The Met S04E04
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00:00Police emergency.
00:09Can you get police in Brisbane, please?
00:11Now, now.
00:12There's people stabbed in front of the station.
00:15Stabbing, have you seen someone in Stab?
00:18Yes.
00:20I don't care what world you are.
00:21Come down to Brisbane, I see.
00:27Can we get them?
00:28Can we move back?
00:30Yes.
00:31Leading out from here.
00:34Victim's girlfriend.
00:36What's your name?
00:37I got three.
00:39What's your name?
00:40Equal.
00:41Who approaches you?
00:42Five or six of them just came running and all I see was a big knife come towards me.
00:46It was probably to do with the big ownership.
00:48He's clapped.
00:49You know he's got no ribbon.
00:51I ran over and I just see Shane and all the others were small.
00:55I like the big thing, Shane.
00:57He didn't even do nothing.
00:58Oh, I don't want his mum to come here.
01:02I just can't imagine how hard she's going to be.
01:04One patient.
01:05The Stabby and the Fire.
01:06Go there, go on.
01:07A serving metropolitan police officer has been charged with kidnap, rape and murder.
01:20Damning report found it to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic.
01:26The Met commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, has vowed to restore the public's trust and confidence
01:35in the police.
01:36Policing needs to be the best and we've totally failed in this regard.
01:39He's very choking me.
01:52I'm from the modern slavery team.
01:55How's your English?
01:55Give her justice and tell us where that poor girl's body is.
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02:22Do you really think this is an overkill?
02:24There's 10 of you here for one 14-year-old.
02:42Detectives have named a man who was stabbed to death near Brixton Tube Station.
02:49Shane Jerome was 23 and lived in Thornton Heath.
02:53Witnesses say he was stabbed with a machete.
02:57Shane Jerome was riding a motorbike during the filming of a music video
03:01when he was fatally stabbed.
03:03His attacker fled the scene.
03:07Beginning the hunt to find the killer
03:09is one of the Met's 20 specialist major investigation teams.
03:15Everyone, if I can have your attention.
03:17I'll sit down with those that are leading on the Witnesses CCTV.
03:23Detective Inspector Joe Sidaway is coordinating the investigation.
03:28Rob, can you just give a quick précis of where we are with the family?
03:33I made contact with the father of Shane Jerome.
03:36He's described Shane as a person that got on with everybody.
03:39And he's very popular.
03:41He was a scaffolder by trade and he worked full-time.
03:44He takes part in these music videos on his motorbike.
03:47But he doesn't know why this has happened.
03:50OK, thanks, Rob.
03:52What's difficult for us to understand at this stage
03:55is there's no obvious reason why anyone would attack Shane.
03:59There's no suggestion that the victim was involved
04:02in any incident, a precursor incident.
04:07He's just a scaffolder living in Croydon with mum, dad,
04:11no affiliations to gangs.
04:14He doesn't know the rapper who is unharmed.
04:18He's literally been hired to participate in this music video.
04:22It's been 12 hours since Shane's murder.
04:36Police have seized footage from the CCTV cameras
04:39covering the busy high street.
04:41Detective Greg Gibson is reviewing over 200 hours of footage.
04:49You have to basically follow everyone, anyone involved.
04:54The victims' group in this case will be easy.
04:57You know, they've got big flash cars.
04:59You can see the convoy on Cold Harbour Lane.
05:04But we need to identify the suspect group,
05:07then track them up to the point where the murder occurs.
05:14Greg focuses on the moments after the convoy has passed.
05:18This is about five minutes away from him being fatally stabbed.
05:24Now, you can see a group focused on that convoy.
05:33They look agitated.
05:36But it's these four that change direction
05:39effectively tracking the victim group.
05:49The attack itself has been caught on CCTV,
05:52but crucially, a double-decker bus is blocking this camera's view
05:57of the exact moment Shane is stabbed.
06:01We're very lucky that the area is so widely covered in CCTV.
06:06And with that CCTV, we've identified our suspect group.
06:12This man here, he appears to be identical
06:15to the male carrying the knife.
06:17But we don't know whether there's another male behind that bus
06:25who also has a knife.
06:28So we still have to work out who has stabbed Shane.
06:36So there's the victim.
06:40These are probably the last shots of our victim, aren't they?
06:44Yeah.
06:46Shane was being filmed for a video
06:48by a Croydon-based rapper,
06:50and police have seized the footage
06:52in the hope the film crew has captured the murder on camera.
06:59Potentially around here.
07:03Is this the bus?
07:04Yeah.
07:06So this should be exactly right where it happens.
07:09Um, I think it's just stopped.
07:21Can you believe that?
07:23That literally stops five, ten seconds before it's attacked.
07:28You can't make it up.
07:29Come on.
07:37Right, let me show you what I've got.
07:40This is the front camera,
07:41front of the bus.
07:4420 hours into the investigation,
07:47Greg receives CCTV footage from the bus
07:50that was blocking their view of the stabbing.
07:53Here's your victim.
07:55Right alongside the bus.
07:57Here's your suspect here.
08:05You see the flashing lights on the Boris bike?
08:09Mm-hmm.
08:10Gets the knife out straight away.
08:16One stab straight out.
08:19That's it.
08:20The footage shows that the suspect,
08:24previously seen running behind the bus with the knife,
08:27did stab Shane.
08:28That's pretty clear.
08:37It's this guy.
08:41Stripes down his legs.
08:43That's so key.
08:45All right, Jay?
08:46Found the footage,
08:47like,
08:48showing the actual murder.
