Police have been called this morning to the scene
of a one-man protest in East London.
Ken Baxter is demanding answers from the army
following the disappearance of his son, Pete.
Pete, a serving lance corporal, went missing a week ago
amidst allegations he was bullied by fellow soldiers.
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- His name is Ken Baxter? - Yeah.
His son has just returned from a second tour in Afghanistan.
He made some serious allegations about bullying from his regiment
and he disappeared about a week ago.
Ken? My name's Martha, a Detective Inspector.
I don't want the police and
I need to speak to the army.
Ken, what do you think Pete would think of you up there?
That's not the bloody point! Where is Pete?!
I tell you what, I think he'd be worried about you, don't you?
Look at me. I'm exactly who you should be talking to.
Everyone's heard what you're saying on the way to work,
but now it's done.
Let's go and find Pete, shall we, together?
We're gonna talk this through.
We're gonna find your boy, all right?
You promise me?
Do you know what, Ken? You've got my word.
Martha Bellamy making you a promise.
Good man.
Charlie, you got anything on the Pete Baxter case yet?
I rang his regiment, The Royal Cambrian Fusiliers.
Apparently, he's just come back from a tour in Afghanistan
about three weeks ago.
Before he came back he witnessed a child
being blown up in a Taliban attack.
When he got back, he was referred to their welfare
and diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Oh, smells of high-risk. - That's why it should be military.
We shouldn't be wasting our time.
Look, he's gone missing on our ground so it's a civilian matter.
But sorry...
Internet referral from Crime Stoppers.
They just had an anonymous foreman saying the missing soldier is dead.
Pete Baxter missing soldier?
No, it just says the missing soldier's dead.
I want to know you're gonna keep your promise.
I want to ask you about Pete.
I am gonna keep my promise, that's why I'm here, all right?
When did you last see him?
A week ago.
He erm...
He was going out to the pub to meet some of his mates from his unit.
Sounds pretty normal.
Yeah, quite, pretty normal.
I wasn't bothered either that he'd not come home that night
and I wasn't bothered I hadn't heard from him the next day either.
I assumed he'd got lucky and found a girlfriend or something.
I thought that would do him the power of good.
Is it normal for him to disappear for this amount of time?
Not without saying where he is or what he's up to a bit.
And, with his mother's funeral looming,
it was very out of character.
- Did he miss his mum's funeral then? - Yeah.
- My condolences. - I'm sorry to hear that.
Two days ago erm...
...Juliet was buried.
And, for him not to be at his mother's funeral,
is completely out of character.
When he came back from Afghanistan how was his mood? How was he?
Well, I'd say he was quite withdrawn.
Quite... agitated.
And, one incident in particular
seemed to have lodged in his mind.
Is this the bullying?
Well, he said he'd been got at in a letter that we received.
I assumed he'd been got at
by the situations they were finding themselves in.
It's very stressful obviously, but I'm beginning to wonder now
whether he meant he'd been got at by other people in the regiment.
This is the CCTV from the pub
where Pete went drinking with his army mates.
This is the last known sighting of Pete.
OK, this is our man, Pete Baxter, missing for over seven days.
A lance corporal in the army.
Two tours of Helmand province in Afghanistan.
These are the three people we know of according to Ken Baxter
who saw Pete last in the pub.
Sophie West, lance corporal.
Caitlin Neames, sergeant and Eddie Mulville, staff sergeant.
We need to get these guys in.
Interview them, talk to them, find out what they know.
OK, er, Charlie. How did you get on with the regiment?
Get any files on the bullying allegation?
Actually, I've rung the welfare office.
I rung the main office but I don't think they want to speak to a DC.
I'm being shunted between them.
I think it might be easier if you called, boss.
Let's have a chat out here, Caitlin.
They can't be many woman sergeants knocking about?
Yeah, well I've worked my arse off.
Not everyone's army.
Do you mean like Pete?
Pete is a really good squaddie,
but he's so messed up since we came back off our last tour.
