- (She screams) - Sorry to trouble you at home.
We've just picked up a bystander triple-9 on an abduction
of a young female in the Moss Heath area.
NEIL: Been looking for him for months. Get this bastard!
A 24-year-old man has been charged.
KATE: Huntley's hiding something about how the case
against Farmer was handled. What, I don't know.
There's the man you should be looking for, up there,
not Michael Farmer.
- You all right? - I need to go back to work.
What have you got against Michael Farmer?
Except him being retarded enough for you to frame!
HUNTLEY: He was one of our own.
I'm gonna find the bastard who did this.
I'm the senior ranking officer here, darlin'.
I'm only putting you back where you belong.
What are friends for? Hm?
Hana Reznikova was the last person
known to have had contact with the victim.
Hana Reznikova, I am arresting you
in connection with the murder of Timothy Ifield.
The fingertips were amputated post mortem.
So Tim tried to grab a handful of his assailant.
STEVE: To get skin cells under his fingernails.
KEVIN: A swab of worktop blood spatter.
Item reference KRG-13.
KATE: I'm after some background info
on an item of evidence from Tim Ifield's flat.
KRG-13.
She went to the forensic office.
What's she up to?
JAMIE: You witnessed a cab outside the flats
around 11pm on the night of the 17th?
- I think it was a cab. - Can you describe the driver?
MANEET: Image enhancement got a reg number
on the vehicle seen near Tim's flat.
It belongs to a Nicholas Huntley.
Nick Huntley could be dangerous. Call in.
- I didn't know what else to do. - Just tell me what happened.
- DS Arnold came to see me... - Arnott.
..Arnott came to see me and...well,
he ended up falling down the stairs.
Oh, my God.
Jesus Christ. He's still alive?
I don't know.
At least you had the presence of mind
to go out and use a pay phone to call me.
Yes, I thought maybe I should
because he mentioned telephone calls - DS Arnott -
between us, that he was investigating.
- What calls? - On the night you told me
you were working and you left your phone at home.
He called me, Roz.
And so I called Jimmy Lakewell straightaway...
..and he said not to make any further comment to him.
About what?
Come on, Nick!
He wanted to know your whereabouts
on the night that you said that you were working.
Why?
I don't know. I can't remember. He was...
He was pressuring me, and he was coming up
and then I thought maybe he'd gone to the old floor.
- I don't know. - Pressuring you how?
He was saying stuff, pushing me.
(Mocks) "He was saying stuff."
- Don't start, Roz! - You're the one who started,
and I'm left with the mess to clear up!
Is there a way to get into your building avoiding CCTV?
Yes. That's the one I just used.
Good. Get up to whatever floor you're meant to be on.
Phone security, tell them to go and look for DS Arnott.
You're worried he's got lost in the building.
What if somebody sees us?
This is not an abstruse point of corporate law, Nick.
This is real crime and I do this for a living.
Go on.
Go!
(Pills rattling)
(Siren in background)
(Urgent chatter)
(Siren wails)
I'm his gaffer. How is he?
Bit too early to say for certain.
- He's in a bad way. - Yes. So, what happened?
Security guard found him at the bottom of the stairs.
- Didn't see anyone else around. - (Police radio chatter)
Injuries are consistent with a fall.
- Mother of God. - That's him, sir, her husband.
Right. This is no accident until proven otherwise.
I want this place locked down as a crime scene!
Full forensic deployment!
- Nicholas Huntley? - Yes.
You're a witness to the events surrounding
the serious injury of a police officer
- going about his lawful duty. - I don't know anything.
Save it, fella. You can do this voluntarily or the hard way.
I want him detained for forensics.
And, James, you're in charge. Right, you lot! I'm with you.
JAMIE: We need your clothes, Mr Huntley.
Come with me.
(Two-way radio chatter)
(Siren wails)
DRIVER: En route with P1, GCS 9. ETA five minutes.
(Beeps)
Thank you.
NICK: Jimmy, thanks for the change of clothes.
There's no way I'm letting you go around
looking like you're already convicted.
Detective Sergeant Arnott
phoned me to arrange a follow-up interview.
He informed me that he was outside my firm's building,
and that he was on his way up to my office.
And then he hung up. And when he didn't arrive,
it was at that moment I realised
that he must have gone to our old floor.
As soon as I realised DS Arnott's mistake...
My officer made no mistake. He was onto you.
You were the only person who knew where he was.
We weren't born yesterday, fella!
We appreciate you're concerned for your officer's condition,
but, come on, let's dial down the Ian Paisley.
You fancy yourself as a bit of a comedian, do you?
