0:00:07 > 0:00:11PHONE RINGS
0:01:32 > 0:01:37- Body was found this morning. - Time?- Just after six.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40METAL CLANGS IN DISTANCE
0:02:03 > 0:02:04SOC are on their way, sir.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55METAL CLANGS
0:03:04 > 0:03:08The body was burnt in an attempt to conceal evidence.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10Early results from pathology suggest likely cause of death
0:03:10 > 0:03:12a blow to the side of the head.
0:03:12 > 0:03:13Time of death?
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Sometime last night, but we're still waiting.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17- Possessions? - Set of keys, some coins.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19- Mobile phone?- No.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23DNA, we've got a match. Aron Bowen.
0:03:23 > 0:03:2539 years old,
0:03:25 > 0:03:29released from prison six months ago after serving 13 years for murder.
0:03:30 > 0:03:34He was convicted in 2001 for the murder of Abi Watkins.
0:03:36 > 0:03:37- Girlfriend?- Yep.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41- 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 > 0:03:47- Domestic dispute?- Abi was stabbed, but they never found the weapon.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51Bowen said he was innocent. Never changed his story.
0:03:52 > 0:03:57According to Bowen, they fought, she hit him, he hit her back,
0:03:57 > 0:03:58then Bowen left the house.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01He came back the next morning to find Abi dead.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06It says here the defendant fled the scene of the crime.
0:04:06 > 0:04:07Why run if you're innocent?
0:04:07 > 0:04:09Maybe he was guilty.
0:04:09 > 0:04:10Get onto probation.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Find out the terms of his release and when he was last in contact.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14- Yes, sir.- What about his family?
0:04:14 > 0:04:17- Do we know where they live? - Ynyshir Boatyard in Borth.
0:04:17 > 0:04:18Place is run by the Bowens,
0:04:18 > 0:04:20Aron's brother Cal and his wife Delyth.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15- Delyth Bowen?- Yes. Can I...
0:05:15 > 0:05:17help you?
0:05:17 > 0:05:20We're here about your bother-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
0:05:35 > 0:05:38- since his release from prison?- No.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41No, my husband...
0:05:43 > 0:05:46..he and his brother haven't spoken for years.
0:05:46 > 0:05:47Why's that?
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Cos of what he did.
0:05:53 > 0:05:54Is that your daughter?
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Aron's daughter.
0:05:58 > 0:05:59- Ffion?- Yes.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04We brought her up as our own.
0:06:04 > 0:06:05After what happened,
0:06:05 > 0:06:07there was nowhere else for her to go.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13Is your husband around, Mrs Bowen? I'd like to talk to him.
0:06:15 > 0:06:16He's in the yard.
0:06:22 > 0:06:26WELDING SPARKS
0:06:37 > 0:06:40LADDER CLAMOURS
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'd 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 and got home around eight.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Tell me about your brother.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13- What about him? - Well, were you and he ever close?
0:07:13 > 0:07:16Oh, once. That was before...
0:07:16 > 0:07:19- Before he murdered Abi Watkins? - Before he wrecked everything.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24They should never have released him.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27What about Ffion, Aron's daughter?
0:07:27 > 0:07:30Do you think she feels the same way?
0:07:30 > 0:07:31He was never a father to her.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36We're the only family she's ever known.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42Ffion has spent the last 13 years rebuilding her life.
0:07:42 > 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 > 0:07:56Can I speak to them?
0:07:56 > 0:08:00- My father died nine years ago. A stroke.- What about your mother?
0:08:00 > 0:08:02You're welcome to try.
0:08:31 > 0:08:32Annes Bowen?
0:08:35 > 0:08:37I know why you're here.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39Delyth called me from the yard.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41We're sorry for your loss.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Did you have any contact with your son after his release?
0:08:53 > 0:08:54No.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58I wanted to see him, but...
0:08:58 > 0:09:00it was too hard.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03- I didn't know what to say to him. - You were still angry with him?
0:09:06 > 0:09:08He should've stayed away.
0:09:08 > 0:09:12There was nothing for him here, not any more.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14He was your son.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19He brought shame on us all, killing that girl...
