The Bill S26E04 New Beginnings
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00:00Metropolitan Police. How can I help? It's my dad. He's been attacked.
00:11Okay, where is he right now? 17, Bardwell Avenue, in the lounge.
00:14Can you tell me what happened? There was a man in the house. I found my dad. I think he's dead.
00:19Okay, calm down. Are you able to tell me if your dad's breathing?
00:22I can't tell. There's too much blood. Please, can you send someone here?
00:28Attention all units. Reports of aggravated burglary at 17 Bardwell Avenue.
00:34Sierra Oscar from 2-1. We're three minutes away. Shall I steal it?
00:38Received, 2-1.
00:40That's ours as well, Sarge.
00:42Sierra Oscar from Sierra Oscar 3. We're on Barrack Lane now. We'll take that 1-2.
00:46Received, Sierra Oscar 3.
00:48Alright, just bring the noise. Let's do it.
00:57I can't believe you let them beat us. Ben, I wasn't racing. They're already on Barrack Lane.
01:07Whatever, mate. You're still lost.
01:13This is the one, isn't it?
01:16Come on, keep up.
01:18Sarge, we're in here. Through here, quick, please.
01:24Right, hello. PC Taylor. Sergeant Wilson's down here.
01:27Sierra Oscar from 4-6. Urgent ambulance required at Bardwell Avenue number...
01:3217. 17, over.
01:34I want a takeover from you. Alright?
01:37Better get Eddie down.
01:39Eddie. Yes, mate, we need you down here.
01:41That's it, that's it.
01:43That's it, that's it, that's it.
01:45That's it, right.
01:48Eddie. Yes, mate, we need you down here.
01:51That's it, that's it.
01:53That's it, that's it, that's it.
01:56That's it, right.
02:17That's it, that's it, that's it.
02:33John, can you hear me, mate?
02:35Give us some room, John. Just give us some room.
02:38Sergeant? Ambulance is right.
02:43Can you tell me what happened, love?
02:45It was an intruder. Did you see him?
02:47Yes, he ran out the back door.
02:49OK.
02:55Is there anything I can get you?
02:59Kate, hello?
03:01Is there anything I...
03:03I may have remembered it.
03:05You saw or possibly heard a talk.
03:09No.
03:11Alright, that's OK.
03:13Thank you.
03:21What's going on with him?
03:23Look, can somebody please tell me what's going on with my father?
03:25Ian, sweetheart, listen to me.
03:27We need to let them do their job, OK?
03:29Now, our job is to find out who did this.
03:31Ian, look at me. Can you describe the man you saw?
03:35Jeans, hoodie,
03:37trainers, and white.
03:39He was white. What sort of age was he, love?
03:41I don't know. Around my age.
03:4319, 20, maybe a bit older.
03:45OK, listen to me. I want you to wait in the front of the house now, OK?
03:47Don't worry about your dad.
03:49We're going to need the clothes for forensics
03:51and I don't want the rest of the house contaminating.
03:53Go upstairs, find them something to change into
03:55before they go to St Hugh's.
03:57Thanks very much.
03:59Sergeant, looking good. Thank you very much.
04:01Just knocked it up in a pair of old curtains.
04:03OK, so the victim is John Baker.
04:05His son, Ian, disturbed an intruder.
04:07Gave chase, but came back,
04:09found his father on the living room floor with severe head injuries.
04:11Intruder? I've got a vague description.
04:13I mean, I think there is more to be had, but the son's still really shaken up.
04:15Sarge, do you want me to stick with them?
04:17OK, with you? Yes.
04:19Any other witnesses?
04:21Well, I haven't had a chance to ask yet.
04:23Ben, can you go and talk to any nosy neighbours,
04:25see if they can tell us anything?
04:27Sarge.
04:29So the guy had been smashed about the head several times.
04:31And that was his wife? Yeah.
04:33Point of entry? Back door.
04:35There's been a few other burglaries in the area,
04:37but none with the occupants still in the house.
04:39Well, I guess if you're high, you'll stand enough.
04:41All right, case is done. Let's get changed.
04:43Eddie, sorry to get you out of bed.
04:45I'm glad to see the scene's been secured.
04:47Oh, sorry, Eddie.
04:49Next time, we'll just leave the guy to die.
04:51I'm just saying.
04:57Get me the blood pressure.
04:59Yes.
05:01Is there anyone who'd like us to call for you?
05:03Family, friends?
05:05You sure?
05:07I'll be OK, thank you.
05:09We'll take care of everything at home for you,
05:11secure the house, but
05:13tonight you might prefer to stay somewhere else.
05:15My girlfriend's.
05:17I could stay there.
05:19Where I come back from when...
05:21What's it, 60?
05:23Um, how did I get 60?
