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yes
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it's got the same smell on the other on
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everyone and so
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Michael was a lovely lat and he would do
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anything to help anybody
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Michael's future I think would have been
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a bright one because he was a hard
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worker aren't you in good morning and I
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think he would have settled down and
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been successful
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and yet there was this chance meeting
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this twist of fate this decision that he
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took to drink in a pub that he didn't
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ordinarily drink in that effectively
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changed the course of everybody's life
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and lay down in McDonald's at the side
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of me back
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phone goals June it's been stabbed well
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I don't watch him well I just I was just
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fancy
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Michael had five stab wounds tragically
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one to his chest which would prove to be
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the one that caused the most damage
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you'd expect your Mountain dance to go
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before anyone and to see you soon in
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this way
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you just go
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what is going on here this is not real
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we're living in a false Royal day
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this isn't really happening so are we
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not to give me babe but don't stop me
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baby away from me
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his only crime if there ever there was
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one was doing the right thing to stop
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someone else from being injured
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getting stamped
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some days ago I think has that really
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happened to us
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it really happened to us it well yeah
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[Music]
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thank you foreign
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[Music]
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we've got a big family
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there's myself gas Anthony Christopher
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Gary and Michael
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Michael being the baby the youngest one
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I think he was born about 25 past 11 in
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the morning
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and pops out a beautiful baby bye
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that's the one yeah a couple of hours
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old
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yep
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little Sumo the big ladder on there yeah
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it was
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it was a 10 pounder weren't you
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it was nearly 10 pound bar
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[Music]
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I don't like to think that we've been
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we've been a family of people look up to
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and I really mean that
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my intros are very popular a lot it was
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a very likable lad like I say the
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community said he he played football he
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mixed them out with everyone he lived
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with his Michael but he stayed with
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friends as well
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you know his friends have said oh lesla
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he was the life and soul of the party or
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Michael no matter where we went
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it was a funny laugh my equally lost he
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had a great sense of humor
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since the clock had come and it come to
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that window it was a big year in it he'd
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go mum what we don't for tea you know
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oh if me and gas was going so much sweet
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he'd Go Mama I'm coming you know I've
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got Romania now while I'm coming and I'm
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going to bring Garden out I'm going to
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bring such back here go on then
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a lot of my boys work together because
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one's a plasterer one's a kitchen fitter
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and noodles with tails
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my other son Christopher taught Michael
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on as an apprentice to Tyler and it you
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know it turned out to be quite good at
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that
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[Music]
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he was tiling my bathroom upstairs
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and my wife Leslie said to me
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okay we could do the new bath so I said
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there's nothing wrong with the math what
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you're talking about
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oh you do
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so we went out when we come back Michael
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had very conveniently I dropped a tail
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through the bath
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we tell his mum and says you've got your
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new bath now and that was Michael he
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loved his mother
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everybody loved it you know it was a
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character but he was a nice kid
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they worked hard
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and I'm very proud of him
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Michael come on one day he said it's his
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mother first and
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girlfriend's having a baby
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[Music]
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that's a fantastic memory for me because
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it was an happy memory and a nappy
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memory for Michael and he was Soul made
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up by Michael so made up
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Alice was born the 13th of April
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2012.
