1 00:00:06,007 --> 00:00:07,800 [tense music playing] 2 00:00:25,068 --> 00:00:27,070 [man] It's like a needle in a haystack. 3 00:00:29,781 --> 00:00:33,034 You hope you will see Sarah again, but you don't know. 4 00:00:34,827 --> 00:00:36,996 She's out there somewhere. 5 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:38,372 [dramatic music plays] 6 00:00:41,959 --> 00:00:45,088 [woman] The only person in the world that knew where I was, was Rob. 7 00:00:48,049 --> 00:00:54,305 I had no friends, no family, no money, no identity. 8 00:00:54,388 --> 00:00:57,683 You're left just following instructions. 9 00:00:58,226 --> 00:00:59,769 You have no free will. 10 00:01:02,105 --> 00:01:05,441 Rob told me there was still a threat out there, 11 00:01:06,609 --> 00:01:10,321 and he was now gonna take me to this MI5 safe house, 12 00:01:10,905 --> 00:01:12,532 but I wasn't allowed to see where it was. 13 00:01:12,615 --> 00:01:14,784 -[car whooshes] -[dramatic music continues] 14 00:01:16,577 --> 00:01:17,411 [car door opens] 15 00:01:19,705 --> 00:01:22,625 I was told that I was gonna have to stay in the bathroom… 16 00:01:25,837 --> 00:01:31,259 and that I wasn't allowed to make a sound, and he was gonna lock me in there. 17 00:01:34,220 --> 00:01:35,930 [lock clicking] 18 00:01:36,013 --> 00:01:37,849 [tense droning] 19 00:01:40,518 --> 00:01:43,479 [fly buzzing] 20 00:01:43,563 --> 00:01:44,772 [tense music playing] 21 00:01:46,566 --> 00:01:49,360 [Sarah] It had small windows high up. 22 00:01:50,987 --> 00:01:55,992 It had just about enough space to lie down on the floor beside the bath. 23 00:01:59,328 --> 00:02:00,329 It was a prison. 24 00:02:02,415 --> 00:02:04,876 Everything's being ripped away layer by layer. 25 00:02:06,294 --> 00:02:07,128 [fly buzzes] 26 00:02:07,962 --> 00:02:11,424 I had burned every bridge with everybody that I love. 27 00:02:12,175 --> 00:02:13,843 [phone ringing] 28 00:02:16,554 --> 00:02:20,808 If I'd had any way of committing suicide, I probably would have at that point. 29 00:02:20,892 --> 00:02:22,226 [flies buzzing] 30 00:02:25,771 --> 00:02:30,902 Imagine the most hunger that you've ever felt and multiply it. 31 00:02:36,157 --> 00:02:37,658 [flies buzzing] 32 00:02:37,742 --> 00:02:41,037 And then, one day, Rob turned up to the bathroom. 33 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,080 [keys jangling] 34 00:02:47,627 --> 00:02:48,711 [door unlocks] 35 00:02:48,794 --> 00:02:50,296 [door creaks] 36 00:02:53,424 --> 00:02:56,010 He asked me if I'd like to be his girlfriend. 37 00:03:00,097 --> 00:03:01,682 Basically, he wanted sex. 38 00:03:09,065 --> 00:03:11,400 Right, if you've been deprived of food, 39 00:03:12,777 --> 00:03:14,028 and freedom, 40 00:03:14,695 --> 00:03:16,781 and any free will, 41 00:03:18,074 --> 00:03:23,496 the possibility, just a glimmer of hope that you might get treated better 42 00:03:24,497 --> 00:03:25,665 is worth a punt. 43 00:03:27,333 --> 00:03:28,376 Nothing to lose. 44 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:30,586 [tense music playing] 45 00:03:33,923 --> 00:03:35,174 [door creaks] 46 00:03:40,972 --> 00:03:42,515 [dramatic music plays] 47 00:03:44,684 --> 00:03:46,686 Any normal person would have a footprint. 48 00:03:46,769 --> 00:03:48,729 They'd go to a doctor or a dentist. 49 00:03:48,813 --> 00:03:51,399 They'd have a job, an income, bank accounts. 50 00:03:52,650 --> 00:03:55,569 Sarah had nothing. No trace of where she might be. 51 00:03:55,653 --> 00:03:57,697 She had no footprint at all. 52 00:03:57,780 --> 00:03:59,699 [dramatic music continues] 53 00:03:59,782 --> 00:04:06,122 At the same time, Kim Adams, a US citizen, was planning to marry Robert Freegard. 54 00:04:07,206 --> 00:04:10,293 And then she suddenly cut ties with her friends, 55 00:04:10,876 --> 00:04:12,920 and no one knew where Kim was. 56 00:04:14,547 --> 00:04:18,676 I came up with a plan to start recording the telephone conversations 57 00:04:18,759 --> 00:04:22,471 between Freegard, Kim, and her parents. 58 00:04:23,848 --> 00:04:29,228 At first, Freegard wasn't responding to any of their calls. 59 00:04:30,730 --> 00:04:33,065 But then, he picked up. 60 00:04:35,109 --> 00:04:36,277 [line rings] 61 00:04:37,903 --> 00:04:39,488 [line rings] 62 00:04:59,342 --> 00:05:06,182 Robert Freegard told them that he was a security agent for MI5, 63 00:05:06,766 --> 00:05:12,021 and he was planning to take Kim under his wing 64 00:05:12,104 --> 00:05:14,148 and train her to be a spy as well. 65 00:05:15,691 --> 00:05:18,361 Kim was enrolled in spy school. 66 00:05:43,552 --> 00:05:47,598 Kim didn't just fail the test once. She failed it twice. 67 00:05:58,609 --> 00:06:02,988 So, at this point, Freegard sets the hook. 68 00:06:03,531 --> 00:06:05,408 It's what he's been leading up to. 69 00:06:22,466 --> 00:06:25,052 [Robert speaking] 70 00:06:25,761 --> 00:06:27,721 [Jaclyn] That is just pure craziness, 71 00:06:28,472 --> 00:06:35,438 that Freegard's lies are so completely 72 00:06:37,231 --> 00:06:38,232 off the grid 73 00:06:38,774 --> 00:06:40,943 that they're almost believable. 74 00:06:49,869 --> 00:06:56,834 Freegard claims that he's paying the lion's share of Kim's spy school. 75 00:07:08,929 --> 00:07:15,603 And he's using that as leverage to get Kim's parents to pay their part. 76 00:07:16,437 --> 00:07:21,859 So, this is where I give Kim's parents direction 77 00:07:22,943 --> 00:07:24,361 not to give him money. 78 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:27,967 Freegard became more and more desperate, 79 00:08:28,050 --> 00:08:32,930 and so his desperation is voiced through Kim. 80 00:08:46,026 --> 00:08:48,988 Things become a little bit more concerning. 81 00:08:49,071 --> 00:08:52,032 Kim is in distress. 82 00:08:56,287 --> 00:08:58,872 There were little flaws in her conversation. 83 00:08:59,373 --> 00:09:02,918 Some of her remarks seemed… 84 00:09:04,253 --> 00:09:05,087 scripted. 85 00:09:13,053 --> 00:09:15,097 [Jaclyn] And then the story flip-flops. 86 00:09:15,180 --> 00:09:19,560 Now she needed money for car repairs, 87 00:09:19,643 --> 00:09:22,563 and she tells her mother 88 00:09:22,646 --> 00:09:25,482 the service mechanic had taken her passport. 89 00:09:51,592 --> 00:09:56,513 The situation is becoming more volatile for her, more dangerous. 90 00:09:57,264 --> 00:09:59,308 The picture that was emerging from the wiretaps 91 00:09:59,391 --> 00:10:01,727 was that Freegard and Kim were somewhere in Europe. 