WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:14.279 Hi, and welcome back to The Unseen Podcast, a podcast 2 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:18.600 dedicated to missing people, unresolved cases, and UK true crime. 3 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:22.719 Today we're going to be delving into the case of 4 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:25.320 the murder of thirty six year old Diana Moore in 5 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:30.440 London in nineteen eighty eight. Her murder was hugely shocking 6 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:33.320 for everyone who heard and read about it at the time, 7 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.399 namely due to the weapon used in the attack, a crossbow. 8 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:42.520 The ramifications of using such a weapon reverberated around the country, 9 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:45.719 and discussions about whether these types of weapons should be 10 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:50.520 more tightly regulated or had. Unfortunately, this is a conversation 11 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:54.759 that we are still having to this day. This episode 12 00:00:54.799 --> 00:00:58.560 contains descriptions that some listeners may find distressing. Sole listener 13 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:03.920 discretion is advised. Diana Moore was born in nineteen fifty 14 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:08.280 one into a loving and professional family. Her father, Stafford, 15 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:10.840 was an eye surgeon and her mother, Sheila, was also 16 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:14.760 a doctor. Sheila had grown up in the Scottish city 17 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:18.239 of Dundee, and Sheila's father himself had been the rector 18 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:21.959 at the prestigious Harris Academy, a once private school in 19 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:26.640 the city. Diana was born in Newcastle after her parents 20 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:30.760 moved there from Scotland. She grew up in a happy 21 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:34.239 and affluent family unit which was very close and Diana 22 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:38.159 was both responsible and successful in most things that she attempted. 23 00:01:39.400 --> 00:01:43.000 She attended Cheltenham Girls College and worked hard at her studies. 24 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:46.560 She was known by many as a dedicated person who 25 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:50.359 knew where she wanted to go in life. This began 26 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:53.000 to show as she grew up and gained an excellent 27 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:58.200 job with the Industrial Society as a recruitment consultant. The 28 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:01.959 Industrial Society had been farmed in nineteen eighteen as the 29 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:06.239 Boy's Welfare Association and initially its aim was to improve 30 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:08.439 the lives of boys and men that were working in 31 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:13.759 the munitions factories making weapons for the war. This eventually 32 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:17.919 grew into the Industrial Society and not for profit organization 33 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:22.960 looking at improving everyone's working conditions and how workplaces could 34 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:28.199 be designed to improve everyone's lives. This was the aim 35 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:31.719 of the organization and Diana's role in this job shows 36 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:34.960 her mindset and desire to help and support other people. 37 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:40.159 While this role did align with Diana's values, it was 38 00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:43.479 also a good, solid job which enabled Diana to live 39 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:48.080 quite a comfortable life in London. By the year nineteen 40 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:51.240 eighty eight, Diana was thirty six years old and was 41 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:55.120 living in a flat on Woodfield Road in Ealing. She 42 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:58.360 was enjoying her job and her relationship with her boyfriend, 43 00:02:58.439 --> 00:03:04.199 Michael Stephens. Michael himself was also successful, working as a 44 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:09.120 business executive and electrics company. The couple in the process 45 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:12.000 of planning their life together and had for around six 46 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:15.680 months been negotiating the purchase of a three hundred thousand 47 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:22.120 pound home that they would live in together. On Wednesday, 48 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:25.280 the twentieth of July nineteen eighty eight, at around eleven 49 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:29.199 thirty a m fifteen year old Ali Farnan was walking 50 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:32.759 along the second floor landing of Stanley cor a block 51 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:37.280 of flats on Woodfield Road in Ealin. Ali noticed that 52 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:39.039 a woman was laying on the floor at the end 53 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:42.479 of the corridor, and he quickly realized that something was wrong. 