The Met S04E01
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00:00Hello, please. What's your emergency?
00:09I think someone's been stuck, but at the end of Hayes' way, this is Ben.
00:14He's been stuck. He's laying on the floor. He's got both on his stomach.
00:19I'd say he missed her at least 17.
00:21Yeah, and it's late, team.
00:25We are making our way now, and our fastest response should be there very shortly.
00:36Sorry, guys. If we just move everyone to the other side of the street, please, is that all right?
00:55He's not at the moment, no. We're doing everything we can at the moment.
00:59OK.
01:04Where's his mum?
01:05You come in. Let me get out of the way.
01:07Let me get out of the way. Here you go.
01:09Let me get out of the way.
01:23We're going out.
01:25A serving Metropolitan Police Officer has been charged with kidnap, rape and murder.
01:30and murder. A damning report found it to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and
01:35homophobic.
01:40The Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has vowed to restore the public's trust and confidence
01:45in the police.
01:47Policing needs to be the best and we've clearly failed in this regard.
01:53Hello police, not the emergency.
01:55There's burglars in the housemate beating up my wife.
02:02He's very choking me.
02:03I'm from the modern slavery team. How's your English?
02:06Give her justice and tell us where that poor girl's body is.
02:12Straight red, straight red.
02:13No!
02:14No!
02:14No!
02:16Wee!
02:18Stay where you are!
02:22You're under arrest on social murder.
02:25You really think that this is an overkill? There's 10 of you here for one 14-year-old.
02:37We're dealing with the stabbing of Levi Ernest Morrison. He was 17 years at the time of his death.
02:46The murder took place outside of Levi's home address. So the first persons to actually come across Levi were virtually his own family.
03:00He was chased across the road, sustained a single stab wound to the left-hand side of his groin, penetrates to a depth of 20-25 centimetres.
03:13It's a deep, penetrating wound. So it's a large weapon causing a catastrophic bleed out. He was dying virtually as soon as he was stabbed.
03:27Levi's murder is being investigated by one of the Met's specialist homicide teams.
03:43Leading the investigation is Detective Chief Inspector Chris Wood.
03:47The crime was shocking. Levi was only 17. He had the rest of his life ahead of him and he's been killed in an absolutely horrific way in the middle of the day on a busy road in London.
04:06The team has been gathering CCTV footage from the area around Sydenham Road where Levi was stabbed.
04:13Got some excellent footage already retrieved. We could start to work before and after to try and develop facial images.
04:25Detectives are reviewing footage that's just come in from a camera overlooking the scene of the crime.
04:30They focus on a red car, seen arriving just seconds before the murder.
04:38Clearly this CCTV footage is vital for us.
04:42Here's our victim, Levi and his friend, right at the top of the screen.
04:46Now the red vehicle's going to come in, hard on, onto the kerb, brake lights on, four guys out and our victim running.
04:55Then a female out of the driver's seat picks something up that one of the suspects has dropped.
05:02She gets back in.
05:04And now you'll see Levi, then one attacker really close up to him, here.
05:12Then another attacker.
05:14The two people chasing him both appear to have long implements in their hands that look like machetes.
05:19Just off camera here is where Levi has stumbled and been fairly wounded.
05:28And now they come back to the vehicle, making good their escape really.
05:33The driver appears to be the key to everything.
05:36That person has driven the four to commit the offence and driven them away again.
05:42Less than four hours later, there's another breakthrough.
05:48Detectives have traced the owner of the red car.
05:54It's registered to a woman who lives less than half a mile from the murder scene.
05:59I've got somebody with an eye on the address.
06:04The vehicle's there.
06:07My two will go down, get control of the back, and then we'll just go knock.
06:12Right. Go, go, go.
06:15The decision is made to arrest her.
06:17You're under arrest? Me?
06:28OK. On the situation of murder.
06:30The grounds for that being, that your car was seen leaving a scene of a murder last night.
06:34Hang on.
06:35My female's been identified as driving at the moment.
06:37We believe that may be good.
06:39OK, we need to carry on searches.
06:40I'll send someone off.
06:41I'll send someone off.
06:44The woman arrested is Nicola Leighton, a 36-year-old care worker and mother of three.
06:55The car's registered to her.
06:57If I was an onlooker to this offence, I would think,
07:01why has that person driven four men with swords to a location where they've murdered Levi?
07:11Obviously now our efforts are targeted towards getting the other four that were in the car.
07:31They've been dispatched to a priority call from a woman reporting her partner has attacked her and pinned her against the door.
07:54The informant came home and as the male saw the informant coming, they started fighting, they've been drinking.
07:59This is their spouse to is a domestic.
08:25Hello, miss. Are we all right to come in?
08:26Do you want to come through here and have a chat with me?
08:29Tell me what's been going on.
08:31Come sit down for me.
08:33I'm Martha, an officer from Brixton, yeah? No, you're good. You sit down.
08:38How you doing, mate? You all right?
08:39What's happened tonight for us to be called?
08:41I don't want to talk to her, mate.
08:43OK, my colleague's talking to her. I'm just here to talk to you.
08:46I'm in my fucking bed.
08:47OK, that's fine. We've been called to your address.
08:49You fucking punts. Go and talk to her.
08:51Hey, watch yourself, please. OK?
08:53You want to fucking talk to me?
08:55Move away from me now.
08:56Move away from me now.
08:58Stay in here. Stay in here.
