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[MUSIC PLAYING] JEFF EDWARDS: India was
a marvelous young woman. She was very smart, she
had lots of friends.
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She was just on the cusp of
her career as a paramedic. She was just 20. STEPHEN WOLITER: We're in
Bridge Street in Northampton,
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this was the place where
India went on that evening. [MUSIC PLAYING] JEFF EDWARDS: When
she didn't come home,
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that wasn't in her character. To all intents and purposes,
she disappeared off the face of the Earth
early that morning.
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STEVE HALL: We've heard
that something was going on. And it wasn't until
afterwards that I
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found out that it was India. At that point, everyone was
just so desperate that she
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would be found alive and well. JEREMY CHIPCHASE: Whatever
happened that night, whatever stories
are told, the fact
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is my daughter was murdered. STEPHEN WOLITER: We
clearly viewed this as being a stranger attack.
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PARM SANDHU: What happened
is every parent's nightmare. Even after 30 years
in policing, I
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was absolutely
horrified about what happened to this young girl. [MUSIC PLAYING]
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STEPHEN WOLITER: India
was a kind, caring person that loved being with people. She was very bubbly.
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And India had all of her
life to live ahead of her. JEFF EDWARDS: India came
from a very loving family.
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She'd never been in any trouble. She was a sensible girl. She knew how to take
care of herself.
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She was a perfect
daughter in lots of ways. All the children got
on very well together.
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They all loved each other. Yeah, it was a
very happy family. A happy and stable family
that she came from.
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KERRY DAYNES: India
Chipchase had just turned 20. And she had trained as
a health care worker
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and spent some time working
at St. Andrews Hospital, but she really wanted
to train as a paramedic.
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Now, she's a young girl, so she
was still trying to figure out where she fit in life, and
what she really wanted to do,
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and what passions were. And she was working part time
in a bar in the evenings. She was a lively girl, had a
fantastic smile, very pretty
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girl as well. And she was very popular. She had lots of friends and a
boyfriend of just three weeks.
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STEPHEN WOLITER:
So Northampton has a vibrant student population. And students like to come
out and socialize and drink.
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So on a typical Friday and
Saturday night, this road here, Bridge Street, you'll
find a lot of students
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here eating and
drinking in the clubs. India was a waitress
at the Culinary Public House in Northampton.
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Her shift finished on
that Friday at 8:00 PM. And she stayed there and she
had some drinks with friends.
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A little while later, the
friends and India decided to go into Northampton town center.
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On the 30th of
January, India is meant to show up for a
shift at the pub where she works and she doesn't.
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Now, this is unusual. It's very unusual for her. She's reliable, she's punctual.
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So her mother and her siblings
are really worried about her. And at 4:00 PM, they report
her missing to police.
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STEPHEN WOLITER: India's mother
said that she was concerned for her daughter's welfare.
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India had gone out with
friends that evening. And she'd spoken
to those friends,
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and nobody knew where India was. And that's why she reported
her missing to the police.
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PARM SANDHU: India would have
been classed as medium risk because she hasn't got any
actual vulnerabilities, as in,
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she doesn't need medication. But the fact that this
is out of character, that would have been a concern.
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And so they would have started
to act on that straight away. STEPHEN WOLITER: Uniformed
officers dealt with it.
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And they did the basic inquiries
that they needed to do, such as speaking to India's
friends and the family.
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From the inquiries that
Northamptonshire made, it looked like India
had gone out drinking,
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first of all, with
her boyfriend and then with another group of friends. So they'd gone to a
couple of pubs first
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and then ended up at NB's,
which is a cocktail bar which is almost like a
nightclub because it's
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open until the early
hours of the morning. STEPHEN WOLITER: So
India and her friends
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arrived here at 11:30. She was with three friends
and they've got a taxi. And the taxi pulled up
outside here and all of them
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went into the club. They all appear
to be quite happy and just looking forward to
a nice social evening out.
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Unfortunately, India became
separated from her friends. They were at the bar and
they bought further drinks.
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And when one of the friends
turned round, India was gone. [MUSIC PLAYING] PARM SANDHU: Her
friends actually
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thought that she'd
either gone home or met up with other
friends, so they weren't concerned on the night.
