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0:00:26 > 0:00:32On Wednesday 21st November 2007, 17-year-old Wendy McAteer was
0:00:32 > 0:00:36brutally attacked on the Blackburn Path in Limavady.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40Her injuries proved fatal and as her attacker fled the scene,
0:00:40 > 0:00:44Wendy was left to die alone on the darkened pathway.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55Wendy was a kind, kind person,
0:00:55 > 0:00:57very soft at heart.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02Did all she could for other people.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06You know, never had... Never could say no.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11She just had a lot of time for everybody.
0:01:11 > 0:01:17She wasn't selfish or nothing like that, she just, she wanted to be involved in everything.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Her interests were mainly her family.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23She was very home-orientated
0:01:23 > 0:01:26and was very good to her mum.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28We done everything together.
0:01:28 > 0:01:29Where you seen Wendy, you seen me.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31Where you seen me, you seen Wendy.
0:01:31 > 0:01:35We were just joined to the hip.
0:01:35 > 0:01:41While Wendy enjoyed a close and protective home life, at school, she had few friends
0:01:41 > 0:01:48of her own age and often sought the company of adults, including that of classroom assistant Linda Ferris.
0:01:48 > 0:01:54You know whenever girls start to change and dye their hair and open their top buttons and,
0:01:54 > 0:01:59you know, raise their skirt levels and things, Wendy... that just never happened.
0:01:59 > 0:02:04She was just the same wee girl that I knew in 1st year that I knew in 5th year.
0:02:04 > 0:02:05She wanted to be a hairdresser.
0:02:05 > 0:02:11She was always combing and brushing and doing mine.
0:02:11 > 0:02:17And she went and she done training in a hairdresser's, and she loved it, absolutely loved it.
0:02:17 > 0:02:24And she'd actually enrolled for that year to go into college that year to start it off,
0:02:24 > 0:02:27but she never really got that far.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29She was just beginning her life
0:02:29 > 0:02:31when it ended.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Just beginning.
0:02:36 > 0:02:42Wendy had just started planning her future when a chance meeting changed everything.
0:02:42 > 0:02:46In the latter part of 2006, Terry Whiting travelled with his brother
0:02:46 > 0:02:50to Northern Ireland for the purpose of work.
0:02:50 > 0:02:55He stayed here for approximately two or three weeks.
0:02:55 > 0:03:02During his time here in Limavady, he met up with Wendy McAteer at a local bar.
0:03:04 > 0:03:08Whiting returned to England, but the pair remained in regular contact
0:03:08 > 0:03:12and quickly struck up a text-based relationship.
0:03:12 > 0:03:17Next thing you knew, within the month, Wendy had received a text from him to say that he was coming
0:03:17 > 0:03:23over in a couple of days' time to meet up with her and he was going to be staying for a month or so.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31Whiting's interest in Wendy seemed to be reciprocated
0:03:31 > 0:03:34and she was flattered by the persistence of his attentions.
0:03:37 > 0:03:42She'd say that she'd have to go down the town, and we were going on down the town and she says,
0:03:42 > 0:03:47"Drop me off at the petrol station, you're not going down to the bus station with me to see him, no way."
0:03:47 > 0:03:49She says, "You're so hypocritical.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51"You don't judge him," and all this.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53She says, "Just drop me off at the station,"
0:03:53 > 0:03:56she says, "and I'll walk down, if that's all right?
0:03:56 > 0:03:59But after we dropped her off, we drove on down to have a look.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04and this really older-looking guy was standing there.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07He was really scruffy, he looked a bit like a tramp.
0:04:07 > 0:04:11And I said, "Eileen, I hope and pray to God that's not him."
0:04:11 > 0:04:14"No," she says, "that's not him." She says, "Don't worry, that's not him. He's not here yet.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16"She must have to meet up with him."
0:04:16 > 0:04:20I says, "Right, we'll go back round and see if we can catch the two of them together,"
0:04:20 > 0:04:21just to see if she'd met up with him.
0:04:21 > 0:04:27We went down round and we'd seen her hand in hand with that guy and we were like, "Oh, my God."
