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He Called 999, Sat Waiting - The Officer Killer's Calm Plan · True Nightmare Stories

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  Speaker 1: At ten minutes past ten on a Tuesday morning in
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  Speaker 1: September twenty twelve, a man who had spent four months
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  Speaker 1: as Britain's most wanted criminal, picked up a phone and
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  Speaker 1: dialed nine nine nine. He gave a false name, He
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  Speaker 1: reported a robbery that never happened, and his last words
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  Speaker 1: before he hung up were four syllables that no emergency
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  Speaker 1: dispatcher ever wants to year times, I'll be waiting. Two
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  Speaker 1: police officers were sent to the address. Neither of them
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  Speaker 1: came back. What makes this case different from every other
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  Speaker 1: man hunt in British history is not the violence, though
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  Speaker 1: the violence was extreme. It is the sequence. Dale Cragan
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  Speaker 1: did not run, did not hide, did not hide, did
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  Speaker 1: not panic. He planned, he prepared, He called the police himself,
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  Speaker 1: and then he waited by the front door with a
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  Speaker 1: glock loaded with thirty two rounds and a hand grenade
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  Speaker 1: he was fully prepared to use. There is no version
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  Speaker 1: of this story where everything makes sense. This is the
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  Speaker 1: case of Dale Cragan, taught in the four people whose
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  Speaker 1: deaths he chose with the same calm a man might
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  Speaker 1: choose a route to work. When I first worked through
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  Speaker 1: the timeline of this case, there was one detail I
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  Speaker 1: had to go back and read twice. Not the shootings,
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  Speaker 1: not the grenade, the hair cut. The night before he
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  Speaker 1: murdered two police officers, Craigan forced a man at gunpoint
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  Speaker 1: to cut his hair and trim his beard so he
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  Speaker 1: would look presentable for the cameras. That detail stayed with me.
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  Speaker 1: Droylsden sits in the eastern fringe of Greater Manchester, the
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  Speaker 1: kind of place where the terraced streets all look the
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  Speaker 1: same from above, red brick, gray pavement, the occasional chip
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  Speaker 1: shop sign catching the light. It is not a place
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  Speaker 1: that makes headlines. Before twenty twelve, most people outside Manchester
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  Speaker 1: could not have found it on a map. Dale Craigan
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  Speaker 1: was born on the sixth of June nineteen eighty three
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  Speaker 1: in nearby Ashton under Lyne. He grew up in Droylsden,
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  Speaker 1: one of four brothers in a household that fractured early.
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  Speaker 1: His father left when Dale was still a child. By
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  Speaker 1: his own account, school was hostile territory, he was bullied,
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  Speaker 1: he stayed on the margins, and he left at sixteen
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  Speaker 1: with no qualifications and no visible direction. What he found
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  Speaker 1: instead was the particular economy of the streets. He grew
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  Speaker 1: up on seventeen criminal convictions followed over the next decade
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  Speaker 1: and a half. Assault a fray the ordinary catalog of
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  Speaker 1: a man who had learned that violence was currency. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: that marked him as exceptional, nothing that suggested what was coming.
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  Speaker 1: Then he lost the eye. The exact circumstances remain unclear,
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  Speaker 1: but what is confirmed is this Craigan traveled to Thailand
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  Speaker 1: and while there he was attacked by a local criminal.
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  Speaker 1: He returned to Manchester missing his left eye. He did
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  Speaker 1: not get a prosthetic. He kept the empty socket open visible,
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  Speaker 1: deliberate a hollow, dark space where an eye should be.
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  Speaker 1: People in Droylsden noticed that was the point. By two
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  Speaker 1: thousand twelve, Craigan was thirty eight years old, unemployed on
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  Speaker 1: paper and embedded in the drug distribution network running through
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  Speaker 1: East Manchester. He was not the head of anything. He
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  Speaker 1: was muscle and occasionally initiative, and he had developed a
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  Speaker 1: reputation that relied heavily on one simple principle. He was
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  Speaker 1: willing to go further than anyone expected. The Short family
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  Speaker 1: operated in the same world. David Short, forty six, was
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  Speaker 1: known in Droylsden the way certain men are known, not loud,
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  Speaker 1: not famous, but present. His son, Mark twenty three, was
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  Speaker 1: part of that same loose gravitational field of debts and
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  Speaker 1: territory that defines low level criminal networks in working classing
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  Speaker 1: or cities. On the thirteenth of May twenty twelve, a
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  Speaker 1: fight broke out at the Cottonry Pub in Droylsden. The
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  Speaker 1: Shorts were involved, so was Creigin he threw a bottle.
