Crimewatch UK March 1987

[@Wadworth6XLad]

Haha - David Hatcher reciting the phrases the macaw says. To think this gem of a moment was lost to history until now!

[@misplacedkiwi9498]

I know right?! I had to keep rewinding it and larffing 😂😂😂😂

[@MsVanorak]

whilst giving the living reqlica in the studio the side eye in case it starts chatting!

[@twinkle3026]

LoL! Yes and the way the superintentant, cautiously looks at the bird, at the end of the segment, is sooooo funny! xx

[@acotbc]

There really needs to be a 'Best of Superintendent David Hatcher on Crimewatch UK' compilation.

[@hihowareyouthen]

"Jackie's a bad lad"

[@jamessmith-zu7ho]

This was the first episode that i watched that really stuck in my head for years afterwards. The details i remembered from the murder in the car park for years is both weird and remarkable. Watching it today i remember it as clearly as when i was young. If only i could remember where all my money goes every month. Now that would be useful

[@dominicrioriordan7167]

Sue looking hot as allaways

[@muk8804]

I know exactly what you mean - the first episode that I watched as a child was a 1994 episode and I remembered (weirdly just as you feel ) vividly some minging blue high heels that the killer left behind ! I never saw it again until last year !

[@TheDarrenguyuk]

most on here are all nuts

[@CARLIN4737]

The quality of these uploads are incredible.😉

[@dazauto1400]

Those wages thefts and bank hold ups are like watching old episodes of The Sweeney!

[@sirandrelefaedelinoge]

YOU SLAAAAAAAAAAG...!

[@mrkipling2201]

‘ and we haven’t had any dinner !! ‘

[@Compleme_Cunm]

I wonder whether the villains ever got to sit the entrance exam for the Chinese Civil Service?

[@zeddeka]

This was about ten years after the Sweeney. It's getting on for 40 years away from now, literally last century 😵‍💫

[@kevintraynor4508]

Just shows how good the actors and the tv series was.

[@deanmobley1112]

2 episodes in one day! Thank you Redcard, did anyone else think that the arson crime with the airplanes sounded like an insurance job??

[@dissonantdreams]

Definitely sounds like an insurance job to me. I wonder if it was ever solved?

[@deanmobley1112]

Sarah Sea no idea but I wouldn’t be surprised if it had been proven to be an insurance job!

[@lisab4207]

I like Sue's Freddie Kruger sweater.

[@tomkirby7991]

It looked to me as if the taxi the wages robbers hailed was not a taxi that just happened to be passing. It was probably arranged for another member of the gang to wait there. If not it would not of been a very good getaway plan, dumping the car and hoping that there was going to be a taxi nearby.

[@ginaryan2093]

Good point!

[@thesprostongreener]

Awesome as ever - you get a mention in this week's episode of the podcast :)

[@dissonantdreams]

Is it a true crime podcast? Sounds good, can you post the link? :)

[@michaellowery1559]

Ford sierra 4x4 was a nice choice of car for the robbery.

[@trabali5168]

yeah at that time.......but 150bhp from a 2.8ltr engine is not great.

[@georgeminnit7645]

Trab Ali Rear Car Now

[@TheDarrenguyuk]

these robbers are nothing with out a gun when ou git a gun your hard

[@wewastheacidhousechildren]

@@trabali5168 At the time it was. Escort RS Turbo cars were only 132 bhp and we all thought they was rocket ships.

[@Lushgirl81]

I love the micro map!

[@MsVanorak]

haha - they look like they are done with a school mathematical set and coloured biros.

[@kirstm.2215]

Trying to escape *creeps round van* WHERE THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU GOING... Me *Shits pants*

[@muk8804]

Shitting hell! That has got to rank in the top 20 scariest Crimewatch reconstruction moments !

[@sarahfalder6969]

@@muk8804 same!

[@Compleme_Cunm]

Maybe I am a bad man, but I burst out laughing at that moment

[@TomGallagherSuperboyBeyond]

amazing how cheap cigarettes used to be

[@jamesofarcadia]

23:17: I JUMPED out of my skin, don't expect that sort of scare on CW.

