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Wisbech is a bit of a funny old town.
People are stuck here, ain't they?
When people get desperate, they'll go and do something stupid.
You've just got to watch your back all the time.
Who can you trust and who can't you trust?
She was tortured.
Somebody dragged her in here.
There is a large stab wound to the side of her neck.
She's disabled, she can't walk.
It was so severe, I've never seen anything like it.
It's a hell of a lot to do to somebody,
to leave them like that on the floor with blood pissing out.
People must get really suspicious, mustn't they?
With neighbours and that. It could be me, you, anybody.
It's crucial that we find the truth.
Police! Police! Hands behind your back!
Got to question everything, believe nobody.
It's almost a game of chess, trying to get them to slip up.
This is your opportunity to talk to me.
Thank you so much. PANTING
Have you got somewhere you can take a seat, Christine,
and I can come and speak to you?
Oh, please don't tell me nothing's wrong.
Christine, I'm ever so sorry to tell you, officers have been out
to Eliza this morning. Is she your daughter?Yeah.
Yeah? Unfortunately, she's been found passed away in...
Oh, no! No! No, she can't have! No, no, no, no, no...
Yesterday morning Eliza Bibby was found deceased
at her home address at 17 Beechwood Road in Wisbech.
Eliza lives alone, she's disabled. She uses a wheelchair and a frame.
She very rarely leaves the house, if at all, in the last,
I don't know, year or so, I think.
She was a victim of a burglary back in 2018.
Other than that, there doesn't appear to be anything.
They've moved the body and there is a large stab wound to
the left side of her neck. It's quite large, quite deep.
That knife is obviously outstanding.
I always have this fear of getting stuck on this road.
I don't know why. So whenever I'm on call,
I always make sure I've got a full tank of petrol,
because I always worry that I'm going to get a call out
to Wisbech and get stuck on this road,
because I find it really creepy at night.
Think maybe I've been doing this job too long,
because I sit here and think, "I wonder how many bodies are on
"the Fens that no-one would ever find, because it's just so remote."
Yeah, it's just stuck out in the middle of nowhere.
Well, I was just her carer.
Ah, I see. Yeah.
So sadly, she has passed away and it is a murder investigation.
Did she have any enemies or anything that you know of?
Yeah.
Cambridgeshire police's major crime unit begin
the forensic investigation of the scene.
Have you actually been in yet?
You haven't, have you? No. I'll take you on a tour.
We'll go in the bathroom.
So this frame was here, and she needs this to walk.
Yeah, yeah. So why is it there? But that's... Why is that in here?
Some bandages for her legs.
A lot of medication in her name.
So, she sleeps in this chair.
But again, there's no sign of a disturbance in here,
there's no blood.
There is literally nothing else here.
And it makes no sense.
What road is this?
Where is Beechwood Close? Beechwood Close? Yeah.
It's over there. Over that side? Yes. All right, cool. Thank you.
I'll show you the shortcut, as well. Oh, well done.
When a crime takes place,
the first sort of 24, 48 hours is crucial.
No detail is too small, and I want to try and understand
what has led to her being targeted, what's led to her murder.
Did you know the lady that died?
Yes.
Sort of.
There's the house.
I'm just trying to get my bearings as to the way
that people could have gone in or out.
There's several ways they could have gone. Yeah?
They could have gone that way. Yeah.
They could have gone that way.
And then back up you can take...
They could have gone that way, round the back.
You know where the caravan park is over there?
Oh, you're making my job even harder now, aren't you?
Telling me all these different routes that people could have gone.
They could have took any way.
I don't know.
So, I couldn't tell you. I was in bed, so...
Probably the best place to be. Yeah.
She had three small stab wounds to the side of her neck,
sort of underneath her chin, which went through into her tongue.
And she swallowed a lot of blood.
And then a larger stab wound to the side of the neck.
So we've got...
There's splatter that way. Yeah.
There's splatter this way, and back towards you. Yeah.
So her head was here.
So has she gone down or was she already down and dragged in?
How would she get here...
She could hardly walk. ..without her walking frame? Yeah.
For the frame to be in there, the wheelchair to be in there
and her to be here, either said somebody dragged her in here.
Yeah.
