Suspects (2014) s04e01 Episode Script

1 Police have been called this morning to the scene of a one-man protest in East London.
Ken Baxter is demanding answers from the army following the disappearance of his son, Pete.
Pete, a serving lance corporal, went missing a week ago amidst allegations that he was bullied by fellow soldiers.
- His name is Ken Baxter.
- Yeah.
His son had just returned from a second tour of Helmand Province in Afghanistan.
Made some pretty serious allegations about bullying from his regiment, and he disappeared about a Week ago.
Ken? My name's Martha.
A detective inspector.
I don't want to speak to the police! I've been through this already! I need to speak to the army! Ken, what do you think Pete would think of you up there? That's not the bloody point! Where is Pete?! Well, I tell you What, I think he'd be worried about you, don't you? Look at me.
I'm exactly who you should be talking to.
Everyone's heard what you're saying on the way to work, but now it's done.
Let's go and find Pete, shall we, together? We're gonna talk this through.
We're gonna find your boy, all right? You promise me?! Do you know What, Ken? You've got my word.
Martha Bellamy.
Making you a promise.
Good man.
Charlie, have you got anything on the Pete Baxter case yet? I rang his regiment, the Royal Cambrian Fusiliers.
Apparently, he's just come back from a tour in Afghanistan about three Weeks ago.
Before he came back, he witnessed a child being blown up in a Taliban attack.
And when he got back, he was referred to their Welfare and diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Oh.
Smells of high risk.
That's why I think it should be military.
We shouldn't be wasting our time on this kind of thing.
Look, he's gone missing on our ground.
- So it's a civilian matter.
- Boss, sorry Internet referral from Crimestoppers.
They've just had an anonymous informant saying the missing soldier is dead.
Pete Baxter missing soldier? Well, no, it just says the missing soldier's dead.
I want to know you're gonna keep your promise.
I want to ask you about Pete.
I am gonna keep my promise.
That's why I'm here, all right? When did you last see him? A week ago.
He, um Yeah, he was going up to the pub to meet some of his mates from his unit.
Sounds pretty normal.
Yeah, quite.
Pretty normal.
And I wasn't bothered either that he'd not come home that night.
And I wasn't bothered that I hadn't heard from him the next day either.
I just assumed he'd got lucky and found a girlfriend or something.
I thought that would probably do him a power of good.
Is it normal for him to disappear for this amount of time? Not without saying Where he is or what he's up to a bit.
And with his mother's funeral looming, it was very out of character.
Ken, did he miss his mum's funeral, then? - Yeah.
- Oh, my condolences.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Two days ago, um, Juliet was buried.
And for him not to be at his mother's funeral is completely out of character.
When he came back from Afghanistan, how was his mood? How was he? Well, I'd say he was quite Withdrawn, quite agitated.
And one incident in particular seemed to have lodged in his mind.
Is this the bullying? Well, he said he'd been "got at" in a letter that we received.
I assumed he'd been got at by the situations that they were finding themselves in.
It's very stressful, obviously.
But I'm beginning to wonder now whether he actually meant he'd been got at by other people in the regiment.
So this is the CCTV from the pub Where Pete went drinking with his army mates.
This is the last known sighting of Pete.
Okay, this is our man, Pete Baxter, missing for over seven days.
A lance corporal in the army.
Two tours of Helmand Province in Afghanistan.
These are the three people that we know of, according to Ken Baxter, who saw Pete last in the pub.
Sophie West, lance corporal; Caitlin Neames, sergeant; and the boss of them all, Eddie Mulville, staff sergeant.
So we need to get these guys in, interview them, talk to them, find out what they know.
Okay, uh, Charlie, how did you go with the regiment? Get any files on the bullying allegation? Actually, I've rung the Welfare office, I've rung the main office, but I don't really think they want to speak to a DC.
I'm just being shunted between them.
I think it might be easier if you called, to be honest, boss.
Let's have a chat out here, Caitlin.
There can't be many Woman sergeants knocking about.
Yeah, well, I've worked my ass off.
Not everyone's army.
Do you mean like Pete? Pete is a really good squaddie, but he's so messed up since we come back off our last tour.
And we thought him coming home, he'd settle back, but stuff with his mum and then his dad leaning on him.
