0:00:14 > 0:00:16Thank you.
0:00:16 > 0:00:18PHONE RINGS
0:00:26 > 0:00:28Gerry, what do you want? It's my day off.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Yeah, I know and I'm sorry about that, but I need your help.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34- Why, what's happened?- No, no, no - nothing like that, it's just...
0:00:34 > 0:00:37Listen, I'm giving up cigarettes.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Gerry! Well done! That's fantastic!
0:00:40 > 0:00:45- And I just wondered whether you'd be my fag buddy?- Your what?
0:00:45 > 0:00:49Fag buddy - you know, someone who helps somebody else give up smoking.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51Oh, right, yeah, of course. No, I'd love to help.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54Yeah, but you've got to keep encouraging me, all right?
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Make sure I don't waver.
0:00:56 > 0:00:57"Make cigarettes history!".
0:00:57 > 0:01:00Absolutely. Good man. Keep it up.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02Oh, I will, yeah. Cheers, bye.
0:01:02 > 0:01:03Bye.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32You idiot! You should be ashamed of yourself!
0:01:36 > 0:01:39# It's all right, it's OK
0:01:39 > 0:01:42# Doesn't really matter if you're old and grey
0:01:42 > 0:01:44# It's all right, I say, it's OK
0:01:44 > 0:01:47# Listen to what I say
0:01:47 > 0:01:50# It's all right, doing fine
0:01:50 > 0:01:53# Doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine
0:01:53 > 0:01:56# It's all right, it's OK
0:01:56 > 0:01:57# Getting to the end of the day
0:02:03 > 0:02:05I thought I was early.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07Strickland's away.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10- Anywhere nice?- He left us this,
0:02:10 > 0:02:11with a covering note.
0:02:13 > 0:02:17"Dear Sandra, this file arrived on my desk today. It is unusual
0:02:17 > 0:02:20"in having only recently ceased being an active enquiry,
0:02:20 > 0:02:23"but knowing of your specific expertise dealing with
0:02:23 > 0:02:25"this kind of crime in the past,
0:02:25 > 0:02:29"the commissioner is eager for UCOS to be involved not merely
0:02:29 > 0:02:33"due to your particular skills, but because of the real danger
0:02:33 > 0:02:35"that the perpetrator will strike again."
0:02:35 > 0:02:39- "This kind of crime"?- Rape?
0:02:39 > 0:02:43Yeah, two of them in 1999.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45Ooh, at the Pyramid Chocolate Factory in Greenford.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49Then after a ten year gap, there was another attack 12 months ago
0:02:49 > 0:02:52the back room of a shop in Totteridge. Helen Vestry.
0:02:52 > 0:02:56Operation Sapphire investigated that attack and they linked DNA
0:02:56 > 0:02:58from it to the rapes back in '99.
0:02:58 > 0:02:59MO was exactly the same.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02- Any suspects?- No. Both investigations drew a blank.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04What about the MO?
0:03:04 > 0:03:07All three were attacked from behind and in total darkness.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09They said he wore gloves,
0:03:09 > 0:03:13- but none of them recall seeing anything more of the guy. Oh, and he never spoke.- Is that it?
0:03:13 > 0:03:17They all said that he smelled strongly of sweat. Thank you.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20This bloke doesn't have anything going for him, does he?
0:03:20 > 0:03:24- What about where the rapes took place? Any link?- Only the darkness.
0:03:24 > 0:03:28Jean Saunders was raped in the women's changing room at Pyramid
0:03:28 > 0:03:31just after her shift ended at 6pm. All the lights went out
0:03:31 > 0:03:34just before she was attacked, and then a week later, Eileen
0:03:34 > 0:03:37was assaulted on the shop floor of the factory around nine.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40Again, all the lights were turned off.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42- Why didn't they do a mass DNA screening?- They did.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44All the men employed by Pyramid,
0:03:44 > 0:03:47plus security, delivery men, contract cleaners,
0:03:47 > 0:03:49but none of their DNA matched that of the rapist's.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53What about last year? The most recent attack.
0:03:53 > 0:03:58Helen Vestry was attacked as she was closing up the shop at which she worked. Again, pitch black.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01Long time, isn't it, between attacks?
0:04:01 > 0:04:04Well, the bloke could have been anywhere - abroad, prison, anything.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06Possibly, but given that most rapes are not reported,
0:04:06 > 0:04:09I think there's a good chance he has committed more in between.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12They're all very similar, these women, aren't they?
0:04:12 > 0:04:14Blonde, petite, in their twenties.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17Physically very easy to subdue.
0:04:17 > 0:04:18Not a coincidence then.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20He observes them, singles them out.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23For some, the biggest kick is the actual preparation
0:04:23 > 0:04:25and build-up to the assault, not the attack itself.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28That would explain the extreme sweating.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31You know, he gets excited about successfully carrying out
0:04:31 > 0:04:33a carefully planned operation.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36- Are the victims willing to talk? - Jean Saunders has since died
0:04:36 > 0:04:38of cancer, but the other two have agreed to meet.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41You and I'll talk to them - you guys go to the factory.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45Now, Operation Sapphire haven't spoken to Eileen Harrison
0:04:45 > 0:04:50or anybody else at Pyramid about this last attack, so probably a good idea not to mention it
0:04:50 > 0:04:53and needless to say this is a very sensitive investigation so...
0:04:53 > 0:04:59For God's sake, look at us - we've handled hundreds of these cases,
0:04:59 > 0:05:03and you're telling us we've got to be sensitive!
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Gerry's given up smoking.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08- What! You?!- Ahhh, that's why you're so ratty.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11- I am not ratty!- What's brought this on all of a sudden?
0:05:11 > 0:05:14Well, I had to see the doctor and he said at my age
0:05:14 > 0:05:17I should have given up by now. So you can't argue, can you, really?
0:05:17 > 0:05:19Well, I am delighted, congratulations.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Helen Vestry?
0:05:33 > 0:05:37- Sandra Pullman?- Yes, this is my colleague, Jack Halford.- Hello.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39- Thanks for agreeing to see us. - Not at all.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42Anything if it helps catch the shit-bag. It's through the back.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47Here. I just came in to close up...
0:05:47 > 0:05:53I did that most nights, and next moment the lights went out,
0:05:53 > 0:05:58he grabbed me from behind and, well, he did what he did.
0:05:58 > 0:06:03The Operation Sapphire Team said that you didn't hear him threaten you, he didn't speak?
0:06:03 > 0:06:04- No.- Did you cry out?
0:06:04 > 0:06:06I didn't have time.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Anyway, there was no-one in the shop and...
0:06:09 > 0:06:11I was scared, unfortunately.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13No, no. Of course you were scared.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15So you never saw his face?
0:06:15 > 0:06:18No. I would have remembered. I am good with faces.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20It was just too dark to see him.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23Is there anything else you can remember? Anything at all?
0:06:23 > 0:06:27Yeah...I remember thinking "I hope he doesn't kill me".
0:06:29 > 0:06:37The feel of his gloves and the damp...the smell...of his sweat.
0:06:52 > 0:06:56How long is it since you had a fag?
0:06:57 > 0:07:01- Four days?- How's it going?
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Yeah, good, thanks, yeah, yeah.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06With the nicotine deprivation, I mean.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09I'm fine, all right? Just don't keep on about it.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13Duncan Miller. Managing director.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16Gerry Standing. Brian Lane. Thanks for your time.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Oh, it's a pleasure - always willing to help the boys in blue.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Celine was saying you're here to investigate the, er...
0:07:21 > 0:07:24- incidents back in '99?- Yes.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27We'd like to see where the attacks took place
0:07:27 > 0:07:31and talk to any of the employees who were here at the time.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33Sure, well, there's not that many still here,
0:07:33 > 0:07:37but I'll show you down to the shop-floor - this way.
0:07:37 > 0:07:41I'm afraid the women's changing room has been demolished
0:07:41 > 0:07:44to make way for a refrigeration storage facility.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46I must say, I'm intrigued to find out
0:07:46 > 0:07:49why you've come back after all this time.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51- Well, the case was never closed. - Oh.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54Mr Miller, you did take a DNA test with everyone else, didn't you?
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Yeah - Duncan, please... call me Duncan.
0:07:56 > 0:08:00Yes, yes, I was very relieved. But all the work-force were cleared.
0:08:00 > 0:08:01The whole affair was devastating.
0:08:01 > 0:08:06Pyramid - we're not just a company, we're one big happy family.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10So this is where, er...
