0:00:02 > 0:00:04Last week Peter Offord, a 43-year-old plumber,
0:00:04 > 0:00:06was arrested on suspicion of a robbery in Wembley
0:00:06 > 0:00:09but his DNA didn't match any found at the scene.
0:00:09 > 0:00:15However it did show a link to a man found strangled on a Tube train, here, in March '96.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18- The dead man's identity has never been established.- Until now?
0:00:18 > 0:00:22It turns out Peter Offord was that murder victim's son.
0:00:22 > 0:00:23Yeah? How did he react to that?
0:00:23 > 0:00:28- Never knew his dad apparently, he was brought up alone by his mum. - But I don't understand.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32If this fella died on the Tube then surely this is one for British Transport Police?
0:00:32 > 0:00:35Yeah, well, since 2002 the commissioner and the transport police
0:00:35 > 0:00:41chief constable confer on such cases and it's been mutually agreed that UCOS should take this one on.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44What she means, it's been dumped on us.
0:00:44 > 0:00:45Any scene-of-crime photos?
0:00:45 > 0:00:47- No.- List of suspects?
0:00:47 > 0:00:51No scene-of-crime photos, no list of suspects and we don't even know the victim's name.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55- Well, what happened to him? - He was strangled. Face to face.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58- What sort of bloke was he? - He was a vagrant.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01- What, a tramp?!- Oh, great!
0:01:01 > 0:01:04# It's all right It's OK
0:01:04 > 0:01:07# Doesn't really matter if you're old and grey
0:01:07 > 0:01:09# It's all right I say it's OK
0:01:09 > 0:01:12# Listen to what I say
0:01:12 > 0:01:15# It's all right, doing fine
0:01:15 > 0:01:18# Doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine
0:01:18 > 0:01:21# It's all right I say it's OK
0:01:21 > 0:01:23# We're gettin' to the end of the day. #
0:01:26 > 0:01:31The last King's Cross fire victim was a tramp, it took them 17 years to identify him.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33Yes, because people didn't care enough.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37No-one cares about this guy either but it's about time they did...
0:01:37 > 0:01:39You see there was no scene-of-crime photos
0:01:39 > 0:01:41because when the body was discovered
0:01:41 > 0:01:44it was assumed he was just another dosser dead from drink.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47The train was taken out of service and a Transport Police Inspector
0:01:47 > 0:01:51ordered the body removed without examining the carriage...
0:01:51 > 0:01:53Which was cleaned up and back on the track within hours.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55- Thank you very much.- Thank you.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58- What about the post mortem?- Winter.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00A lot of old people had died so there was a queue.
0:02:00 > 0:02:05It was two days before the pathologist examined our man and realised he'd been strangled.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07Who was this Transport Police idiot?
0:02:07 > 0:02:09She'd only been promoted the day before.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11- "SHE".- No dental records?
0:02:11 > 0:02:14The victim had lost almost all his teeth.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18He had several broken bones, badly healed, plus the liver of a 70-year-old
0:02:18 > 0:02:21although as it turns out, he was probably only about 50.
0:02:21 > 0:02:22What about missing persons?
0:02:22 > 0:02:26Well, they made a public appeal but no-one came forward.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28One or two tramps who used to travel the Underground
0:02:28 > 0:02:33were interviewed by the Murder Squad but they were deemed incoherent and unreliable.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37- Pissed.- Yeah, you see, that is exactly the attitude I'm talking about.
0:02:37 > 0:02:42Right, the body was discovered when the train driver was changing shift.
0:02:42 > 0:02:47Now, apparently tramps used to ride the Circle Line a lot as it was a great way to keep warm.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51They could sit on the train all day long as it went round and round. Not any more of course...
0:02:51 > 0:02:57- What do you mean "not any more"? - Well, the Circle Line's not a circle now, is it?- Since when?
0:02:57 > 0:02:59Since last year.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Did none of you know that?
0:03:01 > 0:03:04I never travel on the Tube.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07Not since I retired, no.
0:03:07 > 0:03:08That is appalling!
0:03:08 > 0:03:13Appalling? When was the last time you travelled on public transport?
0:03:13 > 0:03:16Anyway, I got them to locate the actual carriage which you two
0:03:16 > 0:03:20can check out, whilst Jack and I go and chat to the plumber.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29It was here at Acton where they actually brought the train
0:03:29 > 0:03:30after I found the bloke.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32You say you checked every carriage?
0:03:32 > 0:03:35Oh, yeah. Drivers always check each carriage at the end of a shift.
0:03:35 > 0:03:39- Yeah? - Yeah. Well, you know, in case they find something wrong, left behind...
0:03:39 > 0:03:42or dead.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46- Not that I needed to see this geezer, I could smell him halfway down the platform.- Really?
0:03:46 > 0:03:48Yer, blimey, didn't half pen.
0:03:48 > 0:03:53- I mean, I know it's an occupational hazard but this patch give off a right whiff.- Patch?
0:03:53 > 0:03:55Patch o' damp - tramp.
0:03:55 > 0:04:00The geezer was obviously a wino but he'd sort of messed himself, you know what I'm saying?
0:04:00 > 0:04:06- Dirty, filthy...- It's quite common for people to do that when they die. - Is it?
0:04:06 > 0:04:07My mum and dad never did.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10Well, presumably they weren't strangled either?
0:04:10 > 0:04:13No. No, course not.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15Anyway, here is it. Carriage 5721.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Still in use? Isn't it a bit old?
0:04:18 > 0:04:20Oh, yeah. Built to last though, aren't they?
0:04:20 > 0:04:22Shall we go in?
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Just through here and it was
0:04:25 > 0:04:28round here where the bloke was.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32Well, how come nobody saw him being murdered?
0:04:32 > 0:04:36Cos this was empty and because no-one in their right mind would have come in here.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39Honestly, if you'd tried, you'd have turned round and gone back out.
0:04:39 > 0:04:44- The smell, you couldn't even stand it for five seconds. - Well, the murderer did.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Well, he must have had an iron stomach cos it turned mine right over.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50I backed straight out and I didn't go near him again.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52Now we don't have any photos of the dead man...
0:04:52 > 0:04:54Well, you're lucky then.
0:04:54 > 0:04:58No...what I mean is, we're not quite sure how he looked.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02- Not well.- No, I mean, his position.
0:05:02 > 0:05:07- Oh, his position? Oh, I don't know it's a long time ago, mate. I can't remember.- Well, try anyway.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10Right, OK.
0:05:10 > 0:05:15Um, well, I think it was sort of, er, like this.
0:05:15 > 0:05:19There was shit and piss leaking down his trolleys onto the floor along...
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Thank you! Thank you, Ken.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23No, stay there, stay there. Hold on.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29I never knew him!
0:05:29 > 0:05:33I never knew my dad. Yeah?
0:05:33 > 0:05:35You know what? I think you're making this up.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37I promise you, we're not making anything up.
0:05:37 > 0:05:43All we want to do is find somebody who might have murdered someone on the Tube train 15 years ago.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Look!
0:05:51 > 0:05:52Under "Father".
0:05:52 > 0:05:54See what it says?!
0:05:54 > 0:05:56"Unknown"!
0:05:56 > 0:05:59And that's not because my dad was a tramp.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01She knew who he was but she'd never say.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03She didn't even want to talk about him. Do you understand?
0:06:03 > 0:06:08Your mother never said anything that would give you a clue as to who your father was?
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Oh, what, about the dad I never had?
0:06:10 > 0:06:16Who buggered off before I was born, never sent us a penny and left my mum on her own to bring me up?!
0:06:16 > 0:06:18Take a flying guess.
0:06:18 > 0:06:22Look, maybe this tramp was my dad.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24But ask yourself this,
0:06:25 > 0:06:29what makes you think I give a damn?
0:06:29 > 0:06:32OK, first things first.
0:06:32 > 0:06:36Why would... Thank you. Why would anyone kill a tramp in such a public place?
0:06:36 > 0:06:40Especially as it was only out of sight for a couple of seconds in between stations?
