Episode 18 Crimewatch Roadshow

We're live once again, helping police to get

The serial sex offender, terrifying women in their homes.

And he seemed to have got enjoyment that he'd seen me.

murdered on his way home from a night out.

New CCTV shows the last moments before he was attacked

And the paramedics under pressure, dealing with

If you have got time to have a beer,

you have got time to wait for a taxi.

And at the other end of the scale, ambulance crews could be called

I'll be finding out how medical teams train for all eventualities.

We're live and waiting for your calls.

Hello and welcome to Crimewatch Roadshow.

We're coming to you live each morning, highlighting everyday crime

A new appeal to find the man who raped a 15-year-old

After more than three decades, his victim bravely speaks out.

His last words were, "I have ruined your life now, haven't I?"

And the crafty scam, tricking people into selling their cars

Today the team have moved on to the National Ambulance

Rav, this is a really impressive place.

There are all kinds of scenarios behind me from X to Y.

Paramedics from across the UK come here to train for complex

Later, I'll be seeing how they cope with this -

a train full of chemicals that's crashed into a car

But first, to Dorset, where police want to trace the man

responsible for a series of terrifying crimes

Dorset is one of Britain's most treasured tourism destinations. The

county is renowned for its historic villages and picturesque beaches.

But police believe the area is also home to a serial sex offender. He

has escaped detection for the last five years. Officers are determined

to catch him. In the early hours of a summer morning, Sally had a

terrifying encounter with the man. I got up for work as morning -- as

normal at 5am. Went to the kitchen, had a cup of tea, sat down. And I

had the telly on. I live on my own so I had the telly on for company.

Outside the house the man was watching her. Initially I could just

see a movement from where I was sitting. I thought it was my friend

looking for a lift. I noticed a male walking by. Sally went to the

window. And to her horror, she saw the man was performing an indecent

act. His face was covered and he was staring straight at me. It was the

eyes. They were so frightening. He seemed to have got enjoyment that he

had seen me. I got the impression he was smiling. It was extremely

frightening. Sally called the police but the man was never traced. It is

believed the same man was responsible for dozens of similar

incidents in the Dorchester area. Two other victims have agreed to

speak out. Their words are spoken by actors. I was watching TV and heard

a knocking on the wall. I got up and looked out the window. And there was

a tap in a dark body. I could not his face. He was stood there. His

trousers were around his waist. When I went downstairs I heard the

tapping on the front door. As I opened the front door, that is when

he was there. His head was completely covered, so I couldn't

see his face at all. We have 29 reported incidents in

total. 16 of them share the same method. When he has committed these

offences, he has always had his head and face covered. Police say the man

often strikes in the early hours of the morning, carefully watching

homes before targeting lone women. At that time of the morning when it

was dark, he could see a downstairs light in our house. Apparently this

is what he was looking for, according to the police. The police

dog lead them to several windows, so they think he had been going around

looking in windows lit up looking for a long females. This serial sex

offender has left his victims feeling unsafe in their own homes. I

was very frightened to stay on my own. I considered moving. I felt

angry and violated. It is horrible to think this chap is still walking

around. He is still out there watching me. He clearly get some

sort of kick out of this. This man needs to be caught. He is just

frightening. So please, if there is anything, no matter how small, the

police are interested. Just give them a ring.

A lot of women have been scared and upset by these incidents? Yes. It is

terrifying for the victims and quite rightly so. The victims have been

left shaken and afraid in their own homes. Where and when did these

incidents take place can --? Yes. They happened between February 2012

and November 20 16. We have had 29 offences reported in total. 16 of

them sharing identifying methods. 13 offences are considered as part of

the series. We can see a map. Can you talk us through the locations?

Yes, the Fordington area of Dorchester. There is an estate

there. There are nearby villages to Dorchester. Namely Charminster,

Charlton Downs and Puddletown. What do we know about the offender? He is

described as a white male, aged between 30s to 40s. He is about five

foot six to five foot nine tall. He is medium to stocky build. And he

has been wearing what is described as dark-coloured clothing. In

particular, a dark coloured hooded top. He always has his face covered

with a balaclava or a scarf, or a similar items. And you are appealing

for anybody with any information to contact us. If you can help, please

get in touch. The numbers are on the screen.

