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00:00To be told that your daughter's been murdered and then dealt with in terrible ways is just like a living nightmare, really.
00:11He'd taken photographs of her with a rope round her neck.
00:16There was no psychiatric excuse for what he did. He's just an extremely dangerous man.
00:22On the 26th of May 2013, in the quiet town of Telford, Shropshire, 22-year-old Jamie Reynolds invited local college student Georgia Williams to take part in a photo shoot.
00:37Georgia thought she was helping out a friend. In reality, she was walking to the trap of a voyeuristic and evil killer.
00:44He'd got the clothing in place. He'd got a whole hanging paraphernalia in place. This was the end of several weeks of preparation.
00:54He had been obsessed with watching what they call snuff movies, which includes women being hanged. And that's what he did to Georgia.
01:06The revelations that would follow Georgia's murder would leave a family in tatters and lead a police force into a national scandal.
01:15The chief constable of West Mercia Police, David Shaw, has said his force seriously let down the parents of a teenager who was murdered in Shropshire two years ago.
01:25They killed Georgia by not dealing with him properly.
01:28He shouldn't have been on the streets still. He was a danger to people.
01:32I have to fight with that image of Georgia being tortured to death.
01:41To be honest, it's just more or less the way it was, isn't it, really?
02:04Just the bits that we've added since she's been gone, really.
02:07Yeah.
02:11These are the Disney figures that Georgia had started collecting before a tragic death.
02:24We'd gone out on the Sunday that she'd been killed and we'd gone out to get her some bits because she was going to go to Paris.
02:32So she wanted something a bit, sort of like, cheeky to wear.
02:38I've put this in here, it's never to be worn again.
02:45Because I wore it at a funeral.
02:46I wore my uniform because, to show her respect.
02:56She was proud of you being in the place.
02:58Yeah, she was.
02:59And that's why...
03:00It's only right.
03:01That's why I did it and she wore her cadet uniform for a funeral.
03:08I miss her dearly, I do.
03:15I really, really miss her.
03:19On the 8th of September, 1995, Georgia Williams was born to parents Steve and Lynette.
03:35People try to predict the child that you're going to have when your wife's pregnant.
03:40And I always dreamt of another girl.
03:42And when she was born, I was over the moon.
03:44Just three weeks after Georgia's birth, her father, Steve, completed his police officer training, fulfilling a lifelong dream.
03:52I'd always wanted to be a police officer for a long time.
03:55When I was 39, I went for all the tests, passed and got in.
04:01She was about four weeks old on my passing out parade.
04:04It was just like the icing on the cake to have Georgia and Steve doing that job that he had really, like, strived to get into.
04:16That made our family complete and that's all I ever wanted.
04:20A fulfilling career and a beautiful family.
04:25Hello.
04:26Hello.
04:26With their family complete, Steve, Lynette and their elder daughter, Scarlett, settled into their new lives together.
04:35We all bonded really well.
04:37If we did anything, it was always all together.
04:39It was always the four of us.
04:41I beat the kid!
04:44We did loads of things together.
04:47Got together like a house on fire, really.
04:48Similar personalities, similar interests and hobbies.
04:51Scarlett's friend, Jadine, became extremely close to the family.
04:57Georgia was like another little sister.
04:59We went away on family holidays.
05:01I always got included in the family activities and she'd always be trying to get involved in whatever me and Scarlett were doing.
05:06Heart of gold.
05:08So sweet.
05:09Kind, caring.
05:10Always thought about others.
05:13As she grew up, Georgia started to blossom.
05:16She started to take interest in life from a really, really early age.
05:23She got more and more into sport and outside activities.
05:29She joined the cadets.
05:31In fact, she'd set her heart on becoming a member of the RAF.
05:37As Georgia moved further into her teenage years, her social circle began to grow.
05:42She wanted to be involved with everybody and everything that was going on.
05:46Unfortunately, because she did hang around with such a diverse group of friends, she did eventually get involved with Jamie Reynolds.
05:55Jamie Reynolds worked at the petrol station near to the Williams family home.
06:01Scarlett went to school with Jamie Reynolds and then, obviously, he started working at the garage, which is like two minutes' walk from our house.
06:09So we'd go around and he would be serving behind the counter.
06:13He wasn't a big character at all.
06:16He was very quiet, very reclusive.
06:19He generally kept himself to himself.
06:21He wasn't an unpleasant guy.
06:24At 17, Georgia began working at the same petrol station.
06:28That was where she got to know Reynolds, because he became part of a wider group of friends.
06:36I never, ever looked at him and thought, judgmentally, or it's something not right about him, or he just seemed like a normal person at the time.
06:45So, as Georgia and Jamie spent more time together, he made it clear he wanted more than friendship.
