The Bill S25E62 Twist of Fate
The Bill S25E62 Twist of Fate
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00:00OK. We'll hear everything.
00:14CO19 is standing by.
00:16Great. We got a name yet?
00:18OK, Kathleen Merrill, IBO, running an hour. Does that mean anything to you?
00:21Well, there's got to be a reason why she asked for you.
00:23What's happening, Neil?
00:25Sir, we're ready here.
00:27I'll have you and one of my officers walk into that room until I know what's going on. So just wait one, Neil.
00:31Kathleen Merrill reported her sister Lisa missing just under six months ago.
00:36The officer in charge was Grace.
00:39Did you hear that?
00:40Sir?
00:42It's enough. We can't hang about.
00:45OK. Sir, we're going in.
00:47Be careful.
00:57Kathleen, it's DC Dostry.
01:08My sister's still missing.
01:10He knows where she is.
01:19Lock the door.
01:42Lock the door.
01:43No, Grace.
01:44Neil, get CO19 to position.
01:47Close it. I only want to talk to you.
01:52Move away. Move away.
01:59Director 345, we're in position.
02:01CO19 are in position.
02:03Who says Kathy?
02:04Martin, so he says.
02:06Martin?
02:09Martin what?
02:10Taft. Martin Taft.
02:12We're going to sort this out.
02:13You don't remember me, do you?
02:16I knew something was wrong with Lisa.
02:18But you weren't interested.
02:20She was just paperwork to you, wasn't she?
02:22Kathy and her father Stephen filed a MISPA with you.
02:25I remember. Your father, Stephen.
02:28Would he want you to do this?
02:30Do your job for you, you mean.
02:32I had to go on the facts.
02:34Right. A prostitute, a drug addict.
02:37She goes missing, so what?
02:39You just assumed she wasn't worth it.
02:42Does it matter to you if she was found?
02:44It's just a box you can't tick.
02:46She was my sister.
02:48Here's a more recent picture of Lisa.
02:50Lisa Merrill has just formed for prostitution and solicitation.
02:53Why do you think Martin knows what happened to your sister?
02:56Because I've been out there.
02:58Every day for a month, dressed like this.
03:01I found where she worked.
03:03Knives, her.
03:05I spoke to one of the girls. You never did that, did you?
03:08She told me Lisa had a regular.
03:10NHS specs, a weirdo in a blue van.
03:13Out there, on the street!
03:15OK, OK, I'm going.
03:22OK, I see it.
03:24Secure the van.
03:26I want Martin Taft.
03:28Lead address, commercial driver, two convictions for curb crawling.
03:32We know about Taft.
03:34We're already investigating him.
03:36You need to let him go.
03:38No! No!
03:40Not until he tells me what he knows!
03:42Go on then, Martin! Speak up!
03:44Kathy! Kathy!
03:46There are armed officers outside.
03:52Come on. There's a right way to do this.
03:57Let me do my job.
03:58You should have done that in the first place.
04:01Don't! Don't! Don't!
04:03Kathy! Don't shoot!
04:05Don't shoot! Don't shoot!
04:08Wait! Wait!
04:10Martin! Martin, just go!
04:13Get him out of here. Get him out of here.
04:15Kathy, put the knife down.
04:20I promise you we'll find out what happened to her.
04:23Lisa! At least use her name!
04:26We'll find out what happened to Lisa.
04:29Put the knife down.
04:33Put it down.
04:37Take her.
04:41I think we let the ball drop on this one, didn't we?
04:44I don't know, sir. I've read the case file.
04:46It's Grace. She can't have been that far from the mark.
04:48And Miss Merrill, she's made no complaint to date him.
04:50She just held a knife to a guy's throat to get our attention.
04:52I mean, it's hardly a vote of confidence, is it?
04:54Sir.
04:55Check back through the files
04:57and get someone to find out about this Taft guy.
04:59Sir.
05:02Gov.
05:03Kathy and her father filed a misdemeanor with us
05:06the day after the fifth anniversary of her death.
05:08The family would always visit the grave together,
05:10however troubled Lisa had been.
05:12This time, she didn't turn up. No-one could contact her.
05:15You did a risk assessment, right?
05:17Yes, and I checked the hospitals.
05:19And I circulated her as a misper on the PNC.
05:21Her photos on Merlin and a DNA sample were secured, Gov.
05:24Grace covered all the basics.
05:26So why is Kathy Merrill saying we let her down so badly?
05:28Because I didn't sequester uniform and half of CID to pursue the case.
05:32It does read like you did the bare minimum, Grace.
05:35Lisa Merrill has gone missing twice already.
05:38She's even reported as saying she wanted to get out of London and make a new start.
05:42I think this time she made the decision to go for good.
05:46OK, well, we're going to review the case,
05:48see if there's any basis for Miss Merrill's allegation.
05:50Yes, sir.
05:51Grace, do you want to sit this one out?
05:54Why?
05:55Maybe you want to work from your desk.
05:58This is my case, Gov.
06:00Lisa Merrill's going to turn up in her bed tomorrow
06:0210 miles up the M1 wondering what all the fuss is about.
06:05Yeah, well, let's hope so.
06:07OK, it's yours.
06:08Yes, Gov.
06:09Joe.
06:10Gov.
06:11Partner Grace on this one.
06:27Martin Taft is not under arrest at the moment.
06:30Martin Taft is not under arrest.
06:32The doctor's having a look at him now while we give him time to calm his nerves.