We thought him coming home he'd settle back but...
The stuff with his mum and then his dad leaning on him.
I think he finds his dad a bit suffocating.
- When was the last time you saw Pete? - When we left the pub.
OK, cos I've had a look at some of the CCTV from inside the pub
and it looks like the four of you,
not had a fight, but words were exchanged.
It all looks pretty heated.
Pete was just in a bad mood that night,
and so I said something, he took offence.
He had a pop at me. Eddie stepped in.
It was just really stupid.
Is he like that normally, quite sort of tetchy
or is that just since he's come back with all this PTSD stuff?
No, he's fine. He's just a bit messed up, that's all.
I don't understand why everyone wants to put a label on it.
He's all right.
We've spoken to Pete's dad, Ken, and he told us about
the bullying allegations Pete had made against your regiment.
It's not bullying. Some people would take it in certain ways.
Pete's a very sensitive guy. We call it beasting.
- It's a bit of fun. - What's beasting?
It's just a bit of fun. It's just to toughen him up a bit.
One night we put on some balaclavas,
took him outside and tied him to a pole.
Look, I know that seems... It's like a stag night!
Think how many stags have been left on a pole!
- Sounds like torture to me. - It wasn't torture.
He was set free, he was fine.
He wasn't touched. He wasn't hurt or harmed.
They looking after you?
We've established Pete's phone has been used since he disappeared.
Has he been in touch with you?
I don't know, I'll check. Thank God for that.
To your landline?
- Answering machine at home? - Yeah.
The first thing you do when you get home, check that.
Give me a call, you have my number, and we'll go from there.
Only come in if you've got something useful to say.
I do, erm, Charlie is tracking down Sophie West as we speak.
Her husband, Ricky, is a kitchen fitter.
- Three years ago- - That'd be handy for you.
You've only got a microwave and kettle.
He did nine months for a drunk and disorderly
and ABH on a police officer.
Shall we...?
Sorry, you in the middle of something?
I've got Pete's call data.
He made a ton of calls since he went missing, a couple to a taxi firm.
More interestingly, local calls to Sophie West.
You've got loads to go on. Crack on, then.
I left a voicemail asking her to come in, but no answer.
I'll try to track her down.
Sophie?
Hi, DC Steele.
Would you mind coming down to the station for a little chat?
Yeah, can I make a phone call first?
- Sure, I'm just over there. - Cool.
Sophie!
Failed to stop. A collision.
I need police. I need ambulance.
No, no, no. She's breathing but she's unconscious.
Sophie, if you can hear me, please squeeze my hand.
Traffic have confirmed
that the van deliberately mounted the kerb
which means we're dealing with a targeted attack.
This is a hit-and-run, an attempted murder in essence.
Victim, Sophie West. What are her injuries, Charlie?
She's got a couple of fractured ribs and a shattered collarbone
and loads of cuts and bruises to her face, arms, legs.
Uniform are locating next of kin so...
Are we gonna state the obvious?
The fact Sophie was one of the last people to see Pete in the pub.
The fact just as she's about to talk to police she gets hit by a car.
Yes, we are gonna discuss that all in good time.
This is a hit-and-run. You need the person who's run.
Therefore we need the van, all right? Priority is finding the van.
All right, number plates, please.
So, Intelligence Unit have got a partial index.
Running for potential matches.
Looking at stolen vehicles, just, you know, distilling it down.
I got Pete's laptop in. I got a copy of his hard drive.
I've been going through his emails.
Most of the emails since he's come back have been to Sophie West,
and, I'm gonna be honest, they're pretty aggressive.
He's giving out she didn't back him up
when he made his bullying allegations.
It's pretty threatening stuff.
We're saying Pete might be crazy enough
to hop in a van and mow Sophie down?
But, there's still that email to Crime Stoppers
saying the missing soldier's dead.
But, that could be Pete himself trying to cover his tracks.
We've got a witness, Sophie, who's now fit for interview.
Here.