08:49Hiya.
08:57All right,
08:58so as this bus stops,
09:00you'll see the suspect
09:02come up on a Boris bike,
09:05knife out.
09:06Oh, that is a big one.
09:06Wow.
09:06You'll see the victim
09:09start to back up
09:10and then
09:11he literally just gets,
09:14he goes straight in for the chest.
09:16One blow.
09:18Wow.
09:21You can see the blood on the knife.
09:24It's horrendous, isn't it?
09:25Four blokes didn't stand a chance,
09:33didn't he?
09:33The size of that knife.
09:36But the real question is,
09:38who is he?
09:50Hello, police.
09:51What's your emergency?
09:52Hi,
09:53I'm not hearing a woman screaming
09:54and this guy's, like,
09:55false match.
09:56He's still going on now.
09:58He's grabbing her.
09:59He's pulling her down.
10:01Need to get the police here now, man.
10:03Sorry, it's okay.
10:04It's another recorded call coming in.
10:07Emergency response officers
10:09Jay and Sade
10:10are on a night shift in Wimbledon,
10:12one of London's most affluent suburbs.
10:16A member of the public
10:17has called police
10:18after witnessing an argument
10:19in the street
10:20between a man and a woman.
10:23It came in as,
10:24from the informant
10:25that a female was screaming
10:26and then she was out
10:28roadside
10:31and a male was physically attacking her.
10:39She's off.
10:40She's off, she's off, she's off, she's off.
10:42What's happened?
10:48We've had a dispute
10:50and she's moving way over the top.
10:52Okay.
10:52She's drunk.
10:53We're both drunk
10:54and she's moving way over the top.
10:56Okay.
10:56Are you guys all right here for a minute?
10:57I'm just going to catch up with the victim.
10:59All right.
10:59Stop swearing.
11:00There's no need for that, is there?
11:02What's happened?
11:03We need to find out what's happened.
11:05Call in 2-1.
11:07Go on.
11:08Just had a catch on it in a second
11:09from a witness who's stating
11:11that I've seen a knife
11:13during this incident.
11:16Control, just confirm
11:17who had the knife,
11:18female or the male?
11:20Male.
11:21Yeah.
11:23Yeah.
11:24Not specific.
11:27There's been mention of some weapons
11:29and things.
11:30Do you know what the team is?
11:33A bit of new information, that's all.
11:34Listen, listen.
11:36It's been mention of weapons
11:37and knives and things.
11:38Do the search.
11:39Do the search.
11:39Okay.
11:40The man is detained and searched
11:43to check the reports of a weapon
11:45whilst his details are run through the database.
11:48Have you got anything?
11:50No, bro.
11:50I ain't.
11:51Search me, bro.
11:54Suspect is in cuffs.
11:57He's well known to police.
11:58He's been arrested several times before.
12:01He's also been in and out of prison
12:02for violence offences.
12:07Officers are also told
12:09the man may have weapons in his home.
12:13So he is taken to the police station
12:15whilst Jay and other units search his flat.
12:19The door's open.
12:22You guys all right here?
12:24Yeah.
12:24This bit.
12:25If you've got a fine,
12:26can you shout out
12:26and come over to me and tell me what it is?
12:32No.
12:32Any cuts in it?
12:33Any cuts in the thing?
12:36No?
12:37Happy?
12:37Yeah.
12:38Standing knife.
12:52Yeah.
12:53Standing knife laid out, ready to use.
12:59Oh.
12:59Oh.
13:01Right.
13:02We've got that in a bag.
13:04Oh, yeah.
13:09That one's cannabis.
13:15That one's cannabis.
13:18Yeah, we've got cash.
13:21290.
13:22Who carries cash now?
13:23I would say he's involved
13:25in some level of criminality.
13:28We've found a lot of cannabis.
13:31But also a set of scales,
13:33money and a couple of phones,
13:35which would suggest maybe
13:37a low-level dealer of sort.
13:41As well as Class B drugs
13:43worth an estimated £3,000,
13:45Jay makes another discovery.
13:48Oh!
13:49Jesus Christ.
13:50It's a handgun.
14:01Metal pellets.
14:02That looks like a...
14:03It looks like a BB pistol.
14:07If someone pointed that at me,
14:09I'd probably shoot myself
14:10and run a mile.
14:14Mate, 2-1,
14:14you might want to come downstairs,
14:16don't you?
14:16Yeah, we're coming.
14:21Might want to come down.
14:23Quick.
14:27While searching the garden
14:28behind the flat,
14:29there's another unexpected find.
14:33Wow.
14:34OK.
14:34We have found a shotgun.
14:42You let Southwest 1 know, please.
14:44And have we got a
14:45make-safe soccer on tonight
14:47by any chance?
14:50This has turned into
14:51something more than we thought,
14:53that's for sure.
14:55Something that was initially
14:56an argument in the street
14:58has now turned into
15:00us recovering
15:02a shotgun,
15:05a real
15:05firearm.
15:06Hi, is that Ingrid?
15:24Ingrid, hi,
15:24sorry to bother you.
15:25It's PJ.
15:26I'm a skipper calling
15:26from the predatory offender unit.
15:28Sergeant Paul Jones
15:29works for one of the Met's
15:3012 predatory offender units,
15:33tasked with tracking down
15:34violent and sexual offenders.
15:35We're looking for this
15:38lad who's on the run.
15:39I'm just desperately
15:40to find him.
15:42And we've basically
15:43got a manhunt for him
15:44starting today.
15:46And he's wanted
15:46for three counts of rape.
