0:00:07 > 0:00:11PHONE RINGS
0:00:17 > 0:00:20RINGING CONTINUES
0:00:20 > 0:00:22RINGING STOPS
0:01:33 > 0:01:35- Body was found this morning. - Time?- Just after six.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45FAINT METAL CLANKING
0:01:53 > 0:01:56INDISTINCT
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Soca are on their way, sir.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54CLANKING CHIMES
0:03:04 > 0:03:08The body was burned in an attempt to conceal evidence.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11Early results from pathology suggest likely cause of death
0:03:11 > 0:03:13- a blow to the side of the head.- Time of death?
0:03:13 > 0:03:16- Some time last night but we're still waiting.- Possessions?
0:03:16 > 0:03:19- Set of keys, some coins. - Mobile phone?- No.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22DNA, we've got a match.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Aron Bowen, 39 years old,
0:03:24 > 0:03:29released from prison six months ago after serving 13 years for murder.
0:03:30 > 0:03:35He was convicted in 2001 for the murder of Abi Watkins.
0:03:35 > 0:03:36Girlfriend?
0:03:36 > 0:03:41- Yeah.- Have they got any kids? - A little girl, sir, Ffion.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43She was four years old when her mother was murdered.
0:03:43 > 0:03:48- Domestic dispute?- Abi was stabbed, but they never found the weapon.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51Bowen said he was innocent, never changed his story.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55According to Bowen, they fought, she hit him,
0:03:55 > 0:03:59he hit her back, then Bowen left the house.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02He came back the next morning to find Abi dead.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05It says here the defendant fled the scene of the crime -
0:04:05 > 0:04:07why run if you're innocent?
0:04:07 > 0:04:09Maybe he was guilty.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Get onto probation, find out the terms of his release
0:04:11 > 0:04:14- and when he was last in contact. - Yes, sir.- What about his family?
0:04:14 > 0:04:15Do we know where they live?
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Ynyshir Boatyard in Borth, place is run by the Bowens,
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Aron's brother Cal and his wife, Delyth.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56HAMMERING
0:05:12 > 0:05:13Delyth Bowen?
0:05:13 > 0:05:17Yes, how...can I help you?
0:05:17 > 0:05:20We're here about your brother-in-law, Aron Bowen.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22I'm afraid he was found dead this morning.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27- What happened? - We found his body on the beach.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29We have reason to think that he was murdered.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35Did you or your husband have any contact with Aron since
0:05:35 > 0:05:37his release from prison?
0:05:37 > 0:05:39No.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41No, my husband...
0:05:43 > 0:05:46he and his brother haven't spoken for years.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Why is that?
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Because of what he did.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Is that your daughter?
0:05:55 > 0:06:00- Aron's daughter.- Ffion?- Yes.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03We brought her up as our own.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07After what happened, there was nowhere else for her to go.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Is your husband around, Mrs Bowen?
0:06:12 > 0:06:13I'd like to talk to him.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16He's in the yard.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24WELDING MACHINE CRACKLES
0:06:39 > 0:06:40KNOCKING
0:06:40 > 0:06:42Mr Bowen!
0:06:51 > 0:06:53You don't seem very upset.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56I always knew it would end like this.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02- Where were you last night, Mr Bowen?- Porthmadog.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05I was picking up supplies, got home around eight.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Tell me about your brother.
0:07:10 > 0:07:14- What about him? - Well, were you and he ever close?
0:07:14 > 0:07:18- Well, once...that was before... - Before he murdered Abi Watkins?
0:07:18 > 0:07:19Before he wrecked everything.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23They should never have released him.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25What about Ffion?
0:07:25 > 0:07:30Aron's daughter - do you think she feels the same way?
0:07:30 > 0:07:32He was never a father to her.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35We're the only family she's ever known.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Ffion has spent the last 13 years rebuilding her life.
0:07:43 > 0:07:48If that means anything to you, stay away from her.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54And what about Aron's parents, your mother and father,
0:07:54 > 0:07:58- can I speak to them?- My father died nine years ago, stroke.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01- What about your mother? - You're welcome to try.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Annes Bowen?
0:08:35 > 0:08:40I know why you're here. Delyth called me from the yard.
0:08:40 > 0:08:41We're sorry for your loss.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51Did you have any contact with your son after his release?
0:08:53 > 0:08:54No.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58I wanted to see him, but...
0:08:58 > 0:09:00it was too hard.
0:09:00 > 0:09:04- I didn't know what to say to him. - You were still angry with him?
0:09:06 > 0:09:10He should have stayed away. There was nothing for him here.
0:09:10 > 0:09:11Not any more.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14He was your son.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18He brought shame on us all, killing that girl.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22And now he's dead.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Ffion!
0:09:27 > 0:09:28Wait!
0:09:32 > 0:09:34You're wasting your time here.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38It's not me you should be talking to, it's them.
0:09:38 > 0:09:39The family of the Watkins girl.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44They always wanted to see my son dead.
0:09:44 > 0:09:45And now...
0:09:45 > 0:09:47they've got what they wanted.
0:09:55 > 0:09:56Come on, come on.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58It's all right, it's all right.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00It's going to be all right, OK?
0:10:00 > 0:10:02It's all right, it's all right.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30- Marc Watkins. - On the corner there, mate.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Marc Watkins?
