0:00:04 > 0:00:06Sandra.
0:00:07 > 0:00:09You been waiting long?
0:00:09 > 0:00:1230 seconds is too long in this place.
0:00:14 > 0:00:16Who sent you this?
0:00:16 > 0:00:22Mate on the Flying Squad. Nick Kellogg, who shot the Security Guard, is here on remand, awaiting trial.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28- Things are looking up.- I doubt it.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32I'm Detective Superintendent Pullman, this is Jack Halford, UCOS.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35You must be thrilled.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Do you know what this is?
0:00:37 > 0:00:41- Pass.- It's a ballistics report on the gun you were carrying.
0:00:41 > 0:00:47Bad news is it's the same gun that was used to kill a guy called Eddie Mayfair in 1999.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50- Never heard of him. - Eddie was a boxer, 21.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54I saw him fight once. He was very good. Until somebody shot him.
0:00:54 > 0:00:59- Hang on, are you trying to dump this on me?- We know you were doing time in '99, so we're not looking at you.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03- All we want to know is where you got the gun.- Don't be silly.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Silly was getting caught with it.
0:01:05 > 0:01:10Whoever it was gave it to you didn't care that you were carrying a murder weapon, did he?
0:01:10 > 0:01:14Help us and you can only help yourself at your trial. A name.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16Look, I'm sorry...
0:01:16 > 0:01:19you must have mistaken me for something that looks like grass.
0:01:19 > 0:01:24- So you're happy to give up the chance of a favourable word in the judge's ear?- Last time of asking.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29I tell you what...
0:01:31 > 0:01:33..why don't you take that report,
0:01:33 > 0:01:36and you roll it up nice and tight
0:01:36 > 0:01:40and then you shove it where a monkey shoves his nuts?
0:01:45 > 0:01:47# It's all right, it's OK
0:01:47 > 0:01:50# Doesn't really matter if you're old and grey
0:01:50 > 0:01:53# It's all right, I say, it's OK
0:01:53 > 0:01:56# Listen to what I say
0:01:56 > 0:01:58# It's all right, doing fine
0:01:58 > 0:02:01# Doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine
0:02:01 > 0:02:03# It's all right, I say, it's OK
0:02:03 > 0:02:06# We're getting to the end of the day. #
0:02:09 > 0:02:11CLASSICAL SINGING PLAYS OVER SCENE
0:02:38 > 0:02:40Quick hands.
0:02:40 > 0:02:41Oof!
0:02:41 > 0:02:45Mind you, this Joseph's not as bad as I thought he was going to be.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Now, watch this.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Bang!
0:02:49 > 0:02:53And, goodnight, Nurse. Oh, he really was quality, wasn't he?
0:02:53 > 0:02:58- Top drawer.- Quality what? There's a doctor in the ring, cos the other fella's not moving!
0:02:58 > 0:03:03- Milton Joseph ended up in hospital. Injuries were so bad he never fought again.- That's appalling!
0:03:03 > 0:03:07- Well, it's boxing. I mean, nobody WANTS it to happen...- It's brutal.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09Brutal? It's barbaric.
0:03:09 > 0:03:13- You don't know what you're talking about.- I know boxing's nothing more than legitimised thuggery.
0:03:13 > 0:03:17- The nearest you ever got to a ring was your playpen.- I suppose you did!
0:03:17 > 0:03:22- I did, as it happens, and I'm proud of it.- Oh, aye, I'll bet. That would explain the brain damage.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24- Oi!- Oh, shut up!
0:03:24 > 0:03:27Jack, please, lay out all the gory details for us.
0:03:27 > 0:03:32November 1999. Eddie Mayfair was found shot dead at 8am
0:03:32 > 0:03:36by two cleaners in the gym above the Sun in Splendour pub in Stepney.
0:03:36 > 0:03:42That was exactly a week after that fight. No-one heard the shot or saw anyone go in and out of the building.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46Last person to see him alive was his best mate, Danny Branston,
0:03:46 > 0:03:49who saw him leave for the gym about 6:30 in the morning.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52- Branston? He was a pro fighter too, weren't he?- Used to spar for Eddie.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55He went on to fight for the British welterweight title against, erm...
0:03:55 > 0:03:57- Steve Grint. - In Manchester.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00- Yeah, it was stopped in the third... - Fourth. Stopped in the fourth.
0:04:00 > 0:04:05- Branston had cuts over both eyes. His cornerman couldn't stem the left one. - So, are you a fight fan, sir?
0:04:05 > 0:04:08- It has been known. Started at school. I boxed for my House.- Did you?
0:04:08 > 0:04:13Yeah, and at university. I remember Eddie Mayfair very well. Tough. Big puncher.
0:04:13 > 0:04:1513 straight wins undefeated, eight KOs.
0:04:15 > 0:04:21Danny Branston and Eddie's family and friends were convinced Milton Joseph, or someone close to him,
0:04:21 > 0:04:23shot Eddie in revenge for what had happened the week before.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26But how could he have done, if he was in hospital?
0:04:26 > 0:04:32- He came out the day before Eddie was killed.- The Murder Squad got next to nothing out of Milton and co,
0:04:32 > 0:04:35so with no information, no forensics, case went nowhere.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38Until last week, when the murder weapon reappeared.
0:04:38 > 0:04:43Now, interestingly, both Danny Branston and Milton Joseph have since gained criminal records.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46- So why don't you start with them? - What a good idea, sir.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52Who'd have thought it? Stwickers a pugilist!
0:04:54 > 0:04:56Hello? Hello?
0:04:56 > 0:04:59- Anyone home...- Yeah!
0:04:59 > 0:05:02All right, er...
0:05:02 > 0:05:05- Can't give you more than 200 for that, mate.- Come again?
0:05:05 > 0:05:07The scrap prices are low.
0:05:07 > 0:05:11- Do what?!- Danny Branston? - Might be. Who wants to know?
0:05:11 > 0:05:16I'm Jack Halford, this is Gerry Standing, Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18We'd like to talk to you about Eddie Mayfair.
0:05:18 > 0:05:22- Eddie? What's happened, somebody finally put their hands up? - Not exactly.
0:05:22 > 0:05:26We're re-examining the case. And we'd like to know what you remember.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28You saw him the morning he died.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31I was staying at his mum and dad's, yeah.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34We'd only just stopped celebrating him getting the title shot.
0:05:34 > 0:05:39- Eddie was up early as usual and went off to start getting himself back into shape.- And you?- No.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41Early mornings was Eddie's thing, not mine.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43I was going to join him later...
0:05:43 > 0:05:45then I got the call.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48I saw you fight Steve Grint.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51That was unlucky. That was a nasty cut.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53Yeah, that's how it goes, innit?
0:05:53 > 0:05:55I was all right, I could throw a few,
0:05:55 > 0:05:58nothing like Eddie, though. That boy was mustard,
0:05:58 > 0:06:01real deal.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03We was like that, me and Ed.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05We had such a laugh together.
0:06:05 > 0:06:09After he died... it was never the same.
0:06:09 > 0:06:10Everything changed.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13Like you getting a criminal record.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16- I fell in with the wrong crowd. - Wrong crowd?
0:06:16 > 0:06:19Look, it was a one-off, all right? A stupid mistake.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22What about uniform being called to your flat about a domestic?
0:06:22 > 0:06:24Was that a one-off as well?
0:06:24 > 0:06:27It must have been, cos they ain't been back.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30So you're not involved in the fight game any more?
0:06:30 > 0:06:32No, not really.
0:06:32 > 0:06:36- I work the corners for the odd bout every now and then. Cutsman. - Oh, yeah?
0:06:36 > 0:06:39Yeah... It's nothing like fighting, though, is it?
0:06:39 > 0:06:42- So, you boys going to go talk to Milton?- Milton Joseph?
0:06:42 > 0:06:45- Yeah. He's the one that did it, ain't he?- Really?
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Course he did. Look, Eddie put paid to him good and proper.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51It was the end of Milton's dream, weren't it?
0:06:51 > 0:06:53No more payday, no more glory.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55Just a battered-up old nobody.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57So, that's what you think?
0:06:57 > 0:06:59Not just me.
0:06:59 > 0:07:00Ask around.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04'I said everything I've got to say about him after he died.'
0:07:04 > 0:07:07I have nothing to do with killing that man.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11You came out of hospital the day before Eddie Mayfair was shot.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13Yeah...on sticks.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17I was in no fit state. And I was with...
