Episode 2 Crime Scenes Scotland: Forensics Squad

But of course, it wasn't a profile that matched Peter Tobin.

This week, the forensic teams investigate the cases

of two young women,

brutally murdered in Glasgow in one weekend

just a few miles apart.

I believe, in Scotland, we've been able to deliver a unique service.

To identify suspects is one thing,

and then to prove people are guilty of a crime

is something completely different.

Although you see a lot of dead people,

you treat everyone as an individual and with respect and with humanity.

Forensic scientists - they are silent witnesses

and they are the eyes and ears of law enforcement.

A young professional woman. A lot to live for.

Brutally battered to death.

This is probably one of the most pre-meditated murders

I've ever encountered.

We're into double figures of murders in a month

and everyone is picking up murders and working on murders.

But first, we return to a previous case.

I suspected, by the modus operandi with Angelika Kluk,

that he'd committed other crimes.

Security officers handle criminals and murderers daily,

but they struggled to restrain contempt

toward the man facing charges

for the rape and murder of Angelika Kluk

in September 2006.

The body of the 23-year-old Polish student

had been found wrapped in bin bags and dumped under the floorboards

of a Glasgow church.

But as the trial progressed,

even more chilling discoveries were made.

It's the one and only time

when the hairs have actually stood up on the back of my neck

when I received a telephone call

from the Head of CID in Lothian and Borders Police

to tell me that they had just discovered

that Peter Tobin was living in Bathgate

at the time of Vicky Hamilton's disappearance.

The missing 15-year-old was last seen in Bathgate town centre.

When police discovered Tobin's connection to the town,

their investigation grew.

Veteran David Swindle,

senior investigating officer on the Kluk case,

already had his suspicions.

At the same time, I set up Operation Anagram,

because I suspected that Peter Tobin had committed other crimes.

The conviction for the murder of Angelika Kluk

was a significant milestone to the next stages

of finding out what Tobin had done.

Tobin's former home in Bathgate became a crime scene.

The occupants rehoused to allow a search.

Serial killers keep trophies.

In the loft, a dagger was found hidden behind a joist.

Forensics found a tiny slither of flesh on the blade

and Tobin was questioned.

As I say I've never met her.

You know what I mean? I've never, ever.

The challenge of matching someone as young as Vicky

with the DNA from the flesh on the knife was impossible,

even for forensics.

But then a sharp investigator made a major breakthrough.

Babies born in Scotland from 1962

have a screening test called the Guthrie sample.

A pin prick of blood is taken from their heel.

Vicky had had that test and the vital DNA match was made.

It was a fantastic piece of detective work

and forensic science and that was a huge breakthrough

because then, the police really knew that they were getting close.

Then another cold case involving a missing person

came to the attention of Operation Anagram.

Dinah McNicol innocently hitched a lift

on the way home from a music festival also in 1991.

Subsequently, an Essex police analyst

discovered unusual withdrawals from her bank account in Margate.

Living there at the time - Peter Tobin.

That prompted police to issue a search warrant.

On the 14th of November 2007,

the first gruesome discovery was made.

Brazenly, Tobin had buried Vicky Hamilton's body

in his garden at Irvine Drive, Margate.

It was important that we had proper communication

and a single point of contact for forensic issues.

And the single point of contact for SPSA was Carol Weston.

When Peter Tobin was convicted,

initially, we looked at all his items of property

and we obtained some DNA profiles which I held

and ultimately loaded onto a database for missing persons

which collates all the genetic information

about people who are missing.

Then as the forces started looking into their missing persons,

any DNA profiles they had of interest,

they could send to me.

Some aspects of the case were familiar

to investigators on the Kluk murder.

So she was wrapped in five bin bags, very much like a Chinese doll

and some fantastic work done by fingerprint officers

of Lothian and Borders police, who were able to identify

from bin bags which had been in the ground for many years

four fingerprints which matched that of Peter Tobin.

Two days later,

the skeleton of Dinah McNicol was uncovered,

buried in the same shallow grave.

Both bodies had to be formally identified through dental records.

The forensic investigation began

and toxicologists made a vital discovery.

In the cases of Dinah McNicol and Vicky Hamilton,

we received samples from which we were able

to detect the presence of a drug called amitriptyline.

Amitriptyline is a central nervous system depressant.

It's used for depression and for treating neuropathic pain.

One of the side effects of amitriptyline

is its sedative effect.

Obviously, a decomposing body over that period of time,

you'd expect very little of the blood or the tissues left

and we're reliant on those blood samples and tissue samples

in order to extract the drugs.

