Speaker 1: In the mid nineteen nineties, Backton was in the midst
Speaker 1: of London's Docklands transformation. The old industrial East End was
Speaker 1: being reinvented straight by street a state by state. The
Speaker 1: Docklands Light Railway had extended the Beckton in nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 1: connecting the area to Canary Wharf's claiming tors and the
Speaker 1: financial district. Beyond where the vast becked In gasworks had
Speaker 1: once dominated the landscape. New housing estates now spread across
Speaker 1: former Braunfield land. The prefabricated homes that were built after
Speaker 1: the war were now being swept away to make room
Speaker 1: for modern developments. The terraced council estates along Tollgate Road
Speaker 1: remained largely unchanged. They were located just off the roundabout
Speaker 1: where the old route leads down to the Thames and
Speaker 1: the abandoned East End Docks. It was here on a
Speaker 1: cold Sunday afternoon in October of nineteen ninety four that
Speaker 1: nine year old Daniel Hamley was fixing the chain on
Speaker 1: his bicycle. He was a helpful boy from a troubled home,
Speaker 1: the kind of child who earned pocket money carrying shopping
Speaker 1: bags for customers at the local supermarket. He set out
Speaker 1: on his bike that afternoon with his mother's permission to
Speaker 1: visit his best friend. He had no clue that were
Speaker 1: predators circling the estate hunting for a boy just like him.
Speaker 1: Daniel Charles Hanley was born to parents Maxine and David
Speaker 1: on the second of October nineteen eighty five. He was
Speaker 1: the fourth of five sons in a family that would
Speaker 1: eventually stretch across a small council flat in East London.
Speaker 1: He was a boy who moved through the world at
Speaker 1: full speed, always on his bike, always with his hands dirty,
Speaker 1: always somewhere he wasn't supposed to be, but somehow always welcome.
Speaker 1: His grandmother might have said he had restless faith. His
Speaker 1: teachers at North Beckham Primary School called him lively and energetic,
Speaker 1: which was a polite way of saying he couldn't sit still.
Speaker 1: Head teacher Stan Adderidge would later remember him that way,
Speaker 1: a boy who burned bright and fast. Daniel had a
Speaker 1: developmental delay at nine years old. He functioned more like
Speaker 1: a seven year old, but this didn't slow him down.
Speaker 1: If anything, it made him swayter, more trusting, more eager
Speaker 1: to help. His family described him as chirpy, cheeky, helpful,
Speaker 1: a boy who would do anything for a pine coin
Speaker 1: or a kind word, and his name suited him. Daniel
Speaker 1: a gift from God, though by nineteen ninety four God
Speaker 1: seemed to have been looking the other way. The Hamleys
Speaker 1: lived on Tolgate Road in Beckton, a working class neighborhood
Speaker 1: in East London where the terraced council houses lined the
Speaker 1: streets in neat identical rows. But the family fractured and
Speaker 1: Daniel Senior moved out of the family home. Maxine moved on.
Speaker 1: She was now living with a man named Alexander Joseph,
Speaker 1: and the five boys had to adjust new flat, new
Speaker 1: father figure, new rules. By October of nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 1: Daniel was navigating life the way most nine year old
Speaker 1: boys do, being everywhere all at once. The neighbors knew
Speaker 1: him well. Marie lenn And remembered everybody knew him because
Speaker 1: he was everywhere. He was always about. He was the
Speaker 1: kind of boy who seemed to live outside, racing up
Speaker 1: and down the streets on a rusty saddle the sports
Speaker 1: bike that had seemed better years. He delivered papers, He
Speaker 1: helped neighbors carry shopping. He pushed trolley's back at Asda
Speaker 1: for a pond deposit. Those who knew him described him
Speaker 1: as friendly and fearless. He always seemed to have bruises
Speaker 1: and scraped knees. Some people said he was sensitive. He
Speaker 1: and his friends were played on by the Docklands railway line,
Speaker 1: exploring the industrial landscape that defined their corner of London.
Speaker 1: He also had a habit of wandering into other people's homes.
Speaker 1: Azra Asphal, another neighbor, lived just stores down. She remembered
Speaker 1: he spent more time in other people's houses than he
Speaker 1: did in his own. He was in my house most days.
Speaker 1: He's a very nice boy, but of any anyone offered
Speaker 1: him money, he'd do anything. It wasn't meant cruelly. It
Speaker 1: was the observation of a child who was helpful to
Speaker 1: a fault, eager to place, perhaps looking for stability and
Speaker 1: attention that a chaotic home life couldn't always provide. Daniel
Speaker 1: had a life that existed mostly outside four Walls. During
Speaker 1: the wake, he attended North Beckham Primary School. After schooling
Speaker 1: on the weekends, he roamed the neighborhood. His best friend,
Speaker 1: Alan Crane lived in an estate nearby. He was always
Speaker 1: at Allen's home. His mother, Sharon fondly remembered how he
Speaker 1: would bring her chocolates and flowers. He spoke about his dreams.
Speaker 1: She recalled he wanted to be a train driver. Those
Speaker 1: who loved him worried about him sometimes, especially when he
Speaker 1: disappeared for hours at a time. Victim wasn't necessarily a
Speaker 1: dangerous place, but it was London, the kind of place
Speaker 1: where you keep your doors locked and tell your children
Speaker 1: not to talk to strangers. Daniel, though, talked to everyone.
