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gone missing, their stories are incredibly moving and I can't wait

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to hear them sing live for us here. Look forward to chatting to you

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tomorrow, Rav. Thanks, guys. Coming up on today's programme: Who mugged

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Dougie and stole not only a treasured momento, but also his

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dinner? I will be creating waves as I go on

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duty with broken's oldest police force. You're watching Crimewatch

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road show. -- Britain's oldest police force.

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Hallowed. We're arrive every weekday morning investigating the crimes

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that can affect each and everyone of us. -- we're live. The man left for

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dead as his wife was robbed at gunpoint. He was two steps away from

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me, the gun was so near. I opened the door.

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And that special choir whose members all want to know what's happened to

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their missing loved ones. Michelle is in London with the Met's

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Marine unit, who fight crime on the River Thames. Good morning,

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Michelle. Good morning, Rav. If there is trouble on the water, then

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this team are the ones who deal with it, but, surprisingly, they also

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need a head for heights. Join me later to find out why.

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Rather than man-made! But before all of that, an urgent appeal from

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Suffolk police, who need your help to find this man. Detectives want to

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question this 42-year-old about the murder of Peter Stuart and the

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disappearance of Peter's wife Sylvia. Peter's body was found near

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his home in Suffolk on Friday night. Qazimaj is from the Thurrock area of

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Essex and police are warning he should be approached. Just dial 999

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if you know where he is. Now to the case of a mugger who

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stole a takeaway from a man with cerebral palsy.

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Around the streets of greys in Essex, Dougie Barnett is hard to

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miss. Bikes are passion for Dougie but

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they're also a lifeline. He and his dad worked hard to keep this

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custom-built trike on the road as it gives Dougie the lifestyle he wants.

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You'll say to me, "I've got to go to so-and-so, draw me a map," I get a

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sheet of a four and draw him up and off he goes. You only got lost once.

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He had a bad start because he's got cerebral palsy but he's done

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brilliant. I applaud him 40s and. He wanted to live on his own, we put

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his name down for a council flat and he's got an tremendously. We're

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extremely proud of him, what he's done with his life. He's not just

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sat in a chair and given up. He would show a lot of able-bodied

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people up, I'm pleased to say. At an attack in May last year has

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threatened the independent study worked so hard for. -- Dougie worked

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so hard for. Dougie had been out at his local pub with friends and

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headed home with a takeaway just before midnight. He was on the

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adapted push trike he uses to get around his building and was joined

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by somebody very keen to have a chat.

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CCTV shows how the stranger followed Dougie through the building and got

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into the lift with him. That's where things turn nasty. The man started

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to get very close to Dougie and took a keen interest in the chain he was

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wearing. Once out of the lift, the man pushed

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Dougie to the ground. Dougie was laying on the ground, shouting out

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"Help, help" but help never came. A gold chain was ripped from his neck.

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We bought it for him for his 18th birthday. Sentimental. It was the

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fact that it was valuable - all right, it was nine carat gold - but

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it was just the sentimental value. It upset him. And able-bodied person

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would have fought back. Dougie tried to fight back but, obviously, with

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his disability, he couldn't. He couldn't overpower him. As a final

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insult, Dougie's takeaway was heartlessly taken. While he lay

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helplessly on the floor, the thief got back in the lift, beating the

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stolen Chinese food as he left. To attack Dougie the way he did and to

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be so brash and to take away his dinner as well, it's almost the

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icing on the cake for someone that has been attacked in that way. With

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such clear CCTV, Essex Police think somebody must know who this man is.

