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This programme contains scenes which some viewers may find upsetting

West Midlands Police have discovered the body of 32-year-old

Marlene Doyle at a flat near Coventry city centre.

With the body removed for postmortem,

forensic officers Rachel Hughes and Nigel Keeling

can examine the crime scene for evidence.

When we attend a scene of a murder

there's a lot of pressure on forensics to find out what happened.

Time is of the essence.

The first thing obviously we need to establish is how she's been killed.

Is there any weapons that have been left behind?

Anything like blood-stained clothing?

So we've got like a lounge-diner there.

Looks like a spare room.

Lots of stuff strewn around.

CAMERA BEEPS

Although we've got a room that's in kind of disarray,

it doesn't appear that there's been a search or anything. No.

Could it be a burglary that's gone wrong?

Has anyone forced entry?

Could it be that they've let someone into the premises that they know?

All those things you need to eliminate to establish

what has happened, and find a person that's committed this murder.

The floor looks quite clean, doesn't it? I can't see anything obvious.

There's no footwear marks in blood

or anything that's apparent straight away, is there? No.

There's obviously no drag marks or anything on the walls.

Next, they examine the bedroom where Marlene was found.

She was obviously here, wasn't she?

There's a large pooling of blood on the bed.

And I think it goes under. Oh, good grief. Yes, look.

It's gone straight through the mattress into the base.

Marlene was found with significant head injuries.

From that, you can actually see that that blood hasn't moved in any way.

It's kind of pooling underneath where she's lay.

There's nothing to indicate at all that she's left that area

or put up a struggle or a fight or anything at all,

which suggests to me that she was asleep in bed

at the time of the incident.

Or she's actually with someone that she knows.

Or someone that she'd feel safe with.

Whilst the forensic search of the crime scene continues,

the case is handed to the homicide team to investigate.

OK, then, Andy, what do you know?

Well, essentially we've got a deceased female - Marlene Doyle.

Her mother called us to report severe concerns for her safety.

She'd not heard of her for a number of days, which is really unusual.

Officers have gone round, forced entry,

found Marlene deceased in a bed

with quite clearly severe facial injuries.

It's a guy called Patryk Skupinski's flat.

Boyfriend of hers.

We've secured the scene and we've set the postmortem for tomorrow.

OK.

So we've got Patryk outstanding.

He does live there, but he's not there now.

He's not reported anything to us. No. So that's suspicious in itself.

So our priority is we find Patryk

and we make sure that we do what we need around the forensics police.

Yeah, absolutely.

A manhunt is launched for Marlene's partner - Patryk Skupinski.

Acting with urgency is vital in

a murder investigation.

Marlene was a young woman who has lost her life

in the most horrific way.

The fact that she'd been reported missing for three days,

we're already playing catch up to some extent, really.

Evidence could quite easily be lost,

which makes the forensics vital.

With a potential suspect at large, forensic officers look for any

source of DNA evidence that may identify the murderer.

So we've got cigarette ends.

We've also got a couple of drinks vessels

that are open, by the looks of it. Yeah.

We could just do swabs of those.

When you have something that potentially comes in

as a domestic murder, you've still got to be able to rule out

the fact that there isn't a third party involved.

And the window's... The window's secured. ..all secured, isn't it?

There's no other way that they've exited that bedroom

other than coming through this hallway.

The actual front door that's been forced, you can see that the lock

is still in the locked position as well, which indicates that...

So whoever's done it has locked the door behind them and gone.

Absolutely. So it's either someone who's got legitimate access,

or legitimate access to a key,

or has picked up a key from inside the flat.

The problem you face is when you've got a suspect that lived there,

their fingerprints will legitimately be there,

their DNA will be there.

So what you're trying to do then is link the suspect

to the actual murder itself, as opposed to just linking them

to being in there at some point in time.

A search recovers items that may be relevant to the investigation.

A bloodstained hoodie...

..mobile phones,

and the victim's clothing.

They will be sent to the major crime lab for forensic analysis.

SIREN WAILS

Officers searching for Patryk Skupinski...

