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On the show today... The men who cashed in when an innocent woman | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
fell victim to an elaborate scam. I am thinking, oh, my God, I've lost | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
all that money. This is awful, and it just... And I'm looking at crimes | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
against our heritage and why beautiful buildings like this are | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
under attack from criminals. You're watching Crimewatch Roadshow. | :00:33. | :00:58. | |
Hello and welcome to Crimewatch Roadshow. We're live every weekday | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
morning. The phone lines are already open so get dialling if you can | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
help. Also wanted a's programme... -- on today's programme. The couple | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
to rise in their own home for the collection of gems and Jules. They | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
pushed us upstairs into the bathroom and we were both tied up and then he | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
smashed the handle of the bathroom door. And who let the dogs out? We | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
will put these canine officers to the test live. Our team are | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
continuing their road trip around the UK. Today they've made it to St | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
Albans Cathedral in Hertfordshire. Michelle, what are you doing there? | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
Well, St Albans has a historic past with traders to match, but would you | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
do the right thing if you found artefacts like these hiding beneath | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
your feet? First, though, imagine being | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
watched, followed and then leased for two grand, all of it in broad | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
daylight and without you suspecting nothing. -- fleeced for two grand. I | :02:02. | :02:13. | |
always make sure I put my money away, my card away, before I leave | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
the bank. Everything is zipped up. It's like breathing. You just do it, | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
it's automatic. Because you got to protect yourself and you've got to | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
be aware. You can't just wander around with your head in the clouds. | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
I've lived in Hitchin all my life. Everybody knows me, I know | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
everybody, and it's lovely. Nice neighbours, nice people, no | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
problems. I'm very active. I go out every day, except Thursday. I have | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
to do some housework sometimes! On the morning of February the 16th, | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
Cynthia made her way into Hitchin town centre. I cook a lot for the | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
family. I do cakes and pies and things and I wanted some cooking | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
stuff and stuff like that. First trip was to the bank, because after | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
the weekend I needed some cash. I just felt safe in the bank. You | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
don't expect to have anything happen actually in the bank. Without | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
realising, Cynthia had caught the attention of two other visitors to | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
the bank. As she waited patiently for the cash machine, one man was | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
watching her whilst the second moved in closer. As a Cynthia was at the | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
machine, police believe the men were observing her entering her pin | :03:45. | :03:53. | |
number. Cynthia left the bank under the watchful eye of one of the | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
suspects, who was waiting in the street outside. He had her Pin but | :03:58. | :04:07. | |
he still needed her bank card. Both men followed her every move as she | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
continued her shopping. I went to the post office to pay my gas and | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
electric. As I walked down I thought, I'll go and have a look in | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
the help the aged charity shop. It was year police believe they took | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
the opportunity to strike. Suddenly this guy was immediately in | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
front of me. He said, "Excuse me, madam, I am French and I would like | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
to buy my mother a coat". Thinking, what has this got to do with me? He | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
said, "She's allergic to certain materials. Can you tell me what the | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
lining is made of?" I said, OK, I'll have a look. I put my bag down | :04:54. | :05:03. | |
between my uncles. -- ankles. It didn't register that he was doing | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
any harm. It really didn't. The man left an Cynthia picked up the back. | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
It was when she realised something was wrong. -- picked up her back. I | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
realised my wallet was sticking out of my bag. I knew it should be in | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
the zipper, I just knew. The man didn't hang about. By the time | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
Cynthia realised what had happened, he was on the move and had walked | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
across the market towards Barclays bank on the high street. I just | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
couldn't believe it and what I did was run for Barclays. And I don't | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
run. I don't run for a boss, never mind Barclays or anywhere, I really | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
don't, but I did that dated top But the suspect was quicker and was | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
already one step ahead of her. She arrived at the bank to get help from | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
