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Today we are at Guildhall Yard, and will be having a get-together. It's

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been a terrible few weeks in Manchester and London so on the

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anniversary of MP Jo Cox's death, we're bringing the emergency

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services together with the community who have done so much to help.

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Thousands of pounds raised for charity stolen

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It dawned that maybe the person who'd

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brushed against me, maybe she had stolen it.

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And how your calls to this programme landed two vicious

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we started to have names coming through.

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Hello and welcome to Crimewatch Roadshow.

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As always, we need your help to solve the crimes

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The depraved bus passenger assaulting woman across the capital.

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I couldn't stop shaking, even when I left the bus.

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And the hero cops putting their lives on the line

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That's why I joined the job, to help people.

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Today we're coming live from Guildhall Yard,

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Rav, it's been a hard few weeks for Londoners,

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but today I'm going to be with some of the people who've stood together

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They've shown strength and resilience and today we're

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having a bit of a get together to celebrate all that's

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wonderful about this great city and its people.

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It's certainly a time to come together.

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But before that we have our first appeal of the day.

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The hunt for a light fingered pickpocket who took thousands

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The Southwick Christian Community Church is a vibrant part of life in

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this village. The Reverend Linda is a much loved leader of the

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congregation. As a church in a small community, we do a lot in the local

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area with not just spiritual activities but education and

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recreation. It's difficult work sometimes but I really enjoy it.

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Linda is also the director of a charity which supports aid efforts

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in Zimbabwe. I've been over there many times over the years, teaching

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and encouraging. And so we then form a charity. We have sought to raise

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funds to support the work out there. I think for me, probably over the

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years of going there, particularly with the people I've met there, got

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to know them, they have become like an extended family and in a time

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when the country's going through terrible hardship and crisis, I feel

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the pain of that. We do what we can to support their work so their lives

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are just little bit better. Linda and her fundraising team managed to

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raise over ?7,000 for a project growing maize in a specially to

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school. But sadly that money never made it to Zimbabwe. In order to get

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the money to the charity, it first had to be changed from pounds into

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dollars, the currency used in Zimbabwe so Linda took the money to

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her local supermarket to make the exchange. Normally we do bank to

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bank transfers but that wasn't possible because the banking system

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in Zimbabwe has collapsed. I went to Sainsbury's in West Hove, about 3pm,

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to pick up the money I'd ordered online and pay for it. She exchanged

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?7,000 for $9,000. I had my handbag, and I had a white carrier bag with

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me, I didn't shopping in. And I thought, that's the place to put it.

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I had a conscious thought, I'll put it in there because it would look

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conspicuous, no one will think that you got money in your carrier bag.

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She made her way to the exit, the money in her bag. A fairly youngish

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woman brushed against me, and I didn't think anything of it.

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Thinking the money was safe in her bag, she headed home. I had a cup of

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tea, as you do, check my e-mails, and a little while later, I thought,

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I must get that money out now. When I went to my carrier bag...

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It must be somewhere, it must be in my car or it must be on the floor.

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And it really didn't dawn on me till about ten minutes later then, the

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person who brushed against me, maybe she had stolen it. She was right.

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CCTV shows Linda being targeted as she left the store. Without her even

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noticing. Almost all of the charity money had been stolen from her bag.

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We do have people who are opportunistic thieves, there are

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people out there who see this as their jobs. They are career thieves

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and they will do this professionally. In particular, we

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want to identify the lady in the hat that was seen with her hand in the

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Reverend's bag. We suspect that the lady with the dark air is an

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accomplice. However she could potentially be a witness. She was

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seen to enter the shop at a similar time to the main suspect and also

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lead in company with her. For Linda and her community fundraisers,

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losing money destined for money in Africa has been heartbreaking. All

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thoughts of things go through your mind. And particularly hindsight and

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regret, how could you have been so stupid? And also, your own sense of

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guilt and shame of it, and having to admit it to other people. Those are

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all difficult emotions to cope with. I think it would be really great if

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we could identify the person responsible in this instance, and

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bring them to justice, to provide some closure for the community. And

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I think one of the most difficult things was the real sense of

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injustice and sadness about it all. With me now is Inspector Steve Hill