I think he finds his dad a bit suffocating.
When was the last time you saw Pete? When we left the pub.
Okay, 'cause I've had a look at some of the CCTV from inside the pub, and it looks like the four of you -- not have a fight, but you know, words were exchanged.
It all looks pretty heated.
Pete was just in a bad mood that night.
And so I said something, he took offense.
He had a pop at me.
Eddie stepped in.
It was just really stupid.
And is he like that normally, quite sort of tetchy, or is that just since he's come back with all this PTSD stuff? No, he's -- he's fine.
He's just a bit messed up, that's all.
I don't really understand why everyone wants to put a label on it.
He's all right.
We've spoken to Pete's dad, obviously -- Ken -- and he told us about the bullying allegations that Pete had made against -- well, against your regiment.
It's not bullying.
Like, some people would take it in certain ways.
Like, Pete's a very sensitive guy.
We call it beasting.
- It's a bit of fun.
- What's beasting? It's just a bit of fun.
It's just to toughen him up a little bit.
One night we put on some balaclavas, took him outside, and tied him to a pole.
Now, I know that that seems It's like a stag night.
Think of how many stags have been left on a pole.
- That sounds like torture to me.
- It wasn't torture.
And he was set free.
He was fine.
He wasn't tortured.
He wasn't hurt or harmed.
Yeah? They looking after you? We've established that Pete's phone has been used since he disappeared.
Has he been in touch with you? I don't know, I'll check.
Thank God for that.
Do you have a landline? - Answering machine at home? - Yeah.
Yeah.
First thing you do when you get home, check that, give me a call.
- You have my number.
- I have.
And We'll go from there.
Only come in if you've got something useful to say.
I do.
Um, Charlie is tracking down Sophie West as we speak.
Her husband, Ricky West, is a kitchen fitter.
- Three years ago -- - That'd be handy for you.
You've only got a microwave and kettle.
Yeah, right.
He did nine months for a drunk and disorderly and ABH on a police officer.
Shall we talk to -- Sorry.
You in the middle of something? I've got Pete's call data here.
He's made a ton of calls since he went missing.
Couple of calls to a taxi firm.
More interestingly, loads of calls to Sophie West.
That's good.
You've got loads to go on.
Brilliant.
Crack on, then, guys.
I left her a voice mail asking her to come in, but no answer.
But I guess I'll try to track her down.
Sophie? Hi.
DC.
Steele.
Would you mind coming down to the station for a bit, just for a little chat? Yeah.
Can I make a phone call first? - Sure.
I'm just over there.
- Cool.
Sophie Police at the site.
Failed to stop.
I need police.
I need ambulance.
No, no, no.
She's breathing, but she's unconscious.
Sophie, if you can hear me, please squeeze my hand.
Traffic have confirmed that the van deliberately mounted the curb, which means that we're dealing with a targeted attack.
This is a hit-and-run -- an attempted murder, in essence.
Victim, Sophie West.
What are her injuries, Charlie? She's got a couple of fractured ribs and a shattered collarbone and loads of cuts and bruises to her face, arms, legs.
Uniform are locating next of kin, so Are we gonna state the obvious? I mean, fact that Sophie West was one of the last people to see Pete Baxter in the pub.
The fact just as she's about to talk to police, she gets hit by a car.
Yes, we are gonna discuss that.
All in good time.
This is a hit-and-run.
You need the person who's run.
So therefore we need the van, all right? Priority is finding the van.
All right, number plates, please.
So intelligence unit have got a partial index.
Running for potential matches.
Looking at stolen vehicles.
Just, you know, distilling it down.
I got Pete's laptop in.
I got a copy of his hard drive.
I've been going through his e-mails.
Most of the e-mails since he's come back from Afghanistan have been to Sophie West.
And I've got to be honest, they're pretty aggressive.
Like, he's giving as she didn't back him up when he made his bullying allegations.
Um, it's pretty threatening stuff.
We're saying that Pete Baxter might be crazy enough to hop in a van and mow Sophie down.
And I know you're not convinced by it, but there's still that e-mail to Crimestoppers saying the missing soldier's dead.
Yeah, but, I mean, that could be Pete himself trying to cover his tracks.
Let's concentrate on what we've got.