[@ftorres93]

Nor did I .... Lol

[@allstartuition267]

I chuckled

[@MarkPMus]

I nearly had a heart attack. Watching a t 4pm, not even at night! 😂😂

[@MM0SDK]

Thanks again Redcard74

[@mrkipling2201]

So interesting to see how Cannon Street Road was like back then. Around Laburnum Street as well. I used to live near both places about 20 years after this cigarette robberies happened.

[@michaelpout2208]

more crimewatch thanks always look forward to the next upload

[@mrkipling2201]

Wonder if anyone stole some ‘ gold chains and whatsernames ‘ in the 1980’s? Or some Trevor Francis tracksuits from Shepherds Bush??

[@Compleme_Cunm]

I got a cricket bat from them, signed by Viv Richards, not sure about the signature though.

[@vanillasnow4084]

0:53 rocking up unashamedly like Dennis the menace 😂

[@sirandrelefaedelinoge]

Minnie the Minx...

[@MetalAaron]

Does anybody know what happened to the cigarette lorry robberies? Were they solved? Can't find anything about it online

[@jamesobrien1440]

19:46 No way there’s a place in Kent called ‘Thong’. Wouldn’t mind visiting there and having a good look around. Might even find myself being a regular visitor

[@Muttey2024]

Redcard - Thank you again, may I ask where you are getting these from in such good quality? - Cheers

[@helenharper4311]

I need the theme tune for my phone. I love it!

[@irishcountryman4866]

Download it

[@swiftlydoesit8480]

RedCard74 is the best! 💪

[@jamesharding5855]

@20:11 that hair is magnificent

[@Lushgirl81]

He’s probably totally bald now!

[@Compleme_Cunm]

​@@Lushgirl81I hope he's receding, but keeps the length at the back and sides, a la Terry Nutkins

[@ianpilkington2037]

Lamahl eat your heart out

[@daviddrysdale2746]

Does anyone know if the Eddie Owusu murder was solved? So tragic.

[@crazykurt1234]

cannot find anything on it

[@daviddrysdale2746]

Yep i’ve tried also

[@soulbrother61]

I've also tried can't find anything would be intrested to know

[@piotrgadowski3506]

@trafficlight9199 Internet sources don't confirm it is unsolved neither. IMO, it is solved.

[@languageoffootball]

Given it was such an amateurish operation in which they only secured a pittance I can only imagine they’d have come a cropper shortly after anyway and did a stretch at HMP. That said hopefully they did get a long custodial for this horrific and needless murder.

[@mariafelices8000]

Eddie so sad God bless stay strong comfort lv Mario cdf💗

[@PESChamp08]

Excellent uploads redcard74 - when does you collection run to? Hopefully many more episodes?

[@worstxb1playertylerteehc635]

Those cigarettes are probs £8000 a case now

[@twinkle3026]

Amongst all of the sadness, during this programme, it was nice to have a bit of eye candy, respite, at 20:10, for a few moments. xxxx

[@Peter-ix1ym]

I found some right here 😊

[@Compleme_Cunm]

Did you fancy Pat Sharp by any chance?

[@twinkle3026]

@@Compleme_Cunm LoL LoL! I see what you mean! x

[@paulvaughan3699]

Mullet fetish? 😂

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

Sure the driver in the cigarette heist got looked after and the irony of the tobacco company ..Offering up a 50:000 pound reward when they are in effect themselves selling products that kill people

[@vanillasnow4084]

33:03 JR Ewing and Frank Butcher , so many famous faces in this one

[@thedinnerparty4795]

They always show the get away car at full speed drawing attention to it. The secret is to blend in and walk and not run.

[@katemissfilanpurrmcdevitt]

Thank you thank you thank you Xxxxxx

[@imyourbiggestfan.9224]

I am fairly sure Crime watch was on on a Sunday in the UK, maybe the repeat. But I can remeber being allowed to stay up until the updates!

[@zeddeka]

It was shown on Thursdays, once a month.

[@PC-lu3zf]

Hope they caught the Carpark guys killer.

[@JC-ss7xy]

Still unsolved

[@nathaniliescu4597]

They hardly catch anyone from the 80s and early 90s

[@ginaryan2093]

I can’t find any extra references to this.

