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When a murder's committed,
it's always a race against time,

to find the truth, to separate fact
from fiction, to catch the killer,

and to make sure
that justice is served.

But what happens when the truth
vanishes with the victim?

I'm Dr Richard Shepherd,
and I've spent my entire career

as a forensic pathologist,
performing nearly 23,000 autopsies,

including on some of the most
high profile cases of recent times.

I've learnt that the dead don't hide
the truth, and they never lie.

Through me, you'll be hearing
directly from the victim

from a state-of-the-art laboratory
with ground-breaking technology

that uses digitally scanned
sample bodies.

I'll be investigating a series
of intriguing murders,

where from the victim's bodies,
I'll be revealing to you

the truth behind
those horrific crimes.

(camera shutter clicking)

(tense music, siren wailing)

Late at night
on the 6th of January, 2013,

58-year-old Peter Fasoli was found
dead in the burnt-out remains

of the small bungalow in London
where he lived alone.

That evening,
neighbours had been alerted

to a fire alarm at Peter's house.

(siren wailing)

And called the fire brigade,

who came and extinguished
a house fire at his address.

Sadly, within the house,
Peter was found to have died.

During a subsequent investigation,

it was concluded that the house
had probably caught light

due to a faulty light bulb fitting

that had fallen down
onto the bedding

and caused the fire.

(Richard) 'A report by the fire
service said it was an accident,

but was it?'

'For almost two years after the
fire,

a silent witness lay dormant,
waiting to be found.'

'While the extraordinary true story

of how Peter really died
lay hidden within his body.'

'Peter Fasoli was born to
an Italian family in Manchester,

where he lived most of his life.'

'But he'd moved to London in 2012,

where, at the age of 58,
he lived by himself.'

He lived in a small bungalow
in Northolt in West London.

(gentle music)

He worked as a sort of IT
consultant,

sitting in front of a computer
at home all day,

which meant that his social
interactions were quite limited.

Mainly, he met people
over the Internet.

Peter Fasoli was a quiet man,

kept himself to himself,
lived his own life.

No long-term relationships,

reached out online to make
friendships and to arrange dates.

By all accounts,
was a happy individual,

living his life the way
he wanted to live it.

He didn't have an awful lot of
contact with the outside world,

and he didn't have an awful lot

of very close relatives
living nearby either.

So, he was fairly isolated
from the community.

But he was a kind of person who
did crave interaction with people.

He would quite often

seek out young gay men for
company...

...and also for sexual encounters
as well.

We know that Peter had made use of
an online dating app to meet others.

It was one of these dating apps
that in January 2013,

he met a man calling himself
Gabriel,

who he invited to his house.

They'd arranged to meet
at his bungalow in Northolt

on the evening of the 6th of
January.

According to the messages
that had gone to-and-fro,

Peter was expecting
some sort of sexual encounter.

It seemed as if the person

he'd connected with on this website
fitted the bill.

They seemed to be
into the same things,

and this person who went by
the name of Gabriel had said,

"Well, I'm going to come
and we're going to engage

in this sort of role-play activity."

So that was what Peter Fasoli
was expecting.

'They agreed that Gabriel
would come to Peter's house

at 7pm on the 6th of January.'

On the morning of 7th of January,

Peter received some text messages
from Gabriel.

Gabriel was apologising
for not having turned up

to their appointment
the night before,

and exploring Peter's availability
for future meet-ups.

And then some more messages later on

saying,
"Oh, why are you ignoring me?"

So clearly something has gone wrong,
according to these messages.

(tense music)

But Peter never read these messages.

(fire alarm beeping)

Very late on the 6th of January,

going into the early hours
of the 7th,

Peter Fasoli's fire alarm goes off,

and the emergency services
are called.

(siren wailing)

He's found in the house, collapsed,
and he's pronounced dead.

Initially, it does seem
that the fire was an accident.

There had been
an initial investigation

that identified nothing suspicious.

The death, go through the usual
process, there's an inquest,

which confirms that Peter's death
was an accident.

'There was a post-mortem examination
of Peter's body

to see what it could reveal
about his final moments.'

Peter's charred body was found
in his bungalow, and at the time,

it was thought that there were
no suspicious circumstances.

