Episode 16 Crimewatch Roadshow

We're back for our final week - and waiting for your calls to bring

The pub landlord - tied up and beaten for his takings.

It was very brutal. I could not eat solids for two weeks because there

was a hairline fracture of the jaw. And this scene of devastation isn't

quite what it seems - Hello and welcome to the final week

of this year's Crimewatch Roadshow. We've travelled the length

and breadth of the UK over the last three weeks,

going behind the scenes with police and appealing for your

help to crack unsolved cases. And there's lots more

to come today, including... A nightmare before Christmas

for a restaurant manager The door did swing open and then

appeared this man with black tights on his head with a Santa outfit

over the top. And do you know who left Lee

with these horrific head injuries? Today, the Roadshow has

moved on to Waddington in Lincolnshire and the Fire

and Rescue centre there. Although, Michelle it looks more

like a war zone to me. It does look just like

the scene of an earthquake And there's a good reason for it

needing to look so realistic. I've come to a specialist training

centre for the emergency services - like the urban search and rescue

team you can see behind me. And this morning, I'll be seeing

just how they prepare First though, police

need your help to catch the masked gang behind a terrifying robbery

at a quiet country pub. The Rising Sun is situated in the

heart of rural Derbyshire. The landlord has run this country pub

for four years. The community is very good. Local people, very

friendly. Everyone knows each other. All very helpful. I have two pugs

Milo and Juno. They are fantastic. 90% of the time they are downstairs

in the pub with us. It is a great area around here for dog walking. On

Easter Monday, Stephen closed up after the bank holiday weekend. It

had been a very busy day. I had been mostly working in the kitchen. After

locking up the pub, Stephen headed upstairs or Milo and Juno. As

Stephen was watching television, Juno seemed to sense something was

wrong. Juno jumped off the sofa and started barking. I stood up and went

out of the door to see what it was she was barking out. -- at. The

intruders had burst in and started attacking Stephen. It was very

brutal. There were lots of blows to the head. It got to the point where

I thought this will either end up with me being killed or, certainly I

was at the point where I was close to passing out from it. They dragged

me to my feet. I could hear them talking on some cells saying, put

him in the bedroom, put him in the bed. One put a pillow case over my

head. Another one was tying my hands behind my back. The men ransacked

the place, searching for money. They went through every tablet, through

the drawers in the bedroom, on the floor and emptied them, looking for

cash. They put me in the bathroom. Stephen was ordered not to move but

struggled desperately to free himself. While I was trying to get

my hands free, I must have moved and not something on the floor. One of

them flew the door straight open. Came in and punch me round ahead

again saying, we told you not to move. Shut the door. I think I must

have waited a minute or two. Could not hear any noise outside so I

started to wriggle my hands free. As soon as I got a hand free, I pulled

Attila Case of my head. I heard a noise outside the door and I froze.

What should I do? Fortunately, it was just Juno. Seeing Juno waiting,

as opposed to three guys in overalls and it was a big relief. The

attackers had fled, taking thousands of pounds in cash. Stephen was left

with a number of injuries. One of my fingers was broken. I could not eat

solids for two weeks just because my drawer, there had been a hairline

fracture on the jaw so I could not eat anything. Round the neck, you

could see where they had been choking me. There were a few

bruises. Stephen's scars were not just physical. Most nights, a replay

in my head, was I could have done differently? It brings it back and

makes a vivid again. Juno has been left traumatised. If she hears a

creek in the building, she jumps up straightaway, starts barking at the

door. Some night she will sit and stare at the door, starts growling.

To be honest, that makes me quite nervous. It is still fear that

someone has gone in. For Stephen, support from the community has made

him determined to carry on. I have experienced the worst of humanity

and the best. All my neighbours are my friends. If I were to run away

from it, it would be letting them win, letting them beat me more than

they already have. I do not want that to happen.

A horrific attack in such a tight knit community.

DC Stephen Pullar, of Derbyshire Constabulary

Remind us of the details of the attack. This took place back on 28th

of March, the bank holiday Monday, Easter Monday evening. It was about

10:30pm when two men burst into The Rising Sun in the small village of

Middleton in the Peak District. They started to attack the landlord.