0:04:27 > 0:04:29And Eileen was just so shocked at the fact that she would be
0:04:29 > 0:04:35with somebody like that herself, because he was quite old-looking.
0:04:35 > 0:04:39- Terry, this is my mum. - All right, Terry, how're you doing? - And that's Sharon.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41All right, Sharon? All right?
0:04:41 > 0:04:43And that's my daddy, Colm.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46- All right, Colm?- The relationship gained momentum and before long,
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Wendy formally introduced her family to Terry Whiting.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50And that's my brother, Paul.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53All right there, Paul? Give us a shake, mate. Give us a shake.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55'Paul was out working that night and
0:04:55 > 0:04:57'he'd just popped in to say hello.'
0:04:57 > 0:05:00He looked him up and down and that was enough
0:05:00 > 0:05:04for him, he just didn't like him from the look of him straight off.
0:05:04 > 0:05:12Despite the family's reservations, the romance blossomed and by Valentine's Day 2007, the pair had
0:05:12 > 0:05:17announced their engagement and spoke of their plans to move in together.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21And I said to Eileen, "There's no way, do not even let them go there."
0:05:21 > 0:05:23I said, "She's just 16."
0:05:23 > 0:05:28She goes, "Well, what do you think I should do?" I said, "Well, the only other option you're left with is
0:05:28 > 0:05:29"to let him come in here."
0:05:29 > 0:05:35Reluctantly, the McAteers invited Terry to live with Wendy in the family home,
0:05:35 > 0:05:39believing that by doing so, they could protect their daughter.
0:05:39 > 0:05:44There was no doubt that the two of them got on well together during the initial part of the relationship.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47They spent a lot of time together.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50Wendy had just finished school,
0:05:50 > 0:05:53Whiting was not involved in any employment,
0:05:53 > 0:05:56so throughout the day and evening, they were in each other's company.
0:06:00 > 0:06:05It didn't matter where you went or what you were doing, he was just there all the time.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07You know, you couldn't really have a sort of private one-to-one
0:06:07 > 0:06:12conversation with Wendy after he came along.
0:06:12 > 0:06:18And I do think it really did bother them that they couldn't actually just have their daughter by herself,
0:06:18 > 0:06:20but it wasn't for lack of trying.
0:06:23 > 0:06:27In a rare stolen moment, Wendy confessed to Sharon that she
0:06:27 > 0:06:32no longer intended to pursue her ambition to become a hairdresser.
0:06:35 > 0:06:36I said, "Why are you not going to go and do it now?"
0:06:36 > 0:06:41She says, "Oh, because me and Terry was thinking about saving up and we were thinking about getting
0:06:41 > 0:06:46"a house, and we just want to start our life by ourselves together first and
0:06:46 > 0:06:50"get our life together, and then I'll think about it down the line maybe."
0:06:50 > 0:06:55But in a way, I thought, the way she's talking, that's never going to happen.
0:06:57 > 0:07:03To the dismay of her family, Wendy's world was becoming that of her partner's, falling in
0:07:03 > 0:07:10with his lifestyle of idle drinking and pulling her away from the people and things she loved the most.
0:07:10 > 0:07:17I had the impression that she'd been fed up with all the drinking, because she wasn't a big drinker and
0:07:17 > 0:07:19the fact of him coming home all the time with drink.
0:07:19 > 0:07:23She would take one, where he would finish the box.
0:07:23 > 0:07:28And she actually said to me, "Sharon, no." She said, "I just don't want to drink anymore."
0:07:28 > 0:07:30Before he came along, she could go out where
0:07:30 > 0:07:34she wanted, she could do what she wanted, she could see who she wanted and stuff like that there.
0:07:34 > 0:07:38But when he was there, she couldn't, she couldn't do any of that.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42And I think after six months or so, or whatever it was, I think
0:07:42 > 0:07:47it came to the stage that she'd realised that, "Right, he's starting to run my life.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50"Nobody's done this before and I'm not liking it."
0:07:54 > 0:07:59On the morning of the 21st November, Eileen McAteer gave her daughter and
0:07:59 > 0:08:03Terry a lift into Limavady town centre for the last time.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07It was the day of the England-Croatia match and Whiting
0:08:07 > 0:08:11wanted to watch the game in the Crown Bar, known locally as Clark's.
