1 00:00:13,931 --> 00:00:16,309 [microphone feedback] 2 00:00:16,392 --> 00:00:18,352 [interviewer] If your mum was here now, 3 00:00:20,063 --> 00:00:22,982 what message would you want to give to her? 4 00:00:23,066 --> 00:00:25,735 -Like, "Mum, if you're listening…" Or…? -[interviewer] Yes. 5 00:00:25,818 --> 00:00:27,820 [gentle music playing] 6 00:00:28,404 --> 00:00:30,281 [interviewer] Imagine the camera is your mum. 7 00:00:31,616 --> 00:00:32,658 [clears throat] 8 00:00:34,452 --> 00:00:36,204 Mum, if you are watching this, 9 00:00:38,915 --> 00:00:41,209 you should know that, no matter what happens, 10 00:00:42,877 --> 00:00:45,379 we will always be there for you. 11 00:00:46,798 --> 00:00:49,175 [interviewer] What do you want your mum to do? 12 00:00:53,721 --> 00:00:55,056 I don't know. It's… 13 00:00:56,265 --> 00:00:57,558 It's very hard after… 14 00:00:58,601 --> 00:01:00,186 Seven years? Seven years? 15 00:01:00,269 --> 00:01:01,270 I don't even know. 16 00:01:01,354 --> 00:01:03,439 Do you think Mum would recognize us? 17 00:01:04,190 --> 00:01:05,233 Would we recognize her? 18 00:01:09,529 --> 00:01:11,739 Mum, if you're listening to this right now, 19 00:01:11,823 --> 00:01:14,200 it doesn't matter what we've been through. 20 00:01:14,826 --> 00:01:17,954 We still love you, and we want you back in our lives. 21 00:01:20,540 --> 00:01:22,542 [unsettling music playing] 22 00:01:23,501 --> 00:01:27,004 [woman 1] The difficult thing is, this is still going on, 23 00:01:27,839 --> 00:01:29,382 and it's happened before. 24 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:34,846 And there may be people out there that he could have done anything to. 25 00:01:34,929 --> 00:01:37,557 [unsettling music continues] 26 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:39,475 [reporter] The secret MI5 agent 27 00:01:40,893 --> 00:01:43,271 is described as a continuing danger. 28 00:01:43,354 --> 00:01:44,230 [siren wailing] 29 00:01:45,064 --> 00:01:47,150 [man 1] He controlled everything in my life. 30 00:01:48,276 --> 00:01:50,611 [woman 1] He wants her all to himself. 31 00:01:50,695 --> 00:01:53,322 [woman 2 speaking] 32 00:01:59,078 --> 00:02:01,581 [man 2] Who is this guy? What does he want? 33 00:02:02,248 --> 00:02:03,416 [man 3] He's after the money. 34 00:02:04,041 --> 00:02:06,794 -[man 4] He wanted sex. -[man 5] He's a psychopath. 35 00:02:07,795 --> 00:02:09,714 [man 6] He lives off of the radar. 36 00:02:09,797 --> 00:02:12,550 -He lives in the shadows. -[man 7] It was like chasing a ghost. 37 00:02:12,633 --> 00:02:14,927 [woman 3] He's in the background pulling her strings. 38 00:02:15,011 --> 00:02:16,846 [reporter] …nicknamed "The Puppet Master." 39 00:02:26,772 --> 00:02:28,566 [gentle music playing] 40 00:02:31,569 --> 00:02:33,738 [woman] This is probably my favorite one of Mum. 41 00:02:33,821 --> 00:02:36,449 And so many people who have seen it have gone, 42 00:02:36,532 --> 00:02:38,451 "Wow, you were so blonde when you were younger," 43 00:02:38,534 --> 00:02:40,578 and I'm like, "That's my mum." 44 00:02:40,661 --> 00:02:41,579 [laughs] 45 00:02:44,415 --> 00:02:48,544 Growing up, my friends would always say, "I wish my mum was like yours." 46 00:02:48,628 --> 00:02:51,672 "I wish my mum would sit and sing in the car with us." 47 00:02:51,756 --> 00:02:53,507 Like, even just on a shopping trip, 48 00:02:53,591 --> 00:02:56,427 she'd be singing all the songs me and my friends were singing. 49 00:02:56,510 --> 00:02:58,304 Everyone thought she was cool. 50 00:03:00,681 --> 00:03:03,267 [man 1] Mum was very kind, very caring. 51 00:03:03,768 --> 00:03:06,312 You know, everything she did was for us. 52 00:03:06,395 --> 00:03:09,106 Being with my mum, you know, I was a mummy's boy. 53 00:03:10,024 --> 00:03:12,568 [Sophie] I love that. Dad looks so young. 54 00:03:16,364 --> 00:03:18,991 Sandra was my first real love. 55 00:03:21,285 --> 00:03:23,913 I met Sandra when I was 14. 56 00:03:24,538 --> 00:03:28,251 We got married at 20, and then Sophie arrived. 57 00:03:28,834 --> 00:03:31,879 ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ 58 00:03:31,963 --> 00:03:34,382 ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ 59 00:03:34,465 --> 00:03:38,678 [man 2] Sadly, as the years went on, we drifted apart and got divorced, 60 00:03:39,595 --> 00:03:41,973 but remained very, very good friends, 61 00:03:42,056 --> 00:03:44,225 and between us, we brought the children up. 62 00:03:46,519 --> 00:03:49,772 [Sophie] Mum was so young when she met Dad, and it didn't work out. 63 00:03:49,855 --> 00:03:52,024 But that didn't mean it couldn't work with anyone else. 64 00:03:53,234 --> 00:03:56,153 My mum decided to start online dating. 65 00:04:00,950 --> 00:04:05,496 I remember Mum showing me her profile and her pictures. 66 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:10,793 And you're just sort of thinking, "This is… This is an advertisement." 67 00:04:10,876 --> 00:04:13,671 "We have a new job if you'd like to take it." 68 00:04:14,839 --> 00:04:17,883 "Someone to love my mum and also maybe us." 69 00:04:17,967 --> 00:04:18,801 [laughs] 70 00:04:21,846 --> 00:04:25,641 Mum had a few boyfriends here and there, you know. 71 00:04:26,350 --> 00:04:28,894 None of them were the right ones for her. 72 00:04:32,606 --> 00:04:34,025 [phone ringing] 73 00:04:34,108 --> 00:04:36,777 [Sophie] But one night, there was a phone call. 74 00:04:36,861 --> 00:04:38,404 [ringing continues] 75 00:04:38,487 --> 00:04:39,905 Then it became a thing. 76 00:04:39,989 --> 00:04:43,492 "Oh, it's this guy I'm chatting to. His name's David." 77 00:04:45,911 --> 00:04:47,163 [Jake] He worked in the media, 78 00:04:47,246 --> 00:04:51,584 and he sold advertising space to large companies. 79 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:54,795 David loved cars. 80 00:04:56,964 --> 00:04:59,925 He loved expensive things. 81 00:05:01,844 --> 00:05:03,554 Mum had never had a new car. 82 00:05:04,472 --> 00:05:11,062 My first impression of this brand-new blue Audi was "swanky." 83 00:05:13,731 --> 00:05:18,069 It was so exciting for her to be able to say she had this. 84 00:05:18,903 --> 00:05:21,322 And she was getting it in a custom color. 85 00:05:23,449 --> 00:05:26,744 It felt like she finally was getting something she deserved. 86 00:05:27,244 --> 00:05:29,455 ["Ordinary World" by Duran Duran plays] 87 00:05:32,792 --> 00:05:35,795 [Jake] David had planned for us to all go to Spain. 88 00:05:36,670 --> 00:05:39,799 So, I was very excited, because I had been on holiday before, 89 00:05:39,882 --> 00:05:41,842 but I'd never sort of been to Spain. 90 00:05:41,926 --> 00:05:45,388 ♪ I turned on the lights, the TV… ♪ 91 00:05:45,471 --> 00:05:47,723 [Sophie] The beginning of the trip seemed normal. 92 00:05:47,807 --> 00:05:50,684 We checked into all the hotels we were supposed to. 93 00:05:51,519 --> 00:05:57,274 But after that, we were in the car all night and all day, 94 00:05:57,358 --> 00:05:58,567 hardly stopping. 95 00:05:59,860 --> 00:06:02,113 Only David drove. 