BBC One X-CARS - Episode 5

BBC Cameras follow officers from Greater Manchester Police X Division. Year: 1997

[@shelley5759]

Dominic Otoo died of natural causes and an inquest was held after his death. He was failed by the GP in Hindley and would still be here if he had been given the correct medication. He didn’t deserve die and anyone who thinks that needs to have a long hard look at themselves. Dominic Otoo had a heart of gold and would do anything for the people he loved and cared about. The lifestyle he lived was forced upon him really from an early age and I don’t condone the things he did but prison was his punishment not death. I love you Dominic Otoo and anyone that knew you loved you and I know you would not care about these comments so neither will I, Until we meet again 🙏💙

[@anonot4381]

Hang on....he died of natural causes but his death could have been prevented by correct medication?....that doesn't sound natural to me.

[@NB_NB_NB]

@@anonot4381 I read he was beaten up in prison, but had an underlying condtion that was missed by the GP, which lead to his death. RIP

[@nipperparr6709]

He didn't give a fuck for the person he hit with a brick to rob the car keys, 14 robberys and no respect for his Grandparents!!

[@anthony2806]

Yeah I feel for the kid we all did dumb shit when we was kids. No one deserves to die also its innocent until proven guilty in count he never got hes day in count so my eyes hes innocent.

[@eccIefechan]

So how did he get forced into that lifestyle? I suspected that he probably had a very difficult upbringing without any stable family life, which makes it easy for one to fall into criminality at a young age.

[@matthewspence7476]

“They rely on high powered, state of the art cars” 5 minutes later: “The unmarked police car has broken down again”

[@gosportjamie]

In this case FORD: Found On Roadside Dead is perfectly true... What I really liked was that, as John Nettles was saying "they rely on high powered, state of the art cars" in voice over, the officers are pictured trying to push start the recalcitrant RS2000... High powered in this case clearly meaning 4 bobby power...

[@acidattack6650]

fucking hell what are the chances we have the SAME PROFILE PICTURE!!

[@Flozman1982]

What about the moment he says it and a Rover drives past.

[@gosportjamie]

@@Flozman1982 Although they're generally seen as a bit of a joke, Rover actually did build some pretty reliable cars...

[@matthewspence7476]

@@acidattack6650 Audi Quattro is the greatest car ever

[@johnj3577]

From 8 mins on this is like watching Clarkson, Hammond and May on a challenge. The dry humour and piss taking is epic.

[@helentucker6407]

This series was just brilliant. Loved watching it. They don't make them like this anymore. Thanks for the share. 👍

[@closethedoornow7538]

They make them pretty similarly mate.

[@scoobysean555]

There not all stoned or drunk nowadays 😂 that inspector been on the bong 😂

[@c_holding8564]

"Youre not going t'get very far on the fan" Brilliant

[@benfeacey860]

Well done for putting this on takes me back to when I was 15 in 1995 crazy days of high insurance and awsome cars all about the driving and very social car groups

[@dazbuster]

Wow I remeber back in the 90s she you bought a car stereo and the shop recorded the serial number haha I actually boughy an alpine legit in 1991 and got pulled by the x cars and they checked it hahah up on Covington services m61 in a mk3 escort turbo......would give,anything to go back to those days

[@macdapimp83]

You reminded me of heading from goodier view in Hyde to the old Hattersley Estate near the park where all the flat were boarded up and the shop had shutters down constantly. The good old days

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

I can see the passenger in the backseat of the fiesta looking at the police car and said uh oh we’ve got company it’s the cops

[@tan4eva]

RIP the former Head of X-Department, Inspector Peter Aaronson, whom at the time of posting has sadly passed away 😢

[@iainv4092]

Loved his sense of humour. Old school cop

[@markowhit4604]

Good. Hope he suffered

[@jc5146]

Looks like he kept his boys in line. Old school inspector

[@johnfrancis5673]

Just typed his name into google & headline came up "gay sex [pest" head of x-cars. Another claimed he is a freemason (someone who meets in secret & taked blood/death oasths to serve Lucifer/the devil ...

[@PaulHolman-sh5ts]

Some nostalgic cars in this

[@jamesporter4749]

I love watching these xcars episodes and see how things were back in the good old 90's. I also quite like the dramatic justice ending music as John Nettles the commentator says what happened to these offenders.

[@richardclarke376]

Nettles is great but he got into a lot of trouble because of his habit of poaching

[@swiftcee266]

Great combo - Scooby and Cozzy - those lads had some balls jumping out and attacking the OB! note the back glass of the back door popped - the geezer getting out got caught up and smashed it.

