:00:00. > :00:13.Good Evening. Welcome to a special Look East live from Northampton on
:00:14. > :00:18.the day justice finally caught up with the man who murdered an entire
:00:19. > :00:22.family. The Dings were described as quiet and polite. Their two
:00:23. > :00:25.children, gifted and talented. As many celebrated the Royal Wedding,
:00:26. > :00:31.they were stabbed to death in their home. Their killer, Anxiang Du, was
:00:32. > :00:36.on a mission to seek revenge after a failed business deal. Tonight, he's
:00:37. > :00:39.facing a life sentence. After the killings, he went on the run,
:00:40. > :00:46.evading capture for more than a year. We retrace his steps and
:00:47. > :01:00.explore missed opportunities in the biggest investigation in the history
:01:01. > :01:07.of Northamptonshire Police. I'll be here later with the rest of the day
:01:08. > :01:10.'s news. We will look at people being encouraged to stub it out and
:01:11. > :01:23.the cream of the region 's art under one roof.
:01:24. > :01:29.It was at the house behind me that two and a half years ago, Jeff Ding,
:01:30. > :01:32.his wife, Helen, and their two daughters were murdered. It was a
:01:33. > :01:34.crime that shocked the whole community and sparked an
:01:35. > :01:43.international search for their killer. A search that involved 50
:01:44. > :01:46.officers, almost 3,000 lines of enquiry after Anxiang Du fled half
:01:47. > :01:49.way around the world to escape justice. But today, just two miles
:01:50. > :01:51.from where he killed them, the businessman was found guilty of four
:01:52. > :02:06.counts of murder. April 29 2011 was a day of national
:02:07. > :02:12.celebration but on one Northampton Street it was a day of imaginable
:02:13. > :02:19.horror. On Pioneer close, an entire family were stabbed to death. They
:02:20. > :02:26.were a model family and to date their family gave their reaction to
:02:27. > :02:33.the verdict. Finally, today, the verdict is murder. Anxiang Du
:02:34. > :02:41.deserves what he receives and we can now say our peace to our families in
:02:42. > :02:45.heaven. Their 18`year`old daughter had hoped to be a doctor and just
:02:46. > :02:52.received a place at university. The 12`year`old daughter led a junior at
:02:53. > :02:56.orchestra. Their mother was a translator and businesswoman and
:02:57. > :03:00.their father was a university lecturer. It was business that
:03:01. > :03:05.eventually led to their killings. Anxiang Du was once a friend but a
:03:06. > :03:11.joint`venture turned sour. For the last decade, the two families were
:03:12. > :03:17.involved in a legal battle in a row over profits. Anxiang Du had run out
:03:18. > :03:20.of options though and was facing financial ruin. He was seeking
:03:21. > :03:28.revenge. On the day of the Royal wedding, he travelled here but he
:03:29. > :03:33.was not in the mad for talking. Once inside, he launched a frenzied
:03:34. > :03:37.attack on Jeff and Helen in the kitchen before going upstairs to a
:03:38. > :03:42.bedroom and killing their daughters. They dialled 999 but the call was
:03:43. > :03:47.disconnected after 20 seconds and the police went to the wrong address
:03:48. > :03:54.by mistake. Their bodies were not discovered for another two days I
:03:55. > :03:58.looked in their kitchen area and noticed there was brown gunk on the
:03:59. > :04:02.floor. Initially I thought a radiator had fallen off the wall.
:04:03. > :04:05.Then when I looked harder, I thought I could see the bottom of someone's
:04:06. > :04:13.leg and I knew then that something was seriously wrong. Anxiang Du was
:04:14. > :04:17.described as a man on a mission He left a goodbye note for this family
:04:18. > :04:24.and with a knife in his back, took a train and a bus to the family home.
:04:25. > :04:29.Police are convinced they weren t the only intended victims. After
:04:30. > :04:36.killing them, he stole their car and went in search of another business
:04:37. > :04:40.associate. After leaving them, his intention was to find Paul Delaney
:04:41. > :04:45.and I have no doubt that had he found him that night, we would have
:04:46. > :04:50.more victims in this case. That is what I find so chilling. The
:04:51. > :04:57.propensity to extreme violence and the fact he would not know where to
:04:58. > :05:04.stop. In less than 24`hour is, he had fled the country. He fled to
:05:05. > :05:12.Morocco, and was there until his arrest last year.