08:59Move away from me now.
09:00Move away.
09:02Wait, be quiet.
09:03Put your hands on your head, please.
09:05No.
09:06No.
09:07No.
09:08No.
09:10Take your fucking hands.
09:11That's appropriate to me.
09:13Just get more units here now.
09:16More units!
09:17More units than not 5-2s.
09:20Is current assigned!
09:22Stop!
09:24His gun!
09:26Stop!
09:28Stop!
09:30Stop!
09:31Keep your fucking hands on me!
09:33Stay where you are now! Stay where you are!
09:42Yeah, I'm coming in my car.
09:46Stay where you are! You're under arrest for assault with an emergency worker times two
09:51and for common assault, domestic related.
09:57That was very unexpected.
10:00Has he done stuff like that before? Yeah, many times.
10:10Well, he's been arrested for that, all right?
10:13We'll have a unit to come down and take a statement from you, yeah?
10:19Well, that definitely took a turn, that. It really did.
10:23A few punches to the face, though, it's starting to get a bit sore.
10:26You're going to have a nice big black eye. Yeah.
10:29What do you say, brother? I don't know.
10:31OK, so this interview has been recorded, so let's try and speak clearly and loudly if we can.
10:45Detectives are 48 hours into an investigation into the murder of 17-year-old Levi.
10:49Whilst they question the person suspected of driving the car, Nicola Layton,
10:55house-to-house-to-house inquiries uncover some crucial evidence near her home.
11:09All right, listen, thanks for that.
11:21The address we've just been in.
11:23The address we've just been in has got CCTV.
11:25Oh, blimey.
11:27Oh, nice, that's bugged right outside.
11:31We have something on a private CCTV, which shows our suspects getting into the car with our female.
11:40Let's have a look, Adam.
11:41So, this here...
11:42Have you seen it, Matt?
11:43No.
11:44That's her car there.
11:45OK.
11:46All right.
11:47The CCTV from outside Nicola Layton's home shows four men getting into her car just minutes before Levi's murder.
12:01This got fitted six hours before the offence, by the way. So, we've had our quota of luck.
12:0916 minutes later, the same camera captures her arriving home alone.
12:14That's it.
12:15Right.
12:16No doubts about that.
12:21So, Nicola.
12:22Yeah?
12:23Tell me in detail about your involvement in the murder of Levi Ernest Morrison that occurred on Saturday 10th April 2021 at approximately 7.20pm.
12:32My only involvement is that I picked up three boys from Champion Hill to get a lift.
12:40And then, all of a sudden, my doors flew open and they jumped out.
12:45And then I just see people come running up the road.
12:48They just flew back in my car.
12:51That's my little impart in the whole thing.
12:54I did look on Google to see what had happened and then I realised the boy had got stabbed.
12:59OK.
13:00We have CCTV of certain parts of that evening.
13:03OK.
13:04So, we'll just play it.
13:05OK.
13:06We'll see it clearly.
13:07Yeah.
13:08So, two people running and then your car just appeared.
13:11Yeah, a bit.
13:12Now, count how many people get out of the car.
13:15One.
13:16One.
13:17Two.
13:18Three.
13:19Four.
13:20Four.
13:21You said there's three people in the car.
13:23I'm pretty sure there was three.
13:24But your CCTV shows four.
13:25I couldn't tell you about now, to be honest.
13:28That CCTV, I mean, that looks like you've seen them running towards you on the pavement and you sort of turned your car to almost stop them.
13:38Yeah, no, no, that definitely wasn't the case.
13:40Definitely wasn't the case.
13:41No, no, no.
13:42So, what I'm going to show you now is a camera from where you live.
13:45And this is three minutes before the last piece of footage we show you.
13:49OK.
13:50So, this is when...
13:51Oh, yes!
13:52Hold on.
13:59Yeah.
14:00What?
14:01I know what you're going to say.
14:02So, the three...
14:03Is it three or four boys come out and get in the car?
14:09So, you picked them up at Champion Hill?
14:15No.
14:16No?
14:17No, I didn't.
14:18I didn't.
14:20I didn't.
14:24You lied to us, haven't you?
14:25Yeah.
14:26Throughout this entire interview.
14:27Not the entire interview.
14:28Just that bit.
14:29How many boys there were?
14:31Where you picked them up from?
14:33Really, you're getting in the car with four people that don't kill someone.
14:36Are you driving there?
14:38What might help us is you tell us who these four men are.
14:43I honestly don't know who they are.
14:45So, you don't know who's sitting next to you?
14:48No.
14:49I don't even remember.
14:58She has lied in a written statement.
15:00She's lied in an interview.
15:01I don't believe you can take four lads with you on a drive around who all just so happen
15:05to be carrying machetes, not know it, and then they all get out of your car wielding
15:09the damn machetes.
15:10I mean, you try and claim you don't know what's going on.
15:13No, she knew exactly what was going on and she's helped them escape.
15:17And we haven't got any of them in custody.
15:23And there's a mum out there who's had a 17-year-old kid stabbed to death for no good reason
15:29whatsoever.
15:39No-one's a child should be taken away.
15:43You was here one day and then you'd just been erased.
15:46Like, it's crazy.
15:47That day, I could hear someone screaming outside and it was my neighbour.
15:59I knew straight away my heart just jumped in my mouth and I pushed her out the way.
16:04She tried to grab me and I've just pushed her and I've run down to the bottom of the road.