0:08:11 > 0:08:14- Eileen Harrison. - This is where Eileen, was er...
0:08:14 > 0:08:18- It was a terrible affair, terrible. - WOMAN ON SPEAKER: 'This is a call
0:08:18 > 0:08:21'for Mr Miller. Could Duncan Miller please go to R&D?'
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Sorry about this, I'll leave you with Tilly Shaw.
0:08:23 > 0:08:28She's the shift supervisor, but at the time she was working on the production line - Tilly!
0:08:28 > 0:08:31Could you come here? These gentlemen want a word.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Excuse me gentlemen, please. Thank you.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36- Hello.- Brian. Brian Lane.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38- Gerry Standing.- Hello.
0:08:38 > 0:08:42- Eileen Harrison?- Yeah?- Detective Superintendent Pullman,
0:08:42 > 0:08:46- this is my colleague Jack Halford. - Right, well, you'd better come in.
0:08:46 > 0:08:47Thank you.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53I didn't know there were going to be two of you.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56- Oh. I'm sorry. I... - No, it's just, erm....
0:08:56 > 0:08:57No, no, no, it's quite all right...
0:08:57 > 0:09:01I understand. If there is somewhere I could wait..?
0:09:01 > 0:09:04E, yeah, in the living room.
0:09:04 > 0:09:05Thank you.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12- I'm sorry about that.- You don't have to apologise, Eileen.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16- I can call you that?- Yeah.- I don't want you to feel pressurised
0:09:16 > 0:09:20in any way, cos we're here to help catch the man who attacked you.
0:09:22 > 0:09:27- Is it OK if we go back to the night it happened?- Yeah.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30You finished work at seven o'clock?
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Well, the shift normally finished at five,
0:09:32 > 0:09:36but we did two hours' overtime, cos we had a rush on.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38And then you went back to the shop floor two hours later?
0:09:38 > 0:09:42Yeah, I'd left my purse in the changing rooms.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45I couldn't find it in my handbag, so I went back for it.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47And, er...
0:09:47 > 0:09:49that was when...
0:09:49 > 0:09:51- And you went back alone?- Yeah...
0:09:51 > 0:09:54Well, they'd increased security.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57Everyone was being checked in and out the factory.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00I mean, it was more secure than ever
0:10:00 > 0:10:04and I never thought that it could happen again.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06I never thought that he'd...
0:10:09 > 0:10:12- It's all right if you want to stop, Eileen.- Nah.- You just have to say.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15No, no... it's OK.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17I want to...
0:10:17 > 0:10:18I want to...
0:10:21 > 0:10:22I'm sorry.
0:10:22 > 0:10:26It's all right, it's OK. It's all right.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31And you worked on the production line?
0:10:31 > 0:10:34- Me, Eileen and Jean. - But not any more?- No, thank God.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36I'm the union rep.
0:10:36 > 0:10:41Mind you, the place hasn't changed much since then. Same belt, machinery, everything.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44- Till.- Oh, this is Mick, my husband.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47He was a mechanic back then but now he's the chief engineer.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50These men are from UCOS. They've come about what happened to Jean and...
0:10:50 > 0:10:54Still ain't caught the bloke then? What a surprise(!) You lot couldn't catch a fever in a swamp.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56- Mick!- Can we talk about this somewhere else?
0:10:56 > 0:11:00What you doing back here then, eh? Get lost looking for your overtime?
0:11:00 > 0:11:02We don't get much overtime.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05- We're civilians...- Oh, brilliant.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07You ain't even real coppers?
0:11:07 > 0:11:09So what's prompted all this then all of a sudden?
0:11:09 > 0:11:13Back in '99, we had two months of non-stop prodding and poking,
0:11:13 > 0:11:17everyone here took a DNA test and then nothing, end of story.
0:11:17 > 0:11:21The case has never been closed. It's all part of the reviewing process.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23He's done it again, hasn't he?
0:11:23 > 0:11:25- The rapist.- Look, this doesn't make sense to me.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29Mr Miller said you were all like one big happy family.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31He said that, did he?! Joke.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34- Mick...- Well, aren't you? - No, we ain't, since he came. Look,
0:11:34 > 0:11:39when Miller took over, he cut costs - safety, wages, pension deal.
0:11:39 > 0:11:43Anything that wasn't core production was put out to tender, including security.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46That's one of the main reasons those rapes happened.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49World and his wife could have walked in here back then.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51Well, no-one mentioned that at the time.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53Everyone was frightened about losing their jobs.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56He'd already laid off loads of people who'd been here for years.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58Never mind what Miller says.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01The only thing he gave a toss about was how much the publicity
0:12:01 > 0:12:03was costing him. Am I right or wrong, Tilly?
0:12:03 > 0:12:05He did next to nothing.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08Not for Eileen or the others.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11- Others?- I meant Jean.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14Yeah, I better get back before Miller docks my pay and all.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16Me too.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Look, forgive Mick. It's just that he cares.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22And he's right... Miller doesn't.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29"Others"?
0:12:29 > 0:12:34So Eileen Harrison was on her way to the changing room, which was that way.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36HE COUGHS
0:12:38 > 0:12:39That's better.
0:12:44 > 0:12:48I never heard or saw nothing till it was too late.
0:12:48 > 0:12:52No movement, voice, nothing.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54The lights went off.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56He grabbed me and then um...
0:12:59 > 0:13:01Afterwards...
0:13:01 > 0:13:03I was covered in his sweat.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05It stank.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08I couldn't move for what seemed like ages.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10And then when I did...
0:13:10 > 0:13:13he'd gone.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15And you never went back to work?
0:13:15 > 0:13:18Once. But it was no good.
0:13:18 > 0:13:23And since then I've not really been able to go out the house.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26I find it too difficult.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30- Cuddly toys, like a child's.- Cheers.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32The only magazines and photos are at least ten years old,
0:13:32 > 0:13:35- as if her life had just stopped. - Hello.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38- Oh, you're all right, are you?! - Yours are on the bar.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40- How d'you know what I wanted? - I'm psychic.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43- I just asked for alcohol. - I might have wanted a fruit juice.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45- Ha! How was Pyramid?- Interesting.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48- Cheers.- You can eat as much chocolate as you like inside the factory,
0:13:48 > 0:13:50but you can't take any out.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53- I meant the investigation, Brian. - Well, Miller, the boss,
0:13:53 > 0:13:58he came on all teeth and smiles, but according to the work-force that's just an act.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01All profit and no heart. And there's hardly anyone left from '99.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03- High turnover?- Yeah, apparently.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07Miller didn't talk much. He was too keen to rush off.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11The work-force were more help, especially Mick and Tilly Shaw,
0:14:11 > 0:14:15husband and wife. She was a friend of Eileen Harrison, a shop steward now.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17She did say one thing that was odd.
0:14:17 > 0:14:20She, um, she used the word "others"
0:14:20 > 0:14:23when we were talking about the victims - and I mean apart from Eileen.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26- What, "others" as in plural? - Exactly.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28She made out it was a slip of the tongue,
0:14:28 > 0:14:30that she just meant Jean, but I'm not so sure.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32The victims have anything to say?
0:14:32 > 0:14:36- Both of them saw next to nothing. - Scenes of crime?
0:14:36 > 0:14:39Well, the changing room's been pulled down, it's not there any more.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42The production line where Eileen was attacked - that's still going.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Very busy... loud. Noisy.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46Women!
0:14:46 > 0:14:48Is it the sort of place you'd go back to alone?
0:14:48 > 0:14:50Why?
0:14:50 > 0:14:54Well, Eileen Harrison, two hours after her shift ended, goes back
0:14:54 > 0:14:57to a place where only one week before a workmate had been raped.
0:14:57 > 0:15:02She went back for her purse. She might have had her wages in it.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04There is something a bit odd.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06The place where the attack happened.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10It doesn't look like it's actually en route to the changing room.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12I'll tell you what's really bothering me, the man we're
0:15:12 > 0:15:16looking for knew how and where to turn the light switches on and off.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19It had to be someone who knew the inside of that factory.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22Every man who went in and out of Pyramid was DNA tested.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24Someone was missed. They had to have been.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27OK, go back to Pyramid and ask Miller whether there's a
0:15:27 > 0:15:30remote possibility that someone could have missed being tested.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32And while we're there we'll have another look
0:15:32 > 0:15:36- around the shop floor, work out the geography, do it properly.- OK, good.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39Jack, check out all the private firms outside of Pyramid that had
0:15:39 > 0:15:43- their men DNA tested and ask if somebody could have been missed.- What about you?