:05:13. > :05:16.The hunt for Anxiang Du was the biggest investigation ever
:05:17. > :05:19.undertaken by Northamptonshire Police, but it was an inquiry which
:05:20. > :05:23.was dogged by missed opportunities. The biggest came on the day of the
:05:24. > :05:27.murders itself. At 3.32pm, a 99 call was made from Alice Ding's
:05:28. > :05:30.mobile. Screams were heard but the call was traced to the wrong
:05:31. > :05:35.address. Two days later, police called at the Dings' home. Of course
:05:36. > :05:40.there was no reply and the police left. Anxiang Du had fled in the
:05:41. > :05:44.Ding's car but it wasn't found until May 11th. Traffic wardens in London
:05:45. > :05:48.had issued it with parking tickets every day for nine days. Detectives
:05:49. > :05:57.eventually tracked Anxiang Du down in Morocco. That is because his boss
:05:58. > :06:14.saw this in the local paper. Joel Mapp has been taking a look at Du's
:06:15. > :06:17.14 months on the run. This is the port of Algeciras in southern Spain
:06:18. > :06:21.where Anxiang Du bought what he hoped was his ticket to freedom ` a
:06:22. > :06:25.one way crossing to North Africa. Last year, I retraced his steps as
:06:26. > :06:28.he began his new life on the run. Du arrived in Morocco and headed east
:06:29. > :06:32.towards Algeria. But just five days after the killings in the border
:06:33. > :06:35.city of Oujda, he was arrested and questioned by police on suspicion of
:06:36. > :06:39.being an illegal immigrant. I spoke to the officer who interviewed him.
:06:40. > :06:44.When we arrested him in Oujda last year, he was definitely refusing to
:06:45. > :06:49.speak to any other language. He was not talking at all. Du gave a false
:06:50. > :06:52.name and had nothing that could reveal his true identity. At the
:06:53. > :06:57.time, British detectives didn't even know he was abroad. So he was
:06:58. > :07:03.released. The Moroccan Police showed me where Du spent the next 14 months
:07:04. > :07:10.` on a building site in Tangier He was living here first. He lived
:07:11. > :07:14.here? In this room. In this room? Yeah. Du had been sleeping rough.
:07:15. > :07:18.This was his makeshift kitchen. And this, his bed. He slept during the
:07:19. > :07:22.day while at night he guarded the site in return for food and shelter.
:07:23. > :07:27.What was his story? What did he tell you? What did you know about him? He
:07:28. > :07:31.told me that he is in Casablanca. He was working. He had some friends and
:07:32. > :07:34.family in Casablanca and now he wanted to come here to Tangier
:07:35. > :07:38.because Tangier is improving with a lot of work. Du was finally tracked
:07:39. > :07:41.down after the owner of the building site recognised his photo in the
:07:42. > :07:49.local paper. The article appeared following an appeal by British
:07:50. > :07:55.detectives in Spain. When I saw his photo, I was shocked. I know this
:07:56. > :07:58.face. Oh, he's the Chinese with my workers there. A quick phone call to
:07:59. > :08:11.the police and the international hunt for Britain's most wanted man
:08:12. > :08:15.was over. When we came here, we just more or less jumped on him and we
:08:16. > :08:23.surprised him. He was not expecting it. Physically jumped on him? All
:08:24. > :08:28.three of you? Three of them. And we handcuffed him. After 14 months on
:08:29. > :08:35.the run, justice had finally caught up with Anxiang Du.
