Speaker 1: Northolt, London, England. A man arrives at the home of
Speaker 1: fifty eight year old Peter Fassoli for a pre arranged meeting.
Speaker 1: In less than six hours time, the house will be
Speaker 1: on fire, with Peter Fassoli trapped inside.
Speaker 2: The fire brigade managed to extinguish the blaze, but when
Speaker 2: they did so, they found Peter's body inside the bungalow.
Speaker 2: This isn't a suspicious death. This is a tragic accident.
Speaker 1: For almost two years, it was believed that Peter Fassoli's
Speaker 1: death was caused by the fire, until this footage recovered
Speaker 1: from his hard drive revealed that Peter had been murdered
Speaker 1: by his twenty four year old visitor, Jason Marshall.
Speaker 3: Jason Marshall is wrapping cling film around Peter's head and
Speaker 3: he's clearly terrified for his life. That's limits that it's
Speaker 3: very hard to forget.
Speaker 1: By the time investigators had discovered that Peter had been murdered,
Speaker 1: Marshall had fled to Italy, where he'd killed again.
Speaker 4: Some people sometimes use the word evil. It's not something
Speaker 4: I'm an expert to decide what is evil or not.
Speaker 4: He was most certainly one of the most dangerous men
Speaker 4: that I've seen in the Old Lady.
Speaker 1: Jason Marshall had been caught on camera and revealed as
Speaker 1: one of the world's most evil killers. On the twenty
Speaker 1: sixth of September two thy seventeen, twenty nine year old
Speaker 1: Jason Marshall was sentenced to life in prison for the
Speaker 1: murder of Peter Fassoli. The killing took place over six
Speaker 1: hallowing hours in which Marshall bound, gagged and tortured his victim,
Speaker 1: and all of it was caught on camera. By the
Speaker 1: time British authorities had been handed the footage, Jason Marshall
Speaker 1: was already serving sixteen years in an Italian psychiatric hospital
Speaker 1: for the murder of Vincenzo Ee and the attempted murder
Speaker 1: of Elberto Gismondi. Court reporter Emily Penninck was at the
Speaker 1: Old Bailey to witness the twoenty seventeen trial of the
Speaker 1: deranged killer.
Speaker 3: I think Jason Marshall tried to pick people who were
Speaker 3: living by themselves, because that in itself makes them vulnerable
Speaker 3: and really makes some easy pickings for some daylight Jason Marshall.
Speaker 1: Marshall had a history of impersonating police officers which Metropolitan
Speaker 1: Police detectives discovered during the investigation into the murder of
Speaker 1: Peter Forsoli.
Speaker 5: How would I describe Jason Marshall Someone that's fixated with authority,
Speaker 5: someone that likes to have a position of power, someone
Speaker 5: that picks his victims carefully that they're weakened on him,
Speaker 5: and if challenged by them, fights back. It's violent.
Speaker 3: Jason Marshall was an actor. He put on a persona
Speaker 3: and he pretended to be somebody else. But when you
Speaker 3: strip all that away, he showed absolutely no empathy towards
Speaker 3: any of his victims and no remorse.
Speaker 1: This killer's story begins in southeast London. Jason Marshall was
Speaker 1: born in Greenwich on the eleventh of August nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1: His childhood was far from ideal.
Speaker 6: Marshall had three siblings. He was one of four children,
Speaker 6: and his childhood was quite turbulence because age three or four,
Speaker 6: he goes into foster care when his parents go to
Speaker 6: prison for fraud.
Speaker 3: His parents were both drug addicts, addicted heroine, and he
Speaker 3: said that the most happy time he ever spent was
Speaker 3: when he was in foster care.
Speaker 2: So you have this pattern of an extraordinarily dysfunctional family
Speaker 2: that took over his life. It's as though it's a
Speaker 2: Peatrie dish for the creation of a man who is
Speaker 2: to go on to become a killer.
Speaker 1: As he grew up, life dealt another harsh blow to
Speaker 1: the troubled youngster.
Speaker 5: When Marshall was about eight, his paternal grandfather was murdered
Speaker 5: by a neighbor. He was stabbed several times, and this
Speaker 5: must have had an effect on Marshall.
Speaker 6: Marshall's grandfather was killed and Marshall later says that he
Speaker 6: was killed by the IRA. So here we've got a
Speaker 6: tendency to exam and to embellish. It's not bad enough
Speaker 6: that your grandfather has been killed. It has to be
Speaker 6: dressed up to be more dramatic. And that is an
Speaker 6: inherently narcissistic trait, feeling that need to exaggerate things to
Speaker 6: make them more than they are, to get more attention
Speaker 6: for yourself.
Speaker 1: During adolescence, the tormented teen suffered in silence.
Speaker 6: Marshall had quite a few mental health issues and they
Speaker 6: really did start to come out during his teenage years.