0:15:43 > 0:15:46I'll go and have a word with this Mrs Shaw.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49See if it was a slip of the tongue. Where are you going?
0:15:49 > 0:15:51Well, I thought I would just pop outside and have a quick...
0:15:54 > 0:15:56Oh, no, I don't any more, do I?
0:15:56 > 0:15:58HE COUGHS
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Better out than in!
0:16:03 > 0:16:04SHE KNOCKS
0:16:09 > 0:16:13Tilly Shaw? Detective Superintendent Pullman.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16- You spoke with a couple of my colleagues earlier.- Oh, yeah.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19- Is it OK if I have another word? - Er, Mick's at football practice.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22That's OK, it's you I wanted to speak to particularly.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25Thank you.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28Excuse the mess, my husband's a bit of an angling freak.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31You and your husband both worked at Pyramid in 1999 -
0:16:31 > 0:16:34am I right in thinking that most of the staff were women back then?
0:16:34 > 0:16:37Still are. Packing on the production line.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Piece-work. The pay's not brilliant.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42- Must have been very scary for the women at that time?- Terrible.
0:16:42 > 0:16:46Especially after we saw how badly affected Jean and Eileen were.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Eileen was a mate, yeah?
0:16:48 > 0:16:50Is she still?
0:16:50 > 0:16:51We...
0:16:51 > 0:16:56I hardly see her. She's become a bit of a recluse. Not that I blame her.
0:16:56 > 0:17:00- Did you ever talk to the other women about what happened?- Of course.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02Talked about nothing else for weeks.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04But nobody had a clue who it might have been?
0:17:04 > 0:17:07It's just that he obviously had access to the factory
0:17:07 > 0:17:10and he seems to have picked similar looking victims,
0:17:10 > 0:17:12which suggests that he either knew them or had seen them.
0:17:12 > 0:17:16That's what made it so scary, but...
0:17:16 > 0:17:19Did anything else unusual happen at that time?
0:17:21 > 0:17:22It's just that Brian, my colleague,
0:17:22 > 0:17:25told me that you said "others". As in other victims.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27Not just Eileen and Jean.
0:17:27 > 0:17:31- That was a mistake.- Right.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34Tilly, we're hunting a serial rapist.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38I don't want to hear from someone else something I should have heard from you.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40There was one girl...
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Nisha Kumar,
0:17:42 > 0:17:44she was a friend of Eileen's...
0:17:44 > 0:17:47- she died, a few months later.- Died?
0:17:47 > 0:17:50Committed suicide. Her mum and dad found her.
0:17:50 > 0:17:54She hanged herself.
0:17:54 > 0:17:59No. Categorically, no. Even the men that were off sick got tested.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01- Can I have another one?- Yeah, sure.
0:18:01 > 0:18:05- Are you sure you won't...? - No, thank you, no.
0:18:05 > 0:18:09- We want to have another look at the shop floor. - What, now? There's no-one there.
0:18:09 > 0:18:14Well, that's great, cos we'd like to see it exactly how it was when Eileen Harrison was attacked.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17Yeah, it won't take long. We just need to see it in the dark.
0:18:17 > 0:18:18It's very inconvenient.
0:18:18 > 0:18:24I thought you said Pyramid was one, big happy family and that you wanted to help?
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Every man I had who'd worked there was done.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35- You're absolutely sure? - Come on, there was only five,
0:18:35 > 0:18:38including me, and I never even set foot in the place.
0:18:38 > 0:18:43We were all DNA tested, everybody was cleared and that was that.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47It doesn't seem a lot, Mr Close. Four men to clean a whole factory?
0:18:47 > 0:18:52Oh, in this business you soon figure out the most efficient use of manpower. I run a very tight ship.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56You, er, you don't have the Pyramid contract anymore, do you?
0:18:56 > 0:18:57No.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59Maybe it was a bit too tight?
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Actually, we fell out over safety.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03THEY SPEAK POLISH
0:19:08 > 0:19:10What was that, Polish?
0:19:10 > 0:19:12Aye, I picked a bit up here and there.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15It's easier to find out if somebody's lying to you if you
0:19:15 > 0:19:18speak their language and it's easier to get them to do what you want,
0:19:18 > 0:19:21rather than what they want.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23You know what I'm saying?
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Are we done?
0:19:25 > 0:19:28Yes, yes. Thank you.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Sorry I couldn't help you.
0:19:31 > 0:19:32Right!
0:19:35 > 0:19:37I should have taken more notice,
0:19:37 > 0:19:39seen what was happening to her, how she changed.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41She changed?
0:19:41 > 0:19:43After the attacks.
0:19:43 > 0:19:49Before, Nisha was always cheerful, lively, funny...
0:19:49 > 0:19:50but then...
0:19:52 > 0:19:55One day I found her crying.
0:19:55 > 0:19:59Then she stopped coming to work for days at a time.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03Nisha and Eileen were always really close, best friends,
0:20:03 > 0:20:07but when Eileen eventually came back to work, it just seemed to make it worse.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12Two days later, Nisha killed herself.
0:20:12 > 0:20:17So Nisha's death took place after the original investigation ended?
0:20:17 > 0:20:20Tilly, do you think there's a possibility that Nisha could have been raped?
0:20:26 > 0:20:28So... What are you two still doing here?
0:20:28 > 0:20:33Get out, get out, that should have been finished hours ago.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39So the women's changing rooms were that way?
0:20:39 > 0:20:43- Yeah.- And the exit is this way? There's not another changing room?
0:20:43 > 0:20:45No.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48Are you sure it's all right for me to keep eating these?
0:20:48 > 0:20:50Sure, I'm delighted you like them.
0:20:50 > 0:20:55- Very more-ish.- And you say there isn't another ladies' toilet or anything down here?
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Uh, no. Are you sure you won't have a...
0:20:57 > 0:20:59No, thanks, I'm fine.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04HE COUGHS
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Sorry.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17- Are you all right?- I think I need...
0:21:17 > 0:21:19- I need... - HIS STOMACH GURGLES
0:21:19 > 0:21:22- Where's the toilet?!- Oh, it's...
0:21:29 > 0:21:30COUGHING CONTINUES
0:21:34 > 0:21:35HE CLEARS HIS THROAT
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Now, he always works in the dark, doesn't he?
0:22:00 > 0:22:04Here you go. It's all dark.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09He's creeping about down here.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12She must have been... CLATTERING
0:22:20 > 0:22:25Oh, you little beauty.
0:22:27 > 0:22:28Look at that.
0:22:28 > 0:22:29HE CHUCKLES
0:22:29 > 0:22:32Oh, this is your lucky day.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35HE COUGHS
0:22:35 > 0:22:36Oh!
0:22:59 > 0:23:00Lovely.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02ALARM RINGS
0:23:08 > 0:23:11SECOND ALARM BLARES
0:23:34 > 0:23:39- Hey, "Nudger"! Pyramid's Nudger! - Nudger! Yes! Of course!
0:23:39 > 0:23:44JINGLE: # Everything you want in a bar and a little bit more
0:23:44 > 0:23:50# Not just chocolate bar a whole lot more!
0:23:50 > 0:23:52# Nuts, biscuit, nougat...
0:23:52 > 0:23:55- # Fudge, raisins chocolate... - Honeycomb pieces!
0:23:55 > 0:24:01# Everything you want in a bar and a little bit more - Nudger! #
0:24:02 > 0:24:06- Morning.- Pyramid's Nudger!- Yes, I remember. It was horrible.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09- Sickly sweet. - You know what your trouble is?
0:24:09 > 0:24:12You like all this boutique, 70%, fair-trade cobblers...
0:24:12 > 0:24:17It's like tar that stuff. No, I like my chocolate to taste like...sugar!
0:24:17 > 0:24:21If Nudger was so great, why did they take it off the market?
0:24:21 > 0:24:25I recall it was cos they found something in one of them that shouldn't have been there.
0:24:25 > 0:24:29- Like a finger.- Oh, yes. - Anyway, moving swiftly on,
0:24:29 > 0:24:31what did you find out at the factory?
0:24:31 > 0:24:35Well, Miller was adamant all the men were DNA tested. Nobody was missed.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38Ditto all the other firms who were in and out of the factory.
0:24:38 > 0:24:42And the rapist must have known the layout of the factory floor,
0:24:42 > 0:24:45because where Eileen was attacked - it's basically a dead end.