:08:36. > :08:38.As we've said, the biggest investigation ever undertaken by
:08:39. > :08:40.Northamptonshire Police. The man in charge of that investigation,
:08:41. > :08:51.Detective Chief Inspector, Tom Davies. Detective Chief Inspector,
:08:52. > :08:56.you promised the family that you would find Anxiang Du but they're
:08:57. > :09:01.aware missed opportunities. Firstly the 999 call. He could have found
:09:02. > :09:05.him before? That was a key point for us. We admit we got that wrong and
:09:06. > :09:09.it was a challenge to the investigation from the outset. We
:09:10. > :09:12.explained to the family what happened and they were in full
:09:13. > :09:18.possession of all the IPCC documents. They recognise that that
:09:19. > :09:24.will never happen again in this county. Your name from Anxiang Du's
:09:25. > :09:27.wife that he was carrying his passport but he did not fully pursue
:09:28. > :09:33.that line of enquiry at the beginning. You seemed to assume that
:09:34. > :09:40.he had also taken his own life. That must have been wrong? We took advice
:09:41. > :09:45.from our experts from the beginning and some of those experts gave us a
:09:46. > :09:50.advice that it was most likely having killed him `` having killed
:09:51. > :09:58.four people, he would kill himself. We were looking at suicide. We did
:09:59. > :10:01.that for four or five days. The car was reported and widely circulated
:10:02. > :10:06.but you did not find it straightaway. Is that something that
:10:07. > :10:10.could still happen nowadays? That was the enforcement body and London
:10:11. > :10:15.who simply put parking tickets on the car without doing the relevant
:10:16. > :10:21.national computer checks because if they had done so we would have found
:10:22. > :10:26.the car much, much earlier. 250 police officers involved in this
:10:27. > :10:31.operation. It was massive. How tonight? We set out to bring Anxiang
:10:32. > :10:37.Du to justice. We have done that. The family recognise that it is
:10:38. > :10:40.always very difficult but with the work of everybody, we have achieved
:10:41. > :10:46.some success today. Thank you very much. Jeff Ding and his wife Helen
:10:47. > :10:50.moved to England from China more than 20 years ago and eventually
:10:51. > :10:53.settled here in Northampton. With no other family in the UK, many
:10:54. > :10:56.relations heard about their murders on the internet. Helen's brother and
:10:57. > :10:59.father travelled from China to follow court proceedings. With the
:11:00. > :11:14.help of an interpreter, they spoke to Jo Black. Then the two families
:11:15. > :11:20.heard, it felt like the whole sky falling down on top of them. Anxiang
:11:21. > :11:25.Du killed the whole family. The court case has been horrific to
:11:26. > :11:40.listen to. How difficult has that been for the family? The evidence
:11:41. > :11:48.given in court was likely knife stabbing himself. The then head the
:11:49. > :11:57.999 call and the screening of the two girls. All this evidence has
:11:58. > :12:07.hurt me and I am really angry. I would use a Chinese saying, there is
:12:08. > :12:14.a story about a farmer and a snake. The story is about a farmer on a
:12:15. > :12:21.winter 's day when it is snowing and he sees a snake almost dying in the
:12:22. > :12:27.cold. So he picked it up and put it to his body to warm it up. And then
:12:28. > :12:36.when the snake recovered, he bit the farmer. Anxiang Du is just like
:12:37. > :12:39.that. This is a part of Northampton, estate agents describe as "much
:12:40. > :12:42.sought after", "desirable", ever popular". Pioneer Close itself where
:12:43. > :12:49.the Dings lived is a small cul`de`sac with just ten houses
:12:50. > :12:53.Everyone knew the Dings and it'll take a long time for people here to
:12:54. > :12:59.come to terms with what happened. This is the kind of place where
:13:00. > :13:07.crime of any sort is rare. The kind of place where families feel safe.
:13:08. > :13:10.For a while, everything changed This area here is where the children
:13:11. > :13:14.frequently play when the weather's nice. Firstly, that summer, they
:13:15. > :13:17.couldn't because it was cordoned off and when it wasn't cordoned off
:13:18. > :13:21.anymore they didn't want to play there anymore. What happened in
:13:22. > :13:28.Pioneer Close is beyond the wildest imagination. Every community will
:13:29. > :13:32.get a tragedy at some time but one on this scale where a whole family
:13:33. > :13:40.is wiped out, and you can't make any sense of the reason why. It's a
:13:41. > :13:50.nightmare but one you've never even dreamt of having. Worse than any
:13:51. > :13:53.nightmare you'd thought of. Breaking the news to children was
:13:54. > :13:57.exceptionally tough. Xing's head teacher knew she faced a big
:13:58. > :14:00.responsibility. I broke the news and celebrated the life of Xing and
:14:01. > :14:04.tried to comfort the girls by saying how fortunate we were to have known
:14:05. > :14:09.Xing, but of course you can imagine coming out of that assembly, they
:14:10. > :14:12.were all terribly moved. Now retired, the detective who began the
:14:13. > :14:19.police investigation says he too struggles to accept what happened.