96 00:06:03,406 --> 00:06:05,741 Listening to Duran Duran the whole way. 97 00:06:09,870 --> 00:06:13,457 ♪ But I won't cry for yesterday ♪ 98 00:06:13,541 --> 00:06:16,669 ♪ There's an ordinary world ♪ 99 00:06:16,752 --> 00:06:21,465 ♪ Somehow I have to find… ♪ 100 00:06:22,049 --> 00:06:24,760 [Sophie] When we were going through having our passports checked, 101 00:06:24,844 --> 00:06:27,513 David was behaving so strange. 102 00:06:27,596 --> 00:06:31,100 He didn't want us to see his passport. 103 00:06:31,183 --> 00:06:33,519 I asked him for his second name, 104 00:06:33,602 --> 00:06:36,105 and he said, "Oh yeah, don't worry about that." 105 00:06:36,188 --> 00:06:40,109 And I was sort of like, "What? Why are you hiding your last name?" 106 00:06:40,192 --> 00:06:43,070 You know, "What's the deal there?" 107 00:06:43,154 --> 00:06:49,076 I had no idea what was going on. I just knew it was strange. 108 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,787 -[unsettling music playing] -[clock ticking] 109 00:06:54,457 --> 00:06:58,002 [Sophie] It got to the stage where David was always staying over, 110 00:06:58,586 --> 00:07:01,338 and then he just never left. 111 00:07:01,422 --> 00:07:02,923 [clock ticking] 112 00:07:03,007 --> 00:07:07,928 [Sophie] The more we saw him, the more he became part of our lives. 113 00:07:08,012 --> 00:07:11,307 He often hinted at the amount of money he had. 114 00:07:12,016 --> 00:07:15,686 And he was always telling my mum about the things that he could buy her. 115 00:07:16,645 --> 00:07:20,900 He said that, you know, he's a busy man, that he had this job, 116 00:07:20,983 --> 00:07:23,277 but he was always at my house. 117 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,529 I never saw him go off to work. 118 00:07:26,197 --> 00:07:28,365 It seemed more like he was unemployed. 119 00:07:28,449 --> 00:07:31,202 To me, it just didn't seem quite right. 120 00:07:31,285 --> 00:07:32,870 [foreboding music plays] 121 00:07:34,497 --> 00:07:39,543 [Mark] If I knew then what I know now, who David really was… 122 00:07:39,627 --> 00:07:42,421 [foreboding music continues] 123 00:07:42,505 --> 00:07:44,548 …then there's no way he would have continued 124 00:07:44,632 --> 00:07:46,425 to be around my family and my children. 125 00:07:47,009 --> 00:07:48,969 [unsettling music playing] 126 00:07:58,521 --> 00:07:59,897 [men speaking indistinctly] 127 00:08:00,523 --> 00:08:02,608 -[coughs] -[man speaks indistinctly] 128 00:08:02,691 --> 00:08:04,985 [interviewer] So, um, what's your name? 129 00:08:06,028 --> 00:08:07,947 Uh, my name is John Atkinson. 130 00:08:08,989 --> 00:08:12,826 [interviewer] So we're just gonna talk about the time period 131 00:08:12,910 --> 00:08:15,120 -before all of this happened. -Okay. 132 00:08:15,204 --> 00:08:19,041 [interviewer] When you're at university, the first time you met this guy, 133 00:08:19,124 --> 00:08:20,834 and your whole life changed. 134 00:08:20,918 --> 00:08:22,253 [tense music playing] 135 00:08:25,256 --> 00:08:28,634 [John] I was a student at the top agricultural college in England. 136 00:08:30,219 --> 00:08:32,137 But it was a horrible time. 137 00:08:34,473 --> 00:08:37,643 In the early '90s, the whole nation was kind of wary, 138 00:08:37,726 --> 00:08:38,978 uh, of the fact 139 00:08:39,061 --> 00:08:42,940 that the Irish Republican Army had declared war. 140 00:08:43,023 --> 00:08:45,109 [reporter 1] The bomb, 100 pounds of explosives, 141 00:08:45,192 --> 00:08:48,028 had been packed into a van parked in a narrow side street. 142 00:08:48,112 --> 00:08:51,365 [reporter 2] The Irish Republican Army is taking credit for today's mortar attack 143 00:08:51,448 --> 00:08:54,076 that landed in the British prime minister's backyard. 144 00:08:54,159 --> 00:08:56,912 [reporter 3] Caught in a storm of flying glass and debris, 145 00:08:56,996 --> 00:08:59,373 the shocked and bewildered victims were taken to St. John's... 146 00:08:59,456 --> 00:09:02,042 [reporter 4] Today, the IRA warned that this weekend's attacks 147 00:09:02,126 --> 00:09:04,003 would be followed by more bombings 148 00:09:04,086 --> 00:09:07,381 as long as the British government continued to occupy part of Ireland. 149 00:09:08,632 --> 00:09:12,219 Among us were terrorists who were planting bombs 150 00:09:12,303 --> 00:09:13,721 to disrupt our way of life. 151 00:09:15,723 --> 00:09:18,309 There was a large Irish population at the college, 152 00:09:18,392 --> 00:09:23,772 and the college was under some sort of surveillance or suspicion 153 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,901 because a student was gunrunning for the IRA. 154 00:09:28,861 --> 00:09:32,615 [reporter] The 20-year-old student from the Harper Adams Agricultural College 155 00:09:32,698 --> 00:09:33,991 had been stopped by the police. 156 00:09:35,326 --> 00:09:39,580 They found two Kalashnikov rifles, 100 rounds of ammunition, 157 00:09:39,663 --> 00:09:43,500 and traces of five different types of explosives in his car. 158 00:09:44,543 --> 00:09:45,836 [John] It seemed a bit surreal 159 00:09:45,919 --> 00:09:48,255 that this terrorist had been found in our midst. 160 00:09:50,090 --> 00:09:55,179 After that, completely out of the blue, one of my Irish friends committed suicide. 161 00:09:55,262 --> 00:09:57,306 [unsettling music plays] 162 00:09:57,389 --> 00:09:58,223 [birds chirping] 163 00:09:58,307 --> 00:09:59,683 [gunshot] 164 00:10:03,729 --> 00:10:07,483 Why on earth would such a great guy, uh, do that? 165 00:10:07,566 --> 00:10:10,569 [indistinct chattering] 166 00:10:10,653 --> 00:10:12,821 -[John] I went to the pub. -…of the IRA. 167 00:10:12,905 --> 00:10:13,864 [bell rings] 168 00:10:13,947 --> 00:10:16,700 [John] I was talking to the new barman, Rob. 169 00:10:16,784 --> 00:10:19,078 [tense music plays] 170 00:10:19,161 --> 00:10:21,455 [John] I'd got to know him in the last few weeks. 171 00:10:22,289 --> 00:10:23,999 [TV continues indistinctly] 172 00:10:24,083 --> 00:10:26,418 I told Rob about my friend's death, 173 00:10:27,586 --> 00:10:28,462 and he said, 174 00:10:29,546 --> 00:10:31,465 "You really think your friend committed suicide?" 175 00:10:34,968 --> 00:10:38,138 "Your friend didn't commit suicide. The IRA shot him." 176 00:10:39,390 --> 00:10:40,683 [gunshot] 177 00:10:42,601 --> 00:10:44,478 "He saw something he shouldn't have." 178 00:10:44,561 --> 00:10:45,604 [bird squawking] 179 00:10:45,688 --> 00:10:47,606 "Well, what did my friend see?" 180 00:10:47,690 --> 00:10:50,401 He said, "You know how to make a bomb, don't you?" 181 00:10:50,484 --> 00:10:53,153 I was like, "Um, not really, no." 182 00:10:53,237 --> 00:10:56,198 "The main ingredients are fertilizer and diesel." 183 00:10:56,782 --> 00:10:58,617 "Where do you get fertilizer and diesel?" 184 00:11:02,579 --> 00:11:04,289 "They're both used on farms." 185 00:11:04,957 --> 00:11:08,585 "The student here that was running guns, do you think he was acting alone?" 186 00:11:09,837 --> 00:11:13,048 "These people work in cells, and there's still a cell to find." 187 00:11:14,091 --> 00:11:16,343 Of course, I asked, "Well, how do you know this?" 188 00:11:16,427 --> 00:11:19,596 "I'm not who you think I am. This is all just a cover." 189 00:11:20,389 --> 00:11:21,890 "I'm an MI5 agent." 