0:06:40 > 0:06:45- Tramp rage?- Yeah, but remember, the smell is going to stop almost anyone from getting in that carriage.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Except another tramp - i.e. the murderer.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Which is what the murder squad reckoned.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52Or someone totally committed to killing this man.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54You'd put up with the stink then.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57Well, if the post mortem and Ken's memory are correct,
0:06:57 > 0:07:02then the deceased must have met his killer face to face. Poor bugger.
0:07:02 > 0:07:06I'll say. You got to be some kind of psycho to strangle someone while looking them in the eye.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08I don't think so.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11Tramps are usually killed by being beaten or kicked to death.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14- To kill him this way...- What, you mean up close and personal?
0:07:14 > 0:07:17Exactly. I think it's personal.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Which helps us how exactly?
0:07:19 > 0:07:21The best way... probably the only way...
0:07:21 > 0:07:24- to find out who killed him is to identify him.- Great.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26- Back to square one then.- No...
0:07:26 > 0:07:28all the more reason to carry on.
0:07:28 > 0:07:36And actually, can we stop calling him "him" or "the victim"? Let's dignify him with a name or something.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39- Tom.- Dick.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41- Harry?- Harry.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43Bye-Bye. Thanks very much. Smashing.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Good night.
0:07:46 > 0:07:47See you tomorrow.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50Got any spare change?
0:07:50 > 0:07:52She'll only spend it on drink or drugs.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54- So what?- Well, it's up to you.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57- What's your name, love? - Ta-da.- Leah.
0:07:57 > 0:07:58Leah.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01- Are you all right?- Yeah, fine.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03You sure?
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Do your parents know where you are?
0:08:12 > 0:08:14They don't give a shit, mate.
0:08:14 > 0:08:18- Got any friends? - Yeah, I got friends.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Are they all same age as you?
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Sorry, I'm not saying this very well.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27Do you have any older people as friends...on the street?
0:08:27 > 0:08:28You must be joking.
0:08:28 > 0:08:32Anyone old doing this is mad, drunk or diseased.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35Me and my mates are just damaged, abused and brought up in care.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39So you all lead separate lives, do you?
0:08:39 > 0:08:43- What are you, some kind of weirdo? - No, no, I'm not a weirdo,
0:08:43 > 0:08:44it's just...
0:08:46 > 0:08:50- Leah, is there anything I can do to help you?- Yeah...
0:08:50 > 0:08:54can you get me a job, a flat and a boyfriend who loves me?
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Sorry, can't do that, love.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Well, ta-ra then.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04Ta-ra.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16All right, I give up, what have I done?
0:09:16 > 0:09:20- Eh?- You haven't said a word since 9.47
0:09:20 > 0:09:23- except to the dog.- Oh, I know,
0:09:23 > 0:09:25I'm sorry. I'm just...
0:09:25 > 0:09:28I'm still thinking about this girl, this Leah.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31- And Harry.- Who's Harry?
0:09:31 > 0:09:34- Well, that's what we decided to call the...- Tramp.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37The deceased.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39I feel for them.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Him especially.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45Isolated, alone,
0:09:45 > 0:09:50perceived by everyone as odd, strange...
0:09:50 > 0:09:52weird even.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55Imagine what that must be like.
0:09:55 > 0:09:56Imagine(!)
0:09:58 > 0:10:03Brian, you can't take on all the troubles of the world.
0:10:03 > 0:10:10What you can do is find out who killed someone who everyone else thought of as worthless.
0:10:10 > 0:10:16Because you can be sure that somebody somewhere knew him and cared about him.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19And that someone needs you.
0:10:31 > 0:10:36How did someone like me end up with someone as gorgeous and fantastic as you?
0:10:37 > 0:10:40That's a question I often ask myself.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46I checked with London Underground.
0:10:46 > 0:10:52After the King's Cross fire they installed CCTV on the Tube, but it was a bit patchy in '96
0:10:52 > 0:10:57- so the Murder Squad couldn't work out where the victim got on the train.- Or his killer.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59- Or where he was murdered?- Exactly.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01Well, we know he was killed in that carriage.
0:11:01 > 0:11:05But does it matter where exactly on the line he got done?
0:11:05 > 0:11:09It could do because the Circle Line has 26 stations, but not many of them have enough
0:11:09 > 0:11:13distance between them to give a man time to strangle somebody.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16Well, how long does it take... manual strangulation?
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Well, it depends on the circumstances.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20I'd reckon two minutes minimum.
0:11:20 > 0:11:24Anyway, the killer would want as much time as possible.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26Maybe he just got lucky.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28Or knew exactly what he was doing.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30So why don't you just get on a train?
0:11:30 > 0:11:33Get a feel for the journey. Take some proper timings.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36I've got a stop watch you can use.
0:11:36 > 0:11:37Ah, cheers.
0:11:37 > 0:11:41Now, I tried to track down those tramps that the Met wanted to talk to.
0:11:41 > 0:11:45They've all got weird monikers. The ones that ride the Tube are called Hoppers.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Did you track them down?
0:11:47 > 0:11:50No. After 15 years no-one's ever heard of them.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52No way of knowing if they're even alive.
0:11:52 > 0:11:56Now, the Offord family might be more helpful.
0:11:56 > 0:11:57Now, the mum, Iris...
0:11:57 > 0:12:03the one who never spoke about the dad died in July '95 which is eight months before Harry got killed.
0:12:03 > 0:12:07Now, apart from not having a husband, she did have family.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11Well, the parents are dead, but there's a sister who's alive and well and living in Esher.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13PHONE RINGS
0:12:13 > 0:12:15Brian Lane.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17And sisters talk to each other, right?
0:12:17 > 0:12:19What, really?
0:12:19 > 0:12:21Hang on. Hang on. Christine Offord.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23She's upstairs, wants to talk to you.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38- Mrs Offord.- Christine...please.
0:12:38 > 0:12:43Um, I just wanted to say sorry, for the way Peter reacted when you came round.
0:12:43 > 0:12:48You must understand that Peter is very bitter about what happened to his mum.
0:12:48 > 0:12:53But beneath it all I know he wouldn't want you not to try
0:12:53 > 0:12:56and carry on doing what you're doing.
0:12:56 > 0:13:02- Well, we are carrying on. - And I know that, deep down, he does want to know...
0:13:02 > 0:13:05he needs to know...who this man is.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Who his dad was.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10That's all I come to say. Thank you.
0:13:29 > 0:13:30Oi! Let go of her!
0:13:35 > 0:13:37You animal!
0:13:39 > 0:13:41Ya-a-ah!
0:13:43 > 0:13:45- Are you all right?- Yeah.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51- Here.- Cheers.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02- Are you all right?- Yeah...
0:14:02 > 0:14:04I think I am. Thanks.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07It's OK. Take your time.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14Ah, lovely.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16Better?
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Yeah, much better now, thanks.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21So, what was he after?
0:14:21 > 0:14:23What did he want?
0:14:23 > 0:14:27Money? My sleeping bag? Dunno.
0:14:27 > 0:14:28How can you live like this?
0:14:28 > 0:14:31- Practice.- No. Come on.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33A life on the streets is no life at all for a young...
0:14:33 > 0:14:36- Don't start getting moral! - No, no I'm not preaching.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38That's this country all over!
0:14:38 > 0:14:40Please! No. Don't go. I'm sorry.
0:14:40 > 0:14:45- Come on, sit down.- OK. But only if you don't keep going on.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47All right.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50It's your generation that cocked everything up, not mine.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54Yeah, you're right.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56We do need helping.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00I definitely need help.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03And, you know, the funny thing is you're probably the one who can help me.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05What are you?
0:15:07 > 0:15:08Well, I used to be a policeman.
0:15:08 > 0:15:12It's all right, I'm retired now.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15I work for a thing now called UCOS.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21We're trying to find the murderer of a...
0:15:21 > 0:15:24man who was killed on the Tube.
0:15:24 > 0:15:28He's one of those men I was talking about. They're known as...
