:00:00. > :00:12.New developments in the murder of Stephen Lawrence.
:00:13. > :00:22.The mother of two beaten to death outside her home.
:00:23. > :00:54.Live from Eltham in south London, this is Crimewatch.
:00:55. > :00:57.Good evening and welcome to Crimewatch.
:00:58. > :00:59.Each week we're travelling the country, broadcasting
:01:00. > :01:06.Tonight, on the eve of what would have been Stephen Lawrence's 42nd
:01:07. > :01:10.birthday we're live from Eltham in South London.
:01:11. > :01:14.Stephen was just 18 and an aspiring architect when he was chased down
:01:15. > :01:19.and murdered by a gang a few metres from where we are now.
:01:20. > :01:21.We'll have new developments in the case, and for the first time
:01:22. > :01:27.But first, let's check in with Tina in the incident room
:01:28. > :01:30.to see what else we have for you this evening.
:01:31. > :01:34.As ever, we have a team of police detectives standing
:01:35. > :01:36.by to take your calls on tonight's cases including
:01:37. > :01:39.the fatal shooting of grandfather Jim Stanton.
:01:40. > :01:42.Plus, we reveal how, despite vast amounts of evidence,
:01:43. > :01:44.the murderer of 17-year-old Melanie Road managed to evade
:01:45. > :02:01.There is no other case with such compelling evidence available to
:02:02. > :02:05.you. You just need the other bit to join a duck, the suspect. The hard
:02:06. > :02:10.part was, where on earth were we going to find him.
:02:11. > :02:13.As ever, we have a team of police detectives standing
:02:14. > :02:14.by to take your calls on tonight's cases.
:02:15. > :02:17.In a few minutes we'll be speaking live to the detective now in charge
:02:18. > :02:20.of the Stephen Lawrence investigation about the new leads
:02:21. > :02:27.Before we do, here's a reminder of what we know so far.
:02:28. > :02:30.An 18-year-old boy has been stabbed to death...
:02:31. > :02:33.On April 22nd 1993, Stephen Lawrence and his friend Duwayne Brooks
:02:34. > :02:37.were on their way home when they were attacked.
:02:38. > :02:39.Stephen was stabbed twice but managed to run about 100
:02:40. > :02:47.yards before collapsing and bleeding to death.
:02:48. > :02:51.The impact of this single, tragic act of brutality
:02:52. > :02:55.would reverberate through the next two decades.
:02:56. > :02:58.From the beginning the Metropolitan Police were accused of not having
:02:59. > :03:03.Following several failed prosecutions a public
:03:04. > :03:09.The subsequent MacPherson report concluded that Stephen had been
:03:10. > :03:14.failed by a force infected with institutional racism.
:03:15. > :03:17.It made 70 recommendations, including a change to the law
:03:18. > :03:19.allowing for people to be prosecuted twice for the same crime
:03:20. > :03:29.Finally, in 2012 two of the original five suspects,
:03:30. > :03:33.Gary Dobson and David Norris, were convicted of Stephen's
:03:34. > :03:42.The court heard microscopic amounts of Stephen's DNA and fibres
:03:43. > :03:46.from his clothing were found on the defendants' clothing.
:03:47. > :04:03.But now for the first time Crimewatch reconstructs
:04:04. > :04:08.what we know happened on that that tragic evening.
:04:09. > :04:10.And just so you are aware the following film contains
:04:11. > :04:23.And that's what I want people to remember.
:04:24. > :04:29.I still can't understand seeing somebody at a bus stop,
:04:30. > :04:32.and yet you and your friends decide to pounce on that person
:04:33. > :04:38.I wanted my son to be famous from the buildings
:04:39. > :04:44.Why should he be denied his life because of
:04:45. > :04:56.Stephen Lawrence had spent most of Thursday 22nd of April 1993
:04:57. > :05:01.The 18-year-old was studying for A-levels in Design
:05:02. > :05:13.Stephen was so gifted that when he did his work experience
:05:14. > :05:16.with an architect he did the model for the architect for the building
:05:17. > :05:21.And the man was so pleased with what he did that he said,
:05:22. > :05:24."when you've finished your training I want you to come back and work
:05:25. > :05:36.At around 6pm that evening Stephen went to his uncle's house
:05:37. > :05:40.where he met up with his friend Duwayne Brooks.
:05:41. > :05:48.He was no different from any other teenager.
:05:49. > :05:52.You know he was an academic and he's always been that but you know
:05:53. > :05:55.at the same time he would want to be out with his friend.
:05:56. > :06:00.A few hours later they started the journey home.
:06:01. > :06:03.Duwayne was heading to Charlton and Stephen to neighbouring
:06:04. > :06:12.Due to strikes that night on certain routes, they caught a bus
:06:13. > :06:23.to Eltham High street where they hoped to find connections home.
:06:24. > :06:26.There they switched on to the 286 bus, but realising going on that
:06:27. > :06:35.route would get them home late, they changed buses again.
:06:36. > :06:38.This time on Well Hall Road in Eltham where they had a choice
:06:39. > :06:51.Unsure of which bus to catch, Duwayne returned
:06:52. > :06:53.south to the junction of Dixon Road to check
:06:54. > :07:06.At that point a group of five or six youths approached
:07:07. > :07:32.Can you see it coming yet?
:07:33. > :08:02.But he collapsed after running a few hundred metres.
:08:03. > :08:05.He had been stabbed twice, and was bleeding
:08:06. > :08:13.Normally, I like for him to come home
:08:14. > :08:16.by 10 o'clock so it's after 10 coming up 11, and
:08:17. > :08:25.I was told that he saw Stephen being attacked by a group of boys
:08:26. > :08:43.We saw a doctor and a nurse coming toward us, also his friend Duwayne
:08:44. > :08:46.being accompanied by a police officer, and then we went to Duwayne
:08:47. > :08:55.us and say they've got him and they're looking after him
:08:56. > :08:59.so we've got to go into a waiting room and wait for them to come back.