There's no stick. No. There's no frame. There's... No.
But she was not moving while she was being stabbed, from what I can see.
Yeah.
They've took her life. They've took her, haven't they? My daughter.
For what reason? I don't know.
But they've took it.
I don't know, you know. Why?
47 she was.
She never ummed and ahhed.
She said what she thinks, and that's it.
You either liked it or you didn't, straight up.
And that's been ever since she's been a dear little girl down there.
I'm trying my hardest.
For him, if you know what I mean.
DOG BARKS
Morning. Morning. Sorry to bother you.
We're here, unfortunately, investigating one of your
neighbours who sadly passed away in the night,
the lady that lives at this address just across here. What, Eliza?
Yeah, yeah. I don't know how well you knew her.
Obviously she's a neighbour, but I'll...
Sort of like an undesirable element, really.
She was a drug dealer.
A murder investigation has been launched after
a woman was found dead in her home in Wisbech.
The emergency services found the body of
a 47-year-old woman in Beechwood Road.
We've had an update from the scene. She deals drugs from
her bungalow.
OVER PHONE:Class A, and regular customers are known to just walk in.
It seems like an open-door policy.
BEEPING
Did she have any enemies? Not as far as I know.
She's properly all right. Good girl, but...
I've seen her last night about, 9.30pm, 10pm, yeah.
9.30pm, 10pm. Yeah. So how was she last night?
She seemed all right, yeah.
Was anyone else with you at that time? Was anyone else there?
No. No-one else. Just on me own. Right, yeah. Yeah.
You don't have to get into it. Does she deal, mate? Yeah.
Do you need to go? You've gone? Yeah. It's a suspicious death.
Yeah. Got a habit and that, yeah?
Used to go in there and just get what you needed and go.
You know? As long as you got the money.
Just up to the door and knock.
Open the door and she said ,"Who's that?".
Tell her who you are and she'd say, "Take your shoes off in the kitchen."
Cos she was really house-proud, you know?
Everyday, yeah. That was my routine, yeah.
Going over and score, got to try and find that money every day
to stop yourself getting sick, you know?
Nothing to be proud of, that's sure, that's for sure.
A chain round me neck, a burden, yeah.
The wounds to the neck. They're not all one side, are they?
They're both sides. So the three... Yeah.
..could be along the lines of, "Well where's your money?",
or like a threatening thing?. Yeah.
And then the fatal one was the left side. Yeah.
Which means you'd either have to swap hands... Yeah.
Or it's two people... ..or it's two people with different hands.
I think there's 101 ways it could have been.
In Wisbech, there was a lot of guys and girls there
that she used to serve up.
Yeah, she was serving every day.
A lot of people don't want to show their true colours,
but you know they're on it. People more desperate than others.
Everyone's sort of got... They're holding their hand out,
what's about, you know?
I'm Gary, Cambridgeshire police, and this is my colleague, Saj. Hi, mate.
With news of Eliza Bibby's murder spreading across Wisbech,
officers speak to those closest to the victim.
I used to go and see Eliza quite a lot.
I've been involved in drugs, relapsed now and again. Yeah, sure.
I've known Eliza for years. Right.
Still can't get my head around it, can't believe it.
Just get all the gossip from Wisbech.
Heard a lot about this already, then, or...?
Yeah, I've heard a fair bit, yeah. What have you heard?
Right.
She did tell me that he'd been pestering her for a little while.
Was he trying to buy from her or what?
Yeah, yeah. And I did tell her to be careful.
But their names have been brought up by a few people.
You hear things in Wisbech. Yeah.
We've had an update.
When we spoke to the family today, Christine has said that
Eliza told her that she was having issues with Mark Coleman.
Mark used to go to Eliza's to buy heroin,
along with his sister, Katie.
I've just spoken to somebody who lives locally,
and he said that he goes to work early in the morning.
And around about 3am he saw
Mark Coleman and a female in the area...
They've been trying doors on other roads, as well?
Yeah, I think that's their kind of MO, it's the two of them...
Yeah. Right. ..that operate together.
I'm just watching some of the footage here.
I can't give you any details on that, but I do have two people
walking along Beechwood at 23.32pm. And they're walking from
the Waterlee side towards number 17.
