1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,080 In the criminal justice system, 2 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:05,520 the People are represented by two separate, equally important groups - 3 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:07,760 the police, who investigate crime, 4 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:10,480 and the crown prosecutors, who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,360 These are their stories. 6 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,360 No, no! We can't finish sooner. I'm not a miracle worker. 7 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:27,240 Hey, if I was a miracle worker I'd be on a pleasure boat in Hawaii. 8 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:29,360 Oh! 9 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,360 Hello? Hello? 10 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:35,760 Bloody developer put the phone down! Jarek... 11 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,360 ..come here. There's something you should see. 12 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:59,000 How long's it been empty? About a year. 13 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,160 And who owned it before? The Council. 14 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:15,240 Young. Eight, nine. 15 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:21,560 Poor kid. So what happened? Crawled in over the top and fell in? 16 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,360 Massive skull fracture. More likely a hit. 17 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,240 Not a gentle cuff round the ear, either. 18 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:30,840 Boy or girl? Male. 19 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,200 How long's he been in there? Matt? Old West Ham badge. 20 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,800 I've got one of these. That's original. 21 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,200 That kid's been in there for over 20 years. 22 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,800 Could be a mum and dad out there still hoping their son's alive. 23 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:33,640 When I joined CID, the first week, we had a young girl go missing. 24 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:36,240 She was 10. Her name was Shona Morris. 25 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:38,440 I still catch myself looking for her now. 26 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:40,480 Who lived in that house? 27 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,240 Till '95 it was privately owned. There's no list of tenants. 28 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:45,840 We need to know who this poor boy is. 29 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:48,520 Get Angie on to it. 30 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:51,440 Merlin database. All missing children 31 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:54,560 from 1981 to 1984. 32 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:57,840 Oh. That is a lot of kids. 33 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,120 About 200 open cases just last year. 34 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,360 The press only feature the pretty ones. 35 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,520 Male, eight years old. Reported missing 36 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,840 July 16, 1983. Thomas Keegan. 37 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,400 59 Kenville Road. Same street the body was found. 38 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,160 Says he had a broken collarbone. 39 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:15,880 Yeah, we're checking the database 40 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:17,960 for missing kids with similar injuries. 41 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:20,400 Mother Philippa Keegan. Arthur Keegan the dad. 42 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,360 But he died the year before, 1982. 43 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:26,280 How many losses can one woman take? 44 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,320 Dad was born 1939, Upton Park, E15. 45 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:31,280 So his dad got him into the Hammers. 46 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,680 Sorry? West Ham. Known as the Hammers 47 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,440 cos they keep getting...hammered. Watch it, sunshine. 48 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:39,720 Investigating officer DS... 49 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,280 McFadden. I'm fluent in Illegible. 50 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:45,520 Oh, and if you look at the last page they had a suspect. Edward Connor. 51 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,040 MOBILE PHONE RINGS 52 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,880 Devlin. Yeah? 53 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:54,680 The boy in the wall had a broken collarbone. 54 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:56,840 Brilliant. Thank you very much. It's him. 55 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:00,120 Trace Jeffrey McFadden. Game on. 56 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:03,640 So this is what retired Old Bill get up to, is it? 57 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:05,600 Bet you can't wait. 58 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,640 So anyway, Jeff. This old case of yours, mate. 59 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:11,480 Missing child, 1983. 60 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:16,960 Keegan. Eight years old, blue eyes, brown hair, 61 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:19,800 broken collarbone, West Ham fan. Blimey! 62 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,840 Sounds like you just read the file. You ever done a missing kid? 63 00:04:23,840 --> 00:04:26,160 Stays with you, doesn't it? 64 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:28,160 So the case is alive again? 65 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,240 We found Thomas. 66 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,680 Tommy. Tommy. 67 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,600 Bones in a basement inside a fireplace, opposite his home. 68 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,400 Where the poofter lived? Sorry? 69 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:40,520 Edward Connor. 70 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:42,560 You mean the suspect from the file. 71 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:44,440 He's the last one to see the boy alive. 72 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,480 He's mucking about with him on the steps. 73 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,160 An hour later, Connor goes for a drive. 74 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:52,040 He did it. But we couldn't nail him, 75 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:55,360 despite going over the boot of his car with a fine-tooth comb. 76 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:59,680 He couldn't tell me where he'd been or who was with that night. 77 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,280 I was sure he'd taken Tommy in the boot of his car 78 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:04,880 for his own sick pleasure. 79 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:06,600 You might have searched the house. 80 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,720 We did, Smartarse. Jeff - sorry - 81 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,760 where we can find Edward Connor? 82 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:18,560 Moved out, changed his name, went off radar. 83 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,080 Now if that isn't a sign of guilt, what is? 84 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:23,280 Forensic evidence maybe? A corpse? 85 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:25,800 OK, so we missed the corpse. 86 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,000 But we had the right guy. 87 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:33,880 "OK, so we missed the corpse." 88 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,160 OK, so you're the crappiest copper I've ever met. 89 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:38,480 He's just a product of his time, Matt. 90 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,240 There were no good detectives? Yeah, you're talking to one. 91 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,360 But like I keep telling you, I am special. 