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Me and my partner decided to take a little break
and have a couple of days away.
On going downstairs, there was a horrible smell in the lobby.
I said to my partner,
"oh, it smells like somebody's died here."
So I backtracked out the door
and I looked through the window.
I've noticed what looked like a pair of shoes
which was down by the sofa.
Then it registered to me that they were actually
on somebody's feet.
Emergency, which service?
Hi, um, I'm just phoning cos
I think there's somebody on the floor in his flat.
I don't know whether he's breathing or not,
and I'm not sure whether anything
untoward's has happened to him.
Andover's a small town.
It's not usual for serious crime
to be taking place.
And it's certainly not usual for a murder to happen here.
Are other people now in danger?
There was this young blonde lady staying with him.
Seemed to fall in love with her.
She was trying to be like a model.
She's big into TikTok.
To me, there was something different about her.
They are concerned for her safety.
There is no trace of her at this stage.
She may have been the last person to see him alive.
She may have been an important witness.
Where is she?
Andover is very close to the South Downs National Park.
And then we're very lucky to have really historic little
villages and towns that are peppered across Hampshire.
Andover is largely a military town.
It's the home of the British Army.
Sadly, a lot of veterans do have a lot of issues,
especially when they come out, and they're on civvy street.
The rates of people with mental health issues
or with drug or alcohol dependencies is higher
for these people who've had these bad experiences
within the military.
I'm just gonna keep that underneath.
It's the story of what happened.
All right. Just prompt me.
Kim investigates.
Take one.
I'm the regional editor for a group of regional newspapers,
one of which is the Andover Advertiser.
The Andover Advertiser is a local newspaper
reporting on all manner of issues in the community.
Charity sales, school fundraisers,
stories of human interest.
We cover a vast spectrum.
Andover is a small town.
It's not usual for serious crime to be taking place.
It happens maybe once a year if you're unlucky.
Round about midday,
the ambulance service received a 999 call
from a resident of a block of flats
on the outskirts of Andover.
The ambulance service notified the police and so the police,
with the assistance of the fire service,
broke into that ground floor flat.
They found the body of a white male
covered in a sheet or a blanket,
with a pillowcase over his head.
It was a very messy scene.
There was a lot of blood.
He'd been stabbed.
Slightly strange,
there was a fan in the corner which was on,
and playing sort of, across the body.
There was a theory that the fan had been put on
to keep the body cool,
or reduce the length of time it was going to take to decompose.
But there were also some scrunched up handwritten notes
scattered around the flat.
And are clearly left there for somebody to find and to read.
And they would have been seized because they would yield
fingerprint evidence, potentially some DNA evidence.
And also down the line, maybe some handwriting evidence
that may be essential.
Other police officers will be drafted in
to make sure that it's, it's guarded
while it continues to be a scene of ongoing investigation.
The crime scene investigators will start looking for evidence
that's actually clues.
Are there any mobile phones that are hidden in the drawers?
Or are there any computers in there?
Any electrical devices that might assist the investigation?
Forensic examiners are in there spending hours
looking for any evidence
that will yield any forensic potential,
whether that's fingerprints, hair, DNA, blood samples.
and then photographers, they'll be photographing things in situ
of the scene.
Wednesday's for us as a weekly newspaper are really busy.
Most of our titles print on a Thursday,
so we're really up against a lot of deadlines.
And we had a few calls come in to the Andover news desk
saying that they'd been past this block of flats,
and there seemed to be a lot of activity there.
What's going on?
So after that phone call,
I immediately messaged Jemma,
who, at that point, was our senior journalist.
So when I arrive, immediately
there's a load of police in the car park.
There's 4 or 5 vehicles.
Forensics were going in and out,
so immediately we know something's happened,
it's probably likely going to be quite a big story
that we're going to want to follow.
She sent the photographs back.
You can see all the police cars parked in the car park there
and there's a tent, and that's a sure fire sign
that something really serious has happened here.
So blood was clearly surrounding the deceased
on the floor at the apartment.
And it was decided that a blood spatter analysis scientist
would be called to the scene.
And they're used to show where the attack took place.
Did it happen whilst the person was lying down on the floor,
or was this some kind of fight within the living room itself
with their movement around?
Are there any handprints or fingerprints in blood as well
that might assist to show kind of what happened
on that particular day?
The body is then removed to the mortuary,
and on this occasion it would have been taken
to Winchester County Hospital,
where a forensic mortuary is,
and so a post-mortem would be conducted.