Speaker 6: He was really struggling and some of the behaviors that
Speaker 6: he exhibited I think marginalized him from people that could
Speaker 6: have potentially helped him, and I do think some of
Speaker 6: this behavior was a cry for help.
Speaker 2: Somewhere in those teenage years, he begins to develop delusions,
Speaker 2: very severe delusions. He sees himself as an archangel, a
Speaker 2: messenger from God, and those delusions stalk the rest of
Speaker 2: his life. But at the age of seventeen, he tries
Speaker 2: to commit suicide by jumping off a car park in
Speaker 2: Stratford and East London. He doesn't succeed in killing himself,
Speaker 2: but he's clearly dreadfully disturbed.
Speaker 1: As the troubled teenager matured into an adult, Marshall found
Speaker 1: a new form of escapism. He was arrested on a
Speaker 1: number of occasions for masquerading his figures of authority, including
Speaker 1: an MI five officer, and in August twenty and eleven,
Speaker 1: the twenty two year old was convicted on two counts
Speaker 1: of impersonating a police officer, for which he received an
Speaker 1: eight month suspended prison sentence.
Speaker 3: I think Jason Marshall naturally had a real theatrical flair.
Speaker 3: He liked dressing up, he liked playing a part, He
Speaker 3: liked act, but it seems that he enjoyed playing the
Speaker 3: role of a police officer or any authority figure because
Speaker 3: he felt that it gave him more authority and respect
Speaker 3: and he didn't like the person that he was and
Speaker 3: the way that people saw him, so he tried on
Speaker 3: this new persona which he thought would get him what
Speaker 3: he needed.
Speaker 5: There's evidence of him impersonating police, even making up his
Speaker 5: own warrant cards, going into police stations Kentish Town and
Speaker 5: Southern Police Station where he was able to hold his
Speaker 5: own as a police officer and braize through and managed
Speaker 5: to steal some equipment radios.
Speaker 1: Marshall struggled to hold down a job, but he soon
Speaker 1: found a way of making money by advertising his services
Speaker 1: via a social networking site.
Speaker 6: So he sets himself up as a male escort and
Speaker 6: he presents himself as a specialist in SMM and he
Speaker 6: goes by the name Gabriel. And I think this is
Speaker 6: testament to his grandiosity because he's thinking Archangel Gabriel here.
Speaker 6: So this is a very narcissistic individual and this is
Speaker 6: not going to end well.
Speaker 1: In December twenty twelve, Marshall befriended a fifty eight year
Speaker 1: old man who he'd met on the dating app.
Speaker 3: Peter Fazzoli.
Speaker 5: Was.
Speaker 3: It was described as a vulnerable middle aged man living
Speaker 3: by himself in Norssalt. He worked as a IT technician,
Speaker 3: but he mainly worked from home, so he didn't see
Speaker 3: a lot of people day to day.
Speaker 6: I think because he's of a certain age, he's in
Speaker 6: his late fifties, he would have grown up during a
Speaker 6: time when homosexuality was quite stigmatized, so that part of
Speaker 6: his life, those intimate relationships, it was something his family
Speaker 6: didn't know an awful lot about. He kept quite a
Speaker 6: lot of detail to himself, so that kind of secrecy
Speaker 6: is the sort of thing a predator like Marshall praise on.
Speaker 1: The pair met up just before New Year's Eve and
Speaker 1: decided to see each other again the following week.
Speaker 5: So Marshall arranged to go round to pieces address in Norfolk.
Speaker 5: But he arranged that he would bring a friend and
Speaker 5: that they could have a threesome. Obviously Peter was interested
Speaker 5: in this that actually didn't materialize.
Speaker 3: Jason Marshall arrived at Peter Fazzoli's home in Northolt on
Speaker 3: the sixth of January twenty thirteen at about seven pm.
Speaker 1: Six hours later. Peter Fasoli's bungalow was a blaze.
Speaker 2: The fire brigade managed to extinguish the blaze, but they
Speaker 2: discover Peter's body inside the bungalow and at that point
Speaker 2: they believed that Peter has died from smoke inhilation from
Speaker 2: the fire. This isn't a suspiciousness, this is a tragic act.
Speaker 1: Early indications suggested that a faulty light may have fallen
Speaker 1: from the ceiling onto Peter's bed had accidentally started the fire.
Speaker 3: There's a post mortem examination done on Peter for Soli's body,
Speaker 3: and that seems to confirm that he died during the
Speaker 3: fire because the pathologist found some evidence of smoke inhalation.
Speaker 3: And from there the police take the cue from the
Speaker 3: fire brigade and they don't take the investigation any further.
Speaker 1: The truth of what happened inside Peter for Soli's home
Speaker 1: was much more sinister. The fifty eight year old had
Speaker 1: been tortured and murdered by Jason Marshall, but the police
Speaker 1: had no idea well.