But the cause of death still had
to be determined.

I've examined many fire deaths
in my career,

and I know that
within a domestic fire,

temperatures up to
800 degrees Celsius,

that's 1500 degrees Fahrenheit,
are easily achieved.

So, the hot gasses themselves
can cause death,

but the crucial things that kill
are the smoke and the fumes.

These cases cause problems for any
pathologist who has to examine them.

They have to consider
a whole series of things.

They've got to establish
the identity, the cause of death,

but particularly
they've got to try and work out

whether the person was alive
at the time the fire was burning.

We look into the air passages, the
trachea, the bronchi and the lungs,

and this image shows
what you find at post-mortem.

The black soot and debris

distributed throughout
those air passages,

and if we can find soot
and heat damage in the airways,

we know that the person was alive
at the time the fire was burning.

(mysterious music)

'The evidence suggested
there was no doubt

that Peter was still breathing
when the fire had started.'

(fire alarm beeping)

'And it seemed
that the cause of death was clear.'

Peter had some health issues.

Erm, he had a heart condition and at
times needed the support of oxygen

to help him breathe
and get about easily.

The conclusion was that
Peter had inhaled some smoke

during the initial stages
of the fire,

that that had triggered problems
with his heart condition,

and that he had died as a result
of a heart attack.

That is what the police decided,

based on what the fire brigade
were saying.

So, really, they didn't take things
any further.

They didn't look at the wider
circumstances of Peter's death.

'After the inquest in August 2013,
the investigation was closed.'

'But there was something
the police didn't know.'

'In the hours after Peter's death,

his money was being spent
by someone else.'

So the really curious thing
about this is that

Peter Fasoli dies in a house fire,

he's found in the early hours of
January the 7th.

The next day, his credit card

is used to buy a ticket
from London to Rome.

(mouse clicking)

On January the 11th,

a man called Jason Marshall boards
a flight using that ticket.

'But who was Jason Marshall,

and how had he got his hands
on Peter's credit cards?'

This case was one of the most
unusual that I've ever dealt with.

The true facts hadn't been exposed
in the initial investigations.

The charred body of Peter Fasoli

had been found in his house
in Northolt, West London.

An inquest in August 2013 had
concluded that it was an accident,

caused by a faulty light bulb,
and the case was closed.

'But the body still had secrets
to tell,

and the truth of what happened
was yet to be discovered.'

Four days after Peter Fasoli died
in a house fire,

a man called Jason Marshall
boarded a flight to Rome

from Gatwick Airport.

He'd used a credit card in the name
of Peter Fasoli to buy the flight,

and he also had cash

that he'd withdrawn
from that account as well.

(mysterious music)

(Richard)
'Not long after arriving in Italy,

Jason started using online
dating apps to find gay men.'

So within days of touching down
in Rome,

Jason Marshall is busy setting up
new connections online.

Jason had set himself up
on dating websites,

and arranged to meet older gay guys,

and arranged to meet them

through these dating websites
for sexual encounters.

He meets a guy called Vincenzo Iale.

'67-year-old Vincenzo Iale worked as
a tour guide in Rome...'

'...and lived in a small town

outside the city
called Torvaianica Alta.'

'Just over two weeks after arriving
in Rome,

Jason was on his way
to Vincenzo's house.'

(sombre music)

'Vincenzo may have been expecting
a sexual encounter,

but Jason had something else
in mind.'

Jason was not interested

in sexual meetings.

He just wanted to steal

their credit card or cash.

Every time, he was searching
this kind of victim, and every time,

he approached to them
for a sexual meeting,

every time with just one purpose.

Steal their credit cards,
steal cash...

...extorting numbers
and the bank details...

...and then killing his victims.

'Several days after his encounter
with Jason Marshall,

Vincenzo Iale's body was
discovered.'

Vincenzo was found completely nude,

er, on the floor, one week,
seven days later, the homicide,

because he lived alone.

This murder scene was
over a week old,

and in forensics,
time is of the essence.

With the passage of time, vital
clues such as the DNA of the killer

can be lost,
and in terms of the injuries,

it can be harder and harder
to determine which of the injuries

actually was the cause of death.

