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[STUDIO MUSIC] [THUNDER RUMBLING] [INTRIGUING MUSIC] DAMIAN: On the afternoon
of the 21st of July, 2023,
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West Midlands Police received
a call from a friend of Sharon Gordon, who had gone round to
her home address and found her
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lying at the bottom of the
stairs, covered in blood, and apparently not breathing.
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[MUSIC BECOMES SUSPENSEFUL] First, responding
officers were greeted with quite a distressing
scene, with blood all
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across the floor,
up the walls, but it was impossible
to say at that point how Sharon had come to suffer
those injuries and die.
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RHIAN: I've just lived
through absolute hell, all because of the decision
that this man made.
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REPORTER: This video,
provided by a neighbor, shows a threatening man. He's seen walking past
a home, holding an ax.
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[INDISTINCT SHOUTING] [INTRIGUING MUSIC] DAMIAN: The first responders
spoke with Sharon's friends
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at the scene, and they
told the officers that, because they
couldn't get hold of her,
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they decided to come round
to see if she was OK. The officers also asked
them if they knew anything
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about what might have happened
or if this came as a surprise to them. Sharon was still
in the prime of her life,
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but she could have
fell down the stairs. She could have suffered
some medical episode.
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It could be a random
attack, or it could be because someone has
been disturbed in the process
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of committing a crime. There are a number
of different options that could have resulted
in Sharon dying,
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and it's really important
that we consider them all and gather evidence that
doesn't preclude any of them.
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Sharon's friends
told us they had no idea who would have
had the motive to kill her or attack her,
and we had no evidence
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or reason to doubt that. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] RHIAN: I received a phone
call on my mobile.
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I was working from
home at the time. And my mom's best friend
called me to say, we need
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to go around to your mom's. I literally just rushed off the
phone and ran around the corner
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to my mom's house. It was cordoned off, and I was
trying to go into the house. And obviously, I was
being restrained,
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and I was just like, why? Why can't I go in? To be honest, it
was just shock. There was no instant thoughts
of anything other than,
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what's going on? [SIRENS SOUNDING] DANIEL: The residents
were standing outside. Some of them were
looking out the windows,
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just peeking
through the windows. When we talked to a couple
of the neighbors, they all expressed how much
of a lovely woman she was.
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They all liked her. She was a known member
of the community. The sense of shock
and confusion
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was definitely
the biggest emotion that was running through the area. [TENSE MUSIC]
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DAMIAN: I attended
the scene with the crime scene coordinator, and we
conducted a walkthrough.
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[OMINOUS MUSIC] There were signs
of some diluted blood in the hallway, which could
have been caused by someone
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trying to dispose of evidence. Secondly, there was
a significant amount of blood spatter in and around
where Sharon was lying.
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At this stage,
my experience taught me that it was more
likely than not that Sharon had been
killed, but I needed
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to confirm that evidentially. [SIRENS SOUNDING] NARRATOR: To corroborate
his theory.
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DI Forrest calls a forensic
specialist to look at blood spatter in Sharon's home.
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- The scientist attended and
gave me a report that same day. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] In that report, she
explained that Sharon
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had been hit by more than one
blow on multiple occasions, and due to the repeated nature
and the different vectors,
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it was clear that
we were dealing with an assault on Sharon,
and that we had a murderer
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that we needed to find. [SENTIMENTAL MUSIC] RHIAN: Growing up, me
and my mom were inseparable.
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We were literally
always together. My mom's personality
was very strong. She was full of conviction.
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She was just one of the
strongest women that I know. But she was very
loving, caring,
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giving, friendly, and fun. My son was the light
of my mother's life. She absolutely adored him.
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She spent loads
of time with him. She would spend more time
with him if she could.
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They both lit up when
they saw each other. Are you watching
Nanny water the grass?
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I always used
to say my son loved my mom more than he loved me. He always wanted
to be at Nanny's.