0:09:20 > 0:09:22..and 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 > 0:09:37It's not me you should be talking to, it's them -
0:09:37 > 0:09:39the family of the Watkins girl.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44They always wanted to see my son dead,
0:09:44 > 0:09:46and now they've got what they wanted.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59Come on, come on. It's all right. It's all right.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02It's going to be all right, OK? It's all right. It's all right.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31- Mark Watkins. - Round the corner there, mate.
0:10:34 > 0:10:35Mark Watkins?
0:10:41 > 0:10:44- Did you know he'd been released?- Yep.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48- You seen him about?- No.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51Haven't seen him since the day they put him away.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55How do you feel, knowing the man who murdered your sister is dead?
0:10:57 > 0:10:59I don't feel anything.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01Should I?
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Well, you tell me.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06They should've 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 > 0:11:14We 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.
0:11:35 > 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 > 0:12:03'Yep, home and work. Sending them over to you now.'
0:12:03 > 0:12:04Thanks.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Hope I've got the right key, now.
0:12:26 > 0:12:27Have we met before?
0:12:27 > 0:12:30Mr Latimer helped us with our enquiries
0:12:30 > 0:12:33- on the Devil's Bridge case. - So you did.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54There's a switch here somewhere.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07Aron Bowen - what was he like?
0:13:07 > 0:13:11Couldn't say. He kept a very low profile.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14- You didn't ask any questions? - It wasn't my place to.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19I could see by the way he carried himself there was...
0:13:19 > 0:13:21there was something going on with him.
0:13:21 > 0:13:22What do you mean?
0:13:23 > 0:13:26I got the impression he was trying to make a go of it,
0:13:26 > 0:13:27trying to start again.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Good luck to him, I thought.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38Did he have any friends?
0:13:39 > 0:13:42A man came over to see him a couple of times.
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 > 0:13:49Dark hair. About 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 from a friend - a man called Craig Jones.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06They went to school together, apparently.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08I've been trying to get in touch with the company,
0:15:08 > 0:15:09but the office is closed for the day.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12- The calls keep going straight to voicemail.- Sir!
0:15:15 > 0:15:18I've dug up everything I can on the Abi Watkins case.
0:15:18 > 0:15:22Repeated applications for retrial, defendant claiming he was innocent.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24But he also said that his girlfriend
0:15:24 > 0:15:27was seeing someone else behind his back - another man.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30Reckoned it was this other man that killed Abi.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39Can you look into this, please?
0:15:40 > 0:15:41Yes, sir.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47- ON TV:- '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 > 0:16:03'I loved Abi. I would never hurt her.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06'She was the mother of my child.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08'Is that right?
0:16:10 > 0:16:12'So, what about the marks on her face?
0:16:12 > 0:16:15'We argued.
0:16:15 > 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 > 0:16:21- Tom...- 'Was that an accident, too?
0:16:23 > 0:16:26'I think you killed Abi Watkins because you were jealous.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28'No.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30'Jealous that she was seeing another man.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32'No! That's not what happened!
0:16:32 > 0:16:36'Oh, I think it is. I think that's exactly what happened.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39'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 > 0:17:01- He had motive and opportunity. - An open-and-shut case.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03What about the man he claimed Abi was seeing?
0:17:03 > 0:17:05- Fabrication.- 13 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 > 0:17:12Some men do that.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19The pathologist on the investigation, Dr Haydn Blake...
0:17:19 > 0:17:21- I want to talk to him.- No.
0:17:21 > 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 > 0:17:50- KNOCK ON DOOR - Yeah?
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 > 0:18:26Every night.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30I used to lie next to her.
0:18:33 > 0:18:37Her hair, it was so soft.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42But 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 > 0:19:00- ..a couple of times. - Does your uncle know?
0:19:01 > 0:19:05- He wouldn't approve? - That'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 > 0:19:41How 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 > 0:20:01..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 Mum.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24And I think Dad found out who he was.
0:21:42 > 0:21:43Mr Watkins?
0:21:45 > 0:21:49My son Mark was with me all night, if that's why you're here.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12Is this you?
0:22:12 > 0:22:13My father's boat.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17You still got it?