0:15:28 > 0:15:30Hoppers.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33Yeah. Yeah, there's still some around.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36- Yeah?- I've met a few.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38Weird. And mad.
0:15:38 > 0:15:42And, yeah, I know where some of 'em hang out when they're not on the Tube.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16Hello, gentlemen.
0:16:16 > 0:16:23- Mikey! Hello, Mikey!- No. Sorry, My name's not Mikey. I'm Brian.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26Yah! Mikey...always having a laugh!
0:16:28 > 0:16:29Fancy a drop of cider, Mikey?
0:16:29 > 0:16:31No, thanks, you're all right.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33Er, actually I'm looking for...
0:16:33 > 0:16:36- Toolbar.- Ah! Toolbar's gone.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39Dead and buried. And good riddance.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43What about Danny Pearl?
0:16:43 > 0:16:46- Dead.- A horse ate him.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48THEY LAUGH
0:16:48 > 0:16:51- Did he owe you money?- No, no, no.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54Jim the Lick?
0:16:54 > 0:16:56That's three.
0:16:56 > 0:17:01- That's bad luck. - You've a terrible habit of bringing up the names of dead men.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03I'm sorry. Forgive me.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Where's your can?
0:17:05 > 0:17:07- Can?- Drink.
0:17:07 > 0:17:12Oh, no, I don't have any. You don't know if Tony No Ticket's still around, do you?
0:17:13 > 0:17:15Where did you say your drink was?
0:17:15 > 0:17:18I didn't. In fact, I don't drink.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20You're a bloody liar!
0:17:20 > 0:17:22Everybody drinks!
0:17:22 > 0:17:26Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, mate, but I assure you that I don't.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28- Don't lie, Mikey. - Please. Don't do that.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30And don't call me Mikey, it's not my name.
0:17:30 > 0:17:36You think you can come here without a bottle, bold as bollocks, and just take the piss!?
0:17:36 > 0:17:39- I am not trying to take... - That's my coat! You nicked my coat!
0:17:39 > 0:17:41You're mistaken. It's mine.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43I've had it a long time. Now, please...
0:17:43 > 0:17:46You're a liar. You nicked it off me in Debenhams.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48You're a dirty, lying, thieving...
0:17:48 > 0:17:53- No. No. I promise you.- He's a spy! He's a spy for the Ruskies!
0:17:53 > 0:17:56- He wants our internal organs! - Bloody hell!
0:17:56 > 0:18:04Hell of a shot, Bill.
0:18:20 > 0:18:21There you go, sweetheart.
0:18:30 > 0:18:35- Janice Pargetter?- Can I help you? - Detective Superintendent Pullman, This is colleague Gerry Standing,
0:18:35 > 0:18:38- we're from the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad.- Really?
0:18:38 > 0:18:40Could we possibly come in for a few moments?
0:18:40 > 0:18:42Of course.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46How exciting! What is it you've come to talk to me about?
0:18:46 > 0:18:50We believer that Iris Offord was your sister. Is that right?
0:18:50 > 0:18:53I'm sorry, I've no interest in Iris...
0:18:53 > 0:18:55and no wish to talk about her.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59Mrs Pargetter. We're investigating the murder of a man who may have some connection to your sister.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05Be that as it may, it is of no consequence to me and I merely
0:19:05 > 0:19:09reiterate that I have nothing to say about anything to do with Iris.
0:19:09 > 0:19:10Perhaps you don't understand.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13Of course I understand.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17My husband is close friends with the Chief Constable of Surrey.
0:19:17 > 0:19:18Is he? Is he really?!
0:19:18 > 0:19:21No, that's absolutely fine, Mrs Pargetter.
0:19:21 > 0:19:26I'll have a word with my boss and get him to the Commissioner who can talk with your husband's friend.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29That way it should be easier to bring uniformed Officers and take you
0:19:29 > 0:19:32to Esher Police station. Would that be better for you?
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Wakey-wakey.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48Come on. Get up and get a move on.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51It's all right, I'm with the Met.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53Hang on.
0:19:53 > 0:19:58- Oh, my God!- Yes, very good. Now, be a nice lad and on your way.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01- No, you don't understand... - Oh, I think I do.
0:20:01 > 0:20:05No, what I mean is, they've taken everything away with them.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08- Not the smell of cider, they haven't.- I have not been drinking!
0:20:08 > 0:20:12- No, of course you haven't(!) On your bike.- Have you got my bike?
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Don't try and be clever.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16I don't have to...
0:20:16 > 0:20:18I work for UCOS!
0:20:18 > 0:20:21I'm a former CID detective with 31 years' experience!
0:20:21 > 0:20:23I won't tell you again. Get up!
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Don't talk to me like that.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Listen. Get up and shut up.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32I told you, don't use that tone of voice with me!
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Stand back! Warning. Taser firing!
0:20:50 > 0:20:54You all right, love?
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Yeah, Yeah.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Are you scared?
0:21:02 > 0:21:03I used to travel a lot.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05On the Tube.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07But then I stopped.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12- Because of 7/7?- What?
0:21:12 > 0:21:14No, no...no.
0:21:14 > 0:21:15My wife died.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22Well, I think you're very brave.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27I better get to work.
0:21:27 > 0:21:31I removed Iris from my life a very long time ago...
0:21:31 > 0:21:34- as did our parents.- Why?
0:21:34 > 0:21:39Because Iris was a creature of the '60s in its worst manifestation.
0:21:39 > 0:21:44Wild, selfish and a complete embarrassment to the whole family.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46And where are your family from?
0:21:46 > 0:21:48Battersea.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50My father was a postman and mother was a cleaner.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53They sacrificed a lot for us obviously.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57- And Iris repaid them by embracing all those nonsensical ideas the '60s were full of.- Such as?
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Socialism.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02Hippiedom.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04Free love...
0:22:04 > 0:22:07And Iris discovered that free love is not free at all.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09- Certainly not in Essex.- Essex?
0:22:09 > 0:22:11That's where she went
0:22:11 > 0:22:15chasing her god. David something... I don't know his other name.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19She met him in London and ran after him like a silly lapdog.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22Even got a job in a pub apparently to be near him.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25Of course he just used her, she ended up coming back
0:22:25 > 0:22:2812 months later with her tail between her legs and...
0:22:28 > 0:22:32- she was pregnant.- By this David.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Who knows? I assume so.
0:22:34 > 0:22:39Anyhow, Iris wanted back into the family fold but Mum and Dad wouldn't have it.
0:22:39 > 0:22:43They wouldn't let her in the house. Talk to her, even.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45We never spoke to her again.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49Whereabouts in Essex, do you know?
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Oh, somewhere awful.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53Beginning with a B I think.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55- Basildon, Brentwood?- No, no...
0:22:55 > 0:22:58somewhere much worse than that.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00- Billericay.- Exactly.
0:23:00 > 0:23:01Yes, that was it.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04How old was Iris, when she got pregnant?
0:23:04 > 0:23:0518.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07PHONE RINGS
0:23:07 > 0:23:09Excuse me.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15It's Esther.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19- They Tasered me!- He became violent.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22I was not violent. I was...vehement!
0:23:22 > 0:23:26He was naked except for a T-shirt, pair of pants and a single sock.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29Those bloody tramps nicked my coat!
0:23:29 > 0:23:32- About time someone did.- I'm sorry you've been put to so much trouble.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34I assure you it's very out of character.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37Thank you, but it's not the first time this has happened.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40Mr Lane has been arrested twice before for being drunk and disorderly.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43That was years ago, he doesn't touch a drop now.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46At all. Ever.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48Come on.
0:23:48 > 0:23:49Thank you.
0:23:53 > 0:23:58- I have to get my coat back!- If you don't shut up you'll be lucky to get your job back.- Thank you, Sandra.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02Thank you. You. In. Now.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13I feel...
0:24:13 > 0:24:16violated.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19Well, you should have more respect for the police then, shouldn't you?
0:24:19 > 0:24:22I'm talking about my coat!
0:24:22 > 0:24:23I'm bereft.
