12/11/2012 Inside Out East

Games Britain's most wanted man, how did the police track and there?

The murder of enough up to share family last year's profit on

worldwide manhunt for the suspect. Tonight we uncover the trail.

jumped on him, and be surprised in. It was not expected.

Around �18,000. Serious figures. We find out why campaigns want

these animal shows to be shut down. And we tell the story of the

Cambridge to the inspired Chariots of Fire. The other stories that --

they are this -- they are the stories that matters here in the

east. Tonight, in May last year, the

police in Northampton made a gruesome discovery. An entire

family had been killed in their own home. They had been stabbed to

death. It prompted a worldwide manhunt for the subject. He was

named by the police as Britain's most wanted man. Our correspondent

can now do, the trail of Anxiang Du from Northampton to Moscow.

Police have launched a nationwide manhunt for the suspect they

believe killed four members of the same family... Last year I reported

on the police search for a man they described as "Britain's Most

Wanted". A man that they've identified as a prime suspect in

these killings. 14 months later, Anxiang Du was

arrested in North Africa. But no- one seems to know what he was doing

there or how he was tracked down. So I'm off to find out.

What I really want to know is how someone who is wanted on suspicion

of four murders can simply disappear. As most of us watch the

royal wedding, an appalling crime was carried out. Soon after William

and Kate weight to the crowds, the entire family was murdered.

University lecturer Geoff, his wife at his daughter's were all stabbed

to death, with the same knife. Police named a man from Coventry as

their prime suspect. On the day of the killings, cameras spotted him

the leading a shop in Burnley. Then at New Street station where he took

a train to Northampton. And getting off a bus near to where the crime

took place. The following day there was a possible sighting in London.

The trail went cold. More than one you went by before police realised

that Anxiang Du had travelled through Europe to the Spanish port

-- to a Spanish port. And there, Anxiang Du take a ferry

to Tangier in Morocco, across in which to come from Europe to North

Africa and the jury that I am now taking to find out what he did next.

Finding answers here won't be easy. The crowded medieval streets of

Tangier hide many secrets. But I've arranged to meet a local contact.

Hassan Alaoui is a Moroccan journalist.

How confident are you that we will find out what happened to Anxiang

Du during his time here in Tangier? Well the people who have the

information is definitely the police. Because they were the

people who caught him first. So if they are willing to help us then

our task will be easier. If we don't have the right contacts, the

right persons, probably we will But before our meeting with the

police I want to try another lead. I've been told about an article in

Tangier's local newspaper. It suggests Anxiang Du was arrested

because someone recognised his photo in one of its editions.

Shokram. You are lucky. What did he say? The man will see us tomorrow

at ten o'clock. The following morning we head for

the newspaper offices where the Director General shows me the

article he published about Anxiang Du when Interpol first suggested he

could be living in Morocco. It worked. Just hours after his photo

was printed, someone called the paper claiming they'd not only seen

him but knew where he was. This person worked on a building

site as a guard. The owner of the site is a friend of ours. He didn't

know him. He just saw him in the street. He thought he looked like

an honest man who was looking for work. So, he employed him as a

security guard for his business. Did Anxiang Du really spend a year

in Tangier working on a construction site? We head for the

city's main police station to find The meeting with the police chief

has taken weeks to arrange. All we've been told is that he's

expecting us. It's very, very rare that a police

will grant you an interview here because they are very quiet. They

prefer to work than to talk. But today Tangier's police chief is

talking - telling me about a suspected illegal immigrant he

questioned more than a year ago near the Algerian border. I wonder

why he's telling me the story, until he hands me the man's photo.

This photo it's from Oujda. So this is him? You can see the date there.

This is Anxaing Du. And it was taken more than a year ago. May

2011. The photo is a shock. Evidence that

just five days after the killings, Anxiang Du was in police custody in

Morocco. But because he had no documents and refused to talk,

officers had no idea who he was or where he came from. At the time

British detectives didn't even know he was abroad. And he was released.

It was another fourteen months before he was re-arrested.