Speaker 3: He seems to have covered his tracks quite well, although
Speaker 3: maybe if the police had had cause to delve a
Speaker 3: little bit deeper at the time, they would have discovered
Speaker 3: that somebody was taking out money from Peter Fazzoli's bank
Speaker 3: account after he was already dead. So maybe if they
Speaker 3: had looked into his financial affairs, it would have become
Speaker 3: quite obvious quite quickly that something was a myth.
Speaker 1: On the eleventh of January, using money stolen from his victim,
Speaker 1: Jason Marshall headed to the airport and boarded a plane
Speaker 1: to Italy.
Speaker 2: He believes he's got away with murder. He's left a
Speaker 2: body in a bungalow Northolt, He's in Rome. No one's
Speaker 2: come after him, as far as he knows, no one
Speaker 2: suspects the thing.
Speaker 1: To cover his tracks, Marshall made sure he left a
Speaker 1: digital footprint on the social networking site where he'd met
Speaker 1: his victim.
Speaker 5: Marshall, even though he knew that Peter was dead. He's
Speaker 5: like sending emails and messages to Peter as if he
Speaker 5: were still alive, eventually ending with our I guess you
Speaker 5: don't want to speak to me anymore. That's it.
Speaker 3: Then.
Speaker 1: By late January, Marshall was back on the app and
Speaker 1: searching for potential partners in Italy.
Speaker 3: Vincenzo Yali was a sixty seven year old gay man
Speaker 3: living in Rome. He clearly met people online and That's
Speaker 3: how he came across adjacent Marshall, who almost straight away
Speaker 3: set about doing what he'd always done to get by.
Speaker 1: On the twenty sixth of January twoenty and thirteen, the
Speaker 1: two men met up for the first time.
Speaker 5: They go to Vincenzo's home, which is about fifteen kilometers
Speaker 5: away from Rome, and there the night. We don't know
Speaker 5: the detail what happened in their interaction, but what we
Speaker 5: do know is that Vincenzo didn't materialize for about seven
Speaker 5: days after that meeting with Marshall and going to the house,
Speaker 5: so his neighbors were concerned contacted the police.
Speaker 1: On the third of February, police discovered the lifeless body
Speaker 1: of sixty seven year old Vincenzo Iale.
Speaker 7: The scene that the police were faced with Vincenzo would
Speaker 7: have been deeply unpleasant. We have a man who's been stabbed.
Speaker 7: He has an electrical flex wrapped around his neck, giving
Speaker 7: a very good clue as to how he ultimately may
Speaker 7: have died. And of course this is about a week later.
Speaker 7: His body is going to have started to decompose. As
Speaker 7: well as that visual distress that the police will receive,
Speaker 7: there would be the unmistakable odor of somebody starting to decompose.
Speaker 1: Detectives immediately began the hunt for Vincenzo's killer.
Speaker 5: When Vincenzo's body was found, the police started straight away
Speaker 5: looking into his background, so went into fectromology. Understand your victim,
Speaker 5: understand part of what happened. The police started looking saw
Speaker 5: that he struck up a relationship with a brit called
Speaker 5: Jason Marshall. Found Jason Marshall's phone number, identified the whore.
Speaker 5: He was found, where he was and they surveyed him,
Speaker 5: not having enough evidence for the murder, but certainly that
Speaker 5: he was in a relationship with him or he had
Speaker 5: seen him recently.
Speaker 3: But also mister Yarli's bank cards were missing and an
Speaker 3: investigation of his financial affairs showed that mister Yarli's bank
Speaker 3: cards were still being used even after he was dead.
Speaker 3: They managed to track down an occasion where cash was
Speaker 3: withdrawn from his bank account from a hole in the
Speaker 3: wall with cash dispenser which had a camera on it
Speaker 3: which captured Jason Marshall's image on it.
Speaker 1: Italian investigators began surveillance on Jason Marshall and on the
Speaker 1: twenty first of February twenty thirteen, they followed him to
Speaker 1: the apartment of fifty five year old Alberto Gismondi, another
Speaker 1: man Marshall had met via the social networking app.
Speaker 5: They went to in Berto's home, and we know this
Speaker 5: for sure that Marshall when he took off his jacket
Speaker 5: and Berto saw that he had a firearm and he
Speaker 5: had his some former utility build. Umberto challenged Marshall about
Speaker 5: why you've got a gun, and he said, well, I
Speaker 5: work for him. I fire at the British Embassy.
Speaker 6: I think most of us realized that people who work
Speaker 6: in the intelligence services don't go around telling people that
Speaker 6: that's what they do, especially random people that they hook
Speaker 6: up with. So I think Umberto possibly challenged Marshall about
Speaker 6: this and said I don't actually believe you. And Marshall
Speaker 6: wouldn't have reacted well to this at all. He doesn't
Speaker 6: like being challenged, he doesn't like being questioned, so this
Speaker 6: would not have gone well.