These thieves knew what they wanted, didn't they? They were looking for

cash. With it being a bank holiday weekend, they were expecting a lot

of cash but there was not the amount they were hoping for. Stephen tried

to fight back but sustains nasty injuries. He did. He sustained a

broken jaw and could not eat solids for a couple of weeks that he broke

the finger trying to fend off an attack. It is the mental toll it has

taken on him as well. The support of the locals in the village has been

invaluable. What else do we know about the people who did this? Two

men broke him. Another was searching the premises for cash. They're

looking for three, four men. One was six foot tall and the other was

five. Both broad build. A slightly shorter one was five foot seven,

slim build. They all had North East regional accents. This has affected

Stephen and the dog? They are bearing up well under the

circumstances. Well, if you know anything

about that nasty attack on Stephen at today's selection

of crooks caught on camera. A silver car pulls up outside a

house in Shropshire. A man gets out and checks to see if anyone is home.

He is in luck. No one is in. He sets to work in trying to break through

the patio doors you can see him in a reflection of the TV. He searches

the house. What is the after? According to police, he nabs a

white, jewellery box. He goes to leave but not before giving us quite

a few. Cheeky! He drives away but not for long. Two minutes later he

speeds back up the drives -- the drive and runs back inside. He

returns to the kitchen and has with him another hall in a pillow case.

Once he has finally got enough, he heads out. 11 grand's worth of items

were taken by this man and over five grand's worth of damage was done to

the door. This burglar gave the victims eight deal. Let's crack this

one. Get on the blower. It is a Sunday at this church in Bristol.

November 20 14. This man may well want to confess his sins. There are

candles of remembrance and proud. He fumbles in his pockets. He is not

interested in worshipping to the heavens, it is the charity box

underneath. He pulls out what appears to be a specially adapted to

and prepares it ready for his evil crime. After a few minutes of

fumbling around, he manages to prise open the box. He takes out the cash

and simply walks away from the police believe the same man targeted

the same church the previous month. Again using a specially adapted tool

to open the charity box which children and elderly people had paid

into. Police are praying you can name him today.

If you recognised anyone, get on the phone now.

The number is 08000 468999 Calls are free

Text CW, space and then your message.

Texts will be charged at your standard message rate.

This morning, I'm just outside Lincoln at Waddington Fire

and Rescue Training Centre where blue light teams train in this

Neil is with me now. You have travelled to disaster sites and

trained teams here. What is the thinking behind the setup?

We decided to create a realistic environment where firefighters could

train for real, honed skills and be as professional as can be. What

exercise will be happening today? Simulating a major explosion at a

school. Teams going to go in and rescue. Some tools you use include

sniffer dogs. We have a better in sniffer dog here, 15-year-old Holly.

You were given an award. We received from the Queen the MBA and I am very

proud of that. Thank you. I'm going to join Rick Warner, who also trains

the urban rescue teams. Talk me through what we will do. The dogs

indicated there was a life it to behind this concrete block, through

the scent of that person. We need to know in, to wear about SAC

casualties, so we can break through. I shall join you in here. We have

some impressive kit here. We have some seismic kit working on

vibrations. Is that casualties is knocking, coughing or scratching on

the concrete, that picks up. It picks up small vibrations. You can

see the casualties indicating we have some sound the other side of

this. What we do is go to the next piece of kit. Move it to the side.

We have pre-drilled a hole. Drill a hole carefully through. The

casualties might be on the other side of that. We will put the search

camera through. Hopefully we'll be able to see a bit him, see something

there. We can see a face if we turn. It is difficult sometimes to see the

casualties. After a blast, you get cement dust everywhere. If James

gives us a wave... He is alive and well. What next? We break a concrete

triangle. A stitch cut or a rough and ready cut which uses a hydraulic

breaker to break through the concrete so you can retrieve the

victim. They may have been there for days, or for a long time, in that

space. Thank you so much food that is really use. And great to see.

Sounds like another successful rescue.

Here's what's still to come this morning.

The callous burglars, who ransacked a 94 year

I'm deaf to begin with so I never had my hearing aid

It's upsetting, it's really upsetting.

And rescuing passengers from a smoke-filled plane.

How emergency services train for real life disasters.

There's plenty of casualties in there.

Watch out for falling debris on the plane.

