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gone missing, their stories are incredibly moving and I can't wait | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
to hear them sing live for us here. Look forward to chatting to you | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
tomorrow, Rav. Thanks, guys. Coming up on today's programme: Who mugged | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
Dougie and stole not only a treasured momento, but also his | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
dinner? I will be creating waves as I go on | :00:15. | :00:31. | |
duty with broken's oldest police force. You're watching Crimewatch | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
road show. -- Britain's oldest police force. | :00:39. | :00:56. | |
Hallowed. We're arrive every weekday morning investigating the crimes | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
that can affect each and everyone of us. -- we're live. The man left for | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
dead as his wife was robbed at gunpoint. He was two steps away from | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
me, the gun was so near. I opened the door. | :01:15. | :01:23. | |
And that special choir whose members all want to know what's happened to | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
their missing loved ones. Michelle is in London with the Met's | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Marine unit, who fight crime on the River Thames. Good morning, | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
Michelle. Good morning, Rav. If there is trouble on the water, then | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
this team are the ones who deal with it, but, surprisingly, they also | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
need a head for heights. Join me later to find out why. | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Rather than man-made! But before all of that, an urgent appeal from | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
Suffolk police, who need your help to find this man. Detectives want to | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
question this 42-year-old about the murder of Peter Stuart and the | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
disappearance of Peter's wife Sylvia. Peter's body was found near | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
his home in Suffolk on Friday night. Qazimaj is from the Thurrock area of | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
Essex and police are warning he should be approached. Just dial 999 | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
if you know where he is. Now to the case of a mugger who | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
stole a takeaway from a man with cerebral palsy. | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
Around the streets of greys in Essex, Dougie Barnett is hard to | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
miss. Bikes are passion for Dougie but | :02:34. | :02:45. | |
they're also a lifeline. He and his dad worked hard to keep this | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
custom-built trike on the road as it gives Dougie the lifestyle he wants. | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
You'll say to me, "I've got to go to so-and-so, draw me a map," I get a | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
sheet of a four and draw him up and off he goes. You only got lost once. | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
He had a bad start because he's got cerebral palsy but he's done | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
brilliant. I applaud him 40s and. He wanted to live on his own, we put | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
his name down for a council flat and he's got an tremendously. We're | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
extremely proud of him, what he's done with his life. He's not just | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
sat in a chair and given up. He would show a lot of able-bodied | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
people up, I'm pleased to say. At an attack in May last year has | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
threatened the independent study worked so hard for. -- Dougie worked | :03:37. | :03:49. | |
so hard for. Dougie had been out at his local pub with friends and | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
headed home with a takeaway just before midnight. He was on the | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
adapted push trike he uses to get around his building and was joined | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
by somebody very keen to have a chat. | :04:01. | :04:14. | |
CCTV shows how the stranger followed Dougie through the building and got | :04:15. | :04:37. | |
into the lift with him. That's where things turn nasty. The man started | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
to get very close to Dougie and took a keen interest in the chain he was | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
wearing. Once out of the lift, the man pushed | :04:46. | :05:05. | |
Dougie to the ground. Dougie was laying on the ground, shouting out | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
"Help, help" but help never came. A gold chain was ripped from his neck. | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
We bought it for him for his 18th birthday. Sentimental. It was the | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
fact that it was valuable - all right, it was nine carat gold - but | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
it was just the sentimental value. It upset him. And able-bodied person | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
would have fought back. Dougie tried to fight back but, obviously, with | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
his disability, he couldn't. He couldn't overpower him. As a final | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
insult, Dougie's takeaway was heartlessly taken. While he lay | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
helplessly on the floor, the thief got back in the lift, beating the | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
stolen Chinese food as he left. To attack Dougie the way he did and to | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
be so brash and to take away his dinner as well, it's almost the | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