:14:20. > :14:28.The murder of those two girls in their bedroom, helpless, it beggars
:14:29. > :14:35.belief. Would you say this case has affected you personally? Yeah. It's
:14:36. > :14:39.something that will be on my mind forever and I'll never forget and
:14:40. > :14:43.it'll go with me for the rest of my life. Somehow tragedy has made this
:14:44. > :14:55.community stronger. Just as what happened here was hard to believe,
:14:56. > :14:58.it is now impossible to forget. Our reporter has followed this case
:14:59. > :15:03.right from the very beginning. Neil, you said in that report that what
:15:04. > :15:08.happened here has had an impact in Northampton and far beyond. That's
:15:09. > :15:11.right. It is impossible to comprehend for adults what happened
:15:12. > :15:15.inside that house and what has struck me is how on earth do you
:15:16. > :15:19.explain what happened here to children, particularly in an area
:15:20. > :15:25.where there is a mini children. Beyond that, two senior detectives
:15:26. > :15:32.say this is the most horrific case they have ever had to deal with The
:15:33. > :15:35.families here have all had to have counselling and there is a palpable
:15:36. > :15:40.sense of relief that Anxiang Du has been found guilty of murder. The big
:15:41. > :15:47.question remains. Why did he kill those girls? We will never know
:15:48. > :15:51.Thank you very much indeed. We will have more on this on BBC radio
:15:52. > :15:56.Northampton on the breakfast programme tomorrow morning from 7am.
:15:57. > :16:04.This area will always have reminders of the deans. The tree where Alice
:16:05. > :16:06.used to play. We hope that today at least the community around here can
:16:07. > :16:16.tampered with the rebels launched a criminal investigation.
:16:17. > :16:22.`` they will launch. Still to come: The cream of the
:16:23. > :16:26.region's contemporary art goes on display. And, smokers come under
:16:27. > :16:28.more pressure not to light up on hospital premises.
:16:29. > :16:32.In tonight's special report, detectives re`open a murder inquiry
:16:33. > :16:36.into a man's killing 18 years ago. The body of Ian Grant was found on
:16:37. > :16:42.wasteland near Cambridge in November 1995. He had been shot in the head.
:16:43. > :16:46.Since then the trail of evidence has gone cold, until now. Detectives say
:16:47. > :16:49.they have made a major break`through and have launched a cold`case murder
:16:50. > :16:55.investigation. This report is from our Home Affairs Correspondent Sally
:16:56. > :17:02.Chidzoy. 18 years after nightclub bouncer Ian
:17:03. > :17:08.Grant was killed in Cambridge, detectives believe they are on the
:17:09. > :17:13.verge of a breakthrough. A cold Case review of the forensic evidence,
:17:14. > :17:19.combined with a number of potential witnesses coming forward, has given
:17:20. > :17:25.fresh impetus to this case. People have moved on. The intimidation that
:17:26. > :17:30.existed 18 years ago is no longer there, and I am optimistic we will
:17:31. > :17:35.unlock the truth. Police say Ian Grant was on the periphery of a
:17:36. > :17:39.criminal network. He died moments after leaving his home. A doctor
:17:40. > :17:45.discovered his body. Police believe Ian Grant was lured away from his
:17:46. > :17:50.home. He ended up on this wasteland. Please believe the gunmen
:17:51. > :17:56.were hidden below this dip out of view. He was then shot in the back
:17:57. > :18:02.of the head. Police say the 24`year`old body`builder, who was
:18:03. > :18:07.six foot five and worked as a nightclub doormen in St Ives, had
:18:08. > :18:11.plans to build a business. He had ambition. He wanted to be a
:18:12. > :18:18.successful operator of door staff, and he was getting there. We know
:18:19. > :18:24.team made enemies on the way. He also made a number of enemies. We
:18:25. > :18:30.want to know what those vendettas were, he was involved, and why. At a
:18:31. > :18:34.news conference at the time, Ian Grant's girlfriend appealed for
:18:35. > :18:39.information to catch the killer who used a pistol. Her car was set
:18:40. > :18:45.alight two weeks before his death. Ian Grant worked at this club. In
:18:46. > :18:49.the 90s, the door security industry was not regulated like it is today.
