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asking for your help to bring criminals to justice. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Coming up on this morning's programme: | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
The vicious robbery of a Manchester grandmother, | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
He just wouldn't stop hitting me. That was the main thing. | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
And a month after the devastating concert terror attack, | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
to the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
about the moment the first calls came in. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
I received a call from my assistant on duty. | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
It was around four minutes to 11 when she rang me. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Won't ever forget words she spoke to me at the time. | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
Hello and welcome to Crimewatch Roadshow. | :00:46. | :01:15. | |
As always, we need your help to solve the crimes | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
The young man left unable to care for his disabled | :01:18. | :01:27. | |
family after a night out took a nasty turn. | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
For my friends it was probably one of the most scary situations that | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
A couple of them thought I may never even get up again, | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
cos they'd never seen someone go down in that manner. | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
And how does something like this go missing? | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
How police are fighting back against the tractor thieves. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
Plus, Michelle has headed back home to Manchester. | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
Good morning, Michelle. That's right, Rav. | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
I'm here in Great Northern Square at the heart of the city centre. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
Since the horrific terrorist attack in the Arena just five weeks ago, | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
we've seen an incredible human response from Manchester's citizens. | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
Today, we're joined by the police band | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
who will be paying tribute to this special city and the strength | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
and spirit of the people who live and work here. | :02:16. | :02:26. | |
But now it's time for our first appeal. | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
In February, 87-year-old Eileen Blane was brutally | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
Her sons are desperate to know who did it. | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
He just wouldn't stop hitting me. That was the main thing. | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
VOICEOVER: Family has always been that the heart of 87-year-old | :02:42. | :03:11. | |
Eileen's life. She enjoyed family coming around, she enjoys watching | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
my children grow up, my brother's children. My mother was the one... | :03:15. | :03:23. | |
That she turns to all the time. For 63 years, she was happily married to | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
husband, Andrew, until his death in 2003. My dad was everything to my | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
mother, he was very difficult -- it was very difficult when my father | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
first passed away but my mother being as she was, she became | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
resilient, she got tough. With her husband gone, Eileen treasured one | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
item in particular which held special memories of him. The wedding | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
ring meant a great deal to my mother, she only had to look at it | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
and it reminds her of my father and the life they had together. | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
On the afternoon of Friday, February three, Eileen went shopping at her | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
local supermarket. She was very fit and agile for her age. On a weekly | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
basis she would get a little shopping trolley and go to the shop | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
at the top of the road. CCTV from the supermarket shows her picking up | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
her groceries. You don't realise how independent she was. She used to get | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
on buses and take the dog for a walk... 87... When you think about | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
it, you would not think she would be doing that. As she is coming home | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
with the shopping, she thought she saw the window cleaner outside, gave | :04:40. | :04:49. | |
him a little wave, came home. After she unpacked her shopping, there was | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
a knock at the back door. Because she had only just seen the window | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
cleaner, she automatically thought that he was coming to get paid. But | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
it was not him. He punched her straight in the face. | :05:00. | :05:10. | |
She did not have time to do anything. Then he hit her again. He | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
was relentless, he would not stop. She was on the floor, and he | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
