"But we certainly don't get into any of the specifics of those other cases that have been attached there are other murders up and down the country that are now attached to Halliwell, and we absolutely scrupulously did not get into any of that. Its a race against time. A race against a backdrop of high emotions, too. In 2018 he appeared on the ITV show To Catch a Serial Killer with Trevor McDonald.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," Fulcher told McDonald. At this point, Fulcher still hoped to find Sian alive. 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. TWISTED Christopher Halliwell could be one of Britains worst serial killers, says the detective who put him behind bars. Detective Sergeant Steve Fulcher resigned from the police force in 2014 after he was found guilty of misconduct for not reading Halliwell his rights when he first confessed to killing. The next important clue came from a text message sent by Kevin at 3.24am, which was received on Sian's phone; analysis showed that her mobile phone had been in the Savernake Forest area at the time the message arrived. How was the killer Christopher Halliwell caught? The force arranged for an independent misconduct panel to convene. I felt my position was untenable.. It is based on a true-life inquiry which led to a police officer losing his career. A Confession viewers have been shocked by the twists and turns in the TV version of the horrific true story of serial killer Christopher Halliwell. The 22-year-old office worker had been out with friends, got separated from them and left the nightclub alone. How Christopher Halliwell was brought to justice. "Generally, we echo Fulcher's belief that there are other victims," Pope said, explaining the drama's approach to the question. Steve, who went on to get a job as a consultant for a private company in Somalia which offers aid from the Foreign Office, admitted he was shunned when trying to find work in the UK.. Wiltshire Police told the BBC : "The IPCC investigation concluded that a misconduct hearing should take place to consider potential gross misconduct. And despite Karen Edwards best efforts, there have been no changes to arrest guidelines. That decision cost DS Fulcher his career. In March 2011, Sian OCallaghan vanished on a night out in Swindon. Around the pond were not six other items of womens clothing. All the while, Fulcher delayed making an arrest, hoping Halliwell might lead them to Sian, whom he fervently hoped might still be alive. Another potential victim is prostitute Sally Ann John, 24, who vanished from Swindon in 1995. But when Halliwell kept answering no comment, Fulcher took another crucial decision, authorising officers to bring Halliwell to the hilltop site alone for what is known as an urgent interview something entirely permissible under the manuals code in a last ditch chance to find Sian. 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. Well the ramifications are clear. On the day of his arrest, Halliwell spoke to Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, and admitted to murdering two women and dumping their bodies in shallow graves. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. He [was] kind of crawling up the walls. Deborah Peach from the inquiry team recalls in the programme: 'Steve takes the decision that he will conduct an urgent interview of Halliwell himself and just says "Right, let's go".'. "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. His actions compromised the court case against Halliwell and called into question one of the most important principles of the criminal justice system, the PACE guidelines. March 18, 2011 - Sian O'Callaghan, 22, is murdered by Halliwell after getting into his taxi while walking home after leaving Suju nightclub in Swindon. ', He considered his actions: 'Should I stop him confessing? Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class. He was only convicted of Becky's murder in 2016 after a new detective took over the investigation. Via CCTV footage and tracing of her mobile signal it quickly became clear this was what Fulcher terms a crime in action. We might never find out who 'another one' is. Fulcher decided not to take Halliwell to. He quit in 2014 after a disciplinary hearing, but the Hobbit star has defended Fulcher's actions, telling the Series Linked TV podcast:'There aren't enough police on the ground. Halliwell might have been far more prolific than even I had feared.. CCTV taken near the Suju nightclub in Swindon showed her getting into a Toyota taxi owned by Christopher Halliwell, a 47-year-old father of two teenage daughters. Speaking on To Catch A Serial Killer - With Trevor McDonald, Elaine said: Steve did what I think any family member would want an officer to do for them.. Steve explained that Halliwell told him to drive them to a local beauty spot, a chalk white horse at Uffington - which turned out to be where he had dumped Sian O'Callaghan's body. Fulcher was disciplined for misconduct and later resigned, losing his 500,000 police pension and selling his house. Another potential victim is prostitute Sally Ann John, 24, who vanished from Swindon in 1995. Five days after her disappearance and desperate to find Sian alive, police had closed in on suspect Halliwell. However, criminal defence barrister Sebastian Gardiner said their must be a way to ensure "police powers are not abused". Justice Cox got her judgment badly wrong. 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. But for my course of action Becky would still be in that field, Sian would never be found and Christopher Halliwell would be walking the streets.. Former detective superintendent Steve Fulcher has now told his side of the story With compelling circumstantial evidence, Fulcher authorised covert surveillance. He had murdered before. 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. CCTV of Sians last-known moments led him to 47-year-old father-of-three Christopher Halliwell. 