Crimewatch UK November 1989

[@DeanBall75]

I think I've released why I love this channel so much. Not only is it interesting to learn about the cases on here and researching what the outcome was. It's also the raw footage of 1980s Britain that I love. Nothing glamorous here, just 'as it is'. And remember, whenever there was a crime in the 1980s, there was never a Ford Cortina very far away!!!

[@johncook496]

Dean Ball so true. It’s only 30 years ago but in so many ways it’s a different world. The way technology, attitudes and even language have changed, it’s diverting,

[@johncook496]

* riveting.

[@swiftlydoesit8480]

Dean Ball You and me both mate. I’m so fascinated by what the UK, in particular London, (where I’m from) looked like when I was too young to remember.

[@DeanBall75]

Def mate, I was 12 when this was first broadcast, so I do remember quite a lot of this era. It's the little details I love, the 4 digit area codes, 'Access' credit card signs everywhere and the old school pubs/restaurants are hilarious where everyone is chain smoking and the dodgy plastic ashtrays are on every table.

[@MM0SDK]

I'm a right nostalgic, that's maybe why l love watching them so much too. Michelle Wareing was apparently really nice, as were her parents. They did find the murderer apparently. Probably out now already though unfortunately. www.wiganworld.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1494&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15&sid=6a6cbe2950bf7bb093b1186226fed9fa

[@chrislyons2662]

Does anyone else drive to work the next morning after watching these and make a mental note of people you pass in case they’re needed as a witness? I can’t help it. Yes officer denim jacket at the bus stop, checking his watch. He looked well dodgy!🙈😂

[@arranle]

Haha actually want to solve an actual crime

[@sinead1328]

Yes! Extra vigilant and nosey for the next few days

[@Mark-th6hq]

@@arranle as nick ross ses do have nightmares and don't sleep well crimefix ha ha

[@traceyclarke5475]

Yes I do lol. X

[@Thenorthsace]

Saddos

[@Jimwoodward1212]

Thursday 9th November. This was after the 9 o’clock news when Berlin Wall went down. Mark Develin was the announcer that night

[@soulbrother61]

They escaped in an Orange Lada..... they were found 4 hrs later 50 yards away

[@MM0SDK]

hahahah. Lada's and Skoda's - The butt of many 80's and 90's jokes. Skoda managed to shake it off in the end by hugging VW.

[@Hi-kq1vi]

@@MM0SDK One kid at school used to get driven every day by his parents who had a Robin Reliant-he used to get the piss taken out of him a lot.

[@stephenroche4897]

I used to find those 80s Skoda Estelles quite grimly fascinating. Never see them these days.

[@Tiredmum]

you are optimistic

[@barrysmith1651]

How do you double the value of aLada ? , fill the petrol tank

[@davidchapman7033]

These make me feel all nostalgic, I was 7 in 1989. Time flies!

[@Lushgirl81]

Frank Havertz I was 8!! Makes me feel nostalgic too! 😃

[@jupiter-8405]

I hope you were not watching it at 7 years old :)

[@marklane2583]

Me too!

[@londonereast5676]

@@jupiter-8405i. Was

[@irene-jb7jc]

I was 17.

[@rayoflight6505]

That clip of the dark almost empty multi story car park gave me the creeps.

[@steviep281]

Yeah I saw it thinking. This will give me nightmares tonight😂😂😂😂

[@heathcliffcameron2468]

Thank you so much for uploading these, I wait up just to watch them...

[@beausexon435]

In the reconstruction of the Michelle murder, I have read online that the actual murderer was inadvertently caught in the background during the filming of her case! His name is Peter David Heaton.

[@Romanplaystation]

Just read that myself. Wonder if that's him on the traffic island at 4:12 seemingly entranced by the actors. 🙄

[@matthewc.419]

Woooowwwwwww

[@irishcountryman4866]

Is there a photo of him?