190 00:11:22,766 --> 00:11:25,185 [unsettling music plays] 191 00:11:25,269 --> 00:11:28,272 Rob said what they need is somebody in the college 192 00:11:28,355 --> 00:11:31,692 to help expose this… this IRA cell. 193 00:11:31,775 --> 00:11:35,446 "We've seen your record, and it's clean. We're gonna use you." 194 00:11:36,530 --> 00:11:38,323 There was a bit of me that was excited. 195 00:11:38,407 --> 00:11:41,744 The idea of taking some terrorists off the street? 196 00:11:41,827 --> 00:11:44,204 Sure. I'm… I'm all in favor of that. 197 00:11:46,123 --> 00:11:48,000 He said, "How many fights have you been in?" 198 00:11:48,083 --> 00:11:51,420 And I said, "I'm not a fighter. I avoid conflict." 199 00:11:51,503 --> 00:11:54,923 It became apparent that, uh, I needed some training. 200 00:11:57,009 --> 00:11:59,970 Rob showed me how to jab. 201 00:12:03,932 --> 00:12:06,393 As well as training me to throw a punch, 202 00:12:07,269 --> 00:12:08,896 Rob trained me to take a punch. 203 00:12:08,979 --> 00:12:11,482 [dramatic music playing] 204 00:12:12,316 --> 00:12:15,903 "You need to be able to take it from whichever angle it comes from." 205 00:12:17,529 --> 00:12:19,448 [unsettling music plays] 206 00:12:21,533 --> 00:12:22,826 -[blow lands] -[groans] 207 00:12:25,245 --> 00:12:26,997 I can't remember how many times he punched me. 208 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:28,499 [grunts] 209 00:12:28,582 --> 00:12:32,294 And I had a small sense of relief that I'd taken it, 210 00:12:33,253 --> 00:12:34,797 that I was passing the test. 211 00:12:37,216 --> 00:12:41,011 I was tasked with writing down the number plates of all the cars 212 00:12:41,094 --> 00:12:46,391 in one particular part of campus, closest to the nitrogen-fertilizer store. 213 00:12:46,892 --> 00:12:50,813 And then Rob had me write down a list of names of people I was suspicious of, 214 00:12:50,896 --> 00:12:52,773 who had access to fertilizer. 215 00:12:54,775 --> 00:12:56,819 My housemate, Jim, was on that list. 216 00:12:57,653 --> 00:13:00,239 Rob and his bosses suspected Jim. 217 00:13:01,031 --> 00:13:02,491 "Jim's one of them." 218 00:13:02,574 --> 00:13:04,159 [unsettling music plays] 219 00:13:04,243 --> 00:13:06,703 The idea that Jim was involved with the IRA 220 00:13:06,787 --> 00:13:09,498 was shocking and hard to believe, definitely, 221 00:13:10,666 --> 00:13:12,709 but not beyond belief. 222 00:13:12,793 --> 00:13:15,003 [unsettling music continues] 223 00:13:15,629 --> 00:13:18,799 Me and Jim lived in the same house as Maria and Sarah. 224 00:13:19,299 --> 00:13:20,717 Sarah was my girlfriend. 225 00:13:23,303 --> 00:13:25,430 Rob said his bosses were telling him 226 00:13:25,514 --> 00:13:27,933 it was not safe for us to be there anymore. 227 00:13:29,685 --> 00:13:33,272 "We're in grave danger, and we need to go now." 228 00:13:33,814 --> 00:13:36,024 "Not just me and you, but the girls as well." 229 00:13:38,235 --> 00:13:41,113 So, I said, "Are you gonna tell the girls as much as I know?" 230 00:13:41,196 --> 00:13:44,408 "No, it's too dangerous. They could put the operation in jeopardy." 231 00:13:45,993 --> 00:13:48,370 "How on earth are you gonna get the girls to go then?" 232 00:13:49,454 --> 00:13:52,749 "You're going to have to lie to them to save their lives." 233 00:13:52,833 --> 00:13:54,418 [foreboding music plays] 234 00:13:56,712 --> 00:14:00,841 Maria and I were summoned to the pub because he needed to tell us something. 235 00:14:00,924 --> 00:14:02,843 And he sat us down, 236 00:14:02,926 --> 00:14:07,097 and said that he'd got cancer and that it was terminal. 237 00:14:14,646 --> 00:14:19,443 The thought of him dying, yes, it was very, very sad. 238 00:14:19,526 --> 00:14:23,572 Not only was he my boyfriend at that point, but he was also a friend. 239 00:14:25,824 --> 00:14:27,326 [John] They were devastated. 240 00:14:27,910 --> 00:14:29,119 Sarah, particularly. 241 00:14:31,622 --> 00:14:33,957 And I had that sickening feeling 242 00:14:34,041 --> 00:14:38,545 of having just told the most disgusting lie. 243 00:14:39,963 --> 00:14:42,925 It's definitely the worst thing I've done in my entire life. 244 00:14:43,467 --> 00:14:45,260 [unsettling music plays] 245 00:14:47,721 --> 00:14:49,932 I told them that I had a bucket list. 246 00:14:50,807 --> 00:14:54,311 To go around the country and see things that I wouldn't have a chance to see. 247 00:14:54,394 --> 00:14:57,147 [clock ticking rapidly] 248 00:14:57,230 --> 00:15:00,817 [Sarah] Your boyfriend says that he is dying of cancer. 249 00:15:00,901 --> 00:15:03,070 You say, "Is there no treatment?" 250 00:15:04,112 --> 00:15:06,865 "Absolutely no treatment." "Are you sure there's nothing?" 251 00:15:06,949 --> 00:15:12,454 You know, you go into all the what-ifs and everything else. 252 00:15:12,537 --> 00:15:16,583 But at the end of the day, if he says, "I only have a few weeks to live…" 253 00:15:17,918 --> 00:15:19,336 would you say no? 254 00:15:20,963 --> 00:15:25,842 ♪ Somehow I have to find… ♪ 255 00:15:25,926 --> 00:15:28,011 ["Ordinary World" by Duran Duran playing] 256 00:15:31,598 --> 00:15:34,017 [Sarah] I absolutely despise Duran Duran. 257 00:15:35,227 --> 00:15:39,314 Rob played "Ordinary World" nonstop. 258 00:15:40,148 --> 00:15:41,149 [song ends] 259 00:15:41,233 --> 00:15:42,359 It would finish. 260 00:15:45,529 --> 00:15:46,363 [song begins] 261 00:15:46,446 --> 00:15:48,615 He'd play it again. It would finish. 262 00:15:48,699 --> 00:15:49,783 [song stops] 263 00:15:49,866 --> 00:15:52,619 He'd play it again, all the way. 264 00:15:52,703 --> 00:15:54,079 [song continues] 265 00:15:54,162 --> 00:15:57,249 If I hear a couple of bars of that, 266 00:15:57,332 --> 00:15:59,918 I'm back where I was at that point in time. 267 00:16:00,002 --> 00:16:02,295 ["Ordinary World" by Duran Duran continues] 268 00:16:05,799 --> 00:16:08,468 ♪ Came in from a rainy Thursday… ♪ 269 00:16:08,552 --> 00:16:13,682 [Sarah] Myself, John, Rob, and Maria were traveling from town to town 270 00:16:13,765 --> 00:16:15,225 all across the UK. 271 00:16:16,101 --> 00:16:18,770 Whenever we tried to take a photograph with Rob in it, 272 00:16:19,354 --> 00:16:23,567 he'd always take the photos to make sure that he wasn't visible in the photograph. 273 00:16:24,443 --> 00:16:26,653 -[camera clicks] -[waves crashing] 274 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:32,034 There was a degree of fun to traveling around the country with your friends. 275 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:36,288 But there's always something in back of your mind going, 276 00:16:36,371 --> 00:16:37,581 "Well, but he's dying." 277 00:16:40,876 --> 00:16:42,627 [John] The lies were awful. 278 00:16:44,004 --> 00:16:48,175 At the end of the day, they were justified because people's lives were at risk. 279 00:16:48,925 --> 00:16:52,554 [reporter] A gunman is being hunted after a policeman was shot and seriously injured 280 00:16:52,637 --> 00:16:53,972 last night in Cheshire. 281 00:16:54,056 --> 00:16:56,266 Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist branch… 282 00:16:56,349 --> 00:16:59,227 [Sarah] We were ten days into our trip 283 00:17:00,187 --> 00:17:04,483 when Rob told us that we weren't able to go back to college. 