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. He just found it so difficult because youve managed to take him straight back into the most awful events of his life.. At 9.45am he called the police to report that his girlfriend had gone missing. He took the team to a field in Gloucestershire where the remains of a second woman were later found. 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. But a secret trophy store of 60 items of womens clothing suggests dozens more victims may have been raped or killed by him. If she had traveled 12 miles in just half an hour, that meant the journey from Swindon Old Town could only have been made in a vehicle. September 19, 2016 - Halliwell is convicted of Miss Godden's murder. The CPS and senior police figures panicked, Fulcher says. '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. Place him under arrest and take him back into custody? Detective Chief Inspector Sean Memory said there could be an "innocent explanation" but pointed out: "Someone has made some effort to hide it. So clear, in fact, that there is a police manual The Kidnap Manual with precise guidelines. In fact she was found in a very shallow grave. In fact, they were the only things to do.. If the evidence in the trophy store suggests a truth that still lies hidden, then Halliwell had a prolific propensity to murder perhaps as often as once or twice a year so lives were saved after his arrest.. But who was driving the vehicle? He wanted to use what he believed were emergency powers, to be used only when there is an imminent threat to life. June 9, 2015 - Halliwell appears at Bristol Crown Court and denies Miss Godden's murder. But CCTV showed him driving around the town for another 90 minutes. It seemed astonishing to me they were not pursing lines of enquiry. ", And speaking after Halliwell's sentencing in 2016, Memory said: Im very very clear that there must be other victims out there whether they are sexual offences or other women that he has taken. 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. Christopher Halliwell, 54, is serving two whole life terms after killing 20-year-old Becky Godden and Sian O'Callaghan, 22. A TIMELINE: How Christopher Halliwell was brought to justice. 11:00 GMT 03 Sep 2019. I gave [Halliwell] a cigarette and he asked to talk to me. State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio lost $9.5 billion, which represents 9.64% of the . , updated 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. By effectively acting to ensure Halliwells life was preserved, I was potentially going to cause the death of his victim, he recalls. Beckys mother, Karen Edwards, began a petition calling for a change to arrest guidelines. After a nail-biting drive, Halliwell guided the police to an isolated lane running alongside the White Horse near Uffington, close to the Berkshire border, where he said Sians body was lying in the open. 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 cannot believe that was his first offence from being a burglar in the 1980s to a murderer in 2003. While they could go ahead with Sians murder charge, thanks to Halliwells DNA being on her body, the refusal of Fulchers senior officers to further investigate Beckys death, and thus garner more evidence, led the CPS to withdraw that charge. It turned out to be the remains of Becky. The team found Sian's remains there. Channel 4 During the investigation, a. Steve Fulcher placed Halliwell under surveillance and he was seen cleaning his car, disposing of materials in litter bins, and burning objects at night. The detective and suspect met at Barbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort near Swindon, where Fulcher believed Halliwell may be keeping Sian alive. A decorated police detective whose career was left in tatters after he decided to pursue a confession from a suspected killer without following strict policing guidelines, has said he has no regrets. 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. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Lara Keay For Mailonline 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. The killer was finally brought to justice by Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, who discovered he had murdered a second victim while investigating the disappearance of Sian O'Callaghan. They are puppets blowing with the prevailing political wind. The cop's life imploded when he caught depraved killer Christopher Halliwell. Fulcher is more than qualified to reflect on how British policing has changed. When do the clocks change in 2023? Meanwhile, Halliwell's father lived a few streets from the home of chef Claudia Lawrence, who has been missing since March 19, 2009 - the same day as Halliwell killed Ms O'Callaghan. When you suspect someone has been abducted or kidnapped their life remains under threat, and there are very clear procedural rules about that.. Her name would not be discovered for some days, after her DNA was checked. With his name so closely associated with the story he has found it hard to branch out, though in 2017 he was working for a private company in Mogadishu, Somalia. Wiltshire Police have since issued a statement saying, There is no evidence whatsoever to link him to any other murder in this country. Steve Fulcher, the detective who put him behind bars, . As a result of being found guilty of gross misconduct in January 2014, Steve Fulcher was given a final written warning, which could have led to his dismissal if he'd fallen foul of any more. In September 2013, the Independent Police Complaints Commission found that Fulcher had a case to answer for gross misconduct for breaches of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act and for ignoring force orders. Police are still continuing their investigation into Halliwell as they believe other victims are yet to be found. He added: It wasn't ignorance on his part, it was a conscious decision by him to drive a coach and horses through recognised police procedure.. Yesterday he was sentenced to a full