1 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,680 I get this screaming, horrendous phone call from my daughter 2 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:09,720 just screaming that Imani had been shot. 3 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:13,600 It looks like an assassination. An execution. 4 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:15,120 This was the middle of the afternoon, 5 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:18,360 children were playing football, and they all fell to the floor. 6 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,400 That's right off the Richter scale. 7 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,240 You've got a killer on the loose that might strike again. 8 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:27,440 Many parents are thinking, could this be my child next? 9 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,680 Who would open fire next to a children's playground 10 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:31,960 in broad daylight? 11 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:34,960 When we talk about things like revenge, 12 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,840 then it becomes a spiral of violence. 13 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,760 It was kind of portrayed that this young Black boy had done it 14 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:40,840 and he's got shot. 15 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:44,680 Headlines which are so far from the facts it's unbelievable. 16 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,360 You have to harvest evidence as quickly as you can. 17 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:50,480 If you miss something 18 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:52,720 in the first few hours at a murder scene, 19 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,440 you're never gonna retrieve it again. 20 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:57,720 How can forensics catch the killer? 21 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:31,280 NARRATOR: In North London, 22 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:34,680 emergency services race to a children's play area 23 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,320 following reports of rapid gunfire. 24 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,840 Local residents heard gunshots, 25 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:46,560 had a look outside, and saw the prone body of a young man. 26 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:52,760 22-year-old Imani Allaway-Muir has been shot close to his home 27 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,080 and is in a critical condition. 28 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:59,240 Imani unfortunately was in quite a bad way, 29 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,480 by which time his mother had arrived at the scene. 30 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,680 All my grandsons were there, his brothers were there, 31 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,360 his dad was there, and watched them trying to save his life. 32 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,760 Really, really, erm, stressful. 33 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:13,240 Heart-breaking. 34 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,160 Really traumatic for the family. 35 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:16,960 It's really important to try and limit 36 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:18,840 who can see what's happening at that scene. 37 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,480 As Imani's mum, Keetha, and dad, Jason, 38 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,600 desperately watch paramedics try to save him, 39 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:27,680 police lock down the scene. 40 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,520 Shaken witnesses describe the terrifying moment 41 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:34,080 the gunman opened fire. 42 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,320 Bullets ricocheted around the playground, 43 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:39,480 and children was in there playing football, 44 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:41,520 and they all fell to the floor, 45 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:45,240 so a lot more children could have been hurt as well. 46 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,720 I hate to think what it would have been like 47 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:51,400 had it been the school holidays. 48 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,200 There would have been utter carnage. 49 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,840 Witnesses describe the shooter as looking angry 50 00:02:57,880 --> 00:02:59,440 and holding a black gun. 51 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,720 Paramedics find Imani has been shot four times, 52 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:06,680 causing catastrophic injuries. 53 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:11,120 There was a huge amount of blood loss all over the scene. 54 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,160 He died about 30 minutes later. 55 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:18,880 He lost so much blood, he just couldn't be saved. 56 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,560 And all I could remember was screaming. 57 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,160 I asked her, "Is he alive?" And she said, "No, he's dead." 58 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,680 He was the gel to the family, to be honest. 59 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,480 Very family-orientated young man. 60 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,000 Imani grew up in the area, where he lived with mum, Keetha, 61 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,360 and his four younger sisters and brothers. 62 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,520 He adored his mum. Everything was his mum. 63 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,160 Mum first more than anything. 64 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:50,000 Yeah, he loved his mother. 65 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:53,440 When I did see my daughter, 66 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:56,520 it was just the pain and screams from her. 67 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:02,560 Nobody knew anything, cos it was like, "What's happened?" 68 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:04,560 You know, this was in the middle of the afternoon 69 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:05,800 in a children's playground. 70 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,640 With the motive not yet known, 71 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:14,880 police are concerned about what the gunman could do next. 72 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,600 You've got a killer on the loose that might strike again. 73 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:20,800 That's right off the Richter scale. 74 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,120 You have to harvest evidence as quickly as you can. 75 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,880 If you miss something in the first few hours at a murder scene, 76 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,120 you're never gonna retrieve it again. 77 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,720 We try and track where Imani was stood 78 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:38,680 and where he ended up collapsing, 79 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,120 and that can be done through blood pattern analysis. 80 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,400 He wasn't facing the shooter. 81 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,680 He appeared to have been shot whilst trying to get away. 82 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:48,520 This looks like a planned attack. 83 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:51,200 Why was this young man targeted? 84 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,920 A young man shot in broad daylight. 85 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:56,040 That's rare. 86 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:01,800 First thing that goes through your mind - 87 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:06,320 "Is it a crime that's gone wrong? Is it a gangland shooting?" 88 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:08,960 Er, "Is it a domestic?" 89 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,640 You've got to have a completely open mind. 90 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:13,920 It was just a shock, to be honest. 91 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:16,360 I didn't think about it being a grudge. 92 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,360 Everyone knew Imani from the area. 93 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,480 Everyone loved Imani. Everyone. 94 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:23,960 And everyone had a funny story to tell about Imani. 95 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:26,560 He liked to be in the park. 96 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,000 He'd meet his friends, play a bit of football. 97 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:30,120 To hang out. 98 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,840 In the park, CSIs trace the shooter's movements. 99 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:38,720 If we can find out where someone was stood, 100 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,160 that's really great for forensic opportunities, 101 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,800 because then we can almost try and recreate the scene. 