284 00:17:04,566 --> 00:17:08,278 It was something a whole lot more serious. 285 00:17:08,361 --> 00:17:10,489 [tense music plays] 286 00:17:12,157 --> 00:17:16,661 He allowed me to tell them that I wasn't dying of cancer. 287 00:17:18,997 --> 00:17:20,582 I was told it was all a lie. 288 00:17:24,753 --> 00:17:27,589 Rob said that, "You have to stay here 289 00:17:27,672 --> 00:17:29,966 because you're involved in something 290 00:17:30,050 --> 00:17:32,427 that's gonna put you and your family in danger." 291 00:17:32,511 --> 00:17:34,846 [tense music continues] 292 00:17:35,430 --> 00:17:37,724 Sarah was not happy at the situation. 293 00:17:38,642 --> 00:17:44,189 "Can you prove you work for MI5? Can you prove that we can't go home?" 294 00:17:44,272 --> 00:17:48,235 "Why can't we go home?" I asked them numerous times. 295 00:17:49,402 --> 00:17:52,781 But he knew how much I had in my bank account at the time, 296 00:17:53,573 --> 00:17:56,952 where there were various bits of family land. 297 00:17:57,661 --> 00:18:02,541 Rob said he had that information because he worked for the government. 298 00:18:04,334 --> 00:18:06,711 We just needed to follow instructions. 299 00:18:13,051 --> 00:18:14,511 When I got back into the car… 300 00:18:16,513 --> 00:18:19,099 looking back, it was a momentous decision 301 00:18:19,182 --> 00:18:22,227 because it was completely pivotal to what happened. 302 00:18:24,771 --> 00:18:27,983 That decision changed the next ten years of my life. 303 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:39,953 [tense music playing] 304 00:18:40,036 --> 00:18:41,997 [Mark] My relationship with Sandra was changing 305 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:43,915 once David was involved in her life. 306 00:18:47,460 --> 00:18:49,004 Sandra became distant with me. 307 00:18:51,256 --> 00:18:54,843 If I called, she wouldn't always answer. She wouldn't return text messages. 308 00:18:55,844 --> 00:18:57,929 It just seemed very odd and very strange to me. 309 00:18:58,013 --> 00:19:00,390 [keyboard clacking] 310 00:19:02,058 --> 00:19:05,103 Mum wasn't going out anymore and seeing her friends. 311 00:19:05,854 --> 00:19:07,480 [Jake] She only spoke to David. 312 00:19:09,107 --> 00:19:11,067 [Sophie] We weren't having family time. 313 00:19:12,068 --> 00:19:14,321 We were all living very separate lives. 314 00:19:16,781 --> 00:19:19,534 [Jake] She would get more and more angry with us. 315 00:19:19,618 --> 00:19:21,453 She was distancing herself from us. 316 00:19:21,536 --> 00:19:23,538 And we're her kids. 317 00:19:23,622 --> 00:19:28,251 Like, I just felt that I didn't know who she was becoming. 318 00:19:28,793 --> 00:19:30,962 [muffled arguing] 319 00:19:33,215 --> 00:19:35,342 [Jake] David had brought my mum a bracelet. 320 00:19:35,425 --> 00:19:38,386 Then one day, my mum comes running at me, screaming. 321 00:19:38,470 --> 00:19:42,724 David sort of stood behind her. She was like, "You've stolen my bracelet." 322 00:19:42,807 --> 00:19:46,811 And I was just like, "I'm your son, Mum. I would never steal from you." 323 00:19:46,895 --> 00:19:49,314 We're a close family. We trusted each other. 324 00:19:49,814 --> 00:19:54,402 And now, suddenly, her own son, she can't trust in her house. 325 00:19:57,572 --> 00:19:59,241 [Sophie] That was just the start. 326 00:20:00,492 --> 00:20:05,497 David told my dad, "Your son's gay.  Your son's gay. He's not told you." 327 00:20:06,414 --> 00:20:10,168 My dad pulled me aside and asked me. "If you wanna be gay, that's fine." 328 00:20:10,252 --> 00:20:15,840 And I said, "Dad, that's not who I am. I… You know, I'm not." 329 00:20:17,133 --> 00:20:19,261 [Sophie] You don't tell someone that they're something, 330 00:20:19,344 --> 00:20:20,971 and that's what David was doing. 331 00:20:21,638 --> 00:20:25,684 It upset Mum. It upset Dad. It upset Jake. 332 00:20:28,937 --> 00:20:31,731 My mum bought me a smart pair of shoes to wear to school… 333 00:20:33,858 --> 00:20:36,611 and I went through the heels a bit too quickly. 334 00:20:36,695 --> 00:20:38,530 So David said, "Don't worry. I'll sort it." 335 00:20:39,322 --> 00:20:42,909 Came back, and it had a massive metal lump on the back. 336 00:20:42,993 --> 00:20:45,453 And I said to them, "What's this all about?" 337 00:20:45,537 --> 00:20:49,457 They were like, "Until you learn to walk properly, you need to have this." 338 00:20:49,541 --> 00:20:51,751 -[school bell rings] -[students chattering] 339 00:20:52,836 --> 00:20:54,629 [metal clicking] 340 00:20:54,713 --> 00:20:57,090 -[Jake] So I wore them to school. -[students laughing] 341 00:20:57,173 --> 00:20:59,175 [metal clicking] 342 00:20:59,259 --> 00:21:01,761 [Jake] People's eyes were diverting towards me. 343 00:21:01,845 --> 00:21:04,347 And being at that age, you do feel self-conscious. 344 00:21:04,431 --> 00:21:07,017 -[metal clicking] -[students laughing] 345 00:21:07,100 --> 00:21:10,895 He knew that putting that on the bottom of my shoe would make my life a misery. 346 00:21:10,979 --> 00:21:12,814 So, I felt like I was being controlled. 347 00:21:13,648 --> 00:21:14,774 [door closes] 348 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:18,862 I came back from school. 349 00:21:21,197 --> 00:21:23,074 Realized they had locked me outside. 350 00:21:25,035 --> 00:21:27,245 -[door closes] -The first couple of times this happened, 351 00:21:27,329 --> 00:21:29,331 I would stay out and come back later. 352 00:21:29,414 --> 00:21:30,498 [door closes] 353 00:21:30,582 --> 00:21:32,292 -It happened… -[door closes] 354 00:21:32,375 --> 00:21:33,626 …one too many times. 355 00:21:34,669 --> 00:21:35,837 [lock clicks] 356 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:37,172 [knocking] 357 00:21:38,381 --> 00:21:39,674 [tense music playing] 358 00:21:42,510 --> 00:21:44,888 -[doorbell ringing] -[banging on door] 359 00:21:44,971 --> 00:21:47,724 He's banging on the door. He's been locked out of the house. 360 00:21:47,807 --> 00:21:50,060 It's not a mistake. It's quite deliberate. 361 00:21:50,143 --> 00:21:52,270 I started shouting, "Is anyone in?" 362 00:21:52,354 --> 00:21:53,730 -[doorbell ringing] -[banging] 363 00:21:53,813 --> 00:21:56,149 David told my mum, "Don't answer it." 364 00:21:57,025 --> 00:21:58,610 [Jake] I went to the back door. 365 00:21:59,986 --> 00:22:02,155 I just let out a fit of rage. 366 00:22:02,238 --> 00:22:03,990 I hear a loud bang. 367 00:22:04,491 --> 00:22:07,202 I looked up, and I saw my sister there, panicking. 368 00:22:07,285 --> 00:22:11,122 She had never seen me like this before, beating down a door. 369 00:22:11,915 --> 00:22:14,417 I told her, "Let me in. I'm getting my stuff and going." 370 00:22:14,918 --> 00:22:17,379 And she's crying. She was saying, "You can't go." 371 00:22:17,462 --> 00:22:19,923 And I was just saying, "Sophie, I need to go." 372 00:22:23,301 --> 00:22:25,637 It wasn't until my head started clearing 373 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,682 that I realized all of it started when David came in. 374 00:22:31,893 --> 00:22:35,855 "Why is this happening? Why would someone want to do this?" 375 00:22:35,939 --> 00:22:38,316 "Who is this guy? What does he want?" 376 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:39,984 [unsettling music playing] 377 00:22:52,038 --> 00:22:53,706 [tense music playing] 378 00:22:54,791 --> 00:23:00,004 Rob was saying the IRA were following us and that we had to keep moving. 