Killers: Caught on Camera (2023-…): Season 1, Episode 6 - Deborah and Emmanuel - full transcript
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Something bad
is happening to her.
I heard her scream, no, stop it.
-I heard some gunshots.
-Drop it, whatever it is, drop it.
It is not true that I killed my wife.
We know what happened.
The video tells us what happened.
The camera doesn't lie.
This time on
Killers Caught on Camera...
She's not breathing! Please help me!
In Boulder Colorado, a husband
desperately tries to help his wife.
-Hello?
-Please, please, please help me.
As security cameras reveal
a vindictive murder.
He was concerned based on
what he'd seen on the camera.
I downloaded the video.
I just got chills up in my spine,
I couldn't watch anymore.
And in Coventry in the UK...
rival gangs clash in broad daylight.
Walking around the street with an ax
is a red flag to most people.
...which results in the death
of a 21-year-old.
Should have seen
the way that I kweffed him,
I weren't shocked that all
of his bredrins left him da.
In the United States,
Boulder, Colorado.
You come over a hill
and it's up against the mountains
and it's just a beautiful setting.
It's a laid-back lifestyle,
but Boulder is a work-hard,
play-hard sort of community.
Run, hike, climb, bike, do everything
that you get to do when you live
in a community like this.
2018, a thriving community
and home to Deborah de Pinto
who worked in a local restaurant.
Bailey Underhill
was a friend of Deborah's.
Deborah would have
like six pots of coffee,
six plates, serving all the diners,
all by herself.
She'd be helping the others
and still have spare time
and be finding other things to do.
Deborah was a family person.
She would go home
to be with her family all the time.
She was very, very nice
and good at what she did.
Deborah was married
to Scott Jones.
Adam Kendall is part
of the community in Boulder
and works
in the District Attorney's office.
They met around 1998
at a party and began dating.
I think they were pretty off and on.
After over a decade together,
Deborah and Scott separated.
But Scott was always hopeful
of a reconciliation.
She rented a new house
and was living on her own.
But they still shared
an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old.
And knew Scott would be part
of her life as their father.
The 18th of June 2018,
a 911 call was made by Scott Jones
who was with Deborah.
Please help me! She's,
she's not breathing! Please help me!
Don Dillard is a detective
at Boulder County Sheriff's office.
His colleague, Deputy Mike Turay,
was first on the scene.
He was dispatched
to a female down, unresponsive
and on his bodycam you watch him
arrive at that location.
He goes into the office
and into a laundry room.
Hello?
He's met by a man that's kneeling
next to a woman's body
that is on her back.
There's also a little boy
in that room.
-Hello?
-Please, please, please help me.
The husband is frantic,
begging her not to die.
-Did you find her?
-I dunno.
Soon after he starts CPR,
EMT arrives.
They take over
the life-saving measures.
You have got to help my wife.
She is my whole life, dude. Please,
help her. Please, oh my God!
Sheriff's deputies arrive,
some sergeants arrive,
and they try
to piece together what occurred.
Take a deep breath, okay?
The best people that could be
working on her are working on her.
We have paramedics on her. Alright?
-Oh, my God!
-Let's see what's going on.
They took the information
that Turay got from her husband,
and that was
that the laundry room was hot
and that she had been struggling
to breathe and then collapsed.
But something about Scott's behavior
didn't sit right with detectives.
One of the things that bothered one
of the sergeants on scene was,
frankly, the way Scott was acting.
So it's very put on.
We got here...
I should be holding her hand.
But they are taking care
of her now, okay?
Scott Jones is screaming
and yelling, saying,
I don't know what happened.
I don't know how she just fell.
She is like 220 pounds, man.
I told her, man. You gotta take care.
Intimating that it was a heart attack
or stroke or medical emergency.
He's also talking about how you know
she's his life, she's his soul mate,
she's his snowflake.
Oh God!
That's my whole life in there, man.
That's my whole life. Oh, my God!
Mama! Oh, God!
They if she smoked anything
or if there's drugs involved.
-It won't get her in trouble.
-She smokes that damn pipe.
They heat up the end
and stick it in that stuff.
Many get smoked that way.
Could it be heroin?
-I don't think so. I don't know, man.
-Okay.
Grasping at straws, at anything
that's thrown out to indicate
that it's some sort
of medical emergency.
Deborah and Scott's
two children were also there.
Most parents, when a mother
or father is non-responsive,
they hover over the kids
to make sure they're okay.
That's where their focus goes.
That was not Scott's focus.
-Where's your daughter?
-I don't know.
He didn't even know
where his daughter was.
All right, let's go.
Then the medical personnel decided
to transport her to the hospital.
On arrival, Deborah was rushed
into the emergency room.
Attempts to revive her failed,
and she was declared dead.
There was no indication of foul play.
But there were still some
outstanding questions for Scott.
I asked if he would come back
to my office with us.
Back at the station,
Deborah's estranged husband
helped fill in the blanks.
The initial stage in the interaction,
it was trying to figure
out mentally the direction
I needed to go during the interview
with him.
I'd never interacted with him,
so I didn't know
if this was normal for him.
And so it was trying to establish
a baseline of what Scott was like.
I don't know, dude.
Like she went like this she started
going... Like that and stuff.
I felt that there was more there
that I didn't know about yet.
Any discussions
about your relationship?
No.
Despite being separated,
Scott reassured Detective Dillard
that he and Deborah were managing
their new lives well
and co-parenting successfully.
-He describes a nice relationship.
-I love my wife and she loves me,
and I have no idea how
that went down like that today, dude.
They were having a talk about
what they'd have for dinner
and she collapsed there.
When she fell, yeah,
she was face down, she fell.
Towards the end of the interview,
he had asked if he could leave.
Because I'm tired.
I want to get my kids home.
I have answered a lot of questions
and I've been very cooperative.
I didn't have enough based on
what he had said, to hold him.
Did something happen
in that room, that...
-No way, man. No way.
-I mean, I know accidents happen.
If you're arguing did something
happen that went too far?
-Did she have a heart attack and die?
-I don't know, man.
At this point,
there's no clear sign of foul play.
Scott left the room
to comfort his children.
But within minutes
a recording emerged
which transformed the investigation.
Deputy Turay then gets a call
from the manager of the trailer park,
who said he was concerned based
on what he'd seen on the camera.
I put up a Google Drive.
I downloaded the video.
It's an hour long if you need more.
I just got chills up in my spine,
I couldn't watch anymore.
The manager of the trailer park
sent the police the footage.
The other detectives on this case
watched and listened to it.
They decided to get a computer
and bring the video to Scott.
I was told, see if he'll walk
back into the interview room.
So, this is the video
that we're talking about.
And I just asked him
to watch and listen.
It wasn't the only camera
at the scene.
One recording showed their daughter
getting into the car outside
while Scott and Deborah headed to
the trailer park's laundry room.
She was about to drop her kids off
at the airport
to let them go on a vacation
with her parents.
So she was doing laundry
to make sure that they could
get out with clean clothes.
At ten to seven
the camera captured Deborah
walking into the building
followed by Scott.
They were then picked up
by a hidden camera inside.
The staff of the park had things
stolen from within this utility room.
That little camera actually is what
caught Deborah and Scott coming in.
It's actually just a small camera
inside this chocolate bag.
And he fixed it
so that it wouldn't move.
We're able to hear and see them on
video walking through here arguing.
I thought you had common sense.
I thought you knew
someone would be in there.