Speaker 1: He wasn't afraid. He liked to chat, but it was
Speaker 1: this open nature that would ultimately lead him into trouble.
Speaker 1: It was the second of October nineteen ninety four, and
Speaker 1: Daniel did what he did most sundays. He went outside
Speaker 1: to play. He'd been to the local supermarket earlier, where
Speaker 1: he often helped customers load their shopping into their cars,
Speaker 1: earning a few coins for his efforts. When he returned home,
Speaker 1: he asked his mother Maxine, if he could go to
Speaker 1: his friend's house. He was talking about Alan Crane, who
Speaker 1: lived on the Windsor Estate not far from Tollgate Road.
Speaker 1: Maxine said yes, but told them to be home by
Speaker 1: six o'clock, just in time for dinner, Daniel hopped onto
Speaker 1: his bike, a silver BMX without a saddle. He was
Speaker 1: dressed in a red boiler suit with the word racing
Speaker 1: emblazoned on the left breast pocket. He then peddled off
Speaker 1: into the gray October afternoon. Daniel played for some time
Speaker 1: at Alan's house, using the curbs as ramps around the
Speaker 1: estate to practice stunts on his bike. The afternoon stretched
Speaker 1: on the light began to fade. Daniel set out late
Speaker 1: in the afternoon to head home. By six pm, the
Speaker 1: streets were emptying. Families were gathering around tables, pulling curtains.
Speaker 1: Clothed against the cold. Maxine sat at the table and waited.
Speaker 1: Six o'clock came and went. Daniel didn't come home. At first.
Speaker 1: She wasn't worried. He was always late, always distracted, Always
Speaker 1: one more game, one more ride, one more friend's house
Speaker 1: to visit. But as the minutes ticked by, the worry
Speaker 1: began to creep in. By seven, it settled in her
Speaker 1: chest like a stone. By eight nine ten o'clock, the
Speaker 1: panic had fully taken hold. Maxine went outside, calling his
Speaker 1: name down the street. There was no response. She walked
Speaker 1: to the Windsor estate knocking on doors, asking neighbors if
Speaker 1: they'd seen him, if you had seen him earlier playing
Speaker 1: on his bike, but not recently, not for ours. She
Speaker 1: checked the usual places, the railway line, the park, the
Speaker 1: empty industrial estate where the children liked to play, but
Speaker 1: Daniel wasn't there. At ten forty six pm, Maxine Hanley
Speaker 1: called the police to report that her nine year old
Speaker 1: son Daniel, had failed to come home. The operator took
Speaker 1: down the details Daniel Charles Hamley, nine years old, red
Speaker 1: boiler suit with racing on the pocket, silver BMX bike
Speaker 1: without a saddle. The police assured her they would look
Speaker 1: into it. Children went missing all the time. Most of
Speaker 1: them turned up within ours, embarrassed and unharmed. But Maxie
Speaker 1: knew her son. He wasn't the kind of boy who
Speaker 1: steed out past arc on purpose. If he wasn't home,
Speaker 1: it was because something had stopped him. The search for
Speaker 1: Daniel got under way immediately within ours of Maxine's call.
Speaker 1: The neighborhood was swarming with police officers, their torches cutting
Speaker 1: through the October darkness. Detective Superintendent Ed Williams took charge,
Speaker 1: suspecting from the outset a pedophile abduction with possible murder.
Speaker 1: It was a grim instinct, but Williams had seen enough
Speaker 1: missing children cases to know the signs. Neighbors came out
Speaker 1: in their droves to help in the search, calling Daniel's
Speaker 1: name into the night. Scotland Yard announced, obviously our concern
Speaker 1: is growing as he is a very vulnerable lad with
Speaker 1: the speech impediment. He's never gone off before. Williams's team
Speaker 1: deployed local resources for doorder during quarries and physical searches
Speaker 1: across the vicinity, including wasteland, warehouses and nearby waterways, where
Speaker 1: divers were sent to scar the River Thames docks and
Speaker 1: tidal basins. That night, two teenage boys were walking through
Speaker 1: east Ham when they spotted a BMX lying on the verge.
Speaker 1: It was distinctive silver with a missing saddle. It was
Speaker 1: Daniel's bike. Three days later two boys from the estate
Speaker 1: came forward and admitted they had seen the bike lying
Speaker 1: on the verge just around the corner from Tolgate Road.
Speaker 1: They had taken it home to Clapton wiped it down,
Speaker 1: thinking they might keep it, but when they heard about
Speaker 1: the missing boy, Gil got the better of them. They
Speaker 1: gave the bike to police. The bike had been found
Speaker 1: abandoned about two hundred yards from Daniel's home. When Detective
Speaker 1: Superintendent william saw it wiped clean, abandoned so close to home,
Speaker 1: he knew this wasn't a runaway. Someone had taken Daniel.
Speaker 1: The next morning, the search continued. It was clear that
Speaker 1: Daniel wasn't in the neighborhood or surrounding area, so the
Speaker 1: search found out further Afield. Police checked all of the
Speaker 1: places says that Daniel liked to hang out, including the
Speaker 1: old becked In gasworks. There was a Vietnam film set
Speaker 1: there from the movie Fill Metal Jacket. Daniel and other
Speaker 1: children in the area enjoyed playing there, building dens among
Speaker 1: the industrial ruins, but Daniel was nowhere to be found.
Speaker 1: The search continued over at Beckton Lake, but Daniel wasn't
Speaker 1: there either. By day three of the search, police began
Speaker 1: to seriously consider the possibility that Daniel had been taken.