0:10:41 > 0:10:45- Did you know he'd been released? - Yeah.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48- Had you seen him about?- No.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Haven't seen him since the day they put him away.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55How do you feel knowing that the man who murdered your sister is dead?
0:10:57 > 0:11:02- I don't feel anything. Should I?- Well, you tell me.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07They should have done us all a favour and drowned him at birth.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Those two should never have got together.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16We told her and we warned her.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19It's just our bad luck she chose him.
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Her bad luck too.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31Where were you last night, Mr Watkins?
0:11:31 > 0:11:33I was with my father at his house.
0:11:36 > 0:11:37All night.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41Thank you, Mr Watkins.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53I've spoken to probation services.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56Aron Bowen missed two scheduled appointments.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59His file was flagged on the national database last week.
0:11:59 > 0:12:00Have we got an address for him?
0:12:00 > 0:12:04- 'Yeah, home and work, sending them over to you now.'- Thanks.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Hope we got the right key now.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Have we met before?
0:12:28 > 0:12:29Mr Latimer helped us
0:12:29 > 0:12:32with our enquiries in the Devil's Bridge case.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34So you did.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54There's a switch here somewhere.
0:13:03 > 0:13:07Aron Bowen - what was he like?
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Couldn't say. Kept a pretty low profile.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13You didn't ask any questions?
0:13:13 > 0:13:15Well, it wasn't my place to.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19But I could see by the way he carried himself there was...
0:13:19 > 0:13:22- There was something going on with him.- What do you mean?
0:13:23 > 0:13:25I got the impression he was trying to...
0:13:25 > 0:13:27make a go of it, trying to start again.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Good luck to him, I thought.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39Did he have any friends?
0:13:39 > 0:13:42Er... A man came over to see him couple of times. Er...
0:13:42 > 0:13:44Can't say I got much of a chance to look at him.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47- Did you get a name?- No, I'm sorry.
0:13:47 > 0:13:48Dark hair...
0:13:48 > 0:13:50about the same age.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00Aron Bowen worked for a drainage firm out on the marshes.
0:15:00 > 0:15:04He got the job through a friend, a man called Craig Jones.
0:15:04 > 0:15:05They went to school together, apparently.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07I've been trying to contact the company,
0:15:07 > 0:15:09but the office is closed for the day.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11The calls keep going straight to voicemail.
0:15:11 > 0:15:12Sir!
0:15:15 > 0:15:18I've dug out everything I can on the Abi Watkins case.
0:15:18 > 0:15:22Repeated applications for retrial. Defendant claimed he was innocent.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24But he also said that his girlfriend
0:15:24 > 0:15:26was seeing someone else behind his back.
0:15:26 > 0:15:30Another man. Reckoned it was this other man that killed Abi.
0:15:37 > 0:15:38Can you look into this, please?
0:15:40 > 0:15:41Yes, sir.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47'I just knew.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50'The way she looked at me.
0:15:53 > 0:15:54'The way she was around me.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59'You can tell when a woman's cheating on you.
0:16:00 > 0:16:05'I loved Abi, I would never hurt her. She was the mother of my child.'
0:16:06 > 0:16:08'Is that right?
0:16:09 > 0:16:12'So what about the marks on her face?
0:16:12 > 0:16:14'We argued.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17'It got out of hand, it was an accident.'
0:16:17 > 0:16:19'And the fact she ended up dead?'
0:16:19 > 0:16:20Tom?
0:16:20 > 0:16:23'Was that an accident, too?
0:16:23 > 0:16:27- 'I think you killed Abi Watkins because you were jealous.'- 'No!'
0:16:28 > 0:16:30'Jealous that she was seeing another man.'
0:16:30 > 0:16:34- 'No! That's not what happened! - 'Oh, I think it is.'
0:16:34 > 0:16:36'I think that's exactly what happened.'
0:16:36 > 0:16:40'Why won't you listen to me? Why won't anyone listen to me?!
0:16:40 > 0:16:43'I didn't kill Abi Watkins. It was the other man.'
0:16:53 > 0:16:55All the evidence was against him.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57Blood on his clothes, fleeing the scene of the crime.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00- He had motive and opportunity. - An open-and-shut case.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03- What about the man he claimed Abi was seeing?- Fabrication.
0:17:03 > 0:17:0513 years of trying to overturn his conviction,
0:17:05 > 0:17:07you don't think that counts for something?
0:17:07 > 0:17:10Bowen was guilty, he just refused to admit it.
0:17:10 > 0:17:11Some men do that.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19The pathologist on the investigation, Dr Haydn Blake...
0:17:19 > 0:17:20I want to talk to him.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22No.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24All the evidence you need is on record.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31Iwan Thomas.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37What about him?
0:17:37 > 0:17:39Have you had any further contact with him?
0:17:41 > 0:17:42No.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Good.
0:17:47 > 0:17:48KNOCK AT DOOR
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Yep?
0:17:50 > 0:17:52Sir, there's someone in reception to see you.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Ffion Bowen, the victim's daughter.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23My mother used to read to me.
0:18:24 > 0:18:25Every night.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29I used to lie next to her.
0:18:33 > 0:18:34Her hair...
0:18:35 > 0:18:37..it was so soft.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42And then she was gone.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Have you had any contact with your father since his release?
0:18:53 > 0:18:54We met up.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58A couple of times.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Does your uncle know?
0:19:01 > 0:19:02He wouldn't approve?
