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PHONE RINGS OUT

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-DISPATCHER:

-Police emergency.

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CALLER HYPERVENTILATES

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Every two minutes, someone in Britain is reported missing.

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You feel total panic.

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Is there anything in the address

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that shows any sort of planned absences, any notes?

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There are hundreds of different reasons as to why people

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might be missing from home.

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THUNDERCLAP

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-MEDIA BROADCAST:

-Concerns are growing for the welfare of

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-a missing Darlington pensioner...

-Archie!

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Losing time can be catastrophic.

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The key for each investigation is to piece together

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the missing person's last-known movements.

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Some crumb, a sighting, that's what we're after. Proof of life.

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What is going on in your head? Where are you going?

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What are you going to go and do next?

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Following Durham Police,

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cameras capture everyone's perspective

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minute by minute, as the cases unfold.

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He saw the male at the cemetery.

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-RADIO:

-Was seen leaving the cemetery and turning right.

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For loved ones left at home, everything hangs in the balance.

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You see people missing all the time, but you don't actually feel it,

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do you, until it actually happens to somebody who's close?

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And it's the worst feeling in the world.

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It doesn't matter how close you are to somebody, everybody has secrets.

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-RADIO:

-I've found him! I've just found him! I've just found him now!

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I want to know where my son is.

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I need to be with him.

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PHONE RINGS OUT

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-DISPATCHER:

-Police control room. Can I help?

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-PHONE:

-I'm just ringing up to report a missing person.

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-What's the circumstance?

-My husband, he's been missing since Saturday night.

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We'd just had an argument.

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He just stormed out in a huff, like a little kid,

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and he's got in his car and I've never seen him since.

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The only reason why I haven't reported it any earlier,

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I thought he might've been out with workmates or whatever.

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But it's out of character, really,

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because that's why I was waiting to see if he turned up at work today,

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because it's a new job and he's working with his brother.

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Does he sort of take drugs, alcohol, anything like that?

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No, no, because, like, we've got the baby now, so...

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He's not really a big drinker. He doesn't really go out much.

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We've only been married six weeks.

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OK. I've made a log, we'll get an officer to come around and see you

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within the next hour or so.

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28-year-old Darren has now been missing for three days.

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An officer is dispatched to follow up on his wife's call

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and to take a statement.

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I'll give you a bit of a run-through of what we know so far.

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A call came into police just after 12:30 yesterday afternoon

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from the wife, she's called Rebecca.

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She reported that she hadn't seen her husband since

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approximately 9pm on Saturday 27th August.

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At that time, she accounted that they'd been at their home address

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in Aycliffe and that there'd been a very minor argument between them.

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He'd stormed out of the address and left

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in a vehicle and hadn't been in contact with her since.

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Yesterday morning, she admitted that the account she'd given initially

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to police wasn't correct and that, in fact, on Saturday night,

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the pair of them had travelled to an address in Darlington,

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um, for a barbecue at a friend's address.

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And at some point around the 9:00 mark, we believe,

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he's walked out and he's left.

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He hasn't actually been seen to get into the car and leave

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by anybody present, but the car's gone,

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so they've made an assumption that he's left in the vehicle.

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I've never dealt with one where, um...

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the reporting person's lied to us to start off with.

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It's extremely frustrating when you've been working on it for

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however many hours or days,

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and then you find out that it's all been wasted

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because you've been looking in completely the wrong area.

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And time has passed and you could have been really honing in

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your resources to try and find the individual.

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Really frustrating.

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And I was thinking, the barbecue at Darlington,

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I think working backwards from that point is really important.

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So if we can go there, find out who was there,

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do the house-to-house, establish whether there's CCTV.

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Just actually try and find out when his car moved.

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Ready?

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Darren's wife first reported that he went missing from his house

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in Newton Aycliffe, but her new account means that it was

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actually five miles south, at a barbecue in Darlington.

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The first to be questioned is the hostess of the barbecue.

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What's your gut instinct telling you?

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I feel ill. It's not like him.

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At all.

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-So, what's your gut telling you?

-I don't know.

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Summat's happened to him, hasn't it?

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I'm just thinking the worst, I think.

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I mean, we don't know. We do not know what's happened to him.

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He may be at a mate's house, getting his head down.

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Darren was seen leaving the barbecue in his car

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at some point between 9pm and 10pm.

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The police know they have a good chance of locating him

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if they can track down his vehicle.

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We've got a miss per and we've had no proof of life.

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And I'm just wondering if we can do some ANPR enquiries,

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both national and internal, just to see if he's hit anything.

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-PHONE:

-It hasn't returned anything for today.

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-Still no reads at all nationally?

-No.

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It's just odd that his car hasn't pinged at all.

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It could be that Darren's vehicle is somewhere between

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the barbecue address in Darlington and his hometown.

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The quickest way to search is by air.

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Hello. I'm trying to get

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a deployment for a missing-from-home we've got at the moment.

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It is, it's a miss per. We've got an area we need to deploy the bird.

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The family have informed the police that there is a particular route

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Darren always takes when he drives from Darlington to his house.

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And it looks like behind the hotel, Ricknall Lane, Lodge Lane,

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then he would've gone onto Elston Lane, Bishopton Lane

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and then over to Great Burden.

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We need to do a search from Darlington to the Aycliffe home address,

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specifically concentrating on the Sedgefield back roads.

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The delay in reporting him missing,

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which virtually amounted to three days, is far too long.

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If I know somebody's disappeared within the last hour,

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then the opportunities for somebody within that hour

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to go somewhere else are quite restrictive.

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However, if it's three days or four days,

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then who knows where they may have gone?

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Widening your parameters means more work to be done,

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there's a larger number of cameras to be checked,

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there's a huge geographical area that we need to check.

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If you tell me that somebody was at a bus stop

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on the high street at 3:15,

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then that's a lot easier than

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"Well, they left this party four days ago

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"and I don't know which way they went or where they went."

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Oh, it was awful.

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From when I found out, it was just, like...

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"You're joking, aren't you?"

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He's only gone to a barbecue for a drink and he's...

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just disappeared, like that?