16:09And I could see a crowd of people around my child and I was like, oh my God.
16:15So I said, Mummy's here, Mummy's here, Levi.
16:18And I was like, Levi, I love you.
16:19Just hold on.
16:20Just a little bit longer.
16:21Just hold on.
16:22But there was so much blood everywhere on the floor.
16:25And it was just like...
16:28It wasn't real.
16:33And they just couldn't save him.
16:38But they said, you want to say goodbye?
16:41That was the hardest...
16:48The hardest thing I had to ever do in my life was to say goodbye to my son.
16:53There's no words for that pain.
17:21Hello, police, what's the emergency?
17:23I made the call the other night because I had someone trying to kiss my door.
17:27I've just had three boys approach my door again.
17:30Detectives are listening to a 999 call that suspect Nicola Layton has told them she made
17:36just an hour before Levi was stabbed.
17:39So I've looked out the window, I've seen them, so I've said, what do you want?
17:42They're just telling me he's got some money for my son.
17:45And what's your son's name?
17:47Tyree Hewlett is.
17:49But this time I was ready to fight them.
17:51I wasn't going to have them do that to me.
17:53Obviously, your day returned.
17:55I'm going to back home last night.
17:57They're calling in line, OK?
17:58I don't want to be in trouble.
17:59Just going back to someone.
18:01I'm going to go back out in my car.
18:02This is ridiculous.
18:03I'm not going to back down.
18:05I'm not going to be in trouble.
18:06She's called police to report that she's got three boys knocking at her address looking
18:10for her son Tyree.
18:12There is clearly some background prior to this.
18:17These guys, they're looking for Tyree for a reason.
18:21This is really important.
18:22What it's indicative of is that she's angry and she is going to take things into her own
18:26hands and sort it out.
18:27Nicola's son, Tyree's Ulysses, is well known to the police.
18:34This is Tyree's Ulysses.
18:36He's a violent individual.
18:37He's been arrested several times, usually with a knife and has had issues with the victim's
18:44friends previously.
18:46Now that individual there is distinctive by the white writing on the neck of the jacket
18:53that he's wearing.
18:54Given the fact that he's got access to the vehicle, he appears to be the one unlocking
18:59it and he then gets into the front passenger seat.
19:03I believe that's probably Tyree's Ulysses.
19:07Right, so tomorrow, Matt, phones, CCTV, house to house.
19:13Finding and arresting Tyree's Ulysses is our number one priority.
19:30There.
19:31Go on, have you got your camera?
19:32You're a distance enough.
19:33You can snap from here.
19:38In suburban North West London, Detective Rachel Coughlin from the Met's Modern Slavery Team
19:44is carrying out surveillance.
19:46This is one of our guys, the female.
19:48Let me just get a picture of her.
19:50For 12 months, the team has been investigating a gang they believe is trafficking women into
19:57the UK and forcing them into sex work.
20:03These men go out to Romania, promise these girls a better life and their intention is to solely
20:10put them into a brothel in order to work.
20:12Some of these girls are literally 18.
20:15So this is the area that they control surface brothels all along this high road.
20:22Some of these white houses here.
20:25So that's literally housing their business at the moment.
20:31These girls are commodities.
20:33They are, in effect, owned by these men.
20:40To charge the gang with human trafficking, they must gather enough evidence to prove the
20:45women have been brought into the UK specifically for sex work.
20:50Yeah, we've got them.
20:53So this is a new brothel.
20:55And these two men linked to the network look like they're moving some form of clothing
21:00or possibly bedding into the address.
21:03Detective Constable John Knox is leading the investigation, which began when a woman went
21:17to her local police station, reporting she was forced into sex work by the gang.
21:22This female came to a police station to report that she'd been trafficked, having fleed a brothel
21:35and run to a security guard in a local shopping centre to ask for help.
21:40I then interviewed her where she disclosed being trafficked from Romania to the UK
21:46and forced into sex work.
21:49Have you got a picture of him?
22:04During the interview, our victim has mentioned one man.
22:07His name is Maru Stoycan.
22:10This is him.
22:12He is a 28-year-old Romanian living in the UK for five years.
22:18She is contacted through Facebook.
22:21Maru Stoycan promises her a cleaning job.
22:23And then one day he tells her, you're going to be a sex worker.
22:27She doesn't want that.
22:28And he beats her up, drives her to a brothel, takes her into the brothel
22:34and tells her, this is where you're going to work and this is what you are now.
22:37The team now gathers evidence to support the woman's claim.
22:54The aim of the investigation going forward is looking at Maru Stoycan,
22:58seeing what evidence we can build against him, evidence of lifestyle,
23:01evidence of him moving girls around if he does,
23:03and hopefully we can build a case showing conspiracy to traffic human beings.
23:08Hello, please. What's your emergency?
23:19Mail in the McDonalds at Rixton Road.
23:22He's apparently pulled a concealed weapon and a knife.
23:25All right, I've asked for the police to return to an immediate response.
23:29Sorry, we haven't got any description.
23:32I believe it's to be a knife.
23:36T-O-A-5-1.
23:39Must be something in the water around here.
23:411.15am.
23:43Response officers Wes and Martha are on a night shift in Brixton, South London.
23:48They are attending an urgent call from an employee in a fast food restaurant.
23:53The only detail they have is that there is a man with a knife.
24:05I'm sorry, man.