06:52Jamie had texted Georgia several times asking her to go on a date with him.
06:57She very politely turned him down on several occasions.
07:01She had a boyfriend at the time who she was head over heels about, you know.
07:06She was mad about Matt, and that was all she worried about.
07:09But Jamie continued to pursue Georgia, contacting her on Facebook and telling her how unhappy he was with his career.
07:17He put things out on social media, saying, I know what I want to do, I want to be a photographer.
07:25Jamie pestered Georgia and her friends to take part in a photo shoot.
07:30He was persistent, and once again, he didn't show any aggression or anything like this.
07:37What he did, he made people feel sorry for him.
07:41A group of girls said, OK, then, we'll do some photo shoots with you.
07:47And I think it was that that persuaded Georgia, all right, then, I'll give it a go.
07:56On Sunday, the 26th of May, 2013, Jamie invited Georgia to come to his house.
08:03We had family around, we were having a barbecue and stuff, and we were like, just stay in.
08:07The phone kept pinging, I said, will you turn that off nice?
08:09And she said, oh, it's Jamie, he just wants to make sure that I'm going tonight.
08:14She said, I do feel sorry for him, she said, because it is a shame.
08:17She said, he's stuck in a job he doesn't want to do, and this is his way out.
08:21The type of person that she is, is that if she's promised you something, she will follow it through.
08:26In her head, she was helping out a friend in need.
08:30And that was it, and she left.
08:32And that was the last we saw of her.
08:38Telford teenager Georgia Williams has agreed to take part in a photo shoot with Jamie Reynolds to help him achieve his dream of becoming a photographer.
09:00He kept on putting out, oh, I'm fed up with my job, I can do better than this.
09:05I do want to progress onto something else I could do with people, helping me.
09:12Jamie has persistently texted Georgia to check she's still coming.
09:17The phone kept pinging on, that's when I was saying, oh, don't bother going now, it's a bit late now.
09:20And she was going, no, no, I'm going.
09:22She said, me other mates going up there, she said, so I'll meet them up there.
09:26Looking back, to be honest, I don't think Georgia was too keen.
09:30She was in two minds on whether to go up there or not.
09:35Believing she is one of several girls taking part, Georgia is on her way to Jamie's home.
09:41Georgia left at about ten to eight that night, and it is literally five minutes' walk.
09:49Takes no time to get to Reynolds' house.
09:51His mother and stepfather had gone away to Italy for a week.
09:56The house was his, the house was empty.
09:59This was the end of several weeks of preparation,
10:02where he was going to get a girl to that house during that week,
10:07but his prize was Georgia.
10:10Georgia arrived at Reynolds' house just after 7.30pm.
10:14Hours passed, but she did not return home.
10:17I'm now messaging her, where are you?
10:22You should be home now.
10:24So then I was getting messages back.
10:27Have gone on out.
10:29We'll text you later.
10:32We'll probably stay out.
10:34The early hours came, and Lynette thought, this isn't right, where's Georgia?
10:41Tried ringing, but it wouldn't answer.
10:45And it just went to voicemail.
10:46Lynette sent a text.
10:49Where are you and who you with?
10:51Text came back, said, I decided to stay at my mate's house.
10:56I'm fine.
10:57I'll see you a bit later.
10:59So we had that text from Georgia's phone.
11:04Nothing to worry about.
11:06The Monday morning when we woke up and she wasn't here, it was out of character for us.
11:14She'd tell us where she was.
11:16Scarlett put up a status asking if anybody had seen or heard from Georgia because she hadn't been home in 24 hours.
11:23One of her friends commented saying she was with Jamie last.
11:28Scarlett rang Reynolds up and he said that she'd left the night before.
11:35So I said, do you know whose friends that she stayed at?
11:38And he just replied saying that he'd been sick and he went to bed and Georgia had left because of that and she'd stayed with a different friend.
11:47But Reynolds was not unwell.
11:54On the morning of the 27th of May, he left Telford in his father's van and headed west.
11:59At 13.28, he's caught on CCTV at a petrol station.
12:08Later that same day, he's seen again, this time at the Odeon Cinema in Wrexham, Wales.
12:15In Telford, Georgia is yet to return home.
12:18When it got to that afternoon and she still hadn't come back, that's when you really start to worry because it's not like her at all.
12:25I thought, she doesn't do this to me.
12:27So we were ringing and it was just going to voicemail all the time.
12:31And so that's when I started to panic.
12:34I waited all night.
12:36I stood looking through the window.
12:38As it started to get light, I started to think to myself, I'm going to ring the police.
12:49I rang the police.
12:50I said, look, it's out of character.
12:52She last went to Jamie Reynolds' house and then she left with friends.
