1 00:00:00,010 --> 00:00:02,750 That's a hole. Like something's been driven through it. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,070 Something like a nail. 3 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:07,270 Yes, it's me. 4 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,430 If you think I killed this boy, Ray, just say it. 5 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,150 In June, 1973, Slater was arrested 6 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,630 following a fight outside a pub in Kentish town. 7 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:16,870 Dad! 8 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:19,630 He rang her from the call box. JoJo. 9 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:21,870 But it was one mistake. 10 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:24,390 He had sex with a child, for God's sake! 11 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:28,510 Your Turkish friends, I might need you to call them for me. 12 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,030 He had his accident so he wouldn't have been able to hurt anyone any more. 13 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,110 You said "hurt anyone". What do you mean? 14 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:37,100 Looks like we've got another victim. 15 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,480 ♪ All we do is hide away 16 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,000 ♪ All we do is, all we do is hide away 17 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,230 ♪ All we do is lie in wait 18 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:01,440 ♪ All we do is, all we do is lie in wait 19 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,670 ♪ I've been upside down 20 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:09,750 ♪ I don't wanna be the right way round 21 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:13,400 ♪ Can't find paradise on the ground ♪ 22 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,800 - You OK? - Fine. 23 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,400 Scared. 24 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:47,520 (POP MUSIC AND CHATTER) 25 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,120 (KNOCK ON DOOR) 26 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:17,580 (THUMPING ON DOOR) 27 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:22,520 (KNOCK ON DOOR) 28 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,360 (THUMPING ON DOOR) 29 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:33,760 Your taxi. 30 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,040 I'm so sorry, Sheila. 31 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,920 Thank you. 32 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:46,120 I know you're in there! 33 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:50,070 Ray! 34 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:51,800 Ray! 35 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:57,790 Sir Phillip. Asil. 36 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,120 Your son sent me. 37 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:07,070 Mr Slater. 38 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,190 No, no, no, no, no. You, you, you said you were coming tomorrow. 39 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:12,830 - We need to do it now, I'm afraid. - It's their anniversary. 40 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:14,510 - We were having a -- - Sorry. 41 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:16,700 ♪ ABBA: Dancing Queen 42 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:21,630 ♪ Looking out for the place to go... ♪ 43 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:23,590 Everyone listen up, please! 44 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:25,870 Will you listen to me, please? 45 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:29,750 Can someone turn the music off, please? 46 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,470 - What on earth is going on? - We'll talk to you in a second, Mr Slater. 47 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:35,470 OK, we have a warrant 48 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:40,710 to search this property, alongside the gardens and the out buildings. 49 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:42,910 So, I'm afraid the party is over. 50 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:47,190 And with the exception of the immediate Slater family, 51 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:52,430 we would like you to leave as quickly and as quietly as possible, please. 52 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,070 - Thank you. - (WAILS HYSTERICALLY) 53 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:57,560 Is she all right? 54 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,910 'Hi, this is Lizzie. Please leave a message.' 55 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:05,350 - (BLEEP) - Hello, love. 56 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,480 It's me, again. 