continued to kick her. Eileen begged the man to stop. He kept on, | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
demanding gold and money. My mother raised her hands, to say, I have got | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
no goal, I have got no money. Unfortunately, he saw the Reading | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
Wayne Long her finger. Ripping the wedding ring from her hand, he | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
dragged her into the living room, through her Jack Russell into the | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
wall. -- he saw the wedding ring. At this point he said, you are not | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
getting out of here alive. Eileen was trapped. When her attacker went | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
upstairs to search for more valuables, she seized the | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
opportunity. The first thing she could think of was, picked up the | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
little dog and run out the front door. She ran straight to a | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
neighbours house. They the police. Eileen's attacker fled before they | :06:11. | :06:21. | |
arrive. -- they called the police. She had bruises all over her face | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
and her eyes and her nose. It was only when she went to hospital and | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
had x-rays, that they found out she sustained three broken ribs and a | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
broken vertebrae, in the base of her spine, where he had been kicking | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
her. Despite her injuries, Eileen seemed to be making a good recovery. | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
After five weeks in hospital, she was then really turning a corner. | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
She was looking forward to getting home, seeing her little dog. On the | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
31st of March, doctors finally deemed her well enough to go home. | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
All she dreamt about and thought about was, I will be going home | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
tomorrow, I will be going home tomorrow. When she was told she | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
could go home, she was happy. But just a single day after her | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
return home, Eileen passed away. Well, I lost my mum. I have lost a | :07:17. | :07:33. | |
friend... I have lost everything. This burglar might think he has | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
killed my mother, but he has killed us, inside. | :07:39. | :08:07. | |
We have lost somebody to speak to, somebody to confide in. You can | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
quantify that. I just hope that someone does catch him in the end so | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
that another family like ours does not go through this. For the sake of | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
30 quid and a wedding ring. What a price to pay. | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
I'm joined by DCI Richard Eales from GMP's major incident unit. | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
Richard, this was a really vicious attack. | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
And you are now treating this as a murder investigation. | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
She only died as a result of the injury she sustained on that day, | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
she was 87 but she was fit and well. We need the help of the local | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
community, asking them to come forward. Did they see anybody acting | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
suspiciously around Castleton Avenue at 3pm, were there perhaps driving | :09:06. | :09:06. | |
through? Did they see anybody looking through | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
windows, driving around? What was the motive? We believe it was | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
burglary, and again, we need the local community to come forward and | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
tell us who they think might be committing this type of crime in and | :09:23. | :09:23. | |
around the local area. If they have some names, please get | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
in touch and we can establish whether they are linked. There were | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
not many things stolen, but Eileen did have her wedding ring stolen. It | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
was taken, it had huge sentimental value to the family and they want it | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
back. A single gold band, with a crosshatch design. Maybe the fact it | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
has been sold in a local pawn shop, or it has changed hands. If you know | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
where it is, please get in touch. There is a reward on offer. For the | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
first time I can reveal that Greater Manchester Police are offering a | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
?3000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
responsible. This was a brutal attack, we need to identify this man | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
before he commits another crime of this nature. If you have any | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
information, numbers are on screen. Well, we are of course | :10:19. | :10:28. | |
in Manchester today. But where, just five five weeks ago, | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
