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[footsteps thudding]

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- Okay, ready.
- Okay, cool. [indistinct]

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[tense music]

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- I was enjoying my fish and
chips and the BBC news was on

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and it came on a
40-year-old man in Bradford,

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arrested, body parts
found in the river.

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- [Reporter] Police divers continued
to search the river air near Shipley,

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where Suzanne Blamires'
dismembered body was discovered.

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[tense music continues]

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- I made this funny
noise, I don't know,

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kind of sucked air through
my teeth or something

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and I just said, "My brother,
I bet you that's my brother."

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[Tense music continues]

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- [Reporter] Sniffer dogs on the
streets and in the alleyways,

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searching the drains and
bagging up potential evidence.

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The handle of a suitcase
pops up out of the water.

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The diver drags it to the shore.

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[tense music continues]

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- Stephen Griffiths
is formally arrested

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for the murder of Suzanne and
they begin questioning him.

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"Do you know anything
about Shelly and Susan?"

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[tense music continues]

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- He told us that he was responsible
for the murder of all three victims.

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- [Detective] Why did you feel the
need to- to kill her?

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- I don't know.

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Sometimes you kill
someone to kill yourself.

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- He wanted to be infamous.

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He wanted to be a serial killer.

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[tense music continues]

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- He wanted to be known for the
most extreme aspects of his crime,

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which was the crossbow,
and the cannibalism.

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[tense music continues]

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- I watch true crime programs
and I think that's terrible.

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And then I think God, my
brother did worse than that.

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[tense music continues]

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You hear about people
chopping people up and that,

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and you think, awful.

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And then the words 81
pieces come into your head.

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[tense music continues]

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And you never really
come to terms with it.

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But it's real, it happened.

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- Griffiths couldn't
answer the one question

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that we all wanted to know. Why?

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If you try and analyze the
mind of a serial killer,

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you will never know.

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Because they don't think like us.

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They're not like us.

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He is not of this world.

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[tense music continues]

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[tense music]

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- Homefield Court is a big
converted mill building

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on the outskirts of
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On one side, it was the city
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was the Red Light District.

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It was one of these
beautiful buildings,

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fantastic architecture,
which had been part

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of the city's famous
textiles industry.

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But of course, as that declined,

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it became a little bit
shabby, a little bit rundown.

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It became disused and eventually
was converted into flats.

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[tense music continues]

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On the 24th of May,
2010, the caretaker

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at Homefield Court
turned up for work,

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began his usual routine of
checking the CCTV from cameras,

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which were dotted
around the building.

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And on a normal Monday,
very little would happen.

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You know, there'd be
maybe a bit of vandalism,

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some drunks causing trouble.

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He was in the habit of
flicking through the CCTV

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on fast forward, basically.

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And the caretaker has
to do a double take

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because what he witnesses appears
to be a violent attack on a woman.

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What he sees initially
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of the lift on the third
floor and going into a flat.

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He recognises one of
them as the loner, Steve,

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who he's been told to avoid,
because he can be a bit volatile.

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The person with Steve is a woman

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with a small stature with dark
hair, both go in the flat.

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They disappear for a period
of time, just a few minutes.

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And then the woman runs
out fleeing in terror.

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The caretaker, obviously
he's terrified by this,

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and the first thing he
does is call his manager.

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They watch the footage
again together,

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and then they call police.

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- I booked on as normal.

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I was on a day shift,
collecting my firearm,

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and fairly early into the shift,

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I received a call asking me to blue
light immediately to Dudley Hill,

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which is one of our sort
of major planning stations.

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I met with Silver Commander
and CID team who briefed me

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that there had been an incident

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where a male had been
caught on a camera.

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He'd been involved in an
altercation with a female.

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- As soon as she got into that flat,

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there was something
that startled her,

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and she ran out of the
flat at some real speed,

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almost hitting straight
into the wall that came out

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into a corridor.

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[tense music continues]
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- The male ran after her
and incapacitated her.

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He appeared to knock her
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on the floor, slightly off camera,

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and then came out with what
was assumed to be a crossbow.

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We were unsure if the crossbow
had been fired or not,

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but the male dragged the
female back into the apartment,

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and then the door was closed-

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- I've seen a lot in my
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but seeing somebody run out the flat,

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as she did, was startling

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because what she must have
seen in that flat was so scary.

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Oh, it was shocking.

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[tense music continues]

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- By analyzing the CCTV
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police made another
amazing discovery.

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- The CCTV at 3:35 shows him trying

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to lure another woman
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shortly after the
incident with the assault.

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But fortunately she
must have got some sort

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of vibe that there was
something really not right.

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- And she declined to come in.

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So, again, that raises
the threat level.

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He's wanting to find
more people to bring back

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to his flat for whatever purpose.

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- As far as we were concerned

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we've got a female who's
been incapacitated,

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so we have hostage situation whereby,

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she's been held against
her will, clearly.

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We're dealing with a
collapsing timeframe,

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so every second counts.

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- Amongst the officers
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are some from Bradford's Vice Squad

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who immediately recognise the
victim as Suzanne Blamires.

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[tense music continues]

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- Suzanne came from a lovely family,

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very well known family in the area.

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And she was destined
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- Her father was a
successful businessman,

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and so her childhood was one
of foreign holidays and ponies.

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And, you know, she'd
done well at school.

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She was popular, she was pretty.

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She had every reason to
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to have a successful life.

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- She wanted to become a nurse.

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She'd got far into her training

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when she met the wrong people.

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- She had adopted a
hedonistic lifestyle,

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which involved going out
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and unfortunately taking drugs.

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- And very quickly
she became an addict

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and her life spiralled
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to sit back and watch it happen.

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- There came a time when
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more addictive, and
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of funding the habit other
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and street prostitution.

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And that's what she did.

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[tense music continues]

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- Suzanne met a friend who had
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but had left and escaped.

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And they had a little bit
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laughed and giggled,
shared some old memories.

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And then the friend went
on her way and said,

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"Just be careful,
just take extra care."

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Next day, Suzanne's boyfriend,

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noticed that she was
missing, went to speak

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to her family to see if she'd
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The answer was no.

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He was extremely worried about her.

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So he went straight to the police.

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- It was in the mid-'90s

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that the prostitution moved
from Lum Lane to Thornton Road.

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- It's a very busy
thoroughfare, Thornton Road.

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It's what goes on behind
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There was at least 50,
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in that small area.

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Many had given up their friendships,

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any chance of prosperity,
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They were waifs, they were six stone.

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They were standing in
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wearing very little.

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- At the time I was on the
streets, it was 10 pounds

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to buy a vulnerable young woman.

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Unfortunately, it's even less now,

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it's five pounds because
that's the cheapest bag

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of heroin or crack cocaine.

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So, you know, these men don't
value the women and girls.

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The women and girls are so desperate

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and they've usually got
a perpetrator lurking

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in the background
that they're supplying

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their drugs as well.

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It's pretty grim.

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- Women working within
the sex trade in this area

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of Bradford in the Red
Light District were working

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in an area that
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They were vulnerable to
the police targeting them.

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And as such, they
are in an environment

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whereby they are
vulnerable to predators.

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- A lot of the time they're
completely off their heads.

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I mean, it was really
difficult to keep myself safe

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and I was straight, I wasn't
under the influence of anything.

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- As a firearms tactical
advisor all you're looking

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for is information.

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You're just filling in gaps,
finding out who's living there.

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We find out this guy's
called Griffiths.

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[tense music continues]

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- I'm Stephen Sean Griffith's sister,

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but I will call him Sean

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because that's how we
knew him growing up

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because my dad's name
was Stephen as well,

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so we called him Sean.

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There was three of us,

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myself, Sean, who was
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and then my younger brother,

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and my mom and dad.

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Sean started showing
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the first signs of like
troubling behaviour.

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He'd have been under 10 when
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At one point we didn't have a
lot, so, you know, children,

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you want things and Sean wasn't
satisfied to just want them.

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He had to have them.

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So he took them and he got
caught and he got into trouble.

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And I think a lot of
my parents' arguments

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as well as arguing with each other,

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they were arguing about him as well.

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That was just the
way he was, you know,

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like he closed his eyes
and I think he was asked

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to open his eyes and he
just didn't, he wouldn't,

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and the more he was
asked to open them,

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the more he kept them closed.

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- He was a little bit
withdrawn, a bit of a loner,

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didn't play with other children,
wasn't seen in the street,

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was very slight of build.

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And in fact, one nickname
for him at that time

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was the Stick Man.

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- He had a real fear of going
to a school called Outward Grange.

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It had a reputation back then
as being quite a rough school.

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And Shaun didn't want to,
I remember him waking me up

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one night because Outward
Grange was on fire,

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and I've no proof, but
I've always suspected

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that maybe he had
something to do with that.

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It just seemed so
coincidental that this school,

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he had such a fear of going
to, and then the next thing,

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it's in flames.

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[dramatic orchestral music continues]

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[fire crackling]

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And then with the divorce,
he just got worse.

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It's like consequences
didn't matter to him.

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He would steal stuff from
the neighbour's sheds.

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He would go down to
Wakefield on the bus

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and he would come back
with stuff he'd stolen.

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He stole off my mum as well.

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He didn't seem to see the problem
with taking money from a woman

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that was already
struggling to provide.

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Yeah, so from a young
age he was problematic

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and it just escalated over the
years, got worse and worse.

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[tense music]

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As he got older, the age
gap became more apparent.

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Between him and my younger
brother, it was six years.

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So that is a very big age gap.

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And I used to worry about
what he was capable of.

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He was quite mean and cruel

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and could be violent towards
myself and my younger brother.

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He developed a point system and
if we did something to Sean,

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say we went in his stuff,
you damaged something,

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he would give you so many
points and once you accrued

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so many points, that was his cue

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that he could punish you then.

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And there was one night in particular

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that I must have
accrued enough points,

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so he decided to
launch an attack on me

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and he would get you and he
would kneel on your arms there.

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So you were pinned, basically.

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And then I managed to
get one of my arms free

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and there was a table
with a glass ashtray

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and I managed to get that and I
hit him over the head with it,

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which is not
something I'm proud of,

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but I felt like I had to do it.

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And his head bled.

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I mean head wounds do bleed heavily.

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And we had to get mum
back from a night out

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and she wasn't very happy.

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So yeah, he could be a
mean, mean boy, a bad boy.

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[tense music]

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- He enjoyed quite
simply shooting birds

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and then not just watching them fall,
but then dissecting them.

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Neighbours spoke of them catching him
pulling wings off dead birds.

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This is not normal behavior.

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[tense music continues]

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- I had pet mice and we
weren't supposed to have them

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and Sean knew about my pet mice.

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So he decided to get
himself a pet rat.

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Anyway, my stepmom found out

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and she didn't want
them in the house.

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So I arranged to give
my mice away to one

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of my friend's schools,
which was an option for Sean,

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but he decided not to do that.

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And I was upstairs in my
bedroom and it was quite late.

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Everyone was in bed and I
heard this thump thump thump.

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So I knocked, I was
like, what are you doing?

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You'll wake everybody
up and he let me in.

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He says, "Oh, I'm
trying to kill the rat."

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So what I'd heard was
him hammering this rat

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with this broken off hammer
[hammer banging]

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and it was all hunched
and crawling around

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and I don't think he was
trying to kill it at all.

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I think he was just
enjoying torturing it.

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That poor thing.

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[hammer banging]

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- When a child harms an animal,
it usually is experimentation.

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It will have entered their mind.

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What is it like to hurt someone?

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So they'll experiment on
animals, and most children

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who do that will soon find out

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that they don't like doing it.

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But with Stephen, he recognized

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that that was something
he gained pleasure from.

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- He could have got rid of it,
he could have killed it

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much more humanely if he wanted to,

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but I think he just was having fun.

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[tense music continues]

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- He was very socially
isolated as a child.

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He really couldn't
connect or make friends

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and he had violent thoughts.

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As he went on to his teenage years,

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we see this developed into
not just harming animals

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but harming people.

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[tense music continues]

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- I was always worried about him.

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I knew that it was escalating

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and that he had the potential
to do harm to people.

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[tense music continues]

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My maternal grandparents,
they lived in an upstairs flat

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and Shaun was in front
of me on the stairs.

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and I'd said something to
him and he back kicked me

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in the mouth and knocked
one of my teeth out.

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[tense music continues]

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He had a cache of weapons
like had flick knives

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and Rambo knives and he had a machete

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and he had a crossbow
even at that age.

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I was up in my bedroom,
the attic, and my brother,

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my youngest brother, was
about two, three was there.

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And the next thing there
was this thunk noise.

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[arrow banging]

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He must have known that he was there,

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and he went ahead and fired
this crossbar at the door.

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My brother started
screaming and crying.

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To this day, I think, was
he trying to kill him?

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Was he trying to injure him?

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It's just so disturbing the
fact he's got a crossbow,

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he's firing it through
a door in the house.

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My brother's there and I think

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that was the last
straw for my stepmom.

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She was like, "Right, that's it.

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Get him out."

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My dad asked him to leave after that.

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[tense music continues]

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It's just another example of
his exacerbating behaviour,

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his escalation, more
and more odd things.

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It's almost like he
had a tick-box exercise

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for I'm going to be a killer.

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And he was just filling
it in as he went along.

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[tense music continues]

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- Stephen leaves school at 16,
and then he begins to drift.

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- He moved down to a
bedsit in Heckmondwyke.

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And his behavior, I don't
think it had changed

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because he was stockpiling
weapons there as well.

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[tense music continues]

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He'd been to see dad and Dad
had given him a bit of money

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and then he went
to the co-op and I think

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it was just pathetic things
like sweets and a bottle of pop

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that he could easily
have afforded to buy.