0:19:04 > 0:19:05That's one way of putting it.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11I wrote to my father a few years back.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17There were things that I wanted to know.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Where they first met.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Where they used to go with each other.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32Your uncle Cal, he thinks...
0:19:34 > 0:19:36He thinks your father killed your mother.
0:19:39 > 0:19:40How about you?
0:19:42 > 0:19:43No.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48I think my father was telling the truth.
0:19:49 > 0:19:50Why do you say that?
0:19:54 > 0:19:55When I was little...
0:19:58 > 0:20:00..there was a man.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03He used to come to the house...
0:20:05 > 0:20:08..when Dad wasn't there.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10- Are you sure?- Yes.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18I think that's who murdered Mam.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23And I think Dad found out who he was.
0:21:43 > 0:21:44Mr Watkins?
0:21:46 > 0:21:49My son Marc was with me all night, if that's why you're here.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Is this you?
0:22:12 > 0:22:13My father's boat.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Have you still got her?
0:22:17 > 0:22:19No, she sank.
0:22:20 > 0:22:2210th of September, 1973.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27My father and his friends went down with her.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30I was the only one to survive.
0:22:32 > 0:22:36- The boat had just come out of the yard.- The Bowens' place?
0:22:38 > 0:22:39Yeah.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41We'd been out in worse weather.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45But she was letting in water.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48And you blamed the Bowens?
0:22:48 > 0:22:52The pumps didn't work, and the repairs didn't hold.
0:22:52 > 0:22:56If they had, my father and his men would not have been lost.
0:22:58 > 0:23:02I don't understand why my daughter got involved with that family,
0:23:02 > 0:23:04after what they did to us.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07She broke my wife Gwyneth's heart.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14Aron Bowen said that your daughter Abi was seeing somebody else.
0:23:14 > 0:23:19That's what he wanted you to believe, that he was innocent.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22Aron Bowen was a murderer, just like his father.
0:23:24 > 0:23:28A coward who wouldn't accept responsibility for what he had done.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32What about your granddaughter, Ffion?
0:23:32 > 0:23:36Huh, that woman wouldn't let us anywhere near her.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38Annes?
0:23:38 > 0:23:41Yeah...Annes.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44Whatever Annes wants...
0:23:45 > 0:23:47..Annes gets.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12Mr Jones?
0:25:28 > 0:25:31CROSSING SIREN WAILS
0:25:54 > 0:25:56TRAIN HORN BLARES
0:26:46 > 0:26:48When bad things happen...
0:26:50 > 0:26:53..do you think it leaves a stain on the place?
0:27:03 > 0:27:06I went to school with a girl that used to live here.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10She was older than me.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Her father was a policeman.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Iwan Thomas?
0:27:17 > 0:27:19Her and her mother were murdered.
0:27:21 > 0:27:22I know.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26But we caught the man who did it.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36I told them I'd been to see you.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40I told them I'd been seeing my dad.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43What did they say?
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Not a lot.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48Nothing ever gets said.
0:27:54 > 0:27:58What do you mean - nothing ever gets said?
0:28:00 > 0:28:01They never talk about my mother.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03Never about my father.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08It's like they never existed.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11But if they don't exist...
0:28:11 > 0:28:12Neither do you.
0:28:16 > 0:28:17I'd better get back.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21Ffion?
0:28:25 > 0:28:27We will catch whoever killed your father, OK?
0:29:44 > 0:29:46Ffion was in contact with her father.
0:29:48 > 0:29:50They met up.
0:29:51 > 0:29:53She didn't tell you?
0:29:59 > 0:30:03Ffion has this idea of what her father was like.
0:30:05 > 0:30:08The man he once was, or the man he could have been.
0:30:10 > 0:30:12But he was never there for her.
0:30:13 > 0:30:15What sort of father is that?
0:30:31 > 0:30:33PHONE RINGS
0:30:33 > 0:30:34Lloyd?
0:30:34 > 0:30:37'The till receipt we found at the victim's bedsit...
0:30:37 > 0:30:41'There was an incident involving Aron Bowen.
0:30:41 > 0:30:42'Three days ago.'
0:30:59 > 0:31:02I spoke to the owner. He said Bowen didn't want to call the police.
0:31:02 > 0:31:04Didn't want them involved.
0:31:04 > 0:31:06- Cos he was on probation.- Mm-hmm.
0:31:58 > 0:31:59When we spoke yesterday,
0:31:59 > 0:32:03you said that you hadn't seen Aron Bowen since his release.
0:32:05 > 0:32:08That is you in that photograph, isn't it?
0:32:13 > 0:32:15So I gave him a kicking.
0:32:16 > 0:32:18What difference does it make?
0:32:22 > 0:32:23He killed my sister.
0:32:25 > 0:32:29Doesn't mean I had anything to do with his death.
0:32:29 > 0:32:30No?
0:32:32 > 0:32:36I wish I had it in me to do it, but I don't.
0:32:39 > 0:32:41All my life I've wanted him dead.
0:32:41 > 0:32:43And now that he is...
0:32:44 > 0:32:46..it doesn't change anything.
0:32:50 > 0:32:52He should never have come back here.
0:32:52 > 0:32:55If he'd had any sense, he'd have stayed away.
0:32:55 > 0:32:56Why?
0:32:58 > 0:33:00Do you think that way he'd still be alive?