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We've done extensive house-to-house in that block of flats on the

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neighbouring two flats and we do think that this man was hurting

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somebody in the house on that night. We would appeal to anybody in that

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area to let us know if they do know this man. He has preyed on a

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vulnerable person already and he made prey on vulnerable people in

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the future. Shocked, I think, was what I was at the time, to think

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that something like that could happen, especially on your own

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landing as you get out of the lift. The attack has left Dougie feeling

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scared in his own home. Such a horrible thing to happen on

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Dougie's doorstep, and here is that suspect again. Take a good look. You

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can see him clearly in the CCTV. He is a white man with fair or blonde

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hair. If you recognise him, get on the phone now. Calls are free from

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landlines and mobile phones, or you can text us. Texts will be charged

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at your standard message rated top plus there is e-mail. Lets see if

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Michelle has found her seat legs. Michelle... Thanks, wrapped it up

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we're here in Wapping on the banks of the River Thames, which has been

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home to marine police since 1798. In days gone by, they used to use

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rowing boats to go after marauding thieves who were out to plunder

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visiting ships. Two centuries on, things are a lot more fast-paced. It

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may looks a dream but policing the River Thames is every bit as tough

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as the rest of the capital, and fighting crime along the 47 mile

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stretch our 71 highly trained officers. You have to remember, we

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are police officers like the guys and girls out on the street who

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drive cars, we just have a boat to facilitate our operation. Appleby

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named, PC Billy Sargent has been with the Marine unit for six years.

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Every type of crime that is on the LAN side, we deal with, so you are

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talking about theft, people trying to get onto the Clipper votes

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without paying, assaults, because don't forget, at the weekend, the

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river is alive with Paddy Barnes. We also have people getting themselves

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in trouble in the water, either from a bridge from a vessel. Billy and

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the team have invited me along to join them for a day of training and

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first on the agenda are the high-speed response boats. This is

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fast! The team need to practice a manoeuvre they call boarding under

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way. This is the vessel we're going to be looking at. This is for

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emergencies, or when boat is refusing to stop, and involves an

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officer jumping from one moving boat to another. It sounds simple but

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when you're out here, it's terrifying. If you imagine coming

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alongside another car and climbing out of the window, we are going to

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do that. We are going at 30 mph when we do this. These guys are so quick,

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they can often board a boat without the crew even realising. That is

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amazing! We're going so fast and he's just

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straight on, so slick. He didn't even realise we were

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alongside and I was on board until I went on. The captain said, "I didn't

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know you were alongside, I didn't see you feel you at all". That is

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amazing. That is how good you are. But getting to this standard takes

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years of work. What training is involved for you guys quell you will

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wish you'd never asked! The only thing I had driven on the water was

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a pedalo. So from that until the very high powered boats, a huge

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learning curve. Every vessel, I can look around and tell you where it

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is, where it is moored, what it is and what its function is. That his

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peers, boys, bridges, heights of bridges. And history buff Billy

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knows how important policing the river is. In the mid-1700, at any

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one time there were 1000 vessels in London and crime was absolutely

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right and there was no real force or service to deal with that crime. And

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so in 1798, the Marine unit was created, but it wasn't quite as high

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then. The way the Thames is the least has changed quite a lot over

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the years? Our boats have because in 1978, they have row boats. I would

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not want to be in a row boat on the server, bearing in mind there is a

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roundabout seven metres of water that comes in every six hours and

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seven metres goes out, that is one hell of a tide. Policing the Thames

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today involves much more than patrolling the surface. Officers

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also have to plunge to the river's murky depths. What types of things

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are they looking for when they're diving? It might be the proceeds of

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crime, a weapon, drugs. Unfortunately that sometimes entails

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searching for people as well, and body parts. You've brought some

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things that have been found. I'll leave them in the back. A machete,

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mobile phones are plenty. Quite a cachet of nights. It really

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surprises me that people are checking these are the river. --

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cachet of nights. It is worrying about the back story of these

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things. It could have been used in domestic or robbery and they want to

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discard the item so they throw it into the river, thinking that the

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end of the matter. That's where the dive team are critical. Without them

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we wouldn't be able to find these objects. And as if jumping from

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moving boats and diving into icy rivers wasn't enough, there is

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another skill these guys have to get to grips with, and I've been told I

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have to have a go. PCs Nigel Murray and Pete Sandel are part of the

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unit's line access team and have agreed to show me the ropes. Our

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particular forte is searching at height, so we can search for

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evidence, we can search for subjects, objects, whatever it might

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be. So whilst everyone is on the ground looking for things, we are

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trained to search at height. How does rope access come under the

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Marine unit? Many years back, there was a requirement to search a dozen

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bridges and because the bridges were over water, it was easier to teach

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Marine officers to climb, rather than teach officers who were

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climbers to drive boats. I'm keen to try it out. Probably best not to

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look down in these situations. Stop there before you go any further.