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There was nothing suspicious
on the actual night that alerted her friends. India's friends last saw her
just before 1:00 AM on Saturday
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morning. JEFF EDWARDS: The
first alarms really went off early in the morning
of the Saturday morning.
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And it started really with
her brother and sister. STEPHEN WOLITER: When
India didn't return home,
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they managed to try and track
India's phone on Find My Phone. And they did this
and they established
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that India's handset
was in the area of Stanley Road, Northampton. JEFF EDWARDS: Of course,
they did all the usual things
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that you would expect the
young people to do these days. They reached out
on Facebook, they
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were Whatsapping various
friends that they knew she had, and so forth. STEPHEN WOLITER: From all of
the inquiries that we undertook,
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it was clear that
India had never gone off with random people before. India had spent the night
away from home on occasions,
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but with friends. And she'd always
told her parents where she was going to stay.
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So it was highly unusual
that India hadn't made any contact at all with
her brother or sisters
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or anybody in the family. At that point, India had been
missing for around 27 hours,
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the control room Inspector
had some concerns that perhaps it was more
serious than we first thought.
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And it's at that
point that the control room inspector escalated from
a medium risk to a high risk.
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When CID resources
began work at 8 o'clock on the Sunday morning, they
then took that investigation
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and led a high risk missing
person investigation. BRYANNA FOX: It was
pretty clear that India
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was absolutely missing. She had not turned up for
work, she had not come home. This was extremely unusual.
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And for the police, this
also raises red flags because every hour that
somebody is missing,
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the odds of something bad
happen to them goes up. Additionally, the
search radius expands.
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While somebody may be still
in the same town or village within an hour or two of being
missing, by the time a day
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or two goes by, they could
be anywhere in the country, if not anywhere in the world.
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STEPHEN WOLITER: When a
missing person investigation is upgraded to a
high risk category,
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investigative resources
are brought in to make some further inquiries. Those inquiries will
include telecom work
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to try and establish where
India's handset is currently. The police investigation
went through a number
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of different avenues. The first one was that we made
some house-to-house inquiries
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in and around the
area of Stanley Road because that's where the
family had told us that India's
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phone had last been reported. We had undertaken our
own telecom work as well and we'd establish
that India's phone
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was in and around
that area as well. From our analysis
of the phone data, it would appear that
India's phone disconnected
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from the network
shortly after 2 o'clock in the morning on Saturday. We also went back
to NB's nightclub
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and we spoke to the
door staff there. What we subsequently know is
that one of the door staff
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had seen India looking upset. She said to the doorman that
she wanted just to go home.
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So the doorman
waved her in a taxi here and put India
into that taxi. The member of door
staff established
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that India had sufficient money
to pay for the taxi ride home and he told the
taxi driver that.
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The reason why the taxi
driver didn't take India home is because he said that India
wouldn't pay the money upfront.
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So she left the
taxi and she came back out to the front of NB's. What we then know is that India
went over to the front of NB's
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to try and get
back into the club, but the club wouldn't
let her back in. There were several
door supervisors
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who confirmed to the
police later that they remembered seeing her. And in fact, she
sat on the steps
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or sat on the ground
outside for a while. And she was clearly
pondering what to do next.
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She couldn't find her friends. There's some evidence to
suggest that she started
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to try and send out some text
messages to locate friends, also to try and
locate this young man
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that she'd been seeing. They'd had a conversation
earlier in the evening, but gone their own ways.
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STEPHEN WOLITER: What we wanted
to get from NB's was the CCTV. And we met some problems
and resistance from that
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because the club didn't
have anybody that could burn the CCTV off for us. So on the Sunday, when the
police officers went back
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to the club, they
used their own body worn video to record the video. PARM SANDHU:
Northamptonshire Police
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would have looked at the
CCTV at the nightclub or at the surrounding
venues just
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to work out, who was she with? Who is she talking to? Did she leave with anybody
or did she leave alone?
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And how did she leave? Did she live in a cab
or did she walk off? Because that would
help actually pinpoint
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an area to look for her. STEPHEN WOLITER: So this
is the entrance to NB's. On that particular evening,
India was by these parked cars.
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You could see on the
CCTV that she was upset. And then at one point, she comes
across and stands by the wall.
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When the officers
looked at that footage, they could see that an
older male was with India.
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And it looked as
though that person was speaking to India in quite
a controlling and coercive way.
