:00:00. > :00:00.gone missing, their stories are incredibly moving and I can't wait
:00:00. > :00:07.to hear them sing live for us here. Look forward to chatting to you
:00:08. > :00:12.tomorrow, Rav. Thanks, guys. Coming up on today's programme: Who mugged
:00:13. > :00:14.Dougie and stole not only a treasured momento, but also his
:00:15. > :00:31.dinner? I will be creating waves as I go on
:00:32. > :00:38.duty with broken's oldest police force. You're watching Crimewatch
:00:39. > :00:56.road show. -- Britain's oldest police force.
:00:57. > :01:02.Hallowed. We're arrive every weekday morning investigating the crimes
:01:03. > :01:08.that can affect each and everyone of us. -- we're live. The man left for
:01:09. > :01:14.dead as his wife was robbed at gunpoint. He was two steps away from
:01:15. > :01:23.me, the gun was so near. I opened the door.
:01:24. > :01:29.And that special choir whose members all want to know what's happened to
:01:30. > :01:34.their missing loved ones. Michelle is in London with the Met's
:01:35. > :01:38.Marine unit, who fight crime on the River Thames. Good morning,
:01:39. > :01:43.Michelle. Good morning, Rav. If there is trouble on the water, then
:01:44. > :01:46.this team are the ones who deal with it, but, surprisingly, they also
:01:47. > :01:51.need a head for heights. Join me later to find out why.
:01:52. > :01:55.Rather than man-made! But before all of that, an urgent appeal from
:01:56. > :02:01.Suffolk police, who need your help to find this man. Detectives want to
:02:02. > :02:05.question this 42-year-old about the murder of Peter Stuart and the
:02:06. > :02:11.disappearance of Peter's wife Sylvia. Peter's body was found near
:02:12. > :02:15.his home in Suffolk on Friday night. Qazimaj is from the Thurrock area of
:02:16. > :02:19.Essex and police are warning he should be approached. Just dial 999
:02:20. > :02:23.if you know where he is. Now to the case of a mugger who
:02:24. > :02:30.stole a takeaway from a man with cerebral palsy.
:02:31. > :02:33.Around the streets of greys in Essex, Dougie Barnett is hard to
:02:34. > :02:45.miss. Bikes are passion for Dougie but
:02:46. > :02:50.they're also a lifeline. He and his dad worked hard to keep this
:02:51. > :02:58.custom-built trike on the road as it gives Dougie the lifestyle he wants.
:02:59. > :03:04.You'll say to me, "I've got to go to so-and-so, draw me a map," I get a
:03:05. > :03:08.sheet of a four and draw him up and off he goes. You only got lost once.
:03:09. > :03:13.He had a bad start because he's got cerebral palsy but he's done
:03:14. > :03:17.brilliant. I applaud him 40s and. He wanted to live on his own, we put
:03:18. > :03:21.his name down for a council flat and he's got an tremendously. We're
:03:22. > :03:28.extremely proud of him, what he's done with his life. He's not just
:03:29. > :03:34.sat in a chair and given up. He would show a lot of able-bodied
:03:35. > :03:36.people up, I'm pleased to say. At an attack in May last year has
:03:37. > :03:49.threatened the independent study worked so hard for. -- Dougie worked
:03:50. > :03:52.so hard for. Dougie had been out at his local pub with friends and
:03:53. > :03:57.headed home with a takeaway just before midnight. He was on the
:03:58. > :04:00.adapted push trike he uses to get around his building and was joined
:04:01. > :04:14.by somebody very keen to have a chat.
:04:15. > :04:37.CCTV shows how the stranger followed Dougie through the building and got
:04:38. > :04:43.into the lift with him. That's where things turn nasty. The man started
:04:44. > :04:45.to get very close to Dougie and took a keen interest in the chain he was
:04:46. > :05:05.wearing. Once out of the lift, the man pushed
:05:06. > :05:11.Dougie to the ground. Dougie was laying on the ground, shouting out
:05:12. > :05:18."Help, help" but help never came. A gold chain was ripped from his neck.
:05:19. > :05:26.We bought it for him for his 18th birthday. Sentimental. It was the
:05:27. > :05:30.fact that it was valuable - all right, it was nine carat gold - but
:05:31. > :05:38.it was just the sentimental value. It upset him. And able-bodied person
:05:39. > :05:44.would have fought back. Dougie tried to fight back but, obviously, with
:05:45. > :05:48.his disability, he couldn't. He couldn't overpower him. As a final
:05:49. > :05:53.insult, Dougie's takeaway was heartlessly taken. While he lay
:05:54. > :05:58.helplessly on the floor, the thief got back in the lift, beating the
:05:59. > :06:02.stolen Chinese food as he left. To attack Dougie the way he did and to
:06:03. > :06:05.be so brash and to take away his dinner as well, it's almost the
:06:06. > :06:10.icing on the cake for someone that has been attacked in that way. With
:06:11. > :06:17.such clear CCTV, Essex Police think somebody must know who this man is.