92 00:10:01,810 --> 00:10:04,271 [tense music playing] 93 00:10:04,355 --> 00:10:06,649 And also, Sarah was still missing. 94 00:10:06,732 --> 00:10:08,275 She needed to be found. 95 00:10:08,359 --> 00:10:10,277 [dramatic music plays] 96 00:10:13,030 --> 00:10:15,240 Freegard had been circulated as being wanted. 97 00:10:16,283 --> 00:10:20,913 But somehow, he was traveling from country to country undetected. 98 00:10:21,705 --> 00:10:24,917 It could be that he had false documentation that he was showing. 99 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:25,876 We didn't know. 100 00:10:27,252 --> 00:10:29,088 We were monitoring bank accounts, 101 00:10:29,171 --> 00:10:31,465 and we could see where money was being spent. 102 00:10:32,049 --> 00:10:35,219 In Germany, and Austria, and France, and the UK. 103 00:10:36,053 --> 00:10:41,642 [Jaclyn] Freegard and Kim were going from city to city, country to country, 104 00:10:41,725 --> 00:10:45,479 staying at each place for only a night or two. 105 00:10:45,562 --> 00:10:49,316 It was obvious that Freegard wanted to keep her moving 106 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:51,694 so that law enforcement couldn't catch up to them. 107 00:10:51,777 --> 00:10:55,239 If he was in one town, he wouldn't withdraw cash from his bank account. 108 00:10:55,322 --> 00:10:56,573 He'd drive to another town. 109 00:10:56,657 --> 00:10:58,409 [Jaclyn] They would use aliases. 110 00:10:59,034 --> 00:11:01,954 They wouldn't register under their true names. 111 00:11:03,122 --> 00:11:08,585 We couldn't find Kim and Freegard, so it was time to lure them to us. 112 00:11:08,669 --> 00:11:12,005 So we come up with a plan to a face-to-face meeting 113 00:11:12,089 --> 00:11:15,634 on the premise of being handed over $10,000. 114 00:11:16,719 --> 00:11:18,011 But it was a trap. 115 00:11:19,138 --> 00:11:24,893 Kim's mother, Ann, would travel to London and meet Freegard and Kim at the airport, 116 00:11:24,977 --> 00:11:30,524 and the plan was for us to arrest Freegard and rescue Kim. 117 00:11:32,776 --> 00:11:36,196 The way we were gonna find Sarah was to find Freegard himself. 118 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:38,574 And who knows how many other victims. 119 00:11:40,617 --> 00:11:41,910 The shark took the bait, 120 00:11:42,619 --> 00:11:46,498 and they agreed to return to London. 121 00:12:05,684 --> 00:12:07,519 [Jaclyn] "Can I give you a hug?" 122 00:12:08,645 --> 00:12:10,272 Totally makes my skin crawl. 123 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:15,194 At that moment, Freegard throws a curveball. 124 00:12:46,099 --> 00:12:47,684 [Jaclyn] This was alarming. 125 00:12:48,477 --> 00:12:54,066 If a mutual friend shows up, then where is Kim? 126 00:12:54,149 --> 00:12:55,275 Is she safe? 127 00:12:56,652 --> 00:13:01,365 But at that point, we had committed to this plan, 128 00:13:01,448 --> 00:13:03,492 and we had to see it through. 129 00:13:03,575 --> 00:13:05,410 [dramatic music plays] 130 00:13:08,705 --> 00:13:10,332 [tires screech] 131 00:13:10,833 --> 00:13:13,460 [Jaclyn] Kim's mother flew over to London. 132 00:13:14,336 --> 00:13:17,798 She was understandably nervous. 133 00:13:18,465 --> 00:13:22,803 But we had every confidence that she would be able to pull this off. 134 00:13:24,638 --> 00:13:26,807 [dramatic music continues] 135 00:13:26,890 --> 00:13:29,309 [indistinct radio chatter] 136 00:13:29,393 --> 00:13:32,479 On the day of the operation, there was basically two teams deployed. 137 00:13:32,563 --> 00:13:35,774 I was in a patrol vehicle with the head of the surveillance team. 138 00:13:35,858 --> 00:13:37,442 [indistinct radio chatter] 139 00:13:37,526 --> 00:13:42,197 I was in a car. I could only listen to everything on the radio. 140 00:13:43,407 --> 00:13:48,537 [indistinct radio chatter] 141 00:13:48,620 --> 00:13:53,166 The Met Police had about a dozen police officers 142 00:13:53,250 --> 00:13:56,044 following Kim's mother through the terminal. 143 00:13:56,753 --> 00:13:57,796 [indistinct radio chatter] 144 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:01,884 [Jaclyn] There were other police officers in cars. 145 00:14:01,967 --> 00:14:03,468 [indistinct radio chatter] 146 00:14:03,552 --> 00:14:08,181 [Jaclyn] Another dozen or so police officers in plain clothes 147 00:14:09,474 --> 00:14:12,102 keeping an eye on the Starbucks 148 00:14:12,185 --> 00:14:15,856 where Freegard was supposed to meet Kim's mother. 149 00:14:18,066 --> 00:14:22,070 The plan was that Kim's mother would walk through into the arrivals hall, 150 00:14:22,154 --> 00:14:26,158 and Kim and Freegard would be there to greet them. 151 00:14:26,992 --> 00:14:29,244 At that point, the arrest team would move in 152 00:14:29,328 --> 00:14:31,747 and arrest Freegard and recover Kim. 153 00:14:32,706 --> 00:14:35,375 [Jaclyn] But the plan went a little… 154 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:37,794 wonky. 155 00:14:40,255 --> 00:14:43,133 [Bob] Kim's mum had waited in the baggage area. 156 00:14:44,843 --> 00:14:48,096 I heard on the radio that Ann was walking through the terminal 157 00:14:48,180 --> 00:14:51,224 with other passengers that had just arrived from Phoenix. 158 00:14:51,308 --> 00:14:53,018 [tense music playing] 159 00:14:55,145 --> 00:15:00,317 Police officers were at the Starbucks trying to pinpoint Freegard. 160 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:02,194 [tense music continues] 161 00:15:02,277 --> 00:15:04,905 He might have been hiding, 162 00:15:05,572 --> 00:15:10,077 watching to see if Ann was with anyone like law enforcement. 163 00:15:10,827 --> 00:15:13,205 [Bob] All the other passengers who'd arrived on that flight 164 00:15:13,288 --> 00:15:15,290 were now going through the arrivals hall. 165 00:15:15,374 --> 00:15:17,501 There was no sign of any Freegard, 166 00:15:17,584 --> 00:15:20,045 and I had to make a decision whether I'd send her through. 167 00:15:20,128 --> 00:15:22,589 [indistinct radio chatter] 168 00:15:22,673 --> 00:15:24,049 And the answer was yes. 169 00:15:26,218 --> 00:15:28,387 Everybody was in place. Everybody was ready. 170 00:15:29,471 --> 00:15:30,555 It had to carry on. 171 00:15:32,933 --> 00:15:35,852 [Jaclyn] Ann is getting closer and closer to the Starbucks, 172 00:15:36,937 --> 00:15:38,188 and no Freegard. 