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from Sussex Police. Now, there is good CCTV

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of the person responsible for this? Yes, there is CCTV of a woman

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entering the Sainsbury's in West Hove and later we can see

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she has her hand in the reverend's And there's another woman you are

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keen to speak to that you have identified? Yes, the lady standing

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behind her when she did this come up with the dark air, we're confident

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from reviewing the CCTV that these two are working together and they

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have gone to the store to target somebody for a theft. This was a

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substantial amount of money intended for a good cause. It was, it was

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?7,500 raised through various fundraising efforts and donations,

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Linda had gone to change it into US dollars to take to the charity

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mission in Zimbabwe. Thankfully, there are some good news, the

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community in Zimbabwe actually got the money destined for them? They

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did, but that was only thanks to the generosity of the public. When we

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initially released the images and the footage to the media, that was

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picked up on, donations came in and we have added some money to that

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from the police property fund. It in no way detracts from the outrageous

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nature of this theft and its likely these people would go on to commit

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it again. It's been sad for Linda, thank you so much.

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If you can name either of those two women, we'd love to hear from you.

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Get in touch using the numbers on screen.

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More incidents caught on camera now in today's CCTV round-up.

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And just so you know, the first one is pretty nasty.

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It's a Saturday night, and these lads are outside waiting. One of the

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group breaks away and heads towards smoking area. He has no idea what's

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about to happen. The attacker runs off, having knocked the victim out

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cold, leaving him with a fractured jaw. The victim couldn't work for

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six weeks in the run-up to Christmas. Police needs to find the

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man responsible. You know what to do.

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This one isn't subtle, as you can see. A rail depot in central London

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and this man is using a novel way to get inside. After struggling with a

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hammer, he resorts to brute force and uses a sledgehammer instead.

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Once he is in, he wreaks havoc, and causes extensive damage to the

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toilets, doors and appliances. But he's not finished yet. Next he

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climbed over the roof to another compound. Here he breaks into one of

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the vans. I'm not sure if he's passed his driving test, though.

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Watch as he tries to get out. He eventually smashes through the

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gates, before continuing his wrecking spree and ramming another

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set of gates. It might seem comical, but more than ?30,000 worth of

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damage was caused. Who is this hapless vandal? Someone must

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recognise him. If you know the name

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of anyone you've just seen, We're ready to take

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your calls right now. Text CW, space and

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then your message. Texts will be charged

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at your standard message rate. As you can see we're having a bit

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of a get together here today This weekend, up and down

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the country, people are having picnics and barbeques

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and garden parties. With me to explain why is the MP

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for Lewisham, Vicky Foxcroft. It was a year ago today that your

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friend and colleague Jo Cox was sadly murdered. Just explain to me

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the importance of this campaign. What we want to make sure that we do

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is celebrate her life. Southwick -- Jo was a lovely bubbly person who

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really wanted to bring people together. As she said in her maiden

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speech in Parliament, we have got more in common than that which

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divide us. It's very much about celebrating Jo's life rather than

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focusing on her death. It's such a positive message. What kind of

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things are happening? It's a positive message that all of her

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family and friends have wanted to promote. One of the things that we

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are doing locally in Deptford and the whole of Lewisham is having a

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float your boat party, people can come along and build their own

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boats, and they will float them in the river in Lewisham and that

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floats into the Thames. The Thames is really important and that's where

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Jo went and lived with her family, on a boat on the Thames. Now more

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than ever. With everything that's happening with the London terror

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attacks and the attack in Manchester, it's so important for us

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to be all coming together. And as you said, not be divided. That's

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exactly what all of these events, there is something like 1000 events

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across the country organised, and it's about celebrating everything

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that brings us together and not allowing terrorists attacks or

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anything to divide our communities. It's reinforcing that message, the

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sense of community spirit, cohesion, that's what everyone here is doing.