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The male that we saw
approaching India was white, probably
around about 50, quite stocky, not terribly
tall, but with a balding head,
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and he was carrying a rucksack. He didn't look
particularly intimidating, but what we could see from the
video was as soon as he's seen
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India, he's very much
in her face touching, and inches away
from her face when he's speaking to her, which
just seemed quite unnatural.
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We could see the man talking
very intently to India for 10 minutes. And then after that
10 minutes, you
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can see that he then escorts
India away from this location by the arm off Bridge Street.
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He's looking around-- he's
looking around for a taxi to flag down. He's looking for a
way to take India
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away from the town center. [MUSIC PLAYING] PARM SANDHU: If I was going
to describe the scene to you,
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I'd be describing
a very attractive young 20-year-old girl
who's being approached
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by a middle-aged man
who, for all intents and purposes, the way
that he approaches her,
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it appears that he knows her. She is vulnerable, she's on
her own, she has had a drink,
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and her judgment may
have been impaired. And in this case,
it was impaired. So he's actually honed in.
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He's picked on a vulnerable
victim, a vulnerable girl who didn't have a
family and friends
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supporting her at that point. And then he's just targeted
her and taken her away.
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STEPHEN WOLITER:
As they're walking, it looks as though India
is going away compliantly.
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It appears to us that the
conversation outside of NB's has convinced her to leave
this location with him,
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presumably to tell her that
he was going to take her home. KERRY DAYNES: Immediately, this
is no longer a missing persons
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investigation. It's a potential abduction. STEPHEN WOLITER: At the point
that we got this CCTV image,
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we didn't know whether India had
been kidnapped by this person. We didn't know whether
India was alive or dead.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] JEFF EDWARDS: By Sunday,
the police were able to view the CCTV from the nightclub.
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And when they did that,
they quickly saw something that really, really raised
the hairs on the back
00:14:09
of their neck, which was,
they saw India in conversation with a much older man
who seemed to be trying
00:14:17
to persuade her to go with him. PARM SANDHU: I
think at that point, everyone was just so
desperate that she
00:14:25
would be found alive and well. [MUSIC PLAYING] STEPHEN WOLITER: From
all the investigations
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that we conducted with
family and friends, everybody said that India
was a lovely person,
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bright, and bubbly with
plans for the future. She had hopes of training
to become a paramedic.
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India's family were one
of the nicest families that I've ever had contact with. They were really wholesome and
were desperately, desperately
00:14:56
concerned for India's safety. STEVE HALL: I've been
a door supervisor in the town for over 20 years.
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I was working at a
Michener and Butlers in town, which is a company
that India worked for anyway.
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And we'd heard that something
was going on because it always comes over the CCTV.
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Later on in the night, I
spoke to a police officer and he told me that
something had going on,
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but he didn't really know the
details, who were involved, what happened, et
cetera, et cetera.
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But just knowing that
someone that you worked with or you know as a colleague
that this terrible thing has
00:15:36
happened to, it was a
shock for everybody. And the circumstances, it was
a shock, a terrible shock.
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PARM SANDHU: Looking
at that CCTV, it would have appeared that
this middle-aged man was
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the last person
that India spoke to. That was a last sighting of her. So he would have been
a person of interest.
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And Northamptonshire Police
would have done everything they could to try
and identify him,
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to either say he's got
nothing to do with it or he is the last
point of contact.
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So that would have been one
of their most urgent tasks, to identify who
this individual was.
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STEPHEN WOLITER: We
could see that he had taken India to about
this point in Bridge Street.
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And they managed to flag a taxi
down just around a bit here. And that's where
the taxi stopped
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and that's when they
got into the vehicle. The CCTV camera there is
the [INAUDIBLE] CCTV camera,
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and that was part of the
imagery that we've got to look at the back of the tax. It's trying to identify
which tax it was.
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But back in 2016,
that imagery wasn't clear enough to identify
the registration number or index number.
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So the taxi driver
did come forward. And he was a little bit
unclear in his recollection
00:16:56
as to what has happened. He seems to remember somebody
asking him to take him to a McDonald's, but
he said that India
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sat in the back of
the car on her phone and didn't speak at all. Didn't engage in conversation.