:09:00. > :09:02.So about half an hour or so they came back,
:09:03. > :09:11.After that everything else is just like fast forward,
:09:12. > :09:16.it's like a drama playing out in front of you but you're not part
:09:17. > :09:18.of that, and you're like no he's not, no,
:09:19. > :09:21.because it's hard to believe that
:09:22. > :09:24.somebody who was just full of life and all of a suddenly,
:09:25. > :09:31.I still can't remember whether I went in by myself or me
:09:32. > :09:40.But I remember him lying on the slab, and touching him
:09:41. > :09:52.and thinking he was still warm and he looked as if he was sleeping.
:09:53. > :09:56.It's been over two decades since this junction
:09:57. > :09:58.was a major crime scene, but items recovered back then
:09:59. > :10:08.A leather strap found a few yards from the attack scene and believed
:10:09. > :10:10.to have been discarded at the time has been re-examined using
:10:11. > :10:16.It's known that straps like this were used locally
:10:17. > :10:22.as a way of securing weapons to people's hands.
:10:23. > :10:26.DNA found on the strap suggests that it belonged to a female.
:10:27. > :10:33.Detectives would like to speak to the owner of that strap.
:10:34. > :10:36.Recently reviewed CCTV taken from that fateful day
:10:37. > :10:44.It shows a man wearing a very distinctive jacket with a V
:10:45. > :10:48.on the back in an off license in Eltham.
:10:49. > :10:53.It's known a man wearing a jacket like this was also in the vicinity
:10:54. > :10:57.of the attack but despite repeated appeals, he's never been traced.
:10:58. > :10:59.One small little bit of information can
:11:00. > :11:06.There's people out there that might have just that one small little
:11:07. > :11:13.detail for us to put the closure on this and I'm just,
:11:14. > :11:15.I'm begging them and asking them please -
:11:16. > :11:19.the information and let's put the closure on this
:11:20. > :11:28.I know it's sometimes very difficult and people
:11:29. > :11:30.feel threatened or whatever but I'd like them to have confidence
:11:31. > :11:38.It doesn't matter how small the information that they have,
:11:39. > :11:42.that any little thing they have could be important.
:11:43. > :11:45.He died because these men decided to take his life,
:11:46. > :12:01.I'm here with DCI Chris Le Pere at the spot where Stephen collapsed.
:12:02. > :12:05.And it's items from that scene that you're concentrating on tonight?
:12:06. > :12:17.That is correct. We found blood and Arab strap, we know that that was
:12:18. > :12:23.not owned by Stephen but I believe it was left by the suspects. We have
:12:24. > :12:28.obtained a full female DNA profile from the strap and conducted mass
:12:29. > :12:36.DNA screening but unfortunately have not been able to identify that
:12:37. > :12:45.individual. We are hoping then to find the witness who was in that
:12:46. > :12:49.CCTV. Absolutely. We have CCTV taken from an off-licence some two and a
:12:50. > :12:58.half hours previously. Wearing a distinctive jacket with a V design.
:12:59. > :13:03.He could be the same person seen by witnesses at the time in the
:13:04. > :13:09.vicinity where Stephen was murdered. That was the sketch taken in 1993,
:13:10. > :13:15.he may or may not be the same person but I would like to identify both
:13:16. > :13:23.persons. We are here at the place where Stephen Lawrence fell and
:13:24. > :13:28.died. You are now offering a reward for information leading to a
:13:29. > :13:32.prosecution. That is correct. The Metropolitan Police are offering up
:13:33. > :13:35.to ?20,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest and
:13:36. > :13:42.prosecution of the persons involved in the murder of Stephen Lawrence.
:13:43. > :13:50.Our last appeal came tantalisingly close. Absolutely, we are seeking a
:13:51. > :13:52.Male figure who later found Crimestoppers and I believe has
:13:53. > :13:59.significant information. I would ask him to ring back. Two men have been
:14:00. > :14:03.convicted for the murder of Stephen Lawrence but it is vital that
:14:04. > :14:07.everyone else involved in taking his life is caught and punished. We have
:14:08. > :14:15.a phone number for you which you can ring to give information.
:14:16. > :14:18.Calls are free from landlines and mobile phones.
:14:19. > :14:20.More details are on the Crimewatch website.
:14:21. > :14:22.Time now for our CCTV roundup now and we've got some particularly
:14:23. > :14:31.cunning crooks this month so keep your eyes peeled.
:14:32. > :14:39.It is a rainy Wednesday in the West Midlands and this guy has come
:14:40. > :14:45.prepared. He has an umbrella for the weather and Akgun for a bank job.
:14:46. > :14:49.According to police he asks for cash in such a calm manner of the
:14:50. > :14:56.customers next to him to not realise for some time that they are in the
:14:57. > :15:00.middle of armed robbery. The cashier is forced to hand over money and
:15:01. > :15:08.goes to leave. Not without his umbrella. Police believe that this
:15:09. > :15:13.man is responsible for several other robberies in the area totalling
:15:14. > :15:17.?20,000. If you want to see the full footage of all these incidents then
:15:18. > :15:31.visit our website. And if you know who he is please get in touch.