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But no he decided to steal
them instead because,

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because that's just the way he was.

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And he got caught.

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And what would've been maybe just
a slap on the wrist, maybe a fine,

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he just escalated it to the
point where he pulled a knife

402
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and slashed somebody down their face,
stabbed somebody in the hand,

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hurt somebody when he was
running out the store.

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[tense music continues]

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- This poor guy needed 19 stitches,

406
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and Stephen found himself
arrested, taken to court,

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prosecuted at Leeds Crown Court,

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and was sentenced to
three years youth custody.

409
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[tense music continues]

410
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- It is like a shock,
but it's not a surprise.

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You know, you could always see
that it was going to happen.

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Maybe not to that degree,

413
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but I could always see
him ending up in prison.

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[tense music continues]

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I remember seeing a
photo in the local paper

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and it had been taken of
the arsenal of weapons

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that he'd collected
knives and throwing stars,

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nunchuckers, machete,
that kind of thing.

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And it was like, God, it'd expanded.

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It was more than what used to have

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and lived at dad's and
expanded in such a short time.

422
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- Stephen Griffiths was
assessed by a psychiatrist

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in the criminal justice
system for the first time.

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He was assessed as having
a personality disorder.

425
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[tense music continues]

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- Personality disorders
are patterns of ingrained

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inflexible behaviors and thoughts,

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usually behaviors and thoughts

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that go outside the social norm.

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His narcissism, like
his sadistic nature,

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like being devoid of emotion,

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they're incredibly hard to
treat, if not impossible,

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simply because they are so ingrained.

434
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[tense music continues]

435
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And often people with personality
disorders are resistant

436
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to treatment because they don't see

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that there's anything
wrong with them.

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What is wrong is with other people.

439
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[tense music continues]

440
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He didn't kind of go into
generalized psychology.

441
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He went into abnormal psychology.

442
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So he went into the
field of psychology

443
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that allowed him to feed
his more darker desires.

444
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[tense music continues]

445
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- I had only just turned 18 really

446
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when I moved up to Carlisle.

447
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And after that our contact
was minimal, really.

448
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I kept in touch with
my family by a letter

449
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so me and my stepmom would
write to each other just,

450
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you know, about the family news,

451
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and she would always mention Sean

452
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because I would ask about
him because obviously

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I was worried about him.

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- [Mum] Right now I'll
get down to business

455
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and I'll start with
the worst first, Sean.

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Your dad has kind of disowned
him since he found out

457
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about Sean befriending that dog,

458
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then throwing it out the window
three times and then killing it

459
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because throwing it out the
window hadn't killed it.

460
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Your dad just can't come to terms

461
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with the son of his being so
cruel as to do something like that

462
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and even laughing
about it afterwards.

463
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- So this next letter is
dated the 25th of June, 1991.

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Sean had been about 21.

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- [Mum] Your dad had a
phone call on his birthday

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from Sean's probation
officer telling him

467
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that Sean is in the
hospital wing at Armley

468
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because he isn't
considered stable enough

469
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to be in the normal section.

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He's on remand for threatening
with intent to kill.

471
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We don't know just what it's about,

472
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but he was getting very neurotic

473
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about people looking at him.

474
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- While going about the
campus one day, he imagined

475
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that a group of girls
had somehow slighted him,

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and his response to that
was to pull a knife.

477
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[tense music]

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He was sentenced for
possessing an offensive weapon,

479
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and I think affray,
and found himself going

480
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to jail again for two years.

481
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[tense music continues]

482
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- In prison, Stephen was diagnosed

483
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as being a sadistic
schizoid psychopath.

484
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It's a merging of three
different diagnosis really.

485
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You've got the sadistic
part, the sadism,

486
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so this is gaining pleasure
from hurting people.

487
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This is perhaps the
most dangerous aspect

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of his personality.

489
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Then you've got schizoid
personality disorder.

490
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So this is really about
being detached emotionally,

491
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not being able to connect
with other people,

492
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and it's that aspect of his disorder

493
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that makes it easier
for him to hurt people

494
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because he hasn't got
that emotional attachment.

495
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And then you've got the
psychopathology aspect of it,

496
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which is really about
having no empathy.

497
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It's usually the empathy
that stops most people

498
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from crossing that line
between violent fantasy

499
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to actual behavior and
making it a reality.

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So together you've got a concoction
of three very serious conditions

501
00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:05.760
that make him a very dangerous man.

502
00:28:06.600 --> 00:28:09.920
[tense music continues]

503
00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:17.920
[tense music]

504
00:28:26.760 --> 00:28:29.040
- The CCTV footage of a man

505
00:28:29.120 --> 00:28:33.320
holding a crossbow sparked
a major police operation.

506
00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:37.120
They had to find out
whether the young woman seen

507
00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:41.640
in that footage was dead or alive.

508
00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:45.680
- It really was an imminent threat.

509
00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:50.720
[tense music continues]

510
00:28:53.800 --> 00:28:55.360
When we found out subsequently

511
00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:58.240
that there was two other
sex workers missing,

512
00:28:58.320 --> 00:28:59.480
you couldn't help but think back

513
00:28:59.560 --> 00:29:01.840
to the Peter Sutcliffe days
of the Yorkshire Ripper

514
00:29:01.920 --> 00:29:03.080
and start to think, actually,

515
00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:05.920
we don't want another
Yorkshire ripper taking place

516
00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:07.360
in the force area.

517
00:29:09.560 --> 00:29:12.640
- I think Stephen
was around six to 11

518
00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:14.760
during the time that Peter Sutcliffe

519
00:29:14.840 --> 00:29:18.880
was carrying out his
crimes and, yeah,

520
00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:21.920
he would've most certainly been
aware of what was going on.

521
00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:25.400
[tense music]

522
00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:29.120
- The Yorkshire Ripper was
active between 1975 and 1980.

523
00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:33.720
It was a series of murders,
13 women, seven attacks,

524
00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:37.400
and there was a build, it
began in red light areas,

525
00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:41.320
and it ended anywhere,
anytime, any place.

526
00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:43.520
And for five long years,

527
00:29:43.600 --> 00:29:46.480
every woman in Yorkshire
dare not walk the streets.

528
00:29:46.560 --> 00:29:48.040
They dare not go out.

529
00:29:48.120 --> 00:29:51.160
They literally held
themselves in a group

530
00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:53.400
of fear behind closed doors.

531
00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:55.560
And that was the power he enjoyed.

532
00:29:55.600 --> 00:29:57.200
[tense music continues]

533
00:29:57.280 --> 00:29:59.560
- [Reporter] In her own
ground floor flat in Bradford,

534
00:29:59.640 --> 00:30:02.800
the body of 33 year
old Patricia Atkinson.

535
00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:05.120
She was last seen
walking home from the pub

536
00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:06.720
where she'd spent the evening.

537
00:30:08.040 --> 00:30:10.560
- The idea that a serial
killer is on the loose

538
00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:14.040
will be prime territory
for the media.

539
00:30:14.120 --> 00:30:16.200
It is intensely newsworthy.

540
00:30:16.280 --> 00:30:20.000
They are going to want
to weave a narrative.

541
00:30:20.080 --> 00:30:22.400
They want to get people
watching the news.

542
00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:25.160
- [Reporter] The Yorkshire
Ripper's trademark is the unique

543
00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:26.240
and vicious way

544
00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:29.960
in which he mutilates the bodies
almost beyond recognition.

545
00:30:31.680 --> 00:30:34.880
- And as such people
are talking about it.

546
00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:36.280
We are gossiping.

547
00:30:36.360 --> 00:30:38.160
It is inescapable.

548
00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:42.560
And as such, it can play in
the corners of people's minds.

549
00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:45.720
And this feeds into a culture of fear

550
00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:50.120
and an inability to truly switch
off from what is going on.

551
00:30:50.200 --> 00:30:51.640
[tense music]

552
00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:55.280
People were frightened,
people were questioning

553
00:30:55.360 --> 00:30:56.800
who they could trust.

554
00:30:56.880 --> 00:30:59.760
People were looking at
neighbors, colleagues, friends,

555
00:30:59.840 --> 00:31:01.920
and thinking, is it you?

556
00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:05.880
[tense music continues]

557
00:31:05.960 --> 00:31:10.080
- I've always talked of
Bradford as a grim grey place.

558
00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:11.840
That's how it strikes me.

559
00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:14.280
And it was a grim time, all in all.

560
00:31:14.360 --> 00:31:17.320
And the Yorkshire Ripper,
it was like a dark,

561
00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:20.840
miasma spread all over, you know.

562
00:31:20.920 --> 00:31:22.520
Everyone was scared.

563
00:31:22.600 --> 00:31:25.960
But Sean had an unhealthy
interest in him.

564
00:31:26.040 --> 00:31:27.160
[tense music continues]

565
00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:30.720
- He had once even told prison staff

566
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.640
that he had one ambition and that was

567
00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:36.320
to outdo the Yorkshire ripper.

568
00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:40.160
[tense music continues]

569
00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:44.280
- He once told me as well
that if he couldn't be famous,

570
00:31:44.280 --> 00:31:45.960
he would be infamous.

571
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:50.440
And that if I was famous and
I was more famous than him,

572
00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:52.280
he would find me and
he would kill me.

573
00:31:52.280 --> 00:31:54.920
[tense music continues]

574
00:31:54.920 --> 00:31:58.800
- I do think Peter
Sutcliffe re-emerged

575
00:31:58.880 --> 00:32:03.240
into his memory when he was studying,

576
00:32:03.320 --> 00:32:07.000
when he was deciding on
the person he wanted to be.

577
00:32:07.080 --> 00:32:12.120
So I think that he kind of
re-emerged in Stephen's life

578
00:32:12.120 --> 00:32:14.520
at a time when he needed a goal.

579
00:32:14.600 --> 00:32:17.960
[tense music continues]

580
00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:24.600
[dramatic orchestral music]

581
00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:33.040
- Susan Rushworth had
grown up on the outskirts

582
00:32:33.120 --> 00:32:35.760
of Bradford in a very loving family.

583
00:32:35.840 --> 00:32:38.240
She had loving parents,
she had a brother.

584
00:32:38.320 --> 00:32:41.920
She was a very quiet, in some
ways, quite vulnerable girl.

585
00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:44.880
- I know mutual friends.

586
00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:47.440
I've talked to her brother.

587
00:32:47.520 --> 00:32:50.840
She just literally went
down the wrong track.

588
00:32:50.920 --> 00:32:53.560
It was all going so well for Susan.

589
00:32:53.640 --> 00:32:56.480
She was married, she had children.

590
00:32:56.560 --> 00:32:58.120
She was a grandma.

591
00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:00.680
[dramatic orchestral music continues]

592
00:33:00.760 --> 00:33:02.200
- But then the marriage failed.

593
00:33:02.280 --> 00:33:04.720
And I think that was a
turning point for Susan.

594
00:33:04.800 --> 00:33:06.760
She didn't really recover.

595
00:33:06.840 --> 00:33:09.400
I think she suffered from depression.

596
00:33:09.480 --> 00:33:12.280
I think her life began
to unravel at that point.

597
00:33:13.120 --> 00:33:14.440
She began taking drugs.

598
00:33:14.520 --> 00:33:17.160
The drugs got harder
ending with heroin.

599
00:33:17.240 --> 00:33:18.560
She became an addict.

600
00:33:18.560 --> 00:33:20.120
[tense music]

601
00:33:20.120 --> 00:33:23.200
- And when she needed
drugs, she sold sex.

602
00:33:24.520 --> 00:33:28.600
Susan's mum adored her,
she was really close

603
00:33:28.600 --> 00:33:29.760
with her brother.

604
00:33:29.760 --> 00:33:32.640
And yet her brother used to see her
on the streets selling sex

605
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:34.440
and used to wind the window
down and say, Susan,

606
00:33:34.520 --> 00:33:36.240
you can't keep doing this.

607
00:33:36.320 --> 00:33:38.800
And she'd promise and
promise to get clean.

608
00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:40.120
And she did.

609
00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:42.640
And then some other
disaster would happen

610
00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:46.560
and she would fall foul to
heroin and crack cocaine.

611
00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:49.920
[tense music]

612
00:33:51.520 --> 00:33:54.720
- I was really fortunate
that I got off the streets

613
00:33:54.800 --> 00:33:58.320
just before they were swarmed
with crack cocaine and heroin,

614
00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:03.320
which was in the sort of
late-'80s, early-'90s.

615
00:34:03.320 --> 00:34:06.240
And certainly the women
I've worked with, certainly

616
00:34:06.320 --> 00:34:08.720
on the streets, the
vast majority have

617
00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:12.840
a very high addiction to
crack cocaine and heroin.

618
00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:16.720
And that must be, I
can't even imagine

619
00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:20.160
because the day I got into
the sex trade,

620
00:34:22.560 --> 00:34:25.000
I lost me.

621
00:34:25.040 --> 00:34:26.920
I wasn't Fiona anymore.

622
00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:28.360
I became an object.

623
00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:32.480
I completely
disassociated from myself.

624
00:34:32.560 --> 00:34:37.000
With an addiction on top
of the kind of emotional

625
00:34:37.080 --> 00:34:39.840
and mental torture you're living with

626
00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:45.120
is almost impossible

627
00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:48.200
to get away from.

628
00:34:49.160 --> 00:34:52.240
[tense music]

629
00:34:52.640 --> 00:34:54.520
- Susan was a little
bit older than many

630
00:34:54.600 --> 00:34:57.520
of the women who worked
the Red Light district.

631
00:34:57.600 --> 00:34:59.200
She was 43.

