NEW 24 Hours in Police Custody - tonight 9pm - Channel 4

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A TV documentary that follows the work of a police force will show how the investigation into the actions of a teenage killer unfolded.

Nicholas Prosper used a shotgun to kill his mother Juliana Falcon, 48, his brother Kyle, 16, and his 13-year-old sister, Giselle, at their home in Luton on 13 September 2024.
The 19-year-old, who was arrested in the hours after the murders, was jailed for 49 years in March. A trial heard he intended to carry out a shooting at his former primary school.

The Channel Four series 24 Hours in Police Custody, which follows the work of investigators at Bedfordshire Police, will feature the case over two nights on 5 and 6 October.

I think she left to avoid prosecution. There's almost zero chance of America extraditing the parents of an American child living in America - especially an armed forces family.

Was the grandmother given full custody because Sam had left or did she leave because she lost custody?

I cannot imagine leaving the county and leaving my child behind.

I've just watched both episodes and my goodness it will stay with me for a long time. What an utterly horrific crime.
Seeing Josh’s brother and uncle being told Josh had died was devastating. I hope they’re all able to take some comfort from being involved in the little boys life.
So glad the little boy is with his grandma and not his mum. I think we all know she knew what her father was planning. What a despicable pair.

I thought they we're in the hotel because she had sold her home and was moving to the US, despite what the court orders had said about being allowed to take her son.

I wish the police were able to do something about these no comment interviews. They must find them so frustrating. That man was so full of himself. The footage of the boys dad being shot as saying help. Just heartbreaking.

I’m another one crying at the grandma being awarded custody

I was feeling so angry that basically they had got what they wanted and thinking that murder does pay and was pleasantly surprised to find out that it doesn’t. Maybe there is something to be said for our justice system after all?

It seemed to me that Stephen just desperately wanted to make everything go Sam’s way and he was prepared to stop at nothing to do that. I felt he would have been happy to go to prison for life if she won and got the child so I was glad it didn’t happen that way.

I can’t decide if she knew what he was planning but I strongly suspect it. Why not ask him to babysit? She appeared as though she straight away knew who had done it. You could tell they wouldn’t be charged because their interview never got shown nor their faces in the police station. They only show the guilty ones. I was actually surprised they showed as much evidence against them as they did.

😢 awful

Even if she’d lost custody she’d still have had access I’d have thought. So either way she abandoned her son.

It seemed to me that Stephen just desperately wanted to make everything go Sam’s way and he was prepared to stop at nothing to do that. I felt he would have been happy to go to prison for life if she won and got the child so I was glad it didn’t happen that way.

Agree with this. Also it said Sam had only reestablished contact with her Dad in 2019, so presumably he hadn’t been part of her life for a long time. Maybe he felt he was “making up” for lost time by doing this. So misguided and I hope he regrets what he’s done every single day of his life, and is haunted by what he did. He will never see his grandson again and neither will his daughter.
He deserves to rot in prison.

The implication surely is that the police felt the mother at least (if not the husband) was guilty but they just didn’t have the evidence. Otherwise, not sure why they would have shown so much about her re-arrest.

absolutely shocking. The father was prepared to be the fall guy. Terrible terrible crime. And so pleased the sentence was increased.

Or asking Josh’s parents to look after the children. Assuming they too lived much closer than the 3+hr joint net from Cambridge to Bristol.

journey

Yeah I didn't get that

Wow that was a really shocking two episodes

And really really sad. Poor little boy

And it really seemed like the little boy's mum was in on it

And it really didn't seem plausible Stephen's explanation of the mental breakdown on the day

I'm sure in previous episodes they have shown interviews when investigating and further on in the investigation they find out that person is innocent

Maybe that person was happy for the footage to be used? I think if they’re found guilty they don’t have a choice but if innocent they do?

They also didn’t broadcast either of Mum and new husband‘s voices, as I recall. Just had subtitles or modulated voices during interactions and interviews. Presumably something legal and maybe because they are now in the US, or more likely because he’s a serviceman?

Which is why she wouldn’t have brought a baby into that situation.

What a horrendous one - the worst I’ve ever watched!

I wonder if he thought that if they went to America they would take him with them as he obviously loved America as he made those comments and Texas and guns.

The only good thing about this is the love that Paternal grandma obviously had for the boy. The way she lit up when talking about him was lovely.

I wonder if Samantha will try and visit her son. There would need to be a third party to hand him over for contact as not like she can visit him at Joshua's mum's house after what's happened. 😔

Other very memorable 24 hours in Police Custody episodes were the surgeon and the fake burglary and the one with police corruption involving blackmail of men visiting prostitutes.

Any solicitor, even a crap one, would’ve told her from the off that there was no chance of a court giving her permission to take her son to America when he had a dad who was involved in his life, the fact they spent £20k on a hopeless case is baffling, and she should have considered that before marrying an American soldier.

Stephen was obviously a nasty piece of work who was very used to getting his own way and couldn’t handle someone standing up to him, may he rot in jail.

I’d imagine that grandmother got custody because the family court would’ve taken into consideration that it’s clear the mother was heavily involved in the father’s death, even if it couldn’t be proved in a criminal court it may not be in the child’s best interests to be with a mother who’d arranged his father’s death, and there was a strong likelihood of her taking the child to the USA where he’d lose contact with his father’s family, and now her dad isn’t footing her legal bills she may have decided not to fight it because of the cost and the likelihood of losing.

I said similar - it’s like final boss level Disney-dadding, be absent for most of their childhood and then make up for it by doing a couple of murders for them

I think Mandy was spot on when she said he killed Josh for Sam and Gary for himself because he was everything Stephen wasn’t.

The Home County Cartel too but my interest is probably down to working for years with one of them. Really made me realise you never truly know someone.

For me, it was the one where two men were murdered in Houghton Regis, and they showed the actual footage of one of the men being run over like a rag doll. That was local to me, and I remembered it happening.

One of the convicted men, I believe, had his teenage daughter living with him, following the murder of her mother. That murder was the subject of another TV programme - Killer In My Village.