379 00:23:00,088 --> 00:23:03,842 [reporter] Today, Warrington city center was the target of IRA terrorism… 380 00:23:03,925 --> 00:23:06,094 [John] Two days after we left Warrington, 381 00:23:06,177 --> 00:23:08,555 there was two bombs in the middle of the city. 382 00:23:10,515 --> 00:23:16,104 We needed to be off-grid and to not be traceable. 383 00:23:17,147 --> 00:23:21,192 For me, the worst thing was not being able to be in contact 384 00:23:21,276 --> 00:23:22,944 with my family and friends. 385 00:23:23,027 --> 00:23:24,612 That really troubled me. 386 00:23:26,739 --> 00:23:28,283 I knew they would worry 387 00:23:28,867 --> 00:23:32,579 because, obviously, nobody's got mobile phones at this point in time. 388 00:23:34,414 --> 00:23:38,376 [man] We hadn't heard from Sarah for a while, which was out of character. 389 00:23:39,335 --> 00:23:41,588 So, I phoned up Sarah's college. 390 00:23:42,213 --> 00:23:45,008 They said, "She's not there, and we don't know why." 391 00:23:48,344 --> 00:23:51,723 When she was at college, she worked on a farm. 392 00:23:52,765 --> 00:23:57,562 And the farmer was concerned as to what had happened to Sarah 393 00:23:58,146 --> 00:24:02,817 because her car had been left, dumped with them. 394 00:24:04,569 --> 00:24:07,614 And then, of course, you immediately start getting worried 395 00:24:08,781 --> 00:24:10,533 as to what's going on. 396 00:24:11,367 --> 00:24:14,787 I was inclined to call the police when the phone rang. 397 00:24:14,871 --> 00:24:18,249 [phone rings] 398 00:24:18,875 --> 00:24:20,084 It was Sarah. 399 00:24:21,002 --> 00:24:25,882 It was a relief to hear from her, but she'd sounded a little off. 400 00:24:26,508 --> 00:24:29,969 "Dad, we'd like to call in and just see you. There's four of us." 401 00:24:31,471 --> 00:24:35,016 [Sarah] My father was asking questions about my disappearance. 402 00:24:35,683 --> 00:24:40,522 MI5 was concerned about my father talking to the wrong person 403 00:24:40,605 --> 00:24:44,526 and potentially giving information to the IRA unknowingly. 404 00:24:46,069 --> 00:24:51,366 And so, Rob said we needed to visit my parents to allay their fears. 405 00:24:55,370 --> 00:24:57,038 [Peter] They arrived at midnight. 406 00:24:57,872 --> 00:24:59,541 This was out of character. 407 00:25:02,669 --> 00:25:05,129 That was the first time we met Rob. 408 00:25:05,922 --> 00:25:10,134 Rob was confident? Yes. You might say he was cocky. 409 00:25:12,011 --> 00:25:17,642 Rob had been very, very specific that we had to stick to this cover story. 410 00:25:20,979 --> 00:25:23,815 Sarah was not very forthcoming. 411 00:25:24,774 --> 00:25:27,610 Again, that was not like her at all. 412 00:25:29,279 --> 00:25:31,197 [John] I told them that I had liver cancer, 413 00:25:31,281 --> 00:25:35,285 and that I had this idea of going on a holiday 414 00:25:35,368 --> 00:25:37,203 with my… my last few weeks. 415 00:25:38,121 --> 00:25:39,664 [Peter] Well, I'm a farmer. 416 00:25:40,498 --> 00:25:44,752 If you've got a herd of cattle, you pick out the one that's ill 417 00:25:44,836 --> 00:25:47,505 by the way they're walking or by the way they behave. 418 00:25:48,339 --> 00:25:49,424 It shows. 419 00:25:49,966 --> 00:25:51,467 Well, it didn't show with him. 420 00:25:52,093 --> 00:25:54,804 Mr. Smith came out with a question for me. 421 00:25:55,388 --> 00:25:56,514 "How ill are you?" 422 00:25:57,473 --> 00:26:00,143 I just kind of froze and started shaking. 423 00:26:00,226 --> 00:26:01,686 The whole body shook. 424 00:26:02,395 --> 00:26:06,566 I mean, it was as if he was really scared. 425 00:26:07,150 --> 00:26:09,777 I was perhaps a little on edge 426 00:26:09,861 --> 00:26:13,281 and didn't altogether believe what I was being told. 427 00:26:15,450 --> 00:26:17,869 They knew something wasn't right. 428 00:26:18,995 --> 00:26:20,747 And so, Rob lied to my parents. 429 00:26:21,372 --> 00:26:22,999 He said, "Don't worry about it." 430 00:26:23,082 --> 00:26:25,752 We were going back to college in two weeks' time. 431 00:26:27,879 --> 00:26:30,381 [Peter] After that, they left fairly quickly. 432 00:26:35,053 --> 00:26:35,928 [sniffles] 433 00:26:36,554 --> 00:26:39,515 Yeah, you hug… hug your family goodbye, 434 00:26:39,599 --> 00:26:42,769 and I didn't know when I was gonna see them again. 435 00:26:46,522 --> 00:26:50,068 Knowing that things weren't right, I should have blocked them. 436 00:26:50,943 --> 00:26:51,986 Not let them go. 437 00:26:55,657 --> 00:26:58,368 I've regretted ever since that I didn't hold them back. 438 00:26:58,451 --> 00:27:00,787 [tense music grows to crescendo] 439 00:27:05,208 --> 00:27:06,918 [birds twittering] 440 00:27:07,001 --> 00:27:08,670 [cow lows] 441 00:27:08,753 --> 00:27:11,214 [Peter] We waited for several weeks. 442 00:27:13,383 --> 00:27:15,551 Sarah didn't return to college. 443 00:27:17,220 --> 00:27:20,848 And at that point, you know you have to do something. 444 00:27:20,932 --> 00:27:22,642 [tense music playing] 445 00:27:25,728 --> 00:27:27,230 I paid her credit card. 446 00:27:29,190 --> 00:27:33,236 You could see that if she bought something in Cheltenham, she'd been in Cheltenham. 447 00:27:35,571 --> 00:27:37,156 That gave me an idea. 448 00:27:38,950 --> 00:27:42,120 I was able to trace where they'd been. 449 00:27:42,620 --> 00:27:44,163 [dramatic music playing] 450 00:27:45,123 --> 00:27:49,252 Where they went and the date was all plotted on the wall map. 451 00:27:51,587 --> 00:27:53,131 [dramatic music continues] 452 00:28:04,976 --> 00:28:07,520 [Peter] We knew they'd been all over the country, 453 00:28:08,020 --> 00:28:10,148 and likely to go to the south, 454 00:28:10,231 --> 00:28:14,026 the same day, go right up to the north and then back again. 455 00:28:14,110 --> 00:28:15,528 [dramatic music continues] 456 00:28:17,238 --> 00:28:19,657 And there's no great sense in it. 457 00:28:21,743 --> 00:28:26,706 I would go through the statements and see the biggest lumps that were paid 458 00:28:26,789 --> 00:28:28,541 or the ones that looked interesting. 459 00:28:29,417 --> 00:28:33,045 She bought a suit for the man that was with them. 460 00:28:34,422 --> 00:28:38,468 They stayed at a hotel and left in a hurry. 461 00:28:38,551 --> 00:28:40,720 [dramatic music continues] 462 00:28:42,430 --> 00:28:45,099 I felt Sarah was spending too much money. 463 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,560 She always looked after money, 464 00:28:47,643 --> 00:28:50,688 and she would never go and spend it wildly at all. 465 00:28:51,898 --> 00:28:55,067 We were feeling unsettled about what was going on. 466 00:28:55,151 --> 00:28:56,652 [dramatic music continues] 467 00:28:59,781 --> 00:29:02,742 [phone rings] 468 00:29:02,825 --> 00:29:04,577 [Peter] But then Sarah called. 469 00:29:05,995 --> 00:29:07,205 She said… 470 00:29:07,288 --> 00:29:09,624 "I've got to postpone my graduation for a year, 471 00:29:09,707 --> 00:29:12,668 because I'm no longer interested in farming." 