Crimewatch UK - January 1998

Crimewatch UK - January 1998

[@brianswathey]

I miss the 90s terribly. I was 10 years of age when this episode aired, but I look back on that era of time with a sense of bittersweet longing to go back there. Besides the terrible crimes mentioned in this show, there was a certain innocence - no social media or smart phones. Just carefree and living in the moment. Damn I’m feeling depressed now!

[@ajs41]

Very true. We were using the internet at the time, but it was much nicer place than it is now.

[@brianswathey]

@@ajs41 I agree, I feel the internet became a lot more toxic from the early-to-mid ‘00s onwards. Then again it has also made things a lot easier. Thanks for uploading all of these, it’s a real blast from the past!

[@johnmarshall2994]

Got me depressed now . But so true gone but not forgotten 🎉

[@katemissfilanpurrmcdevitt]

The first case was so heartbreaking poor poor girl RIP Kate Bushel Xxxxx

[@janettemohan5056]

Just four of a multitude of available internet features: www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/kate-bushell-lyn-bryant-helen-2111434 www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-43566434 www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/7xhhj8/kate_bushell_14_year_old_was_found_with_her/ facebook.com/devonlivenews/videos/police-live-appeal-for-kate-bushell-killer/1686529061393749/

[@bunnykins1450]

Kate Bushell, God rest her soul. Remains unsolved. Prayers for her family

[@brianswathey]

Unfortunately praying does absolutely nothing

[@faithoffaith]

That murder is linked to another case a year later Lyn Bryant and both still remain unsolved.

[@Lolodewednesday]

Bet was something to do with the neighbours

[@SnookerMafia-or6nu]

They think the person also killed Lyn Bryant as well. Hopefully they’ll catch him.

[@richardsmith8790]

Absolute bastards 😢

[@billymichaels8165]

For all the people who say bring this show back. Think of it this way. When this show began in 1984 there were hardly any other channels to watch. That meant most of the general public would be watching this show. Thus, making it more likely that a viewer would know the criminal. In our society today, with the hundreds of different television and internet programs. It is a lot less likely that a witness would be tuning in. Nick Ross said something similar in an interview.

[@dganet]

Wholeheartedly agree! I've thought about this many times.

[@croqueGrec09]

I do not. Other countries are not following that example, in Germany, the show (upon which Crimewatch is based on) is still on the air (next episode tonight) and other channels are used in completion to television.

[@gpotroast8031]

@@croqueGrec09 Get a life

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

The spelling is programme!!!!

[@MsVanorak]

because there are so many channels though it means that the viewer ratings are lower on every program so of course the viewer ratings would drop for Crimewatch. I blame the need for unnecessary change, new busy confusing sets and very much less clearly defined segments to the show for it's decline. It was perfect with Ross/Cook and 'last month recap', reconstructions, photo call, aladdin's cave and incident desk. the viewer knew when to settle down and observe and when to expect quick-fire questions. there still is a place for it with different agendas such as alerting people to the latest scam/online fraud - they know to target older people who are less savvy online - oh wait - they no longer have their free TV licence! the 'cops and robbers' scenario has gone but crime still goes on and it's much more useful TV than Z list celebrities eating things to make them gag in a Welsh castle e.g.

[@BlytheWorld1972]

Thanks for this and i would like to wish everyone of the crimwatch fans a merry and safe Christmas remember think once think twice think bike dont have nightmares do sleep well .

[@trishg151]

Bless ya x

[@davidwacko6623]

hope all these murdeers and rapists are all dead now

[@nathaniliescu4597]

Shut up. Please. Every video.

[@nathaniliescu4597]

@@trishg151 shut up Trish.

[@trishg151]

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[@robertnunn265]

Andy! You are back! Cheers for this one....