The victim was identified as Stuart Crocker,
a 62-year-old male
who was an Army veteran
and had lived in Andover most of his life
since leaving the Army.
We'd heard that a man called Stuart had been murdered.
Then the police confirm his details.
He was actually grandfather,
a father.
What could possibly have led to this incident?
We'd all gone out for dinner in St Marybourne.
Had Alicia with me as well.
Alicia is my daughter
got back to the house and there is these two WPCs sat there,
and I've looked at her, and I've said, "it's Stuart,"
and she's looked at me and she said,
"shall we just go inside and talk?"
They told us that Stuart had been found under circumstances,
where they said it could be murder.
And I just came out of the house
straight into the car and went over to see Joseph.
There's a knock at the door
and I opened the door,
and there's my mum and Alicia,
and they sit me down, and they tell me that
a policeman had just been around to their house.
And told me that my dad was found dead.
Uh, um.
The look on that boy's face that day will never leave me.
Will never leave me.
My mind raced a thousand paces,
trying to cope with what they were telling me,
and my lungs felt like they were on fire.
And I was trying so hard to breathe at the time.
But...
air just wasn't filling my lungs.
And,
I just went to bed.
I just laid there for hours.
Still, to this day,
it's a struggle to believe what had happened.
And I think I just cried myself to sleep.
As soon as we published the article,
That then provokes a lot of response from the community.
So we're getting comments on Facebook.
Some people are sending us in pictures,
and that's when we start trying to be able
to piece together what's actually happened.
Having established who the victim is,
Stuart, on this particular occasion,
the important thing is to try and find out
who's killed him and why would they want him dead?
An incident room would be stood up
and then start allocating roles out to individuals.
There'll be teams to do CCTV,
there'll be teams to do interviews
of any suspects that are identified.
Have you got a suspect in mind?
There's a number of what we call hypotheses
that we're thinking about.
Was this a burglary that's gone wrong?
Was this a domestic incident involving a partner?
Was it drug related harm?
Was it a pub fight that Stuart's gone back,
and it's escalated into some sort of violent struggle?
And on this particular occasion,
we know that the scene wasn't broken into.
The police had to actually force entry themselves.
So that can dismiss the burglary theory.
Family liaison officers are really important because
they'll be fed into the family of the deceased
to provide information for them
and update them as to the way the investigation is going,
but also establish as much information as you can
about your victim.
I met Stuart at the start of 1996.
I was going out one day with a very dear friend of mine,
and on my way to hers I had to pass the shops
and I saw this bloke,
and I was like, oh, he's nice.
And I just popped into my head, I'm gonna marry that man.
So I've gone into the shop, got what I've needed to,
gone down to my friends,
in walks this man, and I'm thinking, oh my God.
So I looked at my friend and I said,
"how do you know him?"
She said, "he's my brother-in-law."
So yes, that's how I met him.
Um, saw him a few times that week.
The following week he came back to mine for a drink
and he never left.
It was just chemistry.
There was just something there,
but I couldn't tell you what it was.
Stuart and I married at Andover Registry Office in July of 97.
Stuart's mum was there.
His father was there.
It was a lovely day, Stuart and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
When Joseph was born, that was when my life changed.
Stuart walked into the room
and there was the nurses with this little boy.
He was so proud, he was a very proud, dad.
Very proud, he'd got his boy.
He wanted to show him off to everyone.
He really did.
I was a very naughty child,
and I was always bouncing off the walls with energy.
It was very hard to look after at times.
I was always happy when dad was around.
A lot of my time spent with him
was watching Star Trek on the TV
while I just cuddled with him, really.
Joseph was about six and a half years old
when Stuart and I separated.
There had been a lot of things.
Stuart had lost his job
and life just wasn't very happy that time.
And we were really struggling money wise.
As time's gone on and Stuart's drinking's got more and more,
I just thought, I can't cope with this anymore.
So I asked Stuart to leave.
We were still friends.
He was still coming over to see Joseph,
and that's how it stayed.
And then a few years ago,
he'd asked me if I would stay as his next of kin,
and everything.
We was close.
The pathology report established
that Stuart died as a result of multiple stab wound injuries.
In fact, he had 26 in total.
The fatal injury was subjected by a seven-inch knife
to the summit of the jugular.
Which, for me, indicates this was a frenzied attack.
And it was estimated that Stuart's life ended
in the early hours of the 23rd of June,
five days before his body was discovered.
To find out he'd been stabbed so many times,
and it'd be so brutal, was very shocking.
