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You go to the park, which is only ten minutes away. I used to feel

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quite safe there. There were no cars or anything. It gives me sense of

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achievement to get there by myself. Over the years, Les' vision has

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deteriorated and he now relies on a white cane to get around. I do now

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have a fairly small area in my left eye where I can see quite clearly.

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But it does mean I have to do build a picture up of what's happening

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around me. The white cane looks for me as part of my visual system, if

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you like. I've always been very independent. I worked pretty hard at

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it. It was quite a struggle at times. Many times I wanted to give

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up on it but I have persevered with it. On the 4th of April this year,

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Les made the short journey to his local pharmacy. The sun came out and

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I thought I had not been out for a while. I've got a prescription which

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needs to be taken to the chemist. I will do that. Before heading home,

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he stopped off for a copy. I was getting a little bit tired. I went

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in, just had a coffee, sat for ten minutes, a little bit of a rest, and

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then made my way back along the same route. I got to the apartment main

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door and went to the keypad to put in the code. I remember getting it

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wrong at least three times because I remember saying, third time lucky.

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It was at this time I realised there was someone close to me. I turned

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around, couldn't see them properly. It was a male I did not recognise,

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so I said to them, are you living here? He said, no, I'm just

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visiting. I said, would you mind bringing my bell, then and he moved

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away and I thought no more of it. I made my way up the stairs. Got to

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the first floor landing. When I realised someone was behind me. And

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they pushed me into the banister and I felt like I was trapped. I felt a

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going into my pockets. The person then said, "I only want your wallet

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and your phone" something like that. He said, "Don't fight me." Within

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seconds of that, I was feeling blows to my head. And that was the last

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thing I remember. Until I came around in hospital sometime later.

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Leslie was attacked in his own home where he should feel the safest. The

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injury he sustained were horrific. Deeply unnecessary. Bearing in mind

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the offender only actually got away with Les' wallet, his face was

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extremely bruised, both his eyes were swollen, and he had a large

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swelling on his forehead, as well. He fell down the stairs which caused

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some really serious injuries to him, including a fractured kneecap which,

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for someone like Leslie, is completely horrific. When the

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reality of what happened dawned on me, I became a little bit of a

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quivering jelly in the hospital. Most people go through life saying

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that will never happen to me. But, when it does, it changes you. I'm

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much more aware of people around me now and everyone I see as a

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potential offender. It made me quite fearful, in that respect. As I get

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older, that's only going to increase. Paul Les.

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I'm joined by DC Louise Kelly from Greater Manchester Police.

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This was a particularly cruel attack. Les is visually impaired and

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walks with a white cane and whoever had attacked him would have seen

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this. He always enjoyed his independence but since the attack

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its knocked his confidence. Reminders of the detail of the

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attack. The attack happened on Monday 4th

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April 2016 just before 7pm at Les' Les had been out to do a few errands

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and walked home via Stretford Road. We believe he may have been followed

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back to his flat, where he was then robbed, punched

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and as a result of the attack. He's also fallen down the stairs

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and badly damaged his knee. And what do we know about the person

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who's did this? We believe the suspect is possibly

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an Asian or mixed race man, Approximately 5 foot 6

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and wearing a blue tracksuit. We believe he may have been riding

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a bicycle and may have fled Les's The only got away with his wallet,

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didn't he? Yes, that's correct. It's described as a brown leather

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wallet and had a small amount Les did try and protect

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himself but the violence used by the offender

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was completely unnecessary. And if you can help,

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please get in touch. Unfortunately Les' attacker

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wasn't caught on CCTV. It's nearly It's closing time

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at this shop in Bath Road. this shop assistants are packing

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away when two masked men walk in. The first guy is carrying two large

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knives and wearing a pair of tights over his head. If you look closely,

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we catch a glimpse of the second man before he pulls on his mask. Smile,

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you are on CCTV. The petrified shop assistants run away to safety with

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one of the men shouting after them to come back. Not likely! They go

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for a look around the shop. One tries to kick the storeroom door in

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but, wait, what's the handle for? Champs. They don't find anything at

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the back but as they turn, one of them even looks up the camera. They

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eventually give up and leave empty-handed. Who are these would-be

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robbers? It's a Monday evening in Humberside. A van is parked up near

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a building site. The bloke in the passenger seat seems to be scoping

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out the yard opposite. A few moments later, the van is going in. Two men,

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dressed as workmen, get out and take a closer look at a road roller. This

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may all seem quite normal, but there was a problem. This is not their

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building site, it's not their roller. The bloke in the high viz

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jacket tries to get the engine started while the other one in the

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white T-shirt watches his mate do all the hard graft. After a phone

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call, they finally managed to get the motor going. The guy in the

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white T-shirt has now put on a jumper, and got out some ramps from

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the van. Once it is loaded, they pack up and go. They turned the

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corner and the bloke in the bloody jumps out to change the van's

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numberplate. This machine is worth ?8,000.

