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24 Hours in Police Custody S17E02 Murder on Prescription Part.1
Original air date - (9 September 2024)
A 47-year-old disabled women is found dead with her throat cut. There are suspects but no hard evidence. But then the case takes a major twist.
Transcript
00:00This beach is a bit of a funny old town, people are stuck here aren't they, when people get
00:28desperate they'll go and do something stupid, you've just got to watch your back all the
00:33time, who can you trust and who can't you trust?
00:44She was tortured, somebody dragged her in here, there is a large stab wound to the side
00:52of her neck, she's disabled, she can't walk, it was so severe I've never seen anything like it.
01:01There was a hell of a lot to do, somebody sleep them like that on the floor, blood pissing out,
01:10people must get really suspicious mustn't they, neighbours and that, could be me, you, anybody.
01:17It's crucial that we find the truth.
01:30Got to question everything, believe nobody.
01:37It's almost a game of chess, trying to slip up.
01:42This is your opportunity to talk to me.
01:47Thank you so much, you got somewhere you can take a seat Christine and I can come and speak to you?
02:06Well please don't tell me nothing Fran.
02:07Christine I'm ever so sorry to tell you, officers have been out to Eliza this morning, she lured her.
02:13Yeah?
02:14Yeah, unfortunately she's been found passed away in...
02:17Oh no! No!
02:20No, no, no, no, no, no!
02:29Yesterday morning Eliza Bibby was found deceased at her home address at 17 Beakwood Road in Whizbeach.
02:37Eliza lives alone, she is disabled, she uses a wheelchair and a frame, she very rarely leaves the house
02:44if at all in the last year or so I think.
02:48She's been a victim of a burglary back in 2018, other than that there doesn't appear to be anything.
02:55They've moved the body and there is a large stab wound to the left side of her neck, it's quite large, quite deep.
03:08That knife is obviously outstanding.
03:15I always have this fear of like getting stuck on this road, I don't know why, so like whenever I'm on call
03:21I always make sure I've got like a full tank of petrol because I always worry that I'm going to get a call out to Whizbeach
03:28and get stuck on this road because I find it really creepy at night.
03:31I think maybe I've been doing this job too long because I think, I wonder how many like bodies are on the fence
03:36that no one would ever find, just running from a road.
03:39Yeah, she's stuck out in the middle of nowhere.
03:51What?
03:52There's no care?
03:53No.
03:54I thought I'd come round and see if she wanted her care now.
03:57Ah, okay.
03:58Yeah.
03:59So, sadly she has passed away and it is a murder investigation.
04:03Yeah.
04:09Oh my God.
04:10Do you have any enemies or anything that you know of?
04:21Yeah.
04:33The Cambridgeshire Police's Major Crime Unit begin the forensic investigation of the scene.
04:38Have you actually been in yet?
04:40You haven't, have you?
04:41No.
04:42I'll take you on a tour.
04:44We go in the bathroom.
04:46So this frame was here and she needs this to walk.
04:50Yeah, yeah, so why is it there?
04:51But that's, why is that in here?
04:54Bandages for her legs.
04:58A lot of medication in her name.
05:00So she sleeps in this chair.
05:02But again, there's no sign of a disturbance in here.
05:05There's no blood.
05:07There's literally nothing else here.
05:10And it makes no sense.
05:22What road is this?
05:24This is Deacon's Road.
05:26And where's Beachwood Close?
05:28Beachwood Close?
05:29Over there.
05:30Over that side?
05:31Yes.
05:32All right, cool, thank you.
05:33I'll show you the shortcut as well.
05:34Oh, well done.
05:36When a crime takes place, the first sort of 24, 48 hours is crucial.
05:42No detail's too small.
05:43I want to try and understand what has led to her being targeted, what's led to her murder.
05:50Did you know the lady that died?
05:52Yes.
05:55Sort of.
06:00There's the house.
06:02I'm just trying to, like, get my bearings as to the way that people could have gone in or out.
06:08Now, there's several ways they could have gone.
06:10Yep.
06:11They could have gone that way.
06:12Yep.
06:14They could have gone that way, and then back up the town.
06:19They could have gone that way, round the back, you know, where the caravan park is over there.
06:25Oh, you're making my job even harder now, aren't you?
06:27Well...
06:28Telling me all these different routes that people could have gone.
06:30They could have took any way.
06:33I don't know.
06:35I couldn't tell you.
06:36I was in bed, so...
06:39Probably the best place to be.
06:40Yeah.