54 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:47.520 He later told reporters, I saw her lying on her 55 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:50.240 side at the end of the corridor. At first I 56 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:53.360 thought she'd fainted or had a heart attack. Her face 57 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:56.800 was a horrible gray color. I went next door to 58 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:59.120 get my friend, and when we got back, we saw 59 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:02.599 a black arrow in her head. There was hardly any 60 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:06.120 blood at all. Just a tiny drop. There were bits 61 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:08.879 of makeup scattered all around her, and she was still 62 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:14.560 holding her lipstick. This horrendous sight and discovery were so 63 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:18.160 unusual for clearly not just Ali but the police that 64 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:22.199 soon attended the scene. The woman was found wearing a 65 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:25.079 green suit, as though dressed for work, and it was 66 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:26.879 clear that she'd been on her way out to a 67 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:30.360 professional job, as she'd been applying lipstick at the time 68 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:33.639 of the attack, and her briefcase was strewn all around 69 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:38.040 the landing of the flats. The thing that immediately struck 70 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:41.199 everyone about this scene was the large arrow that was 71 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:45.759 lodged in the woman's head. This victim had been attacked 72 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:48.720 quickly and violently with what was later found to be 73 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:54.120 a crossbow. This was an unusual and concerning murder and 74 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:59.199 quickly became a large investigation. The first step in this 75 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:02.600 investigation was figuring out who this woman was, and it 76 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:05.240 didn't take long to discover that it was thirty six 77 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:08.240 year old Diana Moore, who lived at the nearby flat 78 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:12.680 at Stanley Court. They found out what they could about 79 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:16.240 Diana and her life, and soon realized she was what 80 00:05:16.279 --> 00:05:19.639 would be described as an unlikely victim of such a crime. 81 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:23.600 She was a reliable woman who had her own means 82 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:27.240 to support herself and had no affiliations with anything illegal 83 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:31.240 as far as the police were able to tell. In fact, 84 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:33.560 Diana was so well thought of in her job that 85 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:36.639 on that morning her colleagues had quickly become worried when 86 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:41.160 she hadn't arrived at work at the usual time. The 87 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:44.959 scene itself indicated that Diana had been attacked upon leaving 88 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:48.920 her flat, the lipstick still in her hands, suggesting that 89 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:51.279 she had been either applying it or about to apply 90 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:55.720 it on her way out. This also suggested to police 91 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:58.399 that she had been no way expecting the attack, and 92 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:02.600 that she had been ambushed by her attack her. It 93 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:04.519 was evident from her body at the scene that she 94 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:06.079 had been shot in the back of the head with 95 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:10.519 a six inch crossbow bolt. A post mortem would later 96 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:13.600 establish that the bolt had severed her spinal card, and 97 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:18.839 that Diana would have died instantly following the attack. This 98 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:21.560 killing was so unusual that police were unsure from the 99 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:24.560 outset of the motive or of how it had been 100 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:30.319 carried out. Diana's family and friends soon became aware of 101 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:33.160 what had happened, and nobody could understand why such an 102 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:37.439 awful thing had happened to her. Everyone knew how kind 103 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:40.160 and thoughtful Diana was and could not think of anyone 104 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:42.879 that would want to hurt her, especially in such a manner. 105 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:47.639 Both Diana's parents and her colleagues who worked with her 106 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:51.079 expressed their upset and horror very quickly after her death. 107 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:54.800 Diana had been due to give a speech about the 108 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.800 innovative work she had been doing for the Industrial Society, 109 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:03.480 and her colleagues all attended the meet where they paid tribute. 110 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:08.399 Director of the Society, Alistair Graham stated, we're meeting under 111 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:12.560 a very great shadow. The untimely, brutal and appalling death 112 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:16.720 of our colleague is with us. He added, when we 113 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:19.279 daily read of the violence which is around us, we 114 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:24.360 never expect it to come so close. He also said 115 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:26.920 that Diana was well respected and would not have wanted 116 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:31.079 it to be a solemn occasion. It was clear from 117 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:33.879 these comments that she was very missed by her colleagues. 