the lives of so many families were wrecked by the actions | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
of a suicide bomber. I received a call from my on duty | :10:36. | :11:04. | |
assistant, four minutes to 11... I will never forget the words she | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
spoke to me at that time. A moment of feeling, is this real? And moment | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
of numbness, and the dawning realisation that this was real, | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
after-shock... Then you click in and focus, I have a job to do. Every | :11:22. | :11:31. | |
single officer I have spoken to, it has had an effect on them. Some of | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
them are really young in service, you can imagine the impact it has | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
had on those individuals, you can see it in their faces when we meet, | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
none of them want to speak publicly about what they went through, it is | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
humbling that many of them say to me, I was just doing my job. 22 | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
people will never go home. It was quite frankly very shocking, | :11:53. | :12:03. | |
the level of destruction that that bomb caused. It was terrible. | :12:04. | :12:12. | |
Utterly terrible. I think trying to rationalise something as evil as | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
that is really hard. It is just unthinkable. I really struggle to | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
understand what would have driven somebody to attack a target, | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
particularly a target where there are families and young children, and | :12:29. | :12:29. | |
they would have known that. Tony Walsh summed it up with his | :12:30. | :12:45. | |
pollen, this is the place. He summed up the mood quite brilliantly, I | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
think, in terms of, that shock, that anger. But then, the defiance of | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
people coming together and saying, we will come out on the street and | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
continue to go to sporting events and concerts. -- with his pollen, -- | :13:00. | :13:08. | |
poem, This Is The Place. . This is the place that is our heart and our | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
homes, this is a place that is part of our bones. Choose love, | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
Manchester. Maybe that sense of hope in terms of some of the human | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
stories we saw with people turning up and putting flowers in the | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
square, providing meals to emergency services, taxi drivers giving free | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
rides, the support we have had from businesses and volunteers, it has | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
been really heartening, at what was an extremely dark, dark day. I am | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
proud of GMP, but hugely proud of Greater Manchester. | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
Powerful words from the Chief Constable. | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
There is an extended version of that interview on the website. | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
And if there's one thing the last five weeks have | :14:03. | :14:04. | |
it is the incredible spirit of Manchester. | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
The people of this city have shown such resilience and courage, | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
it's been an absolute triumph of positivity through | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
And helping us pay tribute to that, | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
we're joined today by members of the GMP Band. | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
Barry, you're the band leader and a retired officer yourself. | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
The perception is that we are all police officers because of the | :14:20. | :14:27. | |
uniforms but we are not, we have 60 volunteers connected to the work | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
that we do, we support GMP events but also charity events. The events | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
we have supported in the last five years have helped to generate | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
?368,000 for the community and local charities. That really is fantastic! | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
Thank you very much. Jonathan, on percussion, what has the response | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
from the book been like over the last few weeks? Fantastic, I have | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
been out in the city with officers, people have been thanking us, | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
shaking hands, two embracing us, giving hugs, sharing their motion | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
with us... It has been replicated by us going out into the city. -- | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
sharing their emotion with us. Able taking us out for dinner, not | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
letting us pray. How much has been donated, those we love Manchester | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
banners, all of that. Over ?2 million has been raised from the | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
wheel of Manchester appeal, it is the 140th anniversary of this police | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
band, only fitting really that we hear some music. | :15:26. | :15:39. | |