Next, do you recognise any of today's criminals caught on CCTV?

Be warned - these are pretty serious.

It is the early hours of the morning, but the party is still

going in this late bar. Keep your eyes on the man wearing the black

T-shirt with the distinctive white logo. Everybody else seems to be

having a good time. But out of nowhere, he smacks the bloke next to

him full force in the face. And lashes out at another partygoer with

a flurry of punches, only stopping when he is dragged away. The first

victim needed emergency surgery on a badly broken nose. Police need your

help to catch this folk. Who is he? It is the early hours of the morning

and although you can't see much at this trampoline Park in Derby,

things are about to get a lot clearer. The equipment goes up in

flames after the firestarter spreads accelerant everywhere. What he

wasn't counting on was setting himself alight. No one was injured

except the arsonist. But the fire caused extensive damage to the

equipment and the building. The image isn't clear, but if you know

who did this, then you know what to do.

If you can identify anyone, we need to hear from you now.

Text CW, space and then your message.

Texts will be charged at your standard message rate.

Or you can also speak to Crimestoppers anonymously.

Now, this may look like a really nasty road accident,

but it's actually an advanced training exercise for

In a minute, we'll see them in action as they recover the driver

But first, we spent a shift with a newly qualified paramedic

in Bristol to see what they come up against on a more typical day.

The South Western Ambulance service is one of the largest in the UK.

Dealing with up to 3000 999 calls every day. 25-year-old James Kiss is

getting ready for a 12 hour night shift in the centre of Bristol. I

have been working as a newly qualified paramedic since September

last year. I moved here from working in Devon. I wanted to get a feel for

a big city, possibly a faster paced environment. On an average shift,

James deals with around ten emergency calls and must be ready to

handle any situation. You can go to your first job in the morning and

that can be a cardiac arrest, or a patient has had a severe stroke. And

from that you can then go to somebody who is having a mental

health crisis. You really never, never know. There is a lady who has

fallen over. Her husband has phoned us. He is unable to get her off the

floor. We have come to see your wife, I believe? Go and have a chat.

We will get you up and we will get everything sorted. Silly old sod,

aren't I? Take a few breaths. Your blood pressure is dangerously low.

The woman is confused, so James called her daughter to find out her

medical history. Uber and trying to make a decision on what I think

needs to be done in terms of mum, because she has woken up on the

floor and can't remember anything. Concerned by her condition, James

decides to take into hospital for further checks. You have to do a bit

of detective work and try to make sure that you are truly

understanding the situation before you make a decision. You genuinely

are doing something different every day. It can be your life-threatening

emergencies one day and the next day it can be relatively mundane jobs.

Many of those jobs are links to alcohol. James' next job is one of

them. So somebody has been chased out of a property and thinks that

they have now broken their wrist. You don't know exactly how you have

injured your wrist? There is no history of anything hitting your

wrist at all? We will nip you up the road to get it x-rayed. You can't

have a beer, mate. If you have got time to have a beer, you have time

to wait for a taxi. Faced with a choice between a drink and a lift to

hospital, the man chooses beer. Paramedics spent many hours each

week dealing with unnecessary calls. And that extra pressure makes it

harder to respond to those in genuine need. We were potentially

going to be taking someone into hospital with a wrist injury. And we

were going to be able to respond to a cardiac arrest, which is what we

are responding to know. What we are going to know is a genuine medical

emergency. Whereas what we have just been to is actually a minor injury.

That is just not what we are here for.

Well, there's no time being wasted here today.

Parsyab Khan from Naru is here to tell me what's going on.