[@Shannmeister]

If the British sense of humour is considered dry the Mancunian type is absolutely arid.

[@paulmcdonough1093]

mancs are dull not funny

[@BaldMancTwat]

@@paulmcdonough1093 One specific manc comes to my mind.

[@mrb3673]

8:09 minutes in, perfect response to the seargents attitude 😅 "Your not going to get very far on the fan......Sir" 😅

[@paulk5242]

i use to know domonic from burnage ,he had my old b reg xr2,the car thats in this on false plates ,Patric minchum was the guy tryna give a false name then getting nicked and Domonic wasnt suddenly rushed to hospital unexpectedly, he had a severe beating in hmp hindley and was then left in his prison cell where he was later found unresponsive, i remember walking past the cell afterwards with a special lock on it so no other officer could go in as it was a crime scene

[@cozzyfromthepark]

Seriously???

[@MrTwisted1977]

Very sad

[@mo-1834]

Crazy how if you google his name cause of death comes up as natural causes everywhere. Some strings were defo pulled there! Obviously pissed off the wrong guy

[@keiko909]

@@mo-1834 makes it worse when this documentary also says the same thing. then again, should be surprised with the bbc. aren't they known for covering things up? *cough*saville*cough*

[@lafingas555]

@@keiko909 Saville among others, the list is infinite it seems.

[@grahamek86]

I'm a massive VW/Audi fan but I rekindled my inner Ford geek when I sussed the RS2000 by the outline of the rocker cover before the copper even said it was an RS2k.

[@energymc22]

2:40 Wow an Impreza, probably the only car in the series (till now) that could actually have a chance of giving the Sierra a hard time. So far all I've seen is rusty Vauxhalls and Fords in the series, this is back in the day when it seems the public (and thieves) didn't care for the German prestige stuff.

[@mrtaylor357]

exactly well spotted

[@mrtaylor357]

+Mr Taylor theyv been getting. off tho ,haven't these little fezzys n novas ,round ordsall estate salford

[@alexhoe02]

energymc22 interested in the Registration for it? M916VBV. Took a while for me to get the registration lol

[@levitaurere5714]

1990 legacy single turbo would eat would of put up a good fight

[@energymc22]

@@levitaurere5714LOL, many cars in the world could give the Sierra a run for it's money but I am, of course, talking about this video. There is no Legacy in this video.

[@yojomojo6262]

The inspector looks alot like Mr. Bean and the cardboard cutout is bang on haha 😅😅

[@tan4eva]

Top Bloke Peter Aaronson. Retired from GMP in 2006, these days driving coaches (he use to do that before joining the police) & I worked with him on the Coaches.

[@mrginga4044]

Seeing all the nice cars from back then

[@fdama]

No mercs or BMW’s back then.

[@damiencrowley5546]

Only the rich had them then now every cunt has one.

[@reece921]

I bought that Subaru from a guy in altrincham and also Dominic jumped me on my way home from school in reddish

[@jonburrows7695]

The good old nineties,some of the cars I owned then where great,c reg golf gti(quick) h reg Astra gte16v(very quick) h reg rover gti(nippy)h reg Orion Ghia injection(crap) e reg Capri injection (quikish) L reg cavalier Sri 8v(quick and loads of grunt)to name a few.Now 63 reg focus diesel(good mpg slow).Bring back those cars around in the 90s.I should have kept the Astra and the Capri,they are the money cars.

[@jonburrows7695]

You might be right Mike,my gte was a standard white 16v and it flew when I wanted it too.I bought it off a lad from Runcorn and he had it for years with full Vauxhall’s history,great car that.

[@claywalsh6817]

That digital dash as you pressed on just flicking up numbers. Mega times

[@benfeacey860]

The cars the cars like looking back in time love it

[@Alex-di8ti]

@ 0:31 I thought that was Rowan Atkinson Looks like the Inspectors Rover was more reliable than a Ford on this particular evening, must be a miracle.

[@joegriffin6699]

His nickname was the 'Adder'.

[@stevekenilworth]

Rover was still with Honda at that time, yes nearing the end but very likely to be part Honda. Rovers were not so bad, lots taxis used them in my home town they got hammering but still reliable, if they were not they would got rid, but they using old rovers way in to 2005 some a bit later

[@kieranwhite6647]

Extremely sad to read that Peter Aaronson has recently passed away

[@richardclarke376]

the boss looks disturbingly like Rowan Atkinson... and I see at 9:45 the resemblance has also been noticed by the troops

[@Stickleback]

He died sometime ago i read on here, he was regarded as Mr Bean!

