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Are you going to tell me where Sian is? You got a car?

She's down the side, somewhere along here.

She moved her body a couple of nights ago.

Her body?

Yeah. I was hoping we were going to save her. Yeah, it's a shitty day.

We need to chat, me and you, now.

What did you want to talk to me about?

Do you want another one?

Another one?

She's down there.

I was today taken to the locations of two bodies, but thus far only one has

been recovered.

That second girl is Becky.

Kieran, I just wanted to add our congratulations to everybody else's. Oh,

thank you. I did hear the confessions weren't PACE compliant.

No, in my opinion, they were.

Well, I'm sure it'll all come out in a wash. We've got a DNA match for the

second girl, Rebecca Godden. We've got an address for the mother.

I know why you're here.

Mrs. Edwards, can I come in? What's going on? There's the police. They're

here to tell me that Becky's dead, aren't you?

Sorry, yes, I am. No! My God!

Karen!

Steve!

Karen!

I'm sorry.

John Godden, father of Becky Godden.

What am I going to do without my new Becky?

Please.

Mr. Godden, can I please ask?

Mr. Godden, does that name mean anything to you, Christopher Allen? No.

No, I never heard of him.

Oh.

Mr. Godden.

When did you last see Becky?

It was me and Karen splitting up. That's why she went off the rails.

Please.

Mr. Godden?

Yeah. So when did you last see Becky?

Oh... Hmm.

A while back. I don't remember when.

I knew something like this was going to happen now.

Everything's going against us.

My other daughter, she needs special care, which I'm trying to organise.

It's just... It's just one blow after another.

Becky was killed in 2003, Sian in 2011.

Eight years. Now, that is too long a gap for him not to have been involved in any

others in between. I mean, why say that you think the murder was in 2003, 4, or

5 unless there are other murders and you've got them mixed up in your head?

I need you to stand down.

Take a break and recharge the batteries.

As soon as we can get it arranged, we're planning to put in a small team from

MCIT Bristol to wrap things up so we can all move on after a brilliant result.

There will be more victims, Pat.

So they're cutting everything back and they want a replacement?

They're not straight A, but they're making me head the case, aren't they?

What else am I supposed to do?

But they're not even prepared to acknowledge the fact that they know we

might have a serial killer now.

Listen, anyway, better go. Let me check it.

OK, love you. Bye-bye.

Number two, please.

4270, please. Thank you.

Excuse me.

I knew the policeman who was on the Sean O'Callaghan case.

It is you, isn't it?

Well, it was a team effort.

Can I just shake your hand, please?

It's bloody brilliant what you did. I couldn't believe you caught him so

quick. Thank you.

This is the guy who found Shana Callaghan's killer.

Okay, his bag's packed. He's just choosing a DVD.

Okay.

Before you go, I, um, got something for you.

It's a lock of Sian's hair.

The funeral parlor did it for us.

I've got one, and I've given one to Mum.

Thanks.

I'll give you a call tomorrow about the funeral, just to go through the

arrangements with you. All right. Mm-hmm.

Go on. What did you choose?

Try and do the chance of meatballs.

Oh, no, not again.

Come on, then.

Bye,

Aidan. Bye.

Bye, sweetheart. Bye.

Why are you going to speak to Mick about the funeral details?

Because he shuns further.

Yeah, he doesn't need to be worrying about all that.

He's got enough on his plate.

Anyway, it's all done.

What is?

The funeral.

I've booked for us to go and see Hilliard.

What? Yeah, I just said to myself, we need to apply the kiss principle.

Keep it simple, stupid.

Now, have you been to see the doctor about?

No, I have little to face it. Right. I am booking you an appointment, and I am

taking you there myself.

No ifs or buts.

Hello,

Declan. It's me, it's Chris.

Chris, how are you, mate?

Yeah, not so bad. Stuck in here, of course.

I'm on my round at the moment.

Well, that's not a waste.

It's changed a lot since I was last in there.

It's much more stricter now.

Well, some bollocks, mate.

But they want to interview me.

Yeah, they want to interview me about eight murders.

I don't know, mate.

I don't know.

For over a week, her identity was a mystery.

But detectives have finally been able to name the unknown woman her body found

buried at a Cotswold beauty spot.

Where is everyone?

Reassigned overnight.

Already?

I've only been given to the end of the week myself.

Right, get everyone we have left in the briefing room.

Jesus Christ.

OK, so the news back from the lab is mixed.

