Suspects (2014) s04e03 Episode Script
Ricochet
1 Reports are coming in of another shooting in East London, this time in broad daylight.
It comes just days after the drive-by shooting of 19-year-old Victoria Summers, who remains in a critical condition in hospital.
Victim is 43-year-old Reverend Daniel Matthews.
He was shot in the arm, so there's quite a lot of blood.
He's just gone off to hospital in the ambulance.
- Reverend Matthews? - Yeah.
Really? - Yeah.
That guy's a hero around here.
The community love this guy.
He's -- He's taken all these kids off the street, given them a second chance with this place.
Someone doesn't love him.
So, what's happening? I thought it was a gangbang.
Fucking reverend's been shot.
- For real? - Yeah.
Oh, Jesus, that's all we need.
Okay, so we've got no CCTV inside and absolutely no CCTV outside.
That's a deliberate move by the reverend to develop a kind of a sense of trust between the boys.
Some of these kids have had brushes with the police since they were like seven, eight years old.
Yeah, well, maybe his "hug a hoodie" approach has bitten him on the ass this time.
Hey.
One of the guys said that just before the reverend got shot, he saw a white female come in and ask the reverend to go outside.
They say her name's Kelly Pearce.
That's interesting.
Maybe someone else sent her in to pull him outside, you know? Well, apparently she's going out with the reverend's son, Aaron.
So, I mean, if she did, that would be What's the reverend's son called? Aaron? - Yeah.
- Okay.
- Aaron Matthews? - Yeah, hi.
Hi.
Detective Constable Charlotte Steele.
I'm one of the officers investigating -- Sorry.
Is my dad gonna be okay? How is he? He's fine.
Okay, so I just went and spoke to a doctor.
I was told that he was hit in the fleshy part of his arm, so there was a lot of blood, but it could've been much -- - Sorry.
- I'm sorry.
It could've been much, much, much, much worse.
So he's in surgery now.
They should patch him up, and he should make a pretty swift recovery.
Your girlfriend, Kelly, was at the boxing club this morning.
Why was that? Yeah, I-I drove Kelly 'round there this morning.
She wanted to speak to my dad.
I don't know what it was about.
You drove her there? Yeah, I parked 'round the back and Waited for her to come out.
She was only gone for about a couple of minutes.
Okay, so you didn't go inside at all? - No.
- Okay.
Reverend Daniel Matthews, founder of Kurtley Way Boxing Gym, Where he was shot this morning.
This is the alleyway leading off the front door.
Front door, Where the shooting took place.
Timeline wise, the boxers take a break on the dot every morning at 11:30 a.
m.
They said just as they broke, they saw Kelly Pearce arrive to talk to Daniel.
And then local residents said they heard a gunshot at 11:40, So we've got a 10-minute kind of 10-minute window for Kelly Pearce, if she did it, to shoot our reverend.
So Kelly went in, had a chat with your dad about something, you don't know what, and then she came back Yeah, she came back after about five minutes.
Then we went for a drive.
- Where did you go? - Um, I pulled up by the canal.
Okay.
She was in a bit of a funny mood, so -- She said she needed to clear her head, so she went for a walk down the canal.
What does "funny mood" mean? Um, well, you know, just kind of argumentative.
She gets a bit that way sometimes.
Just a little bit, you know, I don't know, in a funny mood.
Okay.
Do you know where she is now? No, I haven't heard from her since.
Police! Open up.
How are you doing? I'm Detective Sergeant Jack Weston.
- Who am I talking to? - Alma.
- Alma what? - Alma Pearce.
- Are you Kelly Pearce's mother? - Yes.
- Yeah, is Kelly at home? - I don't think so.
Okay, I've got a warrant to search your home.
We're looking for a firearm.
Step aside.
Anyone else in the house I need to know about? - My son.
- Yeah? Why don't we sit down? Can I get you a glass of water or anything? Are you on any medication? - No, just diazepam.
- Okay, how many have you taken? Do I need to get you an ambulance? - No, no.
- Are you sure? - Yeah.
- Okay.
Okay, just have a very quick read of this so you understand what's happening.
Okay.
- Lee, anything? - Nothing, sir.
No? I'll check upstairs.
Hi, Sammy.
Sammy, I'm looking for your sister, Kelly.
Do you have any idea Where she is? Sammy, can you answer me? Just say yes or no.
Any idea Where you sister, Kelly, is? No.
Kelly Pearce's flat, clean as a whistle.
SOCOs, though, have found a shell casing from outside the boxing club.
So we should be able to figure out now, looking at the shell casing, Whether the firearm that was used to shoot Reverend Daniel Matthews was used in any other crime.
I fed Daniel's address into the computer, and there was a report of a disturbance this morning at the vicarage.
A neighbor rang in and said that a young man was kicking the door and shouting.
There was a bit of back and forth between him and the reverend.
She took the registration of the car, and it is registered to Joseph Brookes.
Local gang member, series of drug convictions, and also one of the main suspects for the Victoria Summers drive-by shooting four days ago.
When we spoke to Reverend Matthews last week, as just someone who was in the vicinity of the drive-by shooting, he said he didn't see anything, he didn't know anything about it, and now this young man, who's our prime suspect, turns up banging and shouting outside his door.
Exactly.
So let's deal with something concrete.
Let's pull him in on a public order offense, okay? So at 10:30 this morning, Joseph, you were seen banging on the door of the vicarage Where the Reverend Matthews lives.
Why were you there? My friend lives there, innit? I was looking for Aaron.
The way I've heard it, you were having an argument with the reverend.
Argument? - Yeah.
Pbht.
Don't know Where you got that from.
Well, it was described as a domestic disturbance.
That's a pretty big barney.
That's bullshit.
I was there, knocked for Aaron, he wasn't in, had a little word with the dad, innit? Nothing major.
Do you get on with his dad? Yeah, his dad's a cool guy.
Come on.
He taught me my right hook and everything.
I've got a good right hook, you know? I'm sure you do.
Thank you.
Reverend Matthews? Hello, I'm Martha Bellamy, detective inspector.
We met some years ago.
Are you all right to shake hands? - I am.
- You're okay with that hand? Oh, dear.
How are you feeling? I'm fine, I'm fine, given the circumstances.
Thank you.
I want to run through a couple of things, if that's okay.
Aaron, can you just give us a minute? Sure.
- This is your boy? - Son.
Aaron.
Okay.
Want to talk me through what happened? Uh, yes.
It was -- We were training this morning.
It was a normal training session.
We broke at around 11:30.
Um, Kelly, one of the younger boxers, came in to speak to me.
- Kelly who? - Kelly Pearce.
Okay.
She came in to speak to me.
Basically she -- she came to tell me that she no longer wanted to train.
She's actually been spending a lot of time with Aaron.
But I told her I was disappointed.
She's quite a good prospect.
So we had a conversation.
She left.
I stayed outside to have a cigarette before going back in.
And I hear a car coming past, driving faster than normal, enough to make me turn 'round.
The next thing I know, I hear a bang -- or I felt a bang.
I came 'round, and I was lying on the floor.
I'd been shot.
Right.
And how long after Kelly left did this happen? 15 minutes.
Might she have shot you? No.
Not under any circumstances, no.
I don't think it was Kelly.
Okay.
I believe this morning -- cast your mind back -- at the vicarage, I believe that there was a visitor, Joseph Brookes.
It's just that I was led to believe that there was a row, some kind of disturbance was reported.
No, no.
We did have a conversation.
It was just about his car.
He's got a very noisy car.
Some of the neighbors had complained about it.
I just asked him to be mindful, really, when he was driving around the area.
Joseph Brookes is tucked up safe and sound at the station.
Right.
Do you understand what I'm saying? Absolutely I do, but unfortunately there's nothing I can tell you about him.
How did it go? Uh, well, he was polite but vague.
- Yeah? - He claimed it's a drive-by.
Really? I just had forensics on the phone.
They said they can't find any tire marks anywhere on the road, okay? Plus the fact that that shell casing was found just outside the front door of the club.
It's not as if it was found, like, in the middle of the road.
So it seems that maybe the reverend was shot at a much closer range than he's letting on or that he can remember.
I don't know, maybe his memory's gone, or maybe -- maybe he's lying.
Yeah.
He's also somewhat reticent to talk about the conversation/row that he had with -- come in -- with Joseph Brookes, too.
Kelly Pearce has just walked in.
She's downstairs.
Oh! I wish they'd all just walk in.
Right, well, let's show the facilities.
- Happily.
Excellent.
Kelly, why did you go and visit the reverend early this morning? I was angry at him.
Straightforward question -- Did you shoot Reverend Matthews? What? Did you shoot the reverend? I've come here to make a statement about him, to put him in prison.
He raped my brother.
That's a very serious allegation, Kelly.
