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In the criminal justice system,
the people are represented

by two separate,
yet equally important groups.

The police, who investigate crime,

and the Crown Prosecutors,
who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

ALARM

Follow the line. Follow the nurses.

The nurses will take you
to the assembly hall.

Every morning, my wife makes me
promise not to open
any suspect packages.

"Don't be a hero," she says.

To the assembly point
in the car park.

Quickly and calmly, everyone to
the assembly point in the car park.

Quickly and calmly, please.
As quick as you can.

What's happening?

You can't go in for the moment.
A security alert.

Some smokers reported a
dodgy-looking holdall by the side
entrance.

We can't find the owner.
One of those nights.

Please make your way...

I can do it.

You move back.

What kind of a gentleman
would I be, then, eh?

Bob?

Oh, no.

What is it?
God.

SIREN

Just pop behind the tape.
Thank you.

Ronnie!

One of our uniform boys
will take your details.

All right. Thanks. Bye.

The bag was dumped
some time after midnight.

None of the smokers remember
clocking it before then.

What about an ID of the person
who left it?

A Chinese guy dumped it around one.
An Asian bird at half twelve.

A fat Black woman. A thin White guy.
Take your pick.

God bless the great British Public.

Did Security see anything?
Not until it was reported.

They were dealing with a barney
between a bloke and his wife.

The woman who found it
was still shaking.

She thought it was a bomb.

Well, for someone, it was.

Recently bathed.

Clean clothes.
No sign of exposure to the cold.

No suspicious markings on the skin.

This was a well-cared-for child.

Yeah. Dumped in the early hours.
Perfect parenting.

Well, the child was dead
long before he was put in the bag.

Whoever left him here was disposing
of a corpse.

Well, hang on a minute.

How does a well-cared-for baby
become a corpse?

He was poisoned.
Or, should I say, gassed.

Toxic levels of carbon monoxide
in the bloodstream. The poor kid.

No reports of any missing babies.

Forensics got nine separate sets
of prints from the bag.
No matches so far.

A CCTV report says a figure
deposited the bag at 27 minutes past
midnight.

Thick coat. Hood up. Can't tell
whether it's a bird or a bloke.

Can we track the route?

Well, we lost the suspect
at Euston Road junction.

We're cross-referencing
with bus and tube cameras.

No matches.
Looks like they stayed on foot.

How far would you carry a dead kid,
in a bag, in the centre of London,
in the middle of the night?

You'd want rid, quick as,
wouldn't you?

Assume the kid is from that area.

Take a two-mile radius,
with the hospital at its centre.

Matt, get a photo and do the rounds
of all the nurseries
and day-care centres.

The old needle-haystack interface.

Look on the bright side, son.
You might end up with a yummy mummy.

He's already working for one.

That sounds wonderful. Indian head
massages government funded.

How come we don't get this?
Once a week for three hours.

We're the only respite
most of these women ever get.

The first Mrs Brooks will gladly let
you know how mums do much longer
hours than coppers.

You got kids?
He can't even look after a goldfish.

I fed it just like you said.

The fish was ailing before I went
near it. Tell that to my daughter.

A nine-month-old
African-Caribbean boy.

Wearing a winter coat like this.
Ring any bells?

Do you know how many babies
there are around here?

African-Caribbean origin. Wearing
a coat like this in the picture.

Luka, get down!

Sorry. Doesn't ring a bell.

Tilly!
Will you stay within the gate?

Are you sure? Look, I'm sorry,
I've got to keep an eye on 'em.

Last week, a little boy got out onto
the main road, hit by a motorbike.

Lovely.

This is getting us nowhere.

Right. What have we got? The
holdall. The baby.

Yep, and the clothes.

We could try sourcing the coat.

No, no. That's brilliant. Thank you.

Grey. Not green. They're grey.

I'll be in with the guv.
Let me know. No worries.

Can you look it up for me?
As soon as you can.

Yeah, yeah. I'll hold.

A single British wholesaler. The
coats are shipped in from Bangalore.

Last year's must-have item.
Great.

Except the coat was brand-new.
Never been worn.

The wholesaler had a dozen boxes
remaining.

Sold 'em to a distributor
up Tottenham last month.

