The Met S04E03
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00:00Emergency ambulance, he's the patient.
00:07I mean, I can't find the pulse.
00:13Tell me exactly what's happened.
00:16I was just waiting to get a buzz, and I got asked why someone to leave a man behind the
00:21bush, and he looks beaten to death.
00:24I can't find the pulse, and he is very, very, very cold.
00:30We're at Brickson Hill, and it is across Brickson Hill with New Park Road.
00:41We're at Brickson Hill.
00:44We're bound to cross one.
00:47We're bound.
00:48We're bound.
00:49Oh, Christ.
00:55Jesus.
01:00A serving Metropolitan Police Officer has been charged with kidnap, rape, and murder.
01:08Damning report found it to be institutionally racist, misogynistic, and homophobic.
01:18The Met Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, has vowed to restore the public's trust and confidence in the police.
01:24Policing needs to be the best, and we've clearly failed in this regard.
01:31Hello, please.
01:32What's your budget, sir?
01:36There's burgers in the house, may be at my wife.
01:40He's very choking me.
01:42I'm from the Modern Slavery team.
01:43How's your English?
01:44Give her justice, and tell us where that poor girl's body is.
01:48Straight red, straight red.
01:51Please!
01:52Please!
01:53Please!
01:54Please!
01:55Please!
01:56Stand where you are!
02:00You are under arrest.
02:01On station murder.
02:04Leave him alone!
02:07What are you doing?
02:08What are you doing?
02:09What are you doing?
02:10What are you doing?
02:11Do you really think that this is an overkill?
02:12There's ten of you here for one 14-year-old.
02:14One 14-year-old.
02:15One 14-year-old.
02:16One 14-year-old.
02:17A murder investigation has been launched after a man's body
02:34A murder investigation has been launched
02:45after a man's body was found in a park in South London.
02:49One wet and one dry swab.
02:53Leading the operation is Detective Chief Inspector Wayne Jolly.
02:59Behind these bushes here is where the victim's body was discovered.
03:04And his head was out towards the main road.
03:07So, feet in the bushes? Feet in the bushes, head out.
03:10Head this way? Yeah.
03:11Is that consistent with him being dragged? Yeah.
03:15We've got no necessity covering the scene.
03:17But the area's used for rough sleeping.
03:20It's an area that's quite often busy with people just loitering around.
03:27It's a challenge for us that the scene is extremely large
03:31and it's quite unusual in London today
03:33that the incident hasn't been covered by CCTV.
03:37So, that makes it more difficult for us.
03:41There are lots of patterns around the body.
03:45So, trying to identify the items that are most likely to glean DNA
03:50from potential suspects is going to be really difficult.
04:03The victim has been identified as 44-year-old Mauricio Nascimento,
04:08who is believed to have been homeless at the time of the murder.
04:11It's been described by the pathologist as one of the most vicious attacks he's ever seen.
04:19There's no indication that the victim put up any form of defence.
04:24There's no defensive injuries at all.
04:26So, somebody's killed him in the most horrific of circumstances
04:31by just stamping, kicking and punching him.
04:35So, this is clearly somebody who is a dangerous individual
04:39who we need to get off the streets as soon as possible.
04:42So, what we know about Mauricio at this stage is that he is a Portuguese national.
04:58It would appear that he's been subjected to a frenzied and brutal attack.
05:04Yeah, and just to add to that, there's no suggestion of a weapon used.
05:09It seems to be consistent with kicking and stamping.
05:12So, a very, very, very severe beating.
05:16Priority-wise, obviously, witnesses, because I think they're going to be key to the timeline.
05:23And forensics, that's going to be also really key.
05:29I was understanding it was around this area or over here somewhere,
05:32folded up the clothing.
05:33This is the jacket, yeah.
05:38We've got this blanket as well.
05:39OK. It's a blanket.
05:41So, someone's definitely using it somewhere to stay.
05:45The team examines a number of items found close to the victim's body
05:49to try to identify forensic opportunities.
05:53This is a belt found in this sort of undergrowth as well.
06:00These are some of the beer cans that we've got.
06:03Maybe DNA, anyone who's had contact with these, you know,
06:06they might be the slightest hit.