Speaker 1: Detective Superintendent Williams announced, We're going to search every site necessary.
Speaker 1: We've already searched all over the open spaces in the locality.
Speaker 1: There will be other searches later today in other areas
Speaker 1: around his home. Daniel's a very friendly boy, so it
Speaker 1: seemed plausible he would speak to a stranger. He was
Speaker 1: well known to many of the local bus drivers, and
Speaker 1: several from East London Buses were helping in the search.
Speaker 1: One of the drivers, Paul Woods, remarked, we're really worried.
Speaker 1: We all know him well. We see him on his
Speaker 1: bike or getting on the bus and he always has
Speaker 1: a chat. One driver in particular is very friendly with
Speaker 1: him and it's extremely upset. Daniel's family were beside themselves
Speaker 1: with worry. His uncle, Alan Guy, pleaded for any information.
Speaker 1: He even appealed to Daniel directly telling him, please, Daniel,
Speaker 1: will you come home. You know how to contact us,
Speaker 1: you know our number. Another theory was that Daniel had
Speaker 1: simply run away from home for whatever reason. It was
Speaker 1: a more comforting theory than any of the others. Alan
Speaker 1: continued staring, if anyone is keeping Daniel, and I don't
Speaker 1: mean malevolently, I would urge them to return him. Days
Speaker 1: continued to trickle past, and the longer time went on
Speaker 1: on the bleaker, the outcome was looking A police spokesman
Speaker 1: ominously said, I'm afraid that time appears to be running
Speaker 1: out for him. The weather had taken a turn for
Speaker 1: the worst and it was becoming increasingly cold. If Daniel
Speaker 1: was hiding out somewhere, he wouldn't have been able to
Speaker 1: survive the cold nights dressed only in a boiler's suit. Then,
Speaker 1: on the fifth day of this search, the investigation took
Speaker 1: a sharp turn. Police turned their attention to Daniel's home,
Speaker 1: specifically the garden. Forensic experts arrived on the scene as
Speaker 1: police began to excavate the garden. The police stressed, however,
Speaker 1: that it was just a practical part of the investigation.
Speaker 1: Detective Superintendent william said every investigation should actually start with
Speaker 1: those who is closest to the person. At the same time,
Speaker 1: they started to search another property at Newark Knock, just
Speaker 1: around the corner. This was where Daniel had lived with
Speaker 1: his mother, father, and four siblings before the separation around
Speaker 1: six months earlier. To some it seemed the farious, but
Speaker 1: detective stress that the family were cooperating and weren't considered suspects.
Speaker 1: The searches in the deg found nothing of interest, no
Speaker 1: clues that could point detectives in the right direction. It
Speaker 1: was as though the ground had opened up and swallowed
Speaker 1: Daniel hole. But the more that Williams looked at Daniel
Speaker 1: Hanley's family, the more he began to worry. The family
Speaker 1: had been living in Squalor. Maxine had sold the furniture,
Speaker 1: the fridge, and even the children's beds. Daniel and his
Speaker 1: brother slept on piles of rags on the floor. Two
Speaker 1: of them had moved out even though they were just
Speaker 1: young teenagers. Daniel had no proper clothing, wore an elder
Speaker 1: brothers cast off shoes, and didn't even have socks on
Speaker 1: the day he disappeared. Detectives had heard stories of bizarre
Speaker 1: sexual activity of Daniel's mother, Maxine, routinely having sex in
Speaker 1: her bedroom with her boyfriend alex knowing that local children
Speaker 1: were watching through holes in the door of other adults
Speaker 1: visiting the house for group sex. Williams was particularly worried
Speaker 1: about Alexander Joseph. Here was this physically powerful young man
Speaker 1: who could clear and press one hundred and forty kilos
Speaker 1: with a notorious temper, who he discovered had previously fantasized
Speaker 1: about killing children. Williams had found evidence of two occasions
Speaker 1: where Alexander had attacked Daniel's oldest brother, Paul, who was
Speaker 1: then fourteen. Once Paul had beaten him at a computer game,
Speaker 1: and Alexander had thrown him on the floor and kicked him.
Speaker 1: On another occasion, Alexander had been having a roy with
Speaker 1: Maxine and had tried to take back his engagement ring.
Speaker 1: When she refused, he grabbed Paul by the neck and
Speaker 1: started to strangle him. Was it possible that Alexander had
Speaker 1: lost his temper with Daniel, that he'd gone too far
Speaker 1: and killed him, and that Maxine was now covering up
Speaker 1: for him. It had been awake since Daniel vanished. Detectives
Speaker 1: appealed for more information about his BMX. They wanted to
Speaker 1: know how it ended up abandoned about two hundred yards
Speaker 1: from his home. They asked witnesses to come forward if
Speaker 1: they had seen Daniel or his distinct BMX after he
Speaker 1: left his friend's home on Windsor Estate. As they waited
Speaker 1: for tips to come in, Daniel's mother spoke publicly. Maxine
Speaker 1: said that the day since he disappeared had been hell.