Here you go. Your man at White Hart
Lane reckons he sold a box each

of those coats to 12 shops across
Greater London.

Four within a stone's throw
of the hospital.

That's what I call progress.

Can't divulge a customer's details?
Who does he think he is? A priest?

We've still got three shops to go.

Used to be a community round here.
People looked out for one another.

Now nobody sees, nobody talks.

Your blood sugar is dipping.
I'll get you a sandwich. Matt.

A baby dies and no-one
so much as blinks?

I'm not having it.

No. Don't remember.

Maybe, madam, if you were to look at
the photograph for more than two
seconds, it would jog your memory.

You have sold some of these coats.

Maybe you'll remember.
A baby no older than ten months old.

African-Caribbean.
Possibly a young mum.

When you want something,
you're round here, no problem.

Where were you
the three times I were burgled, eh?

I know the baby.

Remember? His mother came in. Bought
the cot and the coat. Paid in cash.

I think we'll just talk to Kostas.
If that's OK?

Be my guest.
Thank you.

Yeah, I delivered it.
She had a flat on the ground floor,
off Kings Cross Road.

Hallem Street, I think it was.

Are you the caretaker here, sir?
Oui.

Dionne Farrah.
Number six. Numero six.

Have you seen her lately?

Avez-vous...

What's "seen"?

Vous n'avez pas vu la mere
hier ou aujourd'hui?

Vous avez un clef pour
l'appartement?

Oui. Suivez-moi.

Merci.

He's gonna let us in.
You speak French.

You think I'm some sort of
Neanderthal?

You might have said something
before I made a tit of myself.

Where's the fun in that?

Hello.

Someone left in a hurry.

I don't blame 'em.

Ronnie.

Lovely.

Fingerprints match one of the sets
from the holdall.

And here's the murder weapon.
The heating system.

Pumping out carbon monoxide.
A death trap. Literally.

Signs of tampering. Quite recent.

Plus, a carbon-monoxide alarm
set up, ready to go. No batteries.

Easily removed, if you don't want
your neighbours to know
what you're up to.

Thanks, Pete.
Sure.

So, what, you reckon a parent
gassing their own child?

I've seen worse.

Well, yeah, but -
A baby crying.

A single mum. Two hours' kip a night
for six months. Easily done, mate.

I dunno.

Whatever happened to motherly love?

I'd have thrown myself in front of
a speeding lorry for my kids.

Other days, I'd have happily shook
'em until they rattled.

Thank you.

Eight flats in total.
Four currently unoccupied.

Right. Qui habite a numero trois?

Monsieur Turner.

Turner?
Il arrive la.

Mr Turner.
All right, lads? What's occurring?

DS Brooks. This is DS Devlin.

We're looking for a neighbour
of yours. A Dionne Farrah.

Why? What's she done?

When was the last time you saw her?

Ah, well, I live on the floor above,
so our paths don't really cross.

I hear the baby screaming through
the floorboards all night, though.

He's got a right pair of lungs
on him.

Did she have a husband?

I don't think so. Not that I saw.

No, I think it's just her
and the baby.

I think she might be a lezzer.

A lot of them about, these days,
isn't there?

Not that I mind, as long as they let
us have a little watch. Eh?

How long have you lived here,
Mr Turner?

Erm... A couple of months.

And is the building
always this empty?

Yeah, it is, yeah. A lot of them
took the buy-out from the landlady.

Five grand to get out.
It's pretty persuasive.

Don't you qualify?

No. No, I'm on the sick, you see,
from the Post Office. Er... RSI.

But the woman at the letting agency,
Mrs Walters, she took pity on me.

She let me have a room, short-term
only. A generous landlady.

Three years ago,
I couldn't give a flat away.

These days, I could have 'em
wrestling naked in t'mud
to decide who gets them.

Can't be that many people fighting
over that block, surely?

Regent's Quarter. The new
St Pancras. A proper up-and-comer.

So you got yourself a bargain.
Oh, yeah.

I wish.

I only heard about it at the last
minute, I got the bid accepted,

not realising the buyer had to
honour existing contracts and rents.

Some of those tenants are on
fixed contracts for five years.

Always read the tiny print,
gentlemen.

But the building's half empty.

