In March 2015 a new name was added to the list of shamed TV personalities guilty of sexual abuse. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e3: Fred Talbot
‘The former TV weatherman Fred Talbot has been convicted at Lanark Sheriff Court of a string of historical sex offences against boys.’ ibid. BBC news
Fred Talbot, Fred the weatherman, famous for leaping around a floating map on ITV’s This Morning, was jailed for five years. It was the result of a huge police investigation. ibid.
An incredible interview tape with Fred Talbot was released. ibid.
These over-exaggerated hand movements or hand gestures are when you want to convince someone … If you’re telling the truth you don’t need that exaggeration. ibid. Cliff
Jailed for 5 years in 2017, Fred Talbot faced 9 more charges. Scotland had been the destination for many of his school trips. Its separate legal system meant a separate trial. With a new star witness for the prosecution. Convicted of 7 offences and jailed for 4 years, Talbot then faced a third trial. ibid.
Fred Talbot finally and for the first time pleaded guilty. ibid.
*Dawn: Syllable lengthening & pauses = thinking on feet
* Cliff: Clamping across stomach
Carlisle, June 2015: At midnight a teenager lies amongst the gravestones. He screamed out for help before being murdered. But it would not be until the following morning that his body would be discovered. The victim was Jordan Watson aged 14. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e3: Thomson
Very soon the police had a suspect: George Thomson, 18, 4 years older than Jordan Watson. … Police found traces of blood on one of the knives in his bedroom, and the glove at the cemetery contained Watson’s DNA. ibid.
He starts to wriggle, manoeuvre, manipulate, the legs are vibrating, his head’s moving, he’s touching his face … ibid. Cliff
Jordan had been coming under the influence of George Thomson. But Thomson had another reason for getting close to the schoolboy. ibid.
‘George had developed an infatuation with Jordan’s girlfriend.’ ibid. dude
Police found traces of Jordan’s blood on one of the knives in his [Thomson’s] bedroom. ibid.
* Cliff: Heads shakes no, then the words come out, not synchronised, likely to be deception.
* Dawn: Drop in volume lacks certainty
* C: clamps hands, legs move, arms move = high anxiety
* ‘I’ omission is a potential sign of distancing
For the first time ever, analysing the words and actions of Britain’s most prolific serial killer: the moment Harold Shipman appeared paralysed by fear. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e4: Harold Shipman
For the leading QC who put him behind bars extensive questioning produced no explanation: ‘At no stage in those six days of cross-examination did I detect any sense at all of regret on his part or for anything that he had done.’ ibid.
The biggest mass murder in British criminal history. Hundreds killed by one man, a local GP Harold Shipman. A position he believed gave him power over life and death. ibid.
Observing the doctor’s power as he eased his mother towards her death appears to have exerted a lasting influence on Harold Shipman. ibid.
But his power was draining away. Linking Mrs Grundy to local drug dealers was wrong and desperate. ibid.
January 2016: In North London a man is questioned by police. A murder [Yiannoulla Yianni] that had happened 33 years earlier. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e4: James Warnock
‘With the advances in DNA there was a match.’ ibid. woman
‘The girl. I knew her. The poor girl that got murdered, I knew her. We just got on really well. And it ended up in like sexual, you know. And it was. You know. But I was, I was only young and she was, she was …’ ibid. Warnock to rozzer
We have a change in skin colour here, where his cheeks and his nose are increasing in redness. ibid. Cliff
His DNA is an exact match for DNA retrieved from the crime scene. ibid.
* Chris: Affirmative positive statement contradicted with hand shrug = no confidence & slight headshake no & shoulder shrugs & eye closure = big porkies
He killed their child then moved in on the family. The bus driver who hijacked the search for an eight-year-old boy … The judge described his actions as truly wicked. He killed their son, now he was manipulating the family. The leader and incredibly the lodger. On a May bank holiday in 1997 passengers on a Manchester bus noticed something unusual – a small boy alone being allowed by the driver to do anything he liked. The boy is Jamie Lavis, eight years old; the driver, Darren Vickers. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e5: Darren Vickers
How does he [Vickers] know that he’s the last person to see Jamie alive? ibid.
Here we have a viper in the nest. The perpetrator has implanted himself into the family. ibid. Cliff
But it was his TV appearances that would seal his fate. ibid.
* Cliff: Slight shoulder shrug & head shake no x2 = contradicts
* Dawn: Missing “I” (distancing) & can’t say name
* Cliff ‘Someone out there has got to be sick!’ & micro headshake no
Cardiff Bay Police Station, south Wales, August 2016: Detectives are investigating the death of a young woman, a foreign student named XiXi Bi, aged 24. The prime suspect her partner, Jordan Matthews, also 24. In the next 98 seconds Jordan Matthews revealed a series of assaults he’d made on his girlfriend. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e5: Jordan Matthews
‘I punched her in the stomach. I just lost it …’ ibid.
We see no remorse. We don’t see any anger, and there’s no indication of emotion here. Is he a psychopath? ibid. Cliff
Matthews, a pub chef, lived off Xixi’s generosity. ibid.
His lies began in the interview room. ibid.
He is consciously trying to minimize his actions … She was found with bruising over a third of her body. ibid.
* Dawn: a belief, ‘I think I’m half responsible …’ instead of telling us
* Chris: Head nods after the statement = convince modern
* C: Single-sided shoulder shrug = gives whole thing away
* C: ‘I promise you’ used when truth not on side
He had stalked Shana Grice for months. A murder investigation with only one suspect: Michael Lane … Aged 19, Shana Grice had been discovered dead in her bedroom. What had happened would lead to a major investigation into the conduct of one of Britain’s most prominent police forces and a revision of the nation’s laws on stalking. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e6: Michael Lane
Shana finished the relationship and returned to her long-term boyfriend. Michael Lane reacted. ibid.
At dawn he used a stolen key to enter the house that Shana shared with two female housemates. ibid.
‘I’m just not right in the head.’ ibid. Lane
Brighton, Sussex, 2016: Shana Grice, aged 19, has been stalked by a former boyfriend, Michael Lane, 26, for months. She’d reported that he’d assaulted her in the street. Lane misled officers into believing he and Shana were still in a relationship. Shana received a fixed penalty fine for wasting police time. Her family say she was fined £90. ibid.
‘Shana’s blood was on those trainers.’ ibid. rozzer
Sussex referred its handling of the case to independent investigation and has cooperated with the Inquiry. ibid.
* Cliff: Blinking before and after is a blink sandwich = thinking hard = probable lie & headshake no & hand shrug = deception
* C: 12 x lip presses = he’s struggling, keeping check
* C: He stares at interviewer to check if he’s believed
* C: No emotion, careful presentation of story