173 00:15:39,147 --> 00:15:42,693 We were really concerned that he wasn't going to come. 174 00:15:42,776 --> 00:15:44,569 [unsettling music playing] 175 00:15:49,658 --> 00:15:52,327 [Bob] One of the surveillance team radioed to say 176 00:15:52,411 --> 00:15:55,789 that there was a guy acting really strangely and suspiciously 177 00:15:55,872 --> 00:15:57,332 in the arrivals hall. 178 00:15:58,667 --> 00:16:00,669 [sinister music plays] 179 00:16:00,752 --> 00:16:04,047 Looking at reflections in shop windows. 180 00:16:05,799 --> 00:16:08,468 He was clearly feeling vulnerable. 181 00:16:11,805 --> 00:16:14,599 The guy acting strangely was identified as Freegard. 182 00:16:17,978 --> 00:16:22,482 [Jaclyn] We do see Freegard, but it's obvious that Kim's not with him. 183 00:16:23,525 --> 00:16:24,943 Where is Kim? 184 00:16:26,653 --> 00:16:28,447 [unsettling music playing] 185 00:16:33,285 --> 00:16:37,164 Then Kim's mother and Freegard meet. 186 00:16:37,247 --> 00:16:39,624 [unsettling music continues] 187 00:16:46,089 --> 00:16:47,883 [Jaclyn] And unexpectedly, 188 00:16:49,301 --> 00:16:53,555 Kim's mother decides to excuse herself from Freegard. 189 00:16:55,724 --> 00:16:57,559 This was totally off script. 190 00:16:58,477 --> 00:17:01,063 She was walking towards the bathroom. 191 00:17:01,146 --> 00:17:04,107 Did she lose her nerve? 192 00:17:04,691 --> 00:17:06,109 We just didn't know. 193 00:17:08,403 --> 00:17:09,946 Kim's mom called me from the toilet. 194 00:17:10,030 --> 00:17:11,156 [phone rings] 195 00:17:11,239 --> 00:17:13,492 [Bob] She was clearly distressed. 196 00:17:13,575 --> 00:17:16,870 She was not doing what she had been briefed to do. 197 00:17:17,954 --> 00:17:20,457 The situation was getting too much for her, really. 198 00:17:21,917 --> 00:17:25,837 Freegard had told her that Kim was in the car park 199 00:17:27,339 --> 00:17:30,425 on the upper deck, waiting in the car. 200 00:17:31,093 --> 00:17:33,386 [Bob] I didn't know whether that was true or not, 201 00:17:33,470 --> 00:17:35,138 but we'd put in months of planning, 202 00:17:35,222 --> 00:17:37,682 and here we had Kim's mom going off script. 203 00:17:39,226 --> 00:17:43,855 [Jaclyn] The longer that Kim's mom is out of sight, 204 00:17:43,939 --> 00:17:46,525 he could get increasingly suspicious. 205 00:17:46,608 --> 00:17:48,026 He could flee. 206 00:17:48,110 --> 00:17:50,779 I calmed her down. I told her, "Just go with Freegard." 207 00:17:51,363 --> 00:17:53,198 [dramatic music plays] 208 00:17:53,281 --> 00:17:59,287 [Jaclyn] Then Kim's mother does emerge from the bathroom and joins Freegard. 209 00:18:00,247 --> 00:18:01,706 They left the airport terminal, 210 00:18:01,790 --> 00:18:04,376 and they headed straight towards the car park. 211 00:18:04,459 --> 00:18:06,711 [Bob over radio] Keep following at a safe distance. 212 00:18:06,795 --> 00:18:10,882 [Jaclyn] But we still weren't sure if Kim was actually there. 213 00:18:11,633 --> 00:18:14,427 I moved my arrest team into the car park. 214 00:18:14,511 --> 00:18:17,472 [woman] Hold your positions now. Hold your positions now. 215 00:18:17,556 --> 00:18:19,307 [tense music plays] 216 00:18:21,852 --> 00:18:26,731 The surveillance team said that there was a woman in a vehicle, waiting. 217 00:18:28,483 --> 00:18:29,985 [tense music continues] 218 00:18:34,281 --> 00:18:38,118 I heard Bob yell into his walkie-talkie… 219 00:18:38,201 --> 00:18:39,327 [Bob over radio] Go, go, go! 220 00:18:39,411 --> 00:18:42,330 [tense music grows to crescendo] 221 00:18:42,414 --> 00:18:45,417 [indistinct yelling] 222 00:18:45,500 --> 00:18:47,669 [Jaclyn] Freegard was put into handcuffs. 223 00:18:49,504 --> 00:18:53,049 And Kim was helped out of the car by another officer. 224 00:18:54,759 --> 00:18:59,931 This is the first time I've ever seen Kim Adams in all of these weeks, 225 00:19:00,765 --> 00:19:04,186 and she seemed upset. 226 00:19:04,811 --> 00:19:05,979 She seemed confused. 227 00:19:06,062 --> 00:19:10,108 I'm not even sure she knew who we were. But she did see her mother. 228 00:19:15,322 --> 00:19:18,742 As Freegard is being led away, 229 00:19:18,825 --> 00:19:23,371 he turns around and calls out to Kim, "I love you." 230 00:19:26,208 --> 00:19:30,462 After months of investigation and planning, he was finally with us. 231 00:19:30,545 --> 00:19:33,965 -[siren wailing in distance] -[tense music playing] 232 00:19:36,343 --> 00:19:38,803 I prepared for the interview for days. 233 00:19:42,098 --> 00:19:43,975 I knew all the evidence against him. 234 00:19:53,860 --> 00:19:56,905 [Bob speaking] 235 00:19:57,572 --> 00:19:58,949 [Robert speaking] 236 00:20:01,701 --> 00:20:04,371 [Bob speaking] 237 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:13,255 [Robert speaking] 238 00:20:13,338 --> 00:20:15,674 [Bob speaking] 239 00:20:16,466 --> 00:20:17,634 [Robert speaking] 240 00:20:19,970 --> 00:20:25,225 [Bob speaking] 241 00:20:25,308 --> 00:20:26,268 [Robert speaking] 242 00:20:26,351 --> 00:20:28,395 Freegard thought by answering no questions, 243 00:20:28,478 --> 00:20:30,563 we'd release him, and he'd be out on bail. 244 00:20:36,611 --> 00:20:39,072 [Robert speaking] 245 00:20:50,792 --> 00:20:53,503 The police asked, "What happened to Sarah Smith, 246 00:20:53,586 --> 00:20:55,213 who's been gone for ten years?" 247 00:20:55,297 --> 00:20:57,382 [tense music playing] 248 00:20:57,465 --> 00:20:59,884 [Bob] He refused to tell us where Sarah was. 249 00:21:05,849 --> 00:21:07,434 When searched at the station, 250 00:21:07,517 --> 00:21:11,479 Freegard was found in possession of a scrap of paper 251 00:21:11,563 --> 00:21:13,606 with a telephone number named Ronnie, 252 00:21:13,690 --> 00:21:19,195 and there was also a set of keys from the Buffalo Hotel in the French Alps. 253 00:21:19,279 --> 00:21:21,489 [dramatic music plays] 254 00:21:21,573 --> 00:21:22,782 That meant something to me, 255 00:21:22,866 --> 00:21:24,993 because I knew there'd been some telephone calls 256 00:21:25,076 --> 00:21:27,787 from that hotel that had been traced by the FBI. 257 00:21:31,124 --> 00:21:32,917 We were on our way to the French Alps. 258 00:21:33,001 --> 00:21:33,918 [camera clicks] 259 00:21:34,794 --> 00:21:35,962 [camera clicks] 260 00:21:36,046 --> 00:21:37,380 [Bob] The room was packed. 261 00:21:37,464 --> 00:21:38,298 [camera clicks] 262 00:21:38,381 --> 00:21:39,799 [Jaclyn] Designer men's shoes. 263 00:21:39,883 --> 00:21:40,800 [camera clicks] 264 00:21:40,884 --> 00:21:42,802 [Jaclyn] Expensive watches. 