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There were three telephone
calls that India made, they were a minute apart. And there were three consecutive
phone calls from India's phone
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to her boyfriend. Having obtained this granny
still video footage of India, it was a real
challenging decision
00:17:31
as to where we use that image
to try and establish where India was and who this person was.
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KERRY DAYNES: To find India,
they have to find this man. And the urgency of this is--
00:17:45
well, it's incredibly
urgent because they want to find India alive. And they know that as time
ticks down, the chances of that
00:17:53
become less and less. So they are hoping and
praying that India is with him hopefully by choice.
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It's unlikely though, isn't it? Or at least she's alive. STEPHEN WOLITER: I was
concerned that if we were
00:18:09
to show this image
to family members, it may cause them
undue upset and harm. So the decision was to post
that image, that still image,
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on the police internet site. And that image was only
accessible by police officers and police staff.
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That was our first protocol. PARM SANDHU: Fortunately, an
individual, a police officer
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was able to identify him. And it was a very, very
poor image, very granny, but he was able to
say who this man was.
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STEPHEN WOLITER:
The police officer looked at the CCTV image
and recognized the person
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there as Edward Tenniswood. PARM SANDHU: The officer
was able to say that he had
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actually had dealings with
him, and those dealings were that Tenniswood had
been arrested two days before
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for drunk and disorderly. He'd also been arrested 10 days
before for an unrelated matter.
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STEPHEN WOLITER: He was arrested
for historic sexual offenses. What that was that
he was associating
00:19:17
with 14-year-old girls
as a grown adult, but it was a case that
was 10 years previous.
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PARM SANDHU: The strange
thing about Tenniswood was that he had no previous
convictions of any type.
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Although he had come to notice
in the last couple of weeks, there were no
previous convictions
00:19:37
for this middle-aged man
who had been identified as Edward Tenniswood. STEPHEN WOLITER: Once we
established that it was
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Tenniswood on the
granny CCTV image, we then did some
background checks and realized that Tenniswood
lived in Stanley Road.
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JEFF EDWARDS: And this,
of course, now really, really became concerning,
because India's own family had
00:20:02
already given the
information that they'd trapped her phone to the Stanley
Road area of Northampton.
00:20:09
So there was a convergence
of information gleaned by both the family
and by the police,
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and things were now starting
to look very sinister. PARM SANDHU: India had been
missing for such a long time.
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Northamptonshire Police
would have been very, very concerned about her safety. Also if India was at that
location, because she could
00:20:31
still be at that
location safe and well, and it was important to
work out if she needed help,
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medical attention in any way. So that would have been
their utmost priority, to get
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to that address really quickly. STEPHEN WOLITER: Police officers
went to Tenniswood's home
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address just before
4:00 PM on the Sunday, forced entry into the scene
as quickly as they could.
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Police officers went
through the ground floor and some officers
went up the stairs
00:21:00
and checked the upstairs
rooms quite quickly. Those police officers
were able to establish
00:21:06
that India was in the
front bedroom lying on a mattress on the floor. It was clear that
India was dead.
00:21:14
There was no need for us to
call paramedics to the scene. [MUSIC PLAYING] As soon as we
found India's body,
00:21:26
my first fast track action
was to get somebody to India's parents' house straight away.
00:21:32
We got there incredibly
quickly, within minutes, but it also turned
into a manhunt.
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I needed to establish whether
one or more persons had escaped and we needed to locate them.
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India's family we're
clearly devastated and there was very
little that I could do to take their pain away.
00:21:55
But one of the things
that I could do was to arrest the perpetrator
for India's murder
00:22:01
and bring them to justice. [MUSIC PLAYING] Terribly sad. When anybody goes missing,
it's our desperate hope
00:22:26
that we find them alive. And it's always really,
really sad from a homicide investigator's
perspective to be brought
00:22:33
in because you know that that
death has ripped lives apart. The police officer
that found India's body
00:22:43
would say that she's
tightly wrapped in a sheet. And at the top of that
sheet, he thought was fur.
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It was subsequently found out
that that was India's hair. And the police officer
that found India
00:22:55
said that that was
almost like a halo. BRYANNA FOX: There are a few
different reasons why offenders
00:23:01
will stage crime scenes. One is because that's
the memory that they want to have in their minds when
they think about that person.