0:24:23 > 0:24:28It's a filthy, shabby old thing you should have got rid of ages ago.
0:24:28 > 0:24:29You don't understand.
0:24:29 > 0:24:36That coat has a value and a significance way beyond mere, mere material goods. It's...
0:24:36 > 0:24:37Oh, go to sleep.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Those bloody tramps.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46Oh, what...
0:24:46 > 0:24:51- those people you care about so much(?)- Not this lot!
0:24:51 > 0:24:54These were just a bunch of nasty, thieving...
0:24:54 > 0:25:01Anyway...they need that coat a lot more than you do.
0:25:01 > 0:25:05According to Broadmoor Bill and Bedknob, most of them were dead
0:25:05 > 0:25:09and I never got to find out about this Tony No Ticket.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11They went very weird when I mentioned him.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Jack, tell us about the Tube.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17There's hardly ever more than a couple of minutes between stations on the Circle Line.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19Probably no more than about 70 seconds.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22But there is this bit between King's Cross and Liverpool Street
0:25:22 > 0:25:26where there are three stretches with at least two minutes each.
0:25:26 > 0:25:33Oh, I got in touch with Missing Persons, see if they had anyone on file, between the ages of 18 and 45
0:25:33 > 0:25:36called David who went missing from Billericay in the late '80s.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38- They're going to get back to us. - Billericay?
0:25:38 > 0:25:42Yeah, Janice Pargetter said that Iris went to Essex, got a job
0:25:42 > 0:25:45- in a pub and came back pregnant. - Probably not a world first.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47Right then,
0:25:47 > 0:25:52- I'm off.- Jack, go with him and make sure he stays out of trouble.
0:25:52 > 0:25:56- Where's your coat? - Your guess is as good as mine, Jack.
0:26:03 > 0:26:08Well, apparently if they're not down by the river, they'll be hanging around here somewhere.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Jack! It's me coat!
0:26:10 > 0:26:14It's me lucky coat! That swine, they've given it to charity.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Hardly given it, they've probably flogged it, or...
0:26:16 > 0:26:18No, it's mine! Jack, look!
0:26:18 > 0:26:24- It's my lucky coat.- No, Brian, Brian. Look. That's your coat.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34Right, get it off!
0:26:34 > 0:26:37- Eh?- That's my coat that you nicked and I want it back!
0:26:37 > 0:26:40- Now, look here, pal.- Coat! Off!
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Now look what you done.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52You made poor old Broadmoor Bill cry.
0:26:52 > 0:26:57You knocked me out with a half-brick, you stripped me and left me on the ground next to naked.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00Yes. But it was Sid and Bill who took your clothes.
0:27:00 > 0:27:07- And it was me who told them to leave you your pants so's you could retain your dignity.- Get it off!
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Ugh...
0:27:15 > 0:27:17Eau de Thames.
0:27:19 > 0:27:23Right, Tony No Ticket. Where do we find him?
0:27:23 > 0:27:25You're bad luck.
0:27:25 > 0:27:26The angel of death.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29Everyone you talk about is dead...
0:27:29 > 0:27:31Or dying. Like No Ticket.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33- Dying? Where?- In a thingy.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36- A dying place. - What, you mean a hospice?
0:27:36 > 0:27:41That's it. That's right. A hospital where they put you on ice.
0:27:41 > 0:27:42Until...
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Brilliant. Thanks very much.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Governor,
0:27:51 > 0:27:57David Allenforth aged 46 from Timworth near Billericay
0:27:57 > 0:28:02was reported missing in 1989 by his younger brother Charles.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Now we're talking!
0:28:11 > 0:28:15- David?- Yes. March 1996.
0:28:15 > 0:28:19- We can't be sure of course but... - No, no, please.
0:28:19 > 0:28:24If it was David it would be a relief in all sorts of ways. But...murdered?
0:28:24 > 0:28:26Well, that's so sad.
0:28:26 > 0:28:32We know next to nothing about your brother, so it might help if you could tell us something about him.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35You reported him missing in 1989?
0:28:35 > 0:28:39Yes. He had disappeared before that from time to time, but he'd always returned.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44David suffered from depression.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47I was worried he might take his own life.
0:28:47 > 0:28:49It's doubly ironic he was found on a train.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52I half-expected to hear he'd died under one.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55He was mad about railways.
0:28:55 > 0:28:57It was his passion.
0:28:58 > 0:29:01Did you know anything about this Iris Offord?
0:29:01 > 0:29:03About her and David?
0:29:03 > 0:29:05Did you hear that he might have had a son?
0:29:07 > 0:29:10No, no. That would be a real surprise.
0:29:10 > 0:29:13May I ask, do you know where... this man is buried?
0:29:13 > 0:29:17Yeah, he's in an unmarked grave but I can let you know where exactly.
0:29:17 > 0:29:21Please. If it does turn out to be David, I'd like for him to be brought back here
0:29:21 > 0:29:23and buried among his family.
0:29:23 > 0:29:26- I'm sure that can be arranged. - Thank you.
0:29:26 > 0:29:30And thanks for coming all this way personally to tell me.
0:29:30 > 0:29:33Would it be possible to take a sample of your DNA,
0:29:33 > 0:29:36just to ascertain whether the dead man is your brother or not.
0:29:36 > 0:29:37Of course.
0:29:45 > 0:29:47In or out of the bag, your coat stinks.
0:29:47 > 0:29:49All right. I'll not leave it in the car.
0:29:53 > 0:29:55PHONE BEEPS
0:29:56 > 0:29:59Ah, it's from Sandra.
0:29:59 > 0:30:04Harry, possibly David Allenforth from Billericay. Missing since 1989.
0:30:04 > 0:30:071989?
0:30:07 > 0:30:10- Good Afternoon.- Good afternoon.
0:30:10 > 0:30:13- Welcome to Saint Eleanor's hospice. - Thank you.
0:30:17 > 0:30:20Be gentle with him. He's a favourite of us all.
0:30:20 > 0:30:25- Tony? Tony Hale?- Possibly.
0:30:25 > 0:30:27Also known as Tony No Ticket?
0:30:30 > 0:30:34- HE LAUGHS - I've not been called that in ages!
0:30:34 > 0:30:37But you were...when you used to ride the Underground.
0:30:37 > 0:30:40Ride it? I used to live on it.
0:30:40 > 0:30:44- How long?- Oh! Years.- Without a ticket.
0:30:44 > 0:30:46Almost never with a ticket.
0:30:46 > 0:30:52But that was in the good old days when people treated a man like a human being.
0:30:52 > 0:30:55Looks like you're being treated like a human being here.
0:30:55 > 0:30:57Ah, these are not people...
0:30:57 > 0:31:01they're choirs of angels singing me to my rest.
0:31:01 > 0:31:04And the Circle Line... did you ride on that?
0:31:04 > 0:31:08- Many a time and oft. - In the 1990s?- Oh, yes.
0:31:08 > 0:31:12And do you remember another gentleman of the road at the time, who also rode the Circle Line?
0:31:12 > 0:31:14You mean 'rails'.
0:31:14 > 0:31:19Gentleman of the rails. Only this gentleman was murdered in March 1996?
0:31:23 > 0:31:26I think you can let them take me in.
0:31:31 > 0:31:34Thank you. Come on then.
0:31:40 > 0:31:44I take it you do remember the dead man.
0:31:44 > 0:31:46The police spoke to you about it at the time.
0:31:46 > 0:31:49- But they didn't get much sense out of you.- No.
0:31:49 > 0:31:54I would have been quite insensible with the drink.
0:31:54 > 0:31:58You'd get more sense out of a frog in a cocktail cabinet.
0:31:58 > 0:32:02That was one of his sayings... the feller you're on about.
0:32:02 > 0:32:05- You knew him?- The Loconaut?
0:32:05 > 0:32:07He was my guiding light.
0:32:07 > 0:32:10A great and gentle man.
0:32:10 > 0:32:13Loconaut?
0:32:13 > 0:32:16Mad about trains. Any of them.