..believe he may be hiding at his mother's address

on the tenth floor of an apartment block...

..just one and a half miles away from the crime scene.

DRILL WHIRS

Out the way.

Police officer with Taser.

Right, lads, stay with her.

Hello, matey. Come on.

Threatening to throw yourself off a balcony, it is suspicious.

However, it's not a crime to hide from police

or not want to talk to police.

It doesn't prove that Patryk was responsible for Marlene's murder.

Take a seat, pal.

Patryk Skupinski is taken into custody...

You're going to have to come with us.

..along with his mother, Hanna, who is suspected of harbouring him.

A police drone operator reports seeing Patryk

throw an object off the balcony before his arrest.

In a search, officers retrieve a metal peg

from the ground below the flat.

Why is he trying to discard an item?

Is that our murder weapon?

We need to get that forensically examined as soon as possible.

Patryk's clothing is seized.

And his fingerprints and DNA are taken for forensic examination.

With the suspect in custody,

Rachel calls detectives with the results of the postmortem.

Homicide team. Andy Wareham speaking.

ON PHONE: Hi, Andy.

The postmortem results have come through

and the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head.

There's nothing on her hands, no defensive wounds at all.

That can sometimes indicate that it's been done by someone

that knows them.

On the examination of the hyoid bone,

the bone that is in the neck,

there is one fracture to the left side and two fractures to the right,

caused by forceful compression of the neck.

These fractures show features that indicate that they happened

four to ten days prior to the death.

Right, OK.

So I wonder whether there's been sort of an escalation of things

over a few days, really, prior to Marlene dying.

But the postmortem results didn't come back with regards

to an actual date of when the death happened.

The reason being that we've got a few days in between

the last time Marlene Doyle being seen,

to the date that she's actually discovered by the police.

The date of death is massive for us, to try and work that out.

Without a time of death, detectives are no closer to knowing

what happened to Marlene in the days she was missing.

Unfortunately, we do deal with a lot of domestic murders.

It can start with bullying, controlling, coercive behaviour

and escalate. And a lot of it can go on behind closed doors.

With no witnesses, to prove a domestic murder is quite difficult,

so the time of death is very important for the investigation.

A check of custody records reveals this is not the first time

Patryk Skupinski has been arrested.

Patryk's got six previous convictions.

The most recent being in 2013,

where he was convicted of a section 18, wounding against his ex-partner.

And, interestingly, he attacked her in bed.

OK.

From a house to house perspective, we spoke to the flat adjacent,

who says that she hears upstairs lots of shouting,

lots of stomping around, and it kind of paints a picture

as to how frequent, I suppose, this is. OK.

Nanette, if you could start to think about interviewing. Yeah.

Patryk's our main suspect.

It's his flat.

There's a history of violence.

Marlene is dead in his bed.

We really need to get him to account for himself.

With Patryk refusing to speak to the police,

forensic evidence linking him to the murder will be vital.

The coat he was wearing when he was arrested is examined for blood.

We hold a lot of hope, actually, on the clothing that we submitted.

If the victim's blood is identified as being on

the suspect's clothing, it can link them to the incident of the murder.

The areas with a cross, they're marks of blood.

They're areas of interest,

which the lab will then take swabs from.

The blood distribution on clothing is really important.

You can get a spatter of blood where someone's been impacted

and the blood has come back on the wearer.

So it can tell us that a person was wearing that item of clothing

when the incident happened.

The swabs taken from the bloodstained clothing

will be processed and sent for DNA profiling.

Bloodstains at the murder scene may also prove crucial

to the investigation.

Blood pattern expert Andrew Palmer is called in to examine the flat.

So there's a fair amount of blood in here.

Yeah, look at this one.

Blood pattern analysis is a scientific method we can use

to help determine the events or actions that have taken place.

Are there indications of where the assaults happened?

Can we say how many blows have been struck?

Whether or not there's indications of blood from more than one person.

So I'm going to have a look at the bed.

So heavy staining on the mattress.

You can see these spatters here on the wall,

predominantly going away from the bed.