00:23:08
It's going to bring them some
level of joy, or arousal, or just they want to have
a positive memory of it.
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They want to send
a message and they want to be able to have that
message be to memory they have
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the person as their last
interaction with them when they committed
that offense.
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STEPHEN WOLITER: The next step
is that I arrived at the scene very quickly. I took command of that scene
by ensuring that there was
00:23:36
an immediate inner cordon
and an outer cordon further up Stanley Road. I then called my crime
scene manager to the scene.
00:23:45
And between us, we
established what we needed to protect forensically. When the police officer
discovered India's body,
00:23:53
the only injury
that they could see was a small cut to the
back of the right ear that
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had bled onto the bed sheet. When I entered the property,
it was apparent that it
00:24:05
was a very strange premise. There was newspaper
all over the floor. There was no carpet at all.
00:24:12
When I went up the stairs, there
was thick dust in the recesses of each step as you walked up.
00:24:19
And the other thing that
I found was really odd was that a lot of items
there were covered
00:24:25
in cling film such as computer
keyboards, desks, monitors, and everything
else that was there
00:24:33
was just covered
by white sheets. KERRY DAYNES: His home
was incredibly sparse. It didn't have an awful
lot in it, but what he did
00:24:45
have was covered
with cling film. And this was apparently because
he didn't like to touch dirt.
00:24:52
Now there was a lot
of dirt in his home. It's not that he
didn't like dirt and therefore
cleaned excessively,
00:25:00
he didn't like dirt
so he would cover it. So there were bowls
of rotting food that were covered with
plates in his kitchen
00:25:08
and his carpets
were either taken up or they were overlaid
with newspaper. So this is somebody who is
clearly outside of the norm.
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STEPHEN WOLITER:
Our inquiry showed that India had no association
with Tenniswood at all.
00:25:29
We went through all of
our computer systems and there was literally
nothing that associated
00:25:33
those two individuals together. We clearly viewed this as
being a stranger attack.
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PARM SANDHU: As soon as the
police officers found the body of India and they realized
that she had been murdered,
00:25:45
Tenniswood would have
been their priority. He had to be found not
just because he's involved
00:25:51
in the murder of India,
but also because he could be a danger to other women. STEPHEN WOLITER: Very
quickly, we made some house
00:26:01
to house inquiries
in Stanley Road to try and establish
who Tenniswood was, what made him the
person that he was,
00:26:09
and more importantly,
where he was. Tenniswood was a
tenant at that premises and that he'd been there for
around about seven years.
00:26:17
We were also able to establish
that Tenniswood was a recluse, he very rarely went out, and
he would never answer the door
00:26:24
to anybody that knocked. Tenniswood didn't
have a vehicle. But what we were able to do
is establish that Tenniswood's
00:26:31
phone was pinging in
Northampton town center, but we didn't know
where specifically.
00:26:38
JEFF EDWARDS: It's now Sunday
and lots of places are closed, but they think,
well, he's a drinker.
00:26:44
We've already arrested
him once recently for drunk and disorderly. So they think, well,
let's start combing
00:26:50
the pubs, and wine
bars, and anywhere that's licensed premises. STEPHEN WOLITER: So we
had around about 30 police
00:26:58
officers that were
in the town center trying to find Tenniswood. India's body was discovered
just before 4:00 PM
00:27:06
and we managed to
establish that Tenniswood was in the Ibis Hotel
shortly before 7:00 PM
00:27:11
the same evening. Tenniswood, when we saw him
in reception, was sober. He was very calm and
was very collected.
00:27:24
And he was almost complacent in
saying to the police officers, you've clearly
been to the house.
00:27:30
You found something
and I'm surprised you found me so quickly. Police officers arrested
him for India's murder.
00:27:42
Upon arrest, we found out
that it got a rucksack and inside the rucksack, he was
carrying a large knife together
00:27:49
with plastic, latex gloves. PARM SANDHU: The one thing that
was really odd, he was sitting
00:27:55
in front of a
computer, following the searches for India, showing
an unhealthy interest in what
00:28:03
was happening with India. BRYANNA FOX: For many
offenders, the real allure is not just the crime
itself, but the notoriety
00:28:13
that comes along with it. You can commit one horrific
act and be on the news and be on TV.
00:28:18
And for him, even though it
was for such a horrific reason, he felt like that level
of notoriety was achieved.