265 00:21:42,886 --> 00:21:46,598 And they also find a locked suitcase. 266 00:21:46,681 --> 00:21:48,683 And in the locked suitcase, 267 00:21:48,767 --> 00:21:53,521 Scotland Yard finds passports, letters, 268 00:21:53,605 --> 00:21:58,777 credit cards, driver's license belonging to other women. 269 00:21:58,860 --> 00:22:01,112 [dramatic music playing] 270 00:22:01,988 --> 00:22:04,908 There was a whole treasure trove of evidence. 271 00:22:06,076 --> 00:22:10,330 The instinct was that there are other women out there 272 00:22:11,164 --> 00:22:14,959 that maybe need to be saved, maybe need to be rescued. 273 00:22:19,005 --> 00:22:23,176 [Bob] Amongst the papers was documentation relating to a Renata Kister. 274 00:22:27,263 --> 00:22:29,015 We put two and two together, 275 00:22:29,099 --> 00:22:32,894 and we decided that Renata was probably Ronnie… 276 00:22:34,604 --> 00:22:37,357 who was on the scrap of paper with the telephone number. 277 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:38,900 [dialing] 278 00:22:38,983 --> 00:22:40,110 [line ringing] 279 00:22:40,193 --> 00:22:43,029 [woman] One day, I got a call from Scotland Yard. 280 00:22:43,530 --> 00:22:48,910 Bob has asked me, do I know a man called Rob Freegard? 281 00:22:50,245 --> 00:22:51,538 My heart was pumping. 282 00:22:52,038 --> 00:22:54,082 I have been instructed by Robert, 283 00:22:54,165 --> 00:22:57,585 if anyone contacts me and mentions his name, 284 00:22:57,669 --> 00:22:59,587 I should deny any contact. 285 00:23:02,006 --> 00:23:05,009 [Bob] We tried to encourage her to come into the station to talk to us, 286 00:23:05,093 --> 00:23:06,928 but she was really, really reluctant. 287 00:23:07,011 --> 00:23:10,640 He said, "How do you explain that we've got your documents, 288 00:23:10,723 --> 00:23:12,517 we've got your passport, ID?" 289 00:23:14,269 --> 00:23:15,603 She agreed to come in. 290 00:23:17,147 --> 00:23:22,110 At the police station, I explained that I met Robert Freegard 291 00:23:22,193 --> 00:23:25,029 in a car showroom in the year 2000. 292 00:23:25,947 --> 00:23:29,701 He persuaded me to buy a brand-new car. 293 00:23:31,828 --> 00:23:36,791 Robert told me that his real job is being a spy. 294 00:23:38,418 --> 00:23:44,757 Over three years, I have lost about £20,000 to him, 295 00:23:44,841 --> 00:23:48,845 which Rob promised to pay me back, but he just disappeared. 296 00:23:50,972 --> 00:23:54,684 And then, one day, the phone rings, and it's Rob, 297 00:23:54,767 --> 00:23:58,521 and he said he had this friend, 298 00:23:58,605 --> 00:24:02,108 and she needs to stay somewhere safe. 299 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:07,655 He managed to persuade me that she'll be a good help to me. 300 00:24:07,739 --> 00:24:11,659 So, I agreed for this lady to come and live with me. 301 00:24:11,743 --> 00:24:15,079 Renata told us that Freegard had brought a woman to her house. 302 00:24:15,163 --> 00:24:16,664 [vacuum cleaner whirring] 303 00:24:16,748 --> 00:24:19,209 [Bob] And that woman was now working for her as a cleaner. 304 00:24:19,792 --> 00:24:21,252 She said her name was Carrie. 305 00:24:24,047 --> 00:24:27,884 [Renata] When Carrie turned up, I didn't know anything about her. 306 00:24:28,468 --> 00:24:29,719 She didn't have ID. 307 00:24:31,179 --> 00:24:36,100 If she saw me having a camera, she would be just avoiding a picture. 308 00:24:36,184 --> 00:24:37,519 It was just odd. 309 00:24:38,770 --> 00:24:42,232 But I did manage to take this one picture of her. 310 00:24:43,191 --> 00:24:44,025 [camera clicks] 311 00:24:45,944 --> 00:24:48,988 [Bob] When Renata showed us the photograph of Carrie, 312 00:24:50,281 --> 00:24:53,660 you could kind of see a face, but not completely clearly. 313 00:24:54,452 --> 00:24:57,455 But the color of the girl, the height, the age, 314 00:24:57,539 --> 00:25:00,833 it all looked like it could have been Sarah. 315 00:25:02,126 --> 00:25:04,212 But we weren't 100% sure it was. 316 00:25:08,258 --> 00:25:09,592 [Peter] You never give up. 317 00:25:10,468 --> 00:25:13,638 And you wait, hope for a lead, 318 00:25:14,430 --> 00:25:15,640 but you never give up. 319 00:25:15,723 --> 00:25:17,267 [tense music playing] 320 00:25:25,108 --> 00:25:27,026 [Bob] We needed to speak to Carrie. 321 00:25:30,822 --> 00:25:33,700 We suspected that she wouldn't answer the door, 322 00:25:33,783 --> 00:25:36,578 so we had Renata telephone her. 323 00:25:36,661 --> 00:25:38,371 [phone line ringing] 324 00:25:38,454 --> 00:25:42,333 And I said, "Hi, Carrie. I locked myself out." 325 00:25:42,417 --> 00:25:45,003 "Can you please open the door and give me the keys?" 326 00:25:45,086 --> 00:25:46,546 [tense music playing] 327 00:25:49,007 --> 00:25:50,800 My heart was pumping like mad. 328 00:25:54,012 --> 00:25:57,890 It's a very, very stressful situation, lying to somebody. 329 00:25:57,974 --> 00:25:59,851 The pressure was really high. 330 00:25:59,934 --> 00:26:02,478 Whatever happens, I've got to be ready to deal with it. 331 00:26:03,605 --> 00:26:05,064 [knocking] 332 00:26:05,148 --> 00:26:09,569 I just didn't know if I'm sending her to prison or I'm saving her life. 333 00:26:09,652 --> 00:26:11,237 [tense music continues] 334 00:26:14,157 --> 00:26:17,535 I really didn't know what was gonna happen the next few seconds. 335 00:26:17,619 --> 00:26:20,121 [tense music grows to crescendo] 336 00:26:21,998 --> 00:26:25,168 I decided to say just two words, "Hello, Sarah." 337 00:26:25,251 --> 00:26:27,420 [gentle music playing] 338 00:26:31,257 --> 00:26:36,471 I hadn't been Sarah for some considerable number of years. 339 00:26:37,096 --> 00:26:39,641 I'd been all sorts of other names, but not Sarah. 340 00:26:42,602 --> 00:26:47,398 It was programmed into me to make my excuses and get out of there. 341 00:26:49,067 --> 00:26:53,613 It was purely because Renata was there that it anchored me. 342 00:26:55,990 --> 00:27:00,703 I just overwhelmed her with information about how the whole thing had been a lie, 343 00:27:00,787 --> 00:27:02,789 how he was never a spy, 344 00:27:02,872 --> 00:27:06,084 and that the whole thing hadn't been real from the very first, 345 00:27:06,167 --> 00:27:07,877 and that she was coming with me. 346 00:27:08,503 --> 00:27:10,338 Complete information overload. 347 00:27:10,421 --> 00:27:12,090 [unsettling music plays] 348 00:27:12,173 --> 00:27:17,095 I had my entire world turned upside down and the floor ripped out from underneath. 