0:00:01 > 0:00:02But of course, it wasn't a profile that matched Peter Tobin.
0:00:03 > 0:00:05This week, the forensic teams investigate the cases
0:00:05 > 0:00:07of two young women,
0:00:07 > 0:00:10brutally murdered in Glasgow in one weekend
0:00:10 > 0:00:11just a few miles apart.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24I believe, in Scotland, we've been able to deliver a unique service.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29To identify suspects is one thing,
0:00:29 > 0:00:31and then to prove people are guilty of a crime
0:00:31 > 0:00:32is something completely different.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Although you see a lot of dead people,
0:00:38 > 0:00:41you treat everyone as an individual and with respect and with humanity.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47Forensic scientists - they are silent witnesses
0:00:47 > 0:00:50and they are the eyes and ears of law enforcement.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13A young professional woman. A lot to live for.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Brutally battered to death.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20This is probably one of the most pre-meditated murders
0:01:20 > 0:01:22I've ever encountered.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24We're into double figures of murders in a month
0:01:24 > 0:01:28and everyone is picking up murders and working on murders.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36But first, we return to a previous case.
0:01:39 > 0:01:43I suspected, by the modus operandi with Angelika Kluk,
0:01:43 > 0:01:44that he'd committed other crimes.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50Security officers handle criminals and murderers daily,
0:01:50 > 0:01:53but they struggled to restrain contempt
0:01:53 > 0:01:54toward the man facing charges
0:01:54 > 0:01:57for the rape and murder of Angelika Kluk
0:01:57 > 0:01:58in September 2006.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02The body of the 23-year-old Polish student
0:02:02 > 0:02:06had been found wrapped in bin bags and dumped under the floorboards
0:02:06 > 0:02:07of a Glasgow church.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11But as the trial progressed,
0:02:11 > 0:02:13even more chilling discoveries were made.
0:02:15 > 0:02:16It's the one and only time
0:02:16 > 0:02:20when the hairs have actually stood up on the back of my neck
0:02:20 > 0:02:22when I received a telephone call
0:02:22 > 0:02:26from the Head of CID in Lothian and Borders Police
0:02:26 > 0:02:29to tell me that they had just discovered
0:02:29 > 0:02:32that Peter Tobin was living in Bathgate
0:02:32 > 0:02:36at the time of Vicky Hamilton's disappearance.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40The missing 15-year-old was last seen in Bathgate town centre.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43When police discovered Tobin's connection to the town,
0:02:43 > 0:02:45their investigation grew.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Veteran David Swindle,
0:02:47 > 0:02:50senior investigating officer on the Kluk case,
0:02:50 > 0:02:52already had his suspicions.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54At the same time, I set up Operation Anagram,
0:02:54 > 0:02:58because I suspected that Peter Tobin had committed other crimes.
0:02:58 > 0:03:03The conviction for the murder of Angelika Kluk
0:03:03 > 0:03:06was a significant milestone to the next stages
0:03:06 > 0:03:07of finding out what Tobin had done.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12Tobin's former home in Bathgate became a crime scene.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14The occupants rehoused to allow a search.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18Serial killers keep trophies.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22In the loft, a dagger was found hidden behind a joist.
0:03:22 > 0:03:26Forensics found a tiny slither of flesh on the blade
0:03:26 > 0:03:28and Tobin was questioned.
0:03:30 > 0:03:31As I say I've never met her.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33You know what I mean? I've never, ever.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36The challenge of matching someone as young as Vicky
0:03:36 > 0:03:38with the DNA from the flesh on the knife was impossible,
0:03:38 > 0:03:39even for forensics.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44But then a sharp investigator made a major breakthrough.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48Babies born in Scotland from 1962
0:03:48 > 0:03:51have a screening test called the Guthrie sample.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55A pin prick of blood is taken from their heel.
0:03:55 > 0:04:00Vicky had had that test and the vital DNA match was made.
0:04:01 > 0:04:05It was a fantastic piece of detective work
0:04:05 > 0:04:08and forensic science and that was a huge breakthrough
0:04:08 > 0:04:12because then, the police really knew that they were getting close.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Then another cold case involving a missing person
0:04:16 > 0:04:19came to the attention of Operation Anagram.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22Dinah McNicol innocently hitched a lift
0:04:22 > 0:04:25on the way home from a music festival also in 1991.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30Subsequently, an Essex police analyst
0:04:30 > 0:04:33discovered unusual withdrawals from her bank account in Margate.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37Living there at the time - Peter Tobin.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41That prompted police to issue a search warrant.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44On the 14th of November 2007,
0:04:44 > 0:04:47the first gruesome discovery was made.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52Brazenly, Tobin had buried Vicky Hamilton's body
0:04:52 > 0:04:54in his garden at Irvine Drive, Margate.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58It was important that we had proper communication
0:04:58 > 0:05:01and a single point of contact for forensic issues.
0:05:01 > 0:05:06And the single point of contact for SPSA was Carol Weston.
0:05:08 > 0:05:09When Peter Tobin was convicted,
0:05:09 > 0:05:12initially, we looked at all his items of property
0:05:12 > 0:05:16and we obtained some DNA profiles which I held
0:05:16 > 0:05:19and ultimately loaded onto a database for missing persons
0:05:19 > 0:05:22which collates all the genetic information
0:05:22 > 0:05:24about people who are missing.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27Then as the forces started looking into their missing persons,
0:05:27 > 0:05:30any DNA profiles they had of interest,
0:05:30 > 0:05:31they could send to me.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Some aspects of the case were familiar
0:05:33 > 0:05:35to investigators on the Kluk murder.
0:05:36 > 0:05:40So she was wrapped in five bin bags, very much like a Chinese doll
0:05:40 > 0:05:43and some fantastic work done by fingerprint officers
0:05:43 > 0:05:47of Lothian and Borders police, who were able to identify
0:05:47 > 0:05:51from bin bags which had been in the ground for many years
0:05:51 > 0:05:54four fingerprints which matched that of Peter Tobin.
0:05:56 > 0:05:57Two days later,
0:05:57 > 0:06:00the skeleton of Dinah McNicol was uncovered,
0:06:00 > 0:06:02buried in the same shallow grave.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06Both bodies had to be formally identified through dental records.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10The forensic investigation began
0:06:10 > 0:06:12and toxicologists made a vital discovery.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16In the cases of Dinah McNicol and Vicky Hamilton,
0:06:16 > 0:06:18we received samples from which we were able
0:06:18 > 0:06:20to detect the presence of a drug called amitriptyline.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23Amitriptyline is a central nervous system depressant.
0:06:23 > 0:06:27It's used for depression and for treating neuropathic pain.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29One of the side effects of amitriptyline
0:06:29 > 0:06:31is its sedative effect.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34Obviously, a decomposing body over that period of time,
0:06:34 > 0:06:37you'd expect very little of the blood or the tissues left
0:06:37 > 0:06:40and we're reliant on those blood samples and tissue samples
0:06:40 > 0:06:41in order to extract the drugs.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45However, in both cases, we were able to recover material
0:06:45 > 0:06:49that hadn't fully decomposed and from that, fortunately,
0:06:49 > 0:06:51we were able to detect the drug amitriptyline in them.