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okay occasion never forget it bright
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redhead I was there Min Michael was
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there at the hospital
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with Alice when Alice was being born
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and we're both there and we're both
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crying all that moment to see his face
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when he was delivered it was amazing
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okay that lovely son loved him spent a
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lot of time with him I think his future
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was to you know settle down and
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just get on my life and look after his
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son
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[Music]
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I've been to work and he came home and
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he said I'm going out and I went right
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that's fine let me know if you're coming
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on because sometimes they'd stay with
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his mates
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that one decision
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that Michael talk that day was going to
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cost him his life and was going to turn
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the lives of everyone who knew and loved
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him completely upside down
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[Music]
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at night but I heard all the sirens and
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helicopters and
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I don't think you know I hope my all my
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lights at all all right because I don't
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know whether they've all gone out or
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what they've done and proper panicking
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really you know
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[Music]
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on the Friday the 14th of October 2016
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just around half past 11. a number of
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calls I'm not mistaken were placed
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through the Emergency Services through
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to the ambulance service and the police
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were dispatched
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get as quickly as possible to the
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Friendship him
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so when officers had arrived there it
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was a scene of chaos and didn't
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disturbance as you can imagine people
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were very upset
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but amidst this there was one young man
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there being stabbed very seriously
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we was in the Houston room we're not
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going out we was in bed and we got a
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phone call for a girl who we knew
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islia
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I'm an area
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no what
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Michael
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has been stopped outside the the
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Friendship Pub
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where we jumped out back you know we
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never moved as quick
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and I was just trying to kind of I can't
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really remember what I was thinking or
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what I want thinking I just knew I had
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to get to that hospital because I had to
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see if I had to make sure he was all
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right
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Michael was clearly losing blood and a
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lot of blood particularly from his his
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chest he he's his chest wound it would
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have been very difficult for the police
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to interpret precisely at that stage how
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many stab wounds were dealing with
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[Music]
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I was like why and we knew something was
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seriously wrong
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but that Journey was it's the worst
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Journey I've ever had
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I'm just thinking of it they stabbed him
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if they just stabbed him in the armor or
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I didn't know where where I just didn't
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know
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what we've seen in the hospital was
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playing
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all we wanted to do was see Michael we
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just wait to see we expected him to be
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awake
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[Music]
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foreign
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[Music]
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[Music]
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at the initial phase prior to the
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individual passing away uh was an
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attempted murder the severity was the
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highest level really
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[Music]
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Middleton is on the edge of the city of
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Manchester it's uh it's a small area
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which is part of a town called Rochdale
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and there's quite a high concentration
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of pubs
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[Music]
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the Friendship Inn is of particular
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interest because in the previous years
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there had been a number of violent
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incidents there the pub already had a
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reputation uh being