Yeah, well, if we want to renovate,
and we do,

we have to buy them
out of their contracts,

which is where we are now.

OK. Here we are. Dionne Farrah.

Resident since 2006. References
taken from the previous owner.

One from an employer. Another from
a teacher based in Archway.

There you go.

So what happens to the people
who take all the buy-outs and can't
afford to live in the area any more?

They move to areas
where they can afford it.

Oh, right, and when that gets
gentrified, where do they go, then?

So we don't improve these areas?

Kings Cross has always been a dump.
Finally, it's improving.

That is communities all over
the city being displaced.

Areas change. Cities shift. Nothing
new. Been happening for decades.

In 20 years' time, when the only
gaff you can afford to live in
is a caravan, think of me.

Really? Well, that is great.
OK. I'll ring you back.

Please, if you could.
Bye-bye.

OK. Listen up. Dionne Farrah
made one call from a mobile phone
yesterday morning.

Five hours after the baby's body
was found. To a Leona Collins.

Leona Collins?
Yeah. Wait.

Wait, wait, wait. Leona Collins.

Yes.

Leona Collins was Dionne's referee
for the flat. Admit it. I am good.

Well, I am better, because
Leona Collins' maiden name was...

Not Farrah?
Farrah.

Dionne has a sister.
Let's go. I'll call you back.

I spoke to her a couple of days ago.

What about?

The usual stuff. Sister stuff.

And since then?
Look, I ain't seen her.

Leona, does Dionne have children?

A little boy.

Sean.

Sean?

And how old is Sean?
Nine months.

Lovely.

Do you enjoy being an auntie, Leona?

Yeah, I bet.

What are you gonna get him
for his birthday?

You seem the sort of person
family means a lot to.

The kind of girl that'd like
to protect her own.

Is this your nephew?

Where's your sister?

It's all right, Lee.
I don't want to hide any more.

It's my fault.

It's all my fault.

So why did you take the batteries
from the CO alarm, Dionne?

I didn't.

I didn't even know I had one.

OK.

Just talk us through what happened.

I had to get to work.

I clean offices on Pentonville Road.

I was already late three times
in the last month, because of Sean.

On my last warning.

I can't afford to lose the job.

What about Sean's father?

He was killed in a car accident
four months before he was born.

He never saw Sean.

Do you normally leave Sean
on his own while you go to work?

No!

I phoned Serena.
She's the baby-sitter.

She said she was like three minutes
away. I thought he'd be OK.

She said she was on her way.

So you left Sean in the flat.

I got home about midnight.

The flat was all dark and no Serena.

I went over to Sean's cot.
I leaned in, trying to hear him
breathe, but I couldn't.

So I reached out, all gently,
to touch him, but he wouldn't move.

So I picked him up

and he was all...

I tried to give him mouth-to-mouth,
but I don't know how to give
mouth-to-mouth properly.

I never learnt, I should have
learnt, but he wouldn't move

and he's such a light sleeper
and I knew then, I knew he was...

I took him to the hospital.

And you left him at the entrance.
I didn't know what I was doing.

I just thought
it was the best place for him.

I couldn't face anyone.

All the questions.

I knew they'd be thinking
the same thing.

It's all my fault.

She had no intent to kill
or cause harm.

Oh, come on, if you prosecute her,
who does it serve?

We'll have to see what the CPS say.
If we play it by the book,

she's looking at manslaughter
by gross negligence.

She was worried about her job.
She's got no partner, no support.

What would you have done?
Waited for the baby-sitter.

Dionne said that when she spoke
to you, you told her
you were three minutes away.

I was on the bus.

There was this van
in the middle of the road.

Everyone was yelling at the driver.

It should have only taken
three or four minutes, but...

it turned out being about 20.

So, why weren't you
looking after Sean

when Dionne got back from work?

I never got in. I've only got
the key to Dionne's flat.

They changed the locks
on the main door a few weeks back.
I never got a copy.

The caretaker wouldn't let me in.

Caretaker! Have you seen
the state of that place?

I told him
I'd come to baby-sit Sean.

He said he couldn't let me in.
He said he'd never seen me before.

I was outside the flat for like
half an hour, buzzing other people,

waiting for someone to come out.

And then the caretaker came out
again and said if I didn't go,
then he'd call the police.

