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The Truly Barbaric Murder of Sinead Healy _ Murder at the Crime Scene _ TC · History Dark

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  Speaker 1: Police in London are searching for a young woman who
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  Speaker 1: has disappeared without a trace.
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  Speaker 2: There was no sense, no logic behind the disappearance.
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  Speaker 1: Officers force entry into the woman's flat. She is nowhere
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  Speaker 1: to be seen and there is blood staining throughout.
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  Speaker 2: We had to do a full forensic. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: must grasp the opportunities that are there very quickly, otherwise
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  Speaker 2: they'll disappear.
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  Speaker 1: The forensic scientists must act fast to find any evidence
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  Speaker 1: of the killer at the crime scene.
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  Speaker 3: 26-year-old Sinead Healey is missing in London.
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  Speaker 4: She was due to go for a meal with her friends,
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  Speaker 4: but she didn't turn up. That's not like Sinead. She
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  Speaker 4: would always let somebody know where she was. Totally out
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  Speaker 4: of character. My mother got a cab with a friend
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  Speaker 4: of hers to Sinead's flat, and she got no answer.
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  Speaker 4: And then my mother phoned the police.
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  Speaker 1: Detective Chief Inspector Jim Dickey and his team are called
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  Speaker 1: in to investigate.
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  Speaker 2: I got a phone call from Hammersmith Police Station. They've
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  Speaker 2: got a very suspicious missing person. No friends or family
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  Speaker 2: had seen her. She hadn't been to work. There was
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  Speaker 2: no sense behind the disappearance. I arranged to go to
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  Speaker 2: the scene in Barron's Court, which is ordering Hammersmith and Fulham.
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  Speaker 4: The police came and they broke in Sinead's door. There
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  Speaker 4: was no sign of Sinead.
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  Speaker 2: There was blood on one wall. There appeared to be
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  Speaker 2: a dressing gown and duvet missing from the property. Her
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  Speaker 2: bank card was still in the flat. A mobile phone
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  Speaker 2: was in the flat.
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  Speaker 4: It didn't look like she had planned to go anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: There was a wash in the washing machine. She had
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  Speaker 4: washing on the floor. That's not like Sinead. Sinead was
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  Speaker 4: very particular about things. Her flat was her pride and joy.
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  Speaker 4: It was just strange. Initially, we thought someone had gotten
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  Speaker 4: in and attacked her. That's what we thought.
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  Speaker 2: We did investigations into Sinead's background. If you know lifestyle,
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  Speaker 2: it sometimes will lead you in the right direction.
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  Speaker 4: She was a lovely girl, full of life, vibrant. She
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  Speaker 4: liked to have fun. She'd go on holidays with her friends,
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  Speaker 4: you know, girly holidays. Life and soul of the party
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  Speaker 4: when she was anywhere. Just full of energy. Just a
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  Speaker 4: lovely child. Lovely child, yeah. We grew up in Feathered,
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  Speaker 4: County Tipperary. She was the youngest of four and I'm
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  Speaker 4: the eldest. There was seven years in the age difference.
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  Speaker 4: And then we had two boys in between, Sinead and I.
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  Speaker 4: Her family obviously loved her and adored her and she
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  Speaker 4: was very close to her mum and dad. Eventually we
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  Speaker 4: were taken to London by our mother. She had lots
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  Speaker 4: of plans, you know. She'd done a lot of different jobs.
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  Speaker 4: So she had a lot of experience in different things.
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  Speaker 4: She was a very hard grafter.
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  Speaker 1: Despite there not being a body, Jim Dickey declares it
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  Speaker 1: a murder investigation.
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  Speaker 2: I believe Sinead hadn't disappeared of her own volition. Someone
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  Speaker 2: had assaulted her, and maybe she'd been wrapped in the
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  Speaker 2: duvet to remove her from the flat, either dead or alive.
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  Speaker 2: Her body disposed of somewhere, and that was the big
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  Speaker 2: question mark over the case. She didn't turn up in
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  Speaker 2: any hospital, so we've got to presume it's a homicide.
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  Speaker 2: I decided then we had to do a full forensic.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you must grasp the opportunities that are there
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  Speaker 2: very quickly, otherwise they'll disappear.
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  Speaker 1: Sinead's flat is now a crime scene. It is cordoned
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  Speaker 1: off so that the CSIs can search for any evidence
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  Speaker 1: to ascertain what has happened. Sarah Thirkle is one of
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  Speaker 1: the crime scene investigators who worked on the case.