15:4920-year-old Driss Sahir
15:50has been accused
15:51of raping a 12-year-old girl.
15:54Our victim,
15:56she went missing
15:56to a hotel
15:58with this adult male
15:59she met on social media,
16:00on Snapchat.
16:01Driss.
16:02He was 18 at the time.
16:04Several months later
16:06she makes disclosure
16:08in her diary
16:08that she was raped
16:10on that night.
16:12She wrote down here
16:13what happened
16:13at the hotel.
16:15He was on top of me.
16:16I told him to stop
16:17and he wouldn't.
16:19And then she goes on
16:20to describe
16:21the three separate
16:24offences of rape
16:25in the hotel room.
16:26It is tragic
16:31reading, bluntly.
16:37That's our first account.
16:39And she tells us
16:40exactly what happened.
16:42The final
16:43kind of nail
16:45for him
16:45was the fact
16:46that we'd found
16:47semen in the clothing
16:48taken from the victim
16:50and the DNA
16:51matched his.
16:53The investigation team
16:54now has enough evidence
16:56to arrest
16:56and charge Driss
16:57for rape.
16:59But he's been on the run
17:00for several weeks.
17:01So Paul's team
17:02has been brought in
17:03to hunt him down.
17:06He's an ongoing
17:07dangerous children.
17:08We've found
17:08another,
17:09at least three or four girls
17:10that he's in contact with.
17:12Some as young as 10.
17:14He's been speaking to
17:14on Snapchat.
17:16That's when he's going to him.
17:16We can be tasked out
17:20on a daily basis
17:21who is our highest
17:22risk offender right now
17:23and who can we take out
17:24now in order
17:25to protect the public.
17:28We're dealing with people
17:28that are really sly.
17:29They want to stay free
17:30and they want to continue
17:31harming people.
17:32A lot of them have got
17:33a really prolific
17:34offending history.
17:37So we utilize
17:38different tactics
17:39to what maybe
17:40the standard officers do
17:41in order to get
17:42these people off the street.
17:45Carrying out
17:46up to 10 manhunts
17:47each month.
17:49The team of eight
17:49officers is specially
17:51trained in tracking
17:52dangerous fugitives.
17:56Let me give you
17:57the accounts that he's got.
17:59So we know he's got
18:00Santander Monzo
18:02and I'll see what else
18:03he's got.
18:03I think he had a Lloyd's
18:04as well.
18:06Paul's team
18:07study Driss's bank accounts
18:09and phone records
18:10for clues
18:11as to where he is hiding.
18:12So we have some
18:16surveillance capability
18:17so we can look at
18:18people's financials,
18:19people's telecommunications.
18:21It gives us
18:21different toolbox
18:23to what your
18:24general policing has.
18:27Ah, financials come back.
18:29No current active accounts
18:30anywhere they can find.
18:32Ah, right.
18:34We need something
18:38to track him on.
18:39Ideally a phone number.
18:43Dead.
18:45Dead.
18:47Dead.
18:49Phone numbers
18:50he swaps out
18:51very frequently,
18:52SIM cards
18:53and handsets.
18:54He uses fake names,
18:56at least 20 A-lisses.
18:57He uses false addresses
18:58as well.
18:59The team
19:01has received reports
19:02from taxi companies
19:03about someone
19:04fitting Driss's description
19:05running off
19:06without paying
19:07and giving lots
19:08of different addresses
19:09all in a small area.
19:11He's given that address
19:12before,
19:12albeit we don't think
19:13it's a real one,
19:14we'll give it a go anyway.
19:15Two addresses there.
19:16We'll go two now.
19:18Let's do it.
19:19Last out,
19:19shut the door.
19:29We've got a girl
19:34who's now 13
19:35who is absolutely terrified
19:37that he's out and about.
19:39One of her family told me
19:40she's not been sleeping
19:41very well at all
19:41and most of it
19:44is about where is he
19:45and what's he doing.
19:46I think she's worried
19:47that he's going to
19:48come and find her.
19:53Hello, mate.
19:53You all right?
19:54Can we show you
19:55a photo of somebody
19:55and see if you know him?
19:56Is that all right?
19:57Sorry to bother you.
19:59Sorry, that's in there.
20:03Have you ever seen
20:04that lad before?
20:06No?
20:07Sorry to bother you.
20:08Thank you very much.
20:09In there?
20:10No, I've never,
20:11ever seen this lad.
20:11Never seen him in your life?
20:12Yeah.
20:14Thank you so much.
20:14Take care.
20:15See you later.
20:17The door-to-door inquiries
20:18have drawn a blank
20:19but Paul has one more
20:21address he can try.
20:24His mum lives
20:25two roads away.
20:27So he's used it
20:27for taxis
20:28to get close to
20:29and walk home
20:29and then walk home.
20:31Shall we go
20:31and knock on mum's door?
20:32Will we lift you
20:32around the corner?
20:40Driss's mum
20:41says she doesn't
20:41know where he is
20:42but agrees to call
20:44Paul if her son
20:45contacts her.
20:46But she let me
20:47put my number
20:48in her phone
20:48and in there
20:49at the end of May
20:50was phone calls
20:50with Driss
20:51with a telephone number.
20:53964?
20:54Yeah, 964.
20:56Is that new?
20:56Yeah.
20:57Which here
20:58we've never attributed
20:58to him before.
20:59Let's put that number
21:00through Optica
21:00and IIP
21:01and see what we can find.
21:08She's just giving it away,
21:09darling.
21:09analysis of this new number
21:18reveals calls made
21:19to a youth hostel
21:2024 miles away
21:21in Hertfordshire.