05:25The man you saw,
05:27was he holding anything?
05:29Stuff he'd taken from the house?
05:31I don't know.
05:33Sorry.
05:35Think you'd recognise him again?
05:39Did you see him, Mrs Baker?
05:41No, I was upstairs.
05:43Mum was asleep.
05:45Dad, he was at the pub.
05:47But he snores, so
05:49Mum, she wears her earplugs.
05:51First, when I was shouting,
05:53she didn't answer.
05:55I thought maybe, uh...
05:57I thought maybe you as well.
05:59Hey, it's OK.
06:01It's going to be OK.
06:05Can you clear this area, please?
06:07It's very long.
06:09Let's wait outside.
06:11Let them do their job.
06:13Come on, there's nothing we can do here.
06:15Let's go.
06:19Let's get a dog in.
06:21Bring him through the house.
06:23So, you know, obviously,
06:25I've got a dog.
06:27Obviously,
06:29I forced the door with something
06:31strong to wedge between the door
06:33and the frame to lever it like a crowbar.
06:35All right, Eddie, we'll see what we can find.
06:37We're secure, Sarge.
06:39Good. Lads, I know it's late,
06:41but we're looking for something strong to jemmy a door open
06:43like a crowbar or something.
06:45Let's go.
06:49So, Jo, back at the sharp end, getting your hands dirty.
06:51Bit different from CID, yeah?
06:53Really, the only real difference is, in uniform,
06:55it's Sarge.
06:57Sorry, Sarge. Want some always feeling?
06:59Sorry, Sarge.
07:01Oh, yeah, baby, now that's doing it for me.
07:03As we used to say in CID,
07:05there's no point in having rank unless you know how to pull it.
07:07So pop off and get us a coffee,
07:09would you?
07:13Where you going?
07:15Get you a coffee. I'm joking, you nutter.
07:17We've got something to look for here.
07:25Yes, Grace?
07:27Yeah, you still at the house, Sarge?
07:29Yep. You might want to tell Eddie
07:31that it's now a murder scene.
07:33Our victim, John Baker,
07:37he didn't make it.
07:39OK, thanks.
07:55There was a man in my house.
07:57I fell with Dad.
07:59I think he's dead.
08:01OK, calm down. Are you able to tell me
08:03if your dad's breathing?
08:05I can't tell. There's too much blood.
08:07Please, can you send someone here?
08:09Eddie?
08:11So, what do we know?
08:13Victim's name's John Baker, he's 45,
08:15taxi driver, local firm.
08:17Wife, Tanisha, teaching assistant
08:19at Canley Primary School.
08:21Son, Ian, back home from uni, first-year law student.
08:23Happy homecoming, eh?
08:25Gov, Eddie's ready to walk us through the crime scene.
08:27OK, keep me posted.
08:33Guys, do you want to take this side?
08:35Start the end of work here.
08:37Eddie, they're here.
08:39How's life on the front line?
08:41Well, a lot of people are out,
08:43so we're having some leaflet.
08:45Groundbreaking stuff.
08:47Right, showtime.
08:49You've had those trousers tailored.
08:51You're hurt.
08:53Right,
08:55this is where it all happened.
08:57Got a couple of nice blood distributions.
08:59I figure he was in that armchair
09:01either before he was attacked
09:03or just after, and then he
09:05fell forward to here.
09:07Watching telly? Possibly.
09:09The telly wasn't on when we arrived.
09:11Someone turned it off, I don't know.
09:13Pathologist reckons he took a right
09:15pasting, got hit at least three times.
09:17With what?
09:19A crowbar, claw hammer, double indentations.
09:21I'd go for the crowbar because
09:23a similar thing was used to force the back door.
09:25And that's interesting.
09:27Blood spatter pattern's been interrupted.
09:29There was something else there.
09:31Could it have been the person hitting him?
09:33Or an accomplice?
09:35That's the wrong shape.
09:37This was a rectangle.
09:39Bit of furniture.
09:41It's not here now.
09:43No? Because it would have blood on it.
09:45Has the family reported anything missing?
09:47No.
09:49And things don't just vanish.
09:53So, once Ian
09:55had found his dad...
09:57He said he came upstairs to wake his mum.
09:59I couldn't find any blood on the stairs.
10:01So maybe he doesn't come up?
10:03No, he said he had to wake her up.
10:05OK, so he
10:07comes in here, his mum wakes up,
10:09she takes her earplugs out.
10:11I couldn't find any blood in the room.
10:13Just work with us on this one, will you, Eddie?
10:15Are you saying it's impossible for him to come up here
10:17and not leave a blood trail?
10:19No, all I'm saying is whoever did it would have been covered in blood.
10:21And if they'd moved around, you'd find it everywhere.