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If you recognised anyone, get on the phone now.

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Calls are free from landlines and mobile phones.

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Text CW, space and then your message.

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Texts will be charged at your standard message rate.

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Now, we're currently in the midst of the Euros but it's 50 years

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since England won the 1966 World Cup.

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Everyone remembers Sir Bobby Moore holding the cup.

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On Sunday 20 March 1966, the Jules Rimet trophy was stolen.

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Adam Comstive, you work here at the museum,

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Three months before the tournament began the trophy was on display in

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Westminster Hall in London and was actually stolen fold them as one

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security guard on duty, an elderly man, on a break, and it's pretty

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unbelievable the security levels back in those days. It wasn't stolen

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for very long, was it? No, it was found by a dog called Pickles, at

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the walk with his owner. We've actually got a clip of them. Take a

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look at this. As I was putting the lead

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on I noticed this package laying there, wrapped just in newspaper

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but very tightly bound with string. I tore a bit off the bottom

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and there was a blank shield, then there were the words Brazil,

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West Germany and Uruguay printed. My heart started thumping against my

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chest. It's the World Cup. After he found it, Pickles

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became a national hero He was awarded a number of honours

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and was even invited to the celebration banquet

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after England won the cup. Now, unfortunately, there are some

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other football-related crimes going on at the moment which have

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less of a happy ending over Football is a family game but

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unfortunately a small minority of people are ruining it for everybody

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else. If people are considering going to the football,'s what tips

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and advice would you give them to stay safe? I would say the vast

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majority of people there are safe and the matches are taking place in

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cities and towns quite densely populated, so if you are their

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travelling, if you do see large crowds gathering and there is

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clearly a mood change and it feels aggressive, and you see things

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you're not happy with, walk away, get out of the area and reported to

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police. Equally, avoid excessive alcohol drinking. Alcohol will be a

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factor in the violence and it's been sad to see the small minority of

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fans, England fan, getting involved in this trouble, but make sure you

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get out of the way and reported to police and idled so same unless

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you've got a ticket, avoid travelling. There are other places

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you can watch the game away from any problems. Thank you very much. Some

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sound advice there. When police investigate crimes,

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like football hooliganism, they often rely on video

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footage as evidence. Many officers already use

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Body Worn Cameras which record But one police force has

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gone a step further. For the last six months,

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Cheshire Constabulary has issued officers with video recorders,

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which stream images live, from a crime scene back

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to the control room. PC Darren Mundey is here,

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with one of the cameras. It's a standard video camera which

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we take out onto the ground and we have done for many, many years which

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of records onto a flash card cap as a back-up for us so that needs to go

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to court at a later date, the clever bit we have is this here. It uses

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technology and software which runs through and, using the cell network,

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we can broadcast live from anywhere but has a mobile phone signal into a

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control room. were so you just need that in the mobile phone signal? We

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have a live stream, and we can see some unrest. There are officers

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involved in some public order kit. Talk me through what we are seeing.

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We had a protest where police had been deployed on the camera has had

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a look in the control room has seen its starting to escalate from there

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and we had some petrol bombs thrown. There are bats being used. The

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control room can deploy staff appropriately and that the right

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time and that a good pace and in the right direction. The difference with

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CCTV is it is limited with the angle of the camera where as this can

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follow it. I think it's fair to say that the protest is not real. They

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are your staff and colleagues, but this is not pre-recorded, this is

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live as it is happening. These student police officers, and it's at

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the training centre in Winsford. But it does demonstrate how it works.