21:22There it is.
21:26EVU.
21:31If you can come
21:32and cover the car park
21:33we'll go.
21:34Thanks, mate.
21:36Sarah's in the car park?
21:37Yeah, I'm going to find Sarah
21:38so you can jump out
21:40the room.
21:40OK.
21:43Where can I find Driss?
21:45It's in room 4
21:46when we let you through.
21:48Lovely.
21:48Thank you very much.
21:52All right, just give me your hands.
22:06Give me your hands.
22:06Give me your hands.
22:07Give me your hands.
22:07All right.
22:10Clap on, clap on.
22:11Lower.
22:12All right.
22:14You're under arrest, OK?
22:16All right, you're under arrest.
22:17You're wanted for charge, OK?
22:19For three counts,
22:20raping a child
22:21under the age of 13.
22:23So I'm going to be on?
22:24Yeah.
22:25Definitely.
22:35Do you want to follow
22:36my colleague, Driss?
22:37It's going to be 11,
22:38aren't you, aren't you?
22:38Yeah, it's that way.
22:43In police interview,
22:45Paul confronts Driss
22:47with the victim's account.
22:48This interview's been recorded
22:52at Charing Cross Police Station
22:53and I'm interviewing
22:54Can you state your full name?
22:55Driss to her.
22:56I know you spoke to a solicitor.
22:58Are you having a solicitor you've got
22:59and have you had time
22:59to consult with her?
23:00Yes.
23:02Can you explain why you booked a room
23:03to stay all night
23:04with a 12-year-old?
23:04Can you explain that at all?
23:06She tells us she was terrified
23:08and you told her
23:10you had killed people before
23:11and that you were wanted by police.
23:14Is that correct or is that a lie?
23:15No comments.
23:16She says you raped her three times.
23:19Is she lying?
23:22No comment.
23:23The jogging bottoms
23:24she's wearing in that hotel with you,
23:26it's been tested for semen
23:27and that profile matches that of you.
23:30So can you explain to me
23:32the presence of your semen
23:34on these jogging bottoms?
23:35No comment.
23:39Hello again.
23:40You're going to be charged
23:43with three offences
23:44of rape of a girl under 13
23:46between the 20th of October 2019
23:49and the 22nd of October 2019.
23:52Contraining Section 5
23:53and the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
23:55I didn't touch that.
23:56I actually didn't touch nobody.
23:58I swear to God.
23:59Our victim,
24:05he described somebody
24:06extremely confident,
24:07cocky,
24:08obviously forceful
24:10and then
24:11look at him in custody today.
24:13He's meek and he's mild.
24:14He acts like a little boy lost.
24:16I don't believe it.
24:18Don't believe it at all.
24:18Right, OK.
24:37I'm going to make a start.
24:38We do have CCTV
24:40of the actual stabbing now.
24:42Greg, would you update us?
24:44Bus CCTV picked up the murder
24:45shown in its entire
24:48It's been 36 hours
24:51since Shane Jerome
24:52was fatally stabbed.
24:55Specialist officers
24:56are piecing together
24:57multiple CCTV sources
24:58to identify his attacker.
25:01Bus footage
25:02catches suspect
25:02riding a Boris bike
25:05towards the victim.
25:06He's got a massive knife
25:07in his right hand.
25:10And then you see
25:11one blow to the chest.
25:14The suspect then
25:16goes down Electric Avenue
25:17so I've got
25:18resources down there.
25:23We've had a dog
25:24go through that area
25:25but that weapon
25:26is outstanding.
25:28And we'll go to
25:29witnesses.
25:30So if you could
25:31just bring everyone
25:32up to speed on
25:33where we are
25:34with the significant
25:35and key witnesses
25:36that we identified.
25:38So there's been
25:39a few secret statements
25:40taken.
25:41Probably one of the most
25:42important ones there
25:43is the victim's
25:44girlfriend,
25:45Salika.
25:52Salika was following
25:54Shane on a quad bike
25:55and witnessed his murder.
25:58None of us see it coming.
26:01Shane was beside
26:02the Lamborghini.
26:03I'd remember
26:04the traffic lights
26:05going red and then
26:06it just happened like that.
26:08I just remember
26:09hearing screams.
26:13My initial thought was
26:14why is everyone running?
26:16I was so confused.
26:19And I look back
26:20and I see the knife of blood.
26:22Then I realised
26:23Shane didn't run
26:24the same way as us.
26:25I could just hear
26:33the breath shallowing
26:35and I remember
26:36saying out loud
26:37please don't go
26:39like I need you here.
26:42The emergency services
26:43tried to bring him back
26:45and then the sergeant
26:47actually took my hand
26:48and said
26:49Salika I'm so sorry.
26:53We did the best
26:54that we could.
26:55Shane's never
27:00been involved with gangs.
27:02He's always been
27:02level-headed.
27:03He goes to work,
27:04he'll come home,
27:05he'll spend time with me,
27:06he'll spend time
27:06with his family.
27:08He had his whole life
27:09ahead of him.
27:12I don't know
27:12why he was stabbed.
27:15There's no reason.
27:19And now he's going
27:20to miss out on
27:20all the things
27:21that he should have
27:22been experiencing.
27:25with no leads
27:32on the identity
27:32of the suspect
27:33and no murder weapon,
27:35the officers turn
27:36their attention
27:37to the bike
27:37used by the killer.
27:38The Samsung
27:43derby,
27:44it's got GPS
27:45tracker fitted to it
27:46and it's consistently
27:48on the
27:48Summer-Layton
27:50estate.