10:23Ian and Tanisha were covered in blood.
10:25Exactly.
10:27This way, please. I'll save the best till last.
10:35So there's traces of blood
10:37here and here.
10:39So we think the victim was attacked
10:41with a crowbar and that was used to force this.
10:43But there's blood on the door frame.
10:45So whoever attacked John did it before
10:47they broke into the house.
10:49The burglary's been staged.
11:07We're now pretty certain the back door was
11:09forced after the victim was attacked.
11:11Coupled with Eddie's theory that something's missing
11:13from the living room, calls into question
11:15the account we've been given so far.
11:17So what's your strategy?
11:19Well, I'm not going to totally rule out an intruder,
11:21but we need to look a little more closely at the victim
11:23and his family, check the limited CCTV,
11:25check the phone records, talk to neighbours.
11:27We need to build a timeline for each of them.
11:29Gov, I may have something.
11:31I found it slightly odd that Tanisha didn't want to contact
11:33any of her family after the trauma of John's murder.
11:35This might explain why she wasn't keen.
11:37Her maiden name's Shiv Dasani
11:39and she's listed on Crimin as having been a misper.
11:41Officers went round twice,
11:43but she's refused to let her family know
11:45where she is for over 20 years.
11:47Maybe they caught up with her last night.
11:49I think we need to look closer at the home, Gov.
11:51As Joe said before, both Tanisha and Ian were covered in blood.
11:53You know, with hindsight,
11:55something didn't feel right about them last night.
11:57I mean, this is a 19-year-old kid
11:59who referenced a stranger in his house
12:01as an intruder, not a man or a person
12:03or a burglar.
12:05You said he was a law student.
12:07Yeah.
12:09Well, if Ian and Tanisha are involved,
12:11it means they got rid of the murder weapon themselves
12:13and quite possibly Eddie's mystery object,
12:15which would have been quite big,
12:17so chances are they didn't get far.
12:19I'm going to get pulses to concentrate within a tight radius of the house
12:21and we'll continue with the door-to-door.
12:23Yeah, OK. Grace, I want you to stay with Tanisha.
12:25See if there's any relevance in her having been a misper
12:27and let's look into the marriage.
12:29She wasn't at the pub with her husband, so was that the norm?
12:31Max, you're going to take Ian through wards.
12:33Stevie and Banksy, let's look into the deceased himself.
12:35Did he have any enemies, any debts?
12:37What were his movements?
12:39We'll check what pub he was in last night.
12:41OK. Thanks, everyone.
12:45Looks like Joe's hit the ground running.
12:47Yeah, considering how badly she coped in COD.
12:49Thanks, Dad.
13:03No.
13:11No.
13:19No.
13:23No. OK, don't worry.
13:25Now, if you don't mind,
13:27this is a picture of your living room.
13:29OK.
13:35Our crime scene examiner thinks something's been removed
13:37from this area of the room,
13:39possibly after your dad was attacked.
13:41Now, it may be vital, so
13:43if there's anything you notice missing...
13:45No.
13:49There's nothing usually there.
13:53Definitely not.
13:55Mm-hm.
13:59Did John come from a big family?
14:01He was brought up in care.
14:03And you?
14:07I'm not trying to pry,
14:09but it is on file
14:11that they reported you missing 20 years ago.
14:13Is that when
14:15you got together with John?
14:17Yeah.
14:19Even if
14:21he'd been the right colour and religion,
14:23he still would have been a virgin.
14:25And your dad?
14:27Brahmin.
14:29My dad's Brahmin, too.
14:33Do you speak Hindi?
14:35A little.
14:37John never liked me using it.
14:39I still dream in Hindi sometimes.
14:43So you walked away from your family
14:45to marry John?
14:47That must have taken some courage.
14:49When you're young, you...
14:53had to follow John to the ends of the earth.
14:57Which, in our case,
14:59was Bardwell Avenue.
15:03And you don't think your family
15:05would accept what you did, even now?
15:07I made my bed.
15:13Tanisha,
15:15we have to consider
15:17that robbery wasn't the motive.
15:19The attack on your husband
15:21could have been personal.
15:23Were either you or he
15:25involved in any disputes recently?
15:27At work?
15:29Money? Property?
15:31No.
15:33When you went to bed,
15:35was John still at the pub?
15:37Yeah.
15:39And you didn't feel like going there with him?
15:43Any particular reason?
15:45I never went to the pub
15:47with John.
15:49How come?
15:51He wouldn't have allowed it.
15:59The pub's called The White Heart.
16:01We're gonna go and check it out.
16:03Great. Thanks, Grace.
16:09How'd it go with Ian, Sarge?
16:11Surprise, surprise. He failed to ID the intruder.