06:08It's just such a busy scene with a lot of items around.
06:14So, it's really hard to find any key exhibits that we can connect to our man.
06:23It's been 24 hours since Mauricio's murder.
06:27While a number of items found in the park are sent for DNA testing,
06:31detectives run intelligence checks on the victim for any potential leads.
06:35These are financial records which relate to Mauricio.
06:41And what we are aware of is that he's in possession of a bank card.
06:45Mauricio's bank card was used on the 11th, was also used on the 12th of July.
06:51We know, obviously, by this time he'd been murdered.
06:55And so, therefore, that gives rise to the question of who was using his bank card.
06:59So, somebody else who's got his bank card prior to the murder and has still got it post-murder?
07:11The news agent's on the junction here of Doverfield Road.
07:15Detectives request CCTV from the locations where the bank card was used.
07:19Footage from a shop reveals an unknown man using the card.
07:32That's the transaction the night before at 10.20.
07:39So, I've just sent you through this second image.
07:42This image is from about 2.13 in the afternoon, the 12th.
07:48Right. So, post-murder.
07:54So, obviously, we're in the same green bit, Game of Thrones top.
07:57Same rucksack trousers.
08:01My main focus is locating him and arresting him as soon as possible.
08:06The images of the man captured in the CCTV
08:09are circulated on police systems across the Met.
08:27Nice.
08:28Tell me what you have reported to the police.
08:33My colleague, she said,
08:34today's been shit, let's get a shot.
08:37So, I said yes, and then we carried on drinking.
08:42In West London, a young woman has come to the police,
08:46reporting she was raped in the early hours of that day.
08:50So, I must have left the building at 11.30pm, I guess-ish.
08:54I was very drunk, because I'm an idiot.
08:57I walked to the house that I was staying in.
09:00But because I'd drunk too much, I couldn't open the door with the keys.
09:07And then, I blacked out.
09:09I remember coming to, leaning against the front of the house.
09:15Definitely vomited over myself and the floor.
09:17I was soaking wet, because for some reason there was like torrential downpour.
09:21And then, somebody was asking me if they should call an ambulance for me.
09:28It was a guy.
09:29And I remember saying, no.
09:33The next thing I remember was inside of his room.
09:36And I think I was standing there, and he couldn't get my dungarees off.
09:47The rape part, um...
09:48He must have been having sex with me while I was coming in and out of consciousness,
09:54because I don't remember all of it.
09:56I don't know if he managed to actually get his penis inside my vagina,
10:01because I do remember saying,
10:04ow, it hurts, and no, because my, uh, the...
10:11So, so I've not had sex before.
10:13So, before that, um, so...
10:18I never had sex with someone.
10:25So you've never had a sexual encounter with any patrol?
10:29No. No.
10:29No.
10:30Full stop.
10:31Um...
10:34And how did it make you feel at that point?
10:38I didn't really feel like I had any power.
10:41I was just kind of just there in pain.
10:48If you could just give me a brief summary of what the victim said.
10:55Right.
10:55Um...
10:57Basically, she recalls a man's voice saying,
11:00do you need the ambulance?
11:01And she's saying no.
11:04The incident is referred to one of the Met's rape and serious sexual offences units.
11:09It is led by Detective Inspector Souk Kamwa.
11:15And then the next recollection she has is she's in the bedroom.
11:20And then he's, um, forcing himself on her.
11:25She's saying, no, it hurts.
11:28Because she's, um, stated that she's never had sex before.
11:31And he's grabbing her boobs and kissing her boobs.
11:34And she didn't know, she didn't understand why he was doing that.
11:37Because she's never had any sexual encounters before.
11:40OK, but she'd remember saying no to him.
11:43Yeah.
11:43Um, OK, thank you for that.
11:45No worries.
11:45One of my teams down there as well, boss.
11:47Rape is one word against another.
11:50And it's for us to find evidence that supports the victim's account.
11:55So supporting evidence could be anything from CCTV, forensics, eyewitnesses,
12:01usually very rare.
12:03So it really does make the investigation quite difficult.
12:06I think it's one of the hardest offences to prove.