icing on the cake for someone that has been attacked in that way. With | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
such clear CCTV, Essex Police think somebody must know who this man is. | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
We've done extensive house-to-house in that block of flats on the | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
neighbouring two flats and we do think that this man was hurting | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
somebody in the house on that night. We would appeal to anybody in that | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
area to let us know if they do know this man. He has preyed on a | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
vulnerable person already and he made prey on vulnerable people in | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
the future. Shocked, I think, was what I was at the time, to think | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
that something like that could happen, especially on your own | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
landing as you get out of the lift. The attack has left Dougie feeling | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
scared in his own home. Such a horrible thing to happen on | :06:50. | :07:23. | |
Dougie's doorstep, and here is that suspect again. Take a good look. You | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
can see him clearly in the CCTV. He is a white man with fair or blonde | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
hair. If you recognise him, get on the phone now. Calls are free from | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
landlines and mobile phones, or you can text us. Texts will be charged | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
at your standard message rated top plus there is e-mail. Lets see if | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
Michelle has found her seat legs. Michelle... Thanks, wrapped it up | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
we're here in Wapping on the banks of the River Thames, which has been | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
home to marine police since 1798. In days gone by, they used to use | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
rowing boats to go after marauding thieves who were out to plunder | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
visiting ships. Two centuries on, things are a lot more fast-paced. It | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
may looks a dream but policing the River Thames is every bit as tough | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
as the rest of the capital, and fighting crime along the 47 mile | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
stretch our 71 highly trained officers. You have to remember, we | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
are police officers like the guys and girls out on the street who | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
drive cars, we just have a boat to facilitate our operation. Appleby | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
named, PC Billy Sargent has been with the Marine unit for six years. | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Every type of crime that is on the LAN side, we deal with, so you are | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
talking about theft, people trying to get onto the Clipper votes | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
without paying, assaults, because don't forget, at the weekend, the | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
river is alive with Paddy Barnes. We also have people getting themselves | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
in trouble in the water, either from a bridge from a vessel. Billy and | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
the team have invited me along to join them for a day of training and | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
first on the agenda are the high-speed response boats. This is | :09:11. | :09:21. | |
fast! The team need to practice a manoeuvre they call boarding under | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
way. This is the vessel we're going to be looking at. This is for | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
emergencies, or when boat is refusing to stop, and involves an | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
officer jumping from one moving boat to another. It sounds simple but | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
when you're out here, it's terrifying. If you imagine coming | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
alongside another car and climbing out of the window, we are going to | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
do that. We are going at 30 mph when we do this. These guys are so quick, | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
they can often board a boat without the crew even realising. That is | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
amazing! We're going so fast and he's just | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
straight on, so slick. He didn't even realise we were | :10:04. | :10:21. | |
alongside and I was on board until I went on. The captain said, "I didn't | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
know you were alongside, I didn't see you feel you at all". That is | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
amazing. That is how good you are. But getting to this standard takes | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
years of work. What training is involved for you guys quell you will | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
wish you'd never asked! The only thing I had driven on the water was | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
a pedalo. So from that until the very high powered boats, a huge | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
learning curve. Every vessel, I can look around and tell you where it | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
is, where it is moored, what it is and what its function is. That his | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
peers, boys, bridges, heights of bridges. And history buff Billy | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
knows how important policing the river is. In the mid-1700, at any | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
one time there were 1000 vessels in London and crime was absolutely | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