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Everyone here is a part of that. In Lewisham, in my constituency, we

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love to celebrate the sense of community and across the country we

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do, and it important that people come together and do that in

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whatever way they do it, be it a street party, or floating your boat

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down the Thames, or a disco, but managing to bring us all together to

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celebrate everything that unites our communities. Thank you so much for

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joining us. You will stick around for the whole of the programme. We

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will be speaking to more of these people gathered around here later

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on. Every day we appeal for your

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help to solve cases and in our very first programme of last year's

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series we asked you to name the brutal gunmen who posed

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as delivery men to get Well, I'm delighted to say

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the information you gave helped If come in with a hammer, and a

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knife, I think. Joanne and her husband Steve had

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been happily married for 23 years. They lived in Feltham, West London,

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with their two children. And for Joanne, home and family whatever

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thing. Just a lovely woman. She's always been a housewife since she's

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been with me. All of my children, best twice in the world. In April

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last year, Joanne was home alone. I went to the front window, peep

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through, and I saw a man in a yellow hi vision test and I called out, who

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is it? He said, the livery. I stopped for a minute and then he

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knocked again. I opened the door, and his foot went

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in. Big mistake. Once in the house, the men pushed

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John ran to the floor. My head is being taped, tape around my mouth,

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my hands. The first one put his hand around my neck and started to

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strangle me. And then as the second man went up the steps, I saw the

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hammer in his hand. He kicked me on the head. He hit me again on the

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other side of the head. With his foot, and kicked me in the forehead.

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It quickly became clear what the men were after. I told him where the

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safe was. He couldn't open it, so I had to go and open it. Once the safe

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was opened, the men took the ?27,000 from inside. But things didn't end

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there. I said, I'm dying, I think I'm dying. They put duct tape around

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my ankles and got what I thought to be a gun to my neck and said, if I

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tell the police, he's coming back for me. With that, they were gone.

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From the minute the ambulance passed the court was we realise this is one

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of the most serious types of crime we deal with, home invasion with

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weapons used, firearms mentioned, we take things seriously from very

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early on. Within the first hour, contacting neighbours, doing sweeps

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of the area, trying to establish any way we can find these people

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immediately because it is the golden hour, that first hour, so much

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information comes at you and you have the best chance of getting key

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evidence to secure convictions. It wasn't long before DS Dickson Leach

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and his team made their first breakthrough. That footage of the

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suspect was in police possession within 12 hours. A neighbour's CCTV

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camera caught two men scoping out the area, one wearing a UPS uniform

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and carrying a parcel. We knew how they had done what they had done but

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what we didn't know was who they were. After the initial

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breakthrough, weeks passed and DS Dickson Leach and his team scoured

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mugshot after mugshot but no-one recognised these men, so they to

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Crimewatch road show. As soon as the show went out, we

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started to get information coming in. We had names put forward to us

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within the first two days. With pressure mounting, and man handed

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himself in but refused to give the identity of his accomplished.

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Crucially, viewers stepped in and anonymous calls came through with

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names of the second man. The final piece of the jigsaw? Gaffer tape.

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The key identifier for the accomplice was the fact that his DNA

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came back from the gaffer tape he used to tie up the victim. Finally,

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they had got them. They both can be pleaded guilty and were convicted of

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robbery, possession of an imitation firearm, and possession of an

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offensive weapon in a public place. I think this pair have never

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committed a crime we are aware of to this level before, this appeared to

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be very much an escalation for them. They were willing to do it, they

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would do it again. With the injury she suffered with a hammer blow to

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the head, the knife, the firearm, she could have died. This could

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easily be a murder. They left her tied up. I'm very glad both of them

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have been put away for over 12 years, which has been a really

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excellent result for us, they will be away for over a decade.

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Brilliant work, thank you so much for those crucial calls.

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Right, lots more to come this morning, including how to protect

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yourself from online holiday booking scams.

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And can you make it the end of the line for this man,

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I just think I froze and I didn't really know what to do.

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But first, we need your help to identify

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another man who has been targeting women.