12:11Stranger rape is a rape by somebody who is completely unknown to the victim.
12:16For us, they are a serious risk because they pose a risk to the entire public.
12:22Because you've technically got a predator out there
12:24who could be continuing that behaviour and it could escalate.
12:28Following the incident, the woman was examined by medics
12:31and forensic samples were taken.
12:33You'll see her in a sec.
12:38There she is. There she is.
12:40Officers analyse CCTV from the venue on the night of the attack,
12:44where the victim was drinking with a friend.
12:48And then you'll see her start making her way.
12:51She's still got the drink in her hand, isn't she?
12:52Yeah, yeah.
12:54Nearly walks into the post, swings around it, just to keep balance.
12:58Oh.
12:59There you go.
13:00So you'll see her making her way across this bridge here.
13:03There she is.
13:05And then that's the last we see of her, actually,
13:08once she makes it to the address,
13:10until she tells police about what happened the next day.
13:13Describe him to me.
13:20He was...
13:22I guess he was mixed race.
13:25Anything distinctive?
13:25Or did he have tattoos or anything?
13:28No.
13:29Would you recognise him again if you saw him?
13:31I think so.
13:34What did you do after you left his house?
13:40I was walking for a few seconds.
13:44I went left, so I wasn't thinking about where I was walking.
13:49I was just walking.
13:50At which point it occurred to me, I was like, oh, that's my vomit.
13:53Um, so then I turned around and I was like, ah, it was one of these doors.
13:58I remember there being a white door, but I don't know which door it was.
14:02I was just like, well, it was one of these,
14:04because I'd been walking for a few seconds.
14:08The woman was staying in a nearby house.
14:13She believes the attacker pulled her into a property just a few doors down.
14:22Here we go.
14:24Oh, come on.
14:25We've got two white doors on the right, so it's probably one of those.
14:28Especially because she said pretty much next door.
14:32So we're not looking very far.
14:36Yeah, we need someone here just in case we get someone walking out of that address,
14:39matching that description.
14:41And even if we don't, we can still go up there and just start knocking every single white door.
14:47So they're the targets.
14:48With the search narrowed to two possible addresses with white doors, detectives travel to the scene
14:58to try to identify the property where the woman says she was raped.
15:01This is the scene of the incident, which is a little bit further down on our right-hand side.
15:12What we know at the moment is a mixed-race male who's apparently in a room at the back
15:18of the property on the ground floor. So we're now going to need to go into these addresses if we can
15:22and rule out any potential persons of interest.
15:37Which flat's yours?
15:40Where's your flat? Upstairs or downstairs?
15:42Where do you live?
15:42Where is your flat?
15:45Yeah, police officers. Let's go inside.
15:53Thank you. Anyone else in here at all?
15:55Anyone else here at all?
15:58Listen to my colleague.
15:59Where were you on the night of the 28th?
16:02Where were you a couple nights ago?
16:03I'm speaking a little bit English. I don't understand English.
16:06OK. There's been allegations we made that on the 28th, outside,
16:11the young lady was taken into this property.
16:14No, I helped the lady. I helped her. So I gave the laser vomiting.
16:23OK.
16:26I helped the lady.
16:28No worries. OK. There's any more?
16:30Do you understand? You are under arrest and so this is causing rape.
16:33Put your hands up for me.
16:34No, no, I'm sorry.
16:35Hands up.
16:35Hands up, buddy.
16:37I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
16:37I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
16:38I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
16:39I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
16:55Listen to me.
16:57We're now going to be searching your room under section 32 of PACE.
17:00Eugenio Avlera is a 27-year-old construction worker.
17:04Avlera's hands are bagged to preserve DNA, while a member of the team who speaks Portuguese
17:23translates for him.
17:23So basically, yeah, tell her to go.
17:31She's still coming inside, so I'm falling asleep.
17:33I didn't do anything.
17:34It was too tired.
17:35Just want to go to the place.
17:36She was a bit.
17:37She was forcing me to do whatever.
17:46She was forcing him to do whatever.
17:51He's married in Africa.
17:53Avanzi.
17:55We've got him inside the forensic window.