632
00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:03.160
It was actually a good time for
her because she'd made a bit

633
00:35:03.240 --> 00:35:05.280
of a recovery in her
battle against heroin.

634
00:35:05.360 --> 00:35:08.160
And she was actually planning to
go on holiday with her family.

635
00:35:08.240 --> 00:35:12.400
Normality had begun to sort of seem
like a realistic goal for her.

636
00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:18.440
However, in June, 2009, she
went off to see a friend

637
00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:21.120
and was never seen again.

638
00:35:22.080 --> 00:35:25.400
[tense music continues]

639
00:35:28.080 --> 00:35:31.880
- She planned to go into town
and pick up her methadone.

640
00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:35.720
And after a week, the
family began to get worried.

641
00:35:35.720 --> 00:35:37.840
Not only had she not
picked the methadone up,

642
00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:39.520
she hadn't been in contact,

643
00:35:39.600 --> 00:35:42.160
but they knew that she wouldn't
have her epilepsy tablets,

644
00:35:42.240 --> 00:35:44.240
which she desperately needed.

645
00:35:44.240 --> 00:35:45.840
And so they called the police.

646
00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:48.080
[tense music continues]

647
00:35:48.080 --> 00:35:49.800
- When missing people
come in, it's something

648
00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:52.840
that is treated with
real seriousness,

649
00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:54.880
because what you don't
want, the worst case

650
00:35:54.960 --> 00:35:58.360
is someone is murdered
or is kidnapped.

651
00:35:58.440 --> 00:35:59.600
You start with the family.

652
00:35:59.600 --> 00:36:01.120
You ask the questions,
where are the places

653
00:36:01.200 --> 00:36:02.640
that they may visit.

654
00:36:02.640 --> 00:36:05.440
Maybe that you are trying
to do electronic tracing

655
00:36:05.520 --> 00:36:07.000
round the telephone number.

656
00:36:07.080 --> 00:36:10.640
And also trying to look at any CCTV
that you may be able to find.

657
00:36:10.640 --> 00:36:12.480
[tense music continues]

658
00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:13.920
- There was a police appeal.

659
00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:15.640
There was a police dragnet.

660
00:36:15.720 --> 00:36:19.360
They carried out
door-to-door inquiries,

661
00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:22.760
they put up posters,
they contacted the press,

662
00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:25.120
but there's absolutely
no sign of Susan.

663
00:36:25.200 --> 00:36:28.080
There appeared to be no
activity on her phone

664
00:36:28.160 --> 00:36:31.200
or credit card after the
day of her disappearance.

665
00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:34.960
[tense music continues]

666
00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:40.520
By the 24th of May, 2010 Susan
Rushworth had been missing

667
00:36:40.560 --> 00:36:41.960
for a year.

668
00:36:42.040 --> 00:36:45.360
[tense music continues]

669
00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:52.720
- We know that he's got a crossbow,

670
00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:54.720
and they're extremely lethal.

671
00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:57.040
It'll just go straight through you.

672
00:36:57.120 --> 00:36:58.600
- It was established that we'd need

673
00:36:58.680 --> 00:37:02.440
to do a planned firearms operation
to arrest the individual.

674
00:37:03.400 --> 00:37:05.080
Griffiths had previous convictions

675
00:37:05.160 --> 00:37:07.720
for offences including violence.

676
00:37:08.600 --> 00:37:10.800
He was otherwise so
dangerous so that he needed

677
00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:13.240
to be arrested by
specialist armed officers,

678
00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:15.880
and there was even a preemptive
taser strike authorized

679
00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:18.080
by the Silver Commander on Griffith.

680
00:37:18.080 --> 00:37:20.200
[tense music continues]

681
00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:23.000
- This is a sort of a
method to control somebody

682
00:37:23.080 --> 00:37:25.120
who you think might be violent,

683
00:37:25.120 --> 00:37:27.920
and it's really to protect them.

684
00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:30.800
We know that this
guy's got a crossbow,

685
00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:33.400
we know he has caused
harm to this female,

686
00:37:33.400 --> 00:37:35.480
and we know this female is in danger.

687
00:37:36.560 --> 00:37:40.720
So our job is to go in there
and essentially rescue her.

688
00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:42.640
And we needed to get it done

689
00:37:42.640 --> 00:37:44.200
as quickly as possible.

690
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:49.280
[tense music continues]

691
00:37:54.280 --> 00:37:56.560
Our role that day was
to do what's called

692
00:37:56.640 --> 00:37:59.560
an emergency entry, which
is the most dangerous entry

693
00:37:59.640 --> 00:38:01.560
you can do as a firearms team.

694
00:38:01.560 --> 00:38:03.800
But we were so limited in our options

695
00:38:03.880 --> 00:38:06.640
because obviously we've
got a female that we assume

696
00:38:06.640 --> 00:38:10.520
is under duress and is being harmed.

697
00:38:10.600 --> 00:38:14.400
So what we'll do in an
emergency entry situation

698
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:17.880
is we will try and
overwhelm the suspect.

699
00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:21.360
[tense music continues]

700
00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:38.840
- Stephen Griffiths lived on
the third floor of this block.

701
00:38:38.920 --> 00:38:41.240
He was a bit of a loner,
bit of an oddball.

702
00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:44.400
- He was also very socially isolated,

703
00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:47.200
so he didn't like to
spend time with people.

704
00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:50.600
If he was seen out and about,
it was usually at night.

705
00:38:51.880 --> 00:38:54.920
- He dressed almost
in a gothic manner,

706
00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:58.840
a full length matrix
style, black leather coat.

707
00:38:58.920 --> 00:39:00.520
He slicked his hair back.

708
00:39:00.600 --> 00:39:02.240
It was in ringlets.

709
00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:04.600
- He had Nile monitor lizards.

710
00:39:04.680 --> 00:39:07.760
He would walk them in
the corridors on a lead.

711
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:09.760
He would take them to
nightclubs in a bag

712
00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:12.680
and show off amongst the
other nightclub revelers.

713
00:39:12.760 --> 00:39:17.200
And he used to feed them
on live mice and rats,

714
00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:22.720
which he kept and bred in a
cage at the back of his flat.

715
00:39:23.600 --> 00:39:27.440
[tense music continues]

716
00:39:27.520 --> 00:39:30.480
- Stephen Griffith had
amassed this huge library

717
00:39:30.560 --> 00:39:35.560
of macabre books about
murder, murderers, Nazis,

718
00:39:35.720 --> 00:39:38.320
terrorists, Satanists.

719
00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:42.600
[tense music continues]

720
00:39:45.600 --> 00:39:49.320
He got himself on a PhD
course at Bradford University

721
00:39:49.400 --> 00:39:52.360
with a specialization
in local history.

722
00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:55.840
He wanted to study homicide
and lethal violence

723
00:39:55.920 --> 00:40:00.320
in Bradford during the second
half of the 19th century.

724
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:03.280
[tense music continues]

725
00:40:03.360 --> 00:40:07.080
- Stephen cocooned himself
in a world of serial killers.

726
00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:11.360
Not only was he studying it
and studying it intensely,

727
00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:15.160
but he decided to take
the topic of homicide

728
00:40:15.240 --> 00:40:17.280
in Victorian Bradford.

729
00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:19.160
So the area he was living in.

730
00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:22.120
[tense music continues]

731
00:40:22.200 --> 00:40:26.880
It was almost like he was
studying the evolution

732
00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:31.800
of crime within that area
so that he could become part

733
00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:34.840
of that evolution and
become part of that history.

734
00:40:34.840 --> 00:40:36.560
[tense music continues]

735
00:40:36.640 --> 00:40:41.080
- He was interested in mass
shootings at schools in America.

736
00:40:41.160 --> 00:40:42.920
He was interested in cannibalism

737
00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:46.160
and he made references
to all those subjects

738
00:40:46.160 --> 00:40:48.160
on his MySpace page.

739
00:40:48.240 --> 00:40:50.920
He seemed to use the
internet and MySpace

740
00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:53.560
to promote this kind of alter ego

741
00:40:53.640 --> 00:40:55.240
that he'd invented for himself.

742
00:40:55.240 --> 00:40:57.400
[tense music continues]

743
00:40:57.480 --> 00:41:00.640
- Stephen had a pseudonym
online, which was Ven Pariah.

744
00:41:00.720 --> 00:41:05.600
So Ven it's kind of theorised
that this could be venerable,

745
00:41:05.600 --> 00:41:08.240
which means worthy of high respect,

746
00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:10.120
or it could be a
shortening of his name.

747
00:41:10.200 --> 00:41:13.840
Stephen and Pariah is outcast.

748
00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:15.880
[tense music continues]

749
00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:20.800
- Online spaces give us the
opportunity to embrace personas

750
00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:23.120
that are not completely who we are.

751
00:41:23.120 --> 00:41:27.080
They are who we would like
to be or extreme forms

752
00:41:27.080 --> 00:41:30.400
of who an individual could be.

753
00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:31.880
[tense music continues]

754
00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:34.920
- He's got lots of very
interesting quotes online

755
00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:37.200
from himself in this persona

756
00:41:37.200 --> 00:41:40.680
where he's kind of describing Stephen

757
00:41:40.760 --> 00:41:45.320
as more like a vessel to
carry him, Ven Pariah,

758
00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:48.320
the demon through the
world and through life.

759
00:41:48.400 --> 00:41:51.720
[tense music continues]

760
00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:56.120
- [Stephen] "Humanity is not
merely a biological condition,

761
00:41:56.200 --> 00:41:58.520
it is also a state of mind.

762
00:41:58.600 --> 00:42:02.160
On that basis I am a
pseudo human being at best.

763
00:42:02.240 --> 00:42:04.480
A demon at worst."

764
00:42:04.560 --> 00:42:08.480
- So we see a real splitting
here of Stephen's personality.

765
00:42:12.200 --> 00:42:14.560
There was nothing really challenging

766
00:42:14.560 --> 00:42:16.840
that world that he created.

767
00:42:17.640 --> 00:42:21.200
So it was very hard to step outside

768
00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:23.800
of that and kind of
have that wake up call

769
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:25.000
that this isn't reality,

770
00:42:25.080 --> 00:42:27.000
and there's something wrong with me.

771
00:42:27.080 --> 00:42:30.400
[tense music continues]

772
00:42:35.680 --> 00:42:39.040
- [Stephen] Ven Pariah has
finally emerged into the world.

773
00:42:39.120 --> 00:42:42.320
What will this pseudo-human
do, one wonders.

774
00:42:43.400 --> 00:42:44.680
Poor Stephen.

775
00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:48.480
Pretended to be me, but
he was only the wrapping.

776
00:42:48.560 --> 00:42:50.400
He knew, towards the end,

777
00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:52.880
that I supplied the
inner core of iron.

778
00:42:53.720 --> 00:42:57.120
Hatred bound tightly in flesh.

779
00:42:57.200 --> 00:43:00.960
At very long last, the
time has come to act out.

780
00:43:01.040 --> 00:43:02.920
Think about the number four.

781
00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:04.920
Maybe add a couple more.

782
00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:07.480
All of this before the war.

783
00:43:07.560 --> 00:43:12.360
Ven Pariah embraces destiny
and he still smiles.

784
00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:15.600
[tense music continues]

785
00:43:24.640 --> 00:43:27.800
- There's a large
movement now of resources

786
00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:29.680
that have to go to Homefield court.

787
00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:33.240
An awful lot of firearms,
cars, a fleet of vehicles.

788
00:43:33.320 --> 00:43:34.720
You need to make sure
you've got enough

789
00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:36.880
to surround the whole house.

790
00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:39.680
- The team amassed at the property.

791
00:43:41.200 --> 00:43:42.720
They went up the stairs.

792
00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:45.440
We had a method of entry
device that we used

793
00:43:45.520 --> 00:43:47.680
to go through the door.

794
00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:50.520
There was a shout from a bedroom.

795
00:43:50.600 --> 00:43:54.480
Team rapidly entered
into the bedroom,

796
00:43:54.480 --> 00:43:57.040
and he was overwhelmed immediately.

797
00:43:57.040 --> 00:43:58.480
[tense music continues]

798
00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:00.400
- Griffith didn't
put up any resistance

799
00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:02.320
to the armed police whatsoever.

800
00:44:02.400 --> 00:44:04.400
When the police officers
entered his flat,

801
00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:07.080
he introduced himself
as Osama bin Laden.

802
00:44:07.080 --> 00:44:09.400
[tense music continues]

803
00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:13.000
- Once he was cuffed, he
went from being compliant

804
00:44:13.080 --> 00:44:15.800
to being haughty and quite cocky

805
00:44:16.760 --> 00:44:20.120
and quite sneering at officers.

806
00:44:20.120 --> 00:44:23.840
[tense music continues]

807
00:44:24.760 --> 00:44:27.160
I think he was arrested for assault

808
00:44:27.240 --> 00:44:29.720
because we had nothing
else other than that.

809
00:44:29.720 --> 00:44:32.160
[tense music continues]

810
00:44:32.160 --> 00:44:34.360
- After he's arrested
by the armed team

811
00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:35.920
he'd be removed from the flat.

812
00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:37.280
One of the things
that really stood out

813
00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:40.560
was that there was
obvious signs of violence

814
00:44:40.560 --> 00:44:42.760
that taken place in the flat.

815
00:44:42.760 --> 00:44:44.560
[tense music continues]

816
00:44:44.640 --> 00:44:46.880
- Bear in mind these
firearms officers go

817
00:44:46.960 --> 00:44:49.920
to all sorts of scenarios
and all sorts of places.

