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’ve just watched it again and the investigator with the dark curly hair and glasses said that his grandma was the same age as Una when she died and on her death certificate it said natural causes, but on Una’s it said that she died from stab wounds. The original attending officers thought it was an accident with her clothes or a tea towel catching fire.

No they didn’t.

The scene was compromised in the immediate aftermath but it was determined it was a homicide when it was ascertained how she’d died at the post mortem

why else do you think there were suspects arrested previously?

This is what the police officer said, so I expect he knows what he’s talking about. Treat it as a homicide until it’s proven otherwise.

Yes, there was another one in Wisbech. Was it the disabled lady who was murdered if I remember rightly.

There was blood spatter on the wall, and several small fires, including on her. Nobody in the police now believes that could have been seen as innocent. Only on Mumsnet, it seems.

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The man convicted of that murder was one of the suspects in this case.

Wisbech sounds like a dangerous place.

I used to go there with my family when visiting family friends back in the 1980's. I think it was fairly nice back then - thriving market town. It's gone downhill like a lot of market towns due to internet shopping and it also had a lot of transient EU immigration from Lithuania and Latvia with young men coming to work on the surrounding farms.

What are you going on about? No one on here is saying it was anything but murder.

What on earth are you on about?

Have you been watching an entirely different programme? I can’t think of any other reason for your extremely baffling posts, which appear to bear no relation to
the actual case

Poor Una. What an absolute beast she came across.

Christ only knows what the first set of officers were thinking. DH is ex-police and was watching aghast.

(It’s probably inappropriate, but I do have a small but significant crush on the dark curly haired officer 😳)

I was responding to @FiredFromACannon’s point about no blood spatter, obviously. Are you all policemen or something? Utterly bizarre. Not often that the police say they’ve got it badly wrong but the argumentative on here disagree with them 😂😂

Una could have made it to 100 this year.

He is a continuity nightmare! His hairstyle/beard/glasses change from moment to moment.

Yeah, it took me a while to realise I only had a crush on one bloke.

I can’t get my head around how the murderer became such a totally evil bastard. Are these ‘people’ born or made?

It was satisfying to watch the arrogance leach out of him when he realised he was busted.

They said there was no blood spatter.

There was a forensics documentary ages ago, where a body was found. A murder inquiry was launched. But it wasn’t until about 20 hours after the discovery, that the body was actually turned over and they released it was actually a suicide. I don’t know how long bodies are normally left in situ for.

It makes me angry to think he got away with it for so long due to the initial police incompetence. He sounded like a psychopath when he said he can just switch off during the interviews. No remorse at all.

It looked like Una’s niece’s husband had passed away in the intervening years - very sad for her family.

Remember it wasn’t just the police who initially said it was natural causes. Was also the crime scene investigator. Beggars belief. I get that a CSI person is probably no pathologist. But the fact they saw the cuts on her neck and assumed her neckscarf had caused the cuts as she fell is bizarre. Surely that’s the point you escalate and say actually I think we need a pathologist here to the scene because this might be murder.

I just watched the second part of the Una Crown case last night. I'm utterly shocked and appalled the sheer incompetence of the police in this case! I understand that when they first entered the scene the victim was face down and so her stab wounds and slashed throat might not have been obvious, but there were pools of blood on the floor - how did they explain that when the detective said he thought that she'd caught herself on fire from the faulty stove? But anyway, as soon as they turned her over they should've realised that no one can stab themselves 15 times and slash their own throat. At the very least, at autopsy this should have been re-categorised as a murder investigation.

And then we get to the perpetrator - a guy who was local, known to the victim, known to be a pervert who watched women, known to be an arsonist, known to be violent to women, including his own wife, and who may potentially have had a key to the victim's property, if he'd had one cut when he got her a new one cut one year before. A police investigation at the time would've turned up all that information. Yet it took the police 11 YEARS to apprehend and charge him for the crime!!! Absolutely appalling.