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  Speaker 5: Which is the first couple of hours of a major
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  Speaker 5: crime investigation, is one of the most important times. A
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  Speaker 5: lot of evidence could be lost during that first two
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  Speaker 5: to three hours. Of course, Sinead Healy might not have
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  Speaker 5: been murdered. It might just have been an attack, an
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  Speaker 5: assault at her flat. It might not even be Sinead
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  Speaker 5: Healy's blood. These are the things that we would need
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  Speaker 5: to ascertain to progress the inquiry. But the SIO was
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  Speaker 5: not happy when he viewed the scene and he felt
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  Speaker 5: that something wrong had happened. You would enter the flat
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  Speaker 5: fully PPE'd up with your scene suit on and you'd
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  Speaker 5: take photographs. You'd walk around and take notes. On this instance,
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  Speaker 5: there was a bloodstain above the bed. Whose blood is it?
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  Speaker 5: And where has the source of blood come from?
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  Speaker 6: Since the crime scene, Sinead's flat, is left in a
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  Speaker 6: state of disarray, it indicates that the offender carried out
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  Speaker 6: this attack in a rushed and frantic manner. Little attention
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  Speaker 6: seems to have been paid to covering up or removing
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  Speaker 6: evidence from the scene.
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  Speaker 5: All the blood around Sinead Healy's flat would have been
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  Speaker 5: photographed in situ, then swabbed and sent off for DNA
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  Speaker 5: analysis to try and ascertain if it's all from one source,
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  Speaker 5: so Sinead Healy, or if there's been several different sources
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  Speaker 5: of DNA, and if so, who potentially that other blood
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  Speaker 5: might be from. If you've got a missing person, that's
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  Speaker 5: not DNA confirmed on the DNA database, we need to
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  Speaker 5: obtain a sample from their address so we know that
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  Speaker 5: it's their DNA. In this case, there was a hairbrush
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  Speaker 5: in the scene that had a lot of Sinead Healy's
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  Speaker 5: hair inside it. The roots of the hair provide a
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  Speaker 5: really good source of DNA. That sample's compared against any
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  Speaker 5: trace of DNA that we find from the crime scene.
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  Speaker 5: Once the initial examination has been complete with the obvious
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  Speaker 5: forensic evidence, It's important to make sure that any trace
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  Speaker 5: evidence that you can't see with the naked eye is
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  Speaker 5: searched for. And as forensic scientists and crime scene investigators,
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  Speaker 5: we would go through that flat with a fine tooth comb.
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  Speaker 5: And if there's blood that's been cleaned up, we will
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  Speaker 5: find it. Within the flat, the bed covers had been removed,
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  Speaker 5: with Sinead Healy wrapped up in the duvet and transported
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  Speaker 5: away from the scene. Or was there so much blood
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  Speaker 5: on there that the perpetrator had removed the sheets from
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  Speaker 5: the bed in order to destroy them?
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  Speaker 2: There were other flats in the building, so we spoke
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  Speaker 2: to every single occupant and it turned out that late
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  Speaker 2: on the night that Sinead had gone missing or was
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  Speaker 2: last seen, neighbours had heard banging from her flat and
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  Speaker 2: indeed banging on the stairs outside leading down to the
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  Speaker 2: ground floor.
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  Speaker 1: Sinead's neighbours inform the police that something is missing.
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  Speaker 2: The communal waste bin that Sinead would have used, there
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  Speaker 2: was a number of them at the bottom of the stairs,
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  Speaker 2: was missing. And I presume from that that it was
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  Speaker 2: used to transfer her out the building.
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  Speaker 6: Dragging the victim's body into the bin would require substantial
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  Speaker 6: physical strength. It also requires an absence of a fear
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  Speaker 6: of being caught, a distinct callousness. and a subdued emotionality
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  Speaker 6: surrounding what happened. By removing the bin from the outside area,
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  Speaker 6: there appears to be a complete disregard for leaving clues
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  Speaker 6: behind as to what might have happened.
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  Speaker 1: Inside Sinead's flat, evidence of a violent altercation is emerging.
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  Speaker 5: Blood was show up really well under UV light. Low-level
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  Speaker 5: impact batter was found on the skirting boards in the bedroom.
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  Speaker 5: As opposed to a blood smear, a blood spatter means
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  Speaker 5: more likely that it's the site of an attack. Either
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  Speaker 5: the spatters come from the weapon or from the victim,
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  Speaker 5: and low-level blood spatter would mean that the victim's potentially
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  Speaker 5: being attacked by either lying on the floor or falling
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  Speaker 5: to the floor and then being attacked a second time.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Dickey updates the family and shares his growing suspicions.
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  Speaker 2: I told them, I hope Sinead walks through this door,
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  Speaker 2: I've got to tell you, with my experience and my
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  Speaker 2: gut feeling and the evidence I have, albeit circumstantial, I
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  Speaker 2: fear the worst.
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  Speaker 4: Detective Chief Inspector Jim Dickey had decided that it was
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  Speaker 4: a murder case. And I remember saying to him, there's
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  Speaker 4: no way that anyone will have hurt her. I'm telling
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  Speaker 4: you here now. You know, it's incomprehensible.
