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Good Evening. Welcome to a special Look East live from Northampton on

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the day justice finally caught up with the man who murdered an entire

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family. The Dings were described as quiet and polite. Their two

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children, gifted and talented. As many celebrated the Royal Wedding,

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they were stabbed to death in their home. Their killer, Anxiang Du, was

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on a mission to seek revenge after a failed business deal. Tonight, he's

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facing a life sentence. After the killings, he went on the run,

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evading capture for more than a year. We retrace his steps and

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explore missed opportunities in the biggest investigation in the history

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of Northamptonshire Police. I'll be here later with the rest of the day

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's news. We will look at people being encouraged to stub it out and

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the cream of the region 's art under one roof.

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It was at the house behind me that two and a half years ago, Jeff Ding,

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his wife, Helen, and their two daughters were murdered. It was a

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crime that shocked the whole community and sparked an

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international search for their killer. A search that involved 50

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officers, almost 3,000 lines of enquiry after Anxiang Du fled half

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way around the world to escape justice. But today, just two miles

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from where he killed them, the businessman was found guilty of four

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counts of murder. April 29 2011 was a day of national

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celebration but on one Northampton Street it was a day of imaginable

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horror. On Pioneer close, an entire family were stabbed to death. They

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were a model family and to date their family gave their reaction to

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the verdict. Finally, today, the verdict is murder. Anxiang Du

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deserves what he receives and we can now say our peace to our families in

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heaven. Their 18`year`old daughter had hoped to be a doctor and just

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received a place at university. The 12`year`old daughter led a junior at

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orchestra. Their mother was a translator and businesswoman and

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their father was a university lecturer. It was business that

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eventually led to their killings. Anxiang Du was once a friend but a

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joint`venture turned sour. For the last decade, the two families were

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involved in a legal battle in a row over profits. Anxiang Du had run out

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of options though and was facing financial ruin. He was seeking

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revenge. On the day of the Royal wedding, he travelled here but he

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was not in the mad for talking. Once inside, he launched a frenzied

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attack on Jeff and Helen in the kitchen before going upstairs to a

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bedroom and killing their daughters. They dialled 999 but the call was

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disconnected after 20 seconds and the police went to the wrong address

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by mistake. Their bodies were not discovered for another two days I

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looked in their kitchen area and noticed there was brown gunk on the

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floor. Initially I thought a radiator had fallen off the wall.

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Then when I looked harder, I thought I could see the bottom of someone's

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leg and I knew then that something was seriously wrong. Anxiang Du was

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described as a man on a mission He left a goodbye note for this family

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and with a knife in his back, took a train and a bus to the family home.

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Police are convinced they weren t the only intended victims. After

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killing them, he stole their car and went in search of another business

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associate. After leaving them, his intention was to find Paul Delaney

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and I have no doubt that had he found him that night, we would have

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more victims in this case. That is what I find so chilling. The

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propensity to extreme violence and the fact he would not know where to

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stop. In less than 24`hour is, he had fled the country. He fled to

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Morocco, and was there until his arrest last year.

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The hunt for Anxiang Du was the biggest investigation ever

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undertaken by Northamptonshire Police, but it was an inquiry which

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was dogged by missed opportunities. The biggest came on the day of the

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murders itself. At 3.32pm, a 99 call was made from Alice Ding's

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mobile. Screams were heard but the call was traced to the wrong

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address. Two days later, police called at the Dings' home. Of course

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there was no reply and the police left. Anxiang Du had fled in the

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Ding's car but it wasn't found until May 11th. Traffic wardens in London

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had issued it with parking tickets every day for nine days. Detectives

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eventually tracked Anxiang Du down in Morocco. That is because his boss

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saw this in the local paper. Joel Mapp has been taking a look at Du's

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14 months on the run. This is the port of Algeciras in southern Spain

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where Anxiang Du bought what he hoped was his ticket to freedom ` a

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one way crossing to North Africa. Last year, I retraced his steps as

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he began his new life on the run. Du arrived in Morocco and headed east

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towards Algeria. But just five days after the killings in the border

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city of Oujda, he was arrested and questioned by police on suspicion of

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being an illegal immigrant. I spoke to the officer who interviewed him.