Yes.
My brother Wouldn't lie.
That is quite an allegation.
And if it's true, it is certainly a motive for someone like Kelly to shoot the reverend.
Yeah, but if Aaron and Kelly's statements are to be believed, then Kelly has an alibi, right, at the time of the shooting? Belt and braces, Charlie.
You update Jack and get onto the child protection team.
I need that kid to have a full exam.
Okay? And what did the reverend say in response to the allegation? What do you think he fucking said? I've no idea.
"No, I didn't do it.
What are you talking about?" It was the usual thing that people respond to when they're being accused of something.
Tell me exactly what you said to him.
I was really angry at him.
I started shouting, and I said to him that, "I know what you did, and I'm gonna tell the police.
" And so who told you about Sammy -- about Sammy's abuse? Aaron.
Aaron told me what Sammy said.
I found him at home trying to take some of my mum's drugs.
This is behavior that's unlike him.
He Wouldn't do things like that.
I was asking him, "What are you doing?" He was trying to kill himself.
So obviously somethings definitely Wrong.
And what -- And then I ask him, and he doesn't respond.
He doesn't tell me anything, and I thought the only way that I can get any information out of him is through Aaron.
They're really good friends.
He's like a brother for him.
His behavior since he came back from his trip has just changed, who he is.
Back from which trip? They went on a trip, like the boxing team, The Reverend Daniel took them.
It happened that night in his tent.
It's child protection just through with the report.
Poor little Sammy's not saying anything, but the initial examination would suggest that he's definitely been raped.
Anyway, child protection are asking Whether we can figure out what Sammy was actually wearing last night.
Okay.
Okay, I'll get onto the search team.
I do need to go over a few other details concerning the shooting this morning.
Um, Kelly, how did you get to the club? Aaron drove me in his car.
Aaron knew why you were going, what you were gonna talk about? Of course he knew.
Yeah, yeah.
He knew.
And then you went off on your own? - What did Aaron do? - Yeah.
Aaron dropped me.
He -- I don't know -- went to his mate's house or something.
Probably drove off somewhere.
Right.
What, a mate like Joseph Brookes? Possibly.
Is he a friend of Aaron's and yours? He's a friend of Aaron's, not a friend of mine.
Aaron -- Aaron worships the ground he walks on.
He's, like, obsessed with him.
What do you think of him? He's a dick.
That's what I think of him.
What were you doing between 11:00 and 12:30 today? Well, had my girlfriend Libby bent over the side of the bed at about 11:15.
So if I call her and ask her, she'll tell me exactly the same thing? What was that? Sorry? "Bent over the side of bed"? She'll say exactly the same thing? - Exactly the same thing.
- Right.
Good.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Cheers.
Bye-bye.
Um, okay, uniform have searched Joseph Brookes' car and his house.
- They've seen nothing.
- Well, obviously.
He's not stupid enough to leave a gun lying around, I guess.
I spoke to his girlfriend, Libby James, as well, who -- surprise, surprise -- corroborates his alibi.
Apparently he was with her when the shooting took place, which is of course absolute bullshit.
He used the same alibi for the Victoria Summers drive-by shooting last week.
There is no sign of the firearm at Libby's place either.
Aaron.
Do you mind if we come in? Your girlfriend, Kelly, has made a very, very serious allegation of sexual abuse against your father.
So it's Kelly who said all this? She said that Sammy told you about it.
Kelly said that my father abused Sammy? This makes a lot more sense now.
- Does it? - Yeah.
Yeah, Kelly doesn't really behave in a normal way.
She's, um She -- She finds life difficult, to put it bluntly, you know? She's come from a dysfunctional family.
She's really struggled.
She's never been this bad before.
She's never said anything quite like this.
But, yeah, she's desperate to get at me, though.
- That's what it is.
- Why is that? We broke up this morning.
That's the only reason I can think she'd want to, you know, really hurt me.
It's the best thing she can think of, you know? Blame his reverend dad for being a pedophile, you know? Did you speak to Sammy this morning? Yeah, I spoke to Sammy this morning.
We didn't really say much.
Okay, well, listen, Sammy's been seen by the doctors.
They're convinced he was sexually abused.
But they think the abuse actually happened on a camping trip that Sammy was on with your dad.
Yeah, well, that explains the ludicrousy of Kelly's story.
I was with him the whole Weekend.
I know for a fact my dad, the first night, was looking after a really sick kid.
Dad went to the hospital with him.
And I think the kid's parents met him there.
They were there the whole night.
There was obviously a big queue.
Where did everyone sleep? Did all the boys sleep together, or were they in twos in tents? The boys all sleep in a dorm together, and I slept with my dad in a tent.
So I was with my dad the whole time, you know, the whole Weekend.
Except for when he was at hospital, of course.
Aaron, that's great.
I'm sorry that we had to kind of drop that on you.
Sure.
No, I understand.
Aaron has given us a statement, and it is nothing like yours.
What? I mean it -- it's different.
He -- He knows nothing about the allegations.
Against his father.
- No.
- He's a fucking liar.
Oh, my God.
So We'll say again, Kelly, now is the time.
- If you want to reconsider - He's the liar.
No.
I'm not changing -- I'm not reconsidering.
I'm not doing any of that.
I'm not reconsidering my story.
My story sticks, and I'm telling the truth.
He's lying.
Why would he do that? He doesn't want his dad's reputation in the community to be destroyed over this, so that's why he would lie.
Fucking do the maths yourself.
So we've got Sammy's clothes.
They were found in the bins outside their flat.
But they're really -- yeah -- really badly burned.
So that and a couple more pieces are pretty much all that's left.
I've sent all of that off to forensics.
But, I mean, look at that.
They're hardly gonna get anything from that, are they? Why's he burning his clothes? Boss, clothes found.
Sent off to forensics.
Also, child protection have said that, independently of each other, Sammy and Alma have both confirmed that at the time of the shooting of the reverend, they were at home together.
All right.
I want you guys to go down to hospital, talk to the reverend about why he's insisting that this is a drive-by when clearly it isn't.
Okay? All right.
Do you want us to say anything about the abuse? You know what? Nothing direct, Jack, okay? Just leave it with child protection for the time being.
They're talking to Sammy.
Listen, we were just wondering if we could ask you some questions.
Have you been able to remember anything more, any more details about the shooting, before and after it happened? Nothing more than I've already told your colleague.
Okay.
You said it was a drive-by shooting? That's right.
Do you remember any details about the car, maybe what color it was? Uh, blue, I think.
Possibly.
Maybe green.
I don't know.
I don't know.
We'd love to have a look at your mobile phone if we could, just to kind of trace previous calls, anything Sorry, that's not really Sorry.
- No? Please.
- No.
- No, you can't.
- Why not? Because I don't want you to.
I'm very tired.
I think I would like to be left alone, if that's okay? Okay.
Would you run me through just sort of who said what to who this morning? Um Kelly -- Kelly woke up and told me what Sammy had said.
And did you go and speak to Sammy? I tried to, but he was in state.
He Wouldn't talk to me.
So between then and when my colleagues came 'round, um, what did you do? Um, I stayed in the flat with Sammy.
Did you try to talk to him some more? Did you call anyone or try and take him somewhere? No, I was upset, so I just took some sleeping pills.
I tried to talk to him again, but he Wouldn't talk to me.
Alma, do you think Reverend Matthews is responsible for Sammy's abuse? I don't know him really well, but he did insist that Sammy go on a camping trip with him.
And when I said I can't afford it, he said he's gonna pay for it from the boxing club subs.
Okay.
He said he was gonna look after him.
- Jack - Yeah? Given what Alma said about the camping trip, I asked FIU to run off the reverend's financials, and he didn't pay for Sammy Pearce's place out of the boxing subs.
He paid for it out of his own account.
So either he's a very nice man, or he really wanted Sammy to be there so he could Yeah, it's okay.
You don't have to finish that sentence.
The reverend's been discharged from hospital, guys.
So, what do we do now? We're gonna play it by the book.
I don't want to go too soon on the sexual abuse allegation.
So let's get him in for a chat, okay? Yeah.
It's often helpful for me to go a little bit further back.
Right.
So I'm kind of thinking maybe kind of around the Weekend.
Mm-hmm.
We know you were on some sort of camping trip.
Yes, it's an annual -- With a group of schoolchildren, wasn't it? Yeah, with youth.
A young group.
Yes, yes.
- Ages, roughly? - Uh, 8 to 15.
Yeah.
It's an annual camp trip.
Okay.
Did anything happen on the camping trip that was slightly out of the ordinary, slightly untoward? Nothing untoward.
A boy was taken ill.
Um, I spent most of the first night with him.
In the morning he'd made no improvement, so we decided to take him to hospital.
And they admitted him, and I spent the following day there with him, waiting for his parents to come.