There might be some more details,
the two people at sort the time of interest.
I think we're right to look at the Colemans.
He is very well known and has been for years.
Obviously a prolific drug user, shop lifter.
So, yesterday he was seen at Wellington Terrace block of flats,
and he's been staying there on the floor.
He's been homeless for months.
Within the Wisbech community, everyone is a detective.
I think the rumour mill always brings difficulties,
because we have to then look into that information.
We can't just ignore it.
But there's a difference between intelligence and evidence.
Right. This is Section 18, Wellington Terrace, Wisbech -
the potential home address of Mark Coleman,
who is sleeping on the stairwell. INTERCOM BEEPS
Hiya, from the police. Is it OK to come in? Yeah. Yeah?
You know Mark Coleman?
We're investigating that offence.
But whether he's involved or not, that's what we're trying
to establish. He may not be. Um...
Just so you know, we have got authority to search this stairwell.
Oh! Right, yeah, crack on.
Not going to be a very long search. WHISPERING:Quick in the corridor.
Imagine living here? SOFT CHUCKLING
Cosy.
Any signs of any blood? Have a good look in the light. OK.
There's a bag there.
OK, very careful and slow search.
Don't want you impaling yourself with a needle.
It's not needles, but it's stuff that they would use.
Yeah, I think he's been staying a bit of everywhere,
but he definitely came here.
There was a chap in the flat in number seven.
But he says, "No, no, he just sleeps on the stairwell, and..."
It does appear that way. I mean, looking here,
I can say there is literally... There's not much here.
Hello, mate. Hello, you all right? We're looking for Mark Coleman.
Well, we're trying to work out whether he's involved or not.
Mm.
We just wanted to speak to you
to see what your movements were that night
and how much you saw of Mark that night.
And then you woke up in the morning?
And he was gone. Yeah. All right.
GLASS BREAKING
Cambridgeshire police?
Yeah, there's someone at Hill Street, yeah.
Just smashed the front windows to the clothing shop
and he's breaking in there right now.
Hill Street, yeah?Yeah, Hill Street, Wisbech.
What does he look like? He's wearing a dark grey trackie.
You didn't see what his face looked like?Yeah. No, no, no.
But I might have known who it might be.
Yeah, definitely...Police are here. SIRENS BLARING
Steady.Stay there a minute. Stay there.
What's your name?
Hi, Sarge. The suspect here is Mark Coleman.
Right, Mark, jump in the back of the van for me.
Watch your head.
Right, Katie, you're under arrest for theft inside a dwelling times two,
harassment and also dwelling burglary, OK?
What you got in your pockets? No, I don't know what's in there.
What you been up to this morning?
Or trying to score any drugs or anything?
What do you take? Heroin?
Mind your head.
So, some interesting developments.
Mark Coleman has committed burglary overnight and
was arrested at the scene and he's currently in custody,
as well as Katie Coleman,
and both of them have been arrested now for the murder.
They were arrested for a separate non-related offence,
and, obviously, whilst they were in custody that is
an opportunity to question them about Eliza's murder.
That's an opportunity I can't miss.
VOICE OVER COMPUTER:Just lean slightly forward.
Officers are alerted to police body worn footage of Mark Coleman
from the morning Eliza Bibby's body was found.
Mark, what you been up to, mate?
Come on, come off the road. Let's have a quick chat.
What are these in here, buddy?
That's what I bought from a charity shop.
You bought them from charity shop? What use have you got for this?
I mean, I can see... It's for my wedding, for my wife...
I can see it... ..for my wife, to get married.
Is it?
VOICE OVER COMPUTER:What use have you got for this? I mean...
I mean, I can see... It's for my wedding, for my wife...
Look at that.
VOICE OVER PHONE: Lee.Lee, I'm sorry to call you,
but I'm like super excited about this. SHE CHUCKLES
We've just been looking at this body worn video from him being stopped...
Yes...shortly, potentially, after this murder,
or a few hours after. Yeah. And they're going through a bag
and he's got this distinctive brooch.
So has anybody been back to the family and said,
"Does this belong to her?" Yeah, why on Earth has he got a brooch?
Are you living in Wisbech? Yeah.