:15:32. > :15:36.Rush hour, outside the elephant and Castle shopping centre in south
:15:37. > :15:39.London. Keep your eyes on the man with the phone. He is taking a keen
:15:40. > :15:44.interest in the scooter rider preparing to leave. What happens
:15:45. > :15:50.next is too shocking to show in full. Without warning, he lunges and
:15:51. > :15:54.stabs the biker in front of terrified passers-by. The victim
:15:55. > :15:59.runs inside to get help and is later treated in hospital for a large stab
:16:00. > :16:04.wound in his back. Police say this is the suspect entering the shopping
:16:05. > :16:07.centre before the stabbing. Take a long, hard look. Someone knows who
:16:08. > :16:17.this knife wielding attacker is. He needs to be caught. It is the early
:16:18. > :16:21.hours of a July morning. Add the chicken shop in Birmingham. A man
:16:22. > :16:36.dressed in black enters the shop. Backwards. He turns and according to
:16:37. > :16:40.the worker, shouts pi aggressively, a Hindi term for brother. The
:16:41. > :16:47.customer pulls out a shotgun and fired it towards the kitchen
:16:48. > :16:49.ceiling. He then runs away towards the park. Listen again. See if you
:16:50. > :17:14.can recognise his voice. This man is armed and dangerous. Can
:17:15. > :17:20.you tell us who he is? It's a perfectly normal day in Grimsby back
:17:21. > :17:26.in March. Apart from these three men dressed in white boiler suits armed
:17:27. > :17:31.with two hammers and a machete. As they start smashing their way into a
:17:32. > :17:37.jewellers, a worker bravely tries to fight them off but is forced to
:17:38. > :17:42.witness the shop being torn apart. The men break into cabinets and
:17:43. > :17:49.window displays, managing to take nearly ?140,000 worth of watches.
:17:50. > :17:58.When they have had their fill, they run back towards their getaway car.
:17:59. > :18:04.Here they are a few minutes later, running away from the dumped car and
:18:05. > :18:09.stripping off at the same time. Police want to find these men but
:18:10. > :18:13.would also like to identify the man pictured here. He was seen in the
:18:14. > :18:17.store just over a week before the robbery and may have vital
:18:18. > :18:27.information. Get dialling if you can name any of them.
:18:28. > :18:29.Call or text us if you recognise any of that lot.
:18:30. > :18:32.Texts will be charged at your standard message rate.
:18:33. > :18:34.And remember you can follow all of the developments
:18:35. > :18:37.during the programme on our new live updates web page.
:18:38. > :18:39.Six months ago, antiques expert Robyn Mercer
:18:40. > :18:42.was found battered to death outside her family home in Surrey.
:18:43. > :18:45.She'd been hit over the head multiple times with what police
:18:46. > :18:47.believe may have been a type of machete.
:18:48. > :18:56.Well tonight, detectives want your help to solve
:18:57. > :18:59.DCI Paul Rymarz, who's leading the hunt for Robyn's
:19:00. > :19:09.Talk us through what we know. At about 9pm on Sunday the 13th of
:19:10. > :19:13.March, we believe that Robyn had gone outside to put something in the
:19:14. > :19:16.bins outside the front of her house after a family meal. Her body was
:19:17. > :19:23.discovered the following morning at 8:00am, at the end of the driveway
:19:24. > :19:27.by the back gate. The postmortem revealed that she had been hit once
:19:28. > :19:31.in the front of the head and then struck several times whilst on the
:19:32. > :19:36.floor. We believe the weapon was some sort of acts or machete and we
:19:37. > :19:39.are appealing for any information from anybody who knows anything
:19:40. > :19:43.about that weapon to contact us tonight. A horrific attack on a
:19:44. > :19:48.totally defenceless woman. Tell us more about Robyn. Robyn was
:19:49. > :19:51.originally South African, well liked with a great social life. She was
:19:52. > :19:56.well respected within the antiques world in London. She had worked for
:19:57. > :20:00.the same family firm for 25 years and had become close friends with
:20:01. > :20:04.the owners. And we can hear from the antiques dealer that Robyn worked
:20:05. > :20:08.for and as you say, he was also a close family friend as well as her
:20:09. > :20:12.boss. She had two lovely children who've lost a mother and lots of
:20:13. > :20:18.lovely friends who have lost her. She was very important to all of us.
:20:19. > :20:21.We have all been very upset. It would be a good thing if whoever is
:20:22. > :20:31.responsible is caught. For us and the family. And there are two people
:20:32. > :20:37.seen on CCTV that you want to trace. At about 9:35pm, CCTV picked up two
:20:38. > :20:42.people walking across the Waltham Road towards Robyn's address. I know
:20:43. > :20:46.it is not great quality but we are keen to trace those two people who
:20:47. > :20:49.we believe are vital to our investigation. And you are also
:20:50. > :20:53.looking for a dog walker who could be a witness? We believe there are a
:20:54. > :20:57.number of people who would have seen those two from the previous CCTV,
:20:58. > :21:03.including this man who is walking his two dogs nearby. Thank you very
:21:04. > :21:06.much indeed. It is clearly vital that anyone with any information
:21:07. > :21:10.calls on tonight, particularly if you have witnessed something or have
:21:11. > :21:15.any idea why someone would want to harm Robyn. There is a Crimestoppers
:21:16. > :21:19.reward of up to ?10,000 for information given to them which
:21:20. > :21:20.leads to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible. I will
:21:21. > :21:30.give you the number now: Well, we're here in Eltham tonight
:21:31. > :21:32.asking for your help It was an extreme example of
:21:33. > :21:36.what today we'd call a hate crime. The referendum in June to leave
:21:37. > :21:39.the EU seemed to trigger an increase To explore what's been happening,
:21:40. > :21:43.we asked one victim, whose experiences made news around
:21:44. > :21:45.the world to investigate. Juan Jasso's film contains some
:21:46. > :21:48.of the racist language which he and fellow victims
:21:49. > :22:20.have been subjected to. I've been here longer
:22:21. > :22:24.than you have... My name is Juan Jasso
:22:25. > :22:35.and that's me in the clip. I've lived in Britain
:22:36. > :22:40.for 18 years and work I want to understand why
:22:41. > :22:50.I and others have become targets for abuse since the vote
:22:51. > :22:52.to leave the EU. The British people have spoken
:22:53. > :22:55.and the answer is, we're out. June 23th, 2016 - the day the UK
:22:56. > :23:01.voted to leave the EU. Overnight the face of British
:23:02. > :23:04.politics was transformed. But the vote also triggered a wave
:23:05. > :23:12.of tension and hate. Hate that I experienced first-hand
:23:13. > :23:21.just days after the vote. Straightaway I could hear a lot of
:23:22. > :23:29.vulgar language coming from the second carriage, the carriage
:23:30. > :23:32.towards the rear. I asked them, do you mind watching your language?
