Since then, the Christopher Halliwell case has remained at the centre of his life. Ultimately, Halliwell confessed to two murders to Fulcher and led the police to the bodies of both Sian and Becky. Another potential victim is prostitute Sally Ann John, 24, who vanished from Swindon in 1995. The fiend then revealed where cops could find the body of Becky Godden who police did not even know was missing at the time. ", And speaking after Halliwell's sentencing in 2016, Memory said: Im very very clear that there must be other victims out there whether they are sexual offences or other women that he has taken. Murphy explained in the documentary: 'A police officer had the idea of looking at all the police dashboard cameras that were patrolling central Swindon at the time. She and Halliwell lived on the same street. In the aftermath of Halliwells arrest, Fulcher was nominated for a Queens Police Medal the highest honour in policing for his work in extracting the brutal killers confession. Fulcher is more than qualified to reflect on how British policing has changed. On the day of his arrest, Halliwell spoke to Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, and admitted to murdering two women and dumping their bodies in shallow graves. He was found guilty in January 2014 and given a final written warning by a disciplinary tribunal. That is always in your mind, he says. In May 2012 Christopher Halliwell pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering Sian O'Callaghan, but when he appeared in Bristol Crown Court in October 2012 he pleaded guilty to her murder. Martin Freeman - plays Supt Det Steve Fulcher. Its a race against time. A race against a backdrop of high emotions, too. Her name would not be discovered for some days, after her DNA was checked. Its when these forces collide. He learned the CPS were considering bringing charges against him for malfeasance in public office. Look no further! The force arranged for an independent misconduct panel to convene. Det Supt Sean Memory, the senior investigating officer in the Godden case, said after he was convicted in 2016 that Halliwell may have killed others. ', Afterwards Fulcher said of Halliwell: 'We had a surreal exchange, he knew that he had given his life away. ', But criminal defence barrister Sebastian Gardiner says: 'It wasn't ignorance on his part, it was a conscious decision by him to drive a coach and horses through recognised police procedure.'. DS Fulcher was found guilty of gross misconduct The following January Det Supt Fulcher was found guilty of gross misconduct and given a final disciplinary warning. This, despite the fact he had caught Halliwell, a murderer and possible serial killer. First he dumped her body near his sick stash at Ramsbury. However in a new one-off ITV documentary, To Catch a Serial Killer, DS Fulcher insists he did the right thing, saying: 'My view is that I have brought two daughters back to their mothers and I've prevented other victims resulting from Halliwell's continued pursuit of his career as a serial killer. Got Christopher Halliwell to confess to 2nd murder . View our online Press Pack. But who was driving the vehicle? But to get those confessions, Fulcher was accused of breaching the guidelines of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) by failing to caution Halliwell and denying him access to a solicitor at the time the confessions were obtained. Two months later, dismayed at Wiltshires Forces disinterest in both reinforcing the charges related to Becky Goddens murder and other potential victims, Fulcher asked to be reassigned to the National Homicide Team. The taxi belonged to Halliwell, who told his company he had gone home at 1.30am - much earlier than Sian had disappeared. In the early hours of Saturday 19th March 2011, a 22-year-old named Sian O'Callaghan left Suju's nightclub in Swindon after a night out with her friends. Fulcher played by Sherlocks Martin Freeman ended up in a difficult ethical position that led him to find the killer, but in an unorthadox manner that ultimately ended his career in the police force. 'Just in the minutes before Sian vanished, one of the police cars had filmed a Toyota Avensis driving the other way, and it had the number plate.'. Further to the hearing, Steve Fulcher was found guilty of two counts of gross misconduct (the execution of his duty and inappropriate contact with the media) and received two final written warnings, but remained a member of Wiltshire Police. Im terrified for that poor baby. The programme explores whether Steve's actions were brilliant detective work, or arrogance and recklessness which ultimately cost him his job. The case attracted widespread attention and press coverage, and on Tuesday 22nd March around 400 members of the public were allowed to help the police search the forest. He lost his police pension worth 500,000, had to sell his house and now works training police in war-torn Somalia. He said: "My view is that I have brought two daughters back to their mothers and Ive prevented other victims resulting from Halliwells continued pursuit of his career as a serial killer. But back then it seems the Wiltshire Force was more preoccupied with a crusade against an officer for failing to follow procedure even when obeying that procedure could have prevented two grieving families gaining a terrible, final closure. Jeff Pope's new ITV drama A Confession stars Martin Freeman as Detective Steve Fulcher, whose hunt for missing 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan led him into an extraordinary situation in 2011. 