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Leave your feet where they are for the moment. Off you go. OK. And just

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when I thought things couldn't get any worse... I'm not going to fall,

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am I? Come on! Yay! I actually can't believe I'm doing this! I actually

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can't believe I just did that. That is brilliant. Thanks. Well, I'm glad

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my feet are back on the ground but for the rest of the Marine unit, an

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emergency call has come in and it is back to the water.

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We were on some pretty impressive boat slid as you'd expect I offer a

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fair bit of wear and tear. Join me later when we find out how the team

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managed to keep these boats out on the water every single day. We will

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be watching. Lots more to come this

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morning including. The hunt for the armed robbers

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who terrorised a couple at work. I'm thinking only of my wife. I have

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And how singing is giving comfort to families with missing loved ones.

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But first time for today's CCTV round-up.

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This bank is only just opened up. But someone is already planning to

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make a rather large cash withdrawals. A man sprints towards

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the bank. He has a gun and shouting for customers to get down. He is

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insisting caches give him some banknotes. They hand over ?9,500 to

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the masked man. Police are keen to speak to this man who was seen on a

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bus in the area in connection with the robbery. Call us now if you know

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who this is. Rush hour. Outside the elephant and Castle shopping centre

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in south London. Keep your eyes on the man with the phone. He is taking

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a keen interest in the scooter rider preparing to leave. What happens

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next is too shocking to show you. Without warning, he lunges and stabs

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him in front of terrified passers-by. The victim runs inside

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to get help and is later treated in hospital for a large wound to his

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back. Police say this is the suspect, entering the shopping

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centre before the stabbing. Take a long hard look. Someone knows who

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this knife wielding attacker is. Imagine coming home checking your

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CCTV to find that this man has been rifling through your belongings.

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Don't let the gloves from you. He's not here to clean, but to clean them

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out. This footage is clear, so take a good look at him. Police believe

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he forced his way into the house through a ground floor window and

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had no idea his actions were all being caught on camera. Detectives

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say this blue gloved burglar took a tablet computer, 300 quid in cash

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and wedding rings. Someone must recognise these distinctive tattoos.

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Name him, please. If the recognised anyone in that lot, get in touch

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using the numbers on the screen. Welcome back to the Marine unit in

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Wapping. This is the oldest police station in London but there's

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nothing old-fashioned about how they keep their fleet of boats seaworthy.

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Stuart Simpson joins me now. What types of boats or you have access to

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hear? A variety of. We will use different ones in different areas.

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This is a 20 47 vessel, very happy in central London and is very good

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on the estuary. How much strain to the boats have on the water? We have

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47 miles of Thames Water and we have about 17 boroughs and about 250

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miles inland waterway. This boat, at full throttle, we use one litre of

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fuel every minute. I go through 7000 litres a week. That a lot. Clearly,

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these guys did a dedicated team to manage these boats. Let me introduce

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James Coombes, the engineering manager here at the workshop. James,

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what type of problems do you encounter with the boats when they

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come out of the water? Several different things to small repairs to

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major damage. How long does it take to repair a boat once it is damaged?

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For small damage, we tried to get out within a day so it's

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operational. Major repairs could be a couple of weeks quite easily. When

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we do the servicing, it's done every 100 hours on a normal pleasure boat,

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it will have 400 hours in its lifetime full that we do 100 hours

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every month, so that's how much servicing needs to be done. It is

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24-hour servicing, isn't it? We are on call 24-hour and we support of

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the police 24-hour was a week. This boat lift is pretty unique to you.