However, in both cases, we were able to recover material

that hadn't fully decomposed and from that, fortunately,

we were able to detect the drug amitriptyline in them.

The forensic team began to re-examine preserved evidence.

Vicky's purse, which had been discarded by Tobin

and found in the centre of Edinburgh,

had been held for 16 years.

We knew it was her purse because her bank cards were in it,

there was some stuff that had been given by her sister.

It could all be identified.

So we knew it was Vicky Hamilton's purse.

The scientist managed to get the profile from the metal clasp.

But of course, it wasn't a profile that matched Peter Tobin.

But Tobin had two sons.

The younger of the two was staying with his father

when Vicky Hamilton disappeared.

They contacted Peter Tobin's son and got the sample of blood

and obtained a profile from it

and it matched the profile, the DNA profile,

from the metal clasp of Vicky Hamilton's purse.

And the scientists were able to say that, in their opinion,

the DNA profile came from saliva

and were able to say that that was consistent

with Vicky Hamilton's purse having been given to the wee boy

and he'd put it in his mouth, as youngsters sometimes do.

Tobin's fate had been sealed

and forensic staff began preparations

for his second and third murder trials.

The multi-media unit created graphics

to show the positions of the two bodies

buried in Tobin's garden

and also to sanitise grisly images for the jury.

At Vicky Hamilton's trial,

the DNA linked to her purse,

the breakthrough with the Guthrie sample

and fingerprints on the body wrapping

resulted in a second guilty verdict.

Tonight, Peter Tobin is beginning a life sentence.

He'll serve at least 30 years.

It's very likely Peter Tobin will die in jail.

The third guilty verdict was even more significant.

It's very easy for people to speculate

and say that Tobin has done 20 murders, 40 murders, 100 murders.

We know he's done three.

He's a serial killer.

Queen's Park, on the south side of Glasgow,

is popular with the local community.

Early that summer morning,

news began to spread

that a local woman had been found brutally murdered.

I was told there was a body been found in the park.

At that point, I don't think they were sure

if it was male or female.

They just knew there was a body and that the body was partially clothed.

It was an absolutely brutal murder. A very sad case.

A young professional woman. A lot to live for.

Just going home after a night out with her partner.

Brutally battered to death.

A massive investigation immediately swung into action.

The man in charge was Derek Robertson.

The initial aspects are we must lock down the crime scene -

preserve all the evidence we can.

So I had to make sure we had relied and trusted people in Queen's Park

to guard the body and preserve any evidence that was there.

And lock down any witnesses in the vicinity.

And look for potential suspects

that could still be in the area.

The crime scene at Queen's Park was 148 acres -

one of the biggest ever in Scotland.

But Derek Robertson was used to large-scale police investigations.

My policy decisions were shut the park gates.

If anybody's in the park, record their details

and make sure there's nothing suspicious about them.

The perimeter of the park,

I want all car registration numbers taken.

I want a crime scene manager

who is a specialist-trained CID officer at the locus,

right where the body is,

to set parameters on guarding the body,

barrier tapes, sufficient number of officers to guard it,

photographers, forensic support...

It's like getting the specialists moving.

So we went in the first cordon,

walked along this path towards a grassy area.

One side of the grassy area, there was a small privet hedge

and Moira's body was actually behind the hedge.

So it wasn't apparent until you got close to the body

and looked over the hedge

that you could see her lying there, and she was lying face down.

Our first job would be to photograph that, video it.

It was fairly new at that time,

to do the 360 panoramas of the scene.

Working outside is challenging enough for forensics

without unwanted attention from the media

who even chartered helicopters.

A tent was erected to hide the body

and protect evidence from prying eyes and telescopic lenses,

allowing forensics to do their work.

Before we actually go anywhere near the body,

the first thing you want to do is to recover any evidence

away from the body.

Ideally, you want to establish

how the person has approached the body and left the body,

because they're going to have left some sort of trace.

We didn't know if Moira had been dragged through the hedge

or thrown over the hedge.

We didn't know if the person had gone into the hedged area.

So the first thing we did was to search the hedge thoroughly.

Because the vegetation's quite jaggy and rough,

there's a chance people would catch their clothing on it,

catch their hair on it, even cut themselves.

So we wanted to recover any trace evidence first

before it was disturbed.

Because it was a recent body

that hadn't been outside for very long,

I felt very strongly there would be a real high expectation

of recovering DNA at least - foreign DNA - from the body.

So I wanted to make sure that we recovered what we could first

and then any other experts could work around that.