27:51So it's likely
27:52to be a
27:52Summer-Layton
27:53gang member.
27:56This is a hypothesis
27:58but it looks like
27:59the convoy
27:59have done
28:00Snapchat videos.
28:04And in that,
28:05they're mentioned
28:05in Brixton Market,
28:07an area that they
28:08maybe don't frequent
28:09or they're not from,
28:11which might be
28:12the catalyst
28:13for this all
28:14because this may
28:16have angered
28:16local youths
28:17in the area.
28:18This appears to be
28:23related to gang activity.
28:26I'm not suggesting
28:27for one moment
28:28that the rapper
28:29or the victim
28:30was involved
28:31in gang activity.
28:33Everything would indicate
28:34that he has
28:35been hired
28:36or played
28:37a peripheral part
28:38in a music video.
28:39but there is
28:43sufficient information
28:45at this stage
28:46to suggest
28:47that the victims group
28:49making the video
28:50in the area
28:51where they were
28:51has led to,
28:54we believe,
28:55a local gang
28:56feeling affronted
28:58about their presence
28:59and seeking
29:00to take violent action
29:02towards them.
29:05That's our knife
29:06in there, isn't it?
29:07Yeah.
29:07100%.
29:08He's the knife guy.
29:09Just traffic bottoms on
29:11and he's got the hood on.
29:12Yeah.
29:15The CCTV images
29:17detectives have
29:18of the suspect
29:18aren't clear enough
29:20to identify him.
29:24But while analysing
29:26the footage
29:26from the bus,
29:27Detective Greg Gibson
29:29has found
29:29a vital clue.
29:33Is there another angle?
29:35Yeah.
29:39Here, you see it there?
29:48Yeah.
29:48You see clear contact.
29:50Yeah.
29:50You see clear contact.
29:52It's definitely his hand.
29:55Is he gloved up?
29:56That looks like skin.
30:05It doesn't look like he's got a glove.
30:14The footage shows the suspect's hand
30:17touching the sports car.
30:18To capture a timed handprint
30:24in a murder case
30:25is
30:26extremely rare.
30:30Here, we've got the exact contact
30:32captured on film,
30:34date, time,
30:35during the murder.
30:37Any points of contact
30:39presents forensic opportunities.
30:41Hopefully, they'll be able
30:44to lift the palm print,
30:47test it against the database
30:48and get a match.
31:02Here we go.
31:05All ready?
31:06Yeah.
31:06The car has been seized
31:09by police
31:10and now forensic experts
31:12must try to identify
31:13the handprint.
31:15I can see some smears here.
31:18They carry out
31:19an examination
31:20using ultraviolet light
31:22to look for fingerprint ridges.
31:26See a palm in there,
31:27but there's no ridge detail
31:30to identify someone.
31:32It's not good.
31:33The team focuses
31:37on the rear of the car
31:39in an area
31:40where contact was seen
31:41on the CCTV.
31:43It's more difficult
31:44on vehicles
31:45than it is
31:46on a lot of other property
31:48because of the reflective
31:49nature of the paint.
31:52They're the harder marks to do.
31:57What was that?
32:01Yeah, it looks like
32:02there's a little bit of palm.
32:04Quite a big palm as well.
32:11This is actually looking better.
32:14Yep.
32:14Got it.
32:17Excellent.
32:19Really good ridge detail.
32:21The palm marks
32:28look pretty clear.
32:30Maybe they'll match up
32:32to a suspect
32:32who's already on the database.
32:47This is Operation Burleson.
32:50Between Sunday 11th of July
32:54and Thursday 16th of September,
32:56there were five separate
32:57indecent assaults
32:59on females.
33:00Sergeant Paul Jones'
33:02specialist manhunt team
33:03has been brought in
33:04to find another
33:05serial sex attacker.
33:07This time,
33:08the identity of the man
33:09they are hunting
33:10is unknown.
33:11They all seem
33:12to be the same MO.
33:13We have a very similar
33:14suspect,
33:15very similar
33:15description anyway.
33:17It looks to me
33:18like they're following
33:18females off the tube,
33:19Dollis Hill,
33:20Kneesden,
33:21or around the bus routes.
33:22So he's either
33:22following somebody off
33:23or he is just
33:25working in that area
33:26looking for females.
33:28We just need to find out
33:29who he is,
33:29identify who he is
33:30and catch him.
33:31Five women
33:37have been attacked
33:38in the past month
33:39all on their way home
33:40from tube stations.
33:43Paul's unit
33:44sets up covert surveillance
33:45at each of the stations.
33:50One of the victims
33:51has come in
33:52to make a statement
33:53to help build
33:54a picture of the attacker.
33:55I finished late.
33:59I left the tube station
34:00and I saw a man
34:02standing on the other
34:03side of the road.
34:04He started following me.
34:08I could, like,
34:09feel his presence
34:10behind me.
34:12So, you know,
34:12like, in my head
34:13I was already like,
34:14this is not good,
34:15this is not good.
34:17So as soon as I turned
34:18into my little road,
34:20I could hear him, like,
34:21running after me.
34:22And then
34:25one second later
34:26I was on the floor
34:26and, like,
34:28the whole world
34:29stopped then.
34:32So I started
34:33screaming for help.
34:35Like, help me,
34:35help me, stop me.
34:36So he started choking me
34:37and, um,
34:40covering my mouth
34:41so I cannot scream.
34:44After some time,
34:45I don't know what happened,
34:46but he just stopped.