16:13I've tracked down Tanisha's sister.
16:15She doesn't live that far away, actually.
16:17I think she'd get in touch.
16:19Unless she wasn't allowed to.
16:21Tanisha said something about John
16:23not allowing her to go to the pub with him.
16:25What if he's a control freak?
16:27I think we should check with her GP
16:29and see if she's ever had any unexplained injuries.
16:31Tanisha's a happy camper.
16:3320 years ago, she falls in love with John.
16:35She's crazy about him.
16:37She defies her family to go off with him.
16:39Yeah, so?
16:41So, Sarge, to do that,
16:43a young Asian woman would need
16:45huge courage, a very strong will.
16:47Have you seen her?
16:49Could be she's just a little subdued,
16:51having just found her husband brutally murdered.
16:53Or maybe she finally snapped.
16:55Or maybe she did it in cold blood
16:57because he's shagging the neighbour.
16:59She killed her husband.
17:01You think there's got to be an excuse for it.
17:03Somehow it wasn't her fault she smashed his head in three times.
17:05Don't hold back, Max.
17:07You say what you really think.
17:09OK, then I will.
17:11I think you've both got it in for the victim.
17:13I think that's totally the wrong approach.
17:15It's biased, presumptive and prejudicial.
17:17Assumption is the death of any good investigation.
17:19If it is cold, premeditated murder,
17:21yeah, fine, I've got no problem giving her life.
17:23But are you seriously suggesting
17:25if she's been used and abused for 20 years
17:27that, well, chances are she didn't even do it.
17:29Smart mind is on her side.
17:31OK, either way, Sarge and Sarge,
17:33we need to keep them here while we go on digging.
17:35All right, leave it with me, Grace.
17:37And there's me thinking I'd miss the idea.
17:45All right? Yep.
17:47Could use your help, though.
17:49Sure.
17:51We want to keep Tanisha and her son here for as long as possible,
17:53but I really don't want them to suspect anything.
17:55Right.
17:57Any ideas?
17:59Have they been fingerprinted?
18:01No, they haven't.
18:03Just to eliminate the suspects, you know.
18:05Brilliant. Thanks, Sarge.
18:07It's Callum to you, Jo.
18:09Sorry, Callum. Old habits.
18:25Auditor?
18:27Yes.
18:29DC Grace Dastry.
18:31This is Sergeant Jo Masters from Sunhill.
18:33We're here about Tanisha.
18:35What's happened?
18:37Is she OK?
18:39Yeah, she's fine. May we come in?
18:41Thank you.
18:45At least can you tell me where she is?
18:47I'm sorry, but, you know, without Tanisha's permission,
18:49there really is very little that we can tell you.
18:51I know.
18:53Not this again, please.
18:55Twice we've had officers telling us that.
18:57She's my sister.
18:59Something's obviously happened or you wouldn't be here.
19:03Tanisha doesn't know that we're here.
19:05We can tell her that we've seen you
19:07and you can pass on a message.
19:09I know it's not much,
19:11but we really wouldn't be here if it wasn't important.
19:15We understand that your father's quite traditional.
19:17Was he arranging a marriage for Tanisha?
19:19He would never have let any of us marry someone
19:21we didn't want to marry. Never.
19:25Tanisha didn't believe that.
19:27She was pretty wild.
19:29But he didn't approve of her relationship.
19:31We knew she was crazy about someone.
19:33We think he was called John.
19:35But she wouldn't tell us.
19:37Then she disappeared.
19:39Left a note.
19:41You never saw her again?
19:43No.
19:45Well, I don't know.
19:47No?
19:49Well, once. I think it was her.
19:51I looked out my bedroom window
19:53and there she was.
19:55By the time I got down the stairs and into the street,
19:57she'd gone.
19:59When was this?
20:01About a year after she disappeared.
20:03How did she look?
20:05Thin. Cold.
20:07Miserable.
20:09I knew something was wrong.
20:11Why else was she outside my front door?
20:13Okay. Thank you.
20:17If you could tell her
20:19she's an aunt now.
20:21Which is why.
20:25And tell her, no matter what,
20:27we'll always, always be there for her.
20:29Hold on.
20:41John Baker?
20:43Yes.
20:45John was in here from about 8.30.
20:47What's that?
20:49I'm afraid John died last night.
20:53He's dead, eh?
20:55We believe he was murdered.
20:57Oh, sorry to hear that.
20:59That's a shock.
21:01Can you remember if John was with anyone when he was in here last night?
21:03Yeah. His missus, as usual.
21:05His missus? Are you sure?
21:07Yeah, yeah. They were always in here together.
21:09What time did he leave?
21:11About 10.30.
21:13Can we have a look?
21:17Yeah, sure.