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Nanny, Nanny, Nanny. And my mom was the same. Everything was about him. [LAUGHS]
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- [GURGLES] - You enjoyed that, didn't you? [THOUGHTFUL MUSIC] DAMIAN: Because we had no
suspect for killing Sharon,
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and we didn't know when,
if ever, we would identify one, I tasked my team to obtain
as much CCTV footage
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for the relevant time
period as possible-- also, house-to-house
enquiries, speaking
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to the neighbors
in the local community to see if they'd
heard any noises or seen anything unusual,
if they could offer
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any evidence about
people who may have a motive against Sharon. The other thing
which was key for us
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is trying to understand
the last person who would have seen
Sharon alive, so we can get an idea of what state
she was in at that point.
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And also, it will
allow us to narrow down our enquiries around
trying to trace CCTV and witness evidence.
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[THOUGHTFUL MUSIC] In the course
of the inquiry, we spoke to a lot of people,
friends and family
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of Sharon who knew
her really well, and you gain a picture
of what Sharon was like.
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She was a Jehovah Witness. And as we looked
more into her life, we saw that that faith was
a massive part of her life.
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RHIAN: My mom wasn't actually
raised a Jehovah's Witness. She became a Jehovah's
Witness, and she was introduced
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to it by her elder sister. My mom took her faith
very, very seriously. Her goal was to make sure
that she lived by the vow
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that she took to her god. My mom was highly regarded
within the Jehovah's Witness
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this community. She did a lot of work
with young ones. She held a very strong position
in people's hearts and minds,
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and that's because of the type
of woman that she was. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] KATE: Jehovah's Witnesses
call themselves the truth,
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and they call anybody outside
that religion worldly. As far as they're concerned,
they are God's chosen people.
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It's very much all about
working towards being the best Christian you can possibly
be in order to survive
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God's war at Armageddon. And this belief comes from
the Book of Revelation. The Jehovah's Witnesses believe
there is only one judge,
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and that is Jehovah God. So the worldly system,
which is what they call it, the secular justice
system, will be abided by,
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but it's actually the rules
within the congregation from the elders that's probably
more important to the
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Witnesses themselves. [SIRENS SOUNDING] [INTRIGUING MUSIC] DAMIAN: I directed
my officers to make contact
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with the local Jehovah's
Witness community, because it was clear to me
how close-knit they were,
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and I wanted to understand
if they could offer us any evidence that
could assist us
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with understanding
what had happened and who was responsible. We spoke to various
members of the community,
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and whilst they were able to
tell us a lot about Sharon and her life, unfortunately
we weren't
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able to learn any information
that helped us understand who would attack Sharon.
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People couldn't believe that
this had happened to Sharon because they knew her. They knew the life
that she led.
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They knew the strong
moral compass that she had and just how unlikely
it was that she would be
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involved in any sort of crime. [THOUGHTFUL MUSIC] NARRATOR: To paint a clearer
picture of Sharon's movements
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in the hours before
she died, DI Forrest speaks with her
builder, Peter Norgrove.
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He'd been working on her
house extension that day and is thought to be the last
person to see her alive.
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DAMIAN: Peter told us that
he was conducting building work at Sharon's home address.
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He'd been building
a lean-to extension for her. He had retrained as a builder
during the COVID pandemic,
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so this was the first, real,
big job that he'd taken on. We established that
he had last seen her
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on the Thursday
afternoon, approximately 24 hours prior to Sharon's
friends calling us.
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He told us that he'd left
the address at about 3 o'clock or just before
in the afternoon,
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because he was going
with his wife to collect his children from school. Peter was not an immediate
suspect to me.
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There was nothing in Peter's
history and nothing from the witness evidence
or the forensic evidence
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that we'd gathered
that suggested that Peter was the person
responsible for Sharon's death.
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NARRATOR: Police now have
a 24-hour window in which Sharon could have
been killed, but
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still no sense of who did it. [PHONE RINGING] DAMIAN: We had no
suspects at this stage.
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There was no one
immediately apparent who would appear to have
a motive for killing Sharon,
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would appear to have the sort
of history or disposition that would suggest it's the
type of thing they would do.
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[INTRIGUING MUSIC] NARRATOR: When the autopsy
report comes in, it reveals her
devastating injuries.