0:08:11 > 0:08:18The pair remained in the bar from approximately 3:00pm until around 9 o'clock that evening.
0:08:18 > 0:08:22We have identified a number of witnesses who were in the bar that day.
0:08:22 > 0:08:26They describe Wendy and Terry "in good form".
0:08:26 > 0:08:28They observed them playing pool.
0:08:28 > 0:08:35There was no arguments, they were sitting having a quiet drink together and everything was normal.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44During the time in the bar on Irish Green Street, the family actually
0:08:44 > 0:08:47had contact with them while they were inside.
0:08:49 > 0:08:57Eileen, Wendy's mum, makes a phone call at approximately 8:30pm to Wendy
0:08:57 > 0:08:59while she's inside the bar
0:08:59 > 0:09:01and Wendy answers the phone.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05- Hello.- She didn't seem herself,
0:09:05 > 0:09:08but she still didn't let on.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10She just kept saying she was OK, she was OK.
0:09:10 > 0:09:14I said, "Are you fighting?"
0:09:14 > 0:09:16And she replied, "No."
0:09:16 > 0:09:20But still, it was in a funny tone of voice.
0:09:20 > 0:09:26I didn't think very much more about it till later on, and then...
0:09:27 > 0:09:30disaster started.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39I went to bed and I wasn't long in bed
0:09:39 > 0:09:41till he appeared.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Ran down the hall,
0:09:46 > 0:09:49was down a few minutes and came back up again.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55Stopped at my room door and I asked
0:09:55 > 0:09:57why he was here
0:09:57 > 0:10:00and where was Wendy?
0:10:00 > 0:10:05He said she was still in the pub, which I knew for a fact was wrong,
0:10:05 > 0:10:09because Wendy wouldn't sit in a pub herself. I asked, were they fighting?
0:10:09 > 0:10:11No, Ma, there's nothing wrong.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15I asked what he was home for. He said he was changing his clothes.
0:10:15 > 0:10:19Well, then, the sweat broke on me and I asked why.
0:10:19 > 0:10:20They were all sweaty.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22And he left...
0:10:22 > 0:10:25saying that he was going to return to Wendy.
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Yeah, I will do.
0:10:26 > 0:10:31As Whiting leaves the home, Wendy's father, Colm, is entering the house and he
0:10:31 > 0:10:38describes how Whiting is leaving the house in a rage, and actually describes his exit "like a bull".
0:10:38 > 0:10:42Convinced that Wendy would never remain in a pub by herself,
0:10:42 > 0:10:46Eileen McAteer telephoned the Crown Bar to check Whiting's story.
0:10:46 > 0:10:52The barman told her that he had seen the pair leaving together an hour and a half previously.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55I thought, has he done something to my wee 'un?
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Because...
0:10:57 > 0:11:01why would you be sweating just playing pool in a bar?
0:11:02 > 0:11:05And I got up and I got on my clothes...
0:11:07 > 0:11:09and her father says to me,
0:11:11 > 0:11:13"He's in a terrible hurry.
0:11:15 > 0:11:19"God bless, I hope he hasn't done our wee 'un in."
0:11:21 > 0:11:25And it was at this stage that Eileen and Wendy's uncle, Francie,
0:11:25 > 0:11:30get in the car and make the decision to drive down the town
0:11:30 > 0:11:33to try and establish where Wendy indeed is.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38I was on the phone to him a few times.
0:11:38 > 0:11:42He kept saying, "She wasn't in the bar when I got there."
0:11:42 > 0:11:45He was going to a different bar to see if she was there.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50And then he said he was at the taxi office.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55- And then I phoned him back again. - I've just found her, Ma.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Between the two schools.
0:11:57 > 0:11:58What do you mean, you've found her?!
0:11:58 > 0:12:01- I've just found her. - Terry, is she all right? - Somebody's hit her.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04Jesus, Terry, is she alive?!
0:12:04 > 0:12:06I don't know, Ma.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09The phone cut off and I rang him back.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12And from that, I never got an answer.