:06:18. > :06:20.We've done extensive house-to-house in that block of flats on the
:06:21. > :06:25.neighbouring two flats and we do think that this man was hurting
:06:26. > :06:28.somebody in the house on that night. We would appeal to anybody in that
:06:29. > :06:32.area to let us know if they do know this man. He has preyed on a
:06:33. > :06:39.vulnerable person already and he made prey on vulnerable people in
:06:40. > :06:43.the future. Shocked, I think, was what I was at the time, to think
:06:44. > :06:47.that something like that could happen, especially on your own
:06:48. > :06:49.landing as you get out of the lift. The attack has left Dougie feeling
:06:50. > :07:23.scared in his own home. Such a horrible thing to happen on
:07:24. > :07:28.Dougie's doorstep, and here is that suspect again. Take a good look. You
:07:29. > :07:33.can see him clearly in the CCTV. He is a white man with fair or blonde
:07:34. > :07:38.hair. If you recognise him, get on the phone now. Calls are free from
:07:39. > :07:45.landlines and mobile phones, or you can text us. Texts will be charged
:07:46. > :07:53.at your standard message rated top plus there is e-mail. Lets see if
:07:54. > :07:59.Michelle has found her seat legs. Michelle... Thanks, wrapped it up
:08:00. > :08:04.we're here in Wapping on the banks of the River Thames, which has been
:08:05. > :08:08.home to marine police since 1798. In days gone by, they used to use
:08:09. > :08:12.rowing boats to go after marauding thieves who were out to plunder
:08:13. > :08:17.visiting ships. Two centuries on, things are a lot more fast-paced. It
:08:18. > :08:22.may looks a dream but policing the River Thames is every bit as tough
:08:23. > :08:27.as the rest of the capital, and fighting crime along the 47 mile
:08:28. > :08:31.stretch our 71 highly trained officers. You have to remember, we
:08:32. > :08:35.are police officers like the guys and girls out on the street who
:08:36. > :08:40.drive cars, we just have a boat to facilitate our operation. Appleby
:08:41. > :08:44.named, PC Billy Sargent has been with the Marine unit for six years.
:08:45. > :08:48.Every type of crime that is on the LAN side, we deal with, so you are
:08:49. > :08:53.talking about theft, people trying to get onto the Clipper votes
:08:54. > :08:58.without paying, assaults, because don't forget, at the weekend, the
:08:59. > :09:01.river is alive with Paddy Barnes. We also have people getting themselves
:09:02. > :09:06.in trouble in the water, either from a bridge from a vessel. Billy and
:09:07. > :09:10.the team have invited me along to join them for a day of training and
:09:11. > :09:21.first on the agenda are the high-speed response boats. This is
:09:22. > :09:25.fast! The team need to practice a manoeuvre they call boarding under
:09:26. > :09:30.way. This is the vessel we're going to be looking at. This is for
:09:31. > :09:33.emergencies, or when boat is refusing to stop, and involves an
:09:34. > :09:37.officer jumping from one moving boat to another. It sounds simple but
:09:38. > :09:43.when you're out here, it's terrifying. If you imagine coming
:09:44. > :09:48.alongside another car and climbing out of the window, we are going to
:09:49. > :09:53.do that. We are going at 30 mph when we do this. These guys are so quick,
:09:54. > :09:58.they can often board a boat without the crew even realising. That is
:09:59. > :10:03.amazing! We're going so fast and he's just
:10:04. > :10:21.straight on, so slick. He didn't even realise we were
:10:22. > :10:26.alongside and I was on board until I went on. The captain said, "I didn't
:10:27. > :10:32.know you were alongside, I didn't see you feel you at all". That is
:10:33. > :10:35.amazing. That is how good you are. But getting to this standard takes
:10:36. > :10:42.years of work. What training is involved for you guys quell you will
:10:43. > :10:49.wish you'd never asked! The only thing I had driven on the water was
:10:50. > :10:53.a pedalo. So from that until the very high powered boats, a huge
:10:54. > :10:57.learning curve. Every vessel, I can look around and tell you where it
:10:58. > :11:01.is, where it is moored, what it is and what its function is. That his
:11:02. > :11:06.peers, boys, bridges, heights of bridges. And history buff Billy
:11:07. > :11:13.knows how important policing the river is. In the mid-1700, at any
:11:14. > :11:16.one time there were 1000 vessels in London and crime was absolutely
:11:17. > :11:22.right and there was no real force or service to deal with that crime. And
:11:23. > :11:25.so in 1798, the Marine unit was created, but it wasn't quite as high
:11:26. > :11:30.then. The way the Thames is the least has changed quite a lot over
:11:31. > :11:35.the years? Our boats have because in 1978, they have row boats. I would
:11:36. > :11:37.not want to be in a row boat on the server, bearing in mind there is a
:11:38. > :11:43.roundabout seven metres of water that comes in every six hours and
:11:44. > :11:46.seven metres goes out, that is one hell of a tide. Policing the Thames
:11:47. > :11:52.today involves much more than patrolling the surface. Officers