0:33:01 > 0:33:03You had unfinished business with him.
0:33:03 > 0:33:04No.
0:33:05 > 0:33:07The other night at the garage.
0:33:07 > 0:33:10That was just the start of it.
0:33:10 > 0:33:11- A taste of what was to come.- No.
0:33:11 > 0:33:14But once you had a taste for it, there was no stopping you.
0:33:14 > 0:33:16He killed my sister!
0:33:16 > 0:33:19Stabbed her to death!
0:33:19 > 0:33:22Now, everyone round here knows that he did it, everyone except you.
0:33:22 > 0:33:24Why are you raking all this up?
0:33:24 > 0:33:26Because he served his time.
0:33:26 > 0:33:27Paid for his crime.
0:33:29 > 0:33:31And now he's dead.
0:33:31 > 0:33:32Murdered...
0:33:32 > 0:33:34just like your sister.
0:33:34 > 0:33:36It's got nothing to do with me,
0:33:36 > 0:33:38I was at my father's house all night.
0:33:44 > 0:33:47You think I'm the only one who wanted him dead?
0:33:48 > 0:33:51His own family couldn't stand the sight of him.
0:33:53 > 0:33:56His father never got over the shame, he drank himself to death.
0:33:56 > 0:34:00And his mother, she hated her own son for what he'd done.
0:34:06 > 0:34:08So, Aron's dead.
0:34:08 > 0:34:09Good.
0:34:11 > 0:34:13The world's a better place without him.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16You don't have to take my word for it, you go talk to his mother
0:34:16 > 0:34:20or his brother, they'll tell you the same things as me.
0:34:39 > 0:34:42Tell us about the night Abi was killed.
0:34:45 > 0:34:47Mrs Bowen?
0:34:48 > 0:34:52I heard Aron's car pull up outside.
0:34:53 > 0:34:54I wasn't expecting him.
0:34:57 > 0:34:59He came into the kitchen.
0:35:01 > 0:35:05I could see he'd been involved in some sort of fight.
0:35:05 > 0:35:07He was upset.
0:35:08 > 0:35:11He said that he and Abi had argued.
0:35:14 > 0:35:17That he'd made a mess of his life, he'd...
0:35:17 > 0:35:19He'd made a mess of everything.
0:35:19 > 0:35:21And he knew it.
0:35:23 > 0:35:25And then...?
0:35:27 > 0:35:30Well, I told him to sleep it off, sober up,
0:35:30 > 0:35:32sort it out in the morning.
0:35:34 > 0:35:36He slept here?
0:35:36 > 0:35:37I sent him home.
0:35:40 > 0:35:42And then...
0:35:42 > 0:35:43what did you do?
0:35:46 > 0:35:48Well, I went back to bed.
0:35:51 > 0:35:53It was the last I ever saw of him.
0:35:58 > 0:36:00Next morning, the...
0:36:00 > 0:36:02police came to the house.
0:36:04 > 0:36:06Told me what he'd done.
0:36:11 > 0:36:14We warned him not to get involved with that girl.
0:36:14 > 0:36:16But he wouldn't listen.
0:36:57 > 0:37:01"I'm so sorry for all the years of sorrow you have endured.
0:37:01 > 0:37:04"Perhaps I should have said something at the time,
0:37:04 > 0:37:06"but the fact that my daughter was seeing someone else
0:37:06 > 0:37:09"doesn't change what happened that night."
0:37:09 > 0:37:11It's from Abi Watkins' mother, Gwyneth.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14Thanking Aron Bowen for all the letters he sent her.
0:37:14 > 0:37:16It was written three weeks before she died.
0:37:16 > 0:37:18"I hope you can forgive me for staying silent
0:37:18 > 0:37:22"in the same way that I must forgive you. Yours faithfully, Gwyneth."
0:37:22 > 0:37:25She knew who her daughter was seeing.
0:37:25 > 0:37:28Then Aron Bowen was right about the affair.
0:37:28 > 0:37:30Maybe he was right about who killed Abi Watkins too.
0:37:42 > 0:37:45The first letter we received from Aron...
0:37:45 > 0:37:48we thought he was going to say he was sorry.
0:37:50 > 0:37:51Ask for forgiveness.
0:37:53 > 0:37:55We thought maybe he would admit to what he'd done.
0:37:58 > 0:38:02But he still kept protesting his innocence.
0:38:02 > 0:38:03What did the letter say?
0:38:04 > 0:38:06Nothing that he hadn't said in court.
0:38:09 > 0:38:11But he still kept on writing...
0:38:12 > 0:38:14..one letter after the other.
0:38:16 > 0:38:19We didn't bother reading them in the end.
0:38:19 > 0:38:22We just threw them in the fire.
0:38:23 > 0:38:25I thought the letters had stopped.
0:38:25 > 0:38:27But when Gwyneth died...
0:38:28 > 0:38:29HE SIGHS
0:38:29 > 0:38:31..I found out that...
0:38:32 > 0:38:34..she'd been hiding them.
0:38:35 > 0:38:39Your wife Gwyneth wrote this letter three weeks before she died.
0:38:39 > 0:38:42She thought that Abi was seeing someone else.
0:38:42 > 0:38:43Another man.
0:38:45 > 0:38:49We think that Aron Bowen recently found out who Abi was seeing.
0:38:50 > 0:38:53And that man might be responsible for his death.