0:22:17 > 0:22:20No, she sank.
0:22:20 > 0:22:2310th 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 > 0:22:35Boat had just come out of the yard.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38The Bowens' place?
0:22:38 > 0:22:39Yeah.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41We'd been out in worse weather...
0:22:43 > 0:22:45..but she was letting in water.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47And you blamed the Bowens?
0:22:47 > 0:22:52The pumps didn't work and the repairs didn't hold.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54If they had,
0:22:54 > 0:22:56my 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.
0:23:04 > 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 > 0:23:17That's what he wanted you to believe, that he was innocent.
0:23:19 > 0:23:24Aron 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?
0:23:34 > 0:23:37That woman wouldn't let us anywhere near her.
0:23:37 > 0:23:41- Annes?- Yeah. Annes.
0:23:42 > 0:23:47Whatever Annes wants, Annes gets.
0:24:10 > 0:24:11Mr Jones?
0:25:28 > 0:25:31WARNING SIREN BLARES
0:25:54 > 0:25:57TRAIN 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 > 0:27:07I went to school with a girl that used to live here.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09She was older than me.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Her father was a policeman.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Iwan Thomas?
0:27:17 > 0:27:20Her 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.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36I told them I'd been to see you.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40I told them I'd been seeing my dad.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43What did they say?
0:27:44 > 0:27:47Not a lot.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Nothing ever gets said.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58What do you mean, "Nothing ever gets said"?
0:28:00 > 0:28:04They never talk about my mother. Never about my father.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08It's like they never existed.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12- And if they don't exist... - Neither do you.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18I'd better get back.
0:28:20 > 0:28:21Ffion...
0:28:25 > 0:28:28..we will catch whoever killed your father, OK?
0:29:44 > 0:29:46Ffion was in contact with her father.
0:29:48 > 0:29:49They met up.
0:29:52 > 0:29:54She didn't tell you?
0:30:00 > 0:30:05Ffion has this idea of what her father was like -
0:30:05 > 0:30:08the man he once was or the man he could've been.
0:30:10 > 0:30:12But he was never there for her.
0:30:14 > 0:30:16What sort of father is that?
0:30:31 > 0:30:35PHONE RINGS Lloyd?
0:30:35 > 0:30:38- ON PHONE:- 'The till receipt we found in the victim's bedsit,
0:30:38 > 0:30:42'there was an incident involving Aron Bowen three days ago.'
0:30:59 > 0:31:00I spoke to the owner.
0:31:00 > 0:31:02He said that 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-hm.
0:31:58 > 0:32:00When we spoke yesterday,
0:32:00 > 0:32:03you said that you hadn't seen Aron Bowen since his release.
0:32:06 > 0:32:08That is you in that photograph, isn't it?
0:32:14 > 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 > 0:32:27Doesn'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 > 0:32:43All my life, I've wanted him dead, and now that he is...
0:32:44 > 0:32:46..it doesn't change anything.
0:32:51 > 0:32:53He should never have come back here.
0:32:53 > 0:32:55If he had any sense, he'd have stayed away.
0:32:55 > 0:32:56Why?
0:32:58 > 0:33:01Do you think, that way, he'd still be alive?
0:33:01 > 0:33:04You had unfinished business with him.
0:33:04 > 0:33:05No.
0:33:05 > 0:33:10The other night at the garage, that was just the start of it.
0:33:10 > 0:33:11- A taste of what was to come.- No!
0:33:11 > 0:33:14Once you had a taste for it, there was no stopping you.
0:33:14 > 0:33:17He killed my sister!
0:33:17 > 0:33:19Stabbed her to death!
0:33:19 > 0:33:21Now, everyone round here knows that he did it,
0:33:21 > 0:33:22everyone except you.
0:33:22 > 0:33:24Why are you raking all this up?
0:33:24 > 0:33:28Because he served his time, paid for his crime.
0:33:29 > 0:33:34And now he's dead, murdered, just 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 > 0:33:46You 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 > 0:34:01and 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 > 0:34:14The world's a better place without him.
0:34:14 > 0:34:16But you don't have to take my word for it.