But first, police in Greater Manchester need your help to find

the gang responsible for a savage attack on a young father

33 year old Lee Crane has been left with life changing head

Joining me now is Detective Inspector Charlotte Cadden.

Detective, what do we know about the events of that night?

hours of Saturday 2nd April, Lee was walking back from town

towards his family home in the Tonge Moore area.

He remembers walking along George Barton Street when a group

He then continued walking back to his mum's house in Starkie Road

Lee then made a cup of tea and sat on the step at the front

We can see a map of the area here where the incident happened. This is

where Lee was found outside his mum's address. Two men approached

him and asked for a cigarette. They were asking him for the past code of

his phone. The first punch was thrown at Lee Erwin then he was

attacked and it spilled out into the street. Luckily, a witness saw this

and Lee suffered devastating injuries from this attack. They

really are horrific injuries that he suffered. The shape of his head had

changed because a large part of his skull had to be removed. Lee went

down onto the floor, were stamped on, and consequently has had to have

the front part of his skull removed, suffered a bleed on the brain and

memory loss but luckily it is going back now. Slowly he is able to

remember some things about this night, and has been able to give you

a description of some of the attackers. We're looking for men,

three of them in their early 20s. The man who first punched him

was white, with light brown hair, wearing a cap or a hoody

with his hair visible A second man was also white,

with short brown wavy hair wearing a blue top

with orange patches on the arm. The third man was of mixed race

but fairly light skinned, possibly Asian, early 20's,

he had distinctive hair with a possible outgrown

Mohican with shaven hair round the sides and back,

wearing short black coat. And male 4 , Lee describes as older,

mid twenties to early thirties - and was more violent,

seemed like the ring leader. He was was white, slim,

5'7" with short dark He was wearing a black round necked

jumper with a logo on it Let's have another look at the map,

we see the direction they made. Yellow macro you can see where Lee

was found, they ran up Entwistle Street towards Ainsworth Lane, so a

lot of residence there, although it was now in the morning. Luckily his

memory is slowly coming back but he has been left with life changing

injuries so it is just those names that you need people to give you

now. That's right. Thank you for joining us. If anyone has any

information about this brutal attack and the people behind it, please

come forward now. Michelle. Next to Alfreton in Derbyshire,

and when Santa dropped in to a fast food restaurant just before

Christmas, he didn't have Michael works as a manager in a busy

fast food restaurant in Alfreton, Derbyshire. I have worked for the

company for 18 years. The team are great, fantastic. They are very much

a family. They just work with each other, they go out and socialise

with each other as well. So a very close team. On December 19, the

staff were working the last weekend before Christmas, and everyone's

minds were on the festive season ahead. The team worked hard that

night and very much had a good night with it, as well. As his colleagues

were cleaning up, Michael was finishing his paperwork. I was in

the office at the time, approximately around half ten at

night. Outside, a festive figure was approaching the store. But he didn't

have Christmas dinner on his mind. Suddenly, this sinister centre died

in through the hatch and produced a large knife from his bag. Where's be

safe? The terrified staff managed to escape, but in the office Michael

was unaware of the intruder. I did hear a raised voice, I did look at

the CCTV monitor, didn't see anything that was of any concern. So

after that, the door did swing open. Stand-up! And then appeared this man

with black tights on his head, with a centre outfit over the top.

Pointing a knife at my chest, and demanding money out of the safe. He

reminded me he had the knife that he wasn't afraid to use it. I did

envision him stabbing me and thought that would be the end of my life,

basically. Right now! With the knife just centimetres away from his body,

Michael handed over the money but the man wanted more. I don't have

access to the inner department, a security firm come and collect it

and take it to the bank. When he realised there was no more money,

the knifeman left, scattering cash as he went. Michael locked himself

in the store and waited for police. It was a relief that all the doors

were locked, but the adrenaline was racing. Michael and his team have

been deeply affected by their ordeal. One colleague did say that

she was afraid to be on her own. They were scared. The impact on the

staff is massive. The fact that he was wearing a Santa suit in a way

makes it worse, because the initial thoughts when the staff turn round

to see it was that it was Father Christmas, but then to see him

brandishing a knife, the irony of that situation sort of compound of

the fear in them, I think. Despite this, Michael was back in work the

very next day. We have got a very good team here, they are like a

family. So I felt it was necessary to be here to support the team. But

the memory of the robbery has taken its toll on him. Just very

exhausted. The fact that I couldn't sleep at night. Couldn't concentrate

at all at work either, and I did feel quite depressed, to be honest.