472 00:29:12,752 --> 00:29:16,088 "Commercial Union, an insurance firm, 473 00:29:16,172 --> 00:29:19,634 have offered me a place on their graduate traineeship, 474 00:29:20,218 --> 00:29:22,470 paying £25,000 a year." 475 00:29:23,262 --> 00:29:25,348 [Peter] When she said she wasn't going back to college, 476 00:29:25,431 --> 00:29:29,727 we then knew that things had gone out of hand. 477 00:29:29,811 --> 00:29:31,813 [tense music playing] 478 00:29:33,064 --> 00:29:39,111 I phoned Commercial Union, and there were no jobs like that on offer. 479 00:29:40,780 --> 00:29:44,283 The figure was far more than they would pay 480 00:29:44,367 --> 00:29:45,952 for an untrained person. 481 00:29:47,161 --> 00:29:49,413 This was a total put-up. 482 00:29:50,289 --> 00:29:52,124 None of this was normal. 483 00:29:52,959 --> 00:29:54,961 Sarah didn't tell lies. 484 00:29:55,044 --> 00:29:56,838 [unsettling music playing] 485 00:30:02,802 --> 00:30:05,513 [Sophie] I was living at the house with Mum and David. 486 00:30:07,557 --> 00:30:10,643 I felt like my mum was a completely different person. 487 00:30:11,185 --> 00:30:13,229 [tense string music playing] 488 00:30:13,312 --> 00:30:16,065 Jake had already left and was living with Dad, 489 00:30:16,148 --> 00:30:17,984 and I wasn't speaking to either of them. 490 00:30:18,067 --> 00:30:19,986 [tense string music continues] 491 00:30:20,820 --> 00:30:22,238 I felt abandoned. 492 00:30:23,239 --> 00:30:28,327 And the only guidance that I was receiving was from David. 493 00:30:29,245 --> 00:30:35,376 I remember David saying my dad had let my mum down, 494 00:30:36,878 --> 00:30:40,715 things my dad had done to my mum in the past, 495 00:30:42,383 --> 00:30:46,304 things about their marriage, things about their divorce. 496 00:30:47,930 --> 00:30:50,808 The progression was very subtle and gradual. 497 00:30:51,934 --> 00:30:56,772 David told me, "You never wanna see your dad again, do you?" 498 00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,901 "You don't wanna speak to your dad again, do you?" 499 00:31:00,610 --> 00:31:04,113 "You don't wanna speak to your dad again. You don't wanna see your dad, do you?" 500 00:31:04,196 --> 00:31:07,867 "You don't. You don't. You… don't." 501 00:31:07,950 --> 00:31:11,746 "You don't ever wanna see your dad again, do you?" 502 00:31:11,829 --> 00:31:14,290 Every day. Multiple times a day. 503 00:31:16,375 --> 00:31:21,380 And then, eventually, I started disassociating from the name. 504 00:31:22,089 --> 00:31:26,969 Mark Clifton was the name of a stranger, not of my dad. 505 00:31:28,554 --> 00:31:34,393 He was a scary figure who would hurt me and my family. 506 00:31:34,477 --> 00:31:36,562 [unsettling music playing] 507 00:31:36,646 --> 00:31:39,857 [family singing] ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ 508 00:31:39,941 --> 00:31:43,361 [Mark] I wrote to Sophie many times. Texted her many times. 509 00:31:43,444 --> 00:31:46,155 ♪ Happy birthday, dear Sophie ♪ 510 00:31:46,238 --> 00:31:48,866 [Mark] Told her how much I loved her, how much I missed her. 511 00:31:50,785 --> 00:31:54,121 Tried to, um, get things back to the way they were. 512 00:31:54,205 --> 00:31:56,457 [birds chirping] 513 00:31:56,540 --> 00:32:00,753 [Sophie] Every time I got a letter, I put it in the same envelope, 514 00:32:00,836 --> 00:32:06,842 and on this envelope had the title, "Lies and Slander from Mr. Mark Clifton." 515 00:32:08,010 --> 00:32:11,555 And it was pinned up on my old pinboard. 516 00:32:16,018 --> 00:32:18,479 I didn't speak to my dad for two and a half years. 517 00:32:21,857 --> 00:32:24,902 It became very evident that David was behind a lot of this, 518 00:32:24,986 --> 00:32:27,029 but I couldn't work out why. 519 00:32:28,906 --> 00:32:31,200 [keyboard clacking] 520 00:32:31,283 --> 00:32:34,787 [Mark] I just thought, "What is going on here? Who is this guy?" 521 00:32:36,664 --> 00:32:41,460 I tried doing some local research on him, looking on the internet. 522 00:32:43,129 --> 00:32:45,214 I knew him under the name of David Hendy. 523 00:32:47,049 --> 00:32:49,510 I looked in local directories and local searches. 524 00:32:51,053 --> 00:32:52,555 Couldn't find anything on him. 525 00:32:53,723 --> 00:32:54,932 He was like a ghost. 526 00:32:55,016 --> 00:32:56,684 [tense music playing] 527 00:33:02,982 --> 00:33:05,317 [melancholy music plays] 528 00:33:10,406 --> 00:33:12,199 [Peter] I'd phoned the police. 529 00:33:12,283 --> 00:33:14,493 They said Sarah was over 18. 530 00:33:14,577 --> 00:33:18,122 She was a free woman to make her own decisions. 531 00:33:18,205 --> 00:33:20,124 "Why are you wasting police time?" 532 00:33:22,251 --> 00:33:24,420 I had to find her myself. 533 00:33:25,463 --> 00:33:26,964 I knew Sarah was missing. 534 00:33:27,548 --> 00:33:30,301 I knew she was probably with Robert. 535 00:33:30,384 --> 00:33:33,262 But where? 536 00:33:36,474 --> 00:33:41,520 It was a question of going through all the places they could have stayed at. 537 00:33:42,438 --> 00:33:45,691 But you're following a trail, which may be cold. 538 00:33:47,985 --> 00:33:51,113 You might have 100 different places, 539 00:33:51,197 --> 00:33:55,201 and you check each one to see if they've stayed there. 540 00:33:55,284 --> 00:33:57,036 [dramatic music playing] 541 00:33:59,538 --> 00:34:01,624 "Hello. This is Peter Smith speaking." 542 00:34:01,707 --> 00:34:03,334 [ringing tone] 543 00:34:03,417 --> 00:34:05,836 -"Hello?" -[over phone] Hello? Good morning. 544 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,339 -"Please, can you help me?" -[over phone] Can you help me? 545 00:34:08,422 --> 00:34:10,257 "I'm looking for my daughter." 546 00:34:10,341 --> 00:34:11,801 [ringing tone] 547 00:34:11,884 --> 00:34:13,677 [over phone] Her name is Sarah. 548 00:34:13,761 --> 00:34:16,639 "Good morning. I'm Sarah's father." 549 00:34:16,722 --> 00:34:18,557 [over phone] My name's Peter Smith. 550 00:34:18,641 --> 00:34:21,310 "I'm looking for information. Can you help me?" 551 00:34:21,393 --> 00:34:25,064 -[over phone] I've got a problem. -"I'm trying to trace what's happened." 552 00:34:25,147 --> 00:34:27,399 "My daughter's gone missing." 553 00:34:27,483 --> 00:34:30,236 [echoing] Missing. Missing. Missing. Missing. 554 00:34:31,070 --> 00:34:36,242 When we arrived at the safe house, everybody was tense, Rob especially. 555 00:34:36,325 --> 00:34:37,535 [tense music plays] 556 00:34:37,618 --> 00:34:41,038 Rob had found out that Sarah's dad was trying to track us down. 557 00:34:41,956 --> 00:34:45,626 One track leads to another, leads to another, leads to another. 558 00:34:45,709 --> 00:34:48,546 A farmhouse, a room to let, whatever. 559 00:34:49,046 --> 00:34:51,173 [tense music continues] 560 00:34:51,257 --> 00:34:53,717 [Sarah] Rob sent me out looking for cars. 561 00:34:53,801 --> 00:34:58,264 I needed to log what cars were parked in certain places 562 00:34:58,347 --> 00:35:01,392 so his superiors could run checks on number plates. 563 00:35:02,309 --> 00:35:05,855 [Peter] You've got to work through stage by stage. 564 00:35:06,939 --> 00:35:10,860 And if you plod through each stage carefully, 565 00:35:10,943 --> 00:35:13,154 eventually you get a break. 