Crimewatch UK: 1993 Murder Reconstructions

A compilation of all of the murder cases featured as full reconstructions on Crimewatch UK throughout 1993.
None of this content is mine, thanks to the following for the original uploads: ‪@redcard7475‬ ‪@ajs41‬ ‪@henrikhanssen1769‬
Thanks to ‪@RetroPixels‬ for the original idea of compilations of murder cases year by year. Continuing their excellent work.
Featured cases:-
Michael Straughan (Unsolved)
James Bulger (Solved)
Claire Tiltman (Solved)
Arthur Brumhill (Unsolved)
Jean Bradley (Unsolved)
Harry & Nicola Fuller (Solved)
Doris Shelley (Unsolved)
Richard Miles (Unsolved)
Bulic Forsythe (Unsolved)
Carol Clark (Unsolved)
Harry & Megan Tooze (Unsolved)
George Leitch (Unsolved)
Trevor Thomas (Unknown)
John Reynolds (Unsolved)
Julia Baines (Solved)

[@CARLIN4737]

Absolutely love these. im off work today. plenty of hot brews and get comfortable im in for a Crimewatch Marathon.

[@Wadworth6XLad]

Sounds like a decent day off, does that! Enjoy my friend. 👊🏻

[@C86OFFICIAL]

@@Wadworth6XLad HI please do all crimewatch uk murders from 1995 to 2006.kind regards

[@Wadworth6XLad]

@@C86OFFICIAL am working on it - 94 and 95 up now and will have 96 up soon. 😊

[@OriginalYS]

@@Wadworth6XLadsoon?

[@Wadworth6XLad]

@@OriginalYS looks like someone beat me to it. Yes, I procrastinated pretty badly there didn’t I? Apparently DIY and gardening were more important than collating these videos. My missus can be so unreasonable at times. 😆

[@ourhandsaretied]

It's darkly fascinating to see such an early report on James Bulger's murder, when they actually thought Thompson and Venables were trying to help him

[@oliprj8676]

No matter how many times I see the Jean Bradley appeal I am 100% convinced that the killer was/is Robert Napper.

[@Wadworth6XLad]

Yes, I think that’s a fair assumption. Whoever the killer was, he was clearly deranged.

[@itsalondonthing9562]

Definitely napper!!

[@dean9235]

I just read your comment about the killer of Jean Bradley being Napper and you are absolutely correct. In fact it fits so well...he lived in London, was tall (as described in the episode), stabbed his victims and actually looks like the photofit. Only attacked women and is very dangerous. Well spotted.

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

Did the cops ask if he did it? He is locked up for life, so one other murder won't change his sentence. He could admit it, if he did.

[@Chris.Wood.Writing1]

Yeah I always think this too. David Wilson did a documentary which covered this a few years back, a group of his students were assembling a list of possible suspects for jeans murder and Napper came out as prime suspect….certainly the artist impression resembles Napper uncannily

[@starchild352]

Every one of these cases is horrific but poor Micheal I cannot believe that he’s never been found I hope he’s in heaven with his parents What gets to me is that somebody close to who did what ever they did to him knows How can you spend your life knowing something like that And sleep at night Rip Micheal ❤

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

He was doing drugs and got a load of money from nowhere. Sounds like he was gaining cash dishonestly and mixing with a few wrong 'uns.

[@rage707]

Star you are beautiful. Are you single?

[@starchild352]

@@rage707 hey no I have a boyfriend

[@Peter-ix1ym]

I agree I was a good man, who took care of his parents

[@stevechristie2569]

star has your boyfriend sadly emigrated to Chile and you're now single?

[@rachaeladams8059]

Shame Michael Straughan has never been found

[@noongourfain]

Exact same thing that happened to Andrew Elphick. The "big deal" scam. Someone gets all the money together, their friends chip in to make money on the "big deal". Then the mark and the money vanish.

[@pattymelt-go3fv]

I agree. Where on earth could he be? One thing we know for sure...t was more than one person. No way it was a single human who hurt him. His poor dad.

[@Xxxxxx19-p1c]

Wow. The James Bulger case before it was solved! Fascinating. Poor child.