- Hi, Sophie West? - Yeah.
Yes, I'm Martha Bellamy, Detective Inspector.
- Ouch! - Yeah.
Ohh...
- Hello. - Hi.
Thank you so much.
Hey, it's kind of what we're here for.
Before we were so rudely interrupted earlier,
I'd come to ask you about Pete.
- We still have no idea where he is. - I know.
Sophie, where do you think he is?
You've known him a long time. What do you think's happened?
No idea, like, we're all really worried about him.
His mum had just died and I don't know.
He was acting really weird when we were in Germany kind of...
I reported him for PTSD.
He was having cold sweats, nightmares.
Was he quite angry about you reporting him?
He doesn't know. Is there any way he could've found out?
No, the army is really strict on stuff like that.
Do you think you let it slip in any of the calls since you've come back?
You've spoken quite a lot, haven't you?
Here and there.
Have you spoken since you last saw him at the pub?
- He left a couple of voicemails. - Did he? What did he say?
He was just kind of upset.
Just being kind of usual Pete, like a bit needy.
Do you think that we can listen to those voice messages?
- I deleted them. - You deleted the voicemails.
- So, I can't listen to anything? - No.
But, there'll probably be a record of that somewhere.
Do you think he would be angry enough
to drive a car at you?
What? No!
Soph! Sophie, are you all right?
Look at your face!
Mr West, I'm Detective Inspector Martha Bellamy.
I'm gonna just take you away for five minutes.
- Have a quick chat with you. - No, I think-
It won't take long, Sophie.
I want you to get back to your wife as quickly as possible,
so what I want to ask you is,
is there anybody who has been threatening Sophie?
- Is there anyone she's scared of? - Yeah!
- Anyone you can think of? Yeah? - Yeah, Ken!
He's been ringing her up saying about, I don't know,
he doesn't know where his son is
like it's got something to do with her.
Right, and she's been upset with these phone calls?
- Yeah, she has been upset! - Right.
It's doing my head in. It's doing our head in.
- Just been for a quick pint. - Well, I bet you have.
No, what I mean is, I went to see the landlord at the pub.
He remembers asking four soldiers in civvies to leave.
The following morning he goes out to take the bottles out,
notices there's blood on the wall and washes the blood.
Genius.
I've got SOCOs down there now.
OK, get them to sweep the whole of the alley.
- What I REALLY need is Pete's DNA. - Yeah, I'm doing that now. OK.
Ken, how are you?
- Come on. - Is it OK if I just...?
- Yeah, come on. - Yeah? I just need a quick word.
We're just trying to trace Pete's movements.
I was wondering if I could maybe have a look at his bedroom?
I need a sample of Pete's DNA,
ideally from a toothbrush or whatever you've got.
- DNA? - It's completely standard procedure.
I do this in every single case. Nothing to worry about.
Er yeah...
You know what?
He did write this.
He said if anything happened to him.
Come on, Ken. Nothing has happened. OK? Pete's just missing.
There's one way you can help,
get me the toothbrush then start making some phone calls.
- A toothbrush. - Yeah?
- Yeah. - Good man.
- Were Pete and Sophie close? - Er, yeah. Same unit.
I hate it when she just ignores me like that.
Erm, Pete's DNA. Toothbrush. We'll check it out.
I found this in Pete's room.
Sophie and Pete.
I asked Ken about it. He says they're pretty close.
They did basic training together.
After basic training, she got shipped somewhere else.
He got shipped to Cyprus and within three months
she marries Ricky in a whirlwind romance.
My question is now,
whether after Afghanistan they get back together
and Ricky, in some fit of jealousy, smashes his wife in a hit-and-run.
No, I checked with the DVLA.
Ricky drives a beaten-up white Transit, not a blue van.
- Can you put that on the board? - Yeah, sure.
Or you could do it but...
Boss.
Yeah, absolutely, yes.
OK. Thank you.
DNA.
DNA on the toothbrush matches DNA in the alleyway.