I have a man in the hospital. That's no laughing matter.
Nick and I are old colleagues, so I've got more than
a professional interest in my client's fair treatment,
so no-one would be happier than me
if your whole department stopped looking like
they want to blame Nick and realised your officer's fall
resulted from an unfortunate accident.
My officer was highly trained.
He's a former counter-terrorism team leader.
He did not slip and fall down
three flights of stairs by accident.
He was pushed.
And you were the only person who knew he was there.
Coincidence. A complete coincidence.
The security guard has no idea how DS Arnott's attacker
could have accessed the building without him knowing.
Unless he was in there already.
You can't be suggesting that Nick
was responsible for your officer's fall.
He was two flights up in an office full of colleagues.
The office manager told us Mr Huntley left the office
for 15 minutes around the time
DS Arnott sustained his injuries.
- I went to the toilet. - Yeah?
I thought you were waiting for DS Arnott?
He didn't appear.
I got butterflies.
Do you have any evidence to the contrary?
We're looking at the whole picture, the whole picture.
DC Desford.
Uh, yeah. Um... (Clears throat)
Traffic camera video capture, March 17th.
Good.
You recognise this vehicle?
Mr Huntley?
- Help him, DC Desford. - (Jimmy whispers)
For the tape, the interviewee is being shown
a vehicle registration number.
That's my car.
We have this vehicle crossing this junction
and coming back a few hours later.
The reason we're interested in this particular junction
is because it serves an address just a few hundred yards away
where, on the night in question,
a member of the police forensic staff was murdered.
JAMIE: Timothy Ifield.
I...
I've got nothing to do with any murder.
We also have a witness...
saying a vehicle matching this description
and a driver matching your description were seen
outside the address where the murder took place.
Are you seriously suggesting that Nick is a suspect?
No, one step at a time.
I'd just like to know if Mr Huntley saw anything
on the night in question that might help us
with our inquiries.
No, I didn't. No. Sorry.
You see, normally in a situation like this,
someone's mobile phone
would give us their location every second of the night.
However, you conveniently left yours at home.
The man forgot his phone.
It's simple as that, nothing sinister.
Right. Well, perhaps Mr Huntley can tell us
where he was, exactly, on that night.
Nick isn't obliged to give you that information.
Very well.
Let's move on to your wife:
Detective Chief Inspector Huntley.
Now, on the night in question, the 17th,
when you were out for that drive,
she's claimed she was home, sick.
- DC Desford. - Yeah. Um... (Clears throat)
(Papers rustling)
A call to your wife's mobile was made at around 8pm.
So...why the call when she said she was home?
Our kids made that call.
They didn't realise that she was asleep in the spare room.
- In the spare room? - Yeah.
So she wouldn't give me her illness or...disturb me
if she had a sleepless night.
DC Desford.
Yeah, um...
Image 47. This is a frame of CCTV
captured on the evening of January 25th
in the Moss Heath area.
You wouldn't happen to be able to help us identify
this particular individual?
- Mr Huntley? - Yes, just, um...
Take your time, Nick.
NICK: The 25th...
Yes. Yes. (Clears throat)
I was at a work function in Northampton that evening.
So I can't help you.
And I bet there are loads of witnesses to corroborate that?
- Yes. - Great. Thanks.
I hope that's covered. Anything else?
Do you have any of your officer's DNA on my client?
Any of his clothes' fibres?
I can ask the same regarding
the murder of this Timothy Ifield.
Inquiries are ongoing.
They've got no witnesses. No CCTV. No forensics.
My client's given full cooperation.
Either you arrest him under Code G or he's free to go.
This inquiry isn't finished, not by a long chalk.
Don't you kid yourselves, fellas. DC Desford.
When my officer wakes up, he'll have a tale to tell.
Then we'll see what's what.
You want to sharpen up your act there, James.
Sir.
Kate, what are you doing here? You could be seen.
I had to come, sir. How is he?
He's got fractures of his right leg, pelvis, vertebra.
Fractured skull. Some busted ribs. They've operated
but the nurse says it's too early to say anything.
You can never find a bloody doctor when you want one.
(Beeping)
You ought to look at this. CCTV from Steve's fall.
I thought we'd drawn a blank?
I got this from neighbouring premises
overlooking an alleyway.
HASTINGS: Good God.
Timing fits with Steve's fall. This was a few minutes after.
Well, Balaclava Man can't be Michael Farmer or Tim Ifield.
It's looking like it could be Nick Huntley.
No traces of Steve's blood or DNA were found on Huntley.