staff. What she didn't realise was the man slipped straight past, | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
having already raided her account it took I am thinking, "Oh, my God, | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
I've lost all that money. " it just... In total, ?2250 was stolen | :06:10. | :06:21. | |
from her account that date. I was a target, definitely. I feel perfectly | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
safe in my own town. It never occurred to me until afterwards. I | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
thought, "Why would anybody follow me? I'm an ordinary lady" I just go | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
shopping and do all them silly things". Police believe this was a | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
well rehearsed crime. She thought that she was doing absolutely | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
everything right with her own personal security. It was just | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
really unfortunate, what happened to her, that there are team of | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
professional criminals out there who are determined at any cost to target | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
vulnerable people who don't even realise that they are vulnerable. I | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
don't let anything affect me. I go where I want to go and nobody should | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
be able to do that to me but what a cheek to go into my bank and take my | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
money. What a net! What a net indeed. DI Lynda Coates from Pavic | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
police joins me now. This happened in broad daylight in the middle of a | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
town centre. What do we know about these men? What we know from CCTV is | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
that they get out of a small dark-coloured car and make their way | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
to Barclays bank and identify Mrs Parker as being their target. They | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
follow her around the town for about half an hour before they find the | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
opportunity, where they can distract her, steal her card. They've gone | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
straight back to Barclays, where they have drawn out ?2000 using her | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
card and her pin. They've got back into their car which, unfortunately, | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
is quite obscured by another vehicle, so we can't identify | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
exactly what it is, so we are asking for witnesses today. Do they | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
recognise these men and if so, would they be able to call us so we can | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
take this further forward. Where do I go afterwards? Do they carry on | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
using the card? Yes, they did. They've driven away from the town | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
centre to Stevenage, Grove Road, whether as a BP garage, where they | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
have used the card to withdraw ?200 and then across the road in a small | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
newsagent's, they've withdrawn a further ?50. How did they get the | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
Pin? We think they have been able to look and Milik at the way people use | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
their hands when they using their keypads. We know that these | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
individuals were quite some distance away from Mrs Parker when she put | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
her Pin number in seven wouldn't have been able to see it, so we | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
think they've mimicked her hand movements. Thank you very much. It | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
goes to show, you need to be extra careful at cash machines. Rav, back | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
to you. Thanks. Those are great CCTV images so someone must know who they | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
are. If you do, get on the phone. The South Wales Police dog team is | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
one of the most called upon unit in the country. They have been involved | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
in some of the biggest police investigations in the UK and abroad, | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
from the disappearance of Madeleine McCann to the murder of Bristol | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
teenager Becky Watts. So what makes these docs so special? I'm joined by | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
Sgt Ian Roderick and PC Russ Jones with new recruit Jess and this cute | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
but noisy puppy is Ruby. And I'm delighted to welcome schoolchildren | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
from Cogan School, who have sponsored Jess. Ian, if I can start | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
with yourself, what makes these docs so vital to police? They're canine | :09:50. | :09:58. | |
cops, really. The dog and handler work as a team. We ask them to do | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
jobs that are too dangerous or difficult for people to do. A vital | :10:04. | :10:12. | |
part of crime-fighting, really, and they are a vital tool to Dock Russ, | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
you are looking after Jess, one of the newest recruits. How those she | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
adapted? She has adapted very well and we are now working as an | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
effective team. She is very well-behaved. You are going to | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
demonstrate now, Ian. One of your officers going to show us what the | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
seven dogs can do. This is Ben, and eight-year-old springer spaniel and | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
he is a drugs, cash and weapons recovery dog so he is trained to | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
locate any of those substances. You have hidden something in the studio | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
which the dog is going to look for. There is a stash of currency hidden | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