92 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,000 So now we find Edward Connor, even though he's changed his name? 93 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,440 Yeah, but first we need to talk to Tommy's mum. 94 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,600 Thanks to that bigoted little prat, 95 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,080 she probably hasn't slept in 25 years. 96 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,640 Are you sure it's him? 97 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:05,760 As sure as we can be, ma'am. 98 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,280 I've been waiting for this. 99 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:15,880 But part of me still thought... 100 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:18,320 He was still out there? 101 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,400 I know. 102 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:25,160 I'm sorry. 103 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,960 We're actually looking for Edward Connor, Mrs Keegan. 104 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:35,560 If you remember at the time, he was a suspect. 105 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:37,560 I didn't think it was him. 106 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,640 But if Tommy was found in the basement... 107 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,040 Let me get you a tissue, ma'am. 108 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:52,360 I hope you don't mind if I ask, what do you remember about that day? 109 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:58,080 Um... I dropped him off at school. 110 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:05,280 Didn't kiss him - didn't want to embarrass him. 111 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:11,120 It was my teacher training day, so he was going to a friend's for tea. 112 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:13,280 It was just the two of us, you see. 113 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:17,120 because his dad died a year earlier. 114 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:23,320 When I came to pick him up, Joe's mum called them in. 115 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,840 But Joe said they'd argued and Tommy had gone home. 116 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:33,480 I said not to worry, because we only lived a few streets away, 117 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,640 and Tommy was really good at crossing roads, 118 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:39,840 and the key was under the mat. 119 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,120 But he wasn't at home. 120 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:57,520 I tried the neighbours, 121 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:00,800 and then I called the police. 122 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:05,640 I remember saying, "I'm sure it's nothing. He'll be back any second." 123 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:12,720 I stayed in that house for 20 years. 124 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:17,000 You know, just in case. 125 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,480 How can she still believe in God after what happened? 126 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,560 You won't be lighting a candle for little Tommy, then? 127 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:48,120 You already have, haven't you? 128 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:50,880 Once a Catholic. 129 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:55,040 Don't suppose it does any harm to throw in the odd prayer, eh? 130 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:59,640 At the moment we're tracing the previous tenants of Kenville Road. 131 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,000 25 years, people move on. 132 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,120 Thank you very much, Janey. You're an angel. Ta, love. Bye. 133 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,560 OK, we've got a trace. Vernon Mortimer. 134 00:09:07,560 --> 00:09:11,600 Works and Pensions says he retired to Pimlico in 2005, so there's a chance 135 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:14,000 he stayed in touch with Edward Connor. 136 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,320 Let's hope he's in. 137 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:21,800 He's not in. Moved out about a year ago, according to the caretaker. 138 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,680 Is that for me? Yeah. Cheers. 139 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:26,840 Right. Like chasing ghosts, isn't it? 140 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,560 But...he left his flat to his daughter who works around the corner 141 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:33,760 in, I quote, "one of them overpriced poncey little flower gaffs". 142 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:40,040 You grew up in Kenville Road, Ladbroke Grove? Yeah. 143 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:42,120 What's this about? 144 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:45,680 A little boy. 145 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,960 Do you remember him? Yeah, that's Tommy. 146 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:52,520 He was my friend. He disappeared. 147 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:56,080 We recently found his remains, 148 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:59,120 in the basement of the building in which you grew up. 149 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:00,880 God, no. That's horrible. 150 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:03,280 What do you remember about the day he went missing? 151 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:06,840 It's such a long time ago. 152 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:11,840 Well, we know Tommy went to his friend Joe's house after school. 153 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:15,080 Yeah, that's right, because I think I wanted to go with them, 154 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:18,120 but my mum wouldn't let me. I don't think I was very well. 155 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:22,760 But I know I played outside the house for a while. 156 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:25,280 My mum was going out, I think. 157 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,560 And then I got into my pyjamas, 158 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:31,040 and Dad made me some tea. 159 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:34,840 Tomato soup and Dairylea sandwiches. Well remembered. 160 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,120 Well, he always made me that if I was ill or upset. 161 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:40,040 And then I went to bed. 162 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:43,840 And I didn't wake until Mum told me the police wanted to talk to me, 163 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,120 and that was the next morning. 164 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:49,560 So...no, I didn't see Tommy. 165 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:54,760 What about Edward Connor? He lived in the flat upstairs. 166 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:56,680 A publisher. Remember him? 167 00:10:56,680 --> 00:11:01,360 No, I didn't see him either. Sorry. 168 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:06,480 Well, we'd like to talk to your parents. 169 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:10,320 Oh, they moved out of London a year ago. They live in Lewes. 170 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:13,400 Lewes is lovely. Is it? I've never been. 171 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:19,240 It shook us all. 172 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,240 Thomas was a sweet boy. 173 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:27,000 He only lost his dad a year before. 174 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:28,800 Julia wasn't well. 175 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:31,240 You... You went out, right? 176 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:33,120 To the PTA meeting, yes. 177 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:39,480 When I left at about 5:30, Thomas was with Edward Connor on the steps. 178 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:42,360 But I said all this in my statement. 179 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:47,680 Yeah, but we now know that Tommy was probably killed inside the building, 180 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:49,640 so I mean...we still have to... 181 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:51,560 Do your job. Of course. 