13:00I had a telephone call back and it was a sergeant, a friend of mine.
13:07He says, we've got a photo of Jamie Reynolds.
13:09Has he still got this weird haircut?
13:14And I said, what, Jamie Reynolds?
13:16He says, yeah.
13:16I put the phone down and it was then when I thought to myself, they've got a photo of him.
13:26He must have committed an offence at some stage.
13:29Within half an hour, there was flashing blue lights going past our house, going up to Jamie's.
13:37And I could see on my dad's face then that he thought something was wrong.
13:42After learning Georgia was last seen with Jamie Reynolds, the police appeared unusually panicked.
13:47After about half an hour, I got a telephone call from the same sergeant who'd spoke to me before and said, Steve, he says, we've put the door in at Reynolds' house.
14:03George is not there.
14:04He says, there's no sign that George has ever been there.
14:06He says, it looks neat and tidy.
14:09He said, they don't go in and kick the door down straight away like that.
14:12He said, they've obviously got something on him that's ringing alarm bells with them.
14:17The police investigation was about to take another unexpected turn when they made a visit to Scarlett's best friend, Jadine.
14:26My door knocked.
14:27I answered it and it was the police asking if I knew Jamie Reynolds and if they could ask me a few questions.
14:34They were really vague with me.
14:36It left me feeling really quite confused.
14:38And then they asked me if I would identify some images.
14:43The picture was a doctored image of me.
14:46Noose around my neck, eyes bulging.
14:51A shocking manner really.
14:53He doctored an old image of me.
14:56Jamie Reynolds had been creating sexually violent images of Jadine and other young girls from the area, which the police were already aware of.
15:04My first thought was, where's this image come from?
15:09Why am I only hearing about it now?
15:11It instantly hit to me that something wasn't right and that something has gone wrong somewhere.
15:17They completely shrugged the question off, doled it down and told me it was a uniform matter and not to worry.
15:23As details of Reynolds' history of violent sexual fantasies emerged, police were growing increasingly desperate to find Georgia.
15:30They conducted a search of Reynolds' home to find clues to her whereabouts.
15:38About five o'clock, the two senior police officers that had now taken over the investigation turned up.
15:46They'd found his digital camera and he thought he'd deleted everything off there.
15:51They said, Steve, we've got some initial information and we believe that there's evidence on there that he's murdered Georgia.
16:04I just remember hearing my parents start crying.
16:13My dad crying and my mum.
16:18Lynette was saying, don't say that, don't say that.
16:21You don't know yet.
16:22You don't know.
16:23And I said, Lynette, they know.
16:25They know he's killed her.
16:27They've found some sort of evidence.
16:30Steve was physically sick.
16:34Scarlett was screaming.
16:36I ran in and demanded that they tell me what they'd just said.
16:41They just said, we believe Georgia's dead.
16:45Pictures recovered from Reynolds' camera revealed the horrifying reality of what had happened to Georgia.
16:57Georgia arrived at Reynolds' house.
17:00He told her that he was interested in a project whereby he would film a young girl with a noose around her neck.
17:11He'd taken photographs of her with a rope around her neck.
17:20Stood on a case of some sort.
17:25He would have kicked the box away.
17:28And one of the most grotesque features of all of it is that he wanted to watch her and video her or film her
17:39in that position, dying.
17:42He commenced murdering Georgia at about 22 minutes past eight,
17:49because there's times on the photographic equipment that he used.
17:54And he finished at about quarter to nine.
17:57The next photograph of her after death is on the bed in his parents' room.
18:07There are subsequent photographs of her downstairs in the hall and the kitchen.
18:12He'd removed all of her clothing.
18:15He'd engaged in extensive and differing sexual activity with her.
18:19Having sex with her body.
18:26So, um...
18:28He had completely disregard for...
18:32..human feelings.
18:36Human dignity.
18:39He was only concerned in fuelling his own...
18:42..pleasure.
18:44To be told that your daughter's been murdered and, um...
18:51..and then dealt with in terrible ways
18:56is something that you can't really describe.
19:01It's just...
19:02..it's just like a living nightmare, really.
19:07Despite all the evidence of her murder,
19:10Georgia's body was yet to be found.
19:11The police were now on a manhunt for a murderer,
19:19and Jamie Reynolds was leaving a trail of digital evidence behind him.
19:24At 15.20, on Tuesday the 29th of May,
19:28he was captured on CCTV again,
19:30this time in a Glasgow car park.
19:34Appearing calm and collected,
19:36he's seen to change his clothes before leaving.
19:38He then checks into a Premier Inn in Glasgow's city centre.
19:44So they have thousands of sightings
19:46of either Reynolds and or the vehicle,
19:49so they can track him step by step.
