Serial Killer Documentary - The Hitch Hiker Killer

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22nd of December, 1984, Roehampton, southwest London, England. 29-year-old Deirdre
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Sainsbury had left her parents' home in Sussex and was
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heading to Berkshire and the Greenham Common Peace Camp she
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called home.
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She was described by the family as a free spirit.
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If she needed to get from A to B, she
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would inevitably do that by hitchhiking.
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A car soon pulled over to offer Deirdre a ride.
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The driver was a man called Colin Campbell.
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There was nothing frightening about Campbell. He just looked like
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your dad or your brother.
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Looking like Mr Ordinary was what Campbell relied on. He
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was a predator hunting for victims.
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When he sees a woman out on her own, he
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sees that as an opportunity, an opportunity to go and
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take what he feels entitled to.
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Campbell was friendly and soon made it clear what he
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really wanted, but Deirdre resisted his sexual advances.
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And he lost his temper, strangled her.
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This is somebody who didn't just want to kill her,
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but wanted to completely obliterate her.
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His response to that was, to make it look like
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the work of a madman so nobody would suspect it
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was me.
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It's the satisfaction of someone who has got the most
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incredible thrill out of killing.
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Colin Campbell was ruthless and manipulative. Killing Deirdre wasn't enough
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for him. He wanted to destroy her because she was
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a woman. He didn't fear being caught. He'd gone away
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with it before. No one suspected this ordinary-looking man was
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one of the world's most evil killers. In August 1981,
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Colin Campbell was on the prowl. 17-year-old Clare Walterton was
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walking home in West London when Campbell drove past and
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offered her a ride. He was 20 years older than Clare, married,
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and worked as a traveling salesman with a company car.
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He looked like a safe bet for a young woman
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to accept his kind offer.
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She was wrong. Campbell was anything but.
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There was nothing remarkable about him, but there must have
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been something, because as you look at his crimes, you
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realize that there was a rage, particularly against women, built
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into his character somewhere.
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The following morning, 18 miles from where she'd met Campbell,
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Claire's mutilated body was found naked on a riverbank in
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the town of Windsor.
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When we look at how Claire was killed, she had
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a very deep wound to her throat, so her throat
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had been cut by her killer. And this was a
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very significant injury. It was very clear what the killer's
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intention was, and that was to end her life. This
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was no accident.
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Despite exhaustive efforts by the police, there was nothing to
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connect Campbell to Claire's murder. It was 1981, and DNA
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profiling was in its infancy. The forensic evidence recovered from
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the crime scene and Claire's body revealed nothing. The case
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went cold, and the files were put in storage. Campbell
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had got away with murder.
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After he'd killed Claire and he thought he'd got away
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with it, Campbell just returned back to his normal life,
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and we see this happening in quite a few cases
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of people who commit multiple murder. They commit the most
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horrendous crimes, and then the next day, they're back to
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their mundane reality, their routine.
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Claire's family were left in a painful limbo, knowing her
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killer was still out there.
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It would be.
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32 years before they'd get any closure. This killer story
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begins on the 16th of September, 1947. Colin Frederick Campbell
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was born in India.
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We don't seem to know very much about Colin Campbell's background.
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We know that he lived in India until he was
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nine because his father was in the British Army over there.
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But aside from that, there doesn't seem to be very
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much information about his childhood, his upbringing, anything that might
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have had an impact on him.
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So this is not a boy who's been furious with
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the world, who is desperate to make his mark, who
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is in and out of juvenile court. in and out
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of prison as a young man finds it.
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No, none of that.
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Looking at Campbell's relationship with his mother, she seems to
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see him as a little angel who can do no wrong.
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She seems to be somebody who protects him from the
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outside world, who kind of makes him immune to any
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consequences for his actions. And I think that does go
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quite some way to making sense of the person that
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he is and the way that he behaves. I think
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that did have an impact on his relationship with women,
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how he saw women. He saw women as there for him,
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to protect him, to do things for him.
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When his father's tour of duty was over, the family
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returned from India to the UK. By the age of 34,
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Campbell was married, working for an engineering company and living
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with his wife in Hanwell, West London.
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I don't think he had any previous convictions. I don't
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think he'd come to the notice of the police at all.
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He was working as a salesman. On the face of it,
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a respectable person. His next-door neighbour, I recall, was a
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serving police officer, and they did socialise, albeit only to
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a limited extent, but he was a respectable citizen.
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Campbell, to an ordinary person, Campbell would be the neighbour
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that you... Went about his business, was a traveling salesman,
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came in and out, dropped the car, walked around. As
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far as anyone would know, Campbell was a perfectly ordinary guy.
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Campbell suffered from epilepsy, though not severely enough to prevent
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him from driving. He enjoyed sport and regularly played hockey.
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He had no children, but appeared to be a happily
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married man.