0:06:51 > 0:06:56The forensic team began to re-examine preserved evidence.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58Vicky's purse, which had been discarded by Tobin
0:06:58 > 0:07:00and found in the centre of Edinburgh,
0:07:00 > 0:07:03had been held for 16 years.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07We knew it was her purse because her bank cards were in it,
0:07:07 > 0:07:10there was some stuff that had been given by her sister.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12It could all be identified.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14So we knew it was Vicky Hamilton's purse.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18The scientist managed to get the profile from the metal clasp.
0:07:18 > 0:07:22But of course, it wasn't a profile that matched Peter Tobin.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24But Tobin had two sons.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27The younger of the two was staying with his father
0:07:27 > 0:07:29when Vicky Hamilton disappeared.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33They contacted Peter Tobin's son and got the sample of blood
0:07:33 > 0:07:36and obtained a profile from it
0:07:36 > 0:07:39and it matched the profile, the DNA profile,
0:07:39 > 0:07:42from the metal clasp of Vicky Hamilton's purse.
0:07:42 > 0:07:46And the scientists were able to say that, in their opinion,
0:07:46 > 0:07:50the DNA profile came from saliva
0:07:50 > 0:07:53and were able to say that that was consistent
0:07:53 > 0:07:57with Vicky Hamilton's purse having been given to the wee boy
0:07:57 > 0:08:00and he'd put it in his mouth, as youngsters sometimes do.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03Tobin's fate had been sealed
0:08:03 > 0:08:05and forensic staff began preparations
0:08:05 > 0:08:07for his second and third murder trials.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11The multi-media unit created graphics
0:08:11 > 0:08:13to show the positions of the two bodies
0:08:13 > 0:08:14buried in Tobin's garden
0:08:14 > 0:08:18and also to sanitise grisly images for the jury.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21At Vicky Hamilton's trial,
0:08:21 > 0:08:23the DNA linked to her purse,
0:08:23 > 0:08:25the breakthrough with the Guthrie sample
0:08:25 > 0:08:28and fingerprints on the body wrapping
0:08:28 > 0:08:30resulted in a second guilty verdict.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36Tonight, Peter Tobin is beginning a life sentence.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39He'll serve at least 30 years.
0:08:39 > 0:08:43It's very likely Peter Tobin will die in jail.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46The third guilty verdict was even more significant.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50It's very easy for people to speculate
0:08:50 > 0:08:54and say that Tobin has done 20 murders, 40 murders, 100 murders.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56We know he's done three.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58He's a serial killer.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18Queen's Park, on the south side of Glasgow,
0:09:18 > 0:09:20is popular with the local community.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Early that summer morning,
0:09:24 > 0:09:25news began to spread
0:09:25 > 0:09:28that a local woman had been found brutally murdered.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37I was told there was a body been found in the park.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39At that point, I don't think they were sure
0:09:39 > 0:09:41if it was male or female.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44They just knew there was a body and that the body was partially clothed.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47It was an absolutely brutal murder. A very sad case.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50A young professional woman. A lot to live for.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53Just going home after a night out with her partner.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Brutally battered to death.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59A massive investigation immediately swung into action.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03The man in charge was Derek Robertson.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07The initial aspects are we must lock down the crime scene -
0:10:07 > 0:10:09preserve all the evidence we can.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12So I had to make sure we had relied and trusted people in Queen's Park
0:10:12 > 0:10:14to guard the body and preserve any evidence that was there.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16And lock down any witnesses in the vicinity.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18And look for potential suspects
0:10:18 > 0:10:19that could still be in the area.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26The crime scene at Queen's Park was 148 acres -
0:10:26 > 0:10:28one of the biggest ever in Scotland.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33But Derek Robertson was used to large-scale police investigations.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39My policy decisions were shut the park gates.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41If anybody's in the park, record their details
0:10:41 > 0:10:44and make sure there's nothing suspicious about them.
0:10:44 > 0:10:45The perimeter of the park,
0:10:45 > 0:10:47I want all car registration numbers taken.
0:10:47 > 0:10:48I want a crime scene manager
0:10:48 > 0:10:52who is a specialist-trained CID officer at the locus,
0:10:52 > 0:10:53right where the body is,
0:10:53 > 0:10:55to set parameters on guarding the body,
0:10:55 > 0:10:58barrier tapes, sufficient number of officers to guard it,
0:10:58 > 0:11:00photographers, forensic support...
0:11:00 > 0:11:03It's like getting the specialists moving.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05So we went in the first cordon,
0:11:05 > 0:11:08walked along this path towards a grassy area.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11One side of the grassy area, there was a small privet hedge
0:11:11 > 0:11:14and Moira's body was actually behind the hedge.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17So it wasn't apparent until you got close to the body
0:11:17 > 0:11:18and looked over the hedge
0:11:18 > 0:11:21that you could see her lying there, and she was lying face down.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24Our first job would be to photograph that, video it.
0:11:24 > 0:11:25It was fairly new at that time,
0:11:25 > 0:11:28to do the 360 panoramas of the scene.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31Working outside is challenging enough for forensics
0:11:31 > 0:11:34without unwanted attention from the media
0:11:34 > 0:11:36who even chartered helicopters.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39A tent was erected to hide the body
0:11:39 > 0:11:42and protect evidence from prying eyes and telescopic lenses,
0:11:42 > 0:11:45allowing forensics to do their work.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Before we actually go anywhere near the body,
0:11:48 > 0:11:52the first thing you want to do is to recover any evidence
0:11:52 > 0:11:53away from the body.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Ideally, you want to establish
0:11:55 > 0:11:57how the person has approached the body and left the body,
0:11:57 > 0:12:01because they're going to have left some sort of trace.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03We didn't know if Moira had been dragged through the hedge
0:12:03 > 0:12:04or thrown over the hedge.
0:12:04 > 0:12:08We didn't know if the person had gone into the hedged area.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10So the first thing we did was to search the hedge thoroughly.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13Because the vegetation's quite jaggy and rough,
0:12:13 > 0:12:16there's a chance people would catch their clothing on it,
0:12:16 > 0:12:18catch their hair on it, even cut themselves.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21So we wanted to recover any trace evidence first
0:12:21 > 0:12:22before it was disturbed.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26Because it was a recent body
0:12:26 > 0:12:28that hadn't been outside for very long,
0:12:28 > 0:12:32I felt very strongly there would be a real high expectation
0:12:32 > 0:12:36of recovering DNA at least - foreign DNA - from the body.
0:12:36 > 0:12:40So I wanted to make sure that we recovered what we could first
0:12:40 > 0:12:42and then any other experts could work around that.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46She was partially clothed.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50She had on no lower clothing apart from a pair of socks.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53She was face down and her upper clothing,
0:12:53 > 0:12:57although it was on, was all disturbed.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00And when we looked more closely at Moira,
0:13:00 > 0:13:04it was apparent her upper clothing was actually quite badly torn and damaged.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08So as soon as I saw Moira's body in situ, saw the clothing torn off,
0:13:08 > 0:13:12I was pretty convinced it was going to be a sexually motivated murder.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14We couldn't see any obvious injuries
0:13:14 > 0:13:16until we actually got up close to Moira
0:13:16 > 0:13:19and then we could see that there was blood in her hair.
0:13:19 > 0:13:23So it appeared from that point that there was a head injury.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26The pathologist doesn't want to disturb the body
0:13:26 > 0:13:29until all the DNA evidence has been removed.