We have an equipment, policies and procedures department and a training

department. We train staff in different skill sets. We do training

of clinicians and non-clinician is. What are your team dealing with? A

vehicle has left the road and collided with scaffolding. In the

real scenario the fires service and other partners would be here to make

the area safe and then our staff would enter the vehicle and look to

stabilise the patient and get them out of the vehicle as soon as they

can. This is a mock-up. It is a difficult situation to work on

because of the confined space. Yes. Working in any vehicle can be

difficult. Here there is the risk of the scaffolding around them as well,

and broken glass, so they have to be spatially aware getting into the

vehicle. The idea is to get the medicine as they can. This could

mean the difference between someone surviving a major incident and not

making it. Yes. We make the training as realistic as possible with time

constraints. Then we can look back at it later to help the training.

Thankfully the passengers being rescued but it could take a lot

longer. Yes. The Fire Service that police would attend and make the

vehicle safe. Before the paramedics centre. Here you deal with a range

of disasters. Yes. The training is designed to train paramedics and

non-clinicians to be able to deal with large trauma, casualties, plane

crashes, train crashes, terrorist incidents. How to deal with those

for the patients. This is a job well done later we will be seeing one of

those challenging scenarios, a major train accident.

Should be interesting. Thanks Tina.

Can you help police catch the thug who assaulted a pensioner

I thought he was a vicious man to do this unprovoked attack like this.

He was saying all the time, you know, "I've got a knife - do

I never experienced a man so vicious as that before.

And just like fingerprints, our footprints are unique.

We'll find out how this shoe scanner is helping to trip up criminals.

On his way home from a night out with friends he was fatally wounded

in a seemingly random attack. The senior investigating officer is

here. What do we know about the night he was murdered? It was Friday

the 23rd of June and James had gone into Aldridge town centre with his

friends and into a couple of bars in anchor Road before making their way

to the High Street and at the point they came to Brittany Lane and and

his friends parted company. James was on the phone to his girlfriend

and headed down towards the High Street. We can look at a map. He

walked towards the end of the High Street when he reached the end he

walked around the park along the top of the Croft Park towards Little

Aston Road that that is where we believe he was attacked. We have

CCTV which you are releasing this morning. We have James at the top of

the image walk along the end of the High Street. He will disappear into

the darkness for about two minutes. During that time we believe he was

confronted by two nails, one of whom has stabbed him to the chest,

piercing his heart. He collapses in front of the shop. I understand some

passers-by tried to help him. Four lads who had been to a local club

tried to give first aid and they spoke to his girlfriend on the phone

and confirmed what happened to him. She phoned his parents turned up at

the same other paramedics were there and unfortunately he died in his

parents' arms. Are there any clues as to a possible motive? There's

nothing strikingly obvious as to why this has happened. We are looking at

all possible options. With any two period of time he has met his

attackers and received a fatal wound to his chest. We are looking for a

two males seen the Croft Park area and asking for members of the public

to call as if they have seen them between the hours of 11 and

quartered at night on that night. Two males, one darker skinned than

the other, mid teens to late 20s, running off. This is a close-knit

community. Is that the sort of thing that people may have spoken about?

Absolutely. Everybody knows everybody. We are appealing for

anybody to come forward. Thank you. Call or text as if you have seen

anything. The police and James' family need your help. This is

another training area and this is a mock-up of a train accident. A train

has hit a vehicle. The vehicle has got chemicals on board. They have

leaked out and we have people on the train who have been injured by the

Clash and the chemicals. It takes probably around five minutes to get

these suits on. Their visibility will be reduced while wearing grey

suits. These are chemical protective suits. It is quite a tight zip. Have

a go. It is difficult. It is gas tight so it needs to be stiff. If

you can just put over the Velcro and he can be checked before he goes on

the train. That is the final stage. We have various stages of dress.