[@FUCKgmp]

I was always carrying the police scanner back in the 90s around south Manchester 😂 Remember listening to the riots in Oldham . Listening to them cops cry with fear made my day . The best was when I walked out of my mum’s and heard on the scanner ! Police wanted two body checks aka PNC . One turned out to be my friend . The next one was my name and date of birth 🤯 10 minutes later my mate flys past in a car with my little brother who was using my name 😂

[@iankennedy1441]

oh the memories

[@troo_story]

No loss with Dominic O2. Might've had more luck if they'd named him Dominic Vodaphone.

[@marqsNL]

1:37 i love the tomcat rover 220 turbo coupe, my mom had ‚just‘ a 218 16V targa

[@adilabbas8628]

Stuck in a rs2000 in the middle of gorton. Lol

[@steveskyliner]

That's Mr Bean at the start !

[@touchingthevoid]

Ahh the days when the only way you could differentiate between the criminals and police was one set had a badge and blue lights, and the others didn’t. Both bandits and both ruined innocent peoples lives.

[@jamesstasiak]

Their inspector is Inspector Raymond Fowler

[@med86win]

I'm a big fan of Rowan Atkinsons comedy but that didn't stop me googling the inspectors name to see what he's doing now. Soon as I seen the Thin Blue Line I was laughing my head off. Uncanny

[@perfektrepairs7934]

Who else was like wtf at the ending? I need to get over to google and see what really happened to that guy !

[@retro80s80]

That's the ONLY saff cossie I've seen without a sunroof 🤔 RS2000 bet it was the bloody fuse box😂

[@macdapimp83]

My mate used to buy ex police cars from the police auction when he had a security company. They had the sunroofs removed outside but still had the inner workings up till the vectra B's if I remember rightly bud. Or at least that's the case with the ex police cars my mate uses to buy /sierra/cavalier /vectra b/omega all had sunroofs filled/welded outside but not inside. Hope this helps mate

[@jbconno]

The police used motorsport shells which came without a sunroof. Cloth interior and a steering wheel from a Transit.

[@djmonsta200883]

1:32 "state of the art high powered cars" - car in shot? A Rover.

[@robertk9753]

Its was rover 220 gti tomcat turbo a very fast car for its day mate

[@robertk9753]

@Mike Hunt yup a mate of mine had 2 a few years back a blue turbo and a wine non turbo 220 the turbo was a bullet and it wasn't even mapped they don't make um like that anymore 👌

[@bearing40000]

The 220 Tomcat was capable of 150mph and was one of the greatest sleepers of its day. Especially in the saloon variant 420 turbo guise. 220bhp back then was like 500bhp today really. I guess it seems amusing compared to today’s performance cars. The Rover and it’s ilk had no SAT-NAV, electric seats, climate control, multiple airbags, real traction control and not a lot of sound deadening, this made them very light.....and fast.

[@robertk9753]

@@bearing40000 100% mate, no over engineering, raw real cars hard to find a good example these days they were a bad car for rust if im not mistaken

[@jimmyjt16]

@@bearing40000 197bhp they had, not 220. I fitted one to my old Mg Zr.

[@saxongreen78]

Most of those collars are around the same age as me...they're all middle-aged gentlemen, now.

[@jaydentate6080]

Was out nicking cars in 97 in Salford good old days

[@marcindonny]

What a finish

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

The Tonfa , short side handled baton , is a great weapon close in .

[@bobcharlie7982]

Coppers who actually know about cars. Amazing hahah

[@joe18425]

15:28 Loved these xr2s 😊

[@warrenrogers6910]

Their inspector looks like Mr Bean

[@annamarielewis7078]

The car chase looks a lot like Beverly Hills, CA🤩

[@johnallen7807]

"Heart of Gold??" yeah, sure, 15 robberies and other crimes, feel sorry for the victims not the scum who commit the crimes!

[@jasontombleson7057]

Used to know Dominic crazy lad... a few weeks before this he took me for a spin on a stolen crosser. Shame the way he wasted his life 😕

[@stephenr6427]

Dominic you get what you have given rest in peace

[@jamesnicholson2503]

Never seen this before,unless i have and can't remember.

[@No-timeforimbeciles]

Not quite back to the good old days of late 70s early 80s when I regularly used to outrun police vehicles on my old gs750, & police radios had major black out spots for their radios lol

[@K666_ANB]

Theft of a radio cassette player. F*ck me in 2004 they would of had a field day with the boy racers, that’s how you got a decent stereo, you knew someone that knew someone 😂

[@dukeofdevon5608]

That’s how I got my head unit and cd changer for £60 lol

[@K666_ANB]

@@dukeofdevon5608 didn’t we all because all our money went on the max power era mods lol

[@curbyourshi1056]

There's no fcuking way that Rowan Atkinson didn't take off this Inspector for "The Thin Blue Line". No way at all. Too perfect.