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I was just, as you do, looking through Facebook,

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and I seen a message saying, "Our Darren, get yourself back home".

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I thought somebody was just messing on.

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I thought it was just a prank.

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I phoned Rebecca and she said,

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"Oh, yeah, he's...he's gone off in his car.

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"He's like... I haven't seen him since Saturday."

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I was like, "Since Saturday and I just found out now?"

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So that was it, really. That's all I really knew,

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until, like, they were going to phone the police

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to report him missing.

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Oh, I was racking my brains where he could be.

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The thing is, you can disappear quite easily,

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going down them country lanes. There aren't any cameras.

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You can go past two cameras

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and then you're lost after that, down the country lanes.

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It's easy to get lost.

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There are 50 square miles of country roads to search

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between the party address and Darren's home.

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The police are hoping that someone local may have seen him.

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We're just looking for a missing-from-home.

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You haven't seen any suspicious vehicles or anything parked

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-down here, have you?

-I haven't, no.

-No?

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-Unless they drive up here, I wouldn't see anything.

-Right, OK.

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Basically, we think he's taken the back route from Darlington

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back towards Aycliffe.

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He hasn't returned back to Aycliffe,

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so we're assuming he's parked up somewhere maybe.

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-You haven't seen anything suspicious?

-I haven't seen anything.

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I don't know if next door might have seen something.

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OK, I'll go and give them a knock. Thank you.

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Because of the nature of

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the complexity of the enquiries involved in this,

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this is probably the biggest missing person case

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I've been involved with in this force.

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The access point down to there,

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there was a lot of cobwebs and stuff.

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It's like being in limbo, that you just don't know

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and you just can't find where that person is

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that means so much.

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And...it's like desperation,

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that you're racking your brains all the time.

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"Where's Darren?"

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It just takes over your life.

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I'd always feel responsible, no matter what. He's my brother.

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He'd feel the same way as me.

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He is a child at heart and it's just his wit and, um...

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the way he comes out with things and his one-liners and stuff.

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A big child at heart. I mean, he was when he was at the wedding.

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The way he was messing on, fun-fighting and stuff.

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Never stopped smiling all day.

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He had the biggest smile on his face you can imagine.

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From walking in that door...

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..to having our last drink.

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And he just loved his suit. His gold suit.

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We follow the basics of

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the investigation and we're getting nothing.

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I would expect that some crumb will come out.

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Some spark.

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A sighting, a phone call from somebody who's spoken to them.

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There will be, like, a proof of life.

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And that's we're after, proof of life.

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But it's almost like he'd just

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disappeared off the face of the earth.

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A new shift is starting at Bishop Auckland station.

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And with all enquiries so far exhausted,

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the attention shifts back to the wife's changing account.

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-RADIO:

-..That sort of time.

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His wife, presently witness, but increasingly suspicious.

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Her account has changed on two or three occasions.

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For example, she said things such as, "I hate him."

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And we said, "Well, why do you hate him?"

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"Because he's been missing,

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"because he's done this to you, the emotional turmoil?"

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"No, because he's drink-drove on the night."

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And she's become quite hostile when we've started to question her.

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And equally, she doesn't want us to go to her house.

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Every time we've contacted her to date,

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she's insisted on coming to the police station.

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It's becoming increasingly suspicious,

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particularly with the lack of proof of life. Um...

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If she's obviously changing accounts on several occasions

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and gone hostile, it begs the question, what has happened?

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-What is she not telling us?

-Exactly.

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The really, really suspicious might question whether

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the person who has actually been reported missing

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is actually the victim of a domestic, er...homicide.

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And that the delay in reporting it to us

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is deliberate so that evidence can be concealed

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so that steps can be taken to, you know,

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to lay a false trail or to actually hide or conceal what's gone on.

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So that's probably the most sinister aspect of that delay.

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It was a fiery relationship.

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They liked to argue a bit, but they loved each other.

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That's the way they went on, really.

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She used to shout, "What have you hoovered up for?

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"I've already hoovered up!"

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"Yeah, but it needed hoovering up again."

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"It doesn't need hoovering up, I've done it!"

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Little daft things like that. It was just the way she was.

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I think sometimes she doesn't realise how she's doing it.

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She's just irate. She just shouts.

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"I'm the boss."

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Officers have been asked to talk with Darren's wife again.

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Have you got any further information today, Rebecca, or not?

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You've nothing at all?

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Because bearing in mind, you've got a lot of resources looking for him.

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If there's anything you think of, even something really,

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really small, let us know.

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Because that could change our thought process,

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you know what I mean?

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And we can concentrate our efforts on that.

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All we want to do, Rebecca, is bring him home to you and the bairn.

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That's all we want. Right?

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Any information, even if you think it's going to get him into trouble,

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you need to let us know.

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Darren's been missing for five days.

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Inspector Neal Armstrong calls a meeting with CID.

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Not to have a single lead, which is unusual, really unusual,

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and the last person who saw them alive has lied to us,

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that's when I approach CID and say, "We need some assistance now

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"to establish what this person knows and what they don't know".

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I've been in the CID for nearly ten years and I think this is

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probably only the second time in that period of time

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that I've been involved in a missing-from-home case.

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We spoke to Rebecca again. Just no emotion from her.

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She basically just said, you know, she's got to carry on with her life.

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-And how did she present to you, then?

-Very cold.

-Mm-hm.

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Very cold for somebody whose husband's been missing five days.

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Initially, she said her belief was that he was dead

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and he had been for two days.

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And again, that was prior to her

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reporting him missing to us, wasn't it?

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Did she elaborate as to why she thought that?

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Just because the fact he hadn't been seen.

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-She couldn't elaborate any further, could she?

-No.

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Just no emotion, very cold.

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Strange.

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It's now up to CID to find out what really happened on the day

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Darren disappeared.

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As detectives, we've had that enhanced level of training

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that we will ask those awkward questions,

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and not everybody likes being asked those awkward questions,

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but unfortunately, sometimes,

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that's the only way to get to the truth.

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They went to this barbecue, it was a small function,

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nobody actually saw Darren leave the barbecue.

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And we know there was potentially a domestic incident there, as well.