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Having a place within a family means you've got a
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roof over your head, you get looked after, you get
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your meals cooked for you, you get some of your
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needs met. So it's not surprising to me that we
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do see many murderers living relatively normal lives because it
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provides that veneer of respectability.
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I would love to have talked to his wife to
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find out what he was like in the privacy of
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their house.
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It would have been fascinating, I think.
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Because he was a salesman and he had a company car,
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he was, to some extent, free to roam. He obviously
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had an area that he had to cover, but he
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would set off each day or whatever and could be
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doing almost anything and going almost anywhere.
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On 27th August 1981, Campbell's life changed forever when he
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killed for the first time. He was driving in southwest
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London when he saw 17-year-old Claire Wolterton walking along the
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Uxbridge Road alone.
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She was described as a hard-working, precious girl in the
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prime of her life. She was also described as having
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a great sense of humor and sort of had the
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whole world in front of her. She's also described as
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sort of helping anyone who'd ask for help and was
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popular with a lot of her friends.
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Claire was in a relationship with a married man and
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she planned to see him that evening.
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Claire makes it seem to her mother and brother that
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she isn't going out that night. She's going to stay
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at home, she's done some ironing, nothing untoward. But later
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she slips out of the house to go and visit
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the older married lover.
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But at some point in that.
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The couple have a row.
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He says, I'll drive you home. She says, no. He says, yes,
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I will.
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And obviously, Claire had been brought to the destination by
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this man, but following that argument, she decided to head
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back home on her own.
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So she starts to walk back home to her home
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in Northhold.
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Not all that far.
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In other words, she's not hiking across London. She's a
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comparatively small part of West London. And then she has
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the misfortune, and it is simply misfortune, to encounter Colin Campbell.
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Campbell offered her a lift, and the next day, Claire
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would be found dead by a commuter heading to Windsor
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and Eton railway station.
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He was walking along Barry Avenue adjacent with the River
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Thames when he discovered a young girl lying in the road.
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She was naked, had her.
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Throat cut, Claire was out on her own, and society,
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especially at this time, judged women for those things, putting
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themselves in these situations. He knew about that, and that
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is something he would seize on.
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Her mother woke the next day to find Claire wasn't home.
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She turned the television, watched the news and saw that
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a body had been discovered in Windsor in Berkshire. She
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sort of had a feeling that something wasn't quite right
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and just thought instantly that could be Claire.
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Well, yes, unfortunately it was.
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She just had a dreadful misfortune to be in the
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wrong place at the wrong time and it's a tragedy.
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She couldn't have known. She could not have known. And
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what's more, it was an entirely random attack. Campbell did
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not know her, did not know Claire at all, because
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without this cheerful young 17-year-old knowing it, she falls into
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the hands of a man who could only be called
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a predator.
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Colin Campbell was Mr. Ordinary, a respectable, hardworking man, the
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perfect disguise. the police would be faced with a worst-case scenario,
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a random victim murdered by a stranger. Just after six
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in the morning on the 28th of August, 1981, the
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body of 17-year-old Claire Wolterton was found.
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After Campbell had killed Claire and mutilated her body, he
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left it out in public to be discovered. She was
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on display, in a way. And this was an incredibly
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deliberate part of the murder. He wants the body to
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be discovered. He doesn't want to be caught, but he
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wants it to be acknowledged that this killing has taken place,
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and he knows that he's responsible for it. So this
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is his way of displaying what he's done.
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This is rage at women, and in particular, their sexuality.
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It's truly terrifying.
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Colin Campbell didn't just kill Claire. He spent time with
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her body afterwards. He mutilated her body. He slashed and
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stabbed at her private parts, her vagina. He went for
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the parts of her that were distinctly female, distinctly feminine.
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So this tells us that Campbell has an underlying hatred
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of women. He is a misogynist. It's also a way
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of saying that this victim is mine. I possess them.
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I own them. I can do what I want with them.
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Forensic analysis determined that Claire had not been killed at
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the crime scene. Police had a lot of questions and
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no answers. Only her killer, Colin Campbell, knew the truth.
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How long did he keep her in the car? Where
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exactly did he commit the crime? We're not sure. Was
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it committed in the car? I doubt it, because her
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throat was cut from behind, and that would be difficult
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to do if he was in the driving seat and
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she was in the passenger seat. So, A, where did
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he kill her? And, B, where did he mutilate her?
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Where did he strip her naked?
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Claire's married boyfriend was questioned and released when he was
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found to have a solid alibi. The police had few
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leads and very little forensic evidence.
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A couple of ladies come forward and say they might
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have seen a girl dragged into a car, but there's
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no description of the car, there's no description of the
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number plate, there's no description of who might have been
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in it.
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Nothing.
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Clare's horrific murder was a high-profile case that attracted national
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media attention, yet the police had no other suspects.