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In this case, when they are out walking on their own

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With me now is Detective Inspector Paul Ridley

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Tell us about the case. The attack took place on the 10th of May just

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after midnight, and Lady had been out in Hackney, in Dalston. She

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entered Scriven Street and, as you can see on the map, as she was

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walking along she felt the presence of a male behind her. She was on her

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phone and the male rugby tackled her to the ground with such force that

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her telephone broke. He then made off northbound. We have got some

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great CCTV of the person. The first camera, you can see the assailant

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walking, following her. It then moves into the second camera which

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motion detectors and zooms in and you can clearly see the image of the

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offender there. What is so chilling is this is just seconds before the

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attack took place. You have got a good description of him? He is a

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male, late teens to mid 20s, five foot six five foot ten, he is

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wearing a Nikkei hooded top and what is distinctive about that is the

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sleeve a vertical stripe running from shoulder to hand. Unfortunately

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you believe this is linked to another very serious attack? Two

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days later on the 12th of May, the same circumstances, and lady out in

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Dalston was followed and approached from behind, she hears footsteps and

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he tackles her to the ground. She screams and he makes from the scene

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again. We can see another image here of how close these two areas are,

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and you believe the offender may well be hanging around? We have

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spoken to a behavioural profiler who tells us the man is likely to be

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loitering around that area and may have followed all the women as well

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previously, so if that is the case and you have been followed by this

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man, please come forward to our investigation team. There is a

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reward? Crimestoppers have put forward a ?10,000 reward which shows

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the magnitude of the case and how seriously we are taking it, leading

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to the arrest and conviction of this man. Have a look at the image, it is

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very, very clear. Thank you for joining us. If you recognise him or

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have any information that might help the police, please do get in touch

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using the number on the screen, or you can call Crimestoppers.

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It's the time of year when many of us are thinking

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But holiday fraud is on the rise for the fifth year running,

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with thousands of people falling victim to scams.

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Here to tell us about some of them is DI Mick Dodge

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It is a big problem? Yes, a growing problem, last year ?7.2 million was

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lost holiday fraud over 6000 reports received, it is a crime that keeps

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on growing. It is a crime fuelled by more and more people booking online?

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Three quarters of us book online now. People use that opportunity to

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exploit it, fake websites, fake social media profiles, unsolicited

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e-mails to con you out of money. It is interesting seeing the different

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scams that are out there, we can hear now from a lady called Gemma

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Woolley from Bridgend who was another victim of a holiday scam. I

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had a response to say that the dates were unavailable to start with and

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then within 45 minutes I had another e-mail to say, please ignore the

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last e-mail, I had the dates mixed up, we are actually available, so I

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just quickly glanced at it, I was ecstatic that it was still

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available. Text did everyone, yes, quick, but it now, had a phone call

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back to say she didn't know what I was talking about and she

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immediately said to me, you have been scammed. You can imagine,

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devastated at that point. That is just terrible, Gemma went

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through a reputable site but the scammers hacked into the owner, the

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property owner's e-mails. How can we better protect ourselves from things

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like that? Some of the scams can be complicated but there is simple

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advice to protect yourself, things like making sure the website you are

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using is reputable, is it registered with an organisation like ABTA, if

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you are booking online stay within the payment mechanism on the website

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using a credit or debit card, don't pay by bank transfer because usually

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lose all protection. When you make a payment, look for the padlock in the

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top left-hand corner of the Internet bar, that tells you it is a secure

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transaction. And there is more information on the

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Action Fraud website, so make sure you head there as well.

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Earlier we asked for your help to find a man attacking women

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Well, unfortunately we now need you to identify another man,

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this time targeting victims on London's buses.

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Between 20 and 30, Middle Eastern, dark hair. He just kept staring at

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me and touching himself. I felt like I froze. Didn't really know what to

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do. Police started receiving reports in

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March last year, a man was indiscriminately assaulting women on

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London buses. He has never been caught. I was going to a meeting, I

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was always rushing around from one part of London to another part. A

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few stops after I got on, and man got on and sat next to me, he was

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really close. His behaviour made the woman feel anxious. I thought he was

:25:48.:25:52.

going to try and block me at first because I had my work phone,

:25:53.:25:56.

personal phone, laptop and everything. But then his legs

:25:57.:26:00.

started to touch hers. I had a dress on, it was just horrible. I think if

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I had trousers on it wouldn't have felt so... It was just not very

:26:06.:26:10.

nice. He put his leg up, blocking her in, and moved even closer. I

:26:11.:26:17.

think if I had moved, -- moved my face, we would have touched faces.

:26:18.:26:21.

