Between the Lines (1992) s01e06 Episode Script

Recorded interview, 2nd June 1990.
Time, 2352 hours.
Present, Edward John Dicks and arresting officers Detective Inspector william Kendrick and Detective Constable James McPherson.
I must warn you, Mr Dicks, that you are still under caution, that this interview is being recorded and may be used as evidence in a court of law.
- Do you understand that? - Yes, sir.
Did you, at about 10:00 this morning, enter Mersey Sub-Post Office armed with a pistol? Yes, sir.
I did, sir.
Tell us what happened next.
well, I, erm I, erm gave the lady behind the counter a bag.
That's right, Dicks.
Carry on.
A carrier bag.
Aye-aye, it's the bizzies.
He can just piss off.
Have you been a busy boy this morning, Dicks? Fishing with my friend, Mr Kendrick sir.
- I'll have you, Dicks.
- will you? what for? It's only a matter of time.
- And Dicks was charged that night? - Yes.
By Kendrick? Four counts of armed robbery, all post offices, including the one at New Brighton that morning.
Has Kendrick been involved in any other embarrassments? Doesn't look like it.
The Metropolitan Police investigating team has been increased to a strength of 16 officers and two civilians.
we continue to work in cooperation with and under the supervision of the Police Complaints Authority.
- Assistant Commissioner - what - Molly Cope, Liverpool Press.
- Yes, Miss Cope.
we know.
For months, you've been investigating Three men have been released, who spent 17 years in prison that they shouldn't have.
Yet all we have to show for this waste of the public's time, money and liberty is one officer retired on medical grounds, one cautioned and five suspended on full pay.
Did you have a question? which was foremost in your minds whilst carrying out these investigations - the interests of the public or the police force? Yeah, all right, darling.
Yeah, sleep well.
I'll see you soon.
Bye-bye.
Hello? Jenny, what? Jenny, it's over.
Too many people know.
It's over.
If you did that I'd never speak to you again.
This place is crawling with Met.
That's probably the assistant commissioner now.
Shit.
Another one.
Just a minute! Yeah, look, I'll ring you in a couple of weeks.
Do not ring me.
All right.
Bye.
- Are you watching it too? - what? I thought that was why you knocked.
I'm here to investigate criminal or disciplinary offences.
Amongst your fellow officers.
well, the cry seems to be, "whitewash".
Inevitably.
John More, you saw there, who's leading the investigations, is an old friend and colleague of mine.
- He's a superb police officer - He's impressive, isn't he? - Dunning? Do you think so? sometimes with PCA supervision.
Some members of the police force will have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 1990s I think he's a grey-suited all-things-to-all-men politico.
I'll be buggered if he's gonna drag me into the 1990s, screaming or otherwise.
- what's up with him? - He hates being away from home.
I think he's missing some wee wifey's spotted dick.
Or vice versa.
want a nightcap? That's not him.
I thought they said he was coming here.
well, where is he? I can't keep coming back here.
He's underage.
Excuse me.
Can you tell me where I can find the Met Incident Room, please? - Are you a detective? - Yeah.
Then you find it.
Ah, Clark.
Hello.
welcome to Beirut.
I want you lot back in London in a couple of weeks.
My gut feeling is that Dicks is hitching onto the bandwagon.
None of the officers involved have been implicated in the other shenanigans.
Don't get me wrong.
Bent coppers I want in the bin.
But I will not countenance a witch-hunt.
- Understood? - Understood, sir.
Right.
Carry on.
You're lucky.
we've been moving a pile like this every week for a year.
Dicks was arrested by Kendrick and McPherson at 9:25pm, taken to Aigburth nick, and booked in by Sergeant Poynton at 10:00pm.
He made a taped confession at 11:52pm.
- He made no complaint at the time? - At the committal proceedings he said he was roughed up, but he never made a complaint.
This complaint, lodged by his new solicitors, mentions being roughed up, but also claims he was high on drugs, deprived of food and water and denied his right to a solicitor.