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This is not pre-recorded, it is live but this kit has helped you deal

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with real police emergencies, hasn't it? Yes we've used it where we had

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protests and the staff were deployed appropriately on the ground but the

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recording on the camera was able to go through the judicial process. The

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beauty of the kit is you are relying on a mobile phone signal. Should the

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signal go down, all is not lost. You can still draw out a number of

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interesting and decent evidential facts. Absolutely. We are relying on

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mobile phones and sometimes the signals drop but the camera still

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records and sends signals to the control room so we can draw a square

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around the bit we are interested in, some footwear, logo, somebody's

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face. Very quickly, do you see that this could possibly involve from the

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body worn cameras that they have at the moment? The technology is out

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there and there is a lot of work going on the body worn camera and

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streaming that back is on the horizon. I think this is brilliant,

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Darren. Thanks for showing us. Next, can you help police find

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the man who violently mugged a woman with learning disabilities

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in Wigan? 61-year-old Susan Bannister has

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lived in the Scholes area of Wigan for the last nine years. She is

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well-known in her local community. I like going out. I like going dancing

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on Wednesdays. Like going to work and talking to people. Susan has

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learning difficulties but her mother, Joan, has always encouraged

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her to live life to the full. We bought this house for Susan because

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I wanted to see her living independently for when I am not

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here. So she could live happily ever after. She is happy here, I am happy

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she is here. She goes to her voluntary job two days a week. She

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has a good life. But one sunny Thursday afternoon back in April,

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all of that changed. It was the Queen's Birthday and Susan was

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helping to put on a special party for the residents of her local care

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home where she works. I love the Royal family, and she's 90. I like

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talking to the old people. They like me, and it was nice. When Susan

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finished work, she met her boyfriend Michael and they walked to the

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shops. We went up to the chemist for Michael's tablets. But the couple

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were being watched. As Michael stepped into the chemist and Susan

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followed, she was viciously attacked. This fellow grabbed me at

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the back and knocked me flying off the step to get my necklace of May.

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I started to scream. It's the first time I have ever screamed in my

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life. As Susan lay helpless on the ground, the thief ripped to chains

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and rings from around her neck. He then ran off leaving Susan shocked

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and confused. I felt scared. He hurt me. She was bruised all down her

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left leg. Her neck was damaged when he dragged the necklaces. She had

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two tops on and he had ripped both from top to bottom. Awful. It's my

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jewellery, he shouldn't have taken it. The police are hoping that

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somebody saw this brutal attack and have pieced together the robber's

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escape route. The attacker ran from the chemist, cutting across this

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grass verge in front of the church when he turned right. We know the

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attacker continued to run along the street, where he made his escape

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through the bushes. Using the short cut suggests he has local knowledge

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and could well live nearby. Witnesses described the attacker as

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smartly dressed wearing a matching dark coloured tracksuit, trainers

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and dark sunglasses. We think Susan may have been targeted because she

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is vulnerable. It was a cowardly attack on Susan and one which I am

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personally appalled by. The robbery has had a lasting effect on Susan. I

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look around now to see if they are there. I want to catch them because

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they'll probably do it to other people. Susan wouldn't have been the

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first and she won't be the last, will she? I don't like what he's

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done. You shouldn't pick on people with learning difficulties. Because

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it's not nice to be knocked around. That is just terrible.

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Take another look at the man responsible.

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They've been linked to hundreds of deaths.

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We find out how the ban on legal highs is being policed.

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And the family pet, stolen and killed.

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She was found with a carrier bag on her head and wrapped around her neck

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was some curtain wire. Now, police here in Manchester

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are in the middle of a month long campaign warning people

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against the dangers of drink As part of that campaign police

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here in Manchester have released some really shocking footage,

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PC Matt Picton is here now Back on the 29th of May this year we

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had a shocking incident, and we can see the video of a young child with

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his mother selecting some sweets from a shelf and a drunk driver

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approaches the front of the shop and drives straight through the front of

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the shop, demolishing the shop and traps the child inside. It is

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shocking. How is the little boy? I spoke to the family yesterday and he

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only suffered minor cuts and bruises, which is quite remarkable,

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but the psychological effects on him and his sister who witnesses are

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severe. That is totally understandable. What happened to the

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driver? The driver was arrested and was charged and went to court and

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was disqualified for three years after pleading guilty to provide --

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failing to provide a breath sample and driving without due care. What

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is happening with your campaign? It is a month-long campaign for drink

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and drugs driving and we want to hammer home the message that

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drinking and taking drugs and driving is not acceptable in any

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circumstances. We don't want people to stop enjoying football going out

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and having a drink but do not get behind the wheel of a car. Part of

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the campaign, it's just all about drinking, drugs are a big problem.