24:08I'm sorry, man.
24:10I'm sorry, man.
24:12I'm sorry.
24:14I'm sorry, man.
24:15I'm sorry, man.
24:16I can't see you going over to the search on the section one of the commission field.
24:18I'm sorry, man.
24:19I'm sorry, man.
24:20I'm sorry, man.
24:21You might have one quite a bit of a scarf here, okay?
24:23I'll put him out the same way.
24:24I'll put him out the same way.
24:251, 2, 3.
24:26Okay.
24:27It's like a little, tiny, scalpel-type knife.
24:34Like a scalpel?
24:35Yeah.
24:36And where did he pull it from?
24:37Pocket?
24:38Okay.
24:39Units at McDonalds receive him.
24:42Okay.
24:43They've asked him to leave and he's pulled out a small scalpel-style knife from a pocket
24:49and he's put it on the table to be intimidating.
24:55Hello.
24:56It's a small scalpel stone.
24:59Describe that.
25:00Oh, is it?
25:01Oh, so it's going to be that or that.
25:03Yeah, it's going to be that or that.
25:07You've got all your property behind me and I'll give it to you.
25:11We'll get him out of here, all right? No worries.
25:14Police only find a nail tool
25:16and he is released without arrest or caution.
25:19I think that was unnecessary.
25:20That situation right there that I saw...
25:22I forgot your opinion, guys.
25:23I'm just telling you how it is, OK?
25:24We're just saying, like, a man's asleep.
25:26We don't need to, like, dump him up.
25:28Do you even know why we're there? You said no.
25:30Because I don't know. I don't need to tell you.
25:32Well, there we go. That is good enough for me.
25:33I'm telling you that was dealt with professionally and properly, OK?
25:36And I'm telling you that it wasn't.
25:38Well, when the police turn up to these situations,
25:41they do not make them better. They make them worse.
25:44It was accepted.
25:45So you think you can do anything you want as a policeman
25:47to get away with it? That's not what we want.
25:48That's just how it works.
25:49That's what you think.
25:50We were just there, chilling,
25:51and then suddenly all these sirens come
25:53and there's a dude who's asleep.
25:54Yeah, it was...
25:55I was like, oh, my God, they're checking on his well-being.
25:57And it's like, no, actually, he's being arrested.
25:59My immediate reaction was, like, that's excessive.
26:02Here you go, look.
26:03I'll give you a rollie.
26:04Echo 232.
26:06He could have had a knife on him.
26:07You don't know.
26:08All they've said is he's got a knife on him.
26:09Yeah, that's high risk.
26:10Yeah.
26:11It's high risk.
26:12Yeah.
26:13It's high risk.
26:14Yeah.
26:15It's high risk.
26:16Detectives investigating the murder of 17-year-old Levi
26:40are now two days into their hunt for suspect Tyrese Ulysses,
26:45Nicola Leighton's son.
26:49Tyrese is on the run,
26:51but officers are searching a house where they know he sometimes stays
26:55for any evidence that might link him to the murder.
27:04Adam!
27:05Yeah?
27:07Oh...
27:09I told you it was night.
27:12What do we want to do?
27:14Right, that is...
27:15That is it.
27:20Gov, we've got a lot here.
27:22I reckon we've got the entire stash.
27:24There's two full piping bags.
27:27They are stuffed with dark clothing.
27:29That clothing didn't look like it had been discarded because it's old and no longer of any use.
27:35It's a brand new North Coast Puffer jacket.
27:37Right.
27:38Great stuff.
27:39We've got that jacket I said about the black and white hood.
27:43There's the Nike Puffer jacket and we're still going through.
27:46I think there's a very good chance this is the entire lot.
27:48OK, cool.
27:49No, that's great, mate.
27:51I'm more than happy with that, to be honest.
27:53Thanks, mate.
27:54All the items you can see on the floor, that's what I've pulled out of the bin and that was all that was on top of it.
27:59So, someone's obviously got quite a lot of effort to put it at the bottom to make it less likely for us to find it.
28:04I'm fairly convinced we found one of the coats, which is a coat with a black and white sort of beading around the collar,
28:11along with a number of sets of dark tracks and bottoms as a face covering.
28:15So, I think realistically, there's a very high chance that it's the clothing worn by the suspects.
28:27Who takes all the clothes off and puts everything that they're wearing, socks, underpants, everything, all in one bag in the bin?
28:36This clothing is massively important for us in terms of identifying the wearers of it.
28:43But crucially, we're lacking facial images or anything that would assist us in absolutely positively identifying the suspects.
28:51And that's what I'll be working on, in the hope that we may catch a facial image or something that's recognisable.
29:06Tell us what you want to say.
29:10You're okay.
29:14Tyrese's mother, Nicola Layton, the only suspect in custody, has asked to be re-interviewed by detectives.
29:22I don't know where to start.
29:23Is that your time?
29:26I need you to know if we do it.
29:30Okay.
29:31Um, Alex.
29:37Donner.
29:41So, obvious question I need to ask for that.
29:44Do we have a surname?
29:46I can't think.
29:48Who goes by the name Pokes?
29:50Pokes.
29:51He's on tag at the moment, yeah.
29:53Er, there, there. Tall one.
29:55The one in the front?
29:56Yeah.
29:58Who's the person in the passenger seat?
30:00I don't want to call for that one.
30:02Do you know who he is, though?
30:04I don't want to comment on the legal to you.