57 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:12,830 Please call. Even if it's just to say that you're safe. 58 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:14,590 I love you, babe. 59 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:16,480 Very much. 60 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:21,990 OK, Mr Slater. So, earlier tonight -- 61 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:23,630 Am I under arrest? 62 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:26,390 No, you're not under arrest. You're free to leave any time. 63 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:29,670 But, we hope you'll want to help us with our investigation 64 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,910 and, um, give us your side of things. 65 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:35,590 - My side of what things? - I'm going to caution you, though, 66 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,310 and tell you that you do not have to say anything, 67 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,590 but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned 68 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:43,390 anything you later rely on in court. 69 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:45,310 Anything you do say may be given in evidence. 70 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,710 My side of what things? 71 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,790 As I was saying, um, earlier tonight... 72 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:53,790 your son, um, rang our station 73 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:56,630 following a conversation he had this evening. 74 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:58,990 He rang you from our party? 75 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:01,070 He did. 76 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:05,960 And I spoke to both him and your wife.. 77 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:11,190 .. and she confirmed what she had told your son, 78 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,310 which is that she believes... 79 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,390 you buried a body in Woodland 80 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:21,520 at the bottom of your garden sometime in the late part of 1978. 81 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,390 hat's just not true. 82 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:31,230 I-I mean, y-y-you must know she... she has no idea what she's saying. 83 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:34,640 You know, it's... it's not true. 84 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,160 You must know that. 85 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:44,920 It is not true. 86 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:51,790 Yes, I pressed her. Of course I did. Repeatedly for specific detail. 87 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:54,350 She actually said she saw him digging a hole in the copse 88 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:56,750 in the middle of the night, then he got something... 89 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:58,950 - stuck it down there. - Something? 90 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,390 Probably a carpet. Cos that's what a sane man does 91 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:03,150 in the middle of the night, isn't it? 92 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:05,830 - You think she's sane? - According to you mate, she's fine. 93 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,150 A little forgetful, but, other than that, fine. 94 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:12,100 She actually said that she thought it was a body? 95 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,460 Yes. Yes, she did. 96 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,750 She waits 40 years to tell anyone? 97 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:22,230 Which is why, when she did, I... I just felt I had to call the police. 98 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:25,030 But I swear this, I never meant... 99 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,580 I never meant for this on their anniversary. 100 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:30,950 They said they're taking them to Ely. 101 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,350 I think one of us should go there, be there for them. 102 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,400 Fine, you go. I'll... I'll wait here. 103 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:38,470 Matt, all I want is for me to be as wrong 104 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:40,310 as I've ever been about anything. 105 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,790 I don't care if mum and dad never spoke to me ever again. 106 00:06:43,840 --> 00:06:46,110 I just want to be wrong. 107 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:09,590 How far's their nick? 108 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,150 - Ten minutes. - Hm. 109 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:15,900 Their guvnor asked if we could give him an ETA. 110 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:17,870 Is the house clear of guests? 