[@mrkipling2201]

Such a sad and unnecessary case.

[@martinwatts517]

Was it definitely a robbery? Seems strange to go in with a loaded gun, use it, then not take anything.

[@pygiana16]

Sorry, always find the Aladdin’s Cave a boring interlude between the reconstructions. All looks like old junk to me.

[@Lushgirl81]

Pygiana i always skip past it!

[@sirandrelefaedelinoge]

Philistine...

[@misplacedkiwi9498]

Me too. I don’t have a clue about antiques. My man is always banging on about how much certain shit is worth and I honestly don’t care. I mean they look nice but there’s no need to get moist.

[@ianpilkington2037]

Never understand why on robberies in the getaway car that you'd screech off like a bat out of hell, drawing even more attention to yourself

[@AACE73]

Not using their clutch properly 😂

[@stfitness]

Thanks for uploading this. Do you have the one that features a robbery at Haverfordwest Football Club - it also features a robbery of jewellery at a stately home. It must be 1988 or 1989. I remember the features vividly.

[@jamesobrien1440]

It was May 1988. The thumbnail features an old-style fruity, presumably located within the club’s bar

[@stfitness]

@@jamesobrien1440 Thank you, I ended up finding it a while ago.

[@zeddeka]

Lorry- jacking was a huge problem in the 1980s. Some police forces, like Essex, set up specialist teams to deal with it.

[@rickbrowne9559]

That second shot was unessessary.. So was the first one, Cop Clown.

[@cameronsmith9511]

Awesome as always, are we going to be treated to another one tonight as you missed yesterday?

[@joshuaferguson698]

Her name is Comfort, love that for her lol

[@misplacedkiwi9498]

I know someone from Kenya who is called Purity- beautiful!

[@johnniethepom2905]

In 1974 I went to school with an African lad called Pencil . That was it no surname just Pencil ! The look on the temp teacher's face when she called the register was priceless. Confidently call all the English name , then right at the end ( he has only just arrived at the school so his name was last ) was very tentative. Followed by " Yes Miss , I'm here " ! 45 years ago and I still remember it .

[@cgarby]

Shame that the Eddie Owusu case remains unsolved

[@Joanna7428]

I hope the woman and the parrot or exotic bird were reunited - i hate to see a loved pet and its owner parted, sometimes, maybe more than sometimes these are friendships they only have. I have to say, i loved the bird's repoirtee 🤗. I hope this had a happy ending.

[@SerenDipity64711]

always heartbreaking hearing that pets get stolen or are killed by these awful people..😭

[@Compleme_Cunm]

Be dangerous for a thief if the Macaw was located. They can pick up phrases rather quickly, and could give them away if they there's a particularly distinctive one that they use. I know a girl whose parrot now says 'shut it ya wee d***' thanks to her boyfriend's outbursts to the bird.

[@hypnotics7886]

The lack of response to the racist attack appeal from the previous month was very telling. It just wasn’t seen as a big deal back then.

[@susanbyrne6777]

crepes someone actually stole a fireplace wtaf

[@misplacedkiwi9498]

Gavin Williamson probs

[@StufiBuy]

Forgive me for hardly caring that a gang is jacking shipments of cigarettes. I just can’t seem to muster up much sympathy for big tobacco.

[@Margaret-i4b]

That "trouble making spade" had work was supporting his family and apparently prepared to work evenings and weekends. Incidentally a spade is what you use to dig with or a suite of cards not a fellow human being.

[@jamesofarcadia]

20:04 ...sure I've seen that blokes hair in numerous photo fits on crimewatch.

[@zahria]

These housing societies seemed to be El Dorados for getting money?

[@zeddeka]

Building societies? They were a kind of savings and mortgage bank. Everything was cash driven in those days so they were big targets.

[@kevintraynor4508]

When the guy who was kidnapped and had his truck hijacked got out his cab to see if anyone was there. I must admit I thought when the other guy jumped out of nowhere and orderd him to get back in the cab .that it was a bluff to delay him ringing the cops

[@CARLIN4737]

Never seen this. Not often Leigh on sea gets a mention.😉

[@jeanettehinds4253]

My brother used to live in York Way. And I went to college in Essex Road.