0:32:16 > 0:32:19But the London Underground above all.
0:32:19 > 0:32:23- He'd a passion for it, he said. - What was his real name?
0:32:23 > 0:32:27David. That's all you could get out of him.
0:32:27 > 0:32:30He wouldn't tell anyone his surname.
0:32:30 > 0:32:36Said his identity was in a previous life he preferred to forget.
0:32:36 > 0:32:39To the rest of us he was just the Loconaut.
0:32:39 > 0:32:44- Or loco nut more often than not. - Why?
0:32:44 > 0:32:46Because he was mad.
0:32:46 > 0:32:48Completely.
0:32:48 > 0:32:55- Mad, melancholy and very broken at the heart of it all.- Because?
0:32:55 > 0:32:59Because he had lost the most valuable thing in his life, he said.
0:32:59 > 0:33:03- What was that? - A jewel, he called it.
0:33:03 > 0:33:07A lost jewel he could never get back.
0:33:07 > 0:33:12He said that he'd been bribed to give it away.
0:33:12 > 0:33:15He called it blood money.
0:33:15 > 0:33:18The worst thing he ever did in his life.
0:33:18 > 0:33:20D'you know what he meant by that?
0:33:20 > 0:33:25Of course I do. It was a woman,
0:33:25 > 0:33:31a woman he loved and his family persuaded him to dump her.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33Where was he from?
0:33:33 > 0:33:35You'd never know from his voice...
0:33:35 > 0:33:39which was cut glass...
0:33:39 > 0:33:43but I recall him saying the letters LNER were engraved upon his heart.
0:33:43 > 0:33:48Ah-ha! London and North Eastern Railway!
0:33:48 > 0:33:52Well, before the grouping in 1923, Essex would have been part
0:33:52 > 0:33:58of Eastern Railways before it was amalgamated into what became LNER in 1923.
0:33:58 > 0:34:03Oh, you and the Loconaut would have got on like a shed on fire.
0:34:03 > 0:34:07And a lot more than the snoop who came looking for him.
0:34:07 > 0:34:11- What snoop? When? - Not long after I last saw the Loco.
0:34:11 > 0:34:17A Private Investigator he titled himself. A snoop I say.
0:34:17 > 0:34:21- Why didn't you mention this to the police this?- Because I was pissed.
0:34:21 > 0:34:25- And did you tell this snoop where the Loconaut was?- I did not.
0:34:25 > 0:34:32I told him no more than save that he was probably on a train somewhere...
0:34:32 > 0:34:36- in England. - HE COUGHS
0:34:36 > 0:34:38Do you remember his name?
0:34:40 > 0:34:45- What was he like?- Devious.
0:34:45 > 0:34:47Said he was working for the family.
0:34:49 > 0:34:54Right. Right, I'd be very much obliged if you two would bugger off.
0:34:54 > 0:34:59I'm getting bored with both of you and I'd like to do a bit more
0:34:59 > 0:35:03breathing whilst I'm capable of it, if you don't mind.
0:35:03 > 0:35:07I think he's dying. But that doesn't mean he's not lying.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10Yeah. Hang on, where's me coat?
0:35:10 > 0:35:13- Did you want it?- Yes. - Excuse me.
0:35:13 > 0:35:17I was wondering if you knew anything about Tony before he came here?
0:35:17 > 0:35:21Oh, I'm afraid I don't know very much at all.
0:35:21 > 0:35:25Except that he was in the army for a while.
0:35:25 > 0:35:27- I'm sorry.- Thank you.
0:35:29 > 0:35:32I'm making a call to see if Tony is ex-army.
0:35:32 > 0:35:38The labs should have preliminary results on Charles Allenforth's DNA by the end of the day.
0:35:38 > 0:35:42OK. We're going to go and see Christine Offord to find out what she really wanted to say.
0:35:42 > 0:35:46- Ta-da.- God, I wish they wouldn't always play Vivaldi.
0:35:47 > 0:35:52I told you I never ever saw any tramp. I never met my father or wanted to kill him.
0:35:52 > 0:35:57Peter, stop please. Stop it. We're not going to get anywhere like this.
0:35:57 > 0:36:00I just wanted to say that we haven't been completely honest
0:36:00 > 0:36:04and that we hired a private detective to track his father down.
0:36:04 > 0:36:07- When?- After his mother, Iris died.
0:36:07 > 0:36:09She'd spent her whole life waiting for him to turn up.
0:36:09 > 0:36:11She said he was the love of her life and vice versa.
0:36:11 > 0:36:15- Chrissie... please... - She told us he would come for her...
0:36:15 > 0:36:18- that one day he would come back. - Back? From where?
0:36:18 > 0:36:22- She just said he would come. - On a train.
0:36:22 > 0:36:25She said he'd arrive by train.
0:36:25 > 0:36:27They met on a train.
0:36:27 > 0:36:31He kissed her on that train.
0:36:31 > 0:36:34Iris said she'd never forgot that kiss. And neither would he.
0:36:34 > 0:36:36And that he would come back.
0:36:36 > 0:36:39But he didn't.
0:36:39 > 0:36:42No. In the end it broke her heart. Years of waiting.
0:36:42 > 0:36:47It killed her. She was 45.
0:36:47 > 0:36:51When she died it made me pretty mad. I wanted to find him...
0:36:51 > 0:36:53and yes, more out of hate than anything else...
0:36:53 > 0:36:56but I never got anywhere.
0:36:56 > 0:37:00I tracked down my mum's sister, but she didn't even want to know me...
0:37:00 > 0:37:04- Hang on. You spoke to Janice? - Yeah. That's where I started.
0:37:04 > 0:37:07I tried to explain to her but she just said she knew nothing about my mum.
0:37:07 > 0:37:10She more or less slammed the door in my face.
0:37:10 > 0:37:13That's when we got the Detective involved.
0:37:13 > 0:37:15And this would have been in 1996?
0:37:15 > 0:37:18Yes... but that was even worse.
0:37:18 > 0:37:22- He took a load of money off me and then just vanished.- How do you mean?
0:37:22 > 0:37:25Well, we never heard from him and when we went back to his office
0:37:25 > 0:37:28a couple of weeks later, it was empty... cleared out.
0:37:28 > 0:37:31After that I just gave up.
0:37:31 > 0:37:34What was his name?
0:37:34 > 0:37:37Er... Chrissie, what was it? Roger?
0:37:37 > 0:37:40Yes. He said he was an ex-policeman. Oh, yeah, Roger Mc...
0:37:40 > 0:37:42McHugh.
0:37:42 > 0:37:45- Yeah.- Now I believe you.
0:37:45 > 0:37:47Roger the Dodger, remember him?
0:37:47 > 0:37:50- Dodgy Roger McHugh.- Exactly.
0:37:50 > 0:37:53- Oh, well... that puts a whole new dimension to this case.- Yeah.
0:37:53 > 0:37:57A whole new lying hound dimension. Oh, and he's changed his name.
0:37:57 > 0:37:59- Oh, yeah? - Now he's known as Richard Meyer.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02- Thank you.- Even rhymes with liar.
0:38:02 > 0:38:07I checked out an address in Holborn where the Offords claim they met Roger McHugh and the landlord says
0:38:07 > 0:38:10McHugh left in February '96 owing six months rent.
0:38:10 > 0:38:13- One month before David died. - Yeah, if it is David.
0:38:13 > 0:38:19It is. Initial DNA results confirm that Charles Allenforth and the dead man are siblings.
0:38:19 > 0:38:23- Their father was killed in Korea. - Well, Charles has definitely got to be in the frame as then.
0:38:23 > 0:38:25Along with Tony No Ticket.
0:38:25 > 0:38:27Yeah, well I thought you said you didn't think another tramp could have done it?
0:38:27 > 0:38:30That was before I found out that this tramp was ex-SAS.
0:38:30 > 0:38:32You're kidding?
0:38:32 > 0:38:37He was a Para for nine years and then the Regiment from 1975 to 1986.