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  Speaker 1: The CSIs continue to harvest the crime scene and make
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  Speaker 1: a discovery that provides a new lead.
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  Speaker 2: A fingerprint was found almost microscopic. It wouldn't have been
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  Speaker 2: visible to the naked eye.
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  Speaker 1: And CCTV of Sinead last movements reveals a prime suspect.
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  Speaker 1: 26-year-old Sinead Healy has disappeared in London. Crime scene investigators
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  Speaker 1: are harvesting her flat for vital forensic clues. And despite
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  Speaker 1: there not being a body, the detectives believe they are
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  Speaker 1: hunting a killer.
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  Speaker 2: We found out through the family liaison officers and the
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  Speaker 2: family that Sinead was a fun-loving, vivacious young girl. She
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  Speaker 2: came from County Tipperary in Ireland, came over as a
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  Speaker 2: young child, worked as a cab controller for a local
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  Speaker 2: minicab office. And she lived in Barron's Court, which is
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  Speaker 2: part of the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. So for
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  Speaker 2: all intents and purposes, the workplace where she lived and
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  Speaker 2: her friends and family all lived very close in a
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  Speaker 2: very small area.
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  Speaker 1: Detectives draw up a timeline of Sinead's last known movements,
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  Speaker 1: enabling the digital forensic team to locate her on CCTV
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  Speaker 1: the evening before she went missing.
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  Speaker 2: We found out that she had... been with a guy
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  Speaker 2: called Kenny Lynch in a pub called Salisbury, which is
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  Speaker 2: in Fulham. She'd worked for him in his phone shop
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  Speaker 2: in Fulham Palace Road.
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  Speaker 4: Sinead was 16 at the time. She had just left school,
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  Speaker 4: so I took Sinead to her first interview there. She
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  Speaker 4: liked mobile phones. It was the up-and-coming thing. She knew
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  Speaker 4: all about them and she was learning as she went along.
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  Speaker 4: And I think they developed a friendship. over time.
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  Speaker 2: He did have a relationship with Sinead, but didn't have
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  Speaker 2: one anymore. We're still good friends.
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  Speaker 4: Kenny, we called him. If I popped up to Sinead's,
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  Speaker 4: sometimes he'd be there having a coffee or tea, whatever,
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  Speaker 4: a really caring, kind guy. They used to go and
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  Speaker 4: meet for drinks and stuff like that. If she needed anything,
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  Speaker 4: he'd help her, and vice versa.
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  Speaker 2: What's important is get his version of events.
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  Speaker 1: Whilst the police try and track down Sinead's friend, Kenny Lynch,
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  Speaker 1: there has been a new discovery at the crime scene.
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  Speaker 5: A partial fingerprint in blood was found on a doorframe.
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  Speaker 5: So this is quite a bit of forensic evidence because
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  Speaker 5: you might be able to identify the person that's had
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  Speaker 5: blood on their hands and also you'd be able to
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  Speaker 5: identify whose blood it was. He would photograph it, swab
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  Speaker 5: the blood... trying to avoid the ridge detail on the
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  Speaker 5: fingerprint side of the fingerprint and then trying to identify
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  Speaker 5: the ridge detail to a possible offender. No two people
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  Speaker 5: have identical fingerprints. You might have similar patterns on your fingers,
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  Speaker 5: you might all have whirls or loops, but the actual
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  Speaker 5: individual fingerprint pattern is different in every single individual. Not
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  Speaker 5: even identical twins have the same fingerprints. Every part of
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  Speaker 5: the fingerprint is composed of ridges and furrows. So ridges
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  Speaker 5: are the raised bits of your fingers and furrows are
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  Speaker 5: the indentations. And it's these individual differences that they compare
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  Speaker 5: and are able to identify individuals' fingerprints against the crime
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  Speaker 5: scene map.
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  Speaker 1: The partial print is run through the National Criminal Database.
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  Speaker 1: And the samples collected from Sinead's flat are sent to
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  Speaker 1: the lab for analysis.
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  Speaker 5: All blood swabs taken from a crime scene will be
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  Speaker 5: submitted to the National DNA Database for checking against all
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  Speaker 5: known offenders. If someone has offended before and is on
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  Speaker 5: the database, they will come up as a match against
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  Speaker 5: any blood found.
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  Speaker 1: Whilst the police await the results, they've managed to track
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  Speaker 1: down Kenny Lynch.
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  Speaker 2: The detectives from Hammersmith interviewed him in prison. Kenny Lynch
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  Speaker 2: was serving prison centres in Spring Hill Prison, which is
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  Speaker 2: in Aylesbury, and indeed he was convicted... of handling stolen
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  Speaker 2: phones from that phone shop as a result of one
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  Speaker 2: of the police operations and searches there.