What happens in that situation
is that the community will very often end up panicked
about whether or not there's a madman on the loose.
It's a small town, quite rightly.
The public start to get worried.
Are they in danger?
What's really important, though,
is there are potentially witnesses
and potentially a perpetrator living within that block.
And so the police would carefully be going door-to-door
to see if they've seen or heard anything unusual or suspicious.
I met Stuart Crocker
when he moved in next door to me.
I've maybe known him about 8 or 9 months, maybe a year.
He just seemed like a bit of a vulnerable bloke.
He was really kind, really nice.
We used to stand and have a cigarette together.
My first interaction with Stuart
was when he was moving in.
Stuart was similar to me really in a way.
Lived on his own, didn't bother anybody.
He was quite friendly, open,
and just seemed like a little gem, really,
a genuine guy.
So it must have been a couple of months before Stuart died,
and he mentioned to me that he had a new girlfriend
and that there was this kind of
young blonde lady staying with him.
We were introduced to Winter Swan-Miller.
I think it was outside of Stuart's flat.
She seemed friendly.
She was quite happy to chat to me.
Told us that she'd moved in
and that she was staying with Stuart.
Introduced us to the dog,
scrappy little Pomeranian thing.
Stuart seemed to fall in love with her,
which seemed to change Stuart somewhat.
I mean, they used to sit in the communal garden together
and sunbathe and have a bit of music going
and sort of have a drink and a bit of a social time, really.
I did find that Stuart had an issue with drink in the past,
which seemed to be coming back and haunting him somewhat.
At one point, I think Winter
was trying to be like a model.
I know she had an OnlyFans at one point.
She's a big into TikTok, wants to be a content creator,
and it was quite interesting seeing
because quite a few of the videos on her channel
were filmed in Stuart's.
She was obviously very good at projecting this appearance of
I am this person, I am that person.
I think she thought she was going to be this big
kind of social media sensation.
The police needed to talk to her
because, you know, she might have been at risk.
She could be a victim.
But equally,
she may have been the last person to see Stuart alive.
She may have been an important witness.
Detectives will be looking for CCTV
that covered the entrance to the flat,
and on both sides of the road,
to see if they can find any evidence
that Swan-Miller has been taken against her will.
They are concerned for her safety.
There is no trace of her at this stage.
Swan-Miller's phone was located at the address,
which in itself could be problematic
because that shows that the phone is no longer with her.
Ordinarily, the police would be using that phone
to try and track where she would be.
So on this occasion, it didn't yield that potential.
Yep, sit down, I'm going to sit, yeah.
My name is Russell Dadds.
I'm 58 years of age.
I'm a friend of Stuart Crocker.
I joined the Army at 16, um, Junior Service.
I was posted to Berlin in 1984,
where I joined Stuart Crocker in the Royal Hampshire Regiment,
serving under the, obviously, the British Armed Forces.
And that's where we first met.
Obviously, Berlin was right on the threshold
of the, uh, the Eastern Bloc.
There were still bullet holes in walls.
There were still ruins.
There were people queuing for food.
So it was very different times.
Working with Stuart was, um,
I would say always fun
and interesting, shall we say?
Uh, Stuart did like to have a drink,
and I suppose in them days in the Army, um,
drinking was very acceptable.
Um, it's what everybody did,
um, especially with the cheap prices that you encountered
when you were serving abroad.
I found Stuart to be sometimes mischievous,
always with an opinion.
And I think he was quite a strong character,
I think would be the way to describe him.
The Royal Hampshire Regiment,
they were then sent on a tour
in Northern Ireland in south Armagh.
This was known as um Bandit Country
and the IRA were very prominent.
It was during this time that, um,
one of, one of Stuart's closest friends,
um, was unexpectedly and suddenly
killed by a bomb.
Stuart was in the vicinity
when his best friend was killed.
He was funeral bearer,
and I know that Stuart was gravely affected by this,
and it left him with some, some troubles.
That has to have some long-lasting effects
with regards to Stuart, his drinking,
and it's, just his general outlook on life.
In the early days in the Army,
you didn't talk about things like PTSD.
But again, that's another very sad story.
I left the Royal Hampshires in July 1988
and Stuart left several years after me.
Stuart's army friends, unfortunately, through himself,
he lost touch with them.
Probably fast-forward another 20 years, almost.
I did bump into Stuart again,
typically outside of a pub as it was with Stuart,
and I'd got him round my home a couple of times.