right and there was no real force or service to deal with that crime. And | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
so in 1798, the Marine unit was created, but it wasn't quite as high | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
then. The way the Thames is the least has changed quite a lot over | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
the years? Our boats have because in 1978, they have row boats. I would | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
not want to be in a row boat on the server, bearing in mind there is a | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
roundabout seven metres of water that comes in every six hours and | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
seven metres goes out, that is one hell of a tide. Policing the Thames | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
today involves much more than patrolling the surface. Officers | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
also have to plunge to the river's murky depths. What types of things | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
are they looking for when they're diving? It might be the proceeds of | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
crime, a weapon, drugs. Unfortunately that sometimes entails | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
searching for people as well, and body parts. You've brought some | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
things that have been found. I'll leave them in the back. A machete, | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
mobile phones are plenty. Quite a cachet of nights. It really | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
surprises me that people are checking these are the river. -- | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
cachet of nights. It is worrying about the back story of these | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
things. It could have been used in domestic or robbery and they want to | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
discard the item so they throw it into the river, thinking that the | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
end of the matter. That's where the dive team are critical. Without them | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
we wouldn't be able to find these objects. And as if jumping from | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
moving boats and diving into icy rivers wasn't enough, there is | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
another skill these guys have to get to grips with, and I've been told I | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
have to have a go. PCs Nigel Murray and Pete Sandel are part of the | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
unit's line access team and have agreed to show me the ropes. Our | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
particular forte is searching at height, so we can search for | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
evidence, we can search for subjects, objects, whatever it might | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
be. So whilst everyone is on the ground looking for things, we are | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
trained to search at height. How does rope access come under the | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Marine unit? Many years back, there was a requirement to search a dozen | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
bridges and because the bridges were over water, it was easier to teach | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
Marine officers to climb, rather than teach officers who were | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
climbers to drive boats. I'm keen to try it out. Probably best not to | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
look down in these situations. Stop there before you go any further. | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
Leave your feet where they are for the moment. Off you go. OK. And just | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
when I thought things couldn't get any worse... I'm not going to fall, | :13:52. | :14:06. | |
am I? Come on! Yay! I actually can't believe I'm doing this! I actually | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
can't believe I just did that. That is brilliant. Thanks. Well, I'm glad | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
my feet are back on the ground but for the rest of the Marine unit, an | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
emergency call has come in and it is back to the water. | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
We were on some pretty impressive boat slid as you'd expect I offer a | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
fair bit of wear and tear. Join me later when we find out how the team | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
managed to keep these boats out on the water every single day. We will | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
be watching. Lots more to come this | :14:42. | :14:42. | |
morning including. The hunt for the armed robbers | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
who terrorised a couple at work. I'm thinking only of my wife. I have | :14:46. | :14:55. | |
And how singing is giving comfort to families with missing loved ones. | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
But first time for today's CCTV round-up. | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
This bank is only just opened up. But someone is already planning to | :15:06. | :15:18. | |
make a rather large cash withdrawals. A man sprints towards | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
the bank. He has a gun and shouting for customers to get down. He is | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
insisting caches give him some banknotes. They hand over ?9,500 to | :15:31. | :15:39. | |
the masked man. Police are keen to speak to this man who was seen on a | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
bus in the area in connection with the robbery. Call us now if you know | :15:43. | :15:56. | |
who this is. Rush hour. Outside the elephant and Castle shopping centre | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
in south London. Keep your eyes on the man with the phone. He is taking | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
a keen interest in the scooter rider preparing to leave. What happens | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