06:36Lisa's medical records confirm a string of referrals for counselling,
06:40evidence of IV drug abuse and a repeat methadone prescription.
06:44She also had an abortion at 16.
06:46Yeah, not long after her mother died.
06:48Her father took her to the clinic.
06:50Fitted a lot in, didn't she?
06:53You've made bail.
06:54But you understand these are serious offences.
06:57I don't care what happens to me.
06:58I do care what happens to Lisa.
07:00She's out there somewhere. She needs help.
07:02Maybe she's waiting for the right time to come back.
07:05She definitely would have come to visit Mum's grave.
07:07April the 23rd, every year.
07:09Maybe she's just moved out of town.
07:10She's never missed it before.
07:12Even if it meant turning up completely out of her head on smack.
07:16OK.
07:17When did you last see her?
07:20A couple of days before that.
07:22She wanted money. I didn't give it her.
07:23And on the 26th, some neighbours reported hearing Lisa banging on the door and shouting outside...
07:28Yeah, nobody was home.
07:31It all went wrong so fast after Mum died.
07:33What happened?
07:36Lisa turned 16 shortly after.
07:38A couple of months later, she started drinking heavily.
07:41And by her 17th birthday, Dad had found a needle in her bedroom.
07:45Dad tried to take her to a clinic.
07:47She moved out that day.
07:49Said she'd found a flat.
07:52Think it was a squat.
07:54She came home less and less.
07:58There were a few good times where she said she'd cleaned up.
08:01Come round more.
08:03Christmas before last.
08:07But the last I heard, she was a streetwalker in Soho.
08:11You said you spoke to a girl.
08:12What was her name?
08:14Tanya.
08:21Hello. I haven't seen you for ages.
08:23Where have you been?
08:25Is that her? Yeah, here we go.
08:29Oi.
08:30Not interested in you. Go home to your wife.
08:33There's a recession on.
08:35That's my livelihood you're interfering with.
08:37Hiya, Tanya.
08:39What do you want?
08:40Lisa Merrill.
08:41Lisa.
08:42Found her yet?
08:43No, we're still looking.
08:44But apparently you wound up her sister about a bloke in a blue van.
08:48Oh, yeah.
08:49Weird girl.
08:50She's obviously new to the game.
08:51I asked her lots of questions.
08:53Yeah, well, she held a knife to that bloke's throat last night
08:55trying to get a confession out of him.
08:57So what did he say?
08:58He mustn't yet.
08:59Still changing his life for us, but we need to have a chat.
09:02I'm working, babe.
09:03Yeah, come on, I'll buy you a cup of tea.
09:04You can buy me a proper drink.
09:05Yeah.
09:11Lisa talked about going to Leeds and Manchester
09:16and the Costa del Bloody Soul.
09:19We shared a flat, worked the same streets,
09:22but we weren't joined at the Ip.
09:24She owed me a month's rent.
09:26I had to kick her out.
09:27On your own in this game?
09:29She could be a bit high and mighty, young Lisa.
09:32What do you mean?
09:33Got herself a proper job, didn't she?
09:36Cleaning offices somewhere.
09:37Except one of her old punters turned out to be working there.
09:41Next thing Lisa knew, she'd been let go again.
09:43She didn't want to go back on the game.
09:45So what's she doing?
09:46Went back on the game.
09:50This business is easy to get into, not so easy to get out of.
09:53Well, what hung out her sister, Cappen?
09:55Her sister was asking me what I knew,
09:57and I told her about Specky Sadow.
10:00Do you think he did her in?
10:01No.
10:02Well, if you do find her,
10:03tell her to come and get her stuff from the rooms.
10:05Could use the wardrobe space.
10:06What stuff?
10:07So if Lisa didn't bring her bag with her,
10:10the chances are she wasn't planning to run away.
10:12So if Lisa didn't bring her bag with her,
10:14the chances are she wasn't planning to run away.
10:16Or it's stuff from a life she was leaving behind.
10:18There are two things of interest.
10:20A love letter that alternates romance
10:23with vivid descriptions of what the author has done to Lisa
10:26and what he would like to do to her in the future.
10:28It's dated two days before the last known sighting of Lisa,
10:31and it's signed Marty.
10:33Now, this is Martin Taft's signature
10:35from the witness statement earlier today.
10:37This is from the witness statement, this is from the letter.
10:39So they did know each other.
10:40What else?
10:43Photographs.
10:44Many of Lisa when she was younger with various friends.
10:46We're going to ask Kathy to take a look, see what they tell us.
10:49OK, but sit down with Taft first.
10:51Banksy can help you with him.
10:53Taft's mobile phone records puts him in the facility
10:56of the knocking shop on the night of the 26th.
10:59Lisa was last seen.
11:01He made one call at 11.22
11:04to a mobile phone registered to a Brendan Newlin.
11:08Now, part of Lisa's rehab treatment
11:10was creating a buddy list of people she could call
11:12if she felt she was going to start using again.
11:14I'm trying to get hold of the others,
11:16but Brendan Newlin was the guy
11:17who got her into rehab in the first place.
11:19He was her phone teacher.
11:20Why would Taft call him?
11:21Well, what if Lisa asked him to?
11:24If Lisa was in rehab,
11:26she was certainly trying to get away from Soho.
11:28I think she was looking for help that night.
11:30We'll get an address for this Newlin.
11:32Talk to Taft.
11:34Sir.
11:36So, Martin,
11:37why would Kathy Merrill think that you harmed her sister?
11:42You were one of the last people to see Lisa
11:44on the night she disappeared, April 26th.