06:42She had three small stab wounds to the side of her neck,
06:47and sort of underneath her chin, which went through into her tongue.
06:51And she swallowed a lot of blood.
06:54And then a larger stab wound to the side of the neck.
06:59So, we've got...
07:02We've got...
07:05We've got...
07:08We've got...
07:09We've got...
07:12The spatter that way.
07:13Yep.
07:14There's spatter this way, and back towards you.
07:17Yep.
07:18So, her head was here.
07:23So, has she gone down?
07:26Or was she already down and dragged in?
07:28How would she get here?
07:30She could hardly walk.
07:31Yeah.
07:32For the frame to be in there, the wheelchair to be in there, and her to be here,
07:36either said somebody dragged her in here.
07:39Yeah.
07:41There's no stick, there's no frame, there's...
07:43No.
07:47But she was not moving while she was being stabbed, from what I can see.
07:50Yeah.
07:55They've took her life.
07:57They've took her, haven't they?
07:59My daughter.
08:01For what reason, I don't know.
08:03But they've took it.
08:07I don't know, but, you know...
08:10Why?
08:1347 she was.
08:17She never owned an yard.
08:19You know, she said what she thinks, and that's it.
08:21Whether you liked it or you didn't.
08:23Straight up.
08:24And ever since, she's been a dear little old girl down there.
08:29She always and always did.
08:31My grandson.
08:33I'm trying my hardness for him, if you know what I mean.
08:50Morning. Morning.
08:51Sorry to bother you.
08:52We're here, unfortunately, investigating one of your neighbours
08:55has sadly passed away in the night.
08:57The lady that lives at this address, just across here.
09:00Oh, no, is it?
09:01Yeah. Yeah.
09:03I don't know how well you knew her.
09:05I'll see if she's later, but...
09:07She was sort of like an undesirable element, Ren.
09:11She was a drug dealer.
09:24A murder investigation has been launched
09:26after a woman was found dead in her home in Whizbeach.
09:29Emergency services found the body of a 47-year-old woman
09:32in Beachwood Road.
09:35We've had an update from the scene.
09:37She deals drugs from her bungalow.
09:40Class A and regular customers are known to just walk in.
09:45It seems like an open-door policy.
10:00Not as high as I know, but...
10:05I saw her last night about...
10:08..about half nine, ten, yeah?
10:10Half nine, ten, yeah.
10:11So how was she last night?
10:13Yeah.
10:14Was anyone else with you at that time?
10:15Was anyone else there?
10:16No, no-one else.
10:18Yeah.
10:21Yeah.
10:23Yeah, yeah.
10:26Got a habit and that, yeah.
10:30Used to go in there and just get what you needed and go, you know,
10:33as long as you got the money.
10:35Just go up to the door and knock.
10:37Open the door, ask you,
10:38''Who's that?''
10:39Tell them who you are and she'd say,
10:41''Take your shoes off in the kitchen,''
10:44cos she's really house-proud, you know?
10:47Every day, yeah, that was my routine, yeah.
10:50Going over at school,
10:51you've got to try and find that money every day
10:54to stop yourself getting sick, you know?
10:56Nothing to be proud of, that's for sure, you know?
10:59A chain round my neck, a burden, yeah.
11:05The wounds to the neck, they're not all one side, are they?
11:07They're both sides.
11:09So the three... Yeah.
11:11..could be along the lines of, ''Well, where's your money?''
11:14or like a threatening thing. Yeah.
11:16And then the fatal one was the left side.
11:19Yeah.
11:21Which means you'd either have to swap hands,
11:24or it's two people with different hands.
11:28I think it's 101 ways it could have been.
11:36At Whisby, there was a lot of guys and girls
11:38that knew that she used to serve up.
11:41Yeah, she was serving every day.
11:44A lot of people don't want to show their true colours,
11:47but, you know, they're on it.
11:49People more desperate than others,
11:51everyone's all got their hand out, what's about, you know?
11:55Hi, I'm Gary, Cambridge Police.
11:57And this is my colleague, Saj. Hi.
11:59With news of Eliza Bibby's murder spreading across Whisbeach,
12:02officers speak to those closest to the victim.
12:05I used to go and see Eliza quite a lot.
12:07I've been involved in drugs relapse now and again.
12:10Yeah, sure.
12:12I've known Eliza for years. Right.
12:14I still can't get my head round it. I can't believe it.
12:17It was like a dream.
12:20I've heard a lot about this already, though, no?
12:22Yeah, I've heard a fair bit, yeah.
12:24What have you heard?