That proves there was some physical confrontation
- that led from inside the pub to outside. - OK.
Eddie, Caitlin, bring them in.
- Arrest? - Yeah, ABH.
Pete came in, he was late.
Didn't have his wallet so we were buying him drinks all night
and he wasn't... he wasn't...
himself.
Someone, me, cracked a joke. Pete took it badly.
He started on me from out of nowhere.
And Eddie steps in.
You know, tries to defuse the situation.
And...
Pete has been itching for a fight with Eddie since I can remember.
It's been brewing up for ages.
OK, so that is inside the pub.
And the landlord asked you to leave?
- Yeah. - And then what happens?
So we go outside. Pete won't leave it alone.
He wants a fight with Eddie.
They have a fight.
He's drunk, Pete is drunk. Eddie is drunk.
And...
Eddie throws a lucky punch and gets him right on the nose.
He was the one coming towards me if I'm honest.
I'm really sorry, we had a fight.
- Why is his blood all over the alleyway? - It was a lucky punch.
I was as pissed as he was. It was like two brothers fighting.
I punched him in the nose, it burst.
- I wish I'd just walked away. - You probably should have.
That was it, it was done.
We gave him money for a cab and all went home.
- Were Pete and Sophie seeing each other? - Not to my knowledge.
I've just spoken to Eddie.
Those two interviews match up, then?
They've sort of changed, but in an absolutely identical way.
It's word for word.
It's as if they sat down and said, "You say this, I say this.
Boys and girls down at telephone intelligence
have totally come up trumps.
They've retrieved one of Pete's deleted messages.
I need to hear that. As a matter of urgency. Go.
'Hi, Sophie, it's Eddie.
I was just phoning to make sure you're OK.
Yeah...
Give me a call when you get this.
We know Pete's phone has been used.
We checked all the records
of the calls that Pete has made in the week that he has gone missing.
We go to taxi firms, takeaway firms.
We talk to Sophie about the numerous phone calls made.
At no point in the interview process so far
have you mentioned at any stage...
...that it was you making calls from Pete's phone.
Why not?
- I don't know. - You don't know?
- What does that mean? - I was looking out for myself.
I'm sorry, I took his phone. I'm sorry.
Your best mate is missing. Your best mate could be dead.
Did I know this was going to happen, that he'd go missing?
Why are you stopping us from doing our job, Eddie?
The boy has probably just gone away somewhere for some time to himself.
I told you, he's off his head.
I took his phone out of spite.
- Spite? - Aye.
- It fell out during the fight. - Pathetic.
I know it's pathetic.
Are you aware that we've had an anonymous message
saying that Pete is dead?
What? When was this?
I don't know nothing about it.
How does that make you feel?
It's fucking horrible.
I'm here to help as much as I can.
I get that I led you down a few paths,
but that is purely looking after myself.
OK?
Yeah.
I just feel like...
We thought Pete was using his phone but it wasn't him.
It was Eddie. Surely that Crime Stoppers email
is starting to look a little bit more credible?
OK, well...
What makes a cop is your instinct. But don't jump to conclusions.
Thousands of people go missing every year.
They are not all lying at the bottom of a river.
Some people don't want to be found. And we owe it to Ken.
Because we promised him... to try our best to find his son.
So that's what we've got to do.
Yeah, yeah.
He's not dead till we find the body.
OK?
Number one rule.
If Pete and Sophie had got back together
or Ricky thought they had got back together,
whether they did or not, could that motivate him?
Do you know what I mean? Exactly.
I've got the CCTV from the ATM that Pete used.
There he is.
The machine won't give him any cash and he's not happy.
Takes it out on some poor homeless guy.
Ah, Jesus, no.
Ouch. Maybe he was drunk.
We've been trying over the past few hours
to build up a picture of what Pete was like
based on what you've told us
and what we've been told by people in his regiment.
I have some CCTV footage taken from just before he arrived at the pub.