118 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:39.480 Diana's father spoke to the press also and the circumstances 119 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:43.839 that Diana had been murdered in. He particularly spoke about 120 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:46.040 the fact that a crossbow had been used as the 121 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:49.959 murder weapon. He stated his anger that it was so 122 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:53.079 readily available to purchase in the UK and that this 123 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:57.560 was wrong. He said that as an eye surgeon he 124 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:00.720 understood the injuries that could be sustained and how dangerous 125 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:05.279 they really were. He stated they should only be available 126 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:09.000 to clubs on a strictly controlled basis. It seems the 127 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:11.759 criminal element in our society can go along and buy 128 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:18.160 a crossbow over the counter. That is palpably wrong. The 129 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:21.040 Crossbow Act of nineteen eighty seven had come into force 130 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:23.959 the previous year, and this act made it illegal to 131 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:28.319 possess a crossbow under the age of seventeen without adult supervision, 132 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:31.439 or to no English sell one to someone under age. 133 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:35.240 It also made it an offense to possess sufficient parts 134 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:39.399 to make a function in crossbow. Police were able to 135 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:42.320 detain people and search vehicles if they believed that they 136 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:47.799 had these items, and could confiscate the parts. Anyone found 137 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:49.759 to be in violation of the law could face up 138 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:54.559 to six months in prison and a fine. The law, however, 139 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:56.919 did not apply to any crossbow that had a draw 140 00:08:57.039 --> 00:09:00.360 weight of less than one point four kilograms, which is 141 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:02.720 the number of units of force needed to draw a 142 00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:07.279 bow to its draw length. The law therefore stated that 143 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:10.519 anyone over the age of seventeen could purchase a crossbow 144 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:14.960 with no issues or extra checks. It was reported at 145 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:17.639 the time that one hundred thousand crossbows were sold every 146 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:20.600 year in the UK, and that a crossbow bolt can 147 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:23.440 travel at around one hundred and thirty five miles per hour, 148 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:29.279 making it an extremely dangerous weapon. This was Diana's parents 149 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:32.840 concern and something which they quickly expressed. After the murder, 150 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:39.559 Detective Superintendent Malcolm Hackett explained that the crossbow itself was 151 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:43.240 a kind of toy that someone could use for target practice. 152 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:47.600 It was small, around twelve to fourteen inches across and 153 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:50.639 could have been concealed inside a plastic bag, a holdall, 154 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:55.360 or even someone's coat. This weapon was described as a 155 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:59.039 mini crossbow, and the bolt itself was an aluminium shafted 156 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:04.120 steel tipped It was later confirmed on crime Watch that 157 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:07.000 it was a barn At trident make with an attachment 158 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:12.159 called a seventy five pound Magnum prod. This reportedly made 159 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:14.480 it one of the most powerful crossbows that could be 160 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:20.720 bought at the time. Detective Superintendent Hackett reported that Diana 161 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:23.080 had been shot at close range in the back of 162 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:27.480 the head, just below the right ear. He confirmed that 163 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:30.360 she had quote no chance, and that she would have 164 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:34.720 been killed instantly. The fact that the crossbow could be 165 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:36.840 hidden in a bag or underneath a coat drew the 166 00:10:36.879 --> 00:10:40.519 police's attention, as it implied to the perpetrator could well 167 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:44.639 have hidden in plain sight. This type of weapon could 168 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:47.399 have been ordered through a mail order advert in a newspaper, 169 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:50.919 and this indicated that it could have been widely available. 