30:13Alexander Sprawls, aka Pokes, with a Z, 17 years old.
30:18Sprawls is described as male, with a light complexion, his six foot tall.
30:20Yeah, I would say it ties in.
30:25This is Alex Sprawls' tag.
30:27Yeah.
30:28Hitting other boxes.
30:29Yeah.
30:31Alex Sprawls is currently on an electronic tag, having been previously convicted for possession of a knife.
30:38Arrives at Lockwood close at 1908.
30:41Six minutes for the murder.
30:42Yeah, six minutes.
30:44I was going to give him something to explain.
30:46The tag shows detectives where he was on the day of the murder.
30:51According to the tag people, Sprawls is at home 6.45, back in 8.02pm.
30:58Perfect window.
31:00We've got to get one for him and go through that door tonight.
31:05OK, if everyone could just listen up, please, who's involved in the arrest inquiry this evening.
31:09Alex does have a history of violence and escaping.
31:11Last time he was arrested, he was taser during the arrest.
31:14He has also previously been arrested for assaulting police.
31:17So, everyone keep your wits about you.
31:24A team of officers armed with tasers are sent to Alex Sprawls' home address.
31:29Alex, you're under arrest for suspicion of murder, OK?
31:30Are you in for real, bro?
31:31Yes, mate.
31:32Yeah, yeah, yeah.
31:33Levi!
31:34The guy down in Sydney.
31:35You're in for real?
31:36Yeah.
31:37Alex is an incestant.
31:38Mum!
31:39Are you hearing this?
31:40It's been explained to us.
31:41It's been explained to us.
31:42Can you tell me what?
31:43Who are you in for real?
31:44Yeah, yeah.
31:45Levi, the guy down in Sydney.
31:46You mean for real?
31:47Yeah.
31:48Alec's an incestant.
31:52Mum, are you hearing this?
31:54It's been explained to us.
32:00Levi bro, little man, you are violating.
32:03Little man, you are violating.
32:21So, Alex, tell me as much detail as you can
32:24your involvement in the murder of Levi Ernest Morrison.
32:27No comment.
32:28In interview, Alex Sprouls refuses to talk.
32:35But a CCTV search in the area provided by the tag data
32:39gives officers a new lead.
32:45That is incredible.
32:47That's what he's after.
32:49That facial...
32:53I mean, without stating the obvious,
32:56that's Sprouls.
33:00So, who's that?
33:04I mean...
33:05That's Tyrese Ulysses.
33:06Nicola Leighton's son.
33:09Looks like...
33:10Yeah.
33:11Is it Hugo?
33:12Yeah, I think that's what it says, yeah.
33:14We can start to identify now
33:16which one of the four is wearing what clothing.
33:20Here is interesting.
33:22So, you've got the black and white right...
33:24Yeah, I mean, that's quite distinctive.
33:25Letters there.
33:26Yeah.
33:27And the image we got of the suspect...
33:28Oh, yeah, brilliant.
33:29I think it's this male here.
33:31Yeah, yeah.
33:32So, that...
33:33Yeah, that's Tyrese.
33:37Where is that, Chris?
33:38The SC6.
33:39The CCTV shows that Tyrese Ulysses
33:43to an address in the SC6.
33:46So, that is of major interest to us.
33:51Tyrese has now been on the run for six days.
33:55The information from the new CCTV
33:58has given police the address of a flat
34:00they believe he may be hiding in.
34:03Fingers crossed.
34:04He's likely to be desperate.
34:09Likely to conceal or hide evidence.
34:12So, yeah, speed is everything, really, now.
34:29Well, ladies, open up!
34:32Go, Bruce!
34:33Police!
34:34Police!
34:35Police!
34:39No one in here?
34:40No one in.
34:41No.
34:46Tyrese Ulysses.
34:47This is all Tyrese Ulysses' stuff.
34:49So, it's definitely...
34:51Yeah, it's definitely an address he's been using.
34:58Nails.
34:59Hey, Matt.
35:00All right, hello, Governor.
35:01He wasn't there.
35:02But, clearly, Scarford in a hurry.
35:06Back to Jordanbourne.
35:08All right, cheers, bye.
35:09All right, cheers, bye.
35:10Thanks for coming today.
35:11This is Operation Manny, deployment in relation to the Romanian OCG retargeting in Harrow.
35:30Detective Constable John Knox and the Modern Slavery team are still building the case against Maru Stoican.
35:40They suspect him of trafficking women from Romania to the UK and forcing them into sex work.
35:47The Maru Stoican, he's married to a lady by the name of Maria Dragolina.
35:54She's the alpha female of the group and she is the madam and the females give the money to her.
36:00So, she is being looked at for controlling the females.
36:02Today's surveillance deployment is to try and prove the offences further.
36:15It's really, really hard to prove human trafficking.
36:19So, these men are dangerous.
36:20They use an extreme amount of violence to protect their very lucrative business.
36:25They are violent towards the women and they are violent towards the women's families back in Romania.
36:34So, the women don't want to speak out because they know the consequences of speaking out are so high.
36:42Our cases take a year to show because you need to show constant trafficking, constant movement.
36:48And so, we look at social media, we look at CCTV, speak to neighbours and we do old-fashioned police work.
36:59The team have set up covert cameras to closely monitor Stoican's brothels.
37:03They need conclusive evidence that the women are being trafficked, moved from location to location to sell sex.