18:14He'll be taking swabs from his hands and he'll take penile swabs as well to hopefully get some
18:22DNA proving his involvement.
18:45It's been 48 hours since detectives began investigating the murder of Mauricio Nascimento,
18:51and they now have a suspect.
18:55This chap was named Florin.
18:58The man has been captured on CCTV using the victim's bank card after his death.
19:06Just spoken to a hostel in Clapham Road, and basically they did have Florin staying with them.
19:13So I'm just emailing them to just get those details.
19:17I'll see if I can get a local unit as well.
19:21So you're under arrest and suspicion of murder, time of arrest is 14.31 p.m.
19:25So you're under arrest and suspicion of murder, time of arrest is 14.31 p.m.
19:37So you're under arrest and suspicion of murder, time of arrest is 14.31 p.m.
19:41So you're under arrest and suspicion of disappearance.
19:45So you're under arrest and suspicion of murder, time of arrest is 14.31 p.m.
19:49So you're prompting a victim of investigation and prevent disappearance.
19:53This way, this way.
19:57This way, this way.
20:02Someone.
20:05Just think over here now.
20:15There you go.
20:17Okay. So, have you heard what happened to Mirizio and who killed him?
20:32I don't know. I haven't seen anything. I don't know if any of this is true.
20:39Okay, Florin. What I want you to do now is tell me what happened over the weekend.
20:53Okay.
21:09And he told me, take the card, because I trust you. He gave me his pin.
21:22I bought a bag of cigarettes and three beers.
21:29I bought a bag of cigarettes and three beers.
21:32So, you left and went home?
21:43Straight home.
21:45How did you get home?
21:47Polk.
21:51So, we're all passed.
21:53I guarantee you all the streets.
21:56I know Maurizio.
21:58We've been very good friends. I had no reason to kill him.
22:04I had no reason to kill him.
22:08What was the reason?
22:16Detectives now need to verify whether Florin's account of the night is accurate.
22:21They download data from his mobile phone to try to confirm his movements.
22:29Florin's account has been tested, and so the phone work is proving consistent with his account.
22:39Certainly, up to event, and then the phone shows the last time he's up there at the crime scene.
22:47He's around the 12.34 mark, and then leaves, and then heads back to his home address for just after one,
22:54which is sort of consistent with his timings.
22:58OK.
23:07We're going to release Florin.
23:09Florin.
23:11I think he's less and less likely that he's a suspect, and he's more likely to be a good friend of the victim.
23:22While the team has learnt more about what Mauricio was doing on the night he was killed,
23:27they still have no leads on a possible suspect.
23:29Starts again?
23:30Yeah, starts again.
23:31Great.
23:32Thanks.
23:33We are going to have a walk round the park, have a chat with anyone who's about,
23:46identify anyone who was here at a similar time when this happened.
24:03Seeking new information or possible witnesses, detectives return to the location of the murder.
24:09Hello, mate.
24:10How are you doing?
24:11You OK?
24:12We're police officers.
24:14We are from the Homicide Command, and we're investigating the murder of this chap called Mauricio, yeah?
24:18Were you around on the night?
24:19No.
24:20No.
24:21You remember the England game?
24:22If I was around, it wouldn't have happened.
24:23Yeah.
24:24OK.
24:25It's all I heard, it was something to do with drugs.
24:26The primary's found around there was someone in the park.
24:28The primary's stuff like that is if he gets arrested, he's going to come back and kill everyone.
24:44It's all word of mouth after it's happened that people are coming up with their own ideas
24:48or hearing the rumours, really, that go around, so we're just really struggling to try and find those witnesses
24:55that might have actually seen or heard something.
25:18OK, so come in this side here.
25:23Right, chaps, under the right-hand side.
25:2627-year-old Eugenio Avlera has been arrested on suspicion of rape and taken into police custody.
25:36Good afternoon, sergeant.
25:37This gentleman's been arrested for rape.
25:39There's an allegation that's been made on the 28th of this month that he has vaginally and
25:45orally raped the victim.
25:48I authorise you to stay at the police station.
25:50You can be detained here for up to 24 hours without charge.
25:54What's the time of arrest, please?