life sentence, a tariff reserved for those, like Moors Murderer Ian Brady, who are considered to be societys most dangerous. This almost derailed the court case against Halliwell and called into question one of the most important principles of the criminal justice system. With the deaths of Becky and Sian some eight years apart, Fulcher is convinced there may be more undiscovered bodies a sentiment now echoed by other senior officers involved in Halliwells conviction this week. And where had they gone next? There wasnt an alternative that wouldnt involve ruining my chances of Halliwell opening up.. Fulcher had not cautioned Halliwell as he should have under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE). The judge ruled: "I am satisfied that the evidence of the conviction of the defendant of the murder of Sian O'Callaghan is admissible to prove the defendant's propensity to commit murder. You are talking about co-ordinating hundreds of officers. Four months later, he resigned from the Wiltshire Police force. The last sighting of her was in the Manchester Road area, in the towns red-light district, at 10.45pm on September 8, 1995. Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, 52, from Wiltshire, was one of the most respected officers in the UK when he caught taxi driver Christopher Halliwell in 2011, who went on to confess to the murder ofSian O'Callaghan, 22. Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher speaks at a press conference at Gablecross Police Station in Swindon on the murder of Sian O'Callaghan, MARTIN FREEMAN as Steve Fulcher and JOE ABSOLOM as Christopher Halliwell, Elaine Pickford, played by Sobhan Finneran, was grateful to DS Fulcher. September 5, 2016 - Halliwell goes on trial at Bristol Crown Court for Miss Godden's murder. Yet no one was interested.. Clarkson's Farm Season 3 'confirmed' by Jeremy Clarkson as he issues three-word statement, There were reports that Jeremy Clarkson's farming programme had been axed after the presenter's comments about Meghan Markle, Dragon's Den viewers slam 'snobby' couple as they sneer at 'Lidl shoppers' question, "I wouldn't use Lidl as a benchmark for our service. A police telephone trace threw up a clue - he had texted her half an hour after she left the nightclub saying, 'Worried'. POLICE unearthed the stash of trophies just 15 miles from where serial killer Christopher Halliwell had led them to Sian OCallaghans body. Some killings are linked by the date March 19 a day on which Halliwell was once dumped by a girlfriend in the 1980s and also the date Sian was killed. Their sentiments, however, are not shared by the police or the legal system. When Halliwells confession about the location of Beckys body was ruled inadmissible in court, other officers continued the hunt for more evidence and unearthed the trophy stash in 2014. In an explosive new book, Catching A Serial Killer, Steve tells the inside story of the case and how his quest for justice cost him his job. There is a significant gap in his offending. However, Fulcher was eager not to lose the opportunity to elicit another confession, so he went with Halliwell to the site where the remains of Becky Godden, 20, were discovered. The delay in Halliwells trial with all the resulting trauma was entirely down to an obsession with procedure, rather than the pursuit of justice. PACE is there for a reason. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Judge Mrs Justice Cox ruled both of Halliwell's confessions were inadmissable as evidence because Fulcher had breached Police and Criminal Evidence Act guidelines. At Wiltshire he had solved several murders while simultaneously gaining a Masters Degree in Criminology from the University of Cambridge. Yet that wasnt all. She had been brutally beaten and stabbed. I can understand what happened to Fulcher happened to Fulcher. On March 19 2011, 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan disappeared from Wiltshire after last being spotted at a nightclub in the area. 'But for my course of action Becky would still be in that field, Sian would never be found and Christopher Halliwell would be walking the streets.'. When cornered by detectives, Halliwell admitted that he had killed Sian and led them to her body. He was an experienced police officer who knew what he was doing. But there is only no evidence because they havent spoken to the witness.. Steve had been found guilty of gross misconduct by the Independent Police Complaints Commission for not reading Halliwell his rights and taking him back to the police station. ITV's The Confession, tells the story of how Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher breached protocols to catch a killer. He has written a memoir Catching A Serial Killer upon which A Confession is partly based. View our online Press Pack. All I could do was try to keep him talking.. Wiltshire Police told the BBC: The IPCC investigation concluded that a misconduct hearing should take place to consider potential gross misconduct. And a high-heeled boot Sian was wearing before she was abducted on her way home from a nightclub in 2011. 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. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Det Supt Fulcher had risen through the ranks at Sussex Police before moving to Wiltshire. Halliwell described another victim, a prostitute he said he had killed much earlier, says Steve, and he could take him to the spot where he had buried her as well. 