37:13We're interested in the men and women coming and going from it to see if there are any women being taken to and from that address,
37:19which would show control, movement, trafficking.
37:24Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
37:27So, we now have, this is a known female to the network, as you can see she's just come out of the address.
37:32She's obviously looking for someone, but you can see that she's fairly scantily dressed.
37:38Here comes a man, and there he goes, in the address, door shut, there's a punter going in.
37:46Although the house is clearly being operated as a brothel, the team still lacks conclusive proof that the women are being trafficked.
37:55They believe the gang has trafficked over 40 women from Romania to the UK.
38:07Small towns or villages that they come from in Romania are particularly poor.
38:16Absolutely, that's why they are targeted.
38:19They're given a sex worker name, and there will be a list of services that these girls supply.
38:26Bareback is obviously without protection.
38:31A-levels would be a term used for anal sex.
38:35And there is that expectation that they will provide that.
38:39You know, when I look at these adverts, I think that's somebody's daughter, that's somebody's sister.
38:48And the likes of Stoikan and his associates have just seen her as a way of making money.
38:56Stoikan has not been seen at the brothels for over a year, but John and the team keep tabs on him through his regular social media feeds.
39:12Here he is. He is out having the life of Riley, on a ski holiday, wearing a nice Armani jacket.
39:26Whilst women are working for him, being sexually exploited, having sex with men seven, eight, nine times a day to earn the money for him to go on holiday.
39:42I don't think that's right. I don't think it's right that a man should be able to go on a £1,000 ski holiday that is funded by sexually trafficked women.
39:51WOMEN SONERA!
40:02Hello, Police. What is your emergency?
40:05Uh, kids throwing fireworks in the streets. All hooded up.
40:10Alright, I'll send it down to the local units.
40:12We've had two more captains on the news about a group of youth setting off fireworks,
40:19and then one's around the facility next job.
40:22Patrol officers Wes and Martha have received a call
40:26that a group of teenagers are setting off fireworks in the street.
40:30The descriptions that we've got so far are so loose,
40:33just five IC3 or five black males with fireworks in school uniform.
40:39Well, it's school kick-out time.
40:41Suspects all dressed in black.
40:43Batterclavins are scarred around their face.
40:45One of the suspects now has something in their hand,
40:48unknown if this was a weapon or at all.
40:50Around 14 to 17 years old.
40:54With reports of a suspected weapon,
40:57several other police vehicles are sent to the scene.
41:04Just stay still. You're detained for the search, all right?
41:06I ain't done nothing wrong.
41:08Look at my face. Look at my face. He passed my face.
41:11If you've done nothing wrong, you'll be on your way, mate.
41:13Try and calm down as much as possible.
41:15In a minute, you can.
41:16How old are you, mate?
41:1714.
41:1814, yeah, no problem.
41:19So why are you running from us?
41:20Because I'm scared of the police.
41:21All right. Why are you scared of police?
41:23Because I don't like what they do to me.
41:25What have they done to you?
41:26Look, we just don't know. Look at my face.
41:27We don't run unless you've done anything wrong, Norman.
41:29I'm scared. I'm scared.
41:30You think they're going to have drugs on them?
41:32Two little children?
41:33They're in their school uniform.
41:34No-one even mentioned drugs, mate. You did.
41:36I'm just saying.
41:37I'm just saying.
41:38If you don't know what's going on...
41:39I wasn't talking to you, though.
41:40Donald, record!
41:41I don't come to your place to work...
41:42Hey, Donald, bro, record it.
41:43Just be quiet.
41:44Record it.
41:45Record it.
41:46You obviously don't have a clue what's going on,
41:47so I'll just keep still...
41:48I don't need to have a clue.
41:49Come on, come on.
41:50You really think that this is an overkill?
41:51There's ten of you here for one 14-year-old.
41:54The fact that I just saw you searching,
41:56you didn't find any drugs.
41:57You didn't find any weapon.
41:58What's the point?
41:59It wasn't a drug search.
42:00You're hurting my arm.
42:01You're hurting my arm.
42:02I was hurting my arm.
42:03A search of the schoolboys reveals no fireworks or weapons.
42:08That's your perspective, is it?
42:10You think there's too many of us?
42:12I mean, I respect the police, but, like...
42:14OK, if I was a 14-year-old, I would have run as well.
42:17If I see police coming towards me, 100%,
42:20irregardless of who I am, I don't care.
42:22I'm running.
42:23You can shake your head all you like,
42:25what happened to me, so...
42:26I'm just going to keep my mouth shut.
42:27I'll give you my opinion over there.
42:28We're getting out of here now.
42:29Because, like you said, there's too many here, mate.
42:31Freedom of speech, isn't it?
42:32I hope you get to work OK, all right?
42:34We're going to get out of here
42:35before we cause any more problems.
42:36Thank you very much.
42:37Take care, all right?
42:55Is that them?
42:56Yeah.
42:57Wow.
42:58Is that the only store we've got?
43:01The Modern Slavery team have uncovered new evidence
43:04against Maru Stoikan and his gang.
43:07Airport CCTV shows his partner, Maria Dragulina,
43:11bringing four more women into the UK from Romania.
43:16If we can put Stoikan picking these girls up from the airport
43:20and we've got them coming into the flat at the other end,
43:23I mean, that's a stone bunker.
43:26If they can show Stoikan moving the women into one of his brothels,
43:30it could be the proof they need to arrest him.