25:5516.25.
26:01Avlera's hands and genitals are swabbed for forensic traces.
26:06And samples of his DNA are also taken.
26:09The team has 24 hours to gather enough evidence to charge him, or he will be released.
26:22The strategy for today, obviously, is to get this interview done.
26:25And we know where we are afterwards.
26:27I don't think he's going to deny being in her presence,
26:30because he's already admitted, basically, he was with her.
26:34It's whether or not he discusses the sexual side of it.
26:37Yeah.
26:47This interview is being recorded.
26:48I am DC Kevin Flynn attached to the Sapphire unit based out of Hounslow police station.
26:54Also present remotely, we have your solicitor, as well as an interpreter today.
26:59So firstly, after being arrested, you said to officers, in the early hours of the morning, you saw a figure sitting outside.
27:09You've asked her if she needed an ambulance, but she's declined.
27:12And then you've stated to Tim that she was covered in vomit, and so you've invited her into your address to get cleaned.
27:19You've said that what you did that night, you did so because you were a good Christian, and you wanted to help the girl.
27:26Is that the case?
27:27Sure.
27:29No comments.
27:30I'm just going to ask you directly. Did you have sex with that drunk woman you took into your home on the 28th of June?
27:39No comments.
27:40No comments.
27:41If you did have sex, was the sex consensual, and did she want to have sex with you and you agreed to it?
27:48No comments.
27:50Would you think a reasonable person would find someone passing in and out of consciousness, being sick on herself, slumped in a doorway, in a torrential downpour, and think to themselves, they want to have sex with me?
28:02No comments.
28:04No comments.
28:10DI Kanwa rewatches the woman's statement to compare her account with that given by the suspect in interview.
28:18Unlike other offences, rape is one where it's happened normally in private premises, although there are no witnesses, whereas other offences you might have witnesses, you might have CCTV, and for rape to occur, you normally don't know what to do.
28:31You normally don't have those other lines of enquiries available, so it ultimately will come down to your victim's account and your suspect's account.
28:42The police officer asked me if he was wearing a condom. I don't think he was.
28:49Did at any point, did you tap on the victim's stomach and say, she's got your baby inside her?
28:57No comments.
28:59If there's anything else you want, recorded, this is your opportunity right now.
29:06What happened was that she started to push me and have a relationship with her. I said, no, because I have a woman.
29:13Because I have a woman.
29:16Here, here.
29:19I'm sorry.
29:20Say no comments.
29:22So, what did he say to you?
29:24Er...
29:28Was he saying much?
29:30He told me to write him.
29:35He also told me to suck his penis twice.
29:39What did you say?
29:41Nothing.
29:43Er...
29:44Oh, except for when he was attempting to put his penis inside my vagina, because that hurt.
29:47And I was saying, no.
29:49I think I was saying, no...
29:51How long did that last?
29:52I don't know, but he definitely tried multiple times, because I don't think he wasn't able to, at least the times that I remember being in pain.
30:03So, you've said there that she was forcing you, essentially.
30:08No comments.
30:10So, how exactly did she do that?
30:13No comments.
30:14If you're going to sit there and expect us to believe that a woman much smaller than you, completely drunk, has forced you to have sex with her, and yet you've got no injuries, it just doesn't add up.
30:33So, what really happened there?
30:35No comments.
30:37We also found abrasions from within her. Did you cause those?
30:42No comments.
30:50Hello.
30:52Hi.
30:53So, in interview, it was a no comment interview, no prepared statement. However, he did blurt a few things out here and there which were quite significant.
31:02He's blurted out that she forced me to.
31:05She what?
31:06She forced him to.
31:07When you look at her, she's about five foot tall.
31:09Yep.
31:10He's about six foot tall.
31:11Okay, so the only comments he's really made is that she forced me to.
31:16Yes.
31:17As the suspect refuses to give a clear account of the night, the team must now rely on forensic evidence.
31:26Since evidence suggests the woman was too drunk for the suspect to reasonably believe she could consent, detectives believe if they can prove sex took place, the CPS may agree to charge for rape.
31:42In terms of lab stuff.
