Crimewatch UK - Tuesday 19 May 1998

[@skygazer6898]

Ricky Smith was only 25 when he was stabbed and died. He would have been fifty now and the killer has never been caught. that is so sad!

[@golgotha3938]

I bet his wife moved on quickly with another man though women do sadly.

[@tessfabled4115]

@@golgotha3938 What the fuck does that have to do with anything? Please stop smearing your misogynistic bullshit over this tragedy, it is helpful to no-one.

[@chrismaddin2289]

She moved to Australia what I hear.

[@23rdian]

Thanks for a good upload from the second best quality decade

[@meggriffin94]

The older reconstructions (1984-1995) were a bit more informative.

[@Thenorthsace]

Shut up meg

[@patrickeffiom97]

R.I.P Jill

[@lesleyh88]

Hugely missed, a lovely woman.

[@tobyz12345]

41:37 She was murdered by her Mother and brother, who's picture was shown. "The court heard the pair believed Rukhsana Naz had brought shame on the family by having an extra-marital affair and becoming pregnant." "She was strangled to death with an electric flex by her brother at their family home in Derby last March after becoming pregnant by her lover."

[@JohnDoe-pu5gk]

When tv was actually worth watching.

[@jaywalkercrew4446]

Old crime watch recreation of the crimes was like a movie 🍿 think 🤔 they stopped doing them so good, cause criminals was using them for idea’s to do robbery’s.

[@JohnDoe-pu5gk]

@@jaywalkercrew4446 lol. Yeah I think so

[@Thenorthsace]

@@jaywalkercrew4446 or tips on how to get away with it better 😅

[@jaywalkercrew4446]

@@Thenorthsace exactly

[@dominicharkin1637]

This edition of Crimewatch was on 3 weeks before the start of the 1998 FIFA World Cup Finals in France 🇫🇷

[@anthonymcken6050]

The greatest World Cup tournament in my lifetime. What a summer that was to be alive. To bad we lost to Argentina in the last 16 but the Romania loss didn't help.

[@09weenic]

@@anthonymcken6050 it didn’t come home that year either 😂😂

[@ianbousfield5007]

Ricky smith still unsolved 25 years later

[@SuperTed19021]

💔😢

[@RgP1238]

the Patrick Hurling case is still unsolved despite the new leads mentioned in this episode

[@energymc22]

Geek alert - 23:40: that reg is fake. L registration is 1993ish , that Renault Megane wasn't released till about 1996. Just had to say it. Over and out.

[@andyb3666]

You'll be busy then as there are loads of prop cars with the wrong year plates over the years in CW 😂😂😂

[@NoEurosJustGuilders]

Keep them coming Damo

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

I'm surprised the estate agents could not have put out a warning of a man who was bogus, who was 'renting' property and then clearing off with the goods. Even the police could have warned them, as I know it was before the Net, then if he came in, they could have alerted the police - like when jewellery is stolen, and when the thief tries to sell it, the jeweller calls the police. It is amazing he got away with it so many times.

[@rs-qt1qg]

I'm more surprised a case like this was featured on the show, definitely up there with one of the more bizarre ones ever featured! Also the internet was around back then, but of course it wasn't as widespread as it is now

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

@@rs-qt1qg No way was everyone on the Net then, and small estate agents would not be on it.

[@rs-qt1qg]

@@treasurehunteruk9718 yeah that's pretty much what I meant regarding the internet point. Also don't forget money laundering law didn't exist, so no checks were probably made. It's because of stunts like this things got tougher

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

@@rs-qt1qg Estate Agents could even have put out a warning amongst themselves, so as to alert each other to the scammer. Even if it was by post, they could have warned each other. The POLICE could have issued warnings to Estate Agents, and newspapers could have covered the story. Life DID exist before the Internet. The police issued the warning about John Warboys, telling women not to take a drink from a taxi driver who tells you he has won the lottery. This stopped anyone else falling for his lies, who might not have heard of him, otherwise.

[@DeanBall75]

@@rs-qt1qg Yes I agree, this reconstruction stands out as being slightly more unusual in CW history. A style of reconstruction they used to feature in the mid/late 80s! I'm surprised it just wasn't an 'incident desk' case rather than full film

[@Made1984.]

Nick Ross must have been feeling the heat whilst filming this episode, no jacket?🤔

[@johnniethepom7545]

The green tie with a blue shirt was a major fashion faux par for any age in history . No m8 I am heterosexual .

[@pattymelt-go3fv]

@@johnniethepom7545 LOLLOLLL HAHHAHA

[@itsalondonthing9562]

The Ricky Smith murder was racially motivated in my book!!, had it been the other way around it most definitely would have been treated as such.

[@johnmcdonald9295]

Practically all inter racial violence is on white people

[@marge1112]

But even in them days they couldn’t say it 🙄 the blm have took it way too far these days.

[@unholylemonpledge9730]

But when its the other way round u dismiss it and say people are whipping up racial tension. Stfu bro

[@dickiegreenleaf750]

I definitely agree. This is when England started getting bad. Complete trash ghetto implants

[@chewbaccassecretlovechild2607]

What is the title of your book bruv ? I would love to read it

[@CallmenobodWMAO743]

Jill was the best Crimewatch presenter. R.I.P Jill Dando

[@lw3646]

Nick and Sue were such a great pair, but Jill was superb at this too.

[@PaulSCO]

The random stabbing got featured again on Crimewatch, when it was linked to several other stabbings. Not sure if it got solved though.