:11:53. > :11:54.also have to plunge to the river's murky depths. What types of things
:11:55. > :12:01.are they looking for when they're diving? It might be the proceeds of
:12:02. > :12:04.crime, a weapon, drugs. Unfortunately that sometimes entails
:12:05. > :12:08.searching for people as well, and body parts. You've brought some
:12:09. > :12:15.things that have been found. I'll leave them in the back. A machete,
:12:16. > :12:19.mobile phones are plenty. Quite a cachet of nights. It really
:12:20. > :12:24.surprises me that people are checking these are the river. --
:12:25. > :12:28.cachet of nights. It is worrying about the back story of these
:12:29. > :12:32.things. It could have been used in domestic or robbery and they want to
:12:33. > :12:35.discard the item so they throw it into the river, thinking that the
:12:36. > :12:38.end of the matter. That's where the dive team are critical. Without them
:12:39. > :12:44.we wouldn't be able to find these objects. And as if jumping from
:12:45. > :12:47.moving boats and diving into icy rivers wasn't enough, there is
:12:48. > :12:55.another skill these guys have to get to grips with, and I've been told I
:12:56. > :12:59.have to have a go. PCs Nigel Murray and Pete Sandel are part of the
:13:00. > :13:04.unit's line access team and have agreed to show me the ropes. Our
:13:05. > :13:08.particular forte is searching at height, so we can search for
:13:09. > :13:12.evidence, we can search for subjects, objects, whatever it might
:13:13. > :13:16.be. So whilst everyone is on the ground looking for things, we are
:13:17. > :13:20.trained to search at height. How does rope access come under the
:13:21. > :13:23.Marine unit? Many years back, there was a requirement to search a dozen
:13:24. > :13:29.bridges and because the bridges were over water, it was easier to teach
:13:30. > :13:32.Marine officers to climb, rather than teach officers who were
:13:33. > :13:40.climbers to drive boats. I'm keen to try it out. Probably best not to
:13:41. > :13:46.look down in these situations. Stop there before you go any further.
:13:47. > :13:51.Leave your feet where they are for the moment. Off you go. OK. And just
:13:52. > :14:06.when I thought things couldn't get any worse... I'm not going to fall,
:14:07. > :14:13.am I? Come on! Yay! I actually can't believe I'm doing this! I actually
:14:14. > :14:19.can't believe I just did that. That is brilliant. Thanks. Well, I'm glad
:14:20. > :14:24.my feet are back on the ground but for the rest of the Marine unit, an
:14:25. > :14:28.emergency call has come in and it is back to the water.
:14:29. > :14:34.We were on some pretty impressive boat slid as you'd expect I offer a
:14:35. > :14:38.fair bit of wear and tear. Join me later when we find out how the team
:14:39. > :14:41.managed to keep these boats out on the water every single day. We will
:14:42. > :14:42.be watching. Lots more to come this
:14:43. > :14:45.morning including. The hunt for the armed robbers
:14:46. > :14:55.who terrorised a couple at work. I'm thinking only of my wife. I have
:14:56. > :14:59.And how singing is giving comfort to families with missing loved ones.
:15:00. > :15:05.But first time for today's CCTV round-up.
:15:06. > :15:18.This bank is only just opened up. But someone is already planning to
:15:19. > :15:25.make a rather large cash withdrawals. A man sprints towards
:15:26. > :15:30.the bank. He has a gun and shouting for customers to get down. He is
:15:31. > :15:39.insisting caches give him some banknotes. They hand over ?9,500 to
:15:40. > :15:42.the masked man. Police are keen to speak to this man who was seen on a
:15:43. > :15:56.bus in the area in connection with the robbery. Call us now if you know
:15:57. > :16:02.who this is. Rush hour. Outside the elephant and Castle shopping centre
:16:03. > :16:07.in south London. Keep your eyes on the man with the phone. He is taking
:16:08. > :16:13.a keen interest in the scooter rider preparing to leave. What happens
:16:14. > :16:19.next is too shocking to show you. Without warning, he lunges and stabs
:16:20. > :16:22.him in front of terrified passers-by. The victim runs inside
:16:23. > :16:28.to get help and is later treated in hospital for a large wound to his
:16:29. > :16:31.back. Police say this is the suspect, entering the shopping
:16:32. > :16:34.centre before the stabbing. Take a long hard look. Someone knows who
:16:35. > :16:47.this knife wielding attacker is. Imagine coming home checking your
:16:48. > :16:52.CCTV to find that this man has been rifling through your belongings.
:16:53. > :16:57.Don't let the gloves from you. He's not here to clean, but to clean them
:16:58. > :17:02.out. This footage is clear, so take a good look at him. Police believe
:17:03. > :17:06.he forced his way into the house through a ground floor window and
:17:07. > :17:12.had no idea his actions were all being caught on camera. Detectives
:17:13. > :17:17.say this blue gloved burglar took a tablet computer, 300 quid in cash
:17:18. > :17:25.and wedding rings. Someone must recognise these distinctive tattoos.