11:48Perhaps the very last.
11:51Did you pick Lisa up in your van that night?
11:54No, no.
11:57I knew that she had a room nearby,
12:01so I parked up, went looking for her on foot.
12:05OK, and then what happened?
12:08We were friends, like, so...
12:11..we went back to her room.
12:13Listen, I wanted to take her away.
12:16I told her that, that night.
12:18And what did she say?
12:20She said that she already had a boyfriend.
12:24Did she mention what the boyfriend's name was?
12:27I don't think there was a boyfriend.
12:30I think she just...
12:31I think that was just an excuse to turn me down.
12:34And how did you leave it?
12:36You know, we...
12:41..spent some time together.
12:46And then I had a shower, cos...
12:49..I always have a shower afterwards, and...
12:53..yeah, when I came out of the shower, she...
12:59..she were gone.
13:01But it's funny that no-one's seen you about since. I mean...
13:05..no offence, Martin, but you're not hard to miss.
13:11My mum got ill, OK?
13:14I just... I didn't have time for a girlfriend.
13:19Plus, she...
13:21..she took my wallet and my phone.
13:23Did you report that to the police?
13:25Of course not, no.
13:28Does the name Brendan Newlyn mean anything to you?
13:32Who?
13:33A call was made from your phone to a Brendan Newlyn...
13:38..at 11.22pm.
13:42The call lasted three minutes, 15.
13:46Oh.
13:47SHE SCOFFS
13:53You used my phone to call another man?
13:58Two other buddies had received calls from her earlier that week.
14:01Lisa was worried that losing her cleaning job
14:03might send her into a downward spiral.
14:05This is CCTV of Lisa in Soho.
14:0826th of April, just before midnight.
14:12OK, there she is.
14:17This was the last known sign of her.
14:21And that's it.
14:22Maybe Taff went out looking for her? Caught up with her?
14:25I still say Lisa did a runner.
14:27She stole his phone,
14:28called up one of her rehab buddies, got out of town.
14:31Banksy, check out Taff's mother.
14:33See her medical record, see if he's telling the truth about that.
14:36Then go and see Brendan Newlyn.
14:37You two, do you want to show the Merrill family those photographs,
14:40see if it makes any sense to them?
14:44Jo?
14:45Yeah?
14:47Is Grace all right on this one?
14:50Yeah, she's just looking for the truth.
14:52Seems to have made her mind up too soon.
14:54Wants Lisa to be alive.
14:56She cares about the case, that's all.
14:59Normal, right, God?
15:00Yeah.
15:03Thank you for your time, Mr Newlyn.
15:05Didn't even know she was missing,
15:06until it turned up in the papers.
15:11And you were her form teacher?
15:13Yeah, and a smart kid too.
15:15Death of her mother really rocked her.
15:17Tried to stop her dropping out of school,
15:19after her GCSEs, but she insisted.
15:23A friend of hers came to see me six weeks later.
15:27Said that Lisa had gone into heroin.
15:30Spoke to the school counsellor.
15:32Managed to get her on to a rehab programme.
15:36But she didn't see it through?
15:37She was in and out over the next three years.
15:39Her father was distant.
15:41Understandable, of course.
15:43I tried to help.
15:45And when she did,
15:46I tried to help.
15:48And when she asked me to be on her buddy list,
15:50I was more than happy to agree.
15:56What do you remember about the call she made on the night of the 26th?
16:01I'd gone to bed.
16:03The call must have gone through to voicemail.
16:05It wasn't until the next morning that I picked the message up,
16:08and when I played it back, there was nothing there.
16:10You know when a phone gets knocked in a handbag or something,
16:13and it calls out.
16:14I thought it was one of those.
16:16I thought I could hear Lisa's voice in the background during the message.
16:20Couldn't be sure.
16:23It wasn't until I found out she'd gone missing that I reported it, just in case.
16:27OK, Mr Newlin. Thanks very much.
16:29Walk!
16:31I guess we have similar jobs.
16:33Same duty of care.
16:35I know. Thanks.
16:43So what did the DI want?
16:44He just, um...
16:46Kathy believes that Lisa's still alive.
16:49He doesn't think we should give her false hope.
16:53Would you have done it differently?
16:55You went on the facts.
16:57Just answer the question, Jo.
17:00I might have hung out on a few more street corners, talked to the girls,
17:03but we work differently, you and me.
17:05So don't worry about it.
17:07Mr Merrill, I'm DC Masters, this is DC Dassery.
17:10We've met before.
17:12Yes.
17:15Have you found Lisa?
17:20No, sir, we haven't.
17:22Kathy would like a word with you, if that's all right.
17:33We found a bag of Lisa's possessions at the place that she worked.
17:37It's been there.
17:38All this time.
17:40And you've only just found it?
17:43These photographs are in the bag.
17:45Could you look at them?
17:47See if you recognise anyone?
18:00Can we keep these?
18:02Yes.
18:04We might need to borrow them back at some point.
18:07Look, Holcombe Woods.
18:10We haven't been in there in years, not since your mum passed.
18:18You know, I think she's dead.
18:20Dad, Mr Merrill, you can't assume that.
18:23I think she was clean, she was strong.
18:27She's gone on to a new life.
18:28What's she doing?
18:30It's part of her rehabilitation.
18:32The idea is that you bury all the bad things in your life.
18:35Drugs.
18:37Bury them and move on.
18:39You're supposed to write a letter.
18:41To yourself.
18:43Apologising for the mistakes, forgiving yourself.