Any mention of those? Nah.
well, not as far as I can see anyway.
Is that the basis of his leave to appeal? No.
Local rag's found someone.
Old friend of Dicks', who will now testify that he and Dicks were out of their minds on dope and ecstasy when he was picked up.
Says he would still have been bombed when he made his confession.
It's a bit hard to prove after two years, innit? I'm surprised they granted him leave to appeal.
It's South Lancashire.
- So where do we start? - Go and talk to this new witness, Dicks' friend Clive whatever-his-name-is.
we're gonna talk to Dicks.
He's always had it in for me.
- Harassing me.
- Did you never think of complaining? Do me a favour.
I've got form.
I stole me first Vauxhall when I was twelve.
we complain, someone fills us in.
what do you think he's standing there for? I think we'll be all right, officer.
Thank you.
- All right.
The day you were arrested.
- Yeah.
Have you got a fag? we'd been in the pub, then we went to a mate's and done some E.
- How much? - A tab each.
And a good bit of blow.
I reckon it was that that did me head.
Then I went walkabout.
- Alone? - Yeah.
- For fresh air? - Amongst other things.
- Such as? - You ever done ecstasy? I fancied a bird.
So I walked about a bit, then Kendrick came up to me.
- where was this? - New Brighton.
Victoria Road.
- At 4:00 in the afternoon? - Kendrick says 9:00.
Lying bastard.
He grabbed me.
Took me down the docks.
- I was freaked.
- Did he caution you? He grabbed me arm and said, "You shit.
You're gonna talk.
" Is that a caution? He told me I was gonna solve who'd done the post office jobs.
Said they had to be down to someone.
It was gonna be me.
we went through the docks to the water, and he called his mate McPherson.
They put me in the car and we drove, like, hours.
I watched the houses go by, they talked to me.
- Kendrick smacked me a few times.
- where did they take you? - Aigburth nick.
- You knew it? No.
Never been there before.
Anfield, Fazakerley, Huskisson Street.
Been to all those.
But never Aigburth.
- Aigburth.
- Miles to have me beaten.
- Make yourself at home.
- Thanks.
I suppose we got there around 6:00.
It was still light.
what sort of condition were you in? Are you kidding me? I was tired, high as a kite, scared - freaked - of those bastards knocking the shit out of me.
The whole place stank of piss and spew.
- well? - I think you're right.
Now listen to the confession tape again.
Apart from the robbery at New Brighton this morning, were there any other robberies you wanted to tell us about? Er Yes, sir.
Er three more.
- He sounds rough.
- He does, doesn't he? Mind you, it was midnight, he was scared, and he'd been drinking.
- He shouldn't have been interviewed.
- Kendrick should've breathalysed him? Mm.
Maybe.
Half the statements we take are from people over the legal drink-drive limit.
They shouldn't be interviewed.
- You know the guy who arrested him? - Kendrick? Oh, yeah.
we all know Kendrick.
He had it in for us, you know.
Especially Dicksy.
He'd been hassling us in the pub earlier.
So you weren't surprised when he was picked up that afternoon? Tell you what surprised me.
Him confessing to the Bevington job.
He couldn't have done the New Brighton job cos he was fishing that morning.
But he definitely didn't do the Bevington job cos he was with me.
There's no way he did it.
No way.
Yet he confessed to it.
It stinks.
So he didn't do New Brighton and he couldn't have done Bevington.
- Yeah.
- Could you testify to this at the trial? Oh, yeah.
He's pleading guilty and I walk in and say he didn't do it? I thought he'd done a deal or something.
I left it alone.
Go right in.
And two cuts and a swelling on the bottom lip.
One cut, almost an inch long, should have been stitched.
So this is the day after he arrived in prison, two days after he was arrested.
Yes.
- How old were the injuries? - well, this is merely a matter of opinion, but I felt at least a day old, probably two or three.
- Could have been self-inflicted? - Quite possible.
- Could have happened at the prison? - Less possible.
- You gave them the original photo? - Yes, with the governor's permission.