34:47He just,
34:47fortunately,
34:48he just left me.
34:52So the victims
34:59have walked out
34:59of the train station,
35:01come down this road
35:02and through that alleyway.
35:03Generally,
35:04night time,
35:04he follows women,
35:06single women,
35:07away from the,
35:08um,
35:09train station
35:09and
35:10assaults them.
35:12Oh,
35:13we don't know who he is yet.
35:14We've got someone
35:15who's actually targeting
35:16a specific area.
35:17So all we've got
35:18is officers out,
35:19um,
35:20covertly,
35:21plainclothes,
35:21and observation points
35:23trying to find him.
35:29There's been two offences
35:30in this road
35:30a couple of weeks apart,
35:33two separate lone women
35:34attacked by him.
35:36CID has obtained CCTV
35:38covering the areas
35:39between the tube stations
35:41and the attacks.
35:42A home security camera
35:44has captured
35:44one of the sexual assaults.
35:46victim walks down
35:49away from the train station
35:51and at this stage
35:52it's what we call
35:54a long follow.
35:56No one else on the street
35:57at the moment.
35:58And there's our suspect.
35:59Ten sets behind maybe,
36:02matching her pace,
36:04hood up.
36:10Look at where he's positioned.
36:12Look at that.
36:13Two paces back
36:14and he's positioned himself out.
36:16One,
36:16that's her point of escape
36:17so she can't get out
36:18and two,
36:19he can see everything
36:19coming ahead of her.
36:22He's,
36:22he's,
36:23he's getting closer and closer.
36:24He's stalking her down this road.
36:25He's keeping an eye on the front
36:26to make sure there's no witnesses
36:27or anyone's going to stop him
36:27from attacking her.
36:30Absolute prodigy behaviour.
36:40And if you keep watching,
36:42another minute he'll come
36:43running straight,
36:43there he is.
36:44Running straight back.
36:48We just need to find out
36:49who he is
36:49and catch him.
36:51This is a proper serial offender.
36:52There's definitely escalation
36:55because
36:55on the last offence
36:57he pinned
36:59the lady to the ground,
37:01lifted up her skirt
37:02and touched her vagina.
37:06If we don't get hold of him,
37:08I think it's only a matter of time
37:09before we rape somebody.
37:19This is this incident.
37:22Do you hear the noise there?
37:28It's chilling.
37:31Working alongside
37:33Paul's manhunt team,
37:34CID detectives in Wembley
37:36review CCTV
37:37from one of the tube stations
37:39to try to identify
37:40the man responsible
37:41for the five attacks.
37:44So we're looking at the direction
37:45that the attack has taken place.
37:48And this is just post the offence?
37:49This is just post the offence.
37:51In a moment
37:51what we'll see
37:52is a fellow
37:53running down this straight.
37:55There he is.
37:58But from the description
37:59the victim's given,
38:00he appears to be male
38:01with that description,
38:02that build.
38:03Yeah.
38:05Here he comes running in.
38:09As you can see...
38:10And he taps.
38:11Yeah.
38:11And we've got a really good
38:17facial image there
38:18which we could say...
38:19That's a very good facial image.
38:24What we'll now look to do
38:26is to identify
38:28which card has been used
38:29to enter the barrier
38:30with a view to looking
38:31at who that card
38:32is registered to.
38:33We obviously hope
38:34that will then lead us
38:34to who the offender is.
38:36and that she is armed.
38:57J and Sade are responding
39:02to an urgent call
39:03from a 60-year-old woman
39:04who is threatening
39:05to harm herself
39:06with a gun.
39:072-4, so just to confirm.
39:15We don't know
39:15if there's a firearm here.
39:21Yeah, all received.
39:25Control has assessed the risk
39:27and won't be dispatching
39:28a specialist firearms team.
39:31Hello, hello, hello.
39:33Hiya, it's the police, darling.
39:34Can we come in?
39:37Right, Georgina?
39:43Georgina, before we come in,
39:45do you have a gun in here
39:46or not?
39:49Right, answer the question.
39:51Do you have a gun in here
39:52or not?
39:52No.
39:53No, OK, we'll come in.
39:55OK, what's going on then?
39:58OK.
40:01Why do you want to do that?
40:03We're not going to kill you, OK?
40:07With my tether, I need to die.
40:10But why do you feel like that?
40:13I'm a coward.
40:15I haven't got the courage
40:17to take my own life.
40:20And I know that the police
40:23are the only ones
40:24that can do it for me.
40:25No.
40:25But we need to figure out, you know,
40:29the reason why you're feeling like this.
40:31Is there something we can do to help you?
40:34Would you like to go to the hospital?
40:36No, I'm not going to the hospital.
40:39I just want a quick way out, basically.
40:43You've just hit a rut somewhere,
40:45haven't you, Milo?
40:45Yeah, and now you're sort of stuck.
40:47You can get back out of that right now.
40:48Can you?
40:49I'm not going to be an antidepressant.
40:51Are you on medication for that?
40:53Yeah.
40:54Yeah?
40:55Is it helping?
40:56I'm drinking, it doesn't help so much.
40:58Right, OK.
41:00What antidepressants are you on?
41:02Citalopram.
41:03Citalopram?
41:04Yeah.
41:05Did you have sertraline as well?
41:07No, I've never had that.
41:08OK.
41:09I've never heard of that.
41:10It's a good one.
41:10I was on that for a little while.
41:12Really?
41:12I was, yeah.
41:14I had to take antidepressants at one point,
41:16because I got myself into a rut as well.
41:21Control from 2-4.