No clothes fibres either. Nor any fibre that might
relate to a Balaclava Man outfit.
This is no coincidence. Huntley's involved.
He knew where Steve was.
What, you think he tipped somebody off?
Huntley only made one call after Steve's voicemail,
to his solicitor, seeking legal advice.
So it's all down to Steve
identifying Huntley as his assailant.
Sir.
What about the Tim Ifield murder?
Any more connections with Nick Huntley there?
Maneet studied all the traffic cameras
in the vicinity of Tim Ifield's flat.
There are no other sightings of Nick Huntley's vehicle
for the night of Tim's murder.
Come on, son. Steve's up in intensive care
and you've gone into full-steam reverse!
(Sighs)
If they'd had anything, they'd have held you. Trust me.
- It's fine. - Hey, hey!
They showed me a CCTV picture
of some scary bloke in a balaclava.
It's to do with this death, this murder.
Why were they asking you questions
about Timothy Ifield's murder?
What haven't you told me?
Jesus Christ, Roz, you've got a nerve.
You're the one that's doing all the lying, not me.
I'm gonna ask you again.
Why were they asking you questions
about Timothy Ifield's murder?
Because I was there!
That night.
They've got my car on a traffic camera
a few hundred yards away from his flat.
You still don't get it, do you?
The late nights. The excuses. The brush-off in bed.
I knew that you had to be with someone.
You followed me?
I didn't intend to but you left your phone at home
when you said that you were going to work.
So I picked it up and I tried to catch you.
And I saw you take a different turn.
- To some dodgy mini-cab firm. - Jesus Christ, Nick.
So I followed that cab until you got out.
I realise now it was to avoid
the traffic camera that captured my car.
And I saw you walk down a side street
and I got to the end
just in time to see you go into those flats.
And, every minute, I wanted to bang on that door
and catch the pair of you at it.
But I didn't, I gave up and I came here, I came home.
To our house. To our kids.
To the life that we've built.
For God's sake, Nick. I had this under control.
Instead, my husband was prowling the area that night.
And now they're wondering if you set up
one of their officers to be killed.
That's conspiracy to murder.
OK, so, what did you tell AC-12?
Give me some credit, Roz,
I didn't say that my wife was with another man, OK?
I covered for you. I said that you were at home,
unwell, like you'd told them.
Good.
What happened in those flats that night? Was it him?
- Him? - Was it him? Him! Him!
The one that was... that was killed!
No. No more lies, Roz.
I want the truth.
I was with someone that night.
- And? - And what?
And what happened?
We had feelings for each other and we spent the night together.
A crime took place nearby, we had nothing to do with it,
we weren't even witnesses...
..but neither of us can admit to work
that we were in the area that night.
(Sighs) So he's a policeman?
Married?
Who?
No-one you know.
And it's over.
(Rumble of thunder)
- Yeah, come in. Come in. - Sorry to bother you, sir.
I've been looking at finding a way
to place a suspect inside Tim's flat.
Good.
There was an item of evidence, KRG-13,
the blood spatter from Tim Ifield's flat.
There was a question about the overwritten label,
but it wasn't thought significant.
No disrespect, but that was before we knew
Nick Huntley was in the neighbourhood that night.
That raises a distinct possibility
DCI Huntley could've been misleading the inquiry
away from her husband.
I was thinking of sequestering the original sample
to be re-examined by an independent lab.
- Great. That's more like it. - Sir, hospital's called.
- Steve's conscious. - Thank you, Maneet.
Meet me at the lift, James.
There's a couple of things the gaffer wants me to look into.
Yeah, no probs.
And could you find a way to tell him my name's not James?
Easier to turn an oil tanker.
Your son showed signs of coming round of his own accord.
We lightened the sedation - it was appropriate-
so we removed the tube from Steven's throat.
It's a good sign.
Mr and Mrs Arnott? Superintendent Hastings.
I'm very sorry, this must be a very difficult time for you,
but I've got to crack on and talk to your son.
But we'll speak later, all right?
How are you, son? How are you feeling?
- Awful. - That's the spirit.
- All right? - All right.
They looking after you? Anybody needing shaking up?
- I'm in good hands, sir. - Good.
Now, if you don't mind, we'll just get straight to it.
- I'll do my best. - Good man.
Do you remember much at all about what happened to you?
Talking on the phone to Nick Huntley...
..going up in the lift.
Someone jumped me, hit me over the head
and after that it's all hazy.
Right. OK.
Well, we have a CCTV image here that we'd like you to look at.
Do you think that could be your attacker?
A lot of it's blank, sir.
I'm not sure if he's the one attacked me or...