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um about a a dangerous place to go if
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you weren't a local
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[Music]
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in some murder cases of course it's
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unknown it's it's a chance encounter or
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a premeditated encounter and and the
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police had the work cut out in terms of
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determining who that that could be in
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this particular case because of local
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rebelism because the people that
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actually seen or unfolded before their
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very eyes we knew almost from the offset
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um who was responsible likely
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responsible for this attack
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[Music]
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all
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police were able to build up a picture
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from the number of people that were
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outside the pub the attacker was a man
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called Timothy deakin we knew that he
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had
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departed Manchester he'd looked to
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escape Justice almost from the offset
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but once we knew who he was we know we
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were determined to catch him
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we not heard of him ever you know when
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we found out his name never heard of him
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who is it
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[Music]
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I just I don't know what I was thinking
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but I weren't
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I weren't thinking that it was that it
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was that critical because they put him
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in a reduced coma and I didn't know that
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whether they did sell Rihanna and it had
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not gone in I don't know because I can't
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really
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I was in a bit of a state to say the
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least you know
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um I don't really know whether they told
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me or they didn't can't remember to be
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fair
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it was there three days at the hospital
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we didn't know what was going on we were
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watching him and he it was horrible to
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see a lot he was full of life to
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him asleep
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Gary and Leslie hooligan were in bed
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middle of the night when they received a
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phone call that their son had been
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stabbed and was in the hospital and they
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knew that Michael was not a troublemaker
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he was a good kid he was smart
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so you can imagine the fear and panic
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they had why in the world would he have
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been in the situation that he was harmed
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like this what could have gone wrong and
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what was going to happen next
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you can pull through this he had a big
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stop in London
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you can pull through this and we spent
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on three days
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[Music]
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we knew we knew if anyone's going to
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pull to it'd be Michael
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[Music]
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I was working for a regional television
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station and it was a Saturday morning
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that morning we had a series of emails
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from all the regional police forces and
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one of them came from greater Manchester
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police that said that being is stabbing
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outside of a pub in Middleton
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um called the Friendship Inn
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the police approached us and asked us to
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put out witness appeals on the evening
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bulletins for Timothy deakin in a bid
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for them to track this person down who'd
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effectively run away from the scene and
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was fleeing Justice this was a Manhunt
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foreign
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[Music]
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wasn't from Middleton Michael didn't
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know him at all we know that never heard
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of him Milan's had never heard of him
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you know seeing a family
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devastated and broken
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desperate for any glimmer of hope
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that their loved one could could turn
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around despite the medical medical sort
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of diagnosis here
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um you know it's really it really
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affects you when you see that you can't
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help with The Human Side
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get close to to wanting to see Justice
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for the hooligan family
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Timothy deakin was already a number of
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steps ahead because natural he knew what
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he'd done before we even knew he was but