0:24:45 > 0:24:50You would only go there if you wanted to open the window or turn the lights on and off.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53Even if she was disorientated by the lights being out,
0:24:53 > 0:24:57where she was attacked was nowhere near the women's changing room. So it doesn't make sense.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59There's something else.
0:24:59 > 0:25:03Tilly Shaw told me that a girl called Nisha Kumar killed herself
0:25:03 > 0:25:06just four months after the rapes, and Nisha worked on the same production line as...
0:25:06 > 0:25:09- The "others".- Yeah.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11- Was she raped?- I don't know.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14What I do know is she was Eileen Harrison's best friend, and that
0:25:14 > 0:25:17only days after Eileen came back to work, she hanged herself.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20- Definitely suicide, was it? - That's what the coroner said.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23I've sent for a copy of the post mortem report.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26In the meantime, Jack, you and I will go and talk to her family -
0:25:26 > 0:25:29- she has a brother, Arun. - What about us?
0:25:29 > 0:25:32- You said quite a lot of people had been laid off just before the rapes?- Yeah.
0:25:32 > 0:25:37Why don't you get a list from Miller and see if any of them have ever been in trouble.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39Could take forever!
0:25:39 > 0:25:44We could have got away with this, mate. You keep schtum, all right?
0:25:44 > 0:25:48- You keep schtum yourself.- All right. - You're the one with the big mouth.
0:25:48 > 0:25:49HE WHISTLES
0:26:01 > 0:26:03Arun Kumar?
0:26:03 > 0:26:07Detective Superintendent Pullman from the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09- This is my colleague Jack Halford. - Yeah?
0:26:09 > 0:26:13We were wondering if we could have a chat with you about your sister, Nisha?
0:26:13 > 0:26:15What about Nisha?
0:26:15 > 0:26:18- Can we go inside?- You got a warrant?
0:26:18 > 0:26:21- A warrant? No, no. We just want to...- Then no, you can't come in.
0:26:21 > 0:26:25- I don't let police in my house. - Any particular reason?- Loads.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28Mr Kumar, we're investigating a number of rapes that took place
0:26:28 > 0:26:33in the factory where your sister worked in 1999 and we understand
0:26:33 > 0:26:37that sadly she took her own life just four months after the rapes took place...
0:26:37 > 0:26:40- And?- Look, whatever dealings,
0:26:40 > 0:26:43whatever experiences you've had with the police before, they weren't with
0:26:43 > 0:26:46me, all right? I'm just trying to find the man who raped these women.
0:26:46 > 0:26:50We don't have any details of your mother and father - are they still around?
0:26:50 > 0:26:53- No. They went back to India.- When?
0:26:53 > 0:26:57- What's that got to do with you? - Was it anything to do with Nisha?
0:26:57 > 0:27:00- I don't want to talk any more. - Was your sister raped, Arun?
0:27:00 > 0:27:03Don't talk about my sister like that, understand?!
0:27:03 > 0:27:05No-one talks about her like that.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08I don't want to talk about your sister.
0:27:08 > 0:27:09I want you to talk about her.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12She's suffered enough.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14Leave her alone.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19Would you call that a reaction or an overreaction?
0:27:19 > 0:27:21He was certainly mad about something.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24Cos his sister was raped, or because we knew about it?
0:27:24 > 0:27:26Hmmm. Look!
0:27:28 > 0:27:30Oh, great(!)
0:27:33 > 0:27:35What is it about policing and leaks to the press?
0:27:35 > 0:27:37It's absolutely bloody outrageous!
0:27:39 > 0:27:43Oh, let's try and be positive, maybe someone will come forward with fresh information.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45I've only ever heard that said on television.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47Well, there is some good news.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50- Go on.- Nisha Kumar's post mortem.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53The pathologist was looking for signs of sexual assault.
0:27:53 > 0:27:57There were none. In fact, the report clearly states
0:27:57 > 0:27:58that Nisha was a virgin.
0:27:58 > 0:28:04And you were right. In 2000, Pyramid were prosecuted by Health and Safety for one of their Nudger bars...
0:28:04 > 0:28:08And as you said, this chocolate had a piece of human being in it.
0:28:08 > 0:28:12Pyramid blamed the "contamination of imported raisins from Turkey".
0:28:12 > 0:28:17They were found guilty under health and safety and fined £200,000.
0:28:17 > 0:28:23Sales went through the floor and by December they discontinued the line.
0:28:23 > 0:28:24No more Nudger.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26- The company nearly went bust. - I should bloody well hope so.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29Yeah, but that's not how big business works.
0:28:29 > 0:28:33So, in eight months they'd landed three new contracts
0:28:33 > 0:28:35with separate supermarket chains,
0:28:35 > 0:28:39all selling own-brand chocolate bars, and guess what was in them?
0:28:39 > 0:28:40Nuts, biscuit, nougat.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42Fudge, raisin, chocolate.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44Honeycomb pieces.
0:28:44 > 0:28:46Exactly, so with in 18 months,
0:28:46 > 0:28:51Pyramid had had two rapes, a suicide
0:28:51 > 0:28:54and a finger in one of their best brands.
0:28:54 > 0:28:57That's either an awful lot of bad luck, or an awful lot of coincidences.
0:28:57 > 0:29:00And who says there's no such thing as bad publicity?
0:29:00 > 0:29:03- Whose finger was it? Did they ever find out?- I don't know.
0:29:03 > 0:29:05Some Turkish raisin-farmer.
0:29:06 > 0:29:10But if Nisha wasn't raped, then why did she kill herself?
0:29:10 > 0:29:14She may not have been raped, but she may have known who the rapist was.
0:29:14 > 0:29:18Well, we got hold of an ex-employees list from Pyramid
0:29:18 > 0:29:21and guess who was on it in '98...
0:29:22 > 0:29:25while he was a student working in his summer break?
0:29:27 > 0:29:28Arun Kumar.
0:29:28 > 0:29:32- Is he!- Right, do a PNC check,
0:29:32 > 0:29:35see if he's on the DNA database.
0:29:35 > 0:29:37- Are you still not smoking?- No.
0:29:37 > 0:29:39Well done.
0:29:39 > 0:29:41Sheer will power!
0:29:43 > 0:29:45HE COUGHS
0:29:48 > 0:29:51- You lied to me! - Eileen, I didn't lie to you.
0:29:51 > 0:29:54Yeah? Why didn't you tell me?! Making out you were worried.
0:29:54 > 0:29:57- You don't give a toss! - Eileen, listen, just listen to me.
0:29:57 > 0:30:01I didn't tell you what happened cos I didn't want to frighten you.
0:30:01 > 0:30:03So I had to find out through the papers!
0:30:03 > 0:30:07That was nothing to do with us, me or my colleagues, I promise.
0:30:07 > 0:30:10I don't believe it! He can't still be around! It's impossible!
0:30:19 > 0:30:22Yeah, I've got you, but no arrests?
0:30:23 > 0:30:25Yeah, that's great, thanks.
0:30:25 > 0:30:27Arun Kumar hasn't got a criminal record
0:30:27 > 0:30:31- but he has been stop-searched a couple of times.- But no DNA.
0:30:31 > 0:30:33No, not as... PC BEEPS
0:30:36 > 0:30:37- Bloody hell.- What?
0:30:37 > 0:30:43Well, I just typed the words "Pyramid Chocolate factory" and "crime" into the computer.
0:30:43 > 0:30:44Look what it's come up with.
0:30:47 > 0:30:50"Mick Shaw, a mechanic at the Pyramid Chocolate factory,
0:30:50 > 0:30:55"was found not guilty of assault at Isleworth Crown court." 2003.
0:30:55 > 0:30:58Yeah, I thought he was bit tense.
0:30:58 > 0:31:00Yeah, I'll tell the guv'nor.
0:31:00 > 0:31:01And about Arun.
0:31:03 > 0:31:06- Oi, oi, where you going?- Out.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08Are you going to go and see Mick Shaw?
0:31:08 > 0:31:11I'm going to go see a man about a coincidence.
0:31:11 > 0:31:13PHONE RINGS I don't...
0:31:13 > 0:31:14Yes, Guv'nor.
0:31:19 > 0:31:22I'm sure I can do you some kind of deal, yeah.
0:31:22 > 0:31:24Listen, let me call you back, yeah.
0:31:24 > 0:31:27You know this could be construed as harassment.
0:31:27 > 0:31:30- I could be construed as a customer. - Not dressed like that, mate.
0:31:30 > 0:31:33We're not here to argue, Arun. We just want to talk.