18:46Lisa loved Holcombe Woods.
18:48If she wanted to get away from somewhere, that's where she'd go.
18:51I don't know.
18:53I don't know.
18:54Lisa loved Holcombe Woods.
18:56If she wanted to get away from somewhere, that's where she'd go.
18:59And the box she buried might still be there.
19:02The letter she put in that box will give her something to go on.
19:25This is a spot.
19:28Here?
19:30Yeah.
19:32Okay, wait for a bit.
19:43I think we're wasting our time.
19:45I think you're right.
19:50Hang on, hang on.
19:52Hang on, hang on.
19:54What?
19:56What?
19:58Kelsey, wait there!
20:14What?
20:16What?
20:18Wait there.
20:19What?
20:21Okay, let's go, let's go, let's go.
20:30The fact that she's been here so long doesn't look good for us, does it?
20:34No.
20:35Where's her sister?
20:36Uniformed, checking her home, sir.
20:37Over here!
20:39Let's get a rush on these forensics.
20:41See if we can identify this syringe as Lisa Merrill's.
20:43Sir.
20:45Is there any sign of this box that Lisa buried?
20:47No, sir.
20:49Well, if it's missing, then there was a third party here.
20:52So we know there were drugs and a needle in this box.
20:54Anything else?
20:56Photographs and some sort of notable letter, sir.
20:58So who took photos of her here?
21:00Well, we reckon that she took them herself.
21:02I don't know.
21:04I don't know.
21:05Who took photos of her here?
21:07Well, we reckon that she took them herself.
21:09I don't care.
21:11Let's see if we can find some other possessions for her family to identify.
21:14Save them seeing the remains.
21:33Are you okay?
21:35Did Kathy see the body?
21:40I don't think so, but she could tell by your reaction that you found something.
21:43I mean, she's not stupid.
21:45I really thought she was alive.
21:51Eighty-five percent of similar cases result with an individual escape down.
21:55Fifty percent of those...
21:57Grace, you're a human being like the rest of us.
22:00Not super cop.
22:02Nothing that you could have done would have saved Lisa.
22:05Lisa Merrill.
22:07No.
22:09But if I'd done my job properly, Kathy and her father wouldn't have gone through six months of hell.
22:15She's right.
22:17I failed them.
22:19Grace!
22:22I need to get them to ID Lisa's belongings.
22:24Look, I can do that.
22:26No. I need to see this through.
22:33Mr. Merrill.
22:36Kathy.
22:43What? What?
22:46Grace.
22:54We found a body in the wood.
22:57There's still tests to be done.
23:00But there's a really good chance it's Lisa.
23:03Grace!
23:11It would help with the investigation.
23:17If you're feeling up to it.
23:20I need you to look at some photos of a couple of items that were recovered from the scene.
23:24Photos of a couple of items that were recovered from the scene.
23:49I'm so sorry.
23:50I'm sorry.
23:53Do they know how she-
23:58Not yet, sir.
24:21If you'd found her sooner-
24:27Kathy, I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.
24:33I didn't think it would turn out this way.
24:36I found Taft.
24:38I've given him to you.
24:40Don't let him get away with it.
24:43We won't.
24:46I promise.
24:50I promise.
25:04So this is Martin Taft's van.
25:07Quite the passion, Morgan.
25:10In the woods, underneath Lisa's remains, they found 200 quid in cash, mobile phone, SIM card registered to Martin Taft.
25:17No sign of his wallet.
25:18Well, it looks like Taft was telling the truth about his mother.
25:21The family doctor confirmed that he nursed her through a hip replacement.
25:25Right. This was hanging in the front, too.
25:29L for Lisa, K for Kathy.
25:31Just like the one Kathy always wears.
25:36I'm under arrest.
25:39Now showing Mr. Taft exhibit GD1. Do you recognise that?
25:44It's a mobile.
25:46I've seen it before.
25:49Wait.
25:52This is my phone. Where did you find it?
25:55With Lisa's remains.
26:02She's dead.
26:04Now showing Mr. Taft exhibit JM1.
26:07We found this in your van, and Kathy Merrill has positively identified it.
26:13No.
26:15Mr. Taft, this is a formal interview. Sit down.
26:20Can you sit down, please, Martin?
26:30Exhibit JM1. We found this in your van, and Kathy Merrill has positively identified it as Lisa's.
26:40She gave it to me.
26:42She gave it to me.
26:46Kathy has a matching one.
26:49Their mother gave them the necklaces for Christmas, when the girls were teenagers.
26:56Kathy still wears hers.
26:59When she took my wallet and my phone, she left it.
27:06With a note that said this was payment.
27:09Payment?
27:11You hung it from your rear-view mirror like a trophy.
27:14Careful, Grace.
27:17Listen, I just flung it there that night.
27:20I thought I'd see her again. I could give it her back.
27:22Did you go after her, after she stole your stuff?
27:25No, no, I would, no.
27:27Because your wallet wasn't on her person. Did you get it back that night?
27:30She must have just chucked it, taken the cash.
27:33Come on, you must have been angry.
27:35She stole your phone, your wallet, a couple of hundred quid.
27:39Oh, a couple of hundred? No, no, no, not me, no, no, no, no.
27:42Forty, fifty, more like tops.
27:44Martin, you know, of all the people that we've spoken to, you are the last person to see Lisa alive.
27:52What do you think?
27:54Well, it's not watertight, but Taft is looking likely, I guess.
28:00I agree. Let's get him charged.