And when they did, I came back to the camp.
You came back to the campsite? Yes, yes.
Early morning.
Kind of 2:00, 1:00.
- You didn't stay the night? - No, I went back to the camp.
Okay, because we spoke to Aaron, your son Right.
and he said that you did stay out all night at hospital.
No.
No, no.
As I say, it was between 1:00 and 2:00, but closer to 1:00.
I came back.
Aaron was asleep.
Okay.
Great.
Listen, do you mind if I go for a very quick Wee? - No, no.
- Hold on.
Two seconds.
Okay, he's saying that on the night of the assault, he left the hospital, got back to the campsite around 1:00 a.
m.
, spent the night there.
Aaron is saying that his dad didn't come back to the campsite at all, spent the night at the hospital.
And I can't track down the parents of the sick child to figure out who's lying.
Go speak to Aaron again.
I've just been down to TIU.
They've been over Kelly's phone, and Aaron left her a voice mail this morning.
Okay.
Kelly, it's me.
Please, please don't speak to the police before you speak to me.
It is really important you speak to me first.
All right I love you.
Bye.
That does not sound like someone who's just broken up with their girlfriend.
He's covering up for his dad.
Okay, gloves off.
Green light.
Go for it, Jack.
Daniel, a very serious allegation has been made against you.
Right.
Okay, the allegation is that you sexually abused -- you raped -- a 12-year-old boy on the camping trip last Weekend.
That's nonsense.
- Is it? - Yes.
It's nonsense.
Nevertheless, the allegation has been made.
I need to fully investigate the allegation.
I'm not satisfied with what you have told me.
Therefore I am arresting you for the rape of a 12-year-old boy.
Look, this is nonsense.
You do not have to say anything, though it may harm your defense if you fail to mention when questioned something you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be used in evidence.
Do you understand? Daniel, do you understand? Yes.
The gun that was used to shoot Reverend Matthews is the same gun that was used in the Victoria Summers drive-by shooting.
Yeah.
Okay, I'll see you upstairs in two seconds.
- This is great.
- Okay.
I have been looking through Aaron's call data.
Now, in the week since Victoria Summers' drive-by shooting, there have been loads of calls from Joseph Brookes to Aaron, although most of the ones in the last couple of days have been rejected.
I also had another look over Miss Summers' witness statement.
The car that she described as the one that was used in the shooting matches Aaron Matthews' car.
Okay, it's Aaron's car.
Let's arrest him.
I'm gonna push Joseph.
- Okay.
Can you drive? - Yeah.
Don't waste my time, young man.
Why have you been calling your mate Aaron? No comment.
You've been calling him a lot, haven't you? I don't call my best friend as much as that.
You must have something you really want to talk about.
No comment.
Is that what you wanted to tell him, that you've got no comment? Whoa, there he is.
That's Aaron.
Okay, move over.
Pull up.
Okay.
Stop the car.
Come on.
Okay! All right! Aaron, stay Where you are.
- Aaron.
- Oh, fuck.
Fucker.
Okay, okay.
Aaron Matthews, I'm arresting you on suspicion of the attempted murder of Victoria Summers and perverting the course of justice.
You do not have to say anything, though it may harm your defense if you fail to mention when questioned something you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be used in evidence.
Do you understand? Do you understand? - Yeah.
- Do you? Okay.
Ohh, Aaron.
We've got Aaron and Joseph's fingerprints all over the car, but we also got firearm residue all over the front, particularly in the driver's side.
Good.
That's concrete.
That links this oar to the drive-by shooting a week ago.
Yes, we know Joseph Brookes was traveling in the passenger's side.
We've got his fingerprints on the handle, all over the dashboard on this side.
So then it's probably safe to say that Aaron, driving, is the shooter.
This is Where you stand.
We know that your car was involved in the drive-by shooting that seriously wounded Victoria Summers.
We know that whoever was driving pulled the trigger.
I didn't There's gunshot residue all over the driver's side.
I didn't pull the trigger.
How do you explain the gunshot residue? - It was Joseph.
- Sorry? Joseph was in the passenger's seat.
We went for a drive, and he leaned across me.
- Leaned across you? - Yeah.
He leaned across me and shot her.
Look, I had no idea he was gonna do what he did.
I would never have gone for a drive with him if he was gonna do that.
What's the story with you and Joseph? I just wanted to be a part of his gang, that was all.
I was trying to impress him, I guess.
I don't know.
What happened when Joseph came 'round your house this morning? Joseph came 'round to threaten Dad.
Dad saw us in the oar on the day of the shooting.
He -- Dad knew what happened.
My dad confronted me about it and he said, "If you don't go to the police, I will.
" I told Joseph, and he went 'round to threaten my dad.
If he said anything, he said he'd kill him.
Did Joseph Brookes shoot your father this morning? It's possible, yeah.
I'd like to make it clear at this point that I'm not here to discuss the case and the allegations concerning Samuel Pearce.
Right.
I do, however, know that your son was driving the car during the shooting incident last week with Victoria Summers.
Yes.
Yes, he was.
- You were aware of that? - I was aware of it, yes.
Um, he -- he was dragged into the situation.
He drove the car, I believe, unwittingly.
He didn't shoot anybody.
He just drove the car.
Who did fire the gun? Joseph Brookes.
I had hoped that Aaron was going to own up to his involvement in the situation.
Is that why you didn't tell the police? Yes.
Yes.
Are you willing to make a statement to that effect, Reverend? Yes.
Okay.
Well, it begs the question, was Joseph Brookes the person that shot you, Reverend? No.
You seemed so sure that you hadn't seen the face of your attacker, and yet you just seemed so sure that it wasn't Joseph Brookes.
Who are you covering for? What happened to the gun? I took it 'round to Kelly's mum's flat.
Kelly's mum let me hide it there in return for diazepam tablets.
So you're a drug dealer now? No.
My dad used to have some for his bad back.
I just took those.
How did Kelly feel about you keeping a gun at the flat? She doesn't know.
She has no idea it's there, no.
Okay.
Where's the gun now? It'd still be there, in the airing cupboard.
Don't fucking lie to me, Aaron, okay? Don't waste my time.
I'm trying to figure out who shot your dad.
Where's the gun? I put it in the airing cupboard.
I haven't touched it.
Aaron, I searched that place myself.
Okay? There's no gun in there, okay? Iâll tell you why there's no gun in there -- because someone has taken the gun, and someone used that gun -- the same gun that was used to shoot Victoria Summers -- someone used that gun to shoot your dad.
Did Aaron hide a gun in your house? Alma? - Alma? - Yes.
- Is it still there? - Yeah.
Yeah.
It's, um, in my airing cupboard.
Right.
I'm afraid, Alma, I'm gonna have to arrest you for possession of a firearm.
You do not have to say anything, though it may harm your defense if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court, and anything you do say may be given in evidence.
Do you understand? - I just did a favor.
- Do you understand? Yeah.
I've double-checked with the search team.
There's definitely no gun at Alma and Sammy's place.
I could've told you that myself.
I went through the place with a fine-toothed comb.
Yeah.
Listen, we know the same gun was used for both shootings.
Okay, and for me, that points the limelight straight back at Joseph Brookes.
What's to say he didn't call over to Alma's house, take the gun himself? She's claiming that she didn't know him, but he's a threatening guy.
He could have easily intimidated her into some sort of silence.
What about Kelly, though, and her allegation? She's got a strong motive for wanting to shoot the reverend, plus we know that the gun was in her house.
She could've found it easily.
Yeah, but she's not the only one who lives there, is she? But Sammy and Alma have alibied each other.
Listen, Kelly's is the only statement that references our reverend in the sexual abuse case.
I can't keep him in.
We don't have enough evidence, guys.
Got to let him go, Jack, all right? Boss? Joseph Brookes' alibi -- I knew it was bullshit.
I can now prove that it's bullshit.
His girlfriend, Libby James, was at the boxing club this morning with her son.
Her name was on our list of Witnesses.
Great.
He's our shooter, right? All right, well, let's give Joseph Brookes a chance to clarify his statement, shall We? - It would be my pleasure.
- Yeah.
So I know that your alibi's rubbish.
You know your alibi's rubbish.
You two have spoken about the fact that your alibi's rubbish.
Talk to me.
I wasn't at my girlfriend's house.
I know that.
I know that, Joseph.
Where were you? Fielding Crescent, 924.
Is that Where you live? - No.
- So, what were you doing there? I was doing a burglary.
You "was doing a burglary"? Charming.
Yeah, I'm not proud of it, what? But I didn't do the shooting, innit? Right.
I'll be checking that out.
You'll be going back to your cell.
Happy days.
Thank you.
Joseph Brookes couldn't have shot the reverend.