111 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:19,830 Yeah, clear now. 112 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:21,790 Tell him... 113 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:25,440 Oh, tell tell him we have absolutely no idea. 114 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,190 How many friends you have, man? 115 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:02,230 You haven't seen him. 116 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:05,910 - Where is she? - Ray? 117 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,030 Where have you taken her? 118 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:10,310 - Where have I...? - My wife. 119 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,760 What have you done to her? 120 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,390 I don't know where your nigger-hating wife is, Ray. 121 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:19,870 Now, piss off! 122 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:22,460 Before I bust you up proper. 123 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:43,320 I wanted to say... 124 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,190 .. I want you to know... 125 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:54,280 .. if I've never said it before... 126 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,000 .. it has tortured me every single day... 127 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:02,080 .. of my life. 128 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,040 (SOBS) What I did. 129 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,020 Every single day. 130 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:18,080 And I'm so sorry. 131 00:10:30,340 --> 00:10:32,620 Come on. 132 00:10:33,780 --> 00:10:36,660 Come on. Hup, hup. 133 00:10:41,700 --> 00:10:45,100 Dog's been through the whole house three times. There's nothing there. 134 00:10:46,140 --> 00:10:48,810 What do we think this is now, guv? 135 00:10:48,860 --> 00:10:51,210 Do you think we could have multiple bodies out here? 136 00:10:51,260 --> 00:10:53,530 That Jimmy was just one of many. 137 00:10:53,580 --> 00:10:55,940 We think. 138 00:10:56,980 --> 00:10:59,570 We have to take it seriously, what she said. We have to. 139 00:10:59,620 --> 00:11:03,610 But Claire Slater's a woman who's losing her mind, 140 00:11:03,660 --> 00:11:08,410 so we think... we hope... 141 00:11:08,460 --> 00:11:12,130 I hope... that she's wrong. 142 00:11:12,180 --> 00:11:14,780 And that there's nothing here. 143 00:11:15,220 --> 00:11:17,020 Nothing at all. 144 00:11:19,740 --> 00:11:21,540 (KNOCK ON DOOR) 145 00:11:23,540 --> 00:11:26,080 (KNOCKING ON DOOR CONTINUES) 146 00:11:26,380 --> 00:11:28,130 Coming. 147 00:11:28,180 --> 00:11:30,720 (KNOCKING ON DOOR CONTINUES) 148 00:11:31,380 --> 00:11:33,050 Hello? 149 00:11:33,100 --> 00:11:35,970 Oh, it's Sheila from the community centre. 150 00:11:36,020 --> 00:11:38,770 Oh, hi, Sheila. Hang on. 151 00:11:38,820 --> 00:11:40,650 Hi. 152 00:11:40,700 --> 00:11:43,890 I'm so sorry to disturb you this early, Grace. 153 00:11:43,940 --> 00:11:45,970 It's fine. Are you OK? 154 00:11:46,020 --> 00:11:47,650 Do you want to come in? 155 00:11:47,700 --> 00:11:50,570 Oh, no, no, no. I'll be very quick. 156 00:11:50,620 --> 00:11:53,620 I just thought you had a right to know. 157 00:11:53,700 --> 00:11:56,050 I had to go down to the police station last night 158 00:11:56,100 --> 00:11:58,410 and tell them it was Robert 159 00:11:58,460 --> 00:12:02,330 who stole the money from the community hall safe. 160 00:12:02,380 --> 00:12:04,610 He admitted it to me yesterday. 161 00:12:04,660 --> 00:12:09,690 And also that he'd been stealing from the church for quite some time. 162 00:12:09,740 --> 00:12:11,420 And you. 163 00:12:13,140 --> 00:12:16,260 He told me he'd stolen some of your jewellery. He wouldn't tell me why. 164 00:12:17,540 --> 00:12:20,890 Oh, he needs help, Grace. He really does. 165 00:12:20,940 --> 00:12:22,980 God bless. 166 00:12:42,980 --> 00:12:45,900 You wait for it all your life. 167 00:12:47,660 --> 00:12:49,860 The knock on the door. 168 00:12:56,020 --> 00:12:58,690 And then one day you wake up... 169 00:12:59,780 --> 00:13:03,780 .. and realise your life IS the knock on the door. 170 00:13:05,900 --> 00:13:10,210 Police never came. There was no trial, no prison sentence. 171 00:13:10,260 --> 00:13:12,460 But you were punished. 172 00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:56,650 What you got, Lulu? 173 00:13:56,700 --> 00:13:58,530 Show me, then. Good girl. 174 00:13:58,580 --> 00:14:00,890 (LULU BARKS EXCITEDLY) 175 00:14:00,940 --> 00:14:03,940 What you got? OK, we've got something! 176 00:14:12,660 --> 00:14:15,650 - (LULU BARKS EXCITEDLY) - Steady, steady. 177 00:14:15,700 --> 00:14:19,140 - How sure? - If it were me, I'd dig. 178 00:14:21,380 --> 00:14:24,180 We need a tent down here, please. 179 00:14:27,660 --> 00:14:29,330 You need to get here. 180 00:14:29,380 --> 00:14:31,890 Well, thank you for taking time to speak to me. 181 00:14:31,940 --> 00:14:34,770 Don't be silly, Grace. 182 00:14:34,820 --> 00:14:38,250 I'm just... so sorry. 183 00:14:38,300 --> 00:14:42,530 And I want you to know we're all thinking of you and praying for you. 184 00:14:42,580 --> 00:14:46,880 - 'All of you.' - Thank you, Geoff. Bye. Bye bye, now. 185 00:14:53,900 --> 00:14:56,980 They think he might've been stealing money for years. 