41:22Go ahead.
41:23Got an ETA for the ambulance, please.
41:25Yeah, unfortunately, no ETA.
41:27The mental health car is going on.
41:29Other calls, no words like ASAP.
41:31That was a last update about eight minutes ago.
41:34Yeah, that's all received.
41:38Officers are told it could take several hours
41:40before an ambulance will attend to Georgina.
41:43Is there anyone we can call to come over?
41:48Yeah, David.
41:50You've got his number.
41:50I'll speak to him.
41:52Yeah, thank you, darling.
41:53That's all right.
41:55Hello, it's a police officer here.
41:57I'm just with your friend, Georgina.
42:00She's called us, basically, she's feeling suicidal.
42:03We were just wondering, I was asking if there's anyone that could come and sit with her before the ambulance get here.
42:11I actually suggested you.
42:15This has taken up an hour and a half, maybe, of our time now.
42:20David's here.
42:29Georgina, I wish you all the best.
42:32Yeah, all the best, Georgina.
42:33It was lovely to meet you.
42:34I'm going to bring it in.
42:37I'm going to give you a hug.
42:39Oh.
42:39There you go.
42:40Oh.
42:40So many calls like this, where it's someone that's suicidal, and I, we're not really trained to deal with it or equipped to deal with it.
42:53We'll be on the plot in 25 minutes.
43:15Are you ready?
43:16Let's get briefed.
43:17Let's go.
43:18Paul's manhunt team have had a breakthrough in their hunt for a serial sex attacker.
43:24Transport for London have provided information about the suspect seen entering the tube station.
43:31Oyster card inquiries have come back.
43:34This is the male that I think is responsible for the assaults.
43:37Mohamed Yahya Aloush.
43:41I've got cell site data for his phone for the last two months.
43:44This is the premises that I believe he's staying at.
43:47We don't want to go in there because what they have is a series of ladders here from the drone footage,
43:51and they can escape through there in about six different ways.
43:54We just can't cover it.
43:57The team intends to catch Aloush by surprise and head to a property they believe he is staying in.
44:03The sensible, safe, effective route is to take him on the street, follow him off,
44:12get him a distance away that he couldn't shout out for help,
44:16and calmly get him in cuffs.
44:19Just get him in cuffs.
44:20Right, we're right on top of where he should be.
44:25So that's the address there, up there, above the shop.
44:35That is the door.
44:36That's the door we're looking at.
44:37Lights on. Lights on. Just come on.
44:50Right height. Slim.
44:57One more. One more. One more towards.
45:00You take the follow. He's just come out.
45:01Yeah, active, active. Out the door.
45:07Grey rucksack, blue jeans.
45:08To the left, left, left.
45:22That's our man.
45:24Grab him. Grab him. Grab him.
45:25Grab him. Go.
45:29Right, police. Police. Stay there. Stay there.
45:31OK.
45:33So you're under arrest for sexual assault of females.
45:41The team now needs to search Alush's flat to see if there is evidence that links him to the sexual assaults.
45:50Hello, police.
45:51Hello, police.
45:57Black hoodie.
45:59I'll take that for a start.
46:00T-shirt.
46:01T-shirt.
46:01It's got that, and it's got that.
46:03Yeah.
46:04I'm going to check it.
46:05Oh, yeah, that's right.
46:07That's it.
46:07That's it.
46:08That's it.
46:08Great find.
46:09This result.
46:11A really good find.
46:13A top that matches what the offender was seen, having running away from one of the other offenses, and the trainers that match all of it he's wearing today.
46:22It's good. It's good. It's good. I'm happy.
46:23It's good.
46:25It's good.
46:29In custody, detectives challenge Alush with the footage before and after the assaults.
46:35Your solicitor, she's not with us. You're happy to proceed.
46:39OK.
46:41I want to show you some CCTV. Is that you?
46:49What was the female screaming about?
46:59After three weeks trying to track him using CCTV
47:03and items found in his flat,
47:05the police have enough evidence to charge a luge.
47:10So, you're going to be charged with four offences.
47:13The first three charges will be a sexual assault on a female.
47:17The fourth offence you're being charged with is robbery.
47:24We start with your right hand, please four fingers down.
47:28The effects on the victim range hugely,
47:31but a lot of the one I've spoken to
47:34will never ever feel truly safe again,
47:37especially not walking down the street.
47:40I think to a lot of people that we target,
47:42in fact, all the people we target really,
47:44they don't see women as human.
47:46I don't think they see it.
47:59Can everyone online hear me?
48:00Yeah.
48:01OK, let's make a start then.
48:02Some amazing progress overnight.
48:04We've got quite a lot of updates to give you.
48:07It's day three of the investigation into the murder of Shane Jerome
48:11and detectives have made an important breakthrough.
48:15So, I think if we start with Aaron first.
48:18The fingerprint laboratory got an eye dent on the palm print
48:22that was lifted from the Lamborghini late yesterday.
48:25As Greg pointed out on the CCTV, as the Lamborghini pulls away,
48:29he stumbles backwards, quite clearly puts his hand down behind him
48:33onto the Lamborghini.
48:34That has identified a lad called Brandon Aldon McNeil.
48:39This is his custody image of a photo from a previous arrest.
48:43Brandon McNeil, this previous conviction for drugs, threats to kill,
48:47off-wet AVH, possession of an imitation firearm,
48:50correct gang affiliations.
48:52His most recent intelligence was on the 10th of this month.
48:56It was an incident where he was carrying a machete.
49:00So, based on the fingerprint eye dent,
49:03Brandon McNeil is our stabber.
