Wiltshire Police told the BBC: The IPCC investigation concluded that a misconduct hearing should take place to consider potential gross misconduct. He then offered to take the detective to the spot where he'd buried another victim, and procedure dictated that Fulcher should have charged Halliwell and returned him to a police stationwhere he had access to a solicitor - he decided not to. The CPS should have appealed. Sians only crime was to resemble Halliwells own mother, who he hated. 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How was the killer Christopher Halliwell caught? He argued that the original judge (Mrs Justice Cox) had been correct in her ruling, but that since Halliwell had "unequivocally" pleaded guilty to Sian's murder, the concerns over PACE were "no longer relevant.". This investigation damaged Fulcher's career as a senior police officer, and despite keeping his job with a final written warning in January 2014, he resigned from the force in May of that year. The senior investigating officer on the case was Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher (played in A Confession by Martin Freeman) and the events of 24th March would be the defining moment of his career. Steve is convinced Halliwell murdered others after he revealed he had buried Becky Godden in a 5ft hole. With equity release you could access a lump-sum of tax-free cash which can be used to enhance your retirement income, make home improvements, or even enjoy a memorable holiday. In essence, Fulcher was using his experience to make a judgment call a call that took him on another car journey with Halliwell to rural Gloucestershire. It need never have been so. It was a terrible Catch 22. Got Christopher Halliwell to confess to 2nd murder . Fearful that Halliwell might take his own life, he felt he had no choice but to arrest him on suspicion of kidnap the first of a number of difficult dilemmas he would face. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. ', Afterwards Fulcher said of Halliwell: 'We had a surreal exchange, he knew that he had given his life away. Steve Fulcher placed Halliwell under surveillance and he was seen cleaning his car, disposing of materials in litter bins, and burning objects at night. "He killed Becky in 2003, he killed Sian in 2011, so that's eight years. Catching a Serial Killer: My hunt for murderer Christopher Halliwell, spoken many times in the press about his experience of the case, he was working for a private company in Mogadishu, Somalia, the police found "up to 60" items of women's clothing. ", Why? Jeff Pope's new ITV drama A Confession stars Martin Freeman as Detective Steve Fulcher, whose hunt for missing 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan led him into an extraordinary situation in 2011. After joining the Wiltshire force in 2003, Fulcher was promoted to Detective Superintendent. Via CCTV footage and tracing of her mobile signal it quickly became clear this was what Fulcher terms a crime in action. Lara Keay For Mailonline In January 2012, at a preliminary hearing, Mrs Justice Cox ruled the confession obtained by Fulcher was inadmissible at trial. He maintains that he would not have persuaded Halliwell to confess had he not taken this gamble. "He later decided of his own volition to resign from Wiltshire Police.". The public needs to know what the police wont do if their own daughter went missing. It also meant Halliwell was able to evade justice for Becky's murder when he was found guilty of Sian's killing in 2012. There is a significant gap in his offending. Instead, everyone turned on me.. Indeed, it was only thanks to Fulchers instincts honed from 25 years of painstaking investigations and cat and mouse detective work that two young murder victims had been found. Former cop Steve Fulcher says: Are you seriously telling me that on two occasions he brutally murdered two women and then theres nothing before or since?. Under the PACE code of practice (relating to The Police And Criminal Evidence Act of 1984), DS Fulcher should have taken Halliwell straight back to the police station as soon as he confessed to Beckys murder. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Yet that wasnt all. January 2003 - Becky Godden, then aged 20, is last seen alive after getting into a taxi outside Destiny & Desire nightclub in Swindon. It later transpired that Fulcher, when arresting Halliwell, acted on the instinct that Halliwell may have been responsible for the disappearance of Becky Godden-Edwards, who had been reported missing in 2007 and pressed him for details. "Generally, we echo Fulcher's belief that there are other victims," Pope said, explaining the drama's approach to the question. Freeman met Fulcher during the filming of A Confession, and Fulcher has now watched the dramatisation. Officers arrested Halliwell, but rather than read him his rights, provide him with a lawyer and bring him to a police station, Det Supt Fulcher said