0:13:29 > 0:13:33So with Moira, we recovered all our samples
0:13:33 > 0:13:35as she lay in situ, face down.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39We then turned her over, putting her into a clean body bag.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44She had sustained really very severe
0:13:44 > 0:13:49and extensive bruising to her face, her neck.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52There was nothing to indicate that any weapon had been used.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Rather it was the type of bruising that you see
0:13:54 > 0:13:59when someone's been hit with fists, punches or kicks.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02She also had bruising on the backs of her arms and hands.
0:14:02 > 0:14:06Now, bruising in that area is typically sustained
0:14:06 > 0:14:09when someone tries to defend themselves against an assault.
0:14:09 > 0:14:10We call it defensive injuries.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12So that enables us to say that, you know,
0:14:12 > 0:14:15at some point in the attack, she was able to defend herself.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21There was signs of blood on the leaves
0:14:21 > 0:14:23that had been diluted by the rain
0:14:23 > 0:14:26so the pattern of any blood had obviously been altered.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28So although we couldn't rule out she'd been assaulted there,
0:14:28 > 0:14:30we also couldn't say categorically that she had.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33Now, what we didn't want is -
0:14:33 > 0:14:35looking in hindsight three months down the line -
0:14:35 > 0:14:37"Oh, I met Moira, we had sex,
0:14:37 > 0:14:39"I left her in the park and someone else must've killed her."
0:14:39 > 0:14:40That's an easy get-out.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43So we tried to work round about "How do we disprove that?"
0:14:44 > 0:14:47We taped the damage to her clothing in situ.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50We swabbed her exposed parts of skin.
0:14:50 > 0:14:54We also noted white fluid on her pubic hair
0:14:54 > 0:14:57which turned out to be seminal fluid.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59We made a decision very early on that Moira was not to be moved,
0:14:59 > 0:15:01her body was to stay in situ
0:15:01 > 0:15:06and the pathologist removed the semen in situ.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10The semen was deposited in Moira - she never got back up.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13So the presumption is,
0:15:13 > 0:15:16because she was lying horizontally on the ground and had been killed
0:15:16 > 0:15:17and the semen was deposited that way,
0:15:17 > 0:15:19she never got back to her feet again.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22So the person who carried out the indecent act murdered her.
0:15:22 > 0:15:27Carol spent the whole day in the park, collecting evidence.
0:15:27 > 0:15:28Now she had all she needed
0:15:28 > 0:15:31and could secure DNA profiles the next day.
0:15:32 > 0:15:33But crucially,
0:15:33 > 0:15:37she still needed samples from Moira's killer to get a match.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48We knew that she'd left her boyfriend to go home
0:15:48 > 0:15:49and she never made it.
0:15:49 > 0:15:50But we found her car.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53So what happened between Moira parking her car
0:15:53 > 0:15:54and not making her flat?
0:15:54 > 0:15:56Only yards from Moira's flat,
0:15:56 > 0:15:59police picked up a scattered trail of vital evidence.
0:16:01 > 0:16:02She's parked the car,
0:16:02 > 0:16:05she's been walking back to her flat and something's happened here.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09Some struggle has taken place which has disrupted her bag,
0:16:09 > 0:16:11toiletries have fell out.
0:16:11 > 0:16:15So it opens up another area of house-to-house enquiry,
0:16:15 > 0:16:16CCTV enquiry.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18You're constantly growing all the time
0:16:18 > 0:16:21and moving the parameters with fresh information.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26Fresh information did surface near Moira's flat.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28It was harrowing, but vital...
0:16:29 > 0:16:31..and from an unlikely source.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35There's a bus route goes by there,
0:16:35 > 0:16:37so we have to get the CCTV off the buses
0:16:37 > 0:16:38and we did yield information
0:16:38 > 0:16:41of a shape of a large male with a woman.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44It looks like he was grabbing her and taking her across
0:16:44 > 0:16:46at the material time we thought she was taken.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58So we begin to piece the jigsaw together with these finds
0:16:58 > 0:17:02to say, "Parked car there, got attacked there,
0:17:02 > 0:17:05"must have crossed the road, because she's ended in the park,
0:17:05 > 0:17:08"caught on CCTV by a bus passing by there..."
0:17:10 > 0:17:11We go into the park,
0:17:11 > 0:17:14then we realise that a witness had come forward to say,
0:17:14 > 0:17:16"I saw something strange in a big giant holly bush
0:17:16 > 0:17:19"next to the tennis courts. I just wasn't happy with it."
0:17:19 > 0:17:21We do a forensic search of that and we find blouse buttons -
0:17:21 > 0:17:25six blouse buttons, identical to Moira's blouse,
0:17:25 > 0:17:26which had no buttons.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31They'd been tore off. They'd not been cut off,
0:17:31 > 0:17:32because of the way the threads had been ruptured.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34And they look at her blouse and they say
0:17:34 > 0:17:36"There's been real force used here."
0:17:36 > 0:17:39That really helps you to get a picture of what's gone on.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43She had a shoe missing. Where was her shoe?
0:17:43 > 0:17:46How did he get her into the middle of Queen's Park,
0:17:46 > 0:17:48which is a fair distance from where she was taken?
0:17:48 > 0:17:49How did he control that person
0:17:49 > 0:17:53and get her way into the centre of the park into the pitch black?
0:17:55 > 0:17:57She's a slight young woman.
0:17:57 > 0:18:01Somebody's got control of her, stunned her, done something to her
0:18:01 > 0:18:03and then has bodily took her, carried her or dragged her
0:18:03 > 0:18:05all the way into that park.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08It's a powerful-looking person we're looking for.
0:18:10 > 0:18:11Is it somebody that knew her?
0:18:11 > 0:18:14Is it just a freak circumstance - wrong place, wrong time?
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Is it a stalker? An ex-boyfriend?
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Somebody fixated with her? A chance meeting?
0:18:19 > 0:18:20We don't know.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24Sadly, Moira's journey ended in the heart of the park.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Her killer left her lying there
0:18:27 > 0:18:29and walked in the opposite direction.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35But he left a trail of scattered belongings stolen from Moira
0:18:35 > 0:18:37and police traced his exit route.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41We know the attacker stayed for a bit of time
0:18:41 > 0:18:44because he searched through all her property,
0:18:44 > 0:18:46looked at everything there is, took property off her,
0:18:46 > 0:18:48including Moira's mobile phones.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Whether they were taken off her to steal it
0:18:53 > 0:18:55or so that she can't call for assistance,
0:18:55 > 0:18:56if they think she's still alive,
0:18:56 > 0:18:58but they took her means of communication away.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02We begin to get a picture of somebody coming in
0:19:02 > 0:19:05one way into a park, murdering Moira
0:19:05 > 0:19:07and then coming back out another direction from the park.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10So your whole enquiry's beginning to move direction
0:19:10 > 0:19:13and you begin to build a timeline picture.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16Who's leaving that park after midnight?
0:19:19 > 0:19:21CCTV cameras on a church opposite the exit
0:19:21 > 0:19:24captured a ghostly image leaving the park
0:19:24 > 0:19:25at 2:17 in the morning.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30Only seconds later, he was picked up from another camera,
0:19:30 > 0:19:32based at a nearby hotel -
0:19:32 > 0:19:35and it showed images of crucial interest to the case.