The man had started touching himself. I was thinking, should I go

:26:22.:26:26.

to the bus driver? I didn't know what to do. Scared and worried about

:26:27.:26:30.

what would happen next, she made a break for it. She pushed past him

:26:31.:26:35.

and quickly left the bus. And then he just kept staring at me and

:26:36.:26:40.

touching himself. It was just not nice. When I got off of the bus, he

:26:41.:26:47.

carried on staring at me from the window. I think I felt like I froze

:26:48.:26:53.

and didn't really know what to do. It wasn't an accident, he wasn't

:26:54.:26:59.

embarrassed, he wasn't ashamed. In September, the attacker struck

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again. This time targeting the woman who had got on the 226 bus with her

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children. I'm a single mum, I use public transport every day. Taking

:27:12.:27:15.

the kids to school, work, shopping, everything. I was with my kids, I

:27:16.:27:22.

didn't think I was formidable. Just minutes into her journey, the

:27:23.:27:27.

offender sat down next to her. At first I thought he was trying to

:27:28.:27:29.

look at what I was doing on my phone but his face was really close to my

:27:30.:27:33.

face and I realised he was staring at me. I felt really uncomfortable.

:27:34.:27:38.

Just grabbing onto my pipe. Then I would look at him and he would stop

:27:39.:27:42.

and move his hand, and then he would do it again as soon as I went back

:27:43.:27:51.

onto my phone. I didn't react, I was shocked, I thought, is this real, or

:27:52.:27:54.

am I dreaming? It took a while when he was doing it for me to respond,

:27:55.:27:59.

thinking I had to be careful how to respond, I can't scare my kids. My

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gosh, I was shaking the whole time. It sounds ridiculous, but I was on

:28:07.:28:13.

my phone and I couldn't move. He put his whole hand on my thigh and tried

:28:14.:28:17.

to grab. I turned to him and I said, I know what you are doing, don't

:28:18.:28:23.

touch me. He just kept struggling. After he was confronted, the

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attacker got up and stayed standing on the bus. With shaking hands, the

:28:27.:28:32.

woman held up her mobile phone and took a photo. I wanted him to know

:28:33.:28:38.

that I did it, because I wasn't scared, I just felt violated. The

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attacker left the bus. Even after he got off the bus, I was shaking for

:28:49.:28:52.

hours afterwards. I didn't cry, I was just so angry. I think this man

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is getting on the bus and his sole purpose for riding on the bus is to

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commit these offences, I don't believe he's making any legitimate

:29:04.:29:07.

journey. Public transport is for anybody and you should be able to

:29:08.:29:10.

get on without any fear of anything bad happening to you so that is why

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it is important that this man is caught and brought to justice. Some

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people have said, oh, I wouldn't have reported it because it wasn't

:29:19.:29:26.

that bad. But I thought, no, it is bad, it is a serious thing. I always

:29:27.:29:32.

feel so carefree when I go on buses and walking around the street, even

:29:33.:29:36.

at night time, I never really feared, you think it is never going

:29:37.:29:47.

to happen to you, but it did. Such a horrible thing to go through.

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With me now is Detective Inspector Dave Dixon.

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You believe this man is a prolific offender?

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Yes, we have him linked to six offences all on buses. He mainly

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offence in the daytime but also at night, and it is one of this night

:30:02.:30:07.

offences that we have got some CCTV footage from the N18 bus. He

:30:08.:30:21.

immediately goes upstairs and start offending, he offends against for

:30:22.:30:26.

women, the last woman was asleep and he woke up. He has been assaulting

:30:27.:30:31.

people on a number of different bus routes? Yes, mainly in Brent and

:30:32.:30:37.

Park Royal, but also on the 341 in Tottenham, and the 226 from Ealing

:30:38.:30:41.

to Golders Green. You've got a very clear images of the man responsible?

:30:42.:30:46.

Yes, all London buses have CCTV cameras that record internally and

:30:47.:30:51.

externally and we've got some images from him will stop different times

:30:52.:30:54.

and dates but you can clearly identify in these images that he's

:30:55.:30:58.

the same man. Also one of the victims took a picture with her

:30:59.:31:01.

mobile phone and that is also a really good image of him. Thank you

:31:02.:31:03.

very much. Time now for a look

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at today's Wanted Faces. Starting with 26-year-old

:31:06.:31:08.