[@byronwelch1288]

I was 11 at the time. Remember it all like yesterday.

[@ranstxx]

If two young kids have a toddler who has a mark on his head and is distressed and they tell you they just found him on the embankment. You dont leave them to it, you take the little toddler and call the police to get the child back with its parents!!!!!

[@noongourfain]

Exactly what I thought! I wish I had been there that day! But too be fair who would imagine two 10 year olds would do something so heinous.

[@rupertvon2318]

James Bulger RIP 🙏

[@sasapejcin3568]

I'm from Croatia and I'm hooked on this show! I want more and more! 😁

[@Peter-ix1ym]

Good evening, do you have anything similar in Croatia?

[@sasapejcin3568]

@@Peter-ix1ym Hey Peter not really.Our country is so small and these kinds of crimes are almost unheard of! Except in the last few few years a couple of husbands killed their wives or families but other than that nothing.Kidnappings and rapes are almost non-existent! We had two serial killers in the maybe last hundred years so watching this is fascinating and terryfing to me!

[@Peter-ix1ym]

Thank you for the reply, that’s very interesting learning about your country. These really must be terrifying for you living in such a safe place. I hope it doesn’t deter you from visiting England, if you’ve never been

[@andrewwhyte4753]

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[@BlytheWorld1972]

Michael Straughan such a shame

[@Wadworth6XLad]

Yes, and he’s never been found. Real mystery, that one.

[@C86OFFICIAL]

@@Wadworth6XLad HI please do all crimewatch uk murders from 1995 to 2006.kind regards

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

The John Reynolds one is really bizarre. Why on earth did they need a car followed by a motor bike to shoot someone in the street? Wasn't the car sufficient, then they could have shot him without getting out of the car. He was walking slowly with the dogs. It is a pity the man who followed them along the road didn't get the car's number, though they may have changed the plates.

[@noongourfain]

Very strange. Disgusting to take a father away from his family. What was the motive? I think it must have had something to do with land development and purchasing land.

[@zeddeka]

The Bulic Forsythe case is very, very concerning. The recent enquiry into historic child sex abuse established that Lambeth council had the most serious problems occuring with the sadistic sexual exploitation of kids in care. *EDIT* the IICSA report is on their website. They mention how other members of Lambeth staff were targeted with arson, burglaries, threats, tyres being slashed, and one found that his home and office had been bugged. One female member of staff was raped on the premises. The problems seem to have resolved around staff in the housing department where Bulic worked. They were involved not only in child sex exploitation but defrauding the council and corruption. One man whom they were seemingly connected to, Leslie Paul (who was a former policeman and abusing kids in Lambeth care homes) had serious connections in Soho, where he would regularly take kids from the Lambeth care homes and hand them to other men. He seems to have had his own child porn empire.

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

If he was killed for this reason, why are the others still alive? There must be other staff members who have the same access to this info, so no-one has killed them.

[@noongourfain]

@@treasurehunteruk9718 Maybe because he wasn't afraid to do something about it. He cared about his staff and people in general. That's why he loved his work at the council. It seems to me, that he was one of those types, who didn't like funny business of any kind under his watch. From parking the wrong way to taking advantage of vulnerable children, he wasn't having it. Maybe the fact that he was going to have a child made him even more concerned about young kids. It's sad his daughter had to grow up without him. A tragedy for his wife.

[@anthonymcken6050]

To add insult to his death the BBC did a number on him with their usual propaganda to brand him as a closet homosexual cheating on his foreign wife.

[@zeddeka]

