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Police emergency.

Right,

I want to take all the descriptions of
everybody in just a second.

You've absolutely done the right thing.
It's extremely serious and that man

might be in real danger.

When dangerous criminals go on the run,
with a couple of steps

behind. Every second counts.

Sorry, I think I'm trying to get
budgies.

I'd say they're trying to decapitate
them.

Yes, yes, the red situation.

Using elite units and specialist...
Surveillance.

Communication data.

Cat and mouse.

Greater Manchester Police must hunt down
the city's most wanted.

We're on to you. And you have no idea
that at some point, your door's coming

crashing in.

No! No!

We've got him.

It'll be quite a hot briefing for those
who don't know about the kidnap of a lad

called Christopher Hughes, which took
place on Friday, approximately 1637,

he was bundled into the back of an Audi
A4 vehicle.

He doesn't have a phone with him.
There's been no demands made by any of

family.

A 37 -year -old man was seen to be
kidnapped on Almond Grove in Wigan.

He has been identified as Christopher
Hughes and is currently missing.

It's a very tight, sort of, knit
community.

That's led to people contacting
Christopher's family and friends to try

out where he might be.

The Serious and Organised Crime Unit
have obtained footage which shows the

moments just after the kidnap.

We're seeing the driver and the
passenger, who we believe will have been

same two males that have put... ..forced
to put Christopher into the boot of a

blue Audi for saloon car.

And that's the car we need to find.

OK. Right.

We don't know where he is, but the car's
floating about.

So we're just trying to lock on to it
now and try and find it.

In a kidnap, it's life and death.

The longer that they're in the hands of
the kidnappers, that's when they could

be again subjected to some sort of
violence, beatings, torture.

Could you please do the sequence of
events?

It's all right.

Your objective is to recover that
hostage, preserve their life and get

quick as you can. Every second counts.

Due to the immediate threat to
Christopher's life, multiple units

force are mobilised.

The kidnappers' identities are unknown,
and for now, tracking down the blue Audi

is the strongest lead.

I'm going to go to Worsley Mains, just
given the last intel that we had for the

vehicle.

The Tactical Vehicle Intercept Unit is
searching for the car.

They believe it could be hidden near to
where Christopher was taken.

Four units are scouring the
neighbourhood.

If you want to hide a vehicle, these are
the perfect kind of locations.

You certainly wouldn't just come across
it on normal patrol.

They're like gold dust.

They're so resourceful. They have access
to garages and things like that, so it

makes our job very difficult.

One links for a kidnap in Wigan. What do
we know about this chap?

Unable to track down the blue Audi, the
team background check Christopher Hughes

to see if there may be a motive for the
kidnap.

He's a drug user.

He's fairly sort of low level.

There is not the knowledge history which
drives any sort of OCG link.

As you know, there's no suggestion from
anyone that there's been any sort of

demands made.

The sort of the favourite hypothesis at
the moment is that there has been some

sort of incident and this is like a
retribution.

There's all various reasons why someone
may be kidnapped. It could be something

as little as a small amount of cash. It
could be criminal gangs in dispute with

another criminal gang.

Cheers, thank you.

It may be all for drugs, it may be all
for relationships.

If there is something known to them like
a...

a dispute of some sort or some sort of
vendetta then that then helps you to

out who may have done it cctv is

different in every location you go some
places may only have a week's worth of

footage the ideal scenario really for me
today will be that i will get some cctv

coverage of our two occupants

In the most time -critical cases, teams
from across the force are mobilised. The

Visual Evidence Retrieval and Analysis
Unit are drafted in to locate and obtain

CCTV footage from the area around the
kidnap.

Yep. Holman Grove.

Last Friday, a lad was kidnapped.

So did you hear about this?

No. I mean, your camera's covered quite
a big area, but I've not seen it

at the time I would expect to see it.

Right.

So, you saw it happen?

I heard all the kerfuffle.

Yeah, yeah. And then a couple of hours
later, the police turned up and told me

exactly what had happened.

Right.

I've got an eight -year -old daughter
here and I've got a 14 -year -old son.

It actually happened right outside my
house.

and it can happen in broad daylight at,
like, 4 .30 in the afternoon.

It is quite shocking, so it's scary
knowing how things are going at the

This girl you spoke to, Steph, can you
just go through with me exactly what

she's told you?

have been speaking to Christopher's
friends and family in an attempt to

more leads.

Right. She's heard a rumour that Chris
has been blamed for sexual assault on

somebody.

Sometimes people take the law into their
own hands because they either don't

trust the police or they feel like the
outcome that will happen because the

police are involved won't be good enough
and they'll want their own justice.