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  Speaker 1: The confrontation ended without serious injury, but something had been
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  Speaker 1: set in motion that night that would not stop. Twelve
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  Speaker 1: days later, on the twenty fifth of May, Mark Short
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  Speaker 1: was sitting in the same pub. Craigan walked in. He
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  Speaker 1: fired three times into Mark's chest at close range. David
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  Speaker 1: Short was not there. He arrived in time to hold
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  Speaker 1: his son as he died on the floor of the
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  Speaker 1: Cotton Tree. David Shore did not go to the police.
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  Speaker 1: He did not go to the police. He did not
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  Speaker 1: make a statement that silence would not protect him. In June,
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  Speaker 1: Craigan left the country. He flew to Thailand, and when
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  Speaker 1: he returned on the twelfth of June, officers arrested him
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  Speaker 1: at the airport. There was not enough evidence to hold him.
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  Speaker 1: He walked out on the seventh of August, police went
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  Speaker 1: to his home to re arrest him. He was already gone,
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  Speaker 1: but Craigan was not hiding, not exactly. The police knew
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  Speaker 1: Kragan was dangerous, they had known since May. What they
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  Speaker 1: could not know, what no system, no file, no risk
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  Speaker 1: assessment could have told them, was that he had already
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  Speaker 1: decided how this would end. After Mark Short's murder at
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  Speaker 1: the Cotton Tree Pub, investigators moved quickly. Craigan was identified
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  Speaker 1: almost immediately. Witness statements placed him at the scene. The
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  Speaker 1: motive was clear enough, a feud between Manchester families that
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  Speaker 1: had been building for months, exceerating through small confrontations until
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  Speaker 1: it reached the only place feuds like that ever reach.
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  Speaker 1: But knowing who did it and being able to prove
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  Speaker 1: it in court are different things. Creigan had fled to
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  Speaker 1: Thailand before a charge could be brought. When he returned
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  Speaker 1: on the twelfth of June, he was arrested at the airport,
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  Speaker 1: then released. The evidence gathered up to that point was
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  Speaker 1: not sufficient to hold him. That is not a failure
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  Speaker 1: of effort. It is how the law works, and it
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  Speaker 1: is how Craigan slipped back into Manchester a free man
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  Speaker 1: by early August. Police were moving to re arrest him.
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  Speaker 1: They went to his address on the seventh of August.
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  Speaker 1: He was already gone. Three days later, on the tenth
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  Speaker 1: of August, David Short was dead. The details of that
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  Speaker 1: morning matter because they reveal something about how Craigan operated,
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  Speaker 1: not in a frenzy, not in panic, but with a
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  Speaker 1: kind of cold geography. David Short had been moving garden
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  Speaker 1: furniture outside his home in Clayton. Neighbors were around the street,
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  Speaker 1: had the ordinary texture of a summer morning, open doors,
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  Speaker 1: voices across fenh sis, the small rhythms of a neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: going about its day. Craigan arrived anyway, multiple shots were fired,
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  Speaker 1: David Short fell, and then, in an act that marked
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  Speaker 1: the first use of a fragmentation grenade in a murder
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  Speaker 1: on mainland British soil, Creigan detonated a device over the body.
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  Speaker 1: He used a second grenade against a separate target connected
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  Speaker 1: to a rival family, a third to destroy the getaway van.
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  Speaker 1: After that, driving away from the scene, craigin stopped and
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  Speaker 1: bought ice cream. The investigation read that detail and struggled
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  Speaker 1: with it, not because it was inexplicable. Craigan was already
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  Speaker 1: known to investigators as someone without the emotional responses most
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  Speaker 1: people take for granted, but because it pointed towards something
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  Speaker 1: the threat assessment models were not built to capture. He
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  Speaker 1: was not running, he was not rattled. He moved through
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  Speaker 1: the aftermath of a killing with the affect of someone
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  Speaker 1: who had just finished a task and was treating himself
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  Speaker 1: for the effort. Operation Dakar was already active by this point,
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  Speaker 1: fourteen armed response vehicles patrolling Manchester simultaneously, a reward offered
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  Speaker 1: first to twenty five thousand pounds, then doubled to fifty thousand.
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  Speaker 1: The city's criminal community knew who they were looking for.
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  Speaker 1: The money was real, the fear was apparently more real.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody gave him up. The rational explanation for that silence
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  Speaker 1: is straightforward. Craigan had demonstrated repeatedly that consequence did not
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  Speaker 1: deter him giving information to police. Carrie's risk. Giving information
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  Speaker 1: about a man who uses grenades and shoots people three
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  Speaker 1: times in the head at close range carries a different
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  Speaker 1: kind of risk. The calculation held. He remained free for
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  Speaker 1: another five weeks, and then came the night of the
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  Speaker 1: seventeenth of September Craigan went to the home of an acquaintance.