00:28:24
[MUSIC PLAYING] STEPHEN WOLITER: So
Tenniswood was interviewed over India's murder
over a number of days
00:28:35
and he made no
comment whatsoever. PARM SANDHU: One of the
most frustrating things
00:28:40
that can happen as a police
officer is having a suspect who responds with no comment.
00:28:45
It is the most awful things
to have to deal with. Because throughout
the interview,
00:28:51
you still have to put
the questions to them. You still have to give them
the opportunity to answer.
00:28:56
Because if-- for example, if I
asked a question and the person goes no comment
and says, I'm going
00:29:02
to do a no comment interview,
but then I don't put a relevant question to them. And later on in
court they say, I
00:29:08
was never asked about
that, that would go against the investigation
and against that police officer.
00:29:13
So having that no comment
interview would have been extremely disturbing and
frustrating for the police
00:29:18
officers involved. STEPHEN WOLITER:
He was then charged and remanded in custody.
00:29:24
It was vital that we
remanded Tenniswood to prison to make sure that no of
that vulnerable people were
00:29:31
harmed by him. On the Monday morning
of the investigation, I had over 70 detectives
at my disposal
00:29:41
to investigate India's homicide. We would also undertake
some forensic tests of Tenniswood's clothing.
00:29:49
During the search of
Tenniswood's home address we found India's
mobile phone together
00:29:55
with a pair of latex gloves with
India's blood on the outside. Tenniswood's DNA was on the
inside of those clothes.
00:30:04
Edward Tenniswood is known
to have somewhat of a fetish, certainly a sexual preference
for women with long,
00:30:13
dark hair like India's. And there are
various photographs around his home of women who
matched that description.
00:30:22
STEPHEN WOLITER: The
postmortem established that India had sustained a
number of injuries to her body.
00:30:28
There are over 30 injuries. There were injuries to her neck,
to her tongue, to her cheeks,
00:30:36
and to an ear as well. And we know that
India had been killed by compression to the neck.
00:30:43
BRYANNA FOX: Police were
able to clearly determine that she was strangled
and had multiple injuries
00:30:49
all over her body. Later investigations
showed that she actually had skin
from Edward Tenniswood
00:30:56
underneath her fingernails. This supported the
idea that she was not just having consensual
sex with him,
00:31:02
but she was actually struggling. Even though she had
been intoxicated, she did not just submit to this,
which was something she was
00:31:08
fighting for her life to avoid. STEPHEN WOLITER: We harvested
a significant number
00:31:18
of exhibits that required
forensic analysis. We prioritized those. And as part of that
prioritization list,
00:31:27
the internal swabs
were sent away. It was probably around three
months into the investigation
00:31:33
that we established that
India had indeed been raped. PARM SANDHU: Police
officers were
00:31:41
able to build up a
picture of what happened to India on that night. They worked out that two
people had seen her getting
00:31:48
into the cab with Tenniswood. They were a couple who were
waiting for a cab themselves
00:31:53
and Tenniswood almost reassured
them by saying, it's OK. It's OK. I'll get her home.
00:31:58
So they believe that
Tenniswood knew her. JEFF EDWARDS: He was a predator. He was a sexual predator.
00:32:05
And whether he'd gone there
that night with a plan to abduct a young woman or
whether she just presented
00:32:11
herself as a likely target,
she was young, she was drunk, she was on her
own, by definition,
00:32:21
she was extremely vulnerable. PARM SANDHU: And
for that reason, she was easy to maneuver,
manipulate, or steer
00:32:29
into a situation where
she would normally never have allowed herself to be in. What has happened to her
is down to the predator,
00:32:36
that individual
who's targeted her because of her vulnerability. And it's absolutely
not her fault.
00:32:42
[MUSIC PLAYING] STEVE HALL: I did
the security for her for the week after the funeral.
00:33:04
And the amount of
people that were there, the amount of people
that-- obviously,
00:33:08
her family are very upset. Everyone was upset. [INAUDIBLE] young people that
was there that knew as well.
00:33:13
It was tragic to see all them-- all those people there. So they all come to
celebrate her life, which
00:33:20
really brought it home as well. A young life had just
been ended needlessly. It's very tragic.