'I can't rule out that there are other victims. But I had my maths wrong. Youre seriously telling me theres nothing in between or either side? He wanted to seize the opportunity to grill Halliwell before it was too late. The manner in which Steve gained Halliwells confession to killing second victim Becky Godden-Edwards breached police procedure by failing to caution him and denying access to a solicitor. She was found in a shallow grave near Uffington in Oxfordshire, stabbed in the head and strangled. Catching a Serial Killer: My hunt for murderer Christopher Halliwell, spoken many times in the press about his experience of the case, he was working for a private company in Mogadishu, Somalia, the police found "up to 60" items of women's clothing. It is possible that there were other victims before or after Becky but he has never been charged or convicted of any other murders. A new team found witnesses and analysis showed a spade seized from Halliwells shed in 2011 had the same unique soil DNA as the field in which Becky was found. 'I'm not specifically looking at any one particular offence, but I do want to try to understand why there's an eight-year gap between his offending behaviour. When do the clocks change in 2023? 14 Aug 2019 ITV ITV's A Confession throws up an unimaginable ethical dilemma that real-life Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher faced in 2011: break police protocol to catch a serial killer. May 31, 2012 - Halliwell appears at Preston Crown Court and denies murdering Miss O'Callaghan. Its taken all this time for Beckys case to come to court, he says. A judge then ruled that Halliwell's confessions to killing both victims were actually inadmissible as evidence in court. However, Fulcher was eager not to lose the opportunity to elicit another confession, so he went with Halliwell to the site where the remains of Becky Godden, 20, were discovered. Fulcher recalled: 'Working on the hypothesis that she could have been kidnapped and was still alive, I conducted this investigation as a crime in action - that means everything else is subordinate to the notion of finding Sian, and seeking to save her life.'. It has since emerged Halliwell was obsessed with Linda after doing building work at the Razzells' home four years before she died. So he definitely killed Sian in March 2011, he definitely killed Becky early 2003. Buried around the pond were more items of womens clothing. "Further to the hearing, Steve Fulcher was found guilty of two counts of gross misconduct (the execution of his duty and inappropriate contact with the media) and received two final written warnings, but remained a member of Wiltshire Police. It seemed astonishing to me they were not pursing lines of enquiry. Former detective superintendent Steve Fulcher has now told his side of the story With compelling circumstantial evidence, Fulcher authorised covert surveillance. Yesterday, the sentencing judge, Sir John Griffiths Williams, told Halliwell: But for your confession, I have no doubt Beckys remains would never have been found. Fearing he was planning to overdose, the police swooped in and arrested him in an Asda car park in north Swindon, charging him with the kidnap (not murder) of Sian. Fulcher was disciplined for misconduct and later resigned, losing his 500,000 police pension and selling his house. Steve says Halliwell then asked him, "Do you want another one?"'. 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But a judge ruled his confession about Becky Godden inadmissible because DS Fulcher had repeatedly failed to correctly caution the killer and questioned him without a lawyer. 'But for my course of action Becky would still be in that field, Sian would never be found and Christopher Halliwell would be walking the streets.'. By Human remains were uncovered at a field in Gloucestershire, and they turned out to belong to Becky. In fact she was found in a very shallow grave. With equity release you could access a lump-sum of tax-free cash which can be used to enhance your retirement income, make home improvements, or even enjoy a memorable holiday. For his emotion, when it comes, isnt for his own plight, but that of Becky, Sian, and their families. A career copper, he joined what was then Sussex police in 1986 aged 21. Instead of bringing Halliwell back to Gablecross police station in Swindon where he would have had access to a solicitor, Fulcher ordered his officers to take Halliwell to a nearby Iron Age hill fort called Barbury Castle. Sophie Rundle: Motherhood has made me too tired to people-please', The Witch Trials of JK Rowling makes sensible points. What are the real-life events behind ITV's true crime drama A Confession? 'He showed me a list of girls' names that he kept in his phone of those that trusted him as a taxi driver. That decision cost DS Fulcher his career. The CPS should have appealed. In September 2013, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found that Fulcher had a case to answer for "gross misconduct" for breaches of PACE and for ignoring force orders. She too had been strangled. When you suspect someone has been abducted or kidnapped their life remains under threat, and there are very clear procedural rules about that.. Freeman plays Det Supt Steve Fulcher in ITV's six-part drama By Emma Saunders Entertainment reporter It was a tragic real-life story that gripped the public due to flawed heroics, a long search. Something went wrong, please try again later. Steve Fulcher, played by Martin Freeman, lost his career after catching a serial killer Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher resigned from Wiltshire Police in May 2014 ( Image: PA) As. Instead, seeing