12:26Mark Coleman. Right.
12:28Mark and his sister, she did tell me
12:31that he'd been pestering her for a little while.
12:34Was he trying to buy from her or...? Yeah, yeah.
12:37And I did tell her to be careful of him.
12:39Their names had been brought up by a few people, right?
12:42You hear things in Whisbeach. Yeah.
12:45We've had an update.
12:47When we spoke to family today,
12:49Christine said that Eliza told her
12:52that she was having issues with Mark Coleman.
12:55Mark used to go to Eliza to buy heroin,
12:59along with his sister, Katie.
13:05I've just spoken to some of the family members
13:07and they've said that they've had some issues with Mark Coleman.
13:12I've just spoken to somebody who lives locally.
13:15He said that he goes to work early in the morning
13:18and around about 3am he saw Mark Coleman
13:21and a female in the area.
13:23Of the shop.
13:25They've been trying doors on other roads as well.
13:28Yeah, I think that's their kind of MO, the two of them.
13:31Yeah. That operate together.
13:33I'm just watching some of the footage here.
13:35I can't give you any details on that,
13:37but you have two people walking along Beechwood at 2332
13:41and they're walking from the Waterleyside towards number 17.
13:45There might be some more details,
13:47but two people at sort of a time of interest.
13:50I think we're right to look at the Colemans.
13:53He is very well known and has been for years.
13:56Obviously a prolific drug user, shoplifter.
14:00So yesterday he was seen at Wellington Terrace,
14:04block of flats, and he's been staying there on his law.
14:08He's been homeless for months.
14:13Within the Whizbeach community, everyone's a detective.
14:18I think the rumour mill always brings difficulties
14:22because we have to then look into that information.
14:25We can't just ignore it.
14:27But there's a difference between intelligence and evidence.
14:32Right, this is section 18 at Wellington Terrace, Whizbeach.
14:36The potential home address of Mark Coleman.
14:38At least he was sleeping in the stairwell.
14:41Hiya. From the police.
14:43It's OK to come in? Yeah.
14:45Yeah. You know Mark Coleman?
14:52We're investigating that offence, but whether he's involved or not,
14:55that's what we're trying to establish. He may not be.
14:58As you know, we have got authority to search this stairwell.
15:01Oh, right. Very long.
15:03It might not be a very long search.
15:06Imagine living in here.
15:13Any signs of any blood?
15:15Have a good look in the light.
15:17OK. There's a bag there.
15:20OK, very careful and slow search.
15:23Don't want you impaling yourself with a needle.
15:28Stuff that no-one's used.
15:32Yeah, I think he's been staying a bit everywhere,
15:35but he definitely came here.
15:37There was a chap in a flat, number seven,
15:40but he says, no, no, he just sleeps in the stairwell.
15:43It does appear that way.
15:45I mean, looking here, like I say, there's literally...
15:49There's not much here.
15:54Hello. You all right?
15:56We're looking for Mark Coleman.
16:00Well, we're trying to work out whether he's involved or not.
16:07I just wanted to speak to you to see what your movements were
16:11that night and how much you saw of Mark that night.
16:23And then you woke up in the morning?
16:26And he was gone? Right.
16:57Yeah, definitely.
17:18Whose name? Mark Coleman.
17:21Mark Coleman!
17:23Hi, Sarge. The suspect here is Mark Coleman.
17:29Right, Mark, come to the back of the van for me.
17:43Right, Katie, you're under arrest
17:45for theft and total dwelling times two,
17:47harassment and also total burglary, OK?
17:51No, I don't have anything there.
17:54What have you been up to this morning?
17:59Are you trying to score any drugs or anything?
18:03What do you take? Heroin?
18:08Mind your head.
18:16So, some interesting developments.
18:19Mark Coleman has committed a burglary overnight
18:22and was arrested at the scene,
18:24and he is currently in custody, as well as Katie Coleman,
18:28and both of them have been arrested now for the murder.
18:35They were arrested for a separate, non-related offence,
18:39and obviously whilst they were in custody,
18:43that is an opportunity to question them
18:47about Eliza's murder.
18:49That's an opportunity I can't miss.
18:54Just lean slightly forward.
18:57Officers are alerted to police body-worn footage of Mark Coleman
19:01from the morning Eliza Bibby's body was found.
19:04Mark, what have you been up to, mate?
19:06Come on, come off the road, let's have a quick chat.
19:08What are these in here, buddy?
19:10That's what I bought from the charity shop.
19:12You bought them from the charity shop.