:17:26. > :17:33.Name him, please. If the recognised anyone in that lot, get in touch
:17:34. > :17:38.using the numbers on the screen. Welcome back to the Marine unit in
:17:39. > :17:40.Wapping. This is the oldest police station in London but there's
:17:41. > :17:45.nothing old-fashioned about how they keep their fleet of boats seaworthy.
:17:46. > :17:51.Stuart Simpson joins me now. What types of boats or you have access to
:17:52. > :17:59.hear? A variety of. We will use different ones in different areas.
:18:00. > :18:03.This is a 20 47 vessel, very happy in central London and is very good
:18:04. > :18:14.on the estuary. How much strain to the boats have on the water? We have
:18:15. > :18:22.47 miles of Thames Water and we have about 17 boroughs and about 250
:18:23. > :18:27.miles inland waterway. This boat, at full throttle, we use one litre of
:18:28. > :18:33.fuel every minute. I go through 7000 litres a week. That a lot. Clearly,
:18:34. > :18:38.these guys did a dedicated team to manage these boats. Let me introduce
:18:39. > :18:41.James Coombes, the engineering manager here at the workshop. James,
:18:42. > :18:45.what type of problems do you encounter with the boats when they
:18:46. > :18:51.come out of the water? Several different things to small repairs to
:18:52. > :18:57.major damage. How long does it take to repair a boat once it is damaged?
:18:58. > :19:01.For small damage, we tried to get out within a day so it's
:19:02. > :19:07.operational. Major repairs could be a couple of weeks quite easily. When
:19:08. > :19:11.we do the servicing, it's done every 100 hours on a normal pleasure boat,
:19:12. > :19:15.it will have 400 hours in its lifetime full that we do 100 hours
:19:16. > :19:22.every month, so that's how much servicing needs to be done. It is
:19:23. > :19:25.24-hour servicing, isn't it? We are on call 24-hour and we support of
:19:26. > :19:30.the police 24-hour was a week. This boat lift is pretty unique to you.
:19:31. > :19:36.If the only one in the country and we can lift anything on any tide on
:19:37. > :19:42.the River Thames. Let's take a look for some what are you doing now?
:19:43. > :19:51.John is fitting some props. Would you like to have a go? Why not? It's
:19:52. > :19:54.pretty heavy. There we go. Nice and secure. It's great to see
:19:55. > :19:57.behind-the-scenes the amazing work these guys do. This boat is merely
:19:58. > :20:13.Billy to go out, Jean-Claude Juncker. Next,. Can you help catch
:20:14. > :20:17.the Hertfordshire police help them catch these burglars? For the past
:20:18. > :20:24.20 years, this couple has been living here. It's very nice, Woods
:20:25. > :20:27.at the end of the road and we very much enjoyed it here. It's where
:20:28. > :20:33.they brought up their 18-year-old son, Tom. There's lots of young
:20:34. > :20:37.people around, families around, people to play in the street with
:20:38. > :20:41.and play in the woods, as well, so it was decent, as a kid. But in
:20:42. > :20:48.February this year, this peaceful looking street they'd host to some
:20:49. > :20:52.unwanted guests. Early morning at the beginning of February this year,
:20:53. > :21:00.the family left their home for the day. They returned ten hours later.
:21:01. > :21:03.I had been at school all day and my dad had been at work and he picked
:21:04. > :21:12.me up from school. But something was wrong. It is jammed. We tried to
:21:13. > :21:16.open the front door but it was locked so we could not open the door
:21:17. > :21:21.even with the key. The door had been bolted from the inside. I said
:21:22. > :21:26.that's a sign we may have been broken into. I thought maybe earlier
:21:27. > :21:31.that day. Despite their best efforts, they could not get in. What
:21:32. > :21:42.they didn't realise was the man who had locked the amount were still in
:21:43. > :21:47.the house. Dad! There attempt at a sneaky getaway over the neighbours
:21:48. > :21:51.fence was captured on CCTV. As two of the men made their way over the
:21:52. > :21:58.fence, the third was not as covert as he hoped. I heard something
:21:59. > :22:02.scratching the fence by the front garden and then I heard something
:22:03. > :22:06.heavy drop-down. And I looked over and I just saw the guy who are just
:22:07. > :22:12.jumped down from the top of the fence standing below it looking
:22:13. > :22:17.shifty. With that, Paul and Tom chase them down the street. I don't
:22:18. > :22:21.know what I would have done had I caught him but it ran straight after
:22:22. > :22:26.him. And adrenaline rush, especially when they jumped in a car and
:22:27. > :22:31.screamed away. It was intense. They got away but not before Tom got some
:22:32. > :22:34.vital information. I watch a lot of police programmes and I know they
:22:35. > :22:41.can track a lot of things from a number plate so I thought get the
:22:42. > :22:46.number plate and remember it. With the car registration and the CCTV,
:22:47. > :22:51.police are hopeful someone knows who these athletic intruders are. The
:22:52. > :22:55.sheer quality of the footage is excellent. You can see the faces of
:22:56. > :22:58.two of the three offenders really well and there will be somebody out
:22:59. > :23:01.there who knows these people. The way they've conducted this burglary,
:23:02. > :23:05.shows they've done this before and I'm in no doubt they will do it
:23:06. > :23:11.again so we'd like to catch up with them. It turns out Paul and Tom had
:23:12. > :23:16.a lucky escape. They disturbed the would-be thieves before they even
:23:17. > :23:20.had a chance to take anything. I've never really been affected by crime
:23:21. > :23:28.before so I'm a lot more aware of people around here. The fact that
:23:29. > :23:32.people might be out to do wrong. So, can you help?