0:12:12 > 0:12:18Francie, on hearing this news from Eileen, immediately makes a call to Wendy's brother, Paul,
0:12:18 > 0:12:23to tell him to get down to the Blackburn Path to see what's going on.
0:12:23 > 0:12:30At this stage, Wendy's father, Colm, also makes a call to Whiting and Whiting answers the phone.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32Look, Colm,
0:12:32 > 0:12:36I've just found Wendy, and there's blood coming out of her nose on the Blackburn Path.
0:12:36 > 0:12:40Colm asks Whiting, "Have you beat her to death?"
0:12:40 > 0:12:45And at this point, Whiting hangs up on the phone call.
0:12:45 > 0:12:50All efforts after this fail to make contact with Whiting by the family.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55No!
0:12:55 > 0:12:56No!
0:12:56 > 0:13:04Paul McAteer arrived at the Blackburn Path at around 10:40pm and made the tragic discovery.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08Meanwhile, Wendy's uncle, Francie, was alerting local police.
0:13:08 > 0:13:14It was Wednesday 21st November 2007 and it was about 10:45pm at night.
0:13:14 > 0:13:20I was pulling into Limavady police station to finish my shift and a man ran up to the gates.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23He appeared to be in a lot of distress and shouted, "Help, help,
0:13:23 > 0:13:26"there's a girl half-dead in the path."
0:13:26 > 0:13:28I now know that to be Wendy's uncle Francie.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Inspector Burrows and two other officers
0:13:32 > 0:13:36immediately followed Francie to the location of his niece.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38We arrived at Blackburn Path.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41I was speaking to the uncle and the brother of Wendy.
0:13:41 > 0:13:46They pointed out where Wendy was. I sent the two police officers down to that path,
0:13:46 > 0:13:49in order to try and locate Wendy and see if they could help her.
0:13:49 > 0:13:54When they got there they were met by Wendy's cousin.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57And they relayed to me that, in fact,
0:13:57 > 0:14:01Wendy was very badly injured and they feared that she was dead.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07By this stage, the ambulance had arrived.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11The paramedics were working on Wendy to try and resuscitate her at Blackburn Path.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14And just after this, I was given the information that
0:14:14 > 0:14:18those attempts weren't successful and that Wendy had in fact died.
0:14:22 > 0:14:26I feared that Wendy had actually been murdered.
0:14:26 > 0:14:30And immediately declared that that path was a crime scene.
0:14:30 > 0:14:36I also had a family who were present at the edge of that crime scene, which is quite unusual.
0:14:36 > 0:14:41I had to bear in mind that this was a family, to them this was a tragedy.
0:14:41 > 0:14:45But they were also the source of a great deal of information.
0:14:45 > 0:14:52So before I passed that death message to the father, I then spoke to Paul McAteer, Wendy's brother.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55He was very upset. I asked who Wendy was last seen with.
0:14:55 > 0:14:59He says it was her boyfriend, Terence Whiting.
0:14:59 > 0:15:04At this moment, for the first time, we had the name of our suspect.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07And I need to ask
0:15:07 > 0:15:12for a description...of Terry Whiting.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15He's about five foot nine.
0:15:15 > 0:15:19Wendy's father was able to give us a really good description of Terry.
0:15:19 > 0:15:24I was able then to circulate that description to other police officers
0:15:24 > 0:15:29and start sending police officers out into the streets to try to locate
0:15:29 > 0:15:33and identify our suspect, Terry Whiting.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39I gleaned from Wendy's father that he didn't have access to a car.
0:15:39 > 0:15:43But that he regularly used local taxis.
0:15:43 > 0:15:48So I asked the control room to ring every taxi company in Limavady.
0:15:48 > 0:15:54And tell them that if a male with an English accent called Terry requested a taxi, that they had to ring us.
0:15:58 > 0:16:02Within moments, we got a phone call from one of those local taxi companies.
0:16:02 > 0:16:07They told us that they had indeed picked up a male with an English accent...