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  Speaker 1: He placed a grenade on the mantelpiece, live pin pin visible,
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  Speaker 1: and sat down. He asked for a beer. He asked
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  Speaker 1: the man to cut his hair and shave his beard.
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  Speaker 1: The man complied. Craigan sat there for some portion of
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  Speaker 1: that night, the grenade on the shelf like an ornament,
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  Speaker 1: while his hair fell to the floor and his face
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  Speaker 1: checked changed in the mirror. He was not hiding any more,
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  Speaker 1: He was preparing. There is no version of this story
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  Speaker 1: where everything makes sense unless you accept that what Craigan
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  Speaker 1: was doing that night was designing his own image for
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  Speaker 1: the cameras he knew were coming. He wanted to look
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  Speaker 1: a certain way when they recorded him. He had already
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  Speaker 1: decided what he was going to do the following morning.
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  Speaker 1: The haircut was not practical. It was theatrical. At ten
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  Speaker 1: fourteen on the morning of the eighteenth of September two
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  Speaker 1: thousand twelve, a call came into the Greater Manchester Police
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  Speaker 1: emergency line. The caller identified himself as Adam. He reported
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  Speaker 1: a burglary in progress at an adavress on Abbey Gardens, Motram.
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  Speaker 1: His voice was calm. He gave the address clearly. He
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  Speaker 1: answered the despatcher's questions without hesitation. He sounded like exactly
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  Speaker 1: what he claimed to be, a frightened civilian calling for help.
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  Speaker 1: The last thing he said before the call ended was
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  Speaker 1: I'll be waiting. P C. Fiona Bone and p C
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  Speaker 1: Nikolay Hughes were the officers despatched to that call. Yona
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  Speaker 1: was thirty two years old. That morning, during a break
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  Speaker 1: between assignments, she had been talking about her wedding. She
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  Speaker 1: was planning a civil ceremony and the details were still
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  Speaker 1: being worked out, the kind of conversation that belongs entirely
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  Speaker 1: to a life that expects to continue. Nicola was twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: She had been in the force for three years. She
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  Speaker 1: arrived at work that morning the way she arrived every morning.
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  Speaker 1: They drove to Abbey Gardens. They approached the door, Craigan
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  Speaker 1: opened it. What followed lasted thirty one seconds. He fired
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  Speaker 1: thirty two rounds from a glock fitted with an extended magazine,
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  Speaker 1: a modification that double standard capacity, a choice made deliberately
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  Speaker 1: in advance for this specific purpose. Fiona was hit between
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  Speaker 1: five and eight times. She reached for her taser, she
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  Speaker 1: deployed it. It did not stop him. The final shot
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  Speaker 1: struck her in the heart. Nicola was hit multiple times.
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  Speaker 1: One bullet severed her spinal cord. Craigan stood over her
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  Speaker 1: and fired three more rounds into her head at close range.
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  Speaker 1: Then he threw a grenade. The blast destroyed part of
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  Speaker 1: the scene. The passing dog walker was injured, and then
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  Speaker 1: Craigan walked to his car and drove to the police station.
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  Speaker 1: He walked inside, told the officer at the desk what
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  Speaker 1: he had done, and surrendered. He later explained why he
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  Speaker 1: had been afraid that armed officers would shoot him on sight.
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  Speaker 1: He preferred to control the moment of his capture. He
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be alive for what came next. Fiona Bone
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  Speaker 1: and Nichola Hughes were the first female police officers killed
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  Speaker 1: in the line of duty and British history. They had
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  Speaker 1: been on that street for less than a minute. They
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  Speaker 1: had never encountered Dale Craigan before that morning. They were
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  Speaker 1: not part of the feud, the rivalry, the criminal geography
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  Speaker 1: of Manchester that had produced every prior death in this story.
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  Speaker 1: They were despatched to a burglary call. That is all
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  Speaker 1: they knew when they knocked. The call was the mechanism,
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  Speaker 1: everything else, the hair cut, the extended magazine, the specific address,
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  Speaker 1: the grenade already in his hand had been arranged around it. Investigators, prosecutors,
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  Speaker 1: and the judge who eventually sentenced Craigan all worked within
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  Speaker 1: the same framework motive, method, method, evidence intent. Those categories hold.