The good news is there's a match for Sian's DNA on the spots of blood on the

car seat covers Hallowell was trying to dispose of.

Yeah, but surely he could just say that he was a cab driver and Sian got in as a

passenger and had a nosebleed or something.

Yeah, although there is a match for Hallowell's DNA on Sian's body from the

bite mark to her breasts, but it's only partial.

No match from the perfume bottle.

There is actually a full female DNA profile on it, but it's not Sian's or

Becky's. Which begs the question, whose is it?

Also, they've been unable to positively identify the item he left burning in the

middle of the road. What are they saying about the gaffer tape gag found with

Becky's body?

Very unlikely to provide any profile, given how long it's been in the ground.

Right, I think we're going to find other victims. There's a big gap between Becky

and Sian's murders, so cross-reference Halliwell's known whereabouts between

those dates against cold cases and mispers.

None of us knows how much longer we've got left on this investigation, myself

included. There are currently 1,500 actions pending on the home system.

We actually need double the team that we had a few days ago, and we have less

than half. Now, I'm not quite sure how that logic prevails, but let's do what

we can.

Right. See you soon.

What have we done?

Oh, sit down for God's sake.

Do you want anything?

I'll have a cup of tea.

And a boat with Sarnie.

What are we going to do without her?

She was our little girl.

Here you go. Thank you.

I asked to see you, John, because I want to know something.

I want to know how you and your family were telling me you'd seen Becky when

all along she was dead in the ground.

No, it's not right.

2003 she was murdered, John.

But I've been told that your dad, your nephew, all different members of your

family have said they've seen her as recent as a couple of years ago.

I don't know.

Maybe they got the dates wrong.

Nonsense. Your dad, your dad would remember when he saw his own

granddaughter, wouldn't he?

Well, his memory's not as good as it was.

It's not good enough, John.

Because while you lot were telling me you'd seen her, she never got properly

reported as missing.

Well, you can't blame me for your own guilty conscience.

I knew, I knew she would have come to see me.

If she was still alive, I knew it.

Why, John?

Oh.

Was it... Was it just to try and hurt me?

Was that it?

Talking trash as usual.

God forgive you lot for what you've done.

The reason I got in touch is because I shared a cell with Alliwell around about

maybe seven, maybe eight, maybe.

He was just in for a nick and stuff, as I remember.

And what was it that disturbed you?

Two things I brought to mind.

Once he asks me, have you ever had sex with a woman while you were strangling

her?

I remember that.

And another time we're lying there on the bunks and this time he asks me,

How many do you have to kill to be a serial killer?

Tends to stick in your mind, them sort of things.

How is Big Hero?

I can tell you. Was that Myra Indley after Moore's murders?

From a phone call two days ago.

Eight.

Who's mentioned eight? Certainly not us.

Who's he talking to?

A mate of his. He phoned from prison. He's known him since school.

2003, Becky.

2011, Sian.

Eight years.

Eight years, eight murders.

This is surely grounds for further investigation.

We have to step up resources again.

Steve, I've decided I'm moving on.

I'm going to take up a post with the UK Border Force.

Regardless, this recording may not be enough to keep this investigation open.

Sir?

We are starting to get hits and matches with unsolved murders and missing

persons. Locally, there's a sex worker went missing in the early 90s, body

never found, last seen just around the corner from where Halliwell lived at the

time. And there will be others, absolutely, no doubt.

Halliwell's hero is Myra Hindley.

We need more resources, not less.

Sir, we have got to investigate this properly.

Find out if there are any matches around the country. Steve, it's not going to be

my call.

Okay, it's gonna be Pat Ginty taking over as chief and no doubt Mike Veal

becoming his deputy.

It's gonna be for them to decide if they want to put any more resources into

this, not me.

Evening.

Nice to see you.

Usual deal. None of what we talk about can be used by ITV until after the

verdict. Yeah, agreed.

Well, he's a serial killer, Rob.

I'm convinced of it. On top of the two that we know he's killed, there's

probably another six.

Six? But I need a bigger team to properly investigate him.

I love that jacket.

That was a favourite. I couldn't wear it. I'd just have it as a keepsake.

Can you finish this one?

When do you think you're going to move back in, Kev?

I will at some point, but just not now.

Why don't you sort something out for it to wear?

The funeral. Don't tell me what you choose. It'll just be between the two of

you.

Not too tall. Okay.

You look so smart.

Come on, Pete.

Sharon's our auntie.

