The Met S04E01
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00:00Hello, please. What's your emergency?
00:09I think someone's been stuck, but at the end of Hayes' way, this is Ben.
00:14He's been stuck. He's laying on the floor. He's got both on his stomach.
00:19I'd say he missed her at least 17.
00:21Yeah, and it's late, team.
00:25We are making our way now, and our fastest response should be there very shortly.
00:36Sorry, guys. If we just move everyone to the other side of the street, please, is that all right?
00:55He's not at the moment, no. We're doing everything we can at the moment.
00:59OK.
01:04Where's his mum?
01:05You come in. Let me get out of the way.
01:07Let me get out of the way. Here you go.
01:09They're here.
01:25A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with kidnap, rape and murder.
01:30and murder. A damning report found it to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and
01:35homophobic.
01:40The Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has vowed to restore the public's trust and confidence
01:45in the police.
01:47Policing needs to be the best and we've clearly failed in this regard.
01:53Hello police, not the emergency.
01:55There's burglars in the housemate beating up my wife.
02:02He's very choking me.
02:03I'm from the modern slavery team. How's your English?
02:06Give her justice and tell us where that poor girl's body is.
02:12Straight red, straight red.
02:13No!
02:14No!
02:14No!
02:16Wee!
02:18Stay where you are!
02:22You're under arrest on social murder.
02:25You really think that this is an overkill? There's 10 of you here for one 14-year-old.
02:37We're dealing with the stabbing of Levi Ernest Morrison. He was 17 years at the time of his death.
02:46The murder took place outside of Levi's home address. So the first persons to actually come across Levi were virtually his own family.
03:00He was chased across the road, sustained a single stab wound to the left-hand side of his groin, penetrates to a depth of 20-25 centimetres.
03:13It's a deep, penetrating wound. So it's a large weapon causing a catastrophic bleed out. He was dying virtually as soon as he was stabbed.
03:27Levi's murder is being investigated by one of the Met's specialist homicide teams.
03:43Leading the investigation is Detective Chief Inspector Chris Wood.
03:47The crime was shocking. Levi was only 17. He had the rest of his life ahead of him and he's been killed in an absolutely horrific way in the middle of the day on a busy road in London.
04:06The team has been gathering CCTV footage from the area around Sydenham Road where Levi was stabbed.
04:13Got some excellent footage already retrieved. We could start to work before and after to try and develop facial images.
04:25Detectives are reviewing footage that's just come in from a camera overlooking the scene of the crime.
04:30They focus on a red car, seen arriving just seconds before the murder.
04:38Clearly this CCTV footage is vital for us.
04:42Here's our victim, Levi and his friend, right at the top of the screen.
04:46Now the red vehicle's going to come in, hard on, onto the kerb, brake lights on, four guys out and our victim running.
04:55Then a female out of the driver's seat picks something up that one of the suspects has dropped.
05:02She gets back in.
05:04And now you'll see Levi, then one attacker really close up to him, here.
05:12Then another attacker.
05:14The two people chasing him both appear to have long implements in their hands that look like machetes.
05:19Just off camera here is where Levi has stumbled and been fairly wounded.
05:28And now they come back to the vehicle, making good their escape really.
05:33The driver appears to be the key to everything.
05:36That person has driven the four to commit the offence and driven them away again.
05:42Less than four hours later, there's another breakthrough.
05:48Detectives have traced the owner of the red car.
05:54It's registered to a woman who lives less than half a mile from the murder scene.
05:59I've got somebody with an eye on the address.
06:04The vehicle's there.
06:07My two will go down, get control of the back, and then we'll just go knock.
06:12Right. Go, go, go.
06:15The decision is made to arrest her.
06:17You're under arrest? Me?
06:28OK. On the situation of murder.
06:30The grounds for that being, that your car was seen leaving a scene of a murder last night.
06:34Hang on.
06:35My female's been identified as driving at the moment.
06:37We believe that may be good.
06:39OK, we need to carry on searches.
06:40I'll send someone off.
06:41I'll send someone off.
06:44The woman arrested is Nicola Leighton, a 36-year-old care worker and mother of three.
06:55The car's registered to her.
06:57If I was an onlooker to this offence, I would think,
07:01why has that person driven four men with swords to a location where they've murdered Levi?
07:11Obviously now our efforts are targeted towards getting the other four that were in the car.
07:31They've been dispatched to a priority call from a woman reporting her partner has attacked her and pinned her against the door.
07:54The informant came home and as the male saw the informant coming, they started fighting, they've been drinking.
07:59This is their spouse to is a domestic.
08:25Hello, miss. Are we all right to come in?
08:26Do you want to come through here and have a chat with me?
08:29Tell me what's been going on.
08:31Come sit down for me.
08:33I'm Martha, an officer from Brixton, yeah? No, you're good. You sit down.
08:38How you doing, mate? You all right?
08:39What's happened tonight for us to be called?
08:41I don't want to talk to her, mate.
08:43OK, my colleague's talking to her. I'm just here to talk to you.
08:46I'm in my fucking bed.
08:47OK, that's fine. We've been called to your address.
08:49You fucking punts. Go and talk to her.
08:51Hey, watch yourself, please. OK?
08:53You want to fucking talk to me?