Speaker 1: Just after midnight, the police surveillance was called off for
Speaker 1: the night. Little did they know, Jason Marshall was about
Speaker 1: to try and claim a third victim.
Speaker 2: He flies into a rage and proceeds to attack Umberto.
Speaker 2: He binds him and gags him with the dcive tape.
Speaker 2: He punches him repeatedly in the back and muses the
Speaker 2: pepper spray, but this time the neighbors here the screams
Speaker 2: and call the police.
Speaker 6: So this was a really really close call, and I
Speaker 6: think Umberto was very lucky to have escape with his life.
Speaker 1: Just after two am, the police returned to the address
Speaker 1: they'd left just hours pre but Marshall had fled the scene.
Speaker 1: Investigators were now certain he whilst responsible for the murder
Speaker 1: of Vincenzo Iale.
Speaker 2: The police know perfectly well who went into the building
Speaker 2: because they'd watched him go in, and thankfully Umberto is
Speaker 2: alive and he can tell them that it is indeed
Speaker 2: Jason Marshall, the man they've been tracking all this time.
Speaker 1: By tracing Marshall's phone, the police were able to intercept
Speaker 1: him just four hours after the attack on Umberto. The
Speaker 1: twenty four year old was found on a bus heading
Speaker 1: out of town.
Speaker 3: Well, the fact that Jason Marshall was court red handed
Speaker 3: meant that Italian police were onto him pretty quickly, so
Speaker 3: they managed to apprehend him and take him into custody.
Speaker 3: And whereas before, his victims couldn't speak for themselves because
Speaker 3: they were dead. This time there was a live witness
Speaker 3: who could identify him, who was able to say what
Speaker 3: had happened, and there was really nothing that Jason Marshall
Speaker 3: could do to talk his way out of it.
Speaker 1: Unbelievably, he did try to talk his way out of it.
Speaker 1: Marshall came up with another elaborate story. He told detectives
Speaker 1: he worked for the British embassy and therefore had diplomatic immunity.
Speaker 1: But the fantasy world of Jason Marshall was falling apart.
Speaker 1: He was arrested, charged, and just over a year later,
Speaker 1: in March twenty fourteen, the twenty five year old was
Speaker 1: in an Italian court room.
Speaker 3: Jason Marshall went on trial in Italy for killing mister
Speaker 3: Arli and also the attempted murder of mister Gismondi. He
Speaker 3: denied having anything to do with mister Earli's death and
Speaker 3: says someone else must have done it, and he named
Speaker 3: a suspect called Michael, who he said was responsible.
Speaker 6: I think this serves a real purpose for him. It's
Speaker 6: enabling him to describe the murder. It's enabling him to
Speaker 6: relive it and to enjoy those feelings of reliving it,
Speaker 6: but at the same time he's trying to pin it
Speaker 6: on somebody else by doing this. So this is a
Speaker 6: very dangerous game to play when you try and pin
Speaker 6: your offenses on an imaginary person.
Speaker 3: He wasn't able to do that, obviously in the case
Speaker 3: of mister Gismondi, So instead he claimed that mister Gusmondi
Speaker 3: had actually attacked him, and he was a victim and
Speaker 3: he was acting in some sort of self defense.
Speaker 1: Marshall's delusional claims were scrutinized by psychiatrists during the proceedings.
Speaker 2: It was asked at his trial was he sane enough
Speaker 2: to stand trial? The answer was yes, and I would
Speaker 2: say indeed he was. After all, he had premeditatedly chosen
Speaker 2: his victims, he'd covered his tracks, he'd stolen their bank cards,
Speaker 2: and he'd stolen their money. These are not the actions
Speaker 2: of a madman consumed by fantasies, but they are the
Speaker 2: actions of a man who is a cold hearted, cold blooded,
Speaker 2: premeditated killer, someone who is consumed by his fantasies.
Speaker 5: He put up loads of different defenses. He did say
Speaker 5: that he was working for the government. He did say
Speaker 5: he was Gabriel, the archangel for God, he did challenge
Speaker 5: a judds and you can't judge me. Only God can
Speaker 5: judge me, because I'm the angel Gabriel. And he was
Speaker 5: found guilty of murder of Vincenzo Yali and attempted murder
Speaker 5: of Umberto Giznoli.
Speaker 1: In July two, thy fourteen, Jason Marshall were sentenced to
Speaker 1: twenty two years for his crimes, but due to a
Speaker 1: psychiatric report about his mental health, his sentence was soon
Speaker 1: reduced to sixteen years. Meanwhile, in November twenty fourteen, over
Speaker 1: one thousand miles away from Rome, a startling discovery was
Speaker 1: made in Britain.