170 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:55.720 All of these clues suggested that anyone had the means 171 00:10:55.720 --> 00:11:07.480 to be Diana's killer, However, who had the motive. The 172 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:10.679 area around the landing where Diana's body was found was 173 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:13.799 searched thoroughly, and it was noted that while her briefcase 174 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:18.759 was still there, her handbag was not. Initially, it appeared 175 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:21.399 that the bag and its contents had been stolen during 176 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:25.080 the attack, and that this may have been the motive. However, 177 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:29.240 a few days after the murder, a discovery was made 178 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:32.639 a few hundred yards away from Diana's apartment on a footpath. 179 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:37.679 The contents of her bag were recovered. The handbag itself, however, 180 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:41.919 was not with the contents. There were things like business 181 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:45.600 cards found which identified these contents as belonging to Diana. 182 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:52.120 Detective Superintendent Hackett stated, we regard this as highly significant 183 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:56.440 because it gives us the direction of the getaway route. 184 00:11:56.639 --> 00:11:59.759 This was a notable discovery and was particularly interesting as 185 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:05.720 the ambag itself was still missing. Police spoke extensively to 186 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:10.919 Diana's family and friends, including her fiancee Michael Stephens. He 187 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:13.279 had initially kept out of the public eye during the 188 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:16.679 beginning of the investigation, but in August he spoke to 189 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:19.879 the press about how devastating Diana's murder was to him. 190 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:24.159 He explained that after the murder, he still went into 191 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:27.440 work in his job as an executive, despite the grief 192 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:31.039 that he was feeling. He stated, I've got a very 193 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:33.320 tough job to do, and I didn't want my colleagues 194 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:36.240 to think that I couldn't do it properly. A chap 195 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:42.120 has got to survive. Through the police's conversations with those 196 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:45.000 close to Diana, they were informed of some incidents that 197 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:49.200 were possibly related to her murder. In the weeks leading 198 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:52.320 up to her death, Diana had been reportedly been receiving 199 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:56.840 some nuisance phone calls. Diana didn't know who was making 200 00:12:56.879 --> 00:12:59.080 these phone calls. And on at least two of these 201 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:02.080 occasions there were just long silences on the other end. 202 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:11.759 Another strange event that occurred a few weeks before the 203 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:15.639 murder was that Diana's briefcase had been stolen from outside 204 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:20.080 of her flat. This briefcase reportedly had her name and 205 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:25.120 address inside it, as well as other details. This, coupled 206 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:28.320 with the nuisance phone calls, was interesting and suggested that 207 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:31.000 perhaps this had not been a random muggin at all, 208 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:36.000 but that Diana may have been targeted. This theory guided 209 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:41.360 the investigation from that point on. The weapon was the 210 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:44.600 confusing part. It was not a weapon that a hit 211 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:47.159 man or someone with the intention of killing someone would 212 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:52.440 usually use, as it was not accurate. Its only benefit 213 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:55.159 appeared to be that it was relatively easy to conceal 214 00:13:55.360 --> 00:14:00.279 as far as crossbows were concerned. This became a large 215 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:02.840 part of the crimewatch appeal that was produced to try 216 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:07.440 and gain some more information. The weapon was unusual and 217 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:11.799 it was hoped that someone had information about it. The 218 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:14.639 episode aired with all the information that the police had. 219 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:18.879 This included an interesting line of inquiry about a man 220 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:21.279 that had been seen with a crossbow in the area 221 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:26.039 of Diana's flat. The police had a photofit created and 222 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:30.120 this image was distributed. He was described as being between 223 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:33.679 nineteen to twenty years old, was around five feet eight 224 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:39.200 inches tall, had fair hair and cold, hard eyes. The 225 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:42.039 witness explained that the man had been openly carrying the 226 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:46.440 crossbow around the area of the flat. This was of 227 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:49.360 course of interest to the investigation and the description of 228 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:54.279 the man did drum up some tips. Shortly after the 229 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:57.360 crime watch appeal, a man phoned Healing police station and 230 00:14:57.440 --> 00:14:59.720 explained that he thought he knew the man in the photo. 