182 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:54,240 We're trying to track Connor down. He's changed his name. 183 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:56,360 To Ralph Drake. Yes, I know. 184 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,880 And he wrote several children's books under that pseudonym. 185 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:02,280 Oh, I kept tabs on him down the years. 186 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:04,160 We all knew it was him. 187 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:07,200 I told her there was no proof. Edward Connor was a volunteer 188 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,360 at St Peter's Church youth group. Oh, not this again. 189 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,520 And three months after Thomas disappeared, 190 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:17,080 he was accused of propositioning a 12-year-old boy there. 191 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,600 Well, I call that proof, don't you? 192 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:23,200 Just make sure you get him this time. 193 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:33,360 That cheeky little bastard who made the complaint - he knew 194 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:36,840 I'd been arrested over Tommy's disappearance, and wanted attention. 195 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,880 He retracted it soon after, 196 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:41,640 but no one wanted to hear that, 197 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:45,360 because all gays abuse kids, as you know. 198 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:50,640 Well, we both know most child abusers are straight, don't we, Mr Connor? 199 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,400 So why don't you tell us about the day Tommy disappeared? 200 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,440 Why should I? Because we want to get to the truth. 201 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:01,280 Deja vu. 202 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,440 We chatted outside on the steps. 203 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:11,120 Then I went in and left him playing football. 204 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:14,040 I came out a bit later to go for a drive, 205 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:16,280 and he was gone. Is that all? 206 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:18,400 Uh, no - no, I forgot. 207 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:22,400 First I took him to the basement, tortured him and killed him. 208 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:24,200 That's not funny, Mr Connor. 209 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:27,600 Mmm. Neither's being hauled off the street for no reason, 210 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:29,680 then kept in a cell for three days 211 00:13:29,680 --> 00:13:32,360 while some rat-faced detective kicks the shit out of you. 212 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:34,480 McFadden. 213 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:40,040 He... He only stopped when he drew blood and I told him I had Aids. 214 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:43,480 I couldn't give him an alibi. 215 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:45,280 My lover was married. 216 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:48,560 Gays had never been so unpopular. 217 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:52,360 After all, we brought in the plague. 218 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:54,200 Well, it's not like that now, sir. 219 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:57,120 No. No. 220 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:01,120 Now I'd get 100 grand compensation. Then, 221 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,360 I got three broken ribs and a black eye. 222 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:13,080 McFadden persecuted Edward Connor and took his eye completely off the ball. 223 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:15,520 SOCO can't find any crime stains to re-analyse. 224 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:17,920 This should have been solved back then, you know. 225 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:20,520 Thanks to McFadden, we've nothing to go on. 226 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:22,680 Think I'll go home and cuddle my boys. 227 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:24,600 Which they will hate, of course. 228 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:26,800 Night-night, guv. Night. Wait. 229 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:28,520 Listen to this. 230 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:31,160 "Mum picked me up from school. I played outside for a bit, 231 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:33,200 but I was feeling ill because of my cold." 232 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,960 "Mum was going out, so I got into my pyjamas and Dad made tea." 233 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:38,880 "Tomato soup, Dairylea sandwiches. I went to bed. I didn't wake 234 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:42,760 till Mum told me the police wanted to speak to me the next morning." 235 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:46,160 Does that ring a bell? Yeah, it's the statement we took 236 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:49,160 from Julia Mortimer this afternoon. Wrong. 237 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:52,040 It's the statement Jeff McFadden took in 1983. 238 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:54,120 It's practically word for word. 239 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:56,280 Blimey. Well, what do you make of it? 240 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:01,800 Well, maybe Tommy going missing was so traumatic for her, 241 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:04,000 that day was etched on her brain for ever. 242 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,280 No, because to her, the trauma didn't occur until the next day. 243 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:09,160 The night before was a normal night. 244 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,560 She didn't even know there was anything to witness. 245 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:13,400 Or a story to perfect. 246 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:15,280 She's lying. 247 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:23,520 After you. 248 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:25,960 Blimey, what's he done wrong? 249 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,000 I take it you're not here to buy flowers. 250 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,640 Maybe in a few weeks, for Tommy's funeral. 251 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:33,960 But we need to solve the case first. 252 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:35,800 Well, I told you what I know. 253 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:37,680 You told us what you told police in 1983. 254 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:40,320 Yeah, because that's what happened. 255 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:44,000 Well, not quite, Julia, 256 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:48,520 because one of your ex-neighbours told us she saw you with Tommy. 257 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:53,360 Yet you told us you hadn't seen him. Well, it was a long time ago. 258 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:57,120 Which is why we'd like to take a few hours now, going over that day. 259 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:58,840 Listen, I was eight years old, OK? 260 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:02,400 I don't want to go back to that day. Now I am really sorry about Tommy, 261 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,440 but it's in the past. Tell that to his mother. 262 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:09,800 Julia... No. I'm sorry. 263 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:11,880 I'm very busy. I've got work to do. 264 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:13,680 I take that as a No. 265 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:15,920 I take that as a sign she's got something to hide. 266 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:21,400 It's possible someone told her what to say. 267 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:23,600 She saw something and was sworn to secrecy? 