[@BossySwan]

10:45 Hyacinth and Richard on their way to Waitrose

[@stematthews5580]

"A young, coloured lad!" Oh, the good old pre PC days.

[@stevelomas4119]

What's your point ? If he was indeed young and coloured...that's a perfectly PC thing to say. What would they say now ?

[@stematthews5580]

@@stevelomas4119 mixed race. That's what. I don't like your attitude.

[@stevelomas4119]

@@stematthews5580 Oh no !! You don't like my attitude...shit I'll self exile, I'll tar and feather my self...because some random dude "doesn't like my attitude". The likes of you are setting racial equality back into the dark ages....always looking to turn innocent comments into major issues...well fuck off bellbreath because I don't give a shit about what you think, and neither does anyone else.

[@BossySwan]

He was coloured blue and was called Papa Smurf

[@johnrockett4988]

@@stevelomas4119 IC3 male … or black you sound very racist .. or you must be old

[@ATRenault]

The Sierra cossie is still in the world somewhere

[@conorgrimes113]

Scooby vs Cosworth, the grunt of the Cossy at 2:26. Simple times 😕

[@allanjohnson8139]

One off the police men at the beginning looks like Mr bean. Alias Rowan Atkinson

[@dukeofdevon5608]

I look back now and we were a bunch of little shits back then. Now all grown up with families and a slight respect for the coppers

[@benfeacey860]

Still used a claxton horn even on a cossie

[@JourneywithSmee]

Fucking hell that lad in the white XR2i deserves a life sentence for that haircut!

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

5:23 gotcha these fellas are not going anywhere

[@Hopgop1]

Is that a Clio Williams at 10:10? Or just a valver?

[@grahamlong5286]

good mate of mine rest in peace Dom.

[@davidhood8598]

@Thunder gatti. Long WTF

[@jonjones1553]

It weren't me guv.

[@mrtaylor357]

bounce on that Rover

[@AVC-Works]

7:52 it was probably the shitty fuse-box... Have repaced hundreds on ‘90/‘95 Escorts...

[@justso1823]

I had an escort on a j plate it fired up one night on the drive when it rained and drove in to the side of the house on its own 😂😂😂

[@guy4469]

mr bean and his keebab is funny .hes top ..

[@guy4469]

this is when criminals got wise and took suberus and uptd the game ,I had a vauxhal senitor 3ltr 24 valve manual its would do 160 mph all night fasted car on the road at the time .

[@keiko909]

is that the vauxhall they lobbied to have banned?

[@jimmyjt16]

@@keiko909 no. You're talking about lotus Carlton. Totally different league to the senator lol

[@guy4469]

@@jimmyjt16 ive had 2 senators an auto limeted to 155 ,and a manual no limited to anything .the police had them changed from manual to auto they were to fast .

[@jimmyjt16]

@@guy4469 I know. But the guy above is talking about the Lotus which was so fast the government wanted them band at the time.

[@troo_story]

Good result then for the Tool.

[@gav-relton9793]

LOL 22:38 the copper gives a shoutout to the ufc Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones 👮🏼🔫😜😜👊🏻👊🏻

[@andrewdaley3081]

COAT echo juliet barvo tbat was registration number. andy England

[@d0llywood]

Like hed get away with saying "why are we pushing the fattest man on the unit" now days 😂

[@joeking1823]

So it was illegal to have an aftermarket radio lmfao

[@dazbuster]

Yes because we all bought nicked ones for £20

[@Prof.Polymath]

Theft of a radio cassette because he doesn’t have the receipt 😂

[@davecommentator]

4:37 - that's a standard Mk2 Fiesta, not an XR2, as the guy later points out. Maybe they were so used to 50% of the nicked cars they pursued being XR2s that they just called every Fiesta that!

[@theculturedthug6609]

It was all Honda Legends and BMs back in 96 in Liverpool anyway.

[@annamarielewis7078]

With so many folks out of work, can’t they find a decent police mechanic to keep their cars running⁉️What a waste of resources, and they’re hysterically laughing. I suppose it’s better than fuming.🤯

[@chaz_bl3731]

This was filmed in the 90s or very early 2000s if you couldn’t tell from the cars ,style or video quality

[@saxongreen78]

It had shades of Soviet cops in Siberia trying to jump start a Moskvitch with a frozen battery.