Decomposition will have started
to set in on Vincenzo,

and it's usually first seen
in the right lower abdomen

over the cecum and the appendix area
of the body,

as a green discolouration of the
skin

that gradually spreads
over the entire body.

But the pathologist in this case

was well able to identify
the numerous stab wounds

to the chest of Vincenzo.

And he could also see
that he had been tortured,

and the crime scene show that
he'd been dragged around the flat,

evidence of the physicality
of the murderer.

Despite the severity
of the injuries,

they were not what killed Vincenzo.

The pathologist found that Vincenzo
had been strangled by a ligature,

and the mark on his neck
was entirely consistent

with the use of an electrical cord.

Ligature strangulation causes
pressure to the neck,

and the blood vessels and airways
inside the neck.

It causes pressure to
these red carotid arteries

that are taking blood up
to the brain,

and it causes pressure
on the jugular veins,

which are taking blood away,

and so the brain is starved
of oxygen

when those blood vessels are
pressed.

But it can also lead to compression
of the airways

above and below the larynx,
stopping air entering the lungs,

and so meaning there's loss of
oxygen in the bloodstream itself.

Now the time it takes for someone
to die with ligature strangulation

is very variable, depending on the
ligature and the pressure applied.

It can be very quick,

or it can be delayed
over a prolonged period of time,

depending how much pressure
is applied.

(tense music)

'On the very day
Vincenzo was found murdered,

Jason Marshall was on his way
to meet his next victim.'

Within days,
he moves on to another guy.

This time a chap called
Umberto Gismondi,

who lives in Rome.

He met him on a social network site
for sexual meetings.

The victim invited Jason
in his home,

and then they had dinner together.

They go to the bedroom.

Jason not seem so interested

to have a sexual meeting.

'Armed with a truncheon,

Jason launched a terrifying attack
on Umberto Gismondi.'

'First, he incapacitated his victim
with pepper spray,

then bound and gagged him,

and attempted to suffocate him
with a cushion.'

'And he made it clear to Umberto
that this was not the first time

he had carried out such an attack.'

Jason showed a picture on his phone

and said to the victim,
"Watch this picture."

"Watch this man.
I killed him one month ago."

"If you don't give me the PIN number

of your credit cards,

I'll kill you too."

It is in effect whereby people

become more desensitised
as time goes on,

and if they commit
one harmful act...

...maybe it's easier for them to
commit another one and another one,

and then maybe they realise that

they're actually kind of
enjoying this.

And that... that keeps them going.

(sombre music)

Jason was a serial killer

because every time
he made the same actions.

First of all, victims are the same,

homosexual, alone,

and they're old men.

Why old men?

Because Jason is a strong,

young, tall, powerful man,

and so in case of struggle,
he could win against them.

Very fortunately, the victim's
neighbours hear the commotion

and raise the alarm,
and Mr Gismondi is rescued.

(siren wailing)

'Umberto Gismondi was very lucky
to have been saved,

and he survived.'

'Jason fled the scene,

but Italian police tracked
his movements using his phone,

and he was apprehended on a bus
a few hours after the attack.'

'He was arrested and taken to
a jail in Rome,

where he was provided
with a defence lawyer.'

I was the court-appointed lawyer.

In my life,
I will not have a case so bizarre.

I met Jason for the first time
when he was in jail.

He said, "I am innocent,
Francesco, I am innocent."

Jason was very convinced,
and Jason was very believable,

and I thought,
"Oh, maybe he's really innocent,"

but what he said to me

was not supported by the facts.

'When Jason had been arrested,
he had fresh blood on him,

and he had credit cards and a gate
key of his first Italian victim,

Vincenzo Iale.'

'He was also found in possession of
pepper spray, a fake pistol,

and a counterfeit badge
from the British embassy.'

Jason said to me,
"I work for the British Embassy."

"I work for MI5."
But, yeah, it was unbelievable.

Er, it was not, er, not credible.

'In 2014,
Jason Marshall stood trial in Italy

for the attempted murder
of Umberto Gismondi,

and the murder of Vincenzo Iale.'