next is too shocking to show you. Without warning, he lunges and stabs | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
him in front of terrified passers-by. The victim runs inside | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
to get help and is later treated in hospital for a large wound to his | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
back. Police say this is the suspect, entering the shopping | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
centre before the stabbing. Take a long hard look. Someone knows who | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
this knife wielding attacker is. Imagine coming home checking your | :16:35. | :16:47. | |
CCTV to find that this man has been rifling through your belongings. | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
Don't let the gloves from you. He's not here to clean, but to clean them | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
out. This footage is clear, so take a good look at him. Police believe | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
he forced his way into the house through a ground floor window and | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
had no idea his actions were all being caught on camera. Detectives | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
say this blue gloved burglar took a tablet computer, 300 quid in cash | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
and wedding rings. Someone must recognise these distinctive tattoos. | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
Name him, please. If the recognised anyone in that lot, get in touch | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
using the numbers on the screen. Welcome back to the Marine unit in | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
Wapping. This is the oldest police station in London but there's | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
nothing old-fashioned about how they keep their fleet of boats seaworthy. | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
Stuart Simpson joins me now. What types of boats or you have access to | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
hear? A variety of. We will use different ones in different areas. | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
This is a 20 47 vessel, very happy in central London and is very good | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
on the estuary. How much strain to the boats have on the water? We have | :18:04. | :18:14. | |
47 miles of Thames Water and we have about 17 boroughs and about 250 | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
miles inland waterway. This boat, at full throttle, we use one litre of | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
fuel every minute. I go through 7000 litres a week. That a lot. Clearly, | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
these guys did a dedicated team to manage these boats. Let me introduce | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
James Coombes, the engineering manager here at the workshop. James, | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
what type of problems do you encounter with the boats when they | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
come out of the water? Several different things to small repairs to | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
major damage. How long does it take to repair a boat once it is damaged? | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
For small damage, we tried to get out within a day so it's | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
operational. Major repairs could be a couple of weeks quite easily. When | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
we do the servicing, it's done every 100 hours on a normal pleasure boat, | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
it will have 400 hours in its lifetime full that we do 100 hours | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
every month, so that's how much servicing needs to be done. It is | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
24-hour servicing, isn't it? We are on call 24-hour and we support of | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
the police 24-hour was a week. This boat lift is pretty unique to you. | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
If the only one in the country and we can lift anything on any tide on | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
the River Thames. Let's take a look for some what are you doing now? | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
John is fitting some props. Would you like to have a go? Why not? It's | :19:43. | :19:51. | |
pretty heavy. There we go. Nice and secure. It's great to see | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
behind-the-scenes the amazing work these guys do. This boat is merely | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
Billy to go out, Jean-Claude Juncker. Next,. Can you help catch | :19:58. | :20:13. | |
the Hertfordshire police help them catch these burglars? For the past | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
20 years, this couple has been living here. It's very nice, Woods | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
at the end of the road and we very much enjoyed it here. It's where | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
they brought up their 18-year-old son, Tom. There's lots of young | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
people around, families around, people to play in the street with | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
and play in the woods, as well, so it was decent, as a kid. But in | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
February this year, this peaceful looking street they'd host to some | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
unwanted guests. Early morning at the beginning of February this year, | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
the family left their home for the day. They returned ten hours later. | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
I had been at school all day and my dad had been at work and he picked | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
me up from school. But something was wrong. It is jammed. We tried to | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
open the front door but it was locked so we could not open the door | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