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In the early 80s, there wouldn't have been DNA profiling
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as we know it today. Their sort of biological analysis
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would be limited mostly to sort of hair examinations or
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blood grouping type tests.
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As part of this investigation, strips of tape was placed
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on the body to remove any potential debris or evidence
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which might link her killer with the murder.
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Effectively, it's just sections of adhesive tape just applied systematically
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over the body or items of clothing. So there were
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a series of tapings taken at the scene and then
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subsequently at the post-mortem.
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Tapings have been common practice for many years, doing fiber tapings,
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particularly in crimes like this, where you suspect a close
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connection between victim and suspects.
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Analysis of the samples taken from Claire's body at the
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time of her discovery revealed nothing, and the forensic exhibits
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were placed in storage.
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Despite all the investigations that had gone on into Claire's murder,
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there had been no evidence to link anyone with the murder.
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A lot of work had gone into sort of, like,
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speaking to witnesses, people who discovered the body in Windsor.
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There was nothing to link any individual, and the case
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had to be put on ice for the time being.
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You're looking at one of the worst kind of cases,
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no connection to the victim, an entirely random attack, and
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the police, not surprisingly, run out of leads. Doesn't mean
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they don't care about the case. I think they cared
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about the case a lot. She was brutally attacked, savagely.
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But where do they go? They can do house-to-house. They
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can make appeals.
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But who's going to point the finger at Colin Campbell,
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a man who lives with his wife and is a
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traveling salesman?
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Nobody.
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The police feared that Claire's sadistic killer may never be caught.
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The fact that Campbell was not caught for this murder
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really would have increased his confidence. It would have given
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him a significant kind of sense of, oh, I got
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away with this. I could potentially get away with it again.
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There are no consequences for his actions. And this seems
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to be a bit of a continuity with Campbell in
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terms of actions and consequences. So when he doesn't get
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caught for something, when he gets away with it, that
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just emboldens him all the more.
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And he goes back to conducting his life exactly as
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he conducted it before. He's still a travelling salesman, still
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out and about, does what he wants, comes and.
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Goes, back to his wife.
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Nothing, nothing to suggest that he's committed a crime or
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that he's suffering any kind of guilt or remorse.
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Nothing.
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For almost three years, Colin Campbell continued to hide in
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plain sight, going about his daily routine.
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From the outside, Colin Campbell appeared to have a relatively
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normal life. He has this veneer of respectability. He has
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a job. He's married. It looks like he's just your regular,
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average guy. But this is something we see very often
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in cases of people who go on to commit horrendous
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violence and murder. They don't stand out. They're chameleons. They
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blend in to the background.
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In 1984, there was a heated ban-the-bomb debate over the
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arrival of American missiles.
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In the UK.
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29-year-old Deirdre Sainsbury was a passionate anti-nuclear weapons campaigner.
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The daughter of a very well-known British psychiatrist. She was idealistic.
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She believed that the world could change, and for the better.
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And indeed, was so convinced that she joined what was
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then a burgeoning movement at Greenham Common of women committed
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to saving the world from cruise missiles. It had been
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decided that this airfield, not far from Newbury in Berkshire,
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would be the site for 96 cruise intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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And the women of Greenham, and they were all women,
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camped there In protest. Indeed, the protest lasted for almost
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20 years.
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She was described by the family as a free spirit.
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If she needed to get from A to B, she
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would inevitably do that by hitchhiking. She was a really
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experienced hitchhiker, didn't really seem to have any fear of that,
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and had not ever in the past had any problems,
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as far as I'm aware. So, you know, she was
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her own woman and did what she thought was right.
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On Saturday, December 22nd, 1984, Colin Campbell had been playing hockey,
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one of his favorite sports. After the game, he was
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driving on the South Circular Road in London near Roehampton.
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Campbell is a killer who is predatory. He is quite
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good at sniffing out vulnerabilities in other people. So when
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he sees a woman hitchhiking, when he sees a woman
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out on her own, he sees that as an opportunity,
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an opportunity to go and take what he feels entitled to.
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Deirdre Sainsbury had been visiting her parents in Sussex and
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was hitchhiking back to Greenham Common via London. a car
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stopped to pick her up. It was being driven by
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Colin Campbell. He saw an opportunity, and before long, he'd
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killed again. Deirdre, his unfortunate victim.
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He'd picked her up and had made advances towards her,
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and she objected, so he lost his temper and thought
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he'd strangled her. He wasn't sure that she was dead,
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so he got her out of the car and hit
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her with his hockey stick.
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Realising that he was running late and that his wife
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would wonder where he was, Campbell drove home with Deirdre's
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dead body in the boot of his car.
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He goes home and then he makes up the most
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bizarre excuse. He's got blood everywhere. He's got Deirdre Sainsbury's
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blood on his jacket, and he makes the most ridiculous
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excuse about, oh, he's broken his nose while he's playing hockey,
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and it's his blood on his jacket, and he's going
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to go and get an X-ray to make sure he's
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all right.