It's only a poem. Please. I'm sorry, Sharon. We've only got a certain amount

of allotted time. And the service has all been very carefully worked out.

Elaine asked me to do it, and I've done it. What is it I've been reading that

precise? Mum, she's here.

God bless her.

Close friends told me she was outgoing, loyal, fun, caring, a great auntie to

her friends' children, a young woman with so much promise, so much zest for

life.

That life was honoured today.

Today proved how much she meant to this town.

Are they for sure?

Mint sauce?

It's minted lamb. I like mint sauce.

Well, how bloody minty do you want it?

Minted.

If we're doing this mother-daughter thing, how does it work?

Okay.

Just okay?

I'm not going to make a career out of it.

I want to have babies.

It'll be some time before we can release Becky's body for burial.

And we are aware this is a distressing time for you.

We want her back.

Of course.

Now, obviously, Becky's body was photographed as we found her.

And as this is an image which will be shown in court, we wanted to give you

the opportunity to be with First should you feel you wanted to.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

So, the main photo is her as we found her.

No, I'm all right. I'm all right. Just leave me down here a minute.

I'll get some water.

He cut... He cut... He cut her head off.

And her hands and her feet.

The pathologist can't be sure whether Halliwell did that or if animals did.

He didn't.

Drink this.

Why would he do that to a little girl?

125 could be fine. It's not actually too bad, is it?

And a drugs rehabilitation course. You can't take that too lightly. They'll put

you back in prison, my young lady. I ain't done any drugs for three whole

weeks. You'd be so proud of me. Also, look at that.

What's that?

So one of the prison officers put a cigarette out of my arm.

Such a bitch.

Oh, can we keep the hood down?

I love it with the hood down. And I don't smell bad. I just like it.

Get you home.

Get you a nice bottle of bath.

Then we'll go out for a posh dinner. How about that?

Mam.

Can I go see my boyfriend first?

No. Please, Mum, I'm so excited to see him. I'll just pop in, I'll say hello,

that'll be it.

I'm not coming home, Mum.

Becky, get in the car.

I got myself clean. I can't keep putting you through this.

Sorry.

How are you coping?

Okay.

You don't feel the need for any antidepressants?

I don't see the point. I know I am depressed.

It was two girls, wasn't it?

Sian and another girl. Just like you are.

All of us here, we're... We're very sorry.

That pisses me off.

Sian's name always being mentioned in the same breath as the other girl.

I'm so sorry I ever got that wrong.

Um, just again.

No, there was another victim, but the circumstances were completely different.

She was a drug addict and a prostitute.

I must have accepted there was a risk attached to her profession.

Sian was an ordinary girl who had a boyfriend and a job in an office. She

was just on a night out with her friends.

Obviously, I feel sorry for Becky, but I'd hate for people to think Sian was

the same as her.

Well, Elaine, there is something there.

So now we need to take a scan and a biopsy to try and work out exactly what

it is.

So, look, don't worry about it too much just yet.

Have we seen him today?

No, just the lawyers, all the legal arguments.

One of the solicitors said that Harry Will might try and claim that Sian is a

prostitute.

If they start saying that, I'm telling you, I'm going to lose it. They can't

say that. They won't.

We can clearly demonstrate she was nothing like Becky.

We've got the way in here, yeah?

I make a chance, Dad.

Pleased to meet you.

This is Debbie, my wife.

Hello.

I can't believe Elaine and I have gone through what we've gone through, and all

along we've only lived a few doors away from each other.

Becky and Sean are together forever now, aren't they?

All rise.

Mr. Guinty, I'm not allowed to give evidence, but I can tell you that, apart

from in terrorism cases, I have never come across the urgent interview

provision to PACE being used. It's a very unusual beast.

Would you agree to that?

Yes, it is.

But what it does not mean is that, for example, you can abandon the need to

caution. The PACE guidelines quite clearly indicate

that a person is entitled to have his rights explained to him. And a police

officer's duty is to ensure that they understand those rights.

It is.

And that is an inviolate position.

Yes, it is. But I have to say that I think the decision that Steve made was,

to use the slang, a gutsy decision.

I'd like to think I'd make a similar decision in the same circumstances.

I've just been told the defense QC is going to move to have you excluded from

the trial.

What? I'm sure they're just trying it on.

An attempt to rattle you before you testify today.

What it does mean is they don't really have any defense except attacking you.

So that's why they haven't put out a defense statement?

Exactly. Well, what?