Speaker 8: The bungalow which was across the road was destroyed in
Speaker 8: the fire, but police did manage to save a few items,
Speaker 8: including a computer hard drive which was given to the
Speaker 8: victim's nephew.
Speaker 3: In what was really an incredible twist, Peter Fazzoli's nephew
Speaker 3: stumbled across a key piece of evidence which was to
Speaker 3: change the whole investigation and made police realize for the
Speaker 3: first time that now it wasn't an accident and something
Speaker 3: terrible had gone on. His nephew picked up his old
Speaker 3: computer and because he thought there might be some interesting
Speaker 3: research on there about their family history. He decided to
Speaker 3: have a look at the hard drive. Rather than finding
Speaker 3: interesting trivia about the family, he stumbled across something that
Speaker 3: was truly, truly horrifying.
Speaker 1: Unbeknown to anyone, Peter Fasoli's webcam had captured his final moments.
Speaker 1: His nephew couldn't believe what he was seeing, and.
Speaker 5: He watches Marshall coming into uncle Peter's bungalow making out
Speaker 5: from my five, got the gun, doing the radio play, acting, handcuffing,
Speaker 5: tying up, torturing, burning, stealing, and then killing his uncle.
Speaker 6: If it's not traumatic enough to lose your uncle, it's
Speaker 6: even worse when you come across this footage and you
Speaker 6: see he lost his life. So this would have been
Speaker 6: a very harrowing thing to have to witness.
Speaker 1: The shocking new evidence was immediately given to the police.
Speaker 3: So Peter Fazzoli's nephew is clearly horrified by what he's
Speaker 3: seen and deeply disturbed by it because up until this point, he,
Speaker 3: like everybody else, had thought that Peter had just died
Speaker 3: in a terrible accidental fire. So he hands over this
Speaker 3: crucial piece of evidence to the police.
Speaker 1: For the first time the truth of what happened to
Speaker 1: Peter Fasoli had come to night. Investigators sat down to
Speaker 1: watch the entire ordeal from start to finish. The footage
Speaker 1: showed that the fifty eight year old's death in January
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, which had been believed to be accidental, was
Speaker 1: anything but.
Speaker 3: It seems as if Peter Fazzoli had switched his webcam
Speaker 3: on on the computer and his computer was angled towards
Speaker 3: the living area in his front room, and it captured
Speaker 3: all the events of the night of his murder.
Speaker 1: The footage is so graphic that only a handful of
Speaker 1: people have been allowed to view the unedited, seven hour
Speaker 1: long video.
Speaker 3: The video footage of Peter Fasoli's murder was truly truly
Speaker 3: horrific to watch. I mean, one of the most disturbing
Speaker 3: things I think I've seen.
Speaker 5: Marshall turns up in Peter's bungalow. Marshall takes his jacket
Speaker 5: off and he's got a kind of lanyard around his
Speaker 5: neck with what looks like a quick look a police
Speaker 5: warrant card, pretty badly made up, but it could actually
Speaker 5: dupe someone to think it is world card, just.
Speaker 1: As he'd done in the past, Marshall was impersonating an officer.
Speaker 1: He even into a phony police radio to help in
Speaker 1: his cover up.
Speaker 5: Marshall then starts talking to Peter about his work. Peter
Speaker 5: says that he fixes computers. Marshall then accuses him of
Speaker 5: criminality in that he's working for terrorists in fixing their computers.
Speaker 5: He then says, I'm going to take you to a
Speaker 5: police station. I'm going to arrest you.
Speaker 3: To begin with, Peter Fazoli probably thought that it was
Speaker 3: all a bit of a game and a little bit
Speaker 3: of role play, but there comes a point where Marshall
Speaker 3: handcuffs him and gags him, and it's no longer a
Speaker 3: game and it becomes very serious for him.
Speaker 5: You can see Peter gets a bit distressed, as all
Speaker 5: caught on camera and audio.
Speaker 3: He's gagged, but he's trying to shout out and scream
Speaker 3: for help, and he's trying to get him to stop.
Speaker 3: In a way, it seems as if Jason Marshall at
Speaker 3: this point was enjoying Peter Forsoli's distress. It only encouraged
Speaker 3: him to carry on and become even more violent and
Speaker 3: aggressive towards him.
Speaker 6: I think he gradually becomes more and more frightened as
Speaker 6: Marshall continues to do this role play, and it would
Speaker 6: become quite clear to him that Marshall has crossed that
Speaker 6: line between fantasy and reality and he's not coming back
Speaker 6: from it. So this would have been really, really scary,
Speaker 6: And I think the point at which Marshall gets the
Speaker 6: so called truths there amount is something that makes Peter
Speaker 6: incredibly afraid.
Speaker 1: The twenty four year old injected Peter with an unidentified
Speaker 1: liquid substance. Marshall then began to reveal his true intentions.