Speaker 1: She said, I don't know what I feel. I don't
Speaker 1: know what to think. Every day that goes by, I
Speaker 1: get more frightened, just in case something might have happened
Speaker 1: to him. I'm just hoping alive. The next week passed
Speaker 1: in a blur for the family. The search was still ongoing,
Speaker 1: but detectives hit a brick wall. Maxine said that she
Speaker 1: really struggled. She left Alexander, saying that she needed to
Speaker 1: be alone. She struggled to cope with her other children
Speaker 1: and asked friends to look after them. She said, I'm
Speaker 1: losing hope. I just want to shut myself away. My
Speaker 1: parents say I should get out, even just down to
Speaker 1: the shops, but I stay in doors all the time.
Speaker 1: I've got to be hearing casey rings. Maxine had found
Speaker 1: herself being targeted by the community. They found comfort in
Speaker 1: accusing her of being a bad mother instead of the
Speaker 1: alternative possibility Daniel had been taken and killed by a stranger.
Speaker 1: They didn't want to consider the possibility that their child
Speaker 1: could be next to Mark. Two weeks since Daniel had vanished,
Speaker 1: a reconstruction was staged showing Daniel's last known movements. The
Speaker 1: last reported siding had come from a girl. She said
Speaker 1: she saw him in Yarrow Crescent around seven p m
Speaker 1: on his bike. This was just a short distance from
Speaker 1: winter Green Close, where his b m X was found abandoned.
Speaker 1: Detectives hoped that would jog people's memories, as Detective Superintendent
Speaker 1: Williams asked, did anyone see Daniel walking away from his
Speaker 1: bike on his own? Was he with anyone or did
Speaker 1: he get into a car. By the next week, detectives
Speaker 1: admitted what everybody was thinking, Daniel was most likely never
Speaker 1: coming home, that he had been taken and killed. Detective
Speaker 1: Superintendent Williams said, the history of missing children tells me
Speaker 1: that when they have disappeared for this length of time,
Speaker 1: there's little hope of recovery. The search for Daniel continued,
Speaker 1: but it became clear detectives were now searching for a body.
Speaker 1: They shifted their focus to derelict land and empty properties
Speaker 1: in the area. They also said they were taking a
Speaker 1: close look at known sex offenders. It was the start
Speaker 1: of November when a disturbing tip finally came in. According
Speaker 1: to a local man, he saw a boy fitting Daniel's
Speaker 1: description talking to two men. The boy was sitting beside
Speaker 1: a BMX around one hundred yards from where his bike
Speaker 1: was found. He was chatting to two men in an
Speaker 1: estate car, possibly a Nissan or a Ladda. One man
Speaker 1: was around forty while the other was around twenty five
Speaker 1: to thirty five. The witness said he then saw Daniel
Speaker 1: cycling away. Detectives began to formulate a new theory. They
Speaker 1: strongly believed that these two men were child predators and
Speaker 1: had abducted Daniel after he cycled away from them. But
Speaker 1: then there was a twist. On the fourteenth of December,
Speaker 1: Williams arrested Maxine and Alexander. They were questioned closely about
Speaker 1: Daniel's disappearance. Maxine later remembered, as I went into the house,
Speaker 1: a police officer came out and said, I'm arresting you
Speaker 1: on suspicion of the murder of Daniel Hanley. I was
Speaker 1: so shocked that all I could say was, how can
Speaker 1: you arrest me for the murder of Daniel Hanley when
Speaker 1: you haven't even found the body. She was taken to
Speaker 1: Edmonton Police station in question for three days. Maxine was
Speaker 1: able to persuade them that she was telling the truth.
Speaker 1: Williams wasn't so sure about Alexander, though, However. Psychiatrists who
Speaker 1: examined him concluded that he was far too simple minded
Speaker 1: to be able to concoct and sustain a complicated lie,
Speaker 1: and so he must be telling the truth. Williams accepted
Speaker 1: that they had done nothing to Daniel, but he charged
Speaker 1: them with gross indecency with children, assault and neglect. Alexander
Speaker 1: was sent to the psychiatric wing of Pentonville Prison, having
Speaker 1: been charged with defenses committed against some other children. Daniel's
Speaker 1: mother was on remand charged with similar offenses under the
Speaker 1: Children's Act. Williams redoubled his efforts to find Daniel, a
Speaker 1: boy who had clearly been a victim all of it life.
Speaker 1: The months continued to trickle past and winter gave way
Speaker 1: to spring. A local man was walking on Woodland Golf
Speaker 1: and Country Club in the small town of Bradley's Stoke,
Speaker 1: just north of Bristol, on the twenty seventh of March
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five. It had been six months since Daniel disappeared.
Speaker 1: Stephen Jordan was with his dogs searching for rabbits. His
Speaker 1: dog wandered off into the undergrowth with his nose to
Speaker 1: the ground. He had detected a scent, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: a rabbit. Stephen followed, pushing through some long grass and
Speaker 1: brambles near the edge of the golf course. He approached
Speaker 1: where his dog was sniffing and spotted what looked at
Speaker 1: first like an old safety helmet half buried in the
Speaker 1: dirt and leaves, but when he got closer, he recoil
Speaker 1: in horror. It was a small skull. He stepped back
Speaker 1: and for a moment he just stood there. His mind
Speaker 1: was trying to process what he was looking at. He
Speaker 1: then immediately called the police. Within minutes, the area was
Speaker 1: swarming with police officers. They approached the small skull and
Speaker 1: cut back some grass. That's when they found a bright
Speaker 1: red boiler suit with the word Champion on it. The
Speaker 1: fabric was faded and dirt stained, but they recognized it immediately.
Speaker 1: The word racing was still visible on the left breast pocket.