186 00:14:58,460 --> 00:15:00,400 Tens of thousands. 187 00:15:02,140 --> 00:15:04,810 Spent on what? 188 00:15:04,860 --> 00:15:06,610 Don't know. 189 00:15:06,660 --> 00:15:09,200 Wasn't on us though, was it? 190 00:15:15,300 --> 00:15:17,770 That was my grandmother's ring. 191 00:15:17,820 --> 00:15:21,140 How can you know someone your whole life and then...? 192 00:15:22,940 --> 00:15:25,340 How does this happen? 193 00:15:27,260 --> 00:15:29,260 (DOG BARKS) 194 00:15:38,020 --> 00:15:40,010 How do you think people deal with it? 195 00:15:40,060 --> 00:15:42,540 Deal with what? 196 00:15:44,140 --> 00:15:45,860 Well... 197 00:15:46,900 --> 00:15:52,410 .. all these cases where people pretend to be one thing 198 00:15:52,460 --> 00:15:57,220 for half a century and then turn out to be something else. 199 00:16:00,340 --> 00:16:02,370 Wonder if they still love him. 200 00:16:02,420 --> 00:16:05,340 Or do you just cut off? 201 00:16:06,340 --> 00:16:09,010 Say, "I'm sorry. 202 00:16:09,060 --> 00:16:11,060 Loved someone else. 203 00:16:13,020 --> 00:16:15,970 Loved the person you SAID you were." 204 00:16:16,020 --> 00:16:17,300 Here! 205 00:16:24,460 --> 00:16:26,460 We found something! 206 00:16:32,500 --> 00:16:34,330 What is it? 207 00:16:34,380 --> 00:16:36,140 Just there. 208 00:16:44,260 --> 00:16:45,860 Oh, no. 209 00:16:49,460 --> 00:16:51,800 - (DOOR OPENS) - Robert? 210 00:16:56,540 --> 00:16:58,340 Good morning. 211 00:17:00,780 --> 00:17:02,580 Morning, Geoff. 212 00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:05,210 So... 213 00:17:05,260 --> 00:17:07,100 Grace rang me. 214 00:17:08,300 --> 00:17:13,780 Sheila went round there this morning after she'd been to the police. 215 00:17:16,540 --> 00:17:18,460 OK. 216 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:23,740 So... how should I do this? 217 00:17:25,420 --> 00:17:28,130 Do you want me to speak to our mob first or...? 218 00:17:28,180 --> 00:17:32,410 Well, we would, of course, love to know 219 00:17:32,460 --> 00:17:34,290 what you've been spending it all on. 220 00:17:34,340 --> 00:17:37,770 But, I think you owe it to Grace to tell her first. 221 00:17:37,820 --> 00:17:41,260 I'll drive you around there, if you like, and then to the police. 222 00:17:50,140 --> 00:17:55,450 Well, for what it's worth, none of it was for me. 223 00:17:55,500 --> 00:17:57,700 And I'll walk, thanks. 224 00:17:58,940 --> 00:18:00,540 Robert. 225 00:18:01,580 --> 00:18:03,610 Don't try to stop me, Geoff. 226 00:18:03,660 --> 00:18:05,290 Please. 227 00:18:05,340 --> 00:18:10,620 I may look old and doddery, but I could still snap you in two. 228 00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:43,200 - You thought it'd be female? - No, no, I just... 229 00:18:43,300 --> 00:18:46,410 I'm looking for theories as to how a fairly unremarkable bookkeeper 230 00:18:46,460 --> 00:18:48,210 ends up connected to two murders, 231 00:18:48,260 --> 00:18:54,370 and some love-triangle connection between Eric 232 00:18:54,420 --> 00:18:58,850 and, um, Jimmy and Joanna Bridges seemed like one possibility, but... 233 00:18:58,900 --> 00:19:02,860 as you might guess, I'm slightly struggling. 234 00:19:21,300 --> 00:19:24,490 Hiya. Are you one of the Slaters? 235 00:19:24,540 --> 00:19:26,680 Is that a body, then? 236 00:19:28,780 --> 00:19:30,650 (STARTS CAR) 237 00:19:30,700 --> 00:19:34,490 Les, don't go away. Talk to me. Is there a body there? 238 00:19:34,540 --> 00:19:36,610 Are there any more!? 239 00:19:40,540 --> 00:19:44,170 'Police have confirmed that a 76-year-old man is being interviewed 240 00:19:44,220 --> 00:19:47,930 in connection with the murder of James Sullivan nearly 40 years ago. 241 00:19:47,980 --> 00:19:51,890 Reports that further remains have been found near the suspect's house 242 00:19:51,940 --> 00:19:53,930 have not yet been confirmed. 243 00:19:53,980 --> 00:19:57,690 Sullivan, who was only 17 when he disappeared in -- ' 244 00:19:57,740 --> 00:19:59,890 (PHONE RINGS) 245 00:19:59,940 --> 00:20:01,490 Hello. 246 00:20:01,540 --> 00:20:03,330 They've arrested someone, Dad. 247 00:20:03,380 --> 00:20:06,610 'For James Sullivan's murder. It-It's on the news. Switch it on. 248 00:20:06,660 --> 00:20:09,970 They've found another body in the back of his bloody garden, 249 00:20:10,020 --> 00:20:12,290 so Fenwick can send them the photos, 250 00:20:12,340 --> 00:20:15,970 but I don't think they're gonna be too interested now.' 251 00:20:16,020 --> 00:20:19,050 You're in the clear, Dad. 252 00:20:19,100 --> 00:20:21,250 TV: 'Where his remains were found by workers -- ' 253 00:20:21,300 --> 00:20:23,450 'Dad, are you there?' 254 00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:27,540 - I couldn't have left your mum on her own, Belle. - 'Sorry?' 255 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:33,050 I mean, I couldn't let Fenwick do that to her. 256 00:20:33,100 --> 00:20:36,730 What have they done? What did you tell the Turks to do? 257 00:20:36,780 --> 00:20:40,300 I only spoke to them last night. They haven't done anything yet. 258 00:20:42,700 --> 00:20:45,460 I'll just call them off now. 259 00:20:46,460 --> 00:20:48,460 (HANGS UP) 260 00:20:53,020 --> 00:20:57,900 Ask him what his last hours were, will you? My boy's. 261 00:20:59,020 --> 00:21:04,370 If it is him, I do want you to prepare yourself for the fact 262 00:21:04,420 --> 00:21:07,420 that he he might not want to help us. 263 00:21:08,380 --> 00:21:10,130 It sometimes goes like that. 264 00:21:10,180 --> 00:21:12,260 But ask him. 265 00:21:13,620 --> 00:21:17,610 And if he tells you, however bad it is, 266 00:21:17,660 --> 00:21:21,220 I want you to promise me you'll tell me what he says. 267 00:21:22,300 --> 00:21:24,370 I will. Uh, I promise. 