0:07:17 > 0:07:20- friends.- We're going to talk to them too. Plus your manager.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24Mitch Graham? I want to be around for that conversation. He's in a hole in the ground.
0:07:24 > 0:07:25He's dead?
0:07:27 > 0:07:30Well, if he's not he's doing a damn good impression.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33What, you didn't know he died? Wow...
0:07:33 > 0:07:35you must be headed for promotion.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38- How'd it happen? - Car crash on the M4.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42Car he was in overturned. Mitch was a good man.
0:07:42 > 0:07:47A lot of people thought you wanted to kill Eddie Mayfair, because of how the fight ended.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50You, badly hurt...humiliated.
0:07:50 > 0:07:54A lot of people want to bring back hanging. Don't mean they're not talking shit.
0:07:54 > 0:07:59Look, I went through this 11 years ago. You found out nothing to put me there when the guy died.
0:07:59 > 0:08:04And no-one saw a black guy go in and out of that hole in Stepney, so why don't you just leave me alone?
0:08:04 > 0:08:0611 years ago, you were clean.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Four years ago, you beat a guy senseless at a red light.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11He spat in my face.
0:08:11 > 0:08:12You put him in hospital.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15I got a suspended sentence.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17The judge said I was "severely provoked".
0:08:17 > 0:08:21Oh. Is that what happens when you get severely provoked?
0:08:22 > 0:08:25So, Milton... who do YOU think killed Eddie?
0:08:25 > 0:08:27Pass.
0:08:27 > 0:08:28Don't you want to know?
0:08:28 > 0:08:31If only to finally clear the cloud that's over your head?
0:08:31 > 0:08:35There's no cloud over me, because I know what I know.
0:08:35 > 0:08:36He's dead.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39Who killed him?
0:08:39 > 0:08:43Now, do you want something to eat or drink?
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Then don't waste my time.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51Cor, it must be, what, 30 years since I've been here.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53- 35.- Yeah!
0:08:53 > 0:08:56Look, she didn't actually say wait outside.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58- We could go in and just...- Too late.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00God, it's a monstrosity, isn't it?
0:09:03 > 0:09:07- RADIO: '..is shining here at the Oval...'- Ah, it's great, innit?
0:09:07 > 0:09:12- Wonderful.- Excuse me. Detective Superintendent Pullman.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15- I called earlier about taking a look upstairs.- That way.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17Thank you.
0:09:17 > 0:09:22- Oh, no, did you hear that? We've only lost another wicket!- I know...
0:09:25 > 0:09:31No, no, no, let him come on to you! Suck him in, then counter.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34You go toe to toe with Hunter and he'll knock you flat on your arse!
0:09:34 > 0:09:36- Doug Palmer?- Yes, madam?
0:09:36 > 0:09:39Detective Superintendent Pullman.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41We're here about Eddie Mayfair. We're investigating his murder.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45All right, all right, that's enough.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47Don, go and take a shower.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49- Eric, do some bloody work. - All right...
0:09:49 > 0:09:52Excuse my French. Eddie. Yeah.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Downstairs said you was coming in.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56You trained him.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58I had that singular honour, yeah.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00I saw him a couple of times. I was there when he beat Mark Jago.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03Were you?! Yeah, that was a bit of a ding-dong, weren't it?
0:10:03 > 0:10:06- Class will out. - You're a man of taste, sir.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08You obviously knew Eddie very well.
0:10:08 > 0:10:13- What was he like?- Pound for pound, the best fighter I ever trained.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15And in the ring,
0:10:15 > 0:10:17probably the best puncher I ever saw.
0:10:17 > 0:10:21I loved him. One of the biggest regrets of my life
0:10:21 > 0:10:25- was being with Harry at the Dorchester that morning, instead of here.- Harry?
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Harry Gallo. Eddie's manager,
0:10:27 > 0:10:29and my good friend.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31If I'd have been here, maybe...
0:10:31 > 0:10:34You might have been dead an' all.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Yeah, well...
0:10:38 > 0:10:41He was a sweet boy, Eddie. Sweet boy.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44- And he was ready for it.- "It"?
0:10:44 > 0:10:45Everything that was coming to him.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48The show. The big time.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52He was made for it...no question.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56- Why was your meeting with Mr Gallo so early?- Eddie.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59We were discussing his title shot.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02It was tricky because of what happened to Milton.
0:11:02 > 0:11:06Talking up Eddie's chances so soon after in public would have
0:11:06 > 0:11:11come across as pretty crass, so we had to be secretive about it.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13Secretive? At the Dorchester Hotel?
0:11:13 > 0:11:15Harry kept a suite there.
0:11:15 > 0:11:20He's a showman. Likes to do things with style. Even when it's on the QT.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Erm, who do you think shot Eddie?
0:11:23 > 0:11:26I've no idea.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29Doesn't make sense. Everybody loved him.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31I doubt Milton did.
0:11:31 > 0:11:35No! Milton's a good lad.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38I don't buy it. All that manure about him and his people.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40Even after Eddie finished his career so brutally?
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Eddie knocked opponents out.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45That's why people went to see him.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47He was a crowd pleaser.
0:11:47 > 0:11:48The Hackney Hammer.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50They loved him.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53We all did.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Is that the way to the changing room?
0:11:56 > 0:12:01Er, yeah. Er, if the boy's still in there, chuck him out.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Yeah, sad.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13The alcohol?
0:12:13 > 0:12:16Couldn't you smell it?
0:12:16 > 0:12:18Oh...sorry.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26See anything you like?
0:12:26 > 0:12:31- It's a vast improvement from looking at you lot all day long.- That kind of physique is very overrated.
0:12:31 > 0:12:32Well, Brian, you would say that.
0:12:32 > 0:12:36It's near-enough unchanged. Not even a lick of paint.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39Eddie was shot in the chest at point-blank range,
0:12:39 > 0:12:43which suggests that, if someone got so near, he either knew his killer or...
0:12:43 > 0:12:45- Or they surprised him.- One door.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48Yeah, and how did he get into the building? I mean, so early.
0:12:48 > 0:12:53- He was a special case so the pub gave him a key. - Killer could have followed him in.
0:12:53 > 0:12:58- Well, the ease with which he came in and out suggests he knew the place. - Knew enough not to leave any prints.
0:12:58 > 0:13:03Yeah, what I don't understand is how nobody in the street saw anyone leave.
0:13:03 > 0:13:08Well, early morning, area like this, probably pretty deserted that time of day.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11An area like this is called the East End.
0:13:11 > 0:13:16People have a habit of not seeing anything... especially when asked by the police.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Pwoar...whole place stinks of sweat.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20Some women find that attractive.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23And you wonder why you never made it past Sergeant, Gerry.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27Oh, he's nice. That taller one.
0:13:27 > 0:13:28"Nice"?!
0:13:29 > 0:13:32What are you talking about? They're trying to kill each other.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34Well, that's boxing, isn't it?
0:13:34 > 0:13:36What kind of justification is that?
0:13:36 > 0:13:40Not everybody finds physical confrontation as upsetting as you do.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42What's that supposed to mean?
0:13:42 > 0:13:47Well, I mean, it can be quite elegant, can't it? Muhammad Ali...
0:13:47 > 0:13:49Oh, not you an' all!
0:13:49 > 0:13:52Anyway, it doesn't stop him being handsome.
0:13:52 > 0:13:56Handsome is as handsome does. And he's trying to DO him.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00Besides...he's dead. Murdered.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Oh, that's a shame. HE SIGHS
0:14:03 > 0:14:06ESTHER TUTS Ooh!
0:14:06 > 0:14:08Yes, that's right.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10Not so pretty now, is he?
0:14:10 > 0:14:12Shall we eat?
0:14:19 > 0:14:24Yeah, that's great. OK, thanks a lot, bye.
0:14:25 > 0:14:29- GERRY GROANS - Well, Milton's "people" are turning out to be a bit scarce.
0:14:29 > 0:14:30How do you mean?
0:14:30 > 0:14:34Well, his manager/trainer did die in a car crash. 2006.
0:14:34 > 0:14:41And out of all the other guys who were questioned back in '99 - Steven Garrido, also dead.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43Drive-by shooting in Balham, 2008.
0:14:43 > 0:14:47Kelwyn Baptiste was deported to Jamaica in 2003.