There's five vehicles in the area
looking for Chris.

She's seen a black Audi.

Yeah. She saw that. It was addressed
yesterday.

She's been describing it, so she's seen
it. Leave it at the top of the post box.

Kind of like Google Maps it. I've got
somebody by the name of Dean O

'Neill Davey.

And there is a black Audi registered on
PNC's here.

Dean O 'Neill Davey is now the number
one target wanted in connection with

Christopher's disappearance.

Unit are sent to his home address, just
0 .2 miles from the location of the

kidnap.

Once you start getting your first piece
of the puzzle, someone in custody, that

opens up loads of opportunities.

Because of the information they might
tell you, that's your anchor point.

Yeah, I've looked at all the windows up
at the back, but there's an enormous

rottweiler in the back kitchen.

A massive rottweiler.

Hello, police.

What's up, Dad?

Sorry, mate, what's your name? Dean O
'Neill David. Dean, right.

1912, sorry, 1913.

Placing under arrest, suspicion of
conspiracy to kidnap.

So the kidnap relates to a male by the
name of Christopher Hughes?

Yeah, I believe he's on me. OK, so...
Due to the immediate threat to life,

officers carry out an on -site
interrogation.

You have been arrested on... of
conspiracy to kidnap Christopher Hughes.

Yeah. And he has not been found. Where
is he?

Don't have a clue.

Okay.

The only reason I know is because
obviously it's on Facebook and stuff

that.

Is there anyone else who will hold
information that could help us find him?

No, I don't know.

Is he injured?

I wouldn't know.

An update on the bank enquiries.

The team have accessed Christopher
Hughes' bank records.

Money has been drawn out on the 19th of
February.

So, after he's supposed to have been
taken?

Yeah, after 8pm, with a shot.

Hi, boss.

We're just going to follow the door.
We're going to get a detective now to

close. So, just quick time, the family
store that's on Longwood Avenue, that's

where we believe the cash has been
withdrawn.

So, find out who stole the money and
then we'll see if we can work out where

they've gone after that.

An officer is being sent to the shop
where money was taken out after he was

kidnapped to see if they can confirm any
sightings of him.

The shopkeeper thinks she saw
Christopher with a man who lives nearby,

the team to believe he could have
withdrawn the money from the cash

under pressure from his kidnappers.

The one that's been kidnapped has been
told that he came into the shop with a

chap who lives just over there.

So we're hoping that we'll find the
kidnapped victim in there.

Oh, hold on.

There's two people.

There's two people at the door.

If one of them starts to go, I'm going
to have to follow them.

Can you put the camera down, please?

Hello, how far out are you? We've got
two people in the address.

They've just come outside. You've got an
old fella and a young fella with a

baseball cap.

So it could well be our fella that's in
the house.

Police are searching for 37 -year -old
Christopher Hughes, who was bundled into

a car and kidnapped in Wigan.

They have a lead he may be in a house

near to where he was taken.

Every leader will have to get assessed.

You've got to take everything on first
value and check everything until you can

be satisfied that it's right.

It's the police.

There's definitely two people in the
address of interest to us, so fingers

crossed it's going to be Christopher.

We've done a full search of the house.

He's definitely not in there.

The longer he's not found, the worse the
consequences could end up being.

So we're hitting a bit of a brick wall.

There's people giving rumours in their
own supposition that he's involved in

either an assault of some kind,
potentially a sexual assault, also

theft of some kind, so it's all very
much word on the street.

People are regularly second -lawing to
their own hands.

It's a dangerous situation to be in.

There are three suspects linked to the
kidnap of Christopher Hughes.

The driver and passenger of the vehicle
that carried out the kidnap, whose

identities are unknown.

And Dean O 'Neill Davey, seen looking
for Christopher the day before the

who is now in custody.

So far, he's provided no information.

The first question I'm going to ask you
then is, tell me everything you know

about the kidnap of Christopher Hughes.

What I know is someone had been attacked
or something.

When they told you this, what did you do
then?

I helped them look through, just through
driving around, asking people questions

and stuff.

And who do you work for?

I work for Khalil and Alan.

Alan Jaff.

So where's that?

M6 Motor Services.

Khalil and Alan M6 Motor Services. Yes.

How do they all know each other?

Robin Laws.

So they're all brother -in -laws? Yeah,
they're all brother -in -laws.

Hello, Justin Bright speaking.

Obviously, we've got to consider then
what we do with the Jaff family, haven't

we then?

But do they know where he is right now?

It's going to be for me.

They need looking up. Yeah, definitely.

We need to get into the garage.