19:53In the early hours of Wednesday the 29th of May,
19:56police eventually catch up with Reynolds.
19:58He was arrested in the middle of the night at the Premier Inn in Glasgow.
20:06He was interviewed through the Wednesday,
20:08the Thursday and the Friday.
20:11He denied any knowledge of what had happened to Georgia Williams.
20:15He said,
20:15I can't remember what happened on Sunday night.
20:20I was ill.
20:22I don't know where she is.
20:23It is complete self-indulgence.
20:27I didn't feel well.
20:28I had to go to bed.
20:30I have trouble remembering.
20:32I have complete amnesia.
20:34They put the evidence to him.
20:36They asked where she was.
20:39And he wouldn't tell them.
20:41He lied and lied and lied.
20:43And the theme of the lies is his own plight.
20:47Police were now desperate to find Georgia's body.
20:51With Reynolds giving nothing away,
20:52they decide to make a public appeal on Crimewatch
20:54for any sightings of the van he was driving.
20:57A man and his daughter rang up and said,
21:01we saw that van in the hills, in Wales.
21:04It was stuck in mud.
21:06And the man's daughter had, in jest, to be honest, taken a photo.
21:16And it's at that point that they began to realise
21:19that's where the body may well have been deposited.
21:25Policed in West Marcia say they believe
21:27they have found the body of the missing teenager, Georgia Williams,
21:30and they have charged 22-year-old Jamie Reynolds with her murder.
21:35She was dumped in a boggy pool,
21:42in a wood on a Welsh mountainside.
21:48It was unbelievable.
21:53And you were just in a total state of shock.
21:57The news left a family and community in mourning.
22:01When the news came through that a body had been found
22:05and then identified,
22:07the community was traumatised, absolutely traumatised,
22:10because Telford is a small, tight-knit place
22:12where people all know each other.
22:14It was immediately a big tragedy for the community.
22:17While Georgia's family attempted to come to terms
22:19with their devastating loss,
22:21Reynolds was remanded in custody,
22:23awaiting trial for her murder.
22:26Only then would the full truth of his sordid past begin to emerge.
22:30You could just see then
22:31that actually he'd just been biding his time to kill someone.
22:36Unfortunately, it was our daughter.
22:40Jamie Reynolds is awaiting trial
22:49for the brutal murder of Georgia Williams.
22:52Photos recovered from his camera
22:54have shown him hanging Georgia,
22:56then sexually abusing her body.
22:59As the authorities prepared the case for trial,
23:01the full nature of Reynolds' twisted planning
23:04in the weeks leading up to Georgia's death
23:05began to emerge.
23:09He'd started writing stories.
23:12His main story was the one about Georgia.
23:15It was called Georgia's Surprise.
23:18He describes in that story
23:20everything that he planned to do to Georgia.
23:27It wasn't just something that he fantasised up in his head.
23:29It was a plan, and it was premeditated.
23:31He'd done little trial runs with other girls,
23:36and he perfected what he wanted to do,
23:40and he did it very meticulously.
23:43He'd got the clothing in place.
23:45He'd got a whole hanging paraphernalia in place.
23:50This was the end of several weeks of preparation.
23:54Reynolds had meticulously planned
23:55to deceive Georgia's family
23:57into believing they were receiving texts from her.
23:59The police found his notes written in a book.
24:03He'd put,
24:04I must remember Georgia's access code is this.
24:10He even put the three capital X's
24:16that Georgia always signed off with as three kisses.
24:21With Georgia's family believing he was unwell in Telford,
24:24Reynolds had carefully choreographed his escape.
24:26He put Georgia's naked body in the back of the van.
24:32What he did was leave Wellington,
24:36fill up with petrol,
24:38drive to Wales,
24:40scout out where he was going to leave the body,
24:44and then drive in to a town in Wales
24:46where he went to the cinema.
24:49Reynolds had kept Georgia's dead body in his van
24:52for hours after her death.
24:54He left Georgia in the back of his van.
24:58He went in and bought some popcorn and sweets
25:00and he watched Fast and the Furious 6,
25:05which we know that about two weeks beforehand,
25:10he'd text her saying,
25:12do you want to come to the pictures
25:13and watch Fast and the Furious 6?
25:15And she said, I'm sorry, I can't,
25:18I'm going with Matt, my boyfriend.
25:22Reynolds had then driven to the remote patch of woodland
25:25he'd scouted out.
25:27He would have got the body out of the back of the van,
25:31naked,
25:32and manhandled and carried her up this path
25:36and then just deposited the body.
25:39That's what really hurts as well.
25:41You just stick her in the boot of the van,
25:44drive around with her,
25:45then to go and dump her
25:47in the most desolate of places
25:50that you can think of.