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Possible even a minor assault involved, as well.

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So we just need to get that

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bottomed out and see what people actually saw.

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See you later.

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Detectives Emma and Claire head to the barbecue address in Darlington,

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and begin by searching the property.

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CID enlist the help of beat officers

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to acquire CCTV evidence from the day Darren went missing.

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From his bank records, they know he went to a Tesco in his hometown.

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We're here to double-check the CCTV

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for Saturday night just gone for the ATM.

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-It was the 27th, wasn't it?

-Yeah, the 27th.

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The actual transaction was...

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-16:49.

-..16:49.

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Emma and Claire have finished the search.

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Now they have to dig deeper into the hostess' account of what happened.

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I need to know everything.

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The only way I can help you is if you tell me everything

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and let me be the judge of what I do and do not need to know.

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-So what time did the party start, then?

-2:00.

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And did he come here for 2:00?

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Yeah, they were here for 2:00 because Becky brought the birthday cake.

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So what were they like when they first got here?

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All right. They were fine.

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-Anything...

-Nothing.

-No moods?

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-No fallouts?

-No. No.

-Nothing?

-Nothing.

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Was there a sign that either of them

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-had had a drink when they first arrived?

-No.

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-Not at all?

-No. None of them.

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They weren't having a drink.

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-OK.

-But then...Darren said that his mam would have the baby,

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-so then Darren went to go and drop the baby off...

-Mm-hm.

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..and then come back with a box of Stella

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and two bottles of wine for Becky.

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At Tesco, the police are examining the CCTV to learn more about

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Darren's movements when he wasn't at the party.

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They know he was wearing jeans and a white shirt.

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-There, that's him there.

-Is that him?

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-Yeah, you're 100% that's him, yeah?

-I'd say so.

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16:49.

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Do you want me to see if we can trace him around the store?

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If he's come in, we should be able to follow him on the CCTV.

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-There he is, he comes in.

-Yeah, he comes into the store.

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-16:49:37.

-Yeah.

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-There you go.

-There he is.

-So he's walking along there.

0:21:520:21:56

He'll be going to the beer aisle, 100%.

0:21:560:21:59

-There he is.

-Yeah.

0:21:590:22:01

So he's actually gone up...

0:22:010:22:03

-Spirit and wine.

-..wine aisle.

0:22:030:22:05

-He's gone up the wine aisle.

-Right.

0:22:050:22:06

-So... And there he is.

-He's got a bottle.

0:22:060:22:10

Two bottles of spirit... two bottles of wine in his hand.

0:22:100:22:13

-And that's the...

-That's the imports, isn't it?

0:22:160:22:19

Yeah, it's the Budweiser. That's where the crates of Bud are.

0:22:190:22:22

-And that...

-What's he got?

-That's a white box. That is either...

0:22:240:22:29

-It's Stella.

-Stella, or it's that...

0:22:290:22:32

No, that's 100% Stella, yeah.

0:22:320:22:35

Hopefully, he goes to self-serve to pay.

0:22:350:22:38

-So there you go. You can clearly identify him there.

-Yeah.

0:22:380:22:41

He's got his Bag for Life.

0:22:410:22:44

-Crate of Stella.

-That's Stella, isn't it?

0:22:440:22:46

-We don't get him outside at all, do we?

-No.

0:22:460:22:49

Not after he... Basically, after he leaves this shot here.

0:22:490:22:52

So at what time did he return, then?

0:23:000:23:03

He was gone about an hour, an hour and a half.

0:23:030:23:05

-So that makes it between 5 and 6.

-Yeah.

0:23:050:23:09

Um...was he drinking any of Becky's wine?

0:23:090:23:13

I think so, yeah.

0:23:130:23:15

-So he was drinking wine as well?

-Yeah.

0:23:150:23:17

He'd been drinking lager,

0:23:170:23:19

he'd been to the shop to get more Jack Daniels.

0:23:190:23:21

And he got some JD?

0:23:210:23:24

JD, fags and a scratchcard.

0:23:240:23:26

-Because he was over the moon because he'd won on the scratchcard.

-Had he?

0:23:260:23:29

-Yeah.

-Did he say how much money he'd won?

-Not a clue.

0:23:290:23:32

Footage from the newsagents confirms Darren's movements

0:23:380:23:42

an hour on from the Tesco CCTV.

0:23:420:23:44

Perfect. Thank you.

0:23:550:23:57

-So have you recorded the initial footage of him in the shop?

-Yes.

0:23:570:24:00

-Right, let's have a look at this.

-This is outside.

0:24:000:24:02

There he is. Right, so that's 17:48 and 58 seconds.

0:24:030:24:07

17:48.

0:24:070:24:09

The police have been told he left the party around 9:30pm.

0:24:110:24:14

So the hostess' account of the next four hours is critical.

0:24:160:24:19

How big was the bottle of JD?

0:24:220:24:24

-It was... Do you know one of the little ones, like that?

-Mm.

0:24:240:24:27

He'd had two of them. My husband was drinking them, as well.

0:24:270:24:30

-Oh, so, it's...

-It was between him and my husband.

-Right.

0:24:300:24:33

I know they were talking, having a heart-to-heart in the garden

0:24:330:24:36

and they were talking about friends.

0:24:360:24:38

Him having no friends, or something like that.

0:24:380:24:40

-So who noticed that Darren had left?

-Me.

-You?

-Mm.

0:24:400:24:43

-And how did you notice it?

-I went up to the toi...

0:24:430:24:45

Well, I thought...we thought because the way he'd left the room...

0:24:450:24:48

How'd he leave the room?

0:24:480:24:50

Just, like, as normal, as if he were going to the toilet.

0:24:500:24:52

So I've checked all the rooms, nothing, and that's when

0:24:520:24:55

I went to the front and that's when I noticed the car had gone.

0:24:550:24:57

And that's when I came in and I said, "Look, he has gone".

0:24:570:25:00

-What was Becky's reaction?

-She said, "What do you mean, he's gone?"

0:25:000:25:02

I said, "He's gone home, like, he's left you." Like...

0:25:020:25:06

We've had some information that, um...there's been a domestic

0:25:060:25:09

incident between the two of them while they were at your house.