19:14What use have you got for this?
19:16I can see it.
19:18Is it?
19:20What use have you got for this?
19:22I mean, I can see it.
19:24Ah, that's a broke, isn't it?
19:27Let's see if that's missing from Eliza.
19:32Lee, I'm sorry to call you, but I'm, like, super excited about this.
19:36We've just been looking at this body-worn video
19:38from him being stopped shortly, potentially after this murder,
19:43or a few hours after, and they're going through a bag
19:45and he's got, like, this distinctive brooch.
19:47So, has anybody been back to the family and said,
19:51does this belong to her?
19:53Yeah, why on earth has he got a brooch?
19:58Are you living in Whiz Beach? Yeah.
20:00Is it Kam's side of Whiz Beach?
20:02Yeah, yeah.
20:04OK, so, open wide for me.
20:09Lovely, thank you.
20:10What are we thinking it's coming back with?
20:13Crack and heroin.
20:15No, it's come back with only crack.
20:18Really? Yeah.
20:20There's got to be nothing in there, heroin in the stuff.
20:24What, that you're buying off the shop? Yeah.
20:26I'm guessing you're not going to dispute the test
20:28for not being positive for heroin? No.
20:37Whiz Beach is quite a...
20:41..poor area.
20:42You know, it's masses of unemployment.
20:44And with any area where there's poverty,
20:48there's quite often addiction.
20:51You know, addiction tends to come with despair or trauma.
20:55And I think, you know, if you haven't got a purpose, a job,
20:59then that can quite often lead to addiction.
21:06I was nine years old when I started with amphetamines.
21:10That was the first time I ever had drugs.
21:12Heroin, a bit of crack cocaine, a bit of weed,
21:16MDMA sometimes.
21:18I'm just at a loose end.
21:21And then the police run your back.
21:24It's horrible.
21:26I've been stuck in here again.
21:28I mean, I was only here two days ago.
21:32It's poxy.
21:35They keep arresting me, they do.
21:38It ain't good.
21:40It ain't good at all.
21:49At some point between 9.30pm on the 9th of January
21:53and 6am on the 10th of January,
21:56Eliza Bibby was killed at a home address
21:59of 17 Beachwood Road in Whiz Beach.
22:01Are you responsible for that murder?
22:03No comment.
22:05There's been a number of witnesses that have been spoken to
22:08as part of this investigation,
22:10and one has been told that Eliza told them
22:12that she was having issues with a Mark Colmes.
22:14What can you tell me about that?
22:16No comment.
22:17We've got another witness that says that yourself and your sister,
22:20Katie, were out at 3am that night near the Premier store
22:24and trying doors in Edinburgh Drive.
22:27No comment.
22:28What can you tell me about that? That's on the north ward.
22:30That's only a couple of roads down from Beachwood Road.
22:33No comment.
22:34Were you out with Katie? Was she trying the doors?
22:36No comment.
22:39Tell us about any recent arguments you know to have occurred
22:42between Mark and Eliza.
22:44No comment.
22:45Do you know of any reason why Mark would want to hurt Eliza?
22:49No comment.
22:51What's the nature of the dynamics of the relationship
22:56between the two of you?
22:58Is he in charge?
22:59No comment.
23:01When we're looking at this body-worn footage,
23:04the one thing that the officer does hold out that we can see,
23:07it's like a silver-coloured brooch.
23:09Where did that brooch come from?
23:11No comment.
23:12Is this something taken from Eliza's headphones?
23:14No comment.
23:17Hang on, Mark. Mark, wait there a minute.
23:19Mark.
23:21OK, just wait there.
23:23So, in that case, Mark has refused to come back to the interview room,
23:27so we can't ask any more questions at this time.
23:30Therefore, I'm going to stop the interview.
23:34Oh, we'll have a bit of drama.
23:40Officers take the brooch found in Mark Coleman's possession
23:43to the family.
23:45It's the only thing they can do.
23:47Officers take the brooch found in Mark Coleman's possession
23:50to the family to see if they recognise it as Eliza Bibby's.
23:58So, we have got two people in custody.
24:01Yeah, so you see.
24:02So, we're doing everything we can to see where we can go with this
24:06at the moment.
24:07On that line, what we have got is a picture of a brooch
24:11that I wanted to show you to see if you might recognise it.
24:16No, I don't.
24:17Don't recognise it?
24:18No, I haven't seen it.
24:21It's not right, is it?
24:23It's not right.
24:25You need that time, Christine, to absorb this, though, don't you?
