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. The CPS and senior police figures panicked, Fulcher says. Halliwells father lived a few streets from the home of chef Claudia Lawrence, who has been missing since March 19, 2009. The team found Sian's remains there. At Wiltshire he had solved several murders while simultaneously gaining a Masters Degree in Criminology from the University of Cambridge. When detective Steve Fulcher broke arrest guidelines to persuade a serial killer to admit murdering two women, his gamble was hailed as brilliant policing. Another potential victim is prostitute Sally Ann John, 24, who vanished from Swindon in 1995. At this point, Fulcher still hoped to find Sian alive. The 22-year-old office worker had been out with friends, got separated from them and left the nightclub alone. Sian O'Callaghan's boyfriend had reported her missing after she failed to return from a night out with friends in Swindon, Wiltshire, in March 2011. But the following day, there were "significant lines of inquiry" and the public were asked to stand down from the search. What are the ramifications of that? Their sentiments, however, are not shared by the police or the legal system. 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. While others insisted it was actually brilliant detective work, with the mothers of the victims praising DS Fulcher for finding their daughters. "I am satisfied also that the defendant's confession to the murder of Becky Godden and his taking the police to where he had buried her was not the consequence of oppression.". All the while, Fulcher delayed making an arrest, hoping Halliwell might lead them to Sian, whom he fervently hoped might still be alive. But when Halliwell kept answering no comment, Fulcher took another crucial decision, authorising officers to bring Halliwell to the hilltop site alone for what is known as an urgent interview something entirely permissible under the manuals code in a last ditch chance to find Sian. 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. Halliwell, 55, had already admitted murdering Sian in Swindon in 2011, but DS Fulcher's intervention saw him confess to killing Becky Godden 20 years earlier as well. He was only convicted of Becky's murder in 2016 after a new detective took over the investigation. The force arranged for an independent misconduct panel to convene. And where had they gone next? Yesterday he was sentenced to a full life sentence, a tariff reserved for those, like Moors Murderer Ian Brady, who are considered to be societys most dangerous. When Halliwells confession about the location of Beckys body was ruled inadmissible in court, other officers continued the hunt for more evidence and unearthed the trophy stash in 2014. I acted in good faith to save a life, and to recover a body we did not previously know about.. Halliwell was convicted of Beckys murder in September 2016. "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. POLICE unearthed the stash of trophies just 15 miles from where serial killer Christopher Halliwell had led them to Sian OCallaghans body. While they could go ahead with Sians murder charge, thanks to Halliwells DNA being on her body, the refusal of Fulchers senior officers to further investigate Beckys death, and thus garner more evidence, led the CPS to withdraw that charge. ', A killer locked up and the end of a police career. 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. 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. The force arranged for an independent misconduct panel to convene. 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. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. The comments below have not been moderated, By Steve says Halliwell then asked him, "Do you want another one?"'. He wanted to use what he believed were emergency powers, to be used only when there is an imminent threat to life. Instead resources went into investigating me for years.. Sian wasnt murdered until 2011. There is an obsession with procedure at the expense of the bigger picture. With compelling circumstantial evidence, Fulcher authorised covert surveillance. Halliwell had been spotted buying a large quantity of pills, so officers were sent in to arrest him. 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 He also told The Guardian in 2017 that he believed Halliwell was responsible for more murders, as more than 60 items of womens clothing were found buried in woodland near Marlborough, including OCallaghans brown boots and Godden-Edwardss cardigan. During the investigation, Detective Steve Fulcher broke police protocol and extracted not one, but two confessions from the killer. Former detective superintendent Steve Fulcher has now told his side of the story With compelling circumstantial evidence, Fulcher authorised covert surveillance. A TIMELINE: How Christopher Halliwell was brought to justice. 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.". It should have been less than a 15-minute walk home to the house she shared with her boyfriend Kevin Reape (played by Charlie Cooper). Lara Keay For Mailonline Steve said: I am certain that in some remote corner of the world there is a 5ft hole with a dead woman at the bottom of it. It has since emerged Halliwell was obsessed with Linda after doing building work at the Razzells' home four years before she died. Fulcher made the decision. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. So on a lonely windswept hill in Wiltshire he tore. 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.. 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. 