0:25:090:25:12

-A domestic?

-Yeah.

0:25:120:25:14

-Did you hear any fallouts between them?

-Like, no!

0:25:140:25:17

-Nothing at all?

-To me, they were just bantering

0:25:190:25:21

and they were being their normal selves.

0:25:210:25:25

That's why I didn't... If there was, I would... Straight away.

0:25:250:25:29

-Any physical contact between the two of them?

-No, no, no, nothing.

0:25:290:25:33

There was no big fight or nothing like that.

0:25:330:25:36

Back at Bishop Auckland station,

0:25:400:25:43

Emma and Claire report their findings to their boss, Tommy.

0:25:430:25:47

She said she hasn't seen an argument,

0:25:490:25:51

nobody's made reference to an argument.

0:25:510:25:53

The thing that just concerns me about that is that Rebecca is

0:25:540:25:57

saying that there was possibly a physical assault by Rebecca on him.

0:25:570:26:01

I said, "Was there any physical contact between the two of them?"

0:26:010:26:04

And she said no. Unless she's hiding it.

0:26:040:26:06

Would you be able to give her a ring? I know we've come back from her.

0:26:060:26:09

Ask her direct and just say, look, no-one's getting into trouble here,

0:26:090:26:12

all we want to do is try and find Darren.

0:26:120:26:14

PHONE RINGS OUT

0:26:140:26:16

-PHONE:

-Hello?

-It's Emma from the police station.

0:26:160:26:18

-I'm the officer who has just been round to your house.

-Hiya.

0:26:180:26:21

We've spoken to our boss.

0:26:210:26:22

What he's said is that Becky's confirmed to us that she had

0:26:220:26:25

a conversation with you on Sunday morning, you told her that

0:26:250:26:28

there'd been a physical assault between her and Darren.

0:26:280:26:30

Now, nobody's in any trouble,

0:26:300:26:33

we're not kind of investigating any sort of assault.

0:26:330:26:36

Yeah, that there's been physical contact between the two of them.

0:26:360:26:39

She'd hi...?

0:26:430:26:44

Right, so, she did hit him?

0:26:460:26:48

All right, thank you. Bye.

0:26:480:26:50

Yeah, there's been a physical assault. She's confirmed it.

0:26:520:26:55

She said, "I didn't think it was important".

0:26:570:26:59

But she said that before Darren went into the garden,

0:27:010:27:04

she can't remember what was said,

0:27:040:27:06

but that Becky has punched him to the face.

0:27:060:27:09

No injury that she saw.

0:27:090:27:11

No bleeding, immediate bruising or anything.

0:27:110:27:13

Said that... Described him as being absolutely fine.

0:27:130:27:16

He didn't appear upset, he didn't appear angry, um...

0:27:160:27:19

-He'll have been embarrassed, though.

-Probably.

0:27:190:27:22

And he's gone into the kitchen and then, it's just after this

0:27:220:27:25

when her partner and Darren have gone into the back garden to talk.

0:27:250:27:28

Have a one-to-one.

0:27:280:27:30

So I think he's really the important person we need to speak to.

0:27:300:27:32

Police now know Darren had an intimate conversation

0:27:350:27:37

with the party's host before he disappeared.

0:27:370:27:40

The last person to see somebody alive,

0:27:420:27:45

they're going to give that detailed account of someone's mind-set

0:27:450:27:48

prior to them going missing.

0:27:480:27:50

They are key and we need to speak to them as quickly as possible.

0:27:500:27:53

But the man they need to question is working overseas

0:27:550:27:58

and won't be back for two days.

0:27:580:28:00

As the week drew on, it was, like,

0:28:100:28:12

it was getting more desperate

0:28:120:28:15

and it was getting more and more worrying.

0:28:150:28:17

And then we felt like if we shared photos on Twitter and Facebook,

0:28:170:28:23

that that was the only thing that we could do.

0:28:230:28:26

He hadn't been seen and his car hadn't been seen

0:28:260:28:29

and it just wasn't...

0:28:290:28:31

It just wasn't adding up.

0:28:310:28:33

Is he alive? Is he dead?

0:28:390:28:41

All sorts were just going through my head.

0:28:440:28:46

Just constantly, all the time.

0:28:460:28:50

What-ifs all the time. What-ifs.

0:28:500:28:53

After six days, the police at last have a breakthrough.

0:29:230:29:26

Could you do me a favour?

0:29:290:29:31

Could you record that footage

0:29:310:29:33

and send it to me on, er...on my phone?

0:29:330:29:39

We can concentrate our search around that area.

0:29:390:29:42

Officers on the ground have tracked down crucial CCTV

0:29:430:29:46

of Darren's car the night he left the party.

0:29:460:29:49

He's captured on CCTV...

0:29:510:29:53

-You know the PCSOs doing the review?

-Yep.

0:29:530:29:56

Junction of Longfield Road...

0:29:560:29:58

-Oh, fantastic!

-..he turns right onto Whessoe Road at 21:51.

0:29:580:30:01

-Brilliant.

-He cuts the corner

0:30:010:30:03

and then heads up Whessoe Road, towards, like, Burtree, that way.

0:30:030:30:07

There's cops up there now searching that whole route.

0:30:070:30:10

So far, the police have been concentrating their search

0:30:110:30:15

on Darren's preferred route home from Darlington.

0:30:150:30:18

The CCTV confirms he was travelling in a different direction.

0:30:180:30:22

Now, air support can concentrate their search

0:30:250:30:27

on roads they know Darren has taken.

0:30:270:30:30

The helicopter's camera can't see through dense foliage,

0:30:510:30:55

so officers join the search at ground level.

0:30:550:30:58

-Look how far that goes down!

-I know.

0:30:590:31:01

-There's nothing, like, fresh either.

-He's not here.

0:31:010:31:04

I just feel...I feel a bit deflated.

0:31:410:31:43

It's...it's more an element of frustration more than anything.

0:31:430:31:46

You just...

0:31:460:31:48

You want to bring it to a conclusion and

0:31:480:31:50

there's nothing at this moment in time

0:31:500:31:52

which is going to assist us in doing that, so...

