He said: If Im right, he had a propensity for killing on average once a year. CCTV of Sians last-known moments led him to 47-year-old father-of-three Christopher Halliwell. Christopher Halliwell, 54, is serving two whole life terms after killing 20-year-old Becky Godden and Sian O'Callaghan, 22. Fulcher himself spent hours questioning Halliwell at Barbury Castle, breaking down his defences and sharing his cigarettes and forming a connection. There is an obsession with procedure at the expense of the bigger picture. It need never have been so. March 30, 2015 - Halliwell is charged with Miss Godden's murder. But he also made another confession offering to lead Fulcher to a second body. Most arent concerned with policing on the ground, but are pen-pushers worried only by self advancement., He emphasises hes not advocating bending the rules. Quite rightly it gives protection to the innocent. A new team found witnesses and analysis showed a spade seized from Halliwells shed in 2011 had the same unique soil DNA as the field in which Becky was found. Anticipating Halliwells suicide risk, Fulcher arranged an interview team to conduct a Safety Interview, under caution, at the scene of his arrest. Halliwell was convicted of Beckys murder in September 2016. However, DS Fulcher, played by Martin Freeman in the ITV drama series, was found guilty of gross misconduct and given a final disciplinary warning. What are the ramifications of that? No trace of her has ever been found. Once in the remote woodland, Halliwell stood on the exact spot where he claimed hed buried a girl years earlier. STEVE Fulcher was a detective who uncovered the crimes of a twisted double murderer before resigning from the force. A young woman called Becky Godden-Edwards had gone missing a number of years before, last seen in 2002 or 2003. Police are still continuing their investigation into Halliwell as they believe other victims are yet to be found. He quit in 2014 after a disciplinary hearing, but the Hobbit star has defended Fulcher's actions, telling the Series Linked TV podcast:'There aren't enough police on the ground. I pleaded with him for Sians life, he recalls. On March 18, 2011 Sian O'Callaghan, 22, is murdered by Halliwell after getting into his taxi while walking home after leaving Suju nightclub in Swindon. Why on earth had this killer been given every conceivable privilege, while a brave, upstanding detective was hung out to dry? A Confession is a six-part ITV drama. A TIMELINE: How Christopher Halliwell was brought to justice. They have been fulsome in their support of a man they believe acted solely in their best interest. These are usually reserved for terrorist cases. Sian wasnt murdered until 2011. And then, out of the blue, the taxi driver said: "Do you want another one?". According to the PACE rules, he should have cautioned the killer and given him access to a solicitor after discovering that Sian was dead. "You have to look at the wider picture and say, Alright, do we need to have a way of ensuring that police powers are not abused, that people arent bullied into making confessions?,'" said Gardiner. I did these things because they were the right things to do in these circumstances. Oscar-nominated scriptwriter Jeff Pope based the drama on Det Supt Fulchers memoirs and independent research. After a nail-biting drive, Halliwell guided the police to an isolated lane running alongside the White Horse near Uffington, close to the Berkshire border, where he said Sians body was lying in the open. He learned the CPS were considering bringing charges against him for malfeasance in public office. Steve recalls how a kidnap inquiry was launched after Sian went missing in the early hours of Saturday, March 19, 2011. 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Halliwell might have been far more prolific than even I had feared.. But a judge ruled his confession about Becky Godden inadmissible because DS Fulcher had repeatedly failed to correctly caution the killer and questioned him without a lawyer. You then tried to manipulate the police and court process to try to avoid getting what you deserved., They are words Fulcher has waited many years for. August 30, 2016 - Retired High Court judge Sir John Griffith Williams rules that the jury can be told of Halliwell's conviction for Miss O'Callaghan's murder and his confession to Miss Godden's murder. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. But to get those confessions, Fulcher was accused of breaching the guidelines of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) by failing to caution Halliwell and denying him access to a solicitor at the time the confessions were obtained. Youre seriously telling me theres nothing in between or either side? ", And speaking after Halliwell's sentencing in 2016, Memory said: Im very very clear that there must be other victims out there whether they are sexual offences or other women that he has taken. In January 2014, Fulcher was found guilty of gross misconduct and given a final written warning by a disciplinary tribunal. Instead resources went into investigating me for years.. Steve says Halliwell then asked him, "Do you want another one?"'. Her husband Glyn has spent 13 years in jail for her murder but maintains his innocence, with his lawyer saying he would be 'very surprised' if he had committed the crime. There is a significant gap in his offending. A judge then ruled that Halliwell's confessions to killing both victims were actually inadmissible as evidence in court. Human remains were uncovered at a field in Gloucestershire, and they turned out to belong to Becky. I felt my position was untenable.. How Christopher Halliwell was brought to justice. There's a distinct possibility there could be further offences.'