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  Speaker 7: Spring Hill is an open prison, and it's used for
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  Speaker 7: the prisoners in the months leading up to release. So
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  Speaker 7: it's like a gradual reintegration into society. When you're allowed
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  Speaker 7: out on courses, specially selected and supervised, in which you
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  Speaker 7: sign out yourself on, say, a Friday, and you sign
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  Speaker 7: yourself back in Monday morning or late on Sunday evening.
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  Speaker 7: and you are trusted in that period to fulfil your
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  Speaker 7: probation requirements.
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  Speaker 2: He was allowed to go home at weekends. He came
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  Speaker 2: back to London on a regular basis, and he had
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  Speaker 2: a girlfriend that he had a relationship with.
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  Speaker 4: We didn't know that he was in an open prison.
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  Speaker 4: We didn't know that he had been out on weekend release.
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  Speaker 4: We didn't know any of that. That was all new
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  Speaker 4: information to us.
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  Speaker 1: Detectives interview Kenny Lynch at HMP Spring Hill.
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  Speaker 2: We said, you were the last person to see her alive.
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  Speaker 2: We know you had a relationship with her going back years.
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  Speaker 2: We know that she used to work for you. And
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  Speaker 2: we know you were in that pub, the Salisbury, the
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  Speaker 2: night she went missing. You know, account for your movements.
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  Speaker 2: And he gave an account. He was shocked that she'd
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  Speaker 2: gone missing. He said, you know, yes, I did have relationships,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but that's in the past. She did work
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  Speaker 2: for me. I was with her that night. The CCTV,
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  Speaker 2: we showed it to him. He agreed that it was him.
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  Speaker 2: They got in a minicab and they went round to
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  Speaker 2: her flat. You know, that was proven. We had that evidence.
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  Speaker 2: And the minicab driver said they went to Barron's Court,
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  Speaker 2: where she lived, and they both went into the building,
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  Speaker 2: which is her flat. But I'd left because she took
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  Speaker 2: a phone call. That was a possibility.
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  Speaker 4: When they said they were interviewing, they did mention Kenny
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  Speaker 4: Lynch and I said, no, he was a friend, he
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  Speaker 4: was her friend. I know, you know, if he needed
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  Speaker 4: a fiver and Sinead had it, she'd give it to him.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's no way he hurt her. Couldn't be possible.
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  Speaker 2: But he had no alibi, he had no witnesses and
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  Speaker 2: no one had seen him At Sinead's flat, no one
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  Speaker 2: had seen him after he got in the minicab.
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  Speaker 1: Detectives questioned the prison officers, who checked Lynch back in
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  Speaker 1: from his work release. The weekend Sinead went missing.
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  Speaker 2: We found out that the prison discipline staff had noted
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  Speaker 2: on Kenny's return, shortly after Sinead went missing, he had
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  Speaker 2: wounds on his hand. which indicated that it could be
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  Speaker 2: defence wounds, i.e. that he'd been in some sort of
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  Speaker 2: fight with somebody. We're gathering intelligence, we're gathering evidence. With
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  Speaker 2: the view, I thought, that we could put Kenny Lynch
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  Speaker 2: in the frame. It was clear to me that he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't telling the truth.
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  Speaker 1: The forensic results are back. The blood from the smear
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  Speaker 1: above the bed and the skirting board have raised a
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  Speaker 1: DNA profile, which is compared to the DNA samples from
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  Speaker 1: Sinead's hairbrush. Everyone's fears are confirmed. It is Sinead's blood.
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  Speaker 1: The fingerprint results are also in. They show a partial
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  Speaker 1: match to Kenny Lynch, and there are traces of Sinead's blood.
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  Speaker 1: But the detail of the print is so limited, it
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  Speaker 1: is inconclusive as evidence.
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  Speaker 2: We couldn't say, for the purposes of a criminal prosecution,
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  Speaker 2: that that was Kenny Lynch's fingerprint in the blood. It
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  Speaker 2: indicated that it may be him. but it wasn't sufficient
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  Speaker 2: to say it wasn't. He gave an explanation. He said, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I've been in a flat, you know, so what? And
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  Speaker 2: he was quite blasé about it, really.
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  Speaker 5: His fingerprint could have been in her blood for a
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  Speaker 5: long time, and it was very difficult for the police
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  Speaker 5: to prove otherwise without concrete evidence as to what's happened
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  Speaker 5: to Sinead Healy.
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  Speaker 4: I said, you know, there's no way he hurt her. No,
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  Speaker 4: he was a friend. It had to be someone who
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  Speaker 4: didn't know her. And I remember Jim Dickey saying to us,
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  Speaker 4: 95% of murders are by somebody who is very well
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  Speaker 4: known to the person. It's not by a stranger. And
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't get over that.