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. The lives of Sian OCallaghan, 22, and Becky Godden, 20, had been callously cut short by taxi driver Halliwell, who guided Fulcher to their bodies. Naturally, trying to ensure this places huge pressure on senior officers. For other inquiries, Contact Us. She too had been strangled. Effectively unemployable by British police, he now works as a consultant on policing in Somalia, taking him away from home for long periods. Martin Freeman - plays Supt Det Steve Fulcher. That girl, we now know, was poor Becky Godden, a much loved daughter who had fallen into drug addiction, prostitution and, ultimately, Halliwells evil hands. Fulcher decided not to take Halliwell to. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Yet that wasnt all. 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. 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. Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher speaks at a press conference at Gablecross Police Station in Swindon on the murder of Sian O'Callaghan, MARTIN FREEMAN as Steve Fulcher and JOE ABSOLOM as Christopher Halliwell, Elaine Pickford, played by Sobhan Finneran, was grateful to DS Fulcher. It need never have been so. , updated The public needs to know what the police wont do if their own daughter went missing. But Fulcher had taken a different course: 'We drove for about 45 minutes trying to keep him in the moment. Detective Sergeant Steve Fulcher resigned from the police force in 2014 after he was found guilty of misconduct for not reading Halliwell his rights when he first confessed to killing. 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. Away from the press, Fulcher and his team had also identified the taxi driver 47-year-old father-of-three Christopher Halliwell (played by Joe Absolom) and were keeping him under surveillance, hoping he would lead them to Sian. By now, the search for Sian centred round the nearby Iron Age fort of Barbary Castle. A re-investigation began and evidence re-analysed. This was roughly 12 miles away. 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. 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. All rights reserved. After a nail-biting drive, Halliwell guided the police to an isolated lane running alongside the White Horse near Uffington, close to the Berkshire border, where he said Sians body was lying in the open. May 23, 2011 - Halliwell is charged with Miss Godden's murder. In March 2011, Sian OCallaghan vanished on a night out in Swindon. Monster is currently serving life for killing Sian OCallaghan, 22, and Becky Godden, 20. Four days later, Fulcher said significant lines of inquiry were being developed and he revealed that they were looking for information and witnesses of a green Toyota Avensis with taxi markings that had been seen in the area after her disappearance. The programme explores whether Steve's actions were brilliant detective work, or arrogance and recklessness which ultimately cost him his job. Having guided them to the remote spot where he had dumped her body, Halliwell had suddenly confessed: Im a sick f***er. Her boyfriend raised the alarm and soon Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher was leading the inquiry into her disappearance. The taxi belonged to Halliwell, who told his company he had gone home at 1.30am - much earlier than Sian had disappeared. Fulcher was disciplined for misconduct and later resigned, losing his 500,000 police pension and selling his house. Steve is convinced Halliwell murdered others after he revealed he had buried Becky Godden in a 5ft hole. As he sentenced him, the judge dismissed Halliwells defence as a cock and bull story and deemed him to be calculating and devious. Sian was caught on CCTV at 2.52am leaving the nightclub in Swindon, Wiltshire. Christopher Halliwell, 54, is serving two whole life terms after killing 20-year-old Becky Godden and Sian O'Callaghan, 22. The investigation into her murder was headed up by DS Fulcher who charged cab driver Chris Halliwell with the abduction of the office worker. He [was] kind of crawling up the walls. By effectively acting to ensure Halliwells life was preserved, I was potentially going to cause the death of his victim, he recalls. Why on earth had this killer been given every conceivable privilege, while a brave, upstanding detective was hung out to dry? The charge of murdering Miss Godden is formally withdrawn. 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. A suspect soon popped up in the shape of taxi driver Christopher Halliwell, whose green Toyota Avensis had been seen near the nightclub and close to Savernake Forest, where Sians mobile had last given off a signal. The killer was finally brought to justice by Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, who discovered he had murdered a second victim while investigating the disappearance of Sian O'Callaghan. Steve Fulcher, the detective who put him behind bars, . Fulcher has lost his career, he works as a security consultant in Africa. This, despite the fact he had caught Halliwell, a murderer and possible serial killer. But on that same afternoon, Halliwell was observed buying a large quantity of pills. Its a race against time. A race against a backdrop of high emotions, too. On that day, the police made an urgent appeal for witnesses who had spotted a green Toyota Avensis with taxi markings. That is always in your mind, he says. 12:23 GMT 20 Sep 2018. The next important clue came from a text message sent by Kevin at 3.24am, which was received on Sian's phone; analysis showed that her mobile phone had been in the Savernake Forest area at the time the message arrived. Freeman, 47, plays Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher in the ITV show A Confession. Ainsworth, who had just been suspended over allegations he had sexually harassed female colleagues, was found hanged at home. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. He had murdered before. What that manual makes very clear is the primary crucial objective is the preservation of life, says Fulcher. 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A Confession which starts on ITV on Monday 2 September at 9pm relives the shocking case of Sian OCallaghan who was murdered by local taxi driver Christopher Halliwell, and how Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher solved the crime, but was punished for his conduct. In 2018 he appeared on the ITV show To Catch a Serial Killer with Trevor McDonald.My view is that I have brought two daughters back to their mothers and Ive prevented other victims resulting from Halliwells continued pursuit of his career as a serial killer," Fulcher told McDonald. 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. A young woman called Becky Godden-Edwards had gone missing a number of years before, last seen in 2002 or 2003. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Fulcher, now 49, was then suspended from the Force before being disciplined for gross misconduct and ultimately hounded out of his job. 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. 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. 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 drove a car similar to one spotted on CCTV at the time of Sians disappearance. Quite rightly it gives protection to the innocent. Some killings are linked by the date March 19 a day on which Halliwell was once dumped by a girlfriend in the 1980s and also the date Sian was killed. And a high-heeled boot Sian was wearing before she was abducted on her way home from a nightclub in 2011. When OCallaghan was reported missing on 19 March 2011, DS Steve Fulcher of Wiltshire Police was brought in to lead the case. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. 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. Sians only crime was to resemble Halliwells own mother, who he hated. He was given a whole-life jail tariff. 'He showed me a list of girls' names that he kept in his phone of those that trusted him as a taxi driver. Oscar-nominated scriptwriter Jeff Pope based the drama on Det Supt Fulchers memoirs and independent research. He had killed her two minutes after she got in his cab. He was allowed to keep his job, but later resigned. 2021 Associated Newspapers Limited. ", Why? The disappearances of Tina Pryer, 39, Thi Hai Nguyen, 20, and Sandra Brewin, 21, have also been linked to the killer. May 31, 2012 - Halliwell appears at Preston Crown Court and denies murdering Miss O'Callaghan. 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. February 18, 2015 - Halliwell is arrested on suspicion of murdering Miss Godden. Just five days later her body was found in Oxfordshire. Simone Lee was held captive in her home in Limerick by her former friend Christopher Stokes, who mercilessly beat her, placed bin liner over her head, and also poured boiling water over her before setting the apartment on fire on May 11, 2021. First he dumped her body near his sick stash at Ramsbury. How Christopher Halliwell was brought to justice. 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. Despite these hopes, Fulcher was wrong. Steve Fulcher confronted by killer Christopher Halliwell in A Confession finale teaser. March 26, 2011 - Halliwell is charged with Miss O'Callaghan's murder. He later decided of his own volition to resign from Wiltshire Police.. Enjoy this party classic with an updated RT twist - fun for all the family! What is right and what is wrong? A Confession airs on Monday nights on ITV and is available on ITV Hub. ", A Confession will air on ITV in September 2019, Try 12 issues for 1 today - never miss an issue. Fulchers once distinguished career, meanwhile, lies in ruins. At 9.45am he called the police to report that his girlfriend had gone missing. 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. She had been brutally beaten and stabbed. Fulcher himself spent hours questioning Halliwell at Barbury Castle, breaking down his defences and sharing his cigarettes and forming a connection. June 9, 2015 - Halliwell appears at Bristol Crown Court and denies Miss Godden's murder. It took four more years of campaigning for it to be allowed, and last September Halliwell was convicted of killing Becky and burying her body in a field at Eastleach, Gloucs. Joe Absolom plays the killer Christopher Halliwell. Wiltshire Police have since issued a statement saying, There is no evidence whatsoever to link him to any other murder in this country. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Fulcher is more than qualified to reflect on how British policing has changed. The following month, he learned he had been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission. But then Halliwell had a second horrific confession. You dont sleep, you dont eat, its a 24/7 commitment, says Fulcher. A police telephone trace threw up a clue - he had texted her half an hour after she left the nightclub saying, 'Worried'. Linda Razzell, 41, disappeared in Swindon on March 19, 2002. On March 19 2011, 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan disappeared from Wiltshire after last being spotted at a nightclub in the area. 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. 'I can't rule out that there are other victims. Martin Freeman has defended the police detective he plays in a new drama whose career was ruined after using 'questionable' methods to catch a killer. It is based on a true-life inquiry which led to a police officer losing his career. Four months later, he resigned from the Wiltshire Police force. They are someones daughter, sister.. 