28:05I came to tell you that we're charging Martin Taft.
28:07The CPS will take over, but we're going to dig deeper into his life until we have the proof we need.
28:13Thank you.
28:18I'm sorry. I really am.
28:26Kathy was thinking of making a photo montage.
28:33How many have you got there?
28:34Twenty.
28:36Well, where are the others? That's a twenty-four shot roll of film.
28:41No, there's only ever been twenty.
28:56There's something in the negatives, something that can help.
28:59I'm just making sure I check everything this time.
29:06When Lisa was sixteen, she had an abortion.
29:09Dad doesn't know. He doesn't need to know. It'll be too much for him.
29:15So he didn't actually go with her to the clinic?
29:18No.
29:20Lisa said a friend took her. Why are you asking this?
29:24Lisa said a friend took her. Why are you asking this?
29:34Shut the door.
29:39What's this all about?
29:41Four photos from Lisa's roll of film that weren't with the other prints.
29:46OK.
29:48Do you remember when we were told that Lisa had an abortion when she was sixteen?
29:52She went to the clinic with her father.
29:54Well, that's not right. Kathy says he didn't know anything about it.
29:57So the clinic got it wrong.
29:59Which means she must have gone there with another older man.
30:06So who do you think that is?
30:08Brandon Newlin.
30:12Well, that's him with Lisa.
30:15And this is them in Brighton together.
30:17Look at the poster behind them.
30:18This is just after Lisa turned sixteen.
30:20And look, she's not wearing a school uniform.
30:22This was an extracurricular trip.
30:24Bank records show that Brandon Newlin made a cashpoint withdrawal
30:2915 minutes after receiving a call from Martin Taft's phone.
30:32150 quid on Goddard Street near where we have Lisa on CCTV.
30:36And he told you he was in bed asleep, right?
30:39That was at 11.38pm.
30:41Ten minutes later, Lisa leaves the frame here and we never see her again.
30:46Can you fast forward this?
30:49OK, stop. Rewind.
30:54Great, let's play it.
30:57There. Let's zoom that.
31:02AP54UDT.
31:07That's Brandon Newlin's car.
31:09I think he had an affair with her after her mother died.
31:13She got pregnant.
31:14And it was Newlin who took her to have an abortion.
31:17On that last night, Lisa needed money.
31:20She called Newlin, maybe threatened to expose their secret.
31:24She had the photos as proof.
31:26He goes to his bank, gets money out and goes to meet her.
31:29Martin Taft wasn't the last person to see Lisa alive.
31:33It was Brandon Newlin.
31:35Thine lips and thy cheeks,
31:38and death's pale flag
31:41and death's pale flag is not advanced there.
31:48Did you get that, Marcus?
31:50Mr Newlin.
31:52DC Dustery, Sunhill.
31:54You know DC Banks.
31:56This is DC Masters. Can we have a word, please?
31:58I'm in the middle.
32:00You can do it here if you want.
32:11Mr Newlin, I'm arresting you on suspicion of murder.
32:14You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence
32:17if you do not mention when questioned,
32:19something you later rely on in court.
32:40You ready?
32:42Are you?
32:44What is it you think I'm going to do in there?
32:47You've been a little bit on edge, Grace.
32:49I don't know. We need a strategy.
32:52OK, I'll lead.
32:54You can't just gun for him. I mean, I know how you want this to end, but...
32:57All right, all right, all right.
32:59I'm going to get him to admit that he spoke to Lisa
33:03and met her in his car the night she disappeared,
33:06to having an affair with her while she was still a teenager,
33:08which resulted in the abortion.
33:10Then I'm going to get him to confess to Lisa's murder.
33:14OK?
33:17OK.
33:20You told my colleague you didn't speak to Lisa that night
33:23because you were already asleep, correct?
33:25Yes.
33:27Showing Mr Newlin exhibit JB1.
33:31Did you make that withdrawal?
33:34I suppose.
33:35Same night, 26th April.
33:38Fifteen minutes after Lisa called you.
33:41I must have been walking.
33:43Sometimes that happens at night.
33:45I go for a walk.
33:47This withdrawal was made from a cash machine on Goddard Street.
33:52Lisa was two blocks away at that exact moment.
33:55We've got her on CCTV.
33:58You picked her up on the Larkmead Road soon after, right?
34:00We've got your car on the same CCTV footage.
34:06We just talked.
34:08In the car.
34:11She needed help.
34:14Then where did you go?
34:16Girl? Nowhere. She got out of the car again.
34:19You left her?
34:23How long did you talk for?
34:25I don't know, 20 minutes, maybe half an hour.
34:27I don't know, 20 minutes, maybe half an hour.
34:31The same CCTV captures Lisa,
34:34then five minutes later your car driving down the street.
34:38You weren't parked there anywhere near that length of time.
34:41If you spoke for that long, it was somewhere else.
34:43Well, maybe it seemed longer.
34:47What about the money?
34:49Money?
34:51£150, that's what you withdrew.
34:53Yes.
34:55I thought she might need some money.
34:58She had photographs of the two of you together
35:02from when she was a schoolgirl.
35:04Incriminating.
35:06No.
35:07Photos taken three months before she had an abortion,
35:10not long after she turned 16.
35:15I'm showing Mr Newlin exhibit GD2.
35:19You spent the weekend together in Brighton.
35:22She got pregnant.
35:23My wife and I were going through a separation.
35:26The usual long goodbye.
35:28I was grieving that, the death of a marriage.
35:31Lisa was grieving the death of her mother.