I didn't know that. Why do you have
to talk to me like that?
Just beyond this is the laundry room.
That laundry room has a washer
and dryer in a small bathroom.
Audio could still be heard
from the tiny hidden camera.
What are you doing here?
I'm getting my... Get out of here.
It's just common sense.
It's right at this point
where both Debbie and Scott walk in
that we had to start
cleaning up the sound
because it was just too dirty
to hear exactly
what was going on with all
of the background noise.
David Weller is a forensic audio
and video analyst
who works with law enforcement
on criminal investigations.
The problem is the camera
and the microphone
are far away from the incident.
So I have noise from motors,
from dryers.
Not only the objects inside
the dryers that are making noise,
but the dryer motors themselves.
And just those type of noises
that are obscuring the speech.
So my job now is to try
to get rid of some of those noises,
bring the speech out
so we can understand
and help the investigator
find out what happened.
By clearing it up we were able
to discern what Debbie
and Scott were saying.
It was an audio breakthrough
captured by the mini
camera's tiny microphone.
After applying some filters
to attenuate the background noise,
bring up the speech,
and what you couldn't hear.
Now you can.
We're fighting for an hour
over nothing. I'm done.
We are never going to be together.
She's mad. She's upset.
He makes comments about, how
she's acting. Why do you hate me?
You're so cruel. Is that
all you've got? Cruel and mean.
The dialogue back and forth
is toxic between the two of them.
-You're in my way.
-Here.
-Trying to get a towel.
-Trying to love you.
Whatever. Get away from me!
Get away from me?
You hear this argument go on
for three or four minutes
and it gets more heated, as Scott
is referring to Debbie as evil.
She says I'm done, we're over.
It's done.
I don't want to do this with you.
I can't do this anymore.
-Scott, don't touch me.
-Stop.
-You can't force me to love you.
-I'm not forcing you.
Get out of the way of the door.
I'm trapped with you.
Get away from me!
She says "You can't make me
love you." And he screams out.
You make me feel terrible.
Get away from the door.
And that's when you hear
Debbie scream in fear.
You hear a physical altercation.
And that's right at about 7:00 p.m.
This physical altercation goes on
for about 90 seconds.
You're done.
Scott says, "You're done"
as she screams help, please help me.
Someone help me!
She's crying out in desperation.
Help me! Help me! Help! Help!
Please, let go of me, please!
The sounds are sometimes clear
and sometimes muffled.
It sounds as if something's being put
over her mouth
as she's screaming for help.
And no one answers those calls.
Over that 90 seconds
then the screaming stops,
that thumping we hear continues,
but it slows down
and then finally that stops.
At any point could have released her
and let her out,
could have stopped, even if she was
unconscious and called 911.
The audio fell silent
then picked up another sound.
You'll hear a motor starting
in the background,
which is the dryer
that's sitting right next to that.
As the motor starts,
you hear him breathing hard
and it sounds like he's pacing.
That doesn't prove anything.
But it shows us that something
happened in that room.
Scott's reaction when the video
was brought in was interesting
because he didn't have any idea
that this camera was in that room.
He spends 47 minutes
in the laundry room
with his wife at his feet.
-What's going on in all that time?
-I don't know, man.
But... Scott, you do know.
For nearly an hour
after Deborah fell silent,
the audio picked up what sounded
like Scott pacing the room.
This entire time
you're still there with her.
What are you doing?
Are you looking at her?
Are you trying to figure out
what to do next? Help me.
I don't know, man.
He has to put together a story.
He has to put together a plan.
He then walks out
of the laundry room area,
you see him pass by the camera
and out of the tool room.
Oh, my God!
He is pumping himself up.
He's talking to himself,
saying, oh, God, oh, God.
And another camera actually
catches him go out to the camper.
He then gets his son
from the camper.
And you see he and his son go back
into that tool room area.
And you can, again,
hear their voices.
She's gone, man.
Oh my God! Oh my God!
I don't know
what's wrong with your mum.
I don't know what happened.
Just come. Just come.
Just come. Just come.
He was acting that way
because he knew what he had done.
He needed to get others
to believe in his story.
That's why he brought his son
into the area
where he had just killed his wife.
-Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
-Mama.
He needed to sell his lie.
He needed others to believe it.
Please, Mama wake up,
Mama, please. Oh, God!
Not only did he take Deborah's son,
Michael, into the laundry room
where she was lying dead.
He also persuaded him to call 911.
But his son doesn't know the address.
And so he hands the phone back over
to Scott
and Scott starts screaming,
please help us, please help us.
Mama, oh God! Please, God, help us!
Mama's gone, please.
The son's statement is that
mum is purple.
He says she's cold to the touch.
She has a bruise
on the bridge of her nose.
I think he brought his son in
to help forward his lie.
She just collapsed.
This wasn't something he did.
The exterior camera picked up
the first on scene, a police car.
-Bodycams were rolling.
-Hello?
So this is Deputy Turay
and he goes straight back.
Please, please, please help me.
The entire time the 13-year-old
sitting in mum's car.
She receives a text message from
her brother asking where she's at.
But because it's on dad's cell phone,
she's afraid.
And the text messages she gets are,
where are you? And mum's dead.
She had no idea
if the text was real,
but it scared her regardless.
In her interview, she says,
I didn't know if it was safe.
She told one of our officers
she was afraid she'd be next.
Confronted by the evidence
captured on camera,
Scott's loving attitude towards
his estranged wife changed.
Where do we go from here, man?
I need a lawyer, don't I?
His physical demeanor changes.
And the whole conversation
and tone of the conversation changed.
-At which point the door opened.
-Do me a favor, stand up.
And he was told that he was going
to be placed under arrest
for the murder of his wife.
And as he's being handcuffed
behind his back,
he looks at me and he says,
there's no hurry.
Do you want to keep talking to me?
If you do I'll read you your rights.
What, where do we go from here?
Let's talk our options and discuss
our options then.
We removed the handcuffs and he sat
on the other side of the table
and we started talking
about everything that happened.
I didn't think anything through,
I didn't think about anything,
I just reacted
I don't know what happened.
I just, I just... Like a...
I just reacted.
I don't know. I don't know, man.
It's nuts.
To call this a situation
where he snapped
is to give him way too much credit.
This was a gradual build-up
of terrible behavior
and of someone
who isn't dealing effectively
with their own frustrations
and is projecting it onto the other
and engages in destructive behavior.
We should not to victim-blame her
because she said the wrong thing.
I mean, that is not something
we should ever be doing
in these situations.
No matter what anyone says,
it never leads to murder.
What happened?
I don't know. You think
I'm not kicking out of myself?
-You don't think I feel bad?
-No, I know you are.
This time the dialogue was different.
He was angry, he was hurt.
Presented with the audio evidence,
Scott went from expressing the love
he felt for his wife
to accusing her of mistreating him.
No, it wasn't good enough.
I'm taking the kids.
You ain't taking my kids.
She was threatening me
and with me, man.
Just couldn't stop being a monster.
She couldn't stop being cruel, man.
You don't know what she's done to me
and the cruelty she's done, man.
People who are accused
of crimes,
when there's evidence against them,
when they're backed into a corner,
often start to change their story
in accordance with the evidence.
In this case,
we're seeing a clear shift
in what he's saying about his wife.
And whilst seeing
a change in body language.
You're seeing a different person.
And we're also seeing
an external locus of control
as he says
this is outside of my control.
It was her fault.