about the premises and Ben logs onto the target odour and he will freeze | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
in front of it. A passive response? Pass a vindication. We don't want | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
him interfering with it so we lose any opportunities for forensic | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
recovery. You don't normally think the cash has a strong scent but | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
there was obvious we something there. What is he doing now? He | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
froze on that article. And he has found it! You saw the handler | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
throwing something at the dog. We give the dog his ball and that is | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
his reward for finding the article. We are going to meet some of the | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
schoolchildren from Cogan School. You've got a particular interest, | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
thank you, James, in the dogs yourself, because you've met Jess | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
before, the dog, and you raised the money, you sponsored the dog. What | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
did you do? To help fund money for Jess, me and my little sister Emily, | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
at home we have a reward system where if we do extra jobs and good | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
work, we get a marble, so each marble is worth 20p and my little | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
sister got 50 marbles equalling to ?10 and I got 100 marbles, equalling | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
up to ?20, so in total... And you gave the money for Jess? Brilliant! | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
Isabel, you met Jess before. What did you think? We had a cake sale. | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
We raised ?233 and I brought some cupcakes and roles and stuff. And | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
just give me a show of hands out all of you, who thinks you might fancy | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
being a dog handler when you grow up? All of you? Yeah! Four! | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
Brilliant. Well done for raising the money and love to meet you all. | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
Later in the programme, we're going to see how these dogs react in a | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
potentially life-threatening situation and you are not going to | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
want to miss it. Michelle, back to you. Welcome back | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
to the beautiful cathedral in St Albans, which has had its fair share | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
of visitors over the centuries. It has been a place of pilgrimage for | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
1700 years and the entire county of Hertfordshire is one for history | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
buffs, with its Roman connections, but sadly, historical sites like | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
this often fall victim to heritage crime. To explore this a little | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
further, we've created our own heritage crime scene and to help me | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
decipher the evidence, let me introduce Sergeant James Bartlett | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
from Hertfordshire police and Mark Harrison, a former chief inspector | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
and now you are crime and policing adviser with historical England. Let | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
me start with you first. If we go over here, we've got some smashed | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
glass in this evidence back. What is the relevance of this? Sadly, | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
churches like the Cathedral and others in the area are victims of | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
crime, anti-social behaviour, left etc and we have had here and at | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
other locations stained glass windows smashed. -- theft etc. Let's | :13:44. | :13:52. | |
move on here. We've got this large head. Talked me through this. This | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
is a statute that stood in the town of Hartford for a couple of hundred | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
years and sadly, it has been damaged and decapitated and, again, a big | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
issue in Hartford, it was a focal point and lots of people are upset | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
by what has occurred. It is a real shame for the community. Thank you. | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
I will move over to Mark to talk what catches your eye about this | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
evidence? Looking across here, I can see objects that may have been used | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
in committing heritage crime. We've got a can of spray paint that has | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
been used in graffiti, some matches that have been used to set fire to a | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
historic site or building and often, these cases, the damage caused is | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
irreversible and it is a lost not just to the owner but to the nation. | :14:40. | :14:49. | |
What about the stone slabs overhear? Everyone at home will have heard | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
about the theft of metal but the theft of stone is also an emerging | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
problem, people are using it in landscape projects, for people to | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
check that their builders and managers are using properly sourced | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
material. Do you have a problem with stone theft in Hertfordshire? It is | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
the problem all over, we have experienced it. A milestone was | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
recently stolen from not far away from here, luckily through our | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
Heritage Watch and volunteers we were able to recover that damaged. | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
But what Mark has described this something that occurs. Thank you | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
