Episode 9 Caught Red Handed


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Thieves will steal our cars, our valuables -

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just about anything they can get their hands on.

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SIREN WAILS To cut down on crime

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and antisocial behaviour,

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the police and other agencies are using new tactics and technology,

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where the bad guys are getting caught in the act.

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CCTV is vital.

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You can see they are definitely the people there.

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The camera doesn't lie.

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Local councils, shops and businesses are laying some traps of their own.

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There's a eureka moment when you get that evidence.

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And the general public, too,

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can help unsuspecting crooks get their comeuppance.

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People won't stand by.

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I couldn't sit back and do nothing.

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Yes, we've got her!

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SIREN WAILS So, anyone who's up to no good

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had better think twice.

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They might just get caught red-handed.

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Today, a woman steps between rival football fans to try to stop a fight.

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There's a gap in the middle.

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I looked at it and thought, "I could probably calm this down."

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But she's only five foot two, and with tensions rising,

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she's in danger.

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Something was brewing up to happen. You could feel it.

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Also today, a robber with a gun demands money,

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but surprises his victims by asking nicely.

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And he, actually, is quite polite,

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and he says, "Please open up the cash register."

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But there's nothing nice about what he's doing.

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And a plan to steal a £4,000 electrical generator

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comes unplugged, thanks to people power.

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Lime Street station, Liverpool.

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It's just gone 7:30pm on a Sunday evening.

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A football match between Liverpool and Manchester City ended hours ago.

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Most of the fans have made their way home.

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All is calm.

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But suddenly, everything changes,

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as groups of rival fans start to build up at the station.

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There was just an atmosphere. You could just...

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You know when you can just feel something in the air?

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And some of them are intent on causing trouble.

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It was intensifying,

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and I've never seen anything like this happen.

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Cameras capture what's happening,

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and police race to the scene to stop the troublemakers.

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Completely unacceptable.

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It's going to be intimidating and frightening for people.

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But police need to get there before the jostling and scuffles

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turn into a full-scale fight.

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Lime Street is Liverpool's largest and oldest train station.

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Thousands of people pass through here every day.

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Can you get the job sheet, please?

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Rachel is a shift station manager.

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Basically, I'm in charge of the day-to-day running of the station.

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'I enjoy my job because it's something different every day,

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'and keeps me busy, keeps me on my toes as well.'

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Some of the busiest times are during the football season.

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On match days, we expect a lot more people in the station,

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travelling to and from.

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The majority of fans are well behaved

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but sometimes a small minority try to cause trouble,

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so the British Transport Police escort fans

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and keep a close eye on them.

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Policing football fans is a massive part of what we do

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on a day-to-day, week-to-week basis.

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Chief Inspector Malcolm McKinnon has over 25 years of experience

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dealing with football crowds.

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The preplanned organised violence we found in the '70s and '80s

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still happens, but not to the degree it once did.

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What we've found now is

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it's changed to low-level antisocial behaviour.

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Often the chanting, the use of swearwords.

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Really, the sort of loutish, boorish-type behaviour

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that's intimidating and frightening.

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And there's always a danger that rowdy behaviour can turn violent,

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and cameras help police to identify the culprit, so they can bring

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charges against them and impose football banning orders.

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And we get tremendous evidence from CCTV.

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The cameras at Lime Street cover most of the station,

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and one Sunday evening in April, they prove how useful they can be.

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Rachel has just started her shift.

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It's normally quite quiet of a Sunday,

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and I've worked about the station for ten years,

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and I've never seen anything like this happen.

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A match between Liverpool and Manchester City

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finished four hours ago, after a home-side win.

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The police have already escorted the crowds safely away,

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but small groups of rival fans have hung around in the city

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and arrive at the station much later.

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Just after 7:30pm, they come face-to-face at the station entrance.

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Innocent bystanders are fearful

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when fans inside the station start to taunt the rival fans outside.

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And they were just swearing at each other, shouting at each other.

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They're starting to be intimidating, antagonistic,

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but very rarely does it escalate into actual violence.

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Police are on their way, but the situation very quickly deteriorates.

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It was brewing up.

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On the station concourse,

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this fan in white shoes is attacked by the man with grey sleeves.

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The head-butt leaves the victim bleeding.

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Back at the entrance, a Liverpool fan walks up behind the Man City group.

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Ignoring the innocent passers-by, he throws a punch.

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The man responsible for the head-butt piles in.

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Completely unacceptable.

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It's going to be intimidating and frightening for people.

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The brawl escalates and spills onto the main concourse.