We've got a witness, Sophie, who's now fit for interview.
- No.
- This her? - Hi.
Sophie West? - Hi.
Yeah.
Yes, I'm Martha Bellamy, detective inspector.
- Hi.
- Ouch! Yeah.
- Hello.
- Hi.
Thank you so much.
Hey, it's kind of what we're here for.
Before we were so rudely interrupted earlier, I'd come to ask you about Pete.
We still have no idea Where he is.
Oh.
Sophie, Where do you think he is? You've known him a long time.
What do you think's happened? No idea.
Like, we're all really worried about him.
His mum's just died, and I don't know.
He was acting really weird when we were in Germany.
Kind of -- I reported him for PTSD.
He was having cold sweats, nightmares.
Was he quite angry about you reporting him? He doesn't know.
Is there any way he could've found out? No, the army is really strict on stuff like that.
Do you think maybe you let it slip in any of the phone calls you've had since you've come back? 'Cause you've spoken quite a lot, haven't you? Here and there.
Have you spoken since you last saw him at the pub? He left a couple of voice mails.
Did he? What did he say? He was just kind of upset.
Just being kind of usual Pete, like, a bit needy.
Do you think that we can listen to those voice messages? I deleted them.
You deleted the voice mails.
So I can't listen to anything? No.
But there'll probably be a record of that somewhere.
And tell me this -- Do you think that he would be angry enough to drive a car at you? No.
Soph? - Ricky.
- Sophie, are you all right? Look at your face.
Mr.
West, I'm Detective Inspector Martha Bellamy.
I'm gonna just take you away for five minutes, have a quick chat with you outside.
- No, I think -- - It Won't take long, Sophie.
Listen, I want you to get back to your wife, all right? Quickly as possible.
So, what I want to ask you is, is there anybody who has been threatening Sophie? Is there anyone that she's scared of? - Yeah.
- Anyone you can think of at all? - Yeah? - Yeah -- Ken.
He's been ringing her up, saying about, I don't know, that he's gone missing, he doesn't know Where his son is, this, that, and the other, like it's got something to do with her.
- Do you know what I mean? - Right.
And she's been upset with these phone calls? - Yeah, she has been upset.
- Right.
It's doing my head in.
It's doing our head in.
Just been for a quick pint.
Well, I bet you have.
No, what I mean is -- No, I went to see the landlord at the pub.
He remembers asking four soldiers in civvies to leave.
The following morning he goes out to take the bottles out, notices blood on the wall, and the absolute brainbox Washes the blood.
Genius.
I've got SOCOs down there now, though, looking at -- Yeah, okay, get them to sweep the whole of the alley.
What I really need is Pete's DNA.
Yeah, I'm doing that now.
Okay.
Ken? How are you? Come on.
- Is it okay if I just - Yeah, come on.
Yeah? I just need to have a quick word.
We're just trying to trace Pete's movements.
I was wondering if I could have a quick word with you, maybe have a look at his bedroom.
I need a sample of Pete's DNA, ideally from a toothbrush or whatever you've got.
It's -- It's completely standard procedure.
I do this in every single case.
Nothing to worry about.
Uh, y-yeah.
You know what? He did write this.
Said if anything happened to him.
Come on, Ken.
Nothing has happened.
Okay? Pete's just missing.
There's one way you can help -- Get me the toothbrush, then start making some phone calls.
- A toothbrush.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
- Good man.
Were Pete and Sophie close? Yeah.
Same unit.
I hate it when she just ignores me like that.
Um, Pete's DNA.
Toothbrush.
I'm gonna check it out.
Uh-huh.
- Found this in Pete's room.
Sophie and Pete.
I asked Ken about it.
He says they're pretty close.
They did basic training together.
After basic training, she got shipped off somewhere else, he got shipped to Cyprus.
And within three months or something, she marries Ricky in a Whirlwind romance.
My question is now, is Whether after Afghanistan they get back together and Ricky, in some fit of jealousy, smashes his wife in a hit-and-run.
No, I checked with the DVLA.
Ricky drives a beaten-up white Transit, not a blue van.
- Can you put that on the board? - Yeah.
Sure.
Or you could do it, but Boss.
Yeah, absolutely, yes.
Okay.
Thank you.
Thank you.