102 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:47,640 Also then helps with any CCTV footage, 103 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:49,800 because potentially they might be able to work out 104 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:51,520 where they might have escaped to. 105 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:54,200 In an incident like this, 106 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:56,600 we would probably get a ballistic scientist 107 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:58,040 to be able to track 108 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,400 exactly where the shots might have been fired from. 109 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,720 You could potentially see where bullets have landed 110 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,720 and be able to determine a point of origin 111 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:09,000 as to where they've been fired. 112 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:11,760 We have a whole variety of kit that's available, 113 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,120 so we can use lasers for that, we can also use rods. 114 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:16,680 External scenes are more difficult, 115 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,000 because there's the potential for ricochet. 116 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,600 So when we're working back to look at trajectories, 117 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:23,080 it may not be a direct line. 118 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,480 It's a cul-de-sac, in essence. 119 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,240 There's a children's play area, 120 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:32,480 and just adjacent to that is a caged football pitch 121 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:35,200 with alleyways running both sides of it. 122 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,640 So it's quite a compact murder scene. 123 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:42,440 Ballistics determines the shooter's position 124 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:43,960 was the top of an alleyway 125 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,600 running between the playground and Bride Street. 126 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,280 It's right by Roman Way, 127 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,640 which one side of it is Pentonville Prison. 128 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:00,880 There's obviously CCTV from the prison walls, 129 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:05,000 and on the estate itself, there may be doorbell cameras. 130 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:09,400 So they're all good places to look for video footage 131 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:13,520 of what may have happened or even pick up some sound. 132 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:17,480 Because, as you know, gunshots are not quiet. 133 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:22,520 Officers go door to door and turn up an early lead. 134 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:26,640 A neighbour's video doorbell has captured audio 135 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,240 of the chilling moment the gunman opened fire. 136 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:32,840 GUNSHOTS 137 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:38,120 So, what you can hear there are 14 rounds 138 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,320 being fired off consecutively. 139 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,760 That would suggest it's either a semi or a fully automatic weapon. 140 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,000 Heart-breaking. 141 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:50,400 And even now, I can't really talk about Keetha, 142 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:53,400 because that's very painful, with the pain she's going through. 143 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:56,960 But that's what they've put us through. 144 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,000 You know? 145 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,480 That's an awful lot of firepower to use. 146 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:06,160 The perpetrator just kept his finger on the trigger, no shout for mercy. 147 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,560 It's just pure and utter execution. 148 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:12,040 There is no other way to describe it. 149 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:13,640 He wanted to make a statement 150 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:15,720 to demonstrate their power and their might. 151 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:19,840 Imani was just a 22-year-old young lad 152 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:21,880 going about his own business. 153 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:23,760 So why have they picked on him? 154 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:39,400 It was just a shock, to be honest. Everything was a shock. 155 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,120 NARRATOR: In North London, tributes build at the scene 156 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:47,480 of 22-year-old Imani Allaway-Muir's tragic murder. 157 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:54,120 Imani was my first-born grandchild. 158 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:55,840 We were very, very close. 159 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:57,920 He was born special. 160 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:03,440 Keetha went into premature labour at 34 weeks. 161 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,840 He was this little tiny baby, like, you could hold him here, 162 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:09,920 and then he just grew fatter and fatter. 163 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:12,840 By the time he was one, he was a tonker. 164 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:18,960 Then he was, like, six foot two and really skinny by the time of 22. 165 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,680 You know? Handsome young man. 166 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:25,600 He was cheeky. A joy, a big joy. 167 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:30,600 This is a bit of a conundrum. 168 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:33,400 It looks like an assassination, an execution, 169 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:34,520 cos that's what it is, 170 00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:36,360 but there's no motive. 171 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:40,240 He was either running away or walking away from the attacker, 172 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:42,760 or actually the attacker was following him, 173 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,360 because all his injuries were on the back of his body. 174 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,320 The police found it really difficult 175 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:49,600 to be able to identify who the offenders were 176 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:51,800 because he had nobody that didn't like him. 177 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:56,320 There was nobody in his life that had a grudge against Imani. 178 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:03,120 In search of answers, detectives retrace Imani's final movements. 179 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,520 Imani was at my house on the Friday. 180 00:10:07,560 --> 00:10:09,920 He used to stay over quite a lot. 181 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:14,120 I've got a special needs daughter, so Imani used to come to the house, 182 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:15,720 playing cards and playing games, 183 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:18,480 he used to really enjoy that interaction. 184 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:20,160 He used to play tricks on me all the time 185 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,720 and have me screaming and shouting at him. 186 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:24,080 Just fits of laughter. 187 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:27,160 His last words to me, "See you later, Nan," you know. 188 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:28,560 Shouted up the stairs. 189 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,360 From his grandma's, Imani travelled home, 190 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,680 stopping by the park to watch the football. 191 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,080 I don't think he was there two minutes before he was killed. 192 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:45,680 The next thing, I get this screaming, horrendous phone call 193 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:46,880 from my daughter. 194 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:54,000 This wasn't just a random attack on somebody. 195 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:57,720 It was a targeted attack. Why did they want to target him? 196 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,840 At the park, CSIs harvest the evidence. 197 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:05,560 The only traces left behind by the shooter 198 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:08,200 are multiple bullets and casings. 199 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:13,040 You would collect them using plastic tweezers, 200 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:16,000 because what you don't want is metal to metal markings. 201 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:19,920 And then they're put into poly pots 202 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:23,320 to stop any movement from happening in transit, 203 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:25,960 because we want to keep them as they were. 204 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:29,560 In a shooting crime scene, 205 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,240 there's often very little evidence at that scene. 