21:21Oh, here we go. There he is.
21:25Who's that?
21:27It's Jenny, his wife.
21:29She works with him across the road in minicab always.
21:43I've got a five-seater
21:45just round the corner from you.
21:47Are you ready for it now?
21:49OK. Thanks.
21:51Jenny? Yeah?
21:53DS Moss, this is DC Bank, Sunhill.
21:55Is there somewhere private we can talk?
21:57Sure.
21:59Can you just finish that for us?
22:03You ever want to come through here?
22:09What's happened?
22:11Oh, God.
22:13We believe you know a John Baker?
22:15Yeah.
22:17Yeah, he's one of our drivers.
22:19I'm sorry to have to tell you this,
22:21but John was killed last night.
22:25John?
22:27I'm afraid so.
22:41There you go.
22:43Thanks.
22:47How long had you and John
22:49been seeing each other?
22:51A few years.
22:53Not long after I started working here.
22:55Did you know he was married?
22:59It's all right. I'm not here to pry.
23:01I'm just trying to get a clear picture
23:03of John's movements on the lead-up to his death.
23:05Was there a head-to-head
23:07conversation?
23:09Was there
23:11any trouble in the pub last night
23:13between John and anyone?
23:15No, no trouble last night.
23:17But there was another night?
23:19Three nights ago.
23:21Who with?
23:23His son.
23:25Ian?
23:27Yeah. Him and John had a fight.
23:29Any idea what it was about?
23:31Ian found out about us, about the affair.
23:33Went mad at John.
23:35Told him to leave, said him and his mum
23:37wouldn't see him again.
23:39It's what we wanted all along, so
23:41John packed a case of clothes and moved in with me.
23:43So he was living with you?
23:47So what was he doing at home last night?
23:49Packed three days ago in a hurry.
23:51He went home to get more clothes.
23:53Tried to call him when he didn't
23:55come home, but he didn't answer.
23:57I just thought he must be having a run-in with Tanisha or Ian.
24:07Yes.
24:11So whatever reason Tanisha had
24:13for not seeing her family, it must have been pretty strong.
24:15It would have been something...
24:17OK, listen up. The deceased was having an affair
24:19with a colleague at work,
24:21which now gives us a motive.
24:23His son found out about it a few days ago
24:25and asked John to move out.
24:27Which he did, moved in with the mistress.
24:29He was at home last night to pick up some more clothes.
24:31OK, so as far as we know, Tanisha was at home all night, yeah?
24:33Yeah.
24:35And his lady friend in the pub at about half-eight.
24:37OK. And Ian? He's at the gym.
24:39OK, and what time did he leave?
24:4110.30. So in time as John heads home.
24:43John gets home, what,
24:45takes him about ten minutes?
24:47Right, that's 22.40. And where's Ian?
24:49Girlfriend said he reached her about quarter to.
24:51Hardly walked in the door when the phone rang.
24:53It was his mum. He left straight away.
24:55No explanation. OK.
24:57So then we pick him up on La Plata Street
24:59at 22.58. That's just over
25:01half-way, so our rough guess
25:03is he'll be home ten minutes
25:05before he calls the emergency services
25:07at 23.17.
25:09There's a lot you can do in ten minutes.
25:11Maybe John was already beaten
25:13and all Ian had to do was clear up.
25:15Well, unless we can find the murder weapon,
25:17we can't reasonably say who did it.
25:19Which is now yours and Pulse's department, isn't it, Jo?
25:27What would you make of Jo becoming sergeant?
25:29Pretty tidy, I'd say.
25:31Yeah, I'd agree.
25:33Shame, no lift and drive?
25:35Listen to you guys.
25:37I tell you what, we've had a result there, man.
25:39She's good news.
25:41Guys,
25:43I'm gay, not deaf.
25:45Sarge.
25:47Well, I know where I put it.
25:51I'll give Eddie a call.
25:53I don't think there's any need for Eddie to get his hands and feet dirty,
25:55do you, Leon?
25:57No.
26:01Eddie.
26:09Eddie?
26:11I'm telling you, it was there.
26:13Right there.
26:15About 70 centimetres wide,
26:17but about 50 centimetres high.
26:19Maybe it was a puff.
26:21You know?
26:23Some sort of Moroccan footstool.
26:25I know what a puff is.
26:27Gov, we've found something.
26:29What was that?
26:31An industrial skip. Ben found it.
26:35No visible signs of blood,
26:37but it suggests it's been wiped down.
26:39It's the right shape, though.
26:41Yeah, well, we might be able to prove it killed him,
26:43but not who used it.
26:45Do you find anything else?
26:47No, sorry, Eddie.
26:49We're still trying to establish the family's movements.
26:51Apparently John had moved out.