The property he said he was in this morning was burgled at the same time as the reverend was shot, plus uniform have picked up all of the stolen property exactly Where he said it would be, with his fingerprints all over it, so Joseph didn't shoot Daniel.
Oh, Jesus.
Well, who the bloody hell did? In Victoria Summers' statement, she said that her shooter, her attacker, wore this type of dark bomber jacket.
This particular jacket was recovered by the search team from Joseph Brookes' mother's address.
It's got Joseph's DNA all over it, there's gunshot residue all over it.
That surely proves that Joseph Brookes shot Victoria Summers.
Weston.
Really? Boss? Boss? Okay, hang on.
Okay, thank you.
Yeah.
Uniform said they found a weapon.
Search team found the gun in that bin, and then our guys have lifted a really good footprint from down there.
- Kelly's? - Could be.
Maybe she did sneak back and shoot the reverend.
All right, the firearm is with the lab.
They're running fingermark analysis.
Hopefully, when that comes back, it'll tell us something, anything.
It may well tell us absolutely nothing.
It was probably wiped.
Joseph Brookes almost certainly wore gloves.
The question still remains, who shot Reverend Matthews? So we've got some CCTV that puts a whole new spin on our case.
- All right, note the time, Jack.
- 11:40.
Time when the reverend was shot.
Indeed.
And here we have Aaron's car, Aaron and Kelly.
Wow.
So, first of all, that means he wasn't lying when he gave her an alibi.
And secondly, she can't have shot the reverend.
The fingermark analysis on the gun is back.
They've got a positive match.
Don't keep me waiting.
Who is it? Have you seen that gun before? 'Cause your prints are all over this, Alma.
- Yes.
- Have you seen it? You've used that gun? I just wanted to scare him.
He raped my son.
He raped my son.
And I just shot.
What did you do then? Put the gun in the bin and went home and I took my pills.
Did he see your face? Did he see who was firing the gun at him? Yeah.
- Are you sure? - Yeah, he saw me.
I mean we're not quite at the popping-the-champagne-cork stage of the case, do you know what I mean? But, my God, we're close, Charlie.
- Boss.
- How are we doing? Those parents of the sick child at the hospital finally got in touch.
They said absolutely 100% that Daniel definitely spent the night at the hospital.
He didn't spend it at the campsite.
The truth exonerates him.
We know that.
He couldn't have raped Sammy.
But why's he lying about it? For the same reason he lied to us about the Victoria Summers shooting.
He doesn't want us to know that Aaron had a chance to be alone with Sammy at the campsite.
Okay, bring in the reverend on what we have, which is aiding and abetting, okay? Charlie! Put the computer down.
I'm arresting you for aiding and abetting a sexual offender.
You do not have to say anything, though it may harm your defense if you fail to mention when questioned something later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be used in evidence.
- Do you understand? - Yes, I understand.
You don't need to do this.
I've told you everything I know.
Do you have a right to cover for your pedophile son? Taking your reverend for a little chat.
- I'm ashamed of nothing.
- Why were you breaking this up? Tech have been through Aaron's laptop.
There's a whole file full of images of photographs of children.
It seems that he was taking pictures of the kids in the showers at the boxing club.
Thanks, Charlie.
To be honest, I think that the reverend knew exactly what his little boy was up to, and for some time, too.
Otherwise why did he try to knacker that laptop? Why has your dad refused to tell us -- point-blank refused to tell us -- who shot him? Perhaps he doesn't know.
I mean, the only person I can think who actually would want to do it is, um, maybe somebody who heard the allegations that were going 'round? I mean, Kelly was telling so many people about it, word got 'round maybe, and that's why they shot him.
Right.
And you said that there's all these allegations around that your dad was a pedophile, but in fact it was you who told Kelly that your dad was a pedophile, didn't you? No, I never said that.
According to Kelly you did.
Yeah, I've told you about Kelly.
According to Kelly, Sammy told you that he was abused, sexually abused, by your dad.
I've never said that.
I've never said my dad was a pedophile.
Why did she say that, then? I've no idea.
Was it anything to do with, uh to do with this? I've placed a laptop on the table.
Who owns the laptop? Who owns the laptop? It's my laptop.
- Yeah? - Mm.
Okay.
Do you want to know what we found in it? Okay, you haven't seen this before, so I apologize for shocking you this way.
I know you're not gonna be shocked because I know you've seen these countless times.
These are images -- images of naked eight-year-old boys taken from the boxing club.
Okay? Do you want to know how they got on your laptop? Tell us about the photos, Aaron? You need to explain this to us, my friend.
My dad caught me taking pictures of the boys in the shower at the gym.
I said it'll never happen again.
I really hoped it Wouldn't happen again.
Did it happen again? I just couldn't help it.
It wasn't my fault.
I just couldn't help it.
You couldn't help taking those pictures.
Yeah.
I just -- I just couldn't - And looking at them? - Yeah.
Then acting on them.
What happened on the camping trip? Your dad was at the hospital.
We know he wasn't there.
You tell us.
Did you rape Samuel Pearce? Sammy wanted to sleep in my tent.
He'd -- He'd had a nightmare.
That's what happens with Sammy.
He gets No.
No, no.
No, no, no, no.
No, no.
Stop there.
Did you rape Samuel Pearce? I didn't -- I just couldn't help it.
Do you know I-I couldn't do anything about it.
So you did sexually abuse Samuel Pearce? It just -- What happened in that tent, it just happened.
- It -- It just - Aaron, Aaron.
You're not doing yourself any favors here by trying to come across as the meek, weak, guilty individual.
Answer the question.
Did you rape Samuel Pearce? Yes or no.
- Yes or no.
Yes or no.
- I couldn't help it.
Yes or no.
Yes.
Just tell me one thing.
Why did you Why did you say that your dad was a pedophile? How did that get you off the hook? Out of interest.
He knew I was driving the car when Joseph shot Victoria Summers.
He was onto me about it.
He gave me an ultimatum.
He said, "Look, if you don't tell the police, I'm going to the police.
" I thought -- I thought maybe if I made something up about him, if I -- if I made a story up, he'd forget about it and, you know, take his mind off it.
How can you live with yourself for doing something like that? All that shit about, "I couldn't help myself.
I tried really, really hard," I thought I was gonna fucking puke.
It doesn't get any easier, I tell you.
I just spoke to child protection.
Now Aaron's been arrested, Sammy told them that Aaron threatened to kill Alma and Kelly if he said anything.
He's just absolutely terrified.
It was Aaron who told him to burn all his clothes.
Another great day in the office.
Yeah, right.
Why did you lie? I was trying to help my son.
I didn't know what my son had done.
I knew he'd done something.
I wasn't aware That's bullshit.
Otherwise you would've told us that it was Alma that shot you.
The reason you didn't tell us it was Alma is because she is the mother of the young, innocent boy who was raped by your son, by your flesh and blood.
- That's why you didn't tell us.
- I was just trying to help him.
You should be bloody ashamed of yourself.
I am ashamed of myself.
Really? Really.
I am deeply ashamed of myself.
I am deeply ashamed of my son and the pain and hurt that he has caused.
I thought this was a situation that would go away, I tried to address it in the best way that I could, and I obviously failed.
Reverend Matthews, I think you're a disgrace, not only to your community but to your religion at large.
Okay, now, you're already under arrest for aiding and abetting a sexual offender.
I am now arresting you for perverting the course of justice.
Again, you do not have to say anything, though it may harm your defense if you fail to mention when questioned something you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be used in evidence.
- Do you understand? - Yes.
I think we're done.
Kelly, there's been some changes.
What kind of changes? We have had a confession from Aaron Matthews.
Saying what? Confessing to abusing your brother, Sammy.
That's fucking bullshit.
I can't believe you're actually telling me that you believe that my boyfriend would do that? Are you serious? Kelly, Sammy has said that he was just very scared and Sammy has said that? - Sammy felt he couldn't - I can't -- no.
tell the truth, and he was a scared little boy.
- Oh, my God.
- It's often the way.
No.
No, no, no, no.
That's -- no.
That No.
I want to make sure that you see your family, and we will make arrangements for your release, so We've interviewed Aaron Matthews.
He has confessed to the sexual abuse of your son.
Sammy said it's -- it's Daniel.
Well, it's -- it's come out that Sammy was scared, he was threatened, and he felt unable to talk about this, Alma.
I shot the wrong man.
The absolute Worst part of it is, is that if Reverend Matthews had reported his son, Aaron, for taking those images of the boxing club kids, then Aaron probably Wouldn't have gone on to rape Sammy.
They say parents will do anything for their kids, right? Do you know, I think that's bullshit, actually.
I think that the reverend was just looking out for his own reputation.
I don't think he gave a damn about his son.
I really don't.
Now, can we fuel the rumor that I'm an alcoholic? Could somebody buy me a fucking drink? I think Jack started that rumor.