Thanks, Ian.

I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so

help me God.

Detective Superintendent Fulcher, you knew that Sharno Callaghan was dead long

before you met Mr. Halloway in that car park, didn't you? I had no way of

knowing if she was dead or alive.

Looking through your own notes at the time, you talked about the prospect of

recovering her body.

You believed she was dead, didn't you?

I think you're missing the point here.

What I thought...

hoped or even believed, is irrelevant to the execution of my duties as a police

officer and my responsibilities to Sean O'Callaghan.

Barbary Castle's a remote area, isn't it?

Yes, I suppose it is.

About as different from the custody suite at Gablecross Police Station as it

is possible to envisage, isn't it? Yes.

What I suggest to you is that you took Mr Halliwell there because you thought

that would be an additional element of pressure upon him.

That's what you were doing, isn't it?

I believed Barbary Castle was most likely to be where Sian was, and that if

I took Christopher there for an urgent interview, it would necessarily mean

getting to her quicker if he was prepared to tell us where she was.

And if that involved abandoning his pace rights, you were prepared to do that.

I believe the urgent interview provision enabled me to take the course of action

that I did.

Mr. Filcher, your own deputy detective inspector Kirby told you that it was not

a good idea for you to conduct an additional urgent interview yourself

with Halliwell, didn't he?

Yes, it did.

He said you'd be sailing very close to the wind in terms of a breach of pace,

didn't he?

Words to that effect.

I can't believe you didn't caution Halliwell. Why didn't you just do it

when he was talking to him?

It's not just a caution, Mum. They've got to take him to the police station

and give him his solicitor.

I feel so sorry for Steve. That bloody lawyer is really going for him.

I don't think he's made a mistake.

But if he hadn't done what he did, we'd never have found Becky. A big fucking

mistake.

Let's move on now to the do you want another one conversation.

As soon as he began talking to you, you appreciated.

It had nothing to do with the Shah investigation.

Yes.

Well, surely, as the conversation progressed, you should have said, look,

we'll talk about this at the police station later. That's what you should

have said, shouldn't you?

My view was that we were in the moment. If he was offering the information, I

would rather have it and not curtail it than not find Becky Godden. Once Mr.

Halliwell was taken back to Gebercross Police Station and given a solicitor, to

your intense annoyance, he decided he didn't want to answer any further

questions in an interview.

Do you know how frustrating it is?

You and your team went out of your way to undermine Mr. Coleman, who attended

throughout the interview process, didn't you?

I thought it was utterly ridiculous that an individual who had taken me

and numerous other people from a surveillance convoy to two dead bodies

should seek to find some mechanism, some quirk of the law, some loophole,

to get him away from the fact.

that he was a multiple murderer.

So Pace, in your view, is a loophole.

It was a travesty.

It's like I was on trial.

What about the judge?

It's hard to tell.

She did seem more impressed with their QC than ours. I can see that.

This is her first criminal case she's ever presided over.

Up to now, she's just done family stuff, you know.

But it's not just that Halliwell confessed.

He confessed and he took you to the bodies. How can that be a problem? I

don't know.

I mean, they're saying we're looking very confident.

They're trying to paint me as some sort of renegade acting outside the law, but

the judge has to see through that.

I have considered the evidence and oral submissions with care and I find on the

balance of probabilities that the defendant's confession relating to the

location of Sean O'Callaghan's body may have been obtained by oppression.

With regard to Becky Godden Edwards, as soon as the defendant

began to talk about another offense he should have been immediately rearrested

and cautioned the urgent interview criteria had at that point expired there

should have been no further discussion and the defendant should have been taken

to a police station this a whole series of events began with a deliberate

decision by a senior officer to breach the pace code

and whilst Detective Superintendent Fulcher was entitled to adopt an

approach which would lead to the gathering of intelligence and

information, what resulted was not, in my judgment, such as can fairly

constitute admissible evidence in a criminal trial.

Good afternoon, everybody.

So, the first thing to say is that we

should still be okay with the case against him for Sian.

We have the DNA evidence.

Her blood in his car, his DNA on her body.

What about Becky?

The confession evidence is all we had.

And, uh... I'm afraid without that, we'll have to take her name off the

indictment. Oh, my goodness.

What?

You mean he's not going to stand trial for murdering my daughter?

I'm sorry.

What is his fault, you fool?

He's fucked up here, he has.

How can this be fair?

Everybody knows he did it.