26:53He only came back to get some more clothes.
26:59Look at that.
27:15That's blood.
27:23Oh, look at that.
27:25Look at that.
27:27It's a thing
27:29of beauty.
27:31I could kiss you right now.
27:33Let's get it open, shall we?
27:43There's nothing in there.
27:45Shirts, polo shirts,
27:47jeans, that sort of thing.
27:49I don't think an intruder's going to be so kind
27:51as to pack his victims back.
27:53I think it's time to interview
27:55his mother and son.
28:15You found out your dad was having an affair
28:17three days ago.
28:19You confronted him and told him to leave.
28:26Is that your dad's suitcase?
28:31Why did you throw him out?
28:33Why didn't your mum just ask him to leave?
28:39Ian, I think you're bright enough to realise
28:41there's no point in lying anymore.
28:55She was too scared.
28:57She never would have done it herself.
28:59Why? Is he a violent man?
29:01He didn't have to be.
29:03All he had to do was raise his voice.
29:05Did that happen often?
29:07No.
29:09No, she did what she was told.
29:13She'd do everything for him.
29:15Exactly the way he wanted.
29:19Then I found out I'd been seeing this woman for three years
29:21and she even knew.
29:23So, when your mum called you last night,
29:25was that to say your dad was back in the house?
29:30He was drunk.
29:32You never know what he's going to do when he's drunk.
29:34I was worried.
29:36Worried in what way?
29:38About an upsetting mum
29:40or convincing her to take him back.
29:43And when you got home?
29:46He was raving drunk.
29:48He was raving drunk.
29:50He was raving drunk.
29:53He was shouting at mum.
29:55He was...
29:58trying to stop and he went crazy.
30:01If I didn't stop him,
30:03he was going to kill me.
30:13So I stopped him.
30:21He's lying.
30:23Yeah, of course he's lying.
30:25We've got him up against the wall,
30:27so he's going for the self-defence plea.
30:29But we know John was sat quietly on the sofa.
30:31No, that's not what I mean.
30:33I think he's lying completely, trying to protect Tanisha.
30:35You're not still banging on about that, are you?
30:44So you called Ian to say goodnight.
30:47Went to bed.
30:50And the next thing you remember is your son waking you up?
30:56Tanisha, am I right in thinking
30:58you want to tell us what really happened?
31:02Did Ian kill your husband?
31:04No.
31:06No, not Ian. It wasn't Ian.
31:08It was a burglar.
31:12You see, we know that no-one broke into your house.
31:14And Ian's admitted he did it.
31:16No.
31:18He's lying.
31:20Why would he lie about killing his father?
31:22For me.
31:24I killed John.
31:26Ian had nothing to do with it. It was me.
31:28He's saying he did.
31:30He wasn't even there.
31:32He does. He was.
31:34That's not true.
31:36Phone records show that you called him.
31:38He came home.
31:40He's given us a statement saying he had a fight with your husband.
31:42Please. Please, you've got to believe me.
31:44It wasn't Ian. It was me.
31:48My money's still on Ian, Gov.
31:50He studies law, so he knew exactly how to cover up the murder scene
31:52by faking a burglary.
31:54He made the 999 call. He's done most of the talking so far.
31:56I've got to admit, pretty savvy for a 19-year-old.
31:58The only question is how far the mother's in on it.
32:00And I don't think she's in on it, Gov.
32:02I think she did it.
32:04What? So he's prepared to take the rap?
32:06Yeah.
32:08OK, well, if that's the case, she hasn't mentioned abuse.
32:10I think she's too ashamed.
32:12What, to admit she's been abused?
32:1420 years ago, she walked out on a family and a culture
32:16to be with this man.
32:18If he then went on to abuse her and bully her,
32:20she couldn't admit that to her family.
32:22You had to pull out the culture card, didn't you?
32:24What the hell's that supposed to mean?
32:26You know what it means. It means I can't argue with you
32:28without being accused of prejudice.
32:30I can't believe you.
32:32All right, both of you.
32:34Look, until we know exactly what happened in the house
32:36and who did what,
32:38we will concentrate on the hard facts, OK?
32:40OK.
32:42Yes, Joe.
32:44As a GP, there's nothing to suggest that John ever hit his wife.
32:46No unexplained bruises, broken bones, burns.
32:48However, Tanisha was once treated for depression
32:50after she put John in hospital.
32:52She knocked him out with a lump of wood.
32:54Well, that was probably her first desperate cry for help.
32:56Gav, with all due respect, one of them did it, the other helped.
32:58Does it really matter which?
33:00Let's charge them both, let them slug it out in court.
33:02For us, it's job done.
33:04Hang on. Surely it's our duty to get all the details first,
33:06find the trigger.
