24 Hours in Police Custody

[purpleme12]

Anyone watch yesterday's?
Watching now. The woman at the start making the 999 call sounds so calm!
When she's got someone outside her flat with this massive gun!

Yeah, that was sickening wasn't it? I really felt his wife

As for the police officer - he had everyone fooled didn't he? His (I think) superior officer saying what a great guy he was, so empathetic, diligent, a great officer, etc. And look what he was getting up at home. Doesn't say much for either him or his colleagues, tbh.

Doesn't say much for either him or his colleagues, tbh.

How are his colleagues to blame? They were as much a victim of his behaviour as anyone, he'd lied to them and deceived them about who he was.

I guess I'd just assume detectives are a bit better judges of character than those who aren't trained to get the true measure of a person. I suppose they just weren't looking among their own ranks, which is fair enough.

Tbf it’s not necessarily a detective’s job to be a judge of character, it’s their job to collect evidence to support a prosecution. It’s a jury’s job to judge the person. Plus we are all a bit “blind” and more forgiving to people we know - like if one of our friends did something bad we wouldn’t immediately ditch them, because they’re our friend. And obviously he hid that side of his life completely.

It showed up tonight on my channel 4OD so I watched it. But disappointed as it was a repeat and I'd seen it few years ago. Opening titles gave it away 🙈

I wonder if there are any new ones ready to be shown?

The socks would be a dead giveaway!

This is another episode (I know it's an old one) where I would have liked more info about the police officer who committed the crime.

The pimp was obviously trying to come across as oh so reasonable. And heartbreaking when the sex worker said that she didn't really speak to anyone else.

I’ve just watched the pub murders one. Shocking!

That Papworth and Bennsion , really dangerous men who deserve their long sentences.

34 and 38 years are minimum terms too, usually a parole board rejects a first hearing.
They will be old men when they come out..

And for what ? I guess their minds work differently to ours?.. how can having a grudge be worth killing 2 people, and spending the majority of the rest of your life in a prison cell?

I think that’s why this episode was so powerful. Not just two people murdered and one person seriously injured but 2 other people’s lives totally ruined by their own stupidity and drunkenness and machismo. 4 lives totally wasted. That comment made by the custody officer that she thought Papworth was an ok bloke - or whatever it was she said - I wonder if the editing team left that in to highlight the absolute waste of the perpetrators lives…I actually felt sorry for both perps. Total madness and how I bet they wish they could rewind the clock

Wasn’t exactly a knee jerk reaction though , not a one punch kill for example.
Papworth made phone calls, then left the pub and drove his car deliberately over a human being.

It doesn’t make sense why Bennison went on a killing spree. To stab three people with the intention of killing them takes some effort.

Why did he throw his life away like that ?