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Shift station manager Rachel rushes over to try

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and calm the situation herself.

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When I got there, it was, like, two rows of people,

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like some sort of stand-off.

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I was trying to reason with the fans, like, saying,

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"Come on, you don't want to be getting into trouble."

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But the jeering continues, so Rachel,

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who is not much over five foot in height,

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makes the remarkable decision to jump between the two groups.

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There's a gap in the middle.

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I looked at it and thought, "I could probably calm this down."

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Like, if someone wants to listen to me -

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there's normally one normal person in that situation.

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But it seems this bunch don't want to listen to reason.

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As I seen a punch, like, coming over me, I thought,

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"That's it. Get out of the way."

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And Rachel is determined to

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keep members of the public out of harm's way.

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I was shouting to the public, and some other staff,

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to just get out of the way. I didn't want anyone involved.

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More punches were being thrown. It was, like, coming from all sides.

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Then, the Transport Police arrive. As they run in,

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they see a man being struck with such force, he falls over.

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One officer bravely wrestles the aggressor to the floor.

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That fight is stopped

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but the situation could still spread out of control.

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This is an extremely dangerous position for officers to be in,

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surrounded, and there's always that danger of being assaulted.

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The officers are being pushed and shoved

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but are determined to block more fighting.

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As my officer is doing this, he gets punched, himself,

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to the side of the head.

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When more officers arrive, the fans are finally calmed down.

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Fortunately, no-one was badly hurt.

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The sense of relief when you're out is a good feeling.

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The police make an arrest and the groups disperse.

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Less than ten minutes after the violence began,

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Sunday evening at the station is back to normal,

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but that's not the end of it.

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From that point, the investigation begins,

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so we review the CCTV.

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Now the police investigators get to work.

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They analyse the footage of how the incident built up,

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to identify and track down the individuals responsible.

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That first man is a Man City fan,

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and this is an offender affiliated to Liverpool.

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So you've got a head-butt straight into the face - that is

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one of the initiators to what then escalates into violent disorder.

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The man with grey sleeves is just one of four men

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they identify as the troublemakers.

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There were two Liverpool-based fans and two Manchester-based fans.

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So the blame is shared between supporters from both teams.

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Two of the offenders instigated trouble at the entrance.

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One of them was the man who punched someone violently

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just as the police arrived.

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The fourth punched another fan while he wasn't looking.

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They are all eventually arrested and charged with affray.

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The four of them entered guilty pleas, and that's really a result,

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and testament to the evidence that was gathered.

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Two of the men receive prison sentences, suspended for two years.

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They are also given football banning orders.

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They can't attend or travel to matches for three and a half years.

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The other two were given community orders -

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ordered to do unpaid work and to pay surcharges.

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The British Transport Police is committed to

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cracking down on football-related crime.

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The challenge we have is that we can't let a culture build-up.

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It's unacceptable behaviour.

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They've set up a text service and phone number

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so anyone experiencing antisocial behaviour

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can report it straightaway. FOOTBALL CHANTING

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What we're really encouraging is our text service: 61016.

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We're trying to empower people to come forward,

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report incidents as they happen, so we can respond to them

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and we can do something about this behaviour.

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Back at Lime Street, Rachel,

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who bravely put herself at risk trying to keep her station safe,

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is grateful that British Transport Police are

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ready to respond so quickly.

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If the police wouldn't have turned up when they did,

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it probably would have escalated

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and there would have been a lot more fights.

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I can't believe I was standing in the middle of it, to be honest.

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Rachel's job meant she felt personally involved.

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Even so, she's surprised at the risk she took.

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But what about you and me?

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What should we do if we find ourselves

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caught in the middle if an everyday situation turns scary?

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Try not to intervene. It's very difficult as an individual

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to calm a large group of people down.

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Plan an escape route, or perhaps look into where the exits might be,

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so that if you need to get there quickly you can do so.

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Call the police. Don't assume that someone else is going to do so.

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We would rather have a call from every single person there, because

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everyone's going to have a different piece of information for us.

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You might not be able to get out of the situation completely,

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but crowds operate in a very particular way -

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there's usually a core of individuals causing

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difficulties and there'll be a lot of onlookers,

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so you could position yourself on the outskirts of those onlookers.

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If possible, try and record the incident as it unfolds or

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take notes about what the offenders look like

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and provide all this information to the police.

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If you wanted to avoid suspicion, you'd think you'd avoid parking

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your getaway vehicle outside a security firm

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specialising in CCTV systems.

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Well, not this pair.

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A van parks right beneath a sign

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that says, "Warning - 24/7 Filming.