0:19:38 > 0:19:42One of the images, you saw a large man, well-built,
0:19:42 > 0:19:45he walked kind of casually in a particular way.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47And in the right hand,
0:19:47 > 0:19:50you could see a square, black rectangular object
0:19:50 > 0:19:53and Moira's laptop had been taken from her.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57So we started following a CCTV pattern.
0:19:57 > 0:19:58Where's he going?
0:19:58 > 0:20:02We pick him up again round the corner,
0:20:02 > 0:20:04walking by a bus stop.
0:20:04 > 0:20:05No laptop this time.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07So between the first sighting coming out the park
0:20:07 > 0:20:10and the second sighting a few minutes later,
0:20:10 > 0:20:12he's obviously put the laptop somewhere.
0:20:12 > 0:20:16Plus there's a number of frames on CCTV
0:20:16 > 0:20:18that you see him walking by the bus stop,
0:20:18 > 0:20:21lifting his hand and looking at it and putting it down.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23He's obviously checking his hand. He's hurt himself doing it.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26He's got rid of the laptop, he's stole some stuff, but where's he going?
0:20:28 > 0:20:31We've got an image of somebody we want to find.
0:20:31 > 0:20:32We don't know who it is.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40Moira Jones's murder came during a month
0:20:40 > 0:20:43when there was an abnormally high level of violent crime in Glasgow.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50Police and forensics were stretched to bursting point.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53Then it got even worse.
0:20:55 > 0:20:56Early in the morning,
0:20:56 > 0:20:58two days after Moira Jones was murdered,
0:20:58 > 0:21:01a dramatic 999 call was made.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14OPERATOR: I can't make out what you're saying.
0:21:16 > 0:21:17What's your name, ma'am?
0:21:21 > 0:21:23Marion, what's your surname?
0:21:32 > 0:21:36OPERATOR: What's the problem there? MALE CALLER: Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38What's the problem? You need to speak to me.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40I've got...I think I've got a dead body here.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43A lane in Glasgow's West End,
0:21:43 > 0:21:45full of restaurants and artisan boutiques,
0:21:45 > 0:21:47became a major crime scene.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52Almost 200 police officers are now involved
0:21:52 > 0:21:55in two separate murder enquiries in Glasgow.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58Moira Jones was found in Queen's Park on Thursday
0:21:58 > 0:22:02and Eleni Pachou was found stabbed to death in a restaurant on Friday.
0:22:03 > 0:22:0525-year-old Eleni, from Athens in Greece,
0:22:05 > 0:22:09came to Glasgow to begin a new life after her mother died.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12She got a job as assistant manageress
0:22:12 > 0:22:14at a popular West End pizzeria.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Michael Young was one of the first from the forensic team
0:22:18 > 0:22:20to arrive at the murder scene.
0:22:21 > 0:22:22As soon as we went in,
0:22:22 > 0:22:23there was a large stairwell
0:22:23 > 0:22:26which takes you up to the seating area of the restaurant.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28You go into the restaurant - your left,
0:22:28 > 0:22:29that's the restaurant area
0:22:29 > 0:22:32and then a bar, and behind the bar is a staff area.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Near the safe area was the remains of Eleni.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39She was lying there, a large pool of blood by her side.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42In this case, the girl's clothing was all firmly in place
0:22:42 > 0:22:46and we didn't think at the outset that it was a sexual assault.
0:22:48 > 0:22:53But it was a gruesome sight that met Crime Scene Manager, Sandy McLean.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55A motive had to be established.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58Was it a murder? Was it a robbery gone wrong?
0:22:58 > 0:23:01Was it a murder that was made to look like a robbery?
0:23:01 > 0:23:04It was clear that robbery was involved.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07There were two safes on the premises.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10In the mezzanine area,
0:23:10 > 0:23:12above the location where the body still lay,
0:23:12 > 0:23:14one of them was wide open.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16The other safe wasn't.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18In fact, they'd tried to use that much force to get into that safe
0:23:18 > 0:23:20that they broke the handle on it.
0:23:20 > 0:23:24The downstairs safe was covered in blood smears
0:23:24 > 0:23:26and a possible scenario began to emerge.
0:23:28 > 0:23:32We also noted that because the premises were very small,
0:23:32 > 0:23:33everywhere you went,
0:23:33 > 0:23:35you would be able to see Eleni's body.
0:23:35 > 0:23:40So clearly the perpetrator had killed the girl
0:23:40 > 0:23:42and then gone about raiding the premises
0:23:42 > 0:23:44and stepped over her.
0:23:44 > 0:23:48He'd have looked down on the body from the upstairs safe.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51There was no getting away from the fact that there was a body there
0:23:51 > 0:23:55and he systematically must have worked his way round this body,
0:23:55 > 0:23:57to carry out the robbery.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00The killer wore gloves to hide his prints.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Smears of blood from gloved hands
0:24:03 > 0:24:05were found on the upstairs banister.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08But he made one serious mistake.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12There were blood spots coming down both sides of the stairs
0:24:12 > 0:24:16and the forensic specialists were able to tell us that most probably,
0:24:16 > 0:24:18the person who'd committed the murder had injured himself.
0:24:18 > 0:24:23The dropped spots of blood finished at the exit to the restaurant.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26They couldn't have been Eleni's blood spots
0:24:26 > 0:24:28because she hadn't left the area.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32The actual scene for Eleni's murder, although it was the restaurant,
0:24:32 > 0:24:34was a much bigger area round the restaurant
0:24:34 > 0:24:37which had to be also classified as a crime scene,
0:24:37 > 0:24:39because whoever murdered Eleni had to get in there
0:24:39 > 0:24:40and back out again.
0:24:41 > 0:24:45The size of the crime scene wasn't as daunting as Queen's Park,
0:24:45 > 0:24:48but the challenge of eliminating hundreds of suspects was.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51It took us about a week to fingerprint that restaurant.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54In particular the stairwell, which was quite a big stairwell.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57So if you can imagine the amount of potential fingerprints
0:24:57 > 0:25:00you may have there, with members of the public coming in,
0:25:00 > 0:25:01members of staff coming in.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03There's no quick way of doing it
0:25:03 > 0:25:05and you could find anything up to 300-400 fingerprints
0:25:05 > 0:25:07and they all have to be recorded or lifted.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10Now that in itself is a challenge because you've got people
0:25:10 > 0:25:12who are obviously in that restaurant for meals,
0:25:12 > 0:25:15you've got people who maybe work in the kitchen,
0:25:15 > 0:25:17so they're innocently, but obviously,
0:25:17 > 0:25:19leaving their fingerprints behind.
0:25:19 > 0:25:20We had to look for that one gem,
0:25:20 > 0:25:23for that one fingerprint that identified the murderer.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26The sheer scale of the elimination process
0:25:26 > 0:25:28was also a massive task for Pauline.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30All of the DNA reference samples
0:25:30 > 0:25:33from anyone who worked at that restaurant
0:25:33 > 0:25:35and who may well be associated with that restaurant
0:25:35 > 0:25:38were analysed for comparison purposes.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Blood stains around the body and on the banister
0:25:41 > 0:25:43belonged to the victim and the killer.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49But the blood found at the exit particularly interested Pauline.