Did you recognise him immediately then? As soon as I saw him he

reminded me of the man I had seen in Oujda. What did Anxiang Du

actually say to you? The first word I remember: "I am not. I am

innocent. I am not the killer." So the police have agreed to take

us to the spot where they arrested Anxiang Du and apparently it's

about four miles outside of Tangier on a construction site where

apparently, we've been told, he was living. And this was a time when

dozens of police officers back home in Britain were after him. This is

the spot where he was and no-one knew.

We arrive at a building site. I'm led up a steep staircase and then

towards a particular room. He was living here first. He lived here?

In this room? Yes. Chief Superintendent Abdallah Berri

tells me this was where he and two of his colleagues made the arrest.

When we came here we just more or less jumped on him and we surprised

him. He was not expecting it. Physically jumped on him? All three

of you? Three of them. And we handcuffed him. When you jumped on

him and arrested him what was his reaction? Did he scream out?

reaction whatsoever. Really? He was surprised. "Why? Why?"

He tells me Anxiang Du was dressed like a vagrant and wore plastic

sandals. And he shows me the remains of his makeshift kitchen.

Then I'm introduced to the owner of the building, who tells me it was

he who recognised Anxiang Du's photo in the paper and called the

police. When I saw his photo I was shocked.

I know this face. Oh, he's the Chinese with my workers there.

what was his story? What did he tell you? What did you know about

him? He told me that he is in Casablanca. He was working. He had

some friends and family in Casablanca and now he wanted to

come here to Tangier because Tangier is improving with a lot of

work. He denies employing Anxiang Du as a

security guard, but says his workers did offer him food and

shelter. The people who work for me, they

helped him to, because you know in Morocco they are hospitable. People

here don't work, they give him food. You understand? So Morocco is very

well known for its hospitality. So now we know. This is where

Anxiang Du's 14 months on the run ended. Here in this room on a

construction site in Tangier. All that time British police were after

him, here he was, on a makeshift bed made out of wood, cardboard and

With my questions answered I'm heading home. But Anxiang Du

remains in a Moroccan prison, awaiting extradition back to

Britain. He continues to protest If there is something you think we

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East, still to come: at the fascinating life of Lord Burghley,

Phil Lord Coe of his day. I think that people just accept the fact

that things happen when the dead and that was that. That was then.

It is history. It was a remarkable achievement.

We are a nation of animal lovers, increasingly, people are after

something a bit more exotic. There are at least one million pet

reptiles and amphibians across the UK. Campaigners actually want that

stopped. Reptile fans across the This is a reptile fair, where

enthusiasts come to show, buy and sell their animals. All part of a

harmless hobby. Or is it? There are campaigners who say that what goes

on at these fares is cruel, and even illegal. And they want it

stopped. I have come to see for myself. The

first thing I find out is that this can become an all-consuming hobby.

This is not about reptiles caught in the wild, many exhibitors breed

them themselves and come to sell their spare animals. Just to get

rid of surplus stock. I cannot physically house much more. They

are already in my bedroom in a wine chiller. It has been turn into an

incubator with heat lamps. I cut my dead in have to fit more sticks in.

Did to 30 inches. There are around 10 shows like this

period. This is the biggest. This man has come to find something to

add to his collection of 36 which he greets at home in Essex. These

are younger couple gecko was bred by a friend of mine. There captive-

bred animals. They are only young. Dr species I have always been

interested in. Most of the species I'd read our stakes -- are snakes.

The care is very similar. Sir you will be taking home these animals

in this box? Heady get them back to? These will be in this box and

then I have these heat packs which I will pop in there which will give

them a warm temperature for the journey home.

So is all this harming animals? Clifford Warwick was once a reptile

breeder himself. He then began studying them and said that their

behaviour shows they suffer. What concerns me is that their welfare

is at risk during these events. What sort of behaviour? The two

most common ones you see our interaction with transparent

boundaries, which is an animal clawing at the glass. To a reptile

which has an innate programme, which is to say it is born with the

features that need to survive, it is not like a puppy that leads

everything from the parent, it is given by genetics. When it is

confronted with a transparent Benji its mind cannot get around this

confusion and it is distressing. Hyperactivity is something we see a

great deal on this is probably related. Where is the scientific

truth behind that observation? There are around 20 papers that

have looked into this, and these papers show that these behaviours

in these animals are stress-related. Not unlike having an animal such as

a dog. Would you put that in a very him and look at it Barking and

screaming all day and think it is normal? You would probably say no.