24:28I can absorb it, though.
24:29Yeah.
24:32I think it's the green. I don't know what I think.
24:35That's what we're trying to work out.
24:37You leave that side of the interlock, because that's what we're here for.
24:42Oh.
24:44Sorry.
24:45You don't have to apologise. You've got nothing to apologise for.
24:49We won't leave you abandoned.
24:55As Christine Bibby is unable to identify the brooch,
24:58there is insufficient evidence to charge either Mark or Katie Coleman
25:02with murder.
25:03Both are charged with unrelated burglary offences
25:06and remanded to prison.
25:09The fact that Mark Coleman is being named as being responsible
25:13within the local community is frustrating.
25:17It's very difficult for Mark Coleman.
25:20He's in a bit of a cycle of despair,
25:23because once your name's put forward for everything,
25:26how do you ever then change that?
25:29There's nothing to link Mark to Eliza's murder.
25:34I'm tired. I've had enough of this shit now.
25:37They arrest me all the time.
25:39Don't leave me alone, they learn.
25:41The society is just down and out of date at the minute.
25:46There's nothing out there for anyone.
25:49I'm a homeless.
25:51Just can't get no help.
25:53I mean, my children don't come looking for me.
25:57I mean, they come looking for me.
25:59I mean, my children don't come looking for me.
26:02I mean, they come by me.
26:04I love children, eh?
26:06Children are the best thing that ever happened to me.
26:09It's a shame, really, eh?
26:11Feeling ashamed.
26:13I live in a doorway of a bingo hall,
26:17and all of a sudden I'm a murderer on someone else's say-so.
26:21That can't happen.
26:23It's not fair. It's not fair at all.
26:26A murder of a woman would pay me millions.
26:32Often, previous miscarriages of justice
26:35has been because people in charge of investigations
26:39follow an individual rather than the evidence.
26:43The fact that their names were brought up a lot,
26:48that doesn't mean that they are responsible.
26:57GUNSHOT
27:03Although the Colemans will remain under investigation
27:06for the murder of Eliza Bibby,
27:08the major crime unit pursue fresh leads.
27:11I never want to convict the wrong person.
27:16The fact that Eliza was dealing drugs
27:19obviously led to a massive pool of people
27:23that potentially could be responsible for her murder.
27:30It's now a lot of work to try
27:33and rule all those individuals in or out.
27:37That's it. Brilliant.
27:41Right, we'll crack on then. So, where shall we start?
27:44I've had a quick look at the victim's iPhone.
27:48There's a number for Mark Hall in there, a landline.
27:51And that's shown as blocked in her phone.
27:54Having looked at, like, the different statements around Mark Hall,
27:59there's a question around what time he actually went there.
28:03When the scene guard are there the following morning,
28:05he then tells the scene guard that he was there at 21.30
28:08and that he's left Eliza fit and well.
28:11So, if that is the case and he was there at 21.30,
28:15then potentially he's the last person to have seen Eliza alive.
28:22According to the scene guard, he goes back to the scene at 7.57 and 10.30,
28:28which is a little bit odd behaviour.
28:30We're going to get to the stage where their memories
28:33are going to start deteriorating from what they were doing.
28:37So, I think, really, the objective today is to really bottom out Mark Hall.
28:45Mark Hall, Eliza Bibby's drug customer and friend,
28:49was one of the last people to see her alive.
28:52Officers need to pin down his movements on the night she was murdered.
29:02There he is.
29:04He's here, look.
29:05This is Dale, by the way. Hiya.
29:07Hiya, you all right? Yeah, I'm good.
29:09We'll go back to Whiz Beach station.
29:12You've got a nice park there, Whiz Beach Park.
29:16Do you like it in Whiz Beach, Mark?
29:18Um, not particularly, no.
29:26So, if you could put your left or right palm,
29:28whichever one you want to start with, down onto here.
29:30Yeah, I want this one there, yeah.
29:32So, have they put DNA and that in the premises?
29:34That's something that's still... Other than mine?
29:36Still ongoing? That's still ongoing.
29:38My DNA and all that is going to be all over the place.
29:41I used to go around it every day, more or less.
29:43I've just got to help her out with something or the other.
29:46So, what would you describe your relationship with Eliza?
29:49Probably, like, good friends, you know?
29:51Like, now and again, if she needed something,
29:53you know, she'd phone me up, can you go into the shop with me?
29:56Feed the dogs.
29:58Just little things like that, really, you know?
30:00So, on the night, that's the night before Eliza was murdered.