231 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:04.080 FI The man rang up twice, but on both occasions 232 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:06.919 he hung up before Scotland Yard could arrange an interview 233 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:11.279 with him. They appealed for information and the man to 234 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:16.360 ring up again. They also appealed for anyone who was 235 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:19.600 in the area at the time to come forward. They 236 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:22.399 wanted to try and establish if Diana's handbag had been 237 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:24.919 taken by the killer, or if he passer by had 238 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:27.000 picked it up while it was left on the path. 239 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:32.279 It's reported during their inquiries they were targeting around five 240 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:39.720 to six suspects and were investigating them thoroughly. During the investigation, 241 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:42.639 Diana's family were coming to terms with her death, and 242 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:46.000 her funeral took place on the fifteenth of September nineteen 243 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:50.799 eighty eight. Her parents, Sheila and Stafford, asked the Industrial 244 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.000 Society if they would administer a bursary in her honor. 245 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:58.240 This bursary would be given out to people who were 246 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:03.200 disadvantaged or unemployed in the area. This, they explained, would 247 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:07.879 have been something that Diana would have wanted. It would 248 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:10.600 be another few months before any more developments occurred in 249 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:15.600 the case. In early December nineteen eighty eight, an announcement 250 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:19.519 of an arrest was made. A woman named Jane Francis 251 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:25.159 Salverson was arrested and charged with Diana's murder. This woman 252 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:28.080 was not unknown to Diana, and the connection between them 253 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:33.240 would soon become clear. The public would come to realize 254 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:37.639 that Jane Salverson was actually an ex girlfriend of Diana's boyfriend, 255 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:42.879 Michael Stevens. While this in itself was not concerning enough 256 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:45.720 to charge her with murder, the police stated that she 257 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:48.919 had been exhibiting some very strange behaviour in the months 258 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:53.799 leading up to Diana's murder. This, they explained, they heard 259 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:58.759 about from several people close to Jane Salverson. Reportedly, they 260 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:01.600 spoke to around three hundred people in relation to her 261 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:06.400 connection to the couple. According to articles at the time, 262 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:09.880 these witnesses said that Jane was very jealous of their 263 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:13.960 new relationship and had possibly been stalking and following them both. 264 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:18.000 They heard from friends of hers that Jane had possibly 265 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:20.720 followed the couple on a trip to the theater one evening. 266 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:25.480 This information, coupled with the fact that Diana had been 267 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:28.519 receiving anonymous phone calls leading up to the murder and 268 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:32.279 her briefcase had been stolen, led police to believe that 269 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:35.160 someone must have been starking her and trying to gain 270 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:40.480 information about her address or her whereabouts. This information made 271 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:45.640 Salverson a person of interest and led up to her arrest. 272 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:49.079 At the end of December, Salvason was granted bail, and 273 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:52.680 her solicitor, Mister Brian Raymond, stated to the press that 274 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:55.799 a great injustice was being done and that his client 275 00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:59.200 should not have been charged with any crime, let alone murder. 276 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:03.319 He also cited new and powerful evidence that she had 277 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:08.440 nothing to do with it. In April nineteen eighty nine, 278 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:11.359 this promise of new and powerful evidence would not be 279 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:16.400 heard as it became unnecessary. The news emerged that the 280 00:18:16.440 --> 00:18:20.000 prosecution had dropped the case against Jane Salverson, citing a 281 00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:23.359 lack of evidence to continue with the case in court. 