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.. I met Sians parents and promised them I wouldnt rest until I found her, he recalls. In January 2003Becky Godden, then aged 20, is last seen alive after getting into a taxi outside Destiny & Desire nightclub in Swindon. Lara Keay For Mailonline, 'These dinosaurs are meant to be EXTINCT! It didnt end there. January 2003 - Becky Godden, then aged 20, is last seen alive after getting into a taxi outside Destiny & Desire nightclub in Swindon. He has written a memoir Catching A Serial Killer upon which A Confession is partly based. Rebecca Godden-Edwards, aged 18, also known as Becky, whose remains were found by police investigating the murder of missing nightclubber Sian O'Callaghan. BBC reporter Steve Brodie said of the detective's actions: 'At that stage there's absolutely no doubt under PACE [the Police and Criminal Evidence Act], Christopher Halliwell should have been charged on suspicion of murder, taken back to a police station and given access to a solicitor.'. 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.'. "He later decided of his own volition to resign from Wiltshire Police.". Det Supt Fulcher had risen through the ranks at Sussex Police before moving to Wiltshire. Buried around the pond were more items of womens clothing. So he definitely killed Sian in March 2011, he definitely killed Becky early 2003. The 2022 loss represents about 12% of the total portfolio. It has been devastating for everyone, he says quietly. I heard nothing for 10 months, he recalls. This almost derailed the court case against Halliwell and called into question one of the most important principles of the criminal justice system. They have been fulsome in their support of a man they believe acted solely in their best interest. 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. I felt my position was untenable.. The Sherlock actor said he 'couldn't believe' Fulcher's story when he heard it. March 24, 2011 - Halliwell leads Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, of Wiltshire Police, to the locations of Miss O'Callaghan and Miss Godden's bodies. Halliwell was charged with two life terms for the murders of both women and is likely to die in prison. He tells Tim Lewis why he'd do it again Tim. 11:00 GMT 03 Sep 2019. The decision almost derailed the case against the killer in court, and ultimately cost the detective his job. I wondered, did they belong to the six other victims I suspected Halliwell of killing? And if were not protecting the victim then were all sunk., The comments below have not been moderated, By For two days undercover police in 12 vehicles kept him under constant surveillance in the hope he would lead them to Sian. But he later moved her to Uffington, where he pushed her body into the 12ft deep overgrown ravine. As Steve Fulcher tells of his battle with pen-pushers and myopic box-tickers within the police service, one thing is clear: the treatment received by this senior officer is enough to drive anyone to despair at the insanity of our legal system, one in which an obsession with process has taken precedence over the rights of victims and their families. Monday 7 October 2019, 5:22pm. If Sian was still alive, she probably wouldnt survive the 96 hours we could keep him in custody if he refused to co-operate.. 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. Some claimed the manner in which Steve gained Halliwells confessions was "arrogant and reckless". Fulcher has lost his career, he works as a security consultant in Africa. Halliwell had been busy. It is possible that there were other victims before or after Becky but he has never been charged or convicted of any other murders. By then, Halliwell had been charged with Sian OCallaghans murder he had stabbed her to death before dumping her body and placed on technical bail (where bail is granted as the accused is already in custody) for the murder of the as-yet-unidentified woman. Around the pond were not six other items of womens clothing. By 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. TWISTED Christopher Halliwell could be one of Britains worst serial killers, says the detective who put him behind bars. Officers observed Halliwell depositing a perfume bottle, car seat covers and bloodied tissues in bins in assorted rural locations. The worst part, Fulcher says, is none of its surprising. 12:20 GMT 20 Sep 2018 To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. Halliwell was not charged with Becky's murder in his 2012 trial, as a judge had ruled his confession to the crime was inadmissible in court. The following January Det Supt Fulcher was found guilty of gross misconduct and given a final disciplinary warning. If Im right, well I take comfort from the fact that he hasnt been able to do that since 2011. You are talking about co-ordinating hundreds of officers. However, that's not to say he hasn't committed other offences. When DS Steve Fulcher arrested Christopher Halliwell over the disappearance of 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan, it was the start of his own downfall. It isnt and it hasnt been. On 24 March, OCallaghans body was found in a shallow grave near Uffington, Oxfordshire, and Christopher Halliwell, a 47-year-old taxi driver from Swindon was arrested, charged and later sentenced to a life sentence for the murder. 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. 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. Christopher Halliwells lawyers argued successfully that the confession should not be put before a jury. 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. There's a distinct possibility there could be further offences.'. Its a simple moral issue, he told the Guardian. ITV's The Confession, tells the story of how Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher breached protocols to catch a killer. 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