It was all the situation.
And that is typical when people
are grasping for rationalizations,
they're grasping for excuses
to sell to somebody else,
but also to themselves,
because he is trying to figure out
why he did this.
I believe it makes a man temporarily
insane for a minute,
man, when you think about it,
you know that?
You don't know the troubles.
You don't know the pain.
You don't know what I've endured,
what she put me through.
You don't know what she did
to my son. You don't know.
Scott was arrested for the murder
of his wife, Deborah de Pinto.
The autopsy revealed
that she was strangled to death.
Deborah wanted to separate.
She was seeing other people.
That was part of their separation,
not living together.
He really had this mindset that
if he couldn't have her no one could.
If at any time he truly cared
about her surviving
and not intending on killing her,
he would have released her
and she'd have been able to get out
or he'd have been able to call 911
to have someone revive her.
As Adam Kendall prepared
his case against Scott,
the true nature of
their relationship came to light.
We're able to get in touch
with some friends of hers,
they described a long relationship
of control, of Scott making threats.
Some individuals reported
not seeing physical abuse,
but hearing about it from Debbie.
And it's very clear that Scott
was incredibly mentally controlling
and verbally abusive to Debbie.
Verbal aggression is often
a precursor to physical aggression,
but in the sense
that if you can't use your words
and you stop being able
to make yourself heard
or to get what you want by speaking,
you then initiate the physical piece
and you get violent potentially.
Scott's abusive behavior was clear
in the messages between the two,
recovered from Deborah's phone.
These text messages
are unrelenting and over the top.
It's accusing her of cheating on him.
She was seeing someone,
but she told him, we are done.
We are separated.
So it wasn't cheating.
But in his mind it was.
He's talking about
how he'd keep the kids from her
if she doesn't come back to him.
There's one series of text
where he just goes at her
about being a horrible person
and a horrible wife
and mother, and that he thought
she was different.
On the 20th December 2019,
Scott Jones was convicted
for the murder of his wife,
Deborah de Pinto.
Scott ended up sentenced for
second-degree murder in Colorado.
Our judge sentenced Scott
to 48 years in prison.
His sentence included a year
for child abuse,
for taking his son
to see his mother's body.
She's gone, man.
Following the trial,
Their children were placed
in the custody
of Boulder's Health
and Human Services Department.
An anti-theft camera hidden
in a bag of chocolates
accidentally caught the killer.
It would have been difficult
for us to prove what happened
without that audio.
Debbie's friends describe her
as a wonderful person.
We see that also in the way
she handled Scott.
They describe a hard-working woman,
who loved her kids,
who supported this family.
Her friends that came out in force
and I'm talking not two or three,
but 10 to 20 people that knew her
all the way from two years ago
working at a restaurant
to 25 years ago
when they first moved here,
as young folks
described her as loving, caring,
hardworking and wonderful
and supportive.
To meet someone
that has that many friends
ranging from so many different areas
of their lives was unique.
Increasingly CCTV footage
is being used as evidence
to solve murder cases.
In the UK
almost all of Scotland Yard's
homicide investigations
used CCTV as evidence.
On average, each person in London
is caught on camera
hundreds of times a day,
including gang members.
Many organized crime groups
emanate from big urban areas.
The area may get saturated
with gangs,
all competing for a small market.
So, for example,
around drugs or criminal property,
it's all about generating the money.
And that is where the issues start.
The gangs then butt up
against each other
and competing for that territory,
for that market.
And that is generally where
we see an escalation of violence.
Video evidence is crucial
for working out
exactly what's happened when
gang members attack others.
The use of CCTV plays such
a pivotal role in these cases
as it allows post an incident,
the investigation team
to build up a timeline
to identify key individuals,
key vehicles, key locations.
You've got to go to court
with a case and prove it to a jury
beyond reasonable doubt.
And there's nothing more impactive
than moving pictures.
Coventry, West Midlands.
This sprawling city
has a population of nearly 350,000.
The Coventry area is a part
of the wider West Midlands area,
a very built-up urban area,
very diverse communities.
There is a lot
of social-economical problems,
bit of deprivation within the area.
So they are generally
some of the conditions
that cause organized crime
to flourish.
People are looking
for income sources, for example.
Very little opportunity
for legitimate job.
Therefore, perfect breeding ground
for organized crime,
drug dealing, drug distribution,
what we would call acquisitive crime,
burglary, robbery, etc.
21-year-old Emmanuel Lukenga
lived in Tile Hill,
two miles from Coventry city center.
Emmanuel, known as Manny through
his friends, was a keen boxer,
aspired to be a paramedic,
had a child with another on the way.
His parents had fled the war in Congo
and settled in the UK
to, you know, for a better life.
Unfortunately, the Tile Hill area
was itself a center of conflict.
People like Emmanuel who
live in certain geographical areas
have more challenges than others.
Anti-social behavior.
Low-level petty crime.
Emmanuel became associated
with a gang in the Tile Hill area.
The kind of person who joins a gang
is someone who is socially isolated.
So they don't have many friends
often,
or at least not friends
who can act as mentors
or who can be sort
of positive people in their lives.
A lot of it has to do with
the social aspect of joining a gang.
On the 12th of June 2019,
Emmanuel strayed from the safety
of his local area Tile Hill,
into a rival gang's territory
around three miles away in Canley.
Steve Jones is
a former Police Officer
who now teaches
Advanced Policing Studies.
The fact that Manny was seen
on the rival gang's geographical area
of control is a massive red flag,
a massive provocation to them.
So the build-up having Manny
being seen in that area,
they can either ignore it,
which probably, to that gang would
be seen as a sign of weakness.
So they basically then need
to send a message to their rivals,
stay away, stay out of our area.
Police obtained CCTV footage
of a Canley gang member
who knew Emmanuel was nearby.
Emi Polito
is a Forensic Video Analyst.
Police would value
this particular footage
because it actually shows
a very good view
of this person's face and clothing
and his helmet and his footwear.
Shortly after, a motorcycle
was spotted in the Canley area.
We can see that this person
is carrying something,
presumably a petrol can
or an object of this nature.
What's even more important
is that this person on the back
of the motorcycle is wearing
a motorcycle helmet
with quite an extended visor,
which is similar to the helmet
that we've seen in the clip before.
Very short time after Manny's car is
subject to arson and set on fire.
Kirsty Bennett is a lecturer
in Criminology,
specializing in Policing.
For Manny with his car on fire,
he was aware he was being targeted.
It might have been a warning to him
that violence was on the cards.
But the arson attack also presented
another problem.
They also stop Manny from being
able to quickly leave the area.
One of the big problems
with gang relationships,
when they go sour,
is that there's what seems
like a never-ending retaliation.
You hurt a member of a group,
they hurt one of yours
and you one of them,
and then three of yours,
and you get three of them.
It can be difficult to get out
of that retaliation.
And so the turf wars can escalate
over seemingly minor things
into really extreme situations
and extreme versions of retaliation.
With their car burnt out, Emmanuel
and his fellow gang members
tried to escape the area on foot.
But the rival gang
was tracking them down.
We're seeing two suspects
on a motorcycle,
person on the back is still featuring
light tone footwear
and this kind of distinctive helmet
with extended visor.
And we see a blue van forcefully
and rapidly mounting the curb,
and two persons
hiding their identity,
one carrying a weapon, which is very
consistent with being an ax.
The rival Canley gang chased
members of the Tile Hill gang
into a convenience store
where they were caught on camera.