0:16:07 > 0:16:11called Terry. And they had taken him to the Drummond Hotel in Ballykelly,
0:16:11 > 0:16:16where he'd been refused entry. And that he was now waiting at the Blue Shop in Ballykelly.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18Just a few miles from the crime scene.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21He had requested a taxi to Eglinton Airport.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23Move in to arrest at Blue Shop, Ballykelly.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26I repeat, Blue Shop, Ballykelly.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30Inspector Burrows immediately deployed officers to Ballykelly.
0:16:30 > 0:16:36One of the cars was unmarked and both vehicles proceeded to the Blue Shop without lights or sirens,
0:16:36 > 0:16:38so as not to alert Whiting.
0:16:40 > 0:16:45As the two cars pulled up, we saw this figure come out of the shadows.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48He came down a couple of steps out onto the street lighting.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50We immediately approached him.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53He confirmed that he was Terry Whiting.
0:16:53 > 0:17:00At that stage he was then arrested and I conducted the search after the arrest on Mr Whiting.
0:17:00 > 0:17:04On doing so, I found a number of items on him.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07Constable McGarry discovered that Whiting had been carrying
0:17:07 > 0:17:12money bags on his person, containing over £100 in coins.
0:17:12 > 0:17:16He was also carrying his girlfriend's gym card and two mobile phones.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19He was asked to account for the two pink mobile phones
0:17:19 > 0:17:20that were found on him.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23One's my fiancee's and the other one's mine.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26- Why your fiancee's...?- Until she gets another one for Christmas.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28Were you just keeping it for her?
0:17:28 > 0:17:31Throughout this there was no emotion from him whatsoever.
0:17:31 > 0:17:35Which you probably would have expected, given the seriousness of the offence.
0:17:35 > 0:17:42Whiting, who seemed to be en route to the airport, was also found to be in possession of his passport.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45He was placed in the rear of the police vehicle
0:17:45 > 0:17:47and he was taken to Limavady custody suite.
0:17:47 > 0:17:51When I was informed that the two rings belonging to Wendy had been
0:17:51 > 0:17:56found on Whiting, that then starts to put together a picture for me.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Did Wendy take her rings off often?
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Would they have been taken off her forcibly?
0:18:00 > 0:18:03All different theories which I would need to examine and explore.
0:18:03 > 0:18:11Now in custody, Whiting was assessed and deemed unfit for interview due to excessive alcohol consumption.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14But police had strong suspicions of his involvement in the murder
0:18:14 > 0:18:18and were working against the clock to try to prove it.
0:18:18 > 0:18:24The golden hour isn't necessarily 60 minutes but it is as soon as I can get as much information in
0:18:24 > 0:18:27which is vital to me in carrying out my investigation.
0:18:27 > 0:18:33I am here with the key aim of finding out who carried out this awful deed upon a young girl.
0:18:34 > 0:18:40At this stage, the forensic team was tasked with assessing the nature of the attack on the Blackburn Path.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47As I proceeded up the path, I was able to see a scene tent
0:18:47 > 0:18:50which had been placed over the body of a young woman.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54It was obvious that the body had suffered severe facial injuries.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57Her face was very badly swollen and bloodied.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00There was also blood coming from both her mouth and her nose.
0:19:00 > 0:19:05There were pools of blood close to the head and then on the right hand
0:19:05 > 0:19:10side, on the metal slatted fence, there was diluted blood spots.
0:19:10 > 0:19:15These extended over about three metres and up to a height of about 1.3 metres.
0:19:15 > 0:19:20Further on up the path, on the left-hand side, there was a metal telegraph pole
0:19:20 > 0:19:24which also had some blood spots on it.
0:19:24 > 0:19:28This was quite remote from the position in which the body was found.
0:19:28 > 0:19:33And what this would indicate to me was that this was another seat of attack.
0:19:34 > 0:19:39Further on, up the path, there was a white top found.
0:19:39 > 0:19:43It was apparent at the scene that there was blood staining on the arms and sleeves of this white top.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50The nature of the distribution around the victim
0:19:50 > 0:19:56would indicate to me that whoever carried out this attack was likely to be very heavily bloodstained.
0:19:56 > 0:20:01Both with projected spots of blood and with heavy contact blood staining.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07Crime scene investigators were also sent to examine Whiting's
0:20:07 > 0:20:10bedroom at the McAteer's home in Robertson Crescent.
