Criminal Record

Hi, it's Sonya. Leave a message and I'll get back to you.

Sonya, it's me. Again.

Just pick up, please.

For Christ's sake.

I wouldn't do that if I were you.

That'll be the eighth floor after you over this leak.

What? I didn't leak the call.

Why would I deliberately put a vulnerable person in harm's way?

- Okay. - Well, it was your investigation.

- They should be coming after you. - They will.

They will do, if this gets away from us.

- Jesus. - Which it's bound to.

- Right. - If they don't shut it down.

That's not really how Twitter works, actually, so...

You know, maybe I should talk to them.

Just tell them-- To tell them everything, everything I know.

- And maybe that's not a bad idea. - Sure.

Yeah. Because people have a right to the evidence, you know.

All of it. Wherever it goes.

Yeah? So, what about that confession?

"Throat." "Chest." What about that?

You can say I led or coerced the suspect,

but the evidence against him was overwhelming.

I took him back to his flat. He confessed.

He had an alibi.

- Barbershop guy? Seriously? - Mostapha Demir.

Yeah, but he flew back off to Istanbul.

London, actually. I met him. He thinks it was Errol that he saw.

Well, why didn't he come and talk to us? Why didn't he speak out?

Do you really have to ask that?

Can't you see that big fucking stick in your hand?

He was scared. He was scared of people like you.

You understand that it's just a matter of time

before that caller's boyfriend finds out what she's been saying about him.

And when he does, God knows what he's gonna do to her.

- I know. - That's if he hasn't killed her already.

And the one thing that you could do...

is to think to yourself, "What if I was wrong?

What if it wasn't Errol? And if not him, then who?"

You think I don't question my own actions?

Absolutely I do!

Every day!

I'm my own fucking worst enemy.

Yeah? I wouldn't bet on that.

Wait!

Fine, why not?

I'll walk you through the evidence.

I've got nothing to hide.

That's the spirit.

Toxicology. Path report.

Neighbors. Residents.

Who else was in the Towers. Any prior arrests.

Anyone in the system. Here.

And what about DV? History of violence?

Yeah, there were one or two of those in the Tower. It's all there.

Trace, interview, eliminate. Witness statements.

All alibis cleared. Go ahead. Take a look. Take your time.

What about Clive Silcox?

Silcox. What about him?

Well, he had a history of violence. So why isn't he in this file?

He wasn't in the Towers.

But he was in the neighborhood.

Lake Street. I know.

- Did you interview him? - No. Here's what we did.

Anybody in the neighborhood with a history of violence,

we ran DNA and prints against the crime scene.

- And? - No hits. No overlaps.

- Not Silcox? - Not anyone. Nobody.

Okay, all right. Let's turn this on its head.

- What about the crime scene? - The crime scene?

Yeah. The crime scene. What do you fancy?

CSI, first findings,

summary reports?

And again.

Follow-up reports.

- Much as you like. - But did you find much DNA at the flat?

Errol was doing haircuts in the kitchen, cash in hand.

So, he had people coming in and out all the time.

So, yeah. And also, we had our fill of prints.

Did Errol keep a record of his clients?

Yes. In his head.

Regular clients. Names, first names, nicknames, we followed them up.

Yeah, but-- Wait.

If there were strangers coming in and out of the flat

and they had priors, their DNA would have been flagged on the database, yeah?

Yeah, DNA.

Priors in the flat, we looked them up.

And you know the drill, trace, interview--

Eliminate. Yeah. So where is it? Where is that list?

It's here.

The list is here somewhere.

There you go. Fill your boots.

Claudia. I have to take this.

We went through all of this yesterday.

Anyone with a criminal history, we've cleared 'em. We've got our man.

Well, how about I double your fee?

Yeah.

- Right, where are you? - My place.

No, you stay there. I'll come to you.

He's at home.

Okay.

Fifty points if you clip her.

Hello, love. What can we do for you?