0:38:54 > 0:38:56Who is he, Mr Watkins?
0:39:11 > 0:39:13'I had nothing to do with it.'
0:39:13 > 0:39:16'And what about Abi Watkins?'
0:39:16 > 0:39:17What about her?
0:39:17 > 0:39:21Aron Bowen knew that Abi was seeing someone behind his back.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23And that someone was you.
0:39:23 > 0:39:26What happened? Did Aron find out?
0:39:26 > 0:39:28- Did he come after you?- No.
0:39:28 > 0:39:29Is that why you killed him?
0:39:29 > 0:39:31I didn't kill Aron, that's not what happened.
0:39:31 > 0:39:33Then tell us what did happen!
0:39:43 > 0:39:44Aron knew.
0:39:46 > 0:39:47How?
0:39:47 > 0:39:50I told him, everything. The truth.
0:39:50 > 0:39:51- When?- Last week.
0:39:51 > 0:39:54- Why?- Because I wanted him to admit to what he'd done.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57He kept saying it wasn't him that killed Abi,
0:39:57 > 0:40:01kept saying it was this man she was shagging behind his back.
0:40:01 > 0:40:02But I knew that was a lie.
0:40:03 > 0:40:06Because that man was you.
0:40:11 > 0:40:13'Where were you the night Aron was killed?'
0:40:14 > 0:40:16'I was home.'
0:40:17 > 0:40:19'Were you with anyone?'
0:40:21 > 0:40:22'No.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24'I was on my own.'
0:40:25 > 0:40:27'All night?'
0:40:27 > 0:40:28'All night.'
0:40:33 > 0:40:36Tell us about the night that Abi was killed.
0:40:42 > 0:40:43Aron had been drinking.
0:40:45 > 0:40:48I met up with him after work. He was in a bad way, he was angry.
0:40:48 > 0:40:51I tried to talk to him, to calm him down.
0:40:51 > 0:40:54He was having none of it.
0:40:54 > 0:40:55We argued.
0:40:58 > 0:41:00And off he went.
0:41:00 > 0:41:03You didn't go after him?
0:41:03 > 0:41:04So what DID you do?
0:41:09 > 0:41:11I went home.
0:41:13 > 0:41:17- But I was worried about Abi, so I went over there.- To see her?
0:41:18 > 0:41:21When I got there, the place was a hell of a mess.
0:41:23 > 0:41:24They'd been fighting.
0:41:24 > 0:41:26Aron was gone.
0:41:26 > 0:41:29But Abi had these marks on her face.
0:41:29 > 0:41:30And then what?
0:41:32 > 0:41:34I got angry.
0:41:35 > 0:41:39I went over to Aron's flat and had it out with him.
0:41:39 > 0:41:40What time was this?
0:41:42 > 0:41:43One.
0:41:45 > 0:41:48His truck was outside, I knew he was in there.
0:41:50 > 0:41:51I just couldn't do it.
0:41:54 > 0:41:55Couldn't face him.
0:41:59 > 0:42:00I just sat there outside his flat.
0:42:05 > 0:42:06Doing nothing.
0:42:07 > 0:42:08Till when?
0:42:11 > 0:42:12Three.
0:42:36 > 0:42:40On the night Abi was killed, Craig said he was outside Aron's flat
0:42:40 > 0:42:42between one and three in the morning.
0:42:42 > 0:42:45This supports Aron's story that he went home that night.
0:42:45 > 0:42:47If Craig Jones is telling the truth.
0:42:47 > 0:42:50The coroner's report puts time of death for Abi Watkins
0:42:50 > 0:42:52between one and four in the morning.
0:42:52 > 0:42:54That still leaves Aron Bowen an hour to account for.
0:42:54 > 0:42:58But Craig Jones's testimony suggests that Aron was telling the truth.
0:42:59 > 0:43:01I agree.
0:43:01 > 0:43:03DC Ellis.
0:43:03 > 0:43:04DS Owens.
0:43:15 > 0:43:17A convicted murderer is found dead,
0:43:17 > 0:43:20and you're charged with finding the killer.
0:43:20 > 0:43:23We think it's more complicated than that, sir.
0:43:24 > 0:43:27We?
0:43:27 > 0:43:28Yes, sir.
0:43:28 > 0:43:32Craig's testimony casts doubt on the original conviction.
0:43:34 > 0:43:36The Abi Watkins case is closed.
0:43:36 > 0:43:41Aron Bowen was found guilty of her murder.
0:43:41 > 0:43:44Now, our priority is to find out who killed Aron Bowen.
0:43:45 > 0:43:47And not to undermine the original conviction.
0:43:47 > 0:43:50But what if both cases go hand in hand, sir?
0:43:50 > 0:43:54Aron Bowen served 13 years for a crime he did or did not commit.
0:43:54 > 0:43:56And now he's lying in a mortuary.
0:43:59 > 0:44:00I supported you, DCI Mathias.
0:44:02 > 0:44:04Over Mari Davies.
0:44:05 > 0:44:07And Gwen Thomas.
0:44:10 > 0:44:13I hope you're not suggesting I didn't do my work properly.
0:44:25 > 0:44:26That went well.
0:44:26 > 0:44:28HE CHUCKLES
0:44:28 > 0:44:30What do we do about Craig Jones?
0:44:31 > 0:44:34We do what we're told.