0:14:47 > 0:14:52Strickland's talking to the people over there and waiting for them to get back to him.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54But this Ashley McCollin, he just seems to have disappeared.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Is he wanted for anything?
0:14:56 > 0:15:00- No, I don't think so. - All sounds a bit unfortunate.
0:15:00 > 0:15:01And coincidental.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04Yeah, well, shit happens.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08Better try and see if there's anything more to it.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10What are you still watching that for?
0:15:22 > 0:15:26- Superintendent Pullman? - Yes, and this is Brian Lane.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29Hi. I'm Harry's PA. Er, can I ask you what it is you want to see him about?
0:15:29 > 0:15:32We're re-examining the murder of one of Mr Gallo's former clients.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34An Eddie Mayfair.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38- Are you OK?- Eddie was my son.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40Oh, my God. I'm so sorry...
0:15:40 > 0:15:42No, no...it's OK. It's just a bit of a shock, that's all.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45- Well, we've been trying to contact you.- Please. Don't apologise.
0:15:45 > 0:15:51- Sorry, we didn't know you worked for Mr Gallo.- I...I came here after Eddie's father died.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54He never got over what happened. Harry was really good to me.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56- Sorry.- No. No, not at all.
0:15:56 > 0:15:57Come on, I'll take you to meet Harry.
0:16:03 > 0:16:0611 years on? Aren't you a bit late?
0:16:06 > 0:16:10The case remains open. We want to close it by finding his killer.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12Good. If only for Ronnie's sake.
0:16:13 > 0:16:19I'm not just saying it because she's here but...Eddie was quite something.
0:16:19 > 0:16:23I don't know if genius is the right word but I do know he was unique.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25As a boxer?
0:16:25 > 0:16:28I'm one of the top promoters this side of the Atlantic.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30I managed the boy...and I guided him.
0:16:30 > 0:16:35And if I tell you Eddie Mayfair was simply sensational,
0:16:35 > 0:16:36you'd better believe it.
0:16:36 > 0:16:43Ronnie, she brought him up in the right way, but he still had this... hunger. He was desperate to win.
0:16:43 > 0:16:47And when you have that combination, you've got a champion on your hands.
0:16:47 > 0:16:53- Who could have killed him?- Well, a lot of people say it was Milton, because of what Eddie did to him.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57Truth is, I can't think of anyone else who would wish Eddie ill.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00And you have to say that Milton was badly damaged.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03What about some of the other boxers that Eddie bashed up?
0:17:03 > 0:17:08Boxing doesn't ordinarily make you desirous of that kind of revenge.
0:17:08 > 0:17:12It's a hard trade, but it's a bit more noble than that.
0:17:12 > 0:17:16Doug Palmer isn't so sure that Milton was responsible.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19Yeah, well...Doug's a romantic.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21Sentimental, even.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24He doesn't just think boxing's noble, he thinks it's pure.
0:17:24 > 0:17:28Yeah, and he's still working for you. Despite the drinking.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30Doug's a first-class trainer...
0:17:30 > 0:17:32and he's a friend. We go back a long way.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Did you ever fall out with Eddie?
0:17:35 > 0:17:38I have to say I find that rather insulting.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Especially in front of the boy's mother.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42That's a no, then, is it?
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Eddie would have gone on to make a lot of money, I presume.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48So his death must also have damaged you financially.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50If you want to look at it that way.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53Do you think the killer could have been targeting you,
0:17:53 > 0:17:55albeit in a rather extreme way?
0:17:55 > 0:18:00Well, you don't get where I am without upsetting some people along the way.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04But it's hard to believe they'd try to get to me by killing Eddie.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Well, if they did, it obviously didn't work.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08You've done very well since then.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10I know my trade.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12And I'm good at what I do.
0:18:12 > 0:18:17But I'd give it all up to still have Eddie in my stable...still alive.
0:18:18 > 0:18:20You've had other boxers. Good ones.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22Never another like him.
0:18:22 > 0:18:23What about Danny Branston?
0:18:23 > 0:18:25Not in Eddie's league.
0:18:25 > 0:18:29Danny was a good man, though. He was... He was decent.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32If he weren't, Eddie's Eve wouldn't have married him.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35- Eddie's Eve?- Eve Aspinall. Her and Eddie were engaged.
0:18:35 > 0:18:40It broke her heart, what happened, so...Danny helped her put it back together again.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43Bit like Harry did for me.
0:18:43 > 0:18:44We live together.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46Best move I ever made.
0:18:47 > 0:18:51Reckons he's one of the top promoters "this side of the Atlantic".
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Lots of photos of sports stars all over the place.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55It was only boxing when he started.
0:18:55 > 0:19:00He's branched out into all sorts now. But he made his reputation by finding new young boxing talent.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04Yeah, also has a reputation for not being able to hold on to them.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07Gallo got a couple started, but they've tended to move on.
0:19:07 > 0:19:11- Really?- Yeah, there was an article about him in The Ring magazine last year.
0:19:11 > 0:19:16- Still nothing from the Jamaican authorities. I'll try and chivvy them up.- Thank you.
0:19:17 > 0:19:23So, Danny and Eve Aspinall. Eddie's former girlfriend is now married to his best mate.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26Yeah, maybe they just wanted to comfort each other.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Still it's neat and tidy, unlike Milton's lot.
0:19:28 > 0:19:33I wouldn't call it neat. I'd call it incestuous. The whole boxing world.
0:19:33 > 0:19:34Oh, don't start all that again!
0:19:34 > 0:19:38Well, look at that crowd at the fight!
0:19:38 > 0:19:39They were baying for blood!
0:19:39 > 0:19:45- Might as well have been dog-fighting or bear-baiting.- Listen, you idiot, boxing channels aggression.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48It's the best way of stopping young blokes becoming thugs.
0:19:48 > 0:19:53Oh, right, so...Eddie Mayfair being shot in the chest
0:19:53 > 0:19:57and his best mate being done for receiving stolen goods,
0:19:57 > 0:20:02and Milton's close circle, killed in a drive-by shooting, deported, disappeared,
0:20:02 > 0:20:06- that's a boxing success story, is it?- Guys, can we get back to the point, please?
0:20:06 > 0:20:09No, the point is that boxing is purely nihilistic.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12It teaches you nothing except might is right.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14I tell you what it taught me.
0:20:14 > 0:20:19- It taught me that you are a grade-A, 22-carat prat!- Enough!
0:20:19 > 0:20:23- Who can't accept that a physical challenge between two grown men... - Oh, here we go!
0:20:23 > 0:20:27..going head to head, toe to toe, is a simple but honest test of bravery.
0:20:27 > 0:20:32- Really?- Yeah! And you know what I think? I think it scares you.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35- Yeah, it's a sign of cowardice. - What did you say?
0:20:35 > 0:20:37- I said, enough!- You heard.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39- Call me a coward?!- And the rest!
0:20:40 > 0:20:42Piss off!
0:20:42 > 0:20:44Ohh! Ohhh!
0:20:44 > 0:20:46Ohh, that really hurt.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48Brilliant.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51Brian, go and get yourself cleaned up.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53Jack...get him out of here!
0:20:57 > 0:20:59I didn't hit him hard.
0:20:59 > 0:21:03Well, you saw it, he came at me. It was instinct!
0:21:03 > 0:21:04Well, say something.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07I thought your footwork was a bit rusty.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09This is it.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12Oh, yeah. Very tasteful!
0:21:12 > 0:21:15Well, not bad for a 34-year-old scrap dealer.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Eve Branston?
0:21:22 > 0:21:26- I'm Jack Halford, this is Gerry Standing.- Are you here about Eddie?
0:21:26 > 0:21:27- That's right.- Come in.- Thank you.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31I am so glad you're doing this.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33Just for people to know, you know?
0:21:33 > 0:21:36His mum, friends...
0:21:37 > 0:21:39It's just about doing what's right, isn't it?
0:21:39 > 0:21:42Well, maybe with your help, we'll get a result.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45Do you remember the fight between Eddie and Milton?
0:21:45 > 0:21:47I remember around it.
0:21:48 > 0:21:53I never used to watch Eddie in the ring. I found it too painful. Coffee?
0:21:53 > 0:21:55- Thank you.- Yeah, that'd be nice.
0:21:55 > 0:22:00After the fight, did Eddie seem upset at all? Worried?
0:22:00 > 0:22:02No. He used to...
0:22:02 > 0:22:03Please.