Is it Cambs side of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire side? Yeah. Yeah?
OK, so, open wide for me.
Lovely, thank you.
What are we thinking it's coming back with?
Crack and heroin.
No, it's come back with only coke.
Really? Yeah.
There's got to be nothing in the... heroin...in the stuff.
What, that you're buying off the street? Yeah.
I'm guessing you're not going to dispute the test
for not being positive for heroin? No.
TECHNICIAN LAUGHS No.
Wisbech is quite a poor area.
There's massive unemployment and with any area where there's poverty,
there's quite often addiction.
You know, addiction tends to come with despair or trauma
and I think if you haven't got a purpose, a job,
then that can quite often lead to addiction.
I'm just at a loose end.
It's horrible.
And being stuck in here again, do you know what I mean?
I was only in here two days ago.
It's poxy.
Keep arresting me, they do,
which ain't good. Which ain't good at all.
At some point between 9.30pm on the 9th of January and at 6am on
the 10th of January, Eliza Bibby was killed at her home address
of 17 Beechwood Road in Wisbech.
Are you responsible for that murder?
No comment.
There's been a number of witnesses have been spoken
to as part of this investigation, and one recalls being told that
Eliza told them that she was having issues with a Mark Coleman.
So what can you tell me about that? No comment.
We've got another witness that states that yourself
and your sister, Katie,
were out at 3am that night near the Premier Store
and tried doors in Edinburgh Drive.
No comment. What can you tell me about that?
That's from the Northwood.
So, that's only a couple of roads down from...No comment.
..from Beechwood Road.No comment.
Were you out with Katie? Was she trying the doors?
No comment.
Tell us about any recent arguments you know
to have occurred between Mark and Eliza.
No comment.
Do you know of any reason why Mark would want to hurt Eliza?
No comment.
What's the nature of the dynamics of the relationship
between the two of you? Is he in charge?
No comment.
When we're looking at this body worn footage,
the one thing that the officer does hold out
that we can see is a silver-coloured brooch.
Where did that brooch come from? No comment.
Is this something taken from Eliza's house?No comment.
I think in a minute I want to go out. Hang on, Mark.
I've had enough. Mark, wait there a minute.
I don't want to be interviewed. Mark...It's a load of bollocks.
I don't want to be interviewed by him. OK, just wait there.
I told you, I don't want to be interviewed by him.
MARK MUTTERS Custody sergeant.
So in that case, Mark has refused to come back to the interview room.
So we can't ask any more questions at this time.
Therefore, I'm going to stop the interview.
BEEPING Ooh, I love a bit of drama.
Officers take the brooch found in Mark Coleman's possession to
the family, to see if they recognise it as Eliza Bibby's.
So we have got two people in custody. Yeah, so you said.
So we're doing everything we can to see
where we can go with this at the moment.
On that line, what we have got is a picture of a brooch
that I wanted to show you, to see if you might recognise it.
No, I don't. You don't recognise it? No? No, I haven't seen it.
It's not right, is it? It's not right.
You need that time, Christine, to absorb this, though, don't you?
So... I can't absorb it, though. Yeah.
I think... I think this is a dream. I don't know what I think.
That's what we're trying to work out.
You leave that side of it to us,
because that's what we're here for.
Oh. Sorry.
You don't have to apologise.
You've got nothing to apologise for.
We won't leave you abandoned.
As Christine Bibby is unable to identify
the brooch, there is insufficient evidence
to charge either Mark or Katie Coleman with murder.
Both are charged with unrelated burglary offences
and remanded to prison.
The fact that Mark Coleman is being named as being responsible within
the local community, is frustrating.
It's very difficult for Mark Coleman.
He's in a bit of a cycle of despair,
because once your name is put forward for everything,
how do you ever then change that?
There's nothing to link Mark to Eliza's murder.
Often, previous miscarriages of justice has been
because people in charge of investigations follow
an individual rather than the evidence.
The fact that their names were brought up a lot,
that doesn't mean that they are responsible.
Although the Colemans will remain under investigation
for the murder of Eliza Bibby,
the major crime unit pursue fresh leads.
I'd never want to convict the wrong person.