349 00:27:18,054 --> 00:27:21,557 You've wasted everything for nothing. 350 00:27:22,517 --> 00:27:25,937 [echoing] Can you prove you work for MI5? 351 00:27:26,020 --> 00:27:26,854 [phone ringing] 352 00:27:26,938 --> 00:27:29,649 [echoing] We just needed to follow instructions. 353 00:27:32,777 --> 00:27:34,195 Yeah, I think it wasn't 354 00:27:34,278 --> 00:27:37,615 until they actually took me to a police station 355 00:27:38,116 --> 00:27:41,369 and told me, "This is what Rob's done." 356 00:27:41,994 --> 00:27:45,164 "This is how many other people are involved," 357 00:27:45,248 --> 00:27:48,251 that I could conceive that what they were saying was real. 358 00:27:49,502 --> 00:27:52,880 And I realized, "You've thrown away your career, 359 00:27:52,964 --> 00:27:56,175 your family, your friends 360 00:27:56,259 --> 00:27:57,927 for no good reason." 361 00:27:59,554 --> 00:28:04,517 There's just no words to describe 362 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,312 how completely annihilated you feel. 363 00:28:08,396 --> 00:28:09,939 [melancholy music playing] 364 00:28:11,774 --> 00:28:14,235 And then they phoned up my family. 365 00:28:17,196 --> 00:28:21,284 I was worried that they wouldn't want me or that they wouldn't forgive me. 366 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:26,456 What I'd put them through was… 367 00:28:27,874 --> 00:28:30,835 unacceptable, unforgivable. 368 00:28:41,012 --> 00:28:42,764 [voice breaks] And they were happy. 369 00:28:44,682 --> 00:28:47,685 And my brother came and picked me up from the police station. 370 00:28:48,311 --> 00:28:52,690 And I couldn't believe that he was there and that they still wanted me. 371 00:28:52,774 --> 00:28:54,692 [melancholy music continues] 372 00:29:04,494 --> 00:29:05,787 [Peter] As she came in, 373 00:29:07,622 --> 00:29:10,875 she looked terrible. 374 00:29:11,959 --> 00:29:12,877 All her… 375 00:29:15,338 --> 00:29:19,300 confidence had been drained out of her. 376 00:29:23,888 --> 00:29:27,558 She'd wore what she had. 377 00:29:29,310 --> 00:29:30,436 She had a bag 378 00:29:31,395 --> 00:29:34,106 with a moldy crust of bread in it 379 00:29:35,858 --> 00:29:37,318 and very little else. 380 00:29:37,401 --> 00:29:40,279 -[melancholy music continues] -[bird squawking] 381 00:29:42,573 --> 00:29:46,577 After all I'd put them through, they still wanted me back. 382 00:29:51,791 --> 00:29:55,378 You can't be angry, though. She's part of your family. 383 00:29:55,461 --> 00:29:56,671 She's your own 384 00:29:58,047 --> 00:29:59,465 flesh and blood. 385 00:30:00,508 --> 00:30:02,510 And it was… 386 00:30:04,470 --> 00:30:06,973 a relief at the end of ten years 387 00:30:07,056 --> 00:30:10,601 to have actually got there. 388 00:30:19,861 --> 00:30:25,825 Our subsequent investigations revealed Robert Freegard had many other victims. 389 00:30:25,908 --> 00:30:27,785 [dramatic music plays] 390 00:30:30,037 --> 00:30:35,084 Elizabeth Richardson, he starved her and made her live on the streets. 391 00:30:35,167 --> 00:30:38,671 Leslie Gardener spent six years with him on and off, 392 00:30:38,754 --> 00:30:40,548 and he milked her for money. 393 00:30:40,631 --> 00:30:44,552 And there was a Brazilian woman's belongings at Hotel Buffalo, 394 00:30:44,635 --> 00:30:45,970 and we never found her. 395 00:30:48,347 --> 00:30:49,765 Maria Hendy. 396 00:30:49,849 --> 00:30:51,851 They were together for nine years. 397 00:30:52,435 --> 00:30:54,312 She had two children with him. 398 00:30:55,187 --> 00:30:57,315 He was abusive and violent towards her. 399 00:30:57,398 --> 00:31:02,278 He punched her. He punched her so hard that he knocked her teeth out. 400 00:31:03,446 --> 00:31:06,324 [Bob] There is a possibility there's other women out there 401 00:31:06,407 --> 00:31:08,576 who we just never had a lead onto. 402 00:31:13,581 --> 00:31:15,374 [unsettling music plays] 403 00:31:17,126 --> 00:31:20,963 [reporter] Freegard denies charges of kidnap, assault, and theft. 404 00:31:21,047 --> 00:31:24,717 His alleged victims are to give evidence over the next few weeks. 405 00:31:25,384 --> 00:31:27,720 [Sarah] I was worried about testifying, 406 00:31:27,803 --> 00:31:31,807 but he wasn't gonna do it to anybody else if I could help it. 407 00:31:32,892 --> 00:31:35,728 From the questions that his defense were asking, 408 00:31:36,354 --> 00:31:39,565 uh, it was very clear he was trying to put the blame on me. 409 00:31:40,441 --> 00:31:42,652 [Sarah] He always managed to twist the truth. 410 00:31:44,236 --> 00:31:46,447 We held hands as we heard the verdict. 411 00:31:46,530 --> 00:31:48,950 A conman who posed as an MI5 spy 412 00:31:49,033 --> 00:31:52,787 to steal almost a million pounds from his victims has been jailed for life. 413 00:31:52,870 --> 00:31:56,082 The judge said 34-year-old Robert Hendy-Freegard 414 00:31:56,165 --> 00:31:57,833 had used his devious charm 415 00:31:57,917 --> 00:32:00,628 to drive his victims to the depths of despair. 416 00:32:00,711 --> 00:32:02,046 [somber music playing] 417 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:16,102 All of us were united in the feeling that, actually, the legal system worked. 418 00:32:19,647 --> 00:32:23,025 We went and had drinks together 419 00:32:23,109 --> 00:32:26,529 and celebrated that he'd been locked up. 420 00:32:27,655 --> 00:32:29,615 [cameras clicking] 421 00:32:30,700 --> 00:32:34,078 [John] He ruined my life and ruined many other people's lives, 422 00:32:34,829 --> 00:32:36,914 and he gets everything he deserves. 423 00:32:38,249 --> 00:32:43,087 I felt that this was not something that was going to determine who I am 424 00:32:43,170 --> 00:32:45,589 or what I am for the rest of my life. 425 00:32:45,673 --> 00:32:49,885 And my family have not paid nearly half a million pounds 426 00:32:49,969 --> 00:32:52,096 for me to live a miserable life. 427 00:32:52,179 --> 00:32:55,933 By pretending to be a spy, he has power and control over people. 428 00:32:56,017 --> 00:32:59,687 He wasn't a spy. He was a sad, cruel individual. 429 00:32:59,770 --> 00:33:02,440 But then the case went to the Court of Appeal. 430 00:33:02,523 --> 00:33:04,358 [unsettling music plays] 431 00:33:08,112 --> 00:33:10,573 [reporter] His lawyers have told the Lord Chief Justice 432 00:33:10,656 --> 00:33:13,743 that his victims were never kidnapped at all. 433 00:33:13,826 --> 00:33:16,245 They were free to go whenever they pleased. 