:23:33. > :23:41.There are young families on board and I did not want to hear that
:23:42. > :23:46.language. It was a bit of a shock. It instantly turned very nasty, for
:23:47. > :23:54.whatever reason. I was left angry and shaken. But after they left the
:23:55. > :23:58.tram, I thought it was over. And then about three and a half,
:23:59. > :24:01.four hours later my phone just started ringing,
:24:02. > :24:03.I got loads of text messages, this video had literally gone
:24:04. > :24:05.viral within a few hours. While my story was making
:24:06. > :24:08.headlines around the world, others in the UK were suffering away
:24:09. > :24:10.from the limelight. Sadaf Akhtar experienced similar
:24:11. > :24:13.abuse just three days after Brexit We both kind of came towards each
:24:14. > :24:19.other, I was going to go left, We both had our windows down
:24:20. > :24:32.and he used a really insultive gesture with his hand and basically
:24:33. > :24:35.told me to "f off you Park "and to go back to
:24:36. > :24:37.where I came from." I was really in shock and couldn't
:24:38. > :24:40.believe what I just heard, For that moment I felt as if I had
:24:41. > :24:45.been transported back to the 1980s and I was experiencing something
:24:46. > :24:47.that I'd not experienced I felt slightly vulnerable
:24:48. > :24:50.for a split second there, but that soon went away because it
:24:51. > :24:54.takes a little bit more than that Fiyaz Mughal is the founder
:24:55. > :24:58.of Tell Mama - an organisation set up to help victims
:24:59. > :25:02.of hate like Sadaf. People spouting Islamaphobic abuse
:25:03. > :25:06.paralysed the organisation by bringing down their phone
:25:07. > :25:19.lines following the vote. Do you understand how hated you
:25:20. > :25:26.really are in England? for about 10, 11 days,
:25:27. > :25:39.we had to pull our phone lines out. Being targeted like that put us in a
:25:40. > :25:47.position that we felt what a victim of hate crimes feels like.
:25:48. > :25:49.Being alone, feeling as if the whole world
:25:50. > :25:51.is against you and actually feeling extremely vulnerable.
:25:52. > :25:53.It creates a sense of anger if you're targeted
:25:54. > :25:56.If you're a woman, if you are disabled,
:25:57. > :25:58.if you are a member of the LGBT community, if you're
:25:59. > :26:00.black, if you're Jewish, if you are targeted
:26:01. > :26:02.because of something which makes up your DNA.
:26:03. > :26:06.Then it does create a sense of extreme anger in people.
:26:07. > :26:08.Why was I targeted for something I can't control?
:26:09. > :26:11.The hate has been directed at multiple communities including
:26:12. > :26:18.I'm trying to be in the community quite often and show my face
:26:19. > :26:21.and speak to the community so they know we are out
:26:22. > :26:29.Polish PCSO Aggie Fisher is helping to ease tensions following a spate
:26:30. > :26:32.of abuse and offensive letters targeting members of
:26:33. > :26:39.One of those was 11-year-old Mateusz Welna.
:26:40. > :26:49.That's rude, because I'm Polish and that's really sad for me.
:26:50. > :26:52.It's horrible because I live in this country, pay taxes,
:26:53. > :26:55.pay everything ? why must we go back home?
:26:56. > :27:09.But several months on, the family has been overwhelmed by
:27:10. > :27:20.You are saying that people are now nicer to you after what happened?
:27:21. > :27:27.They are making you feel welcome. It was one stupid man, don't worry.
:27:28. > :27:33.That is good, and it makes you feel better, that reassurance. This is my
:27:34. > :27:45.time. I live here. -- this is my town.
:27:46. > :27:47.Shocked by my own experience and hearing the stories of others,
:27:48. > :27:50.I want to know what motivates people to behave like this and why Brexit
:27:51. > :27:53.The lead researcher on Britain's biggest study of hate
:27:54. > :27:57.crime victimisation is Dr Stevie-Jade Hardy.
:27:58. > :27:59.In the build up to the EU referendum, we started
:28:00. > :28:02.in ways which were incredibly negative, in ways that started
:28:03. > :28:05.to present these communities as being a threat to our way
:28:06. > :28:09.of life, to our standard of living and so that normalised it.
:28:10. > :28:12.It legitimised it and it brought it to the surface and made people think
:28:13. > :28:16.This feeling of legitimacy is something police
:28:17. > :28:23.The referendum didn''t give anybody a license to commit a hate crime ?
:28:24. > :28:28.It gave nobody a license to do that, there is no justification in this
:28:29. > :28:30.country for any behaviour that is motivated by hate
:28:31. > :28:33.or hostility, there is no justification for it at all.
:28:34. > :28:38.We've got to be saying to ourselves why does this behaviour occur,
:28:39. > :28:40.it's too late when the police are involved because someone has
:28:41. > :28:42.already been victimised, they're already hurt,
:28:43. > :28:47.So you've got to ask yourself, why homophobic behaviour,
:28:48. > :28:49.why xenophobic behaviour, why Islamiphobia?