DNA on the toothbrush matches DNA in the alleyway.
So that proves there was some sort of physical confrontation that led from the inside of the pub to outside.
Okay.
Eddie, Caitlin, bring them in.
- Arrest? Suspicion of -- yeah -- ABH.
- Thank you.
- Yes, of course.
Pete came in.
He was late.
Didn't have his Wallet, so we were buying him drinks all night.
And he wasn't -- he wasn't himself.
Someone -- me -- cracked a joke.
Pete took it badly.
He started on me from out of nowhere.
And Eddie steps in.
You know, tries to defuse the situation.
And Pete's been itching for a fight with Eddie since I can remember.
It's been brewing up for ages.
Okay, so that's inside the pub.
And the landlord asks you to leave? - Yeah.
- And then what happens? So we go outside.
Pete Won't leave it alone.
He wants a fight with Eddie.
They have a fight.
He's drunk -- Pete's drunk.
Eddie's drunk.
And, uh, Eddie throws a lucky punch, and he gets him right on the nose.
He was the one coming towards me, if I'm honest.
Like, I'm really sorry, but, yeah, we had a fight.
Why is his blood all over the alleyway? It was a lucky punch.
I was as pissed as he Was.
It was like two brothers fighting with each other.
He was legless.
I punched him in the nose, it went, it burst.
I wish I'd have just walked away from him.
- You probably should have.
- Yeah.
Well, that was it.
It was done.
Sophie gave him money for a cab, and we all went home.
Pete and Sophie seeing each other? Not to my knowledge.
We've just spoken to Eddie and Caitlin.
Those two interviews match up, then? Yeah, I mean, their stories have changed, but they've changed in an absolutely identical way.
It's word for word.
It's as if they sat down in a room together and said, "You say this.
I say this.
" Boys and girls down at telephone intelligence have totally come up trumps.
They've retrieved one of Pete's deleted messages.
- I need to hear that.
- Great.
- Okay? - Okay.
As a matter of urgency.
Go.
Hi, Sophie.
It's Eddie.
I was just phoning to make sure you're okay.
Yeah, um, give me a call when you get this.
We know Pete's phone has been used.
We track all the records of the calls that Pete has made in the week that he's gone missing.
We go to taxi firms, takeaway firms.
We talk to Sophie about the numerous phone calls made.
At no point in the interview process so far have you mentioned at any stage that it was you making calls from Pete's phone.
Why not?! - I don't know.
- You don't know? What -- What does that mean? I was looking after myself, wasn't I? I'm sorry.
I took his phone.
I'm sorry.
Your best mate is missing.
Your best mate could be dead.
Did I know this was going to happen? Did I know he was going to go missing? Why are you stopping us from doing our job, Eddie? The boy's just probably went away somewhere for some time to himself.
I told you, he's off his head.
I took his phone out of spite.
'Spite? 'Aye.
- It fell out during the fight.
- Pathetic.
I know it's pathetic.
Are you aware that we've had an anonymous message saying that Pete is dead? What? When did -- When was this? I don't know nothing about it.
Like How does that make you feel? It's fucking horrible.
I don't want my pal to be dead.
I'm here to help as much as I can.
I get that I led you down a few dark paths, but, like, that's purely looking after myself.
You okay? Yeah.
I just feel like We thought Pete was using his phone, but it wasn't him -- It was Eddie.
I mean, surely that Crimestoppers e-mail is starting to look a little bit more credible? Okay.
Whoa, whoa.
Okay.
What makes you such a good cop is your instinct, but don't jump to conclusions.
Thousands of people go missing every year.
They're not all lying at the bottom of a river.
Some people just don't want to be found.
And we owe it to Ken because we promised him to try our best to find his son.
So that's what we've got to do.
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
He's not dead till we find a body.
- Okay? - Yeah.
Number-one rule.
Look, if Pete and Sophie had got back together and Ricky thought they'd got back together, Whether they did or not, would that motivate him? - Do you know what I mean? - To get Pete? - Yeah, exactly.
- Sorry.
I've got the CCTV from the ATM that Pete used.
There he is.
The machine Won't give him any cash, and he's not happy.
Takes it out on some poor homeless guy.
Oh, Jesus, no.
Ouch.