[@RgP1238]

The murderer of Ricky Smith is still unknown. In 2015 it was revealed that DNA evidence linked the killer to another stabbing that happened a few hours earlier

[@jimmylad7358]

I always wondered if it was mistaken identity or if Ricky had some enemies in the area? It just seems so random and senseless.

[@PaulSCO]

@@jimmylad7358 I think on the other one they featured, it was a Dutch tourist who survived and said it was also completely random

[@johnmcdonald9295]

Nobody got convicted of o rourke murd in Bermondsey or terry Gregory in woolwich either although rocky dejalal did o rourke in and George Edwin murd terry Gregory,practically all inter racial violence is on yt people

[@michealhand1001]

Does anyone recognize the 20 pound note inspector?I do😊

[@acostin4004]

Why didn't the woman give a wrong pin and cancel cards the guy withdrew money for days...

[@lw3646]

Sheer terror?

[@alisonblackwell988]

Roy North is the security guard. Boom boom Basil Brush

[@michaelpout4798]

How horrible what happened to the lady in the first reconstruction I hope he was arested she should have cansaled the cards immediately

[@jaywalkercrew4446]

Probably last thing on her mind, after getting raped.

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

I was thinking his fingerprints would have been all over the building, cos he wasn't wearing gloves.

[@ryanohara476]

Cheers Damien! 😁

[@dickiegreenleaf750]

Boy the UK sure changed from the early CW episodes. Looks like a foreign country in these.

[@bowjana8128]

England is third world

[@UnIimited_Power]

Tiddums.

[@johnniethepom7545]

​@UnIimited_Power . Don't worry the British Bulldog spirit is in the early stages of a massive and spiteful return . Leave if you don't like the UK while you have the chance .

[@chrismaddin2289]

If you saw North London today you wouldn't find much white faces.

[@DeanBall75]

23:59 presumably 'uncle' was the antiques expert then

[@chrismaddin8242]

I remember the night Ricky Smith was killed, because it was in my area of North London.

[@bowjana8128]

Was there any theory as to why

[@lw3646]

The case is still unsolved.

[@SuperTed19021]

@@lw3646 💔

[@snookermafia6368]

Wow the guy who was stealing all the furniture from those houses was pretty slick. I’m surprised they weren’t insured. He really tanned the houses.

[@GazaRatts]

Why didn’t she not report and block her bank cards straight away instead of waiting days 😮

[@lindagoodswin9519]

May be the police told her not to because they can sometimes trace them

[@midsomerparva5188]

Jill was so beautiful

[@johnniethepom7545]

Jacqui Hames has always floated my boat .

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

All the female presenters were attractive. I don't suppose they wanted anyone ugly presenting it.

[@skygazer6898]

Beautiful lady.

[@philsaunders4098]

Anyone know what Smithy’s bird says, I got, “he’s an old fashioned man, he said, get married on a Monday thirty” . If that’s what she said what did he mean ?.

[@jonathanw844]

Get married when we’re about 30

[@jamesyousry9339]

How did the con man use different names, you have have to have I. D . to if your doing any business with landlord, estate agents passport driving license or birth certificate how did he get away with that

[@Peter-ix1ym]

The 3k in cash possibly turned the landlords head. The estate agents checks possibly not as stringent back then

[@Ashs-mini-vlogs]

Cash in hand checks not as good as today

[@clioflano421]

5 ppl are watching this now!!

[@lw3646]

Ricky Smith murder is still unsolved.

[@MrGayle_]

Why didnt she cancel her cards

[@Mrrobackenson1]

If the reconstruction was accurate, why did the security guard not give over the box straight away. He's got a gun & it's not your money 💰.

[@dickiegreenleaf750]

Wanted to be a hero thinking the guy wouldn’t shoot. Things were different back then. Now, the guard would have given it immediately

[@bowjana8128]

Third world London

[@TimmyTickle]

14:38 - Chris Farley?

[@dickiegreenleaf750]

What’s a public school accent?

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

Someone who went to a very expensive school, costing as much as £40,000 a year. You are supposed to come out speaking extremely posh and too confident for your own good.

[@ladylaughter7393]

No wonder you don’t know what it is 😁

[@vivienneandersson6019]

@@treasurehunteruk9718 You do not learn how to speak at public school, you generally speak like your parents.

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

@@vivienneandersson6019 Accents change with the people you hang around with. Never heard of someone emigrating to another country and picking up their dialect? Anyway, the £40,000 a year schoolkid, probably has parents WHO SPEAK WITH PLUMS IN THEIR MOUTH, ANYWAY!!!!!

[@andyb3666]

The real Dickie Greenleaf went to one himself 🤣

[@kevintraynor4508]

Most the vids have a sepia effect

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

At 32.50, he was tax dodging - £600 in cash, did he tell the tax office and declare it???? I know he wasn't rich, but I can't be bothered with all these tax dodgers on here, who keep cash at home, then complain when it is stolen.

[@23rdian]

Tax is theft. Should be featured on Crimewatch

[@meichong8278]

HE WAS MURDERED !!! Don't think the tax on £600 matters ..... do you ? Killer still hasn't been caught

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

@@meichong8278 Yes, tax dodging is illegal. Try it!!!!!!

[@Elmwood-ze3cr]

"Tax Dodging" ??? Most people got paid in Cash in those days , not a mention of him Tax Dodging ????

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

@@Elmwood-ze3cr All earnings have to be declared to the Inland Revenue. Keeping £600 for one job, in your pocket IS NOT LEGAL. Imagine if everyone did it.

[@lukewilly]

39:15