818
00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:51.880
They said that there was
something that made the hair

819
00:44:51.960 --> 00:44:53.960
on the back of the neck stand up.

820
00:44:54.040 --> 00:44:56.800
It was something quite
unsettling about the apartment.

821
00:44:56.880 --> 00:45:00.200
There was a duvet that was
burning in the bathtub.

822
00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:03.600
There was a strange sort
of smell, like rotten meat.

823
00:45:03.680 --> 00:45:05.240
There was blood smeared everywhere,

824
00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:07.960
crossbow holes in the wall
where he'd been using it

825
00:45:08.040 --> 00:45:09.480
as target practice.

826
00:45:10.760 --> 00:45:13.360
- There was a crossbow
also located in the flat,

827
00:45:13.440 --> 00:45:15.840
which was seized by
the officers as well.

828
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:19.240
[tense music continues]

829
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:23.240
- The search through the apartment

830
00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:25.560
was made by the
officers for the female,

831
00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:28.760
which was of course, the goal.

832
00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:32.240
And sadly, there was no
female in the apartment.

833
00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:36.280
[tense music continues]

834
00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:37.320
That's why why we're there.

835
00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:39.400
We're there to save that girl.

836
00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:41.920
And, you know, we were all gutted.

837
00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:43.720
Unfortunately we were just too late.

838
00:45:43.800 --> 00:45:46.240
We didn't get the report
until Monday morning.

839
00:45:48.440 --> 00:45:50.240
Yeah, we were gutted.

840
00:45:50.240 --> 00:45:51.760
We were gutted.

841
00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:55.080
[tense music continues]

842
00:46:04.120 --> 00:46:08.720
- Shelly Armitage was
a beautiful young girl.

843
00:46:08.720 --> 00:46:09.840
She looked like a model.

844
00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:11.440
She wanted to be a model.

845
00:46:11.520 --> 00:46:13.360
She was confident.

846
00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:17.440
One always thinks about
girls who have been groomed

847
00:46:17.520 --> 00:46:19.760
as being the weak, quiet ones.

848
00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:21.080
It isn't that.

849
00:46:21.160 --> 00:46:22.800
It's, it's the confident ones.

850
00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:26.880
The gregarious ones, the
ones who dare to skip school.

851
00:46:29.040 --> 00:46:32.040
- She'd ended up
becoming a heroin addict.

852
00:46:32.040 --> 00:46:37.200
And in order to fund that
habit had taken to sex work.

853
00:46:40.520 --> 00:46:46.160
- Shelly was so loved by her
family, her mom, her dad,

854
00:46:46.720 --> 00:46:49.400
and yet they couldn't help her.

855
00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:55.520
So many times, Shelly came back home,

856
00:46:55.600 --> 00:46:57.160
and they never judged her.

857
00:46:57.240 --> 00:47:01.480
And time after time, they gave
this beautiful young woman

858
00:47:01.560 --> 00:47:05.160
who could have had
everything at her feet,

859
00:47:05.240 --> 00:47:09.760
the opportunity to beat the drugs

860
00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:11.880
that were absolutely killing her.

861
00:47:13.200 --> 00:47:16.840
[dramatic orchestral music]

862
00:47:31.600 --> 00:47:36.720
- This CCTV camera catches Shelly
working the red-light area.

863
00:47:36.800 --> 00:47:39.600
She's just walking up and
down looking for punters,

864
00:47:39.680 --> 00:47:42.960
basically looking for many
cars who are looking for sex.

865
00:47:42.960 --> 00:47:44.960
And she seems in good spirits.

866
00:47:45.920 --> 00:47:47.920
- She's got a certain
swagger with her.

867
00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:50.240
She's pulling the cardigan

868
00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:53.920
as she walks past Griffith's home.

869
00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:58.520
And to me, that, that
moving image sticks with me.

870
00:47:58.520 --> 00:48:00.880
And that's the image
I was asked to put out

871
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:02.400
on our news programme.

872
00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:04.360
Have you seen this girl?

873
00:48:06.440 --> 00:48:08.320
- I would emphasize
that this is a missing

874
00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:09.600
from home inquiry.

875
00:48:09.680 --> 00:48:12.560
The appeal from myself
is for Shelley or anybody

876
00:48:12.640 --> 00:48:14.600
that may know Shelley
to contact the police

877
00:48:14.680 --> 00:48:17.560
so I can in turn update the
family and bring some calm

878
00:48:17.640 --> 00:48:21.160
to the anxiety that the family
are suffering at the moment.

879
00:48:21.640 --> 00:48:25.560
[tense music]

880
00:48:33.240 --> 00:48:36.280
- Every day in the life
or in the sex trade,

881
00:48:36.360 --> 00:48:42.120
you would expect to have at
least one or two men hurt you.

882
00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:50.160
Some of the guys become
regulars, so you see them,

883
00:48:50.240 --> 00:48:51.760
you see them walking up and down.

884
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:53.080
They might live in the community

885
00:48:53.160 --> 00:48:55.600
that you are selling yourself in.

886
00:48:57.000 --> 00:48:59.400
They don't present as monsters.

887
00:48:59.480 --> 00:49:01.160
They're ordinary men,

888
00:49:01.240 --> 00:49:05.120
which is why you can
never ever make it safe

889
00:49:05.200 --> 00:49:10.000
because you never know when
they're going to murder you.

890
00:49:10.040 --> 00:49:12.560
You never know when they're
going to attack you and rape you.

891
00:49:13.840 --> 00:49:17.000
They're often smiley and friendly,

892
00:49:17.080 --> 00:49:21.920
but what lies beneath
that you just don't know.

893
00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:26.120
[tense music continues]

894
00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:30.040
- Griffiths knew the territory

895
00:49:30.040 --> 00:49:31.960
and he knew quite a lot of the women,

896
00:49:31.960 --> 00:49:34.960
and he had friendships,
rather ambiguous friendships

897
00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:36.160
with some of the women.

898
00:49:36.160 --> 00:49:39.320
He would go and talk to them,
share a cigarette with them.

899
00:49:39.400 --> 00:49:41.400
He would bring some of
them back to his flat.

900
00:49:41.480 --> 00:49:43.080
He certainly had sex
with some of them.

901
00:49:44.240 --> 00:49:47.400
- Griffiths was seen as
maybe just a little bit

902
00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:49.600
of an outsider, slightly unusual,

903
00:49:49.680 --> 00:49:52.600
but potentially not such a threat.

904
00:49:52.600 --> 00:49:55.600
- [Reporter] This prostitute,
who didn't want to be identified,

905
00:49:55.680 --> 00:49:57.520
says he's well known in the area.

906
00:49:57.520 --> 00:49:59.800
- [Speaker] He used to like
come up to us, talk to us,

907
00:49:59.800 --> 00:50:01.240
say that he'd been out for drinks

908
00:50:01.240 --> 00:50:04.280
at student nightclubs,
offer cigarettes.

909
00:50:04.280 --> 00:50:06.400
He were nice to me really.

910
00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:08.560
- Stephen was very good

911
00:50:08.640 --> 00:50:12.400
at knowing people's
vulnerabilities, knowing people

912
00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:15.840
who needed something,
and he was really tapping

913
00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:18.080
into what these women needed,

914
00:50:18.080 --> 00:50:21.120
whether it was just
a nice cup of tea,

915
00:50:21.200 --> 00:50:24.520
a bit of companionship,
a chat over a cigarette.

916
00:50:24.520 --> 00:50:27.280
He was trying to paint himself

917
00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:31.000
as kind of like a harmless
character, a friend,

918
00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:32.760
so that they trusted him.

919
00:50:33.800 --> 00:50:37.480
I kind of see Stephen as
a bit of a hunter, really.

920
00:50:37.560 --> 00:50:41.080
And the red light district
was his hunting ground,

921
00:50:41.160 --> 00:50:44.120
and these women were his prey,

922
00:50:44.200 --> 00:50:47.680
and he's using these
strategies to lure them in,

923
00:50:47.760 --> 00:50:50.960
to put them at ease,
to make his job easier.

924
00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:52.120
The sad thing is that this

925
00:50:52.200 --> 00:50:55.000
would've made it so
much more shocking

926
00:50:55.080 --> 00:50:56.600
for them when they got to his flat

927
00:50:56.680 --> 00:50:59.800
and he'd suddenly turned
from this kind companion

928
00:50:59.880 --> 00:51:02.680
to someone who was going
to take their lives.

929
00:51:02.760 --> 00:51:04.560
[tense music continues]

930
00:51:04.640 --> 00:51:08.360
- [Reporter] Griffiths himself paid
for the services of prostitutes.

931
00:51:08.440 --> 00:51:10.720
One who didn't want
to be identified said

932
00:51:10.800 --> 00:51:13.000
his behavior could be frightening.

933
00:51:13.080 --> 00:51:14.800
- [Speaker] That always
made me nervous.

934
00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:18.280
When you were outside it were
really nice or can I help you

935
00:51:18.360 --> 00:51:20.240
with that love blah de blah de blah.

936
00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:21.880
But then when you got inside,

937
00:51:21.960 --> 00:51:25.640
it was like you weren't
a human being no more.

938
00:51:25.720 --> 00:51:27.360
He owned you.
You were piece of meat.

939
00:51:27.440 --> 00:51:29.600
What he were going to
do, what he wanted to do.

940
00:51:29.600 --> 00:51:33.680
[tense music continues]

941
00:51:34.480 --> 00:51:37.840
- Yeah, I think he's got
a real problem with women.

942
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:41.920
He had a relationship with one
lass and she took him to court

943
00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:44.480
because he'd attacked her with a belt

944
00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:47.520
and I think he got found not guilty,

945
00:51:49.040 --> 00:51:51.760
so he celebrated by having a tattoo,

946
00:51:51.760 --> 00:51:53.520
"Diane lost the war."

947
00:51:53.520 --> 00:51:56.480
As if he was celebrating
getting away with it.

948
00:51:56.560 --> 00:51:59.480
And he must have
thought that was clever.

949
00:51:59.560 --> 00:52:05.560
Not an iota of remorse
for that girl or anything.

950
00:52:06.200 --> 00:52:09.520
[tense music continues]

951
00:52:11.040 --> 00:52:14.720
[dramatic orchestral music]

952
00:52:17.800 --> 00:52:22.000
- I met Stephen in my
late-20s walking back

953
00:52:22.080 --> 00:52:24.840
from a club night in Bradford.

954
00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:28.280
I used to have a thing
for men with long hair,

955
00:52:28.360 --> 00:52:31.480
that's all I saw as well
as the intelligence.

956
00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:33.520
And he was a good looking lad though.

957
00:52:35.720 --> 00:52:39.520
He told me years later that
he liked the challenge of me.

958
00:52:41.720 --> 00:52:44.360
I'm fiery. [chuckling]

959
00:52:45.240 --> 00:52:47.720
[tense music]

960
00:52:49.080 --> 00:52:51.160
It's within two and a half weeks

961
00:52:51.240 --> 00:52:54.040
of meeting Stephen
that he first tried

962
00:52:54.120 --> 00:52:58.320
to kill me by putting
a drug in my tea.

963
00:53:00.760 --> 00:53:05.760
I had two dogs and one
night one of my dogs Taz,

964
00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:08.760
part Collie, growled at him.

965
00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:12.600
I then that night
was over at his flat.

966
00:53:13.800 --> 00:53:16.600
And as I was sat and to my
right was the television,

967
00:53:16.680 --> 00:53:18.800
I sat on the floor for
some strange reason

968
00:53:20.080 --> 00:53:23.800
and I looked and thought, what
is going on with the screen?

969
00:53:23.880 --> 00:53:27.960
And I turned to my left and I
could see a smirk on his face.

970
00:53:28.040 --> 00:53:30.640
And he went, "You're starting
to feel the effects, aren't you?"

971
00:53:30.640 --> 00:53:34.240
and he said, "I've poisoned
you, I'm killing you."

972
00:53:36.880 --> 00:53:39.360
I took myself to A&E at Bradford

973
00:53:39.440 --> 00:53:41.840
and they kept me in overnight.

974
00:53:42.480 --> 00:53:47.040
In the morning, went to
my house in Wakefield.

975
00:53:47.120 --> 00:53:50.880
And as we pulled up outside,
the front door was open.

976
00:53:50.880 --> 00:53:52.040
Where's my dogs?

977
00:53:53.240 --> 00:53:57.800
Then my next door neighbour
came in and basically said

978
00:53:57.880 --> 00:53:59.200
to me it was him.

979
00:53:59.280 --> 00:54:01.760
He was here at half
three in the morning.

980
00:54:01.840 --> 00:54:05.880
He came in, went in
and took the dogs.

981
00:54:05.960 --> 00:54:08.120
I completely fell apart.

982
00:54:09.720 --> 00:54:12.760
It totally destroyed
any thought process,

983
00:54:12.840 --> 00:54:14.400
confidence, anything.

984
00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:16.840
And Stephen said to me,
"Look, you best stay

985
00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:18.520
at mine until you've calmed down

986
00:54:18.600 --> 00:54:20.080
and then I can go back to my house."

987
00:54:20.160 --> 00:54:21.760
But then he never let me out again.

988
00:54:21.760 --> 00:54:25.960
[tense music continues]

989
00:54:28.080 --> 00:54:30.400
He was with me permanently

990
00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:34.280
unless he went to do
studying at the university,

991
00:54:34.360 --> 00:54:35.880
then I were locked in anyway.

992
00:54:37.000 --> 00:54:40.720
[tense music continues]

993
00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:46.240
Daily life just consisted
of walking on eggshells

994
00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:50.760
and looking to see if,
what his mood was like.