Maybe he was drunk.
We have been trying over the past few hours to build up a picture of what Pete was like -- based on what you've told us, based on what we've been told by people in his regiment.
I have some CCTV footage taken from just before he arrived at the pub.
But I need to know if -- if the behavior Pete is showing on this CCTV footage corresponds with how he was feeling on the night he left.
What's going on with Pete there? Because, you know, from the kind of person that you've told me that he is, that looks abnormal.
Maybe the regiment are right.
Maybe it's stress.
Mental fatigue.
How's Ken doing? Um, he's -- he's not great.
Oh, God.
Really? I showed him the CCTV stuff.
He was speechless.
He was like, "That's not my son.
" Now I'm worried whether the fact that Pete's disappeared is that he's -- he hasn't made contact with his dad because he's afraid to come home -- He's ashamed of what he's done, that he's missed the funeral.
He's out there.
How is he paying for anything? How is he surviving? He hasn't got any money.
Sorry.
I just spoke to Ricky's employers.
I just wanted to see if he had access to any other vehicles.
And they drive their own, but his has been knackered forages, and two months ago he hired a blue van.
I've checked with the rental company, and the registration number matches the partial index on our hit-and-run van.
Okay.
We've got a van.
Now let's get our driver.
- Let's do it quick.
- Yeah.
Mr.
West.
We're gonna need to have another word with you outside.
- Now? - Yeah, absolutely.
Right now.
Looks like your wife's asleep, so it's a good time.
Won't take long.
I'm arresting you for the attempted murder of your wife, Sophie West.
You do not have to say anything, though it may harm your defense if you do not mention when questioned something you later rely on in court.
You must be joking.
Anything you do say may be given in evidence.
Do you understand? That's my wife you're talking about.
You're saying I tried -- - Do you understand? - Yes, I understand.
Get off! I hold you or I cuff you, Ricky.
What's it gonna be? Ricky, I want to know your whereabouts time of the hit and run.
I was on my way to a job.
Um And I got your voice mail.
And then I-I -- I pulled over, listened to your voice mail, and then I just fucking ran to the hospital.
I mean, you saw me.
You saw what I was like.
You're in a lot of trouble, aren't you? Ricky West, my opinion, LOB, big-time.
Mm.
It's not the Worst story we've heard under pressure, but he has kind of hurt himself.
No, I'm inclined to agree, to be honest.
You don't just leave your keys in a van.
Mnh-mnh.
- Okay? I know he did it.
I just got to get it out of him.
I just got to prove it.
I'm gonna arrange cell site analysis on Ricky's phone 'cause I want to know Where he was when he picked up that voice mail from the police.
- Well, I'll just ask him.
- Yes, go.
Yeah, yeah.
- I’ll go and talk to him.
- Go.
Absolutely.
Help yourself.
Did you run your wife over in a van? No, I didn't run my wife over in a van.
- Sure? - I love my wife.
Oh.
Wife sits in hospital with a broken rib.
I know, I know.
I saw her.
Someone ran your wife into a wall with a hired van.
We're trying to figure out who that is.
Do you have any reason to believe that she might have been unfaithful? I know this must be horrendous to hear that your wife is messing around with other men.
Mate, fuck off.
Yeah.
Enough.
I haven't got a clue what you're talking about.
I know Where you're coming from.
My girlfriend was in the police.
I know what it's like, when she's spending all this time on a case with lots of guys.
I know Sophie was out there in Afghanistan with all these guys.
You know, male-dominated world.
She's bonding with men, having long-term relationships.
She's frolicking, exercising.
Communal showers.
I know all that shit goes on.
I mean, I don't know how you do it.
I don't know how you keep that brain going.
Because I couldn't deal.
We broke up, man.
I couldn't stick it.
You know? You poor guy.
Let's take a break.
Can I get you a glass of water or something? - A drink? - I'm all right.
Prick.
What was that? - Hmm? What was that? - Nothing.
Are you sure? 'Cause you're being recorded.
I called you a prick, actually.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
What's going on, eh? "What's going on?" What's going on with your questions? Hmm.
Okay, Ricky, one more time.
Tell me exactly what happened when you left the van? Mate, I got boxed in, Iran to hospital.
How are you feeling? All right.
- You look a little better.
