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Law & Order UK Season 6 Episode 4 Trial

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00:00Prosecutors who prosecute the offenders, these are their stories.
00:30What are you saying, Santa?
00:32What are you saying, Santa?
00:34This is like the oldest post, man, I've ever seen.
00:38What are you saying, Paz?
00:40There's anything in there for me, though.
00:42My name's Creeps. There's anything in there for me.
00:44Why are you standing with me, fam?
00:46Keep walking, bro.
00:48You're looking for a cunt, isn't it?
00:50Yeah, I don't know.
00:52Yeah, I don't know.
00:54Come for that, bluddy.
00:56Sorry.
00:58Oi!
01:00Oi!
01:02Leave it all over!
01:04That's the fence!
01:06Give it back to me!
01:08I want it back!
01:10It's not yours!
01:12Give it back to me!
01:14Give it back to me!
01:16I know you!
01:18I know where you live!
01:20It's not yours!
01:22I'm sick and tired of this!
01:24I said give it back to me!
01:26I'm sick and tired of this!
01:28Let's get ready!
01:30Let's go!
01:32Let's go!
01:34Come on!
01:36You're coming, pal!
01:38Come on, you're coming!
01:40Come on!
01:42Come on!
01:44Come on, come on!
01:46Come on, come on!
01:48You're coming, pal!
01:50Come on!
01:52A lead bomb blew up in his face.
01:58Making or receiving?
02:00On the receiving end.
02:02He never knew what happened.
02:07You all right?
02:09Yeah.
02:10Good.
02:12Right, what do we know?
02:14Other than the fact that he likes to read books?
02:16Jonathan Mormon, 62, lived along.
02:19Good neighbor, well liked.
02:21Routinely picked up groceries for number six.
02:24He even looked after the kids patting number 11 when they went on holiday.
02:27Okay, and?
02:29He worked for Cleansville office cleaners.
02:31Pastelots were on the floor and still wearing his overalls.
02:36All right, so what do we think?
02:38He's just come home from work.
02:41Got to open the post and...
02:44Hey, what do they use? Plutonium?
02:49Dad!
02:51I've got to!
02:53Dad!
02:54I've got to...
02:54Yes, Sam, Casey, can I help?
02:56I want to see my father.
02:57They said there'd been an accident.
02:59You need to go downstairs.
03:00I want to see him.
03:01I understand that, but you need to be downstairs.
03:07I'm very sorry.
03:11Dad.
03:11No, no, no, please.
03:13What's your name?
03:15Sarah.
03:15Sarah.
03:16Sarah, this office is going to look after you, okay?
03:19Now go downstairs, please.
03:21All right, Sarah.
03:22Go.
03:23Now.
03:23Come on.
03:23Let's get away from here.
03:24What words, Sam?
03:31Anti-terrorism.
03:32Yep.
03:34Well, the list of possible suspects from Al-Qaeda to bonkers bloke with a grudge.
03:38You think this is just a stop?
03:43Brace yourself.
04:14The bomb was made out of a standard padded envelope.
04:43Which you can buy on any high street.
04:46Explosive in the main section.
04:49Detonator.
04:50Magnesium powder in the outer layer.
04:52Opening the envelope at night.
04:54The magnesium which set up the explosive.
04:56Simple mechanism.
04:58Percussion cap.
04:59And this.
05:01Firing pin from what looks like a .22 caliber rifle.
05:05Hard to tell.
05:06It's pretty bent up.
05:07And what went back?
05:10Fulminated mercury.
05:11Lethal stuff if you know how to get hold of it.
05:16Can't you just crack open a cup of thermometers?
05:20Not waste days.
05:21Mercury's banned in thermometers.
05:23Oh, I didn't know that.
05:25Also, no saliva.
05:27Nothing.
05:29Stamps and envelope both self-adhesive.
05:33No DNA.
05:34What about prints?
05:35Latex gloves.
05:36The address was stenciled in ballpoint.
05:40Written on a separate piece of paper with no indentation.
05:43What, they rested on glass or?
05:45Something similar.
05:47So bonkers bloke or Al-Qaeda.
05:49It was also this.
05:51What is that?
05:572020G?
05:59What's that postcode?
06:01Oh, I think that's a Z.
06:03That says Zog.
06:07Zionist occupation government.
06:10Sammy, we've got ourselves a hate crime.
06:12Here we are.
06:16Reclaim the United Kingdom.
06:19Smash Zog.
06:21A collective name for the spineless traitors
06:24who control the white nations of the world.
06:28Governments, the media, and the police.
06:30That's us, Sammy boy.
06:33Half-wit delusional fascists.
06:35That's the type we're looking for.
06:39Why Waldman?
06:40What'd he done wrong?
06:41I mean, apart from being Jewish.
06:43We've come a long way, haven't we?
06:45Waldman was well-liked.
06:47Chairman of the Residence Association.
06:50Pretty much all-round model citizen.
06:53Talk to the daughter.
06:54He pissed someone off.
06:55She might know who.
06:57It doesn't make sense.
06:59Dad didn't have a political bone in his body.
07:03No arguments or fights at all?
07:05Trouble with local kids, skinheads, BNP, that sort of thing.
07:09You never said anything.
07:12And you were close, yeah?
07:14Very.
07:15Especially after Mum died.
07:18Just the two of us, he used to say,
07:21contra-mundum.
07:24Against the world.
07:25I don't know what I'm going to do.
07:31What about donations?
07:34Uh, political, religious groups?
07:36Extremism made him despair.