206 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:35,200 There's shots that have been fired from a distance away, 207 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:37,160 so there's probably not much 208 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,640 potential trace evidence on your victim. 209 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:43,080 Knowing what sort of weapon might have been used 210 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:44,200 can be really important, 211 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,160 because if we can find the weapon, 212 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:47,800 we might be able to find the offender. 213 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,960 It looks like it's a 9x19mm, 214 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,280 and you can see the markings S and B, 215 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,360 and that will tell you the name of the manufacturer. 216 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:01,880 On cartridge cases, you may also be able to find fingerprints, 217 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,240 because obviously somebody has physically picked them up 218 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:05,440 and put them into the weapon. 219 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,360 You have to start thinking like how an offender would. 220 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:14,360 So, how are bullets loaded into a magazine and a gun? 221 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,120 Most of the time, the bullets are loaded in 222 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:20,000 by pushing the end of the bullet casing. 223 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:23,560 So the best area probably to swab for DNA 224 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:25,400 would be around this ridged area 225 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:27,800 and the actual end of the bullet casing. 226 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:31,200 These areas are not possible to get fingerprints from. 227 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,840 You might get fingerprints from the shaft here, 228 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,080 but again, it's quite a small surface. 229 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:37,880 On a bullet casing this size, 230 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:40,200 I would tend to go for DNA swabbing 231 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:44,080 and hope that the shooter or whoever loaded the magazine 232 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:45,520 is on the DNA database. 233 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:50,040 Testing reveals the shooter is forensically aware 234 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:51,440 and probably wore gloves. 235 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:56,640 But experts are able to identify the make and model of the firearm. 236 00:12:56,680 --> 00:13:01,440 It's a 9mm Glock 19 pistol, commonly used by gangs. 237 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:05,440 We are seeing an increase in gun crime, 238 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:09,080 and we are seeing gang-related incidents occurring in inner cities, 239 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:10,520 and I think, unfortunately, 240 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:15,360 we are going to see more incidents like this in the future. 241 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:17,240 When you're thinking about particular groups 242 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:18,560 involved in criminality 243 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:20,880 that are trying to protect that territory, 244 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:22,240 they will use any means. 245 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:25,480 Extreme violence is something that they need to do 246 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:28,520 to demonstrate that nobody can't mess with them. 247 00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:31,000 That's the message that they want to send. 248 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:35,120 The big thing for me is the signpost, the motive, 249 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:37,160 and once you know what the signpost is, 250 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:40,680 you're on your way to getting some... 251 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:43,560 ..explanation for what's happened. 252 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,800 We'll be looking at the lifestyle of Imani. 253 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:51,880 Police cordon off Imani's home, 254 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,600 looking for any possible connection to the shooter. 255 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:58,440 They had to go through the whole house, you know. 256 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:01,160 Then they had to come to my house, cos he'd stayed at my house, 257 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,960 and they just would not let Keetha into the property at all 258 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,400 to get anything. 259 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:10,880 Keetha just ran out, like, with just a t-shirt and trousers, 260 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,400 and the police said we're not allowed into the house. 261 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:16,680 Obviously, they need to search things, 262 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:18,880 cos that's the protocol of what they do, apparently. 263 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:21,360 And then there was just... 264 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:24,640 She screamed outside there that all she wanted was her baby. 265 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:29,920 Police will do whatever they can 266 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,760 to be empathetic as possible in the circumstances, 267 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,200 and most SIOs... 268 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:39,280 ..speak to the family 269 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,160 through the FLO, the family liaison officer. 270 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,840 You're treading a very fine line. 271 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:50,080 You wanna catch the perpetrators, but... 272 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:52,240 you have to respect the wishes of the family. 273 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:56,800 Police find nothing to lead them to Imani's killer. 274 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:00,840 The police investigated cos that's part of what their job is. 275 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,040 Because otherwise, if they don't do that, 276 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:06,720 when it comes to trial, the defence can say, 277 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,320 "The victim of this was a criminal." 278 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:14,520 I can say categorically, Imani wasn't a criminal at all. 279 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:17,200 He's certainly not a member of any gang. 280 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:22,720 Obviously, there's nothing to find, cos it's nothing to do with Imani. 281 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:25,680 Cos he was innocent amongst all this. 282 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:30,680 Imani was part of a close-knit family. 283 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:34,960 That was his favourite time, all the family being together. 284 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:36,960 So, we're quite a close family. 285 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,200 So, we do everything together, really. 286 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,120 He wanted us always to have a party. 287 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:45,920 He loved all the new babies that came into the family. 288 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:49,560 All the pictures, you always see Imani cradling a baby. 289 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:52,160 And then when he had his first little baby sister, 290 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:54,520 he was definitely the big brother, 291 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,080 and he would carry her everywhere and do everything with her. 292 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:58,120 He adored her. 293 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:00,040 Very, very protective. 294 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:06,160 Imani aspired to work as a mentor to children with additional needs, 295 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,720 volunteering twice a week at a local youth centre. 296 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:13,120 He was amazing with children. He's just had a soft side of him. 297 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,280 He had Asperger's and ADHD 298 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:18,480 and he was dyslexic, 299 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:20,480 so he did struggle when he was younger. 300 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:23,040 I've always been proud of Imani, 301 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,920 because he's had his obstacles, obviously, over the years, 302 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:29,160 with his trying to cope with his own disability. 