08:55Move away from me now.
08:56Move away from me now.
08:58Stay in here. Stay in here.
08:59Move away from me now.
09:00Move away.
09:02Wait, be quiet.
09:03Put your hands on your head, please.
09:05No.
09:06Take your fucking hands on your head.
09:09Take your fucking hands on my head!
09:11That's a million!
09:13Take your fucking...
09:16More units!
09:18More units than what five, two is covered asides!
09:22Take your fucking...
09:23Stop!
09:24You're done!
09:26Stop!
09:27Get your fucking hands off of me!
09:28Stop!
09:30Get him off, Gary, stop.
09:31Get your fucking hand!
09:36Stay where you are now!
09:40Stay where you are!
09:42Yeah, I'm coming.
09:46Stay where you are!
09:47You're under arrest for assault and emergency worker times two
09:50and for common assault, domestic-related.
09:57That was very unexpected.
10:01It's fine, I'm holding up.
10:03We're going to get you flat first. We'll bring them down.
10:06Has he done stuff like that before?
10:08Yeah, many times.
10:10Well, he's been arrested for that, all right?
10:13We'll have a unit to come down and take a statement from you, yeah?
10:20Well, that definitely took a turn, that.
10:22It really did.
10:23A few punches to the face, though. It's starting to get a bit sore.
10:26You're going to have a nice, big black eye.
10:28Yeah.
10:29What do you say, brother?
10:30I don't know.
10:52OK, so this interview has been recorded.
10:54So let's try and speak clearly and loudly if we can.
10:59Detectives are 48 hours into an investigation
11:02into the murder of 17-year-old Levi.
11:06Whilst they question the person suspected of driving the car,
11:09Nicola Layton, house-to-house enquiries uncover
11:12some crucial evidence near her home.
11:15All right.
11:17Listen, thanks for that.
11:21The address we've just been in has got CCTV.
11:25Oh, blimey.
11:26Oh, nice.
11:27That's parked right outside.
11:31We have something on a private CCTV,
11:34which shows our suspects getting into the car with our female.
11:43Let's have a look, Adam.
11:44So, this here...
11:46Have you seen it, Matt?
11:47No.
11:49That's her car there.
11:50OK.
11:51All right.
11:53The CCTV from outside Nicola Layton's home
11:56shows four men getting into her car
11:59just minutes before Levi's murder.
12:03This got fitted six hours before the offence, by the way.
12:05So we've had our...
12:06We've had our quota of luck.
12:08Sixteen minutes later,
12:10the same camera captures her arriving home alone.
12:14That's it.
12:15Right.
12:16No doubts about that.
12:21So, Nicola...
12:22Yeah?
12:23Tell me in detail about your involvement
12:25in the murder of Levi Ernest Morrison
12:27that occurred on Saturday 10th April 2021
12:30at approximately 7.20pm.
12:33My only involvement is that I picked up three boys
12:36from Champion Hill to get a lift
12:40and then, all of a sudden, my doors flew open
12:43and they jumped out
12:45and then I just see people come running up the road.
12:49They just flew back in my car.
12:51That's my little impart in the whole thing.
12:54I did look on Google to see what had happened
12:56and then I realised the boy had got stabbed.
12:59OK.
13:01We have CCTV of certain parts of that evening.
13:03OK.
13:04Can we just play it?
13:05We'll see it clearly.
13:06Yeah.
13:07So, two people running
13:09and then your car just appeared.
13:11Yeah, look.
13:12Now, count how many people get out of the car?
13:15One.
13:16One.
13:17Two.
13:18Three.
13:19Four.
13:20Four.
13:21Three.
13:23You said there's three people in the car.
13:24I'm pretty sure that was three.
13:25But, CCTV shows four.
13:26I couldn't tell you about now, to be honest.
13:28That CCTV, I mean, that looks like
13:31you've seen them running towards you on the pavement
13:33and you sort of turned your car
13:35That definitely wasn't the case.
13:37Stop them.
13:38Yeah, no, no, that definitely wasn't the case.
13:40Definitely wasn't the case.
13:41No, no, no, no.
13:42Right, so what I'm going to show you now is a camera from where you live.
13:45And this is three minutes before the last piece of footage we show you.
13:49Okay. So this is when...
13:51Oh, yes! Hold on.
13:59Yeah.
14:00What?
14:01I don't know what you're going to say.
14:02So the three... Is it three or four boys come out and get in the car?
14:13So you picked them up at Champion Hill?
14:16No.
14:17No?
14:18No, I didn't.
14:20I didn't.
14:24You lied to us, haven't you?
14:25Yeah.
14:26Throughout this entire interview?
14:27Not the entire interview. Just that bit.
14:29I don't know how many boys there were, where you picked them up from.
14:34Really, you'll get in the car with four people that don't kill someone.
14:37Are you driving there?
14:40What might help us is you tell us who these four men are.
14:43I honestly don't know who they are.
14:46So you don't know who's sitting next to you?
14:48No.
14:49I don't even remember.
14:50I don't even remember.
14:58She has lied in a written statement.
14:59She's lied in an interview.
15:01I don't believe you can take four lads with you on a drive-around
15:03who all just so happen to be carrying machetes, not know it.