0:38:37 > 0:38:41I don't know what he did but that period includes Northern Ireland,
0:38:41 > 0:38:43the Embassy siege, the Falklands War.
0:38:43 > 0:38:47- Certainly gives him the know-how. - Yes, but not the why.
0:38:47 > 0:38:51How many killings are just spur of the moment. How many fuelled by drink?
0:38:51 > 0:38:53My money's still on Peter Offord.
0:38:53 > 0:38:56Yeah, especially with Roger the dodger involved.
0:38:56 > 0:38:59And we've only got the Offords' word that they never saw McHugh again.
0:38:59 > 0:39:04Well, there's only one way to find out. I think it's time you and Brian renewed an old friendship.
0:39:04 > 0:39:06Can't wait!
0:39:16 > 0:39:18Is this it?
0:39:18 > 0:39:21- Can't be.- It is.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23Makes you sick doesn't it.
0:39:23 > 0:39:28Don't worry, Mrs Shorey, we'll do our level best to find Andre...
0:39:28 > 0:39:33and the money. If you could just leave your telephone number, address and credit card details
0:39:33 > 0:39:37with Antoinette and leave the rest to me and my associates. Is that ok?
0:39:37 > 0:39:39Jolly good.
0:39:39 > 0:39:41- Mrs Sheppard.- Hello...
0:39:41 > 0:39:43Richard.
0:39:43 > 0:39:47I'm sorry, have we met before?
0:39:47 > 0:39:52Oh, yes. 2005. Only then you were The Triple A Detective Agency.
0:39:52 > 0:39:54- Roger.- No, no, no, no.
0:39:54 > 0:39:59- You must have me mixed up with someone quite different I'm afraid. - Oh, unlikely.
0:39:59 > 0:40:02And then, as now, we came to see you about a murder.
0:40:02 > 0:40:08No. I am afraid you are completely mistaken. My name is Richard Meyer.
0:40:08 > 0:40:14A young Asian girl in a coma... very nasty. And now it's a man strangled on a train.
0:40:14 > 0:40:17Could you, could you hold my calls, Antoinette?
0:40:17 > 0:40:23Don't worry, everybody, back with you in just a moment. Just to sort out this terrible misunderstanding.
0:40:23 > 0:40:26Now, gentlemen, would you give me one minute?
0:40:36 > 0:40:3810 seconds?
0:40:43 > 0:40:46Roger! Roger!
0:40:48 > 0:40:50Come to Daddy!
0:40:50 > 0:40:52All right, all right.
0:40:52 > 0:40:56You were in the regiment 11 years, Tony. That's an awfully long time.
0:40:56 > 0:41:00- Where were you?- All over the place. - You must have seen some pretty dark things?
0:41:00 > 0:41:05Oh, please don't tell me you're trying to link cause and effect.
0:41:05 > 0:41:11That would be cod psychology of the most trite variety.
0:41:11 > 0:41:13David Allenforth was your friend.
0:41:13 > 0:41:16The finest man you ever knew, you told my colleague here.
0:41:16 > 0:41:23- Now the person who strangled him, did it very quickly and expertly. - Yes, well...not being
0:41:23 > 0:41:28long for this world... if I see David in the next,
0:41:28 > 0:41:30I'll ask him who did it.
0:41:30 > 0:41:36- You don't know? - How could I? I wasn't there.
0:41:36 > 0:41:40Listen. In January 1996,
0:41:40 > 0:41:44Peter Offord gave you 400 quid to find his father.
0:41:45 > 0:41:49You took the 400 quid and legged it!
0:41:49 > 0:41:53No. Next question.
0:41:53 > 0:41:58- Yeah. Why are you such a liar? Is that a medical condition? - I couldn't possibly comment...
0:41:58 > 0:42:05- except to remind you both that I, like you, used to be a copper. - You were never a copper like us.
0:42:05 > 0:42:10The man Offord wanted you to find was called David Allenforth.
0:42:10 > 0:42:17He was found strangled to death on a Tube train less than seven weeks after you were 'hired'.
0:42:17 > 0:42:21- Yeah...right.- He died face to face with his killer,
0:42:21 > 0:42:25who we think knew him and where to find him. Now, you were supposed
0:42:25 > 0:42:28- to be looking for him, Roger. - You're not serious?
0:42:28 > 0:42:34You don't seriously think that I had something to do with the murder of this guy?
0:42:34 > 0:42:37I can believe anything of you, Roger.
0:42:37 > 0:42:41I said I can believe anything of you Richard! Even murder!
0:42:41 > 0:42:43All right, all right, all right.
0:42:43 > 0:42:48I admit that I did meet with Offord
0:42:48 > 0:42:51and I may have accepted a small sum of money from him. Thank you.
0:42:51 > 0:42:53Which you never paid back.
0:42:53 > 0:42:56Things were erm, things were extremely difficult back then.
0:42:56 > 0:43:01- Were they?- Yeah and besides, it was clear that it was a hopeless search.
0:43:01 > 0:43:05- Soon as I knew he was a tramp... - Who said he was a tramp? How do you know he was a tramp?
0:43:05 > 0:43:11- His aunt told me.- His Aunt? What, Janice Pargetter?- Yeah. Iron knickers.
0:43:11 > 0:43:13Now why would she tell you things she wouldn't tell us?
0:43:13 > 0:43:19- Err, cos I offered her money. - OK. Then what?- Well, then I went
0:43:19 > 0:43:24on this half hearted search for this tramp called Dave Billericay was it?
0:43:24 > 0:43:27Yes? And? Did you find him?
0:43:27 > 0:43:31- No.- So?
0:43:31 > 0:43:35So, then I went to look for a missing person called Dave from Billericay.
0:43:35 > 0:43:40And I discovered that there was one...and that he had a brother.
0:43:40 > 0:43:42So, I went to meet him.
0:43:42 > 0:43:44You went to meet him?
0:43:44 > 0:43:48- Yes... Posh Charlie.- Posh Charlie?
0:43:48 > 0:43:53Were you a parrot, were you? In another life? Yeah, posh Charlie.
0:43:53 > 0:43:58Minted. Anyway he said ta very much and that was that.
0:43:58 > 0:44:02What d'you mean, that was that? Why didn't you go back to the Offords?
0:44:02 > 0:44:07- They'd have given you more money for succeeding. - But I didn't succeed, did I?
0:44:07 > 0:44:11All I did was establish who this geezer might have been... I never actually located him.
0:44:11 > 0:44:14As I say, a waste of time!
0:44:16 > 0:44:20- Janice.- I'm sorry but I've said all I'm going to say about my sister.
0:44:20 > 0:44:26- Well, that just goes to show how wrong you can be. Two words...Roger McHugh.- Roger who?
0:44:26 > 0:44:30He was a Private Detective who called on you in 1996.
0:44:32 > 0:44:35OK, how about your nephew... Peter Offord?
0:44:35 > 0:44:40- He called on you roughly the same time to ask you to help find his dad. - How was I to know who he was?
0:44:40 > 0:44:44You knew exactly who he was. So why did you lie to him and tell him you knew nothing about his father?
0:44:44 > 0:44:48- Because I didn't!- Or was it because he didn't offer you any money?
0:44:48 > 0:44:50SHE LAUGHS
0:44:50 > 0:44:56We're not laughing, Janice. You lied to your nephew and yet you were happy to sell information to a Private Eye.
0:44:56 > 0:44:59And what good would it have done, my giving that information
0:44:59 > 0:45:03to Iris's son? That his mother threw herself at a man for nothing.
0:45:03 > 0:45:06- He just abandoned her. - He called you didn't he? David.
0:45:06 > 0:45:09No. No...I don't know who you're talking about.
0:45:09 > 0:45:13Urgh. Governor, shall I phone the Surrey Police?
0:45:13 > 0:45:17- No! No!!- Lets go inside, Janice.
0:45:18 > 0:45:22I didn't think there would be any doubt. I always knew it was David.
0:45:22 > 0:45:26Yes, well, we didn't just come to give you the initial test results, Mr Allenforth.