Van Than Nguyen, although you may know him

:31:09.:31:09.

as Jimmy or Giang le. Detectives want to speak to him

:31:10.:31:12.

in connection to human trafficking and modern slavery incidents at nail

:31:13.:31:16.

bars across the UK. Originally from Vietnam,

:31:17.:31:20.

he now has friends and family in Staffordshire, the West Midlands,

:31:21.:31:22.

Manchester, Cheltenham Next is Sheridan Fayomi,

:31:23.:31:26.

but he also uses the names Timothy Johnson, Timothy Arnold

:31:27.:31:32.

and Sheridan Calliste. He was arrested in connection

:31:33.:31:36.

with the recovery of a quantity of heroin and crack cocaine

:31:37.:31:39.

and released on police bail, but hasn't returned

:31:40.:31:41.

for further questioning. He has links to London,

:31:42.:31:44.

Manchester and Sussex Do you recognise 18-year-old

:31:45.:31:47.

John Casey, although he sometimes claims he's 22-year-old Michael

:31:48.:31:54.

Casey? He was released on police bail

:31:55.:31:56.

in connection to a number of house burglaries

:31:57.:31:59.

in West Sussex and Brighton. He's failed to return

:32:00.:32:01.

though and is now wanted. Casey has a badly scarred face

:32:02.:32:03.

and an Irish accent. Finally today is Tony White,

:32:04.:32:07.

although you may know him Police in Kent would like to speak

:32:08.:32:10.

to him about an assault on a woman and the breach

:32:11.:32:16.

of a restraining order. The 30-year-old has a tattoo

:32:17.:32:18.

of the words "RIP Nan" on his neck and links to Thanet

:32:19.:32:22.

and Ashford in Kent. If you know where any

:32:23.:32:24.

of these faces are, make sure you get in touch

:32:25.:32:30.

using the numbers on screen. The terrible blaze in West London

:32:31.:32:36.

that's claimed so many lives has shown us all once again the immense

:32:37.:32:40.

bravery of all our The job of the police is to serve

:32:41.:32:43.

and to protect the public, and in the past few months we've

:32:44.:32:51.

seen how individual officers have put their own lives on the line

:32:52.:32:53.

time and time again. Next up, the story of two officers

:32:54.:32:56.

who ran toward the danger to protect PC Craig Nicholson and PC Shand

:32:57.:33:15.

Panesar have been working together on response for more than five years

:33:16.:33:18.

and for the pair, every day is different. Being a police officer,

:33:19.:33:22.

you never know what you're going to have to deal with. It's the brightly

:33:23.:33:28.

that we get, especially on response team. We get neighbour disputes,

:33:29.:33:33.

domestic incidents, a wide range. You are under suspicion of

:33:34.:33:37.

drink-driving. The reports are that art 15-year-old -- there is a 15 rod

:33:38.:33:44.

missing child, a fight on high Street, all different things that

:33:45.:33:49.

come out when you're driving around. One night last September, the

:33:50.:33:52.

officers received a call outs to a house fire in south-west that. As

:33:53.:33:56.

soon as I heard house-buyer, somebody trapped, no longer

:33:57.:34:00.

responding, you know that that is going to be a serious incident that

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is going to take a lot of people to deal with. The house belonged to

:34:05.:34:10.

37-year-old Russell Alsop and his partner of 18 years, Heather.

:34:11.:34:16.

Everyone needs a soul mate and a best friend, that person for the

:34:17.:34:22.

best times and the bad. At the time, Russell was Heather's full-time

:34:23.:34:25.

carer as she suffered from emphysema, a form of lung disease.

:34:26.:34:30.

Unfortunately, it affects a lot of her day-to-day activities, walking,

:34:31.:34:35.

things normal people take for granted. One evening, Russell was

:34:36.:34:39.

downstairs preparing Heather's T. It became quite hectic. Something

:34:40.:34:44.

distracted me away from what I was actually meant to be doing. I forgot

:34:45.:34:51.

that I had put this chip pan on. So that's when hell broke loose for me.

:34:52.:34:56.

