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. Sian wasnt murdered until 2011. He was crying in the car, saying he was a sick f*cker, recalls Fulcher. Some killings are linked by the date March 19 a day on which Halliwell was once dumped by a girlfriend in the 1980s and also the date Sian was killed. Steve is no longer working for Wiltshire police, having left the force back in 2014, but his decision to hand in his notice wasn't one he made lightly. Fulcher had not cautioned Halliwell as he should have under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE). 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. Halliwell is serving life for killing Sian OCallaghan, 22, and Becky Godden, 20. Just five days later her body was found in Oxfordshire. DS Fulcher was found guilty of gross misconduct The following January Det Supt Fulcher was found guilty of gross misconduct and given a final disciplinary warning. The fiend then revealed where cops could find the body of Becky Godden who police did not even know was missing at the time. That girl, we now know, was poor Becky Godden, a much loved daughter who had fallen into drug addiction, prostitution and, ultimately, Halliwells evil hands. Christopher Halliwell, 54, is serving two whole life terms after killing 20-year-old Becky Godden and Sian O'Callaghan, 22. Fulcher, now 49, was then suspended from the Force before being disciplined for gross misconduct and ultimately hounded out of his job. How far should the police go in securing a confession and bringing a killer to justice? Around the pond were not six other items of womens clothing. Jeff Pope, Executive Producer and Writer - explains PACE. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. He was scrolling through pictures on his phone of other women, leading me to suspect there were other victims. Halliwell had been spotted buying a large quantity of pills, so officers were sent in to arrest him. 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. If Im right, well I take comfort from the fact that he hasnt been able to do that since 2011. But Fulcher had taken a different course: 'We drove for about 45 minutes trying to keep him in the moment. Linda Razzell, 41, disappeared in Swindon on March 19, 2002. POLICE unearthed the stash of trophies just 15 miles from where serial killer Christopher Halliwell had led them to Sian OCallaghans body. But I had my maths wrong. You are talking about co-ordinating hundreds of officers. The investigation into her murder was headed up by DS Fulcher who charged cab driver Chris Halliwell with the abduction of the office worker. "Because you don't want to mention a name and then give a family false hope. This is the central thrust of the ITV drama, starring Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton and. "Generally, we echo Fulcher's belief that there are other victims," Pope said, explaining the drama's approach to the question. First he dumped her body near his sick stash at Ramsbury. From the point of his suspension in September 2012 to around April 2013 Mr Fulcher was obliged to inform the force if he planned to leave home for more than 24 hours, extended to two nights after a request to take his daughter to look around universities. As Steve Fulcher tells of his battle with pen-pushers and myopic box-tickers within the police service, one thing is clear: the treatment received by this senior officer is enough to drive anyone to despair at the insanity of our legal system, one in which an obsession with process has taken precedence over the rights of victims and their families. Having guided them to the remote spot where he had dumped her body, Halliwell had suddenly confessed: Im a sick f***er. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. His loyal family had also suffered. In his book, Steve says: At the bottom of a pond that was 8ft deep they found Sian OCallaghans distinctive boot. It seemed astonishing to me they were not pursing lines of enquiry. 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. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. October 19, 2012 - Halliwell admits Miss O'Callaghan's murder at Bristol Crown Court and is jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years. All I could do was try to keep him talking.. Why on earth had this killer been given every conceivable privilege, while a brave, upstanding detective was hung out to dry? In fact she was found in a very shallow grave. 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. Her boyfriend, Kevin Reape, raised the alarm at 9.45am the following morning when Sian hadn't turned up at . Episode six of the six-part series will air tonight Monday . Martin Freeman plays DS Stephen Fulcher in new ITV drama A Confession. 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. Thankfully, circumstantial and forensic evidence ensured Halliwell, 52, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012 for killing Miss OCallaghan. The cop's life imploded when he caught depraved killer Christopher Halliwell. Moreover, as forensic officers set to work, Fulcher was unprepared for what came next. There is a significant gap in his offending. His career was in tatters. 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. But who was driving the vehicle? Lara Keay For Mailonline A career copper, he joined what was then Sussex police in 1986 aged 21. She had been brutally beaten and stabbed. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Wiltshire Police have since issued a statement saying, There is no evidence whatsoever to link him to any other murder in this country. Via CCTV footage and tracing of her mobile signal it quickly became clear this was what Fulcher terms a crime in action. They also seized his green Toyota Avensis. Detective Chief Inspector Sean Memory said there could be an "innocent explanation" but pointed out: "Someone has made some effort to hide it. Police are still continuing their investigation into Halliwell as they believe other victims are yet to be found. May 31, 2012 - Halliwell appears at Preston Crown Court and denies murdering Miss O'Callaghan. During the investigation, Detective Steve Fulcher broke police protocol and extracted not one, but two confessions from the killer. 