25:52It's just
25:53the most callous, cold thing.
25:57The revelations about Reynolds' treatment of Georgia
26:00only compounded the family's grief.
26:02On the 14th of June, 2013,
26:06Georgia's family, friends,
26:07and the Telford community
26:08gathered together for her funeral.
26:12I wanted to make sure she had a really good send-off
26:15because I thought,
26:16I can't do anything else for her in life.
26:19So, yeah, so I, you know,
26:22I got everybody involved
26:24with blue and orange ribbons.
26:26The church was full.
26:28Outside was full.
26:29There was clean-cut cadet members.
26:34There were goths.
26:35There was people from all sorts of backgrounds
26:39and religions.
26:42I wanted to proper send-in-off
26:44or I haven't got a wedding to plan for
26:46or anything like that,
26:47so that's why I did that.
26:49With their daughter late arrest
26:51and her killer in custody,
26:53the Williams family began to prepare themselves
26:55for the trial.
26:56But the revelations that were about to follow
26:59would plunge them back into trauma.
27:02We were driven to a meeting
27:03and they then produced the file
27:06with all the documents in
27:08and all the details about his previous incidents,
27:13which none of us knew about.
27:15It said this man is a danger to all women.
27:18To their horror,
27:19Steve and Lynette learned that Reynolds
27:20had been known to the police since 2008.
27:23He'd been arrested in 2008
27:28when he was 17
27:30for luring a girl back to the empty house,
27:33the same house,
27:34while his parents were away
27:36and embarking upon an assault
27:40where he tried to strangle her.
27:42She feared for her life,
27:44but she managed to escape,
27:46so she rang the police.
27:48He was arrested on the 9th of January.
27:50He said, no, it didn't happen that way.
27:54I only touched her once.
27:57He's completely twisting the story to suit himself.
28:01After the attack,
28:02the interviewing officer had filed an intelligence report
28:05warning of the danger posed by Reynolds.
28:08They say, in their consideration,
28:11he's one of the most dangerous persons they've ever met.
28:14But police took no further action.
28:17He was released
28:18with just a caution,
28:20which is just like a tap on the hand, really,
28:22a naughty boy sort of thing.
28:24If he'd been prosecuted,
28:26it may have prevented
28:27what was to follow.
28:29The 2008 incident
28:31prompted Reynolds' parents
28:33to tell the police
28:34he was developing an obsession
28:35with violent pornographic material.
28:38It was clear that
28:39from a relatively young age,
28:43about 14,
28:45he had been obsessed
28:46with watching snuff movies.
28:49I think the figures
28:50are something like 16,000 images.
28:54It's right at the extreme end,
28:56with girls being killed,
28:58dancing on the end of the rope,
28:59being sexually assaulted
29:01in the course of all that.
29:03We start asking questions,
29:04and we were getting,
29:06basically,
29:07we were getting
29:07blank responses.
29:10Despite his parents' concern,
29:12the police took no further action.
29:15Unchecked,
29:16Reynolds' fantasies
29:17started to bleed into reality.
29:19He took pictures of girls he knew
29:22that he would get off
29:23things like Facebook,
29:26and he'd add his own sexual imagery
29:29to the face,
29:30put a noose around the neck,
29:32hang the girl.
29:33He was obsessed
29:35with this kind of material,
29:37but what he wanted
29:38was to be involved in doing it
29:40and not just looking at it.
29:43He got a list of girls,
29:4532 girls in this area
29:48that was on his list
29:49that he fantasised about killing.
29:53One of those girls
29:54was Scarlett's best friend,
29:56Jadine.
29:57His own parents felt like
29:59I could have been at danger.
30:00The police would have known
30:02that I could have been in danger.
30:04I was a girl that he knew.
30:05I was a girl who lived nearby,
30:07and knowing that he had those fantasies
30:09and he had those pictures
30:11makes me feel disregarded
30:13by the police completely.
30:15How can they not see it
30:16as a warning sign,
30:17as a red flag?
30:18The authorities made the decision
30:21not to inform the young women
30:22about the photos.
30:24The people who made the decision
30:26said they didn't want to upset the girls.
30:28In 2011,
30:29Reynolds once again
30:30came to the attention of the police.
30:32We'd been harassing a girl.
30:35When she turned down his advances,
30:37he rammed his car
30:39into her car
30:41and caused extensive damage.
30:45He then convinces
30:47those police that turn up that night
30:50that once again
30:52that was an accident.
30:53He convinces them
30:54that he's depressed,
30:57he's suicidal.
30:58The police treated the crash
31:00as a domestic incident
31:02and did not perform background checks.