That judge knows it, the lawyer knows it, you know it, I know it.

So how can that be right? Please, can you just tell me, how can this be right?

Christopher Halliwell was brought to court under police protection. The 47

-year-old minicab driver accused of killing Sian as she walked home alone

from a girls' night out.

The police had asked them to stay calm and let the legal process take its

course.

The strength of feeling is edged on people's faces here.

Will the defendant please rise?

Christopher John Halliwell, you are charged that on March 19th, 2011, you

did murder Sian O'Callaghan, contrary to common law.

How do you plead?

Guilty.

Christopher John Halliwell, you have advanced little by way of mitigation.

I accept, however, that your plea of guilty has avoided Sian's family having

to endure a trial, which is an important factor. Having careful regard to the

overall seriousness of this offence, the starting point will be 30 years.

However, I will allow a discount of five years for your plea of guilty.

I therefore rule that the minimum term that you shall serve will be 25 years.

Take him down.

All rise.

Christopher Halliwell could have been facing a jail term for the murders of

two women. Instead, he was given life for one, and it appears escaped justice

for another.

So I came to apologise to you both.

You have got nothing to apologise for, Steve.

If you hadn't done what you did, we'd never have found Becky.

Well, not everyone sees it that way. What I can't understand is why nobody

seems to be applying any common sense here.

Why would that lawyer be fighting so hard to set free someone like Halliwell,

who's admitted himself that he killed two young girls?

Why put all that effort into defending someone who's guilty?

All right, then.

Principle, I guess. What principle?

What about justice?

They say that Halliwell was oppressed by you. Well, I bet Becky and Sian were

oppressed by him just before he killed them, but that doesn't seem to matter,

does it?

Look, I've thought about this a lot, and if it's any consolation, I can honestly

say, hand on heart, I wouldn't have done anything different. I don't see how I

could. We're behind you 100% Steve.

You brought my little girl home.

We can't thank you enough for what you've done for us.

Thank you.

It does mean a lot to me.

Contact the DVLA, madam, and they'll do.

Okay. All right, thank you.

Yes, sir.

I want to make a complaint about one of your police officers.

His name is Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher.

Well, it's a complaint, Steve.

Complaint's a complaint.

And as the lead for professional status for the force, I have to take it

seriously. Yeah, but you know, half the stuff he's complaining about has nothing

to do with me. I mean, not being invited to a press conference.

Us calling her Becky Godden Edwards, not just Godden. I had no say in that. And

the thing about my actions preventing justice for Becky, we wouldn't have

found Becky if it wasn't for my actions.

Well, I have to make the decision on whether to refer it to the IPCC and

whether it constitutes just misconduct or gross misconduct.

Really? Mm.

Steve. Sir, I need a word.

What is it?

It's all clear.

What is?

I had a biopsy.

But you told me... It's benign.

Don't you ever go through something like that on your own again.

I just feel guilty.

Guilty that it's me who's been given another chance.

I'm sorry, sir, but it's bollocks. None of what he's complaining about makes any

sense. And for most of his points, I'm the wrong respondent.

All right, leave it with me, Steve.

I'll have a quiet word with Mike.

Would you?

I'd appreciate that.

Thanks.

Oh,

hello. Come in.

Thanks.

As you know, the case against Halliwell for Becky's murder collapsed in court.

But at least we were able to answer the mystery of her disappearance and end

what must have been for you the terrible pain of not knowing.

Yes, and for that we are very grateful to Steve Fulcher.

The good news is that we were able to convict Halliwell for Sian's murder. And

as you know...

He received a sentence of 25 years imprisonment. Yeah, minus the time he

spent unarmed.

Yeah.

Given that we do not have enough evidence to convict Halliwell for

Becky's murder, Wiltshire Police Service hopes that you are satisfied.

That were Halliwell ever to be released, he would be a very, very old man.

You see, you don't understand me at all.

Yes, Halliwell is going to be in prison for a very long time.

But not so long that he won't ever get out. And Sian's family have got justice.

And I am pleased for them.

Truly, I am. But where is Becky in the pecking order? She is right down at the

bottom where she's always been. How dare you trample over my daughter?

We're not going to let go of this. Not one bit.

Not till that man is made to pay for what he did to my Becky. So you go back

and you tell your bosses, no, I am not satisfied.

Not at all.

I had a word with Mike.

Unfortunately, he's already referred it to the IPCC.

They're going to charge you.

Gross misconduct.

Sorry.

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