It's just the size of them.

You don't expect bloodstains that size

to travel that kind of distance.

So if she'd been hit multiple times in quick succession,

it could explain that, couldn't it? Yeah.

Not very high, but they're quite small.

This is a blood spatter pattern we call blunt force spatter.

Lots and lots of tiny spots and spatters of blood

caused by a blunt object hitting into wet blood.

The direction is all coming back to that large area of staining.

It looks like she's been beaten,

some blood sprayed across the bed,

some sprayed upwards onto the wall.

There's no evidence of the victim moving about the property

after she's been bleeding.

Blood is quite a viscous liquid,

so what you find is that the more and more force you apply,

the smaller and smaller droplets that are generated.

Some of the droplets we found were absolutely minute spots,

which were in the region of maybe half a millimetre in size.

Yeah? If you can do the... Headboard. ..headboard.

Yeah. And some photos? Yeah, some photos, yeah.

The blood pattern analysis indicates that the weapon that's been used

to strike Marlene is a smaller object.

At this point, it looks like it's a small blunt, heavy

kind of implement that we're looking for.

The metal peg that was reportedly thrown by the suspect

at the time of arrest is sent for forensic examination.

That's not good.

Yeah, that's very corroded.

Just have a quick look with this light first.

Some of the stains are more like shiny.

If blood is identified on the metal peg

that comes back to being our victim,

straight away there's a possibility that could be the murder weapon.

And there's a chance that the offender could have left their DNA

on this metal peg where they shed their skin just from handling it.

There's just so much corrosion on it

that it's got this red-brown colouring.

So there's a chance any of it could be blood, really.

Rust can actually give the appearance similar to blood,

so we do run tests on it just to establish

whether it is rust or whether it is blood.

So what I'm going to do now is rub a filter paper

over different sections, just as, like, an extra check.

A fast reactive chemical test

can detect the presence of haemoglobin,

the protein used by red blood cells to carry oxygen.

If blood is present, the liquid will turn blue or green.

Interesting. There is a slight reaction.

It's coming up a bit there.

But the colour's not right.

Yes, it's all negative.

That, it's not a bloodstained item.

Hi, guys. I'm just going to run through a timeline on the board,

if that's all right?

With initial forensics providing no link between Patryk

and the murder, detectives need to find evidence to pinpoint

the likely time of Marlene's death and the suspect's whereabouts.

The last time anybody spoke to Marlene on the phone

is on the evening of the 15th, at about half nine and that was Father.

Marlene's reported to us on the 15th by Mum,

reporting that she's been missing for the last few days.

She's been trying to get hold of her, can't get in contact with her.

20th, Marlene's been found deceased.

I'm assuming she's died between the 15th of Jan and 20th.

We don't know when, so I'm just keen to get us all out there

and get as much CCTV as we can.

Patryk's our main suspect,

but we don't have any witness to this crime.

So we have to build evidence of who's responsible.

Establishing when Marlene was killed is vitally important

to rule Patryk in as a murder suspect or not.

At this stage, we've got a five day window when she could have died.

So is there any CCTV in the block of flats...

..or on the residential street outside, which could establish

Marlene's last movements?

Hiya, it's West Midlands Police. Hello, there. Sorry to trouble you.

And who was in the flat at that time.

That's the hard drive from the camera opposite.

CCTV footage from 163 cameras

covering the local area has been retrieved.

Specialist CCTV coordinators Beth Weir and Andy McDonald

begin a forensic search through hundreds of hours of material.

CCTV is a crucial part of a murder investigation.

We use a technique called profiling.

So we will look at the people who pass that camera.

We will look at the distinguishing features that they hold as a person,

including height, build, ethnicity, gender,

facial features, to identify who they are.

There is no room for error.

I've started going through the footage slowly

and trying to record every single person

that goes in and out of that address.

What's also really challenging about this investigation

is knowing where Marlene's living.

It's a communal entrance and lots of people come and go at that time.

It will have to be viewed in real time to ensure that we get

the correct comings and goings from that location,

and that we don't miss anybody.