Erm, une jeune fille, seize ans,

says you wouldn't let her
into the building.

Non, je ne l'ai jamais vue.

He says he never saw her,
never answered the door to her.

Well, someone's lying.

Did you...

Did you take the batteries
out of that?

Je ne l'ai jamais touche.

Reckons he never touched it.

A lot of "jamais" round here, mate.

So who's guilty here?

A young mum for leaving her baby,
a baby-sitter for not doing her job

or that caretaker
for not letting her in?

If Dionne didn't remove
those CO alarm batteries,
it puts her in a different light.

Yeah.
I mean, the building's half empty.

Look at it.

The place is an absolute dump.

The gas systems
aren't being checked, at all.

And the landlady's got her heart
set on redevelopment.

So what does my devious mind
conclude from that little lot?

The landlady wants that building
cleared of tenants.

Yeah.

The heating engineers who've got
the contract for the building,

they haven't had a maintenance
request in 15 months.

They tried to do an annual check,
but they couldn't get access.

Take a trip down to the tenants'
ombudsman on The Strand.

Find out if Maureen Walters has got
a record of driving out tenants.

Hang on. What about Dionne? She's
the one who left the kid alone.

I want to make sure we've explored
every avenue before I see a mother
accused of the death of her child.

Maureen Walters?

The Wicked Witch Of The West, when
she had properties in Notting Hill.

We need a new filing cabinet just
for her. No water. Broken doors.

Floods. Textbook methods
of how to empty a place.

Can you not get mozzarella
on the files?

So what are you doing to stop her?

Unless a private landlord
is a member of the guild,
we don't have jurisdiction.

So, you just sit here
and watch the complaints pile up?

What else can we do? We're an
ombudsman, not like you boys.

This gaff on Hallem Street. Do you
think she's trying to empty it?

You're asking me to forego
my impartiality.

Oh, perish the thought.

Put it this way,
I couldn't exclude the possibility
that's what's happening.

I don't suppose you've got
any records of former tenants
who tried to lodge complaints?

Oh, yes.

Did my head right in, that place.

I come home and the lock
on my door's been broken.

The caretaker is neither use
nor ornament.

I shove a chair against the door.
Can't get a locksmith till morning.

The middle of the bloody night,
smash, the door is off its hinges.

That mad git Turner is in my lounge.

The RSI postie with a lesbian
fetish.

He's throwing my CDs on the floor,
switching t'telly on full volume.

Acting like he's drunk.

When you say acting -

Oh, I know what a pissed bloke
smells like.

He didn't smell of booze, at all.
More like... Lynx and mouthwash.

Turner's a thug.

He got what he wanted. I moved out.

Well done him.

I want this thing wrapped up.
Oh, guv.

Yes? What have you got? I did a full
FIU on the landlady's company.

Guess what? Mike Turner is on
the payroll. So we checked him out.

He's got two previous convictions.
One for ABH. One for GBH.

Both on tenants who claim
he was harassing them
to get them out of their homes.

From property records, ex-tenants,

we reckon this must be
the sixth building
he's cleared for the company.

Fine. This makes him a thug,
but not a killer.

Dionne Farrah also mentioned
that she hadn't messed around
with the heating system in her flat,

yet the Scene Of Crime Officer said
it had definitely been tampered
with.

The maintenance company say a bloke
matching Turner's description

barred them access to the flats,

saying that he was looking after
the heating systems.

So he sabotages the heating
to get the mum out.
Ends up killing the baby.

Guv, if Mike Turner is responsible
for the death of this child,

we really should be out there,
bringing him in.

Let me talk to James Steel
from the CPS,
see if we've got enough for him.

It's clear Mike Turner
was harassing tenants,

but you've got to show me proof
he's responsible for Sean's death.

At the moment, we can only prove...

I don't know.
Harassment of occupier?

Or maybe agent of the landlord
withholding services from occupier.

And what is that? That's like,
two years, max. Just a fine.

I mean, a baby has been gassed
to death.

I appreciate that and we all want
to convict whoever is responsible,

but, trust me, at the moment,

I just don't have enough to convince
a jury of Turner's guilt.

And if we prosecute him without
enough evidence, we won't get
justice for Sean or his mother.