15:06And then they'll get out of your car wielding the damn machetes.
15:10I mean, you try and claim you don't know what's going on.
15:13No, she knew exactly what was going on.
15:14And she's helped them escape.
15:18And we haven't got any of them in custody.
15:23And there's a mum out there who's had her 17-year-old kid stabbed to death
15:27for no good reason whatsoever.
15:39No-one's chosen to be taken away.
15:43You was here one day and then you'd just been erased.
15:46Like, it's crazy.
15:52That day, I could hear someone screaming outside
15:56and it was my neighbour.
15:59Only straight away, my heart just jumped in my mouth
16:02and I pushed her out the way.
16:03She tried to grab me and I've just pushed her
16:06and I've run down to the bottom of the road
16:09and I could see a crowd of people around my child
16:13and I was like, oh, my God.
16:15So I said, Mummy's here, Mummy's here, Levi.
16:18And I was like, Levi, I love you.
16:20Just hold on, just a little bit longer, just hold on.
16:23But there was so much blood everywhere on the floor
16:25and...
16:28It was just like...
16:33It wasn't real.
16:36And they just couldn't save him.
16:38But they said, you want to say goodbye?
16:42That was the hardest...
16:43The hardest thing I had to ever do in my life is to say goodbye to my son.
17:01There's no words for that pain.
17:04Hello, police, what's the emergency?
17:05I made the call the other night because I had someone trying to kiss my dog.
17:14I've just had three boys approach my dog again.
17:17Detectives are listening to a 999 call that suspect Nicola Layton has told them she made just an hour before Levi was stabbed.
17:31So I've looked at the window, I've seen them, so I've said, what do you want?
17:32They're just telling me he's got some money for my son.
17:34And what's your son's name?
17:35Tyree Hewlett is.
17:37But this time I was ready to fight him. I wasn't going to have them do that to me.
17:40Obviously, if they returned.
17:41I'm going to let her call off, not a herfstone.
17:43They're calling in line, OK? I don't mean I'm in trouble.
17:46I'm just going to bat to someone.
17:47I'm going to go back out in my car, this is ridiculous. I'm not going to back down.
17:53She calls police to report that she's got three boys knocking at her address.
17:56I'm just going to bat it or something.
17:59Don't say she'll get a call.
18:00I'm just going to bat it or something.
18:02I'm going to bat it in my car. This is ridiculous. I'm not going to bat down.
18:06She calls police to report that she's got three boys knocking at her address.
18:07police to report that she's got three boys knocking at her address looking for her son Tyrese.
18:13There is clearly some background prior to this. These guys, they're looking for Tyrese for a
18:20reason. This is really important. What it's indicative of is that she's angry and she is
18:24going to take things into her own hands and sort it out. Nicola's son, Tyrese Ulysses,
18:31is well known to the police. This is Tyrese Ulysses. He's a violent individual. He's been
18:38arrested several times, usually with a knife, and has had issues with the victim's friends
18:45previously. Now, that individual there is distinctive by the white writing on the neck
18:52of the jacket that he's wearing. Given the fact that he's got access to the vehicle, he appears
18:58to be the one unlocking it, and he then gets into the front passenger seat. I believe that's
19:04probably Tyrese Ulysses. Right, so tomorrow, Matt phones, CCTV, house to house, finding and arresting
19:15Tyrese Ulysses. He's our number one priority.
19:30There. Go on, have you got your camera? You're a distance enough. You can snap from here.
19:38In suburban north-west London, Detective Rachel Coughlin from the Met's modern slavery team
19:44is carrying out surveillance. This is one of our guys, the female. Let me just get a picture of her.
19:51For 12 months, the team has been investigating a gang they believe is trafficking women into the UK,
19:58and forcing them into sex work.
20:03These men go out to Romania, promise these girls a better life, and their intention is to solely put them
20:10into a brothel and needed to work. Some of these girls are literally 18.
20:17So this is the area that they control surface brothels all along this high road. Some of these white
20:23houses here. So that's literally housing their business at the moment.
20:28These girls are commodities. They are, in effect, owned by these men.
20:40To charge the gang with human trafficking, they must gather enough evidence to prove the women have
20:45been brought into the UK specifically for sex work.
20:48So this is a new brothel. And these two men linked to the network look like they're moving some form of
21:00clothing or possibly bedding into the address.
21:11Detective Constable John Knox is leading the investigation,
21:15which began when a woman went to her local police station, reporting she was forced into sex work by the gang.
21:30This female came to a police station to report that she'd been trafficked,
21:33having fleed a brothel and run to a security guard in a local shopping centre to ask for help.
21:39I then interviewed her where she disclosed being trafficked from Romania to the UK and forced into sex work.
21:48This female came to a police station to report that she'd been trafficked from Romania to the UK and forced into sex work.
21:52Have you got a picture of him?
22:04During the interview, our victim has mentioned one man.
22:07His name is Maru Stoycan.
22:08This is him. He is a 28-year-old Romanian living in the UK for five years.
22:18She is contacted through Facebook.
22:21Maru Stoycan promises her a cleaning job.
22:24And then one day he tells her, you're going to be a sex worker.
22:27She doesn't want that.
22:29And he beats her up, drives her to a brothel, takes her into the brothel and tells her,
22:35this is where you're going to work and this is what you are now.