31:43In terms of lab stuff, obviously, that's all ongoing at the moment. Greg's been on to them for timings. The earliest we're going to start getting results is around midnight.
31:53Around midnight?
31:54Yeah.
31:55They are working throughout the night, right?
31:56They are.
31:57They are working throughout.
31:58Yeah.
31:59Okay, that's positive.
32:00But the pace clock now currently runs out at two minutes to six in the morning tomorrow.
32:06Five hours later, the team is still waiting for the DNA results due to a significant delay at the lab.
32:18Hello, CPS. My name is DC Flynn. I'm calling from West Area Sapphire in London. We've got a rape threshold test. Sorry, it's been a long three days. A rape threshold test for a strange one rape.
32:32Detectives have no choice but to appeal to the CPS to charge the suspect based on expected future evidence. This is known as a threshold charge.
32:43Well, he was arrested at the scene, which is his home address.
32:50To get a threshold charge is hard. It's hard because we're asking the CPS to make a decision with some evidence still missing.
33:03No.
33:04And it's an important decision for the CPS to make. It's important they get that right.
33:19The CPS law is being quite negative at the moment. So, yeah, yeah. So Kevin's fighting our corner in relation to the strength of the evidence and the continuity and integrity of the evidence.
33:32I mean, he's not even interested in reading it.
33:44What's your worst fear?
33:45He could leave the UK. And if he leaves the UK and goes to a country where we've got no agreement for any extradition, faced with that potential scenario, we will be faced with having a difficult conversation with our victim.
34:02It's a real strange one for me at the moment in order to try and determine what's happened.
34:20It's clearly somebody who's used extreme force.
34:23It's now five days since Mauricio Nascimento was violently murdered in Brixton.
34:34Detectives are still hunting for a lead on the killer.
34:37We continued to look into Mauricio's background and looking to see whether he had any enemies.
34:46Actually, there's nothing in the police intelligence to suggest that that was the case.
34:53The unit has received further details from the pathologist relating to the marks left on Mauricio's body.
35:03This was light sourcing that was conducted at the public mortuary Greenwich.
35:08Various lighting effects that can bring up bruising patterns and give us a better indication of how the death occurred, really.
35:18This is one of our best marks here. It's the left side of the chest and there's some very clear lines.
35:24These patterns are the ones that we can see on shoes.
35:27They potentially are our murder weapon, really, at the end of the day, the shoes.
35:31Much like a knife is a murder weapon, this pair of shoes, in this case, is the weapon.
35:37Mauricio was homeless, one of society's vulnerable individuals.
35:43So we need to try and find out why somebody would want to do this to an individual
35:49who is described by family and friends as quite a gentle person.
35:53Mauricio's family has come to the park where he was murdered.
35:58They hadn't seen him for six months.
36:03When I find out that Mauricio is gone...
36:12I couldn't believe it.
36:20It's like someone stabbed me in my heart.
36:23Because I always wanted my brother next to me.
36:37Mauricio came to London because he met this person online to live with this person.
36:43But things didn't work out as it should.
36:46So it's one of the things that changed in his life.
36:51These things that did affect him a lot.
36:56It made him very dumb.
36:59And he lost hope in life.
37:02He stayed with me a few times.
37:05I didn't know that my brother was homeless.
37:07I thought when he left my house he was in somebody else's house.
37:13I thought my brother was coming back.
37:16Why he never come back?
37:18What they did to my brother was completely heartless.
37:21Why?
37:22Why?
37:23Why?
37:33All right.
37:34Lovely, Bruce.
37:35Appreciate it.
37:37Bye-bye.
37:39It is now one week into the investigation.
37:41And Exhibit Officer Rob Newlands received significant forensic results from the items at the crime scene.
37:47It's a wearer's hit.
37:48OK.
37:49I'll confirm where exactly on the belt.
37:50So there is potentially blood on that belt then as well.
37:51Yeah, that's what he seems to think.
37:52So another name in the mix then?
37:53Yeah.
37:54Right, ladies and gents, I've had some forensic results.
37:57The belt that was located near to the body at the scene, by a search on the DNA database, has come back from the DNA database.
38:26He's come back with an individual by the name of Arturus Tikhanas.