..or I'm getting mixed up with the images of Balaclava Man.
I thought there was a baseball bat
but he doesn't have one.
Maybe I'm remembering an old case.
HASTINGS: Is there any chance that this could be Nick Huntley?
I don't know.
Well, full marks for honesty, son.
(Pills rattling)
(Knocks)
- Ma'am. - Something up?
I just heard something from a mate in Forensics.
AC-12 are asking to examine evidence from Tim's flat.
What evidence?
KRG-13, the blood spatter that...
that Kate was interested in.
I'm sorry, I wasn't sure if I should say anything.
Night, Jodie.
OK.
I realise this wasn't purely a social invitation.
I'm aware of the pitfalls of making an official complaint...
..but you ought to know what AC-12 are up to.
They're trying to discredit my inquiry.
I cannot imagine
a more damaging climb-down for this force.
There is a solution.
There is?
Closing the case against Michael Farmer,
securing a conviction for his awful crimes,
and keeping Timothy Ifield's offences an internal matter.
He's dead. There won't be a trial,
only a coroner's inquest.
Why give AC-12 reign to destroy public trust?
All I need is your backing, sir.
AC-12 have a habit of using underhand tactics.
It's never a fair fight.
There are one or two things I could tell you
that would even things up.
Thank you very much, sir.
We're off duty. There's no need for "sir".
This is a nice place.
Are you a regular, sir? Are you a regular?
It's a convenient pit stop.
I live out of town.
So, when it's a late finish, the rooms aren't too shabby.
I'm booked in for tonight.
Am I keeping you from something?
No.
No, the kids help themselves to a ready meal on a school night
when I'm on duty, and...Nick's often late too.
My husband Nick.
Yeah. Lucky Nick.
- Would you like another drink? - No, I shouldn't.
We're just two old friends having a drink.
Tonight's just too difficult. It's boring domestic reasons.
But we...we could pick this up another evening.
I'll look at my diary.
Let me give you a different phone number,
just to be discreet.
(Door closes)
This piece of evidence
that AC-12 want to pull from forensics...
- KRG-13. - Mm-hm.
Which FI's initials are those?
Er...
Kevin R Gill.
Ta.
(Keypad beeps)
I know it's a bit parky out here.
No, thanks.
It's easier to talk outside the office.
Listen, AC-12 have been poking their noses in
about one of your forensic samples.
The label was overwritten.
It looks like you wrote KRG-30
and then corrected it to KRG-13.
Look, Kevin, I'm the last person to point the finger.
But AC-12, they're a different story.
Look, I'm not saying I'm 100 per cent sure,
but I don't remember overwriting any label.
Well, percentages help. What would you say?
75? 50?
80. 90.
Then how was it overwritten?
Look, I've got no angle here, Kev.
Kevin.
I'm the SIO, Kevin,
and I want to catch the bastard who killed Timothy Ifield.
If there's a question mark hanging over
a crucial piece of forensic evidence, I need to know.
Right. I've got to work with you lot. No way am I gonna say
somebody's tampered with evidence.
That'll make me a whistle-blower.
And we all know what happens to them.
- Kevin... - This is my fag break.
You all right? I'm Kate Flynn on secondment from East Mids...
You should have come to see me sooner.
Yeah, sorry I...work.
- We're going to take a swab. - Is that necessary?
It won't delay anything.
I'll give you a painkiller, start you on some antibiotics.
(Winces and exhales)
You should see a specialist.
You're running a fever.
I think I should sign you off on sick leave
till the specialist sees you.
There's no way I can take time off work.
I'm sorry, I just can't.
- (Front door opens and closes) - (Clears throat)
Where are the kids?
The high street youth club with a tenner between them.
- Nando's. - On a school night?
You don't want to talk to me, Roz?
Of course I do.
I've had a crap day, I've got another bloody fever,
I just want to take a couple of paracetamol and zonk out.
What really happened that night, Roz?
The night of the murder.
Because... the more I think about it,
the more holes there are in your story.
Would you really risk so much to...hide a fling?
I know I hurt you, Nick, and I am sorry.
You don't seem sorry, Roz.
What do I seem?
Like you're still hiding something.
I've stopped believing a word you say.
Look at what I do, Nick,
not what I say, what I actually do.
Everything is for us, for this family.
No, it's all for yourself.
And you had better start treating me better.
I know you were in those flats where the murder happened.
What are you trying to say?
I'm saying I've had it with being taken for a fool!
Were you not listening?
Look at what I do.
You're linked to the near-death of an anti-corruption detective
and you were hanging around outside a crime scene.