0:22:03 > 0:22:07..get anxious before a bout, but afterwards he was always excited.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09He was overjoyed really.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12Especially this one. The chance to fight for the title and everything.
0:22:14 > 0:22:15- Thank you.- Cheers.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20Is it right that you were away the day Eddie died?
0:22:22 > 0:22:23Paris.
0:22:25 > 0:22:29Eddie had paid for me and my mum to go away for the weekend.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36He was going to join us. It was going to be a special...
0:22:42 > 0:22:46- I'm sorry. - No, no, no, just...take your time.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49I'm OK.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52Eventually, you started going out with Danny Branston.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56Danny and I always used to cry when we saw each other.
0:22:57 > 0:23:02I'd just lost the... love of my life,
0:23:02 > 0:23:06the man I loved, and, er, Danny his best friend.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Brought us together, I suppose.
0:23:08 > 0:23:12The police were called to your flat not long after you were married.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15You called them,
0:23:15 > 0:23:16about Danny.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19No marriage is perfect.
0:23:21 > 0:23:25It wasn't easy for either of us in the beginning, Danny and me.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28Well, we didn't have any money for a start.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33Danny wasn't a big star like Eddie, you know.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35He was always getting letters from the bank.
0:23:35 > 0:23:41- Doesn't look like he's getting 'em any more.- No, Danny is a good provider. We're doing very well.
0:23:41 > 0:23:47- Did Eddie mention anyone with a grudge, someone who might have wanted to hurt him?- Yeah, loads in the ring.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49But not outside.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52After the fight, did he talk about Milton at all?
0:23:52 > 0:23:55- No.- Was he sorry that Milton ended up in hospital?
0:23:55 > 0:23:59No. No, I don't think he was.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02You must have been very young when you first met Eddie?
0:24:02 > 0:24:04Just 16.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09I met him when he first came to Hackney.
0:24:09 > 0:24:10I thought he came from Hackney.
0:24:10 > 0:24:14No. He moved there in 1995.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16So he was, well, just 17.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18Where did he move from?
0:24:18 > 0:24:21South of the river. Stockwell, I think.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24Apparently, he was a right terror, getting into fights and stuff.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27- In Stockwell?- Yeah.
0:24:27 > 0:24:32His mum thought he needed a bit of a firm hand before it got out of hand.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35Channelled it all into his boxing.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45It's hard to believe, but...you look like you've been in a fight.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48Just listen, yeah?
0:24:48 > 0:24:53- Oh...so you lost.- Ashley McCollin. Where can we find him?- Don't ask me.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55I ain't seen him in a long time.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57He's one of your best friends. Was.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00- Along with Kelwyn Baptiste, Steven Garrido...
0:25:00 > 0:25:03I ain't seen him. I ain't seen any of 'em.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07- What, you lose touch with friends just like that?- Yeah. I lost touch.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11People go their separate ways, but you still tend to hear about them.
0:25:11 > 0:25:17I mean, you'd hear if they'd been in a car crash, or shot, deported...
0:25:17 > 0:25:20Your friends have some bad luck, don't they, Milton?
0:25:20 > 0:25:22- What you talking about?- Ashley.
0:25:22 > 0:25:26Not dead as well, is he? Cos then we'd have to start wondering whether this really was just bad luck.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30You know, I think you're trying to scare me.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32And I ain't scared of you.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35And I think there's something you're not saying. Which is...?
0:25:38 > 0:25:41OK. Well, if you do hear about your friends
0:25:41 > 0:25:42you will let me know, won't you?
0:25:51 > 0:25:54- UCOS?- Yes, you just spoke to some of our colleagues yesterday.
0:25:54 > 0:25:59- What is it? Have you found something?- More something we haven't found.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01I hear that Eddie wasn't born in Hackney.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04That you moved there when he was about 17.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07- That's right, yeah.- From Stockwell?
0:26:07 > 0:26:13- I hear he got into a bit of trouble. - Well, not really. Just a bit of... teenage stuff. Nothing serious.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Eddie was in a gang and me and his father weren't happy about it.
0:26:15 > 0:26:19- What sort of gang?- Well, just... boys. We were right to move.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22Most of the kids he hung out with are inside now.
0:26:22 > 0:26:27- Who else was in the gang, can you remember any names? - Er...Dermot Thomas.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Er, Gary Harris. Nick Kellogg...
0:26:33 > 0:26:37- What are you doing? - I'm watching the boxing match. - I can see that.
0:26:37 > 0:26:41- I just can't quite believe it, that's all. - Oh, don't be so sanctimonious.
0:26:41 > 0:26:46I don't see that indulging the baser aspects of human nature by willingly exposing your...
0:26:46 > 0:26:50- Look, have you seen this?- Yeah, the trainer's footage. Of course I have.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53No. Here. This.
0:26:54 > 0:26:58Look, just before the end of the fight.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00- There, see?- What?
0:27:00 > 0:27:02What's he saying?
0:27:02 > 0:27:04- Saying?- The black boy.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07"Get off me, you maniac," I imagine.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09No, I don't think so.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11He almost looks...surprised.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Hmm, he's about to be.
0:27:15 > 0:27:19You see? He's not saying anything now.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26- I prefer the other one. - That's cos you don't know her.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28Sit down.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36The gun.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40I'm sorry, you've lost me already.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42Well, did you buy it outright or did you rent it from an armourer?
0:27:44 > 0:27:46- What's so funny?- You.
0:27:46 > 0:27:51- You're very old-fashioned, do you know that?- Yeah, yes, I know. I know, I'm ancient.
0:27:51 > 0:27:58But, you know, being so old helps me to recognise certain aspects of human behaviour, such as lying.
0:27:58 > 0:27:59Now, you're a liar, Nick.
0:27:59 > 0:28:04Archetypal. For instance, you lied when you said you didn't know Eddie Mayfair.
0:28:04 > 0:28:09Are you tired? Well, let's see if we can keep you awake.
0:28:09 > 0:28:13We're going to solve Eddie's murder. I know it. I can feel it in my water.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16That's another of the benefits of experience.
0:28:16 > 0:28:23And when we bring his killer to trial, I'm going to make it known how much you helped me.
0:28:24 > 0:28:25What you talking about?
0:28:25 > 0:28:28I'm talking about when I give evidence in court.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30I'm going to let your name slip.
0:28:30 > 0:28:35Now, the judge will rule my remarks as hearsay and order them to be struck from the record,
0:28:35 > 0:28:39the jury told to disregard them so that no-one will have heard your name.
0:28:39 > 0:28:42Except, of course, the officials in court...
0:28:42 > 0:28:45and the public gallery.
0:28:47 > 0:28:52- You can't do that!- Why not? I've done it before. Works a treat.
0:28:57 > 0:29:00You bastard! You bastard!
0:29:00 > 0:29:02Ba...argh!
0:29:02 > 0:29:04HE CRIES IN PAIN
0:29:06 > 0:29:09Ah, Guv'nor, the DVLA have come back negative
0:29:09 > 0:29:11on Milton's old mate Ashley McCollin.
0:29:11 > 0:29:16He lost his license in 2004. He hit a nine-year-old girl while speeding.
0:29:16 > 0:29:19She ended up in a wheelchair and he got a three-year ban.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22The point is, he hasn't renewed his license since.
0:29:22 > 0:29:27Yeah, right. Like he's given up driving! I don't think so.
0:29:27 > 0:29:31Maybe he's got himself a chauffeur? Maybe he's got himself a bicycle.
0:29:31 > 0:29:35- HE SNORTS - Haven't you kissed and made-up yet?
0:29:35 > 0:29:37- He won't let me. I'm not his type. - He called me a coward!
0:29:37 > 0:29:41What did you say about boxing? What did you call it?
0:29:41 > 0:29:43Nihilistic. Oh, look it up.
0:29:43 > 0:29:47For heaven's sake! Will you two just get on or get out?!
0:29:47 > 0:29:48Gerry, apologise.
0:29:50 > 0:29:52I apologise.
0:29:52 > 0:29:55I'm very, very, sorry.
0:29:55 > 0:29:57- Brian?- What, me?!
0:29:57 > 0:30:00- Yes, you!- Sorry.
0:30:00 > 0:30:03I just spoke to the Jamaican Justice Department in Kingston.
0:30:03 > 0:30:07Kelwyn Baptiste was shot and killed during a prison break in February 2008.
0:30:07 > 0:30:10- What was he inside for?- Murder.
0:30:12 > 0:30:14Where's Jack?