:28:50. > :28:52.And see what we can do as a community to address those
:28:53. > :28:56.issues before they become a hate incident or a hate crime.
:28:57. > :28:59.One good thing that seems to have come from all this has been
:29:00. > :29:04.an increase in bystanders coming forward to report Hate Crimes.
:29:05. > :29:12.There is something positive, and I use positive in the sense
:29:13. > :29:14.that the person taking the film feels comfortable enough
:29:15. > :29:18.to take the film and secure enough to take the film to be able
:29:19. > :29:22.to collect that evidence, then there is something good in that.
:29:23. > :29:24.There is something positive in being an upstander.
:29:25. > :29:29.It's about people saying I don't think this is acceptable.
:29:30. > :29:32.As a nation we should think we are one body.
:29:33. > :29:34.If your arm hurts or your finger hurts then
:29:35. > :29:43.When we start working together we can move mountains really.
:29:44. > :29:45.Because it's affecting, you know, our children's
:29:46. > :29:47.future to some respect, but we'll get through this, we're
:29:48. > :29:53.If you head to our website you can see more clips on the subject
:29:54. > :29:57.You might want to know that victims of any crime can also
:29:58. > :30:06.The hunt for the cold blooded killers of a car salesman.
:30:07. > :30:25.Life taken away for no reason whatsoever. Just a good family man.
:30:26. > :30:27.But we've got wanted faces first starting with 34-year-old
:30:28. > :30:29.Michael Leslie Johnston, although you may know him
:30:30. > :30:35.He was jailed for 17 years in 2009 for wounding with intent
:30:36. > :30:40.But he's failed to stick to his conditions and is now
:30:41. > :30:45.Johnston is missing an upper tooth and has small scars to the back
:30:46. > :30:49.He has a Liverpudlian accent and links to the North West
:30:50. > :30:58.But we've got wanted faces first starting with 34-year-old
:30:59. > :31:01.This is Kassel Gayle, or Squid as he also calls himself.
:31:02. > :31:03.He was arrested by detectives investigating drug dealing
:31:04. > :31:04.in the Southampton area and released on bail.
:31:05. > :31:08.He's described as being of heavy build and has links
:31:09. > :31:15.Face number three is 23-year-old Talha Khan.
:31:16. > :31:18.He was arrested by detectives investigating the kidnap of a man
:31:19. > :31:21.and the assault of a woman in Grimsby, but failed to return
:31:22. > :31:27.Khan also uses the names Alex, T, Jan and Riger and has links
:31:28. > :31:29.to the West Midlands, Coventry, Nottingham,
:31:30. > :31:38.Finally for now is 37-year-old Donald Joseph George Richardson,
:31:39. > :31:40.although he also calls himself Donald Stewart, Mark Joseph Owens
:31:41. > :31:45.He was jailed for five years after forcing his way into a woman's
:31:46. > :31:49.Richardson was put on the sex offenders register, but has failed
:31:50. > :31:53.to stick to his conditions and is now wanted back in jail.
:31:54. > :31:56.His arms are heavily scarred and he has tattoos of the words Mum
:31:57. > :32:01.Originally from Northern Ireland, he is known around homeless shelters
:32:02. > :32:02.especially in Leeds, Manchester and Blackpool
:32:03. > :32:07.If you know where any of tonight's faces might be
:32:08. > :32:11.please do get in touch using the numbers on screen.
:32:12. > :32:15.We'll go through the rest of the line up a little later.
:32:16. > :32:18.It's just over a decade since grandfather Jim Stanton
:32:19. > :32:21.was locking up at the garage where he worked in Aintree
:32:22. > :32:24.on the outskirts of Liverpool, when two armed men burst
:32:25. > :32:30.The case is all the more tragic as police are convinced Jim was NOT
:32:31. > :32:55.That's where his life ended, in that car showroom.
:32:56. > :33:16.And that's where all our lives fell apart.
:33:17. > :33:26.He doted on his children, his grandchildren were his life.
:33:27. > :33:30.Every time we'd be going on holiday he'd say to me, right,
:33:31. > :33:36.which ones are we going to take this time?
:33:37. > :33:38.We had seven grandchildren, another one on the way
:33:39. > :33:44.and yes, his life was his grandchildren and his children.
:33:45. > :33:48.In 2006 Jim Stanton was working at Aintree Commercial Vehicles
:33:49. > :33:58.Jim was never out of work, ever in his life, he did everything.
:33:59. > :34:01.He did all the advertising, he was a good car salesman,
:34:02. > :34:14.He wasn't happy there, only I'd say a week before he'd gone
:34:15. > :34:18.to look at a premises to then start up again in his own business,
:34:19. > :34:27.On Monday July 24th 2006, Jim was shutting up shop
:34:28. > :34:33.He would usually have finished earlier, but a few of his
:34:34. > :34:43.I spoke to my husband about half an hour before the incident.
:34:44. > :34:46.And he said, oh, I'm sorry, love, I'm going to be a little bit
:34:47. > :35:07.As they were locking up, two armed men stormed into the yard.
:35:08. > :35:18.The first few shots hit the showroom window,
:35:19. > :35:25.before the pair moved inside and continued firing.
:35:26. > :35:28.His colleagues ran for cover, but Jim who was sitting
:35:29. > :35:45.I was driving home from work that evening when I got the phonecall
:35:46. > :35:48.from his brother, to say that my husband had been
:35:49. > :36:00.I remember them coming to say, quick, you'd better hurry up,
:36:01. > :36:11.Going to waving him goodbye going out of the door in the morning,
:36:12. > :36:18.And then lying there his life taken away from him for me
:36:19. > :36:27.He was just a good family man taken from us.
:36:28. > :36:35.It's been 10 years, but these two killers caught on camera
:36:36. > :36:45.The motivation for their organised hit also remains a mystery.