[@ianbousfield5007]

21 years on,they still haven't caught who ran over and killed Michael Pritchard.Very sad,just an ordinary bloke doing his job

[@janettemohan5056]

As you say, Ian - a sad case. But by no means forgotten... www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-news/michael-pritchard-murder-police-relaunch-756177 www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/can-you-help-solve-20-760773 www.itv.com/news/central/2017-11-19/police-receive-information-in-1997-unsolved-murder-case/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-41960755 www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/15653955.police-asking-for-witnesses-in-bradford-to-come-forward-as-20-year-old-murder-case-is-re-opened/ www.railforums.co.uk/threads/michael-pritchard-murder-case-re-opens.157347/ facebook.com/derbyshireconstabulary/videos/michael-pritchard-murder-20-years-on/10155955575793000/

[@christophercolquhoun2793]

Another crimewatch episode that i have never forgotten, the way the dog went mental at that sinister vagrant has stuck in my mind all this time

[@ajs41]

Wasn't that an episode from 1988?

[@christophercolquhoun2793]

@@ajs41 yeah i was going to say it reminds me a lot of that episode where the dog went crazy at the man in the trance lol.

[@ajs41]

@@christophercolquhoun2793 That guy looked like he was on spice, but of course spice hadn't been invented at the time.

[@charlottejade8056]

Andy JS that's exactly what I thought

[@MusicalArmageddon]

@@christophercolquhoun2793 which episode was that, is it up on the internet?

[@tjc89]

The case with the pervert asking the girls where his Labrador puppy was police solved 10 years later and the victim picked him out in an ID Parade .... "A man has been found guilty of the kidnap and indecent assault of an 11-year-old girl more than 10 years after the offence. James Michael William Evans, 33, of Charterhouse Road, Godalming, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment after being convicted at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday. Evans was charged on June 25 last year with kidnap and indecent assault, following an incident on National Trust land at Bunch Lane in Haslemere, on October 18, 1997. The victim recognised Evans as she had seen him a few days earlier when he told her, and friends she was with at the time, that he was looking for his lost dog. The victim was with her six-year-old brother and an 11-year-old male friend, walking along Derby Road, close to the junction of High Lane, when they saw Evans. He told them he still hadn’t found the dog and asked her if she would help him look for it. The victim went with Evans along Greensand Way to some National Trust land after it was suggested that her brother and friend look for the dog in another area. After taking her into some woodland in Bunch Lane, Evans threatened to tie the victim up before he sexually assaulted her. After the assault Evans took a photograph and gave the victim some money, threatening to spread it around her school if she told anyone. The girl ran home and told her mother what had happened. Surrey Police immediately launched an investigation which included numerous house-to-house enquiries, interviews with various witnesses, circulation of the offender’s description and a Crimewatch appeal but the case remained unsolved. On May 20, 2006, detectives investigating three reported incidents involving indecent behaviour towards young girls in Godalming, arrested Evans as a suspect. While preparing a case file against him, officers noted Evans’ likeness to an e-fit from the 1997 offence and detective constable Russell Cannon reopened the 1997 enquiry. After pleading guilty to five offences of sexually touching three girls aged 11, 12 and 14 in December 2006, Evans was arrested in relation to the 1997 offence on January 16, 2007. He was interviewed and later picked out of an identity parade by the victim, now aged 21, and the male friend who was with her when she met him. Using advanced forensic technology, unavailable in 1997, police were also able to match DNA evidence obtained from the victim’s clothing to that of Evans. He was charged with kidnap and indecent assault in June 2007. A search of Evans’ house subsequently uncovered a number of images of children as well as indecent films. He pleaded guilty to 20 counts of making and downloading indecent images of children in a separate case. Following the 11-day trial detective sergeant Matthew Durkin, of Waverley CID, said: "Firstly, I must pay tribute to the victim in this case, who successfully identified Evans more than 10 years after the offence. She has shown enormous courage and determination in the part she has played in his conviction. "Thanks to her bravery, an excellent piece of police work by officers investigating Evans in 2006, and the advances that have been made in forensic technology over the last 10 years, we have secured his conviction today." www.farnhamherald.com/article.cfm?id=221&headline=Serial%20sex%20attacker%20found%20guilty&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2008

[@nathaniliescu4597]

Too long, didn't read.