0:30:14 > 0:30:17Yes, the gun was hired.
0:30:17 > 0:30:20But you don't get a name. Do you understand?
0:30:20 > 0:30:23I never saw that piece until a fortnight ago, so...
0:30:23 > 0:30:27OK. So what about Eddie?
0:30:27 > 0:30:30Yeah, we was in Sweet Nine.
0:30:30 > 0:30:35- Come again?- Sweet Nine. We used to call ourselves after where we lived.
0:30:35 > 0:30:37SW9? Sweet Nine.
0:30:37 > 0:30:39Very imaginative.
0:30:39 > 0:30:43Used to hang with guys from nearby. Gangs.
0:30:43 > 0:30:47It got heavy. Ended up with us having a set-to with a crew from Camberwell.
0:30:47 > 0:30:51Milton Joseph was on their team. Eddie cut him.
0:30:51 > 0:30:54- Cut? You mean stabbed?- Yeah.
0:30:54 > 0:30:56They ran...
0:30:56 > 0:30:59Actually, so did we.
0:30:59 > 0:31:03- So Eddie and Milton knew each other? - They hated each other.
0:31:03 > 0:31:07And if you think we were bad, these men were maniacs.
0:31:07 > 0:31:11Garrido, Ashley McCollin, Kelwyn Baptiste?
0:31:11 > 0:31:14These are serious people. D'you know what I'm saying?
0:31:14 > 0:31:16No-one's going to give them up.
0:31:17 > 0:31:21If you want to know who fizzed Eddie, that's who you should be looking at.
0:31:21 > 0:31:22OK?
0:31:24 > 0:31:26But you didn't hear it from me.
0:31:28 > 0:31:31MOBILE PHONE RINGS Oh?
0:31:32 > 0:31:37- Oh! Er, look, Sandra, I'm sorry, but I...- 'Oh, I bet you are!'
0:31:37 > 0:31:42I honestly thought he wouldn't talk if you were there. As it happens, he might well have done.
0:31:42 > 0:31:45- 'Meaning what?'- He opened up.
0:31:45 > 0:31:48He said he rented the gun from an armourer, but wouldn't give a name.
0:31:48 > 0:31:52He also said that he and Eddie used to be in a gang in Stockwell.
0:31:52 > 0:31:55And get this. Their gang used to come up against
0:31:55 > 0:31:58- 'another bunch from Camberwell starring?'- Milton Joseph.
0:31:58 > 0:32:00McCollin, Garrido...
0:32:00 > 0:32:04- 'Baptiste...' - Ah, now, Kelwyn Baptiste is dead.
0:32:04 > 0:32:07He was shot busting out of a Jamaican prison in 2008.
0:32:07 > 0:32:10And back in the nineties, Eddie stabbed Milton.
0:32:10 > 0:32:14- 'Stabbed him?'- Well, maybe Milton forgot to mention it?
0:32:14 > 0:32:16Kellogg just told you all this, did he?
0:32:16 > 0:32:18Well, perhaps it was playing on his conscience.
0:32:18 > 0:32:22- What did you do to get him to talk? - Say that again, I didn't catch it!
0:32:22 > 0:32:26- I said, what did you do to...?- No, you're breaking up. I'm in a tunnel.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28HE HANGS UP
0:32:36 > 0:32:39- Time to talk, Milton.- That's it, this is harassment, man!
0:32:39 > 0:32:43You think this is harassment? Wait till the lawyers get on your case.
0:32:43 > 0:32:46You hear that, everyone? This woman's threatening me now!
0:32:46 > 0:32:52- Let's not do it here, where you can only embarrass yourself.- Girl, I ain't the one who looks stupid.
0:32:52 > 0:32:56Girl? Wow, flattered. OK...if that's what you want.
0:32:56 > 0:33:00I've been going through the original notes on Eddie Mayfair's murder
0:33:00 > 0:33:03and I can't find any mention in the interviews you did
0:33:03 > 0:33:06- that you and he knew each other as teenagers.- That's cos we didn't.
0:33:06 > 0:33:08So you don't remember him stabbing you?
0:33:11 > 0:33:16King's College Hospital, December the 19th, 1995, 11:18pm.
0:33:16 > 0:33:24A Milton Emanuel Joseph was admitted to A&E with two knife wounds to the left buttock.
0:33:24 > 0:33:26Not life threatening, but very humiliating.
0:33:28 > 0:33:32Come on, you lied to the original investigation. D'you want to chance your arm a second time?
0:33:36 > 0:33:39You might want to close early. He won't be back today.
0:33:41 > 0:33:43I knew Mayfair...
0:33:43 > 0:33:48when I was a kid. 15, 16.
0:33:48 > 0:33:53And there was a lot of times we had a beef with each other.
0:33:53 > 0:33:57But then, after he stabbed me, I ain't see him no more.
0:33:57 > 0:34:02I heard he went north of the river, but I never seen him again until the fight.
0:34:02 > 0:34:03Not till the weigh-in.
0:34:03 > 0:34:06You must have felt very angry about being stabbed.
0:34:06 > 0:34:09You could say that. But I never killed him.
0:34:09 > 0:34:12- Is that because you got someone else to do it?- No.
0:34:12 > 0:34:15- I was going to get my revenge in the ring. - KNOCK ON DOOR, DOOR OPENS
0:34:16 > 0:34:21Well, I can see that that will be Plan A, except he beat you up.
0:34:21 > 0:34:24- You don't understand. - What don't I understand?
0:34:26 > 0:34:28Listen to me.
0:34:28 > 0:34:31I never said nothing back then, because...
0:34:31 > 0:34:33What?
0:34:33 > 0:34:35Because Eddie was supposed to throw the fight.
0:34:36 > 0:34:40Wasn't he, Milton? Yeah.
0:34:40 > 0:34:42The great Eddie Mayfair.
0:34:42 > 0:34:46- He was supposed to take a dive. - Except he didn't.
0:34:46 > 0:34:49No, exactly.
0:34:49 > 0:34:52- BOXING MATCH ON TV - You ever watch this?
0:34:54 > 0:34:58- No, I suppose you wouldn't. - Right, here we go. Look.
0:35:06 > 0:35:09Now I'll just rewind that.
0:35:14 > 0:35:17Now this time, here, listen.
0:35:17 > 0:35:20CROWD CHEERING
0:35:20 > 0:35:24- Listen to what? All I can hear is...- Yeah, hang on.
0:35:24 > 0:35:30A bit more magic of sound separation and then we have...
0:35:30 > 0:35:32'What you doing? What you playing at, man?'
0:35:32 > 0:35:36You're supposed to go down! Go down! THE CLIP IS STOPPED
0:35:36 > 0:35:41- You're supposed to go down?- Which I presume means take a dive. Correct?
0:35:41 > 0:35:45But if you thought he was supposed to throw the fight, and he didn't,
0:35:45 > 0:35:50- doesn't that give you more reason to want to kill him?- No, no way.
0:35:50 > 0:35:56Look, I got...b-beat, but I still thought I might have a career.
0:35:56 > 0:35:58That's why I never said nothing back in '99.
0:35:58 > 0:36:03- How do you know he was supposed to throw the fight? Who told you? - Kelwyn Baptiste.
0:36:03 > 0:36:07He told me not to worry, he knew for sure the fight was...
0:36:07 > 0:36:11the fight was mine and that I was going to get a title shot.
0:36:11 > 0:36:15Well, that's great, apart from the small fact that Kelwyn is dead. So who else knew?
0:36:15 > 0:36:20- No-one that I know of.- Oh, come on! You know you're going to win the title and don't get any mates
0:36:20 > 0:36:26- to bet on the result?- I was told to keep my mouth shut. Seriously closed. That's the truth. I swear.
0:36:26 > 0:36:29So what happened, they told you, but they didn't tell Eddie?
0:36:29 > 0:36:32I don't know! Look, he was supposed to go down,
0:36:32 > 0:36:35that's all I was told. Instead he goes ape!
0:36:36 > 0:36:40And it's me on the floor.
0:36:40 > 0:36:42It's me.
0:36:44 > 0:36:45And I'm gone.
0:36:48 > 0:36:51Why d'you think I end up with no money?
0:36:51 > 0:36:56Working in a lousy cafe for a living? Huh?!
0:36:59 > 0:37:03- Where's Madam?- Oh, she's gone with Brian to see Dougie the dypso.