0:34:16 > 0:34:17You go talk to his mother or his brother,
0:34:17 > 0:34:20they'll tell you the same things as me.
0:34:39 > 0:34:42Tell us about the night Abi was killed.
0:34:46 > 0:34:47Mrs Bowen?
0:34:48 > 0:34:51I heard Aron's car pull up outside.
0:34:53 > 0:34:55I wasn't expecting him.
0:34:57 > 0:34:59He came into the kitchen.
0:35:02 > 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 > 0:35:17..that 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.
0:35:24 > 0:35:25And then?
0:35:26 > 0:35:30I told him to sleep it off, sober up,
0:35:30 > 0:35:32sort it out in the morning.
0:35:34 > 0:35:37- He slept here?- I sent him home.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43And then...
0:35:43 > 0:35:44what did you do?
0:35:46 > 0:35:48Well, I went back to bed.
0:35:52 > 0:35:53It was the last I ever saw of him.
0:35:58 > 0:36:02Next morning, the police came to the house...
0:36:05 > 0:36:06..told me what he'd done.
0:36:12 > 0:36:15We warned him not to get involved with that girl,
0:36:15 > 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've 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's mother, Gwyneth.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14Thanking Aron Bowen for all the letters he sent to 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 > 0:37:20"in the same way that I must forgive you.
0:37:20 > 0:37:22"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 > 0:37:31Maybe 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 > 0:37:53..ask for forgiveness.
0:37:53 > 0:37:56We thought maybe he would admit to what he'd done...
0:37:58 > 0:38:02..but he still kept protesting his innocence.
0:38:02 > 0:38:03What did the letter say?
0:38:05 > 0:38:07Nothing that he hadn't said in court.
0:38:09 > 0:38:11But he still kept on writing.
0:38:12 > 0:38:14One letter after the other.
0:38:17 > 0:38:19We didn't bother reading them in the end.
0:38:19 > 0:38:21We just threw them in the fire.
0:38:23 > 0:38:27I thought the letters had stopped, but when Gwyneth died...
0:38:29 > 0:38:33..I found out that she'd been hiding them.
0:38:35 > 0:38:36Your wife, Gwyneth,
0:38:36 > 0:38:39wrote this letter three weeks before she died.
0:38:39 > 0:38:43She thought that Abi was seeing someone else.
0:38:43 > 0:38:44Another man.
0:38:45 > 0:38:50We 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?
0:39:12 > 0:39:14'I had nothing to do with it.
0:39:14 > 0:39:16'And what about Abi Watkins?'
0:39:16 > 0:39:18What about her?
0:39:18 > 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 > 0:39:27What happened? Did Aron find out? Did he come after you?
0:39:27 > 0:39:30- No.- Is that why you killed him?
0:39:30 > 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 > 0:39:50- How?- I told him, everything. The truth.
0:39:50 > 0:39:51- When?- Last week.
0:39:51 > 0:39:55- Why?- Because I wanted him to admit to what he'd done!
0:39:55 > 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 > 0:40:03But I knew that was a lie!
0:40:04 > 0:40:06Because that man was you.
0:40:11 > 0:40:13'Where were you the night Aron was killed?
0:40:15 > 0:40:16'I was home.
0:40:17 > 0:40:19'Were you with anyone?
0:40:21 > 0:40:24'No. I was on my own.
0:40:25 > 0:40:27'All night?
0:40:27 > 0:40:29'All night.'
0:40:34 > 0:40:36Tell us about the night that Abi was killed.
0:40:42 > 0:40:44Aron had been drinking.
0:40:45 > 0:40:49I met up with him after work. He was in a bad way - he was angry.
0:40:49 > 0:40:51I tried to talk to him to calm him down.
0:40:51 > 0:40:53He was having none of it.
0:40:54 > 0:40:56We argued...
0:40:58 > 0:41:01- ..and off he went. - You 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?
0:41:19 > 0:41:21When I got there, the place was a hell of a mess.
0:41:22 > 0:41:25They'd been fighting.
0:41:25 > 0:41:29Aron was gone, but Abi had these marks on her face.
0:41:29 > 0:41:31And then what?
0:41:33 > 0:41:34I got angry.