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  Speaker 1: The physical evidence was overwhelming. Craigan's DNA was found on
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  Speaker 1: an ice cream wrapper left in the Fort fiesta, his
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  Speaker 1: finger prints were inside the vehicle, casings, and the extended
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  Speaker 1: magazine were recovered from the scene at Abbey Gardens. Hellas
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  Speaker 1: from the van connected him and his associates to the
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  Speaker 1: David's short murder. The case, in forensic terms, was complete.
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  Speaker 1: What the forensic framework cannot answer is the question that
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  Speaker 1: stays with this case long after the verdict. Cragan did
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  Speaker 1: not kill Fiona Bone and Nicoli Hughes because of anything
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  Speaker 1: they did. He did not kill them because they threatened him,
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  Speaker 1: or because they were close to catching him, or because
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  Speaker 1: they had evidence he needed to suppress. He killed them
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  Speaker 1: because they would come, because the system would send officers
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  Speaker 1: to that address, and those officers would be unarmed, and
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  Speaker 1: v was sufficient. The logic of it is internally coherent.
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  Speaker 1: That is what makes it so difficult to hold criminal.
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  Speaker 1: Psychologists who examined Kragan's behavior across the summer of twin
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  Speaker 1: only twelve identified a pattern that does not fit the
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  Speaker 1: standard models of violent offending. Most violence, even organized criminal violence,
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  Speaker 1: operates within a framework of perceived necessity, self protection, retaliation,
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  Speaker 1: the enforcement of status. What Craigan demonstrated was something closer
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  Speaker 1: to performance. The ice cream after the grenade, the hair
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  Speaker 1: cut the night before, the phone call identifying himself as Adam,
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  Speaker 1: the calm voice, the precise address, the final line. These
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  Speaker 1: are not the behaviors of a man under pressure. They
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  Speaker 1: are the behaviors of a man staging something. His only
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  Speaker 1: recorded statement about the two officers amounted to this. He
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  Speaker 1: regretted that they were not men, not that they were dead,
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  Speaker 1: not that they were innocent, that they were women. The
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  Speaker 1: distinction mattered to him for reasons that have more to
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  Speaker 1: do with image than with anything else. Bryn Hughes, Nicholas's father,
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  Speaker 1: received the call while he was in his car. His
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  Speaker 1: first words to the officer on the line were, don't
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  Speaker 1: you dare tell me she's dead. She was. In the
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  Speaker 1: years since, Brynn has established a memorial fund for the
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  Speaker 1: children of victims of violent crime, A specific ongoing effort
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  Speaker 1: named for Nicola still active. It is one of the
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  Speaker 1: few things in this story that moves forward rather than backward.
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  Speaker 1: The question that criminal analysis leaves open is not whether
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  Speaker 1: Creigan was responsible. That was never in doubt after he
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  Speaker 1: walked into the station and said what he had done.
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  Speaker 1: The question is what category of person plans a double
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  Speaker 1: murder of police officers as the final act of a
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  Speaker 1: summer that also included the first grenade killing in modern
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  Speaker 1: British history. Titulpha and feels in the moment of surrender,
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  Speaker 1: primarily concerned with how he looks on camera. The extended
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  Speaker 1: magazine out thirty two rounds, standard capacity seventeen. He had
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  Speaker 1: chosen it, specifically, he had enough ammunition to kill every
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  Speaker 1: one in that garden twice over, and he had made
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  Speaker 1: that choice before he picked up the phone and asked
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  Speaker 1: for help. In Adam's calm, unhurried voice. Fiona had been
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  Speaker 1: talking about her wedding that morning. A trial opened on
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  Speaker 1: the fourth of February two thousand thirteen at Preston Crown Court.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred twenty armed officers escorted Krigan from Strangway's prison.
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  Speaker 1: Each morning. That detail alone tells you something about what
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  Speaker 1: the justice system understood it was dealing with. For eighteen weeks,
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  Speaker 1: Craigan maintained his innocence across all four counts. Then on
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  Speaker 1: the thirteenth of June two thousand thirteen, he changed every
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  Speaker 1: plea to guilty. The judge did not need to deliberate.
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  Speaker 1: Craigan received a whole life order, no minimum term, no
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  Speaker 1: parole board, no release date. He will die inside a
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  Speaker 1: prison cell. Five Code offendants receive sentences ranging from seven
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  Speaker 1: to thirty five years. His only recorded statement of regret
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  Speaker 1: was this, he wished the officers had been men. That
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  Speaker 1: is the full measure of his remorse. Fiona Baun had
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  Speaker 1: been planning her civil ceremony. She and her pardner had
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  Speaker 1: been talking about the details that morning, in the hours
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  Speaker 1: before she put on her uniform. She had a five
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  Speaker 1: year old daughter. She had a life that was by
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  Speaker 1: any measure going forward, None of that reached Cregan's decision.