Speaker 2: He eventually threatens again out of the blue, producing a
Speaker 2: knife and saying that he's going to cut for Sole's
Speaker 2: tongue unless he gives him the pin numbers. Not surprisingly,
Speaker 2: for Soli gives in.
Speaker 5: He takes Peter's bank cards, but Peter challenges him again,
Speaker 5: and he hits Peter, and he burnt him with a
Speaker 5: cigarette on his chest.
Speaker 2: He may not originally have gone there determined to kill him,
Speaker 2: but I think the power that he had over this
Speaker 2: man had become intoxicating. He was bound up in his
Speaker 2: own fantasy, this extraordinary fantasy of god like power, and
Speaker 2: by the end of the evening he had decided that
Speaker 2: for Soli was not going to survive.
Speaker 1: At nine point thirty pm, Marshall left the house to
Speaker 1: visit an atm with Peter's bank cards before returning to
Speaker 1: finish the job he'd started. He injected Peter with the
Speaker 1: unknown substance a further three times.
Speaker 3: And what was quite a chilling moment, he sort of
Speaker 3: leans into his police radio and says, suspect detained.
Speaker 5: And then it takes a very disturbing twist. We're Marshall
Speaker 5: and this is much later on there. It's getting close
Speaker 5: to midnight on the sixth to the seventh of January.
Speaker 5: He goes and gets some clean film and you can
Speaker 5: see him unravel the cling film and quite clearly they've
Speaker 5: gone now behind a sofa and then there's a bed beyond,
Speaker 5: so you can see the activity on the bed. But
Speaker 5: when he puts Peter on the floor, he's wrapping the
Speaker 5: cling film and you can hear the breathing that's getting
Speaker 5: faint from Peter.
Speaker 3: The point at which Jason Marshall is wrapping cling film
Speaker 3: around Peter's head and he's clearly extremely distressed, clearly terrified
Speaker 3: for his life. That's an image that it's very hard
Speaker 3: to forget.
Speaker 1: It's difficult to imagine what must have been going through
Speaker 1: the mind of Peter Fasoli.
Speaker 6: I think seeing your killer come towards you with that
Speaker 6: role of clingfilm would be absolutely terrifying, because you know
Speaker 6: exactly what's going to happen here. You know it's going
Speaker 6: to be slow, you know it's going to be incredibly unpleasant,
Speaker 6: and the worst thing is you know that there's nothing
Speaker 6: that you can do about it. So this really is
Speaker 6: the worst form of torture. It's psychological as well as physical.
Speaker 3: And Peter's sort of muffled voice saying I can't breathe,
Speaker 3: and he's clearly extremely distressed, and then he stops moving.
Speaker 5: And he checks his pulse. But then he's using the
Speaker 5: radio and putting out these obviously to no one, these
Speaker 5: messages of we need an ambulance. Now he's taking a
Speaker 5: turn for a verse and he obviously thinks that he's
Speaker 5: killed Peter.
Speaker 1: Marshall lit a cigarette and calmly smoked it before packing
Speaker 1: away his equipment. He then turned his attention to cleaning
Speaker 1: up the crime scene.
Speaker 5: Peter's laid out, tied up handcuff and Marshall goes over
Speaker 5: to the computer and he starts pulling out wires. He
Speaker 5: manages to disarm the camera, but unbeknown to him, the
Speaker 5: audio is still on, so you can hear everything going on.
Speaker 3: You can hear the sound of the lighter being clicked,
Speaker 3: and then there's a sort of wooshe as a fire
Speaker 3: being started, and you can hear Jason Marshall just calmly
Speaker 3: walking away. It's very very cold and calculated, and it's
Speaker 3: a disturbing it's a disturbing image that it's not on camera,
Speaker 3: but it's quite vivid.
Speaker 1: Jason Marshall assumed he had killed Peter Fessoli, and in
Speaker 1: an effort to hide all the evidence, he set fire
Speaker 1: to the bungalow before leaving the scene. The original pathology
Speaker 1: report from twenty thirteen ruled that Peter Fessoli had died
Speaker 1: solely due to smoke inhalation. The new video evidence of
Speaker 1: Marshall suffocating Peter with clingfilm cast doubt over that conclusion.
Speaker 7: The asphyxia imposed by Jason Marshall was what led Peter
Speaker 7: to be unconscious, and that is what prevented him from
Speaker 7: having any chance of extracting himself from that flat when
Speaker 7: the fire was set.
Speaker 5: The original forensic pathologist was asked to look again. He
Speaker 5: looked at the video, heard the audio, and concluded, because
Speaker 5: the death was now suspicious, that it was a murder.
Speaker 1: The police began the search for Jason Marshall so he
Speaker 1: could finally face justice for the murder Peter Fassoli, and
Speaker 1: a deeper delve into Peter's finances revealed a motive for
Speaker 1: the murder.