07:38Said it'd do for all of us in the end.
07:40Thank you very much.
07:48Ronnie, let's go.
07:49What have you got?
07:50His boss at Cleansfield said Waldman was conscientious, reliable, you name it.
07:54He even took a pay cut when he started.
07:56And?
07:57Well, before that, he worked at Thameside University.
08:01Yeah, and?
08:02He worked in the science lab.
08:04They had him cleaning out the rat cages.
08:06He didn't like it.
08:07So he quit.
08:08What, that's it?
08:09Well, there's one tiny little thing.
08:12Yes, come on.
08:13He had a massive barn in with a geezer called Tony Wright.
08:16Uh-huh.
08:17Who apparently doesn't like Jewish people.
08:19Right.
08:20Hallelujah.
08:21At last.
08:22Loves a conspiracy, does Tony?
08:24The recession, shark attacks in the Red Sea, stopping his toe, all of it's a Mossad plot.
08:30He tried getting Waldman fired, end up being the one getting the boot.
08:35We had an argument, that's all.
08:43Bit more than that, though, wasn't it?
08:45What's going on?
08:46Aye, answer the question.
08:48You wanted him sacked.
08:50Didn't quite work out the way you planned, eh?
08:52Why are you here?
08:56Well, your boss told us what happened.
08:58He also told you he's married to one of the tribe.
09:02What's the matter?
09:03Black shirt in the wash, is it?
09:05Must have done you already.
09:06You know, losing your job like that.
09:10Maybe a spot of revenge.
09:11Is that what this is about?
09:13How stupid do you think I am?
09:15If something happens to a wall, of course, you knock on my door.
09:21What?
09:23Is something out of us?
09:25You really think he didn't know?
09:27His reaction certainly had the whiff of authenticity.
09:30I think he's just a really good actor.
09:32No, I don't know.
09:33I don't think he's out of uni by myself.
09:35Well, if it's not the lone anti-semite, we've got no one in the frame.
09:39All right, let's come at it another way, shall we?
09:41And whoever did this certainly wasn't stupid.
09:44This was no firework through a letterbox job, was it?
09:47It was quite elaborate.
09:48So who had the mouse to put together a bit of magnesium, mercury,
09:54and a 22-caliber fireman pit?
09:59Signatures, Sammy.
10:02They've all got signatures.
10:05OK, no two bomb makers make bombs the same way.
10:09OK, so, percussion cap, firing pin, magnesium, mercury fulminate.
10:15There's no record of anything like this in recent years,
10:18but that's hardly surprising.
10:20Why is that?
10:22The sale of mercury so restricted and expensive.
10:26The anti-terrorist squad records have anything?
10:29I had to go way back, but I found him.
10:33Mercury, magnesium, the lot.
10:35Cal Donnelly did a 12-year stretch for a spate of letter bombs in 1972.
10:43Sure, you can make a bomb out of it,
10:46but you better know what you're doing.
10:49Mercury's dirty stuff.
10:51Well, you're the expert.
10:54It's what put me in this thing.
10:57I'm dying from mercury poisoning.
10:59Can you believe it?
11:00Well, maybe you should have just put letters in those envelopes.
11:04I did my time, son.
11:06And when I got out, I got a job
11:08in an electrical waste recycling plant.
11:13The old TVs and tube lights contain mercury.
11:18Know that?
11:18It wasn't making the bombs that killed me.
11:24It was going straight.
11:28Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?
11:32Yeah, well, someone's out there making mercury bombs again.
11:36Got any ideas who?
11:39Someone you may have passed all that knowledge onto.
11:42Sword of legacy.
11:43You think I've got an apprentice?
11:47It's a bit late.
11:54Direct action cookbook.
11:58They took everything I did,
12:00turned it into a how-to manual.
12:03Who did?
12:05Storm of Steel.
12:06Storm of Steel.
12:06Yeah.
12:16It's one of our best sellers.
12:17Bit like the Da Vinci Code with fewer laughs, eh?
12:22You think we're funny?
12:24What, honestly?
12:25I wish I did.
12:28You know we're out there.
12:31On the streets.
12:33In the pubs.
12:35Biding our time.
12:40And when it comes, and it will come,
12:43we're going to rise up all over the world.
12:47Whole armies.
12:51Just waiting.
12:52Why are you doing that?
12:54You going to give us some names?
12:56No, I don't think so.
12:59Right, well, let's make it easier, then.
13:01Just see names of the people who ordered this book.
13:03Oh, your whole life, somebody's lackey.
13:08And which makes you what?
13:11His lap dog?
13:13Or his bitch?
13:15Why don't we find out?
13:16Here's what's going to happen.
13:25I'm going to get a production order under Section 5 of the Terrorism Act.
13:31Because that is what I do.
13:33You refuse, because you're a chippy little sod.
13:36Then I'm going to arrest you, because nothing would give me greater pleasure.
13:40If I can do it, because then I get to show the world the true face of oppression.
13:46Oh, and you think the world's actually watching, but anyone actually cares?
13:51Meanwhile, we'll still get a list, and we will let everyone know how helpful you are.
13:56Absolutely.
13:57Absolutely.
13:59And then we'll see how many of your army will take the time to look in here,
14:04and maybe send you a letter of complaint.
14:10What do you think?
14:31Now, that wasn't too hard, was it?
14:35Come on.
14:37Laugh now.
14:39But get ready.
14:41We're coming.
14:44We'll rig in advance, but we'll bang the Kedler.
14:50To look at names, they all suspect.
14:53Yeah.
14:54I suppose so.