he wanted to speak with Halliwell man-to-man.. Jeff Pope, Executive Producer and Writer - explains PACE. During the investigation, Detective Steve Fulcher broke police protocol and extracted not one, but two confessions from the killer. The protracted investigations into his conduct, meanwhile, have affected not only his health but that of Yvonne, his 48-year-old wife of 28 years, and their two 20-something daughters investigations which, as Fulcher emphasises in this blistering interview, could have been better used to secure Halliwells conviction for Becky Goddards death years earlier. It took four more years of campaigning for it to be allowed, and last September Halliwell was convicted of killing Becky and burying her body in a field at Eastleach, Gloucs. An investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission in 2013 found the police officer had a case to answer for gross misconduct for ignoring force orders. Asked about the difference between roles Fulcher and 'Tim' from The Office, he added:'I'm very, very pleased that I've been able to do other things that have resonated with people.'. Instead resources went into investigating me for years.. There is a fundamental flaw in the law when a detective has to refuse a voluntary confession from a suspect., There remains the question of other possible victims. The Sherlock actor said he 'couldn't believe' Fulcher's story when he heard it. DS Steve Fulcher, played by Martin Freeman in A Confession, resigned from the police after being found guilty of gross misconduct in the Christopher Halliwell case As he points out, however, his focus was on one thing: finding Sian. In 2014, he was found guilty of misconduct at a disciplinary hearing. 'I'm not specifically looking at any one particular offence, but I do want to try to understand why there's an eight-year gap between his offending behaviour. Channel 4 During the investigation, a. 2021 Associated Newspapers Limited. On 24 March, OCallaghans body was found in a shallow grave near Uffington, Oxfordshire, and Christopher Halliwell, a 47-year-old taxi driver from Swindon was arrested, charged and later sentenced to a life sentence for the murder. But to get those confessions, Fulcher was accused of breaching the guidelines of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) by failing to caution Halliwell and denying him access to a solicitor at the time the confessions were obtained. A suspect soon popped up in the shape of taxi driver Christopher Halliwell, whose green Toyota Avensis had been seen near the nightclub and close to Savernake Forest, where Sians mobile had last given off a signal. He also told The Guardian in 2017 that he believed Halliwell was responsible for more murders, as more than 60 items of womens clothing were found buried in woodland near Marlborough, including OCallaghans brown boots and Godden-Edwardss cardigan. Ainsworth, who had just been suspended over allegations he had sexually harassed female colleagues, was found hanged at home. At this point, Fulcher still hoped to find Sian alive. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. It is possible that there were other victims before or after Becky but he has never been charged or convicted of any other murders. If the media outside the nick had found out, they would have had the headline of the year., News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. In May 2012 Christopher Halliwell pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering Sian O'Callaghan, but when he appeared in Bristol Crown Court in October 2012 he pleaded guilty to her murder. The CPS and senior police figures panicked, Fulcher says. Despite these hopes, Fulcher was wrong. Steve Fulcher, the detective who put him behind bars, . Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class. There were 60. But the following day, there were "significant lines of inquiry" and the public were asked to stand down from the search. Sophie Rundle: Motherhood has made me too tired to people-please', The Witch Trials of JK Rowling makes sensible points. Inside the sad decline of 'Fairy Floss Girl': How the racegoer who shot to fame when Kyle Sandilands gushed that 'This is what we hoped would not happen': Police despair after finding baby's body during search for aristocrat Theatre issues trigger warning for production which 'involves the handling of a cooked egg', Man dies 'after being shot at home': Police Scotland hunt 'gunman' as they appeal for information. Some claimed the manner in which Steve gained Halliwells confessions was "arrogant and reckless". In his book, Steve says: At the bottom of a pond that was 8ft deep they found Sian OCallaghans distinctive boot. It was a fitting tribute for a man who prided himself on putting victims and their families first. Effectively unemployable by British police, he now works as a consultant on policing in Somalia, taking him away from home for long periods. He said: If I had