- Where are you going? - I'm sorry?

I'm sorry, there's no time.

Fine. Then I'll take my chances with the eighth floor.

Kim, drop her a pin. We'll meet you there.

Okay.

Listen, I'm sure it's a coincidence. I mean, it looks a bit off, I grant you.

- Tony didn't say anything at the time? - Not a word.

No, "This guy's alibi's not safe," you know? "You wanna look the other way.

- Help me out?" - No, mate. Word of honor.

I wouldn't do that to you.

- I wouldn't go behind your back. - He was in the victim's flat.

Yeah, his prints were. Yeah, what does that mean?

He was there. It doesn't say when he was.

Right. Yeah. Here we go.

I met him. I interviewed him 14:30,

- 21st of the ninth, 2011. - And?

Subject confirms that he was in the victim's--

Adelaide's flat weeks before.

There you go. June of that year. Came in for a haircut.

Alibi? Alibi for the murder. Yes, or no?

Yeah.

Subject said that he was at home with his wife at the time.

- Yeah? - She was in a dispute of some kind.

She pranged someone's car. Insurers notified police.

Right, yeah. So you did what?

So, I flagged it unsafe, the alibi. I pushed back on it.

Next day, Tony visits subject, interviews him a second time, and...

Yeah. Subject cleared from inquiry.

But you just said that she wasn't at home.

I know.

But you know Tony. He's a soldier.

He's a straight bat. He wouldn't--

He wouldn't let us down.

I've got this.

Yes?

Is Stefan about?

And you are?

- Daniel. - Right, yes.

He said for you to wait outside in the back garden.

And I'll bring you some tea.

- Tea? - He won't be long.

Thank you.

Mrs. Ash. Mrs. Ash!

Are you all right? Has he hurt you?

No, I'm fine. I'll be all right in a minute. I just--

- DCI Hegarty? - Katrina, yeah. I need a paramedic.

61 Belmont Drive, Chelmsford. Domestic battery.

- Okay, copy that. - Yeah, thank you.

Mrs. Ash, where is he?

- Where is your husband? Mrs. Ash. - I don't know.

He just said to sit you down, and...

and keep you here as long as possible. So, I've been just sitting off.

Stefan Ash?

- I know him. He's an informant. - For you?

Sure, yeah, the past four or five years.

But not back then. Back then he was with Tony.

He ran the machines. The fruit machines, you know, in bars and snooker halls.

And while he was there, he used to do loans.

Cash in hand, no questions asked.

Plowed all the money back into property, buy-to-lets.

The point is, he gets to know people.

So, I took him on once Tony got sick.

Protegido.

"Protegido?"

Yeah, the Hayes Lane caller, she said the guy was protected.

- You spoke to her? - Yeah.

And when she first said that, I kept thinking,

"You know, maybe, you know..."

Police.

But if he's an informant, he thinks he's untouchable.

So it makes sense.

Okay, these properties, I mean--

- How many are we talking about? - Dozens.

- Were any up at the Towers? - Yeah.

So at the time that Adelaide died,

whose name would the flats have come up in?

- His or the tenants? - Tenants.

Ash could've come and gone as he pleased. We wouldn't have followed him necessarily.

Who else knew about this, about Ash?

Tony, that's all.

What about him?

Kim? No. I would trust him with my life.

- Well, you trusted Tony. - Hey, boss. Right, what's the plan?

Get me the addresses for all the buy-to-lets,

any properties owned in the name of Ash or his wife,

or any limited companies where he's co-director.

Okay, I'll pull together a task force.

- Keep it small. In-house. - On it.

Shit.

- What? - It's the leak.

It's taking off. It's everywhere.

I've got a lot of angry people wanting to talk about it.

We've got Marvin from Poplar on the line. Go ahead, Marvin.

Nah. I'm done with the police, man.

They keep saying they're getting better, but they're not. They say they have--

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They keep saying they're learning, but they're not.