What I want to try to do is split the footage up between us,

so we can try to get through it as quickly as possible.

If detectives can establish when Marlene last entered the flat,

it could help to identify who she was with at the time of her murder.

While CCTV is analysed,

testing for DNA continues on items recovered from the crime scene

to establish who was present at the flat.

Saliva's a very good source of DNA.

The good thing is that when you have a drinks container,

you have the small grooves on the tops of those surface,

so they actually contain the DNA and retain it quite well for us.

The results are processed and sent to Rachel Hughes.

OK, Andy, so if we can just get up to speed with where we are

with regards to all the things that we've sent off

and that we've got results on.

So we didn't find anything in the bedroom or in the lounge

that we could say was the murder weapon that was used on Marlene.

The cigarette ends were in the ashtray that was on top of the bed

next to Marlene when she was found,

and there was a couple of drinks vessels in the bedroom.

All of those have come back to

Patryk or Marlene, basically. OK.

There's nothing at all to intimate that there's any other third person

that's left those behind there.

The profiles are to both of those individuals.

No other person outstanding as far as we're concerned.

We haven't found any DNA profile or any fingerprints of anyone else

being in that flat.

But I'm concerned that at this stage, forensically,

we haven't got anything that's pointing towards Patryk

as being there at the time of the incident.

So it's really important to narrow down the time of death

and focus on the CCTV

to put Patryk in that flat when Marlene has been killed.

Andy? Yeah.

I think I've got the movements of Marlene. OK.

I believe that this is her.

She's picked up on camera on the 15th.

CCTV analyst Beth has spotted a person resembling Marlene Doyle

on Saturday the 15th of January...

..five days before her body was discovered.

She leaves and turns to the left.

This is at ten to five.

We then tracked her down at the Post Office.

It's there really that you see this is the victim.

She's got dark coloured trousers

with a lighter coloured stripe down each leg.

Yeah, it's certainly consistent to the trousers

we recovered from the crime scene.

Yeah, so she's now carrying a carrier bag in her left hand.

And then you can just see her making into the picture,

and this is approximately seven minutes past five.

So she's out for 17 minutes. Mm-hm.

This is the last time we see her going into...

On CCTV. On CCTV.

The security light comes on

and you can clearly see the bag in her left hand.

It's certainly consistent to the person we've just seen.

As she approaches and walks up the walkway

towards the communal entrance,

and this is the last time that the victim is seen.

We know from CCTV that the last time that Marlene was seen alive

was on the 15th of January.

But that doesn't mean that she was killed on that day.

It's vitally important that we find out - did she use a phone?

Did any family or friends speak to her

after she is seen walking in for the last time?

The mobile phones seized from the crime scene

are sent to digital forensics for analysis.

But before any data can be extracted,

they must first be made secure.

So we put it inside of this Faraday box to make sure

that it can't receive any signals.

This means that it can't be wiped remotely.

The Faraday box stops any interference from signals

or any tampering, basically,

so it retains the evidence within the phone.

So all we're going to do now is just put it into flight mode,

and then once the handset's in flight mode,

we can remove it from the Faraday box.

Patryk Skupinski's phone is not amongst the devices recovered.

But one handset registered to Marlene

is sent to a data recovery specialist to analyse.

The good thing is now with phones we can actually track

people's movements. That will help with regards to a time of death.

It's going to be important to work out

when Marlene's phone was last used.

Enhanced software is used to analyse the phone's activity

on the 15th of January, when Marlene was last seen alive.

We've extracted the data from the victim's phone,

so we can see all of the user information,

we can see all the system information.

And we're trying to determine,

well, the last time it was powered off and how it was powered off.

So if I do a search for power off,

that will search across all of the files in there and return

any results that match those key words.

We've got two results.

If I open that one up now...

..the phone is creating a file

storing times of when the phone's powered off.

The user information of Marlene's phone

shows that it was not regularly powered off.

So the last time that it was powered off

was on the 15th of January, at 23:49 and 32 seconds.