She was partially clothed.

She had on no lower clothing apart from a pair of socks.

She was face down and her upper clothing,

although it was on, was all disturbed.

And when we looked more closely at Moira,

it was apparent her upper clothing was actually quite badly torn and damaged.

So as soon as I saw Moira's body in situ, saw the clothing torn off,

I was pretty convinced it was going to be a sexually motivated murder.

We couldn't see any obvious injuries

until we actually got up close to Moira

and then we could see that there was blood in her hair.

So it appeared from that point that there was a head injury.

The pathologist doesn't want to disturb the body

until all the DNA evidence has been removed.

So with Moira, we recovered all our samples

as she lay in situ, face down.

We then turned her over, putting her into a clean body bag.

She had sustained really very severe

and extensive bruising to her face, her neck.

There was nothing to indicate that any weapon had been used.

Rather it was the type of bruising that you see

when someone's been hit with fists, punches or kicks.

She also had bruising on the backs of her arms and hands.

Now, bruising in that area is typically sustained

when someone tries to defend themselves against an assault.

We call it defensive injuries.

So that enables us to say that, you know,

at some point in the attack, she was able to defend herself.

There was signs of blood on the leaves

that had been diluted by the rain

so the pattern of any blood had obviously been altered.

So although we couldn't rule out she'd been assaulted there,

we also couldn't say categorically that she had.

Now, what we didn't want is -

looking in hindsight three months down the line -

"Oh, I met Moira, we had sex,

"I left her in the park and someone else must've killed her."

That's an easy get-out.

So we tried to work round about "How do we disprove that?"

We taped the damage to her clothing in situ.

We swabbed her exposed parts of skin.

We also noted white fluid on her pubic hair

which turned out to be seminal fluid.

We made a decision very early on that Moira was not to be moved,

her body was to stay in situ

and the pathologist removed the semen in situ.

The semen was deposited in Moira - she never got back up.

So the presumption is,

because she was lying horizontally on the ground and had been killed

and the semen was deposited that way,

she never got back to her feet again.

So the person who carried out the indecent act murdered her.

Carol spent the whole day in the park, collecting evidence.

Now she had all she needed

and could secure DNA profiles the next day.

But crucially,

she still needed samples from Moira's killer to get a match.

We knew that she'd left her boyfriend to go home

and she never made it.

But we found her car.

So what happened between Moira parking her car

and not making her flat?

Only yards from Moira's flat,

police picked up a scattered trail of vital evidence.

She's parked the car,

she's been walking back to her flat and something's happened here.

Some struggle has taken place which has disrupted her bag,

toiletries have fell out.

So it opens up another area of house-to-house enquiry,

CCTV enquiry.

You're constantly growing all the time

and moving the parameters with fresh information.

Fresh information did surface near Moira's flat.

It was harrowing, but vital...

..and from an unlikely source.

There's a bus route goes by there,

so we have to get the CCTV off the buses

and we did yield information

of a shape of a large male with a woman.

It looks like he was grabbing her and taking her across

at the material time we thought she was taken.

So we begin to piece the jigsaw together with these finds

to say, "Parked car there, got attacked there,

"must have crossed the road, because she's ended in the park,

"caught on CCTV by a bus passing by there..."

We go into the park,

then we realise that a witness had come forward to say,

"I saw something strange in a big giant holly bush

"next to the tennis courts. I just wasn't happy with it."

We do a forensic search of that and we find blouse buttons -

six blouse buttons, identical to Moira's blouse,

which had no buttons.

They'd been tore off. They'd not been cut off,

because of the way the threads had been ruptured.

And they look at her blouse and they say

"There's been real force used here."

That really helps you to get a picture of what's gone on.

She had a shoe missing. Where was her shoe?

How did he get her into the middle of Queen's Park,

which is a fair distance from where she was taken?

How did he control that person

and get her way into the centre of the park into the pitch black?

She's a slight young woman.

Somebody's got control of her, stunned her, done something to her

and then has bodily took her, carried her or dragged her

all the way into that park.

It's a powerful-looking person we're looking for.

Is it somebody that knew her?

Is it just a freak circumstance - wrong place, wrong time?

Is it a stalker? An ex-boyfriend?

Somebody fixated with her? A chance meeting?

We don't know.

Sadly, Moira's journey ended in the heart of the park.

Her killer left her lying there

and walked in the opposite direction.

But he left a trail of scattered belongings stolen from Moira

and police traced his exit route.

We know the attacker stayed for a bit of time

because he searched through all her property,

looked at everything there is, took property off her,

including Moira's mobile phones.

