"Put the machete down!” – police footage as kidnapper arrested in Peterborough
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00:00put them in.
00:25Say down
00:26the machete down
00:27down
00:28My hands are up. My hands are up. My hands are up. Don't do this. Listen, I'm not doing
00:41anything. My hands are up. Don't do that. Stay calm. I don't know. I don't know. I don't
00:50know who's at my door. I've got my keys here. And you've got that here. Okay. Mr. Griffiths.
01:00Yes, mate. Okay. I'm DC 2357 Trevor. I work at Cambridgeshire Police. At this point, I'm
01:06arresting you on conspiracy to commit robbery. Robbery? Yep. From where? Kidnap and false
01:12imprisonment. Kidnap and false imprisonment? Okay. Mate, I've just come back in. I've just
01:18come. I've just scored and come back in. I ain't been anywhere. The time is now 7.30
01:23hours. Okay. You do not have to say anything, but I'm going to harm your defence if you
01:27do not mention when questioned or something like that in court. Anything you do say may
01:30be given evidence. Do you understand? Kidnap and robbery? I've just come and... It is in
01:35relation to a robbery that is believed to have occurred on or around the 1st of July
01:39this year, where some businessmen had £77,000 stolen from them. To do with me? Yes. I don't
01:47know, but I haven't... Mate, I don't know, but I don't know anything about that, mate.
01:51I don't know anything about that, mate. Okay. Sorry to come and bother you. Okay. I'm DC
01:57Trevor that's leading this job. Okay. Okay. We've got a job to do. We had to force entry
02:02to do it. Okay. Chris is under arrest. What? And he'll be coming with us for a number of
02:08hours today. It's in relation to an incident a few months ago. So the warrant was here?
02:13The warrant? I've got a copy of the warrant. Okay. A warrant has been sworn out by a judge
02:17for us to attend this address. Okay. This is your copy. I'll sit down and go through
02:21it with you in a moment. We just got a... The problem is Chris has come to the front
02:26door with a machete. I can half understand why with us forcing entry to the door. So
02:30you're arresting him for that? No, I've arrested him for something else. Okay. Okay. And I'll
02:38go over that bit. I know it's the adrenaline's going at the moment. I apologise for that.
02:43All right. And, um, but we've just got to just... Why do you knock? Why do you have
02:48to bring my phone in? There are reasons for it. I just can't. I'll go through it all with
02:53you in a moment. Okay. Um, we've got Griffiths, but he came to the door with a machete. So
02:58it's all been a bit manic here.
03:08Okay.