0:31:33 > 0:31:35Talk? Yeah, right. About what?
0:31:35 > 0:31:37I sent for your sister's post-mortem report.
0:31:37 > 0:31:41Now what was probably not made clear to you and your parents -
0:31:41 > 0:31:44for obvious reasons - but is clear from the report
0:31:44 > 0:31:47is that at the time of her death, Nisha was still a virgin.
0:31:47 > 0:31:49She wasn't raped.
0:31:49 > 0:31:52Which begs the question why did she hang herself?
0:31:52 > 0:31:56She was obviously very unhappy about something.
0:31:56 > 0:31:58Did you see that she was unhappy?
0:31:58 > 0:32:00That's a stupid question, of course. We all did.
0:32:00 > 0:32:03Arun, I know you've been stop-searched a couple of times...
0:32:03 > 0:32:06- Oh, here we go!- ..so you're a bit hacked off with the police.
0:32:06 > 0:32:08- Really?! You ain't got a...- Listen.
0:32:08 > 0:32:12I don't know why your sister killed herself but I think you do.
0:32:12 > 0:32:16You don't like talking about it because you feel guilty in some way.
0:32:16 > 0:32:19- You're full of shit. - No, no, no, no, I don't think so.
0:32:21 > 0:32:25- I don't need this.- OK, so who do you blame for your sister's death?
0:32:25 > 0:32:28Did you ever see your sister, Arun?
0:32:28 > 0:32:31In the factory? That summer when you worked there?
0:32:31 > 0:32:34I worked in accounts. We weren't allowed on the shop floor.
0:32:34 > 0:32:35Did you ever meet Eileen Harrison?
0:32:35 > 0:32:37PHONE RINGS Who?
0:32:37 > 0:32:39Come on, she was Nisha's best mate
0:32:39 > 0:32:43- and one of the women who was raped. - You people are unbelievable!
0:32:43 > 0:32:46A white woman gets raped and you grab the first Asian guy
0:32:46 > 0:32:49- who's name crops up. - You really believe that, do you?
0:32:49 > 0:32:52Yeah, me and half the guys I grew up with.
0:32:52 > 0:32:54My sister hangs herself
0:32:54 > 0:32:58and the only thing you're interested in is the woman she's mates with.
0:32:58 > 0:33:01No, what I'm interested in is why a happy girl who wasn't raped
0:33:01 > 0:33:03suddenly decides to commit suicide.
0:33:03 > 0:33:07Nah, what you really get off on is giving guys like me a hard time.
0:33:07 > 0:33:10Maybe it's because she knew who the rapist was
0:33:10 > 0:33:13and that made her feel really ashamed.
0:33:13 > 0:33:18Now...are you sure you never went down on that shop floor?
0:33:20 > 0:33:22I loved my sister.
0:33:22 > 0:33:25And I never raped anyone.
0:33:25 > 0:33:28Fine. Then you'd be happy to give us a DNA sample.
0:33:28 > 0:33:33- What?- So we can rule you out of our investigation?- You think I'm stupid?
0:33:33 > 0:33:35You think I'm going to let my DNA go on your database?
0:33:35 > 0:33:38It will be destroyed as soon as it's proved negative.
0:33:38 > 0:33:41Yeah, and Father Christmas is Shiva.
0:33:41 > 0:33:46I don't trust ya. And nothing that's ever happened to me makes me want to.
0:33:46 > 0:33:50OK. But I am going to find out who raped those women.
0:33:51 > 0:33:54And I'm going to find out why your sister hanged herself.
0:34:34 > 0:34:36Can I help you?
0:34:36 > 0:34:38Yeah, I'm Gerry Standing. UCOS.
0:34:38 > 0:34:41- What, another one? - Ah, no, I'm different
0:34:41 > 0:34:43because I remembered your name.
0:34:43 > 0:34:46I thought I'd heard it somewhere before. And I was right.
0:34:46 > 0:34:48- Gi' yersel' a Blue Peter badge. - GERRY LAUGHS
0:34:48 > 0:34:52See, now you call yourself Close Sanitation
0:34:52 > 0:34:56but in 2001, Close Cleaning Limited was prosecuted
0:34:56 > 0:35:00by the Immigration Services for employing illegal immigrants.
0:35:00 > 0:35:02Bangladeshis, mostly.
0:35:02 > 0:35:07Most of whom had fake ID and all of whom were subsequently deported.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10All right, two Blue Peter badges.
0:35:10 > 0:35:13So, come on, Alex. Come on, come clean, eh?
0:35:14 > 0:35:17Did you have any illegals on your payroll in '99?
0:35:19 > 0:35:20Course you did
0:35:20 > 0:35:24and some of them were working at the factory when the rapes took place.
0:35:24 > 0:35:26I've got no idea what you're on about.
0:35:26 > 0:35:28Oh, yes, you have,
0:35:28 > 0:35:31you didn't say anything, because if they'd been DNA tested
0:35:31 > 0:35:33along with everybody else
0:35:33 > 0:35:36- they would have been outed as illegal immigrants.- No.
0:35:36 > 0:35:39There was no illegals on my books in 1999. OK?
0:35:39 > 0:35:41Please.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43And it is illegal to smoke in these premises.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45Thanks for the chat, pal.
0:35:59 > 0:36:02Mr Miller? We're here about Nisha Kumar.
0:36:02 > 0:36:04- Who?- She hanged herself.
0:36:04 > 0:36:06Oh, yeah.
0:36:06 > 0:36:08You didn't mention her to my colleagues,
0:36:08 > 0:36:11- even though it happened months after the rapes.- Well, yeah,
0:36:11 > 0:36:15since the start of your investigation, I have been somewhat distracted.
0:36:15 > 0:36:17Not least by the harassment from the press.
0:36:17 > 0:36:20I can assure you it wasn't us who spoke to the press.
0:36:20 > 0:36:23We're only here to ask you what you know
0:36:23 > 0:36:26- about Nisha Kumar's suicide. - The short answer is nothing.
0:36:26 > 0:36:28She worked here. She killed herself.
0:36:28 > 0:36:30Are you saying it's cause and effect?
0:36:31 > 0:36:32I don't appreciate sarcasm.
0:36:32 > 0:36:35What did her family say to you when she died?
0:36:35 > 0:36:38- I don't know. I've never met 'em. - You must have spoken to them?
0:36:38 > 0:36:42Er, well, she didn't die here, did she?
0:36:42 > 0:36:44So one of your workforce commits suicide
0:36:44 > 0:36:47and you don't communicate with her nearest and dearest?
0:36:47 > 0:36:51- Yeah, we may have sent flowers, I don't know.- Very touching.
0:36:51 > 0:36:54What about the guy whose finger was found in a bar of Nudger?
0:36:54 > 0:36:56Send him a bunch of flowers when/if he turns up?
0:36:56 > 0:36:58What has that got to do with anything?!
0:36:58 > 0:37:01You seem to have had a great deal of bad luck
0:37:01 > 0:37:03in a very short space of time.
0:37:03 > 0:37:07Yes, well, "Troubles they come, not in single spies but in battalions."
0:37:07 > 0:37:10A little bit like the...U...C...
0:37:10 > 0:37:14Oh, whatever you're called. Listen, she was a young woman,
0:37:14 > 0:37:18- she would have been having boyfriend trouble... - You're an expert, are you?
0:37:18 > 0:37:20No, no, no, no, I leave that to Human Resources
0:37:20 > 0:37:23and the... the gossips on the shop-floor.
0:37:23 > 0:37:25Excuse me.
0:37:25 > 0:37:30What? Oh, please, I'm busy! Don't bother me with stuff like that.
0:37:30 > 0:37:34Arsehole. Fat lot of good that was. We're getting nowhere.
0:37:34 > 0:37:36There's still Arun. There are other ways to get his DNA.
0:37:36 > 0:37:38No! Not yet.
0:37:38 > 0:37:41Oi, what's the idea of this?
0:37:41 > 0:37:45- Mick's furious. I've got a shop-floor scared to death! - Them and Eileen both.
0:37:45 > 0:37:49And as I understand it, Mick gets angry about a whole lot of things.
0:37:49 > 0:37:52- What do you mean? What's Eileen been saying?- Eileen?
0:37:52 > 0:37:55- Nothing? Why? What should she have said?- I just meant she'd be upset,
0:37:55 > 0:37:58- probably feeling... - Feeling what? How would you know?
0:37:58 > 0:38:02- You haven't seen her for ten years. Why not?- She cut herself off.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05No, no. I can understand why Eileen wouldn't want to see anyone.