Whether they were taken off her to steal it

or so that she can't call for assistance,

if they think she's still alive,

but they took her means of communication away.

We begin to get a picture of somebody coming in

one way into a park, murdering Moira

and then coming back out another direction from the park.

So your whole enquiry's beginning to move direction

and you begin to build a timeline picture.

Who's leaving that park after midnight?

CCTV cameras on a church opposite the exit

captured a ghostly image leaving the park

at 2:17 in the morning.

Only seconds later, he was picked up from another camera,

based at a nearby hotel -

and it showed images of crucial interest to the case.

One of the images, you saw a large man, well-built,

he walked kind of casually in a particular way.

And in the right hand,

you could see a square, black rectangular object

and Moira's laptop had been taken from her.

So we started following a CCTV pattern.

Where's he going?

We pick him up again round the corner,

walking by a bus stop.

No laptop this time.

So between the first sighting coming out the park

and the second sighting a few minutes later,

he's obviously put the laptop somewhere.

Plus there's a number of frames on CCTV

that you see him walking by the bus stop,

lifting his hand and looking at it and putting it down.

He's obviously checking his hand. He's hurt himself doing it.

He's got rid of the laptop, he's stole some stuff, but where's he going?

We've got an image of somebody we want to find.

We don't know who it is.

Moira Jones's murder came during a month

when there was an abnormally high level of violent crime in Glasgow.

Police and forensics were stretched to bursting point.

Then it got even worse.

Early in the morning,

two days after Moira Jones was murdered,

a dramatic 999 call was made.

OPERATOR: I can't make out what you're saying.

What's your name, ma'am?

Marion, what's your surname?

OPERATOR: What's the problem there? MALE CALLER: Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

What's the problem? You need to speak to me.

I've got...I think I've got a dead body here.

A lane in Glasgow's West End,

full of restaurants and artisan boutiques,

became a major crime scene.

Almost 200 police officers are now involved

in two separate murder enquiries in Glasgow.

Moira Jones was found in Queen's Park on Thursday

and Eleni Pachou was found stabbed to death in a restaurant on Friday.

25-year-old Eleni, from Athens in Greece,

came to Glasgow to begin a new life after her mother died.

She got a job as assistant manageress

at a popular West End pizzeria.

Michael Young was one of the first from the forensic team

to arrive at the murder scene.

As soon as we went in,

there was a large stairwell

which takes you up to the seating area of the restaurant.

You go into the restaurant - your left,

that's the restaurant area

and then a bar, and behind the bar is a staff area.

Near the safe area was the remains of Eleni.

She was lying there, a large pool of blood by her side.

In this case, the girl's clothing was all firmly in place

and we didn't think at the outset that it was a sexual assault.

But it was a gruesome sight that met Crime Scene Manager, Sandy McLean.

A motive had to be established.

Was it a murder? Was it a robbery gone wrong?

Was it a murder that was made to look like a robbery?

It was clear that robbery was involved.

There were two safes on the premises.

In the mezzanine area,

above the location where the body still lay,

one of them was wide open.

The other safe wasn't.

In fact, they'd tried to use that much force to get into that safe

that they broke the handle on it.

The downstairs safe was covered in blood smears

and a possible scenario began to emerge.

We also noted that because the premises were very small,

everywhere you went,

you would be able to see Eleni's body.

So clearly the perpetrator had killed the girl

and then gone about raiding the premises

and stepped over her.

He'd have looked down on the body from the upstairs safe.

There was no getting away from the fact that there was a body there

and he systematically must have worked his way round this body,

to carry out the robbery.

The killer wore gloves to hide his prints.

Smears of blood from gloved hands

were found on the upstairs banister.

But he made one serious mistake.

There were blood spots coming down both sides of the stairs

and the forensic specialists were able to tell us that most probably,

the person who'd committed the murder had injured himself.

The dropped spots of blood finished at the exit to the restaurant.

They couldn't have been Eleni's blood spots

because she hadn't left the area.

The actual scene for Eleni's murder, although it was the restaurant,

was a much bigger area round the restaurant

which had to be also classified as a crime scene,

because whoever murdered Eleni had to get in there

and back out again.

The size of the crime scene wasn't as daunting as Queen's Park,

but the challenge of eliminating hundreds of suspects was.

It took us about a week to fingerprint that restaurant.

In particular the stairwell, which was quite a big stairwell.

So if you can imagine the amount of potential fingerprints

you may have there, with members of the public coming in,

members of staff coming in.