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- It's very difficult to
provide an exact time of death from a forensic
post-mortem report,
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so we don't have an exact
time that Sharon died. But the post-mortem
report told us
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that Sharon had suffered
repeated blunt force blows to the head
with a blunt object.
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This was key to us because it
ruled out the idea that it could have been accidental.
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[THOUGHTFUL MUSIC] I took the time
to revisit the scene. It's important that
you come back and
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approach it with fresh eyes. What it showed me is that there
hadn't been an untidy search
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conducted where
someone in desperation was rooting through documents,
looking for things to steal.
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There were still
valuables in place. So that suggested that someone
Sharon had known had killed her
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and that the motive wasn't
perhaps to break in there and steal from her. It was important just
to establish the facts
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and see if the motive
was laid bare from there. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] We identified that there was
home surveillance equipment
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at the front
of the address, which covered the drive around
by the front door, and we could see that
there was a camera
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at the back of the address near
to the back door, which covered the patio and garden area.
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But it wasn't immediately clear
whether that had been recording at the time of the offense.
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NARRATOR: Frustratingly,
the security video is stored in the cloud,
and police don't have Sharon's password.
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DAMIAN: We couldn't
immediately access the footage. Sharon had the details,
and unfortunately, we couldn't
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find them anywhere else. [CALM MUSIC] RHIAN: The memories
that my son has in this
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garden with his nanny, it's-- you know, they're
unforgettable. They'd always be in the garden.
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She'd have him on her
hip or just playing. Once somebody's
gone, the last photo that you ever took together or
the last video, the last voice
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note and things like
that, it comes to a point, like, there's no more. You don't get any more of that.
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And that is really sad because
then whatever you've got, that's it. Look at the love between them.
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The both of them,
they're so cute. NARRATOR: Believing that
Sharon was killed by someone
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she knew, DI Forrest
looks more closely at the people around her,
starting with her builder,
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Peter Norgrove. [THOUGHTFUL MUSIC] DAMIAN: We conducted
examinations of some of Peter's
computers and equipment.
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Separately, we
conducted inquiries at Sharon's home address,
looking for relevant paperwork
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or materials. Peter was conducting building
work at Sharon's home address. The work had been predicted
to last a couple of months,
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but it had carried
on for well over a year, and this clearly had caused
frustrations on both sides.
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It was quite clear
that there appeared to be very little
trust and respect on both sides
of that relationship
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as the building work went on. [INTRIGUING TONES] RHIAN: Mom was
introduced to Peter,
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as he was in the same
congregation as Mom's close friend. [THOUGHTFUL MUSIC] I know for a fact
that my mom would
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have felt that she could trust
this person because of them sharing a faith. [MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
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And she also thought
that if there was, for any reason,
any issues or problems, that she could seek
advice and support
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from ones within
the congregation such as the elders. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] KATE: Everybody knows
what everybody else does
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for a living within
the congregations, and it's extremely
common for services to be provided
within the community.
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There's this big
element of trust that Witnesses are
expected to be truthful and
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honest and reliable. And as you are all God's
chosen people, then why would you not rely on each other's
services and skill sets?
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RHIAN: It's hard to put
a time on when things went bad between my mom and Peter.
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All I can say is she
was given time scales, and they by no means were met. It was taking longer than
it was meant to take.
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The workmanship
wasn't to the standard that she thought it would be. He'd bitten off a lot
more than he could chew,
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and he wasn't able
to do the job that he took on and was paid for. [THOUGHTFUL MUSIC]
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NARRATOR: Sharon's
house extension, which Peter told her would take
six weeks, had taken 15 months,
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and construction
still wasn't finished. KATE: If Sharon was complaining
about Peter's workmanship,
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then potentially he'd be
quite angry about that. Jehovah's Witnesses
are a massively,
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highly-controlled religion. Outspoken women
in the Jehovah's Witnesses are not deemed
in a favorable light.
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Men can go
into positions of power. Women can't. Maybe, to Peter,
he may have thought
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that she should be
subordinate to him as a man, and that potentially could have
been very triggering for him.