During the final part
of the hearing,

Jason wanted to speak,

and I remember that
Jason said to the judge,

"You can't judge me
because only God can judge me."

'In July 2014, he was found guilty

and sentenced to 16 years
in prison.'

'Now he was confined
to an Italian prison cell,

Jason Marshall could not kill
again.'

'But the question being asked was,
had he killed before?'

'Shocking evidence
was about to come to light.'

This case is back to front, really,
in that the suspect was locked up

for murder before we even knew
there was a murder.

I've investigated many cases
which have strange aspects to them,

but very rarely do you find
a murder set to music.

(Richard)
'On the 6th of January, 2013,

58-year-old Peter Fasoli

had met a man called Gabriel
on the Internet,

and invited him back to his home
in West London.'

'But later that night, his house was
on fire and Peter was found dead.'

And inquest concluded
that it was an accident

caused by a faulty light bulb,
and the case was closed.

The body had revealed
Peter was alive during the fire,

but there was more to tell.

An all-seeing witness was waiting,
ready to reveal a shocking secret.

There is an investigation,

and it does confirm
that Peter's death was an accident.

So, you know, the family were
obviously shocked and grieving,

but since it was just
a tragic accident,

they move on with their lives.

Peter Fasoli's family
are not particularly local.

His belongings, what's left of them,

what's not been, you know,
completely destroyed

by the fire in his house,
they're collected up

and they're stored by a friend
of the family up in Yorkshire.

'It was not until almost two years

after his death
that evidence emerged

revealing the truth
of what really happened that night.'

Peter Fasoli's nephew decides
that he would be quite interested

in going through
some of Peter's effects,

which had been stored
up in Yorkshire.

So, he goes to have a look.

He's particularly interested
because he knows

that Peter had a shared interest
with him in his family tree.

So, he thinks that there might be
something on the computer

that Peter had in his house
that might give him

a bit more information
about the family history.

So, he goes to Yorkshire
and collects the hard drive

from the computer
and takes it home with him,

and sets it up
so he can kind of have a look

and see what's on there.

(ominous music)

What he finds is not anything
to do with the family tree.

He makes a very shocking discovery,
erm, of a series of videos

that Peter Fasoli had made,
initially meeting guys for sex

and it had been filmed on his
webcam.

'But what he sees on the final video
shows something else entirely.'

'Shocked by what he had discovered,

Peter's nephew immediately handed
the video to the local police.'

We received a call from
West Yorkshire Police

with some significant information

that was going to take the whole
case into a new direction.

So, once we got back to London
and reviewed the video

that Peter's nephew had found,

it was really shocking and quite
a harrowing watch, to be honest.

It happened that Peter had
a kind of hidden CCTV camera

that was connected to his laptop.

It was effectively a recording of
the events of the evening

of his uncle's death,

and showed that Peter had been
visited by another male.

(tense music)

The man in the video is wearing
clothing that clearly intending

to portray himself as plain-clothes
law enforcement of some description.

Jeans, bomber jacket,
T-shirt under that.

When he takes the jacket off
at times,

you can see that he's got a holster

with whether it's handcuffs in one
slot, pretends to have a firearm.

There's a radio clip.

And if you were left in any doubt
at that point,

he's also wearing an ID badge
on a chain around his neck,

clearly intending to portray himself
as law enforcement.

And the events ran on
for several hours,

but for the vast majority
of the time, entirely consensual.

There had been different role plays
with the suspect,

role-playing either a police officer
or an agent

or a spy or whatever was
going through his mind,

but was certainly asserting

a position of power and authority
over Peter,

who was quite willingly submissive
to that power and authority.

(eerie music)

It was like a role play
taken to extremes.

There was a role, certainly,
and it was a powerful role.

A dominating role.

A role that had authority

and also access to specialised
procedures and equipment.

But the play part of role play,

play itself,

can serve a function even for
adults.

It can give them a taste of that
identity that they're aspiring to.

Whilst they're acting out this role,
life might seem different,

the situation might seem different

to how they are in their usual
everyday life as themselves.

'But as the hours passed,
something changed.'

It was only right at the very end

when things took
a more sinister turn.

The young man in the video
starts becoming quite violent.

He threatens him with a knife
repeatedly.