14:56So now, all you've got to do is narrow it down to one with means, motive, and opportunity.
15:02Oh, well, when you put it like that, yeah.
15:04Ronnie.
15:05Yeah.
15:07Warman quit Thameside University a month ago, right?
15:10Yeah, didn't like the rats.
15:12Someone at Thameside ordered the cookbook two weeks ago.
15:15Who?
15:22Jonathan Waldman.
15:29Posts who do send any package for Waldman here, you'll have to ask them.
15:32Do you know if he had any enemies, maybe someone wanted to hurt him, do you know?
15:38No.
15:41What?
15:41There was an anonymous tip-off.
15:45No one proved anything, but Waldman was accused of stealing pills from the psychiatry department.
15:53Tranquilizers.
15:54He didn't believe it?
15:55Nine years without a blemish.
15:58Suddenly, he's drowning pills.
16:01But they wanted to make an example.
16:04I told him to fight.
16:06He didn't want to.
16:09Said someone was out to get him.
16:12And what do you think?
16:12I told him he was imagining it.
16:17Right.
16:18How about this?
16:19Someone's stealing the pills.
16:21Waldman catches her.
16:23A pill nicker pays Waldman off, which is the money he uses for serial tuition fees.
16:28That's a bit of a stretch.
16:30Waldman is a black man.
16:31Well, something's made him believe he really thinks it's the rats.
16:33All right.
16:36So, when Waldman comes under suspicion, he keeps the thumb, takes the fall, only now he says it's going to cost a bit more money.
16:43Yeah.
16:43That really pisses our guy off.
16:46Next thing.
16:47Boom.
16:51Post that comes in for staff who've left gets put in that bin before being forwarded.
16:57Is it dealt with immediately?
16:59My target is within 24 hours.
17:00I have targets, too. Doesn't mean a sale when it's hit them.
17:06A week, maybe longer.
17:08Who has access?
17:10Anyone, I suppose.
17:12How many people work here?
17:14Over 50. Staff and student volunteers.
17:17Right. We'll need a list of those names, please.
17:21In the office.
17:29So, old man.
17:30Or does the booking woman's name, because he knows it's going to hang around in that forwarding bin.
17:35Be pretty much forgotten about.
17:37Yeah.
17:37Comes in when no one's looking.
17:39Stuffs it up his jumper.
17:41Has it on his toes.
17:42No one's any the wiser.
17:43Total anonymity.
17:44Better than the post office box.
17:46Yeah.
17:46Clever.
17:4853.
17:50That's great.
17:51Thank you very much.
17:5253.
17:5253.
17:53Oh, another day, another printout, and it's not 53.
18:02Which ones do you think also know how to fulminate mercury?
18:06The ones doing chemistry.
18:15Yes, I work in the post room, and yes, I'm reading chemistry.
18:19This I do to pay off my loan.
18:22Every little bit helps.
18:25I'm afraid I don't know this, Mr.
18:28Warmer.
18:29Sorry.
18:31But I'll help you in any way I can.
18:33Okay, well, how hard is it to fulminate mercury?
18:37It's not.
18:38You just need to mix mercury with concentrated nitric acid and add the resulting aqueous mercury
18:44nitrate to ethanol.
18:46Yeah?
18:47Yeah.
18:48Except it's violently exothermic and gives off clouds of white smoke.
18:55I used to be like that on a certain night.
18:57So someone would know.
18:59I mean, all that smoke must be a bit of a giveaway.
19:03If you didn't have a proper ventilated cabinet, like a fume hood, you'd have to do it outside,
19:08I suppose.
19:09What if you did it at night with a window open?
19:12That would take care of the smoke.
19:13I wouldn't do anything about the smell.
19:15It's pretty gross.
19:17Someone would know.
19:18Great.
19:19Thanks for your help.
19:21It's probably nothing, but you might want to speak to another student.
19:25I went out with him a couple of times.
19:27He was interested in mercury and asked a lot of questions.
19:30He said it was for an essay he was writing, but that didn't make much sense.
19:35Why not?
19:36He's reading history.
19:37And he works in the postroom every Thursday.
19:40Right.
19:40And what's his name?
19:42Simon Wells.
19:43Well, what I would have given to have spent three years just studying knowledge for knowledge's sake, Sam,
19:49it's a wonderful thing.
19:50You're talking about, you know, loads of stuff.
19:52Yeah, that's because I'm an autodidact.
19:54The doctors have got it under control, though, right?
19:57Here we go.
20:00Simon.
20:02Simon.
20:05Simon.
20:06Simon.
20:08Simon.
20:11Simon Wells.
20:15Here's Simon.
20:18DS Brooks.
20:19This is DS Casey.
20:20Do you mind answering a few questions for us, please?
20:23If you like.
20:25What's it about?
20:26Well, we've been talking to Miss Ngama, and she says you've got an interest in mercury.
20:31Why are you doing history?
20:33I'm writing an essay on the corporate response to environmental disasters over the last 50 years,
20:40put into a political and economic context.
20:42Okay.
20:44What's that got to do with mercury?
20:46I'm including the mercury spill in the Japanese village of Minamata between 1932 and 68.
20:53I was hoping Haya would help me translate some of the source material, as well as help me with the chemical stuff.
21:02Sort of a one-stop shop.
21:05Do you know Jonathan Waldman?
21:08Should I?
21:09He works in the psychiatry department as a cleaner.
21:13No.
21:13I mean, I'm history, not...
21:18Psychiatry.
21:19Sorry.
21:22Would you excuse me?