[@AndyPandy-sj9bl]

Used to go to many raves there 30 years ago - Bagleys which was an old warehouse which you see on this.

[@SerenDipity64711]

I bet the drivers speeding in the reconstructions love taking part!

[@CharlieEdward25]

yeah boi see u didnt put one up yesterday was so sad lol

[@chapender6476]

13:13 Flash Harry from St Trinians

[@yellowhatproductions5863]

george cole

[@CARLIN4737]

Huyton wages snatch. No not a special delivery love. 😉 definitely not, more like a takeaway. Cracking 😉

[@trebor9711]

It would be too late to get the Cigarettes back, they would have gone up in smoke.!! 👈Boom Boom

[@zeddeka]

The armed robbery in Liverpool is a good illustration of how bad a lot of Britain's inner cities had become in the 80s. You can see how desolate it looks. The main problem back then was mass unemployment. It sent a lot of families into terrible poverty and that in turn fuelled crime. Liverpool was especially badly hit and there were major riots in the city in the early 80s. The famous TV series "Boys from the Black Stuff" is set in Liverpool during that era and captures the desperation very well.

[@paulie-7654laltbhtbh]

Anyone know if they caught Stuart Kernow for the murder of his wife Winnie?

[@splashgordon5022]

Nah they never have caught up with me. Been along time now, I guess they’re not even looked for me now. Thanks for asking mate 👍

[@Whizzer_]

Cars would be obsolete now and we would all be flying around in Opticas if this never happened. This was well known to be a coordinated attack by the legacy car industry

[@WillVenusASMR]

22:44 very neatly packed for a rushed job.

[@tigertony2716]

From a time when most crimes in Britain were committed by British people, things certainly have changed

[@Mrrobackenson1]

Don't have nightmares. I peed myself 😂

[@Elmwood-ze3cr]

The Bank Robber at 13;24 looks very similar to a bloke on KZbins "Bus Pass Bandits" Scottish accent aswel ?????

[@faithoffaith]

Did Ms Bernstone get her parrot back?

[@CARLIN4737]

Load of blocks plenty of Eddie's about probably replaced the next day by agency.

[@Matt.m6]

Weird guy

[@rage707]

Good, pleasant long-term workers stick in your mind

[@RipperBravo]

14:02 Grandad ?

[@worstxb1playertylerteehc635]

SO was Sue Cook pre Dando ?

[@ginaryan2093]

Yes

[@worstxb1playertylerteehc635]

@@ginaryan2093 Thanks. God i am old.

[@gujh03]

Yes and far better than Dando

[@richardhewer9167]

Bread on the water bill

[@vanillasnow4084]

31:53 Michael Jackson

[@misplacedkiwi9498]

I’m a bad, invincible, thieving mutha fucker! Hehe, sch’mon

[@pusscat1147]

Hee hee

[@patsyparisi2620]

Patrick Trueman was a mate of mr Owusus?

[@strongcoffee7]

Shut up - says David Hatcher

[@mrkipling2201]

19:45 they were going to Thong!!

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

I was thinking the same thing, but the undies or sandals are throngs.

[@kevintraynor4508]

I always said smoking was a bad habbit 😂

[@Lushgirl81]

20:14 nice hair do!

[@roberttalbot6397]

16.45 a parrot sketch on crime watch, I've heard everythink now🤭

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

They have done sketches of dogs before.

[@roberttalbot6397]

@@treasurehunteruk9718 dogs yes, but police use dogs,. But parrots?

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

@@roberttalbot6397 The dog was with a SUSPECT, not a police dog!

[@roberttalbot6397]

@@treasurehunteruk9718 I know I'm using that as an example like dogs are ok ,but a parrot

[@stuarthampstead4]

9

[@mrkipling2201]

13:16 Elton John??

[@yellowhatproductions5863]

more like arthur daily

[@TimmyTickle]

Not sure why he’d need to rob a building society

[@richardhewer9167]

Unemployment giros on there water to all your subscribers

[@richardhewer9167]

Giros to redcards subcategory subscribers. Wasters.

[@23hublock1]

2:18 soz Sue but nobody cares about a trouble making spade. Clearly.

[@cgarby]

Racist

[@fredflintstoner596]

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"