a window of opportunity, hed driven him to the field where Halliwell claimed another body would be found. For two days undercover police in 12 vehicles kept him under constant surveillance in the hope he would lead them to Sian. You dont sleep, you dont eat, its a 24/7 commitment, says Fulcher. DC Fulcher quit after being accused of gross misconduct over murder case. Halliwell described another victim, a prostitute he said he had killed much earlier, says Steve, and he could take him to the spot where he had buried her as well. If the media outside the nick had found out, they would have had the headline of the year., News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Fulcher's career was left in tatters when he was found guilty of misconduct after prompting a second murder confession from Sian O'Callaghan's killer Christopher Halliwell. His loyal family had also suffered. As a result of being found guilty of gross misconduct in January 2014, Steve Fulcher was given a final written warning, which could have led to his dismissal if he'd fallen foul of any more. No one wants to go back to the old days where the police sometimes ran roughshod over the rules, but the pendulum has swung way too far in favour of the criminal, he says. It made little difference: while Fulcher was not sacked he was given a severe reprimand, something he felt left him with no choice but to resign. Quite rightly it gives protection to the innocent. It was a moment which, perhaps better than any other, summed up the monstrous injustice meted out to DS Fulcher and exposed the deeply warped priorities of our legal system. His story is a true story, and one which . September 19, 2016 - Halliwell is convicted of Miss Godden's murder. Ainsworth, who had just been suspended over allegations he had sexually harassed female colleagues, was found hanged at home. Two and a half years on, Becky Goddens mother has, at least, seen justice served in no small part thanks to her own vigorous campaigning to ensure her daughters murder wasnt forgotten. January 2003 - Becky Godden, then aged 20, is last seen alive after getting into a taxi outside Destiny & Desire nightclub in Swindon. I heard nothing for 10 months, he recalls. Halliwell had been spotted buying a large quantity of pills, so officers were sent in to arrest him. Later investigators discovered soil on a spade which placed Halliwell in the field where Becky was found, leading to his conviction by jury in 2016. This was roughly 12 miles away. How Christopher Halliwell was brought to justice. 'You're going to get rid of good ones as well? Halliwell had confessed to her murder of Sian, and revealed he had also killed prostitute Becky Godden in 2003 and left her body at another location. You can criticise me, but I felt I had no option - there was simply no other way I could have acted that was within the letter of the law. However, that's not to say he hasn't committed other offences. A TIMELINE: How Christopher Halliwell was brought to justice. State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio lost $9.5 billion, which represents 9.64% of the . As the criminal proceedings were thrown into jeopardy, Det Supt Fulcher faced gross misconduct hearings. A decorated police detective whose career was left in tatters after he decided to pursue a confession from a suspected killer without following strict policing guidelines, has said he has no regrets. Clarkson's Farm Season 3 'confirmed' by Jeremy Clarkson as he issues three-word statement, There were reports that Jeremy Clarkson's farming programme had been axed after the presenter's comments about Meghan Markle, Dragon's Den viewers slam 'snobby' couple as they sneer at 'Lidl shoppers' question, "I wouldn't use Lidl as a benchmark for our service. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Halliwell admitted he had murdered Sian, and directed Det Supt Fulcher and his team to her body near Uffington, Oxfordshire. "The panel considered independently whether or not the actions of Steve Fulcher had breached the standards of professional behaviour that apply to all police officers in England and Wales. No trace of her has ever been found. The senior investigating officer on the case was Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher (played in A Confession by Martin Freeman) and the events of 24th March would be the defining moment of his career. Jeff Pope, Executive Producer and Writer - explains PACE. In September 2013, the Independent Police Complaints Commission found that Fulcher had a case to answer for gross misconduct for breaches of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act and for ignoring force orders. Steve explains what happened next: 'He said, "You and I should have a chat". In 2014, the police found "up to 60" items of women's clothing buried in woodland, close to where a pair of Sian's boots had been found. Steve is convinced Halliwell murdered others after he revealed he had buried Becky Godden in a 5ft hole. Police are still continuing their investigation into Halliwell as they believe other victims are yet to be found. In the mid 1980s, while serving time in prison, Halliwell reportedly asked another inmate how many women it's necessary to kill before you're considered a serial murderer. The worst part, Fulcher says, is none of its surprising. We walked away and he said Do you want another one? He then told me he had killed a girl in 2003, 4 or 5, and he could take me to that body the exact spot.. Five days after her kidnap, they spotted Halliwell buying enough pills to kill himself so they swooped on his car and carried out an urgent interview. Indeed, it was only thanks to Fulchers instincts honed from 25 years of painstaking investigations and cat and mouse detective work that two young murder victims had been found. 