Murdered.By.S01E04.Killer.Girlfriends

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00:01Nearly half of women killed in the UK are killed by their male partner or ex-partner,

00:06but only one in ten men are killed by women.

00:09It's not uncommon to report on incidents where young men kill,

00:14but it is unusual, though, for women to be involved.

00:17And the number of male homicide victims is rising at a far higher rate than for females,

00:22up 33% in the most recent Home Office statistics to date.

00:27Statistically, women kill a lot less than men do.

00:32That's not to say that women aren't violent.

00:35Some women are very violent.

00:38Usually their motivations are slightly different.

00:41So why is it still considered so shocking when a man is murdered by his girlfriend?

00:47Women are not expected to be violent.

00:51So when women do commit the ultimate violence, murder,

00:55we're left thinking, what on earth happened there?

00:59This programme looks at some of the most shocking cases of girlfriends who kill.

01:04The 19-year-old girl next door,

01:06who stabbed her long-term boyfriend in the groin at a party

01:09after he accused her of having a lesbian affair.

01:14And who, along with her older sister, left him to bleed to death.

01:17Don't expect it to be a woman to pick up a knife and to stab someone that you love.

01:26I would really love to know why she did it.

01:29The shop assistant, who disguised herself in a wig

01:32and then stabbed her DJ ex-boyfriend 36 times in a jealous, premeditated rage,

01:37and then tried to cover up her tracks by deleting his social media accounts.

01:42She not only deleted him physically from life,

01:45but she deleted his electronic footprint as well.

01:48So she was completely taking him out of this world.

01:54And the teenager who beat, tied up and then murdered her boyfriend of just a few days.

02:00People say, you're not born evil.

02:05But with Zoe Warren, we truly believe she was born evil.

02:18In January 2010, in the suburb of Blackley, Greater Manchester,

02:2323-year-old Dean Darville was stabbed by his 19-year-old girlfriend, Samantha Brown,

02:28following an argument at a house party.

02:33After being knived in the leg, severing major arteries,

02:37rather than calling 999, maintenance worker Dean was left to bleed to death

02:42by Brown and her 24-year-old sister, Toni.

02:46As he stumbled and fell to the floor, his dying words were,

02:50get me an ambulance.

02:51But instead, Dean was left to die by the woman he loved and thought loved him.

02:58His mum, Jackie, was left with nothing more than memories of her only son.

03:11Dean was lovely, funny, withy, party animal.

03:19Loved him.

03:21A lot of people loved Dean.

03:23He had art of gold.

03:24In the summer of 2009, popular and well-loved Dean met the girl of his dreams,

03:33Samantha Brown, at a friend's party and they started a relationship.

03:38I mean, I don't mean to be big-headed, but Dean could get anyone.

03:42He had women all the time, phoning him, texting him.

03:49He just loved them.

03:51You know, he had a couple of flings, but just didn't like he wanted to settle down in the end.

03:57And, you know, enjoy his life.

04:01Dean wasn't the only one taken with her.

04:04She was an instant hit with the family too.

04:07First time I met Sammy is when Dean took her out one night for a drink.

04:14Dean introduced me, he went,

04:16This, Mum, this is Sammy.

04:18Sammy seemed really nice.

04:20Really, really nice.

04:22And, um, young.

04:24Nice, young girl.

04:25Blonde hair.

04:27At first, the relationship seemed perfect.

04:31In my eyes, what I'd seen was a good relationship.

04:35He was happy.

04:37Sammy was happy as well.

04:39I thought he was the one.

04:42She just sort of, like, came part of the family.

04:45She did love Dean.

04:46Dean was the one for her.

04:48But after a few months, Dean's family started to see a different side to her character.

04:56Sammy was a Jekyll and Hyde.

04:59She was two completely different people.

05:02Especially when she had a drink.

05:04It seems that Dean and Samantha were involved in quite a volatile relationship,

05:11where they were both quite controlling of each other.

05:14And I think both of them were not unused to being physical with each other in some of those arguments.

05:23I think she just wanted Dean's attention.

05:26She just wanted Dean all the time.

05:28She was a very, very jealous.

05:31A very jealous person.

05:34But Dean's mum, Jackie, had no idea of the extent of the volatility of their relationship.

05:39Or what Dean's girlfriend, Sam, might be capable of doing to him until it was too late.

05:46It was on the 9th of January.