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[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC] SOHOM: It's a pressure
cooker situation. So you've got Peter,
who's probably
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getting quite irritated by
Sharon's repeated complaints. He probably expects a degree
of reverence and submission
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from Sharon, coming from the
church, which he's not getting. And then you've
got Sharon getting
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increasingly frustrated
that her complaints are being ignored. So it's almost like
this vicious cycle.
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15 months is a long time, and I
think we can understand how with this situation
of complaints,
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and them being
dismissed and nothing being resolved, how the
frustrations and the tensions
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can really escalate over time. RHIAN: My mom sought
advice when things started to not go well with Peter.
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I know that she sought
advice from the elders, but unfortunately
nothing was done.
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I knew it was
stressing her out. I literally could see
the situation taking its toll
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on her mentally, physically. I could see it on her face. SOHOM: I think it's fair
to assume that Peter would have
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actually been quite
fearful of Sharon spreading her complaints across
the Jehovah's Witness community
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because it's
a small, niche group. So his reputation could have
spread quite quickly of being
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untrustworthy or unreliable. And also, he's a new builder. He's only just recently
trained in this field,
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so he's probably got
quite a small client base. So it could potentially damage
his future financial earnings.
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[INTRIGUING MUSIC] NARRATOR: The search for video
surveillance pays off. Sifting through
hours of footage,
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police identify one camera
that points directly at Peter Norgrove's house. - This is Peter's home.
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So I can see Peter
Norgrove's car has just pulled onto his
drive, and you can see here that Peter's
running up his drive
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and into his address. Shortly, we'll see
Peter re-emerge. You can see him in the porch.
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He's wearing
different clothing, so he's clearly ran inside
and changed his clothes.
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And he's pulling his
shoes on in such a rush that he actually jumps over his
front lawn wall and drives off.
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That is where we
identified a discrepancy. We'd already taken
an account from him,
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and that account said, I left
Sharon's at a reasonable time and drove over to meet my wife
to pick up the children.
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Well, he left Sharon's later
than he said, in a rush, sped home, ran into the
address, changed his clothes,
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and then ran back out
again to meet his wife. Why would she lie
about such a thing
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unless she had
something to hide? [INTRIGUING MUSIC, SIRENS
SOUNDING] NARRATOR: Police officers
head to the builder's house.
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DAMIAN: I decided it
was necessary to obtain the clothing that Peter had
been wearing the last time
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he'd been at Sharon's address. We learned that Peter had put
the clothing he'd been wearing
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at that time into the wash,
as he told us that he'd spilt
some things on them, and there was some
staining on it--
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[THOUGHTFUL MUSIC] --which he said was
as a result of him spilling cordial on himself.
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The staining was
reddish in color. Additionally, Peter commented
that he'd gone straight
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to his children's school. But his wife said, oh,
don't you remember, Peter? You were late because you
had to pop home.
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So with all that combined,
I said, arrest him. [SOMBER MUSIC] RHIAN: It might have
been a couple of days
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after that the leading
investigator, Damian Forrest, said, it's murder. It was just absolute shock.
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Looking back, I think
we all had that inkling that it could have
been Peter, but we all
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also put it out
of our minds and thought, oh, no, it can't be. So maybe it was a robbery.
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There's no explaining. There's no
understanding around it. It's just shocking. KELLY-ANN: Sharon could
have been anybody.
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We all have builders.
We all have workmen. We all have plumbers,
electricians come into our homes.
And you trust them.
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You have to. They're there to do a job. But at the same time, you
don't know who they are,
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and you don't know
what could happen. And unfortunately
for Sharon, in that one-in-a-million
case, she's ended
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up being a murder victim here. NARRATOR: Although
DI Forrest believes Peter Norgrove killed
Sharon, he needs
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to build his case against him. [THOUGHTFUL MUSIC] DAMIAN: We had a motive
for Norgrove lying to us,
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and that motive was to prevent
us recovering evidence or uncovering his lies
that would cast him
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as a suspect in the matter. But he doesn't fit a
traditional profile of someone who would kill someone
using force, someone
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who would attack someone. Additionally, he had
no criminal history. So what we didn't have
as clear a motive for
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was why he would kill Sharon. [THOUGHTFUL MUSIC] RHIAN: For the Jehovah's
Witness community,
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it was utter,
dumbfounded shock. I feel that after the shock, it
was also very much a lockdown.