- Thanks.
Where's Ricky? We arrested Ricky for trying to run you over.
- What? - Yeah.
No.
What? He's at the station at the moment.
He's being questioned, and as soon as I know more, Sophie -- As soon as I know more, I'll tell you more.
He's my husband.
Why have you arrested him? Because we think the van that he drives is the one that hit you.
Fuck off.
He's my husband.
He Wouldn't run me over with a van.
It looks like he might have done.
What? I must ask you about something else.
And the minute I know anything about Ricky, I will absolutely tell you.
- No.
What -- Why - Sophie Why aren't you looking for Pete? I'm fine.
When we spoke to you earlier about the voice mails you'd had from Pete or from Pete's phone, Sophie - Yeah.
- Who were they really from? They were from Eddie.
I just -- I didn't lie.
It's just easy.
I don't want the hassle with Ricky.
He's jealous of any guy.
- Any guy, full stop.
- Okay.
Cell site analysis is in.
Ricky wasn't Where he said he was.
- Liar.
- Yeah, little liar.
We've got him, haven't we? What's the motive? - Jealousy.
- Correct.
He still thinks that all those phone calls came from Pete to Sophie, when in fact they came from Eddie.
- He didn't know that? - No, he thinks it's Pete.
- And he's got previous.
- Mm.
Okay.
Why did you get into a van? Why did you turn on the ignition? Why did you drive down to the gym? Why did you wait for your Wife? And why did you smash her into a Wall? Why did you do it? I don't know.
Ricky, your wife's in hospital.
I know Where she fucking is, mate.
I was there.
Why did you run your wife over? She's a fucking cheating bitch is why I fucking ran her over.
She comes home the other night, and she tells me that she's staying 'round Caitlin's house.
You know -- You know if your fucking wife is lying.
You can tell that.
So I thought, "Right.
All right, I'll go to the car, have a bit of a look, see Where she's been.
Get the satnav.
" Where's the satnav? No fucking satnav.
Right? Ask her Where it is.
She don't know Where it is.
But it's in the glove box.
That's Where I keep it.
It's in the fucking glove box.
It ain't there.
And then that night she's saying to me, "I want kids with you.
I love you," and all this.
"I'm gonna leave the army.
" And it's just amazing.
This is what you want to hear, right? It's great.
That's what you want to hear, isn't it? And then starts getting phone calls.
Like, leaving the room.
Whispering and shit.
What do you expect me to do? What do you expect me to think? So I took her phone, I had a look at her phone.
It was that fucking lump, Pete.
- Jack.
- Yeah.
Would you get the boss, please? Me boss or her boss? Sorry, Mark, do you mind if I use this table? - Sure, yeah.
Carry on.
- Cheers.
What you got? Uniform found Ricky's van.
SOCOs have gone over it.
It's definitely the one that hit Sophie.
That is her blood.
Inside they've got Ricky's fingerprints, Sophie's fingerprints, but also Eddie's.
On the steering wheel, on the handle, on the rearview mirror.
- He's driven that van.
- Wait a minute.
Why Eddie's fingerprints, for God's sakes? - I’ll go and ask him.
Please do.
So you've been driving Ricky's van? We've got your fingerprints all over the steering wheel.
Yes.
Sophie was very drunk.
She drove the van to the pub.
I decided to drive the van home.
When are you gonna start telling me the truth? I'm trying to now.
We went to a hotel.
Sophie was very drunk.
I decided to drive the van home.
- Which hotel? Which hotel? - The Lake Street Hotel.
Lake Street Hotel.
That was easy, wasn't it? - Can I interrupt? - Yeah.
I just had an e-mail from SOCOs.
They've had a look at the undercarriage of Ricky's van.
It's all stuffed with mud and leaves, and it's all bent up, so they think it's been driven off-road.
That's interesting.
But to be honest, what I really need is, I need the satnav.
So just do a total sweep of the hotel, the environs.
- Miss nothing.
- Okay.
- Who was driving? - Eddie was driving.
I happen to know that he drove off-road.
Why would he do that? I don't know.
He was drink driving, and obviously he didn't want to get caught, so he drove off-road.
When did you last see Pete? I have told you.
I saw Pete at the pub when I said goodbye to him.