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One of the biggest problems is new psychoactive substances formerly

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known legal highs. The substances exploded onto the scene in 2009 when

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Method Roan became fashionable and readily available. -- mephedrone.

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The government soon bandit but producers of legal highs found other

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ways to manufacture within the law. The drugs were often labelled as not

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for human consumption, but that didn't stop people taking them. For

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those who fell ill, treating them was far from simple. From a medical

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point of view we know, for example, heroin causes respiratory and

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cardiac depression. We note cocaine puts extra strain on your heart and

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can lead to cardiac damage but we don't know about legal highs. In

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2014, while still legal, the drugs were linked to 150 deaths in the UK.

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Last month across just four days, nine people in Rochdale alone needed

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treatment after taking them. But things are changing. Three weeks ago

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a new blanket ban was brought in, making all so-called legal highs

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illegal. And police in Rochdale were the first to react.

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Here with me now is DI Andy Butterworth who's team made

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Have legal highs always been a problem in Greater Manchester?

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We have always had problems with legal highs in Manchester

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unfortunately like many other places in the country.

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But at the time the legislation came through this also coincided

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with number of people falling ill in the through taking them.

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Well, over the period of 4 days, nine males in the area became ill

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after taking suspected psychoactive substances,

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two ended up on a ventilator in hospital.

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As a result we searched shops in Rochdale thought to sell

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the substances and from one of the shops we seized these.

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As you can see, there are lots of different types.

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And these ones, Chronic, Pandoras Box, Inhilliation,

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Clockwork Orange and Cherry Bomb were taken by the nine people

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being taken ill just before the ban came in.

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Then on the day the ban came in your team made the first

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My team stop searched a mail at the shop and he appeared to be under the

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influence of something and they recovered a psychotic substance and

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subsequently they proceeded with the arrest of the person who sold it to

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him. So three weeks ago these

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were all legal? That is certainly not the case now,

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and those found supplying any new psychoactive drugs

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face serious consequences. Next, to a case where a beloved pet

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was killed on Christmas Eve, leaving his distraught owner

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searching for answers. Anthony Taylor from near Stockport

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has always loved dogs. Two years ago he bought a puppy and the pair were

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inseparable. Everybody loved Troyer. She was my best friend. She was with

:26:23.:26:26.

me all the time and I took are as many places as I could. Troyer was a

:26:27.:26:32.

rare breed, who had been imported from the Canary Islands. People see

:26:33.:26:38.

them to be may be aggressive in the way they look but they are pretty

:26:39.:26:41.

much just like a family guard dog. My girlfriend's daughter used to

:26:42.:26:45.

sleep with her on the road and they used to but their arms around each

:26:46.:26:49.

other. Pretty cute. She was part of the family. Troyer had her own

:26:50.:26:57.

luxury kennel in the garden. It was a really quality well built kennel

:26:58.:27:01.

which I had purpose-built for her, heated, everything like that. As

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Christmas approached Anthony was looking forward to celebrating with

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his girlfriend, her children and Troyer. We got Troyer a big bone and

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we have that under the tree because we wanted to open presents with her

:27:16.:27:20.

as well. On the evening of the 23rd of December, Anthony fed Troyer in

:27:21.:27:24.

her kennel and asked his mum to look after her while he stayed at his

:27:25.:27:28.

girl friend 's house. It was the last time he would ever see his

:27:29.:27:38.

beloved id dog. -- his beloved dog. During the night, Troyer's kennel

:27:39.:27:42.

was broken into and she vanished. I was devastated. I was devastated. I

:27:43.:27:48.

just knew that somebody had taken her because of the way she had been

:27:49.:27:56.

locked up at night. Anthony spent all of Christmas Day searching for

:27:57.:28:01.

Troyer. I pretty much spoiled Christmas altogether. I add other

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people helping me out, driving round different areas. I was getting

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messages of hundreds of people to tell me they were searching for her.