566 00:35:13,237 --> 00:35:14,947 [tense music continues] 567 00:35:18,701 --> 00:35:22,663 [Peter] Sarah was sighted coming out of a house in Peterborough. 568 00:35:23,372 --> 00:35:24,498 So I said, "Well, 569 00:35:26,375 --> 00:35:28,669 what's the address of the house?" 570 00:35:28,752 --> 00:35:31,463 [dramatic music grows to crescendo] 571 00:35:31,547 --> 00:35:33,174 [dog barking] 572 00:35:33,257 --> 00:35:35,176 [car door opens, then closes] 573 00:35:35,259 --> 00:35:37,386 [tense music playing] 574 00:35:37,469 --> 00:35:41,307 [Peter] I don't call out. I don't make a lot of noise. 575 00:35:41,390 --> 00:35:45,769 The last thing I want to do is to alert them that I'm looking for them 576 00:35:46,645 --> 00:35:48,063 because they might run. 577 00:35:48,147 --> 00:35:50,107 -[unsettling music plays] -[dog barking] 578 00:35:52,151 --> 00:35:55,237 How do you get into a house that is locked? 579 00:35:57,865 --> 00:36:01,243 You walk around the back and you look for a hole. 580 00:36:01,827 --> 00:36:03,662 If you can't find a hole, you have to make one. 581 00:36:08,667 --> 00:36:13,214 You don't stay totally within the law 582 00:36:14,048 --> 00:36:16,759 when you are trying to find things out. 583 00:36:16,842 --> 00:36:18,552 Otherwise, you don't get very far. 584 00:36:27,811 --> 00:36:30,522 The Peterborough house was totally empty, 585 00:36:30,606 --> 00:36:36,904 except for one room where there was John's and Sarah's belongings. 586 00:36:42,868 --> 00:36:45,371 It looks as if their stuff had been just put there, 587 00:36:46,038 --> 00:36:47,873 and then, "We've gotta move." 588 00:36:52,795 --> 00:36:55,881 I picked up one note amongst the papers. 589 00:36:58,342 --> 00:37:01,512 "Listen, I've got some really good news for you." 590 00:37:02,346 --> 00:37:05,474 [Peter and Sarah] "Commercial Union, an insurance company…" 591 00:37:05,557 --> 00:37:08,477 "…have offered me a place on their graduate traineeship, 592 00:37:09,853 --> 00:37:12,147 paying £25,000 a year." 593 00:37:14,358 --> 00:37:16,318 [Peter] That was a sledgehammer blow. 594 00:37:17,236 --> 00:37:22,199 It was what she had told me over the phone, word for word. 595 00:37:23,409 --> 00:37:26,412 Sarah had been scripted what to say. 596 00:37:27,663 --> 00:37:33,585 At that point, I knew there's got to be someone that is pulling the strings. 597 00:37:35,587 --> 00:37:38,882 I cannot prove it, but I'm pretty certain it's Robert. 598 00:37:39,842 --> 00:37:41,468 [unsettling music playing] 599 00:37:47,516 --> 00:37:51,770 We ended up in Sheffield at the new safe house on Dorothy Road. 600 00:37:51,854 --> 00:37:53,731 [Sarah] Rob said the house was bugged 601 00:37:53,814 --> 00:37:59,194 so that MI5 could actually monitor the security of the building. 602 00:37:59,278 --> 00:38:00,279 [dog barking] 603 00:38:00,362 --> 00:38:02,364 [unsettling music continues] 604 00:38:05,075 --> 00:38:07,119 I had to change my appearance. 605 00:38:07,202 --> 00:38:11,040 My hair had to be about an inch long, 606 00:38:11,123 --> 00:38:14,335 and it had to be blonde, as in white-blonde. 607 00:38:14,418 --> 00:38:15,961 [unsettling music continues] 608 00:38:24,470 --> 00:38:26,430 [John] Rob gave us very strict instructions 609 00:38:26,513 --> 00:38:27,890 not to give our real names. 610 00:38:27,973 --> 00:38:29,641 So, I became Jamie. 611 00:38:31,352 --> 00:38:33,020 [bird squawking] 612 00:38:33,896 --> 00:38:37,858 [John] I was told, "Don't disclose anything about yourself or your past." 613 00:38:37,941 --> 00:38:40,819 "Don't make any close attachments with people around." 614 00:38:42,738 --> 00:38:46,200 As a cover, Rob arranged for me to have a job as a barman. 615 00:38:48,535 --> 00:38:50,871 [Sarah] I worked in a fish-and-chip shop 616 00:38:50,954 --> 00:38:53,624 -under the name Betty Smith. -[bell dinging] 617 00:38:54,458 --> 00:38:58,337 -[alarm blaring] -[clock ticking rapidly] 618 00:38:58,420 --> 00:39:02,591 [John] My life consisted of getting up, getting a bus ticket, 619 00:39:03,217 --> 00:39:05,135 working my six or eight-hour shift, 620 00:39:05,803 --> 00:39:06,678 waiting, 621 00:39:07,179 --> 00:39:09,556 getting driven around till 12 o'clock at night, 622 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:13,268 surveillance, sleep, do it all again. 623 00:39:13,352 --> 00:39:16,063 -[alarm blares] -Get up, get my bus ticket, 624 00:39:16,146 --> 00:39:17,398 work the shift, 625 00:39:18,273 --> 00:39:19,400 wait… 626 00:39:19,483 --> 00:39:21,151 [Sarah] Weeks and weeks of stress. 627 00:39:22,027 --> 00:39:24,988 [reporter 1] There were five shots, and the policeman was hit twice. 628 00:39:25,072 --> 00:39:27,366 [reporter 2] Three people died in the blast. 629 00:39:27,449 --> 00:39:29,410 [John] Get up, bus ticket… 630 00:39:29,493 --> 00:39:31,995 Constant not knowing what's happening. 631 00:39:32,079 --> 00:39:34,373 [John] …wait for hours, long drive… 632 00:39:34,456 --> 00:39:37,751 Not knowing who's following you, worrying about what's going on. 633 00:39:37,835 --> 00:39:39,628 -[John] Get up… -[alarm blares] 634 00:39:39,711 --> 00:39:41,588 Here we have death again. 635 00:39:42,714 --> 00:39:47,886 It builds so much that you're stressed all the time. 636 00:39:48,512 --> 00:39:50,556 [John] Get up, bus ticket. 637 00:39:50,639 --> 00:39:53,058 [reporter] Casualties were taken to local hospitals. 638 00:39:53,142 --> 00:39:55,727 [John, echoing] Work my shift, wait for hours, 639 00:39:55,811 --> 00:39:59,106 long drive, sleep. 640 00:39:59,189 --> 00:40:01,525 [alarm ringing] 641 00:40:01,608 --> 00:40:03,527 [Sophie] Every day would be the same. 642 00:40:03,610 --> 00:40:05,195 -Wake up in the morning. -[John] Get up… 643 00:40:05,279 --> 00:40:06,947 David would take me to work. 644 00:40:08,198 --> 00:40:09,533 -I'd work. -[John] Wait. 645 00:40:09,616 --> 00:40:13,120 Wait. Wait. Wait. 646 00:40:13,203 --> 00:40:16,123 David would pick me up. I'd go back to sleep. 647 00:40:16,623 --> 00:40:19,084 -[alarm rings] -I'd wake up, and the same repeats. 648 00:40:19,168 --> 00:40:20,169 Again and again. 649 00:40:20,252 --> 00:40:22,171 [tense music playing] 650 00:40:23,130 --> 00:40:24,882 [blow dryer whirring] 651 00:40:24,965 --> 00:40:27,593 [Sophie] I was working as a hairdresser, as an apprentice. 652 00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,764 I had to pay £300 of rent every month, 653 00:40:33,307 --> 00:40:36,226 even though I was only earning just over 400. 654 00:40:36,894 --> 00:40:39,354 Mum started having less and less say. 655 00:40:40,022 --> 00:40:43,358 It started being, "Give the money to me. I'll give it to your mum." 656 00:40:43,984 --> 00:40:45,277 "I'll take your mum's rent." 657 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,196 [alarm rings] 658 00:40:47,279 --> 00:40:50,282 [Sophie] I had a savings account with £10,000 in it. 659 00:40:51,783 --> 00:40:55,871 And when he found that out, he started laughing. 660 00:40:55,954 --> 00:40:57,164 [tense music continues] 661 00:40:58,499 --> 00:40:59,791 He was so… 662 00:41:01,376 --> 00:41:03,337 almost proud of himself. 