00:33:29
[MUSIC PLAYING] STEPHEN WOLITER: So the
trial started on Monday, the 18th of July 2016.
00:33:41
It lasted just under three
weeks of Birmingham Crown Court. And it's one of the few
trials that I've been to,
00:33:47
where every single seat that's
allocated to the media was full every day of the trial.
00:33:54
The media were reporting in real
time what each witness said. Tenniswood was clearly
enjoying the media attention.
00:34:05
When Tenniswood voluntarily
took the witness stand, it was again like
he was showboating.
00:34:12
It's like he was on stage and
enjoying every minute of it. Tenniswood portrayed
himself as being a victim.
00:34:22
Making comments
along the lines of, "it's really distressing to
have to dress a dead body."
00:34:29
There was no remorse
from Tenniswood at all. There was no acknowledgment
to the family or the grief
00:34:36
that they went through. The only person that Tenniswood
was interested in was himself.
00:34:43
Tenniswood said that India
went voluntarily in the taxi and back to his home
address to carry on drinking
00:34:49
and because Tenniswood wanted
to give her the grand tour of his home address. Tenniswood said that when
they got back to his home,
00:34:59
they laughed and
joked, drank red wine. JEFF EDWARDS: It was an absurd
and ridiculous suggestion.
00:35:07
And it was quite insulting
to the prosecution and it was really insulting
to the whole court.
00:35:12
And it was extremely
upsetting for her family. BRYANNA FOX:
Tenniswood ultimately
00:35:18
pled not guilty to the
charges against him, which is pretty astonishing
considering the amount
00:35:23
of evidence that police had. However, in his mind,
that's not the case. He's very grandiose
and narcissistic.
00:35:31
He's not taking responsibility
for his actions. He's thinking in
his mind he's still
00:35:35
going to get away with it. That he's better than police. That he's going
to outsmart them.
00:35:40
That they don't actually
have as much against him as they think that they do. So he was able to essentially
try to play his hands,
00:35:48
but really underestimate
the power of the evidence that police had against him. STEPHEN WOLITER: It's the
level of violence inflicted
00:35:55
against India and the fact that
we knew she was significantly intoxicated, the defense
injuries that Tenniswood had,
00:36:03
the lifestyle that Tenniswood
exhibited, compared against the wonderful qualities
that India had in loving life,
00:36:15
compared to somebody that's
a reclusive alcoholic. KERRY DAYNES: After
Tenniswood killed India,
00:36:21
it was quite clear
that he spent some time playing with her hair. And also he says that he
cuddled up to the body,
00:36:29
whether that's true
or not, I don't know. But certainly, there
was a period of time
00:36:34
when he was reveling in
possession, if you like, of India's body and
being able to arrange it
00:36:42
and do what he wanted with her. And it's unpleasant
to think that he spent that time with her doing that.
00:36:51
He is somebody who is
deeply, deeply inadequate and he compensates for that by
fantasizing about girlfriends
00:37:02
and fantasizing that he
is competent with women, that women desire him. Because, of course,
the opposite is true.
00:37:11
JEFF EDWARDS: And what's really
interesting is when the police looked at the CCTV from
the NB's nightclub,
00:37:19
they were able to spool
back over several weeks. Guess what? Two weeks prior to
India being abducted
00:37:26
from outside that club,
who's hanging around outside of that club in the small
hours of the morning
00:37:32
when there are frankly drunk
and females are coming out? There's Tenniswood
hanging about.
00:37:39
He was a man on a mission. And my contention is that
this was a premeditated act.
00:37:45
This didn't happen randomly. That's what he set out to do. STEPHEN WOLITER: Tenniswood
is an absolute fantasist.
00:37:55
I'm sure he believes. The accounts that
he gave in court, we managed to disprove
the majority of it.
00:38:02
And ultimately, the
jury took two hours, which is incredibly short
in their deliberations,
00:38:10
to prove that he was guilty. So Tenniswood was sentenced
to life imprisonment with a minimum tariff of
30 years for the murder
00:38:22
and 12 years for the rape. That was to run consecutively. PARM SANDHU: It doesn't
bring India back.
00:38:31
Her family have got a
sentence, which is for life. They are never
going to forget her.
00:38:36
Her friends are never
going to forget. The family-- the whole
community will never forget
00:38:41
what happened on that night. JEREMY CHIPCHASE:
We love her now and we will always love her.