very much. They are going to be joining me later as we look at the | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
growing issue of not talking and we will have an array of hidden | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
treasures that might be of interest. -- night talking. | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
Here is what is still to come. The brutal burglars who attacked a woman | :15:49. | :15:59. | |
in her home. And all museums want visitors, but not ones who sneak | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
around in the dead of night. Despite the fact it looked slightly comical, | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
the way he was creeping around, it does put a major strain on our | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
finances when things like this happen. First, we need you to look | :16:14. | :16:22. | |
at today's suggestion of crooks caught on camera, some of these are | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
nasty. -- today's selection. December of last year, these two men | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
are wandering past the entrance of business Park in Oxfordshire. One of | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
them is holding a bag and they walk up the path and out of sight. When | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
they next appear, they have had a costume change and are wearing | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
matching tracksuits and caps. It looks like they try to work out how | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
to get into the office block. Moments later, they are in. And it's | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
not a social visit. They make threats to the petrified staff | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
members, one of them even snaps and expensive laptop in half stop the | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
intimidating Jarreau caused ?3500 worth of damage. -- intimidating | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
duel. Saturday evening at a bar in central | :17:12. | :17:25. | |
London, and this guy is on his way to the toilet. A short while later, | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
he's heading back to the bar, chatting to a couple of lads. Watch | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
what he does next. He had but one of them straight in the face. The | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
victim had to go to hospital and had his eyebrow stitched back together. | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
Who is this.? It is a snowy day in March this | :17:46. | :17:58. | |
year. This woman is dressed for the weather, and also armed for the job. | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
As she waves her gun, detectives say she is demanding money from the | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
till. The shopkeeper refuses to help her, so she sets to work out how to | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
open the till herself. She takes off her gloves and managers to get the | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
draw open. She collect around ?400 worth of takings and strolls out of | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
the shop. Someone must know who is under the hood. We are awaiting your | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
call. If you recognised anyone, get on the | :18:30. | :18:42. | |
phone now. Calls are free from landlines and mobile phones, or you | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
can text us. Texts will be charged at your standard message rate. | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
I am joined by DC Mandy Davies from Hertfordshire police who wants your | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
help with a frightening burglary that happened six miles up the road. | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
Tell us a bit more about it. It was just before 10pm on Saturday 14th of | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
May, from the young lady in question was home alone, as her parents had | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
gone out. She sat on the bench outside having a cigarette, when two | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
men approached from behind, wearing balaclavas, and one had a hockey | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
stick. They attacked her, the Quebec into the house where they were | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
joined by a third person. -- took her back into the house. It was a | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
horrible attack. They left with a safe and the victim's car. We can | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
see on the CCTV, they approached the property on foot and then they leave | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
with the car, how do they get the house? Unfortunately not, that's | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
what I'm here for today, I just want someone to come forward and say, did | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
you see them at 10pm that night, they all had balaclavas on, did you | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
see them before that, getting dropped off? Harpenden Townsend is | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
ten minutes away and we have Luton Road a couple of minutes away, they | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
did speed of the award Annabel's Lane. The suspect escaped with a | :20:17. | :20:25. | |
safe, has it been recovered? It's unfortunately not, it is a grey | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
safe, it was built by Burton Safes. It was empty so you can only get | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
into it with a cruel and an angle grinder, anyone who has seen the | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
safes, I believe it would have been dumped someone, please get in touch | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
with us. We have a similar car to the one that was stolen overhear, | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
have you any more details about it? It had a unique and the plate. -- | :20:51. | :20:59. | |
numberplate. And quite a distinctive colour, it is dark brown, it is a | :21:00. | :21:08. | |
4x4. They were only in the house for ten minutes and they sped off, they | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
had gone towards Annabel's Lane, the last sighting was Hampstead Road. | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
This was terrifying for her, how is she doing now? She is shocked, | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
terrified and frightened to go out in the dark, but I will say it is a | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