0:41:35 > 0:41:39I went over to Aron's flat to have it out with him.
0:41:39 > 0:41:40What time was this?
0:41:42 > 0:41:44One.
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 > 0:41:56Couldn't face him.
0:41:59 > 0:42:01I just sat there outside his flat...
0:42:05 > 0:42:06..doing nothing.
0:42:07 > 0:42:08Till when?
0:42:11 > 0:42:12Three.
0:42:36 > 0:42:38On the night Abi was killed,
0:42:38 > 0:42:40Craig said that 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 > 0:43:05DS Owens.
0:43:15 > 0:43:18A convicted murderer is found dead
0:43:18 > 0:43:20and you're charged with finding the killer.
0:43:20 > 0:43:24We think it's more complicated than that, sir.
0:43:24 > 0:43:26"We"?
0:43:26 > 0:43:28Yes, sir.
0:43:28 > 0:43:32Craig's testimony casts doubt on the original conviction.
0:43:34 > 0:43:37The Abi Watkins case is closed.
0:43:37 > 0:43:41Aron Bowen was found guilty of her murder.
0:43:41 > 0:43:45Now, 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 > 0:43:55Aron Bowen served 13 years for a crime he did or did not commit,
0:43:55 > 0:43:57and now he's lying in a mortuary.
0:43:59 > 0:44:02I supported you, DCI Mathias...
0:44:02 > 0:44:03over Marie Davis.
0:44:05 > 0:44:07And Gwen Thomas.
0:44:09 > 0:44:13I hope you're not suggesting I didn't do my work properly.
0:44:24 > 0:44:28- That went well(!) - HE CHUCKLES
0:44:28 > 0:44:31What 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 > 0:45:12TAPPING ON WINDOW
0:45:17 > 0:45:20Sorry to startle you, Dr Blake.
0:45:20 > 0:45:22That's all right.
0:45:56 > 0:46:00I don't see that Craig Jones's 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.
0:46:07 > 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?
0:46:24 > 0:46:25But we are talking.
0:46:28 > 0:46:30Thank you for your time, Dr Blake.
0:46:36 > 0:46:38ENGINE STARTS
0:47:17 > 0:47:20PHONE BUZZES
0:47:49 > 0:47:52CHILDREN LAUGH AND SHOUT ON VIDEO
0:48:09 > 0:48:11It's a pity they can't stay children forever.
0:48:27 > 0:48:32I've buried a husband, lost a son,
0:48:32 > 0:48:34given my life to the yard...
0:48:35 > 0:48:37..and for what?
0:48:50 > 0:48:53SHE SIGHS
0:48:53 > 0:48:56Aron should've stayed away.
0:48:56 > 0:48:58He should never have come back.
0:48:58 > 0:49:00There was nothing left for him here.
0:49:03 > 0:49:05Maybe he wanted to be close to Ffion.
0:49:07 > 0:49:09To be a father to his daughter.
0:49:11 > 0:49:15Cal 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?
0:49:34 > 0:49:36Do you think Craig could've killed your son?
0:49:38 > 0:49:40What difference does it make?
0:49:56 > 0:49:59It makes a difference if your son was innocent.
0:53:18 > 0:53:20GRAVEL CRUNCHES
0:53:50 > 0:53:51Ffion!
0:53:51 > 0:53:53I didn't know where else to go.
0:54:01 > 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.
0:55:15 > 0:55:17They never gave Dad a chance.
0:55:19 > 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.
0:55:44 > 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 > 0:55:59..but the line was busy.
0:56:02 > 0:56:05If I'd have seen him that night, maybe he'd still be alive.
0:56:15 > 0:56:17Are those your little girls?
0:56:19 > 0:56:21Mm-hm, yeah.
0:56:24 > 0:56:26Do you miss them?
0:56:28 > 0:56:30Every day.
0:56:37 > 0:56:38Hey.
0:57:06 > 0:57:08No.
0:57:11 > 0:57:14- Sorry.- No, don't be silly. It's OK.
0:57:21 > 0:57:24I'm going to take you home. All right?
0:57:26 > 0:57:28OK, stay there.