00:38:49
Even though we will
never experience a smile, her laughter,
her caring again, her photographs will
adorn our walls,
00:38:56
the memories of her
20 years will live on, and her spirit will
always be in our hearts.
00:39:01
Whatever happened that night,
whatever stories are told, the fact is my
daughter was murdered.
00:39:09
Speaking from a
father's perspective, I did not want any other father
to hear that her daughter's
00:39:14
gone missing like I
did, and then for them to hear she's been found dead. I'm sure that I and
other family members
00:39:26
will continue to have moments
of pain, anguish emotion until we take the loss. STEPHEN WOLITER: It feels
very sad being back here today
00:39:40
that this is the
location that India was last seen alive and well. [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:39:54
PARM SANDHU: I think one
of the positives that has come to light after the
murder of India Chipchase
00:40:02
was the charity that
was set up in her name and as a result of
what happened to her.
00:40:08
KERRY DAYNES: They
called themselves Northampton Guardians. And they act as guardian
angels for people
00:40:14
who are out and about
clubbing and partying and maybe need a bit of
help to get home safely.
00:40:22
SHANE: My name is Shane. I've been part of The
Guardians now since it started in December last year.
00:40:29
We were founded by a lovely
lady called Sue Chipchase. And it's a memory
of her daughter.
00:40:35
And the main thing we're
here for is just to really is to try to look after the
vulnerable people that we see
00:40:41
walking around, mainly females,
but we do a lot of males as well. But we do deal
with many females.
00:40:48
It's a safe meeting place
for anyone that's vulnerable. So even it's just a female
who's lost her friends,
00:40:53
they know they can
come to the van and have a safe place to stay
and wait for their friends
00:40:57
to come and meet them. They can phone their
friends, I'm at the van. I'm safe.
I know where I am.
00:41:01
Or again, if someone's lost--
well, if someone can't get home, they can come to the van.
00:41:06
It's a safe place.
They can phone their parents. They can phone someone
to come pick them up.
00:41:09
They don't have to stand
in the middle of town if it's pouring rain
or freezing cold.
00:41:12
Or if it's just a female
by herself late at night, they don't have to
be out in the cold.
00:41:15
They can sit with us. It's just somewhere
safe for them. CLAIRE ARCHER: Since
India's passing,
00:41:19
they came on the scene to
try and help people in town like walking around
town, looking
00:41:24
at the vulnerable people. If you look at their logo, it's
the love, heart with the wings
00:41:29
and it's got India's
name in the middle. STEVE HALL: It's India's legacy. It's something good
that's come out
00:41:35
of a terrible, terrible
thing that happened. And if it can help
people and not make that situation
happen again, then to me
00:41:46
it's a wonderful thing. They're wonderful people. It's a wonderful legacy to have.
00:41:53
India's death was
a tragic waste, but something good's
come out of it. PARM SANDHU: I was
truly shocked, truly
00:42:07
shocked about what happened
to this young girl. And I can only send
out my sympathies
00:42:12
to the family and the friends
and all the individuals involved in this case. Because that lasting damage
will be there forever.
00:42:20
And I was-- even after
30 years in policing, I was absolutely
horrified about what
00:42:25
happened to this young girl. JEFF EDWARDS: The
loss of a child is the worst thing that
can happen to any parent.
00:42:32
The loss of a child
in such unnecessary, dreadful, selfish circumstances
must be beyond comprehension.
00:42:41
How can you-- how can
anybody bear that pain? I mean, she had her
whole life ahead of her.
00:42:47
She wasn't even 21. [MUSIC PLAYING] JEREMY CHIPCHASE:
I sincerely hope that there is no possibility
that any other woman ever
00:42:58
suffers at the hands of
my daughter's murderer. No other father will therefore
have to see the devastation
00:43:04
that I have seen. No other father will
have to touch the coffin and say, love you, Ind,
and then see the curtain
00:43:16
closed at a crematorium. And no other father will be
hit with a wave of emotion at a wedding as I was on
realizing that I would never
00:43:30
walk India down the aisle. I therefore reiterate,
I do not want there to be other victims at
the hands of India's murderer,
00:43:40
and therefore, no other families
to experience what we have. [MUSIC PLAYING]