And this footage is great
as it just ever so happens that
the camera is close to the subject.
You can see clear motifs
on the helmet now.
The position of the hands
is quite interesting
and there is a light-tone item.
Potentially that could be a weapon.
But it's this peculiar way
in which the hands are being held
behind the back,
which is of interest.
CCTV outside captured
the rival gang members
after they left the shop.
The extra lens gave a better view
of their weapons.
The body language here
suggests confidence
and clear intent here
to cause some serious hurt or damage.
Generally, you don't carry
those kinds of weapons
unless you are intent on using them,
because that carries a risk
of them being detected by the police.
CCTV cameras captured Emmanuel
and other members of the Tile Hill
gang trying to flee the scene.
This clip is incredibly important
because it's the first time
that we see the people being chased.
Even though we can't see his face
but again can see the clothing
he's wearing and the fact
that they're clearly running away.
Back in their blue van,
the rival Canley gang
was catching up with them.
There's a bit of cat-and-mouse chase.
The van is driving erratically.
The rival gang members are
seen driving close to Emmanuel.
We see the motorcycle with the person
with the distinctive helmet.
You can tell by body language
that there is rivalry going on there.
Something bad is gonna happen
between this party and that party.
We have them in the same shot.
Emmanuel tried to escape
down an alleyway,
but the armed rival gang members
were in pursuit.
We can discern an object
of considerable size,
which may be the weapon we've seen
before. Person with a helmet.
We can link this footage
to previous sighting of the suspect.
That isn't normal behavior.
Walking around the street with an ax
is a red flag to most.
So they risk members of the public
calling the police,
and in this case,
then filming the incident
because it is out of the norm.
Carrying a weapon is often
as a way of protecting themselves.
So if they did have a dispute
with a rival,
they have something
to protect themselves.
But then, it massively increases
that risk of fatal violence.
It can feel potentially
to members within a gang
that they don't have the choice
to not engage in violence.
If the group is saying
we need to retaliate,
and attack this person,
you might feel like, I have to join.
That's what we're doing.
Within some gangs, there's also
the potential for upward mobility.
So basically promotions
within the gang,
if you do certain tasks
and certain tasks can usually
or often involve criminal activity,
anything from selling drugs
to engaging in violence,
including retaliation
against rival gangs.
That can be one way to climb
the gang ladder.
Seconds after the video showing
the gang brandishing weapons,
a witness heard the rival gang
shouting potential threats.
So the witness evidence
of one of the neighbors,
he heard a suspect shouting,
someone's going to get poked.
The use of that phrase,
obviously, it's street slang,
but is known
they were going to use a knife,
that somebody was going
to get stabbed.
Their adrenaline would be
absolutely coursing at this point,
as they're about to confront Manny.
Emmanuel Lukenga was stabbed
trying to escape over a fence.
We are looking at another angle
of the same scene.
We now see a suspect with helmet
and distinctive combination
of clothing are going,
so, presumably,
the crime has been committed,
they're no longer chasing the victim.
But they are fleeing the scene.
He died at the scene.
We don't have the fortune of having
the murder on camera. We rarely do.
And therefore, a CCTV sighting just
before and after could be crucial.
It appears to be
a hand-held mobile phone.
A witness,
having an understanding
of what's happening and making sure
they are recorded as evidence.
Now, this clearly shows the weapon.
A knife, potentially,
or an object of considerable size.
Now the police know
that they had a weapon
and they will be looking for it
to seize it as evidence.
An extensive search
through CCTV footage
after the crime was committed
showed one of the suspects
filming themselves.
Police would then assume that
there is a recording on the Internet.
The CCTV led the police to uncover
a chilling confession
on social media.
Should have seen the way
I kweffed him,
I weren't shocked
that all of his bredrin left him, da.
This clip can be considered
an admission of guilt
because the suspect
is boasting about it.
That clip completely seals the deal.
It puts everything else together.
Offenders may use platforms
like social media and Snapchat
to show what they've done
because they're showing they are
capable of handling themselves.
They have done what was required
of them to show their bravado,
to show how they respond to threats
to their safety or their livelihood,
which might be protecting their turf.
And it's showing a point
to other people as well,
of they maybe should be concerned
if they are rivals to the gangs
because they're not afraid
to use excessive violence.
The man in the video footage
was identified
as 19-year-old Enroy Ruddock.
Bragging about committing crimes
on social media
or any platforms really seems
so counter-intuitive
because it's obviously
incriminating evidence.
But if you think you're untouchable
or that the police will not get you,
you're less likely to be cautious.
You're more high-risk.
And bragging
about these kinds of crimes
gets you credibility in the group.
So two factors.
Overconfidence in your ability
to evade detection.
On the other hand, you've got
the credibility you get by posting.
And those two come together
and make you do
quite stupid things by posting
really incriminating evidence online.
Should have seen the way
I kweffed him,
I weren't shocked
that all of his bredrin left him, da.
From an investigation point of view
that footage of Ruddock bragging
about what they've done to Manny
on social media it's gold.
It's investigative gold.
It shows he is effectively admitting
he has used a high level of violence
and in this case, stabbed Manny.
So he is, he's basically confirming
himself as the person
who has struck what we now know
to be the fatal blow.
The murder weapon
was later recovered,
it was dumped in a nearby river.
In this case, it was proven
that Ruddock was the male
who struck the fatal blow
by plunging the 13-centimeter
hunting style knife
into Manny's buttock.
And the consequence
of him doing that
was that he severed a major artery,
which caused Manny to bleed to death.
But Ruddock wasn't acting alone.
The investigation was able to prove
that there were three people involved
in Manny's murder,
all members of that rival gang.
Following a six-week trial by jury,
all three men, Enroy Ruddock,
Bradley Richardson
and Matthew Brankin
were convicted of murder
under joint enterprise.
Joint enterprise means there is
a principle member
who commits the offense,
the actual act of the crime.
And in this case, this was
Ruddock plunging the knife
into Manny's buttock
and causing the fatal injury.
However, Brankin had brought
that knife to
and facilitated
the use of the knife by Ruddock,
and therefore he was convicted
at the same level.
Because of the location
of the wound,
questions remain about whether
Ruddock intended to kill
Emmanuel.
There was a phase where members
stabbed the buttocks and rectum
as they knew it would cause
damage to the structures
that they would be left
with a stoma for example.
So it's almost that degrading
of somebody.
But the only point
that you can say is that if you,
anybody must realize if you plunged
a 13-centimeter knife into somebody
with force, that you would cause
potentially fatal injuries.
The video footage was crucial.
Without the video,
there wouldn't have been enough
to convict the persons responsible.
CCTV or video in general is a key
element now in investigation,
they can be the difference
between prosecution or acquittal.
The cameras in Manny's case
played a crucial part
in not only identifying the suspects,
the people involved,
but the sequence of events.
So the use of the vehicle, the use
of the bike to escape the scene,
to capturing you know the offenders,
not the actual act itself,
but to catch the offenders
with the ax, with the knife.
There's nothing more impactive
than moving pictures.
Enroy Ruddock, Bradley Richardson,
and Matthew Brankin were
all sentenced to life in prison.
Kyle Kinchen was sentenced
to 27 months for arson.
Rilee Madden was given
a community order
to serve 100 hours
for handling stolen goods,
which included the motorbike used
to chase down Emmanuel.
Emmanuel Lukenga's killer
was caught by the misconception
that he could brag on social media
and get away with it.