0:31:520:31:55

Hopefully that changes before the shift's over.

0:31:560:31:59

There's just nothing.

0:32:010:32:03

There's just no explanation to where he is.

0:32:050:32:08

CID are continuing to interview other guests that were at the party.

0:32:250:32:30

We've had information that you were actually one of the persons

0:32:310:32:34

who was present at the barbecue on Saturday,

0:32:340:32:36

which is the last place that he was seen.

0:32:360:32:37

And how did Darren seem on the day?

0:32:370:32:39

You said that their marriage wasn't very good.

0:32:390:32:42

Do you know what they'd been rowing about?

0:32:420:32:44

They'd been rowing about drugs.

0:32:440:32:46

Who made that disclosure to you?

0:32:460:32:49

So they both told you that Darren's using drugs.

0:32:490:32:52

OK, did they say what drugs he was using?

0:32:520:32:54

He's been smoking crack cocaine.

0:32:570:33:00

She's saying that he's got a really bad crack habit.

0:33:050:33:08

His personality has massively changed recently.

0:33:080:33:11

She had a wine and cheese night a couple of months ago.

0:33:110:33:15

And she described him as being a dick while he was at the party,

0:33:160:33:21

that he's got this crack cocaine habit.

0:33:210:33:24

His mum's given him three grand in two months.

0:33:240:33:27

He said that he needed it

0:33:270:33:29

because Becky wasn't being paid maternity leave.

0:33:290:33:31

Well, apparently, he only uses it on a Thursday

0:33:320:33:34

when she goes to her dad's house.

0:33:340:33:36

You can't imagine it, though, can you, like,

0:33:370:33:39

someone who you've just married coming out with something like that.

0:33:390:33:44

To find out that he's possibly on crack cocaine...

0:33:470:33:50

..just...

0:33:540:33:55

It was just unbelievable when I heard about it.

0:33:570:34:00

I don't know if I can comprehend anything.

0:34:030:34:07

Crack cocaine with Darren,

0:34:070:34:08

it just doesn't seem to go in the same sentence.

0:34:080:34:11

But he's been... Well, I wouldn't say habitually,

0:34:150:34:17

but he's previously been using crack cocaine.

0:34:170:34:20

You know, where does that come from? And how does that fit in?

0:34:200:34:22

Because if he's using that, then are we looking at dealers,

0:34:220:34:25

are we looking at debt,

0:34:250:34:27

are we looking at him being an interim dealer or user or...?

0:34:270:34:31

Yeah.

0:34:310:34:32

If somebody is drug dependent, it changes things massively.

0:34:350:34:38

If they have, for example, a second life,

0:34:380:34:41

which your partner is unaware of,

0:34:410:34:44

or your wife's unaware of, we need to probe into that

0:34:440:34:47

and find out, well, is there actually something else

0:34:470:34:49

that's going on underneath that's caused somebody

0:34:490:34:51

to go missing from home?

0:34:510:34:53

People do have secrets. It's quite common.

0:34:590:35:02

Our job is to work out who they really are,

0:35:040:35:07

and what they're about,

0:35:070:35:09

what they're thinking, how their lifestyle is.

0:35:090:35:12

What we see on face value of somebody smiling in a photograph

0:35:160:35:19

and who looks really happy,

0:35:190:35:22

could deep down be heavily depressed.

0:35:220:35:24

And I just automatically think, "What is going on in your head?

0:35:280:35:32

"Where are you going? What are you going to go and do next?"

0:35:320:35:36

It really does make you try to get back into their heads again

0:35:360:35:38

of what's around you, what have you just done?

0:35:380:35:41

What's going to happen to him?

0:35:520:35:54

He's left pissed, and he's had an accident.

0:35:540:35:57

I would have thought that if he's had an accident,

0:35:570:35:59

there'd be a trace of his vehicle somewhere.

0:35:590:36:01

So that would come up as a road traffic collision

0:36:010:36:03

because we would have a record of it somewhere,

0:36:030:36:05

either us or county forces or other forces.

0:36:050:36:08

He's left, pissed, and killed himself?

0:36:080:36:11

Possibly, but there's no indicators to say why he would go and do so.

0:36:110:36:15

He's not left a note or anything like that, though, has he?

0:36:150:36:18

Or he's just...

0:36:180:36:20

..disappeared for a bit. Keep his head down for a few days.

0:36:200:36:24

He took a load of cash out the day before, didn't he?

0:36:240:36:27

He might have an account that we don't know about. Unlikely, but...

0:36:270:36:30

Has he got a passport?

0:36:300:36:32

No, she's got that,

0:36:320:36:34

but as we said, he's got a friend in the military

0:36:340:36:36

who's in Northern Ireland where you would only need a driving licence

0:36:360:36:40

to get over there.

0:36:400:36:41

Could he be in some crack house in Darlington?

0:36:430:36:46

It was the Thursday I went out

0:36:580:37:00

and I pretty much knew where the houses were,

0:37:000:37:05

where you can go and get some stuff.

0:37:050:37:07

So I went searching round all them.

0:37:080:37:10

Obviously, he wasn't there, you know, so it was like, pff.

0:37:170:37:22

Where next?

0:37:220:37:24

Asking people in the street

0:37:280:37:30

if they've seen the likes of Darren and stuff.

0:37:300:37:33

But there's a lot of people just said they haven't seen him.

0:37:340:37:37

They haven't seen him for a while.

0:37:370:37:40

I was racking my brains where he could be.

0:37:400:37:43

CID have received new information from Darren's wife.

0:37:590:38:03

She's looked at his online banking,

0:38:050:38:07

and she's seen that in early August,

0:38:070:38:09

there's been £1,000 paid into the account.

0:38:090:38:12

I asked her if there was anything on there

0:38:120:38:14

to suggest where it had come from and she said, "No."

0:38:140:38:17

And she said that all throughout August, at different times,

0:38:170:38:21

there's been, like, £90 drawn out here, 120 drawn out here.

0:38:210:38:25

You know, like, different amounts over, like, throughout August,

0:38:250:38:28

and now it's cleared out.