Look at the black eyes.
- These are different.
- Yes.
The newspaper photo has been enhanced.
- were you called at the trial? - No.
Definitely a silver gun.
Thanks very much.
Oh, yes.
we'll keep you informed.
Defence lawyers.
They're convinced Dicks didn't do the wirral job.
- what are they going on? - The part of his statement about wirral could easily have been given to him by Kendrick.
The eyewitnesses described a tall man with a dark blue helmet and a silver gun.
The other three jobs are almost spot on in their descriptions of Dicks, and in each case refer to a black helmet and a black gun.
- Just relax.
I've told you, it's all sorted.
- Shouldn't we Look, just do as you're told.
Jesus, the bastards are everywhere.
Excuse me.
Evening, all.
Half the cases under investigation were brought to light by her.
Didn't she start the whole shooting match? More or less.
She certainly relaunched the Dicks case.
She's either one sharp cookie or she's got an insider.
- Or both.
- Someone should see her.
That girl from the Liverpool Press? I saw her today.
Not to talk to.
I was chatting with that friend of Dicks' down at New Brighton.
- There she was.
- working? Either that or she's got a market research job on the side.
Cracking-looking bird, I'll give her that.
- It's time I had a chat with Ms Cope.
- It wouldn't be better if I did? No.
No, better if it was me.
- I'm not interested.
- I just thought we could have a chat.
Did you? I'm afraid I'm not interested in being lobbied by coppers.
I'm from CIB, a section devoted entirely to an investigation of bent coppers.
I don't like bent coppers and I want any help I can get in nailing them.
Good.
Very, very good.
I can still smell whitewash.
Can't I just take you out for a meal and talk about it? Don't make me laugh, caveman.
Don't make me laugh.
You stand there behaving like a Rottweiler, and you call me primitive? You want to buy me a meal? 8:00 tomorrow, Frank's, in the Dock Road.
That's am, by the way.
8:00am.
Don't be late.
How's this for a heading? "Police stop white man in car.
" Now, that is a scoop.
- Scrambled eggs.
- Scrambled? One egg or two? - How do you scramble one egg? - Two scrambled.
- Toasted? - Yes, two.
- Two toasted.
Tea? - Yes, please.
Not too milky.
- Like it? - Erm not particularly.
I do.
It's unpretentious.
Honest.
Then I don't know what either of us is doing here.
- what do you want? - I want to know three things.
One, how bent is the South Lancs Serious Crime squad? Very.
Two, if we caught a self-confessed mass-murderer, would it be possible in the present climate, and OK with you, for us to put him away? - No.
- No? It's not your job to put him away, it's the court's job.
You had a third question? - Can I speak to your insider? - I don't have an insider.
- And if you did? - Hmph.
If I did, I wouldn't tell you.
You have unearthed more information Than the entire Met investigating team.
where there's a will, there's a way.
No, you've got an insider.
- women's intuition? - Sexist bollocks.
why do you dislike us so much? During two investigations, you have not put a single policeman away.
That's not our job.
It's the court's job.
Two scrambled eggs.
- It's a joke.
- I know.
He got lost.
I'm sorry.
Sorry.
My last interview overran.
Tony Clark.
- Sergeant Poynton.
- Police fed rep.
He looked scared, but drugs or drink, no.
- Did you know him? - Knew of him.
when you've been in the force for 30 years, you get to know most of the people who crop up.
Dicks is one of them.
So you remember what happened when Kendrick and McPherson brought him in.
Yes.
I signed him in when they arrived, a couple of minutes after 10:00pm.
I asked him whether he required a solicitor.
He made to sign the box indicating no solicitor.
I checked whether that was what he wanted and he said yes.
would it surprise you if he told us that he repeatedly asked for a solicitor and was disturbed that a solicitor didn't arrive until 10:30 the following morning, No, sir.
He's a liar.
would you be surprised to hear that the custody records for that day cannot be found? The records are usually destroyed after 18 months to two years.
I'd be surprised if they still existed.