@@treasurehunteruk9718 The full story is on the IICSA website. Other council workers were threatened and intimidated - this from the IICSA report: "Fear, intimidation and racism permeated Lambeth Council. Intimidation was used as a lever even against the most senior officers. For example, when as chief executive he was conducting investigations into fraud, Lord Ouseley told us that: “I was getting calls in the middle of the night … I had all four of my tyres slashed in one go. I had my windscreen smashed." One member of an extreme right-wing organisation said to him that his “home number is on every - on the walls of every public convenience in Lambeth”, which is how he came to understand how so many people were able to telephone him. It was also reported in the press in 1997 that his office and home had been bugged." "Mr Henry Gilby - the director of amenity services, then director of environmental services and finally chief executive of Lambeth Council (between June 1993 and December 1994) - also described being subject to intimidation. As director of amenity services, his office was the subject of a serious arson attack. When attempting to tackle corrupt practices as director of environmental services, his office was broken into and computer records stolen. During his time as chief executive, his office and home were broken into, he was threatened and his car tyres slashed." "A report in 1994 into Lambeth Council’s Housing Directorate - the Harris report - identified racism, sexism, nepotism and fear.[9] It arose following allegations that Lambeth Council employees were involved in making or distributing images of child sexual abuse. One member of staff was alleged to have told others that the content included sadism, bestiality and imagery of children, with films said to have been home produced by staff or people with whom they were associated.[10] The exchange of pornography was also alleged to have occurred.[11] The report described evidence of informal networks of men, and a department operated by cronyism and favouritism, which served to sustain organisational racism and sexism. It concluded: “The Panel is of the view that a network of exchange of pornographic videos does or did exist and that there is wider knowledge of this within housing than the Panel was able to obtain from witnesses.” "The Harris report also referred to ‘Les’ or ‘LP’, who was thought to have links to the officers in the housing directorate implicated in the exchange of pornography. While the Harris report did not specify the identity of this person, as DI Morley said in oral evidence, it might well have been Mr Leslie Paul, a care worker for Lambeth Council [and former policeman] who was subsequently convicted of child sexual abuse. It also referred to: a Lambeth employee of a hostel for adults receiving a letter, intercepted by staff, which offered pornographic video material and “referred to providing children”, but “no management action was taken on the letter which was returned by the more senior manager”; and allegations that the personnel officer in housing had interfered in the investigation into an allegation of sexual assault made by a female officer against a male housing officer, which witnesses described as a “cover-up”. (The Harris report also described “sinister” aspects of the investigation into the allegations of sexual assault, such as the removal of items of evidence by the personnel officer). It's believed that Bulic Forsythe had found out what was going on and was going to blow the whistle.

[@zeddeka]

@@treasurehunteruk9718 A number of other Council staff were attacked, threatened and intimidated - including one female member of staff being raped on council premises. It seems that a criminal network had infiltrated the council, centred around the Housing Department, and widespread fraud, corruption and child sex abuse was happening. The IICSA website gives details of some of those cases: “Fear, intimidation and racism permeated Lambeth Council. Intimidation was used as a lever even against the most senior officers. For example, when as chief executive he was conducting investigations into fraud, Lord Ouseley told us that: “I was getting calls in the middle of the night … I had all four of my tyres slashed in one go. I had my windscreen smashed.”[2] One member of an extreme right-wing organisation said to him that his “home number is on every - on the walls of every public convenience in Lambeth”, which is how he came to understand how so many people were able to telephone him.[3] It was also reported in the press in 1997 that his office and home had been bugged.[4] Mr Henry Gilby - the director of amenity services, then director of environmental services and finally chief executive of Lambeth Council (between June 1993 and December 1994) - also described being subject to intimidation. As director of amenity services, his office was the subject of a serious arson attack.[5] When attempting to tackle corrupt practices as director of environmental services, his office was broken into and computer records stolen.[6] During his time as chief executive, his office and home were broken into, he was threatened and his car tyres slashed. A report in 1994 into Lambeth Council’s Housing Directorate - the Harris report - identified racism, sexism, nepotism and fear.[9] It arose following allegations that Lambeth Council employees were involved in making or distributing images of child sexual abuse. One member of staff was alleged to have told others that the content included sadism, bestiality and imagery of children, with films said to have been home produced by staff or people with whom they were associated.[10] The exchange of pornography was also alleged to have occurred.[11] The report described evidence of informal networks of men, and a department operated by cronyism and favouritism, which served to sustain organisational racism and sexism. It concluded: “The Panel is of the view that a network of exchange of pornographic videos does or did exist and that there is wider knowledge of this within housing than the Panel was able to obtain from witnesses.”[12] The Harris report also referred to ‘Les’ or ‘LP’, who was thought to have links to the officers in the housing directorate implicated in the exchange of pornography.[13] While the Harris report did not specify the identity of this person, as DI Morley said in oral evidence, it might well have been Mr Leslie Paul, a care worker for Lambeth Council [and former policeman] who was subsequently convicted of child sexual abuse.[14] It also referred to: a Lambeth employee of a hostel for adults receiving a letter, intercepted by staff, which offered pornographic video material and “referred to providing children”, but “no management action was taken on the letter which was returned by the more senior manager”;[15] and allegations that the personnel officer in housing had interfered in the investigation into an allegation of sexual assault made by a female officer against a male housing officer, which witnesses described as a “cover-up”.[16] (The Harris report also described “sinister” aspects of the investigation into the allegations of sexual assault, such as the removal of items of evidence by the personnel officer)." It was also reported elsewhere that an unnamed caretaker had been found dead in suspicious circumstances, and that he had been in possession of videos of sex parties going on on the council premises. Also worth noting that a number of children in care in Lambeth were also found dead over the years in suspicious circumstances.