0:25:51 > 0:25:55The priority was to analyse the dropped spots of blood,
0:25:55 > 0:25:57because it was apparent that this was a single source of blood
0:25:57 > 0:26:00that may relate to the perpetrator.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02So that sample was analysed very quickly.
0:26:04 > 0:26:10Within the week, we had a match with a former colleague of Eleni's.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13Juan Carlos Crispin.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16Spanish-born Crispin was a former employee at the restaurant.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20His identification was a massive breakthrough.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24He was arrested within days.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27But at Queen's Park, the team were still struggling
0:26:27 > 0:26:28for their breakthrough.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33The break came when we extended house-to-house.
0:26:33 > 0:26:34We'd reviewed all the crimes
0:26:34 > 0:26:37and a woman had been attacked some weeks previously.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40Weekday. Late at night.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42Male approached from behind, grabbed her,
0:26:42 > 0:26:43tried to choke her, steal bag.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47It was very similar. Unsolved.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50So we took that enquiry - and it was a sexual crime as well -
0:26:50 > 0:26:54we took that enquiry and we ran it as a parallel crime.
0:26:54 > 0:26:55There might be a stalker round that area
0:26:55 > 0:26:57and we were working on that theory.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59Those seemingly related crimes,
0:26:59 > 0:27:01carried out quite close to each other,
0:27:01 > 0:27:04finally gave the police door-to-door enquiry team a breakthrough.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10An address in Queen's Drive near the east end of the park.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15There was a house there that had been converted to bedsits,
0:27:15 > 0:27:16which wasn't recorded.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19You had a house which you'd look at from outside
0:27:19 > 0:27:22and think it was one house, but it was six bedsits within it.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25And our house-to-house teams went down to the bedsits.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28The door was opened by a young Czech student,
0:27:28 > 0:27:30Lucie Pechtlova.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32The police used their standard questionnaire,
0:27:32 > 0:27:34designed to cover most enquiries.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36You ask the right question, you get the right answer.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39How long have you lived here? Anybody live with you?
0:27:39 > 0:27:40Can you tell me who stays here?
0:27:40 > 0:27:43Has anybody visited you recently? If so, who?
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Did they have a car? Did they come with anybody?
0:27:45 > 0:27:47Did they stay over? Did they stay elsewhere?
0:27:47 > 0:27:50One of the questions, she said, "Yes.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53"A friend stayed for a few days and left. He's away now."
0:27:53 > 0:27:55They said, "When did he stay?"
0:27:55 > 0:27:58And it was a couple of days before Moira was murdered
0:27:58 > 0:28:00and he left the day after.
0:28:00 > 0:28:05Good detectives at the time realised this is important.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07This could be our ghost.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10"Where is he now?" "Away back to Slovakia."
0:28:10 > 0:28:11"What's his description?"
0:28:11 > 0:28:13And then we realised from his description,
0:28:13 > 0:28:15from the CCTV we've got...
0:28:15 > 0:28:18And I went, "This is too good to be true."
0:28:18 > 0:28:20You know what to do - bring her up here right now.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22We need a translator. She could talk English,
0:28:22 > 0:28:24but we need a translator to assist her.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26Very quickly, 30 minutes into it,
0:28:26 > 0:28:28we thought, "We're on to something here."
0:28:28 > 0:28:31This looks really, really good. Slow it down. Take our time.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35The person Lucie was clearly describing
0:28:35 > 0:28:38was Slovakian national, Marek Harcar.
0:28:40 > 0:28:44He's not on record in this country, not on a database in this country,
0:28:44 > 0:28:46no fingerprints in this country.
0:28:46 > 0:28:48So he came into the country earlier and worked in Liverpool
0:28:48 > 0:28:52and he came in as a kind of cleaner and worker
0:28:52 > 0:28:53and he worked a bit in Bolton.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56But he became disaffected with his working life down there
0:28:56 > 0:28:58and thought he'd make a brand-new start in Glasgow
0:28:58 > 0:29:01and he knew Lucie cos she used to work in Liverpool
0:29:01 > 0:29:02when she first came to the country.
0:29:02 > 0:29:04But Lucie had made a life for herself in Glasgow.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07So he came up to stay with her and she knew right away it was a mistake,
0:29:07 > 0:29:09that he's changed, he was drinking heavily,
0:29:09 > 0:29:12aggressive, violent, sexual.
0:29:12 > 0:29:14And she just wanted rid of him.
0:29:14 > 0:29:16And Lucie said for the period of time he stayed with her,
0:29:16 > 0:29:19he never went out at night, ever.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22He drank all the time, watched his DVDs.
0:29:22 > 0:29:25The only one night he went out was the night Moira was killed.
0:29:25 > 0:29:28Harcar had been drinking heavily that night.
0:29:28 > 0:29:29According to Lucie,
0:29:29 > 0:29:31he drank large quantities of vodka and lager...
0:29:33 > 0:29:36..then said he was going to look for a prostitute.
0:29:37 > 0:29:39And he never got back till 3:30 in the morning -
0:29:39 > 0:29:41which puts him smack bang where we want him.
0:29:43 > 0:29:46And what Lucie said was, "He's left half his stuff still in the flat.
0:29:46 > 0:29:49"It's really annoying."
0:29:49 > 0:29:51Including his mattress and things like that.
0:29:51 > 0:29:53So we called up the forensic teams, shut the flat,
0:29:53 > 0:29:56it became another crime scene and we meticulously went through all
0:29:56 > 0:29:58the stuff that he'd left at this flat.
0:29:58 > 0:30:01He'd bought a lot of porn tapes, porn DVDs
0:30:01 > 0:30:04and she'd been away at work all day and he was a friend to her,
0:30:04 > 0:30:07not a sexual friend, although he was trying it on, she was saying.
0:30:07 > 0:30:09But he'd stay in her house and he'd bought all these porn tapes.
0:30:09 > 0:30:13And we think very much meticulously, coldly, forensically in these
0:30:13 > 0:30:15things and when he's got a duvet, he's got porn tapes,
0:30:15 > 0:30:18there's every chance there's forensic material on this duvet.
0:30:18 > 0:30:22So one of the scientists from the laboratory went out to this house
0:30:22 > 0:30:27and recovered sheets and things that this male had used.
0:30:29 > 0:30:32Carol analysed sperm samples lifted from Harcar's duvet and sent
0:30:32 > 0:30:36it off, looking to match semen discovered at the murder scene.
0:30:39 > 0:30:41And I remember the night concerned.
0:30:41 > 0:30:44I was waiting for the match to come through to say absolutely,
0:30:44 > 0:30:48millions to one, that's it, there is no mistakes, that's the person.
0:30:48 > 0:30:50An SIO doesn't rest until you get that phone call.
0:30:50 > 0:30:51And it was a Friday night
0:30:51 > 0:30:54and I was sitting in the house with my wife with a bottle of wine
0:30:54 > 0:30:57and you know they're running the profiles and you're waiting for it
0:30:57 > 0:30:59and you're waiting for it and you're waiting for it, and it was
0:30:59 > 0:31:03Carol Weston I was waiting for the call with, the forensic scientist.
0:31:03 > 0:31:06She said she'd phone me at ten at night and ten o'clock passed.
0:31:06 > 0:31:07And it came to 11 o'clock.
0:31:07 > 0:31:10You're texting back and forward going, "Where's my result?"