22:37The team now gathers evidence to support the woman's claim.
22:54The aim of the investigation going forward is looking at Maru Stoycan,
22:58seeing what evidence we can build against him, evidence of lifestyle, evidence of him moving
23:02girls around if he does, and hopefully he can build a case showing conspiracy to traffic human beings.
23:17Hello, please. Emergency.
23:20Mail in the McDonald's at Richstone Road.
23:22He's apparently pulled a concealed weapon and a knife.
23:26Why, I've asked for the police to attend under an immediate response.
23:29I'm sorry, we haven't got any description.
23:33I believe it's to be a knife.
23:37T-O-A-5-1.
23:39Must be seven in the water around here.
23:421.15am.
23:44Response officers Wes and Martha are on a night shift in Brixton, South London.
23:49They are attending an urgent call from an employee in a fast food restaurant.
23:59The only detail they have is that there is a man with a knife.
24:13Hello.
24:14If you take me over to the search and the section 1 of the commission film on there,
24:17it sounds like I'm doing it.
24:18The options I'm searching for is a knife.
24:19You might have one by medical staff, OK?
24:22I'm going to put him out of the same arm.
24:24One, two, three.
24:26It looks like a little, tiny, scalpel-type knife.
24:35Like a scalpel, yeah?
24:36Yeah, scalpel.
24:36And where did he pull it from? Pocket?
24:39OK.
24:41Units at McDonald's receive him.
24:44They've asked him to leave and he's pulled out a small scalpel-style knife from a pocket
24:49and he's put it on the table to be intimidating.
24:55Hello.
24:56Is that a small scalpel-style knife?
24:57Yeah.
24:58It's a small scalpel-style knife.
24:59Can you describe that?
25:00Yeah.
25:00Oh, is it?
25:01It's a little bit of that.
25:02Oh, so it's a little bit of that, wasn't it?
25:03Yeah, it's going to be that or that.
25:07I've got all your property behind me and I'll give it to you.
25:11We'll get him out of here, all right?
25:13All right.
25:13No worries.
25:14Police only find a nail tool and he is released without arrest or caution.
25:19I think that was unnecessary.
25:20That situation right there that I saw.
25:22I hope that your opinion, guys.
25:23I'm just telling you how it is, OK?
25:24We're just saying, like, a man's asleep.
25:26We don't need to, like, dump him up.
25:27Do you even know why we're there?
25:29You said no.
25:30Because then I, then I.
25:31I don't need to tell you.
25:31Then I.
25:32Well, there we go.
25:33That is good enough for me.
25:33I'm telling you that was dealt with professionally and properly, OK?
25:36And I'm telling you that it wasn't.
25:38Well, when the police turn up to these situations, they do not make them better.
25:43How did it make them worse?
25:44It was excessive.
25:45Well, so you think you can do anything you want as a policeman to get away with it?
25:47That's not whatever you want, that's just how you want.
25:48That's what you think.
25:50We were just there, chilling.
25:51And then suddenly all these sirens come and there's a dude who's, like, asleep.
25:55I was like, oh, my God, they're checking on his well-being.
25:57And it's like, no, actually, he's being arrested.
25:58My immediate reaction was, like, that's excessive.
26:02Here you go, look.
26:03Give you a rollie.
26:03He could have had a knife on him.
26:14You don't know.
26:15All they've said is he's got a knife on him.
26:17Yeah, that's high risk.
26:18Yeah.
26:19It's high risk.
26:20Definitely a little.
26:32Finish your search.
26:32We'll do that to part one.
26:33Yeah, OK, I'll get to that and then I'll let you know.
26:37Detectives investigating the murder of 17-year-old Levi are now two days into their hunt for suspect
26:43Tyrese Ulysses, Nicola Leighton's son.
26:49Tyrese is on the run.
26:51But officers are searching a house where they know he sometimes stays,
26:55for any evidence that might link him to the murder.
27:04Adam.
27:06Yeah.
27:11I told you it was night.
27:12That's what we're going to do.
27:14Mate, that is it.
27:19Erm, Gov, we've got a lot here.
27:22I reckon we've got the entire stash.
27:24There's two full piping bags.
27:27They are stuffed.
27:29We've got our clothing.
27:30That clothing didn't look like it had been discarded because it's old and no longer of any use.
27:35It's a brand new normal vest on the jacket.
27:37Right, great stuff.
27:39We've got that jacket I said about the black and white hood.
27:43There's the Nike puffer jacket and we're still going through.
27:46I think there's a very good chance this is the entire lot.
27:48OK, cool.
27:49Er, no, that's great, mate.
27:51I'm more than happy with that, to be honest.
27:54Thanks, mate.
27:55All the items you can see on the floor, that's what I've pulled out of the bin.
27:58That was all that was on top of it.
28:00So someone's obviously got quite a lot of effort to put it at the bottom to make it less likely
28:03for us to find it.
28:05I'm fairly convinced we found one of the coats, which is a coat with a black and white
28:09sort of beading around the collar, along with a number of sets of dark tracks with bottoms
28:13as a face covering.
28:14So I think realistically, there's a very high chance that it's a clothing worn by the suspects.