Unit are dispatched to M6 Motors to
search for the hostage and the owners,

Jaff and Khalil Alba.

One of them's locked on that toilet
there.

Yeah, we'll protect him there.

Yeah, we'll have a good old search round
now, mate.

This could be me.

Don't know if I've heard of this chap.

He's been arrested for conspiracy to
commit kidnap. We're concerned about the

safety of a person who's been taken.

Christopher Hughes.

I've never heard that name.

How can we find him?

Who? Christopher Hughes? I don't know. I
don't know how I know.

What's your name?

Alan. Alan? Jack.

Alan Jack?

Yeah.

Despite finding and arresting Alan Jaff
and Khalil Aula, Christopher Hughes was

not at the address and the team are
concerned he remains in grave danger.

Police do not believe Alan and Khalil
are the two men in the kidnap footage,

they do not fit the descriptions.

They carry out a further interview with
Alan, in an attempt to get more

information.

Christopher Hughes.

Alan, tell me what you know about him.

Have you ever had any dealings with him?

Where does he live?

We believe that...

This vehicle and the men on this CCTV
still are involved in the kidnap

of Christopher Hughes.

What can you tell me about the two males
on that picture?

Who are they?

No comment.

Dean Davey. Alan, tell me what you know
about Dean.

No comment.

Does Dean work with you?

No comment.

The other male which is in custody is
Khalil Balwa.

Who's that?

No comment.

How do you know him?

No comment.

Does he work at M6 Motor Services?

No comment.

The body of a man has been found by a
dog walker six miles from where

Christopher Hughes was taken

Demo. Footage of our lad. Have you got
it?

With his full clothing on it and stuff.

Yeah, footwear. Footwear and everything.

The team want to urgently establish if
the body is that of Christopher Hughes.

You all right? You got four tattoos?

Oh, OK.

The tattoo on his neck of Kelly on the
right -hand side.

You know, unless this is him, you know,
are we letting down?

Details of Christopher's appearance and
clothing have been sent to officers at

the scene.

Yeah.

Right,

OK.

Christopher Hughes' body being found
this morning in Scalmersdale.

He's been the victim of a severe attack
with bladed weapons by the sounds of it.

What we're left with at the moment is
two suspects for his murder.

Devastating. You feel like you've
failed, you know, straight away.

That initial sort of surge that's going
through you, you know.

Didn't find him in time.

There are three suspects in custody.

Dean O 'Neill Davey, Alan Jaffe and
Khalil Aula.

Still at large are two unknown
fugitives. The driver and the passenger

kidnapped Christopher in Almond Grove.

As it stands, we've got three still in
custody, a lad called Dean Davey, a male

called Alan Jaff and a male called
Khalil Alwar.

Now the kidnappers turn into a murder.
The major investigation team, led by DCI

Carl Jones, are mobilised to track down
the killers.

They were initially arrested on
suspicion of kidnap and also on

murder.

For me, as a murder FIO, this is the
first one in my 17 -year career

within the major incident team that I've
dealt with a kidnap incident

which has led to the victim being found
brutally murdered.

The unit specialise in murder cases.

They will gather evidence to help
identify and track the remaining

Photographs from the scene. Okay.

It looks like he's been slashed or
stabbed multiple times.

Brutal.

So his deep, really deep laceration to
the right side of his neck.

And then an even deeper wound to the
left side of his neck.

I'd say they've tried to decapitate him.

Probably some of the worst injuries I've
ever seen.

How the fuck can anyone do that to
someone else?

Do you remember when he was, like,
little and he used to play rugby?

He was quite good at it, wasn't he?

But he was like a little beanpole with,
like, these massive ears.

Yeah, flapping everywhere.

The last time I spoke to him was
obviously the day that they took him. He

me, where we had, like, a little chat.
Before he put the phone down, he said

that he loved me.

He was good, like, he had a really good
heart.

Yeah, he was always, like, Del Boy.

That's what I call him, Del Boy.

He went off the rails a little bit.

I didn't know he'd got addicted to
heroin until I found a tub of methadone

cupboard and that's how I found out.

I don't think we saw him at his work,
did we?

We knew he took drugs, but he was quite
a functioning addict.

I feel like I could have dealt with it a
bit better if he'd have been in a pub,

a fight had broke out, someone had hit
him, he fell and banged his head, and

obviously... Do you know what I mean?

But they meant every step of the way
towards him. They meant everything they

to him.

Rumours that Christopher sexually
assaulted someone have appeared on

media.

It's a comment.

I don't read them any more, but I knew
my brother and I know he wouldn't have

done what they accused him of.

But it's a nasty, vicious comment
underneath about, like, he deserved it

of what he did.