What a traumatic ordeal. Just before Christmas as well. If you know

anything about this robbery, please do pick up the phone.

Now, throughout this series we've been covering some of the biggest

From romance cons to fake job adverts and holiday scams.

Well, today we're going to talk about investment fraud.

And I'm delighted to welcome back to the programme for one last time

Detective Inspector Katie Balls from the City of London Police's

National Fraud Intelligence Bureau and Colin Smith who was targeted

Welcome to both of you, Colin if I can come to you first,

We got several phone calls from a company called Advanced Wealth, who

were based in London. They sent me nice products -- brochures of

products called Diamonds, and after if you dealing is I realised they

gave us some information where the diamonds were being stored in Geneva

and Dubai. We went on a bit more, then they passed me over to another

person, another colleague in this company, and we did a fume or

dealings, and one of the dealings went through. We sold the products,

and I received about ?124,000 from them. So at this point, you thought

this was a genuine investment community when a large amount of

money over but you did get a massive amount of money back, so this

legislative was fine. Very, very positive and didn't think any more

about it. So where did it go wrong, Colin? After a couple times more I

thought I would go down to London and see them at the premises. Hence,

no problem at all with that, but of course it was a fraudulent

transaction area, and I realised something was wrong. They even paid

my expenses into my bank account, but at the end of the day I realised

something had happened, and unfortunately I had lost half ?1

million. That is a staggering amount of money, Colin. How did that make

you feel when you realised this was in fact a huge scam? I was very

frustrated, and I thought of my late mother and father, what they had

done for me throughout my life, and what they had left me, some

inheritance. It had just gone up in smoke. And I just feel very, very

bitter about it. Completely understandable. Katie, how unusual

is this type of scam, what other common trends they are using? Sadly,

they are surprisingly common, so Colin is not on his own. We see in

increasingly these fraudsters are pushing commodities, they are going

for precious jewels, precious metals, carbon credits and forestry

products, and fine wines increasingly. In terms of the scale,

we see about ?1.2 billion lost every year in the UK to this type of

fraud, with the average victim losing ?20,000. As we just heard, it

is not just the financial loss but the terrible psychological impact

they can have as well. More worryingly, we see these forces are

incredibly persuasive, articulate, they have good financial knowledge

and they are very credible. Websites, materials, testimonials,

which make them difficult to spot. In Colin's case, they refunded some

of the money, but it was still a big part of a scam. What can people do

to protect themselves? Genuinely regulated companies will not be cold

calling you, if they are promising you fantastic returns and

downplaying any kind of risk, then it is a scam, put the phone down.

Check the FCA West -- the FSA website. Six impartial financial

advice from a financial adviser, and if you do suspect anything untoward,

or you think it has been fraud, please report it to police. Thank

you becoming in. Now back to Michelle.

Now, I'm here at a state of the art training facility

It's an amazing place, 17 acres crammed with rubble piles,

collapsed buildings and even a fake level crossing - it's almost

Exercises like the ones that happen here go on right across the UK.

And we went behind the scenes with Northants Fire and Rescue

to see how they would cope with a major incident.

Only yesterday and American Airlines flight was evacuated at Heathrow

Airport as smoke filled the plane. Luckily no one was hurt.

More than 125 million people bought a flight from the UK every year. The

overwhelming majority of journeys are problem free, but very

occasionally things can go wrong. And as with any major incident, when

the unexpected happens, all the emergency services need to be ready

to work together. So today, Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue

Service are leading a special training exercise in a rather

unusual classroom. We are looking to work with the other emergency

services, police, ambulance and also St John's ambulance, and we are

working with trash and college, involving an exercise of an

emergency landing of a large passenger aircraft. Over the last

few years we have been encouraged century to put more effort into

collaborating more effectively. More than 50 college students are taking

part to make the exercise as realistic as possible. Many roles

are played by students studying travel and tourism, including some

aspiring cabin crew. Not only to test the cabin crew, but emergency

services, we have six fire appliances attending. There are

about ten police staff, ten St John's ambulance. The exercise has

been planned in great detail, but Mick has rigged if you surprise is

on board the plane. This is a smoke generator, it does become quite

scary how realistic it is. We have also got this chap down here, one of

our Fire Service dummies that we have placed underneath the seat, and

we have bulk of the seat back down. So the eye out -- the idea would be

that the breathing apparatus crews were just be escorting, dragging,

lifting people off, they will have to affect a technical rescue as

well. With all the kit in place, it is time for the crew and passengers

to board the plane. At this time, make sure your seats are back, tray

tables are in full upright position and make sure your seat belt is

fastened. As the student air stewards attend to their passengers,

they are told about the problem. Senior cabin crew to the flight

deck. The plane's engine has malfunctioned, and the crew must now

spring into action. Attention, this is an emergency announcement, there

is an engine fire on board the aircraft and we will be making an

emergency landing. We urge you to remain seated and as calm as

possible, Paul passengers follow further cabin crew instructions.

The plane is engulfed in flames. Northants fire and rescue is called

to the scene. There are many casualties in there. Watch out for

falling debris on the plane. Once the scene has been assessed, station

manager Jason takes charge of the situation. We have 63 passengers on

board. A number have been taken off. The smoke means there is zero

visibility, so the firemen must use a thermal imaging camera to search

for passengers. It is then down to the medical staff to assess and

treat the casualties. There is only one passenger left on board. Make's

dummy casualties. Fire crews have spotted it, so carefully unbolt the

seat and drag him out of the plane to safety.

It is the end of the exercise and the students deliver their verdict.

If you put your hand in front of your face... It was very scary. It

felt like it went on for ever but it was a really good experience. It

gave emergency crews are vital experience of working together on a

major disaster. Today was to test command control in such an incident.

It gave individuals another 292 where breathing apparatus, put

aircraft procedures into place. You only have a matter of minutes before

cabins are full of smoke. We are therefore when it does unfortunately

go wrong. In this case, it was only a training exercise and everything

went well. Well, from planes to trains,

we'll be back later to see how crews here at Waddington practise rescuing

people from a crashed Now, the sense of invasion after any

burglary is terrible. But for one pensioner, whose home

was broken into as she slept, I heard nothing. There was nothing I

could do about it. It really is upsetting. 94-year-old Edith Kay

lives by herself in Sutton Bonnington in Nottinghamshire. I

have lived here 11 years. I only came down because my son came down

here and said, I'm not leaving you alone in Scotland. He did have

always found the neighbourhood friendly place. -- Edith has always

found. One night back in April, her happy life took a sinister turn. I

go to bed pretty early. I fell asleep that night. Outside, and

uninvited visitor was lurking. Forcing open a window, the intruder

cracked into Edith's bungalow. I am deaf, some I never heard nothing. As

she slept, the brazen thief searched her bedroom.

Before escaping through the patio door.

I thought I heard footsteps. I turned round and saw nothing in the

hall. I came in here and saw that somebody had been in. I went back

into my room and realised they had stolen a handbag. It was in the

drawer in my bedroom. I phoned the police immediately. Police,

emergency. I have had a burglar. A what? A burglar. Are they still

there? They entered the property while she was asleep and searched

her drawers in the bedroom and taken a purse containing bank cards. The

thief also took one of Edith's 's treasured possessions, a gold chain

with a locket on it. It did have sentimental value because it

belonged to my sister. And they got away with one more item. A tiny box,

a charity box. There was nothing in it. What mentality is it to steal a

charity box? Later, two men are seen on CCTV using Edith's hard to

withdraw more than ?1000. I was very foolish. I had my car in it with the

secret numbers. No way I would keep the numbers with my card again. At

that time they were together and that is how they got the money. Two

months on, the events of that night were always on Edith's mind. I feel

they should be caught Achilles nobody should go through this. --

because nobody. It is very upsetting.

Here with me is police investigator Adam Karimjee.

Adam, just talk us through the timeline of that night.

We know Edith went to bed at about 9 o'clock that night,

at her home in Sutton Bonington, near Loughborough.

