Sian O\'Callaghan case study PDF

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The series of events that occurred leading up to Sian O'Callaghan's death and the controversial investigation that occurred later into Christopher Halliwell with Stephen Fulcher as the SIO...

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Criminal Investigation 28th September

Westlaw UK – cases

SIO decision making 22 year old woman reported missing by her boyfriend after not returning home from a night club or contacting him -

This kind of thing commonly reported Not a lot will happen straight away Risk assessments

First 24 hours Cctv shows her leaving alone at 2:53 and walking in direction of her home (about 15 mins away) Cctv shows car circling around town at 2:57 stops by the pavement near where she was seen on cctv. When car moves, girl isn’t visible. Assumed to have got in car. Car driving away from her house. Mobile phone registered at telephone mast at 3:06, then near a forest at 3:25 5th day Cctv footage gets reviewed and the car is identified ANPR car shows a dark car matching the cctv footage with a taxi sign on the side. PNC shows the registration and keeper SIO takes over the case and has to make decisions on what to do next. All decisions need to be recorded TIE trace interview eliminate. Find out as much as possible before arrest 24hr surveillance on him. Seen cleaning his rear passenger seat with cleaning fluid Then seen throwing away what turns out to be seat and headrest covers - seized Then puts perfume bottle in dog bin Seen driving through a village and then police spot material burning in a road nearby – seized He is asked for a swab, where he was etc. noticeably nervous Decision not to arrest for one more day

Uses media to say they’re getting close to finding x Surveillance of him overnight incase he leads them to her Plan to leave him for a day and then arrest him Nothing overnight but buys an overdose amount of paracetamol from boots at 10am Took him near the woods, not the station Interviews him He eventually confesses and they find the body. He then directs them to another county and they find another body from 10 years ago He gets to station and asks for a lawyer SIO goes to the media and tells them everything he has found out Confessions were thrown out because SIO deliberately breached PACE but SIO weighed that out with the girl’s right to life SIO came under a lot of criticism by the family, police, media Democracy held up by the rule of law

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