You are the fool.
I'm the one protecting you.
(Sobs)
(He sobs)
It's OK.
Come in.
Sir, the lab's analysed the original sample reference
KRG-13.
- They've found an anomaly. - Great.
This gets better and better. Come in.
- Sorry. - That's OK.
I'm afraid it's bad news, Roz.
AC-12 have issued you with a second Reg 15.
On what grounds?
Issuing a second one means they're citing
a substantively different offence from last time.
OK.
I'll be honest, Roz. They're coming after you.
It's not just taking you off the case this time,
it could be suspension, dismissal from the service,
maybe even criminal charges.
Sorry.
Thanks, Maneet.
(DIR machine tone)
Anticorruption Unit 12 interview by
Superintendent Hastings and DC Desford
of Detective Chief Inspector Roseanne Huntley
in the presence of her Police Federation Representative
DCI Mark Moffatt.
Please identify yourselves for the DIR.
- Hastings. - Huntley.
- Moffatt. - Desford.
DCI Huntley, you do not have to say anything but it may harm
your defence if you do not mention when questioned
something you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be used in evidence.
Questions will be put to you by Superintendent Hastings
as it's your right to be questioned by an officer
at least one rank senior.
I will furnish factual information only,
starting with Image 47, from a CCTV camera
captured on the night of January 25th
in the vicinity of the last sighting
of Leonie Collersdale before she disappeared.
HASTINGS: This man is wearing a black jacket of the type worn
by Hana Reznikova's abductor.
What steps have you taken to find him?
We believe this is Michael Farmer.
Image 136, from a CCTV camera overlooking the car park
of a DIY Superstore, captured on the night of March 17th.
And we believe this is Timothy Ifield.
Well, clearly there are some similarities.
Clearly.
However, Timothy Ifield was aware of Image 47.
He could have deliberately styled himself
in order to simulate the suspect seen on January 25th.
Right. Well let's see what you have to say about this.
DC Desford.
From a CCTV camera captured on 6th April,
in an alley adjacent to your husband's office building.
Now, Timothy Ifield, bless him, is six foot under,
so it can't be him styling himself
to simulate Balaclava Man.
And Michael Farmer has been in custody for nearly a month.
Why haven't you shared this evidence?
This is my investigation!
Clearly, DCI Huntley, I would have reservations,
regarding the connection to your husband.
DCI Huntley's spouse was released
without charge by AC-12.
You're presuming guilt before innocence.
Document 7, DC Desford.
Document 7 in your folders,
a photocopy made by this unit on April 7th...
..of a form MG-6 submitted electronically by you
on April 5th, to the Senior Prosecutor
in the Complex Case Unit
in respect of evidence against Hana Reznikova.
Do you recognise the form, DCI Huntley?
Yes.
Timothy Ifield's killer left not a single strand of DNA
or a single fingerprint at the crime scene.
Now, you're saying that Hana Reznikova
had the knowledge and the skills to do that?
She is a cleaner, sir.
Timothy Ifield's killer amputated
the second, third and fourth digits
of the victim's right hand post mortem.
And what? You think she's up to that too?
Yes, I do, sir,
to remove her DNA lodged under Timothy Ifield's fingernails.
Tell me this. Were there any corresponding wounds
found anywhere on Hana Reznikova's body?
The wounds could have been superficial enough
to have healed by the time we charged her,
or she may have mistakenly assumed
her DNA had contaminated the body.
Kindly answer the question, DCI Huntley.
Were any corresponding wounds found on Hana Reznikova's body?
- Yes or no? - No.
No. You have not got the evidence
to pass the threshold test for charging
and yet you seriously believe that
that wee girl, Hana Reznikova, murdered Timothy Ifield?
Yes, I do, sir.
What, and not this man?
Like I said, this needs to be investigated.
Yeah, our point entirely.
- DC Desford. - Document 9.
Forensic evidence log from the examination of Ifield's flat
on 23rd March.
Do you recognise said log?
Yes, sir.
Item Reference KRG-13 is recorded in said log.
We would draw your attention to the labelling of item KRG-13.
James.
I'm sorry.
On screen, image 12.
Image 12 is a photograph taken by this department
of the label on the evidence bag.
What can you tell us about this label, DCI Huntley?
- It's been overwritten. - Indeed it has. Indeed it has.
We interviewed the Forensic Investigator
corresponding to the designation KRG - Kevin R Gill.
Mr Gill was unable to account for the overwriting.
Doesn't mean there's anything suspicious.
Yeah, but we also sequestered the original sample.
Image 22 on screen.