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When we arrested him in Oujda last year, he was definitely refusing to

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speak to any other language. He was not talking at all. Du gave a false

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name and had nothing that could reveal his true identity. At the

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time, British detectives didn't even know he was abroad. So he was

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released. The Moroccan Police showed me where Du spent the next 14 months

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` on a building site in Tangier He was living here first. He lived

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here? In this room. In this room? Yeah. Du had been sleeping rough.

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This was his makeshift kitchen. And this, his bed. He slept during the

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day while at night he guarded the site in return for food and shelter.

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What was his story? What did he tell you? What did you know about him? He

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told me that he is in Casablanca. He was working. He had some friends and

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family in Casablanca and now he wanted to come here to Tangier

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because Tangier is improving with a lot of work. Du was finally tracked

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down after the owner of the building site recognised his photo in the

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local paper. The article appeared following an appeal by British

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detectives in Spain. When I saw his photo, I was shocked. I know this

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face. Oh, he's the Chinese with my workers there. A quick phone call to

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the police and the international hunt for Britain's most wanted man

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was over. When we came here, we just more or less jumped on him and we

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

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three of you? Three of them. And we handcuffed him. After 14 months on

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the run, justice had finally caught up with Anxiang Du.

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As we've said, the biggest investigation ever undertaken by

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Northamptonshire Police. The man in charge of that investigation,

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Detective Chief Inspector, Tom Davies. Detective Chief Inspector,

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you promised the family that you would find Anxiang Du but they're

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aware missed opportunities. Firstly the 999 call. He could have found

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him before? That was a key point for us. We admit we got that wrong and

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it was a challenge to the investigation from the outset. We

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explained to the family what happened and they were in full

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possession of all the IPCC documents. They recognise that that

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will never happen again in this county. Your name from Anxiang Du's

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wife that he was carrying his passport but he did not fully pursue

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that line of enquiry at the beginning. You seemed to assume that

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he had also taken his own life. That must have been wrong? We took advice

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from our experts from the beginning and some of those experts gave us a

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advice that it was most likely having killed him `` having killed

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four people, he would kill himself. We were looking at suicide. We did

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that for four or five days. The car was reported and widely circulated

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but you did not find it straightaway. Is that something that

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could still happen nowadays? That was the enforcement body and London

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who simply put parking tickets on the car without doing the relevant

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national computer checks because if they had done so we would have found

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the car much, much earlier. 250 police officers involved in this

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operation. It was massive. How tonight? We set out to bring Anxiang

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Du to justice. We have done that. The family recognise that it is

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always very difficult but with the work of everybody, we have achieved

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some success today. Thank you very much. Jeff Ding and his wife Helen

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moved to England from China more than 20 years ago and eventually

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settled here in Northampton. With no other family in the UK, many

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relations heard about their murders on the internet. Helen's brother and

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father travelled from China to follow court proceedings. With the

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help of an interpreter, they spoke to Jo Black. Then the two families

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heard, it felt like the whole sky falling down on top of them. Anxiang

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Du killed the whole family. The court case has been horrific to

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listen to. How difficult has that been for the family? The evidence

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given in court was likely knife stabbing himself. The then head the

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999 call and the screening of the two girls. All this evidence has

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hurt me and I am really angry. I would use a Chinese saying, there is

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a story about a farmer and a snake. The story is about a farmer on a

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winter 's day when it is snowing and he sees a snake almost dying in the

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cold. So he picked it up and put it to his body to warm it up. And then

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when the snake recovered, he bit the farmer. Anxiang Du is just like

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that. This is a part of Northampton, estate agents describe as "much

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sought after", "desirable", ever popular". Pioneer Close itself where

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the Dings lived is a small cul`de`sac with just ten houses

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Everyone knew the Dings and it'll take a long time for people here to

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come to terms with what happened. This is the kind of place where

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crime of any sort is rare. The kind of place where families feel safe.

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For a while, everything changed This area here is where the children

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frequently play when the weather's nice. Firstly, that summer, they

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couldn't because it was cordoned off and when it wasn't cordoned off

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anymore they didn't want to play there anymore. What happened in

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Pioneer Close is beyond the wildest imagination. Every community will

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get a tragedy at some time but one on this scale where a whole family

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is wiped out, and you can't make any sense of the reason why. It's a

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nightmare but one you've never even dreamt of having. Worse than any

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nightmare you'd thought of. Breaking the news to children was

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exceptionally tough. Xing's head teacher knew she faced a big

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responsibility. I broke the news and celebrated the life of Xing and

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tried to comfort the girls by saying how fortunate we were to have known

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Xing, but of course you can imagine coming out of that assembly, they

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were all terribly moved. Now retired, the detective who began the

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police investigation says he too struggles to accept what happened.