I think that kills me more than anything
like that, cos he's gone now, we can't

bring him back.

But that...

Right, Dean, just to let you know that
the interview has started recording now.

Yep, let's go on.

Dean O 'Neill Davey.

who was reportedly looking for
Christopher just before he was

being interviewed.

Er, Balbus, I think it is. Balbus?

Yeah.

JB? Yo.

Have you read the interview summary from
Dean Davis? Is it Mamed Balbus? Yeah,

Balbus, yeah. And he's described as
driving a blue Audi. For me, after this

briefing, some telecoms work and
identify whether Mamed is the one

CCTV, get warrant and start locking up.

In a major breakthrough, Dean has named
Mahmoud Balbus as the driver of the

kidnapped vehicle.

Let's just see if we can find any clues
here, shall we?

His phone went dead the day of the
murder.

Phone analysts are brought in to find a
new number for the fugitive.

I don't know whether this person who had
this phone has anticipated arrest, but

a lot of the messages are coming up
deleted.

I don't know.

Brother that tonight.

Get things just relaxed. Done.

A lot of times he's been panicking. He
goes, heads in bits, bro.

It's yours, brother.

And then he goes, just relax.

Beep when it's done. Yes, brother.

Mamed.

That's it.

Mamed Balbus.

So looking at the call log, there's a
number that's labelled Mamed.

If that phone number is being used by
the suspect and it's still in use, it

be game over, yeah.

It's literally minute by minute, this.

When you look at the data, there are
lots of things that have gone on.

some sort of plan been afoot by moving
the car.

The major investigation team have
received the lead on the whereabouts of

blue Audi used in the murder.

On the 19th, around about 6 .25 in the
evening,

it's highly likely that that car has
gone up to the industrial estate.

The industrial estate is 11 miles from
where the body was found

Units are dispatched to search for the
vehicle

and he poked it over the eaves. Yeah.
Like a little gap.

And we can see a dark -coloured Audi S
line.

Fucking hell. Well, let's get the doors
done and then we can... Hopefully,

hopefully, it's our car.

Seriously, I can't tell you how nervous
I am at the moment.

Oh,

you're joking.

Fucking hell.

I'd have put my house on that.

We're one step behind it again then.

The officers are made aware of a white
van that was recently parked outside the

compound.

Is it in there, Toby?

There's a blue motor in here, Tom.

Now I'm excited.

Now. Now.

Now we're talking.

There's a blue car.

There's Audi symbols on it.

Yeah, I can see that.

There's a dark -coloured Audi inside
there. Yes!

Get in.

Saka.

But I think we've got it, but we've got
it cut up.

The team will now carry out forensics on
the car to see if any prints or DNA

might lead them to the identity of the
outstanding fugitive.

It's a long -term phone that we've got.

Have a look at the data again.

This is a number he talks to all the
time.

There's been a development in the hunt
for the driver of the murder vehicle,

Mamed Balbir.

Those are the cell maps that the phone
has hit.

Where do you think it is now?

It's heading north.

I can see that they've taken a route
straight past Manchester along the M60

onto the M61.

Well on the run now.

We've worked out who they are, where
they are.

Clock's ticking, but we need to get them
fast.

Where is he now?

He's coming back, he's coming back.
We've just picked that up now.

Information has led the team to believe
fugitive Balbas.

is heading towards an address he's
linked to in Manchester.

Uniformed units are being deployed.

Is it Main Street? Is it a call to time?
Yeah, it's a side street.

The end of it's a dead end, as in a
vehicle, a dead end. So if there's

going down there, you'd have to turn
around and come back.

What we don't want to do is go to the
address and him not being there, and

he'll never go back.

Happy?

Yeah. Dead? Yeah.

Yeah, we're in the back garden, yeah.

Police, come and open up the door.

See where you are, see where you are.

He's down on the floor. He's down on the
floor.

Give me your hands. Give me your hands.
Give me your hands. All right, pal.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right, bring your arm round. I'll
walk with you. Bring your arm round.

Fuck.

Curtis.

Curtis what?

Bulbous.

Curtis Bulbous.

Mamed Baobab has been on the run for six
days.

He's now under arrest for conspiracy to
murder.

Have

you got any

information whatsoever about the murder
of Christopher?

No comment.

You say it's a serious sexual offence.

What do you know about it?

No comment.

Was it a case that you wanted to catch
him and give him a good kicking?

No comment.

Or was it always the case that this was
way beyond a kicking and the plan

from the outset was to murder him?

No comment.

Have you received a payment to harm?

Christopher Hughes.

No comment.