303 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,920 But yeah, always proud of Mans. 304 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:36,200 In need of a forensic breakthrough, 305 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:40,440 CSIs examine the bullets and casings for unique markings. 306 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,120 I'm now going to look at the end with a magnifying glass. 307 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:48,280 DR HEWINS: The other things that you can find on cartridge cases 308 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:50,440 and potentially on bullets are tool marks. 309 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:54,040 You can also get some markings on the outside of the cartridge case 310 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:56,440 and striation marks on the bullet as well. 311 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:59,080 Now, striation marks have individual characteristics. 312 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,120 That means there's something really quite unique 313 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:02,160 about the markings on it. 314 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,640 We may be able then to relate it back to a specific firearm. 315 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:08,960 You're looking for any marks or damage or anything unusual 316 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,480 on the end this bullet casing. 317 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,080 So, you can see where the bullet's been fired. 318 00:17:15,120 --> 00:17:17,920 You can also see that there's a little bit of damage 319 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:22,480 which may be replicated from the firing pin of the gun. 320 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:25,840 They can be uploaded onto the database, which... 321 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,960 In the UK we use IBIS, which would potentially allow us 322 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,360 to see if the perpetrator has used that weapon 323 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,600 in any other instance in the last ten or more years. 324 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:38,480 Using 3D microscopy, 325 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:41,680 investigators photograph the bullets and casings 326 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:45,480 and upload them to IBIS, to compare their unique marks 327 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,680 against other known firearm incidents, 328 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:50,600 but the system draws a blank. 329 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:53,880 Sometimes, it's just irretrievable. 330 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:55,920 So you end up almost with a ghost gun 331 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:58,120 that you can't ascertain where it's originated from. 332 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:01,200 SARAH THIRKELL: It can be really frustrating in an investigation 333 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:03,720 if you have a really important piece of evidence 334 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:05,560 and it's not matched on the database. 335 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,360 You've got a killer on the loose that might strike again, 336 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,160 and you've got no way of identifying who that person is. 337 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:15,280 A Section 60 order is put in place 338 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:18,960 across the entirety of Islington and Camden, 339 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,720 granting police additional stop and search powers. 340 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:24,400 Police are concerned 341 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:26,880 that there might be repercussions in the area 342 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,080 or there might be a further targeted attack. 343 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:34,240 Having a Section 60 will help the police 344 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:38,000 in hopefully trying to identify if anyone has any weapons. 345 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,560 If we find a weapon and potentially find a gun, 346 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,520 we might be able to link that back to our deceased. 347 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:50,040 They would have put out extra patrols around the estate, you know, 348 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,760 local officers speaking to members of the public to reassure them. 349 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:57,840 Having lived in Islington his whole life, 350 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:02,200 Imani's senseless death rocks the local community. 351 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,280 Everyone was devastated. Everyone knew Imani from the area. 352 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:07,800 Yeah, we had a lot of support. 353 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:11,280 He was part of a really close-knit community, 354 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,720 so it can be extremely traumatic, not only for the family members, 355 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,480 but also for his friends and neighbours, 356 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:19,360 to see what's happened. 357 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:24,000 CRAIG PINKNEY: It hurts when a member of the community gets killed. 358 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:27,720 Incidents like this send shockwaves through every single household. 359 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:29,480 You've got many parents that are thinking, 360 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:31,200 "Could this be my child next?" 361 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:35,560 Everyone was amazing. 362 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:37,640 And everybody just came forward, 363 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,360 as much information that they could give to the police. 364 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:45,080 When the police commence a homicide investigation, 365 00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:47,560 they look at intelligence that they can glean 366 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:49,480 from speaking to the local community 367 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:51,960 cos a lot of people will come forward. 368 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,440 People don't like people getting murdered on their doorsteps. 369 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:00,200 Witnesses report seeing several men flee the scene, 370 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:03,600 including one on a motorbike. 371 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,560 But with no clues to why Imani was targeted, 372 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,360 the team needs a forensic breakthrough. 373 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:12,640 At the park, searches continue for the gun. 374 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,640 So, there's obviously that element of danger 375 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,960 because if there's a potential firearm on the scene, 376 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,760 it may need to be made safe. 377 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,360 SARAH THIRKELL: You'd always look under the vehicles, 378 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,320 in bushes, on the ground. 379 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:26,160 You could also consider getting a police dog 380 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,080 that specialises in searching for weapons. 381 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,880 They'll do a search of ways in and ways out, 382 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,880 in case someone's discarded a gun or they may have hidden it. 383 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,360 Finding nothing at ground level, 384 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:43,800 they exhaust all avenues in search of a much-needed lead. 385 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,320 They'll even look in guttering around 386 00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:49,480 cos people have been known to throw stuff onto roofs. 387 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,800 Drains are searched by police search teams. 388 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:55,400 Searching a drain can be a particularly messy job 389 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:58,600 because there's a lot of debris that falls down into a drain. 390 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:02,400 So finding an item in a drain can be covered in quite a lot of gunk, 391 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,080 which then can obviously be detrimental 392 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:08,680 to any fingerprints or DNA evidence that might be on that item. 393 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,640 If necessary, they will call the local council 394 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,360 to suck up any water that might have been there 395 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,960 and lo and behold, they found a mobile phone. 396 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,840 This wasn't covered in dirt. 397 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:25,760 That tended to suggest that phone's been placed there quite recently. 398 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,960 The question is, is that phone linked to this incident? 399 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,200 This is another piece of the jigsaw. 