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Campbell is a pathological liar. He's able to lie very
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easily because his main concern is protecting himself, is preserving
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his freedom. preserving his ability to potentially do this again.
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So lying is something that he doesn't struggle with because
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he doesn't feel bad about it. He doesn't feel guilty
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when he misleads somebody or he says something that isn't
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really true.
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We do know that she wasn't sexually assaulted, but we
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also know that she was, again, mutilated, just as Claire
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had been mutilated. That same rage that came out in
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the killing of Clare Walterton, comes out in the killing
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of Deirdre Sainsbury. She is something to be defiled, made to,
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subjected to the worst indignities imaginable to a woman. And
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all to satisfy Campbell's urges. But this time, there is
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a slight difference, because this time, he cuts off her
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left breast.
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And takes it away.
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In the early morning on 23rd December 1984, a woman
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out walking her dog in Denham, Buckinghamshire, saw what she
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thought was a tailor's dummy lying by the side of
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the golf course. On closer inspection, she realised it was
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the naked body of a young woman.
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It was my duty weekend, the weekend running up to
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Christmas 1984. I think it was.
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Obviously.
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Apparent to the initial officers who attended that this was
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a murder. The woman had quite significant head injuries. So
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there were a number of other police personnel at the
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scene when I got there. I think we very quickly
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came to the conclusion that she'd been murdered elsewhere and
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the body had been dumped there. And bearing in mind,
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you know, Denham Golf Course is one of the first
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areas of green you come to when you leave London.
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The body was there. naked other than a pair of socks,
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but the scene search didn't reveal anything of evidential value
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at all.
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Well, the police, not surprisingly, are struggling.
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For Leeds, there is no obvious, there's no boyfriend to
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be interviewed, there's no angry lover, there's no one.
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I mean, what you literally have is a body.
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There were significant injuries to her head including one what
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at the time we thought that's a strange looking injury
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it was sort of a curved shape on the side
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of her head what we didn't realize initially until the
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pathologist arrived and we were able to look at the
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body more closely where there were quite horrendous mutilation injuries
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that had been caused after death.
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There was no indication that she had been raped, but
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the sadistic killer had sliced off her left breast. Officers
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searched the area, but there was no trace of it
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at the crime scene.
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It doesn't need to be sexual contact or rape for
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a murder to be sexually motivated, because this is about possession.
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It's about control. Sometimes killers will achieve that through sexual assault,
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through the rape of their victims. Other times they will
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achieve it in alternative ways, and I think Here is
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an example of a case like this.
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The police had no idea who the woman found dead
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on the golf course was. In 1984, they had limited
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technology to work with. Identifying the victim could have been difficult.
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Luckily for the investigation, many of the women peacefully protesting
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at Greenham Common were on police files.
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And so she's had her fingerprints taken, so it does
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not take the police any time at all to identify
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her as Deirdre Sainsbury.
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Not that that helps them very much.
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Because there isn't a great string of suspects around her.
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It simply says, well, unfortunately, this is the victim.
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Once Deirdre had been identified, the police needed to trace
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her last movements, but first, her family were informed.
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When we traced Deirdre's parents living at an address in Sussex,
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they're both medical consultants and they were absolutely horrified that
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anything like this could happen to their daughter.
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Imagine the impact that must have had on her family.
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This extraordinary, unmotiveless crime against an entirely innocent and indeed bright,
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caring young woman.
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She'd been to visit her parents and she'd left Sussex
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intending to hitchhike her way back to Greenham Common. She
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was an experienced hitchhiker and had been doing it for
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some years, and we thought that her route would have
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taken her initially towards London.
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An extensive investigation to find Deirdre's killer was launched. It
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began in the roads around the golf course where she'd
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been found.
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A social event for Christmas was being held at some premises.
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Traffic on Saturday night had been far heavier than one
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would normally expect. So very quickly, when we started to
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trace people who'd been at the social event, we were
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able to find several different witnesses who'd seen cars parked
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in the pull-in where the body had been found. The
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people passing... the point where the body was discovered. I
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can remember there was a headmaster of a school, there
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was a dustman, and a range of people in between.
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And I can't remember the exact number. There might have
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been somewhere between, I don't know, half a dozen and
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a dozen different people who described seeing a car. The
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descriptions of the car were so vague that we couldn't
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say we're looking for a Ford.
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Or a Volvo or whatever.
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It was just a dark-colored car. We blitzed the area
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as best we could with a description of Deirdre, her photograph,
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and where she was making for. We did the usual
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house-to-house inquiries, not that there were many houses in the vicinity.
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We spoke to those people who we could trace who'd
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used the lane at the time with the results that
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I've just mentioned. But things were looking quite grim, to
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be honest.