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"You are being recorded."

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Maybe they haven't noticed it or maybe they have fake plates

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and just don't care.

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Whatever the reason, these two men disappear into the backyard

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of a tool hire company and reappear trollying this £4,000 generator,

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which they are, let's say, borrowing without permission.

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When another man walks past,

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they drop the generator smartish and sidle

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around back of the van in a "nothing going on here, mate," manner.

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But they're suspicious behaviour alerts a builder on some

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scaffolding nearby.

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When he shouts out to them, they decide to power off down the road.

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The tool hire staff come to reclaim their generator

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and their security firm neighbours find they have the whole thing

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recorded and the footage is passed to the police.

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A search for the van and the two men has so far yielded nothing.

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Maybe they're keeping a low profile to avoid GENERATING

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too much attention.

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Coming up, a mysterious Christmas visitor at a family run pub.

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One of Santa's helpers coming laden with gifts?

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Nope, he's on his way out with them.

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Someone had been in our bedroom.

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We then realised that the Christmas presents were missing.

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Can the cameras help catch the crook who stole Christmas?

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But first, another crime in the holiday season

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just after Christmas and another unwanted visitor.

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But this man is armed and dangerous.

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It's just gone 6am on New Year's Eve in a village shop

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and post office in Surrey.

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A couple are preparing for the day's trading

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when a man walks in from the darkness outside.

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He has a gun.

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And in an instant a quiet morning turns into a terrifying ordeal.

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A robber binds their wrists with cable ties

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and steals what he can before switching off the lights,

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leaving the terrified couple in the dark.

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Detective Constable Adam Hewitt

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has been in the force for nearly ten years.

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He works at Reigate police station in Surrey.

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We deal with any type of crime you can imagine.

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There'll be a small amount of it is quite low-volume

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and certainly an armed robbery is very rare.

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But it can happen even in the rural peace of the Surrey countryside.

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And in the early morning of New Year's Eve, it does happen.

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At 7am, I was told as soon as I got into my desk that an armed robbery

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had just occurred.

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Adam is called to a small village post office.

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It's a dramatic start to his duty.

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But it's been a terrifying start to the day for the victims,

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as the shop's CCTV shows.

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When you open up a small store at 6am in a rural location,

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pitch black outside,

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the last thing you expect is to be confronted by someone with a gun.

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The people in the shop are checking the day's newspapers

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when the robber enters, locking the front door behind them.

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The couple are horrified to see the man has a gun.

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He instructs the chap to tie up his partner using the cable ties

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he hands him.

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The robber then also ties the wrists of the man tight with cable ties.

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What happens next is unusual for a robbery.

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The victims are in shock but the woman stands up to the gunman.

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He then says, "Can you open up the cash register?"

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The shopkeeper says, "Say please," and he actually is quite polite

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and says, "Please open up the cash register."

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When you rationally think about it,

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you should never have responded like that to someone who has a gun,

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but she just did it, it came out automatically

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because obviously she wasn't thinking rationally.

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She was in a state of panic.

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The robber empties the till and steals rolls of

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Lottery scratchcards and packets of cigarettes.

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He then leaves the couple still tied up and turns the lights off.

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The woman was affected badly by the ordeal.

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The chap had a gun and he was demanding things from her.

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Understandably, she was incredibly traumatised.

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Apart from the cost of any money or goods stolen,

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there's an emotional cost to the victims of robbery.

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The couple here are so affected by what happens,

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they'd rather not be identified.

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But not far away, there's a woman who experienced a similar armed robbery

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in another small Surrey post office.

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Only now does Georgina feel able to describe the lasting effects

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of suddenly finding herself staring down the barrel of a gun.

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We ran the post office and village shop for 18 years.

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It's such a small little place.

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The last thing I would ever have expected is an armed robber

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to tear in through that door one day.

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Thankfully, their children were at school on the morning of the raid.

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Georgina was in the shop

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while her husband Paul was in the house making coffee.

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A man came through the door holding a gun with a balaclava

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over his head. He shouted, "Get on the floor!"

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At which point I said, "No."

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I wasn't going to go down on the floor. What did he want?

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He wanted the money from the post office.

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Georgina's first impulse was to try to escape.

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I ran through the door to the house,

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hoping to cut him off and shut the door, but he pushed it open.

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At that time he had the gun actually pointing right between my eyes.

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There was no question about disobeying him after that.

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The gunman forced her to open the safe

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and escaped with thousands of pounds.

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Georgina survived the ordeal but it certainly took its toll.