But for some reason because a reptile was not part in screen,

Sure organisers have far -- have drafted in a former RSPCA officer.

What is your role here? Dealing with anything to do with animal

health and welfare and making sure everything is legal. You talk about

welfare, I have a cat these tiny little boxes and think, this is

cruel. Not at all. These are micro- climate. That looks cruel I know,

but I am not want these creatures in their accommodation for the

purposes of Transport and shawl. there are signs of stress? -- but

there are signs of stress? Their range of factors which can describe

when animal is leaving in a certain way. It is too simple to say that

it is stress, we need to be cleverer than that. Animal welfare

is not the only objection, though. You claim that these fears spread

disease. Whereas their evidence. -- where is their evidence? We have

taken some swaps which showed bacteria on door handles and

elsewhere. It is an infection hub and these hops are widely known to

have negative impacts on local and national health. These events are

now run -- have been running for her 25 Aug 30 years. 30,000, to

50,000 people, come to these events. Where is the evidence that there is

a disease issue? Enthusiasts are desperate to keep

the show was going. They can swap information and learn from each

other. There are also keen to buy and sell. Prices start at just a

few pounds, but I was amazed at how much some can be worth. This is one

of two pythons in Europe. It would be around �18,000. High income?

Because they are so need -- so unique. This came from a gentleman

in the United States. That is a staggering amount. With some of the

genetic mutations we are looking into serious figures. As things

stand, I could not buy this today, that is because its owner is a

commercial dealer wet as a shop. -- who owns a shop. Under EU law,

commercial owners cannot trade at fairs. But some people are

questioning that. In the eyes of the law, these

events are recall, they're not doing anything wrong. -- they are

legal. The very spirit of this Act is to disallows trapping these

animals in environments such as these. We're in investigating them

for a number of years now and what we find is the sheer scale of the

volume of animals alone, is enough to demonstrate that these are

commercially driven events. fact is, so far there has never

been a prosecution, but the campaign to stop them has had some

success. Some councils will now not allow shows on their past -- on

their property. In July, South Norfolk council decided to let

their show go-ahead at the Norfolk Showground despite lobbying from

Animal Protection Agency. Reptile owners are worried. They want the

government to clarify the law and introduce licensing.

If we can get the licensing in place that deals with any kind of

argument. What we are worrying about is money. What we seem to be

interested in today is people making a little bit of money out of

it. Perhaps some people are, but actually the majority will not.

that it improve matters? It would allow us to bring more regulation.

We have regularly to these events as highly as we can ourselves but

now we need the government to step in and regulate them in the same

way as they would a pet shop. Campaigners do not want licences.

Ending the shows is part of a wider cause which they have taken to the

European Parliament. To be clear, what you want to do is

see people banned from keeping these animals as pets? The one to

see a ban exactly on the trading and keeping of these animals as

pets. We have support to achieve these aims and we are confident

that we will get there. A It will never happen. We will continue the

struggle. We have got to where we have today and we will not be

beaten. Uni recognise this, it was one of

the star of vocations in the film Chariots of Fire -- you may

recognise this. But what was fact and what was fiction about the life

of the man depicted in the film? I went to Burghley House to find out

more. This is Stamford, on the

Cambridgeshire border with Lincolnshire. The town is renowned

for its five medieval churches and 17th century stone buildings. But

Stamford's most famous son has to be David Cecil, also known as Lord

Burghley, an Olympic legend, who inspired the film Chariots of Fire.