And the reason listed there says - user requested.

Which would indicate that somebody has physically interacted

with that device and pressed the power button to turn the phone off.

Now the CCTV analysts know the exact time that Marlene's phone

was switched off, they can narrow the focus of their search.

This is it. So it's the beginning of this one is when he comes out.

A man is spotted leaving the flat,

just 20 minutes after Marlene's phone is powered off.

Build wise, height wise,

that could be Patryk.

But then 00:20, about 11 or so minutes later,

we've got that person coming from the left-hand side,

but they're with somebody else. OK.

Now, they go into this side entry way.

But I don't think they get in.

So they've sort of disappeared from view momentarily.

This is them, look, coming out now.

Oh, so they're there for a minute. A minute, if that.

CCTV shows the man thought to be Patryk

leave the area with an unknown male out of range of cameras.

CCTV, it's not always crystal clear.

Sometimes it can be obstructed.

You get different views at night.

We also have to then look at maybe zooming in,

changing the resolution on the camera, but not enough

to distort the image that would potentially be used in evidence,

which isn't always easy.

Just need to find the right file now.

Six hours later...

..cameras pick up more movement outside the flat.

We've got this Mercedes.

So this is 6:52ish. OK.

And this shows - I think it's Patryk.

He's got the same clothing, the same footwear, with somebody else.

It looks like the other guy...

He's got quite peculiar hair, to say the least. Yeah.

It's almost like it's a ponytail, yeah.

So that car drives off.

Oh.

What's he looking at?

Is he climbing?

He's climbing up on that scaffolding there, look. Yeah.

The man appeared to be attempting to gain entry to the building.

I'm just trying to keep my eye on this

to see if I can see him getting on the roof.

The fact that they're going up on the roof and everything like that,

it's really suspicious behaviour, isn't it?

So, what? He's up there about four minutes.

And he looks... He's gone straight, like he's on his phone.

And then we see somebody else come.

Seems certainly smaller in stature.

That may be an indicator that they may be female.

The individual goes into the entrance way

and will join Patryk in this general area.

So 07:07:48.

This is when they're last in view.

All three are seen to finally enter the building

after a neighbour buzzes them in.

So ten minutes has gone now,

and now we've got three people coming out.

One's clearly got a big bag.

So what's he got in that bag?

We'll obviously have to try to identify who them people are.

We may be able to do some links to associates.

This piece of evidence has really thrown this investigation wide open.

We weren't expecting to see Patryk returning to the flat

with two people.

From the CCTV, you see one male climbing up the scaffolding.

Why is he doing that?

It seems to me like sheer desperation to get into that flat.

The priority now is to identify and locate the unknown people

seen entering the flat on the night that Marlene was last seen alive.

The new CCTV evidence is presented to Patryk in interview.

Presenting CCTV in an interview can be a turning point.

It can be the point that they may start talking.

It's hard for a suspect to be presented with CCTV.

It's black and white, it's there in front of them.

It's tough for them to hide behind.

Although Patryk is denying the involvement of others,

CCTV analysis has provided Andy McDonald with images

he can try to match to the police database.

So I'm just going through the intelligence documents

that we have in relation to Patryk

to try to look for any of Patryk's associates.

Erm, let's have a look to see if we can see anything.

Flipping hell.

So enquiries that have been conducted

have identified this person -

Michal Lada.

This person does have a very unique and distinct hair cut.

Unfortunately, the image that I've got is just of his face,

so I can't see the back of his head.

Seems to be shaved on the sides quite high up.

But certainly there's consistencies is in the way this person's

hairstyle is with that of the person on the CCTV footage.

Their association to Patryk

would appear to be there from the intelligence documents.

He does have a partner, I think it is.

That's Kinga Rybacka.

So it could quite easily be that Kinga

is that person that is with them.

The sooner we get somebody in custody, if they are in fact

involved in the offence, the more likely we can obtain

further evidence before they have opportunity to dispose of anything.

A search begins for both suspects.

In digital forensics,

hundreds of messages and call logs have been recovered

from Marlene's phone.