282 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:28.119 Salverson's solicitor, Brian Raymond, spoke to the press shortly after 283 00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:30.480 the news broke that his client would not be charged 284 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:34.960 with the murder. He told the press the police only 285 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:38.440 had very thin, circumstantial evidence based on the fact that 286 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:42.319 she was the former girlfriend of Diana Mar's boyfriend Michael Stephens. 287 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:46.680 While stressing that there was no evidence against his client, 288 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:49.759 he did state that Salverson told him that she had 289 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:53.839 followed the couple, saying, in fact, on her own admission, 290 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:57.359 she did behave badly by following the couple around after 291 00:18:57.359 --> 00:19:00.640 her split with Stephens, but she was guilt of nothing 292 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:05.400 more than being unlucky with love. He wanted to make 293 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:07.559 clear that the reason the case had been dropped was 294 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:10.599 not due to a loophole, but that Salvason was completely 295 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:13.720 innocent of the murder, and that the police investigation was 296 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:17.319 flawed from the beginning and not based on reliable evidence. 297 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:22.480 He explained that the case relied solely on eyewitness testimony 298 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:25.319 from an ice cream seller who told police that they 299 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:30.039 had seen a man with a crossbow. He said the 300 00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:32.559 witness told police that he'd seen a man carrying a 301 00:19:32.599 --> 00:19:35.599 crossbow and bolts in Woodfield Road on the very day 302 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:38.559 that Jane Salverson was in a meeting with seven other people. 303 00:19:39.799 --> 00:19:42.119 Police issued a photo fit of the man, but the 304 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:44.759 witness then went on to pick miss Salverson out of 305 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:49.880 a lineup of women. It was clear that Jane Salverson 306 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:51.960 was very relieved that the case would not be going 307 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:54.759 to court, and she told the press, I am immensely 308 00:19:54.799 --> 00:19:57.960 relieved that the ordeal is over. I never doubted that 309 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:00.640 my innocence would be proved when all the fact known. 310 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:05.440 There was clearly a lack of evidence in relation to 311 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:09.720 the murder charge. While Jane Salverson admitted to following the 312 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:13.599 couple and being upset with Michael Stephens's new relationship, there 313 00:20:13.640 --> 00:20:17.079 were clearly holes in the evidence, and the eyewitness testimony 314 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:21.039 certainly does not seem the most credible. The photo array 315 00:20:21.079 --> 00:20:23.359 of just women after the witness had said he saw 316 00:20:23.400 --> 00:20:27.880 a man was a definite standout. I believe that the 317 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:30.359 prosecution's decision not to allow a jury to hear that 318 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:34.000 evidence was the most ethical thing for them to do. However, 319 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:36.519 this would not have made this decision any easier for 320 00:20:36.599 --> 00:20:41.079 Diana's family and friends. This meant that Diana's murder was 321 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:47.279 once again unsolved and the case was back at square one. 322 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:49.680 This would not, however, be the last time that Jane 323 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:52.839 Salverson was in the press, and just three months later, 324 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:56.759 headlines began to appear about her and Diana's ex boyfriend, 325 00:20:56.839 --> 00:21:02.240 Michael Stephens. A headline in the Daily Mirror read crossbow 326 00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:07.519 victim lover in new peril. The article read that Stevens 327 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:10.359 had moved to a new secret address due to harassment 328 00:21:10.440 --> 00:21:14.160 that he had been facing. His yart had been broken into, 329 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:17.119 a window of his home had been smashed, and there 330 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:19.319 had been an intruder in the garden of his new 331 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:24.599 girlfriend's home. A three page typed letter had been sent 332 00:21:24.680 --> 00:21:30.000 to a newspaper. The letter writer new details about where 333 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:34.160 Stephens was now living with a new girlfriend. A quote 334 00:21:34.200 --> 00:21:37.000 from the letter was published which read, I have to 335 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:39.880 admit to having a personal act to grind and for 336 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:45.559 that reason alone wished to remain anonymous. Brian Raymond, Jane 337 00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:49.039 Salvason's solicitor, spoke for her, saying that she had nothing 338 00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:51.839 to do with what was happening to Michael Stevens and 339 00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:55.400 that she too had been receiving anonymous and menacing messages 340 00:21:55.440 --> 00:22:01.960 from someone unknown. The connections between Jane Salvason and Michael Stephens, however, 341 