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sadly at that particular time Michael
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was in an extremely poorly way
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Michael he'd gone out
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to a place he never went to funny enough
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he never went in the pond the friendship
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there was CCTV at the pub that everyone
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had been in so that was vital because
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we're able to build up an understanding
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of what's taking place we're able to
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understand who was wearing what who was
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stood with whom
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how the sequencing had unfolded
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and and the camera doesn't lie
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and an argument had broken out between
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two drunken groups in the back room that
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Michael uh
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had The Misfortune of sitting in to have
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his drink the Catalyst for Deacon being
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called was nothing more than his
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girlfriend being out with his sister and
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his girlfriend believing she overheard a
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disparaging comment that was made
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towards her
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nothing more than that
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Deacon had been drinking at the summit
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which was a pub not far away and one of
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the grew had effectively reached out to
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Tim Deacon and said yes sister's a mess
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could you come and get a home please
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he had been told by his girlfriend that
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a group of lads had said disparaging
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things towards her that his sister had
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abandoned her that hadn't come outside
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and left her on her own Deacon came in
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he went out outside with his drunk
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sister
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to get her a cab to take her home
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one of the regulars who'd been outside
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having a cigarette came in to say
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there's a bloke outside who's who's
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battering a woman and Michael being
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Michael stepped up and went outside and
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you can see just from the edge of the
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CCTV that it is at that point when he
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steps outside
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that Timothy deakin
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beat dexa and he knocks a spark out and
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at that point the cab rocks up and he's
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dragging her by her hair into the cap
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Michael was the first to approach
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Deacon and try and stop him attacking
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his own sister
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and at that point Michael stepped in and
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effectively said what are you doing you
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don't treat women like that
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and in a very very short space of Time
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Michael was stabbed five times with the
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Loch knife
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it was crucial that we told the family
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this as difficult a piece of news as
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that might be
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it was in the poor man his own business
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having a drink
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someone shouted out and girls being beat
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up outside and Michael he's been brawl
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that you don't disrespect women you look
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you're looking and he's been broken that
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way
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victims of something like a stabbing
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tend to fall into two categories they're
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either connected to the criminal
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underworld like they might have ties
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with certain gangs and they might get to
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fights relatively regularly but on the
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other hand you have people like Michael
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who are just at the wrong place at the
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wrong time in a context like trying to
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stand up for somebody else that they
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don't even know
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just a crazy situation it's one that we
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wish everyone you know we wouldn't have
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been in at all you know
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before you knew it news travel fast
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told us we know who's done it you know I
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was more afraid of him sort of escaping
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and getting out of the country or
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something you know because we knew that
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Milan was in a bad way
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but that was all in a room one day
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[ __ ]
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it's not working the treatment we're
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giving him
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there's nothing else we couldn't do
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and I just sat there no
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normally even with my
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please don't see that don't say that
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don't say that
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[Music]
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just turn everything off and it's