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One thing that really haunted me was all of the circles - the circle

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of the gun and the circle of the eyes where the balaclava was cut.

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Often I would wake up in the night and see circles.

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The greatest fear is whether it's going to happen again,

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particularly with children sleeping under the same roof.

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That's your biggest fear.

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The man who robbed Georgina was never caught.

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But back at the village shop in Surrey, DC Adam Hewitt has

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high hopes of catching the armed robber who terrorised these

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two people on the morning of New Year's Eve.

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He's just finished reviewing footage of the armed raid

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when he gets a breakthrough.

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A member of the public has found the robber's gun

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a few hundred yards from the shop.

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Our witness was walking along the road on his way to work

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and he just saw it lying in the bushes and he comes up to us

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and says, "I've just found this gun." We think, bingo!

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It's an encouraging start for the investigation.

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The gun is sent off to forensics for analysis.

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The other useful evidence Adam has comes from the high quality

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CCTV footage.

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That's a still image. The best image of his face.

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You can see him clear as day.

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The man's face is circulated to offices in the Surrey force,

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hoping someone can identify him. But after a couple of days...

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It becomes obvious no-one knows who this person is.

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And results come back from the forensic lab about the gun.

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It turns out it's an airgun and provides no further evidence.

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Adam decides to widen the investigation.

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He makes an appeal to members of the public in the local media.

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He also starts looking at crimes committed in other areas.

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There were a few unusual things about this robbery that may mean

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he's been noticed elsewhere.

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It's unusual that he was quite a polite robber, in a sense.

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He does say, "Please tie up your partner. Please open the till."

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He also used cable ties and wore a distinctive hat.

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Adam finds similarities in a couple of other armed robberies

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to the north, in the Croydon area of London.

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Things started to show parallels - the politeness,

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the clothes that he wore were very similar in every single one.

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And we decided it must be the same person.

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But those robberies are still unsolved and Adam is no nearer

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finding the man's name. He decides to spread the net even wider.

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We decided we do a national media appeal.

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We got lots of high-quality images of his face at different angles,

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that if you knew that person, seen that CCTV,

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you'd be able to point him out straightaway.

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Adam's national television appeal pays off.

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Several people phone in and put a name to the face.

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It's 28-year-old Daniel Brady.

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It's a huge relief.

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That's what we work for, is to know that we will eventually arrest

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the right person and we'll be able to charge them in front of a court.

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Brady is arrested, charged and pleads guilty to two robberies,

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one attempted robbery and firearms offences.

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They are such serious crimes, he's given a life sentence.

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Adam is pleased to solve all three crimes.

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It's an excellent result, yeah.

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The CCTV was of such excellent quality

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and it was better than the other two, but we were able to link

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all three together because of the similarities.

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Daniel Brady may have been recognised as the robber who said please, but

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these shopkeepers and others are just saying

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thank you he's off the streets.

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Even in the season of giving,

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it seems there are those who are more interested in taking,

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and a publican's Christmas is almost ruined

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when a couple of crooks decide to fill their stockings with his gifts.

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Christmas Day in a pub in Derby.

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The atmosphere is always lovely and it's just a happy time.

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But later that evening, the warm Christmas cheer turns chilly

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when the landlords living upstairs make a discovery.

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Someone has been in our bedroom.

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They'd been burgled.

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And there go my Christmas presents.

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But the pub's CCTV provides some fascinating viewing.

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A burglary on Christmas Day is quite heartfelt, really,

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so the whole team got stuck in from the very start.

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Graham and his wife Janette have run the Five Lamps pub

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in Derby for five years.

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It's meant quite a lot to us.

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We had another pub before this in the countryside, so we thought

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we'd bring the country to the city, and it's gone really well.

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So well, that within a couple of years they'd won an award.

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Our main thing is our cask ales.

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We don't have any trouble here.

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And he certainly doesn't expect to have any trouble over

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the Christmas season. It's the happiest time of the year for them.

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My wife loves Christmas.

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She pesters me in November to start putting the tree up.

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She's just Christmas mad.

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But this Christmas is one they won't forget.

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In their flat above the pub, landlord Graham

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and his family start Christmas morning in the traditional way.

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My son came to visit. My wife and I and my mother-in-law,

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who lives with us, opened our presents,

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had a little bit of breakfast and then prepared to open the pub.

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They leave the presents on their bed in the flat, then go

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downstairs to spend a few hours celebrating with their customers.

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It's just a happy time, an amazing atmosphere.

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They close early, at 3pm,

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so they can go and visit the rest of the family.

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Our son collected us.