0:57:57 > 0:57:58Ffion!
0:58:02 > 0:58:04Ffion!
1:00:08 > 1:00:09DOOR CLOSES
1:00:11 > 1:00:12FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
1:02:00 > 1:02:04- ON VIDEO:- 'I wish I'd never set eyes on her.
1:02:04 > 1:02:06'Never got involved.
1:02:07 > 1:02:10'I know how this looks.
1:02:10 > 1:02:13'I'm no saint. I'm no angel.
1:02:13 > 1:02:17'I may not be the best dad in the world.
1:02:19 > 1:02:23'I may not be the best human being in the world,
1:02:23 > 1:02:26'but that doesn't make me a killer.
1:02:27 > 1:02:31'Do you love your daughter? What's going to happen to her now?
1:02:33 > 1:02:35'Do you even care?
1:02:40 > 1:02:41'Of course I care.'
1:03:27 > 1:03:30MOBILE PHONE RINGS
1:03:38 > 1:03:42'All that shit about the trawler and her father,
1:03:42 > 1:03:44'Will Watkins.
1:03:46 > 1:03:48'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."
1:04:04 > 1:04:07'What kind of man says that about their own grandchild?'
1:05:58 > 1:06:00I think Aron Bowen called his daughter
1:06:00 > 1:06:02the night he died from a kiosk.
1:06:02 > 1:06:05This is the number. I want to know who else he called from there.
1:06:05 > 1:06:06Yes, sir.
1:06:10 > 1:06:12PHONE RINGS
1:06:12 > 1:06:14Mathias.
1:06:14 > 1:06:17'It's all my fault.'
1:06:17 > 1:06:20- Ffion? - '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'Mum, Dad...
1:06:30 > 1:06:33'..they'd still be alive.'
1:06:33 > 1:06:36Ffion...where are you?
1:06:36 > 1:06:39- 'I want to be with him.'- Ffion?
1:06:39 > 1:06:41'With Dad.'
1:06:41 > 1:06:43Ffion. Ffion!
1:06:45 > 1:06:49Get an ambulance over to where Aron Bowen's body was found, now!
1:07:20 > 1:07:23METAL CLANGS IN DISTANCE
1:07:32 > 1:07:35METAL CLANGS
1:08:07 > 1:08:10Ffion turned up at the caravan last night.
1:08:10 > 1:08:11She wanted to talk.
1:08:13 > 1:08:15She took these without me seeing.
1:08:19 > 1:08:20I know, I know.
1:08:32 > 1:08:34You saved her life, Tom.
1:08:56 > 1:08:59- Are you happy now?!- Cal!
1:08:59 > 1:09:01I told you not to go near her!
1:09:01 > 1:09:03I told you not to put ideas in her head!
1:09:03 > 1:09:04Ffion's going to be OK, Mr Bowen.
1:09:04 > 1:09:06- Look what you've done to her! - Please!
1:09:06 > 1:09:09- I understand why you're upset. - Do you? Do you?!
1:09:09 > 1:09:11Calm down, Cal.
1:09:28 > 1:09:30Sir.
1:10:11 > 1:10:13Sir!
1:10:21 > 1:10:24We know Aron called Ffion from the kiosk the night he was killed,
1:10:24 > 1:10:27here at 18.53.
1:10:27 > 1:10:30Ffion said she tried to call the number back a few minutes later.
1:10:30 > 1:10:32- But the number was engaged. - Because...
1:10:32 > 1:10:34Aron made a second call at 18.56...
1:10:37 > 1:10:39..to the boatyard.
1:11:22 > 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 > 1:11:30- That's right.- No meetings, no letters? No phone calls?
1:11:31 > 1:11:33That's what I said.
1:11:33 > 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 > 1:11:41and after he spoke to her, he made a second call, didn't he?
1:11:43 > 1:11:45To the boatyard.
1:11:48 > 1:11:50Like I said, I wasn't there.
1:11:55 > 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.
1:12:05 > 1:12:07You didn't think that whoever killed him
1:12:07 > 1:12:10might go after Ffion, too? That 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?
1:12:33 > 1:12:35'He wanted to talk to Cal. I told him he was out.