[@anthonymcken6050]

​@@Romanplaystation I have a strong that it is him. He has a creepy vibe to him.

[@5JS23]

Recon the bar scenes

[@scrapyardwarriorvlogging]

The lady actor who plays the role of Michelle in the first case is 80’s beautiful!

[@Valoween616]

She reminds me of Martine Mccutcheon

[@Thenorthsace]

Yeah that was in 1989 mate i highly doubt she’ll look anything like that now

[@scrapyardwarriorvlogging]

@@Thenorthsace😂😂😂😂

[@wewastheacidhousechildren]

@@Thenorthsace None of us do though. Time waits for no man.

[@soulbrother61]

1st reconstruction... Station Road, Wigan, spent many a night @ Wigan Casino , station road in late 70's early 80's soulin' the night away... hence the name soulbrother 61..

[@piotrgadowski3506]

Pity they demolished those buildings there. I hate when they build another bars and malls on murder spots :/ This happens sometimes, unfortunately.

[@AACE73]

I'm on my way........

[@jeanettehinds2605]

Friends? Some friends. They should have waited outside with her to make sure she had gone to a reputable taxi.

[@tomprice9204]

They weren’t to k know wha was gonna happen

[@katherinejay3219]

I am at a loss as to why this programme stopped being shown. It served a purpose and helped the Police across the counties.

[@dickiegreenleaf750]

Too much crime to cover these days. The world is a much more sickening place than it was in 1989.

[@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine]

Apparently it’s because of the use of social media. The reason I heard was because it took a little more effort to ring up and report but these days the police would get too many stupid leads to follow from clowns on Facebook messing around

[@markwilliams984]

With social media and cameras everywhere plus advances in DNA profiles etc I think that maybe a reason plus cranks all over facebook. None of these things back in the day.

[@lukewilly]

Apparently there was too much crime by the immigrants and they felt it was showing them in a bad light.

[@06hurdwp]

Crimewatch, as a concept, relied on mass viewership for it to work. Through the 2010s and onward the number of people watching TV (and especially the number watching the main channels that Crimewatch was shown on) has absolutely plummeted and it no longer works as an effective means to identify criminals. Nowadays social media is far more useful.

[@JuiceTerry87]

The Michelle Wareing case is the second one I'm aware of where the murderer actually featured in background in the reconstruction

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

Avril Dunn's killer was in the reconstruction.

[@JuiceTerry87]

@@treasurehunteruk9718 yes, that was the other one I had in mind

[@lw3646]

If they had any sense they would leave the area and lie low for a bit, but I guess they sometimes can't resist returning to the scene of the crime. There was a police woman murdered while walking her dog in the woods, the killer returned to the area after the murder stupidly. Callum Wheeler.

[@Hi-kq1vi]

Richard Dennick was 'caught' six months later-but he was serving time at Wormwood Scrubs under a false name! He escaped again in 2015-but was captured a lot faster that time.

[@BossySwan]

14:42 26?! Dude had a terrible paper round bless him

[@Lushgirl81]

I’m glad Mrs Watson didn’t open her door. I hate to think what they might have done to her!

[@hihowareyouthen]

Yeah, that was a *very* unnerving housecall

[@steviep281]

We just going to ignore the fact he just casually jumped through the window 😂😂😂

[@Lushgirl81]

Getting robbed in your own home must be terrifying. Those poor people.

[@paultracey8857]

I often check to see if they have caught the murderers sadly I would say 8 out of 10 remain unsolved very sad

[@kdwskdws]

The ex copper at 20:16 must stand at that window permanently

[@09weenic]

Aye nosy bastard he is

[@BossySwan]

Nosy Parker

[@markwilliams984]

Once a gaffer 😂😂

[@Thenorthsace]

Even though he’s sat outside at the start lol

[@golgotha3938]

Definitely a michael Paine.

[@stfitness]

Bit of Sydney Youngblood.

[@DeanBall75]

Oooh yes a bit of the 'youngblood' fresh for '89!!