I'd got him happy and talking about,
and talking to Army friends.
I see his face light up.
I had hope for him.
We promised to stay in touch.
About 2023,
I had heard from people that he was being bullied.
This was all going on with what we call Cuckooing.
Cuckooing is when drug dealers
effectively use and abuse a vulnerable person's property
as their hub for distribution.
They will very often give free samples, as it were,
to the householder,
as a way of ensnaring them in the whole system.
People who have been cuckooed tend to get very badly used.
That was the case with Stuart.
Sadly, nothing more was done.
I went round to see him.
I see an unkempt man.
He's now overweight.
He's now got the telltale signs of alcohol, overindulgence,
and he was in a bad way.
He wasn't always like that.
He would go through times when he got himself together,
but as soon as the people realised that he was lonely
and needed friendship,
that's when he was targeted.
I did have words with people.
I did tell people to leave him alone.
Sadly, Stuart's personality had changed so much,
he would probably do anything to try and please anyone.
He was allowing people
that were dealers to come into his house.
He would pass over his bank card.
They would go and take his money out,
and they'd spend his money.
They had introduced him to drugs,
and then he got, surprisingly, he liked it.
I did throw them out of his house once,
and I did talk to the police.
So he was moved to another flat.
But these people knew where he'd moved to.
And so it was just a case of,
well, he's in a different address,
but we can still do the same stuff.
They'd cuckooed him again,
and that's how he was introduced to Swan-Miller,
and his alcohol dependency had got so great
she was withholding
the alcohol.
She had his bank cards, everything.
And what do you do if you don't get your fix?
You'll find an alternative.
And that's how Stuart got on the drugs.
Going forward to June, 2023,
I hadn't seen Stuart for a few weeks,
and I had heard through Joseph
that he'd lost a lot of weight and everything else.
Then I saw Stuart with Swan-Miller,
a blonde peroxide bimbo
with a lot of makeup on.
I just looked at him and was like,
I'm not saying anything.
A day that I remember well,
Joseph got this call.
Stuart had rung up and asked for ยฃ50,
something to do with her dog and drugs.
He had told me that he needed this money
for some drug dealers that were
from London.
They were threatening to come down and beat him up.
I didn't have any money to give them.
If I had, then I would have.
He sounded saddened
and he said, I understand.
She came on the phone, Swan-Miller.
please, please, please, my dog's going to be killed,
or we're going to be killed.
[gentle music[
And that was the last I ever heard from him.
I feel regret for it being the last time
we ever had a conversation and how that conversation ended.
I wish it could have ended in better circumstances.
Apart from what we might call traditional forensics,
DNA, etc.
There is also digital forensics.
So what we would tend to do
is we would have some keyword searching on social media,
so it would pick up anything at all
that may yield some intelligence.
And that immediately
got them thinking.
Could they trace Swan-Miller
through her social media platforms?
Could they find out where she was posting?
We know Swan-Miller was using TikTok.
If she's logging into her social media accounts,
then potentially we could get some alerts in relation to that.
What surface very publicly on her TikTok profile
was a recently made video
that really stood out and immediately got our attention.
I'm going to be taking a break from TikTok for a bit,
I think because
I've been a bad girl.
I
had to do what I did because,
Of my
situation.
We were all quite shocked at that point
that it appeared that she had given some sort of confession
to her link to Perhaps what had happened to Mr. Crocker.
She was boasting that she had been a naughty girl,
and that she didn't believe she had done any wrong.
I can only explain
when the time comes.
But
I
had to do what I did because,
of my
situation.
Absolutely everybody had a copy of it on their phone.
Everybody was showing me.
There was a police officer out the front of Stuart's flat,
so I've shown them and told them, you know,
are you aware of this?
You probably won't want to speak to me
when you find out anyway,
but there's more to the story than just one side.
It was just quite disturbing.
She seemed so...
almost proud of what she'd done.
Almost kind of like this was a Big Brother interview
or some other reality TV show.
Not that she'd done what she'd done and...
was, she just seemed proud of herself,
which makes you feel a bit sick, to be honest.
And I basically decided
I was not going to be downloading TikTok
because I just didn't want to see it repeatedly.
It didn't seem like it was a sane person
that would, that would do that.
We want to get hold of her as quickly as possible,
not only to make sure that she's in custody,
but also to capture any forensic evidence
that may be on her, that may link her to,
to the murder of Stuart.
Does she own a vehicle?