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Only two of the items have ever been identified a cardigan worn by Becky, who disappeared in Swindon in 2003. Officers observed Halliwell depositing a perfume bottle, car seat covers and bloodied tissues in bins in assorted rural locations. Det Insp Steve Fulcher of Wiltshire Police faced a misconduct inquiry over his methods and later resigned from the force Meanwhile, Det Supt Fulcher's actions led to an inquiry by the. What happened in the interim eight years?". The force arranged for an independent misconduct panel to convene. Halliwell was convicted of Beckys murder in September 2016. He has written a memoir Catching A Serial Killer upon which A Confession is partly based. Steve Fulcher (played by Martin Freeman) violated PACE Code C by interviewing Christopher Halliwell (Joe Absolom) without the presence of a solicitor. DS Steve Fulcher, played by Martin Freeman in A Confession, resigned from the police after being found guilty of gross misconduct in the Christopher Halliwell case, Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to our newsletter. Why on earth had this killer been given every conceivable privilege, while a brave, upstanding detective was hung out to dry? Lara Keay For Mailonline, 'These dinosaurs are meant to be EXTINCT! For other inquiries, Contact Us. Then he turned to the officer in charge, DS Steve Fulcher, and said: Do you want another one? He then told them where he had buried BeckyGodden many years earlier. But his decision to break police guidelines and drive Halliwell to where he thought Sian might be found alive, instead of taking him to the police station for a formal interview, was to cost him his job. ', He considered his actions: 'Should I stop him confessing? Rebecca Godden-Edwards, aged 18, also known as Becky, whose remains were found by police investigating the murder of missing nightclubber Sian O'Callaghan. He drove a car similar to one spotted on CCTV at the time of Sians disappearance. An investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission in 2013 found the police officer had a case to answer for gross misconduct for ignoring force orders. Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, 52, from Wiltshire, was one of the most respected officers in the UK when he caught taxi driver Christopher Halliwell in 2011, who went on to confess to the murder ofSian O'Callaghan, 22. DS Steve Fulcher resigned from the police force in May 2014, He was played by Martin Freeman in the ITV series, DS Fulcher was found guilty of gross misconduct. Catching a double killer led to Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher being hailed a hero by the families and twice nominated for a Queens Police Medal. 10:35 GMT 03 Sep 2019 Here was a man who indicated he might have more victims. "You have to look at the wider picture and say, Alright, do we need to have a way of ensuring that police powers are not abused, that people arent bullied into making confessions?,'" said Gardiner. I can understand what happened to Fulcher happened to Fulcher. CCTV of Sians last-known moments led him to 47-year-old father-of-three Christopher Halliwell. As he points out, however, his focus was on one thing: finding Sian. Halliwell was charged with two life terms for the murders of both women and is likely to die in prison. October 19, 2012 - Halliwell admits Miss O'Callaghan's murder at Bristol Crown Court and is jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years. On March 19 2011, 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan disappeared from Wiltshire after last being spotted at a nightclub in the area. It is based on a true-life inquiry which led to a police officer losing his career. 'He had done what I considered to be the right thing. Freeman, 47, plays Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher in the ITV show A Confession. They are puppets blowing with the prevailing political wind. At this point, with the focus shifting from kidnap to murder, Fulcher should, according to guidelines drawn up in The Police and Criminal Evidence Act of 1984 (PACE), have cautioned Halliwell again. It turned out to be the remains of Becky. Former cop Steve Fulcher says: Are you seriously telling me that on two occasions he brutally murdered two women and then theres nothing before or since?. In January 2003Becky Godden, then aged 20, is last seen alive after getting into a taxi outside Destiny & Desire nightclub in Swindon. It need never have been so. What are the ramifications of that? There were 60. Instead resources went into investigating me for years.. A Confession viewers have been shocked by the twists and turns in the TV version of the horrific true story of serial killer Christopher Halliwell. Via CCTV footage and tracing of her mobile signal it quickly became clear this was what Fulcher terms a crime in action. He still believes he made the right decisions on that day. He argued that the original judge (Mrs Justice Cox) had been correct in her ruling, but that since Halliwell had "unequivocally" pleaded guilty to Sian's murder, the concerns over PACE were "no longer relevant.". But Halliwell was eventually found guilty of the murder of Godden-Edwards and was given another life sentence. 