what a wonderful way to raise the spirits. | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
Next, will you recognise any of today's criminals caught on CCTV? | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
Just so you know - one of these is pretty nasty. | :15:51. | :15:59. | |
Look closely as CCTV catches stealthy intruders at a house in | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
Cobb in Surrey. These three investigate each look and cranny of | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
the house, up and down they go, scouring every inch of the property. | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
But one of them is not happy about the partner uttering his name in | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
someone else's house uninvited and lets him know. Stop saying my name. | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
Eventually the trio decide on what they want to take. A folding bike | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
and Porsche Boxster keys. Luckily the car was not at the property at | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
the time and the owner managed to hold onto it while he had the keys | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
cut. Do you recognise any of these thieves? If you look carefully, you | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
will be able to see a man being attacked outside this co-op in | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
Herefordshire. In scenes too shocking to show, they repeatedly | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
punch and kick him as he lies on the ground. Not only did they attack the | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
victim but robbed him of a family heirloom, gold ring worth money and | :17:05. | :17:14. | |
sentimental value. They still need to be stopped. Do you know who they | :17:15. | :17:23. | |
are? Imagine coming home and checking CCTV to find this crew | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
creeping around your back garden. In the early hours of New Year's Day | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
these troublemakers are caught scouring the back of the property, | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
trying to find a way in. They are not having luck, until one fella | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
eventually spots a ladder and puts it to use. They carefully clamber | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
onto a balcony, but what you do not see is them kicking in a patio door | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
before pinching ?100,000 worth of jewellery. Police say the trio make | :17:54. | :18:03. | |
off with the loot out of sight. The pictures are not great, but someone | :18:04. | :18:04. | |
knows who they are. If you recognised anyone, | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
get on the phone now. It's free and the number | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
is 08000 468999. Text CW, space and | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
then your message. Texts will be charged | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
at your standard message rate. Now we're really hoping you can help | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
us solve this next case. A young man who was the carer | :18:24. | :18:33. | |
for his disabled family. Until a night out to celebrate | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
a friend's birthday ended It was a complete blur, I had no | :18:37. | :19:00. | |
idea how I ended up there. For 20-year-old Aadum Hussein, nothing | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
beats hanging out with his mates. I love going out with my friends. We | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
are a close group and have good fun. As the main carer for his sister and | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
parents, it is not something he does very often. There is my dad, who is | :19:15. | :19:23. | |
disabled. Then there is my mother, she has had several back operations | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
and suffers with a kidney disease. There is also my sister. She is | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
profoundly disabled but probably the most high-spirited person in the | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
house. Everything in our house rotates around Aadum, because if he | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
is not around, we would not be able to do 90% of what we do now. In | :19:46. | :19:55. | |
January this year, Aadum and friends organised a rare night out in | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
Manchester city centre to celebrate one of their birthdays. It had been | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
planned a while and when the night came around we were all happy, ready | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
to go, the energy was up there. In Dean skate Locks, in a club called | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
Revolution. Everyone was in a good mood. Once we got into the club we | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
got down to dancing and having a couple of drinks and everything was | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
good and fun. The night was off to a great start. The club was busy and | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
because of this there was a bit of push and shove for people to get | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
past to one place and another and we ended up bumping into someone and a | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
bit of drinks spilled onto his shirt. The man confronted Aadum who | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
tried to calm things down. We responded we were sorry and these | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