If there is, we may put what's called a flag on ANPR,
the automated number plate recognition system,
which are cameras strategically placed on road networks.
Do we know where she banks?
Are there particular shops that she goes to on a regular basis
to get cigarettes, alcohol, foodstuff?
All this information can be really, really useful
when you're trying to plan an arrest of a suspect.
There is a misconception when it comes to CCTV.
There is no central database.
There is no easy way of just plugging in
and downloading CCTV from around the city.
It is time-consuming and can be very frustrating.
Where has she gone?
Is there any record of her moving around Andover?
Has she left Andover?
What CCTV can we find?
Where is Swan-Miller?
We were wanting to find out as much as we could
about Winter Swan-Miller and Mr. Crocker.
We know this is going to be a significant thing going forward.
We were looking for any other signs
that could build a picture for us
about who they were,
and perhaps what their relationship would have been.
Stuart and Swan-Miller's relationship.
Tempestuous,
sometimes very volatile.
One day, her dog disappeared.
She blamed Stuart for that.
All hell broke loose.
She was out effing and blinding and shouting in the street
and got my dog and all this lot.
But she was just one crazy, crazy lady.
We know that alcohol and drug use were present
in the relationship between Stuart Crocker and Swan-Miller.
This is quite important to note
because the presence of mind-altering substances
can really shape how a relationship develops
because what it can do
is intensify the emotional bonds that people are experiencing,
but also it can create a breeding ground for conflict
because when people are under the influence of substances,
their inhibitions reduce,
their ability to make decisions becomes impaired,
but also their impulse control reduces.
I have heard an argument
approximately five days prior to
Stuart dying,
but from then onwards, complete silence, really.
The police had a breakthrough
when they noticed an image
that appeared to be Winter Swan-Miller
walking towards Andover railway station
in company with her dog,
but she also had some luggage with her,
indicating she was leaving the area.
Whilst the CCTV at the railway station was a breakthrough,
it just opened up even greater avenues of investigation.
She's kind of disappeared in a puff of smoke
from Andover Station.
So at this point we knew that Winter Swan-Miller
was on the run.
You know, police couldn't find her.
Swan-Miller was known to the local police.
They were documented incidents of violence on her part.
Additionally, even though she was never charged,
previously, police had recovered knives
and a sword from one of her prior addresses.
Had she gone north, up to London,
then she would have arrived at Waterloo
and disappeared into the myriad of platforms on the underground.
Did she go out, get a taxi?
Who knows?
We suspect that she's murdered one person already
in a very vicious attack.
Could she do that again to somebody else?
With any cases of serious crime
that's happened in our community,
as a journalist, what drives us is to get to the truth.
However, with this case,
there was a lot of unanswered questions.
So we start watching these videos
on Winter Swan-Millers TikTok account.
Well, I'm sweating.
I am doing the housework.
I'm winning.
Yes! Get in.
She's miming.
She's singing along.
And then the next moment, you've got videos of her
posting about this fluffy white dog
who's called Oblivion.
Libby, say hello.
Whoo!
She absolutely dotes on this dog.
She loves this dog.
You can see how people start following her.
You might click on her, see what she's doing now,
see what crazy stuff she's up to today.
Well, I've just been banned again,
apparently for nudity.
When I was just wearing this outfit,
there was no nudity.
It's a jar.
She's probably been doing lives on there,
which can attract a bit of money.
But then, is she going on to other platforms?
Is there an OnlyFans account?
There's a lot more explicit sites,
shall we say?
Okay, where people then can manage their, their viewings,
their accounts, they can gain media traction,
they can earn money from this.
They can have people that will want private viewings
of what they're showing.
We know that she kind of existed in two worlds.
She had the offline world and the online world.
Her offline world was characterised by instability,
not only in terms of emotions and mental health,
but also living situations,
relationship dynamics, and breakdowns.
For people who have relationship difficulties in real life,
the online world can give them a sense of escape
because they have much more control
around the relationships.
While they may not be as deep and meaningful,
they're still rewarding
because the social media world is fuelled
by likes, comments and engagements,
which kind of activates our dopamine system,
our reward system,
and can be incredibly addictive.
I had a look at the TikToks.
All of them.
She is very provocative in some of them.
Well, she's provocative in most of them,
doing all these little dances in just her underwear.
Always with makeup, always with makeup on.
The last time I was to see Stuart,
it was a Saturday.
I was in the town centre.
He looked happy.
He was so pleased to see me.
We sat and talked for a bit
and I said, "oh, I must get your number."