0:38:05 > 0:38:08That's no reason for you to stop trying to see her.
0:38:08 > 0:38:11- That's what friends are for. - Depends what you mean by friends.
0:38:11 > 0:38:13What's that supposed to mean?
0:38:13 > 0:38:15What would make you stop being mates
0:38:15 > 0:38:21- with a woman you thought was a really good friend?- Eileen and Mick?
0:38:22 > 0:38:25When did you find out?
0:38:25 > 0:38:27Not till later.
0:38:27 > 0:38:30She wouldn't see me. I went round...
0:38:30 > 0:38:33Mick was there at the front door. She wouldn't let him in.
0:38:33 > 0:38:36It was over by then. The rape saw to that.
0:38:36 > 0:38:38- That's when I realised. - I heard you lot were here again!
0:38:38 > 0:38:40Shouldn't you be out hunting rapists?
0:38:40 > 0:38:43We were just talking to your wife, Mr Shaw.
0:38:43 > 0:38:45We've done enough talking to you already.
0:38:45 > 0:38:47Why don't you do your jobs instead of wasting time?
0:38:47 > 0:38:52I wouldn't call finding out about your affair with Eileen Harrison a waste of time.
0:38:52 > 0:38:56But I can understand why you never mentioned it to the original investigation.
0:38:56 > 0:38:58Until now, I couldn't understand
0:38:58 > 0:39:01why Eileen came back to this factory alone.
0:39:02 > 0:39:04Which begs the question -
0:39:04 > 0:39:08- where were you on the night she was raped?- Me?
0:39:08 > 0:39:11- You think it was me? - Mick's not a rapist!
0:39:11 > 0:39:13No, he only beats up people outside pubs.
0:39:13 > 0:39:18- Not guilty, mate.- Fine. Back to the point. Where were you?
0:39:18 > 0:39:21You know where I was. In the pub. With mates.
0:39:21 > 0:39:25Yeah. When you should have been here, waiting for Eileen.
0:39:25 > 0:39:27Only you never turned up, did you?
0:39:27 > 0:39:29But the rapist did.
0:39:29 > 0:39:33My guess is that you felt very guilty, maybe even partly to blame.
0:39:33 > 0:39:34Even though it wasn't your fault.
0:39:34 > 0:39:36- Just shut up!- Easy, easy.
0:39:42 > 0:39:45Nisha, did she have a boyfriend?
0:39:45 > 0:39:49I don't know. I don't think so.
0:39:49 > 0:39:52Eileen would know.
0:39:52 > 0:39:55Thank you. If, er, anything else occurs to you, anything at all,
0:39:55 > 0:39:57just let me know, yeah?
0:40:23 > 0:40:25What's this? A little light supper?
0:40:25 > 0:40:28- What the hell is that? - Chocolate. Finger.
0:40:28 > 0:40:31I thought we should get it DNA tested.
0:40:31 > 0:40:33You never know, might not be Turkish
0:40:33 > 0:40:36and we could be looking for a nine-fingered rapist.
0:40:36 > 0:40:38Well, it would narrow the field down a bit.
0:40:40 > 0:40:43- Can I help you?- Liam Braine, forensic scientist.
0:40:43 > 0:40:47- I understand you have a rather interesting digit to analyse. - There you go.
0:40:47 > 0:40:50Oh. That is a particularly fine specimen.
0:40:50 > 0:40:54- Do you know the exact nature of the confectionary it was encased in? - Nudger.
0:40:54 > 0:40:56Ah, Nudger.
0:40:56 > 0:41:00Manufactured by the Pyramid Chocolate Company, 1963 to 2000.
0:41:00 > 0:41:03Chocolate. 30% cocoa solids. Whey, milk, cocoa butter, sugar,
0:41:03 > 0:41:06granulated almond and hazel nuts, shortcake biscuit, nougat,
0:41:06 > 0:41:09- cream fudge, Turkish raisins... - And honeycomb pieces, yes.
0:41:09 > 0:41:12- How soon can we get the results? - It should be feasible
0:41:12 > 0:41:14to have a comprehensive set of indices very soon.
0:41:14 > 0:41:17Although this is a particularly nutty problem.
0:41:17 > 0:41:21Nougat is made from a combination of sugar, egg-white and nuts.
0:41:21 > 0:41:23The term is derived from the Old French "nogat",
0:41:23 > 0:41:27itself a corruption of the Provencal word "noga", meaning "nut".
0:41:27 > 0:41:29Too many nuts.
0:41:31 > 0:41:33You can say that again!
0:41:37 > 0:41:40- Evening all.- Evening.
0:41:40 > 0:41:42I've just been chatting to Alex Close
0:41:42 > 0:41:45because I found out that in 2001,
0:41:45 > 0:41:50he was prosecuted for employing illegal immigrants, so I asked him
0:41:50 > 0:41:53- did he employ any in 1999? - And he said no.
0:41:53 > 0:41:56Of course. He wouldn't have owned up to it earlier, either.
0:41:56 > 0:41:59But the 2001 lot were all deported.
0:41:59 > 0:42:02- Bangladesh, mostly. - Of course - the voice!
0:42:02 > 0:42:04Why he didn't talk.
0:42:04 > 0:42:08If the rapist is Bangladeshi, it's going to be a dead giveaway.
0:42:08 > 0:42:09Every time he opens his mouth.
0:42:09 > 0:42:13If a cleaner raped Helen Vestry, they must have got back into the country again.
0:42:13 > 0:42:15- Well, it's not possible. - Of course it is.
0:42:15 > 0:42:19- They all had fake ID. Illegals come back all the time.- No.
0:42:19 > 0:42:22I mean when they were deported in '01,
0:42:22 > 0:42:26then they would have had their DNA and their prints taken then.
0:42:26 > 0:42:28We'd have already had a match.
0:42:28 > 0:42:32Unless it was someone who stopped working for Close between '99 and 2001.
0:42:32 > 0:42:35In which case he'll still be running around,
0:42:35 > 0:42:37- untested for DNA. - Then we're buggered.
0:42:37 > 0:42:40- It'll be like looking for a needle in a haystack.- Colin Pitchfork.
0:42:40 > 0:42:41Hm?
0:42:41 > 0:42:45Oh, every time I hear that expression, "Needle in a haystack",
0:42:45 > 0:42:47I think Haystack - Pitchfork.
0:42:47 > 0:42:49Of course, Colin Pitchfork.
0:42:49 > 0:42:53The first man to be arrested and sentenced for murder by DNA screening.
0:42:53 > 0:42:55Absolutely right!
0:42:55 > 0:42:58January 1988.
0:42:58 > 0:43:00You see, they said that case was hopeless.
0:43:00 > 0:43:04But then they brought in DNA, they tested 5,000 men and they got him.
0:43:04 > 0:43:06No matter how bad it looks,
0:43:06 > 0:43:08- it's never hopeless. - Thank you, Mary Poppins.
0:43:08 > 0:43:09Just get us a pint, will you?
0:43:10 > 0:43:14I asked at the station. They said you'd be in here.
0:43:14 > 0:43:18- Is this where you do most of your work?- The best of it, yeah.
0:43:18 > 0:43:21Arun Kumar. Nisha's brother.
0:43:21 > 0:43:24- Fancy a drink?- No, I don't drink. - That's all right, neither does he.
0:43:26 > 0:43:27Got something to say?
0:43:29 > 0:43:30There you go.
0:43:33 > 0:43:35My sister.
0:43:35 > 0:43:37You're absolutely sure she wasn't raped?
0:43:37 > 0:43:39Positive.
0:43:39 > 0:43:41100%?
0:43:44 > 0:43:46We thought...
0:43:46 > 0:43:50We were afraid that she hanged herself because she had been raped.
0:43:50 > 0:43:53What with what we read in the papers.
0:43:53 > 0:43:56How was she in the time before she died?
0:43:56 > 0:43:59She was crying all the time.
0:43:59 > 0:44:02We didn't understand. She'd been so happy.
0:44:02 > 0:44:05- Yeah, that's what everyone says about her.- No, no.
0:44:05 > 0:44:09She was even happier than normal, because she'd met someone.
0:44:09 > 0:44:11You mean a man?
0:44:11 > 0:44:14She told my parents he was really nice,
0:44:14 > 0:44:16a really lovely bloke, you know.
0:44:16 > 0:44:18My parents were quite pleased, I think.
0:44:18 > 0:44:20- Who was he?- I don't know.