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The murder of those two girls in their bedroom, helpless, it beggars

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belief. Would you say this case has affected you personally? Yeah. It's

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something that will be on my mind forever and I'll never forget and

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it'll go with me for the rest of my life. Somehow tragedy has made this

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community stronger. Just as what happened here was hard to believe,

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it is now impossible to forget. Our reporter has followed this case

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right from the very beginning. Neil, you said in that report that what

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happened here has had an impact in Northampton and far beyond. That's

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right. It is impossible to comprehend for adults what happened

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inside that house and what has struck me is how on earth do you

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explain what happened here to children, particularly in an area

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where there is a mini children. Beyond that, two senior detectives

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say this is the most horrific case they have ever had to deal with The

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families here have all had to have counselling and there is a palpable

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sense of relief that Anxiang Du has been found guilty of murder. The big

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question remains. Why did he kill those girls? We will never know

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Thank you very much indeed. We will have more on this on BBC radio

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Northampton on the breakfast programme tomorrow morning from 7am.

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This area will always have reminders of the deans. The tree where Alice

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used to play. We hope that today at least the community around here can

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tampered with the rebels launched a criminal investigation.

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`` they will launch. Still to come: The cream of the

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region's contemporary art goes on display. And, smokers come under

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more pressure not to light up on hospital premises.

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In tonight's special report, detectives re`open a murder inquiry

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into a man's killing 18 years ago. The body of Ian Grant was found on

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wasteland near Cambridge in November 1995. He had been shot in the head.

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Since then the trail of evidence has gone cold, until now. Detectives say

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they have made a major break`through and have launched a cold`case murder

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investigation. This report is from our Home Affairs Correspondent Sally

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Chidzoy. 18 years after nightclub bouncer Ian

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Grant was killed in Cambridge, detectives believe they are on the

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verge of a breakthrough. A cold Case review of the forensic evidence,

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combined with a number of potential witnesses coming forward, has given

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fresh impetus to this case. People have moved on. The intimidation that

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existed 18 years ago is no longer there, and I am optimistic we will

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unlock the truth. Police say Ian Grant was on the periphery of a

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criminal network. He died moments after leaving his home. A doctor

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discovered his body. Police believe Ian Grant was lured away from his

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home. He ended up on this wasteland. Please believe the gunmen

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were hidden below this dip out of view. He was then shot in the back

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of the head. Police say the 24`year`old body`builder, who was

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six foot five and worked as a nightclub doormen in St Ives, had

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plans to build a business. He had ambition. He wanted to be a

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successful operator of door staff, and he was getting there. We know

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team made enemies on the way. He also made a number of enemies. We

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want to know what those vendettas were, he was involved, and why. At a

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news conference at the time, Ian Grant's girlfriend appealed for

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information to catch the killer who used a pistol. Her car was set

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alight two weeks before his death. Ian Grant worked at this club. In

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the 90s, the door security industry was not regulated like it is today.

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Now, people are coming forward with information on the case. The tech is

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say they plan to knock on doors of potential witnesses in the next few

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days. Smokers have given a cool reception

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to calls for the NHS to ban smoking anywhere on hospital premises. Most

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of the region's hospitals have signs forbidding smoking, but the bans are

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rarely enforced. One smokers' rights group said it was the job of the NHS

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to care for patients, not to "nag, cajole or bully smokers to quit."