31:04They do no checks on him
31:06as to his past,
31:08as to all the intelligence
31:12that's on him
31:13saying he's a very,
31:14very dangerous person.
31:16Once again,
31:17he gets away with it.
31:19He fools the police.
31:21With no further involvement
31:22from the police,
31:24Reynolds was able
31:24to freely prey on Georgia.
31:26If they'd have just followed through
31:29on one of the issues
31:30that he was involved in,
31:32we would have known
31:34and Georgia would never
31:34have been his friend.
31:35I seriously believe
31:37that if those officers
31:38had done their job properly,
31:40that Georgia would be alive now.
31:45Still reeling from revelations
31:47about Reynolds' involvement
31:48with the police,
31:49the family prepared
31:50for the trial.
31:51A Crown Court hearing date
31:53was set for 3 October 2013,
31:56where Reynolds would enter his plea.
31:58It wasn't an issue
31:59as to whether or not
32:00he'd done it.
32:02It was recognised
32:03that he'd done it.
32:04The last refuge
32:07he sought
32:08was whether or not
32:09there might be
32:10some psychiatric defence
32:12to try to reduce
32:14murder to manslaughter.
32:15The family were to come
32:17face to face
32:17with their daughter's killer.
32:19We were told
32:19it would probably be quick.
32:20We were all really anxious
32:22and you could just see
32:24around a little bit of a corner
32:25he was waiting to come in.
32:27We could actually
32:28see him standing there
32:29and with the guards
32:30having a laugh and a joke.
32:32I cried when I saw his attitude.
32:35I wanted to stand up
32:36and shout at him.
32:38He sat there
32:39trying to pass himself off
32:40as a respectable human being
32:42or whatever.
32:43It makes you sick.
32:44I couldn't look at him.
32:47If I could have gone over it
32:49I'd have killed him
32:50myself then
32:50because I thought
32:51he'd got no remorse
32:54whatsoever.
32:55If you film
32:56what you've done
32:58in your house
33:00where you live
33:01in every room
33:03you're included
33:05in those photos
33:06sometimes naked
33:08with a dead body
33:09what defence
33:14do you have?
33:16The court waited anxiously
33:18to hear Reynolds' plea.
33:20He went not guilty.
33:23I think Reynolds
33:24was hoping
33:25that he could convince
33:26a psychiatrist
33:28that he was mad.
33:29You've got photographs
33:30of you killing her
33:31then doing everything else after.
33:34How can somebody
33:35stand there
33:36and say
33:36well I'm not guilty now?
33:38The trial was delayed
33:40while Reynolds was assessed
33:41by a mental health expert.
33:43The psychiatric examination
33:45of him
33:45disclosed
33:47just how fundamentally
33:49and inherently
33:49dangerous he was.
33:52There was no psychiatric
33:53excuse for what
33:54what he did
33:54he's just an extremely
33:56dangerous man.
33:59On the 2nd of December
34:002013
34:01the trial began.
34:03With the psychiatric reports
34:04giving no support
34:05to a defence
34:06of diminished responsibility
34:07the family waited anxiously
34:09to hear if Reynolds
34:10would change his plea.
34:11We were still on tenterooks.
34:15We had no guarantee
34:16that that was what
34:17was going to happen
34:18so we prepared ourselves
34:19for the court case.
34:23He pleaded guilty.
34:26He had no alternative.
34:28With no defence left to offer
34:30Jamie Reynolds
34:31had changed his plea to guilty.
34:34He received a whole life order
34:35for the murder of Georgia.
34:37A sentence handed out
34:38for only the most horrific
34:39of crimes.
34:42There is no
34:44sentence
34:45that we can ever say
34:47that we're satisfied with
34:49because it will never bring
34:50Georgia back.
34:54Life sentence
34:55means nothing to me.
35:00He can see his mother
35:02see his father
35:04he can telephone them.
35:06I can't do that
35:07with Georgia.
35:09Father's Day comes
35:10I don't get a
35:12Father's Day card from her.
35:14Christmas comes
35:16I can't buy her
35:17a Christmas present.
35:20That was my life
35:21and he took it away.
35:24Despite Reynolds
35:25being behind bars
35:26the Williams family
35:27were unable to rest
35:28with the knowledge
35:29that the police knew
35:30about his violent behaviour.
35:31Two years later
35:35the case would
35:36dramatically resurface
35:38for West Mercia Police.
35:40The Chief Constable
35:41of West Mercia Police
35:42David Shaw
35:43has said his force
35:44seriously let down
35:46the parents
35:47of a teenager
35:47who was murdered
35:48in Shropshire
35:49two years ago.
35:50We let Georgia
35:52down
35:53we let Steve
35:54and he let down
35:55we let JD down
35:56it's as simple as that.