even with the key. The door had been bolted from the inside. I said | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
that's a sign we may have been broken into. I thought maybe earlier | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
that day. Despite their best efforts, they could not get in. What | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
they didn't realise was the man who had locked the amount were still in | :21:32. | :21:42. | |
the house. Dad! There attempt at a sneaky getaway over the neighbours | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
fence was captured on CCTV. As two of the men made their way over the | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
fence, the third was not as covert as he hoped. I heard something | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
scratching the fence by the front garden and then I heard something | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
heavy drop-down. And I looked over and I just saw the guy who are just | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
jumped down from the top of the fence standing below it looking | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
shifty. With that, Paul and Tom chase them down the street. I don't | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
know what I would have done had I caught him but it ran straight after | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
him. And adrenaline rush, especially when they jumped in a car and | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
screamed away. It was intense. They got away but not before Tom got some | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
vital information. I watch a lot of police programmes and I know they | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
can track a lot of things from a number plate so I thought get the | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
number plate and remember it. With the car registration and the CCTV, | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
police are hopeful someone knows who these athletic intruders are. The | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
sheer quality of the footage is excellent. You can see the faces of | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
two of the three offenders really well and there will be somebody out | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
there who knows these people. The way they've conducted this burglary, | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
shows they've done this before and I'm in no doubt they will do it | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
again so we'd like to catch up with them. It turns out Paul and Tom had | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
a lucky escape. They disturbed the would-be thieves before they even | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
had a chance to take anything. I've never really been affected by crime | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
before so I'm a lot more aware of people around here. The fact that | :23:21. | :23:28. | |
people might be out to do wrong. So, can you help? | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
Budding detective Tom was able to get the number plate | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
of the car, which allowed officers to track it down. | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
It turned out to be a green Fiat Stilo Estate like this one, | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
with registration number AV53 RRX, and the police found it | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
We would like to stress that this car now has new owners, | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
However, officers would still be interested in hearing from anyone | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
who may have seen this car around Borehamwood on the evening of 1st | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
There's also this fantastic CCTV image. | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
So, if you know who these men are or think you may any | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
information that can help, please get in touch. | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
Now it's time for a look at today's Wanted Faces. | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
Police forces around the country are asking | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
We start with John Paul Connors - although he uses a number | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
of other names, including Peter or Paul Connelly, | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
Michael or Jimmy Connors or Matthew O'Neil. | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
He was due to appear in court in connection with two | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
He's 25 and has connections to Leicester, Northamptonshire | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
and West Yorkshire, and has a two-inch scar on his left arm. | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
Do you recognise this man, 33-year-old Adel Rahim? | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
Although you may know him as Safi Farkos or Nordenne Saifi. | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
He's wanted for questioning by Met Police in connection | :24:47. | :24:48. | |
with numerous thefts of handbags from pubs and bars. | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
Rahim is 6'1" and may be in the Lambeth, | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
Shadwell or Southwark areas of London. | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
although he also goes by numerous other names, | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
including Michael Hannon and Martin Connors. | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
Detectives in Greater Manchester want to question him | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
after a vulnerable man paid tens of thousands of pounds | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
Rooney is 35 and has an Irish accent and scars on his face. | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
He travels extensively but has links to the West Midlands, | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
Detectives want to speak to him after threats were made to a woman. | :25:20. | :25:29. | |
He's also wanted for questioning over immigration offences. | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