[@robertnunn265]

Mixed in with big Rick.

[@Hi-kq1vi]

Sounds like the 12 inch club mix,.

[@nafeesakhan5901]

12 inch are the best

[@Hi-kq1vi]

@@nafeesakhan5901 A lot of women think this.

[@msjapan112]

Nothing calms me more than the voices of Nick and Sue.

[@renegade-master29]

Nick the pedophile with his soothing voice 😂

[@LANCSKID]

… and also La Phelps, eh?

[@lw3646]

They almost embody good decent middle England.

[@Starlord80s]

Evening fellow Crimewatcher's. Btw, thank you redcard.

[@lnteIIigence]

14:42 26!? I'm 26 and he looks like he could be my dad!

[@user-zr3pj5tk7k]

Hahahaha

[@hihowareyouthen]

Right?! Must've had a tough paper round

[@LANCSKID]

@@hihowareyouthen on my arduous paper round, I was often asked in for ‘a bit of fun’ … especially on the weekends.

[@swiftlydoesit8480]

Who else can’t wait to see the crimewatch files? 😆 how many episodes do you have Redcard74?

[@robnunn6201]

You would have to be a football lunatic to have your memory jogged by Wigan drawing 0-0 with Northampton...

[@SKisatourist2010]

Beaconsfield is in Buckinghamshire, not Hertfordshire as normally excellent Supt. Hatcher said.

[@LANCSKID]

He makes a balls up in every edition. Excellent? Nah.

[@fintytin5771]

Hope there will be a new episode tonight,thanks once again RC !!

[@simondavies4834]

Such a great channel. Enjoy looking up these cases to see if they've been solved! Anyone know if the first murder case was solved?

[@SKisatourist2010]

Simon Davies only thing I could find was a Wigan local forum discussion from 2006 that suggested it was. Might be in later programmes progress reports.

[@johnclegg4993]

@@SKisatourist2010 Peter Heaton 18 year old of Worsley Hall in Wigan was charged with the murder and remanded in custody December 1989 - do not know if was found guilty or the sentence.

[@dickiegreenleaf750]

Yes. It was. He was convicted. There’s google articles about it with his photo. He did have blonde hair too like the witnesses said.

[@sabrinafisher141]

I've also just read that he was actually caught on this reconstruction, he was walking past while being filmed, stopped and watched, 4:12 I reckon that's him???

[@LANCSKID]

“Get the bags, get the bags!” was a familiar cry on the Wigan Roxy’s dance floor towards closing time as I recall.

[@Jimwoodward1212]

That Elizabeth McCormack Murder was part of a Crimewatch File in 1994

[@JC-ss7xy]

murdered by her ex

[@BlytheWorld1972]

Thanks you rock my nightly fix !!!

[@michaelpout2208]

evening everybody time for more crimewatch

[@5JS23]

Never seem to feature Coventry on any these old crimewatch videos. Anybody know otherwise?

[@LANCSKID]

How the f**k do you scale a 17ft high security wall? I can’t even make it up a six inch high kerb!

[@TheRealAndroidDoctor]

Rite on time redcard74 thanks alot mate 😆

[@soulbrother61]

Brilliant once again

[@wewastheacidhousechildren]

I genuinely would love to see a weekly series of ''Crimewatch With Alan Partridge''! It really would be Lovely Stuff.

[@christopherneale823]

🤭

[@davidian2.024]

At around the 38 minute mark, the detective says that the offence where the man mugged a couple in their home and took valuables is "more serious" than the previous home invasion where the girl was raped. Unbelievable.

[@09weenic]

He was talking about the other incident he just mentioned before where the man got away with nothing

[@davidian2.024]

@@09weenic no he was on about the home invasion where he raped the woman and withdrew £200 from her account at the ATM ? Then next, he says "more serious" about the money and cards and a car was stolen from a couple.