:23:33. > :23:35.Budding detective Tom was able to get the number plate
:23:36. > :23:37.of the car, which allowed officers to track it down.
:23:38. > :23:40.It turned out to be a green Fiat Stilo Estate like this one,
:23:41. > :23:43.with registration number AV53 RRX, and the police found it
:23:44. > :23:47.We would like to stress that this car now has new owners,
:23:48. > :23:52.However, officers would still be interested in hearing from anyone
:23:53. > :23:55.who may have seen this car around Borehamwood on the evening of 1st
:23:56. > :23:59.There's also this fantastic CCTV image.
:24:00. > :24:02.So, if you know who these men are or think you may any
:24:03. > :24:10.information that can help, please get in touch.
:24:11. > :24:12.Now it's time for a look at today's Wanted Faces.
:24:13. > :24:14.Police forces around the country are asking
:24:15. > :24:19.We start with John Paul Connors - although he uses a number
:24:20. > :24:22.of other names, including Peter or Paul Connelly,
:24:23. > :24:25.Michael or Jimmy Connors or Matthew O'Neil.
:24:26. > :24:28.He was due to appear in court in connection with two
:24:29. > :24:32.He's 25 and has connections to Leicester, Northamptonshire
:24:33. > :24:39.and West Yorkshire, and has a two-inch scar on his left arm.
:24:40. > :24:42.Do you recognise this man, 33-year-old Adel Rahim?
:24:43. > :24:46.Although you may know him as Safi Farkos or Nordenne Saifi.
:24:47. > :24:48.He's wanted for questioning by Met Police in connection
:24:49. > :24:51.with numerous thefts of handbags from pubs and bars.
:24:52. > :24:54.Rahim is 6'1" and may be in the Lambeth,
:24:55. > :24:57.Shadwell or Southwark areas of London.
:24:58. > :25:02.although he also goes by numerous other names,
:25:03. > :25:06.including Michael Hannon and Martin Connors.
:25:07. > :25:08.Detectives in Greater Manchester want to question him
:25:09. > :25:10.after a vulnerable man paid tens of thousands of pounds
:25:11. > :25:17.Rooney is 35 and has an Irish accent and scars on his face.
:25:18. > :25:19.He travels extensively but has links to the West Midlands,
:25:20. > :25:29.Detectives want to speak to him after threats were made to a woman.
:25:30. > :25:32.He's also wanted for questioning over immigration offences.
:25:33. > :25:35.Originally from Afghanistan, 31-year-old Khushall is known
:25:36. > :25:40.to have friends in London, the West Midlands and Wolverhampton.
:25:41. > :25:43.He has acid burn marks on both of his upper arms and a tattoo
:25:44. > :25:46.of an Arabic symbol of his left thumb.
:25:47. > :25:49.If you recognise any of these faces, make sure you get in touch
:25:50. > :25:56.Or, if you prefer, you can call Crimestoppers anonymously.
:25:57. > :26:11.Michelle. Now imagine how you would feel if armed robbers were holding
:26:12. > :26:15.your wife captive and you were powerless to do anything about it.
:26:16. > :26:20.Please be warned this next appeal is a particularly serious one.
:26:21. > :26:28.I was so scared at the time. The gun was so near to me. I couldn't feel
:26:29. > :26:31.the pain but only I'm thinking, my wife, I had to save my wife. I'm
:26:32. > :26:48.still scared. Still scared now. Mohan and Yuvana have been married
:26:49. > :26:54.for five years and four four of those I have worked side-by-side to
:26:55. > :27:01.-- in Penge, south London. I love my wife. At home, we are like a family.
:27:02. > :27:10.It's quite good to work together because we balance each other. But
:27:11. > :27:15.last October, things took a harrowing term. It was the end of a
:27:16. > :27:18.long shift and Mohan and Yuvana were shutting up at the back of the shop
:27:19. > :27:24.as the rest of the staff waited at the front ready to go home. We had
:27:25. > :27:31.rung up all the tales and my husband was taking care of the deliveries,
:27:32. > :27:38.tidying up for the next day. Then I go outside, suddenly two guys are
:27:39. > :27:50.shouting. From out of the darkness, two men suddenly attacked Mohan. I
:27:51. > :27:57.told them to take whatever. He had a knife and tried to stab my stomach.