28:27Who takes all the clothes off and puts everything that they're wearing, socks, underpants,
28:32everything all in one bag in the bin?
28:34This clothing is massively important for us in terms of identifying the wearers of it.
28:43But crucially, we're lacking facial images or anything that would assist us in absolutely
28:49positively identifying the suspects.
28:51And that's what I'll be working on in the hope that we may catch a facial image
28:56or something that's recognisable.
29:04And that's what you want to say.
29:10You're OK.
29:14Tyrese's mother, Nicola Layton, the only suspect in custody,
29:19has asked to be re-interviewed by detectives.
29:21I don't know where to start.
29:27I need you to know if we did it.
29:28I need you to know if we did it.
29:30OK.
29:34Um, Alex.
29:37Donner.
29:41So, obvious question I need to ask for that.
29:44Do we have a surname?
29:46I can't think.
29:48Who goes by the name Pokes?
29:49Pokes.
29:50He's on tag at the moment, yeah.
29:54There, there.
29:54Tall one.
29:55One of the fun?
29:56Yeah.
29:58Who's the person in the passenger seat?
30:00I don't want to call for that one.
30:02Do you know who he is though?
30:04I don't want to comment on the legal to you.
30:13Alexander Sprawls, aka Pokes with a Z, 17 years old.
30:17Sprawls is described as male with a light complexion, his six foot tall.
30:21Yeah, I would say it ties in.
30:26This is Alex Sprawls' tag.
30:28Yeah.
30:28Hitting other boxes.
30:30Yeah.
30:31Alex Sprawls is currently on an electronic tag, having been previously convicted for possession of a knife.
30:38It arrives at Lockwood Close at 1908.
30:41Six minutes for the murder.
30:42Yeah, six minutes.
30:44I was going to give him something to explain.
30:45The tag shows detectives where he was on the day of the murder.
30:51According to the tag people, Sprawls is at home 6.45, back in 8.02pm.
30:58Perfect window.
30:59We've got to get one for him and go through that door tonight.
31:05Okay, if everyone could just listen up please, who's involved in the arrest inquiry this evening.
31:09Alex does have a history of violence and escaping.
31:12Last time he was arrested, he was taser during the arrest.
31:14He has also previously been arrested for assaulting police.
31:17So, everyone keep your wits about you.
31:19A team of officers, armed with tasers, are sent to Alex Sprawls' home address.
31:35Alex, you're under arrest for suspicion of murder.
31:46Are you being for real, bro?
31:48Yes, mate.
31:49Levi, the guy that died in Sydney.
31:51You being for real?
31:52Yeah.
31:53Alex is an incestive.
31:53Mum, are you hearing this?
31:55It's being explained to us.
32:02Levi, bro.
32:04Little man, you are violating.
32:16So, Alex, tell me as much detail as you can, your involvement in the murder of Levi Ernest Morrison.
32:28No comment.
32:31In interview, Alex Sprawls refuses to talk.
32:36But a CCTV search in the area provided by the tag data gives officers a new lead.
32:42That is incredible.
32:49That facial.
32:53I mean, without stating the obvious, that's Sprawls.
33:00So, who's that?
33:01I mean, that's Tyrese Ulysses.
33:06Nicola Leighton's son.
33:09Looks like, is it Hugo?
33:11Is it Hugo Topper?
33:12Yeah, I think that's what it says, yeah.
33:14We can start to identify now which one of the four is wearing what clothing.
33:21Here is interesting.
33:22So, you've got the black and white, right?
33:24Yeah, I mean, that's quite distinctive.
33:25Letters there.
33:26Yeah, and the image we got of the suspect.
33:29Ah, yeah, brilliant.
33:30I think it's this male here.
33:31Yeah, yeah.
33:33So that, yeah, that's Tyrese.
33:37Where is that, Chris?
33:41The CCTV shows that Tyrese Ulysses, it's an address in the SE6.
33:45So that is of major interest to us.
33:52Tyrese has now been on the run for six days.
33:55The information from the new CCTV has given police the address of a flat
34:01they believe he may be hiding in.
34:03Fingers crossed.
34:08He's likely to be desperate, likely to conceal or hide evidence.
34:13So, yeah, speed is everything, really, now.
34:30Ladies, open up!
34:32No, police!
34:34Police, no, sir!
34:39No-one in here?
34:39Picture of London, please.
34:41No.
34:41Only last time have we met.
34:43You've got a picture of the...
34:44Yeah.
34:46Tyrese Ulysses.
34:47This is all Tyrese Ulysses' stuff.
34:49So, it's definitely, yeah, it's definitely an address he's been using.
34:58Nails.
34:59Hey, Matt.
34:59All right, hello, Gavin.
35:01He wasn't there, but clearly scarpered in a hurry.
35:06It's back to drawing board.
35:07All right, cheers, bye.
35:25Right, guys, thanks for coming today.
35:26This is Operation Manny, deployment in relation to the Romanian OCG retargeting in Harrow.
35:32So, Detective Constable John Knox and the Modern Slavery Team are still building the case against
35:39Maru Stoican.
35:41They suspect him of trafficking women from Romania to the UK and forcing them into sex work.
35:47The Maru Stoican, he's married to a lady by the name of Maria Dragolina.