Speaker 1: They contacted Detective Superintendent in Ed Williams. He arrived at
Speaker 1: the scene and stood looking down at the shallow grave.
Speaker 1: It was more than one hundred and twenty miles from Beckden,
Speaker 1: but Detective Williams knew right away they had finally found
Speaker 1: Daniel Hanley. His body was transported to the mortue in
Speaker 1: the local hospital. He was identified via dental records. Back
Speaker 1: at the scene, twenty six other small bones were found
Speaker 1: buried nearby. Daniel's skull had been uncovered by a scavenging fox,
Speaker 1: disturbed from its resting place by an animal looking for food.
Speaker 1: The case was no longer a missing person investigation. It
Speaker 1: was a murder inquiry, and detectives already had a theory.
Speaker 1: In April, detectives shared what they had come to believe
Speaker 1: Daniel had been killed by a pedophile sex ring. There
Speaker 1: were two suspects, the men seen in the car speaking
Speaker 1: to Daniel the day he disappeared. Detectives said they had
Speaker 1: information that suggested that Daniel was abducted by these two men,
Speaker 1: driven more than one hundred and twenty miles to Bristol,
Speaker 1: and sexually abused over a period of time before he
Speaker 1: was killed. Detective Williamson said, it is a horrific act
Speaker 1: of the pattern of activity of pedophiles that they do
Speaker 1: pass children from hand to hand. This isn't just my imagination,
Speaker 1: it is the reality of the conduct of men of
Speaker 1: this kind. It's a brutal fact of life. The witness
Speaker 1: sidings were beginning to piece together a horrifying timeline. One
Speaker 1: witness said they saw Daniel with three men in a
Speaker 1: cafe in the Bristol area on the twelfth of October,
Speaker 1: ten days after he disappeared. He seemed to be relaxed,
Speaker 1: like he was supposed to be there, like he wasn't
Speaker 1: being held against his will. Another witness had said they
Speaker 1: saw Daniel in a Bristol straight in early November, not
Speaker 1: far from where his body was eventually found. He was
Speaker 1: being walked between two men who were holding his arms
Speaker 1: above his head. The witness said he seemed distressed and
Speaker 1: said he looked like he was close to death. Williams
Speaker 1: called for a press conference and went again to Crime
Speaker 1: Watch to ask for help, particularly for sightings of Daniel
Speaker 1: in the Bristol aga. They released a composite sketch of
Speaker 1: one of the men, hoping somebody could help identify him.
Speaker 1: He was a white man, clean shaven, with a wronged face.
Speaker 1: The sketch was circulated in newspapers and on television. Someone
Speaker 1: somewhere had to know this man. Public appeals, broadcast on
Speaker 1: BBC's Crime Watch elicited one hundred and thirty eight telephone tips,
Speaker 1: many referencing sidings of a silver blue Pugio Estate car
Speaker 1: near the abduction site. Detectives began cross referencing the tips,
Speaker 1: the silver blue Pudio Estate, the two men, the sidings
Speaker 1: in Bristol. The body found near a golf course in
Speaker 1: Bradley's Stoke, and then someone recognized the face in the
Speaker 1: composite sketch. The witness was a psychiatrist identified only as
Speaker 1: mister B. He told detectives about a former patient who
Speaker 1: had once told him he fantasized about abducting, raping, and
Speaker 1: killing a little boy. That patient was thirty two year
Speaker 1: old Timothy John Morse. Morse lived in Bradley's Stoke, on
Speaker 1: the outskirts of Bristol, where he co owned and ran
Speaker 1: a mini cap firm. It was early close to where
Speaker 1: Daniel's body had been found. Williams immediately sent officers to
Speaker 1: Morse's address, but when they arrived, he was gone. His
Speaker 1: business partner said he had left the country and gone
Speaker 1: to the Philippines. Williams instincts kicked in. People didn't just
Speaker 1: flee to Southeast Asia for no reason. When Williams ran
Speaker 1: Morse's record, the picture became even more clear. Moose was
Speaker 1: convicted of raping two young boys in nineteen eighty six
Speaker 1: and had his seven year sentence cut to five on
Speaker 1: the second of November nineteen eighty six. He was a
Speaker 1: convicted pedophile. He had told friends he needed boys age
Speaker 1: between eight and twelve to satisfy his lust, and if
Speaker 1: the witness accounts were accurate, there had been two men
Speaker 1: in the car. Williams needed to find out whom Morse
Speaker 1: had been with. He needed to find the second man.
Speaker 1: It was soon discovered that Moors hadn't fled to the
Speaker 1: Philippines alone. He had gone with a man named Brett Tyler.
Speaker 1: Tyler had been arrested for indecency with young boys and
Speaker 1: sentenced to four years in prison. He frequently mixed with
Speaker 1: ramp boys in London's West End and took photographs of
Speaker 1: naked boys at a local waste ground. The two men
Speaker 1: had met at Wormwood Scrubs, where they were both put
Speaker 1: on a special wing for their own protection. Two convicted
Speaker 1: pedophiles cellmids who had formed a relationship behind bars. They
Speaker 1: bonded over their shared fantasies of little boys, and when
Speaker 1: they got out they had stayed together. Williams suspected they
Speaker 1: had done more than that. They'd planned something, a fantasy
Speaker 1: they had both talked about in prison, a fantasy that
Speaker 1: had become real on the second of October nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 1: when they spotted a boy in a red boiler suit
Speaker 1: fixing his bike chain. Now both men were in the Philippines,
Speaker 1: thousands of miles away, thinking that they were safe, but
Speaker 1: Williams wasn't going to let them disappear. He contacted Scotland
Speaker 1: Yard's International division and requested assistance from Philippine authorities find
Speaker 1: these men. He told them find them before they heard
Speaker 1: anybody else. Over in the Philippines. Somebody else was already watching.