:27:58. > :28:11.I tried to stop him. He stabbed the knife in my hand. Sorry... Mohan had
:28:12. > :28:16.been stabbed twice, once in the hand and once in the stomach. He was
:28:17. > :28:23.bleeding heavily as the men ran into the storeroom towards Yuvana. I
:28:24. > :28:32.heard some noise. I went up to the door. Two men came straight in front
:28:33. > :28:38.of me. Yuvana was face-to-face with the two men and had no idea where
:28:39. > :28:43.her husband was. I saw the knife with the blood. But still I can't do
:28:44. > :28:46.anything because one has a knife and one had a gun and I could not do
:28:47. > :28:50.anything at that moment. I was scared. They were asking me to open
:28:51. > :29:01.the safe. But there was a problem. Yuvana
:29:02. > :29:08.couldn't open the safe - the keys were outside with Mohan. I was
:29:09. > :29:14.shaking like anything about time. He is two steps away from me and the
:29:15. > :29:20.gun is very near, it is like one foot away, the gun is so near to me.
:29:21. > :29:26.So I said, "Don't do anything". So scared at that time. Even though he
:29:27. > :29:33.was seriously injured, Mohan was only worrying about one thing. I am
:29:34. > :29:39.thinking, I have to save my wife. Maybe he tried to kill her. And
:29:40. > :29:45.shouting, "Please help me, my wife is inside, please help me". Mohan
:29:46. > :29:49.staggered to the front of the store, trying to alert the other stuff.
:29:50. > :29:53.Back inside and unable to crack the safe, the men had to settle for the
:29:54. > :30:01.leftover till money. Since I cashed up all the money, there was not a
:30:02. > :30:07.lot of money. They just grabbed all the money and went outside. The men
:30:08. > :30:10.fled out of the back. Are terrified Yuvana was finally reunited with
:30:11. > :30:16.Mohan and that's when she realised what had happened to him. My husband
:30:17. > :30:22.came with blood all over his hand and there was blood everywhere.
:30:23. > :30:28.Wherever he walks, it's full of blood. She was really worried and
:30:29. > :30:36.she's crying and shouting, "What happened? What happened?" I said,
:30:37. > :30:48."Don't cry, call the police and call the ambulance first".
:30:49. > :30:55.Mohan is very lucky to be alive. This is an absolutely horrific crime
:30:56. > :30:58.against good, hard-working, honest people and the victim, Mohan, and
:30:59. > :31:03.his wife have been really affected by what happened. Mohan had to have
:31:04. > :31:06.major surgery following the stabbing. Thankfully the knife
:31:07. > :31:12.didn't hit any major organs but eight months on, he still hasn't
:31:13. > :31:20.been able to return to work. I couldn't sleep at night time. I
:31:21. > :31:26.really am struggling now. Psychologically, I'm still scared,
:31:27. > :31:34.still scared of the darkness still. Sometimes when I see my hand, I see
:31:35. > :31:42.my stomach and the injury. Sometimes she cries. Such a frightening
:31:43. > :31:44.experience for Mohan and Yuvana. Dimeck Blackburn, who was
:31:45. > :31:49.investigating this harrowing case, joins me now. What do we know about
:31:50. > :31:55.these men? Both suspects were black. The first I would describe as 6'2",
:31:56. > :32:00.skinny build, wearing a white hooded top with black patches over the
:32:01. > :32:06.front of the shoulders. He was wearing dark trousers, dark trainers
:32:07. > :32:12.with a white soul. The second suspect was just short of 5'6", a
:32:13. > :32:16.slightly stocky build, who was wearing a full faced crash visor
:32:17. > :32:20.with a white emblem on the rear of it, which was quite distinctive.
:32:21. > :32:28.Wedded the men go after the incident? The men ran off down
:32:29. > :32:33.Bourdon Road, which is effectively a way from Elmers end Road, westbound,
:32:34. > :32:37.into a warren of streets and unfortunately, that was the last
:32:38. > :32:42.side of the two men. This is a really serious crime, isn't it? It's
:32:43. > :32:48.a very serious crime and it's very rarely that the flying squad see
:32:49. > :32:52.such violence used. Hugely excessive in its nature. Remember, this is a
:32:53. > :32:59.local co-operative store and won't contain a great deal of money. The
:33:00. > :33:02.suspects made off with ?200 to ?300 and in doing so, stabbed one
:33:03. > :33:09.individual and levelled a firearm at another. We saw the extent of
:33:10. > :33:11.Mohan's injuries. How is he doing? Mohan has received physical
:33:12. > :33:17.injuries, as we know, stab wounds to the abdomen and lower arms. These
:33:18. > :33:23.are significant in their own right but I think the more significant
:33:24. > :33:26.piece of the injury that Mohan has received a psychological. Both he
:33:27. > :33:31.and his wife have been hugely traumatised by these utterly
:33:32. > :33:35.unacceptable crimes. Thank you very much. If you do have any answers for
:33:36. > :33:38.us at all, please do get in touch. Details are on your screen.