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  Speaker 2: But look at all this forensic evidence. Look at this DNA.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the blood splattering, fingerprint in blood. All of
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  Speaker 2: this and Lynch, his proximity, to all of it, and
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: the last person being with her on CCTV. And that
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  Speaker 2: made him, for me, a very good suspect. But to
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  Speaker 2: prove murder, you need to have a cause of death,
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  Speaker 2: and that helps if you have a body. We didn't
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  Speaker 2: have that. It indicates to us that we're looking at
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  Speaker 2: the right person.
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Lynch has bailed and continues to serve his sentence
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  Speaker 1: at HMP Springhill.
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  Speaker 2: We can't just arrest him and interview him for as
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  Speaker 2: long as we want. It's not open-ended. We've got a
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  Speaker 2: set number of hours that we have to adhere to
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  Speaker 2: by law. We released him back on bail because he
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: was still a serving prisoner. We said, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: can't release him daily anymore. So he wasn't a danger
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  Speaker 2: to the general public. That, in a way, took a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of the pressure off us. But we still
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  Speaker 2: had the clock ticking. We needed to prove that the
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: version of events that Kenny Lynch gave us were lies.
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  Speaker 2: I tasked... a consultant to track the movements of the
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: mobile phones involved in this and that was Kenny Lynch
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  Speaker 2: and Sinead's mobile. It takes literally months for this type
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  Speaker 2: of work to be done.
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  Speaker 5: In 2000 a lot of the phones were analogue phones
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  Speaker 5: and it was very difficult to pinpoint the movements using
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: cell site data. Nowadays cell site analysis is so much
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  Speaker 5: more accurate.
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  Speaker 2: Now you can actually see where somewhere is. You've got
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  Speaker 2: maps to see you walking down the street. That's a
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  Speaker 2: digital footprint, and everyone's got it on their phone. Back then,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't that advanced. Sinead's mobile, there was no big surprises.
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  Speaker 2: It was active. She was making phone calls up to
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: the time she disappeared that night. Kenny Lynch's was active
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  Speaker 2: up until that night.
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  Speaker 5: The crime scene was in Hammersmith, really close to the
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: Thames River. And back in 2000, with the analogue signal,
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: it was really difficult for them to pinpoint where Lynch
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: was at certain times because the signal was jumping from
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: one side of the river to the next. The river
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: was completely confusing the mobile phone signal.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: It was actually giving him an alibi, saying he was
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: south of the river. He then switched it off and
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: we found out that his girlfriend had tried to ring him,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: I think it was over 20 times that night and
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: she couldn't get ahold of him.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: It's believed that Lynch was now in a serious relationship.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Detectives hypothesize how the fact he was spending time with Sinead,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: his alleged ex-girlfriend, may have been consequential.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: The motive is believed to be that Sinead threatened to
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: tell the other partner. Kenneth may have entered a fit
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: of rage and violence may have ensued after this. May
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: indicate that Kenneth wanted to retain an element of control
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: over his life and go to extreme lengths to protect
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: this control.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Kenny Lynch's mobile came back on again the following day.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: That was important evidence, important circumstantial evidence. Why was your
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: phone switched off?
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: The police have exhausted all lines of inquiry and the
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: investigation loses momentum.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: We're basically a waiting game. We're running out of stuff
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: that we can do here. You cannot allow frustration to
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: get the better of you. The main thing is you
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: have to stay objective, you have to stay focused, you
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: have to stay professional. The motivation of most detectives, certainly
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: when I served, is to get justice for the family,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: to give them closure, because no one else is going
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: to do it for them.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: Everything indicated from the flat that Sinead Healy had been murdered.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: But until we found a body, it's very difficult for
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: the police to progress the investigation.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I had a, if you like, subliminal thought in my
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: head that, you know what, Kenny Lynch might walk away
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: from this.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Detectives believe that 26-year-old Sinead Healy has been murdered. The
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: prime suspect is her former boyfriend, Kenny Lynch, who was
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: on work release from prison during the time she went missing.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Without a body, the police do not have enough evidence
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: to charge Lynch with murder. Six months after Sinead was
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: reported missing, police receive a 999 call.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: A phone call came in from Thames Valley Police to
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: my incident from Beckinsfield saying that we've recovered skeletal remains
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: very close to the A40 in Beaconsfield. And coincidentally, the
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: A40 is the direct route Lynch would have taken from
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Hamm Smith in London to Aylesbury Spring Hill Prison.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Sarah Thirkle was one of the crime scene investigators on duty.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: I was working for Thames Valley Police at the time
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: Wendy's body was discovered. I was one of the first
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: CSIs that got called to the scene to assess what
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: we had. a scene cordon was set up. We then
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: had to consider calling out a lot of specialists, getting
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: tent into the scene, lighting to the scene, closing off
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: the lay-by. We had to consider any trace evidence, any
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: footprints or any tire marks in the lay-by, food wrappers,
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: drink cartons, cigarette ends, et cetera. Put a common approach
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: path in to view the body. Common approach path is
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: where you clear an area that is unlikely to be
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: the route that the offenders have taken to get into
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: the main crime scene area.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Where the body was.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: Situated in was 15 to 20 metres from the lay-by,
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: so not very far in. Viewing the scene straight away,
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: it was obvious that there'd been an attempt to disguise
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: the burial of a body.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Whoever had dumped it hadn't dug a very deep grave,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: if you like. It had been partially covered with debris, earth.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: The body was left in the open with little attempt
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: to cover it. This is a callous, remorseless body disposal.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: This was a classic dump site for somebody that had
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: been killed somewhere else, brought there in a vehicle probably,
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: and then dumped in the lay-by.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Work on the recovery begins. It is important the identity
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: is confirmed as soon as possible.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: They had told us that there was the remains of
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: a body found. And at the time, we thought, oh,
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: my God, is that Sinead?