268 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:25,880 Not necessarily. As a child, 269 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:29,760 you can be coaxed into believing an alternative version of events. 270 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:33,200 If what she witnessed was traumatic, 271 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:36,240 then the real memory could have been repressed 272 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:38,840 because it was just too hard to process. 273 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:41,280 So she doesn't know what she's hiding? 274 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:47,240 What can we do? We could try EMDR. 275 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,800 And come again? It's a process 276 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:53,000 that involves the patient following an object with their eyes. 277 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:54,720 Oh, he's good at that. 278 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:56,800 It's used to treat post-traumatic stress. 279 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,680 Bosnia, 9/11, Oklahoma bombings. It helps with the healing. 280 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:03,680 It's also used to help stimulate the processing system 281 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:05,680 and retrieve lost memories. 282 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:10,480 I dunno, sounds like a load of old mumbo jumbo to me, hypnotising. 283 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,760 EMDR is not hypnosis, Ronnie. It's a form of psychotherapy. 284 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,360 And if Dr Rawls thinks it's a good idea, I believe her. 285 00:17:16,360 --> 00:17:19,360 Anyway, it's not like we've got a whole bag full of other options. 286 00:17:19,360 --> 00:17:22,120 All right. I gotta be honest. 287 00:17:22,120 --> 00:17:25,440 I ain't sleeping cos I'm wondering what Tommy's mum's going through. 288 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:27,840 If it'll give her a bit of peace, it's worth a go. 289 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:31,040 But first, you'll have to convince Julia Mortimer. 290 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,040 I don't HAVE any buried memories. 291 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:38,760 How would you know? 292 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:41,440 Dr Rawls can help you remember what really happened. 293 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:44,000 She's used the technique before with good results. 294 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,040 They're nice flowers, Julia. Gladioli. 295 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:52,240 Knights used to wear the roots under their armour for protection. 296 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:54,000 Maybe we should try it. 297 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,360 You are our only hope. 298 00:17:59,360 --> 00:18:01,560 We'd like to find out who killed your friend. 299 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:07,200 But it's your choice, Julia. 300 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,000 Why don't you have a think about it? 301 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:19,440 I keep seeing Tommy's face... 302 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:24,600 ..frightened, crying, calling out my name. 303 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:29,600 I don't know if it's my imagination or if I'm remembering it. 304 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:33,880 Could she help me with that? 305 00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:50,640 Mum got cross because I'd been to the shop and bought sweets. 306 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:55,400 She found them in my pencil case. 307 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,240 Called me her little liar. 308 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,280 I went out into the street. 309 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:05,880 I DID see Tommy. 310 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:12,200 He waved at me, threw his ball for me to catch, 311 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,840 but Mum told me to come back indoors. 312 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:19,960 'I was getting into bed when the doorbell rang.' 313 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:21,960 'It was Tommy.' 314 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:26,280 'He wanted to make sure I was OK.' 315 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:30,200 Vernon never mentioned Tommy calling round. 316 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,000 Tommy didn't stay. Julia's Dad sent him away. 317 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,480 Then she went to bed. 318 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:39,360 I keep getting her to the point where she remembers waking up, 319 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:41,520 but I can't get her beyond that. 320 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:44,000 Well, this is getting us nowhere slowly, guys. 321 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,800 Give it a chance. She's shutting down for a reason. 322 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:50,720 I can't do this to order. Sometimes it takes years. 323 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:57,160 I woke up, wanted my dad. 324 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,880 I looked for him everywhere. I kept calling out for him. 325 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:04,480 He must have gone out. 326 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:13,600 I'm scared. 327 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:15,640 What did you do, Julia? 328 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,200 I went out of the flat... 329 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:21,560 Keep looking at the light. 330 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:25,840 You went out of the flat. 331 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:34,040 The basement light was on. I could see it through a crack in the door. 332 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:37,560 I walk towards it, 333 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:39,560 and I open the door. 334 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,440 Oh, God, can we stop? It's OK. 335 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,200 Please. You're safe. 336 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:47,920 You're doing so well, Julia. Keep going. 337 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:49,680 You open the door. 338 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,160 I went down the stairs. 339 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:02,760 My dad was there, with his back to me. 340 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,680 I was so glad to see him. 341 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:11,960 What's wrong? 342 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,560 It's Tommy. 343 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,040 He's got blood on his head, in his hair, 344 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:19,920 and he's not moving. 345 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:21,960 Where is he, Julia? 346 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,760 He's on the ground, at my dad's feet. 347 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:35,640 'It's Tommy.' 348 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,000 'He's got blood on his head, in his hair.' 349 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,320 'And he's not moving.' 350 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:43,080 'Where is he, Julia?' 351 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:44,800 'He's on the ground, 352 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,200 at my dad's feet.' 353 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,520 What do you think? 354 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,640 She's not faking it. She didn't want to remember. 355 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:01,880 It took seven sessions to get her there. 356 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,640 She's telling the truth. 357 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,520 Yeah, but will a jury believe her? 358 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,560 Building a case on this evidence... 