268 00:21:24,420 --> 00:21:26,500 However bad it is. 269 00:21:29,100 --> 00:21:32,220 It can't be as bad as I've spent a lifetime imagining. 270 00:21:44,820 --> 00:21:48,450 Think, Curtis. Where would she go? 271 00:21:48,500 --> 00:21:51,370 If you were her, what would you do? 272 00:21:53,420 --> 00:21:56,410 Uh, did she ever talk about, you know, somewhere 273 00:21:56,460 --> 00:21:58,690 or someone she felt safe with? 274 00:21:58,740 --> 00:22:00,810 Ray, I'm not interested. 275 00:22:00,860 --> 00:22:02,570 OK? 276 00:22:02,620 --> 00:22:05,020 I don't give a fuck, mate. 277 00:22:12,860 --> 00:22:15,060 I'd never abandon you. 278 00:22:18,020 --> 00:22:20,100 I won't abandon her. 279 00:22:23,700 --> 00:22:25,970 I hope you won't either. 280 00:22:40,220 --> 00:22:44,250 And so, you have absolutely no idea how the body got there? 281 00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:48,300 Well, of course, it's all I've been thinking about. 282 00:22:51,020 --> 00:22:52,690 And? 283 00:22:52,740 --> 00:22:55,810 Well... no. 284 00:22:55,860 --> 00:22:57,620 No idea. 285 00:22:58,860 --> 00:23:01,530 All I can think is, 286 00:23:01,580 --> 00:23:05,450 I got friendly with a lot of the residents of Arlingham House. 287 00:23:05,500 --> 00:23:07,890 I stayed in touch with some of them. 288 00:23:07,940 --> 00:23:12,260 And a few came to visit us over the years. 289 00:23:13,300 --> 00:23:17,650 But, I took people on face value, DCI Stuart, 290 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:20,850 and maybe... maybe I was naive. 291 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:24,700 A lot of these people had very dark pasts. 292 00:23:25,700 --> 00:23:27,690 So, are you, um, suggesting 293 00:23:27,740 --> 00:23:30,210 that maybe an ex-resident put the body there? 294 00:23:30,260 --> 00:23:32,460 No, I'm just guessing. 295 00:23:36,380 --> 00:23:38,090 Can you give me names? 296 00:23:38,140 --> 00:23:40,690 Oh, no, I can never remember names. 297 00:23:40,740 --> 00:23:45,010 I mean, maybe it wasn't but, you know, it's... it's a remote spot. 298 00:23:45,060 --> 00:23:46,850 I just know it wasn't me. 299 00:23:46,900 --> 00:23:50,300 So, like you, I'm... I'm... I'm struggling. 300 00:23:50,900 --> 00:23:54,100 Are you sure it was your husband, Claire? 301 00:23:54,540 --> 00:23:57,080 Am I sure who was my husband? 302 00:24:01,500 --> 00:24:05,010 You said, you think you saw your husband 303 00:24:05,060 --> 00:24:08,900 putting a body into the ground. 304 00:24:09,940 --> 00:24:12,210 Are you sure it was him? 305 00:24:13,220 --> 00:24:15,290 When did I say that? 306 00:24:20,260 --> 00:24:22,890 Why don't you just tell me who it is, Eric? 307 00:24:22,940 --> 00:24:27,420 How can I tell you who it is, if I didn't know he was down there? 308 00:24:28,420 --> 00:24:30,090 I didn't say it was a man. 309 00:24:30,140 --> 00:24:31,930 Oh, please. 310 00:24:31,980 --> 00:24:34,090 It's a figure of speech. 311 00:24:34,140 --> 00:24:36,810 I don't know anything about it. 312 00:24:40,460 --> 00:24:44,060 Do you have any idea who the body is, Claire? 313 00:24:45,260 --> 00:24:47,220 Is Carol coming? 314 00:24:48,580 --> 00:24:50,690 No... 315 00:24:50,740 --> 00:24:54,040 Carol's not coming. Do you know who it is? 316 00:24:56,620 --> 00:24:59,450 Do you know what, I think we should leave it there, don't you? 317 00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:01,090 My client -- 318 00:25:01,140 --> 00:25:02,660 (SOBS) 319 00:25:05,300 --> 00:25:07,640 Sometimes I have these... 320 00:25:08,820 --> 00:25:11,360 These memories are so clear. 321 00:25:12,300 --> 00:25:14,540 Memories of what? 322 00:25:15,820 --> 00:25:18,160 Memories of what, Claire? 323 00:25:19,860 --> 00:25:22,660 I just want it all to end. (SOBS) 324 00:25:29,500 --> 00:25:32,700 How can he still be out of signal? I rang him half a fucking hour ago. 325 00:25:34,540 --> 00:25:36,530 Look, I don't care how you do it. Just do it. 326 00:25:36,580 --> 00:25:39,120 Just get someone to stop him. 327 00:25:48,540 --> 00:25:50,490 (RADIO ON IN CAR) 328 00:25:50,540 --> 00:25:53,810 'Police have now confirmed that a second body was found in the garden 329 00:25:53,860 --> 00:25:56,010 of the suspect who has been identified 330 00:25:56,060 --> 00:25:59,170 only as a 73-year-old Cambridgeshire man. 331 00:25:59,220 --> 00:26:04,100 James Sullivan, who went missing in 1976, has been the subject of a -- ' 332 00:26:09,060 --> 00:26:11,890 So I'll get them both driven down to town now. 333 00:26:11,940 --> 00:26:14,210 I've informed the sons about what's happening. 334 00:26:14,260 --> 00:26:15,850 They'll make their own way down. 335 00:26:15,900 --> 00:26:20,290 You and me can get a bit of shut eye and start fresh this afternoon. 336 00:26:20,340 --> 00:26:23,970 With any luck, we should have more information on the body by then. 337 00:26:24,020 --> 00:26:26,760 - Great. - So, you OK to drive? 