Come on.
I need drinking buddies.
Come on.
It comes just days after the drive-by shooting of 19-year-old Victoria Summers, who remains in a critical condition in hospital.
Victim is 43-year-old Reverend Daniel Matthews.
He was shot in the arm, so there's quite a lot of blood.
He's just gone off to hospital in the ambulance.
- Reverend Matthews? - Yeah.
Really? - Yeah.
That guy's a hero around here.
The community love this guy.
He's -- He's taken all these kids off the street, given them a second chance with this place.
Someone doesn't love him.
So, what's happening? I thought it was a gangbang.
Fucking reverend's been shot.
- For real? - Yeah.
Oh, Jesus, that's all we need.
Okay, so we've got no CCTV inside and absolutely no CCTV outside.
That's a deliberate move by the reverend to develop a kind of a sense of trust between the boys.
Some of these kids have had brushes with the police since they were like seven, eight years old.
Yeah, well, maybe his "hug a hoodie" approach has bitten him on the ass this time.
Hey.
One of the guys said that just before the reverend got shot, he saw a white female come in and ask the reverend to go outside.
They say her name's Kelly Pearce.
That's interesting.
Maybe someone else sent her in to pull him outside, you know? Well, apparently she's going out with the reverend's son, Aaron.
So, I mean, if she did, that would be What's the reverend's son called? Aaron? - Yeah.
- Okay.
- Aaron Matthews? - Yeah, hi.
Hi.
Detective Constable Charlotte Steele.
I'm one of the officers investigating -- Sorry.
Is my dad gonna be okay? How is he? He's fine.
Okay, so I just went and spoke to a doctor.
I was told that he was hit in the fleshy part of his arm, so there was a lot of blood, but it could've been much -- - Sorry.
- I'm sorry.
It could've been much, much, much, much worse.
So he's in surgery now.
They should patch him up, and he should make a pretty swift recovery.
Your girlfriend, Kelly, was at the boxing club this morning.
Why was that? Yeah, I-I drove Kelly 'round there this morning.
She wanted to speak to my dad.
I don't know what it was about.
You drove her there? Yeah, I parked 'round the back and Waited for her to come out.
She was only gone for about a couple of minutes.
Okay, so you didn't go inside at all? - No.
- Okay.
Reverend Daniel Matthews, founder of Kurtley Way Boxing Gym, Where he was shot this morning.
This is the alleyway leading off the front door.
Front door, Where the shooting took place.
Timeline wise, the boxers take a break on the dot every morning at 11:30 a.
m.
They said just as they broke, they saw Kelly Pearce arrive to talk to Daniel.
And then local residents said they heard a gunshot at 11:40, So we've got a 10-minute kind of 10-minute window for Kelly Pearce, if she did it, to shoot our reverend.
So Kelly went in, had a chat with your dad about something, you don't know what, and then she came back Yeah, she came back after about five minutes.
Then we went for a drive.
- Where did you go? - Um, I pulled up by the canal.
Okay.
She was in a bit of a funny mood, so -- She said she needed to clear her head, so she went for a walk down the canal.
What does "funny mood" mean? Um, well, you know, just kind of argumentative.
She gets a bit that way sometimes.
Just a little bit, you know, I don't know, in a funny mood.
Okay.
Do you know where she is now? No, I haven't heard from her since.
Police! Open up.
How are you doing? I'm Detective Sergeant Jack Weston.
- Who am I talking to? - Alma.
- Alma what? - Alma Pearce.
- Are you Kelly Pearce's mother? - Yes.
- Yeah, is Kelly at home? - I don't think so.
Okay, I've got a warrant to search your home.
We're looking for a firearm.
Step aside.
Anyone else in the house I need to know about? - My son.
- Yeah? Why don't we sit down? Can I get you a glass of water or anything? Are you on any medication? - No, just diazepam.
- Okay, how many have you taken? Do I need to get you an ambulance? - No, no.
- Are you sure? - Yeah.
- Okay.
Okay, just have a very quick read of this so you understand what's happening.
Okay.
- Lee, anything? - Nothing, sir.
No? I'll check upstairs.
Hi, Sammy.
Sammy, I'm looking for your sister, Kelly.
Do you have any idea Where she is? Sammy, can you answer me? Just say yes or no.
Any idea Where you sister, Kelly, is? No.
Kelly Pearce's flat, clean as a whistle.
SOCOs, though, have found a shell casing from outside the boxing club.
So we should be able to figure out now, looking at the shell casing, Whether the firearm that was used to shoot Reverend Daniel Matthews was used in any other crime.
I fed Daniel's address into the computer, and there was a report of a disturbance this morning at the vicarage.
A neighbor rang in and said that a young man was kicking the door and shouting.
There was a bit of back and forth between him and the reverend.
She took the registration of the car, and it is registered to Joseph Brookes.
Local gang member, series of drug convictions, and also one of the main suspects for the Victoria Summers drive-by shooting four days ago.
When we spoke to Reverend Matthews last week, as just someone who was in the vicinity of the drive-by shooting, he said he didn't see anything, he didn't know anything about it, and now this young man, who's our prime suspect, turns up banging and shouting outside his door.
Exactly.
So let's deal with something concrete.
Let's pull him in on a public order offense, okay? So at 10:30 this morning, Joseph, you were seen banging on the door of the vicarage Where the Reverend Matthews lives.
Why were you there? My friend lives there, innit? I was looking for Aaron.
The way I've heard it, you were having an argument with the reverend.
Argument? - Yeah.
Pbht.
Don't know Where you got that from.
Well, it was described as a domestic disturbance.
That's a pretty big barney.
That's bullshit.
I was there, knocked for Aaron, he wasn't in, had a little word with the dad, innit? Nothing major.
Do you get on with his dad? Yeah, his dad's a cool guy.
Come on.
He taught me my right hook and everything.
I've got a good right hook, you know? I'm sure you do.
Thank you.
Reverend Matthews? Hello, I'm Martha Bellamy, detective inspector.
We met some years ago.
Are you all right to shake hands? - I am.
- You're okay with that hand? Oh, dear.
How are you feeling? I'm fine, I'm fine, given the circumstances.
Thank you.
I want to run through a couple of things, if that's okay.
Aaron, can you just give us a minute? Sure.
- This is your boy? - Son.
Aaron.
Okay.
Want to talk me through what happened? Uh, yes.
It was -- We were training this morning.
It was a normal training session.
We broke at around 11:30.
Um, Kelly, one of the younger boxers, came in to speak to me.
- Kelly who? - Kelly Pearce.
Okay.
She came in to speak to me.
Basically she -- she came to tell me that she no longer wanted to train.
She's actually been spending a lot of time with Aaron.
But I told her I was disappointed.
She's quite a good prospect.
So we had a conversation.
She left.
I stayed outside to have a cigarette before going back in.
And I hear a car coming past, driving faster than normal, enough to make me turn 'round.
The next thing I know, I hear a bang -- or I felt a bang.
I came 'round, and I was lying on the floor.
I'd been shot.
Right.
And how long after Kelly left did this happen? 15 minutes.
Might she have shot you? No.
Not under any circumstances, no.
I don't think it was Kelly.
Okay.
I believe this morning -- cast your mind back -- at the vicarage, I believe that there was a visitor, Joseph Brookes.
It's just that I was led to believe that there was a row, some kind of disturbance was reported.
No, no.
We did have a conversation.
It was just about his car.
He's got a very noisy car.
Some of the neighbors had complained about it.
I just asked him to be mindful, really, when he was driving around the area.
Joseph Brookes is tucked up safe and sound at the station.
Right.
Do you understand what I'm saying? Absolutely I do, but unfortunately there's nothing I can tell you about him.
How did it go? Uh, well, he was polite but vague.
- Yeah? - He claimed it's a drive-by.
Really? I just had forensics on the phone.
They said they can't find any tire marks anywhere on the road, okay? Plus the fact that that shell casing was found just outside the front door of the club.
It's not as if it was found, like, in the middle of the road.
So it seems that maybe the reverend was shot at a much closer range than he's letting on or that he can remember.
I don't know, maybe his memory's gone, or maybe -- maybe he's lying.
Yeah.
He's also somewhat reticent to talk about the conversation/row that he had with -- come in -- with Joseph Brookes, too.
Kelly Pearce has just walked in.
She's downstairs.
Oh! I wish they'd all just walk in.
Right, well, let's show the facilities.
- Happily.
Excellent.
Kelly, why did you go and visit the reverend early this morning? I was angry at him.
Straightforward question -- Did you shoot Reverend Matthews? What? Did you shoot the reverend? I've come here to make a statement about him, to put him in prison.
He raped my brother.
That's a very serious allegation, Kelly.
Yes.
My brother Wouldn't lie.
That is quite an allegation.