12:23 GMT 20 Sep 2018. It isnt and it hasnt been. Anticipating Halliwells suicide risk, Fulcher arranged an interview team to conduct a Safety Interview, under caution, at the scene of his arrest. So on a lonely windswept hill in Wiltshire he tore. Thankfully, circumstantial and forensic evidence ensured Halliwell, 52, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012 for killing Miss OCallaghan. It later transpired that Fulcher, when arresting Halliwell, acted on the instinct that Halliwell may have been responsible for the disappearance of Becky Godden-Edwards, who had been reported missing in 2007 and pressed him for details. In May 2014, Fulcher resigned from Wiltshire Police. It was horribly tense. Moreover, as forensic officers set to work, Fulcher was unprepared for what came next. I acted in good faith to save a life, and to recover a body we did not previously know about.. Fulcher decided not to take Halliwell to. , updated As a result of this procedural failure, Halliwells confession regarding both murders was ruled inadmissible in court. Fulcher, meanwhile, was being heartily congratulated by senior officers. Sian's mother Elaine Pickford says what he did was understandable to. She had been brutally beaten and stabbed. 2021 Associated Newspapers Limited. The detective and suspect met at Barbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort near Swindon, where Fulcher believed Halliwell may be keeping Sian alive. Fulcher has lost his career, he works as a security consultant in Africa. He was crying in the car, saying he was a sick f*cker, recalls Fulcher. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order, meaning he will not be eligible for parole and is unlikely to ever be released from prison. He tells Tim Lewis why he'd do it again Tim. That changed when officers reported Halliwell had visited a chemist and bought what Fulcher calls an overdose quantity of pills. Spoken from the dock at Bristol Crown Court this month, these were the words of convicted murderer Christopher Halliwell as he finished cross-examining former detective superintendent Steve Fulcher, the man who had sacrificed everything his career, health and happiness to bring him to justice. STEVE Fulcher was a detective who uncovered the crimes of a twisted double murderer before resigning from the force. Five days after her disappearance and desperate to find Sian alive, police had closed in on suspect Halliwell. But. He had killed her two minutes after she got in his cab. If Sian was still alive, she probably wouldnt survive the 96 hours we could keep him in custody if he refused to co-operate.. "But we certainly don't get into any of the specifics of those other cases that have been attached there are other murders up and down the country that are now attached to Halliwell, and we absolutely scrupulously did not get into any of that. He was given a whole-life jail tariff. The judge ruled: "I am satisfied that the evidence of the conviction of the defendant of the murder of Sian O'Callaghan is admissible to prove the defendant's propensity to commit murder. He [was] kind of crawling up the walls. A murder trial began, and in 2016, after two hours of deliberation, a jury found Christopher Halliwell guilty of the murder of Becky Godden-Edwards. But he later moved her to Uffington, where he pushed her body into the 12ft deep overgrown ravine. And then, out of the blue, the taxi driver said: "Do you want another one?". The delay in Halliwells trial with all the resulting trauma was entirely down to an obsession with procedure, rather than the pursuit of justice. The senior echelons arent police officers at all. But there is only no evidence because they havent spoken to the witness.. ", Why? When cornered by detectives, Halliwell admitted that he had killed Sian and led them to her body. There is another comfort, too. The trace on her phone was tracked to the nearby Savernake Forest by Steve's team. One of the cases to which Halliwell has been linked is that of mother-of-four Linda Razzell, 41, who disappeared from Highworth, near Swindon, on March 19, 2002. Finally, Halliwell confessed to Sian's murder and offered to take him to Sian's body, leading the police to her burial spot. March 30, 2015 - Halliwell is charged with Miss Godden's murder. If the evidence in the trophy store suggests a truth that still lies hidden, then Halliwell had a prolific propensity to murder perhaps as often as once or twice a year so lives were saved after his arrest.. If I had followed procedure, then Sian and Beckys bodies may never have been found yet it seems thats what senior authorities wouldve preferred. [Wiltshire police] chose not to pursue it. 'I am really open-minded there is an eight-year gap between Becky and Sian,' Memory said. At 9.45am he called the police to report that his girlfriend had gone missing. After Halliwell's arrest, Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher made an unusual decision with huge ramifications. January 30, 2012 - Mrs Justice Cox rules the evidence of Halliwell's confessions to the murders of both women is inadmissible. "He later decided of his own volition to resign from Wiltshire Police.". March 26, 2011 - Halliwell is charged with Miss O'Callaghan's murder. But for my course of action Becky would still be in that field, Sian would never be found and Christopher Halliwell would be walking the streets.. It also meant Halliwell was able to evade justice for Becky's murder when he was found guilty of Sian's killing in 2012. Fulcher, also a father with two daughters, says: If I didnt take this step, I feared Sian would die alone and abandoned.. He was allowed to keep his job, but later resigned. Enjoy this party classic with an updated RT twist - fun for all the family! 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