663 00:41:03,420 --> 00:41:05,088 [tense music continues] 664 00:41:07,716 --> 00:41:13,096 [Sophie] David convinced me to go into the bank, and lie, 665 00:41:14,348 --> 00:41:18,268 and say I was taking the money out to buy my first car. 666 00:41:18,352 --> 00:41:22,981 I took the money out. It was in an envelope. I gave it to David. 667 00:41:24,691 --> 00:41:26,276 And I never heard of it again. 668 00:41:27,027 --> 00:41:29,112 [tense music continues] 669 00:41:29,196 --> 00:41:32,115 [tense music deflates] 670 00:41:33,242 --> 00:41:36,995 One night after work, David never came and picked me up. 671 00:41:41,250 --> 00:41:43,835 When I spoke to him on the phone in the morning, 672 00:41:45,671 --> 00:41:46,922 I said it wasn't right. 673 00:41:50,050 --> 00:41:52,219 I said, "You don't do that to people." 674 00:41:52,302 --> 00:41:55,222 "You don't leave me in my professional working environment 675 00:41:55,305 --> 00:41:58,225 to sleep on the floor." 676 00:41:58,308 --> 00:42:00,310 [melancholy music playing] 677 00:42:02,062 --> 00:42:06,066 I needed to leave for my own health. 678 00:42:07,943 --> 00:42:11,154 I told my mum I was sorry, I couldn't be there anymore. 679 00:42:12,990 --> 00:42:15,117 After living on my own for a year, 680 00:42:15,909 --> 00:42:18,704 I eventually got back in contact with Jake and my dad. 681 00:42:19,788 --> 00:42:24,501 I walked into my kitchen, and Sophie was standing there, and, um… 682 00:42:24,585 --> 00:42:26,795 Yeah. We both hugged and cried. 683 00:42:28,547 --> 00:42:32,884 It's amazing how quick you put things back behind you when you love somebody. 684 00:42:35,637 --> 00:42:37,180 [dramatic music plays] 685 00:42:38,557 --> 00:42:42,311 [Sophie] When I left, I started to really understand what he was doing. 686 00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:45,522 I think it was to get me out of the way. 687 00:42:47,274 --> 00:42:49,026 He wants her all to himself. 688 00:42:49,109 --> 00:42:51,111 [melancholy music playing] 689 00:42:53,363 --> 00:42:57,492 In 2014, two years after they first started dating, 690 00:42:58,785 --> 00:43:00,579 Mum and David left the house. 691 00:43:02,664 --> 00:43:04,291 Nobody knew where they'd gone. 692 00:43:11,340 --> 00:43:13,467 [Mark] When Sandra left, I didn't think 693 00:43:13,550 --> 00:43:17,346 that that would be the last time that me or my children would see her. 694 00:43:17,429 --> 00:43:18,305 [door closes] 695 00:43:20,641 --> 00:43:23,894 [Mark] I went back into the house to get the house ready for sale. 696 00:43:24,686 --> 00:43:29,900 I was completely horrified and shocked to see that, on the master bedroom, 697 00:43:29,983 --> 00:43:33,779 there was a huge, industrial-sized padlock. 698 00:43:36,657 --> 00:43:39,910 That's the kind of lock you have on an outside garage or a lockup. 699 00:43:41,662 --> 00:43:44,122 The door would give way before the lock would. 700 00:43:44,206 --> 00:43:48,126 That is to keep a person in or out of that room. 701 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,255 There was newspaper, 702 00:43:53,006 --> 00:43:55,967 completely covered the whole window in its entirety. 703 00:43:56,051 --> 00:44:00,555 So nobody on the outside could see through what was happening inside this room. 704 00:44:00,639 --> 00:44:03,100 [unsettling music playing] 705 00:44:03,183 --> 00:44:05,602 I just think it's very disturbing and sinister 706 00:44:05,686 --> 00:44:08,021 that you would go to the extremes to, 707 00:44:08,105 --> 00:44:10,315 A, block the inside of the house from outside, 708 00:44:10,399 --> 00:44:14,194 and, B, put that substantial a lock inside a house. 709 00:44:14,277 --> 00:44:16,071 [unsettling music continues] 710 00:44:28,417 --> 00:44:32,713 I was surprised of the mail that was at the house. 711 00:44:33,714 --> 00:44:38,844 There was absolutely every single bill and red letter of final demand 712 00:44:38,927 --> 00:44:41,471 and court summons that you could imagine. 713 00:44:43,348 --> 00:44:45,142 There's so many letters here. 714 00:44:45,225 --> 00:44:48,478 Bills from the electricity company, from the phone company, 715 00:44:49,354 --> 00:44:51,940 from the local borough council. 716 00:44:52,774 --> 00:44:56,653 Penalty for a parking fine, tax credits, where they're recovering the money back. 717 00:44:56,737 --> 00:45:00,699 Credit card details, more parking fines. 718 00:45:00,782 --> 00:45:03,076 Here's one about the mortgage company. 719 00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,246 So the mortgage hadn't been paid for many, many months. 720 00:45:06,830 --> 00:45:07,664 Wow. 721 00:45:09,124 --> 00:45:12,169 Sandra didn't have an overdraft or credit card before she knew him. 722 00:45:12,252 --> 00:45:14,546 So, this sad state of financial affairs, 723 00:45:14,629 --> 00:45:16,506 in my opinion, has been brought on by David. 724 00:45:18,383 --> 00:45:21,052 The car that your mum and David had been driving. 725 00:45:21,136 --> 00:45:23,305 Finance on the car not paid. 726 00:45:23,388 --> 00:45:26,683 You're talking about a £35,000 car. It was top-of-the-line. 727 00:45:26,767 --> 00:45:30,395 [Jake] The car was a present for my mum, but financed in her name. 728 00:45:30,979 --> 00:45:33,356 Effectively given a car that she had to pay for. 729 00:45:34,483 --> 00:45:37,319 He always told us that he was doing very well for himself 730 00:45:37,402 --> 00:45:41,448 and, you know, buying flash cars, having, you know, expensive watches. 731 00:45:41,531 --> 00:45:44,910 And looking through this, it was all faked. 732 00:45:45,786 --> 00:45:47,788 [tense music plays] 733 00:45:49,956 --> 00:45:51,792 [Mark] I did some more research. 734 00:45:54,169 --> 00:45:57,631 I had already tried looking, but I looked further and I looked harder. 735 00:46:01,802 --> 00:46:03,762 I still couldn't find anything on him. 736 00:46:03,845 --> 00:46:06,306 [keyboard clacking] 737 00:46:06,389 --> 00:46:08,683 Then I just had a brain wave 738 00:46:08,767 --> 00:46:12,938 of just putting the words "David Hendy conman." 739 00:46:15,524 --> 00:46:20,111 Up came a website describing a man who went under that name, 740 00:46:20,195 --> 00:46:22,489 but also under the name of Robert Freegard. 741 00:46:24,032 --> 00:46:25,659 "The conman who stole my life." 742 00:46:25,742 --> 00:46:30,580 "Police branded him evil and said he was in a class of his own." 743 00:46:31,164 --> 00:46:33,834 "Robert Freegard, 'the Puppet Master,' 744 00:46:33,917 --> 00:46:36,211 as he's soon to be dubbed by the British tabloids." 745 00:46:36,294 --> 00:46:40,423 "Masquerading as a James Bond-style agent, Freegard had already scammed 746 00:46:40,507 --> 00:46:43,301 nearly two million dollars in cash from his victims." 747 00:46:45,136 --> 00:46:47,138 Then I clicked on "images." 748 00:46:49,933 --> 00:46:52,936 Bang. David Hendy is Robert Freegard. 749 00:46:54,604 --> 00:46:56,147 He's the same man. 750 00:46:56,231 --> 00:46:58,108 [unsettling music playing] 751 00:47:03,572 --> 00:47:07,325 Utterly shocked. And the crimes he's carried out are horrific. 752 00:47:08,076 --> 00:47:11,705 This man was around my family and we didn't know who he was. 753 00:47:11,788 --> 00:47:13,915 [tense music playing] 754 00:47:21,047 --> 00:47:23,300 [dramatic instrumental music playing]