:18:50. > :18:54.Now, people are coming forward with information on the case. The tech is
:18:55. > :18:56.say they plan to knock on doors of potential witnesses in the next few
:18:57. > :19:00.days. Smokers have given a cool reception
:19:01. > :19:03.to calls for the NHS to ban smoking anywhere on hospital premises. Most
:19:04. > :19:07.of the region's hospitals have signs forbidding smoking, but the bans are
:19:08. > :19:12.rarely enforced. One smokers' rights group said it was the job of the NHS
:19:13. > :19:26.to care for patients, not to "nag, cajole or bully smokers to quit."
:19:27. > :19:31.For some people, the cravings are just too strong. Addenbrooke's
:19:32. > :19:39.Hospital in Cambridge have rules on where people can smoke, but they are
:19:40. > :19:46.often ignored. From next year, it will be banned completely across the
:19:47. > :19:53.whole site, and people wanting to light up will have to leave the
:19:54. > :20:01.grounds. If you want to smoke, they should have an area where you can
:20:02. > :20:06.and keep it away from people who don't want to see it. Nowhere near
:20:07. > :20:11.the hospital. It would help me because I would not want to come out
:20:12. > :20:15.and find somewhere to smoke. Opposite the main entrance here,
:20:16. > :20:20.they used to be a smoking shelter. It has been taken away, but still
:20:21. > :20:25.patients, staff and visitors come over here for a smoke. This site has
:20:26. > :20:29.gone smoke`free before, in 2006, but after three years they gave up. Some
:20:30. > :20:34.staff said they encountered aggression, and sometimes even
:20:35. > :20:37.violence, when they asked smokers to stop. Our concerns about the
:20:38. > :20:44.implementation. When patients are stressed, it is hard to ask them to
:20:45. > :20:50.leave the premises to have a cigarette. Managers say the hospital
:20:51. > :20:56.should lead by example. We can no longer be composted in supporting
:20:57. > :21:01.smoking by allowing it to be on site, when we are here to try and do
:21:02. > :21:05.the best we can to make our patients as healthy as possible. So, will
:21:06. > :21:07.this ban help smokers kick the habit, or simply provoked an angry
:21:08. > :21:11.backlash? What is the situation where you
:21:12. > :21:14.work? Do get in touch. In football, the Peterborough United
:21:15. > :21:18.chairman Darragh MacAnthony says his players are "choking", and are on a
:21:19. > :21:22."pathetic" run. Posh were beaten 3`2 by Brentford last night to stretch
:21:23. > :21:26.their losing streak in League One to five games and drop to fifth in the
:21:27. > :21:30.table. Elsewhere, Northampton remain bottom of League Two, but secured a
:21:31. > :21:34.crucial point at Chesterfield. There was better news for Southend who
:21:35. > :21:40.climbed to third with victory at Portsmouth.
:21:41. > :21:49.If you're a fan of Peterborough United, you will be wondering where
:21:50. > :21:55.it is all going wrong. The campaign started well enough, but a run of
:21:56. > :21:59.six games without a wind has seen Darren Ferguson's side fall ten
:22:00. > :22:05.point drift of the two. Against Linford they were leading 2`1 with
:22:06. > :22:08.only ten minister go, but a lack of concentration at the back proved
:22:09. > :22:13.costly. Colchester recorded their first wind in seven games against MK
:22:14. > :22:22.dons will stop Craig Eastman put the home side ahead. Southend boss Phil
:22:23. > :22:30.Brown praised his side's resilience. I got off to the worst possible
:22:31. > :22:35.start, thanks to this wonder goal. Then they lost their substitute
:22:36. > :22:39.after only four minutes on the pitch. But it seemed to inspire
:22:40. > :22:51.Southend. Two second`half goals mean they climbed to third in the table.