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.". After joining the Wiltshire force in 2003, Fulcher was promoted to Detective Superintendent. Fulcher, also a father with two daughters, says: If I didnt take this step, I feared Sian would die alone and abandoned.. Then he turned to the officer in charge, DS Steve Fulcher, and said: Do you want another one? He then told them where he had buried BeckyGodden many years earlier. Sophie Rundle: Motherhood has made me too tired to people-please', The Witch Trials of JK Rowling makes sensible points. He later decided of his own volition to resign from Wiltshire Police.. For his emotion, when it comes, isnt for his own plight, but that of Becky, Sian, and their families. She says: 'Steve did what I think any family member would want an officer to do for them. Sian's mother Elaine Pickford says what he did was understandable to. Further to the hearing, Steve Fulcher was found guilty of two counts of gross misconduct (the execution of his duty and inappropriate contact with the media) and received two final written warnings, but remained a member of Wiltshire Police. That is always in your mind, he says. 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. Thankfully, circumstantial and forensic evidence ensured Halliwell, 52, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012 for killing Miss OCallaghan. 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. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum tariff of 25 years. Her boyfriend, Kevin Reape, raised the alarm at 9.45am the following morning when Sian hadn't turned up at . The investigation into her murder was headed up by DS Fulcher who charged cab driver Chris Halliwell with the abduction of the office worker. Steve says: We had a policeman under suspicion of sexual impropriety, who drove the exact kind of vehicle we thought had picked up Sian, took his own life just as the net might be closing in. 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. So on a lonely windswept hill in Wiltshire he tore. He was given a whole-life jail tariff. A judge then ruled that Halliwell's confessions to killing both victims were actually inadmissible as evidence in court. , updated 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. Halliwells father lived a few streets from the home of chef Claudia Lawrence, who has been missing since March 19, 2009. In January 2014, Fulcher was found guilty of gross misconduct and given a final written warning by a disciplinary tribunal. 12:20 GMT 20 Sep 2018 Despite these hopes, Fulcher was wrong. But Beckys family was having to wait for justice. By then, Halliwell had been charged with Sian OCallaghans murder he had stabbed her to death before dumping her body and placed on technical bail (where bail is granted as the accused is already in custody) for the murder of the as-yet-unidentified woman. Officers observed Halliwell depositing a perfume bottle, car seat covers and bloodied tissues in bins in assorted rural locations. What are the ramifications of that? The following January Det Supt Fulcher was found guilty of gross misconduct and given a final disciplinary warning. A young woman called Becky Godden-Edwards had gone missing a number of years before, last seen in 2002 or 2003. As he rose through the ranks, he enhanced his professional accomplishments with a postgraduate diploma and subsequent masters in Criminology. He was scrolling through pictures on his phone of other women, leading me to suspect there were other victims. It made little difference: while Fulcher was not sacked he was given a severe reprimand, something he felt left him with no choice but to resign. 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A new team found witnesses and analysis showed a spade seized from Halliwells shed in 2011 had the same unique soil DNA as the field in which Becky was found. The disappearances of Tina Pryer, 39, Thi Hai Nguyen, 20, and Sandra Brewin, 21, have also been linked to the killer. The judge said I acted in good faith, he says. His career was in tatters. 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However, Fulcher had taken Halliwell to a field in the Wiltshire countryside for this discussion without cautioning him or allowing him access to a solicitor. 'He had done what I considered to be the right thing. August 30, 2016 - Retired High Court judge Sir John Griffith Williams rules that the jury can be told of Halliwell's conviction for Miss O'Callaghan's murder and his confession to Miss Godden's murder. He tells Tim Lewis why he'd do it again Tim. The Sherlock actor said he 'couldn't believe' Fulcher's story when he heard it. 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. "I am satisfied also that the defendant's confession to the murder of Becky Godden and his taking the police to where he had buried her was not the consequence of oppression.". It isnt and it hasnt been. This, despite the fact he had caught Halliwell, a murderer and possible serial killer. It was a fitting tribute for a man who prided himself on putting victims and their families first. You then tried to manipulate the police and court process to try to avoid getting what you deserved., They are words Fulcher has waited many years for. But. He still believes he made the right decisions on that day. Look no further! As he sentenced him, the judge dismissed Halliwells defence as a cock and bull story and deemed him to be calculating and devious. 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. 12:23 GMT 20 Sep 2018. However in a new one-off ITV documentary, To Catch a Serial Killer, DS Fulcher insists he did the right thing, saying: 'My view is that I have brought two daughters back to their mothers and I've prevented other victims resulting from Halliwell's continued pursuit of his career as a serial killer. Halliwell is thought to have killed Becky in 2003, while Sian was killed in 2011. In his book, Steve says: At the bottom of a pond that was 8ft deep they found Sian OCallaghans distinctive boot. So he definitely killed Sian in March 2011, he definitely killed Becky early 2003. No trace of her has ever been found. Episode six of the six-part series will air tonight Monday . Quite rightly it gives protection to the innocent. Which was quite odd, actually I felt the sense of gratitude. ', A killer locked up and the end of a police career. Instead, seeing a window of opportunity, hed driven him to the field where Halliwell claimed another body would be found. 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