very rare crime and Hertfordshire is all a safe county to live in. If you | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
do have any information, you know what to do. If you have lived | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
happily in somewhere for over 50 years, you would surely feel safe | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
walking to your local shops but the one pensioner from Kent, that sense | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
of security has gone after she was the victim of a vicious robbery. The | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
coastal town of Folkestone in Kent, home to retired librarian and mother | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
of three, 80-year-old Joyce. Lived in Folkestone quite a while, since | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
1961. It's a very nice place, actually. Photos: nothing beats a | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
spot of shopping, and in the afternoon of Saturday 27th of | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
February she headed out to get her groceries. She doesn't carry a | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
handbag but puts her house keys and purse in a plastic bag. Joyce | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
visited a few shops and it was about 7pm when she finished and began to | :22:30. | :22:38. | |
walk to her son's house nearby. I crossed the crossing, past the | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
Catholic church, it was a bit dark at that time. I was carrying a bit | :22:46. | :22:54. | |
of heavy shopping, this chap appears from the front of me. I was carrying | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
quite heavy bags, thought he was going to help me at first. But the | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
man was only there to help himself, and began to grab her bags. I was | :23:10. | :23:17. | |
saying, let go, let go! I was hanging on, he kept pulling and | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
pulling hard and then my wrist went. Joyce fell to the floor, letting go | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
of the bags. The robber fled, leaving her lying helplessly on the | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
street. I might have hit him with my stick but I couldn't do that. Joyce | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
had lost her money, her keys and had been left with a broken wrist. I had | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
an x-ray and they said it was quite a nasty break, actually. In the | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
beginning I couldn't pick things up. Her injuries meant she could no | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
longer go on living alone. I had to move in with my son, who has kindly | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
put me up. And put up with me! She has also had to say goodbye to her | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
beloved cat Toby. My cat has come into the category, for about six | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
weeks now. Joyce wants her attacker to be caught. Go to get him off the | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
street, he is dangerous, I would say. So here he is. Please take a | :24:26. | :24:34. | |
good look at do you recognise this man, last seen fleeing the scene in | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
the direction of Copthorne Gardens? He's described as white or olive | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
skinned, in his early 20s, quite tall, with stubble and wearing dark | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
clothes including a great family hat. Kent Police are keen to find | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
him. If his face rings a bell, you know what to do. | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
Police forces from around the country are asking | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
First up today are Peter Gifford and his partner Penelope Lawton. | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
49-year-old Gifford and 52-year-old Lawton didn't turn up | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
for their trial at Truro Crown Court for mortgage fraud. | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
They were found guilty in their absence of applying | :25:08. | :25:09. | |
fraudulently for mortgages to the sum of ?1.6 million. | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
Gifford was also found guilty at a later trial | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
They both have links to Falmouth, but could now be anywhere in Europe. | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
Next is this man, Fred Butcher, although he also calls | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
He was due to appear in court in connection with an attack | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
in which four members of a family were injured in a pub | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
in Banbury in Oxfordshire, but failed to turn up. | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
Butcher is 46 and has an Irish accent and a large scar | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
As well as Oxfordshire, he has links to North Hampshire | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
Finally, this is Kerol Farquharson, although he also calls himself | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
numerous other names including Christopher, Aaron, | :25:45. | :25:45. | |
He's 59 and was jailed for three years for burglary | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
He was released early on licence, but has failed to stick | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
to the conditions of his release and is now wanted back in prison. | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
He's 6'4" and of broad build and has a large scar | :26:02. | :26:03. | |
He's known around London, especially the Lewisham | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
If you recognise any of these faces, make sure you | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
pick up the phone and dial the number on screen. | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
We have been hearing all morning about heritage crime but even places | :26:17. | :26:25. | |
where they keep a close eye on precious objects aren't safe from | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
criminals. Luckily the night won the spent at the museum was captured on | :26:30. | :26:31. | |
CCTV. -- one criminal. We are a Victorian waterworks, we | :26:32. | :26:42. | |
has a unique collection of Victorian steam engines, they used to pump the | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
water the West London. To keep the museum going, donations from | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
