‘He just seems altogether too casual, too unconcerned.’ ibid. Kerry Daynes, psychologist
The policewoman suspected of murder … Los Angeles, June 2009: the moment a murder mystery is about to be solved. For the next seventy minutes detectives would interrogate Stephanie Lazarus about a cold-blooded murder committed more than twenty years earlier. ibid.
He said he lost his family in the Grenfell fire … It was Britain’s worst residential fire since the Second World War … More than £1 million was raised in the first 24 hours: in total £26 million was donated … He received £360 in cash, fresh food and clothing and temporary hotel accommodation … Now he was applying for a further £5,000 from the Grenfell fund … ‘He never lived there and nobody had ever heard of him’ … A man with 17 different aliases … 20 people in total have been convicted of Grenfell-related fraud. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e1: The Grenfell Conman, Kerry Daynes, Discovery 2020
Warrington, Cheshire, November 2018: ‘She’s very dead. She’s lying in a pool of blood. It’s my wife. David Pomphret.’ ibid. 999 call
The victim his wife: Ann Marie Pomphret. The scene the secluded stables where they kept horses … Were clear pointers there from the start? The first clue his reluctance to mention Ann-Marie’s name in the 999 call. ibid.
‘He’s making some noises as if he’s crying but there’s nothing coming from his eyes at all.’ ibid. Cliff Lansley
Jeremy Bamber: charged with killing five members of his family … It was in the early hours of August 7th 1985 that a report came in that would shatter for ever the peaceful image of White House Farm. Faking It s4e2: Jeremy Bamber & Sabah Khan
Bamber said straight from the outset, My sister’s a nutter. And because they believed she was ‘a nutter’, it was easy for them to believe she could have been the killer. ibid.
‘I’m very confident he’s not sad. This is a fake pose.’ ibid. Cliff Lansley
Luton, Bedfordshire, May 23rd 2016: Just before midnight paramedics call police to a house three miles west of the town centre. They had been trying to save a woman stabbed in her own home but it’s too late. The victim was Salma Khan, a 34-year-old careworker. ibid.
When they looked at Hafeez’s phone, police found desperate messages to him from his sister-in-law Sabah. ibid.
He threatened some of Britain’s most powerful figures falsely claiming they were paedophiles and child-killers. But what clues were there about the man known as Nick … He convinced the Metropolitan Police … He claims that as a child he and others had been sexually abused by a group of powerful men: a VIP paedophile ring that went to the top of the British establishment. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e3: Carl Beech & Barry Rogers
Parts of his original police interviews have been released … Beech says he witnessed a murder … ‘The emotions and the behaviour he’s exhibiting don’t fit with the account he’s relating.’ ibid. Cliff Lansley
A grandmother’s death. Secretly recording the grandson. Pembrokeshire, west Wales, 2011: Police receive a heartbreaking phone call. Four days later Betty Guy was cremated. Four years later a murder investigation began: a woman approached police claiming Betty Guy had been murdered: the man she accused – her former partner and Betty’s grandson, Barry Rogers. ibid.
‘There’s an anxiety and stress here – we don’t need a polygraph … Rogers is experiencing anxiety and fear.’ ibid. Cliff Lansley
Hunting a suspected serial killer. He’s murdered two women: are there more? … 2:52 a.m. a young woman leaves a nightclub, turns out of the door then heads home and vanishes. Her name: Sian O’Callaghan. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e4: Christopher Halliwell & Justin Robertson
Other CCTV around in the area showed a green Toyota Avensis with a taxi label on the side. The car was tracked back to a 47-year-old local taxi driver, Christopher Halliwell. ibid.
September 4th 2014: A beauty spot and a brutal death [Pennie Davis]. Who is the mystery man in the mystery car? … ‘Police teams scouring the fields near Beaulieu today where Pennie Davis’s body was found on Tuesday afternoon; a full-scale murder investigation launched as police reveal the 47-year-old mother of five had been killed by multiple stab wounds as she tended to her horses in this open field in broad daylight.’ ibid.