0:44:22 > 0:44:26But he must have been someone at the factory.
0:44:26 > 0:44:28Have you got a name?
0:44:28 > 0:44:30The man who was seeing her, I mean.
0:44:30 > 0:44:33This "really lovely bloke"?
0:44:35 > 0:44:38You don't believe me.
0:44:41 > 0:44:44OK. Tell me...
0:44:44 > 0:44:46where do I go?
0:44:46 > 0:44:49To take the DNA test?
0:44:50 > 0:44:53- Morning.- Morning. - It certainly is.
0:44:53 > 0:44:55Why are you so cheerful?
0:44:55 > 0:44:57Brainiac has got some good news.
0:44:57 > 0:44:59Good. Care to enlighten me?
0:44:59 > 0:45:01Having re-examined samples from the finger,
0:45:01 > 0:45:05it's clear that, while male, it's previous owner is not the rapist.
0:45:05 > 0:45:08- By the same token, it is almost certainly not Turkish.- Not?
0:45:08 > 0:45:10I thought you'd be delighted.
0:45:10 > 0:45:14- Turkish delighted.- Anything else?
0:45:14 > 0:45:16Having isolated his DNA, cluster sampling models
0:45:16 > 0:45:19place his likely point of origin some way to the east,
0:45:19 > 0:45:22- on the Indian subcontinent. Probably...- Bangladesh.
0:45:22 > 0:45:24Yes, very good.
0:45:24 > 0:45:26But that is not the interesting part.
0:45:26 > 0:45:28- Care to hear the rest? - Knock yourself out.
0:45:28 > 0:45:32I've isolated a second DNA sample from a particle of blood
0:45:32 > 0:45:35between the fingernail and the epithelium,
0:45:35 > 0:45:38- belonging to another man. And... - You know his likely point of origin?
0:45:38 > 0:45:41Better than that. I know who he is.
0:45:41 > 0:45:43- What?!- Not the finger owner.
0:45:43 > 0:45:45The man from under the fingernail.
0:45:45 > 0:45:49- He's in the national DNA database. - Who is he?
0:45:49 > 0:45:53So, Mick, can you tell us again about the punch-up you had in 2002?
0:45:53 > 0:45:56Outside the Bell pub in Ealing.
0:45:56 > 0:45:58What about it? I got off, remember?
0:45:58 > 0:46:01Yeah, but you were arrested. So your DNA was taken.
0:46:01 > 0:46:03Yeah. So what?
0:46:03 > 0:46:05Can you tell me why that same DNA,
0:46:05 > 0:46:10yours, was discovered under the nail of a severed finger
0:46:10 > 0:46:13that turned up in a bar of Nudger in 2000?
0:46:13 > 0:46:14No. No idea.
0:46:14 > 0:46:18Perhaps you've some idea about who the finger belonged to?
0:46:18 > 0:46:20- No.- I don't believe you.
0:46:20 > 0:46:22I don't believe this.
0:46:25 > 0:46:28Interview suspended at 11.22am.
0:46:35 > 0:46:38Oooh. You've upset her now.
0:46:41 > 0:46:43Eileen, thank you so much for coming in,
0:46:43 > 0:46:45I know this is very hard for you.
0:46:45 > 0:46:49But let me start by saying that you're free to leave at any time.
0:46:49 > 0:46:51What is it you wanted to know?
0:46:51 > 0:46:54Mick Shaw. You had an affair with him.
0:46:56 > 0:47:01- Yeah.- He must have been very upset after what happened to you?
0:47:01 > 0:47:04- Yeah.- Not least because had he turned up on the night of the attack
0:47:04 > 0:47:06like he was supposed to have done,
0:47:06 > 0:47:08you probably wouldn't have been raped at all.
0:47:10 > 0:47:11Eileen...
0:47:11 > 0:47:16there is a sample of Mick's DNA under the nail of the finger
0:47:16 > 0:47:21that was found in a Nudger bar a year after you were raped.
0:47:21 > 0:47:26- What?- We think that the finger belongs to a man from Bangladesh.
0:47:27 > 0:47:29How do you think that might have happened?
0:47:31 > 0:47:33I...I don't know.
0:47:33 > 0:47:35Do you remember what you said
0:47:35 > 0:47:38when you found out the rapist had struck again last year?
0:47:39 > 0:47:44You said "I can't believe he's still around. It's impossible."
0:47:44 > 0:47:47Now at first, I thought you said that because you were afraid.
0:47:47 > 0:47:51But what you really meant was you couldn't believe he was still alive.
0:47:53 > 0:47:55I, I want to go now.
0:47:55 > 0:47:58Nisha... You and she were best friends, weren't you?
0:48:01 > 0:48:03Why did she kill herself?
0:48:03 > 0:48:05I don't know.
0:48:05 > 0:48:07She had a boyfriend, didn't she?
0:48:07 > 0:48:10A boy she really liked. A boy that she'd fallen in love with.
0:48:13 > 0:48:15Where is he?
0:48:17 > 0:48:18What happened to him, Eileen?
0:48:22 > 0:48:25He wasn't very nice.
0:48:25 > 0:48:28- Nice?- This...cleaner.
0:48:28 > 0:48:31He was really creepy.
0:48:31 > 0:48:35Nisha thought the sun shone out of his arse, but it didn't.
0:48:35 > 0:48:37I told her. I warned her.
0:48:37 > 0:48:39Shakib's only after one thing.
0:48:39 > 0:48:43- Shakib?- Yeah, um, oh...
0:48:43 > 0:48:47I used to see him staring at me, watching me.
0:48:47 > 0:48:50I even saw his boss tell him off.
0:48:50 > 0:48:55And, and, and then when Jean got raped I knew who it was,
0:48:55 > 0:48:58but I didn't say anything.
0:48:58 > 0:49:02I should have. And then maybe I wouldn't have been...
0:49:02 > 0:49:05Did you tell Nisha that was what had happened?
0:49:07 > 0:49:09No. You told Mick.
0:49:09 > 0:49:12He said... He said not to worry any more
0:49:12 > 0:49:13and that he'd taken care of him.
0:49:13 > 0:49:16And what do you think he meant by that?
0:49:17 > 0:49:21Mick said everything was going to be OK
0:49:21 > 0:49:25and that this guy would, um, never,
0:49:25 > 0:49:27never ever rape anyone again.
0:49:27 > 0:49:29But he didn't rape anyone, Eileen.
0:49:30 > 0:49:33I am afraid that you got it wrong.
0:49:33 > 0:49:36What? What?!
0:49:43 > 0:49:45Looks a bit edgy to me to me.
0:49:45 > 0:49:48- Yeah.- Nervous.
0:49:48 > 0:49:51Ha! He's a smoker.
0:49:51 > 0:49:52He's desperate for a cigarette.
0:49:52 > 0:49:54Ah, yes. Of course.
0:49:54 > 0:49:58Right now, he'd sell his mum for a smoke.
0:49:58 > 0:50:00That's all you had to do in the old days,
0:50:00 > 0:50:03before they outlawed it, of course.
0:50:03 > 0:50:07Bide your time. Rack up the tension and then light a cigarette.
0:50:07 > 0:50:09Blow smoke all over them.
0:50:09 > 0:50:11They'd be crawling up the wall
0:50:11 > 0:50:15and then you'd just offer them a cigarette and Bob's your uncle.
0:50:15 > 0:50:17Those were the days. Remember?
0:50:25 > 0:50:27TAPE RECORDER BUZZES
0:50:33 > 0:50:36Interview recommenced at 11.34am. Same persons present.
0:50:36 > 0:50:40- Mr Shaw, you do still understand you're still under caution?- Yeah.
0:50:40 > 0:50:44So, Michael - you don't mind if I call you Michael?
0:50:45 > 0:50:46You killed the wrong man.
0:50:48 > 0:50:49What you talking about?
0:50:49 > 0:50:55The finger's DNA doesn't match that of the man who raped Eileen,
0:50:55 > 0:50:59or Jean Saunders, or the woman last year
0:50:59 > 0:51:02and DNA doesn't lie.
0:51:02 > 0:51:04- Shakib.- I don't know what you're going on about.
0:51:04 > 0:51:07The contract cleaner. The illegal immigrant.
0:51:07 > 0:51:08Nisha's boyfriend.
0:51:10 > 0:51:13You see, Eileen told us. How she told you
0:51:13 > 0:51:15that he was the man that raped her
0:51:15 > 0:51:18and how you killed him.