Originally from Afghanistan, 31-year-old Khushall is known | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
to have friends in London, the West Midlands and Wolverhampton. | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
He has acid burn marks on both of his upper arms and a tattoo | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
of an Arabic symbol of his left thumb. | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
If you recognise any of these faces, make sure you get in touch | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
Or, if you prefer, you can call Crimestoppers anonymously. | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
Michelle. Now imagine how you would feel if armed robbers were holding | :25:57. | :26:11. | |
your wife captive and you were powerless to do anything about it. | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
Please be warned this next appeal is a particularly serious one. | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
I was so scared at the time. The gun was so near to me. I couldn't feel | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
the pain but only I'm thinking, my wife, I had to save my wife. I'm | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
still scared. Still scared now. Mohan and Yuvana have been married | :26:32. | :26:48. | |
for five years and four four of those I have worked side-by-side to | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
-- in Penge, south London. I love my wife. At home, we are like a family. | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
It's quite good to work together because we balance each other. But | :27:02. | :27:10. | |
last October, things took a harrowing term. It was the end of a | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
long shift and Mohan and Yuvana were shutting up at the back of the shop | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
as the rest of the staff waited at the front ready to go home. We had | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
rung up all the tales and my husband was taking care of the deliveries, | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
tidying up for the next day. Then I go outside, suddenly two guys are | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
shouting. From out of the darkness, two men suddenly attacked Mohan. I | :27:39. | :27:50. | |
told them to take whatever. He had a knife and tried to stab my stomach. | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
I tried to stop him. He stabbed the knife in my hand. Sorry... Mohan had | :27:58. | :28:11. | |
been stabbed twice, once in the hand and once in the stomach. He was | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
bleeding heavily as the men ran into the storeroom towards Yuvana. I | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
heard some noise. I went up to the door. Two men came straight in front | :28:24. | :28:32. | |
of me. Yuvana was face-to-face with the two men and had no idea where | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
her husband was. I saw the knife with the blood. But still I can't do | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
anything because one has a knife and one had a gun and I could not do | :28:44. | :28:46. | |
anything at that moment. I was scared. They were asking me to open | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
the safe. But there was a problem. Yuvana | :28:51. | :29:01. | |
couldn't open the safe - the keys were outside with Mohan. I was | :29:02. | :29:08. | |
shaking like anything about time. He is two steps away from me and the | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
gun is very near, it is like one foot away, the gun is so near to me. | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
So I said, "Don't do anything". So scared at that time. Even though he | :29:21. | :29:26. | |
was seriously injured, Mohan was only worrying about one thing. I am | :29:27. | :29:33. | |
thinking, I have to save my wife. Maybe he tried to kill her. And | :29:34. | :29:39. | |
shouting, "Please help me, my wife is inside, please help me". Mohan | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
staggered to the front of the store, trying to alert the other stuff. | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
Back inside and unable to crack the safe, the men had to settle for the | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
leftover till money. Since I cashed up all the money, there was not a | :29:54. | :30:01. | |
lot of money. They just grabbed all the money and went outside. The men | :30:02. | :30:07. | |
fled out of the back. Are terrified Yuvana was finally reunited with | :30:08. | :30:10. | |
Mohan and that's when she realised what had happened to him. My husband | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
came with blood all over his hand and there was blood everywhere. | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
Wherever he walks, it's full of blood. She was really worried and | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
she's crying and shouting, "What happened? What happened?" I said, | :30:29. | :30:36. | |
"Don't cry, call the police and call the ambulance first". | :30:37. | :30:48. | |
Mohan is very lucky to be alive. This is an absolutely horrific crime | :30:49. | :30:55. | |
against good, hard-working, honest people and the victim, Mohan, and | :30:56. | :30:58. | |
his wife have been really affected by what happened. Mohan had to have | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
major surgery following the stabbing. Thankfully the knife | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
didn't hit any major organs but eight months on, he still hasn't | :31:07. | :31:12. | |
been able to return to work. I couldn't sleep at night time. I | :31:13. | :31:20. | |
really am struggling now. Psychologically, I'm still scared, | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
still scared of the darkness still. Sometimes when I see my hand, I see | :31:27. | :31:34. | |
my stomach and the injury. Sometimes she cries. Such a frightening | :31:35. | :31:42. | |
experience for Mohan and Yuvana. Dimeck Blackburn, who was | :31:43. | :31:44. | |
investigating this harrowing case, joins me now. What do we know about | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
these men? Both suspects were black. The first I would describe as 6'2", | :31:50. | :31:55. | |