He also injects him with a needle,
more than once.

He really, really becomes
quite violent and aggressive,

and he's clearly enjoying it.

He's clearly taking
some sadistic pleasure

in bringing Peter Fasoli down
so low and humiliating him.

Jason Marshall was calm
and collected throughout.

There didn't seem to be
any agitation, any panic.

It's as if he kept on playing
the role.

And there's a point in the video

that I remember quite clearly
actually

where it seems like the penny drops,

and Peter, going from being
quite excited and energised

about this kind of role play,

it suddenly dawns on him.

It's not a game for him any more,

and he actually becomes
very frightened, for real.

'Eventually, the torture escalated
to a point of no return.'

The suspect took a roll
of cling film

and wrapped it round Peter's head,

causing him to struggle to breathe
and suffocate,

and then put a plastic bag
over his head,

causing Peter to fall to the floor.

'Without realising it, Peter Fasoli
had recorded his own brutal murder.'

This is a video showing
Peter Fasoli's death

at the hands of an extremely
violent, sadistic killer.

The cuffs were removed, the bag
and the cling film were removed.

Shortly after that,
the video then shows the suspect

clearing up the scene behind him,
and then the video is cut,

but the sound continues.

And what can be heard is the sound
of probably some accelerant

being poured around the flat...

and the sound of that being ignited.

And it's within seconds
of those sounds

that you then hear the smoke alarm,
which alerted the neighbours,

who subsequently as we know,
called the fire brigade.

Throughout the video
of Peter Fasoli's torture

and ultimate death,

there is a sort of weird situation

because he put on Classic FM
in the background,

you know, for this, erm...
encounter.

I wouldn't say romantic
particularly,

but it's an... it's an encounter
of sorts with Jason Marshall.

And it is very bizarre,
because you hear Myleene Klass

talking about classical music
in the background,

and that is on

throughout this horrendous,
violent situation

that's unfolding in his house.

The detail of this, er,
remains with me today.

It was unbelievably shocking.

It was showing such determination,

such calculation, planning,
evil almost.

And seldom do you see
in a domestic context,

er, footage of someone's death

through evil crime.

'The truth of what happened
that night

had been hidden in Peter's body
all along,

waiting to reveal itself,

but the body had never been asked.'

A body may never lie,
but sometimes it's really important

to make sure that you ask
the right questions.

We know that Peter was still
fighting for his life

after Jason had set fire
to his house,

and the initial cause of death
was inhalation of fire fumes

in association with
his heart complaint.

But the major contributing factor
to Peter's death,

despite all he'd endured,
was clearly suffocation.

And suffocation occurs
when the external air passages,

the mouth and the nose, are blocked,
so that air can't enter the body,

and that will deprive the body
of oxygen,

and eventually result
in brain death,

and the death of the individual.

And we know from the video
that Peter was struggling

and fighting to breathe,

and we also know that the cling film
was removed and replaced

several times.

But when the fire was burning,
Peter was still alive

and struggling to breathe,

which accounts for the soot
that was present in his airway

at the time of
the first post-mortem examination.

And it's clear that wrapping cling
film around Peter's head by Jason

was intended to kill or at least
cause serious harm.

What had been thought to have been
an accidental death

as a result of a house fire

had now turned into something
much more significant.

It was now a homicide investigation.

(Richard) 'In January 2013,

Peter Fasoli invited a man
calling himself Gabriel

to his home, after they had met
on a dating website.'

'The next morning, Peter was found
dead after his house caught fire.'

(smoke alarm beeping)

'Almost two years after his death,
shocking footage was discovered

that revealed he had in fact been
tortured and murdered.'

'But although detectives
had the footage,

they still had to identify
the man responsible.'

What really goes
through your mind then

is that you have an absolute passion

to do the right thing
for the family.

The whole point of doing my job
is to find answers for the family,

and what becomes an absolute
priority and a real motivation piece

is to identify who the suspect is

and prevent him causing any more
harm to anybody else.

'But just who was this sadistic
Internet predator?'

They had an image of this person

who had been with Peter Fasoli
on the night of his death.

They had him on the video,

but obviously at that stage,
they didn't know who he was.