338 00:26:27,700 --> 00:26:29,900 Yeah, I'm good. Thanks 339 00:26:34,340 --> 00:26:36,970 Can you bell Jake Collier, would you? 340 00:26:37,020 --> 00:26:40,940 Ask him to speak to his witness Mackie again, about Eric Slater. 341 00:26:41,940 --> 00:26:44,980 I want to know everything there is to know about him. 342 00:27:19,380 --> 00:27:21,380 (DOORBELL) 343 00:27:28,980 --> 00:27:31,100 Lizzie? 344 00:27:38,780 --> 00:27:40,490 Erm... when she took me to see Hamlet, 345 00:27:40,540 --> 00:27:42,850 there were people down by the theatre who knew her. 346 00:27:42,900 --> 00:27:44,970 People she gave money to. 347 00:27:45,020 --> 00:27:46,770 Like, homeless people and that. 348 00:27:46,820 --> 00:27:50,730 Um, she knew their names and some of them knew hers. 349 00:27:50,780 --> 00:27:52,780 We'll need a photo. 350 00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:06,140 Steady. 351 00:28:13,020 --> 00:28:15,020 Brush. 352 00:28:50,940 --> 00:28:52,660 Bye. 353 00:28:55,660 --> 00:28:58,530 He fell asleep smoking, apparently. 354 00:29:01,820 --> 00:29:04,820 Bed caught fire. Whole house went up. 355 00:29:07,740 --> 00:29:10,280 Wouldn't have known a thing. 356 00:29:14,180 --> 00:29:16,130 I'll be back by seven. We could all go out, 357 00:29:16,180 --> 00:29:18,620 have a curry or something. 358 00:29:21,940 --> 00:29:24,490 And, if you fancy taking your granddad for a drink before, 359 00:29:24,540 --> 00:29:27,090 he's a bit low at the moment. 360 00:29:27,140 --> 00:29:28,930 He could do with a bit of cheering up. 361 00:29:28,980 --> 00:29:31,170 - Take him down the Feathers? - Not the Feathers. 362 00:29:31,220 --> 00:29:34,290 - They still have pole dancers? - They're mainly Bulgarian now. 363 00:29:34,340 --> 00:29:37,170 - Brilliant. - I meant a nice chat over a pint somewhere quiet. 364 00:29:37,220 --> 00:29:40,810 Not with naked women showing you their insides. 365 00:29:40,860 --> 00:29:43,940 You don't want a heart attack on your conscience, do you? 366 00:29:47,060 --> 00:29:49,450 It's a misconception that plastic doesn't degrade. 367 00:29:49,500 --> 00:29:53,410 It does, but not through bacteria. Through light. 368 00:29:53,460 --> 00:29:56,730 Luckily for us there isn't a lot of light six feet under, 369 00:29:56,780 --> 00:29:59,900 which is why this little beauty... 370 00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:04,450 .. could still probably buy your lunch. 371 00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:06,250 Jeez. 372 00:30:06,300 --> 00:30:10,330 So, obviously we can't confirm anything until we get a DNA match, 373 00:30:10,380 --> 00:30:13,450 but we have good reason to believe that the remains are those 374 00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:15,730 of Nicholas Howard Whitmore, known as Nick. 375 00:30:15,780 --> 00:30:21,130 He was born 12th of January, 1954, in Godstone, Surrey. 376 00:30:21,180 --> 00:30:22,890 He was a son and a brother. 377 00:30:22,940 --> 00:30:27,690 So, Nick was, um, last seen on December 30th, 1978, 378 00:30:27,740 --> 00:30:30,940 at a Clash concert at the Lyceum in the West End. 379 00:30:32,380 --> 00:30:35,530 At the time of his disappearance he lived in Hammersmith 380 00:30:35,580 --> 00:30:38,130 and he was training to be a nurse. 381 00:30:38,180 --> 00:30:41,450 But he disappeared about two and a half years after Jimmy, 382 00:30:41,500 --> 00:30:44,170 but, crucially, at least two years 383 00:30:44,220 --> 00:30:47,330 after the Slaters moved into their house. 384 00:30:47,380 --> 00:30:51,610 Can we assume the body went in the ground close to the time of death? 385 00:30:51,660 --> 00:30:53,370 We'll assume nothing yet. 386 00:30:53,420 --> 00:30:56,610 - Any obvious connections to Arlingham House or to Jimmy? - No, not yet. 387 00:30:56,660 --> 00:30:59,690 But we've made preliminary contact with Nick's family 388 00:30:59,740 --> 00:31:02,770 and I'll be able to speak to them properly later today. 389 00:31:02,820 --> 00:31:06,610 Murray, the original investigation determined 390 00:31:06,660 --> 00:31:08,770 that the card was last used in a pub in Hampstead. 391 00:31:08,820 --> 00:31:10,610 It was called the King George. 392 00:31:10,660 --> 00:31:13,650 And that was the 31st December, 1978, 393 00:31:13,700 --> 00:31:16,010 so in an ideal world, 394 00:31:16,060 --> 00:31:19,370 we'd need to place Eric Slater in or around that area 395 00:31:19,420 --> 00:31:22,930 on that same evening. It's a tough one, I know. 396 00:31:22,980 --> 00:31:25,970 - Got it. - Jack, where are you with Mackkie? 397 00:31:26,020 --> 00:31:27,960 Seeing him at six. 398 00:31:28,860 --> 00:31:31,730 And is there anything else coming through from the house? 399 00:31:31,780 --> 00:31:35,650 No, no. Nothing more, from the house, the garden or the copse. 400 00:31:35,700 --> 00:31:37,570 OK, that's good. 401 00:31:38,780 --> 00:31:40,250 That's it for now. 402 00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:41,970 Thank you, everyone. 403 00:31:42,020 --> 00:31:43,850 Guv, surely we've got the wife 404 00:31:43,900 --> 00:31:46,170 saying she saw him put the body in the ground. 405 00:31:46,220 --> 00:31:50,890 Actually, it's becoming clear that she has no idea what she saw. 406 00:31:50,940 --> 00:31:54,210 And no jury would ever convict him on her testimony alone. 407 00:31:54,260 --> 00:31:57,170 So... we need more. 408 00:31:57,220 --> 00:31:59,490 We need much, much more. 409 00:32:04,980 --> 00:32:07,060 The woman... 