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: It was really important to excavate the body properly. It's
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: treated with the utmost respect. At the end of the day,
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: we're recovering someone's loved one. It's a horrendous crime, and
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: we must make sure that we recover the maximum forensic
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: evidence from that scene. We spent three weeks there. carefully
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: removing all the soil around the body, sieving all bits,
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: not only to look for bones and teeth, but also
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: to look for other evidence.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: We're already in a nightmare. We were just taken from
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: day to day.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: When we were excavating, we actually found quite a big
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: clump of hair. Hair can survive a long time. It
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: just doesn't degrade very much. and within that clump of
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: hair was a green hair clip. This was crucial to
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: the investigation.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: We took anti-mortem samples from a hairbrush in her flat.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: It confirmed the worst suspicions. We've got 100% match that
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: the DNA is Sinead. The worst fears had now come
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: to pass. We were horrified.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: You know, it was like a living nightmare. It's the
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: only way I can describe it.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Anthropologists continue to extract the remains from the shallow grave
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: and soon realise that the skull is missing. It is
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: imperative to locate the skull as it could identify the
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: cause of death.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: Because the body had been there for a number of months. Sadly,
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: some of the body had been taken away by animals.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Her body had been eaten by wildlife. So what was
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: left wasn't much. I can't even tell you what there was.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Sorry. We had a wildlife expert looking at badger and
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: fox trails.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: Foxes and badgers were quite habitual in their routes that
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: they take, so getting an animal expert to the scene,
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: we were able to try and ascertain where potentially the
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: missing body parts might have been taken to. We were
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: able to actually recover some of the bones from neighbouring
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: fields from across the other side of the A40, a
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: few hundred metres from where the actual deceased was found.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Finally, a breakthrough.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: Finding the skull was absolutely crucial to the investigation because
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: without the skull we probably wouldn't have been able to
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: ascertain the cause of death. The body and the remains
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: were taken to a post-mortem where a full post-mortem was conducted.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: We were able to piece the skull back together at
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: the post-mortem and be able to identify that Sinead Healy
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: had a fracture on the side of her skull where
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: it looked like she'd been hit with a blunt instrument
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: three or four times, which was probably the cause of death.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: This corresponds with the blood spatter evidence recovered from Sinead's flat.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: A full picture of Sinead's terrifying final moments is emerging.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: The violence itself was brutal and severe. Acts of this
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: nature are rare and many of us simply wouldn't be
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: able to cause such harm in this way. And this
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: indicates a real distinct callousness.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Now we had the cause of death, now we had
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: a body, we could prove that Sinead had been unlawfully killed.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: We still had to prove the link to Kenny Lynch. Yes,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: it was on the A40, a hurriedly disposed of body. Yes,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: it was Sinead Healey. Yes, Lynch was down the road
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: in Spring Hill Prison. But it was crucial to us
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: that we could prove as best we could that Sinead
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: had been dumped there, probably on the night, or very
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: close to it, that she went missing.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: It is vital that police prove Sinead was killed and
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: her body dumped during the time that Lynch was on
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: his work release from prison.