There's no quick way of doing it

and you could find anything up to 300-400 fingerprints

and they all have to be recorded or lifted.

Now that in itself is a challenge because you've got people

who are obviously in that restaurant for meals,

you've got people who maybe work in the kitchen,

so they're innocently, but obviously,

leaving their fingerprints behind.

We had to look for that one gem,

for that one fingerprint that identified the murderer.

The sheer scale of the elimination process

was also a massive task for Pauline.

All of the DNA reference samples

from anyone who worked at that restaurant

and who may well be associated with that restaurant

were analysed for comparison purposes.

Blood stains around the body and on the banister

belonged to the victim and the killer.

But the blood found at the exit particularly interested Pauline.

The priority was to analyse the dropped spots of blood,

because it was apparent that this was a single source of blood

that may relate to the perpetrator.

So that sample was analysed very quickly.

Within the week, we had a match with a former colleague of Eleni's.

Juan Carlos Crispin.

Spanish-born Crispin was a former employee at the restaurant.

His identification was a massive breakthrough.

He was arrested within days.

But at Queen's Park, the team were still struggling

for their breakthrough.

The break came when we extended house-to-house.

We'd reviewed all the crimes

and a woman had been attacked some weeks previously.

Weekday. Late at night.

Male approached from behind, grabbed her,

tried to choke her, steal bag.

It was very similar. Unsolved.

So we took that enquiry - and it was a sexual crime as well -

we took that enquiry and we ran it as a parallel crime.

There might be a stalker round that area

and we were working on that theory.

Those seemingly related crimes,

carried out quite close to each other,

finally gave the police door-to-door enquiry team a breakthrough.

An address in Queen's Drive near the east end of the park.

There was a house there that had been converted to bedsits,

which wasn't recorded.

You had a house which you'd look at from outside

and think it was one house, but it was six bedsits within it.

And our house-to-house teams went down to the bedsits.

The door was opened by a young Czech student,

Lucie Pechtlova.

The police used their standard questionnaire,

designed to cover most enquiries.

You ask the right question, you get the right answer.

How long have you lived here? Anybody live with you?

Can you tell me who stays here?

Has anybody visited you recently? If so, who?

Did they have a car? Did they come with anybody?

Did they stay over? Did they stay elsewhere?

One of the questions, she said, "Yes.

"A friend stayed for a few days and left. He's away now."

They said, "When did he stay?"

And it was a couple of days before Moira was murdered

and he left the day after.

Good detectives at the time realised this is important.

This could be our ghost.

"Where is he now?" "Away back to Slovakia."

"What's his description?"

And then we realised from his description,

from the CCTV we've got...

And I went, "This is too good to be true."

You know what to do - bring her up here right now.

We need a translator. She could talk English,

but we need a translator to assist her.

Very quickly, 30 minutes into it,

we thought, "We're on to something here."

This looks really, really good. Slow it down. Take our time.

The person Lucie was clearly describing

was Slovakian national, Marek Harcar.

He's not on record in this country, not on a database in this country,

no fingerprints in this country.

So he came into the country earlier and worked in Liverpool

and he came in as a kind of cleaner and worker

and he worked a bit in Bolton.

But he became disaffected with his working life down there

and thought he'd make a brand-new start in Glasgow

and he knew Lucie cos she used to work in Liverpool

when she first came to the country.

But Lucie had made a life for herself in Glasgow.

So he came up to stay with her and she knew right away it was a mistake,

that he's changed, he was drinking heavily,

aggressive, violent, sexual.

And she just wanted rid of him.

And Lucie said for the period of time he stayed with her,

he never went out at night, ever.

He drank all the time, watched his DVDs.

The only one night he went out was the night Moira was killed.

Harcar had been drinking heavily that night.

According to Lucie,

he drank large quantities of vodka and lager...

..then said he was going to look for a prostitute.

And he never got back till 3:30 in the morning -

which puts him smack bang where we want him.

And what Lucie said was, "He's left half his stuff still in the flat.

"It's really annoying."

Including his mattress and things like that.

So we called up the forensic teams, shut the flat,

it became another crime scene and we meticulously went through all

the stuff that he'd left at this flat.

He'd bought a lot of porn tapes, porn DVDs

and she'd been away at work all day and he was a friend to her,

not a sexual friend, although he was trying it on, she was saying.

But he'd stay in her house and he'd bought all these porn tapes.

And we think very much meticulously, coldly, forensically in these

things and when he's got a duvet, he's got porn tapes,

there's every chance there's forensic material on this duvet.