visitors are vital. We don't have any external funding, we had to | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
generate all our own money in order to keep our engines running and to | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
run the museum, keep it open to the public. Donations are crucial to the | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
survival of the museum. You are constantly concerned about where | :27:09. | :27:10. | |
you're going to get the funding from, if you like to keep it going. | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
The museum has at his splash out on security. We have had issues with | :27:16. | :27:23. | |
small break-ins, we have two security systems, we have an | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
external and internal alarm which we set every day, so generally, we are | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
very good on security. But unfortunately their security wasn't | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
enough to keep one determined intruder out. It was well after | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
hours on 26th of March when two men decided to pay the museum visit. One | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
waited outside whilst the other climbed in through the window and | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
spent a lot of time wandering around. There was total of 20 | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
working inside the museum at the time, which is why the alarm hadn't | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
gone off. -- there was still a volunteer. The burglar by this time | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
had on himself with a knife. There was no money in the till so he used | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
the knife to smash the donation box. Taking ?200 from it. He can be seen | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
passing things to his mate, police believe the way he was able to gain | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
access so easily suggests he may have been there before. Not content | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
with the money he has talent, he also grabbed a 11 from the souvenir | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
shop. And went to some lengths to tidy up after himself, very | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
considerate. It meant it took the staff some time to realise they had | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
been burgled. The morning after the break-in, when we came into work, it | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
wasn't immediately evident that something had happened. It wasn't | :28:51. | :28:53. | |
until we saw the donations box that we saw that it was cracked and that | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
all the notes that were in the nation 's box the previous day were | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
no longer in there. -- the donation box. Despite the small amount taken, | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
police are taking it seriously. Aside from the theft, he has picked | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
up a knife. Had someone come across that person, what could have | :29:15. | :29:21. | |
happened? At best guess, looking place in between 20 and 30, maybe | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
older but it doesn't appear to be a young person, not a teenager. Five | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
to ten, quite slim, he has got through a window so fairly flexible. | :29:31. | :29:34. | |
Love plans or friends will be able to tell from the way he walks, is | :29:35. | :29:36. | |
that the first they know? Despite the fact that it looks | :29:37. | :29:46. | |
slightly, call, the way he was creeping around, it is actually | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
really hurtful and I think a lot of the volunteers and the staff felt | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
that it is just so unfair because we work so hard and people are so kind | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
and generous in terms of donating. For someone to just come in and take | :30:02. | :30:05. | |
that, while it might not be the crime of the century, it really does | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
put a major drain on our finances when things like this happen. | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
Let's have one more look at that intruder. If you know this beef with | :30:15. | :30:21. | |
a passion for history, burglary and even cleaning, please do get in | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
touch with us. Thanks, Rav. Hertfordshire police | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
need your help to catch the violent burglars who left a couple without | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
their hard earned retirement pot. Please be warned, this is a really | :30:36. | :30:36. | |
serious case. It was over ?50 and I bought a | :30:37. | :30:53. | |
couple of gold chains 40 years ago and out of that 50 quid, I ended up | :30:54. | :31:00. | |
at three Julys' shops. Peter and his wife Janet have worked together in | :31:01. | :31:07. | |
the jewellery trade for 40 years. Together they built up a successful | :31:08. | :31:10. | |
business specialising in customised jewellery. You make something for a | :31:11. | :31:17. | |
customer and you give it to them and they go, "That's absolutely lovely". | :31:18. | :31:25. | |
It's a real enjoyment. As they got older, and with Peter suffering from | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
arthritis, they sold their shops and instead run a local market stall one | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
day a week. This meant keeping their jewellery stock at home, making them | :31:35. | :31:42. | |
a potential target for thieves. In July last year, Peter and Janet | :31:43. | :31:47. | |
returned home from an evening out. We went to the pub, had a meal, | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
listened to the Irish band and then at about 11 o'clock we came home. | :31:52. | :31:59. | |
Janet just made a cup of tea. We sat down and we started hearing these | :32:00. | :32:10. | |
thugs from upstairs. -- thuds. By the time I got out of my seat, the | :32:11. | :32:14. | |
guy was standing in the doorway of the room. Get out! Get down. He had | :32:15. | :32:22. | |
a machete, shouting, "Sit down, sit down". The man threatened the | :32:23. | :32:28. | |
terrified couple with a Miss Betty -- machete and wasn't acting alone. | :32:29. | :32:32. | |
He let in an accomplice who was armed with a shotgun. They began to | :32:33. | :32:38. | |
rip necklaces, rings from the couple, before tying Janet upped it | :32:39. | :32:41. | |