995
00:54:50.760 --> 00:54:53.000
If I upset Stephen, it would end up

996
00:54:53.080 --> 00:54:58.080
in mental torture or
physical, but not at the time.

997
00:54:59.040 --> 00:55:01.440
It can be a week or
so later or a few days

998
00:55:01.520 --> 00:55:04.440
and he'll ask you a
question, a leading question.

999
00:55:04.440 --> 00:55:05.600
And if you don't come back

1000
00:55:05.600 --> 00:55:08.600
with exactly the right
thing he'd remember.

1001
00:55:10.920 --> 00:55:12.240
He broke my nose.

1002
00:55:12.240 --> 00:55:14.480
He stabbed me, he's burnt me.

1003
00:55:14.480 --> 00:55:15.720
Oh, all sorts.

1004
00:55:15.720 --> 00:55:19.840
But, they're easy to deal
with because it's over with.

1005
00:55:19.840 --> 00:55:23.960
It's the mental torture
that's horrendous.

1006
00:55:24.400 --> 00:55:27.720
[tense music continues]

1007
00:55:31.360 --> 00:55:34.160
It was his ex-girlfriend
of his that took me

1008
00:55:34.240 --> 00:55:37.240
to the domestic violence
unit in Bradford

1009
00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:42.520
who then told me what I was going
to do to get away from him.

1010
00:55:42.600 --> 00:55:44.720
[tense music continues]

1011
00:55:44.800 --> 00:55:47.680
- Although the relationship
was quite brief,

1012
00:55:47.760 --> 00:55:50.320
Kathy spent probably the best part

1013
00:55:50.400 --> 00:55:53.680
of seven years trying to
shake Stephen Griffiths off.

1014
00:55:54.280 --> 00:55:55.400
[phone whooshing]

1015
00:55:55.400 --> 00:56:00.200
- [Automated Voice] Message
two, Saturday 10:23 a.m.

1016
00:56:00.200 --> 00:56:02.160
- [Stephen] Don't make
me do this, Kathy.

1017
00:56:02.160 --> 00:56:04.600
I swear to God all I did
was ring your mum and dad,

1018
00:56:04.680 --> 00:56:06.600
and I sent you some nasty texts,

1019
00:56:06.680 --> 00:56:08.840
that's all I did 'cause
you pissed me off.

1020
00:56:11.680 --> 00:56:14.120
You've got so many enemies there

1021
00:56:14.200 --> 00:56:16.400
and you want to add me to them.

1022
00:56:16.480 --> 00:56:18.440
I don't want to have
to do that to you.

1023
00:56:20.680 --> 00:56:22.560
- [sighing]

1024
00:56:22.560 --> 00:56:27.200
Getting away from
Stephen was half the battle.

1025
00:56:27.600 --> 00:56:32.400
The other half was him
pursuing my parents,

1026
00:56:32.480 --> 00:56:34.200
going to my friends.

1027
00:56:34.280 --> 00:56:39.280
He's slashed tyres on my cars
on on numerous occasions.

1028
00:56:39.960 --> 00:56:44.960
He contacted the
RSPCA, benefits people,

1029
00:56:45.240 --> 00:56:48.520
told the government I
was importing cigarettes

1030
00:56:48.600 --> 00:56:51.040
from going abroad, anything he could.

1031
00:56:51.040 --> 00:56:52.280
[tense music]

1032
00:56:52.280 --> 00:56:54.080
[computer chiming]

1033
00:57:02.680 --> 00:57:06.160
- He sent voicemail
after voicemail to Kathy,

1034
00:57:06.240 --> 00:57:09.200
just harassing her and not
letting her escape him.

1035
00:57:09.200 --> 00:57:10.320
[phone whooshing]

1036
00:57:10.320 --> 00:57:15.320
- [Automated Voice] Message five.
Wednesday 11:46 p.m.

1037
00:57:15.400 --> 00:57:17.640
- [Stephen] I really
miss you as well, Kathy.

1038
00:57:17.640 --> 00:57:20.800
You've had the police onto me,
but I still care about you.

1039
00:57:22.120 --> 00:57:25.000
- He's trying to gain
control of the situation.

1040
00:57:25.080 --> 00:57:29.320
He really can't cope with the
fact that she has escaped him.

1041
00:57:29.320 --> 00:57:34.320
- [Automated Voice] Message one.
Saturday 8:38 a.m.

1042
00:57:34.320 --> 00:57:36.240
- [Stephen] If you're gonna
blame me for doing things

1043
00:57:36.320 --> 00:57:38.560
to you, then I might as
well start doing things

1044
00:57:38.640 --> 00:57:40.120
to you, all right?

1045
00:57:40.200 --> 00:57:43.480
I demand an explanation,
and I will not fucking stop

1046
00:57:43.560 --> 00:57:45.720
until I get that, okay?

1047
00:57:45.720 --> 00:57:47.440
That's all I want.

1048
00:57:47.520 --> 00:57:49.400
[tense music]

1049
00:57:49.400 --> 00:57:53.440
- He rang me up one
night distraught, almost

1050
00:57:53.760 --> 00:57:59.720
begging me to help but
to not tell the authorities.

1051
00:57:59.760 --> 00:58:02.360
[tense music]

1052
00:58:02.360 --> 00:58:04.720
And then he told me
that what he'd done

1053
00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:11.280
is he'd decided to steal
a puppy, feed it Valium.

1054
00:58:11.880 --> 00:58:14.120
And he wanted to dock its tail

1055
00:58:14.480 --> 00:58:17.920
and do the ears like
pit bulls in America.

1056
00:58:19.000 --> 00:58:21.440
And what he said was,
he'd gone too far.

1057
00:58:21.520 --> 00:58:24.000
[tense music]

1058
00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:27.840
- This is one of the
worst letters I received.

1059
00:58:28.640 --> 00:58:31.480
- [Mum] The next thing is
about your brother Sean.

1060
00:58:31.560 --> 00:58:34.360
He's shoplifting and
thieving big style now.

1061
00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:37.480
Last weekend he stole
an eight-week old puppy.

1062
00:58:37.560 --> 00:58:40.920
He docked its tail, which
he said was successful,

1063
00:58:41.000 --> 00:58:43.720
but when he tried to clip her
ears to make 'em stand up,

1064
00:58:43.800 --> 00:58:44.800
it went wrong.

1065
00:58:44.880 --> 00:58:48.640
So he cut them both off and
when I say off, I mean off.

1066
00:58:48.640 --> 00:58:52.560
Then he told us he'd bought
it for us for Christmas.

1067
00:58:52.560 --> 00:58:55.840
- I begged him for me
to drive from Wakefield

1068
00:58:55.920 --> 00:58:59.000
to Bradford to pick this puppy up

1069
00:58:59.000 --> 00:59:01.000
and deal with the situation.

1070
00:59:02.240 --> 00:59:05.560
I went straight to his dad's
and banged on the door.

1071
00:59:05.560 --> 00:59:07.200
[tense music]

1072
00:59:07.200 --> 00:59:09.320
- [Mum] I don't know
how you feel about it,

1073
00:59:09.400 --> 00:59:10.400
but we were disgusted

1074
00:59:10.480 --> 00:59:13.360
and so upset when we saw
the poor little thing.

1075
00:59:13.440 --> 00:59:16.240
Sean thinks he did well
letting it live because

1076
00:59:16.320 --> 00:59:19.040
as he said to your dad, he
could have microwaved it.

1077
00:59:19.120 --> 00:59:21.040
We cared for the dog
for a couple of days

1078
00:59:21.120 --> 00:59:24.120
before she went to the
vets to be rehomed.

1079
00:59:24.120 --> 00:59:26.840
Kathy says he's losing the
plot and going downhill fast.

1080
00:59:27.600 --> 00:59:29.640
For your dad's sake,
I hope she's wrong.

1081
00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:34.160
- I was horrified,
horrified, shocked.

1082
00:59:36.080 --> 00:59:38.760
I knew he was capable of that
kind of thing but, you know,

1083
00:59:38.760 --> 00:59:40.120
to see it written down.

1084
00:59:41.480 --> 00:59:44.840
[tense music continues]

1085
00:59:48.280 --> 00:59:52.680
- This, for me, feels very
much a manipulative behaviour

1086
00:59:52.760 --> 00:59:56.960
and a way to tap into
Kathy's vulnerabilities.

1087
00:59:58.200 --> 00:59:59.800
This also shows us that Stephen

1088
00:59:59.880 --> 01:00:03.160
knows other people have
emotion and they have empathy,

1089
01:00:03.240 --> 01:00:05.920
and they don't like
to see animals hurt.

1090
01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:09.360
And I think he's using
that to lure Kathy in.

1091
01:00:09.440 --> 01:00:12.760
[tense music continues]

1092
01:00:17.200 --> 01:00:20.760
- 2008, gone to Turkey for
two weeks and ended up staying

1093
01:00:20.840 --> 01:00:22.840
for three months just because it

1094
01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:24.880
was like a different life and relief.

1095
01:00:24.960 --> 01:00:29.880
And then I came back to
England to slag being written

1096
01:00:29.960 --> 01:00:34.560
on the wall and all of my
windows painted bright yellow.

1097
01:00:35.520 --> 01:00:37.160
I ended up getting a court order,

1098
01:00:37.240 --> 01:00:40.200
a non-molestation
order to keep him away.

1099
01:00:40.200 --> 01:00:42.680
I had a police alarm in my flat,

1100
01:00:42.760 --> 01:00:45.480
they'd blocked up the letter box.

1101
01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:48.280
[tense music]

1102
01:00:53.040 --> 01:00:56.360
When you get a court order
at that point in time,

1103
01:00:56.440 --> 01:00:57.840
they were for a year.

1104
01:00:57.920 --> 01:00:59.800
So they run out at midnight,

1105
01:00:59.880 --> 01:01:03.680
and the only time
throughout most of this

1106
01:01:03.680 --> 01:01:08.720
where I've been almost frozen
to the spot through fear

1107
01:01:09.480 --> 01:01:15.080
was when he left a message
at about 3:25 in the morning.

1108
01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:17.280
My answer machine had clicked

1109
01:01:17.360 --> 01:01:19.560
before I could get
to answer the phone.

1110
01:01:19.640 --> 01:01:22.680
So I get halfway across my front room

1111
01:01:22.680 --> 01:01:27.800
and then there's just this
noise that went on and on.

1112
01:01:28.080 --> 01:01:29.680
[tense music continues]

1113
01:01:29.680 --> 01:01:34.960
- [Automated Voice] Message seven.
Thursday 3:23 a.m.

1114
01:01:34.960 --> 01:01:40.360
[Stephen laughing]
[tense music]

1115
01:01:55.080 --> 01:01:58.480
- At the time my court order
had ran out at midnight.

1116
01:01:58.560 --> 01:02:03.440
So I assumed he's laughing
because I can't have him arrested.

1117
01:02:04.920 --> 01:02:10.680
[Stephen laughing]
[tense music]

1118
01:02:10.680 --> 01:02:14.320
- When I listened to it,
it's a very chilling,

1119
01:02:14.400 --> 01:02:17.280
elongated laugh, almost a cackle.

1120
01:02:17.360 --> 01:02:20.560
He's completely lost reality.

1121
01:02:20.640 --> 01:02:23.080
He's somewhere else.

1122
01:02:23.080 --> 01:02:28.720
[Stephen laughing]
[tense music]

1123
01:02:33.960 --> 01:02:36.440
[tense music]

1124
01:02:36.440 --> 01:02:39.400
- We were in the incident
room at the homicide

1125
01:02:39.480 --> 01:02:41.920
and major inquiry team
when we got a call

1126
01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:44.080
that someone had been
arrested in the Bradford area

1127
01:02:44.160 --> 01:02:45.320
for a murder.

1128
01:02:45.320 --> 01:02:49.000
We made our way across to
Halifax police station.

1129
01:02:49.080 --> 01:02:52.120
We were waiting as
Stephen Griffiths came in.

1130
01:02:52.120 --> 01:02:55.360
He started saying all sorts
of significant statements

1131
01:02:55.440 --> 01:02:57.440
like, "I've killed loads
of people," and all sorts

1132
01:02:57.440 --> 01:02:59.080
of things like that.

1133
01:02:59.160 --> 01:03:02.040
We had no idea whether
any of the victims

1134
01:03:02.120 --> 01:03:05.080
were alive or whether
they died or not.

1135
01:03:05.160 --> 01:03:07.520
So we organized for an
urgent interview with him.

1136
01:03:07.600 --> 01:03:10.320
There's no legal
representative present

1137
01:03:10.400 --> 01:03:12.960
and you can only ask
questions where you're hoping

1138
01:03:13.040 --> 01:03:16.160
to save life, or
recover urgent evidence.

1139
01:03:16.160 --> 01:03:19.360
[tense music continues]

1140
01:03:19.440 --> 01:03:22.640
We were in the interview
room me, my sergeant

1141
01:03:22.720 --> 01:03:24.760
and Mr. Griffiths.

1142
01:03:24.840 --> 01:03:27.440
We were asking him is she
still alive and if she is,

1143
01:03:27.520 --> 01:03:30.160
where can we go and find
and help her and rescue her?

1144
01:03:31.200 --> 01:03:33.760
- Griffiths then drops a bombshell.

1145
01:03:33.840 --> 01:03:36.960
He asks whether this Suzanne,
they're asking him about,

1146
01:03:37.040 --> 01:03:38.560
is the one known as Amber.

1147
01:03:39.800 --> 01:03:43.040
And he says that if it
is, then she's gone.

1148
01:03:43.040 --> 01:03:44.400
He uses that word, gone.