:36:46. > :36:51.10 years on, the anger is there, because my husband can't
:36:52. > :36:54.see his grandchildren growing up, missing out on so much
:36:55. > :37:01.You just want to try and not forget, but try and come to terms
:37:02. > :37:07.with the situation, in a different way.
:37:08. > :37:11.I honestly don't know how, but I'm sure if we did get some
:37:12. > :37:28.Detectives are convinced the gunmen were targeting someone else.
:37:29. > :37:34.An innocent man taken needlessly from his family.
:37:35. > :37:56.remembered as a loving caring dad, granddad, friend, always.
:37:57. > :37:59.Well, we're joined now by Detective Superintendent Dave Brunskill
:38:00. > :38:05.You don't think Jim was the target, do you?
:38:06. > :38:12.It's unclear who the intended target was.
:38:13. > :38:14.What we can say is the gunmen indiscriminately entered
:38:15. > :38:16.the premises and shot in the direction of all
:38:17. > :38:18.of the occupants of the garage at the time.
:38:19. > :38:21.It was clearly a planned attack and it's incredible that nobody else
:38:22. > :38:24.Any idea why the business was targeted?
:38:25. > :38:27.No, that's what I'd like to establish.
:38:28. > :38:29.What was the motive, who were the offenders
:38:30. > :38:36.responsible for carrying it out and who was the person behind it?
:38:37. > :38:44.Do you think the people who carried it out were local and might
:38:45. > :38:55.I believe they may well have talked about this.
:38:56. > :39:02.Tell me about the getaway car they used.
:39:03. > :39:04.That was a blue Toyota Avensis, it originally bore
:39:05. > :39:11.Now that vehicle was stolen approximately two months before
:39:12. > :39:14.the attack and I'm keen to know where that vehicle was, who sold it
:39:15. > :39:29.There's then a link to another vehicle, tell us about that.
:39:30. > :39:35.The Toyota Avensis was dumped in Blindfoot Road in the rural area
:39:36. > :39:37.near St Helen's, where it was set on fire.
:39:38. > :39:40.Now we believe that a black Vauxhall Vectra bearing
:39:41. > :39:42.the registration number KN53 YHL may have been connected
:39:43. > :39:52.Certainly 15 minutes after it had been burnt and set on fire
:39:53. > :39:55.the Vauxhall Vectra was seen in the Latham Road area and we're
:39:56. > :39:58.keen to trace the occupants and find out what happened to the car.
:39:59. > :40:00.There's a large reward here isn't there?
:40:01. > :40:02.Yes, Merseyside police have put forward a reward of ?20,000
:40:03. > :40:04.for information which leads to the arrest and conviction
:40:05. > :40:06.of those responsible either directly or indirectly.
:40:07. > :40:10.If you have any idea who the gunmen might be then please call now
:40:11. > :40:16.How detectives finally caught up with Melanie Road's killer thanks
:40:17. > :40:24.to a breakthrough in forensic science.
:40:25. > :40:33.I was sitting at my terminal and a message came from the laboratory, it
:40:34. > :40:39.was a full DNA it. I was on holiday and it did not sink in. Suddenly it
:40:40. > :40:42.hit me and I could not believe it. I was ecstatic. We have done it for
:40:43. > :40:45.you, merrily. More wanted faces now
:40:46. > :40:47.starting with Leon Davis. Detectives in Derbyshire
:40:48. > :40:49.want to question him after two women One was also hit by a car,
:40:50. > :40:55.suffering a fractured skull. Davis is 34 and has a tattoo
:40:56. > :40:58.of the name Kelsea on his neck and a number of scars
:40:59. > :41:01.on his right leg and arm. He has links to Derby, Nottingham,
:41:02. > :41:04.London and Norfolk and is known to be a prolific user
:41:05. > :41:07.of social media. Detectives want to question him
:41:08. > :41:12.in connection with a number of thefts from jewellers
:41:13. > :41:14.across the country. He's 31 and has a Liverpudlian
:41:15. > :41:18.accent, a scar on the right side of his head and the name
:41:19. > :41:20.'Kelly Hunter' tattooed He travels extensively by train
:41:21. > :41:25.to Devon, Cornwall, Derby, Number 7 is Adjarho Akpomedaye,
:41:26. > :41:32.although you may know him Detectives in Hertfordshire
:41:33. > :41:39.want to question him in connection to over 100 bank accounts
:41:40. > :41:41.which are believed to have received more than ?900,000
:41:42. > :41:46.from cyber related fraud. Akpomedaye is 42 and he's originally
:41:47. > :41:49.from Nigeria but now has links to Borehamwood,
:41:50. > :41:50.Essex, Oxford, Newcastle although he uses numerous other
:41:51. > :42:01.names, including David Kerrigan, James Dunn and the surnames
:42:02. > :42:04.Crawley and Doyle. Detectives in Hertfordshire
:42:05. > :42:06.want to question him in connection to a number
:42:07. > :42:10.of distraction burglaries. Brown is 36 and has links
:42:11. > :42:14.across the South East of England. He has a tribal tattoo
:42:15. > :42:16.on his stomach and scars If you know where any
:42:17. > :42:22.of tonight's faces are then get in touch
:42:23. > :42:25.using the numbers on screen. And of course they're
:42:26. > :42:27.all on the Crimewatch website. Now, the culmination of how
:42:28. > :42:30.detectives solved one of the UK's Melanie Road was just 17
:42:31. > :42:37.when she was attacked on her way home from a nightclub in Bath
:42:38. > :42:46.in 1984. For three decades a killer
:42:47. > :42:50.has hidden among us. So you get these hairs standing up
:42:51. > :42:54.on the back of your neck and you're This is the inside story
:42:55. > :43:04.of that investigation. On Friday the 8th of June, 1984,
:43:05. > :43:13.17-year-old Melanie Road She left the nightclub at around
:43:14. > :43:25.1.15am to walk home, The teenager was raped,
:43:26. > :43:39.and stabbed 26 times. Heartbreakingly, her body was found