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[@starchild3287]

Why didn’t you just post the attachment 🥱🥱🥱

[@leew1598]

He should have been caught back in the late 90s, a person gave his name to the police but they didn't follow it up properly.

[@CGreen-hh6qk]

Thank u buddy for the latest upload shouldn't never got rid of crimewatch the members of the public solve crime faster than the old bill

[@ajs41]

Apparently they Americanised the show at the end which didn't really work.

[@CGreen-hh6qk]

Andy JS sad really but even so wished they should be still.making it in my opinion

[@interstat2222]

@@ajs41 That last incarnation was hell. You almost wonder if the BBC ran it into the ground deliberately. I guess police and BBC cuts, declining live TV watching and crime moving online all played a part in its demise. They still have Crimewatch Roadshow although I've never been interested in it.

[@paulmainwaring6674]

@@ajs41 in the end it was awful. I remember the last episodes were done live from some sort of airbase. They did a reconstruction of the murder of a young women in Bath called Melanie, they had caught the killer 30ish years later. But the reconstruction was run over 2 episodes and they purposefully left it on a cliffhanger which was just wrong

[@michealhand1001]

​@@interstat2222Imho I think the Demographic of criminals was changing if you catch my Drift.

[@filfvideos]

2:10 The attempted murder of the Czech student found in the toilet cubicle on the Charing Cross bound train was perpetrated by Graham Fisher who committed a double murder on the March 1998 Crimewatchand who is now banged up in Broadmoor.

[@sdeee3842]

Bill Borrett he thinks he’s Hannibal.

[@eccIefechan]

16:37 Nike Air Contrail. I had the same shoes back in 1997!

[@ryanohara476]

A very young Kara Tointon born August 1983 so a 14 year old child. at 37:14 better known from The Sound of Music and EastEnders as Dawn Swann from 2005-2009.

[@nathaniliescu4597]

Wank actress even then lol. Hot tho.

[@katemissfilanpurrmcdevitt]

She looks so different here Xx

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[@nathaniliescutotherescue6047]

@@nathaniliescuisatroll4838 Hi 👋

[@jimmylad7358]

2 reconstructions on the same episode involving a sex offender who prays on teenage girls and then runs through the streets shirtless? Is it possible that was the same guy?! Certainly drawing plenty of attention to himself wasn’t he.

[@noongourfain]

They caught the guy who interfered with the brother and sister. Can't find anything on the other shirtless runner. I've suspected it was Stewart Campbell But it wasn't his MO and I think he had hair on his chest and was shorter.

[@Abraham_Tsfaye]

As a true crime enthusiast. I have been shocked by the number of people murdered or raped by persons they simply let into their home. I would never allow anyone including those I simply know off inside my home. The other day a man rang my doorbell claiming he is from the gas company and he wanted to check my boiler. I told him to f...off. The gas company never sent me a letter saying someone was going to visit me.

[@ajs41]

Which country do you live in, if you don't mind me asking? The reason I ask is that there are cultural differences in different countries on this subject.

[@Abraham_Tsfaye]

@@ajs41 I live in london. I came from ethiopia.

[@Peter-ix1ym]

Don’t let anyone in, you’re a very wise man

[@dropperknot]

Abraham Tsfaye Shockingly impolite! I would have kicked your arse, had I been him.

[@tezdryden9009]

great work :) all very much appreciated

[@CarlitoGio]

Hannah went to my school in Chelsea, London. St Thomas More. I was in year 8 at the time. Couldn't believe it

[@joshuaedwards4536]

Who do you think is responsible for such a henious crime against a genuine innocent schoolgirl, as I've read a few theories on who and why it might've happened, R.I.P Hannah.....🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@TheDavephillips]

Merry Christmas All! And a Happy and Safe New Year.

[@ryanohara476]

Cheers Andy for all these gems Jools Holland amazing! 999 and many more TV Gems! I've been having CW UK withdrawal symptoms haha never seen Jan 1998 before as I was a Wain at 6 years old!