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During the 1980s, hitchhiking was a common way to get around.
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After several high-profile incidents, the media were warning young women
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of the dangers. This was about to give the police
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the break they needed.
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And then the phone rang, and it was a man
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who was aware of the publicity and called to say
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that he'd read an article in the Reader's Digest about
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the dangers of hitchhiking. I had actually read the same article.
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But he read the article and he saw this lady
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getting into a car on the South Circular Road and
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he thought, well, I don't know, that might be dangerous.
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So he noted the registration number of the car.
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The police could barely believe their luck.
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It's an extraordinary, literally out.
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Of the blue.
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This is not the marvellous police work.
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It's not CCTV footage being done. It's simply a bolt
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from the blue.
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The number plate given to the police was registered to
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an engineering firm in West London.
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An inquiry there showed that it was used by Colin Campbell,
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one of their salesmen. We discovered that he was attending
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a sales conference at Newbury, so a team went immediately
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to Newbury to the hotel where this conference was taking place,
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interviewed him. Most dissatisfied with the explanations that he gave,
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they found what they thought could have been a blood-stained
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penknife in his car, so he was arrested on suspicion
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of murder.
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Hopeful that they had Deirdre's depraved killer in custody, a
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team of investigators were sent to search Campbell's home.
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And in the shed in the garden of his house,
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they found some of Deirdre's belongings, most important one of
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which was her passport. So there was no doubt that
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this was Deirdre. And the other thing was, when they
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interviewed his wife, she said that he'd come home on
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the Saturday, having been out to play hockey, and claim...
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because his clothing was extensively bloodstained that he'd been injured
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whilst playing hockey we had the car we had Deirdre's
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passport so he really had little room to wriggle with
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it all you know the evidence was there and it
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was overwhelming.
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But the fact that Campbell uses his own car, a
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car that can be traced back to him through his work,
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just shows how brazen he is, and it shows how
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confident he is that he'll be able to get away
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with it.
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Campbell knew the evidence was stacked against him. He couldn't
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deny he was the killer, but he did have a
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plan to defend himself.
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I spoke briefly to Campbell. He was obviously interviewed in
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detail by members of the team, But when I asked
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him why he'd mutilated the body, his response to that
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was to make it look like the work of a
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madman so nobody would suspect.
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It was me.
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Deidre was beaten. She was strangled. She was hit with
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a hockey stick. There was much more violence than necessary
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to end her life. This speaks to a real rage,
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a real anger in her killer. This is somebody who
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didn't just want to kill her but wanted to completely
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obliterate her. And I think this does tell us about
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Colin Campbell. This tells us about his state of mind
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00:31:05.539 --> 00:31:08.259
at the time. He knew exactly what he was doing,
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00:31:08.819 --> 00:31:12.859
but he was incredibly disproportionate in terms of what he
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was doing in her murder.
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00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:19.089
His only excuse was he was an epileptic. And he
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00:31:19.130 --> 00:31:22.880
was tending to rely on the fact that that's what
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caused it to happen without really being able to explain
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00:31:26.859 --> 00:31:30.319
it in any way at all. And when his mother
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00:31:30.380 --> 00:31:35.299
came to see him, she clearly saw him as the victim,
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00:31:35.380 --> 00:31:39.660
I think. No real thought about Deirdre or a family
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00:31:39.720 --> 00:31:45.220
or anything. Colin was in a situation that he didn't deserve,
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that he shouldn't have been in, and the world was
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against him.
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00:31:50.970 --> 00:31:56.420
On the 24th July, 1985, at Reading Crown Court, Colin
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Campbell was facing trial for the brutal murder of 29-year-old
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peace campaigner Deirdre Sainsbury. Campbell was convinced he'd found a
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legal loophole to get away with murder.
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00:32:12.250 --> 00:32:15.589
He never really denied it at any stage because he
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00:32:15.630 --> 00:32:17.829
didn't really have the opportunity to. You know, it was
519
00:32:17.890 --> 00:32:24.430
his car. Deirdre's passport was in his shed. The bloodstained clothing,
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00:32:24.509 --> 00:32:27.609
which his wife was able to tell us about.
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00:32:28.369 --> 00:32:32.039
Campbell was willing to plead guilty to manslaughter on the
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00:32:32.099 --> 00:32:37.200
grounds of diminished responsibility, claiming that the savage murder of
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Deirdre was the result of an epileptic episode.
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00:32:41.569 --> 00:32:44.650
He's managed to hold down a perfectly good job for
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00:32:44.730 --> 00:32:48.549
many years, conduct a perfectly ordinary life with a wife
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00:32:48.950 --> 00:32:52.890
in spite of his epilepsy. Why does his epilepsy suddenly
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00:32:52.950 --> 00:32:56.920
drive him to kill Deirdre Sainsbury? It doesn't make any sense.