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pronounced dead
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is the worst
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[Music]
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oh bear with us
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the most news you could ever be told
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believe me
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losing him was the worst day of my life
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because you'd always bet your children's
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school before you do you know
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it was horrible and I just remember
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if we make
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[Music]
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near the tear coming down his cheek and
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it just
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took me I done this just to give him a
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big hook
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[Music]
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oh
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you can't describe it see you soon
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asleep in hospital
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and you can
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you can't speak to him because he's not
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there
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the parents of Michael hooligan had to
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take that horrific decision to switch
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the life support machine off which
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instantly moved this from a serious
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wounding actual bodily harm into a whole
00:21:34
different category this was now a murder
00:21:40
Michael's homicide had a full
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investigative team that were going to
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work around the clock
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and do everything they possibly could
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catch
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Michael's killer
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[Music]
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and looking at the nature of this
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particular crime
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would give any investigative experience
00:22:02
the impression that it had been
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committed by a man who was no stranger
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to violence
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well I was flying to death I think if
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you like to know what goes through your
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head when you don't realize
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stupid
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[Music]
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the third wife they don't find him
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foreign
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Against Time from the moment we have a
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suspect an identify and suspect we know
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there is a chance that with every
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passing hour day week that we see a
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deterioration of the evidence as well as
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the deliberate disposal of evidence
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here you had a violent offender who had
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gone on the wrong this was someone who
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was prepared to use violence and a knife
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so it was crucial to the police that we
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apprehended him as quickly as we
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possibly could
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15th of August
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1989. that's an absolute beautiful
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picture
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[Music]
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really nice
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[Music]
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my family means the wheels to me for
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everything to me so yeah we had it was
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you know we had a nice life
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[Music]
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all right
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the week before it happened we was I was
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getting ready to go out on a Friday
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night and I was getting ready in my
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bedroom and Michael was getting a DNA's
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bedroom and I had the radio on
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and Andy Williams came on singing you're
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just too good to be true so I'm thinking
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at the top of my voice because I think I
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can sing even though I can and he comes
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off the landing doing this dressed in a
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dead smart blue shirt and jeans
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[Music]
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it was just such a sweet memory you know
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just
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just wish I could have more of it
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just wish I could
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I just really wish I could just put my
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arms around him and just give him a big
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Club
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[Music]
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so please come to our house and tell us
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all about this life and they said that
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he was you know he's a bad lad the man
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who who killed my son had gone on the
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Run
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and they said he's gone on their own but
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we will find him
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[Music]
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after I done to Michael avoid it more
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than ever you know get him off the
00:24:58
street please
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as a result of really detailed police
00:25:03
inquiries and intelligence
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we tracked Deacon to an address in
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Liverpool
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he was possibly surprised that we got to