21:23I've got another lecture.
21:24Well, he's got an answer for everything.
21:35Yeah, like he's worked it all up beforehand.
21:39Which usually means he has.
21:42Well, why would he do that?
21:49I've got the room next to his.
21:50I don't know him well, but...
21:54Weirdo.
21:57Bloody thing.
21:59Hasn't worked for weeks.
22:01Yeah, I think they've just turned the heating off.
22:03Our tuition fees are now bloody Siberia.
22:08I love being a student.
22:10Simon Wells.
22:12You said weird.
22:13Why's that?
22:14Attention seeker.
22:15The sort of person who's all quiet and unassuming
22:18and does stuff designed to make everyone notice them.
22:22What sort of stuff?
22:23I don't know.
22:24Um, like his soup.
22:28His soup?
22:29Yeah, the other week, three in the morning,
22:32he stunk the corridor out,
22:34said he was hating soup and forgot all about it.
22:37Truthfully, he loved being the centre of attention.
22:41What about girlfriend?
22:43I don't think girls are his thing.
22:45But there is someone.
22:47What, boyfriend?
22:48All I know is Simon goes to the psychiatry department every night.
22:53Says he's helping them out, but...
22:55You never know.
22:58Do you?
23:00Simon answered a card I put up in the union.
23:04Generate a lot of data which needs collating.
23:07And he comes in every night.
23:09I'm carrying out research into various psychotropic drugs.
23:13As you can see, we've got a lot of rats.
23:15Did Simon know Jonathan Warman?
23:17I have no idea.
23:19It's possible.
23:21Do you think he's capable of killing someone?
23:24Given the right circumstances.
23:25Given the right circumstances, but then, given the right circumstances, sir, we're all officer.
23:36I told you.
23:38Never seen it before.
23:39Simon, you know that you're under caution, don't you?
23:43Yes.
23:44Do you understand you're not under arrest and you can leave here at any time?
23:48I'm here voluntarily.
23:49I get it.
23:50Please also get that there is a team of officers turning your room inside out.
23:55So, you need to be ahead of this before they find something.
24:01I'm a history student.
24:04I read books.
24:06I don't make bombs.
24:07Hello, mate.
24:10No.
24:11Nothing.
24:12There's no physical evidence system.
24:15Nish.
24:16There's no traces of mercury vapor on the walls.
24:19There's nothing hidden on his computer.
24:21Right.
24:22Okay.
24:24Thanks, Sam.
24:25Come here.
24:42Come here.
24:50Come here.
24:51Come here.
24:55You've got a screwdriver.
25:07So, Walden catches you sealing the tranquilizer.
25:11That's ridiculous.
25:12Only his silence comes at a price you don't like being blackmailed.
25:16If you think I did this, arrest me.
25:19Fingerprint me.
25:20Take my DNA.
25:21So, I think you're very careful.
25:23What were the gloves, the glass?
25:24I mean, you know there are no traces.
25:26So, I'm guilty because you haven't any evidence?
25:29No, I'm...
25:31Simon, this is Detective Inspector Chandler.
25:38Tell us about the thermostat, Simon.
25:47What?
25:51We know that's where you got the mercury.
25:54And when they finish dusting the casing for Prince, who do you think they'll find?
26:03It's over, son.
26:12It's true.
26:13It's over, son.
26:13It's over, son.
26:14It's over, son.
26:15It's over.
26:16I did it.
26:19All of it.
26:23Stole the drugs.
26:24Made sure Walkman got the blame so he'd get fired.
26:27Only it wasn't enough.
26:30I had to do more.
26:32They altered the book.
26:35Made the bomb.
26:36They killed him.
26:40Bill, why did you do that?
26:46He'd worked out how to do it.
26:49To do what?
26:53Enter my dreams.
26:54Mess with the architecture.
27:04Steal my secrets.
27:07You put thoughts into my head.
27:18Bad.
27:19Bad things.
27:22Not guilty, of course.
27:25Due to mental illness?
27:26How did I guess?
27:27He hears voices, Jake.
27:29He also confessed.
27:31To Waldman entering his dreams and stealing his thoughts.
27:34How do you think that'll play?
27:36This was planned and executed in cold blood.
27:39He wasn't responsible for his actions.
27:41He didn't know what he was doing.
27:42Oh, he knew enough to plan it for weeks,
27:45cover his tracks and make it look like a hate crime.
27:47You can't make this stick, Rachel.
27:48There's no motive.
27:50It's a bonkers crime.
27:51Why else would he do it?
27:52Waldman caught him.
27:53He was stealing tranquilizers.
27:55He's a schizophrenic.
27:57Says who?
27:59His doctor, Martin Middlebrook.
28:08Look, I understand your frustration,
28:10but I couldn't tell the police.
28:12It's patient confidentiality.
28:14How long has he been your patient?
28:17Simon came to us having started showing signs of schizophrenia,
28:22paranoid delusions, hearing voices.
28:26When was this?
28:27Six months ago.
28:29I got him on a trial I'm conducting for a new drug.
28:33It's a double-blind trial,
28:34which means that neither the patient nor the clinician...
28:37He knows if they're taking the drug or a placebo, I know.
28:40That's right.
28:40After four months, she showed no symptoms at all.
28:46I broke his double-blind code last night.
28:49He's been taking T489.
28:52It's been a remarkable success.
28:54So when he claims he's hearing voices
28:56and there are people in his dreams,
28:58that's all made up?
28:59Whatever made Simon do what he did,
29:01it's not because of his illness.