35:34She used to come and talk to me after school.
35:37I was just doing my job, counselling her.
35:40Then it went too far and you saw her through an abortion.
35:43I suppose you have CCTV of that too, do you?
35:46Lisa asked you for money,
35:48threatened to blackmail you with the photos.
35:50She wasn't.
35:51She threatened to blackmail you with the photos.
35:53She wasn't trying to blackmail me.
35:55She'd ended it between us months before.
35:57She was getting clean.
35:59She wanted a fresh start.
36:01That night she was desperate.
36:03Everything was going wrong for her.
36:06She said that she wanted us to be back together again,
36:08that she'd made a mistake,
36:10that I was the type of man that she needed in her life.
36:12It was the mood she was in that night, that's all.
36:14The next morning she would have been fine.
36:16Would have been fine?
36:18I didn't do anything to her. I was trying to help her.
36:19Why did you go into the woods?
36:21I didn't do any...
36:23The same woods we found Lisa's remains in this morning.
36:26And believe me, she didn't die yesterday. I saw her.
36:33We'd been there before.
36:36It was a place she liked.
36:38And?
36:40And I told her that we couldn't possibly have that sort of relationship,
36:43not a serious one, so I offered her money.
36:45I offered her money to get out of town.
36:47I was trying to help her.
36:49How did she react?
36:51She flipped.
36:53She was ranting off about men who think they can buy happiness and peace.
36:55And women.
36:57She started screaming at me to go.
36:59I couldn't get her to calm down, so I gave her what she wanted.
37:01Sex?
37:05I bet that clarified things for her.
37:08Then you drove away.
37:10So you left her in the woods, five miles from home.
37:13She was hysterical.
37:15Funny that.
37:17I did what I could to get her back in the car.
37:20So she didn't show you the tin that she buried,
37:23with your photograph in it.
37:26We've done a fingertip search of that woodland.
37:29We found the hole the tin was in.
37:32We found a syringe that we're putting through forensics.
37:35But no tin, and no photograph.
37:45What did you do to her?
37:47What did you do to help her get clean?
37:50Anything at all?
37:52Or isn't this how you wanted her to be?
37:54Always in need.
37:56Always there to satisfy your needs,
37:58but God forbid she asks for anything in return.
38:00That's not true.
38:02I was trying to help her.
38:04There was no way I could have a relationship with a recovering addict.
38:06A prostitute, that's what she was.
38:08She was a sister.
38:10She was a daughter.
38:12And at one point, she was a child under your care.
38:14You made her what she became.
38:15All alone in the woods,
38:17crying in the middle of the night.
38:20Is that help, Mr. Newman?
38:23I went back.
38:25Neil.
38:27Neil, just wait a minute.
38:29I went back to try and find her.
38:31I was two minutes from getting home, and I turned the car around.
38:33I drove up and down that road,
38:35just in case she was trying to hitch a ride.
38:37Then I went into the woods to try and find her.
38:39And she was still there.
38:44There was a needle sticking out of her arm.
38:52And she was dead.
38:57She was dead.
39:01I did...
39:04I did what I could.
39:05But she'd gone.
39:08You left her there?
39:10It's awful.
39:13It's awful.
39:15I can't believe it.
39:19She, uh...
39:21She had our photographs in her hand.
39:27I tried to give her some sort of dignity, you know,
39:30to make it a little bit better.
39:32But I couldn't.
39:33I just, uh...
39:36I could just see everything falling apart,
39:38however I looked at it.
39:42So...
39:44I took the tin.
39:46I took the photo.
39:50I got rid of them.
39:53I went home.
40:04He's a clever guy.
40:07He knows with the amount of decomp on the remains
40:10and a viable story.
40:12Grace.
40:14You think he's telling the truth?
40:16Forensics are back.
40:19Blood in the hypodermic was a DNA match to Lisa.
40:22Tox screen showed high concentration of heroin.
40:25The DNA matches.
40:27The DNA matches.
40:29The DNA matches.
40:31The DNA matches.
40:33Probable overdose.
40:36Kathy's been beating herself up
40:39every day
40:41about not being there for her sister.
40:47What do we do with that?
40:51Tell her what really happened.
40:53That's what she's always wanted.
40:58A case like this should keep you up at night,
41:00but if there's a ring of truth about the confession
41:03and no evidence, you've got to let it go.
41:06Grace, it was the drugs that killed her.
41:18But she was clean.
41:21It was suicide.
41:23We don't know.
41:25Possibly.
41:28Probably.
41:31Then it's my fault.
41:33It's not. I could have stopped her.
41:35Don't do this to yourself, Kathy. I could have stopped her.
41:37She was my sister, but I hated her so much I couldn't do it.
41:40Do what?
41:46I believed she was alive.
41:48I believed she wanted to get out of there.
41:51That's why I went looking for her.
41:53To find out where else she'd gone that night.
41:56What do you mean, where else?
42:01I saw her.
42:04Through the window.
42:07I saw her and she saw me, but I didn't let her in.
42:11I couldn't do it.
42:14After Mum died, I was in charge of everything.
42:18She was the big sister and I had to look after her, after Dad.
42:21She never gave anything back.
42:23All the stealing and rowing.
42:25But I've replayed it.
42:28Every day in my head.
42:31Letting her in instead. Helping her.
42:35She came here the night she disappeared.
42:39That was when you last saw her.
42:42Yeah.
42:44I turned her away.
42:47She went back to that room and...
42:50I don't know.