1:12:37 > 1:12:38'What else?'
1:12:42 > 1:12:46He said he wanted to come to the house,
1:12:46 > 1:12:48have it out with him.
1:12:50 > 1:12:54He said if Cal didn't come to him, he'd come to Cal.
1:12:54 > 1:12:56I said he wasn't welcome.
1:12:58 > 1:13:01I didn't want that man anywhere near us.
1:13:01 > 1:13:05Because 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.
1:13:19 > 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.
1:14:01 > 1:14:02I knew he'd be angry.
1:14:05 > 1:14:06Delyth...
1:14:08 > 1:14:11..Aron wouldn't take no for an answer...
1:14:12 > 1:14:16..and you told your husband about Aron's phone call.
1:14:22 > 1:14:24I had no choice.
1:14:27 > 1:14:31Aron said he'd be on the beach,
1:14:31 > 1:14:34nine o'clock that night,
1:14:34 > 1:14:37and if Cal didn't come and meet him...
1:14:39 > 1:14:40..he'd come to the house.
1:14:51 > 1:14:54DOOR 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 > 1:15:32Aron 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 > 1:15:53She's my daughter. I was trying to protect her.
1:15:57 > 1:16:00I'm the only father she's ever known.
1:16:05 > 1:16:06We gave her a life...
1:16:08 > 1:16:10..loved her like our 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 > 1:16:27He had no right to think he could walk back in to her life
1:16:27 > 1:16:29after what he'd done.
1:16:31 > 1:16:33You had to kill him.
1:16:37 > 1:16:38I did it for Ffion.
1:16:41 > 1:16:43She belongs to us.
1:17:27 > 1:17:28FAINT CONVERSATION
1:17:31 > 1:17:33INAUDIBLE CONVERSATION
1:17:56 > 1:18:00You can rake over the past as much as you like.
1:18:00 > 1:18:04Sometimes you find something, sometimes you don't.
1:18:06 > 1:18:09Hmm.
1:18:09 > 1:18:11That doesn't mean you have to stop looking.
1:18:14 > 1:18:16Goodnight, Tom.
1:18:19 > 1:18:20Goodnight, Mared.
1:19:38 > 1:19:41'We had a fight.
1:19:41 > 1:19:43'I was drunk. I was upset.
1:19:44 > 1:19:46'I left.
1:19:46 > 1:19:50'I went over to my dad's, but he was in bed sleeping.
1:19:51 > 1:19:52'My mother was there.
1:19:52 > 1:19:57'She got angry, started shouting at me about the mess I'd made,
1:19:57 > 1:20:00'said I was going to ruin everything.
1:20:00 > 1:20:02'Then she kicked me out.
1:20:02 > 1:20:06'And you didn't see anyone or speak to anyone after that?
1:20:06 > 1:20:10'No. 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 > 1:20:16'no-one can account for your whereabouts?
1:20:16 > 1:20:18'My mother was there.
1:20:18 > 1:20:23'She got angry, started shouting at me about the mess I'd made.
1:20:23 > 1:20:27'My mother was there. She got angry, started shouting...
1:20:27 > 1:20:30- 'She got angry, started shouting...' - RECORDING DISTORTS
1:20:30 > 1:20:32'I was going to ruin everything.
1:20:32 > 1:20:33'My mother was there...'
1:21:52 > 1:21:54Aron didn't kill Abi, did he?
1:21:56 > 1:21:58But I think you know who did.
1:22:05 > 1:22:08Somebody had to stop Abi
1:22:08 > 1:22:12from 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 > 1:22:29They had a child together. The die had been cast.
1:22:38 > 1:22:41Aron had forgotten what was most important.
1:22:44 > 1:22:46That family comes first...
1:22:48 > 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 > 1:23:14- If I did, you'll never prove it. - I 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.
1:26:06 > 1:26:08RUSTLING
1:26:18 > 1:26:21RUSTLING
1:26:30 > 1:26:31GLASS SHATTERS
1:26:31 > 1:26:33EXPLOSION BLASTS
1:26:33 > 1:26:35FIRE CRACKLES
1:27:13 > 1:27:15GLASS SHATTERS