05:49Dean and Sammy decided to go out and go to a party that Tony was just having at home.

05:58Just for close family.

06:00They just said that he'll see me tomorrow.

06:02But I always worried about Dean.

06:05So he said, I won't be late, ma'am.

06:06So I thought, well, I feel happy now because I spoke to him.

06:09So I thought, I can go to bed now.

06:12So, I was in bed.

06:16And I think it was about two-ish.

06:20My mobile rang.

06:22And it was my sister.

06:23I went, what's wrong?

06:24So she went, do you know where Dean is?

06:27So I went, yes.

06:29So she said, right.

06:31So she said, well, don't want you to go to search her.

06:34But Sammy stabbed him.

06:36On the night that it happened, they did have an argument.

06:44And it seemed to be around Samantha having gone upstairs with another woman.

06:51And he caught them in what was kind of described as a compromising position.

06:56And became quite jealous and accused her of having a lesbian affair.

07:02And the argument started then in the party and in front of other people and escalated quite dramatically.

07:08The argument got out of control and became physical and other people got involved in trying to break it up.

07:21But at some point, Samantha decided to, or saw a knife, decided to pick a knife up and she stabbed him in the groin with that knife.

07:34She dropped the knife and she ran.

07:37I don't think she realised at that time the extent of the injury that she had caused.

07:44Samantha Brown's older sister, Tony, immediately took charge.

07:51Samantha, when she stabbed Dean in the groin, she cut some major arteries.

07:55So he was injured very, very badly.

08:00And Tony, Samantha's sister, like big sisters do maybe, or perhaps that was her personality, took control of the situation and decided that she was going to first and foremost look after her sister's interests.

08:17And did not in any way look after Dean's interests.

08:22He was actually at that point starting to bleed to death.

08:35On the 9th of January 2010, Dean Darville was stabbed by his girlfriend of six months, Samantha Brown, after an argument at a party.

08:43When Dean's family tried to find out where he was, the sisters refused to give them any information over the phone.

08:54I got up and we were speaking to her and she was crying and she said, like, Sammy stabbed Dean.

09:01So I said, right, give us the address so we can come and pick Dean up.

09:07She said, no.

09:08So she said, this happened before this.

09:12She went, I stabbed my boyfriend in the leg.

09:16She said, but he wasn't hurt.

09:18It was nothing really.

09:20I went, right, OK.

09:22He went, right.

09:24But just tell us where you're living.

09:26But she put the phone down on us.

09:27He needed urgent medical assistance and Tony would not allow that to happen.

09:37She wouldn't call an ambulance.

09:40Her motivation was probably to stop the arrest of her sister.

09:46She may not, in the beginning, have recognised what a dreadful injury Dean had sustained.

09:58Dean's mum, Jackie, did everything she could to get any information from the sisters, but got nothing.

10:04She put the phone to Dean's mouth and she said, listen to him. He's snoring.

10:12I said, Tony, it's not snoring. I went, he's fighting for his life.

10:17Please, just give me your address.

10:20Let me pick him up and take him to the hospital.

10:25It quite quickly got out of their control.

10:30Samantha actually came back.

10:31She left the house, she ran, but she came back.

10:35So she had a chance herself to phone for an ambulance and didn't do it.

10:40So these sisters were definitely colluding with each other to protect Samantha and not to protect Dean.

10:51Within hours, Dean was unconscious.

10:56Finally, Tony passed on her address so Dean's mum could call for an ambulance for her dying son

11:02and get to Tony's house to be with him.

11:05When we got there, it was all cornered off.

11:09Police, ambulance, they wanted to know who I was.

11:14I said it was Dean's mum.

11:17I got in the police car and was asking me questions.

11:24Then they got a radio call over and said that I've got to get straight to the hospital.

11:34The nearest hospital was less than a mile away.

11:38I was banging on the doors at the hospital because we didn't know which way to get in.

11:44They let me go and see Dean and he was just laid on the bed.

11:47And, erm, do you know what?

11:50They looked like there was nothing wrong with him.

11:52He looked like he was asleep.

11:54And then they rushed him straight to theatre.

11:57And he was in there for four hours.

11:59All the family was there, was in, like, the, erm, relative room.

12:13And, erm, just thought, do you know what?

12:17A stab in the leg, do you know what?

12:19It's going to be alright.

12:20You know, Dean's tough.

12:22Dean's not going nowhere.