[@carolinemcgovern8059]

I hope Mick's family and friends get answer's 🙏

[@anngulliver5964]

That pub in Haymarket is now a Marks and Spencer and a bus station.

[@johnclegg4993]

The bus station was there when the Farmer's Rest ( the pub ) was there.

[@emiscand]

So many sad storiies here. According bristol Post April 2023 there was a 66 yr old man wasjust arrested on Carol's Clarks murder. Hopefully justice will prevail.

[@thesingingaccountant1]

Not many of these were solved :(

[@Lushgirl81]

Love the geordie accent.

[@ThePrivateDick]

Why?

[@Lushgirl81]

@@ThePrivateDick just do. Sounds nice.

[@ThePrivateDick]

We do our best 👍

[@Peter-ix1ym]

Are you a southern lady Lushgirl?

[@Lushgirl81]

@@Peter-ix1ym yes.

[@Joanna7428]

Clares parents seemed so calm just a month after their daughters murder, not inferring anything just find it unusual.

[@HooDie-Trench-GoTh2022]

The parents are both dead now. Both had cancerous conditions. This must've eaten away at them. Just like all relatives. It destroys families. Samantha bissets mother died a year after her daughter and granddaughters murder. She literally drunk herself to death.

[@noongourfain]

@@HooDie-Trench-GoTh2022 Thanks for the info. That's so sad. Samantha's mom was another very calm parent in the interview, no tears, And she kept referring to Jasmine as "this child". Just goes to show that you really can't tell how people are feeling by their outward presentation.

[@HooDie-Trench-GoTh2022]

@@noongourfain You're welcome, yes she did call her "this child" maybe a distancing thing as a way of coping with the emotional situation. I think Samantha's mother felt responsible for her daughters death too , because she helped get her that flat. Samantha was very naive and trusting unfortunately.

[@noongourfain]

@@HooDie-Trench-GoTh2022 It's true, You're right. Samantha WAS naive and trusting. Everyone needs to be proactive about their safety. Don't leave your curtains open and walk around naked on the lower floors, as her boyfriend warned her not to do. She had also seen a peeping tom at her window. We will never know how he got into her flat. Or did he confess how he did? I think Samantha and Jasmine were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Statistically, they were victims of a very rare and horrific crime. It wasn't Samantha's mother's fault. Samantha had no idea that she was being stalked by a monster. Her killer lived in Plumstead on the high street, within walking distance from her flat.

[@HooDie-Trench-GoTh2022]

@@noongourfain Samantha always left her french window or balcony windows unlocked or open, she also fitted nappers pretty blonde description. Where she lived and was located was also perfect for nappers intrusion. A side mezzanine style steps entrance which obscured any going ons. You're right it was a rare thing too. He must've been watching the place and struck as Conrad Ellam left her flat that evening or knew his routine. There is actually an alleyway that's difficult to see which runs around the tree peripheral which no doubt napper used. That spot hasn't changed much over three decades. The crows still swoop down cawing like they did that horrendous night/morning

[@kate_cooper]

Well, we all know the outcome of the James Bulger case, but does anyone know if the perpetrators in any of these other cases were ever caught?