0:37:03 > 0:37:07- No, no, don't take your coat off. You're not stopping.- Where we going?
0:37:07 > 0:37:10Dulwich. The National Records Office been back to me.
0:37:10 > 0:37:16- In 2004, Ashley McCollin changed his name by deed poll to Ainsley O'Connor.- Did he?
0:37:16 > 0:37:19Yeah, his mummy's maiden name. Sweet, eh?
0:37:19 > 0:37:23- Yeah, it's nice out there, I'll put the roof down. - We're not going in yours!
0:37:33 > 0:37:35Afternoon. How's it going?
0:37:35 > 0:37:38Well, we spoke to Milton Joseph a short time ago.
0:37:38 > 0:37:43- Oh, yeah? How's he doing? - He said something that, had you been straight with us,
0:37:43 > 0:37:46- we would've heard from you. - I'm sorry, I don't understand.
0:37:46 > 0:37:50The fight with Eddie. Maybe it wasn't so clear-cut as it seemed?
0:37:50 > 0:37:55- What you talking about? - Milton said the fight was supposed to have been fixed.- Fixed?!
0:37:55 > 0:37:58- Yeah, Eddie was supposed to have thrown it.- No!
0:37:58 > 0:38:02It's a lie, he's lying. Eddie would never...
0:38:02 > 0:38:03Doug, we're not trying to...
0:38:03 > 0:38:08No! I'm not having you come in here casting mud on the reputation
0:38:08 > 0:38:12of one of the finest kids that ever put on gloves. Get out!
0:38:23 > 0:38:25Nice car.
0:38:25 > 0:38:27Nice place.
0:38:31 > 0:38:34- Thank you.- Ainsley O'Connor?
0:38:34 > 0:38:37- You'll be from the Met.- Yes, I'm Jack Halford, this is Gerry Standing.
0:38:37 > 0:38:40Unsolved Crimes and Open Case Squad.
0:38:40 > 0:38:44- We're re-investigating the murder of Eddie Mayfair.- Uh-huh.
0:38:44 > 0:38:46You used to be Ashley McCollin.
0:38:48 > 0:38:49Used to be.
0:38:49 > 0:38:51You weren't easy to find.
0:38:51 > 0:38:55- I would hope so. I left Ashley behind a long time ago.- Because?
0:38:55 > 0:38:59Because...he was not an advantageous person to be.
0:38:59 > 0:39:03Ainsley O'Connor is... somewhat more refined.
0:39:03 > 0:39:07I'd like to talk to the other you. The one that knew Eddie Mayfair.
0:39:07 > 0:39:08Eddie who?
0:39:08 > 0:39:11You were in rival gangs when you were kids.
0:39:11 > 0:39:16Something you didn't tell the original enquiry when Eddie was murdered.
0:39:16 > 0:39:17Sit down.
0:39:17 > 0:39:20- Thank you.- Cheers.
0:39:20 > 0:39:25I don't know about now. I don't tend to have much to do with ordinary policemen,
0:39:25 > 0:39:27unless we're playing golf, but back then,
0:39:27 > 0:39:31I found they had a habit of putting two and two together and making six.
0:39:31 > 0:39:36- You were there when Eddie stabbed Milton.- Yeah, I was.
0:39:36 > 0:39:42And Milton was not happy about it. But you want to know if, four years later, Milton killed Eddie Mayfair?
0:39:42 > 0:39:44Or got someone else to do it?
0:39:46 > 0:39:50No. And if you had proof, me or Milton would be under arrest.
0:39:50 > 0:39:52- Give us time.- Time?
0:39:52 > 0:39:55You've had 11 years.
0:39:55 > 0:39:56HE SIGHS
0:39:56 > 0:39:58We never killed him.
0:39:59 > 0:40:04- Kelwyn Baptiste has killed someone since.- Yeah, and Kelwyn's dead.
0:40:04 > 0:40:09What stops everyone saying he pulled the trigger? Or Steven Garrido or Mitch Graham?
0:40:09 > 0:40:11Any of them might have done it, but not me.
0:40:11 > 0:40:13Why would I have taken such a stupid risk?
0:40:13 > 0:40:16Because it cost you money.
0:40:16 > 0:40:19- Say what?- Because Eddie was supposed to take a dive
0:40:19 > 0:40:23That information would've been worth a small fortune to a betting man.
0:40:23 > 0:40:25Dive? Eddie Mayfair?!
0:40:25 > 0:40:30Correct. And you lot must have lost a fortune between yourselves.
0:40:30 > 0:40:32Yeah, they did.
0:40:32 > 0:40:35- But not me.- What do you mean?
0:40:35 > 0:40:40I mean I didn't lose any money on that fight, because I backed Eddie.
0:40:40 > 0:40:44What, you bet on Eddie Mayfair against your own friend?
0:40:44 > 0:40:47Course I did. Yeah, I heard Eddie was supposed to go down,
0:40:47 > 0:40:51- but I ain't that stupid. - I'm not with you.
0:40:51 > 0:40:56- Whoever it was decided that fight was going to be thrown, it wasn't Eddie.- Why not?
0:40:56 > 0:41:02Because he hated Milton! A guy like Eddie might roll over and take a count one day,
0:41:02 > 0:41:07but in a title elimination against a guy he stabbed in the arse?! Get real.
0:41:07 > 0:41:10I knew Milton, remember, better than anyone.
0:41:10 > 0:41:14He didn't have a prayer. Look at him! He's a loser!
0:41:14 > 0:41:17So how did you know Eddie was going to take a dive? Who told you?
0:41:17 > 0:41:20- Heard it from a friend of mine. Bookie.- Called?
0:41:22 > 0:41:28- So how did he know? - A guy from Eddie Mayfair's camp comes into my friend's shop.
0:41:28 > 0:41:31This guy don't realise, but my friend recognises him.
0:41:31 > 0:41:34- The guy puts two grand on Milton to win.- So?
0:41:34 > 0:41:37My friend knows of at least three other biggish bets
0:41:37 > 0:41:40all put down by this same guy all with different bookmakers.
0:41:40 > 0:41:45All that money on their own man to lose? Doesn't take much figuring out after that.
0:41:45 > 0:41:48This "guy from the Mayfair camp" - does he have a name?
0:41:48 > 0:41:53He's a sparring partner. Made a name for himself a few years later,
0:41:53 > 0:41:56but he didn't have what it takes either.
0:41:56 > 0:42:00- HE CLICKS HIS FINGERS - Danny Branston. Another loser.
0:42:03 > 0:42:06So what do you reckon? Bullshit?
0:42:06 > 0:42:08Unfortunately, I don't think it was.
0:42:08 > 0:42:13Listen, he might have changed his name, but I give you even money he's as bent as a nine bob note.
0:42:13 > 0:42:16- You phoning the guv'nor?- DVLA.
0:42:22 > 0:42:25Doug Palmer got knocked down in the Mile End Road.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28Been on a bender all afternoon. He's in the London Hospital.
0:42:28 > 0:42:30How do you feel?
0:42:30 > 0:42:34- I feel like I need a drink. - Oh, I don't think so.
0:42:34 > 0:42:37You were paralytic when the bus hit you.
0:42:37 > 0:42:40Why did you go on a bender, Doug, straight after seeing us?
0:42:40 > 0:42:45- Doesn't feel like a coincidence. - It never was when I got hammered.
0:42:45 > 0:42:48I was going to say, am I in trouble?
0:42:48 > 0:42:51But it all seems a bit meaningless by comparison.
0:42:51 > 0:42:55- Trouble?- For not being totally straight with you.
0:42:55 > 0:43:00- Saying I was with Harry when Eddie died.- What, you weren't?
0:43:00 > 0:43:01No.
0:43:01 > 0:43:04Well, I mean, yes, I was.
0:43:04 > 0:43:07But...not just him.
0:43:07 > 0:43:10Go on.
0:43:10 > 0:43:14I was supposed to meet Harry in his room at the Dorchester.
0:43:14 > 0:43:18When I got there... I found the two of them.
0:43:18 > 0:43:19Them?
0:43:19 > 0:43:24Harry and Ronnie...together.
0:43:24 > 0:43:26Eddie's mum?
0:43:26 > 0:43:29Did you know they were sleeping together?
0:43:31 > 0:43:33- No.- Did Eddie know?
0:43:34 > 0:43:36I don't know.
0:43:39 > 0:43:41According to the DVLA,
0:43:41 > 0:43:45Ainsley O'Connor passed his driving test in 2004.