Speaker 1: Father Shay Cullin, an Irish Columbian priest who had campaigned
Speaker 1: on behalf of street children and sex workers in the
Speaker 1: Philippines for over twenty years, had become suspicious of Tyler.
Speaker 1: He and his co workers had watched Tyler for a
Speaker 1: few days and were alarmed to find out that there
Speaker 1: were small children inside his house, which had a high wall.
Speaker 1: He was living with, a gay pedophile named Rollie Race.
Speaker 1: He had adopted a two year old boy who named
Speaker 1: Brett Tyler Junior, and a deaf mute girl who was
Speaker 1: named Jennifer from a local tribe. Something wasn't sitting right
Speaker 1: with him. Father Colin went to the house and found
Speaker 1: both children naked and in a dreadful state. They both
Speaker 1: indicated that they were being sexually abused. Father Colin contacted
Speaker 1: the National Bureau of Investigation in Manila. He also alerted
Speaker 1: Scotland Yard. The pieces came together quickly after that. They
Speaker 1: called in the National Bureau of Investigation from Manila, together
Speaker 1: with the officer from Scotland Yard who flew into the Philippines,
Speaker 1: and they made in the rest. When they searched the house,
Speaker 1: they found pictures showing them visiting with children at the
Speaker 1: river at waterfalls, taking pictures of new children. Father Colin
Speaker 1: also found a letter that was left by Tyler to
Speaker 1: Raleigh which read love Brett killed the children for me okay.
Speaker 1: Father Colin later said Tyler and Raleigh set themselves up
Speaker 1: with a ready made family who they bought then abused.
Speaker 1: They also found more victims, even more children who were
Speaker 1: still alive who could still be saved. After he was arrested,
Speaker 1: detectives learned that Morse had returned to the UK and
Speaker 1: May of nineteen ninety five to check on his business.
Speaker 1: He must have thought that enough time had passed he
Speaker 1: thought he was safe. He was wrong. Detective stormed his
Speaker 1: business and arrested him on the thirtieth of May. After
Speaker 1: Tyler was arrested in the Philippines, he attempted to take
Speaker 1: his own life, having an overdose, slashing his wrist and
Speaker 1: then constructing a noose, but he survived. He must have
Speaker 1: known what was waiting for him back in England. He
Speaker 1: knew what he'd done and he knew there was no escape.
Speaker 1: Both men were now in custody. Daniel Hanley's killers had
Speaker 1: been found and Detective Superintendent Ed Williams was going to
Speaker 1: make sure they paid for what they'd done. Morse and
Speaker 1: Tyler were charged with Daniel's murder after Tyler was extradited.
Speaker 1: As they were behind bars, Daniel's body was released from
Speaker 1: the mortuary and his funeral was held. Hundreds of locals
Speaker 1: lined the streets on the eighteenth of July to watch
Speaker 1: the horse drawn Hearse wind its way from the Dagenham
Speaker 1: home of Daniel's grandparents to the local Saint Mary Church.
Speaker 1: Firefighters stood guard. It was a touching tribute to a
Speaker 1: boy who wanted to be a firefighter. Daniel used to
Speaker 1: visit the station just to look at the fire engines.
Speaker 1: He was remembered as a little boy who was never sad.
Speaker 1: Elton John's song Daniel was played and Reverend Ron Herbert
Speaker 1: said he couldn't ask those who loved Daniel to forgive
Speaker 1: those who had killed him. After the service, Daniel was
Speaker 1: buried at Ripside Cemetery. In November, Morse and Tyler were
Speaker 1: ordered to stand trial for the murder of Daniel. On
Speaker 1: the seventh of May nineteen ninety six, they both appeared
Speaker 1: in the Old Bailey. Timothy Moorees pleaded guilty, but Brett
Speaker 1: Tyler pleaded not guilty to murder. He did, however, admit
Speaker 1: to false imprisonment and sexual assault. The prosecution then began.
Speaker 1: Prosecutor John Bevan led out their case. He said that
Speaker 1: Moos and Tyler had an abiding sexual interest in young boys.
Speaker 1: They specifically had a fantasy that involved the abduction, rape,
Speaker 1: and murder of a boy. The day that Daniel was abducted,
Speaker 1: they had decided to put their fantasy into effect. They
Speaker 1: drove from Camberwell in South London to East London in
Speaker 1: search of a victim. They came across Daniel. He was
Speaker 1: on the side of the road fixing his bicycle chain.
Speaker 1: When they pulled up beside him, They told him that
Speaker 1: they were laws and asked for directions on a map.
Speaker 1: This map was placed across the back seat of their car.
Speaker 1: When Daniel leaned inside to take a look at it,
Speaker 1: he was pushed into the car and then driven away.
Speaker 1: They drove to the Mini Cab office in Camberwell, where
Speaker 1: they took turns sexually abusing him. While the abuse was
Speaker 1: being carried out, the other took turns in recording it
Speaker 1: with the camcorder. When they were finished, Daniel was enticed
Speaker 1: back into the car. They told him they would take
Speaker 1: him home instead, they headed west to a lay by
Speaker 1: near Junction four on the M four. Daniel had fallen
Speaker 1: asleep on the car ride there, he was sexually abused again.