:43:40. > :43:43.just 200 yards from her home Avon and Somerset Police began
:43:44. > :43:52.a relentless manhunt, arresting 94 people
:43:53. > :43:58.in their search for the killer. Extensive forensic work was done
:43:59. > :44:00.around the offender's blood trail And the arrival of DNA into police
:44:01. > :44:08.investigations in 1988 Scientists made full use of every
:44:09. > :44:16.leap in technology and a partial DNA profile of the killer
:44:17. > :44:18.was retrieved and checked Despite the setback,
:44:19. > :44:30.25 years after the murder police were still determined to crack
:44:31. > :44:36.the case, so turned to Crimewatch. If you had suspicions at the time
:44:37. > :44:41.and didn't call the police, Investigators never anticipated
:44:42. > :44:52.the result they would get. A witness who came forward
:44:53. > :44:54.from Crimewatch, a very, very important witness that
:44:55. > :44:56.came from Crimewatch confirmed really the age,
:44:57. > :44:58.the height, the ethnicity He saw Melanie having
:44:59. > :45:07.an argument with someone. And this was in the area
:45:08. > :45:10.of St Stevens Road. He parked his vehicle up,
:45:11. > :45:14.and as he was walking back, he sees the man who was arguing
:45:15. > :45:18.with Melanie, running towards him. And the man he said,
:45:19. > :45:24.he said to the man, "Did you just have an argument
:45:25. > :45:26.with your girlfriend?" And the man said "yes",
:45:27. > :45:29.and ran off down these steps, and our witness saw him go
:45:30. > :45:32.all the way down these steps, He gave police a rough sketch
:45:33. > :45:39.of the offender based on his memory It was a significant new clue,
:45:40. > :45:49.but why was this witness not Detectives had in fact
:45:50. > :45:55.come agonisingly close. In the days after Melanie's murder,
:45:56. > :45:58.police made house to house Incredibly, those initial enquiries
:45:59. > :46:08.had stopped just two doors away Just two doors away
:46:09. > :46:12.from potentially That's why he was never identified
:46:13. > :46:18.immediately at the time and a full He would then have potentially been
:46:19. > :46:25.able to maybe produce a photofit of the offender while it was fresh
:46:26. > :46:31.in his mind and who knows? Frustratingly, nothing came
:46:32. > :46:33.of the sketch and the team The Melanie Road murder
:46:34. > :46:41.investigation was fast becoming one of the most agonising
:46:42. > :46:47.unsolved cases in Britain. For too long the killer had
:46:48. > :46:52.disappeared under the radar but in 2009, Julie Mackay took over
:46:53. > :46:54.as Senior Investigating officer and vowed that she would find him
:46:55. > :47:08.and get justice for Melanie. Like everyone that
:47:09. > :47:10.had gone before me and everyone who worked on it
:47:11. > :47:13.at the time, I wanted to be part And I find it really difficult
:47:14. > :47:17.to explain but as time I was going to solve it,
:47:18. > :47:22.I had this gut instinct. We've got compelling evidence,
:47:23. > :47:24.all you needed was the other bit that was going to join it up,
:47:25. > :47:27.which was your suspect. The hard bit was, where on earth
:47:28. > :47:30.were we going to find him, The hard bit was, where on earth
:47:31. > :47:33.were we going to find him? The team turned to the names
:47:34. > :47:36.linked to the original Based on all the information
:47:37. > :47:40.gathered so far, they honed the list down to the most likely possible
:47:41. > :47:42.suspects and visited them In the meantime, scientists
:47:43. > :47:48.continued to work on extracting What struck me was the fact
:47:49. > :47:57.that there was a swab that presumptively had tested strongly
:47:58. > :48:00.for the presence of semen, but we hadn't obtained a DNA
:48:01. > :48:05.profile as such from it. Another thing that became evident
:48:06. > :48:10.to me, we didn't have the profile at that stage of Melanie herself,
:48:11. > :48:13.which when you're trying to find the DNA of the offender,
:48:14. > :48:15.you need to subtract Having built a DNA
:48:16. > :48:25.profile for Melanie, forensic scientists used
:48:26. > :48:26.a swab they'd had in storage since 1984 to finally obtain a full
:48:27. > :48:36.DNA profile of the killer. In the intervening years, thousands
:48:37. > :48:41.of new names had been added to the national DNA database
:48:42. > :48:43.and a new technique had been developed to flag up possible
:48:44. > :48:47.relatives of a suspect. What they'll say is the likelihood
:48:48. > :48:59.of that suspect being linked to that person who's arrested is,
:49:00. > :49:03.and then they give you a ratio. And what we do is look at that name,
:49:04. > :49:10.say John Smith or Julie Mackay, so we look at Julie and think
:49:11. > :49:12.OK, who is her Dad? We're looking for a man and we know
:49:13. > :49:15.he's going to be older than her because of the age
:49:16. > :49:19.of our crime scene and so we do A search of the database was made
:49:20. > :49:24.in 2009 but it offered no matches And this time the results
:49:25. > :49:42.were very different. On the top of the list
:49:43. > :49:44.there was a female whose likelihood ratio was well over two times
:49:45. > :49:47.the next nearest person. It's known in the business
:49:48. > :49:50.as a screamer, screaming out at you that you must find this
:49:51. > :49:53.person's relative to eliminate them. She was someone who was
:49:54. > :49:55.on the parent/child list, The scientists said,
:49:56. > :50:08.looking at this profile of this relative, 97.5% sure
:50:09. > :50:11.it's going to be him, Some of our scene of crime officers,
:50:12. > :50:16.one in particular was absolutely Which made all of us convinced