12:23At 7.40pm, Dean Darville was pronounced dead.

12:35I always had a feeling that I was never having Dean for a long time.

12:39Because he's been through that much in his life.

12:43Erm, illnesses, got knocked down.

12:46Erm, but I just knew that I was lucky to have him.

12:52But you don't think that he's going to die.

12:56You know, it was the longest day of my life.

13:02Early the next day, Samantha Brown was arrested in connection with her boyfriend Dean's murder.

13:08Sammy got arrested straight away.

13:11Er, at the bench of the house and arrested Sammy straight away.

13:14Samantha Brown was charged with murder.

13:17Her sister Toni was arrested the same day, but released on bail pending further investigation.

13:22She was eventually charged with manslaughter for her part in the killing of Dean.

13:29After the charge of murder was dropped and the charge of manslaughter put to Samantha Brown, both sisters pleaded guilty.

13:36He got reduced to manslaughter because they said Sammy didn't intentionally mean to kill him.

13:47I think if anyone picks up a knife, they automatically get five, ten years for picking up a knife anyway.

13:54In July 2010, Samantha Brown and her sister appeared at Manchester Crown Court.

14:02The court heard that Samantha Brown had plunged a kitchen knife into the top of Dean's left leg in a fit of rage and then fled barefoot from the scene of the crime.

14:13And that her sister Toni, who initially bandaged his wound as he lay helpless on the floor, then refused to call an ambulance, despite others at the party trying desperately to revive him.

14:27Toni Brown's excuse for not calling 999 sooner was that she didn't want her children awoken by emergency services in her home.

14:38In my eyes, Toni killed Dean.

14:40That's all it took was for her to pick up the phone.

14:46I followed an ambulance for Dean.

14:48He will be here today.

14:51Toni Brown was sentenced to four years imprisonment, with the charge being dropped from murder to manslaughter.

14:57Samantha Brown was sentenced to five years in a young offenders institute for the stabbing of her boyfriend.

15:05Devastated. I couldn't believe it. Five years.

15:08They get more for robbery or petty crime these days, don't they?

15:17But for taking a life.

15:23Samantha Brown was released from prison less than three years after being convicted of Dean's killing.

15:32On day release, in May 2012, Samantha logged onto Facebook

15:36and to Dean's family's distress tagged photos of her and Dean together.

15:41It doesn't indicate remorse or guilt or shame.

15:46She's kind of saying, here I am, I'm back, and I'm not ashamed of what I did.

15:54Or she doesn't even think that she should be ashamed.

15:57Dean's mum, Jackie, who thought Dean had found the girl of his dreams, was just left with memories of her son.

16:09You don't move on.

16:11Learned to live with it.

16:13Got two kids.

16:15If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here.

16:17Have good days.

16:19Have bad days.

16:20But just got to remember him for what he was.

16:24We all go to his grave.

16:27Birthdays, Christmas.

16:30Celebrate.

16:31We have a drink.

16:33Put a big tent up over his grave.

16:36And everyone goes.

16:38But that's all we have.

16:40That's all I've given him is flowers.

16:41Seven years after Dean Darville's killing, another woman murdered her former partner in a jealous rage.

17:02In June 2017, 25-year-old Hasna Begum kept track of her ex's movements through social media, even after their relationship was over.

17:11For her ex, 23-year-old Italian DJ, Pietro Sanna, reactivating his Tinder account almost a year after breaking up with his girlfriend, led to his demise.

17:24Hasna Begum was from a strict Muslim background and lived with her parents at their home in East London.

17:34While working at a card shop in Canary Wharf, she soon crossed paths with her future boyfriend, Pietro Sanna.

17:42Pietro Sanna was a 23-year-old young man from Italy. He came over to London to pursue his dream of becoming a DJ.

17:50On the side, he worked at the sandwich shop, which was next door to where Hasna worked.

17:53In January 2016, the pair met in a communal staff room, which the sandwich shop and the card shop shared.

18:01They obviously hit it off and then a few weeks later exchanged numbers and went on a date. They must have gotten quite well because they then started a relationship.

18:09But the relationship was not straightforward.

18:14Because of Hasna's strict Muslim background, it meant that she wasn't allowed to have boyfriends, so everything did have to be quite secretive.

18:18From what we know, she used to go around to his house quite a lot. That was the place that they would meet up. They didn't tend to go out on dates so much.