Where chemicals are involved how does that involve what the

paramedics will be trying to do? The priority is going to be together

patient out of the chemical call environment so they will do what

they need in life saving intervention, stop bleeding, help

breathing. Get the patient out as an as they can. How will they be

filling as they are about to go and if this was a real emergency

situation? Paramedics are always focused and committed to doing the

best for their patients no matter what the scenario. The staff have

the added issues of the hazard of the chemical on the train and trying

to do their day job while wearing protective equipment. Thank you. We

will be going on the train with the paramedics as they rescue the

casualties on board. Next, to the West Midlands

and a particularly frightening Birmingham in the 1970s. A city with

a thriving Irish community. I lived 46 years here in Birmingham and I

first started on the buses in 1971. Bernard Boyle moved to Birmingham

from his native Northern Ireland, making a new life for himself in the

city's spark Hill area. He calls these streets his home. If the

neighbours find anything wrong they will come to your aid. The

71-year-old lives alone and a few months ago he needed his neighbours'

help like never before. It was a cold February night. Bernard had

left something in his castle ventured out to get it. I forgot a

paper in the car. The car was parked. I got the paper and I was

coming in again. Got on CCTV, a man was lacking in the street. As

Bernard walked back towards his house, the man made his move. I did

not see nobody at all and rent. I was amazed at how he got so close up

to me. The attacker pushed Bernard back into his house and demanded

money. He said, get in there. A lot of blows to the head. The punches

kept coming. The attacker knocked the terrified Bernard to the ground.

He was saying, where is the money? You know I have got a knife. You

think I wouldn't use it? Bernard tried desperately to send him off as

the man rifled through his pockets. Bernard cried out for help. My

neighbour next door heard me. Realising he was about to be rumbled

the man through one last punch and ran off empty-handed leaving an

injured Bernard on the floor. I had a swollen face. My head was so for a

couple of days afterwards. Thankfully it came all right again.

My neighbour was of great benefit to me. If it was not for my neighbour

do not know what would be his next step. He done me a good time. We

believe this to be an opportunistic crime. We believe the offender was

probably passing and spotted the victim entering his home and has

taken a chance. It must been very frightening for the victim who is

71, to have been approached on his own doorstep, pushed into his home

and assaulted. Although shaken Bernard is determined not to let the

incident affect him. He was a vicious man to do this unprovoked

attack like this. I never experienced a man so vicious that

before. It was a scary experience. It really shook me up for a bit. I

lost confidence. As time goes on, I will get better again.

Well, police really want to trace the man responsible

They believe he could live in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham,

and he's described as a six foot tall Asian man with a rounded

If you recognise him, you know what to do.

We understand the phones are not working properly at the moment so

please text or email us and we will let you know when they are backed up

and running. Some more people the police

would like to catch up with now, starting with Anthony Hughes -

although you may know him He was jailed for five years in 2015

for blackmail and kidnap, and released on licence, but has

failed to stick to his conditions Hughes has a Liverpudlian accent

and links to Cheshire. He has the tattoos of the words Mum

and Dad on both hands, and a large prayer sign

which covers his whole back. This is Matthew Gane,

although he also Detectives investigating

an attack on a man and woman in their home in Nuneaton think

he may have vital information Gane is 36 and has links to Bedworth

in Warwickshire and to Coventry. Next is Jean-Marc Mondelet,

although you may The Frenchman is wanted

for questioning in connection to a card fraud in which the victim

lost half a million pounds. Modelet is 25 and now has

links to the Lambeth, Westminster and Southwark

areas of London. Finally, this is Inis Mesgena,

although he also calls The 32-year-old was charged

regarding a glassing incident at a party

in Ladbroke Grove in London. He was due to appear in court,

but has failed to turn up. Originally from Ethiopia, he now has

links to East and West London If you know where any of these faces

are make sure you get in touch Now a really sneaky scam to get

people to sell their cars PC Steve Boston from

Dorset Police joins me. You are investigating a number of

incidents where criminals pose as typical car buyers than try to trick

the honours into selling them on the trip, cheap. You have CCTV. In this

video you can see three males who have contacted the buyer. The buyer

advertises on gumtree or eBay. A viewing is arranged. It is usually

three males who will appear. While they are viewing the car they

distract the order and poor ink into the cooler bottle to appeal that

water has leaked and another time they have put an oil filled right

into the exhaust pipe so the vehicle produces smoke making it look like a

major fault. So sneaky. Yes. Once they make it look like it is a major

fault they offer a greatly reduced price for the car and of the scam is

successful they Caraway, remove the Reich, the ink that is true that is

true and be polite -- sell it for a higher value.