[@spike197047]

@Kaitlyn UK I was 28. I feel incredibly old ha

[@ryanohara476]

Feb 2003 I remember very well eerie creepy evil sick nonce bogus soical workers and nurse and the murders! It's good we all get to see theses again and its interesting reading all the comments of how we all remember certain cases reconcrestions etc and full episodes I remember all the reconstructions in the July 2001 I was 10 when I saw it the acid attacker man in orange wig and tartan hat. I've always remembered that and got shivers seeing that one again evil bastard he was I hope he was caught its good to see the ones I saw when originally once aired. Also its good like me where we get to see some for the first time!

[@ajs41]

It's very odd how there are so few Crimewatch episodes from 1997 available on KZbin. I recorded a lot of VHS videos myself that year, but I don't think Crimewatch is on any of them.

[@ryanohara476]

@@ajs41 I know Andy it appears to be very patchy after 1993 ( a year that's also complete here) two from 1992 are still missing as are two from 1994 most of 1995 1996 and as you said 1997 and 1998 onwards into the millennium are vary patchy 2001and 2002 there is only of each edition here and it is one which I remember very well! possibly one of my earliest memory July 2001 the acid attacker man in in the orange wig, I also remember parts of it from the late 90s although that's vague and I have always remembered about 2003 or around that time a reconstruction of I can still hear Nick Ross now the woman in in the red coat! thats all i remember I also remember a reconstruction from 1973 early 00s of a boy who was murdered I think and thereafter! it is disappointing that the ones people do have archived from their own personal collections are ones which are have already uploaded! When as you've said someone out there must have every episode on off-airs recordings on VHS tapes from the original broadcasts! without you Andy the years 1984-1991 would still be incomplete! so a huge thanks to you for your hard work for filling in the gaps of RedCard! I have waited years to see the original episodes, Please if anyone has February 1992 December 1992 February 1994 and December 1994 please upload them then the first 10 years of Crimewatch UK will be complete. I really hope we all get to view every episode and the spin offs etc before 2030! so please to readers with TV archives on VHS tapes have rummage through your tapes dust them off digitise them and upload them! please you could solve an unsolved crime!

[@ajs41]

@@ryanohara476 Thanks Ryan, interesting stuff. I know what you mean about remembering a particular case that hasn't been uploaded yet. Incidentally, I've just decided to add the Crimewatch File shows to my playlist. At the moment they're all at the end of the playlist, although I might put them in date order in amongst the actual Crimewatch shows. It looks like 26 of the 32 Crimewatch File programmes are on KZbin. I'm trying to search for the other 6 programmes. You can see them at the end of my playlist here: kzbin.info/aero/PL6oCQqv2KW6XFBwE-nkjXxdh7qk80jlhC

[@pamcarradine432]

6:15 them glasses 🤓🤣

[@kirstm.2215]

Merry Christmas! Feels like its come early

[@nathaniliescu4597]

Fatty.

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[@pcbhaddicted]

Hello there andy nice to see you back uploading crimewatch again. Did you have a nice break?

[@ajs41]

Yes thanks.

[@pcbhaddicted]

Will you maybe be uploading the other 999 episodes this week you said that you had?

[@davidwacko6623]

sum of these robbers and murderers are so thick

[@sdeee3842]

Jill Dando died 17 months later… never solved😢

[@johncook496]

Nice one Andy, cheers mate!

[@lyndaburn6428]

Cheers Andy. I’ve been having withdrawals !!!

[@naveedrafiq7923]

BBC ONE Continuity On Tuesday 27th January 1998.

[@paulpaxton8402]

THANKS ANDY J.S KEEP THE UPLOADS COMING MATE

[@avagrace8893]

Yes iam still alive CW UK thank you made my day

[@Marvindorfler1]

Did they get the bastard that grabbed the poor girl with her brother?

[@ianbousfield5007]

He was sentenced to life in 2008.He was called david newton and he was caught after he did a violent sex attack on a 52 year old woman in 2006.

[@Marvindorfler1]

@@ianbousfield5007 thanks for that, whatever the sentence was, it wasnt enough. Life is too good.