So what do you need?

Evidence directly linking Mike
Turner's actions to Sean's death.

You get me that,
I'll put him in the dock.

This caretaker, Daniel Matoukou,

it must have been his job to service
the gas system that killed Sean.

What's he got to say for himself?

Well, not a lot, because he barely
speaks any English.

What is it, Matt?

I can hear your brain whirring
from here.

Well, the, erm, caretaker.

Serena said that he threatened
to call the police, told her
he'd never seen her before.

So?

Well, do you think
Serena speaks that much French?

Thank you, Serena.
That's very helpful.

Result. She says the man
who wouldn't let her in was White,
Northern and big-boned.

So, not the caretaker, at all.
It was Mike Turner.

He barred her access.
Just like he barred the maintenance
people from checking the heaters.

Enough of a link?

Now we can build a case.

I said, stop it! Leave me alone,
you bloody great ape!

This wood is rotten, Mrs Murphy.
It needs to be replaced.

Only after you started
hacking away at it!

Got the cuffs?

I've just had that painted!

Matt, cuffs.
Get off me!

Michael Turner, I'm arresting you
on the manslaughter of Sean Farrah.

You do not have to say anything,
but it may harm your defence,

if you do not mention,
when questioned, something which you
later rely on in court.

Dionne, we've arrested Mike Turner.

We believe the owners of the
building are trying to harass the
tenants by damaging the heating
systems.

You mean, they did it on purpose?

They killed my boy.

I'm so sorry, Dionne.

Throwing old ladies and young
mothers onto the street to make a
few quid?

This Mike Turner is below amoeba.

Unlawful act manslaughter?
That's what I'm going for.

I don't see it.
Where's the unlawful act?

The law requires that landlords
service gas systems and have them
safety-checked annually.

The tests on the system
found the CO levels were more than
800 parts per million.

The Health And Safety Executive's
safety level is 50.

Statistics. Blind me with science.
I couldn't give a rat's backside.

You have to convince me of intent,

that Turner essentially knew
that what he was doing was unlawful.

A big loophole
for him to dance through.

Turner intended to make
the conditions unliveable,
so that the tenants would leave.

He's done this
half a dozen times before.

If I get his previous convictions
admitted, the context is clear.

You'll need a judge and jury
in generous moods.

We've got good evidence.
Enough of it?

We need direct evidence that Turner
tampered with the gas system.

Without it, I'm not convinced.

What if we turn the caretaker,
Daniel Matoukou, to give evidence
against Turner?

Mr Matoukou knew the gas system was
unreliable, he knew the CO alarms
weren't functioning properly,

but he didn't try to get them
repaired or serviced.

Oh, come on.
He's just the caretaker.

Someone will take responsibility
for this baby's death.

Either he tells us about Mike Turner
or we charge him with manslaughter.

Scale his charge down to withholding
services from a tenant.
A summary offence only.

Then he'll talk.

Who tampered with the gas system?

Mike Turner.

Unlawful act manslaughter?

What's the matter with you?
Huge credibility problems here.

Any jury with half a brain cell
between them

will see that Matoukou is simply
trying to shift blame
onto Mr Turner.

He is the caretaker. The building
and services are his responsibility.

Nothing to do with us whatsoever.

Mr Turner is an habitual offender.

One previous conviction for GBH,
one for ABH, both against tenants.

I reckon a jury will be fascinated
by his previous convictions.

You've been sniffing the Tipp-Ex.
No judge will allow that.

Take up golf, James.
A better use of your energies.

Come along, Mr Turner.

See you in court.

You can't allow this, my lady.
It's totally prejudicial.

The cases are identical.

Mr Turner assaulted tenants who were
trying to repair essential services.

Assaults on people.
Not tampering with gas systems.

Entirely different, my lady.

Yes, thank you, Mr Ridley.

Let me get this clear.

Making the buildings unliveable is
intent to cause injury.

That's what's common
to all these incidents?

Yes. Thank you, my lady.

You're not going to allow this?

Do you know? I think I am.

It's a novel theory
and I rather like it.

Mr Turner's previous convictions
may be admitted as evidence.

I tried to push past,

but he wasn't having any of it.

He just slammed the door in my face.

I tried to get in.

I really did. I adored Sean.