0:44:34 > 0:44:36We hold him.
0:44:36 > 0:44:39On the suspicion of killing Aron Bowen.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43Where are you going?
0:44:45 > 0:44:47To talk to Haydn Blake.
0:45:11 > 0:45:12KNOCK ON WINDOW
0:45:17 > 0:45:20Sorry to startle you, Dr Blake.
0:45:20 > 0:45:21That's all right.
0:45:56 > 0:46:00I don't see that Craig Jones' testimony changes anything.
0:46:00 > 0:46:03Aron Bowen had an hour in which to commit this crime.
0:46:03 > 0:46:05An hour that can't be accounted for.
0:46:06 > 0:46:09Do you think Aron Bowen was guilty?
0:46:09 > 0:46:13I don't deal in guilt and innocence - I deal in facts,
0:46:13 > 0:46:16and the facts of this case are there in black and white.
0:46:18 > 0:46:22Well, if that's true, why was I told not to talk to you?
0:46:23 > 0:46:25But we are talking.
0:46:27 > 0:46:30Thank you for your time, Dr Blake.
0:46:37 > 0:46:38ENGINE STARTS
0:47:17 > 0:47:20PHONE VIBRATES
0:47:49 > 0:47:52CHILDREN SHOUT ON TV
0:48:08 > 0:48:12It's a pity they can't stay children forever.
0:48:27 > 0:48:29I've buried a husband...
0:48:29 > 0:48:31lost a son...
0:48:32 > 0:48:33..given my life to the yard...
0:48:35 > 0:48:37..and for what?
0:48:49 > 0:48:51SHE SIGHS
0:48:53 > 0:48:55Aron should have stayed away.
0:48:55 > 0:48:57He should never have come back.
0:48:57 > 0:48:59There was nothing left for him here.
0:49:03 > 0:49:05He wanted to be close to Ffion.
0:49:07 > 0:49:09To be a father to his daughter.
0:49:10 > 0:49:14Cal is the only father that Ffion has ever known.
0:49:16 > 0:49:20If Aron really cared for that girl, he would have left her alone.
0:49:27 > 0:49:30Did you know that Abi was having an affair with Craig Jones?
0:49:33 > 0:49:36Do you think Craig could have killed your son?
0:49:38 > 0:49:41What difference does it make?
0:49:41 > 0:49:43SEAGULLS CRY ON TV
0:49:56 > 0:49:58It makes a difference if your son was innocent.
0:53:09 > 0:53:13PATTER OF RAIN ON ROOF
0:53:18 > 0:53:20WATER SPLASHES
0:53:50 > 0:53:51Ffion.
0:53:51 > 0:53:53I didn't know where else to go.
0:54:00 > 0:54:02Let me get you a towel.
0:54:29 > 0:54:30There you go.
0:54:38 > 0:54:40Sit down, sit down.
0:55:07 > 0:55:10I should take you home. They'll be worried about you.
0:55:11 > 0:55:13No, they won't.
0:55:14 > 0:55:17They never gave Dad a chance.
0:55:18 > 0:55:20None of them did.
0:55:29 > 0:55:31It's my fault he's dead.
0:55:34 > 0:55:37The night he was killed, he phoned me.
0:55:38 > 0:55:42He said he wanted to see me, but I said no.
0:55:43 > 0:55:46I couldn't keep lying like that.
0:55:49 > 0:55:52As soon as I hung up, I regretted it.
0:55:54 > 0:55:56I tried to phone him back.
0:55:57 > 0:55:59But the line was busy.
0:56:01 > 0:56:05If I'd have seen him that night, maybe he'd still be alive.
0:56:15 > 0:56:16Are those your little girls?
0:56:19 > 0:56:21Mm-hmm, yeah.
0:56:24 > 0:56:26Do you miss them?
0:56:28 > 0:56:29Every day.
0:56:35 > 0:56:36SHE SOBS
0:56:36 > 0:56:38Hey...
0:57:06 > 0:57:08No.
0:57:10 > 0:57:13- Sorry.- No, don't be silly, it's OK.
0:57:20 > 0:57:22I'm going to take you home.
0:57:23 > 0:57:24All right?
0:57:26 > 0:57:28OK, stay there.
0:57:57 > 0:57:58Ffion!
0:58:02 > 0:58:03Ffion!
0:59:57 > 0:59:59TYPING
1:00:06 > 1:00:09FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
1:00:09 > 1:00:10DOOR SLAMS
1:01:20 > 1:01:22KEYS JANGLE
1:02:00 > 1:02:03'I wish I'd never set eyes on her.
1:02:03 > 1:02:05'Never got involved.
1:02:07 > 1:02:09'I know how this looks.
1:02:09 > 1:02:11'I'm no saint.
1:02:11 > 1:02:13'I'm no angel.
1:02:14 > 1:02:17'I may not be the best dad in the world.'
1:02:19 > 1:02:22'I may not be the best human being in the world,
1:02:22 > 1:02:25'but that doesn't make me a killer.'
1:02:27 > 1:02:29'Do you love your daughter?
1:02:29 > 1:02:31'What's going to happen to her now?
1:02:33 > 1:02:35'Do you even care?'
1:02:39 > 1:02:41'Of course I care.'
1:03:27 > 1:03:29PHONE RINGS
1:03:38 > 1:03:41'All that shit about the trawler,
1:03:41 > 1:03:44'and her father, Wil Watkins.'