The fact that Eliza was dealing drugs obviously led to
a massive pool of people that potentially could be responsible
for her murder.
Just signature at the top and the date.
It's now a lot of work to try
and rule all those individuals in or out.
That's it. Brilliant.
Right, we'll crack on then. So where shall we start?
VOICE OVER PHONE:I've had a quick look at the victim's iPhone.
There's a number for Mark Hall in there, a landline.
And that's shown as blocked in her phone.
Having looked at the different statements around Mark Hall,
there's a question around what time he actually went there.
When the scene guard are there the following morning,
he then tells the scene guard that he was there at 21.30
and that he's left Eliza fit and well.
So if that is the case and he was there at 21.30,
then potentially, he's the last person to have seen Eliza alive.
But it's a lot of ifs and buts.
According to the scene guard, he goes back to the scene
at 7.57 and 10.30, which is a little bit odd behaviour.
We're going to get to the stage where their memories are
going to start deteriorating from what they were doing.
So I think really, the objective today is
to really bottom out Mark Hall.
Mark Hall, Eliza Bibby's drug customer and friend,
was one of the last people to see her alive.
Officers need to pin down his movements
on the night she was murdered.
There he is. He's here, look.
This is Dale, by the way. Hiya. How are you? You all right?
You all right? Yeah, I'm good.
I'm going to go back to Wisbech Station. All right, yeah.
You've got a nice park there, Wisbech Park. Mm-hm.
MARK EXHALES Do you like it in Wisbech, Mark?
Um, not particularly, no.
So if you could put your left or right palm,
whichever one you want to start with, down... Yeah. ..onto here.
On this one there, yeah?
So have they found DNA and that in the premises or...?
That's something that's... Other than mine. Still ongoing?
That's still ongoing.
My DNA and all that is going to be all over the place,
because I used to go round there every day, more or less.
You know, to score or help her out with something or the other.
So, what would you describe your relationship with Eliza?
Probably like good friends, you know? Like, now and again
if she needed something, she'd phone me up.
"Can you go into the shop for me? Feed the dogs?"
Just little things like that really. You know?
So on the 9th, that's the night before Eliza was murdered...
Oh, yeah. ..can you remember the specific time you went to hers?
No, I can't, no. Because... Because I've had a drink now.
Yeah. And I wouldn't remember that. OK. But... Yeah.
All right, that's all I can tell you, mate. OK. OK?
All right, mate. Um... Can I walk off now?
Do you want a break for a smoke? Yeah, if you don't mind.
That would be nice.
So we need to really pin him down about
what he took that specific night... Yeah. ..that specific morning...
Yeah. ..and timings.
So you went to Eliza Bibby's address.
You went there to get some drugs.
Yeah. She normally unlocks the door at 7.00,
but sometimes she leaves it unlocked all night,
so anyone can walk in, but...
Yeah. How sure are you of what the time was?
Yeah. I'm pretty sure, because I wake up at, like, 5.30, 6 o'clock.
And then you're... If you haven't got any gear,
you're clock watching. Right. Trying to, you know...
What's the best time to go there without her moaning?
Did anyone see you that evening, on the 9th?
My partner might have done, yeah.
Is there anything that you feel like you can't say
or that you've held back that you want to say?
Not that I can think of at the moment, no. Right, OK. Yeah.
God. It's like trying to, like, wade through
all these weeds, isn't it? Yeah. Because literally all our witnesses
are drug addicts, can't remember anything or are trying
to minimise what their actions are.
So we're not getting the whole truth.
How do you feel? What, now? Yeah. Just a bit tired. Tired.
And stressed, yeah. You think of one thing and another thing
and you're trying to work it out. It's like a jigsaw puzzle,
trying to put all the pieces in the right spot.
Just keep doing the elimination process
until you get to...number one.
Cool. Do you want a lift back? If you could, that'd be nice.
Yep. Thank you.
How's her mum doing, do you know? Chris...
I don't know specifically how she's doing, but...
What about her son, Mark? Did you ever meet him?
Yeah, obviously he's quite sort of cut up about it,
because he thought the world of her, apparently.
I think everybody did in their own sort of special way, you know?
Yeah.
Police are no closer to finding Eliza Bibby's killer.