1149
01:03:46.920 --> 01:03:49.000
[tense music]

1150
01:03:49.000 --> 01:03:50.760
- More or less straight
away we realised

1151
01:03:50.760 --> 01:03:52.120
that we couldn't carry
on with the interview.

1152
01:03:52.120 --> 01:03:55.760
We'd confirmed that the
person we were looking for

1153
01:03:55.840 --> 01:03:57.320
was not alive.

1154
01:03:57.400 --> 01:04:00.760
[tense music continues]

1155
01:04:01.880 --> 01:04:04.840
He then was then taken back
out to the custody area

1156
01:04:04.920 --> 01:04:07.320
and a solicitor was requested.

1157
01:04:07.400 --> 01:04:09.400
And believe it or not, it
was the same solicitor's firm

1158
01:04:09.480 --> 01:04:11.720
that represented Peter
Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper.

1159
01:04:11.720 --> 01:04:13.600
[tense music continues]

1160
01:04:13.680 --> 01:04:16.240
By this time we were
aware that certain girls

1161
01:04:16.320 --> 01:04:18.080
had gone missing in Bradford area.

1162
01:04:18.080 --> 01:04:19.840
[tense music continues]

1163
01:04:19.920 --> 01:04:21.960
- West Yorkshire police
had spent months trying

1164
01:04:22.040 --> 01:04:25.560
to find Susan Rushworth
and Shelly Armitage.

1165
01:04:27.080 --> 01:04:29.880
- I think as a matter of routine
in these kind of inquiries,

1166
01:04:29.960 --> 01:04:34.000
missing sex workers, the
police compile a list of men,

1167
01:04:34.080 --> 01:04:37.840
punters basically, who they
think might be suspects.

1168
01:04:37.920 --> 01:04:41.160
And I think the police did
exactly that in this situation.

1169
01:04:42.440 --> 01:04:44.560
At no point during the police inquiry

1170
01:04:44.640 --> 01:04:48.840
was Stephen Griffith's
on the radar as a suspect

1171
01:04:48.920 --> 01:04:52.320
in the disappearance or
potential murder of these women.

1172
01:04:54.200 --> 01:04:56.040
They get him into an interview room,

1173
01:04:56.040 --> 01:04:58.080
and they begin questioning him.

1174
01:04:58.080 --> 01:05:00.920
- [Detective] Are you saying
that you've killed Susan Rushworth?

1175
01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:02.040
- Yes.

1176
01:05:02.040 --> 01:05:03.920
- [Detective] And what
was the other name?

1177
01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:05.440
- Shelley Armitage.

1178
01:05:05.960 --> 01:05:07.120
- [Detective] Are you saying

1179
01:05:07.200 --> 01:05:08.600
that you've murdered
Shelley Armitage?

1180
01:05:08.600 --> 01:05:09.760
- Yes.

1181
01:05:09.760 --> 01:05:11.240
- [Detective] And then the last one?

1182
01:05:12.600 --> 01:05:14.200
- Suzanne Blamires.

1183
01:05:15.120 --> 01:05:16.880
- [Detective] Are you
saying you've murdered her?

1184
01:05:17.280 --> 01:05:18.440
- Yes.

1185
01:05:19.240 --> 01:05:22.040
- He told us that he was
responsible for the murder

1186
01:05:22.120 --> 01:05:23.960
of all three victims.

1187
01:05:24.040 --> 01:05:27.000
- [Detective] Why did you
feel the need to kill her?

1188
01:05:28.960 --> 01:05:30.440
- I don't know.

1189
01:05:33.360 --> 01:05:35.440
I don't know.

1190
01:05:35.520 --> 01:05:39.520
Sometimes you kill
someone to kill yourself,

1191
01:05:39.520 --> 01:05:40.840
or kill part of yourself.

1192
01:05:40.840 --> 01:05:42.440
I don't know, I don't know.

1193
01:05:43.400 --> 01:05:46.040
It's like deep issues inside me.

1194
01:05:48.480 --> 01:05:51.240
- It's just quite matter
of fact, it felt in a way

1195
01:05:51.320 --> 01:05:54.640
to me personally a bit
like he'd almost planned

1196
01:05:54.720 --> 01:05:57.960
what he was going to say
if he ever got caught.

1197
01:05:58.840 --> 01:06:00.120
- [Detective] So, why
did you feel the need

1198
01:06:00.120 --> 01:06:01.320
to kill any of the girls?

1199
01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:03.840
- I don't know.
- Pardon?

1200
01:06:03.840 --> 01:06:05.280
- I don't know.

1201
01:06:05.280 --> 01:06:06.600
I don't know.

1202
01:06:09.600 --> 01:06:10.880
Well, I'm misanthropic.

1203
01:06:10.960 --> 01:06:12.800
I don't have much time
for the human race.

1204
01:06:13.640 --> 01:06:17.160
- He was just so controlled
about what he was saying.

1205
01:06:17.240 --> 01:06:19.640
He were going to tell us
what he wanted to tell us.

1206
01:06:21.160 --> 01:06:22.400
- Griffith told officers

1207
01:06:22.480 --> 01:06:26.880
that Susan, his first victim,
was killed with a hammer,

1208
01:06:28.440 --> 01:06:31.960
and he then dismembered her
body with machine tools,

1209
01:06:32.880 --> 01:06:35.520
and he cooked and ate
parts of the flesh.

1210
01:06:36.480 --> 01:06:39.000
[tense music]

1211
01:06:40.200 --> 01:06:43.480
He goes on to say he'd killed
Shelly with a crossbow.

1212
01:06:45.720 --> 01:06:49.000
He told officers that he'd
dismembered her in the bath,

1213
01:06:51.400 --> 01:06:54.800
but he also said they would find
traces of her body on the cooker.

1214
01:06:57.240 --> 01:06:58.960
- Cannibalism is very rare.

1215
01:06:59.040 --> 01:07:00.200
I think for Stephen,

1216
01:07:00.280 --> 01:07:03.680
it was part of this
hunting mentality he had,

1217
01:07:03.760 --> 01:07:07.480
where he would hunt his prey
and then he would eat his prey.

1218
01:07:07.560 --> 01:07:10.920
I think it's the ultimate
form of ownership, though,

1219
01:07:11.000 --> 01:07:12.360
to consume someone.

1220
01:07:14.240 --> 01:07:16.400
[tense music]

1221
01:07:16.400 --> 01:07:17.680
- I've had the discussions

1222
01:07:17.760 --> 01:07:23.080
with Stephen regarding
cannibalism and him saying

1223
01:07:23.080 --> 01:07:26.320
that it's society that says
what you can and can't eat.

1224
01:07:26.400 --> 01:07:29.640
What's justifiably
okay and what isn't.

1225
01:07:29.720 --> 01:07:31.360
So I've had those conversations

1226
01:07:31.440 --> 01:07:35.080
about five years before he
even murdered his first victim.

1227
01:07:36.520 --> 01:07:38.840
And he's told me that
that's the ultimate

1228
01:07:38.920 --> 01:07:42.160
that people cannot
cope with the idea of.

1229
01:07:43.200 --> 01:07:46.040
- Cannibalism goes beyond
breaking a legal rule

1230
01:07:46.120 --> 01:07:48.200
of just killing someone.

1231
01:07:48.280 --> 01:07:52.480
So it adds a degree of
violence

1232
01:07:52.600 --> 01:07:55.480
and almost specialness

1233
01:07:55.880 --> 01:07:57.960
to a violent crime.

1234
01:07:58.040 --> 01:08:01.800
It's like an escalation
of a homicide.

1235
01:08:01.880 --> 01:08:04.360
[tense music]

1236
01:08:07.920 --> 01:08:10.960
- He said he'd killed
Suzanne with a crossbow,

1237
01:08:11.040 --> 01:08:14.880
but, despite giving them
lots of very gory detail,

1238
01:08:14.960 --> 01:08:17.800
Griffiths refused to give
them any helpful information

1239
01:08:17.840 --> 01:08:19.440
about where he'd left the bodies.

1240
01:08:19.880 --> 01:08:22.240
- [Detective] And what sort of
location have you put them in?

1241
01:08:22.240 --> 01:08:23.480
If you can't tell us where,

1242
01:08:23.480 --> 01:08:25.600
what sort of location
have you put them?

1243
01:08:28.720 --> 01:08:29.760
- I don't know.

1244
01:08:29.760 --> 01:08:33.000
Where a robot, where a
computer would put them, or,

1245
01:08:33.080 --> 01:08:37.240
you know, a rational, emotionless

1246
01:08:38.640 --> 01:08:41.840
aberration would put it.

1247
01:08:43.520 --> 01:08:46.640
- We were thinking of the
family of the victims.

1248
01:08:46.720 --> 01:08:49.720
We wanted to try and help find out

1249
01:08:49.800 --> 01:08:52.520
where all the victims were.

1250
01:08:52.600 --> 01:08:54.840
And he wasn't up for doing
that, he was, just wanted

1251
01:08:54.920 --> 01:08:58.480
to give us basic
information to make himself

1252
01:08:58.560 --> 01:09:01.560
a serial killer and then not
pass any more information on.

1253
01:09:04.560 --> 01:09:07.040
- I believe he was
cryptic about what he did

1254
01:09:07.120 --> 01:09:10.440
to the bodies because,
one was that need

1255
01:09:10.520 --> 01:09:13.080
to hold onto some of it himself

1256
01:09:13.160 --> 01:09:14.720
and to withhold some of it just

1257
01:09:14.800 --> 01:09:17.240
for that control he thrives off.

1258
01:09:17.880 --> 01:09:19.840
- After the first
couple of interviews

1259
01:09:19.920 --> 01:09:22.160
he completely refused
to talk to us again.

1260
01:09:22.240 --> 01:09:24.040
Wouldn't even come out of his cell.

1261
01:09:24.120 --> 01:09:25.840
He said, "Well, to
become a serial killer

1262
01:09:25.920 --> 01:09:27.680
you only need to kill three people."

1263
01:09:28.360 --> 01:09:31.280
So he said, "I'm only telling
you about three people."

1264
01:09:31.280 --> 01:09:34.200
[tense music]

1265
01:09:34.280 --> 01:09:37.200
- Stephen had huge aspirations

1266
01:09:37.200 --> 01:09:40.880
to possibly even
outperform Peter Sutcliffe.

1267
01:09:41.960 --> 01:09:47.200
- He believes that Peter
Sutcliffe wasn't as smart

1268
01:09:47.200 --> 01:09:50.080
or clued up as people seem
to think because he used

1269
01:09:50.160 --> 01:09:51.480
to say to me, "Look at the idiot.

1270
01:09:51.560 --> 01:09:53.720
He got caught on something pathetic."

1271
01:09:56.880 --> 01:09:58.720
- In that police interrogation,

1272
01:09:58.800 --> 01:10:02.440
we are kind of seeing
this deflated man

1273
01:10:02.520 --> 01:10:07.160
who looks nothing like
the man we saw in front

1274
01:10:07.240 --> 01:10:08.840
of the CCTV camera.

1275
01:10:08.920 --> 01:10:13.440
Like this huge man with a
crossbow looking scary.

1276
01:10:13.520 --> 01:10:15.040
Like they're complete opposites.

1277
01:10:15.120 --> 01:10:18.760
Stephen's ego would've
been knocked significantly

1278
01:10:18.840 --> 01:10:21.720
by being caught on CCTV camera.

1279
01:10:23.160 --> 01:10:26.280
It wasn't the way he wanted
his reign of terror to end.

1280
01:10:27.200 --> 01:10:29.680
[tense music]

1281
01:10:30.840 --> 01:10:35.680
- After the murder of Suzanne
Blamires he emerges again,

1282
01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:39.400
carrying the crossroad
again, making no attempt

1283
01:10:39.480 --> 01:10:41.440
to hide from the gaze of the camera.

1284
01:10:41.520 --> 01:10:44.840
He raises the crossbow towards
the camera in one hand,

1285
01:10:44.920 --> 01:10:46.280
and raises the other hand

1286
01:10:46.360 --> 01:10:48.920
in a one-fingered gesture of abuse.

1287
01:10:52.400 --> 01:10:54.720
He goes back home and
then he emerges again

1288
01:10:54.800 --> 01:10:57.600
with a bottle of lemonade,
and he raises this

1289
01:10:57.680 --> 01:10:59.640
to the camera again in a toast.

1290
01:10:59.640 --> 01:11:02.360
[tense music]

1291
01:11:02.440 --> 01:11:05.120
- This to me, all seems like an act.

1292
01:11:05.200 --> 01:11:07.840
He wouldn't have liked
that he was caught

1293
01:11:07.920 --> 01:11:10.560
and caught so stupidly and so easily,

1294
01:11:10.640 --> 01:11:12.560
and that the woman he was trying

1295
01:11:12.640 --> 01:11:15.720
to kill had actually been
the one to get him caught.

1296
01:11:15.800 --> 01:11:18.400
So for me, this was
an act of defiance,

1297
01:11:18.480 --> 01:11:22.440
and pretending that he doesn't
care, but he would've cared.

1298
01:11:27.560 --> 01:11:28.800
- During the search of his flat,

1299
01:11:28.880 --> 01:11:33.880
police found a digital
camera and a laptop.

1300
01:11:34.200 --> 01:11:37.920
On those devices were some
incredibly disturbing images,

1301
01:11:38.800 --> 01:11:44.760
a video of Shelly Armitage's
murdered body naked in the bath

1302
01:11:45.880 --> 01:11:51.400
with the words "My sex
slave" written on her flesh.

1303
01:11:52.360 --> 01:11:57.360
Another video showed
another victim's body,

1304
01:11:58.200 --> 01:12:03.040
never identified, which had
been bound in green twine.