We don't believe this is the only gang operating this scam. We are

particularly after the identity of these three meals. -- males. We can

take another look at them. What do we know about them? They have a

London accents. I was contacted by another victim from Ferndale in

Dorset last week. He had these three males turned up, and he recognised

their faces from an appeal we did. Get in touch if you know who these

men are. Definitely a scam to watch out for.

Now a harrowing appeal to solve a crime which happened more

Dawn Clark was still a schoolgirl when she was attacked

as she made her way home from a friend's house.

She's bravely agreed waive her right to anonymity,

hoping telling her story will help catch the man responsible.

I enjoyed my life. I loved everything that I was doing. And I

was happy. Just everything stopped. He ruined my life. 35 years ago,

Dawn Clark was enjoying life as a teenager. But one evening in May

1982, the 15-year-old was stopped by a stranger on her way home from a

friend's has. As I was walking towards the main road, a man was

approaching me. He was dressed to go out. Excuse me, do you know when the

next us is? I didn't fear for my life when he was walking towards me.

He asked me a simple question about the yellow bus and what time it

would come. So I said, normally half past nine. About 9:30am. You are

welcome. And I carried on walking. He walked past me. Before I knew it

he had his arm around my neck and had a knife in his hand. And that is

when he told me if I wanted to live I had to do what he said. I was so

scared. You just think, oh my God, I'm going to die, I'm going to die.

The man held a knife to Dawn's throat, took her into a wooded area

and raped her. After the attack he issued a

chilling threat. He said, I'm going to let you go but if you do tell

anyone or do mention what has happened, I will come and kill you.

I know where you live, I will come and get you. His last words to me

work, I have ruined my life, haven't I? -- your life. I said, yes, you

have. Police never traced the attacker. More than three decades

have now passed. And Dawn has struggled to get over her ordeal. I

have got wonderful children, wonderful grandchildren. But nothing

can replace that hole that I have got from when I was a young child. I

didn't go back to school. So I never really had any contact with my best

friends. I felt like I was a prisoner, really. My parents were

doing the best they could to protect me. I kept thinking he was going to

come back and get me. Until I know he is either dead or caught, I will

never, ever be able to move on. And I will never feel safe. It still

affects me. It will just never go away. It will never go away.

Just heartbreaking and that attack is still having a impact

I'm joined by Detective Inspector Neil Phillips,

from Dorset Police's Major Crime Investigation Team.

Neil, it's now 35 years since this happened,

but you're still very determined to find this man.

Yes. We have been working with Dawn Fidler many years to try and solve

this case and find the person responsible and we will never give

up. What do we know about her attacker? In 1982, Don described her

attacker as a white male aged 25 to 30. He was about five tall.

Described as medium build. He had fair, straight hair parted to the

right. He had a blonde bristly beard and described as a very thin

moustache. He had gold rimmed glasses which were square in shape.

He wore a brown and her black jacket which had a turned down collar, dark

trousers and dark shoes. Told gust through where this attack happened?

Dawn had been walking home with a friend towards her home address

through a common area. As she walked through that area, a man and walks

towards her and asked her about times of bosses. Dawn had tried to

be helpful but the man pulled a knife on her and took further into a

wooded area where he assaulted her. This man would be a pensioner now.

What information are you appealing to the public for? Yes, this man

would be about 6570. We do have a full DNA profile of him. We can

easily identify it. Someone may know or suspect who he is. Please put

forward a naming confidence because we can easily eliminate anyone not

responsible. Just give us another reminder of who you are looking for

a? A white male, aged 25 to 30, five and of medium build. If you have any

information, our phone lines are down but you can still e-mail. If

you are a victim of any crime, you can call Victim Support.

For more than a century, police have detected crimes based

But what you may not realise is that shoe prints are just as unique.

Now, a very clever device is using that information to link

Temporary Detective Chief Inspector Julie Henderson

from the Metropolitan Police is here to tell us more.