And if it's true, it is certainly a motive for someone like Kelly to shoot the reverend.
Yeah, but if Aaron and Kelly's statements are to be believed, then Kelly has an alibi, right, at the time of the shooting? Belt and braces, Charlie.
You update Jack and get onto the child protection team.
I need that kid to have a full exam.
Okay? And what did the reverend say in response to the allegation? What do you think he fucking said? I've no idea.
"No, I didn't do it.
What are you talking about?" It was the usual thing that people respond to when they're being accused of something.
Tell me exactly what you said to him.
I was really angry at him.
I started shouting, and I said to him that, "I know what you did, and I'm gonna tell the police.
" And so who told you about Sammy -- about Sammy's abuse? Aaron.
Aaron told me what Sammy said.
I found him at home trying to take some of my mum's drugs.
This is behavior that's unlike him.
He Wouldn't do things like that.
I was asking him, "What are you doing?" He was trying to kill himself.
So obviously somethings definitely Wrong.
And what -- And then I ask him, and he doesn't respond.
He doesn't tell me anything, and I thought the only way that I can get any information out of him is through Aaron.
They're really good friends.
He's like a brother for him.
His behavior since he came back from his trip has just changed, who he is.
Back from which trip? They went on a trip, like the boxing team, The Reverend Daniel took them.
It happened that night in his tent.
It's child protection just through with the report.
Poor little Sammy's not saying anything, but the initial examination would suggest that he's definitely been raped.
Anyway, child protection are asking Whether we can figure out what Sammy was actually wearing last night.
Okay.
Okay, I'll get onto the search team.
I do need to go over a few other details concerning the shooting this morning.
Um, Kelly, how did you get to the club? Aaron drove me in his car.
Aaron knew why you were going, what you were gonna talk about? Of course he knew.
Yeah, yeah.
He knew.
And then you went off on your own? - What did Aaron do? - Yeah.
Aaron dropped me.
He -- I don't know -- went to his mate's house or something.
Probably drove off somewhere.
Right.
What, a mate like Joseph Brookes? Possibly.
Is he a friend of Aaron's and yours? He's a friend of Aaron's, not a friend of mine.
Aaron -- Aaron worships the ground he walks on.
He's, like, obsessed with him.
What do you think of him? He's a dick.
That's what I think of him.
What were you doing between 11:00 and 12:30 today? Well, had my girlfriend Libby bent over the side of the bed at about 11:15.
So if I call her and ask her, she'll tell me exactly the same thing? What was that? Sorry? "Bent over the side of bed"? She'll say exactly the same thing? - Exactly the same thing.
- Right.
Good.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Cheers.
Bye-bye.
Um, okay, uniform have searched Joseph Brookes' car and his house.
- They've seen nothing.
- Well, obviously.
He's not stupid enough to leave a gun lying around, I guess.
I spoke to his girlfriend, Libby James, as well, who -- surprise, surprise -- corroborates his alibi.
Apparently he was with her when the shooting took place, which is of course absolute bullshit.
He used the same alibi for the Victoria Summers drive-by shooting last week.
There is no sign of the firearm at Libby's place either.
Aaron.
Do you mind if we come in? Your girlfriend, Kelly, has made a very, very serious allegation of sexual abuse against your father.
So it's Kelly who said all this? She said that Sammy told you about it.
Kelly said that my father abused Sammy? This makes a lot more sense now.
- Does it? - Yeah.
Yeah, Kelly doesn't really behave in a normal way.
She's, um She -- She finds life difficult, to put it bluntly, you know? She's come from a dysfunctional family.
She's really struggled.
She's never been this bad before.
She's never said anything quite like this.
But, yeah, she's desperate to get at me, though.
- That's what it is.
- Why is that? We broke up this morning.
That's the only reason I can think she'd want to, you know, really hurt me.
It's the best thing she can think of, you know? Blame his reverend dad for being a pedophile, you know? Did you speak to Sammy this morning? Yeah, I spoke to Sammy this morning.
We didn't really say much.
Okay, well, listen, Sammy's been seen by the doctors.
They're convinced he was sexually abused.
But they think the abuse actually happened on a camping trip that Sammy was on with your dad.
Yeah, well, that explains the ludicrousy of Kelly's story.
I was with him the whole Weekend.
I know for a fact my dad, the first night, was looking after a really sick kid.
Dad went to the hospital with him.
And I think the kid's parents met him there.
They were there the whole night.
There was obviously a big queue.
Where did everyone sleep? Did all the boys sleep together, or were they in twos in tents? The boys all sleep in a dorm together, and I slept with my dad in a tent.
So I was with my dad the whole time, you know, the whole Weekend.
Except for when he was at hospital, of course.
Aaron, that's great.
I'm sorry that we had to kind of drop that on you.
Sure.
No, I understand.
Aaron has given us a statement, and it is nothing like yours.
What? I mean it -- it's different.
He -- He knows nothing about the allegations.
Against his father.
- No.
- He's a fucking liar.
Oh, my God.
So We'll say again, Kelly, now is the time.
- If you want to reconsider - He's the liar.
No.
I'm not changing -- I'm not reconsidering.
I'm not doing any of that.
I'm not reconsidering my story.
My story sticks, and I'm telling the truth.
He's lying.
Why would he do that? He doesn't want his dad's reputation in the community to be destroyed over this, so that's why he would lie.
Fucking do the maths yourself.
So we've got Sammy's clothes.
They were found in the bins outside their flat.
But they're really -- yeah -- really badly burned.
So that and a couple more pieces are pretty much all that's left.
I've sent all of that off to forensics.
But, I mean, look at that.
They're hardly gonna get anything from that, are they? Why's he burning his clothes? Boss, clothes found.
Sent off to forensics.
Also, child protection have said that, independently of each other, Sammy and Alma have both confirmed that at the time of the shooting of the reverend, they were at home together.
All right.
I want you guys to go down to hospital, talk to the reverend about why he's insisting that this is a drive-by when clearly it isn't.
Okay? All right.
Do you want us to say anything about the abuse? You know what? Nothing direct, Jack, okay? Just leave it with child protection for the time being.
They're talking to Sammy.
Listen, we were just wondering if we could ask you some questions.
Have you been able to remember anything more, any more details about the shooting, before and after it happened? Nothing more than I've already told your colleague.
Okay.
You said it was a drive-by shooting? That's right.
Do you remember any details about the car, maybe what color it was? Uh, blue, I think.
Possibly.
Maybe green.
I don't know.
I don't know.
We'd love to have a look at your mobile phone if we could, just to kind of trace previous calls, anything Sorry, that's not really Sorry.
- No? Please.
- No.
- No, you can't.
- Why not? Because I don't want you to.
I'm very tired.
I think I would like to be left alone, if that's okay? Okay.
Would you run me through just sort of who said what to who this morning? Um Kelly -- Kelly woke up and told me what Sammy had said.
And did you go and speak to Sammy? I tried to, but he was in state.
He Wouldn't talk to me.
So between then and when my colleagues came 'round, um, what did you do? Um, I stayed in the flat with Sammy.
Did you try to talk to him some more? Did you call anyone or try and take him somewhere? No, I was upset, so I just took some sleeping pills.
I tried to talk to him again, but he Wouldn't talk to me.
Alma, do you think Reverend Matthews is responsible for Sammy's abuse? I don't know him really well, but he did insist that Sammy go on a camping trip with him.
And when I said I can't afford it, he said he's gonna pay for it from the boxing club subs.
Okay.
He said he was gonna look after him.
- Jack - Yeah? Given what Alma said about the camping trip, I asked FIU to run off the reverend's financials, and he didn't pay for Sammy Pearce's place out of the boxing subs.
He paid for it out of his own account.
So either he's a very nice man, or he really wanted Sammy to be there so he could Yeah, it's okay.
You don't have to finish that sentence.
The reverend's been discharged from hospital, guys.
So, what do we do now? We're gonna play it by the book.
I don't want to go too soon on the sexual abuse allegation.
So let's get him in for a chat, okay? Yeah.
It's often helpful for me to go a little bit further back.
Right.
So I'm kind of thinking maybe kind of around the Weekend.
Mm-hmm.
We know you were on some sort of camping trip.
Yes, it's an annual -- With a group of schoolchildren, wasn't it? Yeah, with youth.
A young group.
Yes, yes.
- Ages, roughly? - Uh, 8 to 15.
Yeah.
It's an annual camp trip.
Okay.
Did anything happen on the camping trip that was slightly out of the ordinary, slightly untoward? Nothing untoward.
A boy was taken ill.
Um, I spent most of the first night with him.
In the morning he'd made no improvement, so we decided to take him to hospital.
And they admitted him, and I spent the following day there with him, waiting for his parents to come.
And when they did, I came back to the camp.