If I'd known
what was gonna happen, I...

The man who blocked your access
to the building,

is he in this court?

That's him.

He said he'd never seen me before,
but I've been there loads of times.

For the record, the witness was
pointing at the defendant.

No further questions.

Miss Jackson...
May I call you Serena?

Serena, you told the police
that Mr Turner was the caretaker.

That's right.

But he's not.

If you'd been there so often,
why didn't you know that?

He was around a lot.

I just assumed.

So you didn't really know
who he was.

Is it possible, therefore,
that he didn't know who you were?

J'ai dit a Monsieur Turner
que je voulais reparer le reseau
de gas de Mademoiselle Farrah.

I told Mr Turner I was trying to fix
Miss Farrah's gas system.

And what did Mr Turner do?
Qu'a fait Monsieur Turner?

Il m'a dit de laisser tomber.
He told me to leave it.

Il m'a ordonne de m'ecarter
du systeme de gas.

He pulled me away. Et puis il a
donne un coup de marteau dessus.

And then he gave it a thump
with a hammer.

As the level of carbon monoxide
in the room increased,

the child would have suffered
from cerebral oedema.

Can you explain what that is,
please, Mr Stanton?

Cerebral oedema causes brain cells
to crush into each other,

through swelling,

essentially killing the cells
as they're compacted.

Could the carbon-monoxide leak
have been caused by a source

other than the gas heating system?

I don't believe so.

And, in your expert opinion,
would Mr Turner's attack
on the gas system

have increased the chances
of such a fatal leak?

In my opinion, yes.

Thank you. No further questions.

I don't know if I can do this.

All those people looking at me.

This is your chance to tell everyone
the truth, Dionne.

I dreamt of Sean last night.

He was asleep in the cot next to me,

like none of this had happened.

When I woke up...

..it was like I was losing him
all over again.

I thought Sean would only be
on his own for five minutes at most.

I thought...

I thought he'd be fine.

How long was Sean alone?

Seven hours.

When you left,

did you notice anything unusual
about the air in the room?

No.

And when you returned?

It was like...

thick.

I opened the window, before I...

..saw Sean.

Thank you.

No further questions.

This must be very distressing,
Miss Farrah. I'll be brief.

Can you just explain to the court

why you didn't phone home

to check with Miss Jackson
that everything was all right?

We're not allowed phones at work.

Two months back, one of the cleaners
got sacked for making calls
during work time.

You don't have breaks?
I went to my locker to get my phone.

It had run out of battery.
I must have left it on.

So I went outside to use
the phone box across the street,
but it wasn't working.

By the time I'd done that,
my ten minutes was up.

None of your co-workers had phones?
The break was over -

You clean an office block,
how many telephones -

I'd be fired if I used any of them.

So your job is more important to you
than the welfare of your child?

My lady.
Mr Ridley.

A little compassion goes a long way.

Miss Farrah, isn't it true
you could have made a phone call,
if you'd really wanted to?

I don't know.

Maybe.

Yes.

So, who is actually responsible
for the death of little Sean?

This is why the rest of Ridley's
chambers call him "Limbo".

There's nothing he won't stoop to.

He may be making your case for you.
The jury will have sympathy
for the mother after that.

Are you ready for this?
There's been a note from the jury.

One of the jurors
speaks fluent French.

He's questioning
Daniel Matoukou's testimony.

A mistranslation.
I don't know how serious.

Tell me Ridley's not applying
to discharge the jury?

Looks like he'll succeed.
Mike Turner would go free
on a technicality.

I just told them what I heard.

I lived in France for 20 years.

He said, "ordered", not "pulled".

And I have a note from other jurors

stating that you corrected
three other words

that you considered mistranslations.

I just told them what Mr Matoukou
really said.

I wasn't trying to be difficult.
So more than one word.

My lady, how can we now be certain

that the rest
of the translated evidence

has been correctly understood
by the jury?

Yes, thank you, Mr Ridley.

I agree.

It's a mess.

It's more than a mess.
The trial is aborted.

I don't care
how many trials it takes.

Dionne Farrah and her baby
will get justice.

Your client can't wriggle
out of this indefinitely.

You don't need golf.
You need therapy.

Brutal, unforgiving therapy.