359 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:13,120 It all hinges on Julia Mortimer being a credible witness. 360 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:15,520 She at least deserves the chance to be heard. 361 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,800 I'll talk to her. 362 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,320 Why are you estranged from your parents? 363 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,360 Dad's always interfering. 364 00:22:26,360 --> 00:22:30,600 Every time one of my relationships falls apart, he gloats. 365 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:36,440 And when my last marriage ended, I just... I couldn't face him. 366 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:40,400 Must be tough on your mum. Oh, Dad's her world. 367 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,560 No one else matters. 368 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:44,880 Why did your marriage end? 369 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,880 My husband cheated on me. 370 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,920 Hardly your dad's fault. 371 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,440 Was your father violent to you? 372 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,160 No. 373 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,600 Even that night, when he talked me through the story, 374 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:01,920 he wasn't angry. 375 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,000 He was crying. 376 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,720 Sorry for himself. 377 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:14,000 You hate your dad, don't you? No. 378 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,040 You hated him long before you allegedly remembered what he did. 379 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,480 I thought you believed me. 380 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,600 This is a vendetta, isn't it, Miss Mortimer? 381 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:23,440 You're doing this to punish him. 382 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,880 A man who's shown you nothing but love all your life. 383 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:27,680 He terrified me. 384 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,280 He kept telling me about all the bad men out there. 385 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,720 All the time, I was holding the bad man's hand! 386 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:38,040 I grew up with my best friend rotting in the basement. 387 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:40,440 Yes, I want him punished, 388 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:42,360 for what he did to Tommy. 389 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,240 Thank you. 390 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,200 I apologise. 391 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,440 I hope you understand why I had to do that. 392 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,800 Now we build a case. 393 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,600 No jury will buy it. 394 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:02,720 Julia's evidence is nothing if not backed up by some hard facts. 395 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:06,240 OK, so we get everything we can on Mortimer as quietly as possible, 396 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,120 Find out why he might kill a small boy 397 00:24:08,120 --> 00:24:10,080 so we can corroborate what she saw. 398 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,440 If we don't do this, that's it. 399 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,520 Phillipa Keegan lives the rest of her life 400 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,240 knowing her son's murderer was never brought to justice. 401 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,560 The system failed her once. 402 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,280 We can't let that happen again. 403 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,920 James! You're never going to believe this. 404 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:27,840 Doug Greer, Mortimer's lawyer, rang. 405 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,000 He's coming in with the Mortimers tomorrow. 406 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,600 Julia rang her father and told him what she's doing. 407 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,720 Why the hell would she do that? She was angry - 408 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:39,560 ranting, according to Greer. I mean, you wound her up and sent her off. 409 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:43,520 It's a lie. I don't know why she's doing this. 410 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:47,600 Look on the net at all the forums for people with fake memories. 411 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,640 All over the world, young women on couches 412 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:54,120 blaming their eating disorders on some fabricated crisis in the past. 413 00:24:54,120 --> 00:24:57,680 Innocent parents accused left, right and centre, 414 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:00,000 just like my client. 415 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,080 It's my duty to look at the facts. 416 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,800 You don't know our daughter, Mr Steel. 417 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,360 She has a habit of running off with unsuitable men who bleed her dry. 418 00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:10,200 We pick up the pieces. 419 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,600 All her life, Vern's done nothing but take care of her. 420 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,040 She lives in our flat, rent free, 421 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,800 he pays the lease on her shop. 422 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,160 This is how she thanks him. She's not herself, Catherine. 423 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:27,800 You don't know how suggestible she is. 424 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,160 I'm worried sick about her. 425 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,000 Look at me. 426 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,520 Are you really going to put me through this? 427 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,960 I'm not saying you're guilty. 428 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,440 I'm saying there's a case worth prosecuting. 429 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,120 Then the jury can decide. Yes, but it'll ruin us. 430 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:49,040 It'll ruin the reputation of the CPS first. 431 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:52,840 A 25-year-old case that doesn't dignify the word "evidence", 432 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:54,840 and a witness with zero credibility. 433 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:56,880 Hm. 434 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,720 You might want to think about that. 435 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,800 Thank you. 436 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,680 Unbelievable. If your husband had been accused of murdering a child, 437 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,000 would you sit and talk about your reputation? 438 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,040 Tell me you've got something. 439 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,040 Ladbroke Grove Life and Casualty. Mortimer got sacked 440 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:27,240 in 1986. I spoke to five people on the phone. No one will tell me why. 441 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:28,960 Doorstep them. 442 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,960 After you. Thank you. 443 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,560 Do take a seat. Chief Executive Officer back then! 444 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,600 You must have been rather young. 445 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,600 And upwardly mobile. 446 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:44,560 Got a lot to thank old Maggie for, eh? 447 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:48,880 I had my first alcoholic drink the day she resigned. Asti Spumante. 448 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:50,840 Our estate celebrated for a week. 449 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:52,760 How very urban. 450 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,280 Vernon Mortimer. 