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If the only one in the country and we can lift anything on any tide on

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the River Thames. Let's take a look for some what are you doing now?

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John is fitting some props. Would you like to have a go? Why not? It's

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pretty heavy. There we go. Nice and secure. It's great to see

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behind-the-scenes the amazing work these guys do. This boat is merely

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Billy to go out, Jean-Claude Juncker. Next,. Can you help catch

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the Hertfordshire police help them catch these burglars? For the past

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20 years, this couple has been living here. It's very nice, Woods

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at the end of the road and we very much enjoyed it here. It's where

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they brought up their 18-year-old son, Tom. There's lots of young

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people around, families around, people to play in the street with

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and play in the woods, as well, so it was decent, as a kid. But in

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February this year, this peaceful looking street they'd host to some

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unwanted guests. Early morning at the beginning of February this year,

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the family left their home for the day. They returned ten hours later.

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I had been at school all day and my dad had been at work and he picked

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me up from school. But something was wrong. It is jammed. We tried to

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open the front door but it was locked so we could not open the door

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even with the key. The door had been bolted from the inside. I said

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that's a sign we may have been broken into. I thought maybe earlier

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that day. Despite their best efforts, they could not get in. What

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they didn't realise was the man who had locked the amount were still in

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the house. Dad! There attempt at a sneaky getaway over the neighbours

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fence was captured on CCTV. As two of the men made their way over the

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fence, the third was not as covert as he hoped. I heard something

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scratching the fence by the front garden and then I heard something

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heavy drop-down. And I looked over and I just saw the guy who are just

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jumped down from the top of the fence standing below it looking

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shifty. With that, Paul and Tom chase them down the street. I don't

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know what I would have done had I caught him but it ran straight after

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him. And adrenaline rush, especially when they jumped in a car and

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screamed away. It was intense. They got away but not before Tom got some

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vital information. I watch a lot of police programmes and I know they

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can track a lot of things from a number plate so I thought get the

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number plate and remember it. With the car registration and the CCTV,

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police are hopeful someone knows who these athletic intruders are. The

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sheer quality of the footage is excellent. You can see the faces of

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two of the three offenders really well and there will be somebody out

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there who knows these people. The way they've conducted this burglary,

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shows they've done this before and I'm in no doubt they will do it

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again so we'd like to catch up with them. It turns out Paul and Tom had

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a lucky escape. They disturbed the would-be thieves before they even

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had a chance to take anything. I've never really been affected by crime

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before so I'm a lot more aware of people around here. The fact that

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people might be out to do wrong. So, can you help?

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Budding detective Tom was able to get the number plate

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of the car, which allowed officers to track it down.

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It turned out to be a green Fiat Stilo Estate like this one,

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with registration number AV53 RRX, and the police found it

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We would like to stress that this car now has new owners,

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However, officers would still be interested in hearing from anyone

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who may have seen this car around Borehamwood on the evening of 1st

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There's also this fantastic CCTV image.

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So, if you know who these men are or think you may any

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information that can help, please get in touch.

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Now it's time for a look at today's Wanted Faces.

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Police forces around the country are asking

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We start with John Paul Connors - although he uses a number

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of other names, including Peter or Paul Connelly,

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Michael or Jimmy Connors or Matthew O'Neil.

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He was due to appear in court in connection with two

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He's 25 and has connections to Leicester, Northamptonshire

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and West Yorkshire, and has a two-inch scar on his left arm.

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Do you recognise this man, 33-year-old Adel Rahim?

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Although you may know him as Safi Farkos or Nordenne Saifi.

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He's wanted for questioning by Met Police in connection

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with numerous thefts of handbags from pubs and bars.

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Rahim is 6'1" and may be in the Lambeth,

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Shadwell or Southwark areas of London.

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although he also goes by numerous other names,

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including Michael Hannon and Martin Connors.

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Detectives in Greater Manchester want to question him

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after a vulnerable man paid tens of thousands of pounds

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Rooney is 35 and has an Irish accent and scars on his face.