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00:32:57.539 --> 00:33:00.940
It's a pathetic excuse, utterly pathetic.
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00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:06.319
He would like to have pleaded to manslaughter. The prosecution
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wouldn't accept a plea to manslaughter and insisted that he
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should be tried for murder.
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The trial lasted just three days and Campbell was found
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guilty of the murder of Deirdre Sainsbury.
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00:33:19.990 --> 00:33:23.519
I don't recall the jury being out very long and
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00:33:23.539 --> 00:33:26.460
he was sentenced to life imprisonment and I think we
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00:33:26.519 --> 00:33:28.819
all thought that was the right result.
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00:33:29.970 --> 00:33:33.089
Campbell's behaviour in court was like something out of a
538
00:33:33.130 --> 00:33:37.849
made-for-television movie. When he was convicted, he appeared unsteady on
539
00:33:37.890 --> 00:33:42.410
his feet and then he appeared to faint, so incredibly dramatic.
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00:33:42.990 --> 00:33:45.779
And what he's trying to achieve here is a kind
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00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:49.960
of poor-me narrative. Feel sorry for me. Isn't this terrible?
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Look at my suffering.
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When the jury convict, his mother shouts,'' You' re cruel and
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ignorant at the jury.'' This is a man who's been
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00:33:58.789 --> 00:34:03.599
presenting his entire life as though he's nothing but ordinary,
546
00:34:04.220 --> 00:34:07.039
nothing but butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.
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00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:13.460
The attitude of Campbell's mother, it was very much that
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Colin was the victim. He had a medical condition that
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00:34:19.480 --> 00:34:22.440
put him where he was. It wasn't his fault and
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00:34:22.500 --> 00:34:26.320
nobody seemed to care for him. There was no remorse
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00:34:26.420 --> 00:34:28.619
shown as far as Deirdre is concerned.
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00:34:29.539 --> 00:34:31.440
And I think if that was the tone that was
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00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:34.699
set when he was really young, if that was what
554
00:34:34.739 --> 00:34:36.889
he was used to, just being able to get away
555
00:34:36.929 --> 00:34:40.349
with doing whatever he wanted, then actually that's something that's
556
00:34:40.369 --> 00:34:41.789
been quite damaging in this case.
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00:34:43.650 --> 00:34:47.969
While serving his sentence, Campbell continued to fight for a retrial,
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00:34:48.309 --> 00:34:53.079
still blaming his actions on his epilepsy. He was medically
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00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:57.840
assessed at Broadmoor Hospital, and in 1999, he was granted
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the right to take his case to the Court of Appeal,
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15 years after the murder of Deirdre Sainsbury.
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00:35:05.650 --> 00:35:09.909
Campbell appeals it, and he says that his epilepsy is
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a factor here, and this lessened his culpability for the crime.
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And he agreed to plead guilty to manslaughter on the
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grounds of diminished responsibility. and this was something that was
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00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:26.159
accepted by the prosecution. But this is a play on
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his skills, essentially, his manipulation, his ability to grasp at
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anything to save his own skin, and it's just a
569
00:35:34.469 --> 00:35:36.179
shame that the system fell for it.
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Campbell's sentence remained unchanged, but the lesser manslaughter charge meant
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he was a step closer to being eligible for parole.
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Following the downgrade in his conviction to manslaughter, Campbell remained
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in prison. He'd been downgraded to a Category D prisoner,
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which meant he was able to leave prison for five
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00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:00.400
days a month and spend time in the community before
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00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:04.199
going back to custody. But, yeah, obviously he was out
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00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:06.539
and about with the public and compared to the life
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00:36:06.579 --> 00:36:08.659
he had been living for decades, he had some kind
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00:36:08.679 --> 00:36:09.800
of freedom back in his life.
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00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:13.949
And that might well have been the way in which
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00:36:14.590 --> 00:36:17.170
Campbell returned to society.
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He's now a man in his 50s.
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00:36:20.460 --> 00:36:25.300
He's clearly working his way towards freedom, at least freedom
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00:36:25.340 --> 00:36:25.980
on licence.
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00:36:27.159 --> 00:36:31.500
There was a genuine possibility Campbell could be granted parole.
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00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:36.179
The detectives who'd brought Campbell to justice, however, were determined
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00:36:36.429 --> 00:36:37.829
he shouldn't be released.
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00:36:39.230 --> 00:36:42.849
I was aware of an outstanding murder in Thames Valley.
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00:36:42.869 --> 00:36:45.309
I'd not been involved in it, but I knew about it.
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00:36:45.789 --> 00:36:48.239
of a young girl by the name of Claire Wolterton,
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00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:54.000
who again was from West London, whose mutilated body was
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00:36:54.059 --> 00:36:57.139
found by the side of the River Thames in Windsor.