But I need to know if...
if the behaviour Pete is showing
on this CCTV footage
corresponds with how he was feeling on the night he left.
What is going on with Pete there?
Because from the kind of person that you've told me he is...
...that looks abnormal.
Maybe the regiment are right. Maybe it's...
...stress. Mental fatigue.
How is Ken doing?
Um... He's...
He's not great.
- Oh, god, really. - I showed him the CCTV stuff.
He was just like, "That is not my son."
Now I'm worried whether the fact that Pete has disappeared,
he hasn't made contact with his dad because he's afraid to come home.
- He's ashamed of what he's done. - He's out there,
how is he paying for anything? He has no money.
Sorry. I just spoke to Ricky's employers.
I wanted to see if he had access to any other vehicles.
They drive their own but his has been knackered for ages.
Two months ago he hired a blue van, I checked with the rental company.
The registration number matches the partials on our hit-and-run van.
OK.
We've got a van.
Now let's get our driver. Let's do it quick.
Mr West.
We're gonna need to have another word with you outside.
- Now? - Yeah. Absolutely. Right now.
Looks like your wife is asleep so it's a good time. It won't take long.
I'm arresting you for the attempted murder of your wife.
What?
You do not have to say anything, but it will harm your defence...
You're having a laugh. You must be joking.
Anything you do say may be given in evidence.
- That's my wife. - Do you understand?
- Yes, I understand.
- Get off! - I hold you or I cuff you.
What is it gonna be?
Ricky, I want to know your whereabouts time of the hit and run.
I was on my way to a job.
Um...
And I got voicemail.
And then I... I pulled over.
And then...
I just fucking ran
to the hospital.
You saw me, you saw what I was like.
You're in a lot of trouble, aren't you?
Ricky West, my opinion, LOB.
- Big time. - Hmm.
- It's not the worst story... - Come on.
No, I'm inclined to agree to be honest.
You don't just leave your keys in the van.
OK? I know he did it. I've just got to get it out of him.
- I've just got to prove it. - I'll arrange cell site analysis
on Ricky's phone. I want to know where he was
when he picked up that voicemail from the police.
- I'll just ask him. - Yes, go.
I'll go and talk to him.
Did you run your wife over in a van?
No, I didn't run my wife over in a van.
- Are you sure? - I love my wife.
Oh? Your wife is still in hospital.
With a broken rib.
I know. I saw her.
Someone ran your wife into a wall with a hired van.
We're trying to figure out who that is.
Do you have any reason to believe that she might have been unfaithful?
I know this must be horrendous to hear...
that your wife is messing around with other men.
Fuck off.
Yeah.
Enough.
I haven't got a clue what you are talking about.
I know where you are coming from.
My girlfriend was in the police. I know what it is like.
When she spent all this time on a case
with lots of guys.
Sophie was out there
in this male-dominated world.
She's bonding with men on long-term relationships.
She's frolicking,
exercising, communal showers.
I know all that shit goes on.
I dunno how you do it.
I dunno how you keep that going. We broke up, man.
I couldn't stick it.
You know?
You poor guy.
Can I get you a glass of water or something?
- A drink? - I'm all right.
Prick.
- What was that? - Hmm?
- What was that? - Nothing.
Are you sure? Cos you're being recorded.
I called you a prick actually.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
What is going on here?
What is going on with your questions?
Hmm.
OK, one more time. Tell me exactly what happened when you left the van?
I got boxed in. I ran to the hospital.
How are you feeling?
- All right. - You look a little better.
Thanks.
Where is Ricky?
We arrested Ricky for trying to run you over.
What?
Yeah.
No.
- What? - He's at the station at the moment,
being questioned and as soon as I know any more...
No.
- ...I'll tell you more. - He's my husband.
Why have you arrested him?
Because we think the van that he drives is the one that hit you.
- God, he's my husband, - I know.
he wouldn't run me over.
It looks like he might have done.
- What? - I must ask you about something else.
And the minute I know anything about Ricky, I will absolutely tell you.