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Finally, weeks later, a friend called with the news Anthony had

:28:16.:28:19.

been dreading. And she phoned me to say that she thinks there is a dog

:28:20.:28:23.

in the canal and she took a picture and sent it through to me and I

:28:24.:28:28.

could make the pattern out, and I pretty much knew. I had a few tears

:28:29.:28:37.

while I was at work. I got in my van and I drove straight home. She was

:28:38.:28:43.

just lying on the side of the canal bank with the cover over and record

:28:44.:28:46.

wrapped around her neck. Her death was investigated by police

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and the RSPCA. They confirmed the dog had been killed deliberately.

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Troya was found with a carrier bag on her head and wrapped around her

:29:06.:29:09.

neck was some curtain wire. Also attached to her collar was washing

:29:10.:29:13.

line. The postmortem revealed that was probably strangled and

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suspended. I can't actually believe something like this would happen.

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I've never encountered anything like this. It's animal cruelty at its

:29:23.:29:26.

worst. It's absolutely horrific, really. Months later, Anthony is

:29:27.:29:35.

still searching for answers about Troya's death. It's just more

:29:36.:29:40.

whodunnit and why. I just want to know the reasons why. She was such a

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nice dog, sociable dog, everybody liked her, and if they had a

:29:49.:29:53.

problem, just knock on the door and talk to me, have a chat. She has

:29:54.:30:02.

left a massive gap, but sometimes she just comes back into my head.

:30:03.:30:05.

I've had the odd nightmare and stuff like that. She just appears

:30:06.:30:12.

sometimes. She's never forgotten. PC Torkington, you've been

:30:13.:30:14.

involved in the case. It's hard to believe that someone

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could do this. That's right and we think that two

:30:19.:30:21.

people may have taken A neighbour heard some noise around

:30:22.:30:33.

3am on Christmas Eve so we think she was taken around that time. Did a

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postmortem revealed anything else? Unfortunately, it was not able to

:30:39.:30:42.

tell us what time Troya entered the canals that could be any time

:30:43.:30:46.

between Christmas Eve 2015 and lunch was found on January 18. You find

:30:47.:30:52.

dog theft is a big problem? Not a massive problem. Sometimes are taken

:30:53.:30:57.

for dogfighting. She may been taken for that reason but pure speculation

:30:58.:31:04.

at this time. The local people really rallied around for Anthony

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when they found out about Troya, didn't they? Yes, they held a vigil

:31:09.:31:12.

for Tara and was a massive campaign. We've also raised about ?2500 as a

:31:13.:31:19.

reward so we want information on who can tell if they saw Troya between

:31:20.:31:25.

Christmas Eve 2015 and January the 18th 2016. Is Anthony doing OK now?

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I believe he's getting over the initial shock. He just wants help to

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find those responsible. Please come forward

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of you have any information. Now it's time for a look

:31:42.:31:43.

at today's Wanted Faces. Police forces around the country

:31:44.:31:46.

are asking for your We start today with 21-year-old

:31:47.:31:48.

Arkadiusz Studzinski. He was due to appear in court

:31:49.:31:52.

in connection with an attack in which a man was kicked

:31:53.:31:55.

several times in the head Originally from Poland,

:31:56.:31:57.

Studzinski now has He's Leonard Christopher Haddlesey,

:31:58.:32:01.

though he also calls himself He was found guilty

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at Hull Crown Court in relation to a burglary and theft,

:32:08.:32:11.

but didn't turn up for sentencing. Haddlesey is 47 and has links

:32:12.:32:14.

to London, Hull and Beverley Third today is Anthony Vincent

:32:15.:32:17.

Sanjurgo. The 24-year-old failed to appear

:32:18.:32:24.

in court in connection with drugs He has a Liverpudlian accent

:32:25.:32:27.

and a large scar on his right leg. Finally for today we have Mourad

:32:28.:32:32.

Nehari. He's 24 and detectives in Cheshire

:32:33.:32:36.

want to question him after a pensioner's bank card

:32:37.:32:39.

was stolen and later used to buy Originally from Marseille in France,

:32:40.:32:42.

Nehari now has links to London, If you know where any of the wanted

:32:43.:32:49.

faces might be get in Next to the vicious attack

:32:50.:32:58.

on a young man right On 23rd December, Joe Mottram

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and his friends had been on a night When they came outside just before

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2am he was assaulted. The last thing I remember was being

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at the bar and my girlfriend was buying a drink and the next time I

:33:25.:33:30.

saw daylight was in hospital. Outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub he

:33:31.:33:32.

was punched to the ground. Whilst it was lying on the floor, another man

:33:33.:33:38.

ran over and stamped on his head. Leaving him with life changing

:33:39.:33:44.

industries. -- injuries. The blood was rushing into my lungs and they

:33:45.:33:48.

were filling up with blood. So they had to put me into an induced coma.