42:52She went back to that room and...
42:56And that night she killed herself.
42:59I gave up on her.
43:01What sort of a person gives up on their own sister?
43:04No, you didn't.
43:06Kathy, we only found her because of you.
43:12I let you down.
43:17And I wished...
43:18I wished I could have told you sooner.
43:22I put you and your father through so much pain.
43:26You deserved answers.
43:29I made assumptions about Lisa.
43:37I judged her.
43:41And for that...
43:44I'm truly sorry.
43:49I'm sorry for your loss.
43:54Don't tell Dad, will you?
44:04Don't tell him what I told you.
44:18I'm sorry.
44:38It's my daughter. She's gone missing.
44:41I see she's still in touch with her dad in prison.
44:43We think Saskia's with the son of the man that your husband murdered.
44:46Stay where you are!
44:49How exactly did he get away, Sarge?
44:51He jumped up a walkway, Mickey.
44:53Well, he didn't think to chase him.
44:58I wanted to hurt her.
45:00I wanted to kill her.
45:18I'm sorry.
45:43Take it.
45:49I think we let the ball drop on this one, didn't we?
45:52I don't know, sir. I've read the case file. It's Grace.
45:54She can't have been that far from the mark.
45:56And Miss Merrill, she's made no complaint to date him.
45:58She just held a knife to a guy's throat to get our attention.
46:00I mean, it's hardly a vote of confidence, is it?
46:02Sir.
46:04Check back through the files.
46:06And get someone to find out about this Taft guy.
46:08Sir.
46:10Gov.
46:12Kathy and her father filed a misbehave with us
46:14the day after the fifth anniversary of her mother's death.
46:16The family would always visit the grave together
46:18however troubled Lisa had been.
46:20This time, she didn't turn up.
46:22No one could contact her.
46:24You did a risk assessment, right?
46:26Yes, and I checked the hospitals.
46:28And I circulated her as a misper on the PNC.
46:30Her photos on Merlin and a DNA sample were secured, Gov.
46:32Grace covered all the basics.
46:34So why is Kathy Merrill saying we let her down so badly?
46:36Because I didn't sequester uniform and half of CID
46:39to pursue the case.
46:41It does read like you did the bare minimum, Grace.
46:43Lisa Merrill has gone missing twice
46:45already.
46:47She's even reported as saying she wanted to get out of London
46:49and make a new start.
46:51I think this time she made the decision to go for good.
46:54Okay, well, we're going to review the case
46:56to see if there's any basis for Miss Merrill's allegation.
46:58Yes, sir.
47:00Grace, do you want to sit this one out?
47:02Why?
47:04Maybe you want to work from your desk.
47:06This is my case, Gov.
47:08Lisa Merrill's going to turn up in a bedsit
47:10ten miles up the M1
47:12wondering what all the fuss is about.
47:14Let's hope so.
47:16Okay, it's yours.
47:18Yes, Gov.
47:20Jo, partner Grace on this one.
47:36Martin Taft is not under arrest, the doctors.
47:38I'm going to look at him now
47:40while we give him time to calm his nerves.
47:41Lisa's medical records confirm
47:43a string of referrals for counseling,
47:45evidence of IV drug abuse
47:47and a repeat methadone prescription.
47:49She also had an abortion at 16.
47:51Yeah, not long after her mother died.
47:53Her father took her to the clinic.
47:55Fitted a lot in.
47:59Lisa talked about going to Leeds
48:02and Manchester
48:04and the Costa Del Bloody Soul.
48:09We shared a flat
48:11worked the same streets
48:13but we weren't joined at the Ip.
48:15She owed me a month's rent.
48:17I had to kick her out.
48:19On your own in this game?
48:21She could be a bit high and mighty, young Lisa.
48:23What do you mean?
48:25Got herself a proper job, didn't she?
48:27Cleaning offices somewhere.
48:29Except one of her old punters
48:31turned out to be working there.
48:33Next thing Lisa knew she'd been let go again.
48:35She didn't want to go back on the game.
48:37So what'd she do?
48:39Went back on the game.
48:42This business is easy to get into
48:44not so easy to get out of.
48:46But what happened about her sister, Catherine?
48:48Her sister was asking me what I knew
48:50and I told her about Specky Sadow.
48:52Do you think he did her in?
48:54No.
48:56Well, if you do find her
48:58tell her to come and get her stuff from the rooms.
49:00Could use the wardrobe space.
49:02What stuff?
49:04So if Lisa didn't bring her bag with her
49:06the chances are she wasn't planning to run away.
49:08Or it's stuff from a life she was leaving behind.
49:09It's a love letter.
49:11It alternates romance with vivid descriptions
49:13of what the author has done to Lisa in the past
49:15and what he would like to do to her in the future.
49:17It's dated two days before the last known sighting of Lisa
49:20and it's signed Marty.
49:22Now this is Martin Taft's signature
49:24from the witness statement earlier today.
49:26This is from the witness statement, this is from the letter.
49:28So they did know each other.
49:30What else?
49:32Photographs.
49:34Many of Lisa when she was younger with various friends.
49:36We're going to ask Cathy to take a look, see what they tell us.
49:37Okay, but sit down with Taft first.
49:39Banksy can help you with him.
49:41Taft's mobile phone records
49:43puts him in the vicinity of the knocking shop
49:45on the night of the 26th.
49:47Lisa was last seen.
49:49He made one call at 11.22
49:53to a mobile phone registered to a Brendan Newlin.