0:20:13 > 0:20:19During the examination I searched underneath the double bed present in the room and found a pair
0:20:19 > 0:20:23of Nike trainers, a pair of blue jeans and a pair of white socks.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27The items of clothing were photographed in situ and,
0:20:27 > 0:20:29following the photographs being taken,
0:20:29 > 0:20:33we carried out a visual examination and noted quite a substantial amount
0:20:33 > 0:20:37of unknown red staining on the Nike trainers and the blue jeans.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41There was also suspected mud staining present on the blue jeans.
0:20:41 > 0:20:45Meanwhile, the investigating officers were beginning to
0:20:45 > 0:20:50piece together Whiting's movements on the night of the 21st November.
0:20:52 > 0:20:57We found out that Wendy and Terence left the bar at approximately 9.50pm.
0:20:57 > 0:21:04They both walk along Irish Green Street and turn into Connell Street.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06Between the houses on Connell Street,
0:21:06 > 0:21:09they are observed by a group of young teenagers.
0:21:09 > 0:21:14One of those persons actually identified Wendy
0:21:14 > 0:21:17from growing up together.
0:21:17 > 0:21:22They describe an argument taking place between Wendy and Terry Whiting.
0:21:22 > 0:21:28They describe Terry Whiting verbally abusing Wendy and being really in her face.
0:21:28 > 0:21:32We then have a lady who is parking her car.
0:21:32 > 0:21:36She actually sees Terence Whiting pushing Wendy McAteer
0:21:36 > 0:21:38up against the side of a building.
0:21:38 > 0:21:43We actually do capture them on CCTV footage where Whiting is pushing
0:21:43 > 0:21:46Wendy up against a wall quite violently.
0:21:46 > 0:21:53Then we have another gentleman who is driving along and he sees them further along the street, again with
0:21:53 > 0:21:57Whiting arguing with Wendy and in fact grabbing her arm.
0:21:57 > 0:22:02As they walked further up Irish Green Street, a number of other witnesses
0:22:02 > 0:22:07identify a couple, a male and female, involved in an argument.
0:22:07 > 0:22:13This was only a short distance from the Blackburn Path, the scene of the murder.
0:22:13 > 0:22:19Then, at about 2117 hours, the two of them were again seen at the end of the Blackburn Path, and
0:22:19 > 0:22:26again involved in an argument with Terence Whiting waving his finger into the face of Wendy McAteer.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29That is the last sighting we have of the two of them.
0:22:34 > 0:22:39The investigating team received confirmation that the suspect was fit for interview.
0:22:39 > 0:22:44During questioning, Whiting described his movements on the afternoon off 21st November
0:22:44 > 0:22:51clearly and concisely, but was more guarded about the events of that evening.
0:22:51 > 0:22:57'Whenever we put our crucial evidence to him, such as being seen at the end of the Blackburn Path,'
0:22:57 > 0:23:01his last recollection of the event is where he pushed her,
0:23:01 > 0:23:05she fell to the ground, and he remembers nothing else about it.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07I don't remember.
0:23:07 > 0:23:14When photographs of the bloodstained clothing were shown to Whiting,
0:23:14 > 0:23:19he wouldn't accept that this blood was as a result
0:23:19 > 0:23:23of a violent attack by him on Wendy.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26He just would not answer the questions for us.
0:23:26 > 0:23:33As the interview process continued, we were receiving results back from the forensic lab at Seapark
0:23:33 > 0:23:39and that was confirming to us that the red substance on Whiting's training shoes,
0:23:39 > 0:23:44socks and jeans was indeed blood and that it belonged to Wendy McAteer.
0:23:44 > 0:23:51We used that information and put it to Terence Whiting in interview and he could not account for it.
0:23:52 > 0:23:57Police would never know the full story of what happened on the Blackburn Path
0:23:57 > 0:24:00But the post mortem results revealed the extent of the brutality
0:24:00 > 0:24:03that Wendy McAteer had endured that night.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08Bruising on the back of scalp,
0:24:08 > 0:24:12consistent with having struck her head on a hard surface.