0:45:27 > 0:45:32The fact is, we've tracked down a Private Detective called Roger McHugh.
0:45:32 > 0:45:36Now he claims he came to see you in connection with your missing brother.
0:45:36 > 0:45:41- Back in February 1996. - Yes. Yes, that's true.
0:45:41 > 0:45:45But you didn't think to mention this to Detective Superintendent Pullman.
0:45:45 > 0:45:47Can you explain why?
0:45:47 > 0:45:52- Because the man you're talking about took money from me.- And?
0:45:52 > 0:45:55I didn't trust him at first.
0:45:55 > 0:45:58I thought he was working for someone trying to get money out of the family.
0:45:58 > 0:46:01Well, he got that bit right, didn't he? He did.
0:46:01 > 0:46:05No, I mean he explained about the Offords. He was very plausible.
0:46:05 > 0:46:07So in the end I told Mr McHugh
0:46:07 > 0:46:12that whatever he was being paid to find my brother, I would more than double it if he succeeded...
0:46:12 > 0:46:16not least because of my anxiety over David's mental state.
0:46:16 > 0:46:22Let me get this straight... you also hired McHugh to find your missing brother?
0:46:22 > 0:46:27Yes. But then after I paid him a sizeable retainer he disappeared
0:46:27 > 0:46:32and I never saw him again. I felt a fool for having fallen
0:46:32 > 0:46:35for what was obviously just a confidence trick.
0:46:35 > 0:46:37How much is 'sizeable'?
0:46:37 > 0:46:40£2,000.
0:46:40 > 0:46:46He was thin, dirty, very badly dressed. Unkempt.
0:46:46 > 0:46:50- When was this?- I can't remember.
0:46:51 > 0:46:55- Sometime around 1990, something like that.- What did he want?
0:46:55 > 0:47:00- He wanted to find my sister.- Go on.
0:47:00 > 0:47:03He said he loved her. That he'd always loved her
0:47:03 > 0:47:06and that it had been a mistake letting her go.
0:47:06 > 0:47:10That he'd never forgiven himself. I wasn't impressed.
0:47:10 > 0:47:15- What did you say to him? - I told him what was for the best.
0:47:15 > 0:47:18I said that Iris was happy now and she'd moved on.
0:47:18 > 0:47:21- That she was married. - That was untrue.
0:47:21 > 0:47:23I did what was right.
0:47:23 > 0:47:28What possible good could have come from him seeing the woman he'd abandoned so many years earlier?
0:47:28 > 0:47:31- Did you tell him he had a son?- Of course not.
0:47:33 > 0:47:37- It probably wasn't even his anyway. - MOBILE RINGS
0:47:42 > 0:47:44Jack. Hi.
0:47:46 > 0:47:48No, we're done.
0:47:49 > 0:47:53Did he? OK, we'll get on to it. Cheers, bye.
0:47:53 > 0:47:56Let's get out of here.
0:48:03 > 0:48:06Oh, come on. This is harassment.
0:48:06 > 0:48:09Evening, Roger. Long time, no see.
0:48:09 > 0:48:13- Proper Copper. - Listen, I've already chatted with Doc and his mate Dopey here...
0:48:13 > 0:48:18And we've talked to Charles Allenforth, who says he did hire you but you ran off with £2,000 of his.
0:48:18 > 0:48:21That's getting to be quite a habit with you, Roger.
0:48:21 > 0:48:23I ran off? Did I bollocks!
0:48:23 > 0:48:25Not true?
0:48:25 > 0:48:29No. I'll admit, I didn't get back to Offord, but I did get back to Posh Charlie about his brother.
0:48:29 > 0:48:32What, you found David Allenforth?
0:48:32 > 0:48:36Well, no. But I knew who he was, so I could work out where he might hang out.
0:48:36 > 0:48:41So I phoned posh Charlie and I said, "Listen - your brother's up in London somewhere being a tramp.
0:48:41 > 0:48:46"And seeing as how information is the currency of my business, if you want a bit more then...
0:48:46 > 0:48:49- "It'll cost ya." - And what did he say to that?
0:48:49 > 0:48:53He said it wasn't worth the two grand he'd already paid me and he wanted some of it back.
0:48:53 > 0:48:54So I said, "Tough."
0:48:54 > 0:48:57- WAS there any more? - As it happens, yeah.
0:48:57 > 0:49:01Yeah, I found out that his brother used to hang about on the Underground.
0:49:01 > 0:49:05- He was one of them... What d'you call 'em? - Hoppers.- Yeah, that's it.
0:49:05 > 0:49:07And how did you find this out?
0:49:07 > 0:49:10I was told it by another tramp.
0:49:10 > 0:49:15He said that he was this David geezer's best mate and that they used to spend all day
0:49:15 > 0:49:19- on the Underground going round and round on the Circle Line. - Did this other tramp have a name?
0:49:19 > 0:49:22Yeah, course he did. He was, er...
0:49:22 > 0:49:26- Bus pass. Something like that. - No Ticket. Tony No Ticket.
0:49:26 > 0:49:29That's right, yeah. Tony No Ticket. Good night.
0:49:31 > 0:49:32Anthony, what are you doing?
0:49:32 > 0:49:34You KNOW you shouldn't be out of bed.
0:49:34 > 0:49:37Leave me alone! I'm fine. I'm fine.
0:49:37 > 0:49:40Go on, get out of here.
0:49:43 > 0:49:47- Tony, this is Gerry.- All right? - Yeah, I'm all right, yeah.
0:49:47 > 0:49:53Gerry and just I talked to the snoop who came looking for David Allenforth in 1996.
0:49:53 > 0:49:56He said that you told him all about David -
0:49:56 > 0:49:59how he was your friend, how you rode the Underground together.
0:49:59 > 0:50:03The Circle Line, even. That's not what you told us.
0:50:04 > 0:50:05I forget things a lot.
0:50:05 > 0:50:07No. Tony, that won't do.
0:50:07 > 0:50:12Look, I was under the influence. The drink, see.
0:50:12 > 0:50:17- So what you did tell this private eye?- He plied me with drink.
0:50:17 > 0:50:19- Yeah, he'd do that. - But afterwards...
0:50:19 > 0:50:24I-I couldn't remember exactly what it was that I'd said. Except...
0:50:24 > 0:50:28- Except what? - Except I shouldn't have said it.
0:50:28 > 0:50:33I remember him saying the Loconaut's family were worried for him.
0:50:33 > 0:50:37Wanting to find him. And I realised then I'd done the worst thing possible.
0:50:37 > 0:50:39What do you mean?
0:50:39 > 0:50:44I'd put him back in the shit, among the people who wrecked his life.
0:50:44 > 0:50:46So I tried to put it right.
0:50:46 > 0:50:49- Put it right? - Yeah, I tried to save him.
0:50:49 > 0:50:53- You've lost me. - I spoke to the family.
0:50:53 > 0:50:55The brother, in particular.
0:50:55 > 0:50:57What are you talking about?
0:50:57 > 0:51:00I tracked him down.
0:51:00 > 0:51:01Tracked him down? How?
0:51:01 > 0:51:03How?!
0:51:03 > 0:51:10I tracked Colombian drug barons for three months in the South American rainforest, savvy.
0:51:10 > 0:51:12I got on a train!
0:51:12 > 0:51:16- What did you say to the brother?- I told him to get out of David's life.
0:51:16 > 0:51:19To leave his life and leave him alone.
0:51:19 > 0:51:22That living on the Underground, like me and David,
0:51:22 > 0:51:26was better than being dead and buried above ground like them.
0:51:26 > 0:51:27Am I right?
0:51:36 > 0:51:38Scampi!
0:51:38 > 0:51:40Good boy. Come on.
0:51:40 > 0:51:42Esther?
0:51:42 > 0:51:44I'm home!
0:51:44 > 0:51:45Come on, boy.
0:51:49 > 0:51:51Esther!
0:51:54 > 0:51:57Esther! What are you doing?
0:51:57 > 0:51:59It was alive.
0:51:59 > 0:52:01That was my coat!