things happened in a club and it was left to right now. The rest of the | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
time at the club passed uneventfully and at the end of the night, the | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
friends went outside to make their way home. But they were being | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
followed. There were lots of taxes. I was trying to pick out which was | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
my Uber. It meant bending down and talking to drivers to see which was | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
mine. Police believe the person who confronted Aadum earlier was | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
watching. They say the man sprinted across the traffic towards him. | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
Aadum was struck with a single blow to the back of his head and fell to | :21:30. | :21:38. | |
the ground unconscious. To my friends it was probably one of the | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
most scary situations. A couple thought I may not ever get up again | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
because they have never seen someone go down in that manner. They rang | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
999, but the attacker ran off into the night. Aadum woke up in | :21:52. | :22:00. | |
hospital. It was a complete blur, I had no idea how I ended up there. I | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
had a massive amount of confusion and did not really remember my name. | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
I suffered a sub board but all -- orbital fracture in my skull and | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
damage to the upper vertebrae in my neck and a plead on my brain. His | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
main concern was for family members who depend on him. In a sense they | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
were left to fend for themselves which was hard for them to do. As | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
well as his physical injuries, Aadum battled the emotional strain of the | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
situation. Now I am more cautious with what I am doing and certain | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
things are more uncomfortable. It must be tough for him to feel a bit | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
vulnerable. Maliciously attacking someone with no intent other than | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
just to hurt them, even now is completely confusing, because I | :23:01. | :23:01. | |
would never imagine such a thing. I'm joined now by | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
Detective Constable That was a single punch with | :23:07. | :23:19. | |
devastating consequences. That is right, it was an unprovoked attack | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
on an innocent man. Aadum was completely blindsided by the punch. | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
As he fell, he banged his head which has left him with serious injuries, | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
which have been a bleed on the brain, fractured skull and alignment | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
issues with the vertebrae. He has had difficulty dealing with the | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
psychological effects and is seeking counselling, but as the video shows, | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
he is the prime carer for his family and the fact he has been bedridden | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
three months has had a devastating effect. With this CCTV, we cannot | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
see the punch, but you have clear CCTV footage from the night. We have | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
footage of a male involved in the altercation over the spilt drink. | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
What it shows is this mail then appears to follow Aadum and friends | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
out of the club and at one point even holding back to allow them | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
passed. We would describe him as white, late 20s to mid-30s, stocky, | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
around six foot tall. From witness accounts we believe it is the male | :24:26. | :24:26. | |
who went on to punch Aadum. If you know who this man | :24:27. | :24:35. | |
is please do get in touch. Or you can speak to | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
Crimestoppers anonymously. Right, lots more still | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
to come this morning. We go behind the scenes to show how | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
emergency services across the UK And the woman attacked | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
out walking her dog. I think if I wouldn't have | :24:50. | :25:08. | |
been as quick-thinking, I wouldn't have retaliated | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
and fought back. But first, plant and agricultural | :25:11. | :25:11. | |
theft is estimated to cost farmers I'm joined by DC Chris Piggott | :25:12. | :25:21. | |
from a specialist unit set up to fight back | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
against countryside criminals. You have brought in items that | :25:27. | :25:37. | |
clearly would not be stolen by joyriders. Who is stealing them? Two | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
typical bits of farm machinery. Being stolen by organised gangs. | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
This equipment is probably worth in the region of ?150,000. A massive | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
amount of money. It is an organised event to get one of these. How are | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