they turned their attention to Peter. They said, "We know you do | :32:42. | :32:47. | |
the market, we know you do that. Where is the safe?" . Beta was | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
forced to lead the attack as to his safe. Once opened, they grabbed all | :32:54. | :32:58. | |
of the inside. But their ordeal still wasn't over. They pushed us | :32:59. | :33:05. | |
both up the stairs into the bathroom and we were both tied up. He stuffed | :33:06. | :33:12. | |
some socks in my mouth and put tape around my mouth and then he smashed | :33:13. | :33:18. | |
the handle off the bathroom door, so that we couldn't open the door. | :33:19. | :33:24. | |
Leaving the petrified couple tied up in the bathroom, the men fled. They | :33:25. | :33:34. | |
try to actually attack your castle. Police are desperate to know who | :33:35. | :33:38. | |
could have done this. This is the worst aggravated burglary I have | :33:39. | :33:45. | |
ever dealt with. The level of violence they used an Janet and | :33:46. | :33:50. | |
Peter was absolutely abhorrent and shopping. We believe that this | :33:51. | :33:53. | |
offence had been planned for a long time and we believe that the | :33:54. | :33:56. | |
offenders involved were professionals and they have done | :33:57. | :34:00. | |
this before. However, one of the offenders appeared to be extremely | :34:01. | :34:04. | |
nervous, to the extent that he was saying to the female victim, whilst | :34:05. | :34:09. | |
he was shoving socks in her mouth, he was saying sorry. It may suggest | :34:10. | :34:16. | |
that that offender has some sort of conscience for what he did on that | :34:17. | :34:20. | |
day and we just appeal to anybody out there, if there is any bit of | :34:21. | :34:24. | |
information you can give us, whether it is small, it really doesn't | :34:25. | :34:28. | |
matter, just to help us catch these criminals and bring them to justice. | :34:29. | :34:35. | |
Peter estimates the men made off with around ?80,000 worth of stock, | :34:36. | :34:39. | |
everything the couple had, and, as a result, they have been forced to | :34:40. | :34:42. | |
give up their business altogether. The stock that we had was our | :34:43. | :34:45. | |
pension and that was to see us through our old age. Obviously, | :34:46. | :34:52. | |
that's gone. But what stayed with the couple is the payment to stress | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
the attackers caused. -- pain and stress. It was very traumatic. It | :34:59. | :35:04. | |
still is, in a way, because you still get flashbacks to these things | :35:05. | :35:07. | |
and it irritates me that I don't know who these people are. It makes | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
you very nervous if you hear a bomb or anything, even though it will be | :35:13. | :35:18. | |
a year in July. I'm not the same person that I was. | :35:19. | :35:26. | |
A truly terrifying ordeal for Peter and Janet. DCI Katy Tucker is | :35:27. | :35:29. | |
working on the case. What do we know about the men who did this? There | :35:30. | :35:33. | |
are two men involved in this horrific incident. One was a white | :35:34. | :35:40. | |
male, aged between 20 and 30 years old. He was brandishing a machete | :35:41. | :35:45. | |
and was wearing a balaclava. The second man was a black male, who we | :35:46. | :35:51. | |
believe was aged about 30 and had a thickset build. There is something | :35:52. | :35:55. | |
extremely unusual in the blackmail's behaviour, in that when he was | :35:56. | :35:59. | |
shoving socks into Janet's mouth, he was apologising to her, which may | :36:00. | :36:04. | |
suggest that he has some sort of conscience. We have a replica of the | :36:05. | :36:10. | |
weapon that was used. I mean, this is just so frightening. Totally | :36:11. | :36:15. | |
horrific. As you can imagine, Janet and Peter had been out on a really | :36:16. | :36:21. | |
nice evening and they come home to a male threatening them with this | :36:22. | :36:24. | |
machete. They truly believed that they were going to be seriously | :36:25. | :36:29. | |
injured or worse, killed. What about the jewellery that was taken? Have | :36:30. | :36:33. | |
you any more details? There were several high-value items of | :36:34. | :36:36. | |
jewellery stolen. One in particular was quite distinct and red. It was a | :36:37. | :36:42. | |
Rolex watch with an 18 carat gold band with a diamond blue faced. So I | :36:43. | :36:47. | |
appeal to anybody, if anybody has come across this jewellery, please | :36:48. | :36:55. | |
phone in. Thank you so much. Obviously, the impact it has had an | :36:56. | :36:58. | |
Peter and Janet and their business is massive so if you do have any | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
information, get in touch with us. We've come out the back of the | :37:04. | :37:07. | |
studio now onto an old soaps set for a special demonstration we promised | :37:08. | :37:10. | |
you earlier. Welcome back to Ian and the rest of the team from South | :37:11. | :37:15. | |
Wales Police dog unit, who are just round the corner. You are going to | :37:16. | :37:18. | |
show us what one of the dogs can do in a potentially life-threatening | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
situation. You got all ready, poised, so take it away. -- you got | :37:23. | :37:35. | |
Orla. The dog has gone straight for the arm. We will let the dog get | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
under control first. She doesn't want to let go! There we go. If we | :37:40. | :37:49. | |
just come round here, Ian... Wow! That was pretty impressive. Talk me | :37:50. | :37:54. | |
through what just happened. Before we carry on, are you all right? I'm | :37:55. | :38:00. | |
fine! You are absolutely fine! The dog went straight for the arm - why | :38:01. | :38:05. | |
was that? They go for the right arm of the person. The majority of the | :38:06. | :38:13. | |
public all right handed and he would be carrying the weapon in that | :38:14. | :38:15. | |
answer we want to mobilise the weapon. The guy that came out with a | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
fake gun is one of your colleagues but he's not a small guy and he | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
couldn't shake off the dog. They do pack a punch. That's why the we | :38:24. | :38:29. | |
choose this breed of dog is. They pack a mean punch and they punch | :38:30. | :38:33. | |
their weight. They are agile, they are fit and very fast. How long | :38:34. | :38:39. | |
would it take to train a dog like Orla? This is a culmination of eight | :38:40. | :38:43. | |
years of experience, so her initial training is 30 weeks of duration and | :38:44. | :38:47. | |
then there is regular continuation training throughout the year. She is | :38:48. | :38:50. | |
assessed once you to make sure she is safe under the control. The more | :38:51. | :38:54. | |
experience they get and the more controlled, the better. Let's go | :38:55. | :39:05. | |