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him so quickly but it was very clear
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that he knew why we were there and what
00:25:18
this was about
00:25:21
on a Wednesday the 19th of October he
00:25:24
was arrested on suspicion of Michael's
00:25:26
murder
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when the founders and told us they'd
00:25:31
actually arrested him in Liverpool we
00:25:33
were so relieved I believe maybe it was
00:25:36
we were thanking God for this but don't
00:25:38
help you right so now because it is just
00:25:41
destroyed my family
00:25:43
the devastation the East Coast my family
00:25:46
and his friends an Army Family he's
00:25:49
horrific
00:25:52
Michael's son who's only four
00:25:55
and he didn't know what was going on and
00:25:58
unfortunately I had to tell him and it
00:26:01
says you don't see any then again kid
00:26:03
anyone
00:26:04
all right didn't understand so it says
00:26:08
no God's come down for him
00:26:10
and Alice obviously oblivious to the
00:26:13
fact that his dad had been killed
00:26:15
but after a while he thought about it he
00:26:17
says
00:26:19
can we go to the airport we get an
00:26:21
helicopter and then go and see me dead
00:26:23
in the sky
00:26:24
well we broke down all of us say it was
00:26:27
aim is horrible to it it shows you the
00:26:30
way he was thinking
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00:26:35
are my bias about the pleasure rubbing
00:26:38
their dad are their life and he's got
00:26:40
that taken away from him and that
00:26:42
I hate that thought
00:26:47
voice talk
00:26:48
to us is
00:26:51
done to this family
00:26:54
it's tried a lot of things that was
00:26:55
going which were positive and which was
00:26:58
perfect it's destroyed our ad
00:27:02
Timothy deakin was arrested an address
00:27:05
in Liverpool
00:27:06
deacon
00:27:08
chose not to say anything to the police
00:27:11
he provided what's known as a no common
00:27:13
interview
00:27:14
and didn't answer any question that that
00:27:16
was presented before him
00:27:20
it was a great relief when we eventually
00:27:23
heard from the police that they picked
00:27:25
this man up
00:27:26
and that he was due to face Justice and
00:27:30
he was going to appear at magistrates
00:27:32
Court the next day
00:27:36
once we swept the area through our
00:27:39
crimes and examinations and through
00:27:41
members of the public that came forth
00:27:42
actually were able to recover that knife
00:27:44
and it was so very very important to
00:27:46
this investigation not only did we have
00:27:50
the weapon that that sadly and
00:27:53
tragically cost Michael his life but
00:27:56
from a forensic position we're able to
00:27:58
connect that knife with the actual
00:28:01
injuries
00:28:04
people saying to us Middleton has gone
00:28:07
in mourning over my trip
00:28:09
all the shots that's all he was talking
00:28:11
about the death of me son
00:28:16
everyone said it the funeral director
00:28:18
who's never seen anything like it ever
00:28:20
seen a funeral as big as that
00:28:22
the police said he's never seen the
00:28:24
church
00:28:26
I just
00:28:28
absolutely amateur people
00:28:31
foreign
00:28:36
unreal again it was full the cemetery
00:28:40
you just couldn't believe it but these
00:28:42
things
00:28:43
you don't remember them as as clear as
00:28:47
what you should do because you can't you
00:28:49
can't take it you know you you're
00:28:51
burying your son and it it's just you
00:28:54
can't take it in
00:28:56
heartbreaking
00:29:03
very very quickly you can start to build
00:29:05
a profile of the attacker and and we
00:29:08
were very quickly able to establish who
00:29:11
Timothy Deacon was
00:29:14
internet searches provided us with
00:29:16
previous criminal history and Court
00:29:18
reports
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Timothy Deacon received a custodial
00:29:27
sentence from the course in relation to
00:29:30
to an offensive group of bodily harm
00:29:33
four years eight months he'd been
00:29:35
sentenced to for an unprovoked attack
00:29:38
biting a man's ear off in a in another
00:29:40
fight in a poll
00:29:43
but when a prisoners reached a certain
00:29:46
point in their sentence in the UK
00:29:48
Criminal Justice System they are
00:29:50
eligible for release
00:29:54
as a result of his license conditions he
00:29:57
would be released and would serve a
00:29:59
period of that on what they call license
00:30:01
but he would be subject to a series of
00:30:03
conditions to manage him in the
00:30:06
community
00:30:09
it's basically a contract that an
00:30:11
offender must sign that says I will
00:30:14
adhere to all these conditions and that
00:30:18
is called a license agreement
00:30:20
so daycare was my unlicensed when he was
00:30:23
determined to be the suspect in relation
00:30:25
to this crime so
00:30:28
um
00:30:30
that was that was awful news for the
00:30:32
family
00:30:32
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00:30:34
to me shouldn't have been out and
00:30:37
it was out
00:30:40
the man who done it to my Michael and to
00:30:43
me they should have kept him there
00:30:45
should keep him in there for life
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[Music]
00:30:51
with this man Timothy Deacon carrying a
00:30:53
knife that suggests one of a couple of
00:30:55
things either he's so confident that his
00:30:58
probation officer is not going to find
00:31:00
out or do anything about it or he
00:31:02
literally doesn't care about the
00:31:04
consequences
00:31:09
the police investigation had in my
00:31:11
opinion created an extremely compelling
00:31:14
case that he was Michael's murderer
00:31:18
um and they committed other offenses too
00:31:21
you can never say never until that trial
00:31:23
was concluded
00:31:25
the trail is coming up in Bolton on a
00:31:29
certain days he seemed to take forever
00:31:31
so it was being one you've got the AV
00:31:34
court because you can imagine me songs
00:31:36
were fuming with this guy so it returns
00:31:39
up and Tim deakin appears in the back
00:31:42
the first time we've seen him
00:31:45
Show No Remorse whatsoever
00:31:48
looked at us with an evil an evil face
00:31:51
if anything you know pulled his face are
00:31:54
you looking at him and you're going
00:31:55
there I can't believe what we're we're
00:31:57
seeing it this kid doesn't care you know
00:31:59
Timothy Deacon was charged with murder
00:32:02
and he pleaded not guilty
00:32:04
Timothy deakin was going to introduce a
00:32:07
defense of self-defense
00:32:11
for Michael's family they're not used to
00:32:13
these criminal trials they don't know
00:32:14
what tactics the defense team are going
00:32:17
to use so they just don't know what to
00:32:18
expect we were singing call and
00:32:22
they're trying to game off this is what
00:32:24
is unreal to me he's admitted he's
00:32:27
killed me son and he's just trying to
00:32:30
get him off he's trying to say but we
00:32:31
didn't mean this did you we didn't mean
00:32:33
to go there or you didn't and it it was
00:32:36
he was fighting
00:32:39
the attempt was made to say that Michael
00:32:42
hoolikin was coming at me and that I
00:32:46
found this knife on the floor and that I
00:32:50
picked the knife up and in an effort to
00:32:53
defend myself I flailed around with it
00:32:56
and accidentally I killed him
00:32:59
I mean the streets of Middleton aren't
00:33:00
littered with knives so the idea that
00:33:03
somehow he
00:33:06
was actually the victim was
00:33:08
to be truthful Preposterous really
00:33:12
I was angry but I was more upset because
00:33:15
it was muscle
00:33:16
you know it really upset me the things I
00:33:20
heard in court
00:33:24
Michael was not bullying never picking
00:33:27
anyone it protects his mates he protects
00:33:29
his family which is which is normal for
00:33:32
me you know that's the way he's been
00:33:33
brought up but there's no way picking
00:33:36
anyone so he's not doing this you know
00:33:38
as a as a show enough of being cocky
00:33:41
he's doing it to protect that lady
00:33:48
foreign
00:33:52
the jury have a whole load of evidence
00:33:56
that they use to make their minds up
00:33:59
eyewitness police reports forensic
00:34:02
reports
00:34:05
want utterly crucial piece of evidence