Do you resent me asking you these questions? There are two or three officers under investigation by you that I'd be pleased to see put down for a decent stretch.
But Kendrick Kendrick's the best.
He's the best.
So yes, I do resent it.
My client, Detective Constable McPherson, has prepared a statement and has asked me to indicate that he doesn't wish to speak at this time.
Fair enough.
Poynton was superb.
A dream defence witness.
- Upright, indignant, believable.
- And DC McPherson? - He decided to remain silent.
- Any idea why? Probably because Poynton or Kendrick thought he wouldn't be a dream witness.
- what about Dicks? - Two things, really.
Totally untrustworthy and totally believable.
There is also a reporter with a more or less 100% hit rate, who thinks she smells a rat.
- You still haven't spoken to Kendrick? - No, I'll leave him till next week.
I want to know everything there is to know before I see him.
Sir, look at this.
I got the pocketbooks of everyone on duty.
PC Alfreds, 2nd June.
"2000 hours, glass of water and bog paper to prisoner.
" From what we know, there was no other prisoner apart from Dicks, and he wasn't supposed to have arrived till 2200 hours.
- Check it out with Alfreds ASAP.
- Call for you, guv.
In my job I see the absolute bottom of the barrel.
And I've only ever seen a handful of coppers who were bad.
Really bad.
The rest are just ordinary people who care.
Somehow people don't believe that.
I don't know how to persuade 'em.
Start with me.
Persuade me.
I'd like to try.
I'll do a deal with you.
I'll give you what my informer gave me if you'll use it.
Of course I will.
It makes your officers guilty of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
That's why I'm here.
It's what I do for a living.
You really believe we've been brought here to cover up, don't you? Dicks was picked up at 6:00pm, not after 9:00.
He was roughed up and taken to Aigburth, far from the nearest station.
The custody sergeant was an old pal of Kendrick's.
Dicks was not so out of it that he didn't repeatedly ask for a solicitor.
when his solicitor finally arrived in the morning, Dicks told him he'd been beaten, intimidated, and kept cold and hungry.
After several hours of this, he had signed a confession which had been dictated before the taped interview.
Strong stuff.
Eyewitness or hearsay? Is your informer reliable? You probably don't remember this but, er Yeah.
June 2nd, 1990.
You were on the late shift.
You wrote "2000 hours, glass of water, bog roll to the prisoner.
" - Do you remember the prisoner? - Dicks.
- You've got a good memory.
- It's just been in all the papers.
were you aware of anything unusual at the time? If this is an interview, I'll have to have my solicitor.
Here, look.
You wrote 2000 hours.
But Dicks, he weren't picked up until 2200 hours.
I'd only been in the force a couple of months.
I wrote 10pm as 2000 hours.
- I still do it now sometimes.
- It's a common mistake, innit? what's going on? Hi.
212, please.
Cheers.
I don't want to play pathetic, infantile little games.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
It's just stupid, stupid codes of conduct stuff.
I'm sorry.
Hello.
Oh.
where? - Shall I send her up? - what? No.
No, I'll come down.
Something's come up.
I'll be back in a tick.
Don't answer the phone.
And don't go away.
I just don't believe you.
- You're bloody mad.
I told you - I needed to see you.
Deakin is here.
You could have had me thrown out of the force.
- why didn't you answer my messages? - I told you it's over! well, it may be for you but it's not that easy.
I can't just Oh, Christ.
I'm sorry, Tony.
I couldn't stop myself.
I thought you'd be pleased.
I'm sorry but I'm not.
Have you got your car here? Somewhere to stay? All right.
we'll find you somewhere.
Come on.
- You were good on telly last week.
- Thank you.
- You handled it very well, sir.
- Forget the "sir" here, Tony.
It's Trevor.
Thank you, Trevor.
we do need to do a good deal of work on our public image.
Hello, Tony.
Having a nice rest in Liverpool? I also heard you on the radio, talking about a non-adversarial system of trial.
- That really was a debate.
- I think you got your point across.
Oh, yes.