38:32He's a Lithuanian national, but we don't know much more about him.
38:37At the moment, the priority's got to be working up Arturus and finding out exactly how he fits into the inquiry.
38:45Right, I've got to go and make some phone calls.
38:51Hi, I wonder if you could help me.
38:52I'm calling from the Meta Police, Team 14 over at Putney.
38:57We're now having to research him, find out a lot more about him, try and identify his movements over the last few days and see where he fits in in the investigation.
39:09I've spoken to the national extradition unit.
39:13They've said that evil orders hasn't shown him leaving the country.
39:17We've just got him coming into the country in 2016.
39:21Possibly he's still in the country.
39:22Further research into Arturus Tikhanas reveals an international warrant for his arrest, issued in Lithuania.
39:36So it looks like he was convicted of an assault and skipped the country.
39:43It's an assault on a passerby, a random attack at a bus stop whereby Arturus is believed to just start punching and kicking him.
39:53All of the traits on that assault are apparent here as well.
39:59Which clearly shows a propensity for violence.
40:02So we need to locate him as a matter of urgency.
40:05PHONE RINGS
40:15Petitianas has been linked to a flat two miles south of the murder scene.
40:23Detectives, alongside the Meta Territorial Support Group, mount a dawn raid at the address.
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40:37Mate, any time now is the false door.
40:38PHONE RINGS
40:39Hello, fellow. You all up?
40:40Yeah.
40:41Is it just yourself in here?
40:42Yeah, me.
40:43Yeah.
40:44No, because...
40:45Fellow, stay there.
40:46Keep your hands down.
40:47Keep your hands where I can see them.
40:48Hands on top of your head now.
40:49OK.
40:50What's your name, sir?
40:51Ardouris.
40:52Ardouris.
40:53Ardouris.
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40:56Ardouris.
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40:58Ardouris.
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41:00Ardouris.
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41:02Ardouris.
41:03Yo, man. In this moment in time, you're under arrest for murder.
41:04You do not have to say anything.
41:05Be may harm me to events. We do not mention one question.
41:07Some people should let it rely on the court.
41:09Harry, hear you. Go on, mate.
41:10Yeah, no worries.
41:11Come on.
41:12Mind your head.
41:13Mind your head.
41:14Mind your head.
41:19PHONE RINGS
41:20The flat is searched, and detective sees a number of items, including a pair of shoes,
41:30that could match the markings on Mauricio's body.
41:33So you got chatting with him, because he's from Lithuania, like you.
41:37Yeah, yeah, yeah.
41:38And then afterwards, what happened with your face?
41:40Police question Petitianasa's flatmate about the suspect's movements on the night of the murder.
41:46Can you remember?
41:48Marco, like you said, I can't remember Marco, because I don't want to lie.
41:53You don't? No, no, it's fine.
41:54OK, if you don't remember, it's fine, OK.
41:55He's briefly known Artis.
41:57They're both from the same part of Lithuania.
42:01He doesn't know much about him, but Artis was working locally at the KFC.
42:06The witness was saying he was out watching football, but not with Artis himself.
42:11He's come back around about 2 o'clock in the morning, and Artis is not here.
42:16What I'd like you to do, Arturis, is tell me, in your words, what your involvement is in the murder of Mauricio Nascimento.
42:33I'd like you to tell me, Arturis, about your involvement in the murder of Mauricio Nascimento.
42:45I don't know what to say about him, but I don't know what to say about him.
42:50You haven't killed him.
42:59I don't remember.
43:03Where were you drinking, and who were you drinking with?
43:09The reason that you are here today is because of the forensic link.
43:14So, tell me, Arturis, what could possibly link you, forensically, to the scene of a murder?
43:22Murder.
43:23Murder.
43:24Murder.
43:25Murder.
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43:35Murder.
43:36Murder.
43:37Murder.
43:38Murder.
43:39Murder.
43:40Officers now compare the soul of the trainers seized from Petitianass' address with the marks found on the victim's body.
43:47I don't think those are the ones.
43:50No, they're not.
43:51They're not consistent, I don't think.
43:53There's no lines on it at all, is there?
43:54No, straight lines.