:33:49.:33:53.

This person left me for dead and made my mum and my friends say

:33:54.:33:58.

goodbye to me. I don't want it to happen to anyone else. Just awful.

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I'm joined by Detective Constable Anthony Strong

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This experience has had a profound effect on Joe and his family.

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Joe suffered very serious injuries to his head and jaw,

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He's also suffered serious memory loss, which he has yet

:34:19.:34:23.

His family were told to expect the worst by doctors

:34:24.:34:26.

at the hospital, which is obviously extremely traumatic for them.

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What can you tell us about what happened that night?

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In the early hours of 23rd December last year, just before 2am,

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Joe and his friends left the club and went outside.

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They were were confronted by another group of men.

:34:37.:34:39.

As he lay on the floor a second man came over and stamped on his head,

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That Samantha are looking for. We can seize on CTV of it. Yes, the man

:34:48.:34:58.

we are looking for is an Asian male, aged about 20 years old, five foot

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five, slim build, on the evening wearing a black jumper with a white

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shirt underneath and blue jeans. He's also got short dark hair in a

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side parting style. We would urge anybody who recognises this man to

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contact the police. He has suffered quite physical injuries but as one

:35:21.:35:23.

psychological, this is something which is really affected him and his

:35:24.:35:27.

family so please get in touch with us as ever. Details on your screen.

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Rav, back to you the studio. Next, we need your help to catch

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a prolific gang of distraction burglars who've targeted elderly

:35:33.:35:35.

people across two counties Here to tell us more is DS

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Ian Grimble from Suffolk Police, Ian, you've been able to link

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a spate of burglaries On Saturday 9th April we had

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reports of seven very A ruthless gang of three or four

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males, or disguised, and one of the techniques they used was to try to

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pretend to be from the water board, in order to steal valuables and cash

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from elderly people. Let's have a look at a map and talk me through

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what we're looking at here and where the offences taken place.

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Yes, we believe the gang travelled up the A14 and went across country.

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They started in Big Icklington in Bury St Edmunds at around 2.30pm,

:36:28.:36:30.

attempting to trick their way into an elderly man's home,

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Around an hour later, we think the same men

:36:33.:36:35.

were in Knackton in Ipswich, before striking again in the village

:36:36.:36:38.

I want to talk about that at the moment, particularly nasty. They

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then moved on to commit four more burglaries in Norfolk. They targeted

:36:45.:36:55.

a 94-year-old woman. They stole ?3000 cash from her and also stole

:36:56.:36:59.

high-value jewellery and cash from the other addresses. Totally

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unacceptable. The 80-year-old had particularly horrendous ordeal,

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didn't he? Yes, the 84-year-old was pinned down, had a screwdriver held

:37:10.:37:13.

to a slowed and was threatened. This is a ruthless gang that... They

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clearly need to be caught. Thankfully you have some CCTV which

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you think could be of the offenders. We have got a car. This is a Jaguar

:37:24.:37:30.

XS are which we believe was stolen on the 24th of March from the

:37:31.:37:34.

Wellingborough area. It was used on false plates. This was 11:30am at a

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BP in Wellingborough. One man goes into the garage and fills up. They

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were all wearing flat caps, shirt and tie is, and they are aware of

:37:46.:37:52.

the CCTV and tried to hide their face. These are individuals we are

:37:53.:37:57.

interested in. So this person inside and also this one with a hat on,

:37:58.:38:03.

they always wear their hats. That's correct, Rav. They all wore smart

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clothing, shirt, ties, trilby hats. Surely someone must know who they

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are and that's all you want. You just need names from the public?

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That's correct. If anybody can identify these individuals and saw

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them on that date, on the Saturday, and also anyone who was got any

:38:24.:38:31.

information about the stolen Jaguar. We need information about the car

:38:32.:38:32.

and who they are. Take another look at these images

:38:33.:38:41.

and if you know who they are, Over the weekend, there

:38:42.:38:44.

was a huge festival here in Manchester with over 80,000 -

:38:45.:38:48.