0:38:280:38:30

As I say, I think there's 39 pence or something left in it.

0:38:300:38:33

And she had no idea about that money. She said it's not his wages.

0:38:330:38:35

She doesn't know where it's come from.

0:38:350:38:37

So is that a separate bank account that she wasn't aware of?

0:38:370:38:40

No, no, she's aware of it.

0:38:400:38:41

-This is the main Barclays account that they've been using.

-Yeah.

0:38:410:38:44

-But she's just never noticed that cash before?

-No.

0:38:440:38:46

I asked Rebecca, "What's your gut feeling?" and she said,

0:38:460:38:49

"I think, because of the drugs, I think someone's taken him."

0:38:490:38:52

Someone's taken him?

0:38:520:38:54

Yeah, she didn't elaborate on it,

0:38:540:38:55

and she couldn't put any sort of meat on the bones

0:38:550:38:57

in relation to it, but...

0:38:570:38:59

Unless he's gone somewhere to score,

0:38:590:39:01

and something's befallen him.

0:39:010:39:03

It may be that she's still not letting on as much as she knows.

0:39:050:39:08

I don't know.

0:39:080:39:09

Because she hasn't been consistent, has she?

0:39:090:39:11

Deeper enquiries into Darren's bank accounts

0:39:170:39:21

have brought another person of interest into the investigation.

0:39:210:39:24

Transactions.

0:39:270:39:29

Yes, basically, you know the neighbour next door, the best man?

0:39:290:39:33

He...

0:39:330:39:34

Basically, Darren has been sending him online banking money

0:39:350:39:39

so that the fella can draw it out for him,

0:39:390:39:42

which is unusual, so we need to speak to the neighbour.

0:39:420:39:44

It's Thomas Archer.

0:39:440:39:46

I'm going to try and get somebody to go round and try and speak to him,

0:39:460:39:49

and try and find out what their relationship was,

0:39:490:39:52

and if he can shed any further light.

0:39:520:39:54

Other the past month,

0:40:010:40:03

Darren made several payments into his neighbour's bank account.

0:40:030:40:06

I've been asked to ask you, Thomas. They've obviously done a check on his bank,

0:40:080:40:12

-and there's been some deposits made into your account.

-Yeah.

0:40:120:40:14

-He used to do that all the time.

-Right.

-What was that in relation to?

0:40:140:40:18

Cos he never had a bank card, or he said he never had a bank card.

0:40:180:40:20

-Right.

-Says his mum's got his bank card.

0:40:200:40:22

He'd given it to his mum because he was trying to save money.

0:40:220:40:25

-All right.

-He used to send me the money...

-Yeah.

0:40:250:40:27

..and then go round the shop and get the money out.

0:40:270:40:29

And get the money back out.

0:40:290:40:31

Did you just give him a card? Just to draw it out? Yeah.

0:40:310:40:34

And he used to be skint all the while.

0:40:340:40:37

And then come back and say,

0:40:370:40:38

"Oh, look, I've just won 500 quid on a scratchcard."

0:40:380:40:41

And you just knew blatantly he was lying to you.

0:40:410:40:43

-Because you can't go and cash a scratchcard for 500 quid.

-No.

0:40:430:40:46

Why don't you just say, like,

0:40:460:40:48

I think he used to borrow off people, his ma and that, you know?

0:40:480:40:51

He used to lie about money all the while.

0:40:510:40:54

See, it's not that we're investigating any issues with drugs

0:40:540:40:57

or anything, like, but are you aware of any issues he had with drugs?

0:40:570:41:00

Well, I knew he did drugs,

0:41:000:41:02

but I didn't think it was an issue

0:41:020:41:03

because he must have been quite good at hiding it,

0:41:030:41:06

but now it's been mentioned, you think,

0:41:060:41:09

"Maybe that's why he's skint and that's why he's losing so much..."

0:41:090:41:13

I mean, the tops of his legs, here,

0:41:130:41:16

when the wind blew round his jeans, they were like my wrists.

0:41:160:41:19

Like, proper just dropped off him.

0:41:190:41:22

He's always been, like, skinny, never put no weight on,

0:41:220:41:25

but recently, he started looking like a corpse.

0:41:250:41:29

There's all sorts of theories that you could come up with,

0:41:290:41:31

but that's all they are, theories, isn't it?

0:41:310:41:33

You've got no money, you've got no change of clothes,

0:41:330:41:35

unless he's been saving up all that money

0:41:350:41:37

that he's been taking out and he's planned to do a bunk or something.

0:41:370:41:40

Yeah.

0:41:400:41:41

I don't know. It just seems weird for the car to go.

0:41:410:41:43

I've never worked on anything like this before,

0:41:500:41:53

where the revelations about the lifestyle have continued to develop,

0:41:530:41:57

where you think you're getting somewhere,

0:41:570:41:59

and then suddenly there's a whole raft of new lines of inquiry

0:41:590:42:02

that are quite protracted and lengthy,

0:42:020:42:07

and can take you off in a completely different direction.

0:42:070:42:10

That was found...

0:42:100:42:12

You know like you get a chest of drawers,

0:42:120:42:15

and you get a base along the bottom?

0:42:150:42:17

See the bottom of that cupboard there?

0:42:170:42:19

When you take the drawers out, there's an empty space underneath.

0:42:190:42:22

And underneath there was this.

0:42:220:42:23

Obviously, when she's looked in there there's been...

0:42:230:42:26

That's all of his debt.

0:42:260:42:28

There is bank statements and debt letters, she said.

0:42:280:42:31

It's a defaulter's bank account,

0:42:310:42:33

Capital One credit card with £345 default on it.

0:42:330:42:36

That may relate to that,

0:42:360:42:38

so we didn't really know about it, but yeah.

0:42:380:42:40

-That's fine.

-Put that in as one unit and that will be looked through.

0:42:400:42:44

Yeah.

0:42:440:42:46

-Fantastic. Thank you.

-No worries.

0:42:460:42:48

Darren and Rebecca only bought their house a few years ago.

0:42:510:42:55

So it'll be about two to three years.

0:42:560:42:59

They were saving up for a deposit,

0:42:590:43:01

and put a deposit on the house and then moved in their house.