0:31:10 > 0:31:12I think I woke him up.
0:31:12 > 0:31:16It was about 12, one in the morning and woke him up
0:31:16 > 0:31:20and said, "Yeah, it matches your man and this is who you're looking for."
0:31:20 > 0:31:23And I'll never forget the feeling of that's it, that's it closed,
0:31:23 > 0:31:25dealt with.
0:31:25 > 0:31:29And I can't say the words that he used but he was very, very pleased.
0:31:29 > 0:31:32And I texted about six or seven people to say
0:31:32 > 0:31:34that's the result out and they were all up waiting for it as well.
0:31:34 > 0:31:38And maybe the public don't get that aspect of it - the humanistic aspect
0:31:38 > 0:31:42of an investigator - surely you're cold and meticulous to deal with it.
0:31:42 > 0:31:45You need to deal with the family empathetically, most definitely.
0:31:45 > 0:31:48You deal with bodies... We talk about bodies
0:31:48 > 0:31:51and murder victims - it's people and lives, don't get me wrong.
0:31:51 > 0:31:54But forensic awareness and forensic recovery is the most
0:31:54 > 0:31:56important thing to say that person should not have died.
0:31:56 > 0:32:00And when you get that result, the euphoria at the end of all
0:32:00 > 0:32:03these long hours and hard hours, to walk into your murder team
0:32:03 > 0:32:05and say "That's it".
0:32:05 > 0:32:07You feel the air change.
0:32:07 > 0:32:10You know, and it's not like back- slapping self-congratulatory,
0:32:10 > 0:32:13it's like it's been worth it, we've got there. And you feel good.
0:32:15 > 0:32:18CCTV already showed Harcar fleeing the country.
0:32:20 > 0:32:23What he didn't know was that forensic scientists now had
0:32:23 > 0:32:28a positive DNA match linking him to Moira's murder.
0:32:28 > 0:32:30But the killer had a two-week lead.
0:32:30 > 0:32:33By now he could be anywhere in Europe.
0:32:39 > 0:32:43In the Eleni Pachou case, forensics started to piece together
0:32:43 > 0:32:45the jigsaw of events that led to the murder.
0:32:47 > 0:32:50Part of a drinking straw had been found in one of her pockets.
0:32:50 > 0:32:53This tested positive by a drugs analyst as cocaine.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56A likely scenario began to emerge.
0:32:58 > 0:33:01The plan was to supposedly supply Eleni with drugs and it
0:33:01 > 0:33:05looked like Juan Carlos Crispin attended that night to do that.
0:33:06 > 0:33:10He then placed drugs on to a meat slicer.
0:33:10 > 0:33:11Eleni was going to snort that.
0:33:11 > 0:33:14He then stabbed her in the back of the neck.
0:33:14 > 0:33:18Just here. One perfect stab wound right through.
0:33:18 > 0:33:19It went down into her throat.
0:33:19 > 0:33:23He then continued stabbing her with a number of actions through
0:33:23 > 0:33:26her face, she had a number of stab wounds in her face and,
0:33:26 > 0:33:28as I say, she went down to the ground very, very quickly
0:33:28 > 0:33:32and then he continued a ferocious attack on her
0:33:32 > 0:33:36which resulted in 17 stab wounds to her abdomen, her neck and her face.
0:33:38 > 0:33:43The evidence gathered. Trial proceedings against Crispin began.
0:33:45 > 0:33:48Then other sensational facts emerged.
0:33:48 > 0:33:50He had an accomplice.
0:33:50 > 0:33:54Marion Hinshelwood used to work with him at the restaurant
0:33:54 > 0:33:57and she made the original 999 call.
0:33:59 > 0:34:03When Marion Hinshelwood dialled 999 after finding Eleni's body
0:34:03 > 0:34:07she was so hysterical that she could hardly tell the operator her name.
0:34:07 > 0:34:09But the cleaner already knew what she'd
0:34:09 > 0:34:12find inside before she opened these shutters.
0:34:12 > 0:34:15Her boyfriend, Juan Crispin, had told her what he'd done
0:34:15 > 0:34:17and she'd supplied him with the knife.
0:34:18 > 0:34:22The investigation team visited Marion Hinshelwood's flat.
0:34:22 > 0:34:26There they found a blood smear on the door entry buzzer
0:34:26 > 0:34:28and spots of blood inside the house.
0:34:30 > 0:34:34Quickly information about the murder weapon emerged.
0:34:34 > 0:34:36The knife was purchased by Marion Hinshelwood
0:34:36 > 0:34:39a number of days before the murder, and during the examination
0:34:39 > 0:34:45of the scene in a pool of blood we found part of a handle of the knife.
0:34:45 > 0:34:50Now it looked as though it was a 10p piece-sized part
0:34:50 > 0:34:54of the knife that would have broken off due to the force being used.
0:34:54 > 0:34:58The control sample that we bought from the shop in which
0:34:58 > 0:35:01Marion Hinshelwood had purchased the knife, it was a substantial
0:35:01 > 0:35:06knife and it would have taken a lot of force, a lot of force,
0:35:06 > 0:35:08to cause that to have broken the way it had.
0:35:08 > 0:35:11So it just gave an indication of the amount of force that was
0:35:11 > 0:35:15used by Crispin when he murdered Eleni.
0:35:16 > 0:35:19Juan Carlos Crispin was already in a relationship with
0:35:19 > 0:35:23Marion Hinshelwood, but when the case went to court
0:35:23 > 0:35:28she turned against him and gave evidence for the prosecution.
0:35:28 > 0:35:30She pleaded guilty to culpable homicide
0:35:30 > 0:35:34but ironically this decision shifted the spotlight on to her.
0:35:34 > 0:35:38The defence lawyer questioned whether this was a crime that fitted
0:35:38 > 0:35:41with a robbery or with someone who'd been jilted by their lover.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43He put it to the jury,
0:35:43 > 0:35:46"Just think about the injuries that this girl suffered.
0:35:46 > 0:35:49"Why would a person who was in this for a robbery need to stab
0:35:49 > 0:35:51"someone 17 times?"
0:35:51 > 0:35:54But what shifted the spotlight back onto Crispin
0:35:54 > 0:35:57was his single big mistake.
0:35:59 > 0:36:02Crispin was so caught up in the ferocity of the attack that he
0:36:02 > 0:36:05cut open his own hand.
0:36:05 > 0:36:07This injury was ultimately his undoing.
0:36:07 > 0:36:10His blood was found all over the inside of the restaurant,
0:36:10 > 0:36:14on the floor, on the banister, on the safe.
0:36:14 > 0:36:17In a murder trial the presence of DNA does not in itself
0:36:17 > 0:36:19guarantee a conviction.
0:36:19 > 0:36:22But, in Crispin's case, forensic evidence against him
0:36:22 > 0:36:27was so overwhelming it gave the prosecution a huge advantage.
0:36:27 > 0:36:31Mr McConnachie said the case against Crispin was circumstantial
0:36:31 > 0:36:34but compared the evidence to a jigsaw, with enough pieces that
0:36:34 > 0:36:37when put together pointed to his guilt.
0:36:37 > 0:36:41I'm sure that we would have eventually arrested him
0:36:41 > 0:36:44in relation to the murder of Eleni.