Image 22 is a crime scene photograph...
captured on 23rd March
of the blood spatter detected in Timothy Ifield's flat.
Turn to Document 15 in your folders.
I quote from the report of the independent forensic scientist.
"Swab sample shows staining with human blood.
Analysis of the blood sample detected DNA
matching the control sample for Timothy Ifield.
The probability that this sample contains
Timothy Ifield's blood... is greater than 99.9 per cent.
So far so expected, wouldn't you say, DCI Huntley?
Yes, sir.
Yes, but our independent analysis does not end there.
We've been informed of an anomaly.
JAMIE: I quote: "Present within the blood sample
are a number of clothing fibres.
All fibres are of the same type,
suggesting they originate from the same source.
Comparison with the reference database reveals a match with
the white high-density polythene of over-suits
worn by forensic investigators.
The probability of this match is greater than 99.9 per cent.
What do you make of that, DCI Huntley?
It's possible the FI taking the sample
inadvertently made contact with the swab or blood
with his own white over-suit.
Really, do you seriously believe that an experienced FI
is gonna be that clumsy? Who are you kidding?
Those suits are specifically designed not to shed fibres.
But, of course, you would know this,
wouldn't you, DCI Huntley,
being an experienced and, I'm told,
highly-skilled senior detective?
Superintendent Hastings, your tone is oppressive.
She's an SIO, 20 years on the force, fella.
If she can't take it, God help us all.
DCI Huntley?
For the DIR, the interviewee is not answering.
That swab had to be taken from the blood-stained over-suit
that Timothy Ifield was wearing at the time of his death.
As said over-suit was not found at the scene of the crime,
it leads me to believe that the person who took the swab...
was very closely connected to the killer himself...
or herself.
That sample, KRG-13... was tampered with.
DCI Huntley?
Possibly.
"Possibly"?
We all know, under modern policing methods,
it's extremely difficult - if nigh on impossible-
to plant evidence once a crime scene has been opened.
However, it is conceivably possible to replace evidence
once it's in storage
if one has access to said storage facility.
Unfortunately, there's no CCTV covering the evidence room
where the samples were stored, as it's a staff area.
Security cameras only cover areas where officers
come into contact with members of the public,
for the protection of all parties.
Officers have a right to do personal business in private.
I beg to differ. We're public servants.
Everything we do should stand up to public scrutiny.
So, let's see what we have.
We have the possibility of planting evidence in the case
against Michael Farmer... and we have interference
in forensic evidence in the murder of Timothy Ifield.
It's a complex case, sir. In fact, two cases.
It sure is.
Did you investigate who had access
to Michael Farmer's home prior to his arrest?
Of course we have, sir.
Document 33, a copy of my Decision Log
recorded on the night of March 9th,
regarding operations at Michael Farmer's home.
21:25. FARS OIC clears property for entry.
DCI Huntley clears FARS Investigator and FC
to enter property.
The FC in this case being Timothy Ifield.
And Ifield's DNA was detected on Leonie Collersdale's body.
Hence we are pursuing complicity
between Timothy Ifield and Michael Farmer.
Do you have any evidence
connecting Michael Farmer to Timothy Ifield?
- Not yet, sir. - No.
So, this complicity between them
is just wild speculation on your part, DCI Huntley.
And, from what we know of Timothy Ifield,
he was probably trying to do the exact opposite.
He was probably trying to prove Michael Farmer's innocence.
Timothy Ifield stumbled upon a conspiracy
to protect a person, or persons, unknown -
possibly the person in the CCTV footage on 25th January-
for which he was murdered for his silence.
Now, have you or your inquiry...
..made any effort whatsoever to explore this possibility?
We...
No, we haven't, sir.
No, DCI Huntley.
You haven't.
You alone.
DCI Huntley's been suffering from illness recently.
Perhaps we could take a break for a few minutes?
No.
I really wish that it all ended there,
but sadly Timothy Ifield was murdered,
and in respect of a prime suspect...
..we're looking very close to home.
Very close to home indeed.
DC Desford.
Image 36.
Image 36 is a frame taken from traffic camera video
recorded at 11pm on the night of March 17th.
Image 36 captures a vehicle registered to your husband,
Nicholas Huntley,
in the vicinity of Timothy Ifield's flat.
The night of March 17th being identified...
..as the most likely time for that murder to take place.
DCI Huntley...
..in my view, there is a clear conflict of interest
regarding your position and the possible involvement
of your husband in these offences.
Also, now, it is extremely difficult to exclude you
as a suspect in tampering with evidence
that might implicate your husband in said murder.