. It didnt end there. With the deaths of Becky and Sian some eight years apart, Fulcher is convinced there may be more undiscovered bodies a sentiment now echoed by other senior officers involved in Halliwells conviction this week. Its when these forces collide. Got Christopher Halliwell to confess to 2nd murder . We are no longer accepting comments on this article. She says: 'Steve did what I think any family member would want an officer to do for them. Fulcher played by Sherlocks Martin Freeman ended up in a difficult ethical position that led him to find the killer, but in an unorthadox manner that ultimately ended his career in the police force. She and Halliwell lived on the same street. Steve says: We had a policeman under suspicion of sexual impropriety, who drove the exact kind of vehicle we thought had picked up Sian, took his own life just as the net might be closing in. Catching a Serial Killer: My hunt for murderer Christopher Halliwell, spoken many times in the press about his experience of the case, he was working for a private company in Mogadishu, Somalia, the police found "up to 60" items of women's clothing. The panel considered independently whether or not the actions of Steve Fulcher had breached the standards of professional behaviour that apply to all police officers in England and Wales. He took the team to a field in Gloucestershire where the remains of a second woman were later found. He published a book, titled Catching a Serial Killer: My hunt for murderer Christopher Halliwell, and has also spoken many times in the press about his experience of the case. Freeman plays Det Supt Steve Fulcher in ITV's six-part drama By Emma Saunders Entertainment reporter It was a tragic real-life story that gripped the public due to flawed heroics, a long search. In January 2012, at a preliminary hearing, Mrs Justice Cox ruled the confession obtained by Fulcher was inadmissible at trial. By then, Halliwell had been charged with Sian OCallaghans murder he had stabbed her to death before dumping her body and placed on technical bail (where bail is granted as the accused is already in custody) for the murder of the as-yet-unidentified woman. The senior echelons arent police officers at all. The programme explores whether Steve's actions were brilliant detective work, or arrogance and recklessness which ultimately cost him his job. I made that clear back in 2011.. A High Court judge ruled that this breach of police guidelines made Halliwells confessions of killing both women inadmissible, which nearly derailed the cases. He wanted to use what he believed were emergency powers, to be used only when there is an imminent threat to life. Worse was to come: as the year unfolded, Fulcher learned that Halliwells legal team would attempt to get the charges thrown out on the basis that Fulcher had not adequately followed PACE guidelines. Fulcher had not cautioned Halliwell as he should have under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE). CCTV taken near the Suju nightclub in Swindon showed her getting into a Toyota taxi owned by Christopher Halliwell, a 47-year-old father of two teenage daughters. It was horribly tense. Christopher Halliwells lawyers argued successfully that the confession should not be put before a jury. With his name so closely associated with the story he has found it hard to branch out, though in 2017 he was working for a private company in Mogadishu, Somalia. Her husband Glyn has spent 13 years in jail for her murder but maintains his innocence. At 9.45am he called the police to report that his girlfriend had gone missing. The worm, however, quickly turned. Steve Fulcher confronted by killer Christopher Halliwell in A Confession finale teaser. The trace on her phone was tracked to the nearby Savernake Forest by Steve's team. He was an experienced police officer who knew what he was doing. But. And where had they gone next? But who was driving the vehicle? But without common sense it gives too much protection to the guilty and not the victim, he says. I heard nothing for 10 months, he recalls. In January 2003Becky Godden, then aged 20, is last seen alive after getting into a taxi outside Destiny & Desire nightclub in Swindon. A search of the forest proved fruitless, but the detective got a breakthrough several days into the investigation after his team spotted an unidentified taxi on CCTV in the area where she disappeared, explains ITV reporter Robert Murphy, who covered the case. I was desperately trying to keep the lines of communication open, wondering how much else he might tell me.. Fulchers once distinguished career, meanwhile, lies in ruins. "The panel considered independently whether or not the actions of Steve Fulcher had breached the standards of professional behaviour that apply to all police officers in England and Wales. ', Afterwards Fulcher said of Halliwell: 'We had a surreal exchange, he knew that he had given his life away. The force arranged for an independent misconduct panel to convene. 'Just in the minutes before Sian vanished, one of the police cars had filmed a Toyota Avensis driving the other way, and it had the number plate.'. 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The killer was finally brought to justice by Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, who discovered he had murdered a second victim while investigating the disappearance of Sian O'Callaghan. In January 2014, Fulcher was found guilty of gross misconduct and given a final written warning by a disciplinary tribunal. As a result of this procedural failure, Halliwells confession regarding both murders was ruled inadmissible in court. The team found Sian's remains there. At Wiltshire he had solved several murders while simultaneously gaining a Masters Degree in Criminology from the University of Cambridge. Steve Fulcher, played by Martin Freeman, lost his career after catching a serial killer Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher resigned from Wiltshire Police in May 2014 ( Image: PA) As. Yesterday, the sentencing judge, Sir John Griffiths Williams, told Halliwell: But for your confession, I have no doubt Beckys remains would never have been found. Her boyfriend, Kevin Reape, raised the alarm at 9.45am the following morning when Sian hadn't turned up at . Further to the hearing, Steve Fulcher was found guilty of two counts of gross misconduct (the execution of his duty and inappropriate contact with the media) and received two final written warnings, but remained a member of Wiltshire Police. 