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What do we do here? I do feel as though
they were very concerned about how the
reputation of the organization
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itself would look. KATE: I would say, from being
a former Jehovah's Witness myself, that it's very rare
that Jehovah's Witnesses
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murder other people. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] Jehovah's Witnesses don't agree
with violence-- full stop.
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Most are law-abiding. That is important because
there's a moral code that they go by from the Bible.
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Within the community,
I would imagine all of her fellow
Witness friends, family members would have been
so shocked and so saddened
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by her death. But the Jehovah's Witness
organization as a whole have a reputation
at stake, and they
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have people who are meant to be
law-abiding, meek, and mild. So it probably would
have been encouraged
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not to have been talked about. NARRATOR: With Peter
Norgrove in custody, police receive an unexpected
call from his wife.
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[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC] DAMIAN: It was very unusual to
have a wife of someone arrested
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for murder contact
us, but I have to give credit to her for doing so. When she had been
thinking about the events
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over the last
couple of days, she remembered that after they
had picked the children up
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from school, they had attended
another family address, and Peter had put
something in the bin.
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They had gone to that bin
and recovered the item and found it to be
blood-stained sponges and
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other such things,
wrapped within some home delivery packaging that bore
the name of Sharon Gordon.
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NARRATOR: Police head
to Norgrove's home to recover the bloodstained
items retrieved from the waste
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bin by his wife's family. DAMIAN: This led us
to conduct a review of the home surveillance
footage that was present there.
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[INTRIGUING MUSIC] As he arrives, he pulls
up outside the house. You see that whilst family
members come and speak
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to the occupants
of the car, his family, he actually goes to that
bin that contained
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the gloves and clothing. This forensic evidence
was a crucial element to this investigation.
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NARRATOR: DI Forrest
broadens the search to all of Peter's
family and gathers security camera footage from
his mother-in-law's address.
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DAMIAN: We were
actually able to see that on the morning after
Sharon had been killed,
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Peter had gone back
to this family address and deposited something
into the shed, which
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contained hundreds of tools. I sought the assistance
of a specially-trained police
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sniffer dog that
can scent blood. The dog searched the shed
and indicated that it could
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smell blood on a lump hammer. Forensically, we
were able to identify that Sharon's blood was
present on the hammer
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and that her blood was
present on the clothing that he'd been wearing
when he left the address.
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Because of that, we
were able to speak with the Crown
Prosecution Service and charge him with murder.
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KATE: Jehovah's Witnesses
have an evening meeting on a Thursday, so the fact that
Sharon was killed on a Thursday
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could be important in the fact
that if she had perhaps said she was going to tell
the elders that evening
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at the Kingdom
Hall, then maybe he would have been really
scared that she would honor
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her promise of doing that. [THOUGHTFUL MUSIC] If she had gone to them,
then he may well have
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been reprimanded in some way. And in the Jehovah's
Witness community, that could lead to being
removed from the religion.
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So it's really high stakes. He may have been really
angry at the power that she had there that could
have affected his standing and
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the potential for him
to lose that promise of everlasting life
and death at Armageddon
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would have been potentially
his greatest fear, as it is for many
Jehovah's Witnesses.
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NARRATOR: Police
finally get access to the password-protected
footage from the video cameras
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at Sharon's home. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] DAMIAN: Receiving this footage,
on top of all the evidence we'd
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already gathered, was
crucial to the inquiry because what it
allowed us to do is understand Peter
and the actions
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that he took at the scene. And it allowed us
to understand his mindset. We formed a timeline
of the events that
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happened at Sharon's house
on the day of her murder, and we could see that
Sharon was at home, working,
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when she was visited
by some of her friends. She was in the back
garden with them,
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laughing and joking, talking
about the ordinary things and bits of gossip that
friends do talk about.