434 00:33:16,328 --> 00:33:20,958 The Court of Appeal said that in order to be a kidnapping by fraud, 435 00:33:21,042 --> 00:33:23,461 there needed to be some sort of unlawful imprisonment. 436 00:33:23,544 --> 00:33:27,006 [newsman] Robert Hendy-Freegard has had his convictions for kidnap overturned. 437 00:33:27,089 --> 00:33:29,425 His life sentence has also been quashed. 438 00:33:29,508 --> 00:33:32,094 Because Freegard had psychologically entrapped them, 439 00:33:32,178 --> 00:33:33,846 not physically entrapped them, 440 00:33:33,929 --> 00:33:36,766 then the verdict was that he was not guilty of that offense. 441 00:33:36,849 --> 00:33:38,809 [unsettling music continues] 442 00:33:42,563 --> 00:33:45,191 On a technicality, he was released, 443 00:33:45,775 --> 00:33:48,152 which is a travesty of justice. 444 00:33:49,737 --> 00:33:55,868 Absolutely absurd that somebody so blatantly guilty 445 00:33:56,535 --> 00:33:59,163 could be released into the general public. 446 00:34:01,207 --> 00:34:02,875 [Jaclyn] Did he learn his lesson? 447 00:34:03,542 --> 00:34:06,170 Freegard was not a one-dimensional mastermind. 448 00:34:06,796 --> 00:34:11,133 He used coercive control over his victims. 449 00:34:11,217 --> 00:34:12,593 He's a psychopath. 450 00:34:13,135 --> 00:34:16,597 He only knows one way to live a life, 451 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,933 and that's by lying, and deceiving, 452 00:34:19,016 --> 00:34:21,936 and abusing other people, and using their money. 453 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:27,108 I had a real fear that he would do this again. 454 00:34:27,191 --> 00:34:29,360 [unsettling music playing] 455 00:34:39,328 --> 00:34:41,122 Mum is still with Robert. 456 00:34:42,164 --> 00:34:47,753 The police had questioned Mum, and she said she knew exactly who he was. 457 00:34:49,713 --> 00:34:54,593 Maybe she's happy, but I had some of Mum's friends message me. 458 00:34:54,677 --> 00:34:56,720 They want to know if she's okay. 459 00:34:59,431 --> 00:35:02,768 One friend in particular was very worried. 460 00:35:03,352 --> 00:35:09,567 Said there'd been contact and my mum had been asking for money. 461 00:35:10,109 --> 00:35:11,360 Almost desperate. 462 00:35:13,487 --> 00:35:17,449 And this friend responded, saying he wouldn't give her any money. 463 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,744 But if she was in trouble, he would come pick her up, 464 00:35:20,828 --> 00:35:23,664 he would help her, he would get her out of any situation. 465 00:35:24,582 --> 00:35:26,542 Mum cut off ties with him completely. 466 00:35:28,794 --> 00:35:30,171 I don't know what I can do. 467 00:35:30,254 --> 00:35:34,258 All we've ever wanted was our mum to be safe and happy. 468 00:35:38,429 --> 00:35:40,431 [melancholy string music playing] 469 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:46,312 [man] I might be the ex-husband, but I'm not the ex-father of the children. 470 00:35:46,812 --> 00:35:50,149 I'm the one that looks at my children and sees them without a mum. 471 00:35:50,232 --> 00:35:53,277 And if I'm not fighting for Sandra, who is? 472 00:35:53,903 --> 00:35:58,115 She doesn't have any brothers or sisters. Her mum and dad are both sadly dead. 473 00:35:58,199 --> 00:36:01,368 Um, you know, I think it falls on me to do it. 474 00:36:03,787 --> 00:36:06,332 Hello. Wonder if you can help me. My name's Mark Clifton, 475 00:36:06,415 --> 00:36:10,377 and, um, my ex-wife has been missing for a few years 476 00:36:10,461 --> 00:36:13,631 with what I've now found out to be a very serious conman. 477 00:36:13,714 --> 00:36:15,341 I'm very worried for her safety. 478 00:36:15,424 --> 00:36:18,594 Now I know who he actually is and what he's actually capable of. 479 00:36:20,638 --> 00:36:24,016 Possibly in the north of England, but I don't know any more than that. 480 00:36:25,184 --> 00:36:28,103 [Mark] I spoke to a detective agency. 481 00:36:29,563 --> 00:36:33,609 They managed to track their mobile phone, 482 00:36:33,692 --> 00:36:38,781 which the children have had the odd, once-a-year-or-so call from. 483 00:36:40,658 --> 00:36:44,078 It's been tracked twice to a French telecom network. 484 00:36:44,828 --> 00:36:50,668 I strongly believe that Sandra and Freegard must have been in France, 485 00:36:51,335 --> 00:36:52,753 but I don't know what part. 486 00:36:53,462 --> 00:36:56,507 I have done a bit of investigation myself. 487 00:36:57,841 --> 00:37:00,928 What I'm looking at now is some photographs 488 00:37:01,011 --> 00:37:03,889 of Freegard showing beagle dogs. 489 00:37:05,516 --> 00:37:07,101 I believe Freegard is involved 490 00:37:07,184 --> 00:37:10,771 in the buying and selling of pedigree dogs. 491 00:37:10,854 --> 00:37:12,356 [tense music playing] 492 00:37:13,399 --> 00:37:17,611 It's a small world, and everybody knows everybody within that community. 493 00:37:19,613 --> 00:37:24,118 I've now been put in contact with somebody that's genuinely concerned over Sandra, 494 00:37:24,618 --> 00:37:26,704 knows some up-to-date information. 495 00:37:27,705 --> 00:37:31,208 This person doesn't want to be on camera or their face to be seen… 496 00:37:33,335 --> 00:37:37,548 but is willing to meet me face-to-face, which I think is a very brave thing to do. 497 00:37:38,590 --> 00:37:39,425 [knocks] 498 00:37:42,052 --> 00:37:43,095 Hi, it's Mark. 499 00:37:43,178 --> 00:37:45,264 -[woman] Hiya. Come in. -[Mark] Thank you. 500 00:37:49,184 --> 00:37:51,020 -[woman] Sit down. -[Mark] Thank you. 501 00:37:53,814 --> 00:37:56,400 So, how did it all start, meeting this man? 502 00:37:57,192 --> 00:38:00,487 [woman] I had an advert for a litter of puppies on the internet 503 00:38:01,030 --> 00:38:02,948 and received a text from him. 504 00:38:03,991 --> 00:38:07,036 He introduced himself as David Clifton. 505 00:38:07,119 --> 00:38:09,872 He went on to tell me that my beagles weren't good quality, 506 00:38:10,456 --> 00:38:13,542 and he could help me improve the quality of my puppies. 507 00:38:13,625 --> 00:38:16,128 I do find it insulting he uses my surname. 508 00:38:16,211 --> 00:38:18,589 [woman] I think he's running under a lot of names. 509 00:38:18,672 --> 00:38:19,506 [Mark] Yes. 510 00:38:21,258 --> 00:38:23,594 [woman] I started going into business with him. 511 00:38:24,136 --> 00:38:26,347 And I was never allowed to be in contact 512 00:38:26,430 --> 00:38:28,682 with the people I was buying the dogs from. 513 00:38:28,766 --> 00:38:31,352 He's bringing dogs backwards and forwards from France. 