0:51:18 > 0:51:21Which is worse, Mick - knowing that you killed the wrong man?
0:51:21 > 0:51:24Or knowing you got it wrong cos of her?
0:51:24 > 0:51:26Must be very hard to take.
0:51:26 > 0:51:28Doing life for a mistake.
0:51:28 > 0:51:29No.
0:51:29 > 0:51:32No, she... No. No!
0:51:32 > 0:51:38No, she said it was Shakib! She said Shakib raped her.
0:51:38 > 0:51:40Who needs cigarettes?
0:51:41 > 0:51:45- EILEEN:- "Mick said everything was going to be OK
0:51:45 > 0:51:49"and that this guy would, um, never, never ever rape anyone again."
0:51:51 > 0:51:53He attacked Shakib on the shop-floor
0:51:53 > 0:51:56after the production line had closed down for the night.
0:51:56 > 0:51:59Shakib fell against the start button of the conveyor belt.
0:51:59 > 0:52:02The machine trapped his arm and severed his finger.
0:52:02 > 0:52:04During which time, Shaw beat him to death with a wrench.
0:52:04 > 0:52:08He then took the body away in a plastic bag in his van,
0:52:08 > 0:52:10weighted it down and dumped it in a gravel pit
0:52:10 > 0:52:13- where he used to go fishing.- Nice.
0:52:13 > 0:52:16So he must've known that Shakib didn't take the test.
0:52:16 > 0:52:21And when everybody else proved negative after they tested for DNA,
0:52:21 > 0:52:24it just convinced him that what Eileen had said was true.
0:52:24 > 0:52:26What am I going to tell Strickland?
0:52:26 > 0:52:28We're supposed to be hunting a rapist
0:52:28 > 0:52:32and we've ended up solving a murder that no-one knew had happened.
0:52:32 > 0:52:34- Mick and Eileen knew.- Shit!
0:52:34 > 0:52:37WHIRRING
0:52:37 > 0:52:39"Really creepy..."
0:52:40 > 0:52:43WHIRRING
0:52:44 > 0:52:46"I even saw his boss tell him off
0:52:46 > 0:52:50"and, and, and then when Jean got raped, I..."
0:52:50 > 0:52:53"I even saw his boss tell him off."
0:52:53 > 0:52:55Alex Close was his boss
0:52:55 > 0:52:58and Close told me he'd never set foot inside the factory.
0:52:58 > 0:53:02But Close was tested and his DNA was negative, wasn't it?
0:53:02 > 0:53:03Colin Pitchfork.
0:53:03 > 0:53:06He didn't do a sample at the start, he got his mate to do it
0:53:06 > 0:53:09and they only caught him because his mate was boasting
0:53:09 > 0:53:13that Pitchfork paid him £200 to take the test and pretend to be him.
0:53:13 > 0:53:15That's right, he did.
0:53:15 > 0:53:18And Close told me he could get his employees to do anything
0:53:18 > 0:53:20and I believe him, because they're terrified of him.
0:53:21 > 0:53:25- What about the bakery?- Well, if I'm right, he must have been there too.
0:53:44 > 0:53:46Helen?
0:53:46 > 0:53:48Helen, do you recognise him?
0:53:51 > 0:53:52He's, er,
0:53:52 > 0:53:54he's Scottish.
0:53:54 > 0:53:57He came in to the shop about, um,
0:53:57 > 0:54:0118 months ago. To see about the, er, the cleaning.
0:54:01 > 0:54:04- To try and get the cleaning contract. - Right.- He didn't get it.
0:54:04 > 0:54:09But, um, the thing was he then came in two or three times,
0:54:09 > 0:54:10as a customer.
0:54:10 > 0:54:13He used to buy, um...
0:54:13 > 0:54:17a pasty. It was, it was always the same thing.
0:54:19 > 0:54:21A pasty.
0:54:28 > 0:54:30Fond of those, are you?
0:54:31 > 0:54:33Aye, my little weakness.
0:54:33 > 0:54:36No, I don't think that's your weakness, Mr Close.
0:54:36 > 0:54:40- Who's this, your care worker? - Detective Superintendent Pullman.
0:54:40 > 0:54:43I'd just like to ask you a few more questions. Final questions.
0:54:43 > 0:54:45You must lead boring lives.
0:54:45 > 0:54:48I want to know if you recall a young Bangladeshi man
0:54:48 > 0:54:51who worked as a cleaner at the Pyramid Chocolate factory.
0:54:51 > 0:54:53- Name of Shakib?- I've told you...
0:54:53 > 0:54:56This man, you would remember - he failed to turn up for work one day.
0:54:56 > 0:54:59In fact, he disappeared during the night shift at Pyramid.
0:55:01 > 0:55:03No.
0:55:03 > 0:55:06Right. So would you mind telling me
0:55:06 > 0:55:09- where you've been for the last nine years?- Here and there.
0:55:09 > 0:55:12Where were you after your previous firm went bust?
0:55:12 > 0:55:14Poland. Most of the time.
0:55:14 > 0:55:19Right. So if I were to send a sample of your DNA to the Polish police,
0:55:19 > 0:55:21that would be OK with you, would it?
0:55:21 > 0:55:24- Sure.- No, I'm sorry, I didn't make myself clear.
0:55:24 > 0:55:29- Not the old sample. A new one.- No, I've already given a DNA sample.
0:55:29 > 0:55:32Now that's where we have a bit of a problem, Mr Close,
0:55:32 > 0:55:36- because we don't think you have. - Er, yes,
0:55:36 > 0:55:38I was tested, along with my workmen.
0:55:38 > 0:55:42No. In 1999, you sent someone along to pretend to be you.
0:55:42 > 0:55:46Someone with your ID and they took the test.
0:55:46 > 0:55:49You see, the rapist we're looking for never spoke,
0:55:49 > 0:55:52so at first we assumed he was an Asian
0:55:52 > 0:55:53and his voice would give him away.
0:55:53 > 0:55:56It never occurred to us that he could have been Scots.
0:55:58 > 0:56:01Is this what the Met get up to now, eh?
0:56:01 > 0:56:04Is this what you build your cases on? This is a load of shite.
0:56:04 > 0:56:08This man raped two women in 1999 and he's since raped again, Mr Close.
0:56:09 > 0:56:13If you were so happy to help back then by giving a DNA sample,
0:56:13 > 0:56:16what possible reason could you have for not doing so now?
0:56:37 > 0:56:40Now, then, Mr Close, you're sweating.
0:56:48 > 0:56:51- That mine? - Bought with you in mind.- Thank you.
0:56:51 > 0:56:53Did you speak to him? Strickland?
0:56:53 > 0:56:56- It was a bad line. I had to make it brief.- Lucky you.
0:56:56 > 0:56:58What'd he say?
0:56:58 > 0:57:00- He was surprised.- Bloody cheek.
0:57:00 > 0:57:02He asked me, "What cracked the case?"
0:57:02 > 0:57:06- I said, "Colin Pitchfork." He said, "Who?"- Unbelievable.
0:57:06 > 0:57:09- That's modern policing for you. - Where's Gerry?
0:57:09 > 0:57:11Outside.
0:57:11 > 0:57:13Said he wanted a bit of fresh air.
0:57:14 > 0:57:17Gerry's never wanted fresh air in his life.
0:57:27 > 0:57:28I bloody knew it!
0:57:31 > 0:57:33Look, I did try giving up, honestly.
0:57:33 > 0:57:37Anyway, I never said I was going to stop smoking.
0:57:37 > 0:57:40I said I was going to stop smoking cigarettes.
0:57:40 > 0:57:42Your lungs.
0:57:42 > 0:57:44Yeah, but I felt so ill, honestly. I couldn't bear it!
0:57:48 > 0:57:50Bear it!
0:57:53 > 0:57:57# Oh, the end of me old cigar Tra-la tra-la tra-la...
0:57:57 > 0:58:00- BOTH:- # Everybody knows me by the end of me old cigar. #
0:58:00 > 0:58:02THEY LAUGH
0:58:02 > 0:58:04# It's all right, it's OK
0:58:04 > 0:58:07# Doesn't really matter if you're old and grey
0:58:07 > 0:58:10# It's all right, I say, it's OK
0:58:10 > 0:58:12# Listen to what I say
0:58:13 > 0:58:15# It's all right, doing fine
0:58:15 > 0:58:18# Doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine
0:58:18 > 0:58:21# It's all right, I say, it's OK
0:58:21 > 0:58:23# You're getting to the end of the day. #
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