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Iyuno
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Something bad
is happening to her.
I heard her scream, no, stop it.
-I heard some gunshots.
-Drop it, whatever it is, drop it.
It is not true that I killed my wife.
We know what happened.
The video tells us what happened.
The camera doesn't lie.
This time on
Killers Caught on Camera...
She's not breathing! Please help me!
In Boulder Colorado, a husband
desperately tries to help his wife.
-Hello?
-Please, please, please help me.
As security cameras reveal
a vindictive murder.
He was concerned based on
what he'd seen on the camera.
I downloaded the video.
I just got chills up in my spine,
I couldn't watch anymore.
And in Coventry in the UK...
rival gangs clash in broad daylight.
Walking around the street with an ax
is a red flag to most people.
...which results in the death
of a 21-year-old.
Should have seen
the way that I kweffed him,
I weren't shocked that all
of his bredrins left him da.
In the United States,
Boulder, Colorado.
You come over a hill
and it's up against the mountains
and it's just a beautiful setting.
It's a laid-back lifestyle,
but Boulder is a work-hard,
play-hard sort of community.
Run, hike, climb, bike, do everything
that you get to do when you live
in a community like this.
2018, a thriving community
and home to Deborah de Pinto
who worked in a local restaurant.
Bailey Underhill
was a friend of Deborah's.
Deborah would have
like six pots of coffee,
six plates, serving all the diners,
all by herself.
She'd be helping the others
and still have spare time
and be finding other things to do.
Deborah was a family person.
She would go home
to be with her family all the time.
She was very, very nice
and good at what she did.
Deborah was married
to Scott Jones.
Adam Kendall is part
of the community in Boulder
and works
in the District Attorney's office.
They met around 1998
at a party and began dating.
I think they were pretty off and on.
After over a decade together,
Deborah and Scott separated.
But Scott was always hopeful
of a reconciliation.
She rented a new house
and was living on her own.
But they still shared
an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old.
And knew Scott would be part
of her life as their father.
The 18th of June 2018,
a 911 call was made by Scott Jones
who was with Deborah.
Please help me! She's,
she's not breathing! Please help me!
Don Dillard is a detective
at Boulder County Sheriff's office.
His colleague, Deputy Mike Turay,
was first on the scene.
He was dispatched
to a female down, unresponsive
and on his bodycam you watch him
arrive at that location.
He goes into the office
and into a laundry room.
Hello?
He's met by a man that's kneeling
next to a woman's body
that is on her back.
There's also a little boy
in that room.
-Hello?
-Please, please, please help me.
The husband is frantic,
begging her not to die.
-Did you find her?
-I dunno.
Soon after he starts CPR,
EMT arrives.
They take over
the life-saving measures.
You have got to help my wife.
She is my whole life, dude. Please,
help her. Please, oh my God!
Sheriff's deputies arrive,
some sergeants arrive,
and they try
to piece together what occurred.
Take a deep breath, okay?
The best people that could be
working on her are working on her.
We have paramedics on her. Alright?
-Oh, my God!
-Let's see what's going on.
They took the information
that Turay got from her husband,
and that was
that the laundry room was hot
and that she had been struggling
to breathe and then collapsed.
But something about Scott's behavior
didn't sit right with detectives.
One of the things that bothered one
of the sergeants on scene was,
frankly, the way Scott was acting.
So it's very put on.
We got here...
I should be holding her hand.
But they are taking care
of her now, okay?
Scott Jones is screaming
and yelling, saying,
I don't know what happened.
I don't know how she just fell.
She is like 220 pounds, man.
I told her, man. You gotta take care.
Intimating that it was a heart attack
or stroke or medical emergency.
He's also talking about how you know
she's his life, she's his soul mate,
she's his snowflake.
Oh God!
That's my whole life in there, man.
That's my whole life. Oh, my God!
Mama! Oh, God!
They if she smoked anything
or if there's drugs involved.
-It won't get her in trouble.
-She smokes that damn pipe.
They heat up the end
and stick it in that stuff.
Many get smoked that way.
Could it be heroin?
-I don't think so. I don't know, man.
-Okay.
Grasping at straws, at anything
that's thrown out to indicate
that it's some sort
of medical emergency.
Deborah and Scott's
two children were also there.
Most parents, when a mother
or father is non-responsive,
they hover over the kids
to make sure they're okay.
That's where their focus goes.
That was not Scott's focus.
-Where's your daughter?
-I don't know.
He didn't even know
where his daughter was.
All right, let's go.
Then the medical personnel decided
to transport her to the hospital.
On arrival, Deborah was rushed
into the emergency room.
Attempts to revive her failed,
and she was declared dead.
There was no indication of foul play.
But there were still some
outstanding questions for Scott.
I asked if he would come back
to my office with us.
Back at the station,
Deborah's estranged husband
helped fill in the blanks.
The initial stage in the interaction,
it was trying to figure
out mentally the direction
I needed to go during the interview
with him.
I'd never interacted with him,
so I didn't know
if this was normal for him.
And so it was trying to establish
a baseline of what Scott was like.
I don't know, dude.
Like she went like this she started
going... Like that and stuff.
I felt that there was more there
that I didn't know about yet.
Any discussions
about your relationship?
No.
Despite being separated,
Scott reassured Detective Dillard
that he and Deborah were managing
their new lives well
and co-parenting successfully.
-He describes a nice relationship.
-I love my wife and she loves me,
and I have no idea how
that went down like that today, dude.
They were having a talk about
what they'd have for dinner
and she collapsed there.
When she fell, yeah,
she was face down, she fell.
Towards the end of the interview,
he had asked if he could leave.
Because I'm tired.
I want to get my kids home.
I have answered a lot of questions
and I've been very cooperative.
I didn't have enough based on
what he had said, to hold him.
Did something happen
in that room, that...
-No way, man. No way.
-I mean, I know accidents happen.
If you're arguing did something
happen that went too far?
-Did she have a heart attack and die?
-I don't know, man.
At this point,
there's no clear sign of foul play.
Scott left the room
to comfort his children.
But within minutes
a recording emerged
which transformed the investigation.
Deputy Turay then gets a call
from the manager of the trailer park,
who said he was concerned based
on what he'd seen on the camera.
I put up a Google Drive.
I downloaded the video.
It's an hour long if you need more.
I just got chills up in my spine,
I couldn't watch anymore.
The manager of the trailer park
sent the police the footage.
The other detectives on this case
watched and listened to it.
They decided to get a computer
and bring the video to Scott.
I was told, see if he'll walk
back into the interview room.
So, this is the video
that we're talking about.
And I just asked him
to watch and listen.
It wasn't the only camera
at the scene.
One recording showed their daughter
getting into the car outside
while Scott and Deborah headed to
the trailer park's laundry room.
She was about to drop her kids off
at the airport
to let them go on a vacation
with her parents.
So she was doing laundry
to make sure that they could
get out with clean clothes.
At ten to seven
the camera captured Deborah
walking into the building
followed by Scott.
They were then picked up
by a hidden camera inside.
The staff of the park had things
stolen from within this utility room.
That little camera actually is what
caught Deborah and Scott coming in.
It's actually just a small camera
inside this chocolate bag.
And he fixed it
so that it wouldn't move.
We're able to hear and see them on
video walking through here arguing.
I thought you had common sense.
I thought you knew
someone would be in there.
I didn't know that. Why do you have
to talk to me like that?