How do you sleep at night, Robert?

In a gorgeous hand-made bed,
imported from Osaka.

But then, of course, I don't have
to make do on a CPS salary.

We've got to retry Mike Turner.

You're letting your heart
rule your head. A retrial means
going back to square one.

You'd have to get Turner's
criminal record admitted again.

I managed it last time.
Yeah. You got lucky.

No guarantee that a new judge
will be quite so obliging.

And without Turner's previous,
your case looks perilously thin.

So he walks free?

I don't like it any more than you
do.

We have to make do
with what we have at our disposal.

I might be able to help you there.

Looking through Turner's file,

on his last assault charge,
he was offered to deal down
to a year in prison,

if he gave up Maureen Walters -
he didn't bite.

He went to prison rather than give
evidence against his boss?

That's some loyalty.
Because she's not his boss.

Mike Turner is a silent partner
in the whole company.

All of those buildings,
they own them together.

Their property portfolio must be
worth nearly £5 million.

While a child dies in squalor
in one of their flats.

So Maureen Walters must have known
exactly what Mike Turner was doing.

They must have hatched the plan
together to get the tenants out.

She's culpable.
Mm.

We go after Maureen Walters.

As head of the company,
the buck stops with her.
We put her in the dock.

Hold on. If they're partners, then
they will deny everything in unison.

We have to be more pragmatic.
But surely -

No trial, but we get Turner
and Walters to plead guilty
to a lesser charge.

George, a baby was killed.

Dionne Farrah's life
has been destroyed.

This way, we convict those
responsible.

The most they'd get would be
a couple of months.

They could even walk out
of court with fines.

For a child's death?
That's a disgrace.

George is right.

A trial is no guarantee of success.

I'd rather see them convicted
of something, than walk free.

Let's bring Turner and Walters in,
see if they'll take it.

'You're asking me to plead guilty?'

"Withdrawing services with intent
to cause occupier to leave."

Scraping the barrel a bit, James.

If you don't accept my proposal,
I will take Mr Turner back to trial

and I'll dig up every charge
possible to level at Mrs Walters.

That baby's death
had nothing to do with me.

I'm just trying to earn a living,
keep my head above water.

But that's not possible, these days,
is it?

Nobody takes responsibility
for their own lives.

Sorry? Would it kill that girl
to check the CO alarm herself? Eh?

Batteries.
That's all it would have taken.

But, no, she'd rather complain
than do something.

The law states it's your
responsibility to ensure your -

Don't get me started about the law.

Do you know the amount of red tape
I have to deal with every day?

It's a wonder there's any
small businesses left.

Every day, there's some
new legislation making it impossible
to earn an honest living.

Wow. A fascinating interpretation
of "honest".

I did nothing to hurt that baby.

We're leaving.

You don't even care, do you?

What? I beg your pardon?
I'll have you for slander.

Come on, Mike.
Is there something funny?

I've done prison.
A few months inside, it's easy.

It won't get that far. Matoukou's
memory won't be so clear next time.

Daniel Matoukou's evidence
is on the record.

Are you admitting threatening a
witness? No. She didn't say a word.

None of this ever happened.
We were never here.

She's threatening to sue you?

For slander?

After she blamed Dionne Farrah
for the death of her baby.

She's a one-off, that woman.

She knows you haven't got
enough on her.

That digging you wanted.
Tell me you found treasure.

Mike Turner previously served
15 months in prison
for the assault charges.

During that time, Environmental
Health Officers received and upheld

49 complaints from tenants
against Maureen Walters.

So?

The moment Mike Turner is released,
the complaints drop.

Turner gets out and starts bullying
tenants again.

There's something else.

Nine months ago, the Environmental
Health Inspector changed.

The new inspector
is pretty generous.

Of the 27 complaints that were made
against Maureen Walters since then,

every single one has been resolved
in her favour.

That's an impressive success rate.

I love the smell of bribery
in the evening.

See what you can prove.

Oh, and Alesha...

Brilliant work. Thank you.

I've got five minutes.

Nine months ago, you were covering
Maureen Walters' buildings.

What changed?
A new manager came in.

Reorganised the way
we divided up casework.

So who took over complaints against
Maureen Walters?