:22:52. > :22:56.They showed plenty of Clark chasing Chesterfield, ending a run of four
:22:57. > :23:01.successive away defeats. When it comes to artists like Damien
:23:02. > :23:04.Hirst and Tracey Emin it seems the great British public is divided.
:23:05. > :23:09.Contemporary art can be like Marmite ` you either love it or hate it. Now
:23:10. > :23:12.there's a new collection of contemporary art at the University
:23:13. > :23:16.Campus Suffolk. Part of the collection is on show and Mike
:23:17. > :23:24.Liggins has been to have a look at it. The collection is that the
:23:25. > :23:29.University College building on the waterfront in Ipswich. Over 120
:23:30. > :23:37.works, it is the idea of two internationally known artists. In a
:23:38. > :23:41.unique model, all the artists have donated their work to the
:23:42. > :23:49.collection. What we have not established yet is what we are going
:23:50. > :23:54.to do with it. It has arrived in a short amount of time, and actually,
:23:55. > :23:59.now we have got to work out how we pull it apart and use it for student
:24:00. > :24:04.purposes, for external purposes, whether it will stay here or be sent
:24:05. > :24:12.out on tour to other venues. It represents the forest. This man is a
:24:13. > :24:18.third`year final art student at the university. He thinks the collection
:24:19. > :24:25.is an inspiration. I am thinking of collaborating with a few artists to
:24:26. > :24:31.be part of a collection as big as this. I think people do sometimes
:24:32. > :24:37.find contemporary art quite difficult. They are not necessarily
:24:38. > :24:43.sure how to react. I love it. I am not a great fan of challenging art.
:24:44. > :24:48.I like something that represents an image, but I can appreciate the time
:24:49. > :24:56.and effort that goes into it. It is fantastic. Is it OK to think it is
:24:57. > :25:07.rubbish? Yes, maybe not rubbish, maybe you don't understand
:25:08. > :25:12.something. You have to accept that what they do is meaningful for them.
:25:13. > :25:20.The collection is on show until January 16 and the exhibition is
:25:21. > :25:24.free. That is the second time he has had
:25:25. > :25:41.headphones on this week! Good evening. This sunset shot was
:25:42. > :25:49.sent in by a viewer. We have actually had high pressure over the
:25:50. > :25:57.UK for a week now, and that is not necessarily a good thing at time of
:25:58. > :26:02.year. This has brought a lot of cloud. We also have this warm front
:26:03. > :26:06.moving in overnight, last night and this morning, which brought us some
:26:07. > :26:17.patchy rain. It introduced some less cold F. `` air. Visibility is not
:26:18. > :26:23.great. It is not going to be particularly cold. Temperatures will
:26:24. > :26:27.only get down to about four Celsius, so we should not have any frost
:26:28. > :26:33.worries tonight. We start tomorrow in a similar vein to today. Maybe a
:26:34. > :26:39.glimmer of brightness, but on the whole, the day stays white cloudy.
:26:40. > :26:47.Light winds and tides of eight or nine Celsius. Looking ahead, it
:26:48. > :26:54.starts to change because we say goodbye to the high pressure and the
:26:55. > :27:02.cloudy conditions, and say hello to this lively area of low pressure,
:27:03. > :27:09.which will push this cold front across us. The main feature of it
:27:10. > :27:12.will not be the rain, it will be the strength of the wind, and that will
:27:13. > :27:17.make it feel considerably colder. Temperatures will fall away during
:27:18. > :27:22.the day, and that wind will be the factor in how our weather feels.
:27:23. > :27:26.Brighter, sunny spells from Friday. The chance of some coastal showers.
:27:27. > :27:35.Overnight, tempered as will fall away. `` temperatures. On Sunday,
:27:36. > :27:38.high`pressure moves back in and we start to go back to where we are
:27:39. > :27:40.now. We will be back tomorrow. Good
:27:41. > :27:45.night.