49:56Now part of Lisa's rehab treatment
49:59was creating a buddy list of people she could call
50:01if she felt she was going to start using again.
50:03We're trying to get hold of the others
50:05but Brendan Newlin was the guy who got her
50:07in the first place, he was her phone teacher.
50:09Well I would Taft call him.
50:11Well what if Lisa asked him to?
50:13If Lisa wasn't, then she...
50:15You've made bail.
50:17But you understand these are serious offences.
50:20I don't care what happens to me.
50:22I do care what happens to Lisa.
50:24She's out there somewhere, she needs help.
50:26Maybe she's waiting for the right time to come back.
50:28She definitely would have come to visit mum's grave
50:30April the 23rd, every year.
50:32Maybe she's just moved out of town.
50:34She's never missed it before.
50:35Even if it meant turning up
50:37completely out of her head on smack.
50:39OK, when did you last see her?
50:43A couple of days before that.
50:45She wanted money, I didn't give it her.
50:47And on the 26th, some neighbours reported
50:49hearing Lisa banging on the door and shouting outside...
50:52Yeah, nobody was home.
50:54It all went wrong so fast after mum died.
50:57What happened?
50:59Lisa turned 16 shortly after.
51:02A couple of months later she started drinking heavily
51:05and on her 15th birthday
51:07dad had found a needle in her bedroom.
51:09Dad tried to take her to a clinic.
51:11She moved out that day.
51:13Said she'd found a flat.
51:15Think it was a squat.
51:17She came home less and less.
51:21There were a few good times
51:23where she said she'd cleaned up,
51:25come round more.
51:27Christmas before last.
51:30But the last I heard
51:32she was a streetwalker in Soho.
51:33You said you spoke to a girl.
51:35What was her name?
51:37Tanya.
51:47Is that her?
51:49Yeah, here we go.
51:51Oi!
51:53Not interested in you.
51:55Go and see your wife.
51:57There's a recession on.
51:59That's my livelihood you're interfering with.
52:01Hiya, Tanya.
52:03Lisa Merrill.
52:05Lisa.
52:07Found her yet?
52:09No, we're still looking.
52:11But apparently you wound up her sister
52:13about a bloke in a blue van.
52:15Oh, yeah.
52:17Weird girl.
52:19She's obviously new to the game.
52:21Asked her lots of questions.
52:23Yeah, well she held a knife
52:25to that bloke's throat last night
52:27trying to get a confession out of him.
52:29So what did he say?
52:31He hasn't yet.
52:34Right.
52:41OK.
52:44We'll hear everything.
52:46CO19 is standing by.
52:48Great.
52:50We got a name yet?
52:52OK, Kathleen Merrill, IBO, running an hour.
52:54Does that mean anything to you?
52:56Well, there's got to be a reason why she asked for you.
52:58What's happening, Neil?
53:00Sir, we're ready here.
53:01Kathleen Merrill reported her sister Lisa missing
53:03just under six months ago.
53:05The officer in charge was Grace.
53:08Did you hear that?
53:10Sir.
53:12It's enough. We can't hang about.
53:14OK.
53:16Sir, we're going in.
53:18Be careful.
53:32Kathleen, it's DC Dossery.
53:36My sister's still missing.
53:38He knows where she is.
53:47Lock the door.
54:01No, Grace.
54:03Neil, get CO19 to position.
54:05Close it.
54:07I only want to talk to you.
54:10Move away.
54:12Move away.
54:17Director, 345.
54:19We've got a case.
54:21We've got a case.
54:23We've got a case.
54:25We've got a case.
54:27We've got a case.
54:29We've got a case.
54:31We've got a case.
54:33Island question position.
54:35CO19 are in position.
54:37Who says Kathy?
54:39Martin, so he says.
54:41Martin?
54:43Martin what?
54:45Taft. Martin Taft.
54:47We're gonna sort this out.
54:49You don't remember me, do you?
54:51I knew something was wrong with Lisa.
54:53But you weren't interested.
54:55She was just paperwork to you, wasn't she?
54:57Cathy and her father Stephen filed a mis fur with you.
54:59I remember.
55:01job for you you mean? I had to go on the fax. Right, a prostitute, a drug addict, she goes
55:08missing, so what? You just assumed she wasn't worth it. Does it matter to you if she was
55:14found? It's just a box you can't tick. She was my sister. Here's a more recent picture
55:20of Lisa. Like Lisa Merrill, she was formed for prostitution and solicitation. Why do
55:24you think Martin knows what happened to your sister? Because I've been out there every
55:29day for a month dressed like this. I found where she worked. Knives, huh? I spoke to
55:36one of the girls. You never did that, did you? She told me Lisa had a regular. NHS specs,
55:42a weirdo in a blue van, out there on the street. Okay, okay, I'm going. Okay, I see it. Secure
55:56the map. I want Martin Taft. Lead address, commercial driver, two convictions for curb
56:03crawling. We know about Taft. We're already investigating him. You need to let him go.
56:09No, no, not until he tells me what he knows. Go on then, Martin, speak up.
56:15Kathy, Kathy, there are armed officers outside.
56:21Come on, there's a right way to do this. Let me do my job. You should have done that in
56:30the first place. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't. Kathy, don't shoot, don't shoot, don't
56:38shoot. Wait, wait. Martin, Martin, just go. Get him out of here, get him out of here.
56:46Kathy, put the knife down.
56:51I promise you we'll find out what happened to her. Lisa, at least use her name.
56:57We'll find out what happened to Lisa. Put the knife down. Put it down.