taken Halliwell into custody we would never have found Sian and obviously we would never have heard of his other victim Becky Godden. First he dumped her body near his sick stash at Ramsbury. Its an almost insoluble problem. The programme explores whether Steve's actions were brilliant detective work, or arrogance and recklessness which ultimately cost him his job. "The panel considered independently whether or not the actions of Steve Fulcher had breached the standards of professional behaviour that apply to all police officers in England and Wales. Its a simple moral issue, he told the Guardian. By Martin Freeman plays Det Supt Fulcher, Imelda Staunton is Karen Edwards, Beckys mother, Siobhan Finneran features as Elaine Pickford, Sians mother. 11:00 GMT 03 Sep 2019. A search of the forest proved fruitless, but the detective got a breakthrough several days into the investigation after his team spotted an unidentified taxi on CCTV in the area where she disappeared, explains ITV reporter Robert Murphy, who covered the case. Drivers warned over incoming hike in petrol and diesel prices amid two key changes, "Its really important that we dont have any particular day where fuel goes up very dramatically", Limerick woman 'lucky to be alive' after being held captive, beaten and doused with acid in horror attack. A young woman called Becky Godden-Edwards had gone missing a number of years before, last seen in 2002 or 2003. Can you have a police force that simply ignores a serial killer?, Karen Edwards, the mother of Becky Godden-Edwards, commented: Had he have followed the guidelines, then Becky would never have been found, she would have never have come into the equation.. It is a colossal effort. At 9.45am he called the police to report that his girlfriend had gone missing. I can understand what happened to Fulcher happened to Fulcher. The trace on her phone was tracked to the nearby Savernake Forest by Steve's team. One of the cases to which Halliwell has been linked is that of mother-of-four Linda Razzell, 41, who disappeared from Highworth, near Swindon, on March 19, 2002. Det Supt Sean Memory, the senior investigating officer in the Godden case, said after he was convicted in 2016 that Halliwell may have killed others. Fulcher was disciplined for misconduct and later resigned, losing his 500,000 police pension and selling his house. Fulcher himself spent hours questioning Halliwell at Barbury Castle, breaking down his defences and sharing his cigarettes and forming a connection. But his decision to break police guidelines and drive Halliwell to where he thought Sian might be found alive, instead of taking him to the police station for a formal interview, was to cost him his job. No trace of her has ever been found. Senior investigating officer Steve Fulcher was found not to have followed procedures on the treatment of suspects, meaning Halliwell's confession was inadmissible in court. In January 2014, Fulcher was found guilty of gross misconduct and given a final written warning by a disciplinary tribunal. It's a very dodgy road to go down, I think, for us as a society.'. Fulcher, also a father with two daughters, says: If I didnt take this step, I feared Sian would die alone and abandoned.. His crime, if that is even remotely the appropriate word, was failing to follow to the precise letter police procedure something Fulcher says he did because it was the only way to get to the truth. ITV's The Confession, tells the story of how Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher breached protocols to catch a killer. Steve is no longer working for Wiltshire police, having left the force back in 2014, but his decision to hand in his notice wasn't one he made lightly. TWISTED Christopher Halliwell could be one of Britains worst serial killers, says the detective who put him behind bars. So while Halliwell was charged and convicted of the murder of Sian O'Callaghan (the case was strong enough without that confession), at this point he could not be tried for the murder of Becky Godden-Edwards. ', But criminal defence barrister Sebastian Gardiner says: 'It wasn't ignorance on his part, it was a conscious decision by him to drive a coach and horses through recognised police procedure.'