400 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:37,440 It would be quite interesting to see 401 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,920 if there's any fingerprints on this phone. 402 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,160 The powder that I'm gonna use on this surface 403 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,080 cos it's smooth and shiny is aluminium powder. 404 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:50,400 Aluminium powder is really fine. It's the go-to powder of most CSIs. 405 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:54,760 OK. 406 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,440 And there's some very clear fingerprints on that surface. 407 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:02,680 Right, so we use some lifting tape to get the marks off here, 408 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,720 and then you just slowly rub the tape down onto the surface 409 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:08,240 and then pull it off. 410 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,160 And then the fingerprint is actually on this tape. 411 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,840 Digital experts also trace the phone's owner. 412 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:26,360 It's found to be registered to a local man, 413 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,280 35-year-old Demetrios Kyriacou. 414 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:33,680 A police database check reveals 415 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,120 that just two hours before Imani's murder... 416 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:39,200 ..a crime report was filed 417 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:43,480 after a witness saw Kyriacou being violently robbed by masked men. 418 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,400 He had been robbed in Carville Street, 419 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,760 which isn't that far away from the scene. 420 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:55,520 The phones in the drain were the proceeds of that robbery. 421 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,760 It kind of makes you think that it may well be linked. 422 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,520 I learned something as a young detective, 423 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,880 and that is presume nothing, check everything. 424 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,280 Police head to Kyriacou's address. 425 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,600 He tells them the men also stole his Rolex watch. 426 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,880 Police asked if he knew the people that had done it, 427 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:17,080 and he said he didn't. 428 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:20,480 He refused to really assist the police 429 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,440 with any sort of investigation, and said he didn't wanna know. 430 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,240 Now, that's suspicious in itself. 431 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,640 Most law-abiding people would wanna know. 432 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:31,560 He becomes a person of interest. 433 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,200 NARRATOR: Police searching for the killer 434 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,600 of aspiring youth worker Imani Allaway-Muir 435 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,520 are profiling Demetrios Kyriacou 436 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:56,560 after recovering his stolen phone inside a drain at the crime scene. 437 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:00,400 Intelligence finds he has a history 438 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,240 of supplying large amounts of cannabis and cocaine 439 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:04,600 to drug dealers. 440 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,240 We're talking about inner city London 441 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:11,800 and areas within London 442 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,600 where you may see activity as it relates to drug dealing. 443 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,040 You may see some activity where individuals are in beef 444 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:22,480 and conflict with each other over territory, over postcodes. 445 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,960 Drug dealers get robbed by other people 446 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,440 because they know they have access to cash and drugs, 447 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,080 and that's exactly what I think happened in this case. 448 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,200 Clearly, there's some sort of gangland feud here. 449 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,200 With the stolen phone their only remaining lead from the crime scene, 450 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,760 detectives need to determine 451 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,480 if Kyriacou is linked to Imani's murder. 452 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:52,200 But as investigations begin, the lack of any solid leads 453 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,800 sees some media draw their own conclusions. 454 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,640 It was put out there that a man in the morning... 455 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,960 ..was robbed of his Rolex, 456 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,800 and kind of portrayed that this young Black boy had done it 457 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:07,880 and he's got shot. 458 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:11,400 Headlines which are so far from the facts, it's unbelievable. 459 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:12,640 He's on his way home. 460 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:14,720 He doesn't want anything to do with it. 461 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:18,640 He's an upstanding young man, and they've sullied his reputation 462 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:19,920 in front of his family 463 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,600 when they're trying to remember him in the best possible light. 464 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:23,720 It's unforgivable. 465 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:27,920 We were very upset about it. 466 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,000 It was kind of portrayed that he deserves it 467 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,360 because he shouldn't have robbed, you know, the watch. 468 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:35,680 But he had nothing to do with anything. 469 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,400 The impact of sensational stories 470 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:42,640 really just exacerbates this idea about race, 471 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:44,520 that when we have these conversations - 472 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:49,160 typical scenario, young Black male, victim of gun violence - 473 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:54,480 it's very easy for people to point the finger and make the assumption 474 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:58,800 that the young Black male that was the victim was involved in things. 475 00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:01,000 He didn't do the robbery, 476 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,960 cos he was coming home from my end to North London, 477 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,360 and the police could track the whole of his journey over 478 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,720 and where he'd went that day, cos of CCTV around the area. 479 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,200 It's always young Black boys and their lives don't matter. 480 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,720 We kept trying to get it changed, 481 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,920 that Imani's got nothing to do with it. 482 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,280 But police are convinced Kyriacou's involved. 483 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,480 He's lied about having his Rolex stolen 484 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,960 to cover up that they took his drugs and his phone 485 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,960 with the numbers of his buyers. 486 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:35,600 They can't really get to the root of the murder. 487 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,000 There's lots of circumstantial evidence... 488 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:41,240 ..pointing to him as a person of interest. 489 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,360 With Kyriacou refusing to talk, 490 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,440 investigators look into his movements 491 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,080 at the time of Imani's murder. 492 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,360 Digital forensics these days 493 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,080 is one of the main lines of inquiry in any major incident. 494 00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:58,040 You leave a footprint wherever you go. 495 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,240 Once you have a mobile phone and have the cell site data, 496 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:02,760 you can map out their network. 497 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:07,560 But it's not overnight. It'll take maybe weeks. 