He said, "oh, she's got my phone."
And I said, "who? Who's she?"
"My girlfriend."
And I said, "well, where is she?"
So I looked over, and she was in the charity shop in Andover.
I said, "I'll go and get the number
so we can stay in touch now."
And he said, "yeah, yeah."
I went into the charity shop, and I saw Swan-Miller.
She was, um,
half dressed, if you like,
Is the best way to put it.
She was trying to hide a pair of shoes that she was stealing
out the charity shop,
and I thought, God, you know, that's pretty low.
She came and said, "oh, we've got to go."
She sort of grabbed his arm,
and she was trying to guide him away from me.
I just thought to myself,
why would this 30 something year woman
wants to be Stuart's girlfriend?
No disrespect to Stuart,
but he wasn't in the best of health,
both mentally and physically.
But I was told subsequently, there have been a few occasions
when Stuart realised that certain points in his clarity
that he was being used.
I know that he had asked Winter Miller to leave
on a few occasions.
I know that Stuart was getting tired from all accounts
of her behaviour, of her outbursts.
That's what I believe was the final straw.
Two weeks later, Stuart would be dead.
Following the search of the scene of the crime,
it was noted that Stuart's bank cards were missing.
If a card is used,
the bank very quickly can pass that information
to the single point of contact,
who would feed it back into the detectives.
The bank informed the detectives
that Stuart's card had been used in Walsall,
in the West Midlands.
The bank were able to provide a photograph from the ATM
of the person who had used the card.
The image from the ATM showed a white Caucasian,
middle-aged man, thinning on top.
Certainly, not Swan-Miller.
It was a bit of a curveball.
Who was this person?
Could they identify him?
And if they could, would that lead them to Swan-Miller?
Focus was now on Walsall.
What we need to do now is try and establish any CCTV
around that ATM that might help identify who is using that card
at that particular time.
Using a protocol,
they asked West Midlands Police
to issue that photograph at daily briefings.
The morning briefings are for patrolling officers
for safer neighbourhood teams,
people who are on the ground
and who might be able to identify this mystery person.
The investigating detectives had identified
that there was a drug link.
Was this man known as a drug user,
and was Swan-Miller with him?
The bank reported a second usage of Stuart's card
in the Aldridge area in Walsall.
A second usage of the card in the same area
indicated to the police
that whoever was using it lived locally.
They were not on the run.
They were not travelling all over the country.
The investigation team needs to move fast.
So, having identified this pattern of usage,
Hampshire officers were deployed.
They started staking out the two garages
where money had been withdrawn from the cash machine.
They have an observation post.
They are sat in vehicles, watching and waiting,
and as soon as that card is used,
they would then pounce on the individual
in possession of that card.
At the same time,
detectives will have been trying to triangulate Swan-Miller.
They would have been looking at her social media platforms.
Was she logging in from IP addresses
that resolved to an address,
or different addresses in that area?
The SIO has this dilemma.
Do they use the opportunity
to seize the card at the next transaction
so that they can then identify who that individual is?
Or do they let it run a little bit longer?
And the advantage of letting it run a little bit longer
is that it helps you build up a bit more of a picture
as to where that card is being used,
so that ultimately you can identify where
Winter Swan-Miller is.
However, the police decide to take action
and pounce on the next withdrawal.
I think what they were
probably expecting was to find the male that they've seen
on the ATM before.
But to their surprise, they actually saw both individuals
turning up with the card.
And they immediately jumped on them and arrested them
on suspicion of Stuart's murder.
So now that these two are in custody,
a search was conducted at the male's home address.
And what the police found in that address
were belongings of Winter Swan-Miller.
Those belongings included clothing,
They included notes, but also her dog, Oblivion.
There was a phone belonging to the male himself,
which had been used by Winter Swan-Miller
to upload some of her videos
and some of her social media posts.
Finally, the police get their person.
Winter Swan-Miller has been arrested,
having been on the run for a few days,
and hopefully the risk of harming anyone else
has subsided.
But the law has to take its course,
and to get justice for Stuart,
police must unravel what's happened.
Who was this man Swan-Miller had been with?
Did he have anything to do with Stuart's death?
Was Swan-Miller the killer?
So far, Swan-Miller has only been caught
with a stolen cash card
and made some suggestive comments on TikTok.
You could argue that she was stoned out of her head
when she made those social media.
So, that's not evidence in itself.
She may have a very strong defence.
She could plead insanity or even get acquitted.
I just hope that it all goes well, really.
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