451 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,240 Did you know him well? 452 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:58,960 He was a good salesman. 453 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:03,160 Vernon could sell fire insurance to Eskimos even after a liquid lunch. 454 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,280 Then why did you sack him? We all have our demons. 455 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,560 What were his demons? 456 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,600 Is it to do with young boys? 457 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,720 I'm investigating the murder of a child. 458 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,760 We did a job once, in Birmingham. 459 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:31,160 On the way back, the train stopped at High Wycombe. 460 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,680 He went to the loo. 461 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,960 I went to the bar and had a few too many. 462 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,160 Next thing I know, he's with some policeman. 463 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:44,000 A 13- or 14-year-old boy said... 464 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,800 ..Vernon made a pass at him. 465 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,400 It was more than 20 years ago now. 466 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,200 It wasn't just him. 467 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,360 I was experimenting. Gave him the come-on, 468 00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:56,200 then I lost me bottle. 469 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,080 What exactly did he do? He offered me £20. 470 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,080 There was something in his eyes, though, 471 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,200 like he hated himself for doing it. I turned him down. 472 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,360 He grabbed my arm and said, 473 00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:09,760 "All right, I'll give you £50, you little shit." I kicked him and ran. 474 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:11,840 Funny thing was, though, 475 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,880 out there in the daylight, he just... 476 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,160 ..just looked sad. 477 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,360 Kept saying "I'm sorry". 478 00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:22,320 Even tried to give me the £50. 479 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:26,320 A policeman called him a sick, disgusting man, 480 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,320 took a statement. 481 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,320 The case never went to trial? 482 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,240 My parents suspected I was gay, but... 483 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:36,080 didn't want the neighbours knowing I hung about in station toilets. 484 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:41,520 They didn't let you give evidence. They took me to a shrink instead. 485 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,000 She said it's not about sex, adults with kids. It's about power. 486 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,240 Somebody they can control. 487 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,040 The judge won't allow Kevin Jackson's evidence. 488 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:55,440 It was sexual conduct, not violence, which is what we're prosecuting. 489 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,600 Any application on that basis is bound to fail. 490 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,120 But the sexual abuse probably led to the violence. 491 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,120 Oh, we can fill in the gaps all we like, 492 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,000 but that's not the way the law works. 493 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,280 No, it's time to let this go. Oh, we can't! 494 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,840 Julia Mortimer will go in to the witness box 495 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,920 with nothing to back her up. 496 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,240 Her dear old dad is an elderly pillar of the community. 497 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,880 Who was 39, strong and dangerous back then. 498 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,000 That's how we must see the man who did this, 499 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,400 not as some frail old pensioner. But he'll look like that to a jury. 500 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,120 I'm sorry. It's not worth the risk. 501 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,600 My son is the same age as Tommy. No parent would say it isn't worth it. 502 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,880 Phillipa Keegan has suffered enough. She's spared the pain of a trial. 503 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,280 But - I'm a dad too, remember. 504 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,640 PHONE RINGS 505 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,440 Hello. Castle. 506 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,240 Just a second. 507 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,440 It's Dr Rawls. 508 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,040 It came back to her in our session this morning. 509 00:29:54,960 --> 00:30:00,120 'Dad would come into my room at night, read me a story.' 510 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,600 'He'd lie on the bed, 511 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,360 touch me... 512 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:08,760 ..kiss me on the lips... 513 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:13,240 ..and stroke me under my nightdress.' 514 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,160 'I told my mum, 515 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:22,560 and she said that if I told anyone else 516 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:26,920 I would never see my dad again.' 517 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,840 'That's when it stopped.' 518 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,800 'It's my fault.' 519 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,800 He couldn't have me, so he moved on to Tommy. 520 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:48,720 Mr Mortimer, you are charged on this indictment with murder. 521 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,040 How do you plead? Guilty or not guilty? 522 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,560 Not guilty. 523 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,680 Is the defendant on bail? 524 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,200 Yes, my lady, with a number of conditions. 525 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,280 He's lodged a surety in the sum of £30,000, 526 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,080 surrendered his passport 527 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,280 and is subject to daily reporting at Lewes Police Station. 528 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,120 Bail as before. 529 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,440 I want to withdraw from the trial. 530 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,360 You can't. We've come too far. We've built the case. 531 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:24,080 This is killing him. My mother said he's losing his mind. 532 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,760 She's manipulating you, Julia, like she's always done. 533 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:30,440 He's my dad. He's 65. He will die in jail. 534 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,840 He killed an eight-year-old child. Walk away, 535 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,760 and he'll never be brought to justice for what he did to Tommy, 536 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,680 to you. I was better off not knowing. 537 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:41,400 Tommy's mother is on her way. Please, Julia, wait. 538 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,680 I didn't realise you had an appointment. 539 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,160 Julia just showed up. 540 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,400 I'm so sorry about Tommy. 