514 00:38:31,435 --> 00:38:33,020 Sorry. From France? 515 00:38:33,103 --> 00:38:34,772 [woman] I'm pretty certain about… 516 00:38:35,397 --> 00:38:38,984 Sorry. The France bit's just made my brain whirl around 100 miles an hour. 517 00:38:39,651 --> 00:38:41,570 [woman] That's basically a list 518 00:38:41,653 --> 00:38:43,989 of all the transactions that I've made to him. 519 00:38:44,615 --> 00:38:46,116 I would forward him the money, 520 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:47,451 do a bank transfer 521 00:38:47,534 --> 00:38:49,953 to Sandra Clifton's account. 522 00:38:51,121 --> 00:38:53,999 £237 for a vet bill. 523 00:38:54,083 --> 00:38:56,460 £323 for a vet bill. 524 00:38:56,543 --> 00:38:59,880 £478 was for a dog that I was buying off him. 525 00:38:59,963 --> 00:39:01,840 Sandra Clifton, £1,000. 526 00:39:01,924 --> 00:39:03,926 Sandra, £750. 527 00:39:04,009 --> 00:39:05,886 Sandra, £800 for a beagle. 528 00:39:05,969 --> 00:39:09,473 Sandra Clifton, £2,345. 529 00:39:09,556 --> 00:39:12,393 But the only communication I've had with Sandra is through texts 530 00:39:12,476 --> 00:39:14,103 or on an email. 531 00:39:15,479 --> 00:39:18,649 So I've never actually spoken to her. 532 00:39:19,483 --> 00:39:22,152 [Mark] It does seem a little bit suspicious, yeah. 533 00:39:22,236 --> 00:39:24,655 And these vets bills, some of them, 534 00:39:24,738 --> 00:39:26,824 did you ever see invoices for them or anything? 535 00:39:26,907 --> 00:39:28,367 [woman] No. I asked for them, 536 00:39:28,450 --> 00:39:30,244 but most never turned up. 537 00:39:30,327 --> 00:39:32,579 Towards the end, he was asking for money all the time, 538 00:39:32,663 --> 00:39:35,624 but I was getting to the point where I had no more money left to give 539 00:39:35,707 --> 00:39:38,377 without proof that the money had been spent. 540 00:39:38,460 --> 00:39:40,421 I then phoned a friend. 541 00:39:40,504 --> 00:39:43,799 She just said, "You need to Google this person." 542 00:39:44,299 --> 00:39:48,720 I Googled, obviously, this person. It was Robert Hendy-Freegard. 543 00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:50,764 It was surreal. 544 00:39:51,932 --> 00:39:53,183 I went to the police. 545 00:39:53,267 --> 00:39:54,977 Did they take you seriously? 546 00:39:55,060 --> 00:39:57,771 [woman] Not as seriously as I would like them to have done. 547 00:39:58,939 --> 00:40:02,276 And then the next time I spoke to Robert Freegard, 548 00:40:02,359 --> 00:40:04,778 he said Sandra worked very high up in the police, 549 00:40:04,862 --> 00:40:08,115 so would, therefore, know exactly what I was saying to the police. 550 00:40:10,075 --> 00:40:14,955 Sandra, from school, worked at a hotel in the housekeeping department 551 00:40:15,038 --> 00:40:17,749 right up until he got her to leave. 552 00:40:18,250 --> 00:40:20,461 Um, never been in the police. 553 00:40:21,462 --> 00:40:22,796 It's just a pack of lies. 554 00:40:23,964 --> 00:40:27,092 [woman] But I did start recording conversations with him. 555 00:40:27,176 --> 00:40:28,927 [tense music plays] 556 00:40:29,011 --> 00:40:31,555 [Robert] You told me you'd not spoken to the police, but you had. 557 00:40:31,638 --> 00:40:34,016 [woman] I haven't spoken to any police. 558 00:40:34,099 --> 00:40:37,561 [Robert] Well, I don't know then. On your record, it says that you… 559 00:40:37,644 --> 00:40:39,480 you were spoken to by police last week. 560 00:40:42,316 --> 00:40:43,609 So are you basically saying 561 00:40:43,692 --> 00:40:46,278 that you have not made any complaint against us whatsoever? 562 00:40:46,361 --> 00:40:47,196 [woman] No. 563 00:40:49,406 --> 00:40:50,699 I need to walk out. 564 00:40:50,782 --> 00:40:52,659 [tense music continues] 565 00:40:55,245 --> 00:40:56,622 [Mark groans] Fucking hell. 566 00:40:58,123 --> 00:40:58,957 [sighs] 567 00:41:01,585 --> 00:41:02,503 [sighs] 568 00:41:09,009 --> 00:41:11,887 I haven't heard that voice in six and a half, seven years. 569 00:41:12,513 --> 00:41:14,139 It just brings back 570 00:41:15,474 --> 00:41:16,558 unpleasant memories 571 00:41:17,851 --> 00:41:18,852 and pain. 572 00:41:22,898 --> 00:41:26,443 [woman] I don't know anything about Sandra other than I was told 573 00:41:27,236 --> 00:41:28,695 that she's disappeared, 574 00:41:28,779 --> 00:41:31,949 and her family haven't seen her for six years. 575 00:41:32,032 --> 00:41:33,659 [tense music continues] 576 00:41:37,955 --> 00:41:40,374 I can't imagine not wanting to see your children. 577 00:41:43,377 --> 00:41:45,379 And it has to be something pretty awful… 578 00:41:49,091 --> 00:41:50,050 [shaky exhale] 579 00:41:51,385 --> 00:41:52,719 …to stop you coming home. 580 00:41:52,803 --> 00:41:54,888 [tense music intensifies] 581 00:41:54,972 --> 00:41:56,807 [somber music playing] 582 00:42:00,727 --> 00:42:02,896 [Sophie] Mum is still out there with Robert. 583 00:42:05,691 --> 00:42:09,611 I need to meet some of the people that he's done this to. 584 00:42:16,034 --> 00:42:19,496 It will help with working out what to do now. 585 00:42:21,748 --> 00:42:24,960 Maybe they know something that can help us, that can help my mum. 586 00:42:29,965 --> 00:42:31,508 [Jake] How long did it take 587 00:42:31,592 --> 00:42:34,094 for you to come to terms with what happened to you? 588 00:42:35,929 --> 00:42:37,639 Honestly, it's… 589 00:42:37,723 --> 00:42:39,433 It took a very long time. 590 00:42:40,392 --> 00:42:42,269 And there's times it still haunts me. 591 00:42:43,937 --> 00:42:46,273 -He is very persuasive. -Yes. 592 00:42:47,065 --> 00:42:50,944 [Sarah] And it doesn't matter who you are. He can do it to anyone. 593 00:42:51,028 --> 00:42:53,071 And that's what the hardest part for us is, 594 00:42:53,155 --> 00:42:56,867 because as much as we now know that's the case, that… 595 00:42:56,950 --> 00:42:59,036 -You've got to get your head around it. -Exactly. 596 00:42:59,119 --> 00:43:01,622 We know what happened at that time, 597 00:43:01,705 --> 00:43:05,834 and all we can do is think that it was them doing it to us. 598 00:43:05,917 --> 00:43:07,544 -But it was all him. -Yeah. 599 00:43:07,628 --> 00:43:11,298 You've got to try and find a way to not blame your mum. 600 00:43:11,381 --> 00:43:12,215 [Sophie] Yeah. 601 00:43:12,299 --> 00:43:14,760 I could have walked away, but I couldn't. 602 00:43:16,803 --> 00:43:20,057 And I think probably she could walk away, but she can't. 603 00:43:20,140 --> 00:43:21,016 [Sophie] Yeah. 604 00:43:21,099 --> 00:43:22,768 [Sarah] I bet she has no freedom. 