30:04Yeah.
30:05Can you remember the specific time you went to hers?
30:10No, I can't, no.
30:11Because I've only drank now. Yeah.
30:13I wouldn't...
30:14I wouldn't remember that. OK.
30:16But... Yeah.
30:17All right, that's all I can tell you, mate.
30:19OK. OK?
30:21All right, mate, erm... Can I walk off now?
30:24Do you want to go for a smoke?
30:26Yeah, if you don't mind, it'd be nice.
30:35So, we need to really pin him down about what we...
30:38He took that specific night. Yeah.
30:40That specific morning. Yeah.
30:42And time inside.
30:46So, you went to Eliza Bibby's address,
30:49you went there to get some drugs.
30:51Yeah, she normally, like, unlocks the door at seven,
30:54but sometimes she leaves it unlocked all night,
30:56so anyone can walk in, but... Yeah.
30:58How sure of you of what the time was?
31:01Yeah, pretty sure, because, like, you wake up at, like, half five, six,
31:06then you... If you haven't got any gear, you're clock-watching.
31:10Right. Rather than...
31:12What's the best time to go there without a moaning?
31:15Did anyone see you that evening on the 9th?
31:21My partner might have done, yeah.
31:23Is there anything that you feel like you can't say
31:26or that you've held back that you want to say?
31:29Not that I can think of at the moment.
31:31No? All right, then.
31:33OK. Yeah.
31:37God, it's like...
31:39Trying to, like, wade through all these weeds, isn't it?
31:42Because literally all our witnesses are drug addicts,
31:46can't remember anything,
31:48or are trying to minimise what their actions are
31:51so we're not getting the whole truth.
31:56How do you feel? What, now? Yeah.
31:59Just a bit tired. Tired. Stressed, yeah.
32:02You think of one thing and another thing,
32:04and you're trying to work it out, it's like a jigsaw puzzle,
32:07trying to put all the pieces in the right spot.
32:09Just keep doing the elimination process until you get to...
32:14..number one.
32:16Cool. Do you want me to lift back?
32:19If you could, yeah, that'd be nice. Thank you.
32:25How's her mum doing, do you know? Chris and...
32:28I don't know specifically how she's doing, but...
32:32What about her son, Mark, did you ever meet him?
32:35Yeah, obviously he's quite sort of calf about it,
32:38cos he thought the world of her, apparently.
32:42I think everybody did in their own sort of special way, you know?
32:46Yeah.
32:50Police are no closer to finding Eliza Bibby's killer.
32:54They continue to examine the crime scene for a breakthrough.
32:59There was some heroin up there on the sink.
33:03If it's drugs here... Then it wasn't that.
33:05That's not a drug. Yeah, you're right, yeah.
33:07Because it may be that she did hide them and she didn't give them up.
33:10Yeah. Or it was never about that.
33:12Oh, it was never about that.
33:14They found a substantial amount of heroin
33:17still within Eliza's property.
33:20It's not a drug.
33:22It's not a drug.
33:24It's not a drug.
33:26It's still within Eliza's property.
33:28It's a bit of a game-changer,
33:30because it would suggest a motive other than going in to take the drugs.
33:35There's absolutely no way that they're going to commit that murder
33:38and leave that there.
33:40So if I can understand why she's been murdered,
33:43it's likely to help me find out who might be responsible.
33:50Despite the evidence pointing away from Mark Coleman,
33:54rumours of his guilt continue to circulate.
34:25Mark Coleman didn't see me two days ago.
34:29Worried, sick.
34:31When was this affair on, then?
34:33People don't understand.
34:36A bit sad.
34:38Very depressed.
34:41But hopefully I'll find a girlfriend or a wife soon and settle down again.
34:46That'll make me happy.
34:50With few leads,
34:52D.I. Mepstead requests a wider search of CCTV cameras
34:56covering the Whiz Beach area.
35:00Hello there. Hello. I'm a detective for the police.
35:03Sorry to bother you all of a sudden.
35:05We conducted an investigation for an incident that happened at Whiz Beach
35:08and we can see that you've got a couple of CCTV cameras.
35:11Yeah, 75.
35:13You've got 75 cameras?
35:15Do they all work?
35:17That's what a burglar says.
35:19I mean, what we're interested in is coverage of this road.
35:22We're going back to the 9th of January.
35:24Yeah, you should still have it.
35:269th, 9th and 10th.
35:28Yes, you should still have it.
35:32You've got very good views, haven't you?
35:34That's basically what you can see, that's the road.