So one of the scientists from the laboratory went out to this house

and recovered sheets and things that this male had used.

Carol analysed sperm samples lifted from Harcar's duvet and sent

it off, looking to match semen discovered at the murder scene.

And I remember the night concerned.

I was waiting for the match to come through to say absolutely,

millions to one, that's it, there is no mistakes, that's the person.

An SIO doesn't rest until you get that phone call.

And it was a Friday night

and I was sitting in the house with my wife with a bottle of wine

and you know they're running the profiles and you're waiting for it

and you're waiting for it and you're waiting for it, and it was

Carol Weston I was waiting for the call with, the forensic scientist.

She said she'd phone me at ten at night and ten o'clock passed.

And it came to 11 o'clock.

You're texting back and forward going, "Where's my result?"

I think I woke him up.

It was about 12, one in the morning and woke him up

and said, "Yeah, it matches your man and this is who you're looking for."

And I'll never forget the feeling of that's it, that's it closed,

dealt with.

And I can't say the words that he used but he was very, very pleased.

And I texted about six or seven people to say

that's the result out and they were all up waiting for it as well.

And maybe the public don't get that aspect of it - the humanistic aspect

of an investigator - surely you're cold and meticulous to deal with it.

You need to deal with the family empathetically, most definitely.

You deal with bodies... We talk about bodies

and murder victims - it's people and lives, don't get me wrong.

But forensic awareness and forensic recovery is the most

important thing to say that person should not have died.

And when you get that result, the euphoria at the end of all

these long hours and hard hours, to walk into your murder team

and say "That's it".

You feel the air change.

You know, and it's not like back- slapping self-congratulatory,

it's like it's been worth it, we've got there. And you feel good.

CCTV already showed Harcar fleeing the country.

What he didn't know was that forensic scientists now had

a positive DNA match linking him to Moira's murder.

But the killer had a two-week lead.

By now he could be anywhere in Europe.

In the Eleni Pachou case, forensics started to piece together

the jigsaw of events that led to the murder.

Part of a drinking straw had been found in one of her pockets.

This tested positive by a drugs analyst as cocaine.

A likely scenario began to emerge.

The plan was to supposedly supply Eleni with drugs and it

looked like Juan Carlos Crispin attended that night to do that.

He then placed drugs on to a meat slicer.

Eleni was going to snort that.

He then stabbed her in the back of the neck.

Just here. One perfect stab wound right through.

It went down into her throat.

He then continued stabbing her with a number of actions through

her face, she had a number of stab wounds in her face and,

as I say, she went down to the ground very, very quickly

and then he continued a ferocious attack on her

which resulted in 17 stab wounds to her abdomen, her neck and her face.

The evidence gathered. Trial proceedings against Crispin began.

Then other sensational facts emerged.

He had an accomplice.

Marion Hinshelwood used to work with him at the restaurant

and she made the original 999 call.

When Marion Hinshelwood dialled 999 after finding Eleni's body

she was so hysterical that she could hardly tell the operator her name.

But the cleaner already knew what she'd

find inside before she opened these shutters.

Her boyfriend, Juan Crispin, had told her what he'd done

and she'd supplied him with the knife.

The investigation team visited Marion Hinshelwood's flat.

There they found a blood smear on the door entry buzzer

and spots of blood inside the house.

Quickly information about the murder weapon emerged.

The knife was purchased by Marion Hinshelwood

a number of days before the murder, and during the examination

of the scene in a pool of blood we found part of a handle of the knife.

Now it looked as though it was a 10p piece-sized part

of the knife that would have broken off due to the force being used.

The control sample that we bought from the shop in which

Marion Hinshelwood had purchased the knife, it was a substantial

knife and it would have taken a lot of force, a lot of force,

to cause that to have broken the way it had.

So it just gave an indication of the amount of force that was

used by Crispin when he murdered Eleni.

Juan Carlos Crispin was already in a relationship with

Marion Hinshelwood, but when the case went to court

she turned against him and gave evidence for the prosecution.

She pleaded guilty to culpable homicide

but ironically this decision shifted the spotlight on to her.

The defence lawyer questioned whether this was a crime that fitted

with a robbery or with someone who'd been jilted by their lover.

He put it to the jury,

"Just think about the injuries that this girl suffered.

"Why would a person who was in this for a robbery need to stab

"someone 17 times?"

But what shifted the spotlight back onto Crispin

was his single big mistake.

Crispin was so caught up in the ferocity of the attack that he

cut open his own hand.

This injury was ultimately his undoing.