they getting them stolen and where do they go? May take them in the | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
middle of the night and often leave the country overnight on the back of | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
vehicles, put into containers and going all over the world. We can see | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
images of stuff stolen before. We can see the team in action in the | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
containers. This Reg tractor, how much was it worth? That is a Massey | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
Ferguson ?80,000, stolen in Scotland and transported down to Dover on a | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
forced number plate where an eagle eyed officer spotted the false plate | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
and seized it, but it was on its way to Eastern Europe. You have one that | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
was found in Eastern Europe, what is the story? Thanks to colleagues in | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
Poland, they identified this one they tried to register over there | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
and it was repatriated by NFU Mutual. It came back to the country, | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
it is worth ?45,000. It is a lot of money. What can people do to protect | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
themselves? We recommend tracking systems so they can get early | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
alerts. On this, it is marked up at the point of manufacture. That is | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
Cesar, a triple their of security with the Tampa evident labels. It | :27:14. | :27:21. | |
can be scanned and you have UV solution that houses microdots | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
painted around the machine to help us identify and that reduces the | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
chance of theft because it is a visible deterrent. You have an | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
appeal today. Unwanted visitors we can see on a farm in Warwickshire. | :27:37. | :27:44. | |
Shipston on Stour, a farmer was targeted on the 26th of April before | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
midnight. We can see the offenders we would like to speak to taking a | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
Suzuki Quad bike. We have had a series of thefts in the area and are | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
keen to nip it in the bud. We have a nice image of one of them. I am sure | :27:59. | :28:05. | |
someone watching will have an idea of who that person is. Thanks for | :28:06. | :28:07. | |
joining us. Please get in touch. We're here in Manchester where, last | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
month, a terrorist attack killed 22 The effectiveness of the response | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
that night was widely praised. We went behind the scenes with UK | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
emergency teams to find out how they train to deal | :28:23. | :28:24. | |
with and hopefully Across the UK, 365 days a year, | :28:25. | :28:42. | |
emergency crews had to be ready for large-scale disaster. We train | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
constantly. With the attacks in Manchester, we know our training is | :28:47. | :28:54. | |
more critical than ever. The urban search and rescue programme was set | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
up in the wake of 9/11 to give the Fire Service skills and equipment | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
needed to respond to a range of emergencies. The primary thrust is | :29:03. | :29:13. | |
in recovery and rescue of people in a dangerous environment and every | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
member of staff has at least one specialist skill. Today the team | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
have replicated the aftermath of a building collapse caused by an | :29:23. | :29:25. | |
explosion. Someone is trapped underneath. The first port of call | :29:26. | :29:34. | |
is the dog, who will give a quick indication of live casualties and | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
cover the pile within ten minutes, quicker than the search teams can. | :29:40. | :29:48. | |
Sid gets to work and effortlessly scales the huge rubble pile, | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
sniffing out any signs of life. Within minutes, he has found the | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
scent of a casualty and indicates by barking. Good lad. With an area | :29:59. | :30:06. | |
identified, the team moving. We are going to put the camera down and | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
hopefully we will get visual contact with the casualty. We have the | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
facility with a camera and they can give more information where they | :30:16. | :30:16. | |
are. Keep going, keep going... There we | :30:17. | :30:31. | |
go. Can you hear us? Yes. The location of the casualty is | :30:32. | :30:38. | |
confirmed. But it is blocked. Using specialised wet cutting gear, | :30:39. | :30:41. | |
including a heavy duty concretes chainsaw, they cut through a four | :30:42. | :30:42. | |
inch slab to free the trapped man. Mission accomplished. But, as well | :30:43. | :31:04. | |
as preparing to deal with the aftermath of an attack, training to | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
prevent terrorist attacks is now more crucial than ever. We have a | :31:10. | :31:15. | |
continual year-round programme of local, regional and national | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
exercising, that is an important part of all of our preparer and is | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