35:37Yeah, that's really good.
35:39Just hand me these here, then.
35:41There you go.
35:43It's a massive help, it really is.
35:45Is it?
35:48Otherwise it's just anarchy, isn't it?
35:50Absolutely.
35:56How many cars go down this road, though? Is it quite sparse?
35:59It was busy one week there, but that's during the day.
36:01I've done the first 15 minutes and two cars have gone down.
36:05Lovely cameras for daytime, but not so much at night.
36:11Are we able to, like, zoom in on that and find the index of that?
36:15Probably a partial.
36:19You can see a partial number plate.
36:22It's got quite a distinctive back, hasn't it?
36:24I mean, that is the car with the index.
36:26Officers spot a car belonging to a member of Eliza Bibby's family
36:30heading towards Whiz Beach at 2am.
36:33He says that he came home at 6pm and slipped.
36:37He doesn't mention being in the vicinity at 2am.
36:41Yeah, so he could just go straight over the roundabout
36:44and he's into Whiz Beach round that way.
36:47Yeah.
36:48Due to the discrepancies in their account,
36:51officers will need to do a full review of the evidence
36:54in relation to the family member before they are deemed a suspect.
37:06Can I use you now?
37:07I've just erased an incident we've had at a prison,
37:10a prisoner called Mark Coleman.
37:14MUSIC PLAYS
37:18PHONE RINGS
37:22Hi, Steve, you all right?
37:24Hello, there, are you OK? Yeah, good, thank you.
37:27So, I have news that I need to make you aware of
37:30in relation to Mark Coleman.
37:34MUSIC FADES
37:44A murder suspect arrested over the death of a woman
37:47who was stabbed in her own home has been found dead in prison.
37:51The 45-year-old man was arrested and bailed on suspicion
37:54of murdering 47-year-old Eliza Bibby.
37:59Mark's dead.
38:01Ended up going to the grave of it.
38:04I never, ever thought it was him.
38:07I never, ever thought it was him.
38:11I never, ever thought it was him.
38:14What had happened there that night
38:16didn't fit Mark Coleman's way that he acts.
38:19I might have been a little bit of a teething and that,
38:22but I could never see him standing there stabbing someone up, you know?
38:27I'd have been really upset to think that, you know,
38:30thinking that all that lot there thinks I've done that to her
38:33and it weren't nothing to do with me
38:35and he's sitting in the cell just winding over, boom, boom, boom.
38:40That must have thrown him out of sync a little bit.
38:46Poor Mark.
38:50Mark Coleman's heart gave up and he died in prison
38:53with people in his local community
38:55potentially thinking that he was a murderer.
38:58Oxygen thief, calm as good.
39:00Rest in shit, Mark Coleman.
39:02My goodness, that poor family.
39:04Terrible.
39:06The town of Whizbeach have apparently become detectives.
39:09My dad was a suspect in the murder case,
39:12yet everyone assumed he was guilty before he was charged.
39:15Some of you even tried to say that my dad killed himself.
39:18We couldn't even grieve my dad the way we wanted.
39:21You all took that from us.
39:24Rest in peace, Dad. I love you so much.
39:27Until we meet again.
39:30It's really sad, isn't it?
39:33The rumours and the trial by media and social media that goes on,
39:37the consequences of that on his whole family,
39:40on his children and his loved ones.
39:42What impact is that going to have on their future?
39:47Our last name is Dirt to everybody in Whizbeach.
39:51It's just horrible how they could turn their backs just like that
39:55without even having factual information.
39:57He's a murderer, he's a scumbag, he's this, he's that.
40:01It's the same people they used to call us.
40:03They used to call us the Whizbeach gang.
40:05They used to call us the Whizbeach gang.
40:07They used to call us the Whizbeach gang.
40:09They used to call us the Whizbeach gang.
40:11They used to call us the Whizbeach gang.
40:13He's a this, he's a that.
40:14It's the same people that used to come to our house.
40:17They used to speak to my dad like they grew up with us.
40:20They used to babysit us as kids.
40:22It's just sad as well.
40:23Most of our phone calls consisted of him saying,
40:26I didn't do it, I didn't do it.
40:28He had a heart. He could never kill anybody.
40:31It's just nothing will ever be forgotten, what they've done.
40:34No, no sorry will ever cut it.
40:36It's just left me with so much hate.
40:38For a place I was born and raised,
40:40They can say what they want about him, but... To be fair...
40:43..they can never comment on him being a dad. Never. Yeah.