His blood was found all over the inside of the restaurant,

on the floor, on the banister, on the safe.

In a murder trial the presence of DNA does not in itself

guarantee a conviction.

But, in Crispin's case, forensic evidence against him

was so overwhelming it gave the prosecution a huge advantage.

Mr McConnachie said the case against Crispin was circumstantial

but compared the evidence to a jigsaw, with enough pieces that

when put together pointed to his guilt.

I'm sure that we would have eventually arrested him

in relation to the murder of Eleni.

However, I think with the forensic work done by Pauline

and the rest of the team it let us focus on him very, very quickly

and it did cut down the enquiry by probably a number of weeks.

Marion Hinshelwood pled guilty to culpable homicide

and got four and a half years.

Juan Carlos Crispin was sentenced to a minimum of 22 years in jail.

The judge, Lord Turnbull, told him, "What you did defies belief.

"You took her life in a torrent of blows."

I saw him getting found guilty and I also saw the judge sentencing him.

I thought justice was done.

Whether justice was done in relation to Marion Hinshelwood's sentence,

that's probably debatable.

Eleni's father had come over from Greece

and it was good to have it all concluded for his sake.

She was a young woman, very full of life

and with a good career ahead of her.

The whole scenario was just very sad.

And again you've got to remember this was for money.

Purely for money.

There was no other motive for this murder.

It was almost two months since Moira Jones had been murdered.

The manhunt for her suspected killer, Slovakian Marek Harcar,

spread to Eastern Europe as forensic evidence mounted against him.

So everything was pointing in the right direction.

We had the DNA matches, we had images,

so we began to build a profile on Marek Harcar.

And he did have a record in Slovakia

but we wouldn't know that at the time.

So we started to go through international liaison.

Where is he now? Is he still in Slovakia?

Has he moved somewhere else? Has he joined another European country?

Will he do it again?

It took challenging international negotiations and political skill

to bring Harcar back once police knew exactly where he was.

We traced him.

We did phone analysis, credit card, bank card analysis.

And we realised he'd flew into the Czech Republic,

crossed the border, he had spent some time in the north

of the country and was now back in the south of the country.

So we knew that and we passed that information on to the Slovaks.

But we didn't know what they were doing and they never told us

what they were doing.

But we just told them "This is a murder suspect.

"We'll give you the intelligence package the way you want it.

"We'll confirm why we think it's Marek Harcar."

Harcar probably felt safe in his home village of Nalepkovo, Slovakia.

But Strathclyde police were there waiting for him

with an international arrest warrant.

As soon as we got that European arrest warrant, that spadework

that we carried out in advance of it paid dividends

because as soon as that warrant came through - and this it true -

our investigators were over there. We said that's the warrant live,

it came through there and it was about 40 minutes later

our investigators are leaving the building saying "This'll take days."

And a guy on a moped pulled up and that's him arrested.

And they couldn't believe it. They phoned, "That's him arrested."

I went, "I've only just sent the warrant."

Harcar was drunk and didn't put up a fight.

Inside the house he rented from a friend, Strathclyde detectives

uncovered a mountain of evidence, even on Harcar himself.

He was arrested wearing the jacket he'd murdered her in

and inside his jacket there was like blood-staining where he'd

been battering her to death up his arms.

So there's forensic recovery from that as well.

He had kept property stolen from Moira, vital evidence that

could have vanished under the Slovakian legal system.

And their prison service allows him to keep the property!

So we had to do a kind of quick search of his person to get

evidence off him and deal with it that way.

And then we have to get him on an aeroplane from Slovakia

back into Britain securely.

He landed in Glasgow about seven o'clock in the morning

and we had to turn around his DNA reference sample, which was

a swab taken from his mouth, for his court appearance at

two o'clock in the afternoon, which we did, and that meant we could go to

court and basically say this semen and the DNA recovered from Moira's

body matched Marek Harcar and that was enough to keep him in custody.

Finding the final piece of a scientific jigsaw is one thing

but explaining the whole complex picture to a jury is challenging.

For me, I know DNA, I know how to prove it.

But I'm an investigator.

How do you prove that to a jury?

And I know the work Carol carried out with

the Crown on the prosecution about how to explain the DNA evidence

was really important because you're talking to a jury and the jury

must understand...

How do you say this colloquially, "Do you get this?

"This is billions to one. It's got to be him."

You're able to take into consideration certain circumstances

and actually interpret the profile by splitting the profile apart.

The pink peaks here are Moira Jones' DNA types

and the blue peaks here are Marek Harcar's DNA types.