Charlie Dias.
Does he take bribes?

I didn't hear that.

Did Maureen Walters
ever offer you a bribe?

She hinted at it.
I'm not saying that I wasn't
tempted.

You know how much they pay us?

The wife was going on
about a new fridge.

One nod to Maureen Walters
and everyone would have been happy.

Has Charlie Dias bought a new fridge
recently?

Your five minutes are up.

Charlie Dias.
Works at Environmental Health.

Withdraws 200 quid a week from his
current account, going back years.

The past nine months?
Nothing. Not a penny.

Doesn't prove he took bribes.

His wife paid for her weekly shop by
debit card for the last three years.

The past nine months? Cash only.

So they've got extra cash.
Still no link to Maureen Walters.

Doesn't prove anything.

What if someone offers Dias a bribe?

He takes the bribe.

We get enough evidence like that,

a jury will see that Maureen Walters
was responsible for Sean's death.

Set it up.

Look, I'm just asking. Why me?

We, er, took a vote.

We decided you were the one who
looked most like a dodgy landlord.

You're supposed to be my mate.

Maybe take your tie off.

Perfect.

Antony Simpson?
Yeah.

Charles Dias. Environmental Health.

Right. We've got, er,

three complaints, two about the
central heating, one about the damp.

Yeah, I think those are...
a misunderstanding.

I'm having the place
totally renovated.

Well, I'm gonna have to take a look,
but I must warn you -

Do we have to do this now?

What else would we do?

Careful. Wait till he asks.

He knows what he's doing.

We're not just pretty faces,
you know.

I don't want to add
to your paperwork.
How can we make this go away?

You tell me, Mr Simpson.

Well, if I knew
what you were looking for -

What are you looking for?

I don't want to insult you, Mr Dias.

£500.

Here we go.
'What about...£250?'

Is this the way in?
What about £300? £300, then.

Cash? Now?

Cash. Absolutely. Yeah. Good.

That's one hundred.
Very much obliged.

Two hundred...

Charles Dias, you are under arrest
for corruption.

Oh, no. No, no. You can't do this.

Can I have my tie back now?

Entrapment. You stitched him up.

He solicited the bribe.

Mr Dias is going to resign.
Without a pension.

Then he's going to give us
the names of every landlord
who ever bribed him.

Or he'll find himself in the dock.

Who do you want first?

In my experience, Mr Turner, people
change their plea for two reasons.

Conscience or self-preservation.

Now, as conscience seems beyond you,

I'm giving you one last chance
to save yourself.

We've charged Maureen Walters
with 16 counts of bribing
a public official.

Mrs Walters claims it was your idea.

What...

has she been saying, the lying cow?

Mr Turner, silence is your friend.

We're going to charge you both with
manslaughter by gross negligence,
over Sean Farrah's death.

Prison may be easy for you,
Mr Turner, but 15 years?

That's a whole slab of your life.

I've been through one trial.
Why keep coming back at me?

For all the years Dionne Farrah
will never spend with her son.

What did you have in mind, James?

Maureen Walters has already begun
to turn on you.

Here's where your self-preservation
can kick in.

Give evidence against her,
in exchange for a lesser charge

or be back in the dock
alongside her.

The old divide and conquer, eh?

A baby died.

A baby named Sean Farrah.
He was nine months old.

Maureen Walters didn't strangle
Sean.

She didn't stab him or run him over.

Maureen Walters never even met
Sean Farrah.

She did, however, fail to maintain
gas-central-heating systems,

in a deliberate attempt
to force her tenants to leave.

She bribed Environmental Health
Officers to look the other way

and, in doing so, she breached
her duty of care to Sean.

A breach amounting to
gross negligence.

Why did she commit this breach?

Because she wanted more money.

She wilfully and repeatedly

placed the value of her property
above the value of a human life.

No parent should outlive their child

and convicting Maureen Walters
won't bring Sean Farrah
back to his mother,

but it will send a forceful warning
to others.

We all have a duty of care
towards one another.

And no breach shall go unpunished.

In relation to the count of
manslaughter by gross negligence,

do you find the defendant, Maureen
Walters, guilty or not guilty?

Guilty.

Well done, James. A good result.

Go home.

Have a drink. It's over.

For us, maybe.

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