18:26She probably would have felt like she was living a double life, sneaking out to go and see him when her parents didn't suspect anything.

18:31The relationship was not to last.

18:34They had a relationship for about a year. In January 2017, Hasna ended up breaking up with Pietro.

18:40Hasna started receiving texts that she believed went for her.

18:43And then on top of that, she believed that there was a packet of condoms in Pietro's room and each time she went round, they were reducing.

18:49But she knew that she wasn't the one that he was using them with, so she felt like he was probably cheating on him or someone else.

18:55Hasna was a very controlling person, and certainly the way she behaved when the relationship ended would say to me that she was thinking,

19:10how dare you leave me? I'm going to punish you for leaving me.

19:14So it was all around that loss of control of him and the relationship.

19:19The effect of the breakup took its toll on Hasna, and she responded in a terrifying way.

19:27Although Hasna was the one that broke up with Pietro, she obviously became quite infuriated by it.

19:33She started to follow him quite closely on social media.

19:36She was stalking him, and this is a very common behaviour of people like Hasna.

19:43They will stalk not only to perhaps intimidate, as a lot of people think stalking is about, but to gather intelligence.

19:51She almost seemed obsessed with trying to find out who he was seeing, so she started stalking him on Instagram.

19:59Hasna could see he was following Pietro on social media, and started creating fake accounts for people who were following him.

20:05She stole their names, their profile pictures, and posed as them online.

20:11Hasna became quite angry, and with some of the people that she was posing as on Instagram, she started sending them messages.

20:18There was a girl called Julia, and she started saying, get back to your own country, because Julia was from Italy.

20:24I think she also called her an ugly bitch.

20:26At this point, I do think that Hasna was getting to a point where she was becoming so obsessed with Pietro that she was probably doing things that she may not normally have considered doing.

20:37Eventually, things took a turn for the worse.

20:39At some point, there's a tipping point where it looks inevitable that everything's going to go, and all of the control is lost.

20:50And at that point, people like Hasna can become very dangerous, because they resolve those feelings through homicide, and they plan that they're going to kill somebody.

21:00And Hasna definitely made plans to kill Pietro.

21:11At 6am on the 23rd of June 2017, Hasna leaves her house through the back window of her parents' home, wearing a disguise of a blonde wig, a black cap, jeans, and black leather gloves.

21:23So Hasna, wearing the black leather gloves, jumps into a taxi, and goes to Pietro's house in Ravenscroft Grove, Kenningtown.

21:38All of this is caught on CCTV.

21:53Hasna arrives at Pietro's address, she starts banging on the door.

22:04We know from a neighbour that she was seen to be doing that, and eventually Pietro lets her in.

22:10It was at this point that Hasna brutally murders her ex-boyfriend, Pietro Sanna.

22:15Only Hasna knows what happens in the room, but from what we know, she leaves about an hour later, and Pietro's left on the floor with 36 stab wounds.

22:25She stabbed him 36 times.

22:29That's not just a response to something.

22:33That's not self-defence.

22:35That's real, sustained anger.

22:38Hasna escapes the address, and takes Pietro's phone, along with his clothing, to hide her blood-stained clothes.

22:48She runs out into the car park, crouches down behind the car, and she puts the clothes on, and she gets herself a taxi and takes herself off to be treated for a wound on her thumb.

22:57CCTV here shows Hasna at a nearby hospital, around 7.50am, receiving treatment for an injured thumb, believed to have occurred from the incident with Pietro.

23:08After receiving some treatment for the car on her hand, she returns home, she cleans her clothes, she throws the gloves in the bin, and she goes on Pietro's phone and starts going through his social media profiles and deleting posts.

23:20It was not long before Pietro's family discovered the horrifying truth.

23:25On Monday 26th of June, I can only imagine that the guilt got to Hasna.

23:30She ends up making an anonymous phone call to Pietro's brother, Gio Maria, and says,

23:34I think something's happened to Pietro, you need to go around to the flat.

23:40So Gio Maria calls the police, the police start investigating, and on the 27th of June, they arrest Hasna.

23:46They've linked her and charged her with suspicion of murder.

23:49On the 23rd of June, 2017, 25-year-old Hasna Biegun murdered her ex-boyfriend, 23-year-old Pietro Sanna, after becoming increasingly obsessed while stalking him on social media.

24:10In December 2017, the trial into the murder of Pietro Sanna begins at the Old Bailey, London.