No. What... why...?
Why aren't you looking for Pete? I'm fine.
When we spoke to you earlier about the voicemails you'd had from Pete
- or from Pete's phone, Sophie...? - Yeah.
Who were they really from?
From Eddie.
I just... I didn't lie.
It's just... easier.
I don't want the hassle with Ricky. He's jealous of any guy.
- Any guy, full stop. - OK.
Cell site analysis is in.
Ricky...
wasn't where he said he was.
- Liar. - Yeah, little liar.
We've got him, haven't we? What is the motive?
- Jealousy. - Correct.
He still thinks that all those phone calls came from Pete
when in fact they came from Eddie.
- And he's got previous. - Mm-hm.
OK.
Why did you get into a van? Why did you turn on the ignition?
Why did you drive down to the gym?
Why did you wait for your wife
and why did you smash her into a wall?
Why did you do it?
I don't know.
Ricky, your wife is in hospital.
I know she fucking is, mate. I was there.
Why did you run your wife over?
Because she's a fucking, cheating bitch,
that's why I ran her over, you...
She comes home the other night.
And...
she tells me she's staying round Caitlin's house.
You know... you know if your fucking wife is lying. You can tell that.
So I thought, "Right, I'll go to the car and see where she's been."
Get the satnav. Where is the satnav? No fucking satnav.
Right? Ask her where it is. She don't know where it is.
I keep it in the fucking glove box but it ain't there.
And that night she thanks me.
"I want kids with you. I love you. I'm gonna leave the army."
And it's just... amazing, this is what you want to hear, right?
That is what you want to hear, innit?
And then she starts getting phone calls.
Like...
leaving the room.
Whispering and shit.
What do you expect me to do? What do you expect me to think?
So I had a look at her phone.
That fucking lump, Pete.
- Jack. - Yeah.
Get the boss, please.
Me boss or her boss?
Do you mind if I use this table?
- Sure. Carry on. - Cheers.
What you got?
Uniform found Ricky's van.
SOCOs have gone over it. It is definitely the one that hit Sophie.
That is her blood. Inside they've got Ricky's fingerprints,
Sophie's, but also Eddie's. On the steering wheel, handle.
He's driven that van.
Why Eddie's fingerprints for god's sake?
- I'll go and ask him. - Please do.
So you've been driving Ricky's van?
We've got your fingerprints
- all over the steering wheel. - Yes.
Sophie was very drunk. She drove the van to the pub.
- I decided to drive the van home. - When will you tell the truth?
I'm trying to now. We went to a hotel. Sophie was very drunk.
- Which hotel? - I decided to drive home.
- Which hotel? - The Lake Street Hotel.
Lake Street Hotel. That was easy, wasn't it?
- Can I interrupt? - Yeah.
I just had an email from SOCOs. They looked at the van undercarriage.
It's all stuff with mud and leaves and all bent up
- so they think it's been driven off road. - That's interesting.
What I really need is, I need the satnav.
So just do a total sweep of the hotel, of the environs. Miss nothing.
OK.
- Who was driving? - Eddie was driving.
I happen to know that he drove off road.
Why would he do that?
I dunno.
He was drink driving and didn't want to get caught.
When did you last see Pete?
I have told you.
I saw Pete at the pub
when I said goodbye to him.
I'm getting nowhere with Caitlin. The place is full of prisoners.
No cells, pace clock is ticking.
I've got to release Eddie and Caitlin pending further enquiries. Bollocks.
IT have retrieved the Facebook message that Caitlin sent Sophie.
It reads, "People asking me about Pete,
but don't worry, I've got your back."
Look at the timing.
That was sent this morning after we interviewed Caitlin.
Yeah.
I've been looking at your Facebook messages
and there is one from your mate Caitlin
and it says that she has got your back.
I'd like to ask you what you think that means.
I've been in here, I haven't checked Facebook.
What does she mean, she's "got your back"?
She's being a mate.