And you've brought along your invention,

Before we see how it works, tell me, why did

It really came about because we use that systems for fingerprints and I

thought, surely we should be able to use this for footwear as well? --

digital systems. In the old days you would have to take an ink print onto

paper of someone's shoe if they were in custody. You would have to post

that and it would take several days for that to come back by which time

the offender could be back home on bail? That is right. It was a very

archaic method. Often the shoes are gone before we have intelligence.

How did you go about designing this? I found one scanner in the

marketplace, the only one that does this type of work. I got a scanner

given to me for free to run a trial. It wasn't what you see here today.

It was a small prototype. I needed to get a standard built to meet

health and safety requirements. How did you get it built? I asked a

local police officer who was also quite handy, to build me a stand.

Which he did! You are going to let me have a go. What do I need to do?

Stand on the scanner with your feet on the stickers and walk straight

across. And I will do the other foot. Straight over. As simple as

that. OK, so we have got on the screen, your computer. Have you got

my images straightaway? Yes. What would you do with that information?

As soon as I click save, anybody anywhere in the country can see this

information. It can be used by any investigator or forensic scientist.

You that off search against database. How long would that take?

I have done it behind you! Your shoes are not on the data list. I am

very glad to hear that. How many have you got on at the moment? About

45,000 different types of patterns. It is growing all the time. That

result will come back in seconds. You are trialling it at the moment?

Yes, we have gone live in Colindale Police Station, Heathrow and

Hounslow next week. You have a lovely success story. What happened?

Yes, a vulnerable victim assaulted and robbed in his own home. Three

suspects. The footwear was able to place each one in each room. It was

compelling evidence. Absolutely fantastic. It is a brilliant system.

Thank you for joining us. Let's hope it trips up lots more suspect in

future. Rav, we're back at Naru, the

National Ambulance Resilience Unit. This train full of chemicals

has just hit a car. The chemicals have leaked,

and there are injured Parsyab Khan from

Naru is here again. When the paramedics are first coming

in, what do they do? Because the seats are quite intimidating, they

will call out ambulance service. So the patients are aware of who is

coming in. When they have called out, they look at each individual

patient, to see if they are breathing, to see if there is

bleeding. Once they know what that is, they can start to prioritise the

patients. How dangerous is this situation? Can be quite dangerous.

Working in any traffic accident, there is the risk of jagged edges.

In this scenario because there are chemicals involved, there is more of

a risk because they could be exposed to them. They have to be extra

aware. Also the heat. Yes, it gets very hot in the suit. It can be

difficult on a day like this. What are they doing at the moment? The

moment, this patient husband bleeding as a result of the

accident. Because they have been exposed to the chemicals, they are

having difficulty breathing. They will aim to stem the breathing by

applying a tourniquet bandage, and administer oxygen to help with the

breathing. They will get them off the train as soon as they can.

Another casualty has been stretchered off the train. Time is

really critical. If this was a real emergency... Absolutely. Time is

always important. When you add chemicals, what all responders aim

to do is get them away from the hazard. The sooner they can get them

into fresh air, they can start treating them and carry out more

detailed observations. The important thing is altered to get them out of

their clothes if their clothes have been contaminated. Do the important

life-saving interventions, get them out of any contaminated clothing and

rapid transfer to hospital. From here? From here, yes. Depending on

whether they have been contaminated or not. Another successful rescue

thanks to these paramedics. I understand the phone lines are

working again. So please do get in touch. You may remember unwanted

face Julie Rowson. Officers say you have given them lots of information

about where she may be and they are currently following strong leads.

Thank you for getting in touch with all of our cases.

Tina, where are you going to be tomorrow?

Rav, I'll be in Bristol, going out on the water with Avon

and Somerset Police's underwater search team.

And in a city famous for its highly prized graffitti art we'll be seeing

the fight back against the not so creative tagging,

in other words vandalism, which is defacing many of Bristol's

I'd better dig out my scrubbing brush.

For more details about the crimes on today's

Before we go, here's another look at this

If any of them look familiar, pick up the phone and tell

We'll be back tomorrow morning, after Breakfast.