They then have to follow
this trail of evidence

and try and find out
who the person is,

who's clearly, you know,
been extremely violent.

(tense music)

First thing that we had to do was
look through all of the video

to try and identify any clues

or anything that would help us
with the identity of this suspect.

So that involved hours of
going through, minute by minute,

almost frame by frame at times

in terms of what had happened
in the house.

Is there any tell-tale signs
that the suspect is giving out?

Is there anything that he says,
any information, any use of names?

Anything like that.

At one point during the evening,

the suspect had demanded
Peter's credit card,

had demanded the PIN number
for his bank card,

er, and had gone away from the house

for a period of time
and then returned.

This opened up the consideration

that the murder
was financially motivated.

When we looked at his finances
in more detail,

what we identified was
that the days following his death,

his bank details were used
to purchase some flights

from an airline,
and then enquiries with that airline

identified who had bought the
tickets

and in what name those tickets
had been purchased.

We established from the airline
that the account had been used

to buy tickets to Italy
in the name of Jason Marshall.

'So, the man Peter had met
who called himself Gabriel

was in fact Jason Marshall.'

'Jason was already known
to the Italian police,

but not to the UK detectives.'

'A quick searched revealed
that Jason Marshall

had spent most of his life
on the wrong side of the law.'

And when we did
some police background checks,

it was found that
he was known to police

for impersonating a police officer.

So when you look back
at the investigation

and what we'd gathered so far,
the whole evening involved role play

and role-playing law enforcement,

and here we've identified
the name of a suspect

who's got convictions
for the same thing.

They'll be some people who feel
the need or desire to dress up

and pretend to be a policeman
or an ambulance man or a fireman,

but they don't go along and kill
somebody, playing out that role.

You can probably
fairly describe Jason Marshall

as a lifelong fantasist.

You know, his life is to a certain
extent a bit of a mystery.

He claims that his parents
were both drug addicts

and he grew up in East London.

His obsession with living a fantasy

really comes from his desire

to block out
the harsh realities of life,

and also give him the kind of status
that he's craved,

and that's really where his
obsession with police officers

and anyone in a uniform comes from.

Because he puts on a uniform,
he becomes a different person,

and the kind of person
that people respect.

But in reality,
his life is quite a sad one.

He makes money as a male escort.

He becomes increasingly unhappy,
and he's taking out his anger

and frustration on these older guys

that he's meeting
for sexual encounters,

and there comes a point

where he moves down
a very, very dark path.

And that's really the point
at which, unfortunately,

his life collides
with Peter Fasoli's.

'Jason Marshall's online profile
on dating apps

gave a chilling clue
to his state of mind.'

'When he had met up with Peter
Fasoli the night before he died,

Jason had used the online name
Gabriel.'

He imagined that he was
the archangel Gabriel,

and he's creating
this online persona.

I mean, a lot of people don't use
their own names on dating websites,

that's not unusual,

but the fact that

not only has he created
this online persona,

he carries it over into real life

and carries it over into this very
different and extreme character

that he's created.

So, he goes from a position
where he's less powerful,

he's working as a male escort,

but because he's created
this complete alter-ego

where he is in charge

and he is the one with the handcuffs
and the police radio

and making the arrests,
and he is a big man,

he's turning the tables on people

who want him for his, you know,
for his services.

'Having identified Jason Marshall,

police now had to bring him
to justice.'

(Matt) The next challenge really
was, where is Jason Marshall now,

and some fairly quick research
using the Internet,

and identified, to my horror,

that Jason Marshall was in Italy
serving a custodial sentence,

having killed a male over there

in the weeks that followed
the death of Peter Fasoli.

It was a moment really where I had
to temper my kind of enthusiasm

and joy that we'd identified
who this person was

and we were going to
make some progress

with a real kind of sombre
moment of reflection

in terms of,
had there been opportunities missed?

What if things had been done
differently?

What was the consequences of the
delay in identifying this offence?

But it was never lost on me
in those kind of early moments,

the kind of "what if" questions
around those victims in Italy.

'The video of Peter's murder
shed light

on the murder of Vincenzo Iale
in Italy.'

People are murdered in all sorts
of different ways,

and some crime scenes
are really horrific.