It's something one wouldn't normally think about.
Not as a layman, anyway.
And yet it's so obvious.
Is it? I missed the radio thing.
How can the police be seen as impartial when the heart of their job within the present judicial system is to prove that members of the public are guilty? Do you want a job? I've just done that! You're all the bloody same, you lot, with your big bloody feet.
Early bird.
Two early birds.
who's the worm? - I hope it's Dicks.
- It might turn out to be Kendrick.
- Hotting up, is it? - It's all a bit circumstantial but it's building into a case.
I was gonna ask you for advice about how to proceed.
were you, now? what do Dunning and Huxtable have to say? - You don't miss much, do you? - Almost nothing.
I can even tell you what they said.
Offer up the heads of all bent coppers on a silver salver as a sacrifice to Mr bloody Dunning's media career.
So what do I do? Stop the investigation? Let them off? It's not in your gift.
whether you like it or not, you are the judge and the jury.
we all are.
Think how much they like it when they're stopped for speeding and they get off with a verbal warning.
You decide what to tell me, don't you? Naylor decides what to tell you.
So does Dicks.
So does Kendrick.
The PCA, the press, Disgusted of Tunbridge wells.
All judge and jury.
The reason you're here is because we think you're smart enough, and somewhere inside, strong enough, not to be a liability.
Sounds rather negative.
well, it's a compliment.
This bird rang for you.
- You bastard.
- what? Don't come the innocent with me.
You nobbled my informer.
- I did what? - The minute I'd spoken to you.
Christ knows how you did it but you got to him.
Did I? Your two gorillas were on him in a trice, now he's wild with me.
He thinks I handed him over to you Alfreds.
Now, that's a coincidence.
They found his pocketbook.
- I don't believe you.
- It's true.
Shit.
It's my turn to deal.
I won't tell anyone who he is if he agrees to talk to me.
- Off the record.
- Yes, but with my inspector present.
- why? - without him it would be useless.
- That is why he wouldn't agree to it.
- Then I blow his cover.
Then I stick to everything I said.
You are a bastard.
It seems from the taped interview now referred to as "the confession" that you'd spoken to Dicks before the interview began.
- Yes, sir.
- Yes? - Yes, sir.
- Under caution? - Yes, sir.
- where's the tape? The machine was faulty at the time, sir.
I took notes.
Ah.
where are they? They were sent, along with all the other evidence, to the Crown Prosecution Service.
- were they used in court? - I don't know, sir.
It was the CPS's decision.
were these notes signed by Dicks? I think not, sir.
- where are they now? - Ask the CPS.
we have.
Dicks' facial injuries.
How did he come by them? - Self-inflicted.
- Are you serious? You're facing a charge which could send you down for 10, 15 or 20 years.
If you smack yourself in the eye or head-butt the bog, there's an outside chance you might just walk in a week.
wouldn't you do it? Did you write down details of the robberies to jog Dicks' memory? No, sir.
- were you aware that he'd taken drugs? - No, sir.
Did you interview him for hours before he was checked in? - No.
- Did you deny him access to a solicitor? - No.
- Beat him? - No.
- Deny him food? I think you did most or all of these things.
Prove it.
So why didn't the solicitor lodge a complaint for Dicks? I'm not sure.
But he knew Kendrick.
They were certainly on first-name terms.
I know he advised the lad to keep shtoom.
Don't make waves.
Plead guilty and serve your time.
And the kid bought it.
Did you give Ms Cope all the stuff about the Serious Crime squad? - Some of it.
- why? Because the place is a mess.
why not tell a senior officer? Because I didn't know how high I'd have to go to get out of the shit.
And it doesn't matter how high you go, nobody likes a nark.
Do they, Inspector? No comment.
- But you won't speak.
- No.
You blow my cover, I leave the force and don't say a word.
This is much more like it.
They even give you slippers.
- You won't blow his cover, will you? - You know I won't.
Yes.
And Naylor? He did hate him, didn't he? Yep.
But he won't shop him.
why can't we spend the night at your flat? Because you can't get room service.