Therefore, I will be recommending
to the Executive Officer,
in the strongest possible terms,
that you be suspended from duty, effective immediately.
Now, you are not under arrest.
However, our inquiries are ongoing...
..and you may subsequently be arrested
in connection with these offences.
Do you understand what I'm saying to you?
I do.
And have you anything further to add?
I do.
Well, look,
your Federation Rep said you might want a break now.
You said it yourself, Superintendent.
I'm an SIO 20 years in. The tape's running, let's proceed.
How many detectives of the rank of inspector or above
have you investigated in the last five years?
I really don't see how that's relevant.
- Do you have an answer? - Not to hand.
You've investigated three, myself included.
Two of the three were female, that's 67 per cent,
when the proportion of females in those ranks is ten per cent.
Who's giving you this information?
Am I wrong?
That's a very small sample to be quoting percentages out of.
We've charged a Deputy Chief Constable
and a retired Chief Superintendent, both male.
We're only interested in one thing here and one thing only,
and that's bent coppers,
irrespective of race, creed, colour, or gender.
- You're blind to gender? - Absolutely.
On the 23rd March, in a conversation
at the scene of Timothy Ifield's murder,
did you address me as "darling"?
Once again, I really don't see how this is relevant.
Yes or no, Superintendent.
Did you address me using a non-gender-neutral term?
Yes.
How many female officers within AC-12 have been promoted
to the rank of inspector or above in the last five years?
The internal workings of this unit have no relevance
to the matter in front of us and it's none of your business.
Your use of sexist language makes me raise the matter.
And, in respect of the promotion of female officers,
your unit lags behind the national average.
Well, it's very specialist work we do.
I think very carefully about who I promote to senior positions.
But where are you getting this information from?
Well, that's confidential.
In that case, we should terminate this interview.
DC Desford.
Are you a member of a Masonic organisation?
I wouldn't do that if I were you, DC Desford.
That makes you an active participant in denying me
my rights under police regulations to defend myself.
Are you or are you not a Mason?
I'm not at liberty to discuss the matter.
And whoever is feeding you this prejudicial information...
Masons are the mafia of the mediocre.
A network of officers linked to corruption,
and an organisation that traditionally excludes women.
For the DIR,
Superintendent Hastings has risen from his seat.
You have a record of excluding women
from positions of authority, and what better way than to
conduct witch hunts against senior female officers?
You're just trying to wriggle off the hook. This won't wash.
DCI Huntley has raised valid concerns regarding
the treatment of female Police Federation members
by your department.
She's laid a foundation to explain why, in our view,
the investigation against her is malicious.
Please sit down, Superintendent,
or it would seem you're denying my colleague
her lawful rights as a serving police officer.
Thank you.
For the DIR, Superintendent Hastings has retaken his seat.
The matter before us, Superintendent,
is whether DCI Huntley's carried out
her duties and responsibilities under police regulations.
The matter is whether she has been complicit
in a criminal offence.
These are photocopies of a statement given to my team...
by Forensic Investigator Kevin R Gill
after the statement he made to AC-12.
You'll see that Mr Gill accepts responsibility
for overwriting the label- item reference KRG-13,
the isolated blood spatter found at the scene
of Timothy Ifield's murder.
- Wait a minute... - Hold on, hold on.
FIs depend on good relations with police officers.
Come on, he'd change his story if he thought it would help.
That's a very interesting remark, DC Desford.
You're claiming the FI says whatever the investigating
- police officer wants to hear? - No, no...
That would mean the FI told AC-12 what you wanted to hear?
And, in order to make the case against me,
you wanted to hear that he didn't overwrite the label.
That's not what I meant, OK? That's not what I meant.
I note your agitated tone. Why are you agitated?
Cos you're putting words in my mouth.
- Say that again, DC Desford. - You're put...
For the DIR, Superintendent Hastings has given
a non-verbal gesture ordering DC Desford not to answer.
Stable door, horse bolted.
You, DC Desford, volunteered that you believe
Kevin Gill made the statement AC-12 wanted to hear,
but you've accused me of fabricating
that same observation, when we all recognise
the DIR will support my version of the conversation.
The problem with AC-12
is you can never admit when you're in the wrong.
And I wonder what lengths AC-12 would go to
to prove they're right even when they're wrong.
This is a video capture of a lawful recording
of a police interview at Polk Avenue Police Station...
showing Hana Reznikova being interviewed
by DS Flynn and DC Taylor.
The interview formed the starting point to our inquiry
into Hana Reznikova.
At all stages of the investigation,
DS Flynn was an active participant.