He was also the Lord Coe of his day, organising the London Olympics of

1948. David Cecil was born in 1905. He

went to Eton and then Cambridge University, but it was at home that

he turned himself into a world- class athlete. This is Burghley

House just outside Stamford. Building work started on the house

in 1555, and wasn't finished until over 30 years later. It's set in

12,000 acres, and this was David Cecil's training ground. His great

view on life was that sport transcended all international

boundaries. Politics did not come into it. So will he was very

popular among his fellow competitors? He was. He was a most

modest, lovely man. I never heard him blow his own trumpet about

anything he had ever done. It was the 1928 Olympics in

Amsterdam. David Cecil had lost out in the 110 metres hurdles in the

semi-final. But in the 400 metres, a much tougher event, he beat his

closest rival by 0.2 of a second. When David Cecil was training for

the 1928 Olympics, there was nothing like the state-of-the-art

training there is for today's games. To make sure he was the best of the

best, he would place matchboxes on top of the hurdles. He was

contacted by the director and producer of the film and asked if

he would be involved in Chariots of Fire. But he then read the script

and said that he was sorry could not do it, because it bore no

relation to anything in his life. He used to jump over matchboxes,

not champagne glasses. The matchbox was the obvious answer, we never

had champagne in our house, ever! Probably the most famous scene in

the Navy Chariots of Fire are when the two athletes race each other

around the court at Cambridge University.

In reality, David Cecil as the only person ever to have made that - in

that time. This is their inner courtyard at

Burghley House. No one knows for sure whether David Cecil actually

practised his infamous great chord run here, but it is nice to think

he may well have raced against that clock.

Inside the house, every room has this incredible intricate artwork.

This is to have been room, it depicts a Olympia, and of course,

the Olympia -- the Olympics. He may have had a different view of the

Olympics growing up given that he had this to the cat. He devoted the

rest of his life to athleticism and the Olympic ideal. He eventually

became the chairman of the Amateur Athletics Association, and the

International Olympic Committee. He served in that for just over 40

years. Just before his death he was given their gold award for long-

term and remarkable service to the Olympic Order. He literally

promoted athleticism everywhere he went. He travelled all over the

world to every Olympic Games, following the ones that he was

involved with. Not long after the Second World War, the Olympics came

to London. David Cecil was the Lord Sebastian

Coe of his day, as chairman of their organising committee. But

food was still being rationed and David Cecil had the daunting task

of organising the games known as the austerity Olympics. I think

people just accepted the fact that the Olympics happened when needed

and that was that. It is history now. But it was a remarkable

achievement. Was people know Burghley House for

their annual Horse trials and not the connection with the Olympics.

David Cecil started the International Horse Event within 50

years ago. Above all, he was an Olympian. A

gold medal-winner from 1928. This exhibition pays tribute to him.

believed very strongly in the Olympic ideal that amateur

athletics was very important. He was a member of the Olympic

committee and president of the Amateur Athletics Association until

his seventies. He was still trying to look -- to raise money for

amateur athletics. I think it was an absolute primary passion of his

for the rest of his life. This summer's Olympics were hugely

successful, but vast sums of money are now thrown into it. In David

Cecil's day there was very little money in sport. Today it is

different, but some athletes still have to rely on funding from

sporting organisations to survive. He was absolutely adamant in his

thought process that sport and money did not go together. If you

rang you ran because you needed to run, it was something that was in

here. There is no doubt that the gulf between the London Olympics of

1948 and those of 2012 is fast, but the achievements of Team GB has

certainly replicated the theme of the athletes that was prominent all

those years ago. What you think he would have made

of today's Olympics? I think he would have found it is shocking

difference to the 1948 games, which she are organised, but I'm sure he

would still see the enormous achievement involved and the

dedication by the athletes. At the period in which he won his

medals, he was a national hero. Great athletes wear in those days,

they were on cigarette cards, they were in the public eye. He was a

very famous man. Just like Lord Burghley in 1928,

the 2012 Olympics have certainly produce role-models for the next

generation. He will not find him on cigarette cards, but instead they

are on stamps and honoured with gold postboxes, attitude to their

athletic achievements. -- attribute. And did we not have a fantastic

summer cheering on Team GB? That is it from Trinity College. If there

is anything new shaving -- you think we should be looking into on

the programme then you can contact us. That's all for now, goodbye.

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