skinny build, wearing a white hooded top with black patches over the | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
front of the shoulders. He was wearing dark trousers, dark trainers | :32:01. | :32:06. | |
with a white soul. The second suspect was just short of 5'6", a | :32:07. | :32:12. | |
slightly stocky build, who was wearing a full faced crash visor | :32:13. | :32:16. | |
with a white emblem on the rear of it, which was quite distinctive. | :32:17. | :32:20. | |
Wedded the men go after the incident? The men ran off down | :32:21. | :32:28. | |
Bourdon Road, which is effectively a way from Elmers end Road, westbound, | :32:29. | :32:33. | |
into a warren of streets and unfortunately, that was the last | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
side of the two men. This is a really serious crime, isn't it? It's | :32:38. | :32:42. | |
a very serious crime and it's very rarely that the flying squad see | :32:43. | :32:48. | |
such violence used. Hugely excessive in its nature. Remember, this is a | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
local co-operative store and won't contain a great deal of money. The | :32:53. | :32:59. | |
suspects made off with ?200 to ?300 and in doing so, stabbed one | :33:00. | :33:02. | |
individual and levelled a firearm at another. We saw the extent of | :33:03. | :33:09. | |
Mohan's injuries. How is he doing? Mohan has received physical | :33:10. | :33:11. | |
injuries, as we know, stab wounds to the abdomen and lower arms. These | :33:12. | :33:17. | |
are significant in their own right but I think the more significant | :33:18. | :33:23. | |
piece of the injury that Mohan has received a psychological. Both he | :33:24. | :33:26. | |
and his wife have been hugely traumatised by these utterly | :33:27. | :33:31. | |
unacceptable crimes. Thank you very much. If you do have any answers for | :33:32. | :33:35. | |
us at all, please do get in touch. Details are on your screen. | :33:36. | :33:38. | |
In the UK someone is recorded missing every two minutes | :33:39. | :33:40. | |
with almost two thirds of cases involving children and young people. | :33:41. | :33:43. | |
Thankfully, most are are found safe and well but for some families | :33:44. | :33:46. | |
During this series of Crimewatch Roadshow we will meet | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
families who have been affected by loved ones going missing. | :33:51. | :33:54. | |
To launch this, we have a very special performance coming up | :33:55. | :33:57. | |
Each member of this incredible group has been touched in some way by | :33:58. | :34:04. | |
That was their latest single "I Hope" which was released last | :34:05. | :34:34. | |
month for International Missing Children's Day. | :34:35. | :34:35. | |
Three members of the choir are with me now. | :34:36. | :34:38. | |
Peter, Rachel and Peter, welcome to the programme. | :34:39. | :34:43. | |
Peter, your daughter Claudia Lawrence went missing back in 2009 | :34:44. | :34:53. | |
from her home in York. Why did you want to get involved with this | :34:54. | :34:56. | |
choir? Well, I've always loved music and singing and because of the | :34:57. | :35:02. | |
connection which had to develop with Missing People, which is a fabulous | :35:03. | :35:07. | |
charity, when the choir was formed, I just wanted to be part of it. How | :35:08. | :35:13. | |
has the choir helped you so far? The message that goes out from the songs | :35:14. | :35:19. | |
that we sing is just so powerful, and there is ie Hope, and the single | :35:20. | :35:27. | |
which Peter has written, and I just hope someone will see this today and | :35:28. | :35:30. | |
come forward, finally, as we have been pleading for seven years now, | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
to give us the information we know they have about Claudia's | :35:36. | :35:38. | |
disappearance. You know the information is out there, you just | :35:39. | :35:43. | |
need them to come forward. Rachel, your brother, Richey Edwards from | :35:44. | :35:46. | |
the monetary features, it was 20 years ago now that he went missing. | :35:47. | :35:51. | |
-- the Manic Street Preachers. What do you think he would make of this | :35:52. | :35:56. | |
single? Richard has been missing over 21 years and the song we are | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
going to sing today is I Miss You. We don't know if Richard is alive or | :36:01. | :36:05. | |
dead. If he is out there listening, we want him to know that we miss him | :36:06. | :36:09. | |
terribly and we want him to come back. Has the choir helped you by | :36:10. | :36:13. | |
Ian able to talk to other people in a similar situation? -- being able. | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
Every situation is different but the experiences of those left behind | :36:20. | :36:23. | |
seem remarkably the same, so it's a way of getting together and sharing | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
in those experiences. Peter, you are going to perform for us later, | :36:29. | :36:34. | |
singing a song that you wrote. Your son was 15 when he went missing in | :36:35. | :36:38. | |
1998. How did you come up with this song? I was invited three years ago | :36:39. | :36:43. | |
by Claire Cook at Missing People to make a speech at the annual | :36:44. | :36:51. | |
charity's Christmas carol concert at Saint Martins and in London and I | :36:52. | :37:05. | |
mentioned that I had sung a song -- St Martin's in the Field. And she | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
asked me why I didn't come along and sing it after the speech. Jokingly, | :37:10. | :37:15. | |
I said yes but she was serious. She sent me along to a wonderful person, | :37:16. | :37:22. | |
James Hawkins, and I succeeded in performing the song in front of 800 | :37:23. | :37:27. | |
people but the experience is wonderful. I felt as though I was | :37:28. | :37:32. | |
singing in this wonderful church directly to my son and it was so | :37:33. | :37:39. | |
healing for me and wonderful to do that. And as a result of that, | :37:40. | :37:46. | |
Claire and James thought, if it helped me it could help others who | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
have had missing loved ones and so they decided to form a choir and we | :37:51. | :37:59. | |
went on to produce two singles, I Hope and I Miss You, and I hope that | :38:00. | :38:03. | |
both of these songs will promote awareness of the fat that so many | :38:04. | :38:07. | |
people, especially children... 140,000 children a year are reported | :38:08. | :38:13. | |