Speaker 1: After they pulled over. Daniel was seemingly aware of his
Speaker 1: grim fate. He asked, are you going to kill me?
Speaker 1: Tyler responded no, but that was a lie. Daniels then
Speaker 1: strucking uncle to death in the back seat with a
Speaker 1: length of rope. Daniel was killed the same day that
Speaker 1: he was abducted. All the reported sightings of him turned
Speaker 1: out to be false. He was already dead. The pair
Speaker 1: then buried his body in North Bristol, near where one
Speaker 1: of them had rental property. The prosecutor stated, if that
Speaker 1: sounds like the acts of callous in humanity and deprivation
Speaker 1: beyond belief. Unfortunately, that is what this case is about,
Speaker 1: the deliberate abduction, abuse, and murder of an innocent nine
Speaker 1: year old boy, purely for the purpose of fulfilling their lust.
Speaker 1: The prosecutor continued, telling the jury that after the murder,
Speaker 1: the men returned to the burial site two weeks later
Speaker 1: to bury him deeper. They then fled to the Philippines.
Speaker 1: The prosecutor stated, Tyler liked to live there no doubt
Speaker 1: to do with this sexual preference for men and young boys.
Speaker 1: In particular, the prosecutor had said that Daniel was targeted
Speaker 1: because he had fair hair. The man had explicitly wanted
Speaker 1: to abuse a boy with fair hair, He said, if
Speaker 1: he had not been, presumably he would still be alive today.
Speaker 1: As for evidence, two fibers from Daniel's red jumpsuit were
Speaker 1: found in Morse's car. The issue the jury would have
Speaker 1: to decide was whether Morse alone or both men bore
Speaker 1: responsibility for the killing. During the trial, it was revealed
Speaker 1: that Tyler had initially confessed. He told a detective they
Speaker 1: were driving around East London that day. He said, we
Speaker 1: were just looking at the boys, the usual hobby. We
Speaker 1: saw a boy riding a bike. He took a side straight,
Speaker 1: so we turned around and went back. He described the
Speaker 1: sexual assaults and how Daniel fell asleep as they drove
Speaker 1: to the lay by. He said, then Tim got into
Speaker 1: the car with the rope. He tied a knot in
Speaker 1: the rope and put it around Daniel's neck. He then
Speaker 1: started pulling. He couldn't do it. He gave me the
Speaker 1: other length of rope and told me to pull. I
Speaker 1: said I couldn't. He said I had to, so I
Speaker 1: started pulling. Tyler said that he kept telling Daniel he
Speaker 1: was sorry, and then he was dead. The trial had
Speaker 1: to be momentarily halted after three women and a man
Speaker 1: on the jury broke dawn upon hearing the grim confession.
Speaker 1: According to Tyler, Morse felt no remorse about what they
Speaker 1: had done, and he described how he smashed a bottle.
Speaker 1: He said, I started cutting the back of my head
Speaker 1: until it hurt so much everything else had stopped hurting.
Speaker 1: Before the trial started, however, Tyler had recanted his confession.
Speaker 1: He claimed instead that he stood outside the car and
Speaker 1: didn't realize that Morse was going to kill Daniel until
Speaker 1: he was already dead. Doctor b the psychiatrist, testified about
Speaker 1: Morse's fantasies. He said he was quite specific. He told
Speaker 1: him he fantasized about finding a fair haired boy with
Speaker 1: blue eyes who he would throw in a van, sexually assault,
Speaker 1: and then kill Another one of Morse's lovers, David Gutridge
Speaker 1: told the court how Morse had confessed to him. He
Speaker 1: said they told him that taking Daniel and killing him
Speaker 1: was complete mess. According to David, he didn't believe him
Speaker 1: when he made the confession. He testified, it was too outrageous.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe two friends of mine and the person
Speaker 1: I lived with could do such a thing. David had
Speaker 1: been charged and admitted to perverting the course of justice
Speaker 1: by helping Morse flee to the Philippines. On the second
Speaker 1: week of the trial, Brett Tyler took to the witness stand.
Speaker 1: He told the jury that he had been abandoned by
Speaker 1: his mother as a baby and sent to a doctor
Speaker 1: Bernardo's home until he was eighth While there, he said
Speaker 1: he was sexually abused by a man named John. When
Speaker 1: he was twenty years old, he was jailed for four
Speaker 1: years for indacency with young boys. However, he'd claimed that
Speaker 1: he never hurt them. It was while in jail that
Speaker 1: he had met Morse. They went to the Philippines together,
Speaker 1: where Tyler said that he had a boyfriend. He admitted
Speaker 1: that while they were there they sexually abused young boys together,
Speaker 1: but he said that Morse was aggressive with them. When
Speaker 1: they returned to Britain, they became lovers. He said that
Speaker 1: Moose started to describe his fantasies about abducting, raping, and
Speaker 1: killing a young boy, but Tyler claimed he never took
Speaker 1: them serious. He said, I never had a fantasy about
Speaker 1: killing a young boy. Killing was never part of my scene.
Speaker 1: He spoke about the abduction of Daniel and said that
Speaker 1: after they pulled into the lay by, it was Morse
Speaker 1: who suggested killing Daniel. He testified, I didn't think Morse
Speaker 1: would kill Daniel, and I went to look over a field.