You came back to the campsite? Yes, yes.
Early morning.
Kind of 2:00, 1:00.
- You didn't stay the night? - No, I went back to the camp.
Okay, because we spoke to Aaron, your son Right.
and he said that you did stay out all night at hospital.
No.
No, no.
As I say, it was between 1:00 and 2:00, but closer to 1:00.
I came back.
Aaron was asleep.
Okay.
Great.
Listen, do you mind if I go for a very quick Wee? - No, no.
- Hold on.
Two seconds.
Okay, he's saying that on the night of the assault, he left the hospital, got back to the campsite around 1:00 a.
m.
, spent the night there.
Aaron is saying that his dad didn't come back to the campsite at all, spent the night at the hospital.
And I can't track down the parents of the sick child to figure out who's lying.
Go speak to Aaron again.
I've just been down to TIU.
They've been over Kelly's phone, and Aaron left her a voice mail this morning.
Okay.
Kelly, it's me.
Please, please don't speak to the police before you speak to me.
It is really important you speak to me first.
All right I love you.
Bye.
That does not sound like someone who's just broken up with their girlfriend.
He's covering up for his dad.
Okay, gloves off.
Green light.
Go for it, Jack.
Daniel, a very serious allegation has been made against you.
Right.
Okay, the allegation is that you sexually abused -- you raped -- a 12-year-old boy on the camping trip last Weekend.
That's nonsense.
- Is it? - Yes.
It's nonsense.
Nevertheless, the allegation has been made.
I need to fully investigate the allegation.
I'm not satisfied with what you have told me.
Therefore I am arresting you for the rape of a 12-year-old boy.
Look, this is nonsense.
You do not have to say anything, though it may harm your defense if you fail to mention when questioned something you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be used in evidence.
Do you understand? Daniel, do you understand? Yes.
The gun that was used to shoot Reverend Matthews is the same gun that was used in the Victoria Summers drive-by shooting.
Yeah.
Okay, I'll see you upstairs in two seconds.
- This is great.
- Okay.
I have been looking through Aaron's call data.
Now, in the week since Victoria Summers' drive-by shooting, there have been loads of calls from Joseph Brookes to Aaron, although most of the ones in the last couple of days have been rejected.
I also had another look over Miss Summers' witness statement.
The car that she described as the one that was used in the shooting matches Aaron Matthews' car.
Okay, it's Aaron's car.
Let's arrest him.
I'm gonna push Joseph.
- Okay.
Can you drive? - Yeah.
Don't waste my time, young man.
Why have you been calling your mate Aaron? No comment.
You've been calling him a lot, haven't you? I don't call my best friend as much as that.
You must have something you really want to talk about.
No comment.
Is that what you wanted to tell him, that you've got no comment? Whoa, there he is.
That's Aaron.
Okay, move over.
Pull up.
Okay.
Stop the car.
Come on.
Okay! All right! Aaron, stay Where you are.
- Aaron.
- Oh, fuck.
Fucker.
Okay, okay.
Aaron Matthews, I'm arresting you on suspicion of the attempted murder of Victoria Summers and perverting the course of justice.
You do not have to say anything, though it may harm your defense if you fail to mention when questioned something you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be used in evidence.
Do you understand? Do you understand? - Yeah.
- Do you? Okay.
Ohh, Aaron.
We've got Aaron and Joseph's fingerprints all over the car, but we also got firearm residue all over the front, particularly in the driver's side.
Good.
That's concrete.
That links this oar to the drive-by shooting a week ago.
Yes, we know Joseph Brookes was traveling in the passenger's side.
We've got his fingerprints on the handle, all over the dashboard on this side.
So then it's probably safe to say that Aaron, driving, is the shooter.
This is Where you stand.
We know that your car was involved in the drive-by shooting that seriously wounded Victoria Summers.
We know that whoever was driving pulled the trigger.
I didn't There's gunshot residue all over the driver's side.
I didn't pull the trigger.
How do you explain the gunshot residue? - It was Joseph.
- Sorry? Joseph was in the passenger's seat.
We went for a drive, and he leaned across me.
- Leaned across you? - Yeah.
He leaned across me and shot her.
Look, I had no idea he was gonna do what he did.
I would never have gone for a drive with him if he was gonna do that.
What's the story with you and Joseph? I just wanted to be a part of his gang, that was all.
I was trying to impress him, I guess.
I don't know.
What happened when Joseph came 'round your house this morning? Joseph came 'round to threaten Dad.
Dad saw us in the oar on the day of the shooting.
He -- Dad knew what happened.
My dad confronted me about it and he said, "If you don't go to the police, I will.
" I told Joseph, and he went 'round to threaten my dad.
If he said anything, he said he'd kill him.
Did Joseph Brookes shoot your father this morning? It's possible, yeah.
I'd like to make it clear at this point that I'm not here to discuss the case and the allegations concerning Samuel Pearce.
Right.
I do, however, know that your son was driving the car during the shooting incident last week with Victoria Summers.
Yes.
Yes, he was.
- You were aware of that? - I was aware of it, yes.
Um, he -- he was dragged into the situation.
He drove the car, I believe, unwittingly.
He didn't shoot anybody.
He just drove the car.
Who did fire the gun? Joseph Brookes.
I had hoped that Aaron was going to own up to his involvement in the situation.
Is that why you didn't tell the police? Yes.
Yes.
Are you willing to make a statement to that effect, Reverend? Yes.
Okay.
Well, it begs the question, was Joseph Brookes the person that shot you, Reverend? No.
You seemed so sure that you hadn't seen the face of your attacker, and yet you just seemed so sure that it wasn't Joseph Brookes.
Who are you covering for? What happened to the gun? I took it 'round to Kelly's mum's flat.
Kelly's mum let me hide it there in return for diazepam tablets.
So you're a drug dealer now? No.
My dad used to have some for his bad back.
I just took those.
How did Kelly feel about you keeping a gun at the flat? She doesn't know.
She has no idea it's there, no.
Okay.
Where's the gun now? It'd still be there, in the airing cupboard.
Don't fucking lie to me, Aaron, okay? Don't waste my time.
I'm trying to figure out who shot your dad.
Where's the gun? I put it in the airing cupboard.
I haven't touched it.
Aaron, I searched that place myself.
Okay? There's no gun in there, okay? Iâll tell you why there's no gun in there -- because someone has taken the gun, and someone used that gun -- the same gun that was used to shoot Victoria Summers -- someone used that gun to shoot your dad.
Did Aaron hide a gun in your house? Alma? - Alma? - Yes.
- Is it still there? - Yeah.
Yeah.
It's, um, in my airing cupboard.
Right.
I'm afraid, Alma, I'm gonna have to arrest you for possession of a firearm.
You do not have to say anything, though it may harm your defense if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court, and anything you do say may be given in evidence.
Do you understand? - I just did a favor.
- Do you understand? Yeah.
I've double-checked with the search team.
There's definitely no gun at Alma and Sammy's place.
I could've told you that myself.
I went through the place with a fine-toothed comb.
Yeah.
Listen, we know the same gun was used for both shootings.
Okay, and for me, that points the limelight straight back at Joseph Brookes.
What's to say he didn't call over to Alma's house, take the gun himself? She's claiming that she didn't know him, but he's a threatening guy.
He could have easily intimidated her into some sort of silence.
What about Kelly, though, and her allegation? She's got a strong motive for wanting to shoot the reverend, plus we know that the gun was in her house.
She could've found it easily.
Yeah, but she's not the only one who lives there, is she? But Sammy and Alma have alibied each other.
Listen, Kelly's is the only statement that references our reverend in the sexual abuse case.
I can't keep him in.
We don't have enough evidence, guys.
Got to let him go, Jack, all right? Boss? Joseph Brookes' alibi -- I knew it was bullshit.
I can now prove that it's bullshit.
His girlfriend, Libby James, was at the boxing club this morning with her son.
Her name was on our list of Witnesses.
Great.
He's our shooter, right? All right, well, let's give Joseph Brookes a chance to clarify his statement, shall We? - It would be my pleasure.
- Yeah.
So I know that your alibi's rubbish.
You know your alibi's rubbish.
You two have spoken about the fact that your alibi's rubbish.
Talk to me.
I wasn't at my girlfriend's house.
I know that.
I know that, Joseph.
Where were you? Fielding Crescent, 924.
Is that Where you live? - No.
- So, what were you doing there? I was doing a burglary.
You "was doing a burglary"? Charming.
Yeah, I'm not proud of it, what? But I didn't do the shooting, innit? Right.
I'll be checking that out.
You'll be going back to your cell.
Happy days.
Thank you.
Joseph Brookes couldn't have shot the reverend.
The property he said he was in this morning was burgled at the same time as the reverend was shot, plus uniform have picked up all of the stolen property exactly Where he said it would be, with his fingerprints all over it, so Joseph didn't shoot Daniel.