Parklife. Just like any festival, the police

:38:49.:38:50.

were expecting many drugs on site. In charge of the security operation

:38:51.:38:53.

on behalf of GMP was Lovely to meet you. It was a

:38:54.:39:02.

successful in busy weekend for you, wasn't it? I'm pleased with how

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things went. We seized hundreds of drugs, and I brought a selection to

:39:07.:39:11.

show you. How did it work? We have a really strong relationship in

:39:12.:39:16.

partnership with Park life, the organiser and the event security.

:39:17.:39:19.

Everybody is search, passing through sniffer dogs. The exterior of the

:39:20.:39:24.

site there are drugs around the bins where people can surrender them in

:39:25.:39:29.

those areas. Last year, they were so popular, we had to bring in bigger

:39:30.:39:36.

bins. We also run a policing operations throughout the weekend to

:39:37.:39:39.

target drug dealers as well. It's a real team effort at festivals like

:39:40.:39:44.

this especially concerning drugs. Yes, huge effort. Everyone committed

:39:45.:39:47.

to making sure they enjoy themselves, enjoy the festival

:39:48.:39:55.

safely. When we seized drugs, it's important to understand what they

:39:56.:39:59.

are. And, more importantly, what is in those drugs, so we work closely

:40:00.:40:02.

with the loop charity who do testing for us. Thank you very much. Let me

:40:03.:40:07.

introduce you now to Works with police here

:40:08.:40:11.

and across the country at clubs and festivals and you have this

:40:12.:40:17.

great piece of drug testing we can identify drugs used in about

:40:18.:40:25.

60 seconds. We tested 300 people at the Festival last weekend and so we

:40:26.:40:30.

could let emergency services no on-site what was circulating. Let's

:40:31.:40:36.

get the testing starting. We have got a packet with a white powder,

:40:37.:40:42.

unknown. We put a sample onto the plate, pull the clamp-down and it

:40:43.:40:45.

will compare the unique footprint that sample with the database which

:40:46.:40:50.

contains all of the different samples, so if we wait 60 seconds,

:40:51.:40:54.

the results will come up and we can see if you look at the screen, this

:40:55.:41:01.

is 928 out of 1000 hit quality of MDMA. Very high quality.

:41:02.:41:06.

Essentially, a matching process. A laser beam goes through here and

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matches it with the database. That's correct and there's hundreds and

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hundreds of different drugs on the database. Earlier the girl died from

:41:14.:41:21.

ecstasy. Unfortunately, 17-year-old died in Manchester last month taking

:41:22.:41:27.

red MasterCard pills. We tested them on site and they had 250 mg of MDMA

:41:28.:41:33.

which is ten times the strength of some of the pills. Gosh, let's see

:41:34.:41:40.

what the results show up. This shows the sample, this bag contains

:41:41.:41:44.

crystal MDMA, with a hit quality of 900 made out of 1000 which is high

:41:45.:41:51.

purity. That is a high strength and it shows how effective this testing

:41:52.:41:55.

is. It's really helping. It's saving people's lives at the end of the

:41:56.:41:59.

day. Thank you very much. Rav, back to you.

:42:00.:42:01.

Just time for an update on what's come in on the phones and remember

:42:02.:42:05.

the shocking raid at the home of Dennis and June in Rotherham

:42:06.:42:08.

As a result of this appeal, a 21 man has been charged with arson full for

:42:09.:42:13.

the appeared before Westminster magistrates yesterday. Sam Sheldon

:42:14.:42:23.

had a broken cheekbone after a night out with friends and he was attacked

:42:24.:42:27.

and we are now looking into potential new lead on the attack as

:42:28.:42:30.

a thank you to everyone who's got in touch.

:42:31.:42:31.

Please do keep those calls, texts and emails coming in.

:42:32.:42:34.

Now Michelle, where are you going to be next week?

:42:35.:42:36.

Rav, we've had a great week here in the North West

:42:37.:42:39.

And on Monday you can see how a shift out on patrol

:42:40.:42:45.

with South Yorkshire Police ended with them having to ram

:42:46.:42:47.

For more details about the crimes on today's

:42:48.:42:59.

programme, go to our website Before we go, here's another look at this

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If you know where any of them are you know what to do.

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We'll be back on Monday morning, until then, take care.

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