498 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,760 It's no point just having data. 499 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:14,600 You need to be able to understand it and interpret it. 500 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:19,240 Police also hunt down Kyriacou's attackers. 501 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,880 They were driving a black BMW. 502 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,160 It's really important for police to try and track that vehicle. 503 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,280 There may be vital forensic evidence inside that vehicle 504 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,640 that will help with the police investigation. 505 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,680 Using ANPR and CCTV, 506 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,560 police follow the car's movements after the robbery. 507 00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:43,560 And that car turned out to be stolen. 508 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:47,160 The car travels south towards the Westbourne Estate 509 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,200 and parks up close to the murder scene. 510 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,720 Now, call me old-fashioned, but I don't believe in coincidences. 511 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,880 The police treated that as a secondary murder scene. 512 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,800 The vehicle is always taken away to a garage 513 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,600 so it can be examined in a clean, dry environment. 514 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,840 This helps to preserve any evidence. 515 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,160 You check the boot of the vehicle, 516 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,480 the glove box, any hiding places within that car. 517 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:22,640 The CSIs will be looking for any fingerprint and DNA evidence. 518 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,320 You could also be looking for potential fibre evidence 519 00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:26,960 on the vehicle car seats. 520 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,880 The fact that the vehicle's been stolen 521 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,440 means that there's a huge amount of evidence in that vehicle 522 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,320 that may not be related to any incident at all. 523 00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:39,680 There may be a lot of innocent persons' fingerprints 524 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,280 and DNA and detritus within that car 525 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,960 that's not relevant to any police investigation. 526 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,840 Eight weeks on from his tragic murder, 527 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:01,520 200 people come together to celebrate Imani's life. 528 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,080 PAULINE ALLAWAY: It was a beautiful send-off for Imani, 529 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:06,800 a very sad send-off. 530 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:13,000 Everyone came to the house, and we had Imani's body brought out, 531 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,080 outside the flat from the carriage, 532 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,520 and so everyone could be around and see him and touch him. 533 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:27,200 There were hundreds of people there from the local community, 534 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,320 from the local estate, friends and family. 535 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:33,760 This had far-reaching consequence. 536 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,040 We all marched from there 537 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,800 to the local church and had the service, 538 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,760 and then we went up to the cemetery. 539 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,480 Knowing that he's never coming back, it's like the final... 540 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,480 ..erm, terrible, heartbreaking. 541 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,240 Just miss him every day. 542 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,280 Still talk to him like he's still coming home. 543 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:01,720 My blessed grandson. 544 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,840 Determined to get justice for Imani's family, 545 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:17,800 suspicions about Demetrios Kyriacou's involvement are growing. 546 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,160 Digital experts combing through his phone data have found 547 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,240 that in the seconds after he was robbed, 548 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,440 he contacted several associates - 549 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,640 one of his cocaine suppliers, James Nicholson, 550 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,800 Darren Dredge, a cannabis dealer, 551 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,960 Matthew Hardy, a lower-ranking foot soldier, 552 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,680 and Nathaniel Reece, 553 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:44,760 who has 35 prior drugs and burglary convictions. 554 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:46,840 Over the next hour, 555 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,920 the men gather at Kyriacou's address on the Six Acres Estate. 556 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:53,320 They all met up, 557 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:57,000 which is supported by digital communications 558 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,400 from their mobile phones. 559 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,560 They're all cell-sited in the same area. 560 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,760 Suspecting they're plotting something, 561 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,720 experts make a sinister discovery. 562 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:13,800 At 2:34pm, Kyriacou uses an app to locate his stolen phone. 563 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:19,120 He's turned on Find My Phone, tracked his own phone. 564 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,800 Using the app, the men zero in on the play area 565 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:25,680 on the Westbourne Estate. 566 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:28,800 Now we have a possible motive, 567 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:33,480 the motive being... revenge for a robbery. 568 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,800 Revenge attacks are simple. 569 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,040 You hit me, I hit you. 570 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,720 You disrespect me, I disrespect you back. 571 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,840 We're talking about status here. 572 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:47,920 It's the fact that an individual feels that he's shamed. 573 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,880 They want to go back at the quickest moment 574 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,800 to make individuals know that they can't be messed with 575 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,280 and this can't happen again. 576 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,440 And then it becomes a spiral of violence. 577 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,240 Having located his stolen phone, 578 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,680 15 minutes later, the men are on the move. 579 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,880 Hardy, Dredge and Nicholson head towards the Westbourne Estate, 580 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,760 parking up near to where the stolen phone has been located. 581 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,800 Reece and Kyriacou travel in the opposite direction, 582 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:21,240 towards Stroud Green. 583 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,920 Police suspect it's here they picked up the gun from an associate. 584 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:27,760 Minutes later, 585 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:32,240 phone data shows Reece and Kyriacou are back on the road. 586 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,560 ANPR shows them going into the Westbourne Estate. 587 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:39,440 CCTV footage supports that. 588 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:43,800 With Dredge, Hardy and Nicholson in position as lookouts, 589 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,440 Imani enters the play area. 590 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:51,080 Seconds later, Kyriacou and Reece park up on Bride Street. 591 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:54,400 As Imani stops to watch the football, 592 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,040 the men see the black car that was used in the robbery. 593 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,840 See the black BMW, put two and two together. 594 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,000 The scouts spot the men who committed the robbery 595 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:06,440 in the play area. 596 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,240 On the warpath, Kyriacou and Reece head down the alleyway. 597 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,480 They see Imani and wrongly assume he's involved. 