[@Wadworth6XLad]

Hi Kate - many thanks for watching. If you take a look at the description I’ve listed the cases featured and wrote solved or unsolved next to the names. Unfortunately a lot of these cases remain unsolved. In the Michael Straughan case, for instance, his body has never even been recovered. The only one I’m not sure about in this batch is Trevor Thomas - I cannot find any information on that case anywhere.

[@kate_cooper]

@@Wadworth6XLad Ah, I didn’t think to read the description. I will take a proper look. Thank you for replying.

[@Wadworth6XLad]

@@kate_cooper No problem!

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

Oooops, practically all unsolved.

[@dean9235]

God bless Doris Shelley. Too good for this horrible world.

[@sophielou2929]

awww arthur.

[@Aut0five]

Michael Straughan murder Donald Graham??????

[@McIntyreBible]

26:54, a customers recollection of Arthur, that he was a very friendly person.

[@ellenentwisle5489]

What a peculiar time to go and buy a guinea pig???

[@ajayjackson7727]

Listen to that driver 'that stupid girl that run on the road'???? she was probably running to escape the maniac who was attacking her you idiot!!! don't call her bloody stupid! the girl lost her life!

[@noongourfain]

VERY ODD.....I think he was jogging THE DAY BEFORE, and that's when he had to run "in the road". THEN, he was driving the next night when he saw her charge out of the alley....and said "stupid kids"?! But YEAH!!! Very ODD that they would include that weird, rude witness remarks in the reconstruction. Especially since HE was jogging up to Clare FROM BEHIND. She didn't know he was there so it's not her fault that he "run in the road" AT ALL!!!!

[@ÆCME]

​@@noongourfainI thought exactly that.... For a total stranger to him on a dark wet night, how the hell could he notice it was her exactly.. Very odd. Apparently a milkman did it.

[@noongourfain]

@@ÆCME He read it in the paper or saw it on TV and knew the location?

[@zeddeka]

The police I think have a fair idea what happened to Michael Straughan. A number of men were arrested in 2013 - One was believed to have murdered his wife, Janet Brown, to get a million pound inheritance from her. He was her husband, Donald Graham. He had formerly been a met police officer before moving back to the North East. Donald Graham had gained a reputation in the North East and was involved in the underworld, especially drugs, gaining the nickname 'The Prince of Darkness' in part because of the eccentric way he dressed. He was also nicknamed 'Teflon Don'. Donald Graham was convicted for his wife's murder although no body was ever found. It's believed that Michael Straughan may have been going to meet Donald Graham the night he was murdered. Graham was convicted for the murder of his wife but there was insufficient evidence to proceed with the Michael Straughan case. Graham owned a farm in Hexham, Nothumberland, and the surrounding area was thoroughly searched for bodies. Some years after Donald Graham no longer lived at the farm, builders found a gun hidden in a wall. Links have been drawn between Michael's disappearance and the disappearance a year earlier of another drug dealer in Newcastle, Gordon Warren.

[@stephenkissane4268]

It's amazing the killers of James bulger almost got another kid too. Poor James

[@privatelyprivate3285]

Please factor in *functional daily necessity + durability + economic context* for fair comparison, though. New cars were expensive, but far more durable + affordably maintainable/repairable, so used ones were waaay more available/reliable/accessible than they are today. And yes, that color tv was more expensive, but it lasted forever, adapted to new tech, and had great repairability value (ahem, JOBS). I also wish increased taxes, interest rates, required eduction cost/debt, continual related usage expense, average of a FULL PRICE EVENING movie ticket, equally loaded vehicle costs, and actual daily requirement to own these items were compared to the average non-upper class income of both eras - that computer and cell phone weren’t necessary in ‘85 but they are today, so the *true cost comparison of “basic essential telecommunication”* they provide is actually 24’s purchase/connectivity service/subscriptions/scheduled obsolescence vs. ’85’s household telephones/phone line service/long-distance charges $ *(and 2024’s $$$ to ‘85’s plain $0 for many of this video’s items).*

[@ThePrivateDick]

If he ‘wasn’t a very fit man’ why did the Irish bloke spend 20 minutes being outrun by him? 😂

[@Wadworth6XLad]

Very odd sequence of events - also find it strange that he was being pursued for so long in London (hardly the middle of nowhere) and still evaded capture. To be fair, I think the carpenter deliberately kept his distance because he wasn’t sure what sou’wester man might have been carrying, but wanted to keep tabs on him.