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All at the same time, she
had a builder in her address. That was Peter Norgrove.
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Her friends left
the address, and Sharon was left there alone with Peter. NARRATOR: Shortly
before 2:00 PM,
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Peter is seen in the garden. He then goes
inside where Sharon is now, working from home.
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DAMIAN: The time stamp was
crucial to us in relation to allowing it to lock into the
evidence we'd already gathered.
00:34:52
So on the screen
time of 14:02.55, you can see that there's
no one in the back garden,
00:34:58
but there has been some sort
of activation on the camera. [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] The home surveillance
footage was motion-activated,
00:35:08
and at one point, it would
appear that a motion outside-- the wind, the clothes
on the washing line,
00:35:17
activated it at the same time
as a high-pitched piercing scream could be heard. Police think that
that's Sharon screaming
00:35:29
out during the attack. NARRATOR: 19 minutes
later, Peter comes outside and can be seen packing up.
00:35:42
DAMIAN: In this clip now,
you can see Peter Norgrove. He's moving with a pile
of things under his arm,
00:35:49
putting them
into the back of the car. Peter, going about his
business in the aftermath,
00:35:57
did not appear like
a person who was immediately regretting what had happened. In this clip, Peter's walking
back towards that front door,
00:36:09
nonchalantly whistling
when he knows that lying on the other
side of that door is Sharon, who is most
likely fighting for her life
00:36:17
at that point. Even if there had been
any other reason for how Sharon had come
by her injuries,
00:36:25
and Peter had tried to help,
or it had been an accident, then he would have
had an opportunity
00:36:29
to tell us about that. [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] He was moving calmly. He didn't appear
to be distressed.
00:36:38
He didn't at any point say
there'd been an accident or that something
had happened, or
00:36:43
he didn't mean to do
anything, or that someone else had been in the address. What it showed us was
that his actions were not
00:36:49
the actions of someone
who had been involved in an accidental death. NICK: My name is Nick Barreiro.
00:37:05
I'm a former police
detective and a certified audio-video
forensic analyst. If we had only looked
at this video one time,
00:37:14
it looks very ordinary. There's nothing remarkable
at first glance. So that's why it's
extremely important
00:37:21
that we use critical
viewing techniques, and we watch these
videos repeatedly, very carefully, to make sure
we're not missing anything.
00:37:33
The benefit of this video being
recorded by a home surveillance system is that we also have
a timestamp for these images,
00:37:44
and we know that he left
the house about five hours after he arrived. And during that five
hours, these red stains
00:37:52
appeared on his pants. This is the footage
from the backyard. He's not really acting like
he'd just killed someone.
00:38:04
He's acting very nonchalant. He's going about his day. He's cleaning up his tools.
00:38:09
But if we take a closer
look, if we zoom in, and we make some adjustments
to the brightness,
00:38:16
to the contrast
and the saturation, we can actually see there are
bright red stains on his pants.
00:38:24
And then if we look
at a different angle when he's leaving,
we go from this-- to this, revealing
bright red stains.
00:38:35
It's quite disturbing to
realize what had just happened, but he's still going
about his business
00:38:41
so casually with
blood all over him. [MYSTERIOUS MUSIC] Since he was doing
work on this house,
00:38:52
he must have been aware
that there was cameras. This is potentially
a very good example
00:38:58
of a murderer who knows
that they're actually being recorded,
to deceive and make
00:39:05
it look like he was
completely innocent and using that
to their advantage. DAMIAN: The enhanced
video footage
00:39:17
further zeroed
in on Peter and allowed us to show a forensic link
between Peter's clothing
00:39:26
and the injuries that
had occurred to Sharon. What happened in the address,
we couldn't visually say,
00:39:34
but upon a review
of the evidence, we see Peter moving
to and from the address. A scream can be heard inside,
and we see him with a hammer.
00:39:45
We see him moving about
with bloodstained clothing before driving off, visiting
his home address to change
00:39:53
his clothes, later
lying about that to us, and then going to pick up
his children before moving
00:40:00
to a family address
where he disposed of evidence he knew would
link him to the murder
00:40:05
of Sharon Gordon. [THOUGHTFUL MUSIC] NARRATOR: Peter
Norgrove is charged with Sharon Gordon's murder.