35:55She's the alpha female of the group and she is the madam and the females give the money to her.
36:00So, she is being looked at for controlling the females.
36:04Today's surveillance deployment is to try and prove the offences further.
36:08It's really, really hard to prove human trafficking.
36:19So, these men are dangerous.
36:21They use an extreme amount of violence to protect their very lucrative business.
36:26They are violent towards the women and they are violent towards the women's families back in Romania.
36:35So, the women don't want to speak out because they know the consequences of speaking out are so high.
36:40Our cases take a year to show because you need to show constant trafficking, constant movement.
36:48And so, we look at social media, we look at CCTV, speak to neighbours and we do old-fashioned police work.
36:59The team have set up covert cameras to closely monitor Stoican's brothels.
37:03They need conclusive evidence that the women are being trafficked, moved from location to location to sell sex.
37:14We're interested in the men and women coming and going from it to see if there are any women being
37:18taken to and from that address, which would show control, movement, trafficking.
37:27So, we now have, this is a known female to the network.
37:31As you can see, she's just come out of the address.
37:33She's obviously looking for someone.
37:36But you can see that she's fairly scantily dressed.
37:38Here comes a man.
37:40And there he goes, in for the address.
37:43Door shut.
37:45There's a punter going in.
37:48Although the house is clearly being operated as a brothel,
37:52the team still lacks conclusive proof that the women are being trafficked.
38:01They believe the gang has trafficked over 40 women from Romania to the UK.
38:11Small towns or villages that they come from in Romania are particularly poor.
38:17Absolutely, that's why they are targeted.
38:20They're given a sex worker name.
38:23And there will be a list of services that these girls supply.
38:28Bareback is obviously without protection.
38:31A levels would be a term used for anal sex.
38:36And there is that expectation that they will provide that.
38:39You know, when I look at these adverts, I think that's somebody's daughter.
38:46That's somebody's sister.
38:48And the likes of Stoykan and his associates have just seen her as a way of making money.
38:55Stoykan has not been seen at the brothels for over a year.
39:07But John and the team keep tabs on him through his regular social media feeds.
39:12Here he is.
39:13He is out having the life of Riley.
39:17On a ski holiday.
39:20Wearing a nice Armani jacket.
39:22Whilst women are working for him, being sexually exploited.
39:33Having sex with men seven, eight, nine times a day
39:37to earn the money for him to go on holiday.
39:42I don't think that's right.
39:43I don't think it's right that a man should be able to go on a £1,000 ski holiday
39:48that is funded by sexually trafficked women.
39:52I don't think that's right.
40:03Hello, police. What's your emergency?
40:05Kids throwing fireworks in the street.
40:08All hooded up.
40:10All right. I'll send it down to the local units.
40:12We've had two more captains on the news about a group of youth setting off fireworks,
40:19and then one's around the facility in Mexico.
40:22Patrol officers Wes and Martha have received a call that a group of teenagers are setting off fireworks
40:29in the street.
40:29The descriptions that we've got so far are so loose.
40:32Just five IC3 or five black males with fireworks in school uniform.
40:39Well, it's school kick-out time.
40:40Suspects all dressed in black.
40:43Vanaclaves or scars around their face.
40:45One of the suspect males had something in their hand,
40:48unknown if this was a weapon or a tool.
40:50Around 14 to 17 years old.
40:52Yeah, I was here, mate.
40:54With reports of a suspected weapon,
40:57several other police vehicles are sent to the scene.
41:04Stay still. You're detained for the search, all right?
41:06I ain't done nothing wrong, you're sick of my face.
41:09You passed my face.
41:11If you've done nothing wrong, you'll be on your way, mate.
41:13Try and calm down as much as possible.
41:14Get out of my arm.
41:15In a minute, you can.
41:16How old are you, mate?
41:1714.
41:1714, yeah, no problem.
41:18Why are you running from us, though?
41:19I'm scared of the police.
41:21All right, why are you scared of police?
41:23Because I don't like what they do to me.
41:24What have they done to you?
41:25Look, we just don't know, look at my face.
41:27Well, you don't run unless you've done anything wrong, Norman.
41:29I'm scared, I'm scared.
41:30You think they're going to have drugs on them?
41:31Two little children?
41:32They're in their school uniform.
41:34No-one even mentioned drugs, mate.
41:35You did.
41:36I'm just saying.
41:37I'm just saying.
41:38If you don't know what's going on...
41:38I wasn't drinking to you, though.
41:40I don't come to your place to work.
41:42Hey, Donald, bro, record it.
41:43Just be quiet.
41:44I'll be quiet.
41:45You obviously don't have a clue what's going on,
41:47so I'll just keep still.
41:47I don't need to have a clue.
41:48Come on, come on.
41:49You really think that this is an overkill?
41:51There's 10 of you here for one 14-year-old.
41:54The fact that I just saw you searching,
41:56you didn't find any drugs, you didn't find any weapon.
41:58What's the point?
41:59You're hurting my arm.
42:00You're hurting my arm.
42:01I was hurting my arm.
42:04A search of the schoolboys reveals no fireworks or weapons.
42:09That's your perspective, is it?
42:10You think there's too many of us?
42:11I mean, I respect the police, but if I was a 14-year-old,
42:16that would have run as well.