:33:39. > :33:40.In the UK someone is recorded missing every two minutes
:33:41. > :33:43.with almost two thirds of cases involving children and young people.
:33:44. > :33:46.Thankfully, most are are found safe and well but for some families
:33:47. > :33:50.During this series of Crimewatch Roadshow we will meet
:33:51. > :33:54.families who have been affected by loved ones going missing.
:33:55. > :33:57.To launch this, we have a very special performance coming up
:33:58. > :34:04.Each member of this incredible group has been touched in some way by
:34:05. > :34:34.That was their latest single "I Hope" which was released last
:34:35. > :34:35.month for International Missing Children's Day.
:34:36. > :34:38.Three members of the choir are with me now.
:34:39. > :34:43.Peter, Rachel and Peter, welcome to the programme.
:34:44. > :34:53.Peter, your daughter Claudia Lawrence went missing back in 2009
:34:54. > :34:56.from her home in York. Why did you want to get involved with this
:34:57. > :35:02.choir? Well, I've always loved music and singing and because of the
:35:03. > :35:07.connection which had to develop with Missing People, which is a fabulous
:35:08. > :35:13.charity, when the choir was formed, I just wanted to be part of it. How
:35:14. > :35:19.has the choir helped you so far? The message that goes out from the songs
:35:20. > :35:27.that we sing is just so powerful, and there is ie Hope, and the single
:35:28. > :35:30.which Peter has written, and I just hope someone will see this today and
:35:31. > :35:35.come forward, finally, as we have been pleading for seven years now,
:35:36. > :35:38.to give us the information we know they have about Claudia's
:35:39. > :35:43.disappearance. You know the information is out there, you just
:35:44. > :35:46.need them to come forward. Rachel, your brother, Richey Edwards from
:35:47. > :35:51.the monetary features, it was 20 years ago now that he went missing.
:35:52. > :35:56.-- the Manic Street Preachers. What do you think he would make of this
:35:57. > :36:00.single? Richard has been missing over 21 years and the song we are
:36:01. > :36:05.going to sing today is I Miss You. We don't know if Richard is alive or
:36:06. > :36:09.dead. If he is out there listening, we want him to know that we miss him
:36:10. > :36:13.terribly and we want him to come back. Has the choir helped you by
:36:14. > :36:19.Ian able to talk to other people in a similar situation? -- being able.
:36:20. > :36:23.Every situation is different but the experiences of those left behind
:36:24. > :36:28.seem remarkably the same, so it's a way of getting together and sharing
:36:29. > :36:34.in those experiences. Peter, you are going to perform for us later,
:36:35. > :36:38.singing a song that you wrote. Your son was 15 when he went missing in
:36:39. > :36:43.1998. How did you come up with this song? I was invited three years ago
:36:44. > :36:51.by Claire Cook at Missing People to make a speech at the annual
:36:52. > :37:05.charity's Christmas carol concert at Saint Martins and in London and I
:37:06. > :37:09.mentioned that I had sung a song -- St Martin's in the Field. And she
:37:10. > :37:15.asked me why I didn't come along and sing it after the speech. Jokingly,
:37:16. > :37:22.I said yes but she was serious. She sent me along to a wonderful person,
:37:23. > :37:27.James Hawkins, and I succeeded in performing the song in front of 800
:37:28. > :37:32.people but the experience is wonderful. I felt as though I was
:37:33. > :37:39.singing in this wonderful church directly to my son and it was so
:37:40. > :37:46.healing for me and wonderful to do that. And as a result of that,
:37:47. > :37:50.Claire and James thought, if it helped me it could help others who
:37:51. > :37:59.have had missing loved ones and so they decided to form a choir and we
:38:00. > :38:03.went on to produce two singles, I Hope and I Miss You, and I hope that
:38:04. > :38:07.both of these songs will promote awareness of the fat that so many
:38:08. > :38:13.people, especially children... 140,000 children a year are reported
:38:14. > :38:19.missing in the United Kingdom and we also hope that your viewers will
:38:20. > :38:24.download our songs and help the charity to do its wonderful work. It
:38:25. > :38:29.is the only charity in the UK that helps those who have missing loved
:38:30. > :38:33.ones. OK. It is an amazing cause. You are all doing it for the same
:38:34. > :38:37.reason, to raise awareness did it is brilliant what you are doing, so
:38:38. > :38:41.thank you so much to all of you for coming in.
:38:42. > :38:45.As promised, we will have a very special performance from the choir.
:38:46. > :38:48.I've heard them in rehearsals and they are brilliant. They're all
:38:49. > :38:53.waiting patiently behind us. Michelle, back to you. Banks, Rav.