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He travels extensively but has links to the West Midlands,

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Detectives want to speak to him after threats were made to a woman.

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He's also wanted for questioning over immigration offences.

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Originally from Afghanistan, 31-year-old Khushall is known

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to have friends in London, the West Midlands and Wolverhampton.

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He has acid burn marks on both of his upper arms and a tattoo

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of an Arabic symbol of his left thumb.

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If you recognise any of these faces, make sure you get in touch

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Or, if you prefer, you can call Crimestoppers anonymously.

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Michelle. Now imagine how you would feel if armed robbers were holding

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your wife captive and you were powerless to do anything about it.

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Please be warned this next appeal is a particularly serious one.

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I was so scared at the time. The gun was so near to me. I couldn't feel

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the pain but only I'm thinking, my wife, I had to save my wife. I'm

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still scared. Still scared now. Mohan and Yuvana have been married

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for five years and four four of those I have worked side-by-side to

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-- in Penge, south London. I love my wife. At home, we are like a family.

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It's quite good to work together because we balance each other. But

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last October, things took a harrowing term. It was the end of a

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long shift and Mohan and Yuvana were shutting up at the back of the shop

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as the rest of the staff waited at the front ready to go home. We had

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rung up all the tales and my husband was taking care of the deliveries,

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tidying up for the next day. Then I go outside, suddenly two guys are

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shouting. From out of the darkness, two men suddenly attacked Mohan. I

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told them to take whatever. He had a knife and tried to stab my stomach.

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I tried to stop him. He stabbed the knife in my hand. Sorry... Mohan had

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been stabbed twice, once in the hand and once in the stomach. He was

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bleeding heavily as the men ran into the storeroom towards Yuvana. I

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heard some noise. I went up to the door. Two men came straight in front

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of me. Yuvana was face-to-face with the two men and had no idea where

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her husband was. I saw the knife with the blood. But still I can't do

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anything because one has a knife and one had a gun and I could not do

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anything at that moment. I was scared. They were asking me to open

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the safe. But there was a problem. Yuvana

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couldn't open the safe - the keys were outside with Mohan. I was

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shaking like anything about time. He is two steps away from me and the

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gun is very near, it is like one foot away, the gun is so near to me.

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So I said, "Don't do anything". So scared at that time. Even though he

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was seriously injured, Mohan was only worrying about one thing. I am

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thinking, I have to save my wife. Maybe he tried to kill her. And

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shouting, "Please help me, my wife is inside, please help me". Mohan

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staggered to the front of the store, trying to alert the other stuff.

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Back inside and unable to crack the safe, the men had to settle for the

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leftover till money. Since I cashed up all the money, there was not a

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lot of money. They just grabbed all the money and went outside. The men

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fled out of the back. Are terrified Yuvana was finally reunited with

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Mohan and that's when she realised what had happened to him. My husband

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came with blood all over his hand and there was blood everywhere.

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Wherever he walks, it's full of blood. She was really worried and

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she's crying and shouting, "What happened? What happened?" I said,

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"Don't cry, call the police and call the ambulance first".

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Mohan is very lucky to be alive. This is an absolutely horrific crime

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against good, hard-working, honest people and the victim, Mohan, and

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his wife have been really affected by what happened. Mohan had to have

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major surgery following the stabbing. Thankfully the knife

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didn't hit any major organs but eight months on, he still hasn't

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been able to return to work. I couldn't sleep at night time. I

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really am struggling now. Psychologically, I'm still scared,

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still scared of the darkness still. Sometimes when I see my hand, I see

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my stomach and the injury. Sometimes she cries. Such a frightening

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experience for Mohan and Yuvana. Dimeck Blackburn, who was

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investigating this harrowing case, joins me now. What do we know about

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these men? Both suspects were black. The first I would describe as 6'2",

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skinny build, wearing a white hooded top with black patches over the

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front of the shoulders. He was wearing dark trousers, dark trainers

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with a white soul. The second suspect was just short of 5'6", a

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slightly stocky build, who was wearing a full faced crash visor

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with a white emblem on the rear of it, which was quite distinctive.