00:34:08
that the trial of Timothy Deacon was the
00:34:10
CCTV which had been taken from outside
00:34:13
the Friendship Inn
00:34:16
what was caught on camera
00:34:19
were the last living moments of Michael
00:34:23
hooligan
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[Music]
00:34:28
you see Timothy Deacon come into shot
00:34:31
here we see
00:34:33
Tim Deacon inside there and then he's
00:34:36
about to leave the pogbies
00:34:38
taking his sister home
00:34:40
here you see the argument spills out
00:34:42
into the street
00:34:46
oh
00:34:49
and he's just slapped his sister
00:34:52
so hard that she collapses in the street
00:34:56
he hits her
00:34:58
so hard you see a cigarette fly out of
00:35:02
her mouth across the street and she
00:35:04
falls to the ground
00:35:06
it's at this point just out of view
00:35:10
that Michael emerges from the pub
00:35:13
Michael challenged Timothy Deacon when
00:35:16
he saw Deacon battering his sister and
00:35:20
Deacon stepped up to him
00:35:22
and Michael got the better of him and
00:35:25
knocked him to the ground as Deacon came
00:35:27
at him
00:35:28
Tim deakin's defense was that
00:35:32
um he fell to the ground and that the
00:35:34
lock knife was on the floor
00:35:37
that it wasn't taken with him to the
00:35:42
scene to sort out any trouble
00:35:47
but at some stage here
00:35:50
and I think that's it you see him take
00:35:52
something out of his pocket and it
00:35:54
changed his hands from one hand to the
00:35:56
other there he is pulling the lock knife
00:35:58
out of his pocket
00:36:01
Timothy Deacon was just acting in
00:36:03
self-defense one stab would be more than
00:36:06
enough that would say stay away from me
00:36:08
you know stand back but that wasn't the
00:36:11
case here the fact that he stabbed
00:36:12
Michael five times shows this was line
00:36:16
rage this was an anger driven offense
00:36:18
not out of self-defense
00:36:20
you've heard the evidence in court you
00:36:22
want this to go the right way but you
00:36:24
can never call a jury you can never say
00:36:28
from being outside of the sanctity of
00:36:31
that jewelry room whether there is
00:36:33
somebody within that group who believes
00:36:34
that Reasonable Doubt has been sown
00:36:38
[Music]
00:36:41
we've been through all this
00:36:44
Trail
00:36:45
and it just I was like I hope to God
00:36:48
they never let him out ever
00:36:51
not while I'm on this Earth anyway or
00:36:53
they never let him out
00:36:54
this is so difficult for families to
00:36:56
endure and the only thing they keep
00:36:58
thinking is to for it to all to be worth
00:37:00
it that person has to be found guilty
00:37:04
when you get the knock
00:37:06
on the door as the jury Foreman comes
00:37:09
back into court and the judge asks have
00:37:13
you reached a verdict and is that
00:37:15
verdict unanimous there is a flip even
00:37:18
as a journalist that goes in your
00:37:21
stomach
00:37:23
the final verdict was that Timothy
00:37:25
Deacon was found guilty of murder
00:37:28
this was the judge
00:37:30
I was the one who would give you four
00:37:31
years last time he said so I'm putting
00:37:34
you away for 27 years minimum well you
00:37:37
could see the relief of the police
00:37:39
officers
00:37:40
everyone in the court you could see the
00:37:43
relief I'd like to say yes
00:37:45
it's been given a long time
00:37:47
it was only at Timothy deakin's
00:37:49
sentencing that we realized that he
00:37:52
breached his license conditions and that
00:37:55
he shouldn't have been out at that time
00:37:57
of night
00:37:58
oh this is when everything come out it
00:38:01
was frightening and I mean this it was
00:38:04
frightening
00:38:06
it was unclear for you what was he doing
00:38:09
in the pub that night
00:38:11
well I did nobody
00:38:13
slack up why I did nothing flag up that
00:38:16
he was out in the pub
00:38:21
and it was only at the point in
00:38:23
sentencing that part of the truth
00:38:25
actually came out that Deacon was a huge
00:38:29
risk to the public that he was classed
00:38:32
as a serious and prolific offender that
00:38:35
he had a catalog of violent defenses
00:38:37
already under his belt that he stood a
00:38:40
huge chance of reoffending and that the
00:38:44
probation service hadn't done their job
00:38:47
they hadn't been able to keep the public
00:38:50
safe from this violent and promising
00:38:52
offender and that is why Michael lost
00:38:56
his life
00:38:58
Timothy deakin was only 23 when he got
00:39:01
sentenced of course there's an age-old
00:39:04
debate when it comes to violence and
00:39:05
criminality nature versus nurture and I
00:39:09
think this is a classic example of
00:39:11
nurture
00:39:12
he was from a broken home he had not
00:39:16
attained an education so his life
00:39:19
outcomes were limited
00:39:24
[Music]
00:39:26
in the end while those are mitigating
00:39:28
factors they do not excuse cold-blooded
00:39:31
murder
00:39:31
[Music]
00:39:33
27 years
00:39:35
after sales menu
00:39:38
people are going to be safe without him
00:39:40
around so that was good news today
00:39:42
whatever sentence he was
00:39:45
and ultimately was given it genuinely
00:39:48
does pale into comparison when you when
00:39:50
you look at what is taken from that
00:39:52
family people say time to kneel no it's
00:39:56
not
00:39:57
Michael will be missed forever I promise
00:40:00
you
00:40:01
we always wonder where he is
00:40:04
times when you think you'll be in a
00:40:06
minute and you know he's not here these
00:40:09
are things that affect you mentally for
00:40:12
the rest of your life and not acceptable
00:40:15
he's just feels so angry it really upset
00:40:19
me the things I heard in court
00:40:22
about the math probation knew what type
00:40:25
of person he was he was a prolific
00:40:27
offender
00:40:29
you know
00:40:31
so why did they just let him slip
00:40:33
through the net
00:40:37
we said we need to do something about it
00:40:39
we've got to stop this thing happening
00:40:42
where people are getting murdered
00:40:43
unnecessary and we need a publicly
00:40:46
quietly about all these debts
00:40:48
till later they were
00:40:49
aspects of of Michael's murder with
00:40:53
questions wrapped around them and in
00:40:54
particular in relation to Deacon being
00:40:57
on probationary license a bit near the
00:41:01
greater level of exploration so his
00:41:03
Majesty's coroner at the time uh saw
00:41:07
that
00:41:07
and starts running in quest
00:41:12
the really crucial failure that came out
00:41:16
at the inquest was that Timothy deakin
00:41:19
had been arrested in another Force after
00:41:23
smashing up a car that he'd stolen and
00:41:26
he was in possession of drugs that
00:41:29
incident should have resulted in him
00:41:32
being charged and immediately being
00:41:35
recalled back to prison
00:41:37
that makes me angry very angry and I
00:41:41
hope to God they never let him out ever
00:41:44
[Music]
00:41:47
the coroner did an incredible job and
00:41:50
uncovered a whole series of failings
00:41:56
[Music]
00:41:57
we've gone to a better place
00:42:01
where no one hears anyone
00:42:05
and he's with all his grants and
00:42:07
granddads in there
00:42:09
for all his friends that have passed
00:42:11
away in the past
00:42:15
not really what I'm there though I'd
00:42:17
like him to be back here with us
00:42:23
remember oh yeah we can't change that
00:42:25
can we
00:42:28
record
00:42:29
[Music]
00:42:33
I just wish he was here with us Allen to
00:42:36
see his own son grow up and what a
00:42:38
lovely lady grown up to be like you know
00:42:40
and that upsets me a lot because it
00:42:43
should be seeing all the wonderful
00:42:46
things with his son and saying but it's
00:42:48
very much like his dad
00:42:52
I'm like he's found the figure
00:42:54
and I make sure I'm always there for him
00:42:57
[Music]
00:43:00
Michael was my baby and I miss him so
00:43:03
much
00:43:04
and every night before I go to bed
00:43:07
as you can see these pictures everywhere
00:43:09
and I've got one in my kitchen there and
00:43:10
stand on the step
00:43:12
and I blame a cake and a golf I love you
00:43:15
night God black Michael and I kiss every
00:43:17
picture
00:43:19
[Music]
00:43:21
because I think he needs to know
00:43:24
it's just awful
00:43:29
[Music]
00:43:34
thank you
00:43:38
[Music]