24:20When I saw Hasna in the dog, I couldn't quite believe what she has alleged to have done.

24:25I couldn't quite link her with stabbing someone 36 times.

24:29She was four feet 11.

24:31She was tiny.

24:32She must not have weighed more than eight stars.

24:37Hasna confessed to stabbing Pietro three times, but said that it was in self-defense.

24:42It would now be up to the prosecution to prove that she had murdered him.

24:46Hasna admitted to killing Pietro, but her general defense was that she wasn't the one that was obsessed with Pietro, but that Pietro was the one who was perhaps obsessed with her.

24:56She said that she received prank calls from private numbers in the months that she broke up with him.

25:03Hasna, in an interview, said that she hadn't spoken to Pietro for six months.

25:07She said that they had been in a relationship, but that she didn't even have his phone number.

25:11During the trial, Hasna claimed she'd seen Pietro and his friends outside the Hilton Hotel close to where she lived, a few days before the incident.

25:20He apparently said to her that he wanted to get back together and asked if she would come round that Friday at 6 o'clock in the morning, because he had plans at 10.

25:29I don't think anything of that nature was proven.

25:32Of what we know, Pietro finished work at 3am, so it would be unusual for him to invite her around for a big conversation at that time.

25:41CCTV is played to court, showing Hasna dressed in disguise, heading from her family home in Canary Wharf to Pietro's house in nearby Canning Town.

25:52There are clear signs that Hasna planned Pietro's killing because she snuck out of her house first thing in the morning, so nobody would see her.

26:06She put herself in disguise, she put on a wig, she put on gloves because probably she was planning not to leave any forensic evidence behind.

26:17So not only was she planning to kill him, she was planning to pretend that it wasn't her.

26:22She wanted to get away with this.

26:24The jury heard that neighbours reported hearing a male voice shouting at around 7am on the 23rd of June, I'm dying, I'm dying.

26:34But no one acted on this and his body was not found until three days later.

26:39The court also heard about Hasna stealing Pietro's clothing.

26:43She steals the jeans and the hooded top because her own clothes are soaked in Pietro's blood and that's something that she admitted in the trial as well.

26:52The jury also heard from the prosecution that Hasna had attempted to thwart the police investigation by stealing Pietro's phone and phoning it even after his death.

27:02I think taking the phone had two purposes, one of them to be who he was talking to, who he was seeing, to check his social media accounts.

27:10And the other purpose may have been so that he couldn't have called for help.

27:14Hasna admits to deleting Pietro's social media accounts.

27:18She kind of not only deleted him physically from life but she deleted his electronic footprint as well so she was completely taking him out of this world.

27:31Police found further evidence linking her to the killing.

27:36When the police search her address they find the left hand black leather glove with a cut that matches the cut on Hasna's hand that she says she sustained while in a fight with Pietro.

27:46And there's also two knives missing from the address after she leaves.

27:49The jury only took about two hours to find Hasna guilty of murder unanimously and she was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 20 years.

28:12It is quite rare for a woman to have this motivation when they kill their partner but she is almost an absolute mirror image of men who kill in this category.

28:33So unusual.

28:34That sense of entitlement, that anger, the planning, the frenzied attack and the violence puts her in a category of female killer that's incredibly nasty.

28:50Unfortunately, this obsession with social media and being obsessed with your ex-boyfriend, that can happen to anyone.

28:57She's obviously done something awful and appalling but I ended up feeling quite sorry for her that she'd got herself into this state where she would actually go and do that and ruin 20 years of her life.

29:07Women killers are far more likely to kill partners or people they love than men.

29:22But there are an increasing number of cases where females are violently killed without an obvious motive.

29:28Some predicted are the others are

29:30and Macht could make a fight.

29:31On 16th December 2016, 29-year-old Mark Shaw was gagged, beaten, bitten, hit with a pool cue and then stabbed

29:36to death at his home.

29:38He was killed by his girlfriend of just a few days, Zoe Warren, a boyfriend, and their friend like Kiran Adey.

29:49Police broke their way into house on Pine Street, Grange Villa, County Durham, after

29:55receiving a phone call from a concerned neighbour, where they discovered the badly beaten body

30:00of the father of one, still tied by his ankles.

30:04I can confirm that the identity of the victim is Mark Shaw, known locally as Sharkey, and

30:12he is a local man to Grange Villa.