00:40:18
He pleads guilty,
avoiding trial. Six months after
the killing, he appears in court for sentencing.
00:40:28
Journalist Kelly-Ann
Kiernan follows the case. KELLY-ANN: It's unusual
in the British courts.
00:40:39
Most people want to have
their day in court. They want to try the evidence
and see what they
00:40:45
can do to get out of things. [SOMBER MUSIC] I'm not sure why. Maybe because the weight
of the evidence against him
00:40:52
was so strong.
They had the CCTV. They had the murder weapon. I remember the judge
saying that the murder
00:41:00
was brutal and savage. I mean, anybody who'd
been hit over the head eight times with a hammer, it's
going to be brutal and savage.
00:41:09
What an awful way
for someone to die. And Norgrove didn't
seem affected by that.
00:41:18
DAMIAN: It's always been his
case that he cannot actually remember killing Sharon.
00:41:27
I would find that
very convenient, and it perhaps offers
Peter the opportunity to admit to what he's
done without having
00:41:38
to explain or take
responsibility for what he's done. SOHOM: Peters claimed that
he had absolutely no memory
00:41:48
of the killing
whatsoever can be linked to a psychological
phenomena known as dissociative amnesia.
00:41:57
This is when an individual is
in such an aroused, hyper state that they can't
recall or record
00:42:05
memories of the actual
event itself, and it can either be a partial
or a full memory lapse.
00:42:14
I am somewhat skeptical
about whether he was suffering from
dissociative amnesia
00:42:19
for a couple of reasons. Firstly, because his
behavior at the time was very nonchalant.
00:42:24
He didn't seem in this
hyper-aroused state. And also, his behavior
afterwards was very normal.
00:42:30
I would imagine
that somebody who's woken up from this confused,
fugue state, covered in blood,
00:42:36
would be worried. They would investigate
what had just happened, and there's no evidence
that Peter did that.
00:42:44
[THOUGHTFUL MUSIC] NARRATOR: Peter Norgrove is
sentenced to life in prison for killing Sharon Gordon,
with a minimum of 15 years.
00:42:54
DAMIAN: Peter has never shown
any remorse for this crime. It's perhaps telling that the
judge, when sentencing Peter,
00:43:07
commented on the difference
between regret and remorse. One can regret
their actions, perhaps
00:43:15
for the consequences
that they brought on, without having remorse
for what those actions are.
00:43:21
And I think that very
much applies to Peter. RHIAN: I couldn't and wouldn't
say that there's something
00:43:30
that the Jehovah's
Witnesses could have done to stop Peter's actions. We are all individuals.
00:43:41
We can say we align with
any faith or way of life, but each individual is
going to do that completely
00:43:52
different to the next. His actions proved that he was
not a true Jehovah's Witness
00:43:59
at heart. DAMIAN: I don't know
for certain the reason that Peter had
for attacking Sharon.
00:44:11
We will never know for certain
because Peter refuses to share anything else with us.
00:44:22
KELLY-ANN: I think he
was out of his depth. He went to build
an extension for Sharon
00:44:28
and had no idea
what he was doing, and just didn't know
how to back out of it. What an awful way
to just not say,
00:44:37
I don't know what I'm doing. DAMIAN: I don't know
if Peter Norgrove understands the damage
that he caused when
00:44:49
he murdered Sharon Gordon. Sharon's family suffered
a devastating trauma that unfortunately
I don't think we'll
00:44:59
ever recede from their lives. [SOMBER MUSIC] RHIAN: The impact
on me and my family
00:45:13
after what he has
done and taken away from us is undescribable. He stripped me and my family
of what seems like everything.
00:45:33
Just the fact that
she's no longer around, just the fact that
my kids no longer have
00:45:45
a nanny in their lives,
I've not been able to just deal with that. I've just lived
through absolute hell
00:46:02
since this has happened,
all because of the decision that this man made. [CLOSING MUSIC]
00:46:34
[STUDIO MUSIC]