[@brencelt]

How far have even average cars come on in 25yrs. All of these elite pursuit cars are slower and handle less well than a fiesta st.

[@stevelomas4119]

2:02 Mr Bean moonlighting ?

[@grahamlong9836]

my good old mate o'too.

[@petermuchugh8444]

I was in cells at Wigan police station with him for a week many moons ago,good kid,RIP.

[@grahamlong9836]

+Peter Much ugh top mate dom i miss him and often think of the great times we had togeather.

[@davidhood8598]

are you all daft, the 'lad' was on the wrong side of the law, i'm sorry that he died but what possibly was his donation to life.

[@grahamlong7013]

good lad Dom.

[@eccIefechan]

So what exactly happened with him? How did he die? Did he kill himself? He was facing some pretty serious charges but I understand that he was just a silly little boy who probably didn't have the best start in life. I assume he was raised by his grandparents and his real parents were probably teenagers, as the grandparents don't look that old.

[@andybenfield79]

At least they have a good laugh. 🤣

[@Koodayengine]

well well well

[@pommygeezer6789]

'He's a young coloured lad'. My god??!

[@iTrollFatpeople]

Different time then

[@macca696]

So someone who's guilt of smashing someone in the face with a brick to steal a car and your more worried he was described as coloured which at the time was acceptable no wonder are modern world is fucked people are more worried what words are used than what scumbag crimes are committed

[@cw205mi16]

No malice intended by this comment

[@hyper2high]

But it is an offence to steal the scanner though

[@closethedoornow7538]

It’s an offence to steal. But maybe he bought it.

[@dailyamusing235]

Aye ATS what happens

[@user-kl4bh4lq6r]

Grimey Days Remember this show the days of starting a vehicle with a teaspoon handle or screwdriver, Kebab talk,,🌮🌮🌮 From the copper's love it😂

[@waynusp1664]

When the escort broke down though, I nearly died laughing, sarge is great, but I have to say in my boy racing days my mates and I would have fixed it way quicker!! And the smug git officer in the green coat..steeeeeve, makes my skin crawl I remember plebs like him!..He doesn't want to make the world safer or better , he is a narcissist and bully who simply enjoys the power of his position.....well..To my mind anyway!

[@georgejacob3162]

waynusp1664. I know of a narcissist who used to work as a care worker! She didn't 'care' about anybody! Narcissists love working in positions such as police, doctors, nurses, care workers etc., as they are seen as positions of trust and it gives them a power trip.

[@georgejacob3162]

Mike Hunt. No and I'm glad I never did go out with her. Just knowing her was bad enough. Going out with her would have been like sleeping with the devil. She was truly evil. I made the mistake of allowing her to borrow one of my vehicles. As soon as I got my vehicle back I stopped all contact with her.

[@noka1979]

give the cops guns

[@No-timeforimbeciles]

Xr2l,. the police must have hated when cars like that & the 205 GTi came !

[@whatevs6476]

His grandad must feel guilty

[@resnonverba137]

Relieved more like.

[@jamesstasiak]

I bet he loved driving the Sapphire Cosworth. In Uganda, we have horse and cart pulled by lovely woman.

[@no1flash]

when people had respect for the police, now days they have a camera phone shoved in there faces getting abuse 😳

[@izzatfauzimustafa6535]

The chase at 12:10 minutes - Is that a green Rover unmarked police car leading the chase down the pothole-ridden road?

[@johnn278]

It is yes

[@izzatfauzimustafa6535]

+john n Is it a Rover 800?

[@johnn278]

+Izzat Fauzi Mustafa No it's a 200 coupe mate

[@johnn278]

+john n Sorry it's a saloon version 416 gti or something like, not an 800 though

[@izzatfauzimustafa6535]

+john n Yeah. Most likely it's a 416 or 420 gti

[@davekennedy6315]

Otoo recieved the Karma he was due!

[@Mike_5]

15:08 'We stopped you because you have a crap Pioneer stereo'

[@saxongreen78]

Tape deck...couldn't even give it away these days.

[@yojomojo6262]

Rover 220gti police car ha

[@p1fly]

Looked like a 420gsi turbo

[@dandan9442]

Whats your mothers name...terresa

[@leebirch9519]

👮🏻‍♀️👮🏻‍♀️👮🏻‍♀️👮🏻‍♀️👮🏻‍♀️👮🏻‍♀️

[@dawndunstan8268]

Back then when porno tach ment something

[@DatWhiteGuy]

the ending was mard wtf