0:43:45 > 0:43:49- Four months before Ashley McCollin was banned.- Very naughty.
0:43:49 > 0:43:53But what's more to the point is that a Mr Ainsley O'Connor
0:43:53 > 0:43:56was behind the wheel of the car in which Mitch Graham died.
0:43:56 > 0:44:01So driving while banned with a license obtained through deception
0:44:01 > 0:44:06- and killing someone! Very, very naughty!- You still think he was telling the truth about the fight?
0:44:06 > 0:44:09Yeah, Milton confirmed it - that's how they fell out.
0:44:09 > 0:44:13Because Milton discovered that Ainsley / Ashley bet against him.
0:44:13 > 0:44:16Despite what novels and films might say...
0:44:16 > 0:44:20boxers throwing fights are incredibly rare, especially in this country.
0:44:20 > 0:44:23- How would anyone know? - It's very difficult to pull off.
0:44:23 > 0:44:27Bookies are alerted to unusual betting patterns very quickly.
0:44:27 > 0:44:29But if it was true and the fight was fixed?
0:44:29 > 0:44:34- The only people with the power to fix fights are fighters, managers and promoters.- Harry Gallo.
0:44:34 > 0:44:37- Yeah, but why? - The bet. The money.
0:44:37 > 0:44:42Why would Harry Gallo risk everything with a potential gold mine in Eddie Mayfair anyway?
0:44:42 > 0:44:45Yeah, and we also know that he and Ronnie have an alibi.
0:44:45 > 0:44:49- Danny Branston doesn't! - Well, then, you better make a move.
0:44:50 > 0:44:54Oh, Jack. Don't use your mobile when you're driving.
0:44:58 > 0:44:59Hello, Eve.
0:44:59 > 0:45:03- Hi.- Danny there?- No, I'm afraid he's not here at the moment.
0:45:03 > 0:45:05- Eve!- Please!
0:45:06 > 0:45:11- I told you. He's not here. - Not been gone long, though, has he?
0:45:11 > 0:45:13What was it about?
0:45:13 > 0:45:16- Nothing.- That's a lot of nothing.
0:45:16 > 0:45:19It's never about anything.
0:45:19 > 0:45:22Yeah, don't tell us, it only happens from time to time.
0:45:22 > 0:45:26And in a nice, big detached house like this, I doubt if anyone else can hear.
0:45:26 > 0:45:29- You don't have to put up with it, you know.- Yeah!
0:45:29 > 0:45:32- There are places you can go. - Right!
0:45:33 > 0:45:35Eddie ever hit you?
0:45:37 > 0:45:39No, I didn't think so.
0:45:40 > 0:45:45- What did you want to see Danny about?- Where is he, at the yard?
0:45:47 > 0:45:50Don't tell him!
0:45:50 > 0:45:53That you've seen me.
0:45:54 > 0:45:55Please.
0:45:56 > 0:45:59Don't worry.
0:46:02 > 0:46:05You lied, you lied about your alibi at the time of Eddie's death.
0:46:05 > 0:46:10You both did. We know, because Doug Palmer just told us.
0:46:10 > 0:46:13He told us about finding you both at the Dorchester.
0:46:13 > 0:46:16- Look, Harry and I... - Ronnie, Ronnie, it's OK, it's OK.
0:46:18 > 0:46:21Yeah, we, er, did lie.
0:46:21 > 0:46:25- But that was only because Ronnie's husband never knew.- I bet he didn't.
0:46:25 > 0:46:28We didn't mean for it to happen. We didn't want to hurt anyone.
0:46:28 > 0:46:32- Did Eddie know?- No.- You sure about that?- Yeah, course.
0:46:32 > 0:46:37- Maybe that's why Eddie didn't take that dive, because he found out about you and his mum.- A dive?!
0:46:37 > 0:46:41Where do you get that crap? When's he supposed to have taken this dive?
0:46:41 > 0:46:45- He had a straight 13-win career! - The fight with Milton Joseph.
0:46:45 > 0:46:50Oh, that fight where he put Milton in intensive care? I'm sorry, am I missing something here?
0:46:50 > 0:46:56When Doug Palmer found out about your affair, how long did you think you could keep it secret?
0:46:56 > 0:47:01- Did you intend to tell Eddie?- I think we're through here, don't you?
0:47:08 > 0:47:10Danny!
0:47:13 > 0:47:16So...find anything out?
0:47:16 > 0:47:23I found that, the longer I work on this case, the more difficult it is to know who's telling the truth.
0:47:23 > 0:47:28- We've been told that Eddie was supposed to throw that fight with Milton.- Now who told you that?
0:47:28 > 0:47:32The same person who told us that you put a big bet on it.
0:47:32 > 0:47:36- Well, whoever that was, they're lying.- You see what I mean?
0:47:36 > 0:47:39Now, you slept at Eddie's place the night before he died.
0:47:39 > 0:47:43Now, you got up an hour or so after Eddie had gone to the gym?
0:47:43 > 0:47:45And you saw Ronnie...
0:47:45 > 0:47:49- Eddie's mum.- Yeah, I think so. - You think so?
0:47:49 > 0:47:53It was years ago, weren't it? I mean, what did I say at the time?
0:47:53 > 0:47:55You said you saw Ronnie up and about.
0:47:55 > 0:47:58- Well, that's it, then. - But how could you?
0:47:58 > 0:48:01- She was at the Dorchester. - I'm not with you.
0:48:01 > 0:48:05Ronnie Mayfair was at the Dorchester Hotel that morning.
0:48:05 > 0:48:09You see how hard my job is? Now I'm sorry to bang on about this,
0:48:09 > 0:48:12but either Ronnie was there or she wasn't.
0:48:12 > 0:48:17- I thought I saw her when I woke up, but...maybe I was mistaken! - That's not good enough, Danny!
0:48:17 > 0:48:23You see, out of all the people we've spoken to, you're the only one nobody saw that morning.
0:48:23 > 0:48:27- Hold on, hold on, you're saying that I killed him?- Well, did you?
0:48:27 > 0:48:30Me? His best mate. Why would I kill him?
0:48:30 > 0:48:34Cos you thought Eddie would lose that fight against Milton and laid down
0:48:34 > 0:48:37eight grand in the hope of winning a great deal more.
0:48:37 > 0:48:40Only it didn't quite work out that way, did it?
0:48:40 > 0:48:44Are you out of your mind?! He was my best mate!
0:48:44 > 0:48:46We sparred together, day in, day out.
0:48:46 > 0:48:50Every fight he had, I was there, ringside, cheering him on!
0:48:50 > 0:48:54And when he won, it was like...
0:48:54 > 0:48:57it was just the best feeling.
0:48:57 > 0:48:59We were like brothers!
0:48:59 > 0:49:01Is that a fact?
0:49:02 > 0:49:07- How'd it go with Harry and Ronnie? - Well, they admitted the affair -
0:49:07 > 0:49:11she was quite cut up about it - but they both denied any knowledge of Eddie throwing the fight.
0:49:11 > 0:49:14- What's this?- Oh, footage of Eddie's other fights.
0:49:14 > 0:49:18- We could only find three. - Oh, what a shame(!)- Watch.
0:49:18 > 0:49:22Here's a fight from earlier in the year.
0:49:22 > 0:49:26- What am I supposed to be watching? - Harry, Doug, Danny.
0:49:26 > 0:49:31They're all in the ring at the end. Same as the other fights we watched.
0:49:31 > 0:49:32Now watch this.
0:49:32 > 0:49:36Eddie puts Milton down.
0:49:36 > 0:49:39Now watch Gallo and Branston.
0:49:39 > 0:49:41They're leaving.
0:49:41 > 0:49:44And that's where they were sitting. Side by side.
0:49:44 > 0:49:50- Where have they gone?- You mean, why aren't they celebrating the greatest win in Eddie's career?
0:49:50 > 0:49:56You see, what interests me is why this supposedly fixed fight ended up with the wrong result.
0:49:56 > 0:50:01We know it's the wrong result, because a guy like you, who didn't have very much money at the time,
0:50:01 > 0:50:05isn't going to lay out eight grand, unless it's a cert.
0:50:05 > 0:50:09I never had a bet in my life, let alone eight grand.
0:50:09 > 0:50:12Not one bet, a series of bets spread round different bookies.
0:50:12 > 0:50:17But don't worry. We know that most of the cash can't have been yours.