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:06.680 continued into nineteen ninety. On the twenty fifth of June 342 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:10.039 nineteen ninety, the home of Michael Stephens in Fulham set 343 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:14.240 on fire in the early hours of the morning. Luckily, 344 00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:16.559 Stephens was out of the country at the time and 345 00:22:16.599 --> 00:22:20.880 the home was empty, so no one was injured. The 346 00:22:20.920 --> 00:22:24.359 fire appeared suspicious to the police, and under a week 347 00:22:24.480 --> 00:22:28.200 after the fire had occurred, police charged Salverston was causing 348 00:22:28.200 --> 00:22:33.279 criminal damage with intent to endanger life by fire. In 349 00:22:33.319 --> 00:22:36.480 September of nineteen ninety, a charge of theft would also 350 00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:40.519 be added to the other charges. This was reportedly for 351 00:22:40.599 --> 00:22:44.000 burglary of Michael stephens yacht and the theft of a diary. 352 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:47.279 She was ordered to stay away from the Isle of 353 00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:51.799 Wight where the boat was moored. Just a month later, 354 00:22:51.880 --> 00:22:55.119 in October nineteen ninety, it was announced that the Crown 355 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:59.200 Prosecution Service were dropping the arson charges against Salverson due 356 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:04.200 to insufficient evidence in the case. The theft charges, however, 357 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:08.119 were still going to be tried in court. The court 358 00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:11.960 heard that Salverson had been stalking Michael Stephens and photographing 359 00:23:12.039 --> 00:23:16.880 him and his new wife on board his yacht. Salverson 360 00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:20.000 explained that this photograph was not taken by her, but 361 00:23:20.119 --> 00:23:23.799 had been delivered to her home. She stated, as quoted 362 00:23:23.839 --> 00:23:26.559 in The Daily Mirror, I thought someone was trying to 363 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:31.039 rub salt in the wound. The prosecution explained that this 364 00:23:31.119 --> 00:23:34.640 photograph had been found in a friend's attic in amongst 365 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:40.440 other items related to her relationship with Stephen's. Reports state 366 00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:43.200 that Salverson told the court that she was framed by 367 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:46.240 a mystery man who sold her camera equipment for three 368 00:23:46.400 --> 00:23:50.960 hundred pounds. This equipment had actually been stolen from Stephen's 369 00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:54.400 yacht in August nineteen eighty nine, and that his notebook 370 00:23:54.400 --> 00:23:57.160 had ended up in her possession after their relationship had 371 00:23:57.240 --> 00:24:03.000 Endeducution stated that this story of buying the camera equipment 372 00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:08.279 was nonsense, something which she denied. The court heard the 373 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:12.799 evidence presented and the verdict was read. Jane Salverson was 374 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:17.279 acquitted of the theft charges. To this, she reportedly said 375 00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:22.039 thank you after these charges were dropped. Her solicitors said 376 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:26.079 about Salverson, she has felt victimized by the police and 377 00:24:26.119 --> 00:24:31.519 their incessant involvement in every aspect of her life. It 378 00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:34.240 was clear that despite police having some evidence that they 379 00:24:34.279 --> 00:24:37.680 believed showed that Salverson had not got over her relationship 380 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:40.759 with Michael Stephens, there was not enough to show that 381 00:24:40.839 --> 00:24:45.799 she had in fact committed any crime against him. The 382 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:49.599 three investigations against Jane Salverson were fraught with issues and 383 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:52.519 lack of evidence, and this ultimately led to none of 384 00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:58.279 them going through in coorts or into guilty verdicts. This 385 00:24:58.440 --> 00:25:01.200 is something which is necessary in the court system and 386 00:25:01.319 --> 00:25:03.920 it should be there to only try people when there 387 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:08.200 is evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. In these cases, the 388 00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:11.200 court and the prosecution could not prove this, and so 389 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:16.400 acquittal was the only route to go down. These events 390 00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:19.640 that followed Diana's murder were not directly linked to it. However, 391 00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:22.160 it did give a glimpse into the investigation which had 392 00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:26.839 been taking place. All of these lines of inquiry did 393 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:30.039 take up time and resources and did not contribute to 394 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:34.960 any charges or convictions for anyone else. It appeared that 395 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:38.079 there was a real lack of physical evidence or eyewitnesses 396 00:25:38.079 --> 00:25:41.039 who could help to direct the inquiry to other suspects. 397 00:25:43.160 --> 00:25:46.000 While Diana's case has been referred to and discussed in 398 00:25:46.039 --> 00:25:51.680 relation to other cases, since it still remains unsolved. Diana's 399 00:25:51.680 --> 00:25:54.839 case brought up many problems, the biggest one being the 400 00:25:54.839 --> 00:26:00.720 discussion around the laws surrounding crossbows. At the time, Stafford Mare, 401 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:04.240