missing in the United Kingdom and we also hope that your viewers will | :38:14. | :38:19. | |
download our songs and help the charity to do its wonderful work. It | :38:20. | :38:24. | |
is the only charity in the UK that helps those who have missing loved | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
ones. OK. It is an amazing cause. You are all doing it for the same | :38:30. | :38:33. | |
reason, to raise awareness did it is brilliant what you are doing, so | :38:34. | :38:37. | |
thank you so much to all of you for coming in. | :38:38. | :38:41. | |
As promised, we will have a very special performance from the choir. | :38:42. | :38:45. | |
I've heard them in rehearsals and they are brilliant. They're all | :38:46. | :38:48. | |
waiting patiently behind us. Michelle, back to you. Banks, Rav. | :38:49. | :38:53. | |
Earlier, you saw my rather nervous attempt at abseiling down a wall | :38:54. | :38:58. | |
here at the Marine unit. We've got some experts on board who are going | :38:59. | :39:01. | |
to show us how to do a rescue at height and we are joined by PC Pete | :39:02. | :39:07. | |
Sandel who you saw in the film. Talk me through what's going to happen. | :39:08. | :39:12. | |
What we've got here is one of our colleagues who has got stuck and | :39:13. | :39:15. | |
that can occur because they have a failure in their equipment or they | :39:16. | :39:19. | |
get injured or something like that, and my colleague Nigel has abseiled | :39:20. | :39:23. | |
down to them. The first thing to do is to make them safe. Jane, our | :39:24. | :39:30. | |
victim, has been fitted with a harness and she won't have a rescue | :39:31. | :39:34. | |
stripe but we carry one of these, which is a rescue strop. That is | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
placed around the waist of the individual, pulled up under their | :39:40. | :39:42. | |
chest and it is a way of making them safe. The first thing to do is make | :39:43. | :39:46. | |
them safe and then attach them to the climate. Nigel has been able to | :39:47. | :39:50. | |
recover the casualty and make them safe by taking them up through the | :39:51. | :39:54. | |
window and Nigel is now going to make his way down on the twin lines | :39:55. | :39:59. | |
to the bottom of the ground. So the process that is happening here... | :40:00. | :40:04. | |
We've seen Nigel rescuing the other person and he's taken himself down | :40:05. | :40:08. | |
safely to the shoreline. How important is it for you guys to be | :40:09. | :40:11. | |
able to train and do this safely? The most important thing for us, | :40:12. | :40:17. | |
because of the nature of working at height, is health and safety of our | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
colleagues and the public. So we train regularly. Once a month, the | :40:22. | :40:27. | |
officers are put through a series of tests and one of those tests is to | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
carry out a rescue. They have to be able to rescue themselves but they | :40:32. | :40:35. | |
also have to be able to rescue a colleague and we are required to do | :40:36. | :40:39. | |
that practice by law. You really can't be scared of heights with | :40:40. | :40:43. | |
this, can you? It doesn't hurt to be scared of heights. You have to | :40:44. | :40:47. | |
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 | :40:51. | :40:55. | |
very expensive to maintain and provide in the first place, but | :40:56. | :41:02. | |
safety is always at no cost. What high profile cases have you and your | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
team been across? If you think that any large-scale public event, | :41:07. | :41:09. | |
through the Olympics for instance, there is a search regime in place on | :41:10. | :41:13. | |
the ground and we provide that same capability at heights. Something | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
like the helicopter crash a couple of years ago, we were required to | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
recover evidence from the roof of about 452. You've got a very busy | :41:24. | :41:28. | |
week this week. What's going on? This is a busy time of year with | :41:29. | :41:32. | |
lots of ceremonial events, so we have the Trooping the Colour, the | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
Queen's birthday, so later on today we are out into central London to | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
carry out part of the search regime, again, searching at height, doing | :41:42. | :41:45. | |
what our colleagues do on the ground. You've been in the police | :41:46. | :41:49. | |
force for 38 years. What has been the most rewarding thing about your | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
dog? I've enjoyed every year that I've been here. The last few years | :41:54. | :41:56. | |
have been particularly challenging, because I've had to learn. I was in | :41:57. | :42:01. | |
decline before I came here. I've had to develop those skills since I came | :42:02. | :42:06. | |
here. This is a second job for us. We're all Marine officers first, so | :42:07. | :42:09. | |
we have to learn how to drive boats etc before we move into anything | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
like this. Pete, thank you very much. Just time for a quick update | :42:14. | :42:18. | |
on what's coming in on the course. A good update already on what -- on | :42:19. | :42:26. | |
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 | :42:36. | :42:38. | |
be back on his way to serve his term in jail. Michelle, what are you up | :42:39. | :42:43. | |
to tomorrow? Tomorrow, we're heading out of London to Gravesend Kent, | :42:44. | :42:48. | |
where we are going to be at a specialist training facility, where | :42:49. | :42:52. | |
they teach police how to handle rioters. I've been told I'm going to | :42:53. | :42:56. | |
be put in a few tight spot and dangerous situations myself, so make | :42:57. | :43:01. | |
sure you join me at 9:15am tomorrow. For now, though, I'm going to head | :43:02. | :43:05. | |
out on the Thames with these guys. Guys, are you ready? All right, see | :43:06. | :43:12. | |
you tomorrow. Thanks, Michelle. To see any of today's appeals again, | :43:13. | :43:18. | |
head to our website. We are going to be back tomorrow morning but until | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
then, I'm going to let our amazing Missing People Choir singers out. -- | :43:23. | :43:27. | |
Singh bus out. # Maybe tomorrow | :43:28. | :43:40. | |
I'll wake up to find you | :43:41. | :44:27. |