23:33 GMT 23 Sep 2016 He wanted to use what he believed were emergency powers, to be used only when there is an imminent threat to life. "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. By now, the search for Sian centred round the nearby Iron Age fort of Barbary Castle. Four months later, he resigned from the Wiltshire Police force. Freeman, 47, plays Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher in the ITV show A Confession. By Fulcher has lost his career, he works as a security consultant in Africa. Steve explained that Halliwell told him to drive them to a local beauty spot, a chalk white horse at Uffington - which turned out to be where he had dumped Sian O'Callaghan's body. However, criminal defence barrister Sebastian Gardiner said their must be a way to ensure "police powers are not abused". Fearing he was planning to overdose, the police swooped in and arrested him in an Asda car park in north Swindon, charging him with the kidnap (not murder) of Sian. 'I am really open-minded there is an eight-year gap between Becky and Sian,' Memory said. A Confession which starts on ITV on Monday 2 September at 9pm relives the shocking case of Sian OCallaghan who was murdered by local taxi driver Christopher Halliwell, and how Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher solved the crime, but was punished for his conduct. 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. A Confession is based on the true story of Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher and the disappearance of Sian O'Callaghan. March 30, 2015 - Halliwell is charged with Miss Godden's murder. Fulcher is more than qualified to reflect on how British policing has changed. I offered to give them full and frank disclosure immediately. He was found guilty in January 2014 and given a final written warning by a disciplinary tribunal. However in a new one-off ITV documentary, To Catch a Serial Killer, DS Fulcher insists he did the right thing, saying: 'My view is that I have brought two daughters back to their mothers and I've prevented other victims resulting from Halliwell's continued pursuit of his career as a serial killer. In the meantime he was suspended, left pacing the floor at home with worry. But not before Halliwell, defending himself in court, gloated about how he had ruined Steves career. Judge Mrs Justice Cox ruled both of Halliwell's confessions were inadmissable as evidence because Fulcher had breached Police and Criminal Evidence Act guidelines. Fulcher made the decision to resign from Wiltshire Police force in May, 2014. It turned out to be the remains of Becky. He learned the CPS were considering bringing charges against him for malfeasance in public office. After joining the Wiltshire force in 2003, Fulcher was promoted to Detective Superintendent. While they could go ahead with Sians murder charge, thanks to Halliwells DNA being on her body, the refusal of Fulchers senior officers to further investigate Beckys death, and thus garner more evidence, led the CPS to withdraw that charge. A murder trial began, and in 2016, after two hours of deliberation, a jury found Christopher Halliwell guilty of the murder of Becky Godden-Edwards. When you suspect someone has been abducted or kidnapped their life remains under threat, and there are very clear procedural rules about that.. When do the clocks change in 2023? 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. But Halliwell was eventually found guilty of the murder of Godden-Edwards and was given another life sentence. Five days after her disappearance and desperate to find Sian alive, police had closed in on suspect Halliwell. Fulcher, also a father with two daughters, says: If I didnt take this step, I feared Sian would die alone and abandoned.. 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By effectively acting to ensure Halliwells life was preserved, I was potentially going to cause the death of his victim, he recalls. She too had been strangled. It made little difference: while Fulcher was not sacked he was given a severe reprimand, something he felt left him with no choice but to resign. Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class. Halliwell, 55, had already admitted murdering Sian in Swindon in 2011, but DS Fulcher's intervention saw him confess to killing Becky Godden 20 years earlier as well. March 24, 2011 - Halliwell leads Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, of Wiltshire Police, to the locations of Miss O'Callaghan and Miss Godden's bodies. All the while, Fulcher delayed making an arrest, hoping Halliwell might lead them to Sian, whom he fervently hoped might still be alive. However, Fulcher had taken Halliwell to a field in the Wiltshire countryside for this discussion without cautioning him or allowing him access to a solicitor. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. And despite Karen Edwards best efforts, there have been no changes to arrest guidelines. It also meant Halliwell was able to evade justice for Becky's murder when he was found guilty of Sian's killing in 2012. Natalie Corner For Mailonline This investigation damaged Fulcher's career as a senior police officer, and despite keeping his job with a final written warning in January 2014, he resigned from the force in May of that year. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. A wealth of experience which was brought to bear when, on March 19th 2011, office administrator Sian OCallaghan was reported missing by her boyfriend after being last seen outside a nightclub in Swindon town centre in the small hours. At this point, with the focus shifting from kidnap to murder, Fulcher should, according to guidelines drawn up in The Police and Criminal Evidence Act of 1984 (PACE), have cautioned Halliwell again. A judge then ruled that Halliwell's confessions to killing both victims were actually inadmissible as evidence in court. The senior investigating officer on the case was Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher (played in A Confession by Martin Freeman) and the events of 24th March would be the defining moment of his career. But whats the true story behind Steve Fulcher? Once more, PACE guidelines state Fulcher should have cautioned Halliwell yet doing so, he maintains, would have meant losing the moment, with Halliwell removed to a police station where he would have been given a solicitor whose role, as he points out, is to stop clients incriminating themselves. Halliwell was not charged with Becky's murder in his 2012 trial, as a judge had ruled his confession to the crime was inadmissible in court. I felt my position was untenable.. No trace of her has ever been found. But only this week, five-and-a-half years after he led Fulcher to her remains, was he convicted of the murder of Becky Godden, at last bringing closure to her anguished family. It need never have been so. Quite rightly it gives protection to the innocent. It was a moment which, perhaps better than any other, summed up the monstrous injustice meted out to DS Fulcher and exposed the deeply warped priorities of our legal system. 12:23 GMT 20 Sep 2018. 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. Trying to find Ireland's best burger or best pizza? How was the killer Christopher Halliwell caught? So he definitely killed Sian in March 2011, he definitely killed Becky early 2003. When OCallaghan was reported missing on 19 March 2011, DS Steve Fulcher of Wiltshire Police was brought in to lead the case. ', Afterwards Fulcher said of Halliwell: 'We had a surreal exchange, he knew that he had given his life away. It doesnt even sound true. 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. In May 2014, Fulcher resigned from Wiltshire Police. 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. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Former cop Steve Fulcher says: Are you seriously telling me that on two occasions he brutally murdered two women and then theres nothing before or since?. He's not forensically linked to outstanding cases. He said: If I had taken Halliwell into custody we would never have found Sian and obviously we would never have heard of his other victim Becky Godden. In 2014, he was found guilty of misconduct at a disciplinary hearing. As he points out, however, his focus was on one thing: finding Sian. Steve says Halliwell then asked him, "Do you want another one?"'. There were 60. Her husband Glyn has spent 13 years in jail for her murder but maintains his innocence. In it, he argues that his actions were to preserve the life of a hostage, as he was working on the assumption OCallaghan could still be alive and that Halliwell could lead him to her. It has been devastating for everyone, he says quietly. 10:45 GMT 24 Sep 2016, By the way, it was a pleasure ruining your career, you corrupt b*****d.. At Wiltshire he had solved several murders while simultaneously gaining a Masters Degree in Criminology from the University of Cambridge. Fulcher has lost his career, he works as a security consultant in Africa. Something went wrong, please try again later. He later decided of his own volition to resign from Wiltshire Police.. 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. 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. In March 2011, Sian OCallaghan vanished on a night out in Swindon. He was allowed to keep his job, but later resigned. Another potential victim is prostitute Sally Ann John, 24, who vanished from Swindon in 1995. He still believes he made the right decisions on that day. Why would this not be the biggest, most protracted, most vigorous investigation in the history of British policing?. Halliwells father lived a few streets from the home of chef Claudia Lawrence, who has been missing since March 19, 2009. If she had traveled 12 miles in just half an hour, that meant the journey from Swindon Old Town could only have been made in a vehicle. Martin Freeman plays Det Supt Fulcher, Imelda Staunton is Karen Edwards, Beckys mother, Siobhan Finneran features as Elaine Pickford, Sians mother. Monday 7 October 2019, 5:22pm. "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. The worst part, Fulcher says, is none of its surprising. Officers observed Halliwell depositing a perfume bottle, car seat covers and bloodied tissues in bins in assorted rural locations. 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. , updated They are puppets blowing with the prevailing political wind. Sian OCallaghans family certainly think so, as does Becky Goddens mother Karen. Four days later, Fulcher said significant lines of inquiry were being developed and he revealed that they were looking for information and witnesses of a green Toyota Avensis with taxi markings that had been seen in the area after her disappearance. He lost his police pension worth 500,000, had to sell his house and now works training police in war-torn Somalia. I did these things because they were the right things to do in these circumstances. The last sighting of her was in the Manchester Road area, in the towns red-light district, at 10.45pm on September 8, 1995. There is an obsession with procedure at the expense of the bigger picture. 12:20 GMT 20 Sep 2018 Some claimed the manner in which Steve gained Halliwells confessions was "arrogant and reckless". But forensic evidence that has been used to convict [Halliwell] was available back in 2011. Fulcher made the decision. ", Why? 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