In the old days of DNA you needed a bucket of blood, you know,

and it was one in a hundred. To the modern days it's a billion to one.

DNA is a fabulous, a fabulous investigatory tool.

Alone it can't prove cases.

You need other evidence to back up that.

Fingerprints still remains a fabulous tool.

You know, CCTV analysis

and forensic aspects to that remains a fabulous tool.

Vision is greater than the word.

If the public sees somebody doing something they go, "You're guilty."

CCTV played an invaluable role in the case against Harcar.

The footage revealed his movements and helped recover personal

belongings stolen from Moira that were of forensic importance.

But Harcar was pleading not guilty.

Everything else was beginning to pile up against Marek Harcar.

DNA evidence, witness statements,

his conduct before and after fleeing the scene, the buttons

and the force used and the power of him, his jacket, the blood

on the inside of it, having a camera belonging to Moira on his person.

All these things were piling up.

During the trial, Marek Harcar's arrogance

and general behaviour astonished police and forensic witnesses.

He did very little to try and cover up his crime, and while I was

giving evidence he was laughing, he was speaking through my evidence.

He sat smirking in the dock.

There were headphones provided for him to allow proceedings to be

translated into Slovakian. Sometimes he would throw them off.

Sometimes he just wouldn't wear them.

And it had to get to the point where the judge had to ask his solicitor

to basically get him to be quiet because he was being so disruptive.

A couple of days were lost in court for a medical reason.

I can tell you tonight the medical reason was simply this,

that Marek Harcar was not allowed to smoke in court.

The graphic crime scene photographs also became an issue with Carmel.

I kind of felt quite strongly that I didn't think he should see those.

But I just don't think anyone who commits that sort of crime

has the right to see what they've done to the person

because they must have got some satisfaction out of it

in doing it in the first place and he's obviously a particularly

violent man and he'd been violent to other women in the past.

So, I think, you just...you didn't want him to see those photos.

And more importantly, the judge didn't want Harcar to see

the photographs, avoiding more torment for Moira's family.

I knew Moira's family were listening to my evidence and it's...

..it's hard knowing that they're listening to you explaining

how their daughter's clothing's been ripped off.

You're holding up ripped clothing for the jury to see.

You're talking about someone effectively raping their daughter

and it's very hard to know that they have to listen to that.

Yeah, very, very...a lot of pressure on you to do it respectfully.

You want them to know that although you're doing a job

and that you're speaking as a scientist, you're empathising

with them and it's not just clinical and scientific.

Moira's parents came up, naturally, for it and I spoke to them

on a number of occasions to break some bad news to them

regarding Moira's death and what happened to her - you've got

to be very honest with the parents - right through to we realised we'd

got a suspect and phoned them to say we've got a suspect.

And I remember phoning the parents to say we've got him, you know, and

that's a lovely phone call to make, we've got the person responsible.

It doesn't bring their daughter back. You never forget that.

But they wanted some kind of closure.

Our precious girl had her life stolen from her

in the most savage way by an evil, depraved monster.

A monster without the guts to confess

and who prolonged the agony of the trial.

I'll never forget watching that after the trial

and saying, well, that's what it was for,

to bring some kind of closure, to say "Your daughter shouldn't have

"died but the person that killed her will never be free to do it again."

I think one of the lasting impressions is

I met Moira's parents.

They set up a charity in Moira's name to help relatives

of murder victims.

They wanted to thank us for the work that we did, which...

..I found unbelievably humbling that they felt the need to do that.

I just found them incredibly strong people and I just wanted to

reassure them that at every stage Moira had been treated with respect

and with dignity and we'd done our absolute best, and also we hoped that

they could find some sort of peace and some sort of closure from that.

Moira...

..darling, darling Moira, we were so proud of you.

We will always be so proud of you

and we will do the best we can

with our lives to make them worthy of you.

You will live with us for ever.

Thank you.

MOTHER: He had 13 previous offences,

at least four of which were for violence.

And I thought, someone's made a terrible mistake.

I don't believe there's anyone in this country who would say

"Yes, let violent criminals in."

It's as simple as that.

I can't think of anyone, whatever political persuasion, who would say,

"But we're for this, we want these people to be allowed to come in."

Come on. We've got enough baddies of our own.

It's as simple as that.

If this happens again to another family, I said,

and I meant it, "I think that will finish me off.

"I don't think I'll be able to go on."

I still feel that.

I'd like a law so that this doesn't happen to some other...

..absolutely blameless, wonderful young lady.

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