0:50:17 > 0:50:20Only person you knew with that kind of money was Harry Gallo.
0:50:20 > 0:50:25- Harry Gallo?- Harry thought Eddie would do as he was told. So did you.
0:50:25 > 0:50:29- That's why you put everything on him throwing that fight.- You reckon?
0:50:29 > 0:50:33"Every fight he had, I was there, ringside, cheering him on!"
0:50:33 > 0:50:36That's what you said. Well, where were you that night, Danny?
0:50:36 > 0:50:39When Eddie was up there, beating his chest?!
0:50:39 > 0:50:44Why weren't you and Harry straight into the ring, carrying your best mate shoulder high?
0:50:44 > 0:50:49- Cos you had nothing to celebrate, did you? You were busy making other arrangements.- Eddie's dead,
0:50:49 > 0:50:53and the next thing we know, you've got his girl and a shot at the title.
0:50:53 > 0:50:56People I've spoken to never rated you, Danny.
0:50:56 > 0:50:59They said you had an easy path to the title fight.
0:50:59 > 0:51:01Too easy.
0:51:01 > 0:51:05That's Eddie screaming at two empty seats - yours and Harry's.
0:51:05 > 0:51:09And he's screaming, because he knows he's had you over.
0:51:09 > 0:51:13He's won and there was nothing you could do about it.
0:51:13 > 0:51:15And that's why you killed him.
0:51:21 > 0:51:23You got nothing.
0:51:23 > 0:51:26Oh, I think we have.
0:51:26 > 0:51:28I think we've got more than enough.
0:51:39 > 0:51:42Do you want anything?
0:51:42 > 0:51:43Glass of water?
0:51:50 > 0:51:52He did it, didn't he?
0:51:52 > 0:51:54Yes.
0:51:54 > 0:51:58But I'm sorry, he's right. We haven't got enough.
0:52:00 > 0:52:04Eve, if we can prove it, he'll go down for a long, long time.
0:52:04 > 0:52:08Long enough for you never to have to worry about him ever again, I promise you.
0:52:11 > 0:52:16He has a lock-up. It's in Tufnell Park.
0:52:49 > 0:52:56Jack. It turns out Mr Branston is a member of a very large and very unusual gun club.
0:52:57 > 0:53:00You took your time. Can I go now?
0:53:00 > 0:53:02Sit down.
0:53:08 > 0:53:10I wanted to tell you something off the record.
0:53:10 > 0:53:14The reason this case got kick-started again is because the weapon
0:53:14 > 0:53:18that killed Eddie suddenly turned up three weeks ago.
0:53:18 > 0:53:22Very stupidly, someone allowed themselves to get nicked
0:53:22 > 0:53:27carrying that gun, having rented it from an underworld armourer.
0:53:27 > 0:53:32Now it would be almost impossible for us to track that gun back over the years
0:53:32 > 0:53:35and link it to anyone who might have handled it...
0:53:35 > 0:53:40- Look, mate, my missus is going to wonder where I've got to. - In this case, it's not necessary.
0:53:40 > 0:53:45Because the person who was found with that gun has told us where he got it.
0:53:45 > 0:53:50In fact, Nick Kellogg has been very helpful all round.
0:53:53 > 0:53:57- No, you're full of shit. - Oh, now, don't worry.
0:53:57 > 0:54:03He'll go down for armed robbery. But he reckons that, by helping us,
0:54:03 > 0:54:07he'll be out a lot earlier than you.
0:54:07 > 0:54:09Especially now we've got your lock up.
0:54:13 > 0:54:17No, no, no, no! This is not happening!
0:54:17 > 0:54:24- You tell him he'll be picking up his teeth with broken fingers! - What's happening?!- What did I say?
0:54:24 > 0:54:27You tell him, Halford, let's see how chatty he is with a broken jaw!
0:54:32 > 0:54:35You can't keep coming here without any prior warning.
0:54:35 > 0:54:39Yeah, well, I think this'll be the last time.
0:54:39 > 0:54:42Are you trying to prove something? Waltzing in...
0:54:42 > 0:54:46Harold Ryan Gallo, I am arresting you on suspicion of involvement in the murder
0:54:46 > 0:54:50- of Edward Terence Mayfair.- Are you out of your mind?!- Is this a joke?
0:54:50 > 0:54:53- Danny Branston killed Eddie. - Don't be ridiculous! Rubbish!
0:54:53 > 0:54:57- Didn't Harry tell you? - She's trying to scare you. Ignore it. It's garbage.
0:54:57 > 0:55:01Why did you give Danny an alibi, Ronnie, when you were questioned?
0:55:01 > 0:55:05- You said you were at home with him. You were at the Dorchester. - That was...- Don't say anything.
0:55:05 > 0:55:07Did Harry ask you to say that?
0:55:07 > 0:55:12Did he also say that Danny would give you an alibi to safeguard your affair?
0:55:12 > 0:55:15Harry told Eddie to throw the fight, cos he'd bet on Eddie to lose.
0:55:15 > 0:55:20But Eddie just pretended to go along with it. And, when he won, Harry lost a small fortune.
0:55:20 > 0:55:24That's bollocks! Why would I kill Eddie, huh?!
0:55:24 > 0:55:28- He was a future champion! He was my champion! - Was, but not after that fight.
0:55:28 > 0:55:34If Eddie took a dive, you would've had something over him all his life. But Eddie was smart and straight.
0:55:34 > 0:55:38When he find out you were bent, he was off and you could do nothing,
0:55:38 > 0:55:42cos he'd say you wanted him to throw that fight, so you got Danny to kill him.
0:55:42 > 0:55:47- You are talking out of your arse! - Yeah, well, let's see what a jury thinks. Cuff him.
0:55:52 > 0:55:54I'm really sorry.
0:55:56 > 0:56:01The Specialist Crime Directorate reckon on two maybe three serious underworld armourers
0:56:01 > 0:56:06operating in the South East in the last five years. Danny Branston is a real catch.
0:56:06 > 0:56:09- I can't believe he killed his best friend.- Oh, I can.
0:56:09 > 0:56:12I think he was jealous. Constantly in Eddie's shadow.
0:56:12 > 0:56:17A mate who has all the talent in the world, a big future, gorgeous girlfriend.
0:56:17 > 0:56:20Then, to cap it all, he ends up by making Branston lose his shirt.
0:56:20 > 0:56:24- Do you think Eddie actually knew about his mum and Harry? - What a waste.
0:56:24 > 0:56:27Anyway, well done. Good work.
0:56:27 > 0:56:31Thank you. See, aren't you glad you got interested in boxing now?
0:56:31 > 0:56:33Boxing?
0:56:34 > 0:56:36Yes, very interesting.
0:56:36 > 0:56:39Right, if anybody needs me, I'm in the pub.
0:56:39 > 0:56:43- Good idea, Gerry, I'll buy you a pint.- Thank you.- Jack?
0:56:43 > 0:56:45Can I have a word?
0:56:48 > 0:56:52You told Danny Branston that we had an informant?
0:56:52 > 0:56:55I told him Nick Kellogg gave him up.
0:56:55 > 0:56:57That Nick told us Danny had given him the gun.
0:56:57 > 0:57:01- That was a lie.- Well, I prefer the word diversion.
0:57:01 > 0:57:06- You put Kellogg's life on the line. More than likely, he'll have a contract out on him now.- So what?
0:57:06 > 0:57:09- So what?!- Yes.
0:57:09 > 0:57:13If it means that Eve Branston is now completely out of the picture, not under suspicion,
0:57:13 > 0:57:18- she won't have to appear in the witness box...- You have absolutely no right to take that risk!
0:57:18 > 0:57:21And what right did you have making promises to Eve Branston
0:57:21 > 0:57:25that you couldn't possibly keep?! You told that girl she'd be safe!
0:57:25 > 0:57:28Safe?! From a guy who slaps her about every other week?
0:57:28 > 0:57:33- From an underworld armourer as connected as he is?!- She gave us information, because I said...
0:57:33 > 0:57:38No! She gave us that information in spite of what you said!
0:57:38 > 0:57:42She told us because she knew that piece of shit had killed the love of her life!
0:57:42 > 0:57:46I have given her the best protection she could hope for. And if you think
0:57:46 > 0:57:49I'm going to lose any sleep over someone like Nick Kellogg,
0:57:49 > 0:57:52then you really don't know me at all.
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