49:05We need to get him in custody.
49:08Intelligence checks confirm that the suspect
49:11who left the handprint on the car
49:13is a member of a violent gang in Brixton.
49:16Brandon is wrapped around knife crime, gang crime, violence.
49:20There is clear evidence for murder
49:24in relation to our victim, Shane Jerome.
49:28Without doubt, he is a dangerous person
49:30and clearly he's someone that we need to take off the streets.
49:36Trying to find out where he's been staying.
49:38There is two postcodes that regularly show up pre-murder.
49:45Got a number for him and we can hopefully try and
49:47cell-site him to an address.
49:49Yes.
49:54Yeah, we're off.
49:55Going to Lola's treatment.
49:57Briefing up the TSD.
50:04Using data obtained from the suspect's mobile phone,
50:07detectives identify an address in a block of flats
50:10in Kennington, South London,
50:12where they believe he could be hiding.
50:14How's those?
50:15Yeah.
50:19That's why there's a court.
50:20That's why I don't know.
50:21You so...
50:22I don't know.
50:23What are you doing here?
50:24We are at work-
50:25Police with taser, come to the door now!
50:29Police with taser, come to the door now!
50:34Brandon, come to the door now!
50:37Female, come out, come out now.
50:39That's it, keep your eyes going to see them.
50:41Female, come to the door.
50:43Brandon, you're under arrest for the murder of Shane Jerome
50:46on the 21st of July this year on Bruxton High Street.
50:51Keep showing your hands, okay, and listen to me as I speak.
50:55Listen, come closer to me slowly.
50:59Put your hands on your head.
51:00Keep walking slowly towards me.
51:09You do not have to say anything, but it may not be offensive.
51:11You do not mention one question, something which relates around in court.
51:14Anything you do say may be given an evidence.
51:21Take him down.
51:2518-year-old McNeil is interviewed and confronted with the images of the scene of the killing.
51:39This is of a bust.
51:41This actually shows the stabbing.
51:45Is that you, Brandon?
51:46Mm-hmm.
51:47What do you think of that footage?
51:48Mm-hmm.
51:49Because when I watch this footage, I find it quite shocking.
51:52You know, there's daylight, someone's just plunged a knife into someone.
51:57What do you think?
51:59And where you swing and try to stab someone on the quad bite as well.
52:04That's why you're here for attempted murder as well.
52:07Do you own a knife like that?
52:12Mm-hmm.
52:13Do you carry knives like that?
52:14Mm-hmm.
52:15With Brandon McNeil in custody, officers search his home address for further evidence to link
52:23him to Shane's murder.
52:24Hello, mate.
52:25Hello, mate.
52:26I think we've got some key bits for our main man.
52:29We've got tracksuit bottoms.
52:31They're quite distinctive because they've got, like, a white stripe up the leg.
52:35We found several exhibits that we're interested in, in this bedroom.
52:45There's a samurai sword on there.
52:47Back in the living room, there's hunting knives.
52:52Seen to crimes officers.
52:55They're going to be testing that.
52:57They've got this very large sort of machete combat knife.
53:05Why you're even allowed to attain something like this, I don't know.
53:14Shane Jerome, does that mean anything to you?
53:17Mm-hmm.
53:18Did you have some problem with Mr Jerome?
53:21Mm-hmm.
53:23I'm just trying to get it into my head why someone would run up to someone and stab them
53:29through the heart.
53:30Mm-hmm.
53:31He's got to speak to the sergeant now.
53:35Okay.
53:36Crown Prosecution Service made a decision to charge you.
53:39The first one is murder victim, one that shamed Jerome.
53:43Second charge is attempt murder.
53:45Third and final charge for your impression of a person's weapon in a private place.
53:48You told me for a murder by 100 miles.
53:49You don't have to say anything now, but it may harm your defence.
53:51You don't mention when questioned.
53:52Something you lay to a line in court.
53:54Anything you do say may be given as evidence.
53:57I don't think Brandon McNeil will ever tell anyone why he picked specifically Shane out of
54:01the crowd.
54:02You know, it's clear that he was hell-bent on causing some serious harm.
54:11But for why, I don't think we'll ever really know.
54:28I can only assume that it is some loss of face that the gang believe they have to exert
54:36an authority and teach people a lesson.
54:40It's just extreme violence for no reason at all.
54:48It has devastated Shane's family.
54:51It's all really very sad.
54:57So, this is Shane's bedroom and how he left it.
55:04And I just can't bring myself to touch and move his stuff.
55:09I can't open the curtains because he shut them that night because he come and get changed
55:14and the towel's still on the radiator.
55:18I've left it.
55:23I don't accept it.
55:25It's reality but I don't want to accept it.
55:27Shane was the most loving person that he could come across.
55:34Always help everyone out when people needed their help.
55:39I've left it.
55:39I've left it.
55:40Probably about two weeks previous to what happened to him.
55:42I managed to tell him how proud I was.
55:46Only in a text.
55:47I got a message back.
55:50So, we knew and I can only hope that he felt the same way.
55:56I've left it the same way.
55:58I've left it the same way.
56:01I've left it the same way.
56:04I've left it the same way.
57:01We've been investigating a series of violent, aggravated burglaries.
57:16There we go.
57:17There's in the region of 450 offences.
57:20Push up now, push up. Let's go.
57:22Quick, quick, quick. We're going to have to be quick.
57:25Go, mate. Go.
57:27Go, stop, stop.
57:30Stop! Police!
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57:45and following the links to The Open University.
57:48The Open University.
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