The chip pan had caught fire and within minutes, the whole kitchen

:34:57.:35:01.

was in the in flames. I described trying to get into a fire is raging,

:35:02.:35:08.

with thick black smoke, as your worst nightmare. But Russell

:35:09.:35:11.

realised Heather was still upstairs. But into the bedroom and she was

:35:12.:35:17.

lifeless on the bed, like completely non-responsive. Before she lost

:35:18.:35:25.

consciousness, Heather managed to dial 999. The police were the first

:35:26.:35:30.

to arrive on the scene. Wow. Definitely started in here. This is

:35:31.:35:36.

their first visit to the house since that fateful night. I know fires

:35:37.:35:42.

spread quickly, but you don't realise just how quickly they

:35:43.:35:48.

spread. Coming from turning up, and they're being smoke inside the

:35:49.:35:52.

house, and then they're being a raging fire within minutes, it's

:35:53.:35:59.

strange. It's a bit surreal. We hadn't seen any of this, we'd only

:36:00.:36:04.

seen the photos. When the call came out to ask that getting him out of

:36:05.:36:11.

being a couple of minutes maximum, here. This whole area was just

:36:12.:36:16.

smoke. They peeled the wallpaper off now but this whole area was just

:36:17.:36:22.

thick black smoke. As first responders, they had to act quickly.

:36:23.:36:27.

We didn't get more than a couple of metres in before the smoke was just

:36:28.:36:32.

so thick, we couldn't breathe. Russell was screaming, I thought it

:36:33.:36:35.

was upstairs to the left so I got halfway up the stairs, I needed to

:36:36.:36:40.

breathe because the smoke was so bad. So I came back outside, took a

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couple of deep breaths and then went upstairs to the left. Just as I got

:36:47.:36:50.

round the corner to the left I bumped into Russell, and at our feet

:36:51.:36:58.

was Heather, laying there, lifeless. As far as I remember Heather coming

:36:59.:37:01.

out to my left and being here, laying on the floor. I took hold of

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her anyway I could, grabbed her and dragged her down, quickly as I could

:37:08.:37:11.

to get her outside. In that split second, when Craig put her down, I

:37:12.:37:16.

saw that she was making no movement whatsoever. We took her outside to

:37:17.:37:19.

the pavement just out to the front, about a metre away from the front

:37:20.:37:24.

door. Heather was obviously not breathing and in a bad way. We got

:37:25.:37:31.

through around six rounds of CPR. She was completely lifeless. Not

:37:32.:37:35.

making any noise is odd sounds. After 15 minutes, I felt her stomach

:37:36.:37:39.

drops. And then she started moving again. She started trying to

:37:40.:37:45.

breathe, gasping for air but doing it herself. It's the most amazing

:37:46.:37:51.

feeling ever. I can't describe it. And then finally, the paramedics

:37:52.:37:55.

arrived and they took over which was amazing. Heather spent the next five

:37:56.:37:59.

weeks in hospital but went on to make a full recovery. I'm so lucky

:38:00.:38:06.

that those people responded. Because they're not fire brigade, and I know

:38:07.:38:13.

they're not meant to, they have no safety equipment, and they did. This

:38:14.:38:16.

is the sort of people that really make a difference in the world. Now

:38:17.:38:21.

that Heather is in better health, the officers have come along to see

:38:22.:38:24.

how they're both coping since the fire. Hello, again. How you doing,

:38:25.:38:32.

OK? I'm OK, are you OK? You look a lot better. Thank you. Nice to see

:38:33.:38:40.

you. Nice to see you as well. How are you doing, made? Not too bad. .

:38:41.:38:50.

Thank you so much for what you did, you are both heroes, I'm so

:38:51.:38:54.

grateful. Most amazing thing was when you started breathing again,

:38:55.:38:59.

that, for me, was just amazing. He started breathing, you are starting

:39:00.:39:02.

to try so hard to breathe on their own and we were still working on

:39:03.:39:06.

you. You deserve everything that you've been awarded. We've got

:39:07.:39:10.

everything we deserve, she's still here, that's the main thing. We do

:39:11.:39:16.

what we do, and it's only when you sit down afterwards to reflect, you

:39:17.:39:21.

think about what happened. These officers, the Metropolitan Police

:39:22.:39:27.

and any police force, they do them proud. They helped us and that's an

:39:28.:39:33.

amazing thing. This is why I joined. The feeling is why someone is still

:39:34.:39:38.

around because you are able to give them the ultimate helps. That's why

:39:39.:39:46.