541 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,960 You were joined at the hip, you two, weren't you? 542 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,400 You used to play weddings with my old veil. 543 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:06,920 I would love to have seen him married. 544 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,040 Don't, please. 545 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:13,200 I'm not sure I can do this. 546 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,680 Your father held me when I cried. 547 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:26,560 He drove me round and round, day and night, searching... 548 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,880 ..and all the time, he knew. 549 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,120 Tommy wouldn't go to the basement 550 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,400 because he said there was a monster down there. 551 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:45,120 There was, wasn't there? Yeah. 552 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,320 You've got to help me. 553 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:04,200 Tell me, James, exactly how much research have you done 554 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,040 on your key - oh, sorry - only witness? 555 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,000 I believe her, and the jury will too. 556 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,920 Not when they hear where she spent her summer holiday last year. 557 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:18,240 Little clue. Staff wear white coats. Hmm. Let's go. 558 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,400 Tommy was seven when his father died of leukaemia. 559 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,240 That brought us closer. 560 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,080 Did your son have a relationship with the defendant? 561 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,000 Yes. 562 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,320 Mr Mortimer started helping us out after my husband died. 563 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:42,000 And what did you personally witness in this relationship? 564 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,760 He'd arrange treats for him. 565 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:47,360 He took him to see West Ham play. 566 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,880 Tommy's dad used to support them. 567 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,120 Once he came home with one of the player's autographs, 568 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,280 and I remember... 569 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,040 ..thinking... 570 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,760 ..at least he had a father figure. 571 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,600 Thank you, Mrs Keegan. No further questions. 572 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,760 Did you tell the police about my client's relationship with your son? 573 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,960 No. So it didn't seem unusual to you. 574 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:20,640 It's the strangers you worry about, not the nice man over the road. 575 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,520 And if you were as close as you claim, 576 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,080 surely you would've noticed if something was wrong? 577 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:29,080 Yes. Well, no, 578 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:33,520 because I trusted Vernon, Mr Mortimer. 579 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,280 And continued to do so, 580 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,120 until this hysterical notion was planted. 581 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,240 If I'd have known, I would have kept him away. 582 00:34:41,240 --> 00:34:45,960 Well, maybe there was nothing to know. No further questions. 583 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:55,280 You know I'll demolish Julia Mortimer in the witness box. 584 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,960 She's a mess, James. You're right. 585 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,160 She's long since learnt not to trust her own mind. It might break her. 586 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,440 That's...that's not what I want. 587 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:06,680 If he cared for her, he'd confess. 588 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:08,800 How can you say I don't care? 589 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,960 I love my daughter. Don't get involved. 590 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,720 If you're looking for absolution from me, you won't get it. 591 00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:16,560 I'm a good man. I've worked hard all my life. 592 00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:21,600 Don't you walk away from me! 593 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,080 You don't know me! 594 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,440 Tell me about the day Thomas Keegan disappeared. 595 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:40,520 Um... I saw him outside the house briefly. 596 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:44,200 Later on, he came to the door. 597 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,080 I thought my dad sent him away. 598 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:50,280 What else happened that evening? 599 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,360 I wasn't well. I went to bed early. 600 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,880 Um...when I woke up, 601 00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:00,040 the flat was empty. 602 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:05,000 I went outside and I saw the basement light was on. 603 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:09,080 I went down some steps, 604 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:13,520 and my dad was there. 605 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:17,560 Tommy was lying at his feet. He had blood on his head. 606 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,400 What happened then? 607 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:24,200 Um, Dad...my father... 608 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:29,480 he saw me and he shouted at me to go back to bed. 609 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:37,560 He came running at me up the stairs, eyes all bulging out, 610 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,400 and I ran to my bedroom. 611 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:44,440 But, um...later, he came in... 612 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:48,120 ..and he hugged me... 613 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:53,200 ..and he told me I'd had a nightmare because I was ill, 614 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,040 and if I told anyone about the nightmare, 615 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:57,840 then I... 616 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:02,560 ..would lose him for ever. 617 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,240 When did you remember all this? 618 00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:11,360 When I started doing therapy with Dr Rawls. 619 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:16,800 I also remembered that my father sexually abused me 620 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,080 when I was seven years old, 621 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:25,120 and when I told my mother, it stopped. 622 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,680 Thank you. 623 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,360 No further questions. 624 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:34,120 Prior to the past few weeks, Miss Mortimer, 625 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:35,960 when did you last see your parents? 626 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,400 Um, about...about a year ago. 627 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,120 A long time. Why is that? 628 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:47,040 Ever since I was a child, Dad tried to control me. 629 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,160 Did they treat you badly when you were small? 630 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,360 Well, there was the abuse. 631 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:56,760 Ah yes, the "abuse", that suddenly came back to you 632 00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,040 while you were moving your eyes back and forth - 633 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:04,280 much like the memory of your father with Tommy's corpse. 