You think so? It's funny that, because she was in the station
being interviewed this morning. She posted that since,
which leads me to believe that message
is something to do with this investigation.
No.
She's talking about Germany and Afghan.
- About what? - Pete said that Caitlin bullied him.
I don't think that's right
and it gets messy. You don't understand.
Why would Caitlin bully Pete? He's a big lad.
He can look after himself, can't he?
I don't understand what all these questions are about. Where is Ricky?
Ricky has admitted to hit and run.
No.
Sophie, I need to know where Ricky's satnav is.
I really need to get my hands on this satnav.
Can you remember where that is?
I don't know where his satnav is. In his van?
Charlie.
I asked the SOCOs to take another look at Ricky's van.
It hasn't just been driven off road.
They said it was driven through a wood or a forest.
- Really? - Caitlin and Eddie didn't say anything about that.
I'm starting to really worry about Pete.
Priority, let's get Caitlin and Eddie in.
They've not only...
turned their phones off, they've taken the bloody batteries out.
They are actively avoiding capture.
- Put that at the top of your list, guys. - Yeah, let's go.
Boss!
Satnav.
- In the hotel car park. - Well done.
I'm worried it's short-circuited with the rain
but I think it just needs a charge.
It's alight, that's a good sign.
OK.
We're in. We're in.
- And? - Recent destination.
Epping.
- The New Forest. - That is from the night...
Yeah, that Pete went missing. It's worth a shot, let's go.
- Is this it? Are we here? - Satnav says right here.
OK, let's go.
Over there, guys.
Stick together.
Keep your eyes open. This is what we've been looking for.
It's not exactly how I envisioned my Friday night.
They...
Get going, guys!
This way!
Oh...
Oh, no.
Ken.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Hi, Ken.
Can I see him?
That is something we have to discuss with the Coroner's Office.
But I promise you, I'll do everything within my power
to make sure it happens as quickly as possible.
Of course, there is a formal identification process
that will have to happen down at the mortuary.
I do have...
...something.
This was something that we found...
...with Pete.
Can you tell me about that?
His mum and I gave him that
for his 18th birthday.
'Pete is dead.'
How the hell did that happen?
He died in a fight.
We were...
just passing a few punches about...
It was such a lucky punch.
It was not lucky, was it?
He just went down and started fitting and...
And then he just stopped moving.
Fucking died.
- How do you know he's dead? - I'm in the army, for god's sake.
I wish it had never happened, honestly.
Who made the decision to bury Pete in the woods?
We came to the decision together.
Let's run through it one more time.
You argue in the pub. You come out.
And you have this fight with Pete.
- I punched him... - You punched him.
He goes down. He starts fitting.
He goes still.
Who says what now?
Because we're quite clear on our chain of events,
so you must remember who said what at that point.
It was... everything was happening so fast...
Who put Epping Forest into the satnav?
No comment.
OK.
If it's all right with everybody in the room,
tell us the story in your words from the beginning.
Pete and Eddie have an altercation,
And Eddie hits Pete.
And Pete goes down.
And he hits his head.
Then he starts to have some sort of fit.
He's convulsing on the floor
and we're obviously very upset.
And then he stops moving.
And he's limp, and we're like, "Fucking hell, Pete, get up."
I must have checked his pulse, then...
Because we all started getting in a panic.
It all started to get out of control
and then suddenly we moved in the car.
The van.
And we were driving to...
somewhere, anywhere.
And we come across a forest.
At some point, one of you
must have decided Epping Forest cos that's where the satnav was going.
I guess one of us must have decided that...
- You can't remember? - I dunno
because it didn't have anything to do with me cos I don't remember.
Why did you bury him?
I just told you, we panicked. We didn't know what to do.
OK.
Why did you then dig him up again, Caitlin?
Because you were getting too close.
Have you had any contact with Sophie?
No.
I haven't spoken to Sophie since she had the accident.
So she's unaware of this?
What, me being here?
Of you digging up the body.
Yeah. Yeah.