1:03:46 > 1:03:47'You know what he said...
1:03:49 > 1:03:52'..when he heard Abi was having my kid?
1:03:52 > 1:03:57'"If my daughter has any sense, she'll get rid of it.
1:03:57 > 1:04:00'"Kill the bastard before it has a chance to be born."
1:04:03 > 1:04:07'What kind of man says that about their own grandchild?'
1:04:10 > 1:04:12VCR WHIRS
1:04:18 > 1:04:20SEAGULLS CRY
1:05:58 > 1:06:01I think Aron Bowen called his daughter the night he died
1:06:01 > 1:06:03from a kiosk. This is the number.
1:06:03 > 1:06:06- I want to know who else he called from there.- Yes, sir.
1:06:11 > 1:06:12PHONE RINGS
1:06:12 > 1:06:13Mathias.
1:06:13 > 1:06:16'It's all my fault.'
1:06:17 > 1:06:18Ffion?
1:06:18 > 1:06:20'I should never have been born.
1:06:22 > 1:06:25'Everyone's lives would be so much simpler.'
1:06:27 > 1:06:29'Mam...Dad...
1:06:30 > 1:06:32'..they'd still be alive.'
1:06:32 > 1:06:34Ffion, where are you?
1:06:35 > 1:06:37'I want to be with him.'
1:06:37 > 1:06:39Ffion?
1:06:39 > 1:06:42- 'With Dad.' - CALL ENDS
1:06:42 > 1:06:43Ffion. Ffion!
1:06:45 > 1:06:49Get an ambulance over to where Aron Bowen's body was found, now.
1:07:18 > 1:07:19Ffion...
1:07:32 > 1:07:34METAL CHIMES
1:08:04 > 1:08:06FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
1:08:07 > 1:08:09Ffion turned up at the caravan last night.
1:08:09 > 1:08:11She wanted to talk.
1:08:13 > 1:08:15She took these without me seeing.
1:08:18 > 1:08:20I know, I know.
1:08:32 > 1:08:34You saved her life, Tom.
1:08:46 > 1:08:48MACHINERY BLEEPS
1:08:56 > 1:08:59- Are you happy now?- Cal!
1:08:59 > 1:09:00I told you not to go near her!
1:09:00 > 1:09:02I told you not to put ideas in her head!
1:09:02 > 1:09:04Ffion's going to be OK, Mr Bowen.
1:09:04 > 1:09:05Look what you've done to her!
1:09:05 > 1:09:08- Please!- I understand why you're upset.- Do you?
1:09:08 > 1:09:10- Do you?!- Calm down, Cal.
1:09:28 > 1:09:29Sir?
1:10:11 > 1:10:12Sir!
1:10:20 > 1:10:24We know Aron called Ffion from the kiosk the night he was killed,
1:10:24 > 1:10:26here, at 18:53.
1:10:26 > 1:10:29Ffion said she tried to call the number back a few minutes later.
1:10:29 > 1:10:34- But the number was engaged.- Because Aron made a second call at 18:56...
1:10:37 > 1:10:39..to the boatyard.
1:11:21 > 1:11:23After Aron was released,
1:11:23 > 1:11:26you said that you had no contact with him at all. Is that right?
1:11:26 > 1:11:28- That's right. - No meetings or letters?
1:11:28 > 1:11:31No phone calls?
1:11:31 > 1:11:32That's what I said.
1:11:32 > 1:11:35On the night your brother died,
1:11:35 > 1:11:37we know that he spoke to Ffion on the phone.
1:11:37 > 1:11:40And after he spoke to her, he made a second call, didn't he?
1:11:43 > 1:11:44To the boatyard.
1:11:47 > 1:11:50Like I said, I wasn't there.
1:11:54 > 1:11:58Last night, when Ffion didn't come home,
1:11:58 > 1:12:00why didn't you call the police?
1:12:02 > 1:12:04Aron had just been murdered.
1:12:04 > 1:12:08You didn't think that whoever killed him might go after Ffion too?
1:12:08 > 1:12:10That her life could be in danger?
1:12:13 > 1:12:15The truth, Cal!
1:12:24 > 1:12:26'It was me who answered the phone.'
1:12:29 > 1:12:31'What did you and Aron talk about?'
1:12:32 > 1:12:35'He wanted to talk to Cal - I told him he was out.'
1:12:36 > 1:12:38'What else?'
1:12:42 > 1:12:44He said he wanted to come to the house...
1:12:46 > 1:12:48..have it out with him.
1:12:49 > 1:12:53- SHE SIGHS - He said if Cal didn't come to him,
1:12:53 > 1:12:54he'd come to Cal.
1:12:54 > 1:12:56I said he wasn't welcome.
1:12:58 > 1:13:01Didn't want that man anywhere near us.
1:13:01 > 1:13:04Because he wanted to talk about Ffion, didn't he?
1:13:08 > 1:13:10Answer me, Delyth.
1:13:13 > 1:13:16He said he'd been meeting Ffion behind our backs.
1:13:18 > 1:13:20Did that make you angry?
1:13:25 > 1:13:28I knew there was something going on.
1:13:28 > 1:13:31Late-night phone calls, coming in late.
1:13:33 > 1:13:35I thought she had a boyfriend.
1:13:36 > 1:13:39But...