0:43:010:43:04

When I first got on the property ladder,

0:43:040:43:07

I picked my house up for £29,000, you know?

0:43:070:43:11

Now you're looking at 80, 90, 100.

0:43:110:43:14

You know, you're looking at £400 or £500 a month.

0:43:150:43:19

That's even before anything else.

0:43:190:43:22

Easy.

0:43:220:43:24

He never showed any pressure, like, he never...

0:43:240:43:28

never once...

0:43:280:43:30

..showed he was, like, struggling with anything.

0:43:310:43:35

He just got on with life.

0:43:350:43:37

He was always jolly, still.

0:43:370:43:39

I know if you're brave on the outside,

0:43:400:43:42

it's what goes on inside.

0:43:420:43:44

If drugs are involved in the case,

0:43:470:43:49

then it's a consideration that the debt that comes with it,

0:43:490:43:53

or the risks, owing money to a drug dealer, to them,

0:43:530:43:58

is quite a significant thing.

0:43:580:44:00

Because if I don't pay Barclays for my mortgage, I'll get a letter,

0:44:000:44:04

and then I'll get a warning letter and whatever else.

0:44:040:44:07

They'll get their legs broken. And they don't play fair.

0:44:070:44:11

The debt'll get doubled, tripled, and realistically,

0:44:110:44:14

it's going to be never-ending.

0:44:140:44:16

When you start factoring in debt,

0:44:190:44:23

and when you start factoring in drug use,

0:44:230:44:26

and you start factoring in a side of life

0:44:260:44:29

which your family are oblivious to,

0:44:290:44:32

then it's possible that you've been hiding.

0:44:320:44:35

You've almost had, like, a secret life or a second life.

0:44:350:44:40

It's like going through the back of the wardrobe into Narnia, isn't it?

0:44:400:44:43

It's like you exist in a parallel life.

0:44:430:44:46

They've just had enough of the mundane existence

0:44:490:44:52

which was the normal life. They would just disappear

0:44:520:44:56

and almost make a new start.

0:44:560:44:59

You know, start living that side of their life

0:44:590:45:02

which was just different to the life that they'd been leading previously

0:45:020:45:05

in that, you know, the domestic family set-up.

0:45:050:45:08

It's been seven days since Darren went missing at the barbecue.

0:45:430:45:48

The party's host is now back in the UK and has come in for questioning.

0:45:480:45:52

CID need to know what was said in their intimate conversation

0:45:530:45:57

before Darren disappeared.

0:45:570:45:59

We've been told that, and this has come from Becky,

0:46:000:46:05

that she'd been seen to hit Darren at the party.

0:46:050:46:10

And a few people had said that

0:46:100:46:12

you had quite a conversation with Darren outside,

0:46:120:46:15

and it was a bit of a heart-to-heart.

0:46:150:46:17

They were arguing. Like, name-calling. I was like,

0:46:170:46:20

"Come on, let's go outside and have a smoke and a chat."

0:46:200:46:23

We went outside, sat in the gazebo.

0:46:230:46:26

And I was like, "What's up?"

0:46:260:46:28

-And he just started getting upset.

-Upset crying or...?

0:46:280:46:31

-Yeah, yeah, crying.

-OK.

0:46:310:46:32

-I was like, "What's up with you?"

-OK, OK. This part...

0:46:320:46:35

Is really important.

0:46:350:46:37

..is really important, so I'm going to try and type

0:46:370:46:39

exactly what you say.

0:46:390:46:40

He can't seem to find a way out of it.

0:46:400:46:43

And he doesn't know how to make things better.

0:46:430:46:45

And he was saying, "I've messed up.

0:46:450:46:47

"I don't know how to get back from it."

0:46:470:46:48

I was like, "Well, what have you done?"

0:46:480:46:50

"Oh, she's never going to forgive me.

0:46:500:46:51

"She's never going to forgive me."

0:46:510:46:53

I was like, "Whatever you've done can't be that bad.

0:46:530:46:55

"You've only been married a few weeks."

0:46:550:46:57

I said, like, "Sort your head out." Basically.

0:46:570:47:01

And he was saying,

0:47:010:47:03

"Ah, but she'll never forgive me, she'll never forgive me."

0:47:030:47:05

He said, "I've got no mates." I said, "Well, I'm your mate."

0:47:050:47:09

But I haven't actually known him for that long.

0:47:090:47:12

I've known him...not even six months, I don't think.

0:47:120:47:16

Did he ever, at any point, say what this thing is that he'd done...

0:47:160:47:21

-No, he was just, he was just...

-Becky was not going to forgive.

0:47:210:47:23

He seemed as if, whatever he's done...

0:47:230:47:25

It seemed like he couldn't find...

0:47:270:47:30

He didn't know how to make things better.

0:47:300:47:32

Then we went back in the house and we had a few more drinks.

0:47:320:47:36

And then he just went.

0:47:370:47:39

-So did he tell him what was wrong?

-Nothing.

-Did he not ask him?

0:47:450:47:48

-He hasn't pushed him.

-No.

0:47:480:47:50

-Are we happy that he's telling the truth about that?

-Yeah, yeah.

0:47:500:47:54

I've read it out to him about three times.

0:47:540:47:57

Cos that would be your first question, wouldn't it?

0:47:570:47:59

It's a shame he didn't probe as to why he was...

0:47:590:48:03

..so down.

0:48:040:48:05

Nothing. He couldn't give any lines of inquiry.

0:48:050:48:07

He did say he's going to go out walking tonight

0:48:070:48:09

with another guy who was at the party to see if he could find him.

0:48:090:48:12

Within half an hour of the barbecue host leaving,

0:48:210:48:25

Darren's brother, Andrew, turns up unexpectedly at the station.

0:48:250:48:30

Come in, take a seat.

0:48:340:48:37

Um...

0:48:370:48:38

My name's Emma. I am a detective and I work in South Durham CID.

0:48:410:48:45

I'm one of those assisting in the investigation of finding Darren.

0:48:450:48:48

Yeah.

0:48:480:48:49

How are you doing?

0:48:490:48:51

-Not very good.