They continue to examine the crime scene for a breakthrough.
There was some heroin up there on the sink.
If there's drugs here, then it wasn't that sort of job.
Yeah, you're right, yeah.
Because it may be that she did hide them and she didn't give them up.
Yeah. Or it was never about that. Or it was never about that.
They found a substantial amount of heroin
still within Eliza's property.
It's a bit of a game changer, because it suggests
a motive other than going in to take the drugs.
There's absolutely no way that they're
going to commit that murder and leave that there.
So if I can understand why she's been murdered, it's likely
to help me find out who might be responsible.
Despite the evidence pointing away from Mark Coleman,
rumours of his guilt continue to circulate.
But hopefully I'll find a girlfriend or a wife soon
and settle down again.
That'll make me happy.
With few leads, DI Mepstead requests
a wider search of CCTV camaras covering the Wisbech area.
Hello, there. Hello. I'm a detective, from the police.
Oh, right! Sorry to bother you all of a sudden.
We're conducting an investigation for an incident
that happened at Wisbech and we can see that you've got
a couple of CCTV cameras. Yes, 75.
75? You have 75 cameras? Yes. Do they all work?
That's what a burglar says. LAUGHTER
I mean, what we're interested in is coverage of this road,
and we're going back to the 9th of January.
Yeah, yeah. Should still have it, yeah. 9th and the 10th.
Yeah, should still have it.
January, what time? You said the 9th? The 9th. The 9th.
You've got very good views haven't yo?
That's basically what you can see, that's the road.
Yeah, yeah, that's really good. And that way.
7BC, I think.
There you go. Lovely. This is a massive help. It really is. Is it?
You need all the help you can get, captain.
Otherwise, it's just anarchy, isn't it?
Absolutely.
How many cars go down this road, though? Is it quite sparse?
It was busy when we were there, but that's during the day.
I've done the first 15 minutes and two cars have gone down.
Lovely cameras for daytime, but not so much at night.
Are we able to zoom in on that? Find the index of that?
Probably a partial.
You can see a partial number plate.
It's got quite a distinctive back, hasn't it?
I mean that is the car, I can read the index.
Officers spot a car belonging to a member of Eliza Bibby's family,
heading towards Wisbech at 2am.
He said that he came home at 6pm and slept.
He doesn't mention being in the vicinity at 2am.
Yeah, so he could just go straight over the roundabout
and then he's into Wisbech round that way.
Yeah.
Due to the discrepancies in their account,
officers will need to do a full review of
the evidence in relation to the family member
before they are deemed a suspect.
PHONE RINGS
Hi, Steve, you all right?
Yeah, good thank you.
A murder suspect arrested over the death of
a woman who was stabbed in her own home has been found dead in prison.
The 45-year-old man was arrested
and bailed on suspicion
of murdering 47-year-old Eliza Bibby.
Mark was dead.
Ended up going to the grave with it.
I never ever thought it was him.
What had happened there that night didn't fit
Mark Coleman's way that he acts.
All right, he might have been a little bit of a thief and that,
but I can never see him standing there
stabbing someone up, you know.
He'd have been really upset to think that, you know,
thinking that, "All that lot there thinks I've done that
"to her and it weren't nothing to do with me."
And he's sitting in his cell just winding over, boom, boom, boom.
That must have thrown him out of, like, sync a little bit.
Poor old Mark.
Mark Coleman's heart gave up and he died in prison
with people in his local community potentially thinking that he was
a murderer.
"Oxygen thief, karma's good."
"Rest in shit, Mark Coleman."
Oh, my goodness, that poor family.
Terrible.
"The town of Wisbech have apparently become detectives.
"My dad was a suspect in the murder case,
"yet everyone assumed he was guilty before he was charged.
"Some of you even tried to say that my dad killed himself.
"We couldn't even grieve my dad the way we wanted.
"You all took that from us.
"Rest in peace, Dad,
"I love you so much, until we meet again."
That's really sad, isn't it?
The rumours and the trial by media
and social media that goes on,
the consequences of that on his whole family,
on his children and his loved ones.
What impact is that going to have on their future?
Our last name is dirt to everybody in Wisbech.
It's just horrible like how they could turn their backs
just like that without even having factual information.