1:13:39 > 1:13:41I couldn't stop her from seeing her father.
1:13:43 > 1:13:45She's 17 years old.
1:13:48 > 1:13:50She's not a little girl any more.
1:13:53 > 1:13:55But you never told Cal.
1:13:57 > 1:13:59I knew how he'd react.
1:14:00 > 1:14:02I knew he'd be angry.
1:14:04 > 1:14:06Delyth...
1:14:08 > 1:14:10Aron wouldn't take no for an answer...
1:14:12 > 1:14:15..and you told your husband about Aron's phone call.
1:14:22 > 1:14:24I had no choice.
1:14:26 > 1:14:29Aron said...
1:14:29 > 1:14:31he'd be on the beach...
1:14:31 > 1:14:33Nine o'clock that night.
1:14:34 > 1:14:38And if Cal didn't come and meet him...
1:14:39 > 1:14:40..he'd come to the house.
1:14:51 > 1:14:53DOOR OPENS
1:15:19 > 1:15:22You had no choice. You had to go and meet him.
1:15:22 > 1:15:25You couldn't have him come to the house and make a scene,
1:15:25 > 1:15:26not in front of Ffion.
1:15:29 > 1:15:31Aron wanted Ffion back, didn't he?
1:15:34 > 1:15:35But you loved her...
1:15:37 > 1:15:39..and you were afraid of losing her.
1:15:41 > 1:15:44There was no way you were going to give her back.
1:15:48 > 1:15:50She's my daughter.
1:15:51 > 1:15:53I was trying to protect her.
1:15:57 > 1:15:59I'm the only father she's ever known.
1:16:04 > 1:16:06We gave her a life...
1:16:08 > 1:16:10..loved her like her own. She's ours.
1:16:13 > 1:16:15I was the one who picked her up when she was crying,
1:16:15 > 1:16:17who was always there for her.
1:16:25 > 1:16:26He had no right to think
1:16:26 > 1:16:28he could walk back into her life after what he'd done.
1:16:31 > 1:16:32You had to kill him?
1:16:37 > 1:16:39I did it for Ffion.
1:16:41 > 1:16:43She belongs to us.
1:17:30 > 1:17:32INAUDIBLE CONVERSATION
1:17:41 > 1:17:46ENGINE STARTS, CAR PULLS AWAY
1:17:56 > 1:18:00You can rake over the past as much as you like.
1:18:00 > 1:18:03Sometimes you find something.
1:18:03 > 1:18:05Sometimes you don't.
1:18:06 > 1:18:08Hmm.
1:18:08 > 1:18:11That doesn't mean you have to stop looking.
1:18:14 > 1:18:16Goodnight, Tom.
1:18:18 > 1:18:20Goodnight, Mared.
1:19:38 > 1:19:40'We had a fight.
1:19:41 > 1:19:44'I was drunk. I was upset.
1:19:44 > 1:19:49'I left, I went over to my dad's, but he was in bed sleeping.
1:19:51 > 1:19:55'My mother was there. She got angry, started shouting at me...
1:19:55 > 1:19:57'about the mess I'd made.
1:19:57 > 1:19:59'Said I was going to ruin everything.
1:19:59 > 1:20:02'Then she kicked me out.'
1:20:02 > 1:20:05'And you didn't see anyone or speak to anyone after that?'
1:20:05 > 1:20:07'No.
1:20:07 > 1:20:10'I went home, back to my flat.'
1:20:10 > 1:20:13'So after your own mother threw you out of the house,
1:20:13 > 1:20:15'no-one can account for your whereabouts.'
1:20:17 > 1:20:21'My mother was there. She got angry, started shouting at me...
1:20:21 > 1:20:22'about the mess I'd made.'
1:20:22 > 1:20:30PHRASE REPEATS AND ECHOES
1:20:32 > 1:20:33'My mother was there.'
1:21:01 > 1:21:03BANGS ON DOOR
1:21:52 > 1:21:53Aron didn't kill Abi, did he?
1:21:56 > 1:21:58But I think you know who did.
1:22:05 > 1:22:07Somebody had to stop Abi...
1:22:08 > 1:22:12..from getting her hands on everything you'd worked for.
1:22:12 > 1:22:14Everything that family tried to destroy.
1:22:18 > 1:22:20You pleaded with him...
1:22:23 > 1:22:25..but it was no use.
1:22:25 > 1:22:26They had a child together.
1:22:28 > 1:22:30The die had been cast.
1:22:38 > 1:22:41Aron had forgotten what was most important...
1:22:44 > 1:22:45..that family comes first...
1:22:47 > 1:22:50..no matter what the circumstances.
1:22:50 > 1:22:52Aron got what he deserved.
1:22:54 > 1:22:56So did Abi Watkins.
1:23:07 > 1:23:09You killed her.
1:23:11 > 1:23:13If I did, you'll never prove it.
1:23:13 > 1:23:15I don't have to.
1:23:18 > 1:23:21I did what was right for my family.
1:23:24 > 1:23:26Your family is gone.
1:23:53 > 1:23:54ENGINE STARTS
1:26:18 > 1:26:20MATERIAL FLAPS
1:26:30 > 1:26:31GLASS SMASHES
1:26:31 > 1:26:33EXPLOSION
1:27:01 > 1:27:02GLASS SMASHES
1:27:14 > 1:27:15EXPLOSION