29:02Well, I just saw Rachel Matheson.
29:12She gave me this.
29:13I bet she was rattled.
29:15Middleborough blew her mental illness defence out of the water.
29:19What do you think?
29:19In and out in ten?
29:20This is an application to have my client's confession
29:31excluded under Section 78 of PACE.
29:35Prior to arrest,
29:37my client voluntarily agreed to come into questioning,
29:40but was merely told he was under caution,
29:43not what it meant,
29:45or that he was entitled to free legal advice.
29:47He received legal advice, my lord.
29:49Only after he confessed,
29:51which was when he was arrested and cautioned properly.
29:54Is this true, Mr. Thorne,
29:56that up to his actual arrest,
29:57this man's rights were not made clear?
30:00He was informed that he was under caution,
30:03but not what it meant.
30:05In the light of this abuse of process, my lord,
30:09I ask that all significant comments made by my client
30:13be thrown out.
30:14I'm forced to agree.
30:15In addition, since my client's alleged confession
30:19is inadmissible,
30:21and the evidence that makes up the rest of the prosecution
30:24is circumstantial,
30:25I ask that all charges against my client be dropped.
30:30My lord, if we're going to talk about abuse of process...
30:33The Crown have no case.
30:36We have the mercury missing from the thermostat
30:39outside Simon Wells' room,
30:42and his fingerprints are all over the casing.
30:44Along with just about everyone else on that corridor.
30:51Sorry, Mr. Thorne.
30:53He walked?
31:05This morning.
31:09Right, thanks.
31:10For God's sake, it was a routine caution plus three run,
31:13and a one-time you...
31:15Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
31:17Come on.
31:19So we didn't spell everything out.
31:20I mean, none of us were expecting a confession.
31:23Well, I certainly didn't anticipate it.
31:25Haven't you got a meal for one waiting for you to heat up?
31:37I don't heat them up, gov.
31:38I just suck them frozen.
31:41Did you know that Simon Wells' dad
31:43is the registered owner of a .22 calibre rifle?
31:49Like the firing pin in the bowl.
31:51Like the firing pin.
31:52Tell Jake and Alicia in the morning,
31:54and now go home, Ron.
31:59Nice catch.
32:00Yes, I own a rifle.
32:11It's fully registered.
32:13I use it for shooting rabbits, that sort of thing.
32:17As Simon and I used to go out into the woods
32:19when he was younger.
32:21Just us, he used to enjoy that.
32:25May I see it?
32:26Mr. Wells?
32:31Right.
32:33It went missing.
32:35When?
32:37About six weeks ago.
32:42You didn't report any loss?
32:48When was Simon last here?
32:50Not for some time.
32:52Yeah, when?
32:53I don't see what...
32:54This isn't helping.
33:01About six weeks ago.
33:05I see.
33:07There's more.
33:09Simon was staying with us.
33:12and I came down one morning
33:15and he was in the corner there,
33:20naked and crying
33:22and saying that the voices had come back.
33:26Did you call his doctor?
33:28Middlebrook?
33:29Waste of time.
33:31He said it was a panic attack.
33:33Nothing to worry about.
33:34But it wasn't.
33:35But it wasn't.
33:35I saw him.
33:38The drugs aren't working
33:40and no one seems to care.
33:45You still can't make it stick.
33:47Why not?
33:48The firing pin matches the dad's gun.
33:51Can't prove Simon took it.
33:52No, but it went missing
33:55at the time that Simon was there.
33:58I don't care how much
33:59Rachel Matheson argues
34:00diminish responsibility.
34:02He showed intent weeks before.
34:05Is it in the interest of justice to proceed?
34:07Do we have a realistic prospect of conviction?
34:10And did you just do a pair of rabbit ears?
34:14No, no and yes.
34:15Don't do it again.
34:17So that's it.
34:19Simon Wells blows up Jonathan Waldman
34:22and we just let him go.
34:25What else can we do?
34:27Have him committed.
34:30Simon Wells is a sick man.
34:32He's a danger to himself and others.
34:34At least this way we get him off the streets.
34:36It's not our job to act like...
34:38He needs help.
34:40Who else is going to see that he gets it?
34:42This morning you wanted to lock him up.
34:44And this afternoon I met his parents.
34:48Look, it might not be justice,
34:50but it's something.
34:52It won't happen.
34:54Middlebrook will swear he's fine
34:55as long as he takes his meds.
34:57That's not what his parents say
34:59and neither would Sarah Waldman.
35:01Talk to his parents.
35:03If this is what they want,
35:04they'll have to be a tribunal.
35:06My name is Martin Middlebrook,
35:09MBBS, MSC, MA, PhD, FRCP, MRC Psych.
35:16Currently I'm professor of psychiatry
35:18at Thameside University.
35:21Before that I was three years
35:22in the Bethlehem and Maudsley Hospital
35:24as senior lecturer,
35:26an honorary consultant psychiatrist.
35:29I was also two years
35:30at the Kronfeld
35:32for Schumsen-Statt for Psychiatry.
35:34I beg your pardon?
35:37I'm sorry.
35:38The Kronfeld Institute
35:40for Psychiatric Research in Munich.
35:47Simon Wells was a patient in your care.
35:50Is that right?
35:51He was part of a trial
35:52I was conducting
35:53into a new drug,
35:55T489.
35:57To alleviate the symptoms
35:59of schizophrenia?
36:00That's right.
36:01And how did Simon respond?
36:04Well, it had a remarkable effect.
36:06Within a very short period of time,
36:07he was asymptomatic.