In fact, she was instrumental in the charging of Hana Reznikova,
the validity of which you challenged
earlier in this interview.
This is a print of a digital photograph
captured by DC Jodie Taylor on 4th April.
Who is the officer in the photograph?
For the DIR, Superintendent Hastings and DC Desford
look extremely uneasy.
According to DC Taylor, this detective, DS Kate Flynn,
made an inquiry at Polk Avenue Forensic Office
regarding item reference KRG-13.
This is a print of a digital photograph captured by
DC Taylor on 7th April... showing DS Flynn
having an off-the-record conversation
with Forensic Investigator Kevin Gill.
Is DS Flynn an undercover AC-12 officer?
HASTINGS: In respect of undercover operations,
I can neither confirm nor deny, as well you know.
What we do know, Superintendent,
is if an undercover AC-12 officer
is coaching witnesses against DCI Huntley,
it would substantially undermine your case.
My officers do not coach witnesses!
So she is your officer?
(Exhales)
We have Kevin Gill telling AC-12 one thing
and my team another,
and here we have an undercover AC-12 officer talking to Gill.
Let's go back to Gill's statement to me.
He took a swab sample from the blood spatter
in Timothy Ifield's flat.
He sealed the sample in an evidence bag.
He labelled the bag, overwriting a slip of the pen, KRG-13.
And despite all your theories, you have zero evidence
KRG-13 was tampered with thereafter.
If it was tampered with, who could have done it?
Here we have DS Flynn raising a query about KRG-13
at the forensic office days before anyone else.
And then, as if by magic,
AC-12 request the sample to carry out your own analysis.
As soon as AC-12 seized that sample,
the chain of evidence was broken.
It raises the question
who had access to it after you seized it.
AC-12 do not tamper with evidence!
No?
A jury acquitted a female DI called Lindsay Denton
of conspiracy to murder, at retrial,
because they were sure that one of your officers
engaged in an inappropriately intimate relationship
in order to plant evidence in her home.
My officers do not plant evidence!
You see the pattern here?
Sexism, undercover operations, and questionable evidence.
All right. This circus is over.
Superintendent Hastings...
..did you authorise DS Flynn to engineer charges
against Hana Reznikova?
I did not.
Did you authorise DS Flynn to tamper with evidence
in regard to the investigation into the murder of Ifield
from 23rd March to today's date?
I did not.
Did you induce Forensic Investigator Kevin Gill
to alter his testimony in regard to the handling
of evidence item reference KRG-13?
I did not.
Superintendent Hastings, at this time I'm unable to
exclude you, DC Desford, DS Arnott and DS Flynn
from a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice
in the actions you've brought against me,
which I believe are unfounded,
vexatious and intended to obstruct my lawful inquiries
into the murders of Baswinder Kaur, Leonie Collersdale...
and Timothy Ifield.
This is a signed authority from Assistant Chief Constable Hilton
recusing AC-12 from your inquiry into me,
my team and the above offences.
DCI Huntley and DCI Moffatt are leaving the room.
- (Phone rings) - Switch that thing off, James.
Sorry, sir, I have to say, it's "Jamie" not "James".
Frankly, son, right now, I couldn't give a shit.
I never planted evidence,
never coached any witness, and you know it.
Hilton might have fallen for your crap but no-one else will.
How old are you, Kate?
31.
I'll tell you about my road to 31.
I'd been a DI two years already.
And then I made life choices in the best interests of others.
Not in my best interests at all, as it turned out.
And, from what I know, you won't make that mistake.
You'd give up anything to get to the top.
But despite your ambition you're on the wrong side of the line.
What do you know?
That you've got a son you barely see.
Hardly holier than thou.
You should have seen his face.
He had no idea where I was getting the ammunition.
Happy to help.
AC-12 aren't fit for purpose.
You could go so far as to say corrupt.
It's high time someone shut them down.
I let their case play out.
I thought it was worth hearing everything they had,
just in case there were any surprises.
- And were there? - None I couldn't handle.
My name didn't come up at all?
No, they've stopped accusing me
of succumbing to executive pressure.
This is the most agreeable solution.
Tim Ifield's peccadilloes out of the public eye,
Michael Farmer's crimes punished.
You've done a great job, Roz.
Thank you, sir, for backing me.
What are friends for?
Let's go up.
- Bring that with you. - I'm sorry.
I love my husband and I love my children.
I won't betray their trust.
It's a moral question.
I'm sorry.
Well done.
Ow.
(Pills rattle)
(Tap turned on and off)
Good news.
No-one thinks you're a murderer any more.