:50:17. > :50:24.we were going to get a hit. Until the phonecall came
:50:25. > :50:26.through and it was "this Someone said they'd stake
:50:27. > :50:29.their mortgage on it Yeah, we were a bit
:50:30. > :50:34.deflated on that day. This time they found an even closer
:50:35. > :50:48.match to a potential I'm thinking, well, if this person's
:50:49. > :50:58.even more likely then this has The other thing which stood out,
:50:59. > :51:14.that person's place of birth, Bath. A woman had been recently been
:51:15. > :51:17.arrested for a minor offence. Gary contacted her and she willingly
:51:18. > :51:22.gave her father's details. I met him on the morning
:51:23. > :51:29.of the 1st June. He came across to the car,
:51:30. > :51:41.shook his hand, introduced myself. He behaved no different
:51:42. > :52:00.to anyone else. He went off to work and they were
:52:01. > :52:08.sent off within a few days, awaiting results. I was sat at my terminal
:52:09. > :52:10.trying to attract more people down and the message comes up from the
:52:11. > :52:12.lab. And suddenly it hit me,
:52:13. > :52:33.I couldn't believe it, I was ecstatic, it was,
:52:34. > :52:35."oh my god, Melanie, The man the DNA profile belonged to,
:52:36. > :52:45.and the one they'd been searching so long for was 63-year-old
:52:46. > :52:51.Christopher Hampton. He was arrested on the 2nd
:52:52. > :52:54.of July, 31 years after After killing her, he'd gone
:52:55. > :52:58.on to marry and raise When questioned by police,
:52:59. > :53:09.he refused to co-operate. Had you been expecting
:53:10. > :53:11.this for 30 years? Did you honestly believe you'd got
:53:12. > :53:14.away with the murder of a 17-year-old girl
:53:15. > :53:16.in Bath back in 1984? It came out of the blue really,
:53:17. > :53:21.I was like a dog with two tails when I heard this,
:53:22. > :53:23.it was excellent. Hopefully after such a long time,
:53:24. > :53:25.the family would get On the 9th of May, 2016,
:53:26. > :53:39.Christopher Hampton finally As the judge sentenced him to life
:53:40. > :53:46.in prison with a minimum of 22 years, he said Hampton had been "too
:53:47. > :53:49.callous and cowardly" to come forward and put an end
:53:50. > :53:52.to the family's misery sooner. He added that Hampton "will most
:53:53. > :53:58.likely die in prison". After decades of torment
:53:59. > :54:00.for Melanie's family, At the time, her mother Jean gave
:54:01. > :54:17.this rare interview. Because I am 81, I thought I might
:54:18. > :54:22.be death before it was finalised but thank God. I said to the police, I
:54:23. > :54:26.will be 80 next year. If you don't find this man, I don't think I can
:54:27. > :54:28.last. And you did it, didn't you? Thank you.
:54:29. > :54:33.There is no getting over such a loss, such a death.
:54:34. > :54:36.Since her death, she's been a statistic, a crime to be
:54:37. > :54:43.But she's my sister, she deserved to be remembered for herself.
:54:44. > :54:53.Not a single day passes without me thinking about her.
:54:54. > :54:58.Over the years, many people played their part in bringing
:54:59. > :55:00.Hampton to justice, often not knowing where their work would lead
:55:01. > :55:12.In 1984, they would never have anticipated that we could have done
:55:13. > :55:17.But what they did do was really good detective
:55:18. > :55:19.work that set us up, so as the science developed
:55:20. > :55:26.All that's happened over the years, a baton has been passed
:55:27. > :55:30.We just happened to have the baton when we crossed the line.
:55:31. > :55:32.Despite pleading guilty, Christopher Hampton has never
:55:33. > :55:40.I'd like him to tell us what happened really,
:55:41. > :55:42.what made him do that, was there something?
:55:43. > :55:44.And could we use that knowledge now to stop that
:55:45. > :55:59.But Hampton remains silent behind bars.
:56:00. > :56:10.Just time before we go for a quick update on your calls with Tina.
:56:11. > :56:15.Lots of calls coming in for the officers here. Chris is in charge of
:56:16. > :56:20.the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation. Any new information
:56:21. > :56:24.coming in? Some very interesting calls tonight and I am very grateful
:56:25. > :56:28.for people ringing in. If anybody has got any specific information,
:56:29. > :56:32.why the strap was at that scene, who is the female owner of that strap,
:56:33. > :56:37.please ring in. Not necessarily a suspect. I must stress that. She is
:56:38. > :56:43.a witness in their is no evidence to suggest a woman is involved in the
:56:44. > :56:48.murder. And some key CCTV as well. Absolutely. If anyone can identify
:56:49. > :56:51.the man in the distinctive green jacket, please get in touch.
:56:52. > :56:55.Well, that's everything for now on BBC One but you can follow
:56:56. > :56:57.all of the developments on our new live updates webpage.
:56:58. > :57:00.Head there for the latest from the detectives as they chase up
:57:01. > :57:02.all the calls still coming in behind me.
:57:03. > :57:04.The phone lines stay open until midnight
:57:05. > :57:09.Lots more to come next week including an alarming investigation
:57:10. > :57:15.into why so many of Britain's youngsters are carrying knives.
:57:16. > :57:25.I used to carry my knife basically for Security and influence. And it
:57:26. > :57:27.always worked. I never used to leave the house without my knife. It was
:57:28. > :57:30.like putting on socks for me. But for now, thank you so much
:57:31. > :57:36.for all of your calls. 50 years ago,
:57:37. > :58:10.they became superstars in astronomy, They represent the most productive
:58:11. > :58:15.period astronomy has ever had.