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00:36:57.739 --> 00:37:01.469
It seemed to be quite close to the circumstances of
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00:37:01.530 --> 00:37:06.210
Deirdre's death. We spoke to him about it and any
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00:37:06.269 --> 00:37:09.349
other offences, and he didn't want to know, just not
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00:37:09.389 --> 00:37:13.960
interested at all. Officers from the Claire Wolterton inquiry interviewed
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him as well, but didn't get anywhere with him, and
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00:37:17.420 --> 00:37:19.780
we were unable to find any evidence at all to
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00:37:19.820 --> 00:37:23.360
relate him to Claire Walterton or the area where she
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00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:25.840
was last seen, or indeed to Windsor.
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00:37:27.650 --> 00:37:31.010
With no evidence to connect him to Claire's murder, there
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00:37:31.050 --> 00:37:35.250
was nothing further police could charge him with. Campbell believed
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00:37:35.289 --> 00:37:38.219
he was on the home straight. What he didn't know
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was that a cold case review had begun into the
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00:37:41.699 --> 00:37:43.360
murder of Claire Walterton.
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To their eternal credit, the detectives who originally investigated the
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murder of Claire Walterton all those years ago in 1981
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reopened the case. And they reopened the case in a
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00:37:59.449 --> 00:38:06.329
very distinct way. They re-examine taping from the body of Claire.
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00:38:06.369 --> 00:38:10.219
They'd taken little DNA swabs on sellotape.
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00:38:10.440 --> 00:38:14.539
Almost lifted them. And even more remarkably, they've kept.
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Them By that time, the technology in DNA evidence and
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00:38:20.139 --> 00:38:23.789
forensics had sort of progressed. As a result of that,
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police forces from across the UK were looking into cases
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00:38:28.110 --> 00:38:30.210
which had been unsolved and looking at the DNA evidence.
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When a suspect is arrested for a recordable offence, their
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00:38:34.789 --> 00:38:39.320
DNA is stored on the natural DNA database. If at
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00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:44.039
that time a sample is not there to match against,
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00:38:44.139 --> 00:38:46.699
so if we don't have a victim sample, then, of course,
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00:38:46.739 --> 00:38:49.199
that individual will not match against that case.
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In particular, they looked at Claire Wilterton's case and looked
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00:38:52.849 --> 00:38:55.469
at the strips of tape which had been taken from
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00:38:55.510 --> 00:38:57.909
her body in 1981.
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00:38:58.409 --> 00:39:02.489
Now, there are many cases in which the police lose evidence.
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00:39:03.110 --> 00:39:06.019
It's discarded. It's just not there anymore.
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00:39:06.820 --> 00:39:13.039
But someone was very, very careful about Claire Wilterton. Perhaps
627
00:39:13.099 --> 00:39:16.699
it was the police involved specifically. but they were very
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00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:18.469
careful because they wanted to know.
629
00:39:20.869 --> 00:39:24.989
The cold case review found two DNA profiles on the
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00:39:25.010 --> 00:39:27.969
30-year-old tapings, one linked to Claire.
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00:39:28.670 --> 00:39:30.929
The other profile found online. on that piece of tape
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00:39:30.969 --> 00:39:35.349
was from an unknown male. When police ran that DNA
633
00:39:35.550 --> 00:39:38.809
profile through their database, they discovered that it matched a
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00:39:38.849 --> 00:39:41.869
profile for that of Colin Campbell, who was already serving
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00:39:41.889 --> 00:39:43.909
time in prison for the murder of Deirdre Sainsbury.
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00:39:44.909 --> 00:39:48.869
We subsequently received a reference sample from Colin Campbell to
637
00:39:48.909 --> 00:39:53.030
do a more complete comparison of his reference DNA profile
638
00:39:53.510 --> 00:39:56.199
and the profile we'd obtained from the tape. And that's
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00:39:56.219 --> 00:39:58.400
what established the initial link.
640
00:39:59.300 --> 00:40:02.940
Further analysis of the DNA profile found it to be
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00:40:02.980 --> 00:40:06.909
a one in a billion times likely a match to Campbell.
642
00:40:07.489 --> 00:40:10.429
I think Campbell did believe that he had gotten away
643
00:40:10.489 --> 00:40:12.789
with it and he was quite surprised to see this
644
00:40:12.829 --> 00:40:15.690
come up again. Because at this point in time, he'd
645
00:40:15.710 --> 00:40:18.679
been inside for a while. He'd made his way through
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00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:22.239
the prison category system. He was in an open prison.
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00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:26.480
He was tantalisingly close to being released again. So I
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00:40:26.500 --> 00:40:30.199
think he was incredibly angry to discover that actually there
649
00:40:30.219 --> 00:40:31.320
was a spanner in the works.