And the bed's bigger here.
You've got enough to do them now, haven't you? what? Oh, Kendrick? No, not at all.
we have enough to convince us, but the CPS would need more before they'd bring a case to court.
what a shame.
what you need is another witness.
Are you up to something? Hey.
- when did you find him? - Last week.
why didn't you tell me? why didn't you tell me you were married? So what time did you see Kendrick and Dicks? Between 5:30 and 6:00.
I was closing up the shop, see.
I remember cos there was a bit in the next day's evening paper and I realised that's what I'd seen the day before.
It's not exactly a regular daily occurrence to see someone getting picked up for armed robbery.
Not even in New Brighton.
I'll batter the pair of you.
Go on.
Pick on someone your own size.
Hello? Yeah, he is.
who is it? It's for you, Bill.
Someone called Clark.
You know I won't speak to you without my solicitor.
I want to talk to you without prejudice and completely off the record.
It's getting too hot now.
I regret it.
I want to talk about damage limitation.
You are in no position to deal, and you know it.
Aren't I? If you don't come to the pub round the corner in the next 20 minutes, you'll never know, will you? No drink.
I'm stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea.
I can't just drop this case.
I got too close.
Too many people are waiting for a result.
But I honestly don't want a full-scale, no-holds-barred scrap, because I believe all three of you will go down and Dicks will get out.
I don't agree.
You don't know how close we are to you.
we have the original complaint, we have a witness who will testify that Dicks was high.
we now have a witness who will testify that he saw you behaving roughly towards Dicks three to four hours before you admit speaking to him.
we have the prison doctor, we have the solicitor advising Dicks, who turns out to have been a friend of yours.
we have a confession to one job that doesn't match the eyewitness details.
we have McPherson, who I believe will crack under pressure.
A lot of hot air.
wouldn't frighten anyone.
Even if they were guilty.
And we have an inside informer, who is now willing to testify that he saw Dicks in Aigburth nick at least two hours before Poynton signed him in.
- Produce him.
- I will.
But first I wanted to offer you something.
If you admit to taking Dicks to the river, thumping him and being aware that he was high, I will not spring the informer.
And McPherson and Poynton will not be implicated.
There's every chance that they won't be touched, or will just get advice.
There's every chance that you will just get a caution.
I can't promise you that you won't be kicked out, but in view of your record, I think you'd swing it.
- And Dicks? - That's up to the appeal court.
Funny old world, isn't it? Yeah.
No deal.
what's this nonsense about suspending Poynton, Kendrick and McPherson? I will not suspend officers on the basis of circumstantial bits and pieces.
You don't think the CPS have enough to build a case? No.
This new witness may have tipped the scales.
what about the theory that the reporter, Cope, has an informer inside the force? From some of her leads, there's no doubt about it.
You've been trying to wheedle your way in there.
Any progress? I've spoken to her.
Naturally she won't reveal her sources or if she has any.
I don't mind saying that I'm not happy about the way this is going.
I've got enough headaches without this molehill turning into a mountain.
Are you saying you want me to stop the investigation? - Maybe he didn't do it.
- Ah, well, well, well, well.
This is the first time since we've been on this case that anyone has asked, "Did the little bastard rob those post offices?" Of course he did, didn't he? we all know he did.
He may not have done the wirral job, but how many others has he done, eh? That's not exactly the point.
If putting villains behind bars isn't the point, why am I doing the job? It's how you do it.
If we don't play by the book, we just become vigilantes.
Jeez, you're beginning to sound like that bedfella of yours.
- Did you tell Deakin? - I should have.
I should have told him a lot.
But I used my judgment.
So am I a vigilante? - No.
- well, you'll excuse me, guv'nor, but I think you're being a bit naive.
That little shit's lethal.
All right, so they slapped him around a bit.
But they got a confession.
So he was scared for an hour or so and they bent the rules.
But how scared were the little old ladies he waved guns in front of, eh? How scared were the kids he forced to lie down on the floor? How many nightmares? How many wet beds? Nah, if Kendrick played it by the book, he would never have got him.