Speaker 5: The police were piecing together at the evidence, they identified
Speaker 5: Jason Marshall. They saw that he stole seven hundred and
Speaker 5: eighty pounds from Peter's accounts.
Speaker 1: Detectives finally tracked down Marshall, but the twenty six year
Speaker 1: old killer was one thousand miles away in Rome.
Speaker 5: They found that he's in Italy serving sixteen years, and
Speaker 5: a European arrest warrant was issued for the arrest of
Speaker 5: Jason Marshall for murder of Peter Fassoli.
Speaker 3: They had to negotiate with the Italian police and the
Speaker 3: Italian authorities to bring him back to Britain to face trial.
Speaker 3: It''s quite difficult because he's already serving a sentence in Italy,
Speaker 3: but in the end the Italians allow him to be
Speaker 3: extradited back to and so he can go on child
Speaker 3: at the Old Bailey.
Speaker 1: Marshall wasn't extradited until February twenty and seventeen. His trial
Speaker 1: was set for July. The prosecution, led by Edward Brown QC,
Speaker 1: was armed with the horrific yet compelling video evidence.
Speaker 4: It's within the work of a criminal barrister that you
Speaker 4: see the results of dreadful crime. It was very disturbing footage,
Speaker 4: very disturbing footage. You can imagine for all of the
Speaker 4: time there was a classical radio station playing, and this
Speaker 4: developing violence and domination of Peter. It was completely in
Speaker 4: contrast with the music that was quietly playing all of
Speaker 4: the time. It was as if there were two utterly
Speaker 4: different worlds going on. One a calm one coming out
Speaker 4: of the radio of gentle taskal music, and then developing
Speaker 4: violence and domination of this extremely vulnerable man. By now
Speaker 4: completely vulnerable.
Speaker 1: The prosecution had to prove that Jason Marshall, and not
Speaker 1: the fire, had been the main contributor to Peter Fassoli's death.
Speaker 7: If Peter had not been unconscious, then it is possible
Speaker 7: that the fire could have overcome him. But of course
Speaker 7: if he had not been unconscious, he is able to
Speaker 7: rescue himself. He is able to get to the door,
Speaker 7: he is able to get out of the property. He
Speaker 7: may still have been affected by the fire, but an
Speaker 7: unconscious person cannot save themselves, and that is key to
Speaker 7: his death.
Speaker 4: You also have to prove that the person intended to
Speaker 4: kill or intended to do really serious harm to their victim. Now,
Speaker 4: the actions of Marshall, particularly the smothering and the cling
Speaker 4: film around his face, proved beyond doubt that Marshall intended
Speaker 4: to killed.
Speaker 1: During the eight day trial, the entire seven hours of
Speaker 1: webcam evidence was played to the court room. Journalist Emily
Speaker 1: Penninck was at the old Baby.
Speaker 3: It's very frustrating when you see someone from the beginning
Speaker 3: sort of, you know, playing along with a role play
Speaker 3: and has no idea what's about to happened to him.
Speaker 3: And there's a point in the video where you can
Speaker 3: see that the penny has dropped and he's really terrified.
Speaker 3: It's an incredibly upsetting thing for anyone to have to watch,
Speaker 3: and you could see on the faces of the jurors
Speaker 3: that they were deeply upset by as well.
Speaker 6: For twelve ordinary members of the public to have to
Speaker 6: sit through this. They've never seen anything of this magnitude.
Speaker 6: It's incredibly sadistic and violence. They're watching this film and
Speaker 6: they know exactly how it's going to end. This man
Speaker 6: is going to lose his life. But this is reality.
Speaker 6: This isn't just a movie that they can switch off
Speaker 6: and detached from. But at the same time, it's really
Speaker 6: compelling evidence. It's really damning evidence. It's evidence that a
Speaker 6: jury has to see, and the evidence speaks for itself.
Speaker 1: Despite the overwhelming evidence against him, Jason Marshall told the
Speaker 1: jury that he had a mental blackout from Christmas twenty
Speaker 1: twelve until he woke up in an Italian psychiatric hospital
Speaker 1: in February twenty and thirteen.
Speaker 4: I've never had such extraordinary evidence available in trial. There
Speaker 4: was no question that it was him, and he had
Speaker 4: to accept that it was him. He just said, I
Speaker 4: don't remember.
Speaker 3: He'd claims that he had no memory of any of it.
Speaker 3: In cross examination, he was challenged on how he could
Speaker 3: be suffering from amnesia in Britain and yet in Italy
Speaker 3: he remembered everything and gave a very different version of events.
Speaker 6: I think he learned from that experience of trying to
Speaker 6: pin a murder on an imaginary third person. There's a
Speaker 6: lot of detail. You have to remember, it's very complex.