I joined the job, to help people. It's really inspirational, and a

:39:47.:39:50.

reminder of the bravery of the emergency services. They are putting

:39:51.:39:54.

themselves out there in the face of danger. And of course, our hearts go

:39:55.:39:58.

out to everyone involved in the London terror attacks and the

:39:59.:40:00.

Grenfell Tower fire earlier this week.

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Today is all about coming together, as we said earlier, it's about

:40:09.:40:14.

uniting rather than dividing. The Bees got lots of different people

:40:15.:40:21.

here, various groups, we have got Sanjit here. You have got very

:40:22.:40:27.

heavily involved in the aftermath of the tower fire, what did you see

:40:28.:40:32.

when you are there? In a macro it was very humbling, all of the

:40:33.:40:37.

different cultures coming together. They showed a lot of selflessness.

:40:38.:40:46.

And it resonates with us. So it was great to see everyone come together.

:40:47.:40:49.

And for you on a personal level, what does getting together, what

:40:50.:40:55.

does this kind of event mean? The last few days we've been asked by a

:40:56.:40:59.

reporter 's, white did you get involved? What we are saying is, why

:41:00.:41:04.

wouldn't we get involved? We are taught that humanity is one big

:41:05.:41:08.

family, and humanity is suffering, so we will help and step up. We have

:41:09.:41:22.

vans serving homeless people on the streets of London, we enjoy doing

:41:23.:41:28.

it. It's humbling hearing this. You are organising and Iftar tonight, so

:41:29.:41:36.

tell me about that? We are fasting for Ramadan and at the end of the

:41:37.:41:42.

day, we break bread. So tonight including, Islamic relief has and

:41:43.:41:47.

Iftar, bringing people together -- tonight in Luton, in memory of Jo

:41:48.:41:54.

Cox. On Monday, you would have heard from Inspector Jim Cole, one of the

:41:55.:41:58.

first officers on the scene in the London terror attacks, what does

:41:59.:42:02.

this mean to you, this event? It's nice to get everybody together, see

:42:03.:42:06.

the community is coming together. The response from people in and

:42:07.:42:09.

around London Bridge has been fantastic. And Jess, your patch is

:42:10.:42:18.

London Bridge, important to you? Yes, I'm responsible for the Square

:42:19.:42:23.

mile, including London Bridge, it's all about reassurance and letting

:42:24.:42:26.

people know that we are out there. If you see a police officer, talk to

:42:27.:42:30.

us, we are friendly. It's about being stoic and going forward.

:42:31.:42:35.

Sticking together. Just chatting to everyone, it's incredible

:42:36.:42:35.

inspirational. What an inspiring

:42:36.:42:40.

way to end the week. Now there's just time before we go

:42:41.:42:43.

for a look at what's been coming in on the calls,

:42:44.:42:46.

texts and emails. You remember this CCTV from

:42:47.:42:53.

yesterday? Switch it off, because it's going to fire. Police want to

:42:54.:42:58.

question this man after an elderly woman was burgled and a man claimed

:42:59.:43:03.

he was here to turn her gas. Police say that as a result of information

:43:04.:43:06.

you have given them, they are chasing up a potentially strong

:43:07.:43:08.

lead. That's it for this week

:43:09.:43:09.

but we'll be back on Monday. Michelle, where will

:43:10.:43:12.

you be next week? Rav, I'll be literally

:43:13.:43:14.

up in the air at a small airfield

:43:15.:43:16.

in North Yorkshire, where I'll be joining police

:43:17.:43:17.

on the lookout for smugglers. I just wish everyone for now the

:43:18.:43:29.

best for the event this weekend. For more details about the crimes on

:43:30.:43:33.

this programme, head to our website. He is another look at this morning

:43:34.:43:42.

's wanted faces. We'll be back on Monday morning. Take care.

:43:43.:43:45.

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