for dealing with major incidents, whether terrorist major incidents or | :31:24. | :31:27. | |
not. The national college of policing runs dedicated courses | :31:28. | :31:31. | |
designed to give the lease offices the skills and knowledge they need | :31:32. | :31:34. | |
to prevent the public from the threat of terror. We have been | :31:35. | :31:41. | |
delivering training for counterterrorism for 31 years in | :31:42. | :31:43. | |
conjunction with the military. One of the most sought-after courses, we | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
are delivering more training than we ever have before. The officers are | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
trained by police and military experts, to recognise hundreds of | :31:53. | :31:56. | |
objects and components that could be used to make a home-made bomb or | :31:57. | :32:01. | |
improvised expose of device. The ingenuity of a terrorist is the only | :32:02. | :32:06. | |
thing that limits them in relation to what that improvised expose of | :32:07. | :32:09. | |
device could look like, sometimes disguised as an everyday object. | :32:10. | :32:16. | |
Then it is time to put theory into practice in real-world situations, | :32:17. | :32:20. | |
today, the recruits are carrying out a vehicle search. Hidden within this | :32:21. | :32:28. | |
car, are items that could be used to commit a lethal attack. They are | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
working systematically, if you work as a pair, you will make significant | :32:35. | :32:39. | |
finds, if you start to separate, that is when things will get missed. | :32:40. | :32:47. | |
Take the head rest... Very intensive course, a lot of pressure, | :32:48. | :32:51. | |
especially in the current climate. That creates added impetus. Just | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
minutes in, the team have their first fine. Stop, I have got a blue | :32:57. | :33:02. | |
item. This is a military detonator cord... And soon afterwards, they | :33:03. | :33:06. | |
discover something else. I have got a... Weston... A single bullet, a | :33:07. | :33:17. | |
nine millimetre round, on the scale of the vehicle is very small. Each | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
of these minute objects are potentially lethal in the wrong | :33:22. | :33:25. | |
hands, so it is crucial that the officers learn to leave no stone | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
unturned. Each CD needs to be removed from there, and the actual | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
sleeve examined. Detonator. Explosive find. An intensive | :33:36. | :33:41. | |
learning curve, the need for these courses has never been greater. | :33:42. | :33:46. | |
I think the demand for counterterrorism training has risen | :33:47. | :33:51. | |
to meet the threat, the spectre of terrorism has not gone away. It is | :33:52. | :33:58. | |
this kind of ongoing training which enabled the emergency services to | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
respond so efficiently to the devastating Manchester and London | :34:04. | :34:07. | |
attacks. All of us hoped and prayed we would not face anything like | :34:08. | :34:11. | |
this, because of the testing and exercising and because of those | :34:12. | :34:15. | |
relationships, it came together as a team very quickly. Their | :34:16. | :34:19. | |
professionalism has kicked in, they have done everything they can to | :34:20. | :34:21. | |
support those who were injured. Now it's time for a look | :34:22. | :34:25. | |
at today's Wanted Faces. Murder squad detectives | :34:26. | :34:29. | |
from the West Midlands would like to speak to him | :34:30. | :34:31. | |
after a man was stabbed to death in Brierley Hill | :34:32. | :34:34. | |
in October last year. The 19-year-old has a large | :34:35. | :34:36. | |
scar on his forehead and a tattoo of the word | :34:37. | :34:40. | |
"Mum" on his right wrist. He's known to have friends | :34:41. | :34:43. | |
across the West Midlands Or do you recognise | :34:44. | :34:45. | |
Rossi Michael Henderson? He was jailed for five and a half | :34:46. | :34:49. | |
years for manslaughter and then But he's failed to stick | :34:50. | :34:52. | |
to his conditions and is now Henderson is 29 and has a tattoo | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
of a snake on his left arm He has links to Sussex, South | :34:57. | :35:00. | |
London, Sunderland and Bedfordshire. He was due in court after failing | :35:01. | :35:06. | |
to stick to the requirements but didn't turn up and a warrant has | :35:07. | :35:11. | |
been issued for his arrest. Thrower is described | :35:12. | :35:15. | |
as a danger to women He has links to Harrogate, York | :35:16. | :35:17. | |
and Bradford but could be travelling Finally, have you spotted | :35:18. | :35:21. | |
Pamela Dawn Clarke? She was due to appear in court | :35:22. | :35:27. | |
in York in connection with dealing and possessing class A drugs, | :35:28. | :35:30. | |
but didn't turn up. and has links to Middlesborough, | :35:31. | :35:33. | |
York and Brighton. She has long hair | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
that is often dyed red. Next, can you help police track down | :35:39. | :35:53. | |
the man who attacked a young woman, in broad daylight, in the middle | :35:54. | :35:56. | |
of a park? The words of the victim are spoken | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
by an actor. I think if I would not have been so | :36:02. | :36:11. | |
quick thinking and would not have retaliated, I don't think I would be | :36:12. | :36:13. | |
here now. VOICEOVER: On the evening of April | :36:14. | :36:23. | |
23, Gemma went out for a walk with her dog. I was over at my parents, I | :36:24. | :36:30. | |
had been there for lunch and spend the afternoon with my mother. Just | :36:31. | :36:37. | |
after 6:15pm when she arrived at Bedford Fields, in Salford. I had | :36:38. | :36:44. | |
used that walkway for about nine years. You feel at peace there | :36:45. | :36:49. | |
because it is so calm and quiet. Because it was a nice day, it was | :36:50. | :36:54. | |