Speaker 6: So this time he keeps it simple. He says, I
Speaker 6: don't know, he says nothing, and that is a much
Speaker 6: simpler narrative to stick to. And when he's challenged about it,
Speaker 6: why it is this version different from the previous version
Speaker 6: that you've given, he said, well, in the Italian court,
Speaker 6: I wasn't under oath, and I'm under oath now and
Speaker 6: I wouldn't lie under oath. So he's making himself out
Speaker 6: to be, you know, some kind of moral character.
Speaker 3: And the prosecutor said to him, you just can't get
Speaker 3: away from it, can you. And Marshall, by this point
Speaker 3: he's almost cracking, and he said, I'm not trying to
Speaker 3: get away from it. There's a sort of pivotal point where,
Speaker 3: under cross examination his lies start to crumble away, and
Speaker 3: the jury, who'd spent hours watching the absolutely horrific webcam
Speaker 3: footage of Marshall clearly torturing Peter Fasoli over a very
Speaker 3: extended period of time, they realized that he was clearly
Speaker 3: lying to them.
Speaker 1: At this point, despite Marshall's claims of amnesia, the twenty
Speaker 1: eight year old was scrutinized by prosecutors about the night
Speaker 1: of Peter Fasoli's death.
Speaker 4: We took him through all of his actions one by
Speaker 4: one by one and pointed out that any observer would
Speaker 4: conclude that he was seeking to kill. An exercise really
Speaker 4: in point out the obvious to him and getting him
Speaker 4: to accept it. It wasn't a traumatic time for Marshall
Speaker 4: because he was so calm and determined in what he
Speaker 4: was doing. It wasn't as if he was under attack,
Speaker 4: because very very rarely, some people genuinely do not remember
Speaker 4: something that's very very traumatic. The mind puts it out
Speaker 4: of the mind. But this could never have been the
Speaker 4: case here because of his actions that we could all see.
Speaker 3: It's very hard to run a mental health defense when
Speaker 3: you've planned and executed killing so cold and calculated as that,
Speaker 3: and also the fact that he cleaned up afterwards and
Speaker 3: planned his getaway, and it was clearly, you know, if
Speaker 3: you strip it all down, aside from you know, the
Speaker 3: role play, the acting and and the fake police officers,
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, he killed Peter Fizzoli
Speaker 3: because he wanted his money.
Speaker 1: On the ninth of August twenty seventeen, the jury reached
Speaker 1: a verdict.
Speaker 7: And mister Marshall has been found guilty of the murder
Speaker 7: of Peter Fasoli and also setting flight to.
Speaker 2: His prime address in an attempt to cover up his
Speaker 2: terrible crime.
Speaker 4: He was found guilty of murder by the jury. He
Speaker 4: was sentenced after a lot of careful thought by the
Speaker 4: judge who plainly knew and decided that Marshall was exceptionally dangerous,
Speaker 4: something that was confirmed by the psychiatric reports.
Speaker 3: And he was sentenced to a mandatory life imprisonment. He
Speaker 3: was also given a minimum term that he had to
Speaker 3: spend in prison of a staggering thirty nine years, a
Speaker 3: very very, very very long sentence for any kind of
Speaker 3: partly because the judge said it was sadistic and he
Speaker 3: had tortured his victim, and also because it was a
Speaker 3: murder for game.
Speaker 1: Over four and a half years after the death of
Speaker 1: Peter Fassoli, justice had finally caught up with Jason Marshall.
Speaker 4: He was possibly the most dangerous man I have either
Speaker 4: prosecuted or defended. He had no empathy whatsoever with his victims,
Speaker 4: and a person who has no empathy for his victims
Speaker 4: who he plans, attacks and kills is truly dangerous.
Speaker 1: Marshall is not due for release until two thousand and
Speaker 1: fifty six, but he came very close to escaping justice entirely.
Speaker 5: If Peter's nephew had never been given that hard drive,
Speaker 5: if he had decided not to plug it into his
Speaker 5: own computer, had and it looked at that, Marshall would
Speaker 5: never have been found out for the murdery committed of
Speaker 5: Peter Fassoli, and the records would have shown forever that
Speaker 5: Peter Fassoli had died from an accidental death caused by
Speaker 5: a fire. He would have got.
Speaker 3: Away with it, and if he hadn't have been stopped,
Speaker 3: he would have been a serial killer. He would have
Speaker 3: carried on and he wouldn't have stopped until the police
Speaker 3: had caught him.
Speaker 1: Marshall was a fantasist with a troubled childhood, and his
Speaker 1: desperate need to be respected led him down a deadly path.
Speaker 1: He often envisioned himself as a police officer, but in
Speaker 1: the end, Marshall's entire act was caught on camera, which
Speaker 1: led real detectives to his door. By using torture and
Speaker 1: fear to control his innocent victims, Jason Marshall will undoubtedly
Speaker 1: be remembered as one of the world's most evil killers.