I'm getting nowhere with Caitlin.
I've got the the place full of prisoners, no cells, pace clock's ticking.
We've got to release Eddie and Caitlin pending further inquiries.
Bollocks! L.
T.
have retrieved the Facebook message that Caitlin sent Sophie.
It reads, "People asking about Pete, but don't worry, I've got your back.
" Look at the timing.
Look at that.
That was sent this morning after we interviewed Caitlin.
Yeah.
I've been looking at your Facebook messages, and there's one from your mate Caitlin, and it says that she's got your back.
I'd like to ask you what you think that means.
Well, I've been in here.
I haven't checked Facebook.
What does she mean, she's got your back? - I think she's being a mate.
- You think so? It's funny that, 'cause she was in the station being interviewed this morning.
She has posted that since being with us, which leads me to believe that that message is something to do with this police investigation.
No.
She's talking about Germany and Afghan.
About what? Pete said that Caitlin bullied him.
I don't think that's right, and it's just -- It gets messy.
You don't understand.
Why would Caitlin bully Pete? He's a big lad.
He can look after himself, can't he? Yeah.
But I don't understand what all these questions are about.
Where's Ricky? Ricky has admitted to hit-and-run.
No.
Sophie, I need to know Where Ricky's satnav is.
I really need to get my hands on his satnav.
Can you remember Where that is? I don't know Where his satnav is.
In his van? Charlie.
I asked the SOCOs to take another look at Ricky's van.
It hasn't just been driven off-road.
What they've said is that it was specifically driven through a wood or a forest.
Now, neither Caitlin nor Eddie said anything about that.
I'm starting to really worry about Pete.
Priority -- Let's get Caitlin and Eddie in.
They've not only turned their phones off, they've taken the bloody batteries out.
All right? They are actively avoiding capture.
Put that at the top of your list, guys.
- Yeah, let's go.
- Okay? Boss! Satnav.
- In the hotel car park.
- Well done.
Search team were really worried that it short-circuited with the rain, but I think it just needs a charge.
There's a light.
That's a good sign.
Okay.
We're in.
Okay, we're in, we're in.
- And? - Recent destination.
Epping.
- Epping Forest.
- That's from the night Yeah, that Pete went missing.
Come on, it's Worth a shot.
Let's go.
Bring that with you.
Is this it? Are we here? I'm telling you, the satnav says it's right here.
Okay, fine.
Let's go, let's go.
Path over there, guys.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
All right, stick together.
Keep your eyes open.
This is what we've been looking for.
This way.
Not exactly howl envisioned my Friday night.
Movement over there.
They're running! They're running! - Go! - Go, guys! No! This way, this way, this way! - This Way! - Charlie! Ohh.
Oh, no.
Ken.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Hi, Ken.
Can I see him? Uh, that'll be something that we will have to discuss with the coroner's office.
But I promise you, I'll do everything within my power to make sure that that happens as quickly as possible.
Of course, there's, um, a formal identification process that will have to happen down at the mortuary.
I do have, um, something that we can use now to This was something that was found with Pete.
Can you tell me about that? His mum and I gave him that for his 18th birthday.
Pete is dead.
How the hell did that happen? He died in a fight.
We were, uh, just passing a few punches about, and It was such a lucky punch.
Or it wasn't lucky, was it? And then he just went down, and he just started fitting, and And he just stopped moving, fucking died.
How'd you know he was dead? I'm in the army, for God's sake.
I wish it never happened, honestly.
Who made the decision to bury Pete in the Woods? As I said, we came to the decision together.
Let's run through it one more time.
You're arguing in the pub, you come out, and you have this fight with Pete.
- I punched him -- - You punch him.
He goes down.
He starts fitting.
He goes still.
Who says what now? Because we're quite clear on our chain of events until this point, so you must remember who said what at that point.
It was -- Everything was happening so fast.
Who put Epping Forest into the satnav? No comment.
Okay.
If it's all right with everybody in the room, I'd like you to tell us the story in your words from the beginning.
So Pete and Eddie have an altercation and Eddie hits Pete.
And Pete goes down, and he hits his head.
Then he starts to have some sort of fit, and he's convulsing on the floor, and we're obviously very upset.
And then he stops moving.