33:08Look, I don't think you are doing her any favours
33:10by digging further here, unless she wanted to get life.
33:12Look, if Tanisha had an argument with her husband
33:14before he went to the pub,
33:16it was several hours before he came back.
33:18The CPS will deem that a significant cooling-off period.
33:20Yes, Gav, but provocation doesn't have to be one big event.
33:22It can be a series of smaller events
33:24over a longer period of time,
33:26which is what I think this is.
33:28We're going to hand this to the CPS
33:30and let the courts decide what really happened.
33:42Grace? Joe?
33:44This is a list of calls made to John's mobile.
33:46Jenny said that he'd moved in with her,
33:48only last night he had to go home and pick up some clothes, right?
33:50When he didn't come back,
33:52she tried calling him to no avail.
33:54Yeah?
33:56Where there were no phone calls made to John's mobile last night,
33:58Jenny lied.
34:00But if he didn't turn up,
34:02how come she didn't call him and find out where he was?
34:04Exactly.
34:06I've asked the two of them,
34:08and I'm sure they'll tell you.
34:10She made his life a misery.
34:12Forgive me, but...
34:14why didn't he leave before?
34:16She's a depressive.
34:18If he left, he was scared of what she might do to herself
34:20or to his son.
34:22Right.
34:24So then, three nights ago,
34:26when Ian confronted John about you,
34:28finally, there was nothing to stop you being together.
34:30No, that's why he moved in.
34:32So why did John go back home?
34:34I don't know.
34:36I don't know.
34:38So why did John go back home?
34:42Like I said to DS Moss,
34:44he went to pick up some more clothes.
34:46You must have been worried when he didn't turn up.
34:48Did you call him?
34:54Jenny, what really happened last night?
34:58Why did John go back?
35:02He left me.
35:05Three nights after he moved in,
35:07he said I wasn't good enough.
35:09Didn't know how he liked things,
35:11that Tanisha waited on him hand and foot,
35:13and he expected the same.
35:15I said...
35:17I wasn't Tanisha.
35:20But he got angry.
35:22Was he violent towards you?
35:24No. No, no, not violent.
35:26Just aggressive.
35:28Spoke to me like he never had before.
35:35He was never gonna leave her, was he?
35:45Garth, I'd like another chance to speak to Tanisha.
35:48Why?
35:50Jenny Martin wasn't entirely honest with Stevie and Banksy this morning.
35:52John dumped her last night.
35:54That's why I went back home.
35:56Not to get more clothes.
35:58We went back for good.
36:00How does that change anything?
36:02There's more to being left after years of misery
36:04than you hear him downstairs.
36:06So you go down, and there he is.
36:08Just when you dared to hope
36:10that the nightmare was finally over,
36:12he sat there, fast asleep on the sofa
36:14as if nothing had happened,
36:16suitcase propped up against the wall.
36:18Groundhog Day.
36:20In that moment of utter despair, you can see only one way out.
36:22It's still cold-blooded murder.
36:26If we can get Tanisha to admit to the abuse,
36:28to tell the truth about last night,
36:30we might be able to get her a lesser sentence.
36:32Then Ian can admit that he was lying
36:34to protect his mother.
36:36If we're right, Garth, there are three victims here.
36:40Okay. See what she's got to say.
36:42Thank you.
36:46Tanisha, we're going to level with you, okay?
36:48So far, the forensic evidence
36:50is inconclusive.
36:52We know that either you or Ian killed your husband.
36:54But we can't prove for certain which one of you it was.
36:56But it was me.
37:00I killed him, please. It wasn't Ian.
37:02We think the only way a jury's going to believe you
37:04is if you tell them about your marriage,
37:06what it was like living with John.
37:08No.
37:10You see, the trouble is, everything that you've told us so far
37:12sounds like you're confessing
37:14to cover up for Ian.
37:16I mean, you say it was self-defence, but, you know,
37:18the little evidence that we do have
37:20just doesn't support that.
37:22It wasn't self-defence.
37:24Okay, so what was it?
37:26Tanisha,
37:28you were once crazy about John.
37:30What happened? What changed?
37:34Tanisha,
37:36I know this is
37:38incredibly private,
37:40but who's their self-esteem
37:42to the point that they believe they deserve
37:44the abuse they get?
37:46They're so crushed,
37:48they're unable to ask for help.
37:50But that can be used in their defence.
37:52They can argue
37:54about diminished responsibility.
37:58Tanisha, please.
38:00Talking to us
38:02is the best chance you have for you and Ian.
38:06Did your husband ever hit you?
38:08No, he never hit me.
38:10But you once hit him.
38:16Almost as soon as we were married, it was like...
38:20It wasn't just my family
38:22that I left behind, but all my friends.