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Wedded the men go after the incident? The men ran off down

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Bourdon Road, which is effectively a way from Elmers end Road, westbound,

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into a warren of streets and unfortunately, that was the last

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side of the two men. This is a really serious crime, isn't it? It's

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a very serious crime and it's very rarely that the flying squad see

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such violence used. Hugely excessive in its nature. Remember, this is a

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local co-operative store and won't contain a great deal of money. The

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suspects made off with ?200 to ?300 and in doing so, stabbed one

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individual and levelled a firearm at another. We saw the extent of

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Mohan's injuries. How is he doing? Mohan has received physical

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injuries, as we know, stab wounds to the abdomen and lower arms. These

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are significant in their own right but I think the more significant

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piece of the injury that Mohan has received a psychological. Both he

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and his wife have been hugely traumatised by these utterly

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unacceptable crimes. Thank you very much. If you do have any answers for

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us at all, please do get in touch. Details are on your screen.

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In the UK someone is recorded missing every two minutes

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with almost two thirds of cases involving children and young people.

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Thankfully, most are are found safe and well but for some families

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During this series of Crimewatch Roadshow we will meet

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families who have been affected by loved ones going missing.

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To launch this, we have a very special performance coming up

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Each member of this incredible group has been touched in some way by

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That was their latest single "I Hope" which was released last

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month for International Missing Children's Day.

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Three members of the choir are with me now.

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Peter, Rachel and Peter, welcome to the programme.

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Peter, your daughter Claudia Lawrence went missing back in 2009

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from her home in York. Why did you want to get involved with this

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choir? Well, I've always loved music and singing and because of the

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connection which had to develop with Missing People, which is a fabulous

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charity, when the choir was formed, I just wanted to be part of it. How

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has the choir helped you so far? The message that goes out from the songs

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that we sing is just so powerful, and there is ie Hope, and the single

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which Peter has written, and I just hope someone will see this today and

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come forward, finally, as we have been pleading for seven years now,

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to give us the information we know they have about Claudia's

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disappearance. You know the information is out there, you just

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need them to come forward. Rachel, your brother, Richey Edwards from

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the monetary features, it was 20 years ago now that he went missing.

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-- the Manic Street Preachers. What do you think he would make of this

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single? Richard has been missing over 21 years and the song we are

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going to sing today is I Miss You. We don't know if Richard is alive or

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dead. If he is out there listening, we want him to know that we miss him

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terribly and we want him to come back. Has the choir helped you by

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Ian able to talk to other people in a similar situation? -- being able.

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Every situation is different but the experiences of those left behind

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seem remarkably the same, so it's a way of getting together and sharing

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in those experiences. Peter, you are going to perform for us later,

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singing a song that you wrote. Your son was 15 when he went missing in

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1998. How did you come up with this song? I was invited three years ago

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by Claire Cook at Missing People to make a speech at the annual

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charity's Christmas carol concert at Saint Martins and in London and I

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mentioned that I had sung a song -- St Martin's in the Field. And she

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asked me why I didn't come along and sing it after the speech. Jokingly,

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I said yes but she was serious. She sent me along to a wonderful person,

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James Hawkins, and I succeeded in performing the song in front of 800

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people but the experience is wonderful. I felt as though I was

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singing in this wonderful church directly to my son and it was so

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healing for me and wonderful to do that. And as a result of that,

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Claire and James thought, if it helped me it could help others who

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have had missing loved ones and so they decided to form a choir and we

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went on to produce two singles, I Hope and I Miss You, and I hope that

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both of these songs will promote awareness of the fat that so many

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people, especially children... 140,000 children a year are reported

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missing in the United Kingdom and we also hope that your viewers will

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download our songs and help the charity to do its wonderful work. It

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is the only charity in the UK that helps those who have missing loved

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ones. OK. It is an amazing cause. You are all doing it for the same

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reason, to raise awareness did it is brilliant what you are doing, so

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thank you so much to all of you for coming in.