The pathologist found that Vincenzo
had been strangled by a ligature,

and in fact the crime scene showed

that Vincenzo had been dragged
around the flat,

evidence of the physicality
of the murderer.

'But in Peter's case,
the fire had changed everything.'

A fire means that a lot of valuable
evidence will have been lost,

and there was evidence
that he'd been tortured.

The burning of the body had obscured
any evidence of bruising

or the injection sites,
which made them much harder to see,

and there was no evidence
of suspicion.

And it's not possible to determine
if death occurred deliberately

or by accident.

'But now the evidence proved
without a shadow of a doubt

that something very sinister
had happened.'

'After four and a half years,

Jason Marshall would finally
face justice

for the brutal murder
of Peter Fasoli.'

It was early 2017

when Jason Marshall was finally
extradited back to the UK.

He was met by my officers
and arrested on UK soil,

and at that point, the prosecution
for the murder of Peter Fasoli

started in earnest, really,

and led to the subsequent trial.

And that's probably the first time
that there's a real sense

that we're now starting to deliver
justice for Peter's family.

Jason has to answer for his actions,
and in a UK court,

and he can't hide behind the Italian
prison cell bars any more.

(tense music)

'In July 2017,

Jason Marshall
finally stood trial in London.'

It was an extraordinary trial
at the Old Bailey.

Extraordinary because of
the material, the evidence.

I've done many serious cases,

but I have never seen footage

showing the crime in such
a calculated, cold, powerful way.

Erm, I've never come across that
before.

It was very disturbing,

and it must have been very
disturbing for the jury.

'In court, Jason Marshall claimed
he had amnesia,

and couldn't remember anything
from that night.'

The purpose of the cross-examination
was to show that his amnesia,

as he claimed, was a lie.

And there was
quite a bit of material,

such as what he did afterwards.

When he sent a text to Peter's
phone,

the text message is
so obviously purposeful

and thinking and calculated,

and is not consistent with amnesia
of an event at all,

leaving aside
what he then went to do,

getting himself to Italy and killing
one and trying to kill another.

His behaviour in the witness box was
pretty strange, to say the least.

He'd run out of excuses,
and he'd run out of stories.

And the fantasy
was quickly unravelling,

and it just didn't hold.

It just didn't hold for him
any more,

so there was nowhere for him to go.

'The evidence on the video
was damning.'

Having this piece of footage meant

that Jason Marshall couldn't deny
that he was there.

He couldn't deny what had happened,

and it would have made it extremely
hard for him to wriggle out of it,

because it's all there.

You know, you only have to watch
what he did to realise

that this was an extremely sadistic
and cruel act of violence

against a defenceless man.

Marshall is
an extremely dangerous man.

I think he knew what he was doing,
wanted to do it. He wanted to kill.

He never expressed any true remorse
at all.

He was determined to do what he did,
and he did it again,

and he did it again,

and I don't think he's someone
who is capable of remorse.

(sombre music)

One of the most important things
at this moment of course

is to get back in touch
with Peter's family,

explain what we'd found
and explain the process we'd made

at every single stage
of the investigation.

It's critical to me,
and I think it's really important

that, erm, the family understand
what's happening.

Ultimately,
that's what I'm there for.

It's to find the answers
that the family are looking for,

and if I can find a way to keep them
up to speed and up to date

with the investigation
and the process that we're making,

then that's really, really
important.

'The jury took just 75 minutes
to reach a unanimous verdict,

and Jason Marshall
was sentenced to life

with a minimum term of 39 years.'

He will spend pretty much
the rest of his life in prison.

He tortured Peter Fasoli

for several hours
before killing him,

and that made it
an even more serious murder.

He took sadistic pleasure in it,

and after he was caught,
he showed absolutely no remorse.

Serial killer Jason Marshall
clearly had the intent to kill,

and if it hadn't been
for the discovery of that video,

we'd never have known
how Peter Fasoli met his tragic end.

'In the end, the answers were hidden
in Peter's body all along,

but no-one had
asked the right questions.'

We must always be highly suspicious
in the autopsy room,

and make sure
we find the cause of death,

not just a cause of death.

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