634 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:09,960 Did your delusions last year include images of blood, or basements? 635 00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,760 No, you don't understand - I think I do. 636 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:16,040 You have always been resentful of your father 637 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,240 because he told you the hard truths that you didn't want to hear. 638 00:38:19,240 --> 00:38:22,360 And when you heard that Tommy's bones had been found, 639 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,760 you saw an opportunity for revenge, didn't you? 640 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,400 No! He did it. That is why, 641 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,560 all my life, he has been there, watching me. 642 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,320 That's a good job, isn't it? 643 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,840 He warned you off the boy who got you pregnant, 644 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:37,000 then forced you to have an abortion which made you sterile 645 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,200 at the age of, what was it? 15. That's hardly relevant. 646 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,320 What is your point, Mr Greer? 647 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,360 That Miss Mortimer's life 648 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,640 is a catalogue of disastrous relationships. 649 00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:50,400 She is deeply unstable. 650 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:54,400 Mum, I told you what he did to me, and you blamed me! 651 00:38:54,400 --> 00:39:00,560 You called me a dirty, precocious little whore. 652 00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:03,120 You always took his side. 653 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,200 And there you have it. 654 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,240 The sole motivation of this hysterical witch hunt - 655 00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:11,320 a spoilt child 656 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:15,440 who resents the bond between her loving parents. 657 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,560 Thank you, Mr Greer. 658 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:21,600 I can't take it... I can't... 659 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,800 Great. Our main witness falls to pieces in the witness box. 660 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,120 So now the jury think she's a hysterical mess, 661 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,160 and they'll side with her dad. 662 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:37,560 We've got nothing left, James. We've lost. 663 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:42,960 There's one last chance - Vernon himself. 664 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,680 He knows why Julia fell apart in the box. 665 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:50,760 He's carried that guilt for 20 years. 666 00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,360 Imagine what that's done to him... 667 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,200 ..and how's he going to respond under pressure? 668 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:04,440 I...I cared about Thomas. 669 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:08,120 So much so that you abused him, just like you abused your daughter. 670 00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,480 I never hurt her. Oh, you did, Mr Mortimer. 671 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,280 And you're still hurting her now, aren't you? 672 00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,720 You saw her in the witness box. 673 00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:19,680 It didn't look much like she was gloating, did it? 674 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:21,560 It looked more like falling apart. 675 00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,800 Mr Steel's views are neither here nor there. Can we stick to facts? 676 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,240 You didn't just destroy one family, Mr Mortimer. 677 00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:30,720 You destroyed your own as well. 678 00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:35,480 Are you ever going to make it right for your daughter, or for Tommy? 679 00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,440 Are you ever going to take responsibility 680 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,640 for the damage you've caused, the damage you continue to cause? 681 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:45,120 When are you going to be a father again? 682 00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:10,560 I sexually assaulted my daughter 683 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:14,000 when she was seven years old. MURMURS IN COURT 684 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,120 It went on for four months. 685 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,960 Julia told her mother, 686 00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,720 who threatened to call the police... 687 00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:23,600 My lady, this is most irregular. 688 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,640 ..if I ever did it again. May I ask for the jury to retire? 689 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,360 This is my turn to talk! 690 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,480 The jury will hear what Mr Mortimer has to say, Mr Greer. 691 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:37,360 Go on. 692 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,560 I didn't know where to get help. 693 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,960 I took work away from home. 694 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:51,800 I approached young boys in toilets, 695 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:53,880 but they were strangers. 696 00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:59,360 When Thomas's dad died, 697 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:03,080 all I wanted to do was help, and we got close. 698 00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:07,840 I came to love him like he was my own son. 699 00:42:11,240 --> 00:42:14,480 I made him do things to me 700 00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:19,080 for six months... 701 00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,800 ..in return for treats. 702 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,440 He wanted to stop, 703 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,920 said it felt wrong. 704 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:32,240 We were in the basement. 705 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:36,920 He said he was going to tell his mother. 706 00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:38,680 He tried to get away. 707 00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:48,920 There was a hammer by the boiler. 708 00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:52,760 I hit him with it... 709 00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:54,560 ..on the side of his head. 710 00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:58,000 Just the once. 711 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,640 I didn't mean to kill him. 712 00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:05,080 I didn't want to lose you. 713 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:09,320 What did you do then, Mr Mortimer? 714 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,120 I... 715 00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:18,600 ..I put him inside the fireplace... 716 00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,240 ..and bricked it up. 717 00:43:21,240 --> 00:43:23,440 My boy. 718 00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,600 I'm sorry. My boy! 719 00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:55,360 Ronnie, we got our man in the end! 720 00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,400 We? 721 00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:21,480 Did you know? 722 00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:25,320 I just wanted us to be a family. 723 00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:29,280 Where... 724 00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,280 Where will you go? 725 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:10,880 Subtitles by ITV SignPost