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: This was going to be a waiting game. Scientists had
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: to go all over the scene So much was taken
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: away for analysis, not just the body for a post-mortem,
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: but all the surrounding area for the study of insect growth,
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: all to try and piece together when did this body
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: first arrive at the scene and was put in the ground.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: I said I'd want an entomologist to the scene because
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: what an entomologist is, is an insect expert. They can
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: look at all this and can actually date it. quite
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: phenomenal how accurate they can be.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Entomology is the study of insects and it can be
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: particularly useful in solving crimes, especially in estimating the post-mortem
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: interval which is also known as the time of death.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: This is because shortly after death insects will colonise a
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: dead body and within a few hours they can start.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: Laying their eggs.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: This can help determine the time since death because of
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: the different stages of decomposition and also the different stages
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: of colonisation of maggots and flies within the body cavities.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Blowfly samples are taken from the remains and surrounding areas.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Scientists use the morphology of the specimens to identify the
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: colonising species and determine the life stage. The growth rate
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: can establish the window of time when the body was deposited.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: What you can see here are blowfly eggs. They're approximately
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: 2mm in length. A single female blowfly can lay up
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: to 250 eggs at any one time. Once the blowflies
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: lay their eggs, they will hatch into the larvae. It
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: would take approximately 8-16 hours for it to develop into
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: the second stage larvae. This stage is roughly about 9mm
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: in length. and at this stage they start to feed
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: on the soft tissue. It can take a few more
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: hours for the second insta to develop into the third stage.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: It's grown quite a lot in size. It can be
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: up to about 20mm in length. You can see the
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: hook at the front here. It uses this to shred
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: the soft tissue so it can consume it easily. Halfway
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: through this stage, it starts to migrate away from the
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: body and it will look for a site inside the
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: soil to burrow and pupate. The outer shell will harden
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: to form this dark brown. This can take several days
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: for it to reach and pupate. So the adult will
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: literally metamorphosize inside and emerge from there. The main species
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: that were identified are species of blowflies, which are Caulophora
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: vomitoria Califora vomitoria is a species that is more active
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: during the winter months. This can indicate that the deposition
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: of the body may have occurred during the winter months
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: and the colonisation would have occurred during the winter months
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: as well.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Sinead disappeared in the October of 2000. If Lynch did
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: dump her body, it is likely to have been at
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: the time he was returning to prison.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: The entomological data in this case suggested that the colonisation
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: by the flies occurred within a month of the victim
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: going missing.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: The time frame matches.
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: Met Police were overjoyed. This was a breakthrough. They now
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: needed an order to go and get Kenneth Lynch. The
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: body had been discovered virtually on the road from Sinead's
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: flat to his prison on what could well have been
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: the Sunday night before he signed back in.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: All our hunches, what we suspected, were starting to pan
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: out now. It was the push we needed to get
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: over the finishing line. We could prove that Kenny Lynch
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: drove that route, that Sinead hadn't gone there of her
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: own free will, that she'd been dumped there, been dead.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: And for me, we then had sufficient evidence to go
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: to the Crown Prosecution Service and demand that they charge
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Kenny Lynch with murder.
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: During the period when the body had not been found,
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: it appears that Kenneth was really in control of the situation.
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: He held the power and he wasn't deterred by the
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: pain and the suffering caused to others around him that
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: did not know what happened to Sinead. Again, points to
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: potential sociopathic tendencies.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I was there when he was charged. He's facing the picture.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: I don't think he thought we were going to get it.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: And we did.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: As the trial approaches, Sinead's family are finally able to
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: lay her to rest.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Homicide detectives go to the funeral of every victim if
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: the family want us to. And I volunteered to the family,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: along with the family liaison officer. I said, look, we'll
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: travel to Ireland for the funeral because they wanted her
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: buried in the village where the family's from. It was
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: a traditional... Irish village funeral.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: Everybody came from everywhere and the streets were just full
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: of people to show their respect for Sinead coming home.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: We walked from the church to the cemetery where Sinead
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: was buried. It was actually quite moving. You're a human
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: being and you can't help but become emotionally invested You know,
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: you're laying a young girl who shouldn't have died at
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: the age she did in a grave and watching the
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: village and the family mourn.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: In a way, the fact that Sinead was home now
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: and buried, she wasn't lying out somewhere in the cold, suffering,
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: you know, that meant something to us, to have her back.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: And I remember to this day, standing next to the priest,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: and I said to him, Father, thank you, you've done
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: your job, and I'm going to do mine.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: After months of intensive investigation, Kenny Lynch is to stand
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: trial at the Old Bailey, where he finally comes face
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: to face with Sinead's family.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: He had no respect. He almost had a grin that
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: made him very hard to look at.
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: Here's a man who thinks he's going to get away
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: with it.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: In the spring of 2002, the trial of Kenny Lynch
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: for the murder of Sinead Healy opens at London's Old Bailey.
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: The Old Bailey is the most famous courthouse in the world.
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: It has the biggest cases in Britain and it is
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: the fulcrum of justice. There's an aura about the building,
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: there's an aura about a case there and when it
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: comes to murder, the Old Bailey is the place where
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: these cases have to be heard.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: It's not over until you go through that agonising procedure
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: and he has to prove nothing. We had to prove
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: beyond reasonable doubt.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: The prosecution believed that Lynch murdered Sinead whilst on a
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: work release scheme from Spring Hill Prison and dumped her
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: body on his journey back there.
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: I certainly think that Lynch was an impetuous and dangerous man.
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: He had a conviction for firing a gun in the
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: street and he had an arrogant exterior.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: It was alleged that Lynch had once dated Sinead and
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: that he killed her in a fit of rage when
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: she questioned him about his other relationship.