Did she know where you put him in the first place?
Yeah. We all...
We all decided.
We all decided that he had... to be buried in the forest.
Got the post-mortem results.
Pete died from an acute subdural haematoma.
But he didn't fall and hit his head.
He was hit repeatedly with something really hard.
And we think it's a brick. There are brick fragments in his scalp.
Makes sense, yeah.
"I punched him. He fell. He fitted."
That's just not true.
Sophie, I gave you so many opportunities to tell me the truth.
And to be honest,
I think that the reason
you were so upset when I talked to you about Pete
is because you knew
that Pete was dead.
Am I right?
OK, let me ask you this.
Who is top dog, then?
Is it Eddie or is it Caitlin?
Who is pushing the buttons, who is in charge?
- What does that matter? - It matters to me, answer the question.
Eddie has got senior rank.
Sophie...
Sophie, look, I know this is really, really tough
to feel torn between someone you are in love with
who I think is Pete
and your unit, essentially Eddie and Caitlin,
who you feel incredibly loyal to.
The fact that you care so much about Pete
is why you sent that email to Crime Stoppers saying he was dead.
I didn't send the email.
- Sophie... - I didn't send the email.
Sophie, were those boys just fighting over you?
- Is that what this is? - No, it's not about that at all.
It's about... There was a little girl in Afghanistan.
We were on patrol in Helmand.
And there were a load of guys giving Eddie lip.
So he got out the grenade and he started like being a boy about it.
Boasting it about and...
They wouldn't shut up so he threw it, but it didn't hit them.
It hit a little girl across the road.
And it blew her to bits.
We said we'd keep it a secret because it wasn't fair on Eddie.
- It was an accident. - Who asked you to keep it a secret?
Caitlin.
Caitlin said we should keep it a secret
because it wasn't fair on Eddie.
And Pete couldn't handle it.
And that's why he...
That is what is to blame with the PTSD.
When he came to the pub that night it was just...
He thought Eddie was out to get him, too.
Pete said he was gonna grass Eddie up if he didn't tell the truth.
Came to the pub and...
Pete just exploded at him.
Eddie took him outside and...
Pete was getting the better of him.
I think he's wanted to do it for a while.
And Caitlin just picked up a brick and just kept...
hammering him over the head with it.
Caitlin, we've been to see Sophie at the hospital.
We've got her witness statement which you read.
Do you have anything to say based on what you read?
She's got it wrong.
What's that?
She's just been hit by a van. She's got it wrong.
I have a brick.
It has Pete's blood on it.
It has your DNA on it.
I was beginning to get a bit worried about you.
I need to shoot off.
I'm trying to find something for his funeral.
Any chance to read the letter?
I think it might help.
I can't bring myself to read it.
Do you want to read it for me?
"Hi, Mum and Dad."
"It's all gone a bit wrong if you are reading this, hasn't it?
These are the cards I've been dealt...
and we'll just have to offer it up to the holy souls.
Dad,
Mr Ken...
...I wish I'd said thank you in person
to your face,
because I try every day to be a good man because of you.
You taught me to stand up for what is right.
And if I've been killed doing just that,
then my life, however short, will have mattered.
Every once in a while,
look up and wave. I'll be grinning back down at you.
Lots of love forever, Pete."
You should hold onto that, OK.
Thank you.
I'll see myself out.
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We have a wallet so we have an ID for starters.
Dean Price.
Jailed three years ago following his murder.
Dean Price, attacked, stabbed.
Alekz Wojnar, attacked, stabbed,
and both left in exactly the same place. Stinks of revenge to me.
There is not nearly as much blood as you'd expect here if attacked here.
Oh, hang on. Here we go.
Now we know where Dean Price was attacked.
Who the hell has done this to my uncle?
Calm down.
This family has been through a lot of losses.
Her mum, her brother, her son.
Check the laundry. Start with what's in the washing machine.
Police. Open up.
I need a timeline of your movements last night.
What?
Luke!
Stop! Police!
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