And he's limp, and we're like, "Fucking hell, Pete, get up.
" And I must have checked his pulse then.
'Cause then we all started getting in a panic, and it all started to get out of control.
And then suddenly we was in the car.
The van.
And we were driving to -- somewhere, anywhere.
And we come across a forest.
And at some point one of you must have decided on Epping Forest, because that's Where the satnav was going.
Well, then, I guess one of us must have decided that, but I can't remember.
I don't know because it didn't have anything to do with me because I don't remember.
Why did you bury him? I just told you, we panicked.
We didn't know what to do.
Okay.
Why did you then dig him up again, Caitlin? Because you were getting too close.
And have you been in contact with Sophie? No.
No, I haven't spoken to Sophie since she had the accident.
So she's unaware of this? What, me being here? Of you digging up the body.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did she know Where you put him in the first place? Yeah.
Yeah, no, we -- we all decided.
We all decided that he had -- he had to be buried in the forest.
Got the postmortem results.
Pete died from an acute subdural hematoma.
But he didn't fall and hit his head.
He was hit repeatedly with something really hard, and we think it's a brick.
He had loads of brick fragments embedded in his scalp.
- Or what was left of it.
- Makes sense, yeah.
"I punched him.
He fell.
He fitted.
" That's just not true.
Sophie, I gave you so many opportunities to tell me the truth.
And to be honest, I think that the reason you were so upset when I talked to you about Pete is because you knew that Pete was dead.
Am I right? Okay, let me ask you this -- Who is top dog, then? Is it Eddie or is it Caitlin? Who's pushing the buttons? Who's in charge? What does that matter? It matters to me.
Answer the question.
Eddie's got senior rank.
Sophie.
Sophie, look, I know this is really, really tough, to feel torn between someone who you are in love with, who I think is Pete, and your unit, essentially Eddie and Caitlin, who you feel incredibly loyal to.
I think the fact that you care so much about Pete is why you sent that e-mail to Crimestoppers telling them that he was dead.
I didn't send the e-mail.
- Sophie - I didn't send the e-mail.
Sophie, were those boys just fighting over you? Is that what this is? No, it's not about that at all.
It's about There was a little girl in Afghanistan.
We were on patrol in Helmand, and there were a load of guys giving Eddie lip.
So he got out the grenade, and he started, like, being a boy about it, boasting it about and They wouldn't shut up, so he threw it, but it didn't hit them.
It hit a little girl across the road, and it blew her to bits.
We said we'd keep it a secret because it wasn't fair on Eddie.
It was an accident.
Who asked you to keep it a secret? - Was it Eddie or Caitlin? - Caitlin.
C-Caitlin said we should keep it a secret 'cause it wasn't fair on Eddie.
And Pete couldn't handle it.
And that's -- that's why he I think that's what's to blame with the PTSD.
And then when he came to the pub that night, it was just He thought Eddie was out to get him too.
Pete said he was gonna grass Eddie up if he didn't tell the truth.
Came to the pub and Pete just exploded at him.
Eddie took him outside and -- Pete was getting the better of him.
I think he's wanted to do it for a while.
And Caitlin just picked up a brick and just kept hammering him over the head with it.
Caitlin, we've been to see Sophie at the hospital, and we've got her witness statement, which you mostly have read.
Do you have anything to say based on what you've read from here? She's got it Wrong.
What's that? She's just been hit by a van.
She's got it Wrong.
I have a brick.
It has Pete's blood on it.
It has your DNA on it.
I was beginning to get a bit worried about you.
I need to shoot off.
I'm trying to find something for his funeral.
Get a chance to read the letter? I think it might help.
I can't bring myself to read it.
Do you want to read it for me? "Hi, Mum and Dad.
" "It's all gone a bit wrong if you're reading this, hasn't it? These are the cards I've been dealt, and we'll just have to offer it up to the holy souls.
" "Dad.
Mr.
Ken.
I wish I'd said thank you in person, to your face, because I try every day to be a good man because of you.
You taught me to stand up for what's right.
And if I've been killed doing just that, then my life, however short, will have mattered.
Every once in a while, look up and wave.
I'll be grinning back down at you.
Lots of love forever, Pete.
" Look, you should hold on to that, okay? - Thank you.
- I’ll see myself out.