Just beyond this is the laundry room.
That laundry room has a washer
and dryer in a small bathroom.
Audio could still be heard
from the tiny hidden camera.
What are you doing here?
I'm getting my... Get out of here.
It's just common sense.
It's right at this point
where both Debbie and Scott walk in
that we had to start
cleaning up the sound
because it was just too dirty
to hear exactly
what was going on with all
of the background noise.
David Weller is a forensic audio
and video analyst
who works with law enforcement
on criminal investigations.
The problem is the camera
and the microphone
are far away from the incident.
So I have noise from motors,
from dryers.
Not only the objects inside
the dryers that are making noise,
but the dryer motors themselves.
And just those type of noises
that are obscuring the speech.
So my job now is to try
to get rid of some of those noises,
bring the speech out
so we can understand
and help the investigator
find out what happened.
By clearing it up we were able
to discern what Debbie
and Scott were saying.
It was an audio breakthrough
captured by the mini
camera's tiny microphone.
After applying some filters
to attenuate the background noise,
bring up the speech,
and what you couldn't hear.
Now you can.
We're fighting for an hour
over nothing. I'm done.
We are never going to be together.
She's mad. She's upset.
He makes comments about, how
she's acting. Why do you hate me?
You're so cruel. Is that
all you've got? Cruel and mean.
The dialogue back and forth
is toxic between the two of them.
-You're in my way.
-Here.
-Trying to get a towel.
-Trying to love you.
Whatever. Get away from me!
Get away from me?
You hear this argument go on
for three or four minutes
and it gets more heated, as Scott
is referring to Debbie as evil.
She says I'm done, we're over.
It's done.
I don't want to do this with you.
I can't do this anymore.
-Scott, don't touch me.
-Stop.
-You can't force me to love you.
-I'm not forcing you.
Get out of the way of the door.
I'm trapped with you.
Get away from me!
She says "You can't make me
love you." And he screams out.
You make me feel terrible.
Get away from the door.
And that's when you hear
Debbie scream in fear.
You hear a physical altercation.
And that's right at about 7:00 p.m.
This physical altercation goes on
for about 90 seconds.
You're done.
Scott says, "You're done"
as she screams help, please help me.
Someone help me!
She's crying out in desperation.
Help me! Help me! Help! Help!
Please, let go of me, please!
The sounds are sometimes clear
and sometimes muffled.
It sounds as if something's being put
over her mouth
as she's screaming for help.
And no one answers those calls.
Over that 90 seconds
then the screaming stops,
that thumping we hear continues,
but it slows down
and then finally that stops.
At any point could have released her
and let her out,
could have stopped, even if she was
unconscious and called 911.
The audio fell silent
then picked up another sound.
You'll hear a motor starting
in the background,
which is the dryer
that's sitting right next to that.
As the motor starts,
you hear him breathing hard
and it sounds like he's pacing.
That doesn't prove anything.
But it shows us that something
happened in that room.
Scott's reaction when the video
was brought in was interesting
because he didn't have any idea
that this camera was in that room.
He spends 47 minutes
in the laundry room
with his wife at his feet.
-What's going on in all that time?
-I don't know, man.
But... Scott, you do know.
For nearly an hour
after Deborah fell silent,
the audio picked up what sounded
like Scott pacing the room.
This entire time
you're still there with her.
What are you doing?
Are you looking at her?
Are you trying to figure out
what to do next? Help me.
I don't know, man.
He has to put together a story.
He has to put together a plan.
He then walks out
of the laundry room area,
you see him pass by the camera
and out of the tool room.
Oh, my God!
He is pumping himself up.
He's talking to himself,
saying, oh, God, oh, God.
And another camera actually
catches him go out to the camper.
He then gets his son
from the camper.
And you see he and his son go back
into that tool room area.
And you can, again,
hear their voices.
She's gone, man.
Oh my God! Oh my God!
I don't know
what's wrong with your mum.
I don't know what happened.
Just come. Just come.
Just come. Just come.
He was acting that way
because he knew what he had done.
He needed to get others
to believe in his story.
That's why he brought his son
into the area
where he had just killed his wife.
-Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
-Mama.
He needed to sell his lie.
He needed others to believe it.
Please, Mama wake up,
Mama, please. Oh, God!
Not only did he take Deborah's son,
Michael, into the laundry room
where she was lying dead.
He also persuaded him to call 911.
But his son doesn't know the address.
And so he hands the phone back over
to Scott
and Scott starts screaming,
please help us, please help us.
Mama, oh God! Please, God, help us!
Mama's gone, please.
The son's statement is that
mum is purple.
He says she's cold to the touch.
She has a bruise
on the bridge of her nose.
I think he brought his son in
to help forward his lie.
She just collapsed.
This wasn't something he did.
The exterior camera picked up
the first on scene, a police car.
-Bodycams were rolling.
-Hello?
So this is Deputy Turay
and he goes straight back.
Please, please, please help me.
The entire time the 13-year-old
sitting in mum's car.
She receives a text message from
her brother asking where she's at.
But because it's on dad's cell phone,
she's afraid.
And the text messages she gets are,
where are you? And mum's dead.
She had no idea
if the text was real,
but it scared her regardless.
In her interview, she says,
I didn't know if it was safe.
She told one of our officers
she was afraid she'd be next.
Confronted by the evidence
captured on camera,
Scott's loving attitude towards
his estranged wife changed.
Where do we go from here, man?
I need a lawyer, don't I?
His physical demeanor changes.
And the whole conversation
and tone of the conversation changed.
-At which point the door opened.
-Do me a favor, stand up.
And he was told that he was going
to be placed under arrest
for the murder of his wife.
And as he's being handcuffed
behind his back,
he looks at me and he says,
there's no hurry.
Do you want to keep talking to me?
If you do I'll read you your rights.
What, where do we go from here?
Let's talk our options and discuss
our options then.
We removed the handcuffs and he sat
on the other side of the table
and we started talking
about everything that happened.
I didn't think anything through,
I didn't think about anything,
I just reacted
I don't know what happened.
I just, I just... Like a...
I just reacted.
I don't know. I don't know, man.
It's nuts.
To call this a situation
where he snapped
is to give him way too much credit.
This was a gradual build-up
of terrible behavior
and of someone
who isn't dealing effectively
with their own frustrations
and is projecting it onto the other
and engages in destructive behavior.
We should not to victim-blame her
because she said the wrong thing.
I mean, that is not something
we should ever be doing
in these situations.
No matter what anyone says,
it never leads to murder.
What happened?
I don't know. You think
I'm not kicking out of myself?
-You don't think I feel bad?
-No, I know you are.
This time the dialogue was different.
He was angry, he was hurt.
Presented with the audio evidence,
Scott went from expressing the love
he felt for his wife
to accusing her of mistreating him.
No, it wasn't good enough.
I'm taking the kids.
You ain't taking my kids.
She was threatening me
and with me, man.
Just couldn't stop being a monster.
She couldn't stop being cruel, man.
You don't know what she's done to me
and the cruelty she's done, man.
People who are accused
of crimes,
when there's evidence against them,
when they're backed into a corner,
often start to change their story
in accordance with the evidence.
In this case,
we're seeing a clear shift
in what he's saying about his wife.
And whilst seeing
a change in body language.
You're seeing a different person.
And we're also seeing
an external locus of control
as he says
this is outside of my control.
It was her fault.
It was all the situation.