Detectives can now use the CCTV timeline

to analyse the crucial days leading up to her death.

Looking at this stream of messages,

there seems to be a lot of missed calls being received by Marlene.

They are from a contact called Moj Maz Patryk.

"You start to make me angry."

This, to me, is because she's not answering his calls.

Another message a few moments later,

"You push me to be stupid."

She says, "Lately we are always fighting each other instead

"of fighting our love for each other and that can't happen any more.

"You've built up hate, and day by day it has grown.

"You've changed, you've pushed me further and further away."

Now, what I can see, there's a message that states,

"I will finish this game."

By saying "I will finish this game,"

does he mean he will finish her?

It doesn't tell us everything,

but you would get the impression

that Patryk is quite aggressive.

Next, the messages are searched for any sent in the critical time

between Marlene entering the flat

and her phone switching off on the 15th of January.

You can see messages from Patryk accusing Marlene

of having affairs.

On the evening of the 15th of the first,

Marlene messages an unknown number...

..and it just reads,

"Hey, Leon, it's Marlene, r u still on this number?

"Love n miss u."

That could be taken the wrong way if read by a jealous partner.

Doing some research on that number,

it actually is one of Marlene's cousins.

That message may be a trigger...

..for what happened.

At 23:49, Marlene's phone is actually powered down. OK.

But what we also know is

that phone has never been switched back on.

The evidence gathered from Marlene's phone includes a forensic analysis

of her call logs in the final hour before her phone was powered off.

There's a call here, 23:01.

Marlene's phone calls Hanna Skupinski, Patryk's mum,

for a 54 second conversation.

That in itself is quite unusual

because from what we gather Hanna does not speak English.

We know from the family that Marlene doesn't speak Polish either. No.

So that's an interesting conversation for 54 seconds.

I mean, that has to be Patryk, doesn't it?

Using Marlene's phone to ring his mum on this day. Yeah.

We found a text message which reads, "Love n miss u."

Has he seen that text message when he's picked up Marlene's phone? Mm.

If the detectives' theory is correct,

Patryk must have accessed Marlene's phone

shortly before it was powered down,

just an hour before he is seen fleeing the flat.

The phone work really helps the investigation,

but I think for this case it's not just one element of evidence,

it's all of them together.

The different parts of the jigsaw...

..all points towards it being Patryk who's murdered Marlene.

The couple identified by CCTV analysis,

Michal Lada and Kinga Rybacka,

have been located and brought into custody.

All three suspects who police believe have assisted Patryk -

Michal, Kinga,

and his mum Hanna -

are taken to give their accounts in interview.

Everyone is always interviewed separately.

We are trying to use their account against each other

to see if we can trip them up,

get more evidence from what they've said.

If we get conflicting information,

then that definitely supports our case.

KINGA SPEAKS

KINGA SPEAKS

MICHAL SPEAKS

So we now have four suspects,

each of them denying their involvement in this case.

At least one of them is not telling us the truth.

If they've not been in the bedroom, they couldn't have killed Marlene.

But if they've assisted Patryk, equally what they've done is

a heinous crime.

So forensics are vitally important

to work out what their roles were in this murder.

Rachel checks images of Patryk

to confirm what he was wearing on the night of the murder.

They've just made off and they've got no care for her.

They've made no attempt to call for any help.

We've recovered items of clothing that we can see that the suspect

is wearing on CCTV when Patryk exited that flat.

Namely, a light coloured hoodie and also like a khaki green jacket

that was seen to be wearing that over the top of the hoodie.

The hoodie and jacket seen on CCTV

match those seized from Patryk at the time of his arrest.

We've had results back from the lab with regards to that hoodie

that we've sent off. OK.

Full DNA profiling has now been completed on Patryk's clothing.

So the hoodie itself, there was a spot of blood that has been detected

on the outside that is, that does come back to Marlene.

OK. Oh, brilliant.

There's also blood stain on there

that's come back to Patryk as well.

Which can be a manner of reasons, can't it?

They live in the same household.