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We've got three grandchildren in Derby,

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so we take their presents for them.

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We had a lovely dinner, a lovely afternoon, and then came home.

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They are back in their own flat in the pub by 9pm.

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Graham's wife decides to make a call.

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My wife decided she would look for her phone to give our son a ring

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and say thank you for a lovely dinner.

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But she can't find her phone.

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We were watching something quite interesting on TV,

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so she came back and we watched it to the break.

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She went back to the office, couldn't find it.

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She checks her handbag.

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She realised her purse was missing as well.

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They are alarmed and search the whole flat.

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We then realised that the Christmas presents were missing from where we'd left than that morning.

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Someone had been in our bedroom.

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Graham had an array of security cameras fitted

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when they first moved in.

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He watches back his recorded CCTV to see if he can work out what happened.

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I took it right back to the beginning of the day

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because we didn't know at what stage anything had gone missing.

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And I realised it was at the stage

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when we were just closing up from the lunchtime session.

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It's just a few minutes before closing.

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Graham and Janette are clearing tables.

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A man and woman walk through the pub's outside seating area

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and up to the door that leads inside.

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The man takes a look through the door but doesn't go in.

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They come on to this bit, which is our outside area.

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She stays out there rolling a cigarette and he goes inside.

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He goes through the door and straight into the gents'.

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He's in there for 30 seconds and then he comes out, but then

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checks out the ladies' toilet, looks inside, realises the same thing.

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He sneakily peers over the bar.

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Just trying at this stage to see who was around

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and obviously spotted me at this stage.

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He walks back out to the woman.

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The man heads around the front of the pub to the other side.

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The woman is close behind.

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And I just see him walking along towards the back gate,

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through the gate, across our small service yard.

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The kitchen staff would normally see anyone crossing this yard,

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but the kitchen is closed for Christmas.

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And then through the door and from there,

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it's upstairs to our accommodation where we live.

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A few minutes later, the man rushes out with his hands full.

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There he goes.

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There are my Christmas presents and my wife's phone and purse.

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It's a nasty surprise to discover someone's been in their home.

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We were hurt and upset that someone had actually been into our own...

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private accommodation.

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Mine was more a feeling of anger.

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One, at myself because the door being open,

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but two, it was just, how dare they?

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Even more upsetting is the realisation that Graham's wife

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and mother-in-law were upstairs at exactly the same

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time as the burglar.

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My wife had gone upstairs to give my mother-in-law a call

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to go for dinner.

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So the chances are at that stage he was probably in our bedroom.

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It's sheer luck she didn't come face-to-face with the thief.

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Graham calls the police.

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They were very sympathetic, took all the details, watched the CCTV.

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Keen to get the intruder caught quickly,

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Graham catches some still images from the camera footage.

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The policeman asked me if I could e-mail them to him

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so he could put them out on the morning watch.

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Which Graham does.

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First thing on Boxing Day morning,

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Detective Constable Tony Fox arrives at work.

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He sees the crime reports.

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A burglary on Christmas Day, you know, it's quite heartfelt, really.

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And you can relate to it yourself.

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It's a time when it should be a happy day.

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So it's obviously a good investigation to work on

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and one that the whole team got stuck into from the very start.

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Tony looks at images of the burglar and recognises a familiar face.

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I knew straight away who it was.

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I recognised it to be someone I'd dealt with numerous occasions.

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They head straight round to the man's address.

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Time is of the essence. We need to make the arrest as early

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as possible in the hope of recovering any stolen property.

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The man and woman are shocked to suddenly find

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the police on their doorstep.

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They didn't expect to see police quite

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so early on in the morning and especially on Boxing Day.

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We found items of clothing which matched what

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they were wearing on CCTV,

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and also we found items of property which belonged to the victims.

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Unfortunately, some items, like Graham's wife's phone

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and purse, are missing. But the other Christmas presents are rescued,

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less than 24 hours after they were taken.

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By nine o'clock we'd got two under arrest for the burglary

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and recovered some stolen property, so quite a swift time.

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In court, the man and woman plead guilty.

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He is given an 18-month prison sentence suspended for 18 months

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and she is given eight months, also suspended.

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Graham has now improved security at the pub, including a keypad lock

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on the door to the yard.

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So everyone can still get out easily

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but anyone not knowing the code can't get in.

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Hopefully, when the tree next goes up, in November,

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it will be the start of a Christmas that is happier than this year's.

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We are hoping that next year we can go back and try to put behind us

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what happened this year, because we just love Christmas Day.

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That's it for today. Join us next time

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when police and the public catch more criminals red-handed.

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