410 00:32:09,060 --> 00:32:14,940 The girl, Joanna, that I had a relationship with... 411 00:32:17,900 --> 00:32:20,570 .. she got pregnant... 412 00:32:20,620 --> 00:32:23,660 and she said that it was by me. 413 00:32:24,940 --> 00:32:28,980 So, obviously, I offered to pay for the termination. 414 00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:36,100 And I thought she'd done what she wanted. 415 00:32:39,140 --> 00:32:43,610 Two years later... she rang me 416 00:32:43,660 --> 00:32:47,260 and told me that actually she hadn't been able to go through with it. 417 00:32:51,660 --> 00:32:53,860 And she'd had the baby. 418 00:32:55,660 --> 00:33:00,660 I was shocked... and scared. 419 00:33:03,780 --> 00:33:07,410 But I said I would support them, the baby. 420 00:33:07,460 --> 00:33:14,290 And I did so until the child, Thea, was 18. 421 00:33:14,340 --> 00:33:16,970 Thea's now 38. 422 00:33:17,020 --> 00:33:19,290 And she's made her way in life. 423 00:33:19,340 --> 00:33:23,940 And as her father I've tried to help out as best I could. 424 00:33:25,140 --> 00:33:28,980 Sometimes with emotional support. 425 00:33:30,180 --> 00:33:32,050 Sometimes with money. 426 00:33:32,100 --> 00:33:34,140 Not fortunes. 427 00:33:35,260 --> 00:33:37,090 A hundred... 428 00:33:37,140 --> 00:33:39,900 occasionally a thousand. 429 00:33:42,820 --> 00:33:47,420 But always with money I didn't have. 430 00:33:50,220 --> 00:33:52,380 So I stole it. 431 00:33:54,980 --> 00:34:00,020 I am now, and always have been, deeply ashamed by this. 432 00:34:01,060 --> 00:34:03,250 I'm going to the police station now. 433 00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:05,900 I'm not running from anything. 434 00:34:08,220 --> 00:34:11,250 I just wanted to give you the facts, 435 00:34:11,300 --> 00:34:14,860 give you a chance to digest them. 436 00:34:34,220 --> 00:34:36,050 Bastard! 437 00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:37,930 Bastard! 438 00:34:37,980 --> 00:34:39,410 Bastard! 439 00:34:39,460 --> 00:34:41,290 No! Please, please. 440 00:34:41,340 --> 00:34:43,370 You bastard! 441 00:34:43,420 --> 00:34:45,140 (SOBS) 442 00:35:42,780 --> 00:35:44,780 (INDISTINCT) 443 00:36:01,940 --> 00:36:05,930 I'd like to start, Eric, if you don't mind, by going back to Jimmy. 444 00:36:05,980 --> 00:36:07,610 Of course. 445 00:36:07,660 --> 00:36:10,090 And seeing, um, if you can help me out with something 446 00:36:10,140 --> 00:36:13,370 - that's been troubling me. - Well, if I can help, I will. 447 00:36:13,420 --> 00:36:17,170 OK, so, I now think that the assault on Paul West 448 00:36:17,220 --> 00:36:19,330 was actually nothing to do with football. 449 00:36:19,380 --> 00:36:24,010 That it was, as his sister said, a homophobic attack. 450 00:36:24,060 --> 00:36:26,650 I... 451 00:36:26,700 --> 00:36:29,730 Well, I must confess, I couldn't see a link 452 00:36:29,780 --> 00:36:32,850 between West's attack and Jimmy's murder. 453 00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:35,490 I mean, Jimmy was, um... 454 00:36:35,540 --> 00:36:40,410 clearly in a long-term heterosexual relationship with Joanna Bridges. 455 00:36:40,460 --> 00:36:42,770 - Yes, JoJo. - Exactly. 456 00:36:42,820 --> 00:36:44,130 Hm. 457 00:36:44,180 --> 00:36:48,250 But, what I didn't know until earlier today, 458 00:36:48,300 --> 00:36:52,770 when a colleague of mine spoke to an old friend of Jimmy's 459 00:36:52,820 --> 00:36:55,930 from the hostel, was that when Jimmy first came to London, 460 00:36:55,980 --> 00:37:03,370 he was homeless and broke with no obvious way of making money. 461 00:37:03,420 --> 00:37:07,490 That he did what a lot of young runaways did back then, 462 00:37:07,540 --> 00:37:10,540 which was to work as a male prostitute. 463 00:37:12,580 --> 00:37:14,850 Now, in the months before he was killed, 464 00:37:14,900 --> 00:37:17,490 we know that Jimmy borrowed £50 from a gang 465 00:37:17,540 --> 00:37:19,770 to pay for an abortion for JoJo, 466 00:37:19,820 --> 00:37:22,330 and that that money was then stolen. 467 00:37:22,380 --> 00:37:25,050 So he desperately needed money. 468 00:37:26,100 --> 00:37:31,810 Another 50 for the abortion and the original 50 to pay back to the gang. 469 00:37:31,860 --> 00:37:33,490 Mm. 470 00:37:33,540 --> 00:37:39,490 And he tried to sell a car, but like you said... 471 00:37:39,540 --> 00:37:41,450 - everybody knew it was stolen. - Mm. 472 00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:45,500 So, in his desperation to find the money... 473 00:37:46,660 --> 00:37:48,490 .. we think he went back to selling sex. 474 00:37:48,540 --> 00:37:50,970 How awful. 475 00:37:51,020 --> 00:37:53,370 And you found out about that. 476 00:37:53,420 --> 00:37:55,170 No. 477 00:37:55,220 --> 00:38:00,450 And because I think you had a violent hatred of homosexuals, 478 00:38:00,500 --> 00:38:05,210 at some point in July 1976, 479 00:38:05,260 --> 00:38:11,860 you murdered him and buried his body in the cellar of Arlingham House. 480 00:38:12,900 --> 00:38:14,890 Absolutely not. 481 00:38:14,940 --> 00:38:20,090 I had absolutely no idea about any of what you've just told me. 482 00:38:20,140 --> 00:38:22,480 Well, that's interesting. 