If you've got kind of a chaotic lifestyle

and there's been incidences in the past,

it could have both of their blood on there.

It's difficult to say.

We can't assume as to how it's got there in those areas.

In relationships where domestic violence has occurred,

it isn't that uncommon to find that there's been several

incidences there.

You can sometimes find a trace of blood

that's actually happened from a previous incident.

The green jacket itself, there is blood that's come back

to Marlene Doyle, which was actually on the inside

lower back of the jacket. Right, OK. Interesting.

Yeah.

There's also, on the outside lower back area, some bloodstaining

that's come back to Patryk Skupinski.

Right, OK.

So we've got blood on the green khaki jacket... That's right.

..on the inside. Inside, yeah.

But we've got blood on the outside of the hoodie

found in the spare room.

Yeah, yeah. So was he wearing the hoodie when he murdered Marlene?

Yeah. And then did he put that khaki jacket on

in order to leave the flat?

It is quite unusual, isn't it, really?

I would say the evidence speaks volumes because we haven't found

anything that's identified another individual

as being within the flat.

That tells me that there were only two people in that flat

when Marlene was murdered, and that was Marlene and Patryk.

It's all pointing towards one individual as being responsible,

which would be Patryk Skupinski.

Detectives track down one of the people present

at Michal and Kinga's flat on the night Patryk was there

and Marlene is believed to have been murdered.

She is brought in for questioning.

You've been asked by the police to talk about

attending an address in Coventry.

Tell me about that.

OK.

What happened then?

I need to know words he was saying.

The witness is taken to an ID parade.

If you'd like to take a seat there, please.

Detectives must confirm if the male she has described

is in fact prime suspect Patryk Skupinski.

I'd like to show you a video film,

which contains the images of nine people, numbered one to nine.

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I understood that.

Andy meets with DI Adam Jobson to review all the evidence.

So a significant witness.

She's positively identified Patryk as the person

who she describes as the nervous male.

So in terms of CCTV then?

So we've got the comings and goings of the offenders.

We're happy that Kinga and Lada

wouldn't have been in the flat at the time?

That incident has already taken place?

No, you're right. They're in there for nine minutes, which again,

when you talk about walking up the stairs, down the stairs

and everything that would have had to have happened in the flat,

it's not a great deal of time.

As you know, we didn't get a phone for Patryk,

but the evidence from Marlene's phone in particular is damning.

And there's messages on her phone from Patryk to her,

which say, "I will finish this game,"

and that for me is like a clear threat. Yeah.

We've got a text message from about half seven on the 15th from Marlene

to her cousin, which says,

"Are you still on this number? Miss and love you."

We know Patryk is controlling

and I think that may be the point in which he's had red mist,

has gone into the bedroom and has obviously murdered her.

Patryk's had an argument with Marlene.

He's got an abusive relationship with Marlene.

He's got motive to kill her.

You've got different strands of evidence,

which, when you put them together, it builds a really damning picture.

You're charged with an offence of murder.

OK, Michal. I'm going to charge you with an offence.

You do not have to say anything...

After reviewing all the evidence gathered,

the Crown Prosecution Service agrees to charge Patryk Skupinski

along with the individuals who helped him.

She's been charged, assisting an offender, and remanded.

It's tragic what's happened.

Marlene died in a place where she felt safe and secure

at the hands of someone she loved.

So it's everything to get the right outcome, really.

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Crime Scene Coordinators. Rachel Hughes, how can I help?

Hi. Rachel. It's Andy. I've just got a result from court.

Yeah? All four guilty.

Oh, OK. That is really good.

Hopefully, it gives some comfort for the family then, won't it, really?

Absolutely. Yeah.

The other three, none of them came in with suitcases of clothing

expecting to go to jail, so I'm pleased with that.

Great. I appreciate you letting me know, Andy.

Without the use of forensics on the whole, there's no way

in which we'd have been able to provide such a compelling picture

for the jury.

This is a violent and brutal murder by Patryk Skupinski

who's a dangerous and violent man.

I'm just glad we got the right result for Marlene and her family.