650
00:40:33.300 --> 00:40:38.849
On 14th November 2013 at Reading Crown Court, Campbell finally
651
00:40:38.909 --> 00:40:42.809
stood trial for the murder of Claire Walterton. He didn't
652
00:40:42.889 --> 00:40:45.849
take the stand in his defence. In an attempt to
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00:40:45.929 --> 00:40:49.690
explain his DNA being found on Claire, a video of
654
00:40:49.730 --> 00:40:52.949
an interview with the cold case review team was shown
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00:40:53.010 --> 00:40:53.630
in court.
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My lifestyle meant that the way I was, I wasn't
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00:41:01.019 --> 00:41:04.960
averse to being friendly with the lady.
658
00:41:05.300 --> 00:41:05.619
Yeah.
659
00:41:07.179 --> 00:41:10.119
I may well have known a series of ladies.
660
00:41:10.929 --> 00:41:11.110
OK.
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00:41:12.150 --> 00:41:16.429
I may have been more active, you know. She looks
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00:41:16.489 --> 00:41:19.340
like any girl I may have played hockey with. She
663
00:41:19.380 --> 00:41:22.260
looks like any girl I may have met through work.
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00:41:23.179 --> 00:41:23.519
Good.
665
00:41:27.460 --> 00:41:31.400
Actually, she looks like a happy person and I'm glad
666
00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:34.969
about that. No, I don't think so.
667
00:41:35.010 --> 00:41:36.590
Thank you very much.
668
00:41:38.369 --> 00:41:41.110
That's not to say I never ever knew her.
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00:41:46.710 --> 00:41:49.809
And all of this is going to be incredibly grating
670
00:41:50.050 --> 00:41:53.570
when Claire's family eventually get to hear about it. He
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00:41:53.650 --> 00:41:56.389
knows that he has that knowledge about her. He knows
672
00:41:56.510 --> 00:41:59.409
how she died. And he is essentially just playing with
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00:41:59.469 --> 00:42:00.639
people at this point in time.
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00:42:05.739 --> 00:42:10.090
On the 3rd of December 2013, Colin Campbell was found
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00:42:10.210 --> 00:42:12.989
guilty of the murder of Clare Walterton.
676
00:42:14.289 --> 00:42:16.610
He's now in his 60s, in his mid-60s.
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00:42:16.929 --> 00:42:19.900
The judge makes it abundantly clear he has to serve
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00:42:19.960 --> 00:42:24.659
a minimum of 24 years in jail for Clare's murder,
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00:42:25.679 --> 00:42:31.769
this brutal attack, and says it's very unlikely that you
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00:42:31.789 --> 00:42:32.690
will ever be released.
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00:42:33.510 --> 00:42:35.179
It's the equivalent of a whole life term.
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00:42:35.199 --> 00:42:39.880
He knows perfectly well that by the time Campbell is 90,
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00:42:39.880 --> 00:42:42.179
he's very unlikely to be released from the prison system.
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00:42:43.780 --> 00:42:45.420
Campbell had spent all this time in prison for the
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00:42:45.460 --> 00:42:50.260
manslaughter of Deirdre Sainsbury. While having this secret, knowing that
686
00:42:50.280 --> 00:42:55.750
he had done this to another girl, that was quite exceptional,
687
00:42:56.230 --> 00:42:57.769
the fact that he had got away with it for
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00:42:57.789 --> 00:42:59.480
so long and knew about it.
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00:43:00.449 --> 00:43:04.039
I have no doubt that Campbell is a very dangerous man,
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00:43:04.219 --> 00:43:06.079
and I do believe he would have gone on to
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00:43:06.119 --> 00:43:09.800
kill more women had he been released from prison, had
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00:43:09.860 --> 00:43:13.739
he never been apprehended for Claire's murder. Because he'd gotten
693
00:43:13.780 --> 00:43:17.570
away with Claire's murder, he'd learned from Deirdre's murder, and
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00:43:17.590 --> 00:43:19.769
I think he was in quite a strong position to
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do something else again.
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00:43:20.829 --> 00:43:27.269
32 years after Claire's murder, Campbell is convicted.
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00:43:27.289 --> 00:43:29.349
It's a remarkable piece of police work.
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00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:34.860
One of the most remarkable in British legal history and
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00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:38.199
for which the police deserve every possible commendation.
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Colin Campbell was a vicious, callous killer hiding behind a
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00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:47.800
mask of respectability. He killed and maimed two young women
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00:43:47.860 --> 00:43:52.070
to satisfy his own perversions. When caught, he refused to
703
00:43:52.130 --> 00:43:56.429
face his guilt, instead attempting to blame epilepsy for his actions.
704
00:43:57.280 --> 00:44:02.400
Since 1981, Claire Walterton's family had waited desperately for answers
705
00:44:02.840 --> 00:44:06.570
only one man could give. That man chose not to
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00:44:06.610 --> 00:44:10.969
relieve their pain, making Colin Campbell one of the world's
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00:44:11.070 --> 00:44:12.570
most evil killers.