0:36:44 > 0:36:49However, I think with the forensic work done by Pauline
0:36:49 > 0:36:53and the rest of the team it let us focus on him very, very quickly
0:36:53 > 0:36:56and it did cut down the enquiry by probably a number of weeks.
0:36:58 > 0:37:01Marion Hinshelwood pled guilty to culpable homicide
0:37:01 > 0:37:03and got four and a half years.
0:37:03 > 0:37:07Juan Carlos Crispin was sentenced to a minimum of 22 years in jail.
0:37:08 > 0:37:13The judge, Lord Turnbull, told him, "What you did defies belief.
0:37:13 > 0:37:16"You took her life in a torrent of blows."
0:37:16 > 0:37:19I saw him getting found guilty and I also saw the judge sentencing him.
0:37:19 > 0:37:21I thought justice was done.
0:37:21 > 0:37:24Whether justice was done in relation to Marion Hinshelwood's sentence,
0:37:24 > 0:37:25that's probably debatable.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29Eleni's father had come over from Greece
0:37:29 > 0:37:33and it was good to have it all concluded for his sake.
0:37:52 > 0:37:54She was a young woman, very full of life
0:37:54 > 0:37:56and with a good career ahead of her.
0:37:58 > 0:38:02The whole scenario was just very sad.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05And again you've got to remember this was for money.
0:38:05 > 0:38:06Purely for money.
0:38:06 > 0:38:09There was no other motive for this murder.
0:38:16 > 0:38:20It was almost two months since Moira Jones had been murdered.
0:38:20 > 0:38:25The manhunt for her suspected killer, Slovakian Marek Harcar,
0:38:25 > 0:38:31spread to Eastern Europe as forensic evidence mounted against him.
0:38:31 > 0:38:34So everything was pointing in the right direction.
0:38:34 > 0:38:37We had the DNA matches, we had images,
0:38:37 > 0:38:40so we began to build a profile on Marek Harcar.
0:38:40 > 0:38:42And he did have a record in Slovakia
0:38:42 > 0:38:44but we wouldn't know that at the time.
0:38:44 > 0:38:46So we started to go through international liaison.
0:38:46 > 0:38:48Where is he now? Is he still in Slovakia?
0:38:48 > 0:38:51Has he moved somewhere else? Has he joined another European country?
0:38:51 > 0:38:52Will he do it again?
0:38:52 > 0:38:55It took challenging international negotiations and political skill
0:38:55 > 0:38:59to bring Harcar back once police knew exactly where he was.
0:38:59 > 0:39:01We traced him.
0:39:01 > 0:39:04We did phone analysis, credit card, bank card analysis.
0:39:04 > 0:39:07And we realised he'd flew into the Czech Republic,
0:39:07 > 0:39:10crossed the border, he had spent some time in the north
0:39:10 > 0:39:13of the country and was now back in the south of the country.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16So we knew that and we passed that information on to the Slovaks.
0:39:16 > 0:39:19But we didn't know what they were doing and they never told us
0:39:19 > 0:39:20what they were doing.
0:39:20 > 0:39:22But we just told them "This is a murder suspect.
0:39:22 > 0:39:25"We'll give you the intelligence package the way you want it.
0:39:25 > 0:39:28"We'll confirm why we think it's Marek Harcar."
0:39:28 > 0:39:32Harcar probably felt safe in his home village of Nalepkovo, Slovakia.
0:39:33 > 0:39:36But Strathclyde police were there waiting for him
0:39:36 > 0:39:38with an international arrest warrant.
0:39:38 > 0:39:41As soon as we got that European arrest warrant, that spadework
0:39:41 > 0:39:44that we carried out in advance of it paid dividends
0:39:44 > 0:39:47because as soon as that warrant came through - and this it true -
0:39:47 > 0:39:51our investigators were over there. We said that's the warrant live,
0:39:51 > 0:39:54it came through there and it was about 40 minutes later
0:39:54 > 0:39:57our investigators are leaving the building saying "This'll take days."
0:39:57 > 0:40:00And a guy on a moped pulled up and that's him arrested.
0:40:00 > 0:40:03And they couldn't believe it. They phoned, "That's him arrested."
0:40:03 > 0:40:05I went, "I've only just sent the warrant."
0:40:05 > 0:40:09Harcar was drunk and didn't put up a fight.
0:40:09 > 0:40:12Inside the house he rented from a friend, Strathclyde detectives
0:40:12 > 0:40:16uncovered a mountain of evidence, even on Harcar himself.
0:40:16 > 0:40:20He was arrested wearing the jacket he'd murdered her in
0:40:20 > 0:40:22and inside his jacket there was like blood-staining where he'd
0:40:22 > 0:40:25been battering her to death up his arms.
0:40:25 > 0:40:28So there's forensic recovery from that as well.
0:40:28 > 0:40:32He had kept property stolen from Moira, vital evidence that
0:40:32 > 0:40:35could have vanished under the Slovakian legal system.
0:40:35 > 0:40:38And their prison service allows him to keep the property!
0:40:38 > 0:40:42So we had to do a kind of quick search of his person to get
0:40:42 > 0:40:44evidence off him and deal with it that way.
0:40:44 > 0:40:47And then we have to get him on an aeroplane from Slovakia
0:40:47 > 0:40:49back into Britain securely.
0:40:49 > 0:40:52He landed in Glasgow about seven o'clock in the morning
0:40:52 > 0:40:56and we had to turn around his DNA reference sample, which was
0:40:56 > 0:40:59a swab taken from his mouth, for his court appearance at
0:40:59 > 0:41:03two o'clock in the afternoon, which we did, and that meant we could go to
0:41:03 > 0:41:07court and basically say this semen and the DNA recovered from Moira's
0:41:07 > 0:41:10body matched Marek Harcar and that was enough to keep him in custody.
0:41:10 > 0:41:15Finding the final piece of a scientific jigsaw is one thing
0:41:15 > 0:41:20but explaining the whole complex picture to a jury is challenging.
0:41:20 > 0:41:23For me, I know DNA, I know how to prove it.
0:41:23 > 0:41:25But I'm an investigator.
0:41:25 > 0:41:27How do you prove that to a jury?
0:41:27 > 0:41:28And I know the work Carol carried out with
0:41:28 > 0:41:32the Crown on the prosecution about how to explain the DNA evidence
0:41:32 > 0:41:35was really important because you're talking to a jury and the jury
0:41:35 > 0:41:36must understand...
0:41:36 > 0:41:39How do you say this colloquially, "Do you get this?
0:41:39 > 0:41:42"This is billions to one. It's got to be him."
0:41:42 > 0:41:46You're able to take into consideration certain circumstances
0:41:46 > 0:41:52and actually interpret the profile by splitting the profile apart.
0:41:52 > 0:41:57The pink peaks here are Moira Jones' DNA types
0:41:57 > 0:42:01and the blue peaks here are Marek Harcar's DNA types.
0:42:01 > 0:42:04In the old days of DNA you needed a bucket of blood, you know,
0:42:04 > 0:42:07and it was one in a hundred. To the modern days it's a billion to one.
0:42:07 > 0:42:10DNA is a fabulous, a fabulous investigatory tool.
0:42:10 > 0:42:12Alone it can't prove cases.
0:42:12 > 0:42:15You need other evidence to back up that.
0:42:15 > 0:42:17Fingerprints still remains a fabulous tool.