-No.

0:48:510:48:53

Are there any questions you want to ask us?

0:48:530:48:56

How has he disappeared? Where's he gone?

0:48:570:48:59

What do you think's happened to him?

0:49:030:49:05

My initial feeling is that he's just gone and started a new life.

0:49:060:49:10

TELEPHONE RINGING TONE

0:49:120:49:14

Emergency.

0:49:170:49:18

CALLER SPEAKS INDISTINCLY

0:49:180:49:20

Where to?

0:49:200:49:21

CALLER SPEAKS INDISTINCLY

0:49:210:49:23

OK, whereabouts are you?

0:49:230:49:24

You know Burtree? By the caravans there. I've just found him!

0:49:250:49:30

I've just found him now!

0:49:300:49:32

Give us two minutes, Graham.

0:49:450:49:47

Hello, mate, it's Graham, ODS over at Bishop.

0:49:560:50:00

Where exactly is the vehicle?

0:50:000:50:01

Darren's car has been found

0:50:060:50:07

in the centre of a densely wooded roundabout

0:50:070:50:11

three and a half miles from the

0:50:110:50:12

Darlington barbecue address.

0:50:120:50:14

Emma and Andrew are unaware of the discovery.

0:50:190:50:22

I just wish I could get in his mind and think what he's doing

0:50:260:50:28

and what's going on.

0:50:280:50:29

Someone... I don't know if he's got depression. You don't know, do you?

0:50:320:50:36

I've had depression myself.

0:50:360:50:39

And you just block everything else out.

0:50:390:50:41

Everything else what's around you doesn't mean anything,

0:50:430:50:46

you know what I mean?

0:50:460:50:47

-You're in your own little world.

-Yeah.

0:50:470:50:51

I've been there.

0:50:510:50:52

I've sorted myself out. You never know.

0:50:540:50:57

It could be a number of things. You just...

0:50:570:51:00

You don't know.

0:51:000:51:02

I don't know at all.

0:51:040:51:06

-OK?

-Yeah.

-Right.

0:51:060:51:08

HE SIGHS

0:51:110:51:14

Just this way.

0:51:210:51:23

So we're approaching the scene now, but as you can see,

0:51:250:51:29

we're on a dual carriageway there.

0:51:290:51:30

It has been national speed limit

0:51:300:51:32

up until the point that we've just passed.

0:51:320:51:35

But it drops to a 50 because, you know,

0:51:350:51:39

it's quite a severe bend on approach to the roundabout here.

0:51:390:51:43

There's been quite a number of accidents in previous times. So...

0:51:430:51:47

We can see we're just approaching the actual point now.

0:51:470:51:52

Is he actually on the roundabout, then?

0:51:530:51:55

Oh, yeah. I mean, there's some...

0:51:570:52:00

All right. Let's go and have a look.

0:52:090:52:12

-He's travelled some distance then, hasn't he?

-He has. He has.

0:52:280:52:32

-It is well hidden.

-See where his car slid down?

0:52:330:52:36

-Ah.

-That's the wing mirror.

0:52:360:52:38

Jeez.

0:52:380:52:40

So he's actually been airborne and struck that there.

0:52:400:52:44

So you're happy it's a traffic accident?

0:52:440:52:47

-Hiya. Are you all right?

-Hiya, yeah, are you?

0:53:040:53:07

Yeah, yeah. Have you heard?

0:53:070:53:09

I've heard that his vehicle's been found.

0:53:090:53:11

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:53:110:53:13

I mean, it's his vehicle and there's a deceased male within,

0:53:130:53:18

so it's going to be him.

0:53:180:53:21

A deceased male in the car?

0:53:210:53:23

-Yeah, yeah.

-OK.

0:53:230:53:24

To be fair, where he is,

0:53:240:53:26

he's probably come straight from the party,

0:53:260:53:29

and probably died within ten minutes, I suspect.

0:53:290:53:32

The route he's taken,

0:53:330:53:36

it is well hidden so it's unlikely anyone, you know,

0:53:360:53:41

it's... He's obviously been travelling at a massive speed.

0:53:410:53:45

-He's been airborne and hit a tree halfway up.

-Wow.

-So, yeah.

0:53:450:53:50

Do you want me to stay here and then...?

0:53:500:53:53

Yeah, just stay there.

0:53:530:53:55

We'll sort out what we're going to do with the family afterwards.

0:53:550:53:58

Yeah, yeah, the brother's just left, yeah.

0:53:580:54:01

Right, OK, no problem.

0:54:010:54:03

HE CRIES

0:54:310:54:34

I still remember, it was absolutely bouncing with rain.

0:54:410:54:45

I just knew it was fatal as soon as I seen that car.

0:54:450:54:48

There was no way there was anybody coming away from that.

0:54:480:54:50

I just felt like somebody had took my heart out

0:55:090:55:12

and stuck a knife through it.

0:55:120:55:14

It still feels like that now.

0:55:140:55:16

The thing is, if I'd had that opportunity to help him,

0:55:390:55:43

I would have helped him.

0:55:430:55:45

I would have given him a cuddle and said, "We'll sort this.

0:55:470:55:51

"We'll talk about it.

0:55:510:55:53

"And we'll go and get some help."

0:55:530:55:55

Talk to somebody...

0:55:590:56:00

..cos it does work.

0:56:010:56:02

Let your feelings go. Talk to somebody.

0:56:060:56:10

Get some help.

0:56:100:56:11

If you don't get the help...

0:56:130:56:14

..anything can happen with that mind.

0:56:190:56:21

It plays terrible tricks with you.

0:56:220:56:24

He wouldn't want people to be sad.

0:56:400:56:43

He wouldn't want people not being together.

0:56:430:56:45

He'd want everybody getting on and being close.

0:56:450:56:48

Cos that's what Darren loved.

0:56:480:56:50

He loved it when everybody was together.

0:56:500:56:52

In his younger days he was a para,

0:57:180:57:20

so if he's suffering from a dementia episode,

0:57:200:57:22

and he's reverted back to his days of thinking he's a para,

0:57:220:57:25

-it isn't unusual for him to walk 20 miles.

-Archie!

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