10:45 GMT 24 Sep 2016, By the way, it was a pleasure ruining your career, you corrupt b*****d.. It has since emerged Halliwell was obsessed with Linda after doing building work at the Razzells' home four years before she died. On that day, the police made an urgent appeal for witnesses who had spotted a green Toyota Avensis with taxi markings. Why would this not be the biggest, most protracted, most vigorous investigation in the history of British policing?. But then Halliwell had a second horrific confession. Fulcher was disciplined for misconduct and later resigned, losing his 500,000 police pension and selling his house. May 31, 2012 - Halliwell appears at Preston Crown Court and denies murdering Miss O'Callaghan. First he dumped her body near his sick stash at Ramsbury. The investigation into her murder was headed up by DS Fulcher who charged cab driver Chris Halliwell with the abduction of the office worker. It took four more years of campaigning for it to be allowed, and last September Halliwell was convicted of killing Becky and burying her body in a field at Eastleach, Gloucs. Spoken from the dock at Bristol Crown Court this month, these were the words of convicted murderer Christopher Halliwell as he finished cross-examining former detective superintendent Steve Fulcher, the man who had sacrificed everything his career, health and happiness to bring him to justice. He [was] kind of crawling up the walls. Sians mother Elaine Pickford, who is played by Sobhan Finneran, was grateful to DS Fulcher. If Sian was still alive, she probably wouldnt survive the 96 hours we could keep him in custody if he refused to co-operate.. But not before Halliwell, defending himself in court, gloated about how he had ruined Steves career. She was a drug addict and sex worker, and after she disappeared her mother Karen Edwards (played by Imelda Staunton) had spent years hoping she would return. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. He was allowed to keep his job, but later resigned. 'I can't rule out that there are other victims. His loyal family had also suffered. , updated February 18, 2015 - Halliwell is arrested on suspicion of murdering Miss Godden. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum tariff of 25 years. Murphy explained in the documentary: 'A police officer had the idea of looking at all the police dashboard cameras that were patrolling central Swindon at the time. He had killed her two minutes after she got in his cab. Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher speaks at a press conference at Gablecross Police Station in Swindon on the murder of Sian O'Callaghan, MARTIN FREEMAN as Steve Fulcher and JOE ABSOLOM as Christopher Halliwell, Elaine Pickford, played by Sobhan Finneran, was grateful to DS Fulcher. "But we certainly don't get into any of the specifics of those other cases that have been attached there are other murders up and down the country that are now attached to Halliwell, and we absolutely scrupulously did not get into any of that. During the investigation, Detective Steve Fulcher broke police protocol and extracted not one, but two confessions from the killer. She had been brutally beaten and stabbed. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. The nadir came in January 2014, when he was found guilty of gross misconduct after a hearing at which, notably, Karen Godden, Beckys mother insisted on accompanying him to show her support. A re-investigation began and evidence re-analysed. By The decision almost derailed the case against the killer in court, and ultimately cost the detective his job. DC Fulcher quit after being accused of gross misconduct over murder case. One of the cases to which Halliwell has been linked is that of mother-of-four Linda Razzell, 41, who disappeared from Highworth, near Swindon, on March 19, 2002. Jeff Pope's new ITV drama A Confession stars Martin Freeman as Detective Steve Fulcher, whose hunt for missing 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan led him into an extraordinary situation in 2011. On the day of his arrest, Halliwell spoke to Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, and admitted to murdering two women and dumping their bodies in shallow graves. Fulcher opened up on the case last year on ITV documentary To Catch A Serial Killer - With Trevor McDonald. 'I would appeal to Christopher Halliwell if he wants to speak I'm willing to speak with him. It later transpired that Fulcher, when arresting Halliwell, acted on the instinct that Halliwell may have been responsible for the disappearance of Becky Godden-Edwards, who had been reported missing in 2007 and pressed him for details. The case attracted widespread attention and press coverage, and on Tuesday 22nd March around 400 members of the public were allowed to help the police search the forest. Instead, seeing a window of opportunity, hed driven him to the field where Halliwell claimed another body would be found. Pope said: Watching the series with him afterwards, it was almost unbearable. When DS Steve Fulcher arrested Christopher Halliwell over the disappearance of 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan, it was the start of his own downfall. 