0:42:17 > 0:42:19You know, CCTV analysis
0:42:19 > 0:42:23and forensic aspects to that remains a fabulous tool.
0:42:28 > 0:42:30Vision is greater than the word.
0:42:30 > 0:42:34If the public sees somebody doing something they go, "You're guilty."
0:42:34 > 0:42:39CCTV played an invaluable role in the case against Harcar.
0:42:39 > 0:42:43The footage revealed his movements and helped recover personal
0:42:43 > 0:42:47belongings stolen from Moira that were of forensic importance.
0:42:47 > 0:42:49But Harcar was pleading not guilty.
0:42:52 > 0:42:55Everything else was beginning to pile up against Marek Harcar.
0:42:55 > 0:42:57DNA evidence, witness statements,
0:42:57 > 0:43:00his conduct before and after fleeing the scene, the buttons
0:43:00 > 0:43:04and the force used and the power of him, his jacket, the blood
0:43:04 > 0:43:07on the inside of it, having a camera belonging to Moira on his person.
0:43:07 > 0:43:09All these things were piling up.
0:43:09 > 0:43:12During the trial, Marek Harcar's arrogance
0:43:12 > 0:43:16and general behaviour astonished police and forensic witnesses.
0:43:18 > 0:43:21He did very little to try and cover up his crime, and while I was
0:43:21 > 0:43:26giving evidence he was laughing, he was speaking through my evidence.
0:43:26 > 0:43:27He sat smirking in the dock.
0:43:27 > 0:43:30There were headphones provided for him to allow proceedings to be
0:43:30 > 0:43:33translated into Slovakian. Sometimes he would throw them off.
0:43:33 > 0:43:35Sometimes he just wouldn't wear them.
0:43:35 > 0:43:39And it had to get to the point where the judge had to ask his solicitor
0:43:39 > 0:43:43to basically get him to be quiet because he was being so disruptive.
0:43:43 > 0:43:46A couple of days were lost in court for a medical reason.
0:43:46 > 0:43:48I can tell you tonight the medical reason was simply this,
0:43:48 > 0:43:51that Marek Harcar was not allowed to smoke in court.
0:43:53 > 0:43:58The graphic crime scene photographs also became an issue with Carmel.
0:43:58 > 0:44:01I kind of felt quite strongly that I didn't think he should see those.
0:44:01 > 0:44:04But I just don't think anyone who commits that sort of crime
0:44:04 > 0:44:06has the right to see what they've done to the person
0:44:06 > 0:44:09because they must have got some satisfaction out of it
0:44:09 > 0:44:12in doing it in the first place and he's obviously a particularly
0:44:12 > 0:44:15violent man and he'd been violent to other women in the past.
0:44:15 > 0:44:20So, I think, you just...you didn't want him to see those photos.
0:44:20 > 0:44:24And more importantly, the judge didn't want Harcar to see
0:44:24 > 0:44:27the photographs, avoiding more torment for Moira's family.
0:44:27 > 0:44:32I knew Moira's family were listening to my evidence and it's...
0:44:34 > 0:44:38..it's hard knowing that they're listening to you explaining
0:44:38 > 0:44:41how their daughter's clothing's been ripped off.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43You're holding up ripped clothing for the jury to see.
0:44:43 > 0:44:48You're talking about someone effectively raping their daughter
0:44:48 > 0:44:53and it's very hard to know that they have to listen to that.
0:44:53 > 0:44:57Yeah, very, very...a lot of pressure on you to do it respectfully.
0:44:57 > 0:44:59You want them to know that although you're doing a job
0:44:59 > 0:45:03and that you're speaking as a scientist, you're empathising
0:45:03 > 0:45:07with them and it's not just clinical and scientific.
0:45:07 > 0:45:11Moira's parents came up, naturally, for it and I spoke to them
0:45:11 > 0:45:13on a number of occasions to break some bad news to them
0:45:13 > 0:45:16regarding Moira's death and what happened to her - you've got
0:45:16 > 0:45:19to be very honest with the parents - right through to we realised we'd
0:45:19 > 0:45:21got a suspect and phoned them to say we've got a suspect.
0:45:21 > 0:45:25And I remember phoning the parents to say we've got him, you know, and
0:45:25 > 0:45:28that's a lovely phone call to make, we've got the person responsible.
0:45:28 > 0:45:31It doesn't bring their daughter back. You never forget that.
0:45:31 > 0:45:34But they wanted some kind of closure.
0:45:36 > 0:45:39Our precious girl had her life stolen from her
0:45:39 > 0:45:45in the most savage way by an evil, depraved monster.
0:45:45 > 0:45:49A monster without the guts to confess
0:45:49 > 0:45:52and who prolonged the agony of the trial.
0:45:52 > 0:45:55I'll never forget watching that after the trial
0:45:55 > 0:45:58and saying, well, that's what it was for,
0:45:58 > 0:46:00to bring some kind of closure, to say "Your daughter shouldn't have
0:46:00 > 0:46:04"died but the person that killed her will never be free to do it again."
0:46:04 > 0:46:06I think one of the lasting impressions is
0:46:06 > 0:46:09I met Moira's parents.
0:46:09 > 0:46:13They set up a charity in Moira's name to help relatives
0:46:13 > 0:46:16of murder victims.
0:46:16 > 0:46:19They wanted to thank us for the work that we did, which...
0:46:20 > 0:46:25..I found unbelievably humbling that they felt the need to do that.
0:46:26 > 0:46:30I just found them incredibly strong people and I just wanted to
0:46:30 > 0:46:34reassure them that at every stage Moira had been treated with respect
0:46:34 > 0:46:39and with dignity and we'd done our absolute best, and also we hoped that
0:46:39 > 0:46:43they could find some sort of peace and some sort of closure from that.
0:46:46 > 0:46:47Moira...
0:46:48 > 0:46:52..darling, darling Moira, we were so proud of you.
0:46:52 > 0:46:56We will always be so proud of you
0:46:56 > 0:46:58and we will do the best we can
0:46:58 > 0:47:02with our lives to make them worthy of you.
0:47:04 > 0:47:06You will live with us for ever.
0:47:08 > 0:47:09Thank you.
0:47:14 > 0:47:17MOTHER: He had 13 previous offences,
0:47:17 > 0:47:19at least four of which were for violence.
0:47:21 > 0:47:24And I thought, someone's made a terrible mistake.
0:47:25 > 0:47:31I don't believe there's anyone in this country who would say
0:47:31 > 0:47:35"Yes, let violent criminals in."
0:47:35 > 0:47:36It's as simple as that.
0:47:37 > 0:47:42I can't think of anyone, whatever political persuasion, who would say,
0:47:42 > 0:47:46"But we're for this, we want these people to be allowed to come in."
0:47:46 > 0:47:49Come on. We've got enough baddies of our own.
0:47:52 > 0:47:53It's as simple as that.
0:47:55 > 0:47:59If this happens again to another family, I said,
0:47:59 > 0:48:03and I meant it, "I think that will finish me off.
0:48:03 > 0:48:05"I don't think I'll be able to go on."
0:48:05 > 0:48:07I still feel that.
0:48:08 > 0:48:13I'd like a law so that this doesn't happen to some other...
0:48:15 > 0:48:18..absolutely blameless, wonderful young lady.
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