Speaker 1: Then I went back to the car. Daniel's hands started
Speaker 1: to move up and Morse's leg seemed to hold him down.
Speaker 1: I asked Morse if he was dead, and he said yes.
Speaker 1: I put my hand in to feel his pulse and
Speaker 1: said I was so sorry that he was dead. I
Speaker 1: never wanted him dead. According to Tyler, the reason he
Speaker 1: first told detectives he had helped Morse kill Daniel was
Speaker 1: because they had a pact that if they got caught,
Speaker 1: they would both admit responsibility. There was some talk during
Speaker 1: the trial about the videotape the men had made. Tyler
Speaker 1: claimed that it was destroyed, but the prosecution wasn't sure.
Speaker 1: It was never recovered, and they feared it was changing
Speaker 1: hands on the pedophile market. Detectives dead, however, recovered two
Speaker 1: hundred videos of Tyler molesting little boys. In one, he
Speaker 1: haggled the little boy over the price of sex. He
Speaker 1: had asked for three pestos, which was a round two
Speaker 1: and a halfpence. Tyler thought that that was too much
Speaker 1: and insisted on paying twopence. Morse also appeared in some
Speaker 1: of the videos. After that, the trial drew to a close.
Speaker 1: The jury were sent off to deliberate. They returned less
Speaker 1: than two hours later. They found Timothy Morse guilty of murder.
Speaker 1: Judge Mister Justice Curtis then addressed them. He said that
Speaker 1: they were evil vultures, and then sentenced them both to
Speaker 1: three life sentences. He said, in my book, for crimes
Speaker 1: as bad as these, life means life. I propose to
Speaker 1: recommend you, sir, of exactly that after the verdicts were
Speaker 1: handed down, Daniel's mother left the court, apparently to upset
Speaker 1: the speak. His father, David Senior, said to reporters, I'd
Speaker 1: like the beasts who killed him put in the electric chair.
Speaker 1: I would pull the switch. Give me ten minutes with them,
Speaker 1: and I'd put them through the terror they put Daniel through.
Speaker 1: Detective Superintendent william said he hoped that the sentences and
Speaker 1: Mister Justice Curtis's recommendation that the two men never be
Speaker 1: released would give Daniel's family some satisfaction that society does
Speaker 1: its very best to try and protect its children. But
Speaker 1: Williams also said he believed that Tyler and Morse were
Speaker 1: beyond rehabilitation. He said, these particular men are lost. Shortly
Speaker 1: after the trial, it was revealed that Daniel's mother, Maxine,
Speaker 1: was planning to marry a murderer named Lee Bowdery, who
Speaker 1: beat an eighty three year old widow to death in
Speaker 1: her home. When the news hit the headlines, she remarked,
Speaker 1: so what, Lee hasn't heard any children or anything. That's
Speaker 1: why I look at it. She was making regular visits
Speaker 1: to him at Whitmore Prison. On the twenty fourth of
Speaker 1: November two thousand and two, Home Secretary David Blunkett imposed
Speaker 1: minimum terms of fifty years on both Timothy Morse and
Speaker 1: Brett Tyler. This meant that Morse and Tyler would both
Speaker 1: be over eighty years old before parole could even be considered. However,
Speaker 1: this system was declared illegal within twenty four hours by
Speaker 1: the European Court of Human Rights as well as the
Speaker 1: High Court for England and Wales following a legal challenge
Speaker 1: by convicted double murderer Anthony Anderson. The final decision on
Speaker 1: a life sentence prisoner's minimum term now rests with the
Speaker 1: High Court, following a recommendation by the trial judge. By
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, Morse mounted a parole application after serving approximately
Speaker 1: sixteen years, prompting strong opposition from Hamley's family. Daniel's brother
Speaker 1: publicly stated, all I want is for them to remain
Speaker 1: in prison and leave me and my family alone. We
Speaker 1: have suffered ever since he was taken in nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: four and we still live the nightmare every day and
Speaker 1: it's time to put a stop to all the pain
Speaker 1: and hurt. I feel like he's trying to get a
Speaker 1: shorter sentence so he can be released, but I will
Speaker 1: not let that happen. Ever, he said that the manner
Speaker 1: of Daniel's death had a huge impact on the family
Speaker 1: and many others. It made him determine never to have
Speaker 1: children of his own for fear of what could happen
Speaker 1: to them. As the details of the horrific ordeal suffered
Speaker 1: by Daniel came out in court in nineteen ninety six,
Speaker 1: there was a palpable sense of shock and outrage in
Speaker 1: the area where the little boy was so well known
Speaker 1: and so well loved. A peace lily was placed in
Speaker 1: the reception area of North Beckham Primary School, where he
Speaker 1: had been a pupil. Both Timothy Morse and Brett Tyler
Speaker 1: remain in prison to this day. They are both now
Speaker 1: in their sixties. If the fifty year minimum terms were
Speaker 1: to stand, they would not be eligible for parole until
Speaker 1: two thousand and forty five, when they would be eighty
Speaker 1: two and eighty years old, respectively. Daniel Charles Hamley would
Speaker 1: have been forty one years old in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: He might have had children of his own by now.
Speaker 1: He might have become a firefighter or a train driver
Speaker 1: like he always wanted. But on the second of October
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four two men took all of that away
Speaker 1: from him. Well, that is it for this episode of Morbidology.
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