:38:54. > :38:58.Earlier, you saw my rather nervous attempt at abseiling down a wall
:38:59. > :39:01.here at the Marine unit. We've got some experts on board who are going
:39:02. > :39:07.to show us how to do a rescue at height and we are joined by PC Pete
:39:08. > :39:12.Sandel who you saw in the film. Talk me through what's going to happen.
:39:13. > :39:15.What we've got here is one of our colleagues who has got stuck and
:39:16. > :39:19.that can occur because they have a failure in their equipment or they
:39:20. > :39:23.get injured or something like that, and my colleague Nigel has abseiled
:39:24. > :39:30.down to them. The first thing to do is to make them safe. Jane, our
:39:31. > :39:34.victim, has been fitted with a harness and she won't have a rescue
:39:35. > :39:39.stripe but we carry one of these, which is a rescue strop. That is
:39:40. > :39:42.placed around the waist of the individual, pulled up under their
:39:43. > :39:46.chest and it is a way of making them safe. The first thing to do is make
:39:47. > :39:50.them safe and then attach them to the climate. Nigel has been able to
:39:51. > :39:54.recover the casualty and make them safe by taking them up through the
:39:55. > :39:59.window and Nigel is now going to make his way down on the twin lines
:40:00. > :40:04.to the bottom of the ground. So the process that is happening here...
:40:05. > :40:08.We've seen Nigel rescuing the other person and he's taken himself down
:40:09. > :40:11.safely to the shoreline. How important is it for you guys to be
:40:12. > :40:17.able to train and do this safely? The most important thing for us,
:40:18. > :40:21.because of the nature of working at height, is health and safety of our
:40:22. > :40:27.colleagues and the public. So we train regularly. Once a month, the
:40:28. > :40:31.officers are put through a series of tests and one of those tests is to
:40:32. > :40:35.carry out a rescue. They have to be able to rescue themselves but they
:40:36. > :40:39.also have to be able to rescue a colleague and we are required to do
:40:40. > :40:43.that practice by law. You really can't be scared of heights with
:40:44. > :40:47.this, can you? It doesn't hurt to be scared of heights. You have to
:40:48. > :40:50.respect the height. But you have to have great faith in the training
:40:51. > :40:55.that is provided and the equipment that we're given. The equipment is
:40:56. > :41:02.very expensive to maintain and provide in the first place, but
:41:03. > :41:06.safety is always at no cost. What high profile cases have you and your
:41:07. > :41:09.team been across? If you think that any large-scale public event,
:41:10. > :41:13.through the Olympics for instance, there is a search regime in place on
:41:14. > :41:18.the ground and we provide that same capability at heights. Something
:41:19. > :41:23.like the helicopter crash a couple of years ago, we were required to
:41:24. > :41:28.recover evidence from the roof of about 452. You've got a very busy
:41:29. > :41:32.week this week. What's going on? This is a busy time of year with
:41:33. > :41:36.lots of ceremonial events, so we have the Trooping the Colour, the
:41:37. > :41:41.Queen's birthday, so later on today we are out into central London to
:41:42. > :41:45.carry out part of the search regime, again, searching at height, doing
:41:46. > :41:49.what our colleagues do on the ground. You've been in the police
:41:50. > :41:53.force for 38 years. What has been the most rewarding thing about your
:41:54. > :41:56.dog? I've enjoyed every year that I've been here. The last few years
:41:57. > :42:01.have been particularly challenging, because I've had to learn. I was in
:42:02. > :42:06.decline before I came here. I've had to develop those skills since I came
:42:07. > :42:09.here. This is a second job for us. We're all Marine officers first, so
:42:10. > :42:13.we have to learn how to drive boats etc before we move into anything
:42:14. > :42:18.like this. Pete, thank you very much. Just time for a quick update
:42:19. > :42:26.on what's coming in on the course. A good update already on what -- on
:42:27. > :42:30.the man who stole Dougie's chain and takeaway. You may remember Eric
:42:31. > :42:35.Fletcher, sentenced for rape and offences against children. He went
:42:36. > :42:38.on the run but has now been arrested by police in Ireland and will soon
:42:39. > :42:43.be back on his way to serve his term in jail. Michelle, what are you up
:42:44. > :42:48.to tomorrow? Tomorrow, we're heading out of London to Gravesend Kent,
:42:49. > :42:52.where we are going to be at a specialist training facility, where
:42:53. > :42:56.they teach police how to handle rioters. I've been told I'm going to
:42:57. > :43:01.be put in a few tight spot and dangerous situations myself, so make
:43:02. > :43:05.sure you join me at 9:15am tomorrow. For now, though, I'm going to head
:43:06. > :43:12.out on the Thames with these guys. Guys, are you ready? All right, see
:43:13. > :43:18.you tomorrow. Thanks, Michelle. To see any of today's appeals again,
:43:19. > :43:22.head to our website. We are going to be back tomorrow morning but until
:43:23. > :43:27.then, I'm going to let our amazing Missing People Choir singers out. --
:43:28. > :43:40.Singh bus out. # Maybe tomorrow
:43:41. > :44:27.I'll wake up to find you