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

@@Wadworth6XLad The crim may still have had the weapon, but the Irish man could have kept following him, I suppose. Perhaps he just gave up.

[@Chris.Wood.Writing1]

Guess it would be a pretty unnerving thing to do to be fair

[@noongourfain]

Because he was shorter than the guy who had long legs? Remember he couldn't approach him physically because he had something "rigid" in a bag, It was probably the murder weapon, an 8" knife. The carpenter had no weapon and I believe he was just trying to keep him in sight until the cops showed up and he could point him out.....but he wasn't getting much help except from the lady driver and her son. He followed him for almost a mile and a half which is a very far away from where the murder happened.

[@McIntyreBible]

2:04:29, John Reynolds is shot by his killer.

[@Wadworth6XLad]

Harry & Megan Tooze case being reopened:- www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-66291066

[@niallcarr9253]

"fund his cannabis habit".......puh-lease........stop with the establishment lies..........now if it was "fund his herion habit" I could understand

[@McIntyreBible]

22:54, the parents don't seem too broken up over the death of their daughter.

[@noongourfain]

I thought that too but I think it's a cultural thing. English stiff upper lip. I am sure they were devestated.

[@oliprj8676]

1:08:04 creepy

[@Wadworth6XLad]

Looks a bit like early Undertaker!

[@guleet75]

30 yrs ago !

[@davidnolan488]

I was 2years old

[@chrismarr1975]

Shit, I remember it well 😢

[@robertkirkby7387]

Are you doing anymore of these

[@Wadworth6XLad]

Currently uploading 1994 - it’s about three hours long though so it’s taking forever.

[@robertkirkby7387]

@@Wadworth6XLad they are reallygood

[@Wadworth6XLad]

@@robertkirkby7387 thank you for the kind words. My 1994 upload keeps failing - think I’m going to have to break it up into segments as it’s almost three hours long. Stay tuned!

[@robertkirkby7387]

@@Wadworth6XLad thanks for letting me know . I thought it was taking a while lol

[@Wadworth6XLad]

@@robertkirkby7387 It’s infuriating - takes two days and then when it gets to 100% says “processing” then times out.

[@msjapan112]

Around 1:59:58 what does he say? What from this accent?

[@Freshy009]

Alright lads? how are we doing? Right, change of plan.

[@matthewlovelock6928]

The Bewligg Forsyte had a huge chip he could have rub the staff up the wrong way.

[@anthonymcken6050]

The chip is on your shoulder dolt. Bulick was about to uncover a child molestation ring.

[@msjapan112]

Meghan and Harry.

[@noongourfain]

Could it have been serial killer John William Cooper? Active 1985-1998.

[@noongourfain]

Actually it was most likely their only daughter's creepy boyfriend and he seems to have gotten away with it. So not John Cooper I don't think.

[@anthonymcken6050]

So many of these crimewatch murders and rapes are as a result of young women being belligerent after an argument on a nightout and then walking home alone falling prey to their perpetrator.

[@emiscand]

Victim blaming much?!

[@ThePrincessnady1]

Get a grip 😂

[@missab1122]

Shut up

[@noongourfain]

Andrew Elphick's disappearance is very similar to Michael Straughan's......also Lawrence Winstanley. Those 3 cases seem so similar to me.

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

All drug related? Don't mix with these people, it is common sense ..........

[@kisha1682]

True. My childhood friend's mother was involved with a major drug dealer in thr 80s. He died at the hands of his friend's, and in 2003 she ended up in prison for 20 years because her ex stored drugs in her house, but her finger prints were not on the drugs and she said that she did not know the drugs were in the house. Whatever the case of that, the judge gave her 40 years, but some activists helped get her out because she had no prior records for crimes. Her association with drug dealers got her in trouble.

[@noongourfain]

@@kisha1682 Harsh sentence. I'm glad she made it out.