40:46No matter what he was, no matter what he did, like, he took drugs,
40:50but he always showed the dad he was. Yeah.
40:53He gave us a kiss, he gave us a cuddle, and he said,
40:55I love you. Yeah, he always told us that. Every single time.
40:58He was a good father to us, wasn't he? He was the best.
41:01Yeah. I always love him. Always.
41:05I'm just so sorry.
41:10I'm just so sorry for him.
41:18I love you, Dad. I love you, Dad.
41:33My ultimate goal is to prove who has committed the murder.
41:39To get justice for family, but also to exonerate people.
41:43The pressure is building.
41:45I have to find who has killed Eliza.
41:55DI Mepstead receives a report of the phone belonging to the family
41:59member, who was seen driving towards Whits Beach on the night
42:02of the murder.
42:03We've had the update from Intel,
42:07and there's a quite interesting text message that she's sent.
42:11It kind of sounds like they're having a bit of a ding-dong,
42:13to be honest, because it says, oh, just to make a point,
42:16don't be driving about, because you ain't got no money to put diesel
42:20in the tank, plus you need to do things for yourself.
42:23It's down to you from now on.
42:25Enough is enough. You are being cut off right now.
42:30So that's obviously sent not that long before her murder,
42:33which would suggest that he's about to get cut off financially.
42:39He says that he's reined off from work on the 10th,
42:42so we really need to clear up, actually, is that the case?
42:47So, our enquiry was about somebody who was working there.
42:53OK, I can't tell you exactly, but I can tell you that it's a very
42:56serious offence that we're investigating.
42:59Officers meet to discuss how the evidence is building
43:02against a family member.
43:04There's a lot of conflicting information.
43:08His phone and his vehicle seem to show him in the Whist Beach area
43:12at 2am. I had an update on the employment.
43:15He was employed on the Monday.
43:18He was due to come into work on the Tuesday, but didn't,
43:22so that would be the 10th.
43:23They don't know why, but they're saying that he's been
43:26So, he wasn't reined off then?
43:28He'd hired himself a unit.
43:30I mean, there are so many inconsistencies with his story,
43:33and his behaviour is very odd, to say the least.
43:37There are lots and lots of anomalies in his account,
43:40and also the fact that these drugs were left on the table,
43:44when people talk about Eliza being so worried about being robbed
43:48that she takes them into the toilet with her.
43:51Is there someone there that she's comfortable with?
43:54The cause of death, stabbing,
43:57just feels to me that it's an anger or a hatred thing.
44:02I think that we have tried to rule him out,
44:05and we've been unable to do so.
44:08So, I think that the only way really to progress that is to arrest him.
44:13He has basically lied.
44:16Now, has he lied because he's confused,
44:19or is it because he's killed Eliza?
44:22It's very difficult when a family member comes into an inquiry
44:27as a suspect, because there's a bereaved family at the end of it,
44:31and if that's the wrong call,
44:33then I've made what they're going through even worse.
44:41Oh, please, come on. That's a load of crap, mate.
44:44I'm arresting you.
44:46I'm arresting you.
44:47I'm arresting you.
44:49That's a load of crap, mate.
44:51I'm arresting you on suspicion of the murder of Eliza Bibby
44:54between the 9th and the 10th of January.
44:56Christine, we recognise that what's happened today
44:59disrupts potentially your trust in the police and the investigation,
45:03but we really hope that...
45:05I know he's got a job to do, but it's just devastating.
45:09Of course it is.
45:11We need to get to the bottom of who killed your daughter, right?
45:13And why do you think he'd do that, sir?
45:16And you've been through enough, Paul, and it's still going for it, mate.
45:18You know what I mean? Trust me, this is not an easy decision to make.
45:21I'm not involved, sir.
45:22Instead of going out there and finding somebody who's done it,
45:25I just can't understand it.
45:34Hot off the press, a knife has been found.
45:37A knife's been found? A knife has been found.
45:39Going to fast track for forensics.
45:41Is it a murder weapon?
45:43He got the victim's blood on the knife.
45:46DNA profile, that's given us a one in 12,000 possibility.
45:51And one in 12,000 means that there's three people in Westmead
45:54she could be.
45:56KNOCK AT DOOR
45:58Come on, open the door, please.
46:00I never, ever thought it was him.
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46:11at channel4.com support.
46:14And you can stream the next episode of 24 Hours in Police Custody,
46:18Murder on Prescription, now,
46:20or watch the final part tomorrow at nine here on Channel 4.
46:23Next tonight, it's Trump, should we be scared?

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