[@dickiegreenleaf750]

Oh Lord. Bet you’re a millennial

[@RogerJJSmith]

The Kiwi helicopter man looked a lot older than 26.

[@Peter-ix1ym]

Very weathered must have flown it with the windows down

[@Lushgirl81]

They must have made a mistake. There’s no way he’s 26!

[@mikh84]

Did you video all these episodes & then put the tapes into storage? You must have more than the BBC archives. The picture quality is amazing, I was born in 1984 (same year CW started) & my parents allowed me to watch it from a young age from about 1993 onwards & I started videoing episodes thus I remember certain cases.

[@redcard7475]

Mike Hutch hi they were not my tapes, they were from a family member. The quality of the recordings that I have from the 90s is not so good, in fact I expect some complaints about it.

[@ajs41]

I have some copies myself, although the one I really want - May 2000 - I don't have.

[@ryanhibbard6010]

Which one do you have Andy?

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

@@ajs41 What was special about May 2000?

[@ajs41]

@@treasurehunteruk9718 I think it featured an appeal for the Croydon "Nightstalker" where they implied he was white even though they'd previously always said he was black. He turned out to be black when he was finally arrested in 2009. It was a major error.

[@chris8374]

Thanks redcard

[@soulbrother61]

Evening all

[@wc6936]

Does anyone know if the Barnes rapist was ever caught?

[@renegade-master29]

I turned 9 the month when this was aired. I remember this episode like it was yesterday

[@Aut0five]

the sierra @20:52 is gunmetal grey, not silver

[@BossySwan]

5:12 banging tune

[@stfitness]

Great timing.

[@LANCSKID]

Wasn’t ‘Glass in his Hair’ a top ten hit for The Bottleheads sometime in the late 70s?

[@NoEurosJustGuilders]

Loving these hope they go on till 2017 😁

[@luckyboy407]

Escaped in a lada 😂 😂 😂

[@matthewlovelock6928]

41.22 the Bryan's look very common and rough. Rats

[@naznaz4508]

“It’s quite natural for him to take the tube..”

[@timojanen1729]

does anyone know the name of the song at 5 11 and at 5 24?

[@redcard7475]

Sidney Youngblood - If only I could

[@LANCSKID]

It’s by Harry Oldspunk - ‘Sorry, I can’t’

[@stevepest3184]

30 mins 20sec that coppers eyes like he’s laughing

[@TheStriking7]

Have U got any crimewatch files please

[@redcard7475]

Hi Yes i think there are about nine in total, will upload after I have finished all the Crimewatch episodes

[@tezdryden9009]

thank you :)

[@Prieze868]

The negative side of multiculturalism this robberry

[@bowjana8128]

What happened to the bums from Newcastle

[@fergie4kyall309]

Love this show love just chillen and relaxing to it 🙃

[@sdeee3842]

4:49 Lisa Stansfield 💃🏾💃🏾

[@JohnCox-x1w]

25..40 minutes in...the price of diesel...the good old days

[@MsVanorak]

. . . . . escaped in a Lada . . . . .

[@clioflano421]

25.22 talk about the crazy 80s the time before health and safety.

[@katemissfilanpurrmcdevitt]

Good morning Xx

[@Fatpig-fq3vb]

Escaped in a Orange Lada not often you here that line 😂

[@kevintraynor4508]

Then kids in first reconstruction don't sound like they are from wigan

[@SajidHussain-lj5mr]

Helen Phelps is Beautiful , and a lovely voice 👍

[@LANCSKID]

Oh, gone off Sue now then, have you?

[@curvedglass1]

16.34 scary

[@golgotha3938]

Michael Myers’s mum

[@edwardhicks2499]

I take the left shoe always..

[@bottlewaddle6677]

so random, why is this in my suggested

[@swiftlydoesit8480]

☕️ 🛏 👓 📱

[@daniellebishop5599]

I always watch wen im in in bed its weird but it somehow soothes me to sleep lol 😂

[@McIntyreBible]

5:45, this actress is a beautiful looking woman.