And that is typical when people
are grasping for rationalizations,
they're grasping for excuses
to sell to somebody else,
but also to themselves,
because he is trying to figure out
why he did this.
I believe it makes a man temporarily
insane for a minute,
man, when you think about it,
you know that?
You don't know the troubles.
You don't know the pain.
You don't know what I've endured,
what she put me through.
You don't know what she did
to my son. You don't know.
Scott was arrested for the murder
of his wife, Deborah de Pinto.
The autopsy revealed
that she was strangled to death.
Deborah wanted to separate.
She was seeing other people.
That was part of their separation,
not living together.
He really had this mindset that
if he couldn't have her no one could.
If at any time he truly cared
about her surviving
and not intending on killing her,
he would have released her
and she'd have been able to get out
or he'd have been able to call 911
to have someone revive her.
As Adam Kendall prepared
his case against Scott,
the true nature of
their relationship came to light.
We're able to get in touch
with some friends of hers,
they described a long relationship
of control, of Scott making threats.
Some individuals reported
not seeing physical abuse,
but hearing about it from Debbie.
And it's very clear that Scott
was incredibly mentally controlling
and verbally abusive to Debbie.
Verbal aggression is often
a precursor to physical aggression,
but in the sense
that if you can't use your words
and you stop being able
to make yourself heard
or to get what you want by speaking,
you then initiate the physical piece
and you get violent potentially.
Scott's abusive behavior was clear
in the messages between the two,
recovered from Deborah's phone.
These text messages
are unrelenting and over the top.
It's accusing her of cheating on him.
She was seeing someone,
but she told him, we are done.
We are separated.
So it wasn't cheating.
But in his mind it was.
He's talking about
how he'd keep the kids from her
if she doesn't come back to him.
There's one series of text
where he just goes at her
about being a horrible person
and a horrible wife
and mother, and that he thought
she was different.
On the 20th December 2019,
Scott Jones was convicted
for the murder of his wife,
Deborah de Pinto.
Scott ended up sentenced for
second-degree murder in Colorado.
Our judge sentenced Scott
to 48 years in prison.
His sentence included a year
for child abuse,
for taking his son
to see his mother's body.
She's gone, man.
Following the trial,
Their children were placed
in the custody
of Boulder's Health
and Human Services Department.
An anti-theft camera hidden
in a bag of chocolates
accidentally caught the killer.
It would have been difficult
for us to prove what happened
without that audio.
Debbie's friends describe her
as a wonderful person.
We see that also in the way
she handled Scott.
They describe a hard-working woman,
who loved her kids,
who supported this family.
Her friends that came out in force
and I'm talking not two or three,
but 10 to 20 people that knew her
all the way from two years ago
working at a restaurant
to 25 years ago
when they first moved here,
as young folks
described her as loving, caring,
hardworking and wonderful
and supportive.
To meet someone
that has that many friends
ranging from so many different areas
of their lives was unique.
Increasingly CCTV footage
is being used as evidence
to solve murder cases.
In the UK
almost all of Scotland Yard's
homicide investigations
used CCTV as evidence.
On average, each person in London
is caught on camera
hundreds of times a day,
including gang members.
Many organized crime groups
emanate from big urban areas.
The area may get saturated
with gangs,
all competing for a small market.
So, for example,
around drugs or criminal property,
it's all about generating the money.
And that is where the issues start.
The gangs then butt up
against each other
and competing for that territory,
for that market.
And that is generally where
we see an escalation of violence.
Video evidence is crucial
for working out
exactly what's happened when
gang members attack others.
The use of CCTV plays such
a pivotal role in these cases
as it allows post an incident,
the investigation team
to build up a timeline
to identify key individuals,
key vehicles, key locations.
You've got to go to court
with a case and prove it to a jury
beyond reasonable doubt.
And there's nothing more impactive
than moving pictures.
Coventry, West Midlands.
This sprawling city
has a population of nearly 350,000.
The Coventry area is a part
of the wider West Midlands area,
a very built-up urban area,
very diverse communities.
There is a lot
of social-economical problems,
bit of deprivation within the area.
So they are generally
some of the conditions
that cause organized crime
to flourish.
People are looking
for income sources, for example.
Very little opportunity
for legitimate job.
Therefore, perfect breeding ground
for organized crime,
drug dealing, drug distribution,
what we would call acquisitive crime,
burglary, robbery, etc.
21-year-old Emmanuel Lukenga
lived in Tile Hill,
two miles from Coventry city center.
Emmanuel, known as Manny through
his friends, was a keen boxer,
aspired to be a paramedic,
had a child with another on the way.
His parents had fled the war in Congo
and settled in the UK
to, you know, for a better life.
Unfortunately, the Tile Hill area
was itself a center of conflict.
People like Emmanuel who
live in certain geographical areas
have more challenges than others.
Anti-social behavior.
Low-level petty crime.
Emmanuel became associated
with a gang in the Tile Hill area.
The kind of person who joins a gang
is someone who is socially isolated.
So they don't have many friends
often,
or at least not friends
who can act as mentors
or who can be sort
of positive people in their lives.
A lot of it has to do with
the social aspect of joining a gang.
On the 12th of June 2019,
Emmanuel strayed from the safety
of his local area Tile Hill,
into a rival gang's territory
around three miles away in Canley.
Steve Jones is
a former Police Officer
who now teaches
Advanced Policing Studies.
The fact that Manny was seen
on the rival gang's geographical area
of control is a massive red flag,
a massive provocation to them.
So the build-up having Manny
being seen in that area,
they can either ignore it,
which probably, to that gang would
be seen as a sign of weakness.
So they basically then need
to send a message to their rivals,
stay away, stay out of our area.
Police obtained CCTV footage
of a Canley gang member
who knew Emmanuel was nearby.
Emi Polito
is a Forensic Video Analyst.
Police would value
this particular footage
because it actually shows
a very good view
of this person's face and clothing
and his helmet and his footwear.
Shortly after, a motorcycle
was spotted in the Canley area.
We can see that this person
is carrying something,
presumably a petrol can
or an object of this nature.
What's even more important
is that this person on the back
of the motorcycle is wearing
a motorcycle helmet
with quite an extended visor,
which is similar to the helmet
that we've seen in the clip before.
Very short time after Manny's car is
subject to arson and set on fire.
Kirsty Bennett is a lecturer
in Criminology,
specializing in Policing.
For Manny with his car on fire,
he was aware he was being targeted.
It might have been a warning to him
that violence was on the cards.
But the arson attack also presented
another problem.
They also stop Manny from being
able to quickly leave the area.
One of the big problems
with gang relationships,
when they go sour,
is that there's what seems
like a never-ending retaliation.
You hurt a member of a group,
they hurt one of yours
and you one of them,
and then three of yours,
and you get three of them.
It can be difficult to get out
of that retaliation.
And so the turf wars can escalate
over seemingly minor things
into really extreme situations
and extreme versions of retaliation.
With their car burnt out, Emmanuel
and his fellow gang members
tried to escape the area on foot.
But the rival gang
was tracking them down.
We're seeing two suspects
on a motorcycle,
person on the back is still featuring
light tone footwear
and this kind of distinctive helmet
with extended visor.
And we see a blue van forcefully
and rapidly mounting the curb,
and two persons
hiding their identity,
one carrying a weapon, which is very
consistent with being an ax.
The rival Canley gang chased
members of the Tile Hill gang
into a convenience store
where they were caught on camera.
And this footage is great
as it just ever so happens that
the camera is close to the subject.