1305
01:12:06.360 --> 01:12:09.560
Griffiths provided a sick commentary,

1306
01:12:09.640 --> 01:12:13.880
in which he describes himself
as a bloodbath artist.

1307
01:12:15.320 --> 01:12:17.960
He described Shelly as his assistant.

1308
01:12:17.960 --> 01:12:20.240
[tense music]

1309
01:12:20.240 --> 01:12:23.440
- I think a big, big part
of this is the sadism

1310
01:12:23.520 --> 01:12:25.480
and the fact that
he will rewatch this

1311
01:12:25.560 --> 01:12:29.320
to relive that pleasure
that he got from it.

1312
01:12:29.400 --> 01:12:32.200
And also he's turning his actions

1313
01:12:32.280 --> 01:12:35.400
into some kind of artistry,
almost propelling it

1314
01:12:35.480 --> 01:12:37.640
and making it seem
something wonderful.

1315
01:12:38.360 --> 01:12:41.760
[tense music]

1316
01:12:41.760 --> 01:12:45.040
[Stephen laughing]

1317
01:12:49.360 --> 01:12:51.280
- When I listened to that,

1318
01:12:51.360 --> 01:12:53.000
for many years I
thought he's laughing

1319
01:12:53.080 --> 01:12:55.080
at me because I can't do anything.

1320
01:12:56.840 --> 01:12:59.200
But that's not the case.

1321
01:12:59.280 --> 01:13:02.160
That's when he'd murdered
his second victim.

1322
01:13:03.120 --> 01:13:06.320
[Stephen laughing]

1323
01:13:08.960 --> 01:13:13.960
So upon reflection it's
like, is he laughing at me

1324
01:13:13.960 --> 01:13:18.960
or is it a manic laughing cry
because of what he's done?

1325
01:13:19.600 --> 01:13:21.840
[Stephen laughing]

1326
01:13:21.920 --> 01:13:23.920
- If it coincides with a murder,

1327
01:13:24.000 --> 01:13:28.760
I think he could be just
totally absorbed in the joy

1328
01:13:28.760 --> 01:13:30.800
that he got from carrying that out.

1329
01:13:31.200 --> 01:13:35.080
[Stephen laughing]
[tense music]

1330
01:13:42.280 --> 01:13:45.520
- The day after Griffiths
was arrested, a member

1331
01:13:45.600 --> 01:13:50.600
of the public who was walking
by the River Aire in Shipley,

1332
01:13:50.840 --> 01:13:53.760
reported seeing something
unusual in the water.

1333
01:13:55.000 --> 01:13:57.360
- He'd found a sports
holdall discarded

1334
01:13:57.440 --> 01:13:59.200
by a side of the stream.

1335
01:13:59.280 --> 01:14:02.040
And when he picked it up,
he'd quite a weighty thing.

1336
01:14:02.120 --> 01:14:04.720
He'd opened it and in there
he'd found a human head.

1337
01:14:07.680 --> 01:14:10.520
It stands out as one
of the most gruesome

1338
01:14:10.520 --> 01:14:14.040
and startling incidents
we've ever dealt with really.

1339
01:14:15.600 --> 01:14:16.680
- When officers come,

1340
01:14:16.760 --> 01:14:20.160
they begin a huge search
operation with police divers

1341
01:14:20.240 --> 01:14:22.480
and officers on the banks.

1342
01:14:22.560 --> 01:14:25.680
- This was a team probably
of six or seven officers.

1343
01:14:25.760 --> 01:14:29.040
Incredibly well trained
at underwater search,

1344
01:14:29.120 --> 01:14:30.880
but as you can expect,
the River Aire,

1345
01:14:30.960 --> 01:14:33.120
they can't even see their
hands in front of their faces.

1346
01:14:33.200 --> 01:14:35.400
They're having to
feel their way around.

1347
01:14:36.360 --> 01:14:39.400
And subsequently found more
body parts weighted down

1348
01:14:39.480 --> 01:14:41.360
in bin bags in the River Aire.

1349
01:14:42.240 --> 01:14:44.720
[tense music]

1350
01:14:46.640 --> 01:14:48.400
When the body parts were found,

1351
01:14:48.480 --> 01:14:50.480
there was consideration and thoughts

1352
01:14:50.560 --> 01:14:52.600
that perhaps the suspect
could be a butcher,

1353
01:14:52.680 --> 01:14:56.040
because the body parts had
been cut up so thoroughly

1354
01:14:56.040 --> 01:14:57.360
and so minutely.

1355
01:14:58.760 --> 01:15:02.120
[tense music continues]

1356
01:15:03.480 --> 01:15:08.240
- They also found in her
head the shaft of a knife

1357
01:15:08.240 --> 01:15:10.080
and the bolt from a crossbow.

1358
01:15:11.160 --> 01:15:12.760
- It's unbelievable.

1359
01:15:12.840 --> 01:15:17.320
To have skinned people and sat
in the bath with body parts,

1360
01:15:18.200 --> 01:15:20.960
you know, you just cannot believe

1361
01:15:20.960 --> 01:15:23.120
that humans can do
stuff to each other.

1362
01:15:24.480 --> 01:15:28.480
- I think there's a number of
reasons why Stephen mutilated

1363
01:15:28.560 --> 01:15:31.640
Suzanne's body, and I think a key one

1364
01:15:31.640 --> 01:15:35.680
is just how angry he was
that she outsmarted him

1365
01:15:35.680 --> 01:15:39.600
for that moment and got away
and got him caught on CCTV camera.

1366
01:15:40.120 --> 01:15:41.920
I think he had a lot of rage there.

1367
01:15:42.000 --> 01:15:46.600
He knew that this was perhaps
going to be his last kill,

1368
01:15:46.600 --> 01:15:49.480
and he was getting out
some of that sadism

1369
01:15:49.480 --> 01:15:51.240
that's so deep in him.

1370
01:15:52.800 --> 01:15:55.320
[tense music]

1371
01:15:58.920 --> 01:16:03.000
- Police were able to track
him removing body parts,

1372
01:16:03.080 --> 01:16:06.680
not only after Suzanne was killed,

1373
01:16:06.680 --> 01:16:11.360
but after Shelly and
families were forced to

1374
01:16:12.120 --> 01:16:15.120
come to the conclusion
that those bin liners

1375
01:16:15.200 --> 01:16:18.120
contained their loved ones' remains.

1376
01:16:18.200 --> 01:16:21.520
[tense music continues]

1377
01:16:21.600 --> 01:16:23.800
- One of the other
things that he did say

1378
01:16:23.800 --> 01:16:26.480
was that he'd dropped
bones all over Bradford.

1379
01:16:26.480 --> 01:16:28.040
And this was in the height of summer,

1380
01:16:28.920 --> 01:16:32.280
so if you can imagine that
the search teams were working

1381
01:16:32.360 --> 01:16:36.040
in really, really hazardous areas.

1382
01:16:36.120 --> 01:16:38.280
There's an awful lot of urban debris.

1383
01:16:38.360 --> 01:16:39.720
So there's a lot of rubbish.

1384
01:16:39.800 --> 01:16:42.600
There's a lot of
food waste discarded.

1385
01:16:42.680 --> 01:16:45.720
There's bin bags, there's
wheelie bins to look through.

1386
01:16:45.800 --> 01:16:47.440
You don't know what is
and what isn't evidence

1387
01:16:47.520 --> 01:16:50.440
a used condom might be,
might be something.

1388
01:16:50.520 --> 01:16:52.080
You'll find needles.

1389
01:16:52.160 --> 01:16:55.480
[tense music continues]

1390
01:16:57.120 --> 01:17:00.200
- A few days later,
they find a canvas bag

1391
01:17:00.280 --> 01:17:02.400
and it's full of what
can only be described

1392
01:17:02.480 --> 01:17:04.120
as a killing kit.

1393
01:17:04.200 --> 01:17:07.840
It's got hacksaws, it's got
knives, it's got razor blades.

1394
01:17:07.920 --> 01:17:11.080
It's analysed and
there's a certain amount

1395
01:17:11.160 --> 01:17:14.360
of tissue which can be traced
back to Shelly Armitage.

1396
01:17:14.440 --> 01:17:17.760
[tense music continues]

1397
01:17:20.320 --> 01:17:23.920
- Shelly's family were
among the loveliest families

1398
01:17:23.920 --> 01:17:27.880
that a journalist could meet
in such horrific circumstances.

1399
01:17:28.760 --> 01:17:32.560
I went to her funeral,
I saw them release the doves.

1400
01:17:32.560 --> 01:17:34.760
[gentle music]

1401
01:17:34.840 --> 01:17:40.080
But what struck me
and does to this day,

1402
01:17:40.760 --> 01:17:45.600
was the devastation of
finding so little of her.

1403
01:17:46.520 --> 01:17:50.720
I think for me seeing a
family, not only traumatised,

1404
01:17:50.800 --> 01:17:54.520
seeing a family who
had spent years fearing

1405
01:17:54.600 --> 01:17:56.440
that something like this would happen

1406
01:17:56.520 --> 01:18:01.080
to then have the dilemma
as to what size of coffin

1407
01:18:01.160 --> 01:18:04.040
to use at their beloved
daughter's funeral.

1408
01:18:04.120 --> 01:18:06.880
Because all they had
managed to find was a piece

1409
01:18:06.960 --> 01:18:10.480
of her backbone stays
with me to this day.

1410
01:18:10.560 --> 01:18:15.080
[dramatic orchestral music continues]

1411
01:18:21.000 --> 01:18:23.680
[tense music]

1412
01:18:23.760 --> 01:18:25.920
- I have authorized the
police to charge him

1413
01:18:26.000 --> 01:18:28.840
with all three murders
this afternoon.

1414
01:18:28.920 --> 01:18:30.480
The events of the last few days

1415
01:18:30.560 --> 01:18:33.560
have understandably been very
upsetting for the families

1416
01:18:33.640 --> 01:18:37.080
and friends of Suzanne,
Shelley and Susan,

1417
01:18:37.080 --> 01:18:39.440
as well as for the wider
public in Bradford.

1418
01:18:40.440 --> 01:18:43.760
[tense music continues]

1419
01:18:44.800 --> 01:18:48.280
- When it first happened,
when he first got arrested,

1420
01:18:48.360 --> 01:18:49.960
I just did not want anyone to know.

1421
01:18:50.040 --> 01:18:51.760
I did not want anyone to know.

1422
01:18:52.760 --> 01:18:57.520
Once he'd been named and the
media just took it and ran

1423
01:18:57.520 --> 01:19:01.320
with it and his face was
everywhere, everywhere I went.

1424
01:19:01.400 --> 01:19:03.920
So you're at work and there's
newspapers in the canteen

1425
01:19:04.000 --> 01:19:06.480
and he's staring at you and
you're going into a shop,

1426
01:19:06.560 --> 01:19:08.320
there's newspapers and
he's staring at you.

1427
01:19:08.320 --> 01:19:10.560
[tense music continues]

1428
01:19:10.640 --> 01:19:13.680
Look at him, how proud
he looks of himself

1429
01:19:13.760 --> 01:19:15.880
and he'd clearly
gone and got changed.

1430
01:19:15.960 --> 01:19:18.880
He's killed the lass,
dragged her back into his flat

1431
01:19:20.120 --> 01:19:24.320
and taken the time to change
his clothes and do his hair

1432
01:19:24.400 --> 01:19:26.000
so he can come out and do this,

1433
01:19:26.080 --> 01:19:27.720
'cause he knows he's been caught.

1434
01:19:30.280 --> 01:19:32.800
- [Reporter] Police divers continued
to search the River Aire

1435
01:19:32.880 --> 01:19:35.560
near Shipley, where Suzanne
Blamires' dismembered body

1436
01:19:35.640 --> 01:19:36.640
was discovered.

1437
01:19:36.720 --> 01:19:38.760
It's a grim task, but necessary.

1438
01:19:41.800 --> 01:19:43.520
- And then after that it all came out

1439
01:19:43.520 --> 01:19:46.640
about the body parts and stuff

1440
01:19:49.280 --> 01:19:50.720
and it was just awful.

1441
01:19:51.080 --> 01:19:53.080
[tense music continues]

1442
01:19:53.160 --> 01:19:56.800
It wasn't even enough for
him to just kill these women.

1443
01:19:58.400 --> 01:20:01.200
He just absolutely desecrated
them like he wanted

1444
01:20:01.200 --> 01:20:05.280
to destroy them, just wipe all
faces of them from the earth.

1445
01:20:06.800 --> 01:20:08.160
It was horrific.

1446
01:20:08.800 --> 01:20:11.600
And despite the fact
I wasn't surprised

1447
01:20:11.600 --> 01:20:16.680
by the culmination as
it were of his life,

1448
01:20:16.760 --> 01:20:18.920
it was still shocking and horrifying.

1449
01:20:19.000 --> 01:20:21.600
It was just a horrible,
horrible time.

1450
01:20:22.800 --> 01:20:28.120
Very mentally distressing
and I feel terrible saying

1451
01:20:28.120 --> 01:20:30.160
that because I can't imagine
how it was for the families

1452
01:20:30.160 --> 01:20:32.240
of his victims, you know.

1453
01:20:32.240 --> 01:20:33.320
Those poor women.

1454
01:20:34.680 --> 01:20:37.320
[dramatic orchestral music]

1455
01:20:37.320 --> 01:20:40.280
I mean people ask me,
"Do you write to him?

1456
01:20:40.360 --> 01:20:41.840
Would you go and see him?

1457
01:20:41.920 --> 01:20:43.440
Oh, you should write to him."

1458
01:20:43.440 --> 01:20:44.640
It's not that easy.