Oh, Jesus.
Well, who the bloody hell did? In Victoria Summers' statement, she said that her shooter, her attacker, wore this type of dark bomber jacket.
This particular jacket was recovered by the search team from Joseph Brookes' mother's address.
It's got Joseph's DNA all over it, there's gunshot residue all over it.
That surely proves that Joseph Brookes shot Victoria Summers.
Weston.
Really? Boss? Boss? Okay, hang on.
Okay, thank you.
Yeah.
Uniform said they found a weapon.
Search team found the gun in that bin, and then our guys have lifted a really good footprint from down there.
- Kelly's? - Could be.
Maybe she did sneak back and shoot the reverend.
All right, the firearm is with the lab.
They're running fingermark analysis.
Hopefully, when that comes back, it'll tell us something, anything.
It may well tell us absolutely nothing.
It was probably wiped.
Joseph Brookes almost certainly wore gloves.
The question still remains, who shot Reverend Matthews? So we've got some CCTV that puts a whole new spin on our case.
- All right, note the time, Jack.
- 11:40.
Time when the reverend was shot.
Indeed.
And here we have Aaron's car, Aaron and Kelly.
Wow.
So, first of all, that means he wasn't lying when he gave her an alibi.
And secondly, she can't have shot the reverend.
The fingermark analysis on the gun is back.
They've got a positive match.
Don't keep me waiting.
Who is it? Have you seen that gun before? 'Cause your prints are all over this, Alma.
- Yes.
- Have you seen it? You've used that gun? I just wanted to scare him.
He raped my son.
He raped my son.
And I just shot.
What did you do then? Put the gun in the bin and went home and I took my pills.
Did he see your face? Did he see who was firing the gun at him? Yeah.
- Are you sure? - Yeah, he saw me.
I mean we're not quite at the popping-the-champagne-cork stage of the case, do you know what I mean? But, my God, we're close, Charlie.
- Boss.
- How are we doing? Those parents of the sick child at the hospital finally got in touch.
They said absolutely 100% that Daniel definitely spent the night at the hospital.
He didn't spend it at the campsite.
The truth exonerates him.
We know that.
He couldn't have raped Sammy.
But why's he lying about it? For the same reason he lied to us about the Victoria Summers shooting.
He doesn't want us to know that Aaron had a chance to be alone with Sammy at the campsite.
Okay, bring in the reverend on what we have, which is aiding and abetting, okay? Charlie! Put the computer down.
I'm arresting you for aiding and abetting a sexual offender.
You do not have to say anything, though it may harm your defense if you fail to mention when questioned something later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be used in evidence.
- Do you understand? - Yes, I understand.
You don't need to do this.
I've told you everything I know.
Do you have a right to cover for your pedophile son? Taking your reverend for a little chat.
- I'm ashamed of nothing.
- Why were you breaking this up? Tech have been through Aaron's laptop.
There's a whole file full of images of photographs of children.
It seems that he was taking pictures of the kids in the showers at the boxing club.
Thanks, Charlie.
To be honest, I think that the reverend knew exactly what his little boy was up to, and for some time, too.
Otherwise why did he try to knacker that laptop? Why has your dad refused to tell us -- point-blank refused to tell us -- who shot him? Perhaps he doesn't know.
I mean, the only person I can think who actually would want to do it is, um, maybe somebody who heard the allegations that were going 'round? I mean, Kelly was telling so many people about it, word got 'round maybe, and that's why they shot him.
Right.
And you said that there's all these allegations around that your dad was a pedophile, but in fact it was you who told Kelly that your dad was a pedophile, didn't you? No, I never said that.
According to Kelly you did.
Yeah, I've told you about Kelly.
According to Kelly, Sammy told you that he was abused, sexually abused, by your dad.
I've never said that.
I've never said my dad was a pedophile.
Why did she say that, then? I've no idea.
Was it anything to do with, uh to do with this? I've placed a laptop on the table.
Who owns the laptop? Who owns the laptop? It's my laptop.
- Yeah? - Mm.
Okay.
Do you want to know what we found in it? Okay, you haven't seen this before, so I apologize for shocking you this way.
I know you're not gonna be shocked because I know you've seen these countless times.
These are images -- images of naked eight-year-old boys taken from the boxing club.
Okay? Do you want to know how they got on your laptop? Tell us about the photos, Aaron? You need to explain this to us, my friend.
My dad caught me taking pictures of the boys in the shower at the gym.
I said it'll never happen again.
I really hoped it Wouldn't happen again.
Did it happen again? I just couldn't help it.
It wasn't my fault.
I just couldn't help it.
You couldn't help taking those pictures.
Yeah.
I just -- I just couldn't - And looking at them? - Yeah.
Then acting on them.
What happened on the camping trip? Your dad was at the hospital.
We know he wasn't there.
You tell us.
Did you rape Samuel Pearce? Sammy wanted to sleep in my tent.
He'd -- He'd had a nightmare.
That's what happens with Sammy.
He gets No.
No, no.
No, no, no, no.
No, no.
Stop there.
Did you rape Samuel Pearce? I didn't -- I just couldn't help it.
Do you know I-I couldn't do anything about it.
So you did sexually abuse Samuel Pearce? It just -- What happened in that tent, it just happened.
- It -- It just - Aaron, Aaron.
You're not doing yourself any favors here by trying to come across as the meek, weak, guilty individual.
Answer the question.
Did you rape Samuel Pearce? Yes or no.
- Yes or no.
Yes or no.
- I couldn't help it.
Yes or no.
Yes.
Just tell me one thing.
Why did you Why did you say that your dad was a pedophile? How did that get you off the hook? Out of interest.
He knew I was driving the car when Joseph shot Victoria Summers.
He was onto me about it.
He gave me an ultimatum.
He said, "Look, if you don't tell the police, I'm going to the police.
" I thought -- I thought maybe if I made something up about him, if I -- if I made a story up, he'd forget about it and, you know, take his mind off it.
How can you live with yourself for doing something like that? All that shit about, "I couldn't help myself.
I tried really, really hard," I thought I was gonna fucking puke.
It doesn't get any easier, I tell you.
I just spoke to child protection.
Now Aaron's been arrested, Sammy told them that Aaron threatened to kill Alma and Kelly if he said anything.
He's just absolutely terrified.
It was Aaron who told him to burn all his clothes.
Another great day in the office.
Yeah, right.
Why did you lie? I was trying to help my son.
I didn't know what my son had done.
I knew he'd done something.
I wasn't aware That's bullshit.
Otherwise you would've told us that it was Alma that shot you.
The reason you didn't tell us it was Alma is because she is the mother of the young, innocent boy who was raped by your son, by your flesh and blood.
- That's why you didn't tell us.
- I was just trying to help him.
You should be bloody ashamed of yourself.
I am ashamed of myself.
Really? Really.
I am deeply ashamed of myself.
I am deeply ashamed of my son and the pain and hurt that he has caused.
I thought this was a situation that would go away, I tried to address it in the best way that I could, and I obviously failed.
Reverend Matthews, I think you're a disgrace, not only to your community but to your religion at large.
Okay, now, you're already under arrest for aiding and abetting a sexual offender.
I am now arresting you for perverting the course of justice.
Again, you do not have to say anything, though it may harm your defense if you fail to mention when questioned something you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be used in evidence.
- Do you understand? - Yes.
I think we're done.
Kelly, there's been some changes.
What kind of changes? We have had a confession from Aaron Matthews.
Saying what? Confessing to abusing your brother, Sammy.
That's fucking bullshit.
I can't believe you're actually telling me that you believe that my boyfriend would do that? Are you serious? Kelly, Sammy has said that he was just very scared and Sammy has said that? - Sammy felt he couldn't - I can't -- no.
tell the truth, and he was a scared little boy.
- Oh, my God.
- It's often the way.
No.
No, no, no, no.
That's -- no.
That No.
I want to make sure that you see your family, and we will make arrangements for your release, so We've interviewed Aaron Matthews.
He has confessed to the sexual abuse of your son.
Sammy said it's -- it's Daniel.
Well, it's -- it's come out that Sammy was scared, he was threatened, and he felt unable to talk about this, Alma.
I shot the wrong man.
The absolute Worst part of it is, is that if Reverend Matthews had reported his son, Aaron, for taking those images of the boxing club kids, then Aaron probably Wouldn't have gone on to rape Sammy.
They say parents will do anything for their kids, right? Do you know, I think that's bullshit, actually.
I think that the reverend was just looking out for his own reputation.
I don't think he gave a damn about his son.
I really don't.
Now, can we fuel the rumor that I'm an alcoholic? Could somebody buy me a fucking drink? I think Jack started that rumor.
Come on.
I need drinking buddies.
Come on.