598 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,400 DISTORTED GUNSHOTS 599 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,240 They shoot an innocent boy. 600 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:27,480 It was a young man in the wrong place at the wrong time, 601 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,600 who had his life cruelly taken from him. 602 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:37,000 That was very difficult, knowing Imani was a mistaken identity 603 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:41,080 and he was innocent, and all of this is for nothing... 604 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,960 ..you know, and his life mattered, especially to us. 605 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:48,360 It's very rare to hear innocent people 606 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,360 getting caught up in a crossfire as it relates to gangs. 607 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,840 But let's think about it in terms of proximity. 608 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:58,560 When those beef and conflicts spill out into the wider community, 609 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,600 that's when we start to see the ripple effect of violence. 610 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,680 And unfortunately, the young man, Imani, 611 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,760 that was there at that particular time 612 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:11,160 felt the brute force of the anger that came from those individuals. 613 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,880 DR HEWINS: Absolutely devastating, particularly someone so young. 614 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,720 It's an absolute travesty. 615 00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:21,840 Having somebody open fire 616 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,160 where there's potentially a high number of children 617 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,720 really does show something about the perpetrator in question, 618 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:31,120 their morals and their lack of care and compassion for others. 619 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:36,280 The five men are arrested on suspicion of murder. 620 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:40,360 The digital evidence putting them on the spot is pretty damning. 621 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,720 The suspects were in constant communication with each other, 622 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,160 prior to and post the offence occurring. 623 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:48,360 That is a conspiracy, 624 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:52,360 in as much that it was a common goal to commit that murder. 625 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,280 All deny having anything to do with Imani's murder. 626 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,600 They claim they only met up to check Kyriacou was OK 627 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,880 after being robbed before going out to deal drugs. 628 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,040 The team still needs evidence that proves beyond doubt 629 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:13,280 that they arrived at the scene armed and intending to kill. 630 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:19,600 Murder investigations go up to the day the prosecution ends. 631 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,320 You can still dig up evidence. 632 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,640 Having so many offenders on a case like this 633 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:25,600 is a huge amount of evidence. 634 00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,200 There's a huge amount of cross-referencing 635 00:35:28,240 --> 00:35:31,120 between the offenders, who did what, when did they do it, 636 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,320 corroborating their stories, any mobile phone downloads. 637 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,880 So having more than one offender at a crime scene, that's a big job. 638 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,480 Police secure warrants to search the men's addresses. 639 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:46,120 At Kyriacou's, several mobile phones are seized. 640 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,400 When digital forensics interpret one of the mobile phones, 641 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,080 they find an image in the photographs. 642 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:57,560 It's a huge piece of evidence, and if you put it all together, 643 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:02,480 it's starting to show that he was the catalyst for all this. 644 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,640 Motives are a number of things. 645 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:09,600 Can be monetary, power, territory, and in this case, it's revenge. 646 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:26,120 They found a photograph of what they believed to be the murder weapon. 647 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:27,800 He'd taken a photograph of it. 648 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,480 Having the forensic scientist look at that photograph 649 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:31,640 would help them to identify 650 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:33,720 if that was potentially the gun that was used. 651 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:38,640 The photograph does appear to be a semi-automatic 9mm calibre pistol, 652 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:42,640 and the cartridge retrieved from the incident was also a 9mm 653 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:44,720 and has the right sort of firing pin mark. 654 00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,600 The firearms expert actually said, 655 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,920 as did the pathologist, having seen the gunshot wounds, 656 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:55,440 that is likely the type of gun that would have been used to shoot Imani. 657 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,560 It must be quite frustrating in this investigation 658 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,000 to never find the weapon, 659 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,840 and almost finding the photograph is second best. 660 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,120 You imagine that evidence in front of a jury? 661 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:06,520 It is very powerful. 662 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:14,160 Kyriacou insists the gun isn't his and wasn't used to kill Imani. 663 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:17,920 But in an ID parade, 664 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:21,680 witnesses from the scene identify Nathaniel Reece 665 00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:23,880 as the angry man with the black gun. 666 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:26,360 This is an individual 667 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,720 that has been living a particular lifestyle for many, many years 668 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,360 and would have built a particular reputation. 669 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:36,200 These behaviours of criminality, violence, 670 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:37,760 would have desensitised him. 671 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,360 Empathy and sympathy towards victims 672 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,480 would have been something that would have been pushed to the side. 673 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:47,720 All five men are charged with murder. 674 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:49,600 WOMAN ON LOUD-HAILER: No justice, no peace. 675 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:51,520 ALL: No justice, no peace. 676 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:52,920 What do we want? Justice. 677 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:54,440 Who for? Imani. 678 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:55,760 What do we want? Justice. 679 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:57,240 Who for? Imani. 680 00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,000 What do we want? Justice. 681 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,400 We had a march to the Old Bailey, 682 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,480 screaming out "Justice for Imani" 683 00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,360 cos we wanted to make sure the perpetrators all got caught 684 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:07,760 and would go away. 685 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:11,840 That was our aim and our fight for Mani. 686 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,800 The trial was very long-winded. 687 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:22,800 I had to be there every day to know exactly what happened. 688 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:24,480 It was hard to face them. 689 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,800 Some days, you didn't want to look at them, 690 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:28,800 but you needed to see them 691 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,720 and stare them in the eye and let them know your pain. 692 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,320 The prosecution sets out the evidence 693 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,480 showing how Imani's tragic death unfolded. 694 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:39,720 DISTORTED GUNSHOTS 695 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,120 The echoing of the bullets round the courtroom. 