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  Speaker 1: She was simply the officer who answered the call. That
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  Speaker 1: distinction between who she was and why she died is
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  Speaker 1: the one that stays. Nichola Hughes was twenty three years
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  Speaker 1: old and three years into a career she had chosen
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  Speaker 1: on purpose. Her father, Bryn Hughes, received the call while
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  Speaker 1: he was sitting in his car. His words, when told
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  Speaker 1: what had happened were, don't you dare tell me she's dead.
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  Speaker 1: He said it as if refusing the fact might hold
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  Speaker 1: it back. It didn't. Brynn later established a memorial fund
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  Speaker 1: in Nichola's name, providing support to the children of victims
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  Speaker 1: of violent crime. That fund is still active. It is
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  Speaker 1: the one thing in this case that kept growing after
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  Speaker 1: the shooting stopped. The second warmth moment to story demands
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  Speaker 1: is not about Cregan. It is about the extended magazine,
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  Speaker 1: thirty two rounds pre loaded, carried to a house where
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  Speaker 1: he had already been waiting. That choice was made before
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  Speaker 1: the nine nine nine call, before the dispatcher typed the address,
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  Speaker 1: before Fiona and Nicola even clocked in to their shift.
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  Speaker 1: The killing was finished in the mind, before it was
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  Speaker 1: finished in the street. That specific detail, the magazine chosen
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  Speaker 1: in advance, the capacity doubled, is the one I keep
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  Speaker 1: returning to, not the act itself, but the deliberate preparation
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  Speaker 1: of a man who wanted to make certain there would
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  Speaker 1: be no second chance for anyone who came through that gate.
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  Speaker 1: The extended magazine loop planted in the earlier section closes
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  Speaker 1: here with a consequence, not a number. The Crown Prosecution
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  Speaker 1: Service cited the pre loaded weapon as direct evidence of intent,
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  Speaker 1: not impulse. It eliminated every defense argument about spontaneity before
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  Speaker 1: it could be made. The jury never heard a version
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  Speaker 1: of events where this was anything other than a planned
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  Speaker 1: execution of two officers Cregan had never met and chose
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  Speaker 1: deliberately because they wore a uniform. Craigan spent five years
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  Speaker 1: in the psychiatric unit at Ashworth, Merseyside, before being transferred
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  Speaker 1: back to Strangways. No diagnosis changed his sentence, no evaluation
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  Speaker 1: produced a recommendation for reduced custs study. The whole life
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  Speaker 1: order held and continues to hold. The reward of fifty
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  Speaker 1: thousand pounds was never claimed. No one came forward. The
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  Speaker 1: people who knew where Craigan was during those weeks he
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  Speaker 1: moved freely through Manchester chose silence over the money. Fear
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  Speaker 1: is a more durable currency than cash, and in the
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  Speaker 1: neighborhoods where this story happened, that lesson was already understood
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  Speaker 1: before the first shot was fired. Here is what. The
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  Speaker 1: thirty first of August two thousand and twenty three record
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  Speaker 1: shows Nicholae Hughes and Fiona Bone remained the only female
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  Speaker 1: police officers killed in the line of duty in British history.
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  Speaker 1: In more than a century of modern policing, that distinction
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  Speaker 1: belonged to no one until the eighteenth of September two
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  Speaker 1: thousand twelve. Craigan is still at strange ways. He has
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  Speaker 1: no release date because there is none to have. The
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  Speaker 1: Cotton Tree Pub in Droylsden, where Mark Short died on
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  Speaker 1: the twenty fifth of May while his father was somewhere else,
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  Speaker 1: closed its doors in the years following the murders. The
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  Speaker 1: building stood for a while while as an unremarkable structure
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  Speaker 1: on an unremarkable street, which is what most places look
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  Speaker 1: like after something irreversible happens inside them. Bryn Hughes still
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  Speaker 1: speaks publicly about his daughter. When asked, he describes her
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  Speaker 1: as someone who wanted the job, not someone who fell
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  Speaker 1: into it. That matters because it means she was exactly
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: where she had chosen to be on the morning she died.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: She was not an accident of scheduling. She was a
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: person doing what she had decided her life would mean.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Fiona Bau never sent another message after that shift began.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: The wedding plans existed in notes somewhere in a conversation
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: that morning, in a future that her partner and daughter
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: carried forward without her. The nine nine nine call is archived.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: The despatcher who took it heard a man call himself
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Adam and describe a burglary in calm unhurried language. The
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: last thing he said before the line closed was I'll
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: be waiting. He was. This show is made by Obomedia