42:17If I see police coming towards me 100%,
42:20irregardless of who I am, I don't care.
42:22I'm running.
42:23You can shake your head all you like,
42:24but it's happened to me, so...
42:26I'm just going to keep my mouth shut.
42:27I'll give you my opinion over there.
42:28We're getting out of here now.
42:29Because, like you said, there's too many here, mate.
42:30Freedom of speech, isn't it?
42:32I hope you get to work OK, all right?
42:34We're going to get out of here before we cause any more problems.
42:37Take care, all right?
42:41Is that them?
42:56Yeah.
42:57Wow.
42:59Is that the only store we've got?
43:01The Modern Slavery team have uncovered new evidence
43:04against Maru Stoikan and his gang.
43:07Airport CCTV shows his partner, Maria Dragulina,
43:12bringing four more women into the UK from Romania.
43:17If we can put Stoikan picking these girls up from the airport,
43:20and we've got them coming into the flat at the other end,
43:23I mean, that's a stone bonker.
43:26If they can show Stoikan moving the women into one of his brothels,
43:30it could be the proof they need to arrest him.
43:32Right, we've got them coming in.
43:39This is Stoikan coming through here.
43:42And the lady in the dark clothing with the fur hood and the hat,
43:46that's Dragulina coming in from Romania.
43:51This is brilliant evidence for us to have.
43:53They've trafficked people into the UK, and then once they're in the UK,
43:58they've trafficked them from the airport to a brothel.
44:02Stoikan comes and goes out of the UK lot.
44:05Now he's in the UK.
44:07We need to hit the addresses, literally strike while the iron's hot.
44:10So what's the most recent update, then,
44:12since the last time I looked at the surveillance?
44:14Sir, we have CCTV footage of him now coming back into the UK.
44:20OK.
44:21And flight manifests and passport controls have confirmed they are in the country.
44:25OK.
44:26Our intention is to execute five simultaneous warrants in Harrow
44:32at the addresses they control.
44:33He's got a lot of cash-rich lifestyle, so we think he's a flight risk,
44:36so obviously we'll be looking to remand him and to get as many of the OCD
44:40to the rest on the day.
44:41It's a little bit tentacle to the moment,
44:44because this is a culmination of a year's work,
44:46hours and hours and hours of surveillance.
44:50So much rests on him being arrested on the day.
44:54My biggest fear is that they're on a plane to Romania
44:57when we go through the door.
45:06Everyone can be arrested if anyone's there.
45:11It's 4am, and Rachel is leading the arrest team.
45:16To catch the gang by surprise, 70 officers are mounting a dawn raid
45:21to hit all of Stoycan's brothels at the same time.
45:28From Silver 4 units, sir, it is a go, go, go.
45:30The three's on me!
45:43Hi ladies, hi, my name's Amy. I'm from the Modern Slavery team.
45:47What are your names, please?
45:51Okay, so that's subject to eight guys.
45:53We're going to be under arrest for conspiracy to arrange or facilitate
45:57the travel of another person with a view to exploitation.
46:01So we've got four women.
46:03One was Maria Draculina, who's the wife of Stoycan, so she was arrested.
46:09And the other three girls are all working here as sex workers,
46:12so we're treating them as victims.
46:22Please, stay off!
46:27Please, hand, hand, hand, hand, hand!
46:30On the floor!
46:35Show your hands, show your hands, show your hands!
46:37Thank you, secure!
46:40What's your name?
46:43It's Stoycan Murdo.
46:46Stoycan, we've got him.
46:47Yeah.
46:52It's me, I'm driving in the car.
46:53I'm suspended three times, yeah?
46:57He's given me as the court.
46:59I'm going as the court.
47:00We're not here for that, okay?
47:03Along with Stoycan and Draculina, five other suspected gang members are arrested.
47:09I can see here some cash.
47:11This is my money.
47:12Okay, that's your money, okay?
47:15We found a substantial amount of cash from Stoycan's property.
47:20He said that he's a used car salesman, but HMRC tells us different.
47:26It's just super sad, isn't it?
47:43They're making hundreds and hundreds of pounds a night of these girls.
47:47And they don't even sleep in beds.
47:50You know, the beds are purely used for clients.
47:52It just says it all, really, doesn't it?
47:57All 40 women found working at the addresses are offered refuge and victim support.
48:03Only two have agreed to talk to the police.
48:07They're making their way to Harrow Police Station.
48:09They're in a place of safety.
48:11They're away from Stoycan and they hopefully can speak a bit more freely.
48:15They'll be fair, if that is shot in someone's face.
48:21Yeah, yeah.
48:23Even though it's an imitation, if you had that put in your face, you'd be frightened.
48:32Did you tell her to come to England?
48:34Not coming.
48:35Did you make her be a sex worker?
48:38Not coming.
48:40Stoycan is questioned about trafficking women for sex work,
48:44and the allegations made by the victim who came forward a year ago.
48:48Did you assault her when she said that she did not want to work?
48:52No comment.
49:00You're being charged with the offence of conspiring to arrange or facilitate travel of another person
49:06with a view to exploitation.
49:09The enormity of our evidence was shown to him,
49:13and he's now seeing his head with his head in his hands,
49:17going to court in the morning, and he's not the big tough guy I thought he was.