Police were now convinced that both Carr & Robertson were involved in Pennie’s murder … ‘He had been stalking Pennie essentially to find out what was the best time to strike … He was a bargain-basement hitman.’ ibid. Kerry Daynes, psychologist
A heartbreaking discovery: a mother and baby killed and a husband on trial … Neil Entwistle’s life was a lie … Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e5: Neil Entwistle & Mohissunnath Chowdhury
‘He doesn’t seem to have any appreciation of just how downright weird his story sounds … He was also $30,000 in debt. When he wasn’t trying to sell people porn sites, he was surfing porn sites … They’d had arguments about money.’ ibid. Kerry Daynes
‘Two police officers enter the house and they detect a foul odour in the air, and they instantly know it is the odour of death’ … The scene of a heartbreaking double murder that shocked America and Britain. Immediately, it seemed police knew who the killer was. By now they knew Neil Entwistle had flown to England. ibid. reporter
‘He’s [Enwistle] feeling pleasure; he’s unable to suppress it … The smile is there in all its glory.’ ibid. Cliff Lansley
July 2019, London: ‘Anti-terrorism officers have this evening arrested a man suspected of plotting a series of attacks across the capital.’ ibid. news
The suspect: Mohiussunnath Chowdhury aged 27, tells police they have got the wrong man. What Chowdhury didn’t know is he had been under police surveillance ever since he had been found Not Guilty of preparing another potential terrorist attack. ibid.
The man wielding the sword was Mohissunnath Chowdhury then aged 25. ibid.
When Chowdhury wasn’t driving his Uber, he was online devouring Islamist propaganda. ibid.
A shop explodes. Five people die but the owner survives. Leicester on the night of February 25th 2019: fifty-foot flames engulf a convenience store. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e6: Arum Kurd & Alexander Palmer
‘Three men that must have a huge disregard for human life … They decided they were going to get rid of Victoria [girlfriend].’ ibid.
Soon the extent of the fabrication would become clear … [The three men] had taken out insurance … [Hawker] Hassan bought the petrol that caused the blast. ibid.
A remote beauty spot and a vicious murder. An e-fit, a suspect and a deadly combination … Peter Wrighton didn’t come home: just 35 minutes after being caught on CCTV he was dead bearing the scars of a horrific attack … The murder of the kindly retired BT engineer. ibid.
Now police had a name: Alex Palmer, an ex-paratrooper with a bad story … ‘He suffered a head injury … He completely changed as a person.’ ibid. expert
Automatic number-plate recognition confirmed his route. It was enough to bring Palmer in for questioning … ‘Palmer claims to have a voice in his head.’ ibid. Cliff
At home: a young woman with her mother. Bent on killing them: her ex-husband … St Leonards on Sea: A man is captured by a security camera. In his left hand he carried a semi-automatic rifle. He aims at a front door. One woman in the house makes a desperate 999 call. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e7: Craig Savage & John Tanner
‘My sister’s crazy ex has just smashed through the window and is shooting. He’s got a weapon.’ ibid. 999 call
He told the world he had nothing to do with the disappearance of his girlfriend. 27 years later accused again. New Zealand, September 2018, Whanganui, North Island: a 49-year old-man appears in court charged with violently attacking his girlfriend and threatening to kill her. His name: John Tanner. Six months of violence had culminating in a day of repeated assaults in September 2017. ibid.
Rachel McLean: one name stood out a possible suspect … He claimed that when he left her she was alive and well … To test his nerve police had asked reporters to question him aggressively. ibid.
He had killed Rachel, covered her in a rolled-up carpet and hid her under the floorboards of her house. ibid.
The Babes in the Woods killer: ‘Bishop was a simmering evil paedophile whose world revolved around him and him alone.’ Faking It: Tears of a Crime s5e1, dude, 2021
Right from the get-go Russell Bishop started to draw attention to himself; he joined in the search for the girls’ bodies. ibid. Kerry Daynes
By the start of 2016 Bishop had been locked up for 25 years and was looking forward to his release. He didn’t know it but his past was about to catch up with him … Forensic science provided that evidence. ibid.
There are very few evil people; I think Bishop is the exception; I think Bishop is a truly evil individual. ibid. dude
October 2014: Among those passing through Departures 25-year-old care-worker Tareena Shakil. Shakil paid £400 to take her 14-month son … supposedly on a week-long holiday … She was preparing to take him across the border to Syria, a stronghold of the world’s most feared terrorist group, Isis … But just 4 months later she was back in the UK insisting she had been forced into going. When her plane touched down in February 2015 she promised to tell anti-terrorist police the full story. ibid.
Groomed, held captive and murdered. Fifteen years, the target of an online predator. How her dream date turned into a night of horror. Faking It s5e2: Groomed for Murder
A man twelve years her senior, unemployed loner Luke Harlow … When officers searched Harlow’s flat, they found some of Kayleigh’s possessions and saw signs of a possible struggle. ibid.