'He had done what I considered to be the right thing. And a high-heeled boot Sian was wearing before she was abducted on her way home from a nightclub in 2011. 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As the criminal proceedings were thrown into jeopardy, Det Supt Fulcher faced gross misconduct hearings. On 24 March, OCallaghans body was found in a shallow grave near Uffington, Oxfordshire, and Christopher Halliwell, a 47-year-old taxi driver from Swindon was arrested, charged and later sentenced to a life sentence for the murder. There were 60. Officers observed Halliwell depositing a perfume bottle, car seat covers and bloodied tissues in bins in assorted rural locations. Deborah Peach from the inquiry team recalls in the programme: 'Steve takes the decision that he will conduct an urgent interview of Halliwell himself and just says "Right, let's go".'. 2021 Associated Newspapers Limited. It took a jury just two hours to find him guilty. His actions compromised the court case against Halliwell and called into question one of the most important principles of the criminal justice system, the PACE guidelines. 12:23 GMT 20 Sep 2018. Under the PACE code of practice (relating to The Police And Criminal Evidence Act of 1984), DS Fulcher should have taken Halliwell straight back to the police station as soon as he confessed to Beckys murder. Joe Absolom plays the killer Christopher Halliwell. In 2018 he appeared on the ITV show To Catch a Serial Killer with Trevor McDonald.My view is that I have brought two daughters back to their mothers and Ive prevented other victims resulting from Halliwells continued pursuit of his career as a serial killer," Fulcher told McDonald. The following January Det Supt Fulcher was found guilty of gross misconduct and given a final disciplinary warning. All you need to know about Jeremy Clarkson's Irish girlfriend as new Amazon Prime series starts, Clarkson's Farm is available on Prime Video, RTE's Dancing with the Stars viewers all say the same thing as Shane Byrne and Karen Byrne voted off, It's been fantastic. He tells Tim Lewis why he'd do it again Tim. Their sentiments, however, are not shared by the police or the legal system. Catching a double killer led to Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher being hailed a hero by the families and twice nominated for a Queens Police Medal. With compelling circumstantial evidence, Fulcher authorised covert surveillance. Wiltshire Police have since issued a statement saying, There is no evidence whatsoever to link him to any other murder in this country. Haliwell was jailed for life in 2012 for beating and stabbing Sian O'Callaghan - who he believed resembled his mother - to death, before pushing her body into a 12ft ravine. Haliwell was jailed for life in 2012 for Sians murder but it was ruled that the confession he gave Steve about where Becky was buried could not be used in court because police arrest guidelines were broken. Jeff Pope's new ITV drama A Confession stars Martin Freeman as Detective Steve Fulcher, whose hunt for missing 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan led him into an extraordinary situation in 2011. Justice Cox got her judgment badly wrong. Rebecca Godden-Edwards, aged 18, also known as Becky, whose remains were found by police investigating the murder of missing nightclubber Sian O'Callaghan. 12:20 GMT 20 Sep 2018 I was prepared for this his case wasnt defendable so it was the only thing they could do but I thought reason would prevail. It's just not going to happen. Finally, Halliwell confessed to Sian's murder and offered to take him to Sian's body, leading the police to her burial spot. Two and a half years on, Becky Goddens mother has, at least, seen justice served in no small part thanks to her own vigorous campaigning to ensure her daughters murder wasnt forgotten. Mr Fulcher believed the man's latest victim might still be alive and feared he might commit suicide without revealing where he'd abandoned her. Halliwell had confessed to her murder of Sian, and revealed he had also killed prostitute Becky Godden in 2003 and left her body at another location. By entering your details, you are agreeing to our terms and conditions and privacy policy. Fulcher has lost his career, he works as a security consultant in Africa. It isnt and it hasnt been. Martin Freeman plays Det Supt Steve Fulcher, the officer who took the monumental gamble which secured the admission but which also led to his own downfall. But Halliwell was eventually found guilty of the murder of Godden-Edwards and was given another life sentence. Theres no question in my mind Halliwell murdered other girls, Fulcher says. Place him under arrest and take him back into custody? The judge said I acted in good faith, he says. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. But I had my maths wrong. As he sentenced him, the judge dismissed Halliwells defence as a cock and bull story and deemed him to be calculating and devious. All rights reserved. All I could do was try to keep him talking.. In March 2011, Sian OCallaghan vanished on a night out in Swindon. After his arrest, Halliwell revealed the location of Sian's body. Fulcher, also a father with two daughters, says: If I didnt take this step, I feared Sian would die alone and abandoned.. He later decided of his own volition to resign from Wiltshire Police.. March 26, 2011 - Halliwell is charged with Miss O'Callaghan's murder. Well the ramifications are clear. September 19, 2016 - Halliwell is convicted of Miss Godden's murder. Here was a man who indicated he might have more victims. If I had followed procedure, then Sian and Beckys bodies may never have been found yet it seems thats what senior authorities wouldve preferred. 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