. In January 2003Becky Godden, then aged 20, is last seen alive after getting into a taxi outside Destiny & Desire nightclub in Swindon. [Wiltshire police] chose not to pursue it. While others insisted it was actually brilliant detective work, with the mothers of the victims praising DS Fulcher for finding their daughters. Her husband Glyn has spent 13 years in jail for her murder but maintains his innocence. Another potential victim is prostitute Sally Ann John, 24, who vanished from Swindon in 1995. A wealth of experience which was brought to bear when, on March 19th 2011, office administrator Sian OCallaghan was reported missing by her boyfriend after being last seen outside a nightclub in Swindon town centre in the small hours. We might never find out who 'another one' is. The car had been seen on CCTV pulling up next to Sian on her way home. Away from the press, Fulcher and his team had also identified the taxi driver 47-year-old father-of-three Christopher Halliwell (played by Joe Absolom) and were keeping him under surveillance, hoping he would lead them to Sian. Only two of the items have ever been identified a cardigan worn by Becky, who disappeared in Swindon in 2003. Met Eireann has pinpointed a two-week period where 'weather warnings or impactful weather are possible'. He has written a memoir 'Catching A Serial Killer' upon which "A Confession' is partly based. His loyal family had also suffered. Natalie Corner For Mailonline, Trophy hunter mother, 41, who has travelled the world to kill more than ONE HUNDRED animals claims her hobby HELPS preserve wild species, Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio teases that Julia Montague is ALIVE - as he reveals how he manages to keep the show's plot a secret, TIMELINE OF A DOUBLE KILLING: HOW CHRISTOPHER HALLIWELL MURDERED TWO WOMEN THEN THWARTED JUSTICE FOR VICTIM'S FAMILY. Thankfully, circumstantial and forensic evidence ensured Halliwell, 52, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012 for killing Miss OCallaghan. She was a drug addict and sex worker, and after she disappeared her mother Karen Edwards (played by Imelda Staunton) had spent years hoping she would return. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum tariff of 25 years. Fulcher had not cautioned Halliwell as he should have under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE). It was a moment which, perhaps better than any other, summed up the monstrous injustice meted out to DS Fulcher and exposed the deeply warped priorities of our legal system. And where had they gone next? He was found guilty in January 2014 and given a final written warning by a disciplinary tribunal. So clear, in fact, that there is a police manual The Kidnap Manual with precise guidelines. Martin Freeman - plays Supt Det Steve Fulcher. For Fulcher had gone from being Wiltshire Polices man of the hour flavour of the month as he puts it to having his reputation destroyed. I need help. When DS Steve Fulcher arrested Christopher Halliwell over the disappearance of 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan, it was the start of his own downfall. But there is only no evidence because they havent spoken to the witness.. Sian's mother Elaine Pickford says what he did was understandable to her family. And a high-heeled boot Sian was wearing before she was abducted on her way home from a nightclub in 2011. How far should the police go in securing a confession and bringing a killer to justice? September 19, 2016 - Halliwell is convicted of Miss Godden's murder. Thats the question a new true-crime dramatisation asks, as it tells the story of a detective in a 2011 murder case who was found guilty of gross misconduct, but resulted in the conviction of a murderer guilty of two brutal killings. How Christopher Halliwell was brought to justice. 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He said: "My view is that I have brought two daughters back to their mothers and Ive prevented other victims resulting from Halliwells continued pursuit of his career as a serial killer. His story is a true story, and one which . For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Sick cabbie Christopher Halliwell is serving life for murdering two women, Steve Fulcher, the detective who put him behind bars, says there could be dozens more victims, Police unearthed a 'stash of trophies' 15 miles from Sian O'Callaghan's body, The fiend also revealed where cops could find the body of Becky Godden, Potential victim Claudia Lawrence has been missing since March 19, 2009, The disappearance of Thi Hai Nguyen, 20, has been linked to the killer, Along with mother-of-three Tina Pryer, 39, who was last seen in 2001, Last September Halliwell was convicted of killing Becky and burying her body in a field at Eastleach, Gloucs, The killer, defending himself in court, gloated about how he had ruined the detective's career, A spade recovered from Halliwell's shed after he was found guilty of murdering Becky Godden, Twisted Christopher Halliwell could have raped and killed dozens more women as cops look into trophy store, Frogmore eviction shows King Charles has drawn a line with Harry - now he must do two more things with the spoilt brat, Harry's vicious attacks on Camilla could not be forgiven by King Charles - he had to hit back, Constance Marten: Baby's body found after massive police search, as cops question runaway aristocrat & Mark Gordon, Rishi Sunak to finally unveil delayed small boats law next week after Brexit win, Ministers vow to never use draconian spy law to jail journalists, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). 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