"He's a murderer, he's a scumbag, he's this, he's that."
It's the same people that used to come to our house,
like, they used to speak to my dad,
like they grew up with us.
They used to babysit us as kids.
It's just sad as well, like, most of our phone calls consisted
of him saying "I didn't do it, I didn't do it."
He had a heart, he could never kill anybody.
Just nothing will ever be forgotten, will it, what they've done?
No. No. And no sorry will ever cut it.
It's just left me with so much hate for
a place I was born and raised.
They can say what they want about him but...
..to be fair... ..they can never comment on him being a dad. Never.
Yeah.
No matter what he was, no matter what he did,
like, he took drugs,
but he always showed the dad he was.
Yeah. He gave us a kiss,
he gave us a cuddle, and he said, "I love you." He always...
Yeah, he always told us that he loved us. Every single time.
He was a good father to us, wasn't he?
He was the best.
I will always love him. Always.
Just so sorry.
Just so sorry for him.
Love you, Dad. Love you! Love you, Dad.
My ultimate goal is to prove who has committed
the murder,
to get justice for the family but also to exonerate people.
The pressure is building,
I have to find who has killed Eliza.
DI Mepstead receives a report of
the phone belonging to the family member,
who was seen driving towards Wisbech on the night of the murder.
We've had the update from intel and there's
a quite interesting text message that she's sent,
it kind of sounds like they're having a bit of
a ding dong to be honest,
because it says "Oh, just to make a point,
"don't be driving about
"because you ain't got no money to put diesel in the tank,
"plus you need to do things for yourself.
"It's down to you from now on, enough is enough.
"You are being cut off right now."
So that's obviously sent not that long before her murder,
which would suggest that he's about to get cut off financially.
Yeah, it's relevant.
He says that he's rained off from work on the 10th
so we really need to clear up actually is that the case?
So our enquiry was about somebody who was working there.
OK, I can't tell you exactly
but I can tell you that it's
a very serious offence that we're investigating.
Officers meet to discuss how the evidence is building
against the family member.
There is a lot of conflicting information,
his phone and his vehicle seem
to show him in the Wisbech area at 2am.
I've an update on the employment.
He was employed on the Monday,
he was due to come into work on the Tuesday but didn't,
so that'll be the 10th. They don't know why.
So he wasn't rained off then.
I mean, there are so many inconsistencies with his story
and his behaviour is very odd to say the least.
There are lots and lots of anomalies in his account
and also the fact that these drugs were left on
the table, when people talk about Eliza being
so worried about being robbed that she takes them into
the toilet with her.
Is there someone there that she's comfortable with?
VOICE ON PHONE:The cause of death, stabbing,
just feels to me that it's an anger or a hatred thing.
I think that we have tried to rule him out
and we've been unable to do so,
so I think that the only way really to progress that is to arrest him.
He has basically lied.
Now, has he lied because he's confused,
or is it because he's killed Eliza?
It's very difficult when a family member comes into
an enquiry as the suspect
because there's a bereaved family at the end of it
and if that's the wrong call
then I've made what they're going through even worse.
Oh, please, come on, that's a load of crap, mate.
I'm arresting you on suspicion of
the murder of Eliza Bibby between the 9th and 10th of January.
Christine, we recognise that what's happened today disrupts potentially
your trust in the police and the investigation but
we really hope that...
..you understand the outcome. I know yous have got a job to do
but it's just devastating.
Of course it is. Of course.
We need to get to the bottom of who killed...
Who killed your daughter, all right?
And why do you think he'd do that to her?
Hasn't he been through enough trauma and he's still going through it,
mate, you know what I mean? Please, trust...trust me,
this is not an easy decision to make.
TEARFULLY:He's not involved, so... Chris...
Instead of going out there finding somebody what's done it,
I can't... I just don't understand it.
SHE SOBS
Hot off the press, a knife has been found.
A knife has been found? A knife has been found.
Going to fast track the forensics.
Is it the murder weapon?
You've got the victim's blood on the knife,
DNA profile that's given us a one in 12,000 possibility.
And one in 12,000 means that there's three people in Wisbech it could be.
Come on. Open the door, please.
I never ever thought it was him.
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