605 00:43:24,061 --> 00:43:27,064 I had no passport, no driver's license. 606 00:43:27,147 --> 00:43:27,981 Wow. 607 00:43:28,065 --> 00:43:30,525 [Sarah] No way of getting a bank account. 608 00:43:30,609 --> 00:43:31,443 Wow. 609 00:43:31,526 --> 00:43:32,944 And if your mother's abroad… 610 00:43:34,071 --> 00:43:36,031 I think he's definitely got her passport. 611 00:43:36,114 --> 00:43:38,867 …she may or may not have a passport that's hers. 612 00:43:38,950 --> 00:43:40,077 [Jake] Mm. 613 00:43:41,036 --> 00:43:45,082 [Sarah] When you've realized the truth of what you've been living is a lie… 614 00:43:45,165 --> 00:43:47,376 Your mum will need a grounding point. 615 00:43:47,459 --> 00:43:50,837 The only thing is, you know, both of her parents are now gone, 616 00:43:50,921 --> 00:43:54,549 so she doesn't have much of a family to ground her 617 00:43:54,633 --> 00:43:56,677 when she does eventually come back. 618 00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:59,262 -[Sophie] Yeah. -[Sarah] Yeah, but she's got you. 619 00:43:59,346 --> 00:44:04,434 Um, one of my greatest fears was the fact that something might happen to my parents 620 00:44:04,518 --> 00:44:05,894 whilst I was away, 621 00:44:05,977 --> 00:44:09,189 and I wouldn't have the opportunity to set right… 622 00:44:09,272 --> 00:44:10,232 [Sophie] Yeah. 623 00:44:10,315 --> 00:44:13,235 -…the things that I'd said and done. -[Sophie] Yeah. 624 00:44:13,318 --> 00:44:15,237 I think it's really hard to think 625 00:44:16,571 --> 00:44:22,369 that my granddad passed away clutching this little silver pig 626 00:44:22,452 --> 00:44:24,287 that he was so desperate to give to my mum, 627 00:44:24,371 --> 00:44:26,248 and I said I would give it to her. 628 00:44:26,331 --> 00:44:28,583 He said, "No," and wouldn't let go of it, and… 629 00:44:29,459 --> 00:44:31,420 One of the last times I saw him… 630 00:44:33,547 --> 00:44:35,757 he died wishing to see his daughter. 631 00:44:35,841 --> 00:44:38,009 [melancholy music playing] 632 00:44:38,093 --> 00:44:39,052 [Jake groans] 633 00:44:41,221 --> 00:44:42,472 [Sarah groans] 634 00:44:42,973 --> 00:44:43,849 [sighs] 635 00:44:44,474 --> 00:44:45,308 [sniffles] 636 00:44:48,103 --> 00:44:52,691 If her situation is anything like any of the rest of us, 637 00:44:52,774 --> 00:44:55,277 she will have been convinced that she can't leave. 638 00:44:56,445 --> 00:44:58,530 Sadly, I think it's a waiting game, really. 639 00:44:59,614 --> 00:45:03,160 Anything I do or say will play into his hand. 640 00:45:03,243 --> 00:45:07,789 I think the only thing I can do is wait for something to go wrong, or… 641 00:45:07,873 --> 00:45:09,291 For him to make a mistake. 642 00:45:09,374 --> 00:45:14,421 I don't think as simple as a waiting game, 'cause I think you'll wait forever. 643 00:45:16,173 --> 00:45:19,885 This is a case of there's something very wrong here. 644 00:45:20,802 --> 00:45:22,471 Don't ever give up on her. 645 00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:25,849 [sniffles] Oh, my God. [chuckles] 646 00:45:29,186 --> 00:45:30,479 [inhales sharply] Oh. 647 00:45:30,562 --> 00:45:32,689 [melancholy music continues] 648 00:45:47,829 --> 00:45:49,915 [Jake] After the death of both my grandparents, 649 00:45:49,998 --> 00:45:53,543 my mum stood to inherit a house worth £300,000. 650 00:45:54,419 --> 00:45:56,004 My plan for the property 651 00:45:56,087 --> 00:45:59,090 was it to be kept in trust with me and my sister, 652 00:45:59,174 --> 00:46:01,927 as I feared that Freegard may get his hands on it. 653 00:46:02,010 --> 00:46:03,887 [tense music playing] 654 00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:09,100 But a few months after, as I was looking after the property, 655 00:46:09,184 --> 00:46:10,352 she took me to court. 656 00:46:13,230 --> 00:46:15,607 Due to a global pandemic, 657 00:46:15,690 --> 00:46:19,486 all of the court hearings had to be done by video link. 658 00:46:21,154 --> 00:46:27,327 It was just sad that after seven years, that was the only way I got to see her. 659 00:46:30,330 --> 00:46:33,291 Throughout the court case, my mum wholeheartedly believed 660 00:46:33,375 --> 00:46:34,918 that I was stealing the money. 661 00:46:35,001 --> 00:46:38,255 But I was just trying to protect it for her. 662 00:46:39,714 --> 00:46:42,509 The case wasn't quite cut-and-dry. 663 00:46:42,592 --> 00:46:45,887 The judge, although he seemed to be siding with me, 664 00:46:45,971 --> 00:46:48,181 legally, he had to hand it over to my mum. 665 00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:55,063 [interviewer] Jake, I put it to you that Freegard has served his time, 666 00:46:55,647 --> 00:46:57,399 and maybe your mum is happy. 667 00:46:57,899 --> 00:47:00,151 Do you think that is a possible reality? 668 00:47:02,737 --> 00:47:04,573 David, in the past, 669 00:47:05,866 --> 00:47:09,369 took someone, alienated everyone around them, 670 00:47:09,911 --> 00:47:11,580 then controlled everything they did. 671 00:47:11,663 --> 00:47:16,167 If it's the case that David is just a man trying to have a life, 672 00:47:16,793 --> 00:47:19,379 why has he done the exact same thing all over again? 673 00:47:26,303 --> 00:47:28,889 [Sophie] I don't know what the right thing to do is. 674 00:47:30,390 --> 00:47:31,850 All I know is that 675 00:47:33,018 --> 00:47:35,312 telling people about what we've gone through, 676 00:47:36,229 --> 00:47:39,441 sharing it alongside what's happened to Sarah and all the other victims 677 00:47:39,524 --> 00:47:41,276 is really important 678 00:47:41,359 --> 00:47:43,862 because people need to know who he is, 679 00:47:44,654 --> 00:47:46,072 because this needs to stop. 680 00:47:47,032 --> 00:47:51,286 Robert David Hendy-Freegard, 681 00:47:51,369 --> 00:47:52,787 David Clifton, 682 00:47:54,456 --> 00:47:56,333 whatever name he goes by, 683 00:47:57,542 --> 00:48:01,713 this man should be known because of the damage he's done. 684 00:48:04,674 --> 00:48:06,593 I don't care how long it takes. 685 00:48:07,886 --> 00:48:09,429 We will never give up. 686 00:48:09,512 --> 00:48:11,681 [unsettling music plays] 687 00:48:13,183 --> 00:48:15,185 [dramatic instrumental music plays]