43:55Not quite the pair we're looking for at the moment, I'm afraid.
44:00We're confident Petitianass was at the crime scene.
44:03We don't know the circumstances, and he's not giving us any information in regard to that.
44:08So, at this stage, we don't have a direct link with the victim, and that's what we're missing.
44:15Without enough evidence to link the suspect to the victim's murder,
44:20the team are unable to charge Arturus Petitianass.
44:31She's been so drunk, in fact, that she has then passed out in the doorway, covered in vomit, and she's absolutely soaked because it's torrential downpour.
44:39The Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Unit are now 20 hours into a shift as they try to secure a rape charge against Eugenio Avlera before the custody clock runs out.
44:52Basically, we're missing some evidence. In this case, it's DNA evidence which is in the process of being examined by our forensic labs.
45:07With the victim deemed too drunk to reasonably consent, the team believes DNA evidence proving sex took place could be enough to convince the CPS to charge Avlera.
45:21But a delay at the lab means they don't have that evidence, with just four hours before the suspect must be released.
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49:17Up until now, the only footwear we've had are white trainers.
49:21We've now established that those weren't the trainers he was wearing on the night of the incident.
49:26So what we need to do is identify what those trainers are.
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50:40The team has been sent a copy of the standard issue KFC trainers, which they now compare
50:52with the tread of the shoes that left marks on Mauricio's body.
51:00There's these three patterns here, where you can see the squares that are criss-cross on
51:07Mauricio and then you scroll down to the trainer and you can see that clearly the trainers have
51:12got this pattern of cubed squares and from my eye, it's clear that that trainer made
51:26them marks, but I need a scientist to tell me that.
51:32While detectives await expert confirmation that the shoes in question are the murder
51:36weapon, a tourist Petitianas is brought in for a second interview.
51:42I'd like you to watch the moving footage now.
51:48This was when you committed a burglary.
51:52So we're saying this is you wearing these shoes, shoes that you got from KFC when you started
51:58training with them.
52:07And we're going to show you some footage now, the night of the murder.
52:11So this is at 10 to 1 in the morning.
52:15There's two males and they're walking towards where the murder scene is.
52:24And we're saying the male that's closest to the shops, what the person is wearing on their
52:31feet, you will see that it's those trainers, the KFC trainers.
52:43Was that you walking along at 10 to 1 in the morning on the 12th?
52:51What, what did you have to do with the murder of Mauricio Nascimento?
53:00We got off the press and Bruce Taylor sent through some light source results.
53:15The results of the comparison between the shoes and the marks on the victim's body have
53:19arrived.
53:20It's a match.
53:25Yeah, good stuff.
53:30Yes.
53:31That result is amazing.
53:33It's fantastic.
53:37And there is another significant discovery.
53:40We've got our first DNA hit of an individual on the very victim himself placed on the wrist.
53:47So the fact that the DNA is found on the victim himself really connects this individual with
53:52our victim.
54:00Three months after Mauricio was killed, Arturus Petichenas is charged with his murder.
54:07I've got one charge to read as follows.
54:11On the 12th of July, 2021 at Rush Common, Brixton Hill, South West 2.
54:17You murdered Mauricio Nascimento, country to common law.
54:26This was a senseless killing of a vulnerable homeless male.
54:31The Petichenas has set about him with gratuitous violence and subjected him to a brutal attack.
54:39And to this day, Petichenas has given us no explanation as to why he did this.
54:45And that's extremely difficult for the family.
54:50Whoever did this to Mauricio was a monster.
54:56He just saw somebody else.
55:00He was homeless.
55:01He was worthless.
55:02Let's beat him without mercy.
55:04He was not human to do what they did to my brother.
55:11He was homeless.
55:34I love you.
56:04Six of them just came running and all I see was a big knife come towards me.
56:07You'll see the suspect. He's got a massive knife in his right hand.
56:11Poor bloke did stand a chance, did he?
56:13We need to take him off the streets.
56:18To learn more about the challenges and future of policing,
56:23you can find additional interviews featuring senior officers and experts
56:27by going to bbc.co.uk forward slash met
56:30and following the links to The Open University.
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