38:24Every time I tried to make new ones,
38:26John...
38:28He found that difficult.
38:32Did you complain?
38:34At first, of course.
38:36Bit by bit,
38:38he controlled everything I did.
38:40I wore who I was allowed
38:42to speak to.
38:44It got to the point where I thought
38:46the only way it would stop was if he was dead.
38:48Truly.
38:50So...
38:52I hit him as hard as I could
38:54with a chopping board.
38:56And then I panicked
38:58and I took him to hospital.
39:00When we came out, he put me in the car
39:02and he took me to my parents.
39:04He left me there
39:06to get the bus fare.
39:08I just
39:10couldn't go in.
39:12You'd got the marriage you felt you deserved.
39:14So then...
39:16What happened?
39:18What happened when you went back home?
39:22You returned to a husband
39:24who knew you tried to kill him,
39:26who knew you had nowhere else to go
39:28and no one to turn to.
39:32Where was Ian?
39:36It was before Ian was born.
39:38How long before he was born?
39:44Nine months.
39:54Nine months.
39:58It was the first time John raped me.
40:04And how many more times did he rape you?
40:08Many.
40:10Did what he liked when he liked.
40:12Usually when he came back
40:14from the pub and lied last night.
40:22We know that Ian told John
40:24to move out three days ago.
40:30He didn't come home the night before that.
40:36That's when
40:38Ian found out about Jenny.
40:42He stood up to John and had this furious row
40:44and John stormed off.
40:46He packed his bags and went.
40:50I started to think that that was it.
40:52He'd really gone.
40:54But he came back, didn't he, last night?
40:56Yeah, I heard him come in.
40:58I thought it was Ian, but he was staying at Lucy's.
41:02And then I heard the television go on.
41:06I lay there for a while. I didn't know what to do.
41:08And
41:10Johnny always
41:12keeps this thing under his bed
41:14in case of burglars, so
41:16I grabbed it and I went downstairs.
41:22And then when I saw that suitcase,
41:24I knew.
41:28I knew he'd come back and that he was never going to leave.
41:34Go on.
41:38He was asleep.
41:42He was snoring just like he always does.
41:48So I hid him.
41:50So I hid him.
42:06She's charged.
42:08Ready for court tomorrow morning.
42:10Come.
42:12Ian, you're OK.
42:14Yeah, I'm fine.
42:16They said you confessed.
42:18Why did you do that?
42:20Why did you do that?
42:22Listen, listen, it's going to be OK.
42:24It's going to be OK, but I need you to tell them the truth.
42:26Ian, I need you to tell them the truth.
42:28You didn't have to do that.
42:30Come on, let's go.
42:48Come on.
43:04Hey, you got good results.
43:06CPS are singing Grace and Joe's praises.
43:08The CPS are going to consider a request
43:10that provocation through sexual abuse over 20 years
43:12is taken into account.
43:14It's nice to know that Joe is respected
43:16and that you can see out of your comfort zone.
43:18I see.
43:20It is my cue to say you were right, sir,
43:22and we're looking to still have her.
43:24Yeah, but I'm not the one that needs to hear that.
43:32Joe.
43:34Well done for today.
43:36Thanks, God.
43:38More grace than me, really.
43:40Yeah, I meant as uniform sergeant.
43:42Look, Joe, have you ever changed your mind?
43:44Fancy your old job back?
43:46You'll always have a place on my team.
43:48Thanks, Bob.
43:52Do you like your new boots?
43:56No, no.
44:00Go.
44:04Good call today.
44:06Thanks.
44:08And I'm sorry about earlier.
44:10I was out of order.
44:12Yeah, you were.
44:14No offence taken.
44:16Cheers.
44:18Night.
44:22Well, now that the testosterone
44:24has left the room, do you fancy a drink?
44:26Oh, sorry, I promised my team
44:28a couple of rounds in the Bells.
44:30Oh, right, so it's you and us now, is it?
44:32Well, we'll have to climb into skips and all sorts
44:34to get you lot a result.
44:36Night.
44:42Thank you.
45:06Thank you.
45:08I felt something move
45:10and then I saw the wires.
45:12This place needs to be on safety, yeah?
45:14What happened?
45:16There's some kind of incendiary package.
45:18My PA's still inside.
45:20Sorry, this is Alan Cooper. He's the boss of the company.
45:22He's the one that called it in.
45:24Sounds like Stone's still in there.
45:28Over on ITV2 now,
45:30Billy Piper's back with a brand new series
45:32as the infamous Belle de Jeux.
45:34And after the news next tonight,
45:36you're on ITV1.
45:38Next time with Mark Austin
45:40and the story of Sally Ann Bowman
45:42and Depp on the doorstep.
46:08.