36:09In your expert opinion, doctor,
36:13based on your extensive knowledge,
36:15my client,
36:16do you think
36:18that he poses a threat
36:20to himself or anyone else?
36:22Provided he continues
36:24taking his medication,
36:25there's no reason why he should.
36:28That's not what two equally expert
36:34psychiatrists have said.
36:36They were with him
36:37for a total of an hour and a half,
36:39interviewing him in turn
36:41like some sort of tag team.
36:42I'm not sure how much weight
36:44we should attach to their findings.
36:47His parents found him crying,
36:50naked,
36:50hearing the voices all over again.
36:52How much weight
36:53should we attach to them?
36:54In my experience,
36:56seeing a loved one in distress
36:58affects our perception
37:00of what's happening.
37:01You're saying they're exaggerating?
37:03I'm saying they're parents,
37:05not doctors.
37:06So despite the evidence
37:08given by two expert witnesses,
37:10the first-hand experience
37:11of Mr. and Mrs. Wells,
37:13you're right,
37:13and they're all wrong?
37:15Yes.
37:15It's not possible
37:16you could be mistaken?
37:18The letters after my name
37:19aren't there by accident.
37:21It's not likely.
37:24A few letters after his name
37:25and suddenly he's infallible.
37:28Honestly, I don't get it.
37:30We're the only ones
37:30who didn't buy it.
37:31The judge certainly did.
37:33And Simon Wells goes for me
37:35because Middlebrook says so.
37:36Brilliant.
37:37Why would Middlebrook
37:38put himself on the line like that?
37:40Especially since he didn't
37:42even carry out the evaluations
37:43his research assistant did.
37:45So what were the scores
37:46on the doors the day
37:47after his panic attack?
37:48Perfect hands.
37:49No mention of any problems.
37:52So how come she was
37:53the one giving evidence
37:54just now?
37:58I conducted all
37:59of Simon's evaluations
38:00after Dr. Middlebrook
38:03had done the initial one,
38:04of course,
38:05and made his selection.
38:06And Dr. Middlebrook
38:07trusts you?
38:10Oh, I should hope so.
38:12We've been together
38:12nearly eight years.
38:14I was with him in Munich,
38:16the Kronfeld
38:17for Schungsenstalter
38:18for Psychiatry.
38:19Yes, he said.
38:20Simon had a panic attack
38:22when he was with his parents.
38:25That's right.
38:27So doesn't protocol dictate
38:28that you should have reported it?
38:31I discussed it
38:33with Dr. Middlebrook.
38:36He said it wasn't relevant.
38:37Jake.
38:43Jake.
38:47Jake.
38:48I've just got off the phone
38:50to Munich.
38:51The place Middlebrook
38:52was so keen to tell us about.
38:54Vox
38:54from Dr. Middlebrook technique.
38:56Yeah.
38:57Turns out he was in charge
38:58of another drug test there
38:59about seven years ago.
39:02One of his subjects
39:03started well
39:03and quickly began
39:04showing alarming signs
39:06of reverting
39:06to the mood swings
39:07in the voices.
39:08Middlebrook did nothing.
39:10Even though
39:10this girl's parents
39:11begged him
39:12to take her off the meds.
39:14After a while,
39:15Middlebrook
39:15stopped returning
39:16their calls.
39:17What about the girl?
39:18She hurt anyone.
39:19Three weeks after that
39:22she stepped in front
39:23of the Munich
39:24Nuremberg Express.
39:28So Mr. Infallible
39:29has form.
39:33Sir,
39:34Middlebrook
39:34made a mistake.
39:36It's not against the law.
39:37No, he made a mistake
39:38in Germany.
39:40This is the second time around.
39:42What,
39:42once is a misfortune
39:43twice looks like
39:45carelessness.
39:46He's covering something up.
39:47Based on what?
39:48He stated publicly
39:50that T-489
39:51is some sort of
39:52wonder drug.
39:53It isn't.
39:54So why is he so
39:55determined that it is?
39:56We know what he says
39:57publicly.
39:58Talk to the drug company.
40:00Find out what he says
40:01privately.
40:04We have a long-standing
40:06relationship
40:06with Dr. Middlebrook.
40:08He's one of the leading
40:09practitioners in his field.
40:10So he keeps saying.
40:13Is it possible
40:14Middlebrook broke
40:15the double-blind code
40:16earlier than he said?
40:17That he knew
40:18Simon was on
40:19T-489
40:20from the beginning.
40:23Wouldn't that
40:24invalidate the study?
40:26Or is the apparent
40:27success of T-489
40:29more important?
40:30Did it worry
40:31that all this
40:31valuable data
40:32was being gathered
40:33not by Dr. Middlebrook
40:35but by his assistant?
40:38Well,
40:38we have the highest
40:39regard for Miss Anstice.
40:41In fact,
40:42we've invited her
40:43to set up
40:44an in-house
40:44testing division.
40:49You don't think
40:49it's a conflict
40:50of interest?
40:52I spoke to Dr. Middlebrook
40:54about it
40:54and he was fine with it.
40:56It was?
40:57He suggested me
40:58to FRKL.
41:00He's setting you up
41:01and you don't even know it.
41:04Nonsense.
41:05He respects me.
41:06It's your name
41:07on Simon's assessment.
41:08He's made sure
41:09that you're responsible
41:10and he's given you
41:11the apparent motive
41:12to massage the data.
41:15Wake up.
41:16When this hits the fan,
41:18he's going to duck
41:18and you're going to get
41:19it full in the face.