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: The family turned up, many relatives from Ireland, and there
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: was quite a buzz about court as Lynch was brought
• 38:26
  Speaker 7: in from the cells and up into the dock for
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: the first time. It's always a brutal moment to see
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: the killer of nearest and dearest. for the first time,
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: and I could sense that the family and their friends
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: were taking this hard.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: He had no thought for my parents. Leave me aside,
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: my parents whatsoever.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: No respect.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: He almost had a grin that made him very hard
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: to look at. But we did, because somebody had to,
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: and Sinead wasn't there.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: There was.
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: a sense of arrogance about him. I thought that here's
• 39:06
  Speaker 7: a man who thinks he's going to get.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Away with it.
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: His trial lasted for six weeks. Each time we went
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: a little bit more, things were uncovered and bit by bit, pieces.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: It became clear.
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: The important witnesses, as far as the Crown's case was concerned,
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: was the neighbours, who heard the thumping, They knew what
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: they heard. There was no mistaking it.
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: He murdered her in her flat. He took her body
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: and put it in her dustbin and took her and
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: dumped her on the side of the road like you
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: wouldn't do it to an animal, never mind a human being.
• 39:47
  Speaker 7: The scientists were able to pinpoint that window, narrowed it
• 39:51
  Speaker 7: from the six months between Sinead going missing and the
• 39:54
  Speaker 7: body being found, down to that narrow window, which was
• 39:57
  Speaker 7: crucial to pin it on Lynch at the time he
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: was away from prison. And finally, the cellmate was able
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: to provide the motive. He told the police that when
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: Lynch returned from his trip away, he told his cellmate
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: that his friend Sinead, she was going off on one
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: and they'd had a row. And here, for the police,
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: was what they always suspected. This was the motive for murder.
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: Lynch wanted to shut up Sinead in order to keep
• 40:27
  Speaker 7: his other relationship intact. This man was prepared to go
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: to any lengths to ensure that he lived the life
• 40:34
  Speaker 7: that he wanted to live. And no one would get
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: in his way at any time.
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: Another indication of sociopathy is that we know that Kenneth
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: was boasting. to his prison inmates about his behaviour. The
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: ability to have such a calm composure after committing such
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: a brutal act is quite unique to offenders. This may
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: indicate an atypical functioning of the brain in relation to
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: the emotion processing centres.
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: By the time it came to Lynch to give evidence,
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: he came out with his excuses and his air of
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: arrogance wasn't going down well with the jury. When it
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: came to cross-examination, QC had him on toast. There's no
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: other words to explain it. Forensic experts were able to
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: put the killer at the crime scene. However many excuses
• 41:28
  Speaker 7: Lynch was able to come up with of why he
• 41:30
  Speaker 7: had been in that flat, he could not explain why
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: he was there when Sinead was murdered. The forensics won
• 41:39
  Speaker 7: the case. The forensic scientists and the evidence that they
• 41:42
  Speaker 7: provided from the murder scene which clinched the conviction and
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: ensured that Kenneth Lynch, a murderer, found his just deserts
• 41:53
  Speaker 7: and justice was done. When the verdict was returned, the
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: verdict of guilty was greeted with muted cheers. There was
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: a sense of dignity, but they could not contain the
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: relief that their daughter had not died in vain, insomuch
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: that their killer would be brought to justice. His look
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: on his face was almost as if he had accepted
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: that this was going to happen. But his haughtiness and
• 42:23
  Speaker 7: superiority and self-regard were such that as he was led
• 42:28
  Speaker 7: away to the cells, he turned to the family for
• 42:31
  Speaker 7: probably the first time in the trial and smiled. And
• 42:34
  Speaker 7: it wasn't a smile of any sort of hint of
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: remorse or sympathy for their loss. It was a smile of,
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: I'm better than you and I killed your daughter. And
• 42:44
  Speaker 7: it was a smile that in all my years at
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: the Old Bailey, it was a smile I'll never forget.
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: The way that Kenneth behaved throughout the trial indicated that
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: he didn't show any remorse at all for this crime.
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: This isn't uncommon in very serious violent offenders and can
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: be linked to difficulties processing emotion in their lives.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: When the guilty verdict was read out, I was very
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: pleased for all my team because they'd worked hard. Some officers,
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: you know, went the extra mile, but mainly very happy
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: for the family that they got justice and they got closure.
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: It has a lasting impact. It never leaves you, never
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: leaves you. The day he killed Sinead, He ripped out
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: our souls. So my mother was never the same. But
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: we thought that life meant life. Big mistake.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: In 2016, Kenneth Lynch was granted parole and was released
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: from prison.
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  Speaker 4: He's out and he's free and he has a chance
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: of a life now. The only people it meant life
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: for was Sinead, who's gone, and us, who'll have to
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: live with that loss. The tragic, unnecessary loss of Sinead.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: What a waste. What a terrible, terrible waste.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Thank you.