If it's not you in that blue Audi, then
who is it in that blue Audi?

No comment.

Barber's bank card leads us to this
cafe, and at 12 .55 hours on the

16th... Barber has given police no clue
as to the identity of the remaining

fugitive, but examining his bank details
has given them a lead.

Van turns up, two lads on that.

The kidnapper turns up.

They all go into the cafe, and the
kidnapper has got Barber.

Wearing the same hat as well.

Always pays for all the food.

You see the male driving the van with
the blue sweatshirt on. With

dark beard, moustache combo.

He looks like he's got the same train as
us.

Right, so when he gets out of the van,
he kicks his foot back as he's walking

the curb and looks.

On the day of the kidnap, I think he's
got the same train as us. Seriously?

Yeah, seriously.

Phone analysis leads the team to a
potential name for the fugitive.

When they've looked at messages in
Davey's phone, they find a number, I'd

was Landi, L -A -N -D -I.

Yeah.

He's now top caller for Balbus as well.
So we've now not just got a connection

to Balbus as well, so he's an associate
of his as well. So, yeah, he could

potentially be the man to call upon when
you need a bit of violence.

He could be the man that they've called
upon to assist in...

dishing out the punishment.

Okay.

I'm now declaring Erland Spahiu a
suspect for conspiracy to murder

Christopher Hughes.

Got a new number for Landy and I think
that's our man.

There is now no way of knowing where the
fugitive

may have travelled to.

If he gets any inkling we're actually
after him, then he's gone.

This is why I joined the job. I joined
the job to catch bad people, put bad

people there. And then this area that
we're working now is your serious

criminal. I mean, look at the impact
that he's done, what that lad went

You know, it's horrific.

So to think you can get some peace for
his family to think that all the people

are responsible for that we've caught
him. That's the kind of thing that keeps

you going.

The Yankee 5 -8 is registered to our
address.

There has been a breakthrough.

DVLA checks have linked the fugitive to
an address in the area.

They all picked it in.

So we're fucking going for it.

Unit head to Landy's address, who police
suspect carried out Christopher's

killing.

Currently showing eight minutes away, so
we'll just roll up with two minutes.

Unit and teams, then we'll go straight
to the address.

I believe.

Where is he?

Show me your hands.

Show me your hands.

You're under arrest for murder.

I'm now detained.

Now detained.

Come on.

Now detained.

Excellent, thank you.

Yeah.

Male detained.

Good.

Bloody good.

Good morning.

We've arrested a male for suspicion of
murder. The last one of the vets.

For conspiracy to commit murder.

Murder? Yeah.

Take someone's life. Me? Yeah. Along
with four other men.

What's your involvement in the
kidnapping and murder of Christopher

Nothing. Nothing at all? No.

How do you think you've been dragged
into this then?

I don't know. Honestly, I don't know.

I'm shocked, honestly.

I've got two kids home, yeah? Yeah. If
you pay me a million pounds, I've no

change to my kids to do shit like this.
That's why I'm shocked. We believe you

and a large number of other males are
looking for him. Were you looking for

No. This is CCTV.

This is from Almond Grove when
Christopher was kidnapped.

Who's that?

I don't know.

I think that's you.

No. No. No.

All five suspects are now in custody.

Having gathered more information on the
crime, the police want to put it to Alan

Jaffe to see if he will talk.

You and a couple of other people have
got your heads together about an offence

which we're going to talk about and
you've conspired to murder somebody,

One of the factors which I think has
started all this off is a sexual

We're here to find out what's happened.
Did you get into a number of vehicles

and drive around the local area to try
and find Chris Hughes?

Okay.

Did you offer a £2 ,000 reward if
someone could tell you where Chris

Have you asked people to go and pick
Chris up and put him in the boot of a

No comment.

Was he murdered in the boot of the car?

No comment.

You send a text message, which is to
Dean Davey, and we've discussed him, and

it says, did you speak to Landy?

What can you tell me about that?

No comment.

Are you trying to hide something?

No comment.

Because it's not an accident what's
happened at all, Alan.

He's had his buffet slashed. He's had
his neck slashed. His head was nearly

hanging off.

They meant to kill him.

Did you tell them to kill him?

Not quite.

The danger with vigilantes is we get
groups of people roaming the streets

thinking that they're keeping everyone
in tow and looking after the

neighbourhoods when really they're
creating havoc and someone is

killed as a result.

Oh, you see, when you put his name in,
suspecting him, right? But I genuinely

knew that he hadn't done that, because I
know my brother, and it just really

angers me and frustrates me. And I think
once this is over and that statement

comes out, then I'll properly agree.