[@soulbrother61]

Yeah what a nonce.. bastard

[@rtd8860]

I think the first case in Hastings was linked to the double murder in April 1998 programme the guy was a disturbed individual

[@interstat2222]

Yes, I just commented this without seeing yours first! He claimed to be a cannibal. Currently in Broadmoor.

[@ianbousfield5007]

A lot of bastard nonce cases in this episode. In the robbery at 27:18 how come the police didn't check the bloody cctv?

[@shapiro9640]

I hope they caught Kate Bushells killer. Heartbreaking for her family.

[@kopthelotklopp1523]

The guy with the 70 child underground tickets 😂

[@saulwest8254]

I'm assuming the notes must of been brand new? With similar serial numbers. Strange way to launder though.😂

[@thomasfrancis7512]

Have you got November 1998 crime watch ?

[@nathaniliescu4597]

No.

[@jameshogarth9660]

Ya beauty cheers Andy you’ve made my Sunday night

[@ajs41]

Did anyone watch Unfinished Business in 1998 or 1999? I confess that I can't remember it, although I can remember Jaye Griffiths being in Bugs from 1995 to 1999.

[@interstat2222]

No, but as soon as I saw her I figured it was a Bugs trailer. I wonder why she isn't better known.

[@nathaniliescu4597]

God, bugs lol.

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[@nathanmck1]

5.40 mins in the man on the reconstruction outside virgin megastore looks very shifty anyone else think so?

[@nathaniliescu4597]

Hello nathan.

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[@nathaniliescutotherescue6047]

@@nathaniliescuisatroll4838 Hi there.

[@CatLowe50]

thanks Andy 😊

[@rayoflight6505]

Poor Kate Bushell her murder is still unsolved after 21 years. Btw it doesn't say here but the poor girl died from her throat being cut :(

[@ajs41]

Did they ever have any suspects?

[@rayoflight6505]

@@ajs41 I don't believe so though they believe he was local due to the location of the murder. Orange work wear fibres were found on her body. Thanx for more uploads btw

[@ryanohara476]

@@rayoflight6505 my English Ma is from Newton Abbot in Devon very near Exwick in Devon davastating! So sad! R.I.P Angel fly high x

[@ajs41]

Of course, statistically speaking, it's far more likely to have been someone she knew rather than a complete stranger like the vagrant. But I assume the police checked out everyone she knew to see if they might have been responsible.

[@ajs41]

Sadly it looks like the murder of Hannah Deterville hasn't been solved either. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_murders_in_the_United_Kingdom

[@JD-et1in]

18:04 what does the witness say about the suspected rapist please? As a non-native speaker I have some trouble with her accent here. "There was no flab"... Half? Off? I understand she found him to be too 'ripped' or 'dry', but neither word makes any sense to me after 'flab', especially as the final word in a sentence.

[@ajs41]

I'm on a train without earphones at the moment, but when I get home I'll try to see what she says.

[@JD-et1in]

​Hi ​@@ajs41thanks for your reply! Having watched that part a couple more times I'm fairly sure she says 'flab or FAT', which makes sense given the context. Thank you for all your hard work, much appreciated even outside of the UK!

[@ajs41]

@@JD-et1in Sorry about the delay. She says: "There's no flab or fat - I don't like that about him". Not quite sure why she would say she didn't like somebody who didn't have flab or fat in general, so I didn't quite understand the point she was making. You don't normally dislike someone just because they're thin? But that's what she said.

[@quagmirewasere]

Jesus I remember the train incident was the person ever caught?

[@ianbousfield5007]

broadmoor patient Graham fisher was convicted for it in 2010. Two weeks after this episode he murdered clare letchford and beryl o connor. He also ate a piece of clares arm.A reconstruction of their murders can be seen on the April 1998 episode .Fisher attacked and raped women for years .

[@oliprj8676]

5:12 Holy shit! 👀

[@WillC1528]

37:15 is that the actress Kara Tointon?