over and meet Ieuan. How was that for you? How have you found Orla to | :39:06. | :39:10. | |
train and work with? Very good. They pick at a very quick. Really | :39:11. | :39:14. | |
responsive. She is a very good dog. In your hand you got a toy and to | :39:15. | :39:21. | |
Orla, she is just doing it all to get a toy? It is just play for them! | :39:22. | :39:27. | |
This isn't an easy thing for the dogs, just like the human groups, it | :39:28. | :39:31. | |
is a selection process and not everyone of the dogs makes it | :39:32. | :39:35. | |
through the training. We invest a lot of time and money in dogs so we | :39:36. | :39:38. | |
want to make sure we've got the right package to start with. As you | :39:39. | :39:44. | |
saw with Ruby... Ruby was the puppy. She's come from very strong | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
bloodlines. Whilst it is nature and nurture, the nature has got to be | :39:49. | :39:51. | |
right before we can develop that and harness the ability. This is the | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
result, a fully trained recruited top thank you, everyone, for joining | :39:56. | :39:59. | |
us. Now let's go back to Michelle in St Albans. | :40:00. | :40:04. | |
Thanks, Rav. Welcome back to St Albans Cathedral and our heritage | :40:05. | :40:07. | |
crime scene, which contains some new evidence. Early in the programme, we | :40:08. | :40:11. | |
were talking about historic sites like this falling victim to heritage | :40:12. | :40:15. | |
crime but there is also a growing problem with the rogue use of these, | :40:16. | :40:21. | |
metal detectors. I'm joined by Mark Harrison, Sgt Jamie Bartlett and | :40:22. | :40:25. | |
David, the creator of the Roman Verulamium Museum down the road. | :40:26. | :40:31. | |
What is night hawking? Simply, people unlawfully removing objects | :40:32. | :40:34. | |
from above or below the ground, using metal detecting devices. How | :40:35. | :40:38. | |
are you going about tackling the problem? Working in partnership with | :40:39. | :40:43. | |
the police, the British Museum and the metal detecting community | :40:44. | :40:47. | |
themselves, we've launched Operation Chronos and this is to seek out that | :40:48. | :40:51. | |
very small criminal minority that are not following the rules. Jamie, | :40:52. | :40:56. | |
is this a problem for you in Hertfordshire? We do see night | :40:57. | :41:00. | |
hawking a lot in Hertfordshire. Just down the road from here, we have the | :41:01. | :41:04. | |
Roman theatre and the land that surrounds that is a magnet for | :41:05. | :41:08. | |
people coming looking for artefacts. It causes a problem to landowners | :41:09. | :41:13. | |
and farmers, people damaging their property to get onto the land, | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
damaging crops. It is a big issue with confrontation etc. If people | :41:19. | :41:22. | |
have been nighthawk, what do they need to look out for? What other" | :41:23. | :41:32. | |
Bob Clews tend to be excavations, damaged offences, damage to crops. | :41:33. | :41:37. | |
-- what art the Clews? We were heritage watch and we encourage | :41:38. | :41:45. | |
people to report suspicious activity to stick top We've got quite a few | :41:46. | :41:49. | |
artefacts and these are the type of things that I guess nighthawks would | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
be looking for. These are some of the objects that have been reported | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
to Roman Verulamium Museum by legitimate detectorists working | :41:58. | :42:01. | |
within the Treasure Act. We have a medieval button, and eighth | :42:02. | :42:04. | |
centuries suction disc mount and a Roman gold coin, early fifth | :42:05. | :42:09. | |
century, one of 159 found in a horde. What about these? These are a | :42:10. | :42:15. | |
couple of jokes and a Roman patter and these are from a burial which | :42:16. | :42:19. | |
adds all the objects associated with them and they came in the terms of | :42:20. | :42:25. | |
the Treasure Act. What is the impact of people find these things and | :42:26. | :42:27. | |
don't bring them back to the museums? If they are not reported to | :42:28. | :42:31. | |
us, the museum cannot purchase the object and put them on display in | :42:32. | :42:35. | |
the first instance, so we don't see the artefacts, and secondly, we lose | :42:36. | :42:38. | |
all the information associated with them. In the case of a gold coins, | :42:39. | :42:43. | |
we found 159. One alone doesn't have much significance but 159, it's a | :42:44. | :42:48. | |
lot of money in one area and shows that at a time when the Romans were | :42:49. | :42:51. | |
leaving Britain, there was still a huge amount of wealth in this area. | :42:52. | :42:56. | |
David, Jamie, Mark, thank you so much. It is given us much more of an | :42:57. | :42:59. | |
understanding. Rav, back to you. Just time for an | :43:00. | :43:03. | |
update on what has come in on the phone is. We've already had an | :43:04. | :43:06. | |
arrest on one of the wanted faces we've shown you this week. He was | :43:07. | :43:09. | |
arrested and was in custody within just a few hours of being shown so | :43:10. | :43:13. | |
thank you for all your help. We've also had lots of calls on the | :43:14. | :43:18. | |
Melanie Hall murder case we featured yesterday. Melanie disappeared 20 | :43:19. | :43:21. | |
years ago after leaving a nightclub in Bath. Officers are chasing all | :43:22. | :43:25. | |
the information that is, in. So thank you to everyone that has got | :43:26. | :43:29. | |
in touch. Michelle, where you going to be tomorrow? | :43:30. | :43:33. | |
Well, we will be ending our first week in London, where we will be on | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
patrol with the Met's oldest and longest serving special constable. | :43:38. | :43:42. | |
It just goes to show that age is nothing but a number when it comes | :43:43. | :43:46. | |
to catching criminals. We will see you bright and early tomorrow | :43:47. | :43:48. | |
morning. Thanks, Michelle. For more details | :43:49. | :43:53. | |
on the grounds on today's programme, go to our website but before we go, | :43:54. | :43:57. | |
here is another look at this morning's wanted faces. If you know | :43:58. | :44:02. | |
where they are, please pick up that phone. We will be back tomorrow but | :44:03. | :44:08. | |
we will be on BBC Two at the slightly later time of 9:30am. Join | :44:09. | :44:12. | |
us then. In the meantime, take care and goodbye. | :44:13. | :44:53. | |
Join me, Kirsty Young... ..and me, Huw Edwards, | :44:54. | :44:55. | |
as we accompany the Queen for a weekend of ceremonial splendour. | :44:56. | :44:59. | |
On Friday, we're live from St Paul's. | :45:00. | :45:01. | |
On Saturday, we'll be at Horse Guards Parade. | :45:02. | :45:04. | |
And on Sunday, the celebrations end with the Patron's Lunch on the Mall. | :45:05. | :45:08. |