You can see clear motifs
on the helmet now.
The position of the hands
is quite interesting
and there is a light-tone item.
Potentially that could be a weapon.
But it's this peculiar way
in which the hands are being held
behind the back,
which is of interest.
CCTV outside captured
the rival gang members
after they left the shop.
The extra lens gave a better view
of their weapons.
The body language here
suggests confidence
and clear intent here
to cause some serious hurt or damage.
Generally, you don't carry
those kinds of weapons
unless you are intent on using them,
because that carries a risk
of them being detected by the police.
CCTV cameras captured Emmanuel
and other members of the Tile Hill
gang trying to flee the scene.
This clip is incredibly important
because it's the first time
that we see the people being chased.
Even though we can't see his face
but again can see the clothing
he's wearing and the fact
that they're clearly running away.
Back in their blue van,
the rival Canley gang
was catching up with them.
There's a bit of cat-and-mouse chase.
The van is driving erratically.
The rival gang members are
seen driving close to Emmanuel.
We see the motorcycle with the person
with the distinctive helmet.
You can tell by body language
that there is rivalry going on there.
Something bad is gonna happen
between this party and that party.
We have them in the same shot.
Emmanuel tried to escape
down an alleyway,
but the armed rival gang members
were in pursuit.
We can discern an object
of considerable size,
which may be the weapon we've seen
before. Person with a helmet.
We can link this footage
to previous sighting of the suspect.
That isn't normal behavior.
Walking around the street with an ax
is a red flag to most.
So they risk members of the public
calling the police,
and in this case,
then filming the incident
because it is out of the norm.
Carrying a weapon is often
as a way of protecting themselves.
So if they did have a dispute
with a rival,
they have something
to protect themselves.
But then, it massively increases
that risk of fatal violence.
It can feel potentially
to members within a gang
that they don't have the choice
to not engage in violence.
If the group is saying
we need to retaliate,
and attack this person,
you might feel like, I have to join.
That's what we're doing.
Within some gangs, there's also
the potential for upward mobility.
So basically promotions
within the gang,
if you do certain tasks
and certain tasks can usually
or often involve criminal activity,
anything from selling drugs
to engaging in violence,
including retaliation
against rival gangs.
That can be one way to climb
the gang ladder.
Seconds after the video showing
the gang brandishing weapons,
a witness heard the rival gang
shouting potential threats.
So the witness evidence
of one of the neighbors,
he heard a suspect shouting,
someone's going to get poked.
The use of that phrase,
obviously, it's street slang,
but is known
they were going to use a knife,
that somebody was going
to get stabbed.
Their adrenaline would be
absolutely coursing at this point,
as they're about to confront Manny.
Emmanuel Lukenga was stabbed
trying to escape over a fence.
We are looking at another angle
of the same scene.
We now see a suspect with helmet
and distinctive combination
of clothing are going,
so, presumably,
the crime has been committed,
they're no longer chasing the victim.
But they are fleeing the scene.
He died at the scene.
We don't have the fortune of having
the murder on camera. We rarely do.
And therefore, a CCTV sighting just
before and after could be crucial.
It appears to be
a hand-held mobile phone.
A witness,
having an understanding
of what's happening and making sure
they are recorded as evidence.
Now, this clearly shows the weapon.
A knife, potentially,
or an object of considerable size.
Now the police know
that they had a weapon
and they will be looking for it
to seize it as evidence.
An extensive search
through CCTV footage
after the crime was committed
showed one of the suspects
filming themselves.
Police would then assume that
there is a recording on the Internet.
The CCTV led the police to uncover
a chilling confession
on social media.
Should have seen the way
I kweffed him,
I weren't shocked
that all of his bredrin left him, da.
This clip can be considered
an admission of guilt
because the suspect
is boasting about it.
That clip completely seals the deal.
It puts everything else together.
Offenders may use platforms
like social media and Snapchat
to show what they've done
because they're showing they are
capable of handling themselves.
They have done what was required
of them to show their bravado,
to show how they respond to threats
to their safety or their livelihood,
which might be protecting their turf.
And it's showing a point
to other people as well,
of they maybe should be concerned
if they are rivals to the gangs
because they're not afraid
to use excessive violence.
The man in the video footage
was identified
as 19-year-old Enroy Ruddock.
Bragging about committing crimes
on social media
or any platforms really seems
so counter-intuitive
because it's obviously
incriminating evidence.
But if you think you're untouchable
or that the police will not get you,
you're less likely to be cautious.
You're more high-risk.
And bragging
about these kinds of crimes
gets you credibility in the group.
So two factors.
Overconfidence in your ability
to evade detection.
On the other hand, you've got
the credibility you get by posting.
And those two come together
and make you do
quite stupid things by posting
really incriminating evidence online.
Should have seen the way
I kweffed him,
I weren't shocked
that all of his bredrin left him, da.
From an investigation point of view
that footage of Ruddock bragging
about what they've done to Manny
on social media it's gold.
It's investigative gold.
It shows he is effectively admitting
he has used a high level of violence
and in this case, stabbed Manny.
So he is, he's basically confirming
himself as the person
who has struck what we now know
to be the fatal blow.
The murder weapon
was later recovered,
it was dumped in a nearby river.
In this case, it was proven
that Ruddock was the male
who struck the fatal blow
by plunging the 13-centimeter
hunting style knife
into Manny's buttock.
And the consequence
of him doing that
was that he severed a major artery,
which caused Manny to bleed to death.
But Ruddock wasn't acting alone.
The investigation was able to prove
that there were three people involved
in Manny's murder,
all members of that rival gang.
Following a six-week trial by jury,
all three men, Enroy Ruddock,
Bradley Richardson
and Matthew Brankin
were convicted of murder
under joint enterprise.
Joint enterprise means there is
a principle member
who commits the offense,
the actual act of the crime.
And in this case, this was
Ruddock plunging the knife
into Manny's buttock
and causing the fatal injury.
However, Brankin had brought
that knife to
and facilitated
the use of the knife by Ruddock,
and therefore he was convicted
at the same level.
Because of the location
of the wound,
questions remain about whether
Ruddock intended to kill
Emmanuel.
There was a phase where members
stabbed the buttocks and rectum
as they knew it would cause
damage to the structures
that they would be left
with a stoma for example.
So it's almost that degrading
of somebody.
But the only point
that you can say is that if you,
anybody must realize if you plunged
a 13-centimeter knife into somebody
with force, that you would cause
potentially fatal injuries.
The video footage was crucial.
Without the video,
there wouldn't have been enough
to convict the persons responsible.
CCTV or video in general is a key
element now in investigation,
they can be the difference
between prosecution or acquittal.
The cameras in Manny's case
played a crucial part
in not only identifying the suspects,
the people involved,
but the sequence of events.
So the use of the vehicle, the use
of the bike to escape the scene,
to capturing you know the offenders,
not the actual act itself,
but to catch the offenders
with the ax, with the knife.
There's nothing more impactive
than moving pictures.
Enroy Ruddock, Bradley Richardson,
and Matthew Brankin were
all sentenced to life in prison.
Kyle Kinchen was sentenced
to 27 months for arson.
Rilee Madden was given
a community order
to serve 100 hours
for handling stolen goods,
which included the motorbike used
to chase down Emmanuel.
Emmanuel Lukenga's killer
was caught by the misconception
that he could brag on social media
and get away with it.
Translated by: Francesca Villa
Iyuno