[@trishg151]

The officer talking in the tragic case of Michelle looks like he does not swing right!!!!! Those eyes look so full of evil and deceit!

[@nathaniliescu4597]

Shut up.

[@trishg151]

@@nathaniliescu4597 what up sad boy?

[@matthewlovelock6928]

These witnesses are grasses by today's mindset and would be targeted

[@CARLIN4737]

Northern soul

[@Ivan-tf9bo]

A lada as a getaway car😃

[@LANCSKID]

Marginally better than a rusty Trabant, methinks.

[@09weenic]

18:00 - Those pesky Geordies doing a bit of armed robbery yet again 😂

[@zeddeka]

Newcastle has fairly low levels of violent crime and always has. It's a small city and almost "cosy" in parts compared to many other bigger cities. The kind of robbery in this programme was exceptionally rare. Of course, very few armed robberies happen these days because nobody uses cash any more.

[@treasurehunteruk9718]

It's usually the 'customary robbery in Liverpool' ..........

[@Thenorthsace]

@@zeddeka why do you think you’re an expert on everything, Newcastle is full of crime.

[@zeddeka]

@@Thenorthsace You don't have to be an expert. You simply just need to know how to use Google to see the official crime rates. Newcastle is rated as the third safest major city in the UK. I live in Newcastle, grew up there, but have lived in other cities so have grounds for comparison - and the official statistics speak for themselves, if you care to look. Did you also actually read or understand what I wrote? I was making a comparison about *VIOLENT* crime. Newcastle certainly has crime but violent crime is absolutely nothing like the scale of cities like Manchester and London, largely because Newcastle is much smaller, poorer and is geographically isolated from other bigger cities - the drugs trade is a problem but is nowhere near as big as many other cities. There's significantly less money for criminals to make compared to other cities. Why do you open your mouth when you clearly haven't read or understood what's being said? Perhaps learn to read first and work on your comprehension skills before opening your mouth. Or perhaps learn to use Google, then you'll be able to see the official crime statistics yourself.

[@deanmobley1112]

Oi oi

[@zainkarim4272]

Things I look forward to most watching this great channel... The great acting! The music! And a daily greeting from Dean Mobley on pretty much every video! Oi oi to you too pal 💪👍

[@deanmobley1112]

@@zainkarim4272 just to bring back abit of nostalgia, good evening fella 👍🏼

[@zainkarim4272]

@@deanmobley1112 I have been missing the daily greetings my friend! I wish redcard74 can upload more Crimewatch UK if possible. Hope you and your family are keeping well and still enjoying such great old school tv! Stay safe pal and in 10 years time we can look back on these videos again for more nostalgic memories. “Don’t have nightmares do sleep well!” 😂

[@LANCSKID]

Oi, Oi … Saveloy!

[@Lushgirl81]

14:47 26! 56 more like!

[@Peter-ix1ym]

I agree but makes me feel better 😊

[@Compleme_Cunm]

He grew up on a farm and his dad used him as a scarecrow

[@Ponydowncrew79]

These used to scare tge shit outta me...I'd get stoned at a friend's house we'd watch Crimewatch then I'd av to walk home 11pm streets dark not a soul in site

[@LANCSKID]

Would that be a building site, then?

[@Spencerlayne]

I read uo on this. And the man convicted of her murder was walking past while they were a tually filming this and he is in it. How f"cking vreepy is thatm

[@AACE73]

Crazy isn't it?! Avril Dunn's killer, Duncan Jackson, actually appeared in her CW reconstruction. He wasn't arrested until years later!

[@timojanen1729]

does anyone know the name of the song at 5 23?

[@redcard7475]

Jason Donovan - Every day (I love you more)

[@LANCSKID]

It’s Jason Hasbeen - ‘Not tonight, Kylie, I’ve eaten too many shrimps’.