Sometime between then and around 11.20pm, at least one

They selected a purse and a necklace from the handbag which was precious

to her. At 11:30pm on the same night, her card was used at the ATM

machine at the Co-op. An hour later, half past midnight, the card was

used again to withdraw more cash from Morrisons at Loughborough. We

saw CCTV of people using these sterling card. We need names for

these males. If anyone does recognise them, please do get in

touch. It is worth mentioning that Edith kept her PIN number with her

card. She struggled to remember her PIN number. She fell into the trap

of keeping up with her card. We strongly advise people against this.

We would advise not to write it down at all. If you really need to write

it down, keep it separate from your card. Contact your bank and they can

advise you have to change the pin to something more memorable. Thank you

very much. Time for Wanted Faces now

starting with Jose Manico. He was due to stand trial

in December last year for charges of rape,

sexual assault and indecent assault The trial went ahead without him

and he was found guilty and jailed Manico is 44 and has links

to the West Midlands, but it's thought he may

have fled abroad. You may know him though as Rico,

Tribes, Lorzo Cameron, Kemar Myers Detectives want to question him

about the fatal stabbing of a man at a flat in Southampton

earlier this year. Suika has links to North London

and Hampshire and has a scar on the right side of his face

and another on the top of his head. He has a tattoo of the words "work

like a slave, eat like a king" He's described as dangerous,

so if you know where Detectives in Gloucestershire

want to speak to him in connection to an attack in a nightclub,

in which a man was slashed Cohen is 35, has a Birmingham

accent, and links And finally today, this

is 34-year-old Steven Bennett. He was found guilty of drug dealing

at a Liverpool Crown Court in December, but didn't return

for sentencing and is now Bennett is known to travel around

the North West of England and has He has a scar under his right eye

and another on his left wrist. If you know where any of these men

are, get in touch using Tim Joyce is with me now

here in Lincolnshire, where another dramatic

rescue is underway. Tim, you run these disaster

exercises regularly Just how realistic

are these scenarios? It is very realistic. We train the

person to put the core skills into place and then train people on the

environment. In this case, a rail crash. The most difficult thing is

putting all that together and making sure it is a dynamic scenario to

train on. Of course. The guys are busy in front of us. What is the

exercise? The train has been derailed after it hit two cars at

the crossing. Because of this stanchion being made of hard metal,

it is designed to carry power lines. It is made of a strong steel. Fire

crews will struggle to cut through it. The use of hot cutting equipment

cut straight through that. The users molten metal to burn through it. It

works on an oxygen system passing through such a small aluminium tube.

It is giving more access to get the casualties out and work along the

train, as we have seen before. A really useful piece of kit.

Nationally, these teams have hot cutting, the next level of equipment

to deal with any major incident. Great to see. Tim, I shall head over

to you. Just before I have a chat with you, it is important to note

that training like this is going on across the UK. The number of cities

are taking part in large-scale disaster exercises. The biggest one

in Europe happened in London earlier this year. It involved a scenario

where a collapsed building went on to a cheap station. There were 70

organisations than 2000 volunteers involved. It costs three quarters of

?1 million. The training you do here is not as expensive as as that. This

is a gold standard of training. Having these scenarios for people to

work on is fantastic. We have an option to use some software that

allows us to recreate some of these events in the virtual world. What

examples do you have? We had an incident at a farm. It was a fairly

innocuous incident. It transpired there were agrochemicals and

fertilisers. It turned into quite an interesting scenario. We can

recreate that scenario in order for all troops to get training from that

scenario. Thank you so much. It is great to see. The guys are really

busy. It has been a successful mission. Back to you.

Several people have been in touch about investment fraud. Company

names are very similar to legitimate companies. You may have seen in the

news, police officers were called about the body of Melanie Hall. Her

body went missing and we had a special appeal here on the 20th

anniversary of her disappearance. Please do keep any information that

you may have coming in on the case. Now, Michelle, where

will you be tomorrow? Rav, we're off to Birmingham

where we'll be in the heart of the city centre, where police

have to deal with everything from major festivals to the problems

that come with a busy night time We will look at the latest

distraction technique being used by the gangs

targeting YOUR possessions. on today's programme,

go to our website. Before we go, here's another look

at this morning's wanted faces. We'll be back tomorrow morning,

until then, take care.