1459
01:20:44.640 --> 01:20:46.040
What am I going to say?

1460
01:20:47.080 --> 01:20:49.360
I'm going to say, who are you?

1461
01:20:49.360 --> 01:20:51.320
What happened to the
little boy I knew?

1462
01:20:51.400 --> 01:20:52.840
Why have you done this?

1463
01:20:52.920 --> 01:20:54.920
What is wrong with you?

1464
01:20:54.920 --> 01:20:58.360
[tense music]

1465
01:21:02.120 --> 01:21:05.000
[tense music]

1466
01:21:08.240 --> 01:21:11.680
- On the Friday after
Griffith's arrest,

1467
01:21:11.760 --> 01:21:15.040
he's brought up before
magistrates at Bradford.

1468
01:21:15.120 --> 01:21:16.640
Court Number three.

1469
01:21:16.720 --> 01:21:19.360
When a defendant appears in
court for the first time,

1470
01:21:19.440 --> 01:21:24.920
it's usually a very dry,
short, nondescript affair.

1471
01:21:25.440 --> 01:21:27.160
Not with Stephen Griffiths though.

1472
01:21:28.560 --> 01:21:30.560
- He was asked to give his name.

1473
01:21:31.640 --> 01:21:34.400
You know, we were sitting
there, we knew his name.

1474
01:21:34.480 --> 01:21:37.920
We were just waiting for
Stephen Sean Griffiths.

1475
01:21:38.000 --> 01:21:41.800
And instead he kind
of pulled himself up

1476
01:21:42.720 --> 01:21:46.400
and pronounced,
"The Crossbow Cannibal."

1477
01:21:46.960 --> 01:21:50.240
[tense music]

1478
01:21:50.320 --> 01:21:52.520
The whole court gasped.

1479
01:21:52.600 --> 01:21:54.720
It was shocking enough as
a journalist to hear that.

1480
01:21:54.800 --> 01:21:56.800
But imagine what it
must have been like

1481
01:21:56.800 --> 01:22:01.680
for the families who were in
court of those three women.

1482
01:22:03.120 --> 01:22:04.360
And he knew it would shock.

1483
01:22:04.440 --> 01:22:06.760
The look on his face was smug.

1484
01:22:07.560 --> 01:22:09.640
He was proud.

1485
01:22:09.720 --> 01:22:13.840
He had found a way
to become infamous.

1486
01:22:13.840 --> 01:22:17.360
[tense music continues]

1487
01:22:24.760 --> 01:22:28.400
[gentle music]

1488
01:22:29.360 --> 01:22:30.440
- I know all the names.

1489
01:22:30.440 --> 01:22:31.920
I'll never forget the names.

1490
01:22:35.040 --> 01:22:36.440
Susan Rushworth,

1491
01:22:36.520 --> 01:22:38.840
Shelley Armitage, Susan Blamires.

1492
01:22:38.840 --> 01:22:42.440
Yeah, I can still see
the faces as well.

1493
01:22:42.520 --> 01:22:44.840
The pictures they put
in the papers and stuff.

1494
01:22:45.520 --> 01:22:46.520
Never leaves you.

1495
01:22:46.520 --> 01:22:48.080
Never. You know.

1496
01:22:50.440 --> 01:22:51.720
Just terrible.

1497
01:22:52.800 --> 01:22:54.000
Terrible waste.

1498
01:22:54.000 --> 01:22:57.760
Terrible waste of
him and those three.

1499
01:22:57.880 --> 01:22:59.880
[sombre music]

1500
01:22:59.880 --> 01:23:00.960
Sorry.

1501
01:23:07.680 --> 01:23:10.720
I think he wanted to be someone.

1502
01:23:14.680 --> 01:23:15.920
I mean, it's not my idea

1503
01:23:16.000 --> 01:23:19.880
of someone you would want to
be, but clearly to him it was.

1504
01:23:20.840 --> 01:23:25.840
[sombre music continues]

1505
01:23:25.960 --> 01:23:28.200
If it wasn't for the
fact that that brave,

1506
01:23:28.280 --> 01:23:30.400
brave young woman had run
out of that flat

1507
01:23:31.600 --> 01:23:33.680
and he had to chase her,

1508
01:23:33.680 --> 01:23:36.560
then maybe he would
never have been caught.

1509
01:23:36.640 --> 01:23:41.120
And thank God she did really,
I know what happened to her,

1510
01:23:41.840 --> 01:23:45.160
but still she stopped it
happening to a lot more people.

1511
01:23:45.160 --> 01:23:47.000
She's a very, very brave girl.

1512
01:23:47.320 --> 01:23:52.560
[sombre music continues]

1513
01:23:57.120 --> 01:23:59.640
[tense music]

1514
01:24:06.720 --> 01:24:08.600
- We were told as journalists
that he was pleading

1515
01:24:08.680 --> 01:24:12.240
not guilty and it would
be quite a lengthy trial.

1516
01:24:12.240 --> 01:24:13.920
And then we saw his lawyers run.

1517
01:24:14.000 --> 01:24:16.640
[tense music continues]

1518
01:24:16.640 --> 01:24:17.920
I know the lawyer.

1519
01:24:18.000 --> 01:24:19.840
And he looked at me and he went,

1520
01:24:20.560 --> 01:24:23.400
once again a game had been played.

1521
01:24:23.480 --> 01:24:25.800
Griffiths at the last minute

1522
01:24:25.800 --> 01:24:30.160
told his defence team he
wanted to plead guilty.

1523
01:24:30.240 --> 01:24:35.240
And at that moment,
I suppose I was glad,

1524
01:24:35.520 --> 01:24:40.520
I was glad that the families
would not have three weeks

1525
01:24:40.680 --> 01:24:44.240
of listening to the gruesome details

1526
01:24:44.320 --> 01:24:46.680
about what he did
to their loved ones.

1527
01:24:47.760 --> 01:24:50.520
But make no mistake, he
didn't do it for them.

1528
01:24:50.600 --> 01:24:52.800
He did it for himself to
add a little bit of drama.

1529
01:24:52.880 --> 01:24:55.120
In fact, he turned
to the public gallery

1530
01:24:55.200 --> 01:24:57.880
where the family was
sitting and said,

1531
01:24:57.960 --> 01:24:59.960
"And what are you looking at?"

1532
01:24:59.960 --> 01:25:02.000
And there was just a moment
when I thought somebody

1533
01:25:02.080 --> 01:25:03.880
was gonna leap over.

1534
01:25:03.960 --> 01:25:08.600
The tension was so high
and then they led him away.

1535
01:25:08.680 --> 01:25:11.160
[tense music]

1536
01:25:12.600 --> 01:25:14.520
- Because Griffiths
had pleaded guilty,

1537
01:25:14.600 --> 01:25:16.360
there was no need for a full trial.

1538
01:25:16.440 --> 01:25:20.720
So all the court needed was a summary

1539
01:25:20.720 --> 01:25:23.520
of what was being said against him.

1540
01:25:23.600 --> 01:25:26.960
[tense music continues]

1541
01:25:29.400 --> 01:25:31.240
People had a good idea
of what he'd been up to

1542
01:25:31.320 --> 01:25:35.320
in that grotty flat in
the center of Bradford.

1543
01:25:35.400 --> 01:25:39.040
But nevertheless, the
details were truly shocking.

1544
01:25:39.120 --> 01:25:42.160
And at various points, there
was the sound of sobbing

1545
01:25:42.240 --> 01:25:46.240
from the public gallery
as the relatives of Susan,

1546
01:25:46.320 --> 01:25:49.800
Shelly and Suzanne
were forced to listen

1547
01:25:49.880 --> 01:25:51.440
to what happened to them.

1548
01:25:51.440 --> 01:25:52.600
[tense music continues]

1549
01:25:52.680 --> 01:25:53.960
- When the police forensic teams

1550
01:25:54.040 --> 01:25:56.680
entered Stephen Griffith's
flat, we learned today

1551
01:25:56.760 --> 01:26:00.120
that they would find blood
samples from all three women,

1552
01:26:00.200 --> 01:26:02.320
blood which had been
projected onto the walls,

1553
01:26:02.400 --> 01:26:05.160
over furniture and onto the carpets.

1554
01:26:05.240 --> 01:26:07.320
Griffiths would later
describe his bathroom

1555
01:26:07.400 --> 01:26:10.360
to the police as the slaughterhouse.

1556
01:26:10.360 --> 01:26:13.800
[tense music continues]

1557
01:26:16.680 --> 01:26:21.080
- I think the depravity
of Griffiths' crimes

1558
01:26:21.160 --> 01:26:22.400
was born out by the fact

1559
01:26:22.480 --> 01:26:25.280
that he's one of very few criminals

1560
01:26:25.360 --> 01:26:28.960
to get a whole life tariff,
which means he will never,

1561
01:26:29.040 --> 01:26:31.800
ever be eligible for parole.

1562
01:26:31.800 --> 01:26:35.920
In fact, the judge described
him as wicked and monstrous,

1563
01:26:36.000 --> 01:26:38.080
and indeed he is.

1564
01:26:38.160 --> 01:26:41.800
[dramatic orchestral music]

1565
01:26:46.920 --> 01:26:49.640
- Susan's family have
never had a body to bury.

1566
01:26:52.120 --> 01:26:56.080
- I've spoken to Susan's family
on a number of occasions,

1567
01:26:56.160 --> 01:26:59.600
and even now, more
than a decade later,

1568
01:27:00.440 --> 01:27:02.320
they have not been
able to say goodbye.

1569
01:27:02.400 --> 01:27:04.920
There is no grave for them to visit.

1570
01:27:06.000 --> 01:27:10.240
All that was found in
Griffiths' flat was some blood,

1571
01:27:10.320 --> 01:27:12.000
but it was Susan's.

1572
01:27:12.080 --> 01:27:14.560
And what he has
steadfastly refused to do

1573
01:27:14.640 --> 01:27:17.400
is to tell them what he did to her

1574
01:27:17.480 --> 01:27:21.000
and where he put her body
and that haunts them.

1575
01:27:21.760 --> 01:27:24.040
[sombre music continues]

1576
01:27:24.120 --> 01:27:27.880
To not be able to lay
a bunch of flowers,

1577
01:27:27.960 --> 01:27:32.040
to not be able to
really grieve is cruel.

1578
01:27:32.040 --> 01:27:34.440
And it's part of his power game.

1579
01:27:34.440 --> 01:27:38.600
[dramatic orchestral music continues]

1580
01:27:38.680 --> 01:27:42.720
- While Griffiths admitted his
offenses by pleading guilty,

1581
01:27:42.800 --> 01:27:45.280
he didn't actually show
any signs of remorse.

1582
01:27:45.280 --> 01:27:48.040
[tense music]

1583
01:27:48.040 --> 01:27:50.440
- I'm not surprised
he's shown no remorse.

1584
01:27:50.520 --> 01:27:52.840
I think this has all
been about Stephen.

1585
01:27:52.920 --> 01:27:55.120
It's all been what he wants.

1586
01:27:55.200 --> 01:27:58.320
And these women have been
a means to an end for that.

1587
01:27:58.400 --> 01:28:00.240
Stephen did know he was doing this.

1588
01:28:00.320 --> 01:28:02.280
He had mental disorders,

1589
01:28:02.360 --> 01:28:05.800
but he also made conscious decisions

1590
01:28:05.800 --> 01:28:09.880
to carry out these
murders and crafted a life

1591
01:28:09.960 --> 01:28:12.880
where he could do that more easily.

1592
01:28:13.960 --> 01:28:16.480
[tense music]

1593
01:28:22.800 --> 01:28:24.440
- It's always there,

1594
01:28:24.520 --> 01:28:26.440
always there in the
back of your mind.

1595
01:28:27.760 --> 01:28:29.960
I just want to ask him why, probably.

1596
01:28:30.960 --> 01:28:34.520
Why you did this and who are you?

1597
01:28:36.240 --> 01:28:38.400
I'd probably tell him
that I loved him as well.

1598
01:28:39.880 --> 01:28:41.280
People might be shocked to hear that,

1599
01:28:41.280 --> 01:28:43.760
but he's my brother, my big brother.

1600
01:28:45.280 --> 01:28:46.880
I loved him. I love him.

1601
01:28:46.880 --> 01:28:49.120
I always will, probably, part of me.

1602
01:28:49.120 --> 01:28:50.960
Even though part of me
absolutely hates him

1603
01:28:51.760 --> 01:28:52.840
for what he's done

1604
01:28:52.840 --> 01:28:54.840
and for what he's put
so many people through.

1605
01:28:56.120 --> 01:28:58.640
[tense music]

1606
01:29:07.520 --> 01:29:12.040
- The most important people
to remember in this story

1607
01:29:12.920 --> 01:29:18.640
are the three women,
Susan, Shelly, and Suzanne.

1608
01:29:19.760 --> 01:29:25.280
It is so important that attention
is always brought back to them

1609
01:29:26.560 --> 01:29:28.160
because for their families,

1610
01:29:28.240 --> 01:29:32.160
they were people that they loved,

1611
01:29:32.240 --> 01:29:34.360
people that they tried to help,

1612
01:29:34.440 --> 01:29:38.920
people that they were
desperately worried about.

1613
01:29:39.000 --> 01:29:41.240
And their worst fears came true.

1614
01:29:42.080 --> 01:29:45.800
And they ended up
meeting a psychopath,

1615
01:29:45.880 --> 01:29:49.320
a cold-hearted killer
who wanted to be famous.

1616
01:29:51.840 --> 01:29:55.520
[dramatic orchestral music]

1617
01:30:01.720 --> 01:30:04.200
[tense music]