0:24:15 > 0:24:19Perhaps she has fallen or been pushed backwards.
0:24:19 > 0:24:24Injuries consistent with a number of blows to the head,
0:24:24 > 0:24:29as a result of her having been kicked and/or punched.
0:24:29 > 0:24:33Some certainly sustained while lying on the ground.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Abrasions to the left side of the neck.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38Compression of the neck to this degree
0:24:38 > 0:24:41leads to a loss of consciousness.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45Detailed examination of the brain
0:24:45 > 0:24:50indicates that she had survived for at least 30 minutes.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54Although she would almost certainly
0:24:54 > 0:24:57have been unconscious during this period.
0:25:00 > 0:25:04During the interviews, it was clear that we had the right man.
0:25:04 > 0:25:09However, Whiting declined to take the opportunity
0:25:09 > 0:25:13to tell us what actually happened on the Blackburn Path.
0:25:13 > 0:25:19At no point during the whole interview process, over the two-day period, did Whiting
0:25:19 > 0:25:25give the McAteer family any closure or any answers to the questions that they needed answered.
0:25:27 > 0:25:31In a bid to uncover why Terry Whiting had unleashed such
0:25:31 > 0:25:39extreme violence on Wendy McAteer, Geoff Ferris was sent to England to explore the killer's background.
0:25:39 > 0:25:45Upon speaking to several women that Whiting had been involved with, it became clear that he had a long
0:25:45 > 0:25:48and sustained history of violence towards women.
0:25:51 > 0:25:58We discovered that he was verbally and physically abusive
0:25:58 > 0:26:00to these women in England.
0:26:00 > 0:26:04To such a degree that they were terrified of him.
0:26:04 > 0:26:09He, on one occasion, tried to strangle one of the females
0:26:09 > 0:26:13by putting his hands around her neck.
0:26:14 > 0:26:19Eventually, she was able to break it off and Whiting left.
0:26:19 > 0:26:24It wasn't that long after this relationship that Whiting came to Northern Ireland.
0:26:24 > 0:26:29This was in December 2006.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33This was the time that he commenced his contact with Wendy McAteer.
0:26:34 > 0:26:42'31 year-old Terence Whiting was today described as a man who showed no true remorse for a terrible deed.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45'He strangled his 17-year-old fiancee, Wendy McAteer, and beat her
0:26:45 > 0:26:51'so badly she sustained serious head injuries in November 2007.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53'The prosecution said that he had effectively left
0:26:53 > 0:26:55'Wendy McAteer to die in an alleyway
0:26:55 > 0:26:58'after inflicting multiple injuries.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01'A defence lawyer told the court that Whiting, who had a lot to drink
0:27:01 > 0:27:05'on the day, had great difficulty in dealing with the fact his fiancee
0:27:05 > 0:27:06'wanted to end the relationship.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09'Whiting, who had previous convictions
0:27:09 > 0:27:12'for slapping and head-butting a former girlfriend,
0:27:12 > 0:27:14was sentenced to 14 years for the murder.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16'The police said the McAteer family, who were
0:27:16 > 0:27:19'too distressed to speak to the media,
0:27:19 > 0:27:21'were devastated at the death.'
0:27:24 > 0:27:26The sentencing came and we were praying
0:27:26 > 0:27:29he was going to get over 18 years.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Then he turned around and he said "14".
0:27:32 > 0:27:38It was so devastating that all her life was worth was 14 years for him.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42She had all that hope for the future.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46A young girl, a lovely girl from a lovely family, and that
0:27:46 > 0:27:50family has been left with a hole that will never be filled.
0:27:50 > 0:27:54Even by speaking to them you can see the angst, the anguish that they are
0:27:54 > 0:28:00feeling and no matter how long Terence Whiting gets in jail, it will never bring back
0:28:00 > 0:28:04Wendy McAteer, or help to ease the pain which they have in their family.
0:28:10 > 0:28:14We're just trying to get back to normal, which it will never be.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17It will never be normal.
0:28:17 > 0:28:22But we just have to get used to it, she's not coming back.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24That's it.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29A good child.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31She was always a good child.
0:28:35 > 0:28:38When Wendy went, she should have took me with her.
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