41:21That's...
41:22That's not...
41:23It wasn't a panic attack,
41:25was it?
41:28We know about Munich,
41:29Julia.
41:30Why that girl
41:31stepped in front
41:32of the train.
41:33Munich was
41:48one of those...
41:51It sometimes happens.
41:55I told Middlebrook
41:57that his symptoms
41:58were getting worse.
41:59And what did he do?
42:03He told me
42:05to alter the results.
42:08He must have already
42:09broken the double blind code
42:11and knew that Simon
42:12was on T-489.
42:15He told FRKL
42:17that Simon was
42:17some sort of
42:18poster boy
42:19for the drug.
42:20How could he tell them
42:22it had all gone wrong?
42:23And you just
42:24went along with it?
42:28Martin is
42:29a brilliant man.
42:31To work with him
42:32all this time.
42:33To have the opportunity
42:35to...
42:35He said Simon
42:39would pull through.
42:41That we just
42:41had to stick with him.
42:43Did Simon mention
42:44Jonathan Walkman?
42:46He told me
42:47Walkman was out
42:48to get him, yes.
42:51Did he say
42:51what he was going to do?
42:55He said he was going
42:59to stop him
42:59once and for all.
43:01Did you tell
43:02Middlebrook that?
43:05He laughed.
43:07He said that's just
43:08Simon being Simon
43:09and couldn't I
43:10see the joke?
43:11I'm not quite sure
43:19what it is
43:20you think
43:20my client's done.
43:22He made a mistake
43:23that's all.
43:25Regrettable
43:25but hardly grounds.
43:28He made a mistake.
43:29As far as I'm aware
43:31I didn't build
43:32the bomb.
43:33I didn't post it.
43:34I didn't kill
43:35Jonathan Walkman.
43:36All I did
43:37was have a little faith
43:38that Simon Wells
43:39would pull through.
43:40I was wrong.
43:41I would say.
43:42Let me try
43:43and make this simple.
43:45Dealing with
43:46experimental drugs
43:47is never plain sailing.
43:49The clue is in the word
43:50experimental.
43:53I was struggling.
43:54There will always
43:55be glitches.
43:56Blowing up
43:57Jonathan Waldman
43:58was a glitch.
43:59Do you honestly
43:59think there's a
44:00criminal case to answer?
44:02Okay, enough of this.
44:03Your client was
44:04fully aware
44:05of the situation.
44:06He knew the dangers
44:07and did nothing.
44:09He could have
44:09hospitalised Simon,
44:11changed his medication,
44:12warned the police
44:12or at the very least
44:13Jonathan Waldman.
44:14Instead,
44:15what did he do?
44:16He falsified the data
44:18in direct breach
44:18of the ethics committee
44:19protocol so it looked
44:21good in the eyes
44:21of the drug company
44:22which makes it
44:24manslaughter.
44:26You bet there's
44:26a criminal case
44:27to answer.
44:31FRKL have been busy.
44:33They must have
44:33needed a lorry.
44:35All sent over
44:36this afternoon.
44:38I love a good snow job
44:40because now I know
44:44they've got something
44:44to hide.
44:45You've only mentioned
44:48there of Simon
44:49having had a PET scan.
44:52A what scan?
44:53Positron emission
44:54tomography.
44:57Medical malpractice
44:58to use it.
45:00No.
45:02There's no mention
45:02of any scan.
45:03Oh.
45:04Well, he charged
45:06FRKL for 40 scans
45:09at a grand a pop.
45:10That's two for every
45:11patient in the study.
45:14He pocketed
45:1540,000
45:16of FRKL's money.
45:19Oh, they are
45:19going to love that
45:20when you bring it
45:21up on cross.
45:22Yeah.
45:22I want to know
45:23for sure first.
45:24Simon Wells
45:25is at the Maudsley,
45:26right?
45:27Before, it was
45:33like I was living
45:34in someone else's
45:35body.
45:37What I saw,
45:40what I felt,
45:43what I thought,
45:45I can't believe
45:48I did such a
45:49poor man.
45:53You were sick.
45:54doesn't make it
45:57any easier, though.
45:58I need to ask,
46:01were you ever
46:01given a PET scan?
46:04Of course.
46:05You were?
46:07Middlebrook
46:07took me himself.
46:10Started hearing
46:11the voices again.
46:13Can you remember
46:14where?
46:16Somewhere
46:17expensive.
46:19In Marlabone.
46:24There.
46:27Wells S
46:28in glorious
46:29technicolor.
46:33Uh,
46:34you said
46:34he was
46:35schizophrenic.
46:36Yeah.
46:38Well,
46:39whoever told you
46:40that never
46:40looked at this
46:41scan.
46:51What's he doing
46:51here?
46:52He found out
46:53something important
46:54and Simon
46:55wanted to be
46:56here when we
46:56told you.
47:10Perhaps you'd
47:11like to tell us
47:12what it is.
47:16It's a PET scan.
47:19PET scans
47:20are routinely
47:20carried out
47:21before drug
47:22tests to
47:23confirm that
47:23the patient
47:24is indeed
47:24schizophrenic
47:25and not
47:26suffering from
47:27anything else.
47:28Would you
47:28like to tell us
47:29what this
47:29means?
47:31This area
47:31here.
47:37It means I'm
47:38going to die.
47:39it means I
47:41have a tumour.
47:43Not a
47:44schizophrenic.
47:47Which you
47:48would have
47:48found out
47:48right at the
47:49start
47:50if you
47:50hadn't been
47:51so busy
47:51cutting corners.