43:33Right, we've got them coming in.
43:39This is Stoikan coming through here.
43:42And the lady in the dark clothing with the fur hood and the hat,
43:46that's Dragulina coming in from Romania.
43:51This is brilliant evidence for us to have.
43:53They've trafficked people into the UK
43:56and then once they're in the UK,
43:58they've trafficked them from the airport to a brothel.
44:01Stoikan comes and goes out of the UK a lot.
44:04Now he's in the UK.
44:06We need to hit the addresses,
44:08literally strike whilst the iron's hot.
44:10So what's the most recent update then
44:12since the last time I looked at the surveillance?
44:14Sir, we have CCTV footage of him now coming back into the UK.
44:20OK.
44:21And flight manifests and passport controls have confirmed
44:24they are in the country.
44:25OK.
44:26Our intention is to execute five simultaneous warrants
44:30in Harrow at the addresses they control.
44:33He's got a lot of cash, rich lifestyle,
44:35so we think it's a flight risk.
44:36So obviously we'll be looking to remand him
44:37and to get as many of the OCD to arrest on the day.
44:41It's a little bit tentacle to the moment
44:43because this is a culmination of a year's work,
44:46hours and hours and hours of surveillance.
44:49So much rests on him being arrested on the day.
44:53My biggest fear is that they're on a plane to Romania
44:56when we go through the door.
45:06Everyone can be arrested if anyone's there.
45:08It's 4am and Rachel is leading the arrest team.
45:15To catch the gang by surprise,
45:1870 officers are mounting a dawn raid
45:21to hit all of Stoycan's brothels at the same time.
45:2510-point line.
45:26I'm from Silver Four Units.
45:28It's a go, go, go.
45:38Freeze!
45:39Don't freeze on me!
45:43Hi ladies.
45:44Hi.
45:45My name's Amy.
45:46I'm from the Modern Slavery team.
45:48What are your names, please?
45:49OK, so that's subject to eight guys.
45:53We're going to be under arrest for conspiracy to arrange or facilitate
45:57the travel of another person with a view to exploitation.
46:01So we've got four women.
46:03One was Maria Draculina, who's the wife of Stoikan, so she was arrested.
46:09And the other three girls are all working here as sex workers,
46:12so we're treating them as victims.
46:14Please!
46:20Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
46:22Please, there we are!
46:24Please, sir! Please!
46:26Please, sir!
46:28Hands! Hands! Hands!
46:30On the floor!
46:32Please, sir!
46:34Show your hands! Show your hands!
46:36Let you secure!
46:38Let you secure!
46:40What's your name? Stoikan Moro.
46:42Stoikan Moro.
46:43Huh?
46:44Stoikan Moro.
46:46Stoikan, we've got him.
46:47Yeah?
46:48Yeah.
46:52It's me, I'm driving in the car.
46:54I'm suspended three times, yeah?
46:57He's given me in the court.
46:59I'm going in the court.
47:01We're not here for that, OK?
47:03Along with Stoikan and Draculina, five other suspected gang members
47:07are arrested.
47:09I can see here, some cash.
47:11This is the money.
47:12OK, that's your money, OK?
47:14We found a substantial amount of cash in Stoikan's property.
47:18He said that he's a used car salesman,
47:22but HMRC tells us different.
47:25See you at Wembley.
47:27At the police station.
47:28This is where the girls are living.
47:29It's just super sad, isn't it?
47:30Yeah.
47:31They're making hundreds and hundreds of pounds a night of these girls.
47:47They don't even sleep in beds.
47:50You know, the beds are purely used for clients.
47:53It just says it all, really, doesn't it?
47:56All 40 women found working at the addresses are offered refuge and victim support.
48:03Only two have agreed to talk to the police.
48:06They're making their way to Harrow police station.
48:09They're in a place of safety.
48:11They're away from Stoikan and they hopefully can speak a bit more freely.
48:15To be fair, that is shocking someone's face.
48:20Yeah, yeah.
48:21Even though it's an imitation, if you had that put in your face, you'd be frightened.
48:27Did you tell her to come to England?
48:34Not comment.
48:36Did you make her be a sex worker?
48:38Not comment.
48:40Stoikan is questioned about trafficking women for sex work
48:44and the allegations made by the victim who came forward a year ago.
48:49Did you assault her when she said that she did not want to work?
48:53Not comment.
48:57You're being charged with the offence of conspiring to arrange or facilitate travel of another person with a view to exploitation.
49:09The enormity for evidence was shown to him.
49:12And he's now seeing his head with his head in his hands, going to court in the morning,
49:18and he's not the big tough guy I thought he was.
49:27It's been eight days since 17-year-old Levi was fatally stabbed.
49:42Out of the five suspects seen on CCTV, detectives have now arrested two more, a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old.
49:50I'm going to arrest a murder.
49:52And the arrest for what?
49:53Murder.
49:54Four of the five suspects are now in custody.
49:59It's on the 10th of the 4th, 2021, at Sydenham Road, London, Messi, 26.
50:04Murdered Levi Ernest Morrison.
50:07Nicola Layton, the driver of the car used during the attack, has now been charged with murder.
50:14You don't have to be the person who holds the weapon to be part of the crime.
50:20She is the enabler.
50:22She has driven them all to the scene of the offence.
50:24Then she helps them get away and she tries to help them cover it up afterwards.