And now Dicks has got you, me, half the bloody Met, the PCA, the CPS, the DPP, his lawyer, the papers, the officers under question, the courts all running around like beheaded chickens, and for the first time, three minutes ago, someone - you - bothered to ask, "Did the little bastard do it?" what's wrong? what's wrong? Big question.
Is it you and me? what? You must be fairly close by now, aren't you? No.
If I push on, I might get closer, I might not.
You're worried because you think Dicks did it.
Those bastards who beat up the Birmingham Six.
You saw the pictures.
They all knew they were guilty, and now we know they weren't.
No one has the right to do that in a civilised society, least of all policemen.
- That's different.
- No, it isn't.
They think they have the right to be judge and jury.
You don't.
You don't in South Africa, Chile or Romania, and surely, for Christ's sakes, you don't here.
I'm gonna make a statement, because the longer this and other investigations go on, the more mud gets thrown.
And mud sticks, believe me.
It sticks.
You and your team, your journalist friend.
My God, you're naive.
we're all detectives, you know.
Did you prefer the Adelphi Hotel? The free slippers? I could use that.
I could offer you a deal.
But I won't.
I did bring him down here to the docks.
And I was aware that he was high.
I could hardly fail to be.
when I saw him in Victoria Road at about six o'clock, he was so freaked out he just surrendered himself to me.
He couldn't stop talking.
But I knew that I couldn't take him in in that state.
So I decided to walk him around a bit.
I never hit him.
Not then, not later.
And nor did anyone else.
I bought him a McDonald's and a coffee.
And when I thought he'd sobered up enough, I rang McPherson.
we booked him in at Aigburth when we said we did.
we fed him, gave him some water and asked him if he wanted a solicitor.
And that is all there is to it.
Now, you can't touch the other two, because they didn't do anything.
And me? well, I walked a man who said he'd committed several armed robberies around a bit.
I fed him hamburgers and coffee and presumed, to my lasting shame, that it was my duty not to lose him, but to get him to confess so he could be put somewhere where he wouldn't kill an innocent person.
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
And do you know something else? we never did find the gun.
Chilling, isn't it? You broke the rules.
- Liverpool Press.
- Oh.
- Hello? - Hello, Tony.
Hello, Miss Cope.
what can I do for you? Now, there's a question.
- Are you overheard? - Yes.
Oh, good.
First you can take me to a nice sunny beach, under some palm trees - Oh, yes? - Then you can undress me.
Yes, yes, that should be fine.
when? Thursday.
I'm coming to the hearing.
Meet you outside? - Fine.
what time? - Two o'clock.
By the way, Kendrick, Poynton and McPherson have all been suspended.
word is the CPS is gonna prosecute.
In the light of the new evidence, I can do nothing except throw out this confession and the subsequent conviction as wholly unsafe.
I will make no comment on what action should be taken against the officers concerned, as this is now in the hands of the Department of Public Prosecutions.
I will just say that it is a black day indeed when an innocent man is imprisoned in this manner.
- Innocent? - Until proven guilty.
I therefore recommend You can't believe that he might have been innocent.
I suppose not.
Maybe he was just showing off to his friends and taunting Kendrick.
Maybe Kendrick really did beat a confession out of him.
- I believe Kendrick.
- I don't.
I'm not sure I believe Dicks, but I'm glad he's been given the benefit of the doubt.
My trial next.
- I expect you'll be there.
- Yes.
- You'll get off.
- will I? - Both times? - what do you mean? we're tried twice.
Once by the courts and once by the police.
- You'll get off.
- I wish I shared your confidence.
And you.
what will you get? - Me? - For tampering with evidence.
The photograph of Dicks that led to the public outrage that led to the appeal.
You even blacked in the wrong eye.
Funny old world.
Isn't it? - Mr Dicks! Mr Dicks! - Here he is! Can we have a word, Mr Dicks? Justice has been done.
Yes! Hey!