47:53Although tumours
47:54can mimic
47:55schizophrenic
47:56symptoms,
47:57Simon was
47:58also complaining
47:58of headaches
47:59and vomiting,
48:00which has
48:01nothing to do
48:02with schizophrenia,
48:03but you
48:04ignored all
48:04that because
48:05it didn't
48:05fit.
48:07Did it?
48:08It just
48:09got in the
48:09way and
48:10you...
48:10I didn't
48:11have time.
48:13All right.
48:16FRKL
48:17were desperate
48:18to complete
48:19tests and
48:20take the
48:20drug to
48:21market.
48:23And it
48:24was working.
48:26The others
48:27on T489
48:29were getting
48:30their lives
48:30back.
48:31this drug
48:33will make
48:34a difference
48:34to hundreds
48:35of thousands
48:36of people.
48:37Let's not
48:37forget that.
48:38So what?
48:39You just
48:39sacrificed
48:40Simon for
48:40the greater
48:41good?
48:42The truth
48:42would have
48:42come out
48:43at some
48:43point.
48:44Surely
48:44you must
48:44have
48:45known that.
48:46Do you
48:46think I
48:46had some
48:46kind of
48:47master
48:47plan?
48:48No,
48:49I think
48:49by that
48:50stage you
48:50were only
48:51interested in
48:51saving your
48:52precious
48:52reputation.
48:53I had a
48:54department
48:54to fund.
48:56A
48:56university
48:57on my
48:57back.
48:58A
48:58drugs
48:58company.
48:59I mean,
48:59do you
48:59people know
49:00what that
49:00kind of
49:01pressure
49:01means?
49:02Do you
49:02know
49:02what
49:02inoperable
49:03means?
49:06Thing
49:07is,
49:07you only
49:08got the
49:08scan
49:08done
49:09when
49:09Simon's
49:10symptoms
49:10returned.
49:12You
49:12saw the
49:13scan
49:13and you
49:14knew
49:14what
49:14it
49:14meant.
49:15And
49:16you
49:16knew
49:16that
49:16if
49:16you
49:17acknowledged
49:17the
49:17tumour,
49:18you'd
49:18have to
49:18admit
49:19to
49:19having
49:19not
49:19done
49:19the
49:20scan
49:20in
49:20the
49:20first
49:20place.
49:22Simon
49:23could
49:23have
49:24received
49:24treatment
49:25right
49:25then.
49:26Could
49:27even
49:27have
49:27made
49:28a
49:28full
49:28recovery.
49:29But
49:29instead,
49:30you made
49:30Julia
49:31Rance
49:31disfalsify
49:32the data
49:32and...
49:33Sentenced
49:33me to
49:34death.
49:37Are you
49:38sure those
49:39letters after
49:39your name
49:40aren't
49:40they by
49:40accident?
49:41we're
49:43done
49:43here.
49:44Look
49:45at
49:45me.
49:47Look
49:48at
49:48me!
49:50I've
49:51got a
49:51few
49:52months.
49:53Maybe
49:53three if
49:54I'm
49:54lucky.
49:56That's
49:56what they
49:56tell
49:56me.
49:58And
49:58you
49:58knew.
50:01I
50:01killed
50:02that
50:02poor
50:02man
50:03and
50:03now
50:06I'm
50:06dead
50:06too.
50:08And
50:08you
50:08knew.
50:11right
50:22now
50:22for
50:23the
50:23death
50:23of
50:23Jonathan
50:24Wallman
50:24it's
50:24manslaughter
50:25gross
50:26negligence.
50:28You'll
50:29answer for
50:29Simon
50:30Wells
50:30too.
50:32When
50:32the time
50:33comes
50:33I'll
50:35be charging
50:36you with
50:36murder.
50:41Simon
50:46told
50:47us.
50:48Thank
50:48you
50:48for
50:48making
50:49him
50:49pay.
50:50You
50:50don't
50:50have
50:51to
50:51thank
50:52us.
50:53It's
50:53about
50:53what we
50:54can
50:54do.
50:55You
50:56can
50:56be
50:56strong
50:56for
50:58Simon.
50:59The
51:00tumor
51:00will
51:00change
51:02him.
51:04Just
51:05love
51:05him.
51:05she
51:13had
51:13an
51:13okay
51:14day
51:14Jake.
51:15Now
51:15they've
51:15relieved
51:16some
51:16of
51:16the
51:16pressure
51:17the
51:17pain
51:17is
51:17manageable.
51:19I
51:19told
51:19you
51:19were
51:20coming.
51:21And?
51:35it's
51:55okay
51:55mom.
51:58I'm
51:58right
51:59here.
52:05next
52:10on the
52:10finale
52:11of
52:11Luther.
52:12The
52:13twins.
52:14Twins
52:14were
52:14shared
52:15psychosis.
52:16I
52:16roll
52:17one
52:17to
52:17ten
52:17to
52:18help
52:18you
52:18catch
52:18my
52:19brother.
52:20I
52:20roll
52:20eleven
52:21to
52:21twenty
52:21you're
52:22on
52:22your
52:22own.
52:23I
52:23play
52:23a game.
52:25I
52:25already
52:25am.
52:26There
52:26is
52:27a
52:27plan
52:27right?
52:28Look
52:29at
52:29me.
52:30Do
52:30I
52:30look
52:30like
52:31I'm
52:31joking?
52:33If
52:33you
52:33do
52:34catch
52:34him,
52:34tell
52:35him
52:35I
52:36love
52:36him.
52:37Luther.