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For some people, the cravings are just too strong. Addenbrooke's

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Hospital in Cambridge have rules on where people can smoke, but they are

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often ignored. From next year, it will be banned completely across the

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whole site, and people wanting to light up will have to leave the

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grounds. If you want to smoke, they should have an area where you can

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and keep it away from people who don't want to see it. Nowhere near

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the hospital. It would help me because I would not want to come out

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and find somewhere to smoke. Opposite the main entrance here,

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they used to be a smoking shelter. It has been taken away, but still

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patients, staff and visitors come over here for a smoke. This site has

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gone smoke`free before, in 2006, but after three years they gave up. Some

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staff said they encountered aggression, and sometimes even

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violence, when they asked smokers to stop. Our concerns about the

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implementation. When patients are stressed, it is hard to ask them to

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leave the premises to have a cigarette. Managers say the hospital

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should lead by example. We can no longer be composted in supporting

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smoking by allowing it to be on site, when we are here to try and do

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the best we can to make our patients as healthy as possible. So, will

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this ban help smokers kick the habit, or simply provoked an angry

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backlash? What is the situation where you

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work? Do get in touch. In football, the Peterborough United

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chairman Darragh MacAnthony says his players are "choking", and are on a

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"pathetic" run. Posh were beaten 3`2 by Brentford last night to stretch

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their losing streak in League One to five games and drop to fifth in the

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table. Elsewhere, Northampton remain bottom of League Two, but secured a

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crucial point at Chesterfield. There was better news for Southend who

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climbed to third with victory at Portsmouth.

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If you're a fan of Peterborough United, you will be wondering where

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it is all going wrong. The campaign started well enough, but a run of

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six games without a wind has seen Darren Ferguson's side fall ten

:21:56.:21:59.

point drift of the two. Against Linford they were leading 2`1 with

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only ten minister go, but a lack of concentration at the back proved

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costly. Colchester recorded their first wind in seven games against MK

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dons will stop Craig Eastman put the home side ahead. Southend boss Phil

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Brown praised his side's resilience. I got off to the worst possible

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start, thanks to this wonder goal. Then they lost their substitute

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after only four minutes on the pitch. But it seemed to inspire

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Southend. Two second`half goals mean they climbed to third in the table.

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They showed plenty of Clark chasing Chesterfield, ending a run of four

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successive away defeats. When it comes to artists like Damien

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Hirst and Tracey Emin it seems the great British public is divided.

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Contemporary art can be like Marmite ` you either love it or hate it. Now

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there's a new collection of contemporary art at the University

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Campus Suffolk. Part of the collection is on show and Mike

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Liggins has been to have a look at it. The collection is that the

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University College building on the waterfront in Ipswich. Over 120

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works, it is the idea of two internationally known artists. In a

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unique model, all the artists have donated their work to the

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collection. What we have not established yet is what we are going

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to do with it. It has arrived in a short amount of time, and actually,

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now we have got to work out how we pull it apart and use it for student

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purposes, for external purposes, whether it will stay here or be sent

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out on tour to other venues. It represents the forest. This man is a

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third`year final art student at the university. He thinks the collection

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is an inspiration. I am thinking of collaborating with a few artists to

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be part of a collection as big as this. I think people do sometimes

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find contemporary art quite difficult. They are not necessarily

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sure how to react. I love it. I am not a great fan of challenging art.

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I like something that represents an image, but I can appreciate the time

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and effort that goes into it. It is fantastic. Is it OK to think it is

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rubbish? Yes, maybe not rubbish, maybe you don't understand

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something. You have to accept that what they do is meaningful for them.

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The collection is on show until January 16 and the exhibition is

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free. That is the second time he has had

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headphones on this week! Good evening. This sunset shot was

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sent in by a viewer. We have actually had high pressure over the

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UK for a week now, and that is not necessarily a good thing at time of

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year. This has brought a lot of cloud. We also have this warm front

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moving in overnight, last night and this morning, which brought us some

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patchy rain. It introduced some less cold F. `` air. Visibility is not

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great. It is not going to be particularly cold. Temperatures will

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only get down to about four Celsius, so we should not have any frost

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worries tonight. We start tomorrow in a similar vein to today. Maybe a

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glimmer of brightness, but on the whole, the day stays white cloudy.

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Light winds and tides of eight or nine Celsius. Looking ahead, it

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starts to change because we say goodbye to the high pressure and the

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cloudy conditions, and say hello to this lively area of low pressure,

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which will push this cold front across us. The main feature of it

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will not be the rain, it will be the strength of the wind, and that will

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make it feel considerably colder. Temperatures will fall away during

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the day, and that wind will be the factor in how our weather feels.

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Brighter, sunny spells from Friday. The chance of some coastal showers.

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Overnight, tempered as will fall away. `` temperatures. On Sunday,

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high`pressure moves back in and we start to go back to where we are

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now. We will be back tomorrow. Good

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night.

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