696 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,680 I could hear Keetha, like, breathing... and, erm... 697 00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:51,920 trying to hold back her tears and all that. 698 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,040 It was very difficult. 699 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,360 We were told that she has to move herself 700 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:59,080 because she might sway the jury by being upset. 701 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,080 You weren't allowed to show any emotions. 702 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:04,520 So it made you very angry. 703 00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:09,680 The men continue to claim they're not Imani's killers, 704 00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:12,360 but on the second day of the trial... 705 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,120 ..Reece makes a dramatic U-turn, 706 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,680 pleading guilty to pulling the trigger. 707 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:25,720 I've only ever had one murderer plead guilty in my entire career, 708 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,480 and I've investigated loads of murders. 709 00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:34,720 He was so disgusted, knowing he shot an innocent young boy. 710 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,520 Kyriacou's defence team insists he didn't know he was armed. 711 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:45,000 He claims the photo on his phone is of a firearm belonging to Reece. 712 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:50,760 But the data shows it was taken three weeks before Imani's murder, 713 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,440 when Reece wasn't with him. 714 00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,240 So to the jury, you can prove that he's a liar, 715 00:39:56,280 --> 00:40:00,120 that his account or his narrative can't be relied upon. 716 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:04,000 Offenders are aware of DNA and fingerprints. 717 00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,400 You cannot live in this world now 718 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,720 without leaving some kind of digital footprint. 719 00:40:10,720 --> 00:40:15,040 Kyriacou is also found guilty of Imani's murder. 720 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:19,120 His motive for this was revenge and hate. 721 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:20,640 Little doubt about that at all, 722 00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,520 and in fact, the judge alluded to that in his summing up. 723 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:28,840 Dredge, Hardy and Nicholson are convicted of manslaughter. 724 00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:31,720 Ahead of sentencing, 725 00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:36,360 Keetha describes the catastrophic impact of losing Imani. 726 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,200 The day you took Imani, 727 00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:41,320 you not only destroyed his life, but that of four children. 728 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:44,600 My children lost their brother, but also lost their mum, 729 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:47,160 a mum who was once filled with such happiness and joy, 730 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:51,800 and now to just see me crying, sad, lost and yearning for my son. 731 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,880 My little girl thinks it's a normal thing to do 732 00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:56,120 to be in a cemetery every day, 733 00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:59,360 as she was only one when Imani was murdered. 734 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,760 The pain we feel is unimaginable. 735 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,000 Imani was the glue to our family and loved by so many. 736 00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:08,280 We did not choose this path of darkness and sorrow, 737 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,240 where every cell in your body aches. 738 00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,080 The fourth of July will haunt me for the rest of my life. 739 00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:15,160 Every time I close my eyes, 740 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,960 all I see is my son's lifeless body covered in blood. 741 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:23,680 The panic, fear and pain my poor child must have gone through. 742 00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:25,280 I know by the route he had run 743 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,200 he was trying to make his way home to me. 744 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:30,560 Until you have lost a child, 745 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,360 you will never understand how hard and painful a trial is 746 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,360 to sit through and remain composed, 747 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:40,960 to see graphic photos of my son and hear of his final moments 748 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:42,480 and expected to show no emotion, 749 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,720 when every day I was just screaming inside, 750 00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,880 having to hear my son's name being called by so many people 751 00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,080 who had never even met him or knew him. 752 00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,640 To them, he was just another murder case, 753 00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:56,360 just another job to attend. 754 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,440 Imani is my baby. 755 00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:02,080 I feel none of the eight defendants showed any remorse or compassion 756 00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:05,000 for Imani, myself or his family, 757 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,840 despite them knowing Imani was not responsible 758 00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:10,400 for any part of the robbery that took place. 759 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:14,120 Losing Imani has affected me in so many ways as a woman, 760 00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:15,800 a mother and a human being. 761 00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:19,920 Most days, I barely recognise myself. 762 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,760 My son should be here. 763 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:23,480 Imani loved life so much. 764 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,040 I will never get to see my son have children, 765 00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,160 a wife, a career. 766 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,760 I feel as though I have been handed the life sentence, not them. 767 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,360 Imani will be forever missed, loved and remembered, 768 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,480 and our hearts will be forever broken 769 00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,400 until we are back with our precious Imani. 770 00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,560 I love you, my son. 771 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,360 Following Keetha's powerful statement, 772 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:55,240 Reece asks for no reduction to his sentence for pleading guilty. 773 00:42:57,720 --> 00:43:03,720 I think he realised what an evil thing he'd actually done. 774 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,400 They actually felt Keetha's pain. 775 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:12,600 Reece and Kyriacou are sentenced to 33 and 31 years 776 00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:14,960 for murder and supplying drugs. 777 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,040 Dredge and Hardy are found guilty of manslaughter 778 00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:20,520 for acting as scouts. 779 00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:23,720 They're sentenced to ten and seven-and-a-half years. 780 00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:30,320 Nicholson is sentenced to 13 years for getting rid of the gun. 781 00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:44,080 Everyone loved Imani, everyone. 782 00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,120 You can see the people that come up to the cemetery 783 00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:47,880 on special occasions. 784 00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:52,120 We all have our birthdays up there. We always cut a cake with Imani. 785 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:55,320 So he's part of it, and when a new baby's born, 786 00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,880 the baby's taken up there, have a picture with him, 787 00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,600 you know, because that's what he always wanted, was a child. 788 00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,760 He really wanted to be a father. 789 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:09,840 And he got robbed of that... 790 00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:11,680 robbed of everything that he wanted to do. 791 00:44:11,720 --> 00:44:15,480 Wanted to travel, pass his driving test. 792 00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:18,920 But his main thing was to be a father. 793 00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:21,560 Just miss him every day. 794 00:44:23,720 --> 00:44:26,920 We talk about him all the time at home. 795 00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,280 What laughs we used to have, and the joy we had with him. 796 00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,480 That's Imani. Beautiful soul.