quite calm on the field, there was not any other dogs around that I | :36:55. | :36:57. | |
needed to worry about with my dog being off the lead. I decided to | :36:58. | :37:02. | |
walk another time around the field. As she continued on her way, she | :37:03. | :37:06. | |
noticed a stranger walking towards her. Cap on, hooded top on, pull | :37:07. | :37:14. | |
high around his neck. I presumed at this point he was going to walk past | :37:15. | :37:21. | |
me and our paths would cross. And he would then be on his way and I would | :37:22. | :37:24. | |
continue around the field on my normal walk. And then I realised at | :37:25. | :37:30. | |
one point he is not actually going to walk past me, he was approaching | :37:31. | :37:39. | |
me. The stranger asked for the time. I have pulled out my phone and hit | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
the button on my phone to give him the time. Before she could get any | :37:44. | :37:51. | |
further... The man grabbed her. I did not really understand what was | :37:52. | :37:56. | |
going on, because it took me by surprise. It was only when I noticed | :37:57. | :38:00. | |
he was heading in the direction of the bushes that I thought, this is | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
actually quite serious. At that point I probably started to fear a | :38:07. | :38:13. | |
little bit for my life. The attacker ripped the maternity ring, wedding | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
ring and engagement ring from her fingers, but then the assault took | :38:18. | :38:22. | |
an even more sinister turn. -- eternity ring. At the point when he | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
pulled out the knife and had it to my throat, at that point I thought | :38:28. | :38:29. | |
to myself, I am going to be raped. I thought, I'm not going to go out | :38:30. | :38:44. | |
without a fight. Pushing herself off the ground, Gemma used all her | :38:45. | :38:48. | |
strength to fight off her attacker. She snatched up to the rings from | :38:49. | :38:55. | |
the ground and ran, followed by her dog. I stopped to catch my breath | :38:56. | :39:01. | |
for a brief second, turned around to make sure I was not being followed. | :39:02. | :39:07. | |
She made her way home, and called the police. But even though Gemma | :39:08. | :39:13. | |
managed to get away from her attacker, she cannot escape the | :39:14. | :39:21. | |
sickening memories of that day. It has been traumatic. I have been | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
having flashbacks. I'm struggling at times to breathe. My chest gets | :39:26. | :39:32. | |
tight, which is then going on to a full-blown panic attack. I'm | :39:33. | :39:38. | |
struggling to sleep. I think, if I would not have been as quick | :39:39. | :39:42. | |
thinking, I would not have retaliated and back, I've don't | :39:43. | :39:46. | |
think I would be here now, I think he would have raped me and killed | :39:47. | :39:56. | |
me, I definitely feared for my life will stop a | :39:57. | :39:59. | |
Do we know if there was any eyewitnesses? From speaking with the | :40:00. | :40:08. | |
victim, a number of people were around in the area, on the day this | :40:09. | :40:13. | |
happened, the victim approached a number of people as she was trying | :40:14. | :40:16. | |
to escape, we trace those people, we would be keen to speak with anybody | :40:17. | :40:23. | |
else who may help. And you do have an efit of the offender? Yes, the | :40:24. | :40:31. | |
victim was able to help us put together an image. The attacker got | :40:32. | :40:40. | |
away with some of her possessions. The wedding ring and the mobile | :40:41. | :40:44. | |
phone are still outstanding, that is all the more traumatic, that she has | :40:45. | :40:51. | |
lost such a personal item. If you have any information, we are | :40:52. | :40:53. | |
appealing for the information today. Please make sure you get in touch | :40:54. | :40:56. | |
with us with the numbers on the screen. Victims of any crime can | :40:57. | :40:59. | |
contact the support number. Time now for a look | :41:00. | :41:09. | |
at what's been coming Last week, you may remember | :41:10. | :41:11. | |
we asked for your help in identifying a man | :41:12. | :41:15. | |
police want to trace after 59-year-old grandmother | :41:16. | :41:17. | |
Susan Steel was punched to the ground in a | :41:18. | :41:19. | |
cemetery in Bradford. He was later seen | :41:20. | :41:21. | |
riding away on a bike. Well, you've given detectives | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
a potential name, Also we showed you CCTV of a man | :41:26. | :41:28. | |
wanted by police after more than ?1,000 worth of tools | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
were stolen from a building Again you've given more | :41:34. | :41:35. | |
names, which officers One of the wanted faces we featured | :41:36. | :41:48. | |
last week as handed himself in after seeing himself on the programme, | :41:49. | :41:52. | |
great news! Where will you be tomorrow, Michelle? | :41:53. | :41:57. | |
I'll be in Preston, learning about the science of solving crime. | :41:58. | :42:02. | |
Plus lots more appeals, including the shocking case of two | :42:03. | :42:05. | |
cats left fighting for their lives after being shot with an air rifle. | :42:06. | :42:08. | |
Don't forget you can see all our appeals, | :42:09. | :42:17. | |
wanted faces and CCTV on the Crimewatch Roadshow website. | :42:18. | :42:25. | |
But before we go, let's hear once more from the Greater Manchester | :42:26. | :42:28. | |
Police band as we remember the 22 people who so sadly lost their lives | :42:29. | :42:31. | |
Brexit means Brexit. We did it! | :42:32. | :44:04. | |
To pretend that it's going to be plain sailing is such | :44:05. | :44:07. | |
knuckle-headed lunacy. Happy days are here. | :44:08. | :44:10. | |
They have said one thing one day, another thing the next day. | :44:11. | :44:12. | |
think during the year that changed British politics? | :44:13. | :44:17. |