36:01The parents of Georgia
36:06Williams have seen
36:07their daughter's killer
36:08Jamie Reynolds
36:08put behind bars
36:10for life
36:10but the family
36:11have been left reeling
36:12from the shocking
36:13revelation
36:13that the police
36:15had been aware
36:15of her killer's
36:16violent behaviour
36:17for years before
36:18her murder.
36:19I wouldn't let it lie
36:20just kept on and on
36:22and kept asking questions
36:23why didn't you do this
36:26why wasn't that done
36:27we wanted them
36:28to acknowledge
36:29that they hadn't
36:31dealt with it
36:32correctly
36:32and to acknowledge
36:34that through that
36:35Georgia is dead.
36:37The police put pressure
36:39on authorities
36:39to commission
36:40an independent report
36:41into the police's failures.
36:43We did want
36:44to expose the police
36:45and their inadequacies
36:48it took a long time
36:52to actually get them
36:53to admit
36:53that they'd done
36:54Georgia wrong.
36:55On the 14th of October
36:582015
36:58the serious case review
37:00into West Mercia
37:01police force's handling
37:02of the case
37:02was published.
37:05A serious case review
37:06into the death
37:07of Georgia Williams
37:08has highlighted
37:09a series of mistakes
37:10made by different agencies
37:11who had contact
37:12with her killer
37:13Jamie Reynolds.
37:15The review makes clear
37:16that there was
37:16a catalogue of failings
37:18by numerous agencies
37:19including social services
37:20schools
37:21and probation service.
37:23We can see
37:24from the report
37:25that Georgia's horrific death
37:27need not have happened.
37:30He was just
37:30let out of the door
37:31and left to his own devices.
37:34They killed Georgia
37:35by not dealing
37:35with him properly.
37:37We let Georgia
37:39down
37:40we let Steve
37:41and he let down
37:42we let J.D. down
37:43it's as simple as that.
37:44We cried when we read it.
37:50And to be honest
37:51I can still go through it now
37:54and I cry.
37:56Everybody was saying
37:57he's a danger.
37:59He can't be alone
38:00with a female.
38:02One officer
38:03who dealt with Reynolds
38:04expressed serious concerns
38:05about him.
38:06P.C. Osmond Smith
38:08submitted an intelligence report
38:10which basically says
38:11although we've dealt
38:13with Reynolds
38:14for merely
38:17a Section 47 assault
38:19he's far more dangerous
38:22than this implies.
38:25Reynolds was let off
38:27with a caution
38:27on the condition
38:28he agreed to see
38:29a psychiatrist.
38:32Reports from the doctors
38:33to the police
38:34Reynolds poses
38:35a significant risk
38:37to others.
38:39He has progressed
38:40from viewing
38:41sexually violent
38:43pornography
38:44to acting it out.
38:47Reynolds should not
38:48be alone
38:48in his own house
38:50with a female.
38:52The report also criticized
38:54the police's handling
38:55of photos
38:56provided by Reynolds' parents
38:57including those of Jadine.
38:59The author of the report
39:00said
39:01the decision
39:02not to tell
39:03these girls
39:04of the danger
39:05was flawed.
39:07If jobs
39:07had been done properly
39:08and these authorities
39:09have followed
39:10the right channels
39:11then maybe
39:12at least Georgia
39:13could have had a warning.
39:14Somebody out there
39:15that we know personally
39:16would have known
39:18what he was like
39:18would have told Scarlett
39:20that
39:20don't let Georgia
39:22hang around
39:22too much with him.
39:24Tragically
39:25the report revealed
39:26even more failings
39:27relating to the 2011
39:29incident
39:29in which Reynolds
39:30purposely crashed
39:31into his colleague's car.
39:32The victim
39:34in the reports
39:36told the two police officers
39:39that he'd been harassing her
39:40but this
39:43basically
39:44was ignored.
39:47For the police
39:48to just
39:48slap him on the wrist
39:50and give him a warning
39:51and let him walk free again
39:52is
39:53it's shocking
39:54it's disgusting.
39:55The report caught the attention
39:57of Lucy Allen
39:58the MP for Telford.
39:59So I raised it
40:01in the House of Parliament
40:01because I felt
40:03so profoundly
40:04for the suffering
40:05and the loss
40:06of the parents.
40:07Will the Prime Minister
40:08join me
40:08in offering
40:09heartfelt condolences
40:10to Lynette
40:11and Steve Williams
40:12Georgia's parents?
40:13It was clear
40:14that this individual
40:15was a risk
40:17a disgusting risk
40:18to young women
40:20and to have prioritised
40:22his future
40:23over the potential
40:25that he had
40:26to commit murder
40:27in the grotesque way
40:28that he did
40:29it is just
40:31something that
40:31cannot be allowed
40:32in our system
40:34to continue.