0:52:01 > 0:52:03Yes, I know it was. I bought it for you.
0:52:03 > 0:52:05Now I'm getting rid of it.
0:52:07 > 0:52:09My lucky coat!
0:52:13 > 0:52:1411:30.
0:52:14 > 0:52:17Yep, he should be here by now.
0:52:17 > 0:52:20- Where have you been? - Garnering information.
0:52:20 > 0:52:22- What information?- DNA.
0:52:22 > 0:52:25- I'm an expert now.- What? PHONE RINGS
0:52:25 > 0:52:28UCOS. Brian Lane.
0:52:28 > 0:52:31Cheers. I'm on me way.
0:52:31 > 0:52:32Charles Allenforth has arrived.
0:52:32 > 0:52:35I'll explain in there.
0:52:35 > 0:52:38Sorry for dragging you all the way to London, but...
0:52:38 > 0:52:40Well, we have been up to Essex twice.
0:52:40 > 0:52:43We've had the full results of the DNA tests now.
0:52:43 > 0:52:49They confirm that the dead body found on the Tube train in 1996 was your brother David.
0:52:49 > 0:52:51Ah.
0:52:51 > 0:52:53I thought it must be.
0:52:53 > 0:52:57We now also know that Peter Offord is definitely your brother's illegitimate son.
0:52:57 > 0:52:58Would you like to meet him?
0:53:00 > 0:53:02Of course. I'd be happy to.
0:53:02 > 0:53:08Do you think you might settle some of the Allenforth estate upon Peter? He being David's son.
0:53:08 > 0:53:11Well, my brother having died,
0:53:11 > 0:53:16any claim by an illegitimate child of a deceased heir...
0:53:16 > 0:53:18automatically fails.
0:53:18 > 0:53:20You seem very certain of the law.
0:53:20 > 0:53:25There was a lot of legalese for me to look after when David went missing.
0:53:25 > 0:53:28Certainly a lot of estate.
0:53:28 > 0:53:33When did you first become aware that Peter Offord was looking for his father?
0:53:33 > 0:53:36I can't remember, specifically.
0:53:36 > 0:53:41February 1996. That would be eight months before the seven years needed to elapse
0:53:41 > 0:53:45before you could make a legal claim on the family estate.
0:53:45 > 0:53:47The heir to an estate having to be missing presumed dead
0:53:47 > 0:53:50for at least seven years before the next in line can inherit.
0:53:50 > 0:53:52That is right, isn't it, Mr Allenforth?
0:53:52 > 0:53:54I'm sorry, I'm not with you.
0:53:54 > 0:53:59We're talking about English law. You, being the youngest son, would be next in line to the estate.
0:53:59 > 0:54:02- Correct?- What's going on?
0:54:02 > 0:54:03What's this about?
0:54:03 > 0:54:05Tony Hale.
0:54:06 > 0:54:09His street name, as it were, is Tony No Ticket.
0:54:09 > 0:54:11You met him in February '96.
0:54:11 > 0:54:13When he told you where your brother was.
0:54:13 > 0:54:18Something which, for reasons I can only guess at, you neglected to inform us.
0:54:18 > 0:54:22I have no idea who or what you're referring to.
0:54:22 > 0:54:25I'm referring to how you traced your brother, Mr Allenforth.
0:54:27 > 0:54:29My God.
0:54:29 > 0:54:32You mean I'm under suspicion?
0:54:32 > 0:54:34For killing my brother David? Is that what you're saying?
0:54:34 > 0:54:37I'm talking about what Tony Hale has to say.
0:54:37 > 0:54:39KNOCK AT DOOR
0:54:40 > 0:54:43Guv? I need a word. Urgent.
0:54:44 > 0:54:45Excuse me.
0:54:51 > 0:54:54This is ludicrous.
0:54:55 > 0:54:57Nice tie.
0:55:01 > 0:55:05I'm sorry to have taken up so much of your time, Mr Allenforth.
0:55:05 > 0:55:07- You're free to go. - What are you doing?
0:55:10 > 0:55:14Should you wish to communicate with me again about my brother's death,
0:55:14 > 0:55:17I would prefer it if you did so through my solicitor.
0:55:17 > 0:55:18Goodbye.
0:55:19 > 0:55:22What the hell is going on?
0:55:22 > 0:55:25Tony No Ticket died last night.
0:55:25 > 0:55:27That's it.
0:55:31 > 0:55:32No, it isn't.
0:55:33 > 0:55:36Mr Allenforth.
0:55:36 > 0:55:39Sorry, Mr Allenforth. Just one more thing. If you wouldn't mind?
0:55:39 > 0:55:41One LAST thing.
0:55:41 > 0:55:43Give us a minute, will you?
0:55:43 > 0:55:47We know you murdered your brother.
0:55:47 > 0:55:51Oh, not you personally. I'm sure you always get someone else to do your dirty work...
0:55:51 > 0:55:53But that's not really what I wanted to talk about.
0:55:53 > 0:55:58These are the DNA profiles for you, your brother David and Mr Peter Offord.
0:55:58 > 0:55:59Fascinating, I'm sure(!)
0:55:59 > 0:56:03Particularly when you realise that you and your brother share the same mother...
0:56:03 > 0:56:06but not the same father.
0:56:06 > 0:56:07I'm sorry?
0:56:07 > 0:56:12This morning, I contacted the War Records Office at Kew and the Gloucestershire Regiment -
0:56:12 > 0:56:14your father's old outfit.
0:56:14 > 0:56:21Peter David Allenforth was killed at Imjin, Korea on April 23rd, 1951.
0:56:21 > 0:56:23You were born...
0:56:23 > 0:56:25- When was it?- March.
0:56:25 > 0:56:27March of the same year.
0:56:27 > 0:56:29Now, according to the records,
0:56:29 > 0:56:33your father was in Korea for 18 months straight before he was killed.
0:56:33 > 0:56:38In other words, he couldn't have been here when you were conceived.
0:56:38 > 0:56:40Therefore he couldn't be your real father.
0:56:40 > 0:56:43Who the hell do you think you are?
0:56:43 > 0:56:46Oh, I know who I am - that's the whole point.
0:56:46 > 0:56:49Now, I can't prove that you murdered your brother.
0:56:49 > 0:56:53But I can pass this DNA information on to Mr Peter Offord,
0:56:53 > 0:56:55who, I suspect, might want to be in touch.
0:56:55 > 0:56:58For although he is illegitimate,
0:56:58 > 0:57:00he is the son of a legitimate heir
0:57:00 > 0:57:04and I think that trumps you.
0:57:04 > 0:57:08John, escort this gentleman off the premises, would you?
0:57:38 > 0:57:40Look, Jack.
0:57:40 > 0:57:43It fits and everything.
0:57:43 > 0:57:46- Yeah, I like it. - ENGINE SPLUTTERS
0:57:46 > 0:57:48Feels just like my old coat.
0:57:49 > 0:57:51Fits perfectly.
0:57:53 > 0:57:54Even smells like it.
0:57:54 > 0:57:56ENGINE SPLUTTERS
0:58:00 > 0:58:02What's wrong?
0:58:02 > 0:58:05I don't know. It won't start.
0:58:05 > 0:58:08I don't believe it! The battery's dead.
0:58:08 > 0:58:10It's all right, we'll take the Tube.
0:58:12 > 0:58:14Taxi!
0:58:14 > 0:58:16# It's all right
0:58:16 > 0:58:17# It's OK
0:58:17 > 0:58:19# Doesn't really matter if you're old and grey
0:58:19 > 0:58:21# It's all right
0:58:21 > 0:58:22# I say, it's OK
0:58:22 > 0:58:25# Listen to what I say
0:58:25 > 0:58:26# It's all right
0:58:26 > 0:58:28# Doin' fine
0:58:28 > 0:58:31# Doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine
0:58:31 > 0:58:32# It's all right
0:58:32 > 0:58:33# I say, it's OK
0:58:33 > 0:58:35# We're getting to the end of the day. #
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