[@nathaniliescutotherescue6047]

Yeah, she's fit.

[@davidjohn8795]

I know the man at 25.18 he was the robber lol good idea to clean the money I wonder if he got caught 🤔

[@user-yg2vw8cc8c]

Poop poor lil kate and the father i cant imagine finding my son like that something you would never ever get over pure evil

[@booers79]

37:05 - is that Kara Tointon in the orangey/red top?

[@Muttey2024]

You leg end! 😎👍

[@AACE73]

Poor little Kate! 😢 Walking little Gemma as a favour & then loses her life 💔😭 I know it was a reconstruction, but the image of tiny Gemma also scared & shivering 😢 she most likely would've ended up being another victim if Kate's father hadn't discovered them! And what a thing for any parent to have to experience! 😨😢 I hope they catch the monster! In the mean time, I hope he's waking in cold sweats every night, fearing that knock on his door! 🤬 I love all dogs, tiny or huge, but I'm petite & my boy is almost as big as me & hes very protective. If you so much as look at me funny, he will block your access to me! I dont think hes had a decent sleep ever because no sound goes unheard by him! Even when he was knocked out at the vets for a procedure, he woke up as soon as they tried to take him away from me. He knows his job is to look after his mummy. He definitely makes me feel safe! I wish in that moment, poor little Gemma could have been a bigger dog & could've protected Kate 😢

[@GibboHibboWibbo]

Did they find out the murderer for the first reconstruction?

[@roccaluce]

Kate's murderer has yet to be traced.

[@katemissfilanpurrmcdevitt]

Sadly not her older brother made a fresh appal back in 2017 but sadly nobody has been caught Xx

[@Amandaclody]

@@katemissfilanpurrmcdevitt hopefully the pig is in jail or dead

[@shapiro9640]

So very very sad. Poor Kate Bushell. Just a child.

[@pauljosham9137]

Yes it's Kara tointon from eastenders

[@fintytin5771]

Cheers dear boy !!

[@nathaniliescu4597]

6.10...I'm sorry, are those supposed to be glasses or double glazed conservatory windows??

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[@nathaniliescutotherescue6047]

@@nathaniliescuisatroll4838 Hey bruh.

[@letsdiscussitoversometea8479]

What a bizarre thread! I understand what it's all about though - still very unusual :)

[@vanillasnow4084]

I remember the brother and sister rape case i must have been about 8 it really creeped me out , i remember the sister saying he held the brothers hand the whole time 🙁 so sad

[@andrewsmith2757]

Was he caught?

[@vanillasnow4084]

Andrew Smith I don’t have a clue i haven’t looked it up just remember it on tv

[@andrewhinds1449]

@@andrewsmith2757 Yes his name is David Newton

[@Amandaclody]

Dirty bastard, jesus what is wrong with some men

[@MsVanorak]

made me cry that one

[@robertboyle2573]

Very violent episode this one.

[@ajs41]

Maybe they toned it down a bit after this.

[@MrGayle_]

He is Plump lol

[@keelayp1940]

My birth month

[@ajs41]

Seems like 5 minutes ago to me. I was 19 at the time.

[@marge1112]

@@ajs41 about the same age , the 90s was the last free decade before everybody was so PC

[@HouseOfMitchell]

@@ajs41 I was almost 23 when this episode aired. I miss the 90's and this was still when crimewatch was well made

[@gargantuk]

My sympathy went out of the window when I realised she was a fan of the Lighthouse Family. Not saying she deserved to be killed, but.....

[@noongourfain]

Graham Fisher confessed to attacking the Czech student in the train toilet. He also killed and set fire Clare Letchford (cutting off a piece of her arm and eating it) and Dorney O'connor. He is held at Broadmoor.

[@ajs41]

Thanks for the information.

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

They could not link him to Debbie Linsley?

[@simonspider]

Fancy calling a dog Gemma?

[@noongourfain]

Could the Rayleigh Mount attacker have been Stuart Campbell?

[@noongourfain]

Maybe not because Campbell wasn't 6 foot tall IDK