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As promised, we will have a very special performance from the choir.

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I've heard them in rehearsals and they are brilliant. They're all

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waiting patiently behind us. Michelle, back to you. Banks, Rav.

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Earlier, you saw my rather nervous attempt at abseiling down a wall

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here at the Marine unit. We've got some experts on board who are going

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to show us how to do a rescue at height and we are joined by PC Pete

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Sandel who you saw in the film. Talk me through what's going to happen.

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What we've got here is one of our colleagues who has got stuck and

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that can occur because they have a failure in their equipment or they

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get injured or something like that, and my colleague Nigel has abseiled

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down to them. The first thing to do is to make them safe. Jane, our

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victim, has been fitted with a harness and she won't have a rescue

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stripe but we carry one of these, which is a rescue strop. That is

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placed around the waist of the individual, pulled up under their

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chest and it is a way of making them safe. The first thing to do is make

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them safe and then attach them to the climate. Nigel has been able to

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recover the casualty and make them safe by taking them up through the

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window and Nigel is now going to make his way down on the twin lines

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to the bottom of the ground. So the process that is happening here...

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We've seen Nigel rescuing the other person and he's taken himself down

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safely to the shoreline. How important is it for you guys to be

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able to train and do this safely? The most important thing for us,

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because of the nature of working at height, is health and safety of our

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colleagues and the public. So we train regularly. Once a month, the

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officers are put through a series of tests and one of those tests is to

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carry out a rescue. They have to be able to rescue themselves but they

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also have to be able to rescue a colleague and we are required to do

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that practice by law. You really can't be scared of heights with

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this, can you? It doesn't hurt to be scared of heights. You have to

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respect the height. But you have to have great faith in the training

:40:48.:40:50.

that is provided and the equipment that we're given. The equipment is

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very expensive to maintain and provide in the first place, but

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safety is always at no cost. What high profile cases have you and your

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team been across? If you think that any large-scale public event,

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through the Olympics for instance, there is a search regime in place on

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the ground and we provide that same capability at heights. Something

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like the helicopter crash a couple of years ago, we were required to

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recover evidence from the roof of about 452. You've got a very busy

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week this week. What's going on? This is a busy time of year with

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lots of ceremonial events, so we have the Trooping the Colour, the

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Queen's birthday, so later on today we are out into central London to

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carry out part of the search regime, again, searching at height, doing

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what our colleagues do on the ground. You've been in the police

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force for 38 years. What has been the most rewarding thing about your

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dog? I've enjoyed every year that I've been here. The last few years

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have been particularly challenging, because I've had to learn. I was in

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decline before I came here. I've had to develop those skills since I came

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here. This is a second job for us. We're all Marine officers first, so

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we have to learn how to drive boats etc before we move into anything

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like this. Pete, thank you very much. Just time for a quick update

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on what's coming in on the course. A good update already on what -- on

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the man who stole Dougie's chain and takeaway. You may remember Eric

:42:27.:42:30.

Fletcher, sentenced for rape and offences against children. He went

:42:31.:42:35.

on the run but has now been arrested by police in Ireland and will soon

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be back on his way to serve his term in jail. Michelle, what are you up

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to tomorrow? Tomorrow, we're heading out of London to Gravesend Kent,

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where we are going to be at a specialist training facility, where

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they teach police how to handle rioters. I've been told I'm going to

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be put in a few tight spot and dangerous situations myself, so make

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sure you join me at 9:15am tomorrow. For now, though, I'm going to head

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out on the Thames with these guys. Guys, are you ready? All right, see

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you tomorrow. Thanks, Michelle. To see any of today's appeals again,

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head to our website. We are going to be back tomorrow morning but until

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then, I'm going to let our amazing Missing People Choir singers out. --

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Singh bus out. # Maybe tomorrow

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I'll wake up to find you

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