50:27Yeah, she's guilty of murder as far as I'm concerned.
50:32Let's have a look, Adam.
50:37That was a stab then?
50:38That was a swing.
50:39A swing and a miss.
50:40And then the other one going down lower, which would fit with being stabbed in the groin.
50:44To understand the role each suspect played in the attack, detectives must now work out who dealt the fatal blow to Levi.
50:52So these two here...
50:55That is Sproul's.
50:58That's Tyrese Ulysses.
51:03Yeah, so they go after Levi.
51:07And then Alex is far taller than all the others.
51:09Yeah.
51:10He's the one that then runs behind a dozen.
51:12So we now can confidently say, who's who?
51:15And we are happy that Sproul's is the one that inflicts the fatal blow.
51:22He's the one that then broke a C26, murdered Levi Ernest Morrison, and that's contrary to common law.
51:30Alex Sproul's is charged with murder.
51:33The police believe he is a member of a local gang, caught in a bitter dispute with a rival group.
51:41They didn't care who they got, they just needed to get someone.
51:45There was not even somebody that this group would be thinking of.
51:48He's not a gang member.
51:52He's got caught up in this.
51:54And he's obviously ultimately ended up bearing the brunt for a gang rivalry that he was not part of.
52:04One suspect is still at large.
52:07Tyrese Ulysses, the son of Nicola Leighton.
52:10Tyrese is proving more difficult to get hold of.
52:17He will have people that are willing to hide him.
52:21He's a bit of a cat and mouse.
52:25We've got addresses that we have under surveillance.
52:28The team has a new lead on missing suspect Tyrese Ulysses at an address in South East London.
52:39Now we've got a phone number for him, what we believe to be a live phone, which is going to allow tracking of that phone.
52:51That number?
52:52Yeah.
52:53That is live.
52:54It is being used.
52:55In the last hit, it was an hour ago.
52:57We think we are closing in on him.
53:03Please, having a door.
53:08Come in.
53:09Come in.
53:10Come in.
53:11Come in.
53:12Come in.
53:13Come in.
53:14Come in.
53:15Come in.
53:16You're under arrest.
53:17You're sent to murder.
53:18Yes.
53:19All right.
53:20So, it goes to May.
53:2110th April, 2021.
53:23You've murdered Levi Ernest Forreston.
53:29The manhunt team just picked up Tyrese in an address in Forrest Hill.
53:37That's it.
53:38That's it.
53:39That's it.
53:40I can believe it.
53:41Yeah, brilliant.
53:42Great work.
53:45Come and stand there.
53:46We're not going to have a sweat for me.
53:48A massive relief now that Tyrese is in as well.
53:51It's been a stretch, this one.
53:53And the offence, please.
53:54His murder.
53:55He allegedly murdered a Mr. Levi Ernest Morrison.
54:00The thing that's unusual for me is the mother-son factor.
54:03We often see parents sometimes trying to help their kids by hiding weapons,
54:09hiding the kids themselves if the police are looking for them.
54:12I've never seen mother and son going out to commit a murder together.
54:15Is there anything you'd like to say?
54:16No.
54:17No.
54:18Okay.
54:19There is this rivalry going on in the background,
54:21and then there's that incident where they come to Nicola Layton's door,
54:24which is the actual spark.
54:26Nicola Layton calls Tyrese.
54:28He then starts calling his friends and starts making his way over.
54:32Then Nicola gets them all in the car and takes them out looking for these people.
54:35I'm Levi, and I'm the third child, and I think my mum should be Mother of the Year because she's always had my back.
54:42She's always been there with me through hard times.
54:46She's always helped with my education, always fought for me.
54:49And yeah, I just think she should be the Mother of the Year.
54:51I'm Levi, and I'm the third child.
54:52And I think my mum should be Mother of the Year because she's always had my back.
54:57She's always told my son I loved him very much.
54:59Every night I would tell him that I had my back.
55:02She's always been there with me through hard times.
55:04She's always helped with my education, always fought for me.
55:08And yeah, I just think she should be the Mother of the Year.
55:12She's a superwoman.
55:14He always spoke with me and said,
55:19Mum, I know you love me.
55:23And I always told my son I loved him very much.
55:26Every night I'd tell him, goodnight, I love you, and I miss that.
55:29Like, you can't get that back.
55:41What they have done is disgusting.
55:45The adult in it, I'm disgusted by what she has done.
55:50To know that a mother could do that and bring her own child in it...
56:04Tyrese Ulysses is charged with murder.
56:09He thinks he's somehow not responsible
56:11because he didn't actually stick a blade in someone.
56:15But he's used a 17-year-old, a 15-year-old and a 14-year-old
56:19to do his bidding.
56:22Prosecution Service has made a decision to charge you with murder.
56:26It's gone to be common law.
56:28I don't think he thinks he's done anything wrong.
56:31They absolutely do not care about anyone's life except their own.
56:36And so the family is wrecked and a 17-year-old
56:40has completely, pointlessly lost his life.
56:42He's just a while...
56:43Getting inside.
56:45Yeah, yeah.
56:49It's all right.
56:52we're just gonna picture it, right?
56:53Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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58:24She's a 20-year-old young lady. Her name is Agnes,
58:27and she's a high-risk missing person.
58:29The last sighting of her is going into that unit.
58:33If she's gone in and she hasn't come out, where is she?
58:36I'm sorry.
59:06You