49:22It's been eight days since 17-year-old Levi was fatally stabbed.
49:43Out of the five suspects seen on CCTV, detectives have now arrested two more,
49:48a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old.
49:50I'm going to arrest a murder.
49:56Four of the five suspects are now in custody.
49:58It's on the 10th of the 4th, 2021, at Sydenham Road, London, Messi, 26.
50:04Murdered Levi Ernest Morrison.
50:08Nicola Layton, the driver of the car used during the attack,
50:12has now been charged with murder.
50:14You don't have to be the person who holds the weapon to be part of the crime.
50:21She is the enabler, she has driven them all to the scene of the offence,
50:24then she helps them get away and she tries to help them cover it up afterwards.
50:27Yeah, she's guilty of murder as far as I'm concerned.
50:29Let's have a look, Adam.
50:36But you knew that was a stab then?
50:38That was a swing, a swing and a miss, and then the other one going down lower,
50:42which would fit with being stabbed in the groin.
50:44To understand the role each suspect played in the attack,
50:47detectives must now work out who dealt the fatal blow to Levi.
50:52So these two here...
50:55That is Sproul's.
50:58That's Tyrese Ulysses.
51:03Yeah, so they go after Levi.
51:07And then Alex is far taller than all the others.
51:09Yeah. He's the one that then runs behind a dozen.
51:12So we now can confidently say who's who,
51:15and we are happy that Sproul's is the one that inflicts the fatal blow.
51:21Sydenham Road, SE 26, murdered Levi Ernest Morrison,
51:27and that's contrary to common law.
51:30Alex Sproul's is charged with murder.
51:33The police believe he is a member of a local gang,
51:36caught in a bitter dispute with a rival group.
51:40They didn't care who they got, they just needed to get someone.
51:45Levi's not even somebody that this group would be thinking of.
51:48He's not a gang member.
51:52He's got caught up in this.
51:55And he's obviously ultimately ended up bearing the brunt for a gang rivalry
51:58that he was not part of.
52:00One suspect is still at large, Tyrese Ulysses, the son of Nicola Leighton.
52:13Tyrese is proving more difficult to get hold of.
52:16He will have people that are willing to hide him.
52:23He's a bit of a cat and mouse.
52:25We've got addresses that we have under surveillance.
52:33The team has a new lead on missing suspect Tyrese Ulysses
52:38at an address in south-east London.
52:43Now we've got a phone number for him,
52:46what we believe to be a live phone,
52:48which is going to allow tracking of that phone.
52:52No number.
52:52Yeah, that wasn't there.
52:53That is live, it is being used.
52:55In the last hit, it was an hour ago.
52:58We think we are closing in on him.
53:00No, no, no, no.
53:15You're under arrest.
53:17You're sent to murder.
53:19Alright, so, it goes to May,
53:21on 10th April, 2021.
53:23He's murdered Levi Ernest Forreston.
53:26The manhunt team just picked up Tyrese in an address in Forest Hill.
53:36That's it. That's it. I can't believe it.
53:39Yeah, brilliant. Great work.
53:47A massive relief now that Tyrese is in as well.
53:50It's been a stretch, this one.
53:52And the offence, please.
53:54His murder. He murdered a Mr Levi Ernest Morrison.
54:00The thing that's unusual for me is the mother-son factor.
54:03We often see parents sometimes trying to help their kids
54:07by hiding weapons, hiding the kids themselves
54:10if the police are looking for them.
54:12I've never seen mother and son going out to commit a murder together.
54:15Is there anything you'd like to say? No.
54:19There is this rivalry going on in the background
54:21and then there's that incident where they come to Nicola Leighton's door,
54:24which is the actual spark.
54:26Nicola Leighton calls Tyrese.
54:28He then starts calling his friends and starts making his way over.
54:32Then Nicola gets them all in the car and takes them out looking for these people.
54:35I'm Levi, and I'm the third child.
54:50And I think my mum should be Mother of the Year because she's always had my back.
54:57She's always been there with me through hard times.
55:01She's always helped with my education, always fought for me.
55:06And, yeah, I just think she should be the Mother of the Year.
55:11She's Superwoman.
55:13He always spoke with me and said, Mummy, I know you love me.
55:23And I always told my son I loved him very much.
55:26Every night I'd tell him goodnight, I love you, and I miss that.
55:29Like, you can't get that back.
55:31What they have done is disgusting.
55:44The adult in it, I'm disgusted by what she has done.
55:50To know that a mother could do that and bring her own child in it.
55:56Tyrese Ulysses is charged with murder.
56:09He thinks he's somehow not responsible
56:11because he didn't actually stick a blade in someone.
56:15But he's used a 17-year-old, a 15-year-old and a 14-year-old
56:19to do his bidding.
56:21The prosecution service has made a decision to charge you with murder.
56:25It's contrary to common law.
56:27I don't think he thinks he's done anything wrong.
56:30They absolutely do not care about anyone's life except their own.
56:35And so the family is wrecked and a 17-year-old
56:40has completely, pointlessly lost his life.
56:43It's not the only way you can make.
56:45It's just the only way you guys having, yeah.
56:47Yeah.
56:48Yeah.