483 00:38:23,460 --> 00:38:26,810 Because Jimmy's friend says not only did you pretty much know 484 00:38:26,860 --> 00:38:28,730 everything the residents were up to, 485 00:38:28,780 --> 00:38:35,370 but that you'd told him you'd seen Jimmy servicing a male client 486 00:38:35,420 --> 00:38:38,650 down an alley behind a Hampstead "queer pub". 487 00:38:38,700 --> 00:38:40,770 What friend? 488 00:38:40,820 --> 00:38:43,890 A resident of Arlingham House called Alan Mackay. 489 00:38:43,940 --> 00:38:46,090 Known as Mackkie. 490 00:38:46,140 --> 00:38:48,370 Never... never heard of him. 491 00:38:48,420 --> 00:38:51,250 And, listen, half that lot were drug addicts. 492 00:38:51,300 --> 00:38:52,970 Th-The rest were alcoholics. 493 00:38:53,020 --> 00:38:55,530 Do you really trust what any of them have to say? 494 00:38:55,580 --> 00:38:59,090 These are the same people you say you invited to your house, Eric. 495 00:38:59,140 --> 00:39:01,410 I don't think I've ever even been to Hampstead. 496 00:39:01,460 --> 00:39:04,810 I had no idea Jimmy was doing that. And what it has to do with this other lad. 497 00:39:04,860 --> 00:39:09,690 Well, let me tell you. Because today... 498 00:39:09,740 --> 00:39:13,890 I've been talking with Nick Whitmore's sister and father 499 00:39:13,940 --> 00:39:16,740 and that was his name, by the way. 500 00:39:17,460 --> 00:39:19,660 Here's the thing, Eric. 501 00:39:21,060 --> 00:39:25,020 It turns out that Nick was gay. 502 00:39:26,380 --> 00:39:29,970 That Nick often frequented gay bars and pubs. 503 00:39:30,020 --> 00:39:34,340 And in particular a pub called the King George. 504 00:39:35,620 --> 00:39:37,330 In Hampstead. 505 00:39:37,380 --> 00:39:41,380 Like I just said, I don't think I've ever been there. 506 00:39:42,940 --> 00:39:45,290 Do you know when the cash dispenser was invented? 507 00:39:45,340 --> 00:39:46,930 No. 508 00:39:46,980 --> 00:39:48,770 1967. 509 00:39:48,820 --> 00:39:53,410 First one ever used in the whole world was in Enfield, by Reg Varney. 510 00:39:53,460 --> 00:39:56,370 Do you remember him? On The Buses. 511 00:39:56,420 --> 00:39:58,300 Vaguely. 512 00:39:59,500 --> 00:40:04,530 So, by 1978, there were hundreds all around the country. 513 00:40:04,580 --> 00:40:10,210 And there was one at 364 Haverstock Hill, Hampstead. 514 00:40:10,260 --> 00:40:13,200 About 20 yards from the King George. 515 00:40:17,460 --> 00:40:21,360 You're one for keeping records, aren't you, Eric? 516 00:40:21,700 --> 00:40:25,300 Must be the uh... book-keeper in you, I suppose. 517 00:40:26,940 --> 00:40:28,690 This is a copy of a document. 518 00:40:28,740 --> 00:40:31,680 We found this in your house earlier. 519 00:40:32,580 --> 00:40:34,530 Can you tell me the date of this statement? 520 00:40:34,580 --> 00:40:37,210 December 1978. 521 00:40:37,260 --> 00:40:41,850 And look at the entry dated the 31st of December. What does it detail? 522 00:40:41,900 --> 00:40:46,130 Er... a cashpoint withdrawal. 523 00:40:46,180 --> 00:40:48,690 £10. 524 00:40:48,740 --> 00:40:53,220 And that number by the entry corresponds to a specific machine. 525 00:40:55,300 --> 00:40:57,840 Do you know which one it is? 526 00:41:00,300 --> 00:41:03,500 Well, we rang the bank and we asked them. 527 00:41:04,340 --> 00:41:07,440 It's for a cashpoint on Haverstock Hill. 528 00:41:07,940 --> 00:41:11,060 Number 364. Right next to the pub. 529 00:41:15,860 --> 00:41:19,570 So, we can now place you within 20 yards 530 00:41:19,620 --> 00:41:22,650 of the last known whereabouts of Nicholas Whitmore. 531 00:41:22,700 --> 00:41:27,620 So we now have a connection between his murder and Jimmy's. 532 00:41:29,340 --> 00:41:33,440 On top of the numerous connections to you and Jimmy. 533 00:41:33,980 --> 00:41:39,140 And, of course, Nicholas's body was found in your garden. 534 00:41:40,860 --> 00:41:45,660 The CPS are going to charge you, Eric, with both their murders. 535 00:41:46,820 --> 00:41:49,730 Which means that, um, now is the opportunity 536 00:41:49,780 --> 00:41:51,970 for you to think about the victim's families 537 00:41:52,020 --> 00:41:56,020 and tell us the truth about what actually happened. 538 00:42:00,420 --> 00:42:02,980 But I didn't do it. 539 00:42:06,660 --> 00:42:09,450 Eric Michael Slater, you are charged 540 00:42:09,500 --> 00:42:14,770 that, on a date between 1st June, 1976 and 1st January, 1977, 541 00:42:14,820 --> 00:42:18,970 that you did unlawfully murder James Niall Sullivan 542 00:42:19,020 --> 00:42:21,130 contrary to common law. 543 00:42:21,180 --> 00:42:25,530 You are also charged on the 31st December, 1978 544 00:42:25,580 --> 00:42:28,930 that you did unlawfully murder Nicholas Howard Whitmore, 545 00:42:28,980 --> 00:42:30,730 contrary to common law. 546 00:42:30,780 --> 00:42:35,080 - (SECURITY DOOR BUZZER) - Do you have anything to say? 547 00:42:54,300 --> 00:42:59,770 I just thought he was going to use them to scare Fenwick. 548 00:42:59,820 --> 00:43:01,340 Josh... 549 00:43:02,780 --> 00:43:04,690 .. we'll be OK. 550 00:43:04,740 --> 00:43:07,540 It's going to be OK. 551 00:43:10,100 --> 00:43:13,400 He's paid for a man to be murdered, Bella. 552 00:43:13,940 --> 00:43:15,740 Our father. 553 00:43:17,660 --> 00:43:20,420 It's not ever gonna be OK. 554 00:44:27,260 --> 00:44:29,260 (BLEEPING) 555 00:44:38,580 --> 00:44:40,130 What is it? 556 00:44:40,180 --> 00:44:41,980 DCI Stuart. 557 00:44:44,020 --> 00:44:47,020 I need to tell her I didn't kill them. 558 00:44:51,980 --> 00:44:54,380 But I know who did.