40:36Despite the revelations
40:37in the report
40:38no gross misconduct
40:39was identified
40:40by the investigation
40:41and no dismissals
40:43were made.
40:44At the end of the day
40:46they gave the officers
40:47final written warnings
40:49and management advice
40:52like
40:53I'd get a final written warning
40:55for being late
40:56on five occasions
40:57it's not
40:58really
40:59the disciplinary action
41:01that you wanted.
41:02The police
41:03didn't kill Georgia
41:05and that's not
41:06what we're saying.
41:07What we're saying
41:07is the police
41:08could have helped
41:08prevent what happened
41:09to Georgia
41:10with all the warning signs
41:12and red flags
41:12for them not to follow
41:13that up
41:14and for them
41:15to take a risk
41:16and just let him roam free
41:17ultimately resulted in
41:19Georgia losing her life.
41:21After the report's publication
41:23Georgia's father Steve
41:25found it difficult
41:26to return to the job
41:27he'd loved.
41:28I lost confidence
41:30in the police
41:32so much so
41:34that when I went
41:34back to work
41:35I was sticking my nose
41:39into everything
41:40because it had got
41:42to me that much
41:43it was literally
41:44grinding me down
41:45and it was
41:47a mental fire
41:49fight every day
41:50to stay on track.
41:52My dad loved his job
41:53absolutely loved it
41:55like
41:56and he was really
41:58really good at it
41:59he would go out
42:00of his way
42:01to make sure
42:02that the job
42:02that he was doing
42:03was done correctly.
42:04I was trying to
42:06fight the loss
42:08of Georgia
42:09and still go back
42:10and do a job
42:11but then fight
42:13all the frustrations
42:14knowing that
42:15the police
42:17and people
42:18that are considered
42:19colleagues of mine
42:21had done wrong.
42:23In January 2018
42:25Steve retired
42:26from the West Mercia police.
42:29As time moved on
42:31Lynette was determined
42:32to do something positive
42:33in Georgia's memory.
42:35The Georgia Williams Trust
42:37was set up
42:38to support young people
42:39in the local community.
42:40We wanted to
42:42start a trust
42:43to sort of
42:43help kids
42:44have the same
42:45sort of experiences
42:46in life that Georgia had
42:47so we wanted to
42:49help those
42:49that hadn't got
42:50a lot of money
42:51that wanted to
42:52start groups up
42:53that had aspirations
42:55but couldn't quite
42:55get there.
42:57It's helped me
42:58terrifically
42:59because initially
43:00it was very hard
43:01to go out
43:01and face people.
43:04It made me get up
43:04it made me think
43:05today I've got to go
43:06to so-and-so school
43:07and I'll meet
43:09the kids there
43:09and they'll go
43:11we know about Georgia
43:12we won't let Georgia's
43:13name die out.
43:15I think that Georgia's
43:16spirit lives on now
43:17through these kids
43:18because they're enabled
43:19to go out and join in
43:20things
43:20and enjoy life
43:22like she did.
43:28Five years on
43:29Georgia's family
43:30are still struggling
43:31to come to terms
43:32with the circumstances
43:33surrounding her death.
43:36I think every night
43:39if only
43:40I'd have had a hint
43:42you know what I mean
43:43if somebody had got
43:45his name round
43:46the police station
43:47it may have rang a bell
43:49if they'd have told
43:50Scarlett's friends
43:52they would have said
43:53don't go anywhere near him.
43:55He's taken away
43:56all our hopes
43:57dreams
43:58ruins
43:58your life
43:59to be honest.
44:01He took everything
44:01from us
44:02he killed my little sister
44:04he killed
44:04my parents
44:05baby girl
44:07completely
44:08threw our lives
44:09upside down
44:10and
44:10threw Georgia's
44:12away completely.
44:1518 years
44:17I spent with that girl
44:18I was there
44:19when she took
44:20her first breath
44:21I was there
44:22at her birth
44:23he's taken her
44:26from
44:26my life.
44:29West Mercia
44:34police say
44:35our thoughts
44:36our thoughts remain
44:36with Georgia's family
44:37five years on
44:38from her murder
44:39since publication
44:41of the discretionary
44:42serious case review
44:43in October 2015
44:44the organisation
44:46has learnt many lessons
44:47and we have worked hard
44:48to implement
44:49the review's recommendations
44:50and ensure
44:52that we provide
44:52our staff
44:53with the tools
44:54and support
44:54they need
44:54to properly assess risk
44:56and ensure
44:58that everything feasible
44:59is done to protect
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