30:16He was so badly beaten, he was described as looking like the Elephant Man, with more than

30:2180 injuries inflicted to his head and body.

30:33Mark's mother Val and his family were left devastated, and trying to piece together why

30:38a woman ten years younger who barely knew him could have committed such a brutal and violent

30:43attack on such a popular and likeable man.

30:50From the minute Mark could walk and talk, he was like a character.

30:54He always had to be life and soul of everything.

30:57He was class clown.

30:59Even not at school, at home he was.

31:01He had to be the one that people were laughing at.

31:05In 2015, Mark moved from his family home in Washington to live in his own house in Grange Villa.

31:12A year later, he struck up a relationship with 18-year-old Zoe Warren.

31:19Mark had been going out with Zoe for about two weeks, I think, so it wasn't a very well-established

31:25relationship, but they were a couple by all accounts.

31:29Although his family at the time weren't aware of this new relationship with Zoe Warren.

31:36Since then, I've actually read messages between him and Zoe.

31:39He was saying in the messages that he couldn't wait for her to meet his big sister and the rest

31:45of his family because she was such a nice person, but that was Mark, he thought everybody was nice.

31:55Shortly after getting together, Mark invited Zoe Warren to stay with him at his house.

32:01He took her in, because I've also read messages between him and her, saying that my mum and

32:13dad wouldn't let her live there any longer, so he said, come and live with me, you can live here for free.

32:22And that's how she ended up to be at Grange Villa.

32:26She'd been in trouble with the police and led quite a chaotic lifestyle.

32:31She was a bit of a gypsy, which we took to mean that she went from house to house, staying with various friends,

32:38and not staying in one place for too long.

32:43It was a chaotic set-up.

32:46They spent much of their time partying and drinking together.

32:53Also joining in with the partying was friend and neighbour, Kieran Aidy, who Mark had met when he did some work for Aidy's father, who was a scrap man.

33:01Mark, Zoe and Kieran had all been friends and hung around together and seemed to enjoy each other's company some of the time.

33:10Although it was pretty volatile by all accounts.

33:13They would go round to each other's house and take drugs and drink, and that seemed to be the culture that Mark Shaw and Kieran Aidy were part of, and Zoe Warren.

33:24Mark's family didn't even know about Zoe Warren, and had no idea what was taking place behind closed doors at Mark's house.

33:34Until in October 2016, Mark's mum discovered a threatening Facebook message from their friend, Kieran Aidy.

33:41In October 2016, Mark had been to my house, and he was on Facebook on his account, and he'd been talking to Kieran Aidy.

33:53It was about eight o'clock, and I heard bleeping, and obviously, I'm going to look, because I thought it was mine.

33:58And it was his text saying, where you're at, I want me five pound.

34:03And he said, I'm going to come down and I'm going to do your in, I'm going to kill you.

34:12Obviously, I text back and said, look, this is Mark's mum. I'll give you five pound.

34:16And he said, I don't want it off you. I'm on my way down this house now, and I'm going to kill him.

34:24But Mark assured his worried mum that she had nothing to worry about.

34:31And he said, Mum, please don't worry. I said, I'm so worried for you, Mark. He said, he's going to kill you.

34:39And then Mark said, Mum, don't worry. I'll sort it. I'll pay him the fibre back.

34:43On the 12th of December, just four days before Mark's death, his windows at his house were smashed with a hammer by his friend, Kieran Aidy.

34:55Mark immediately reported him to the police for taking what he thought was revenge for the five pounds he owed him, which made Kieran furious.

35:05Kieran was upset that the police had been called when he went round to Mark's house and smashed one of the windows.

35:11Then, just four days later, on the 16th of December, Mark's tied up, bitten and bludgeoned body was discovered by police at his house.

35:21We first became aware that something had happened in Grange Villa when the police released the information that they had launched a murder inquiry.

35:28Mark had died from blood loss resulting from two stab wounds to his back.

35:35There was a lot of police on the scene. The crime scene investigators were there in the white overalls.

35:41Detectives were doing door to door inquiries and Mark's house was taped off.

35:45People were reticent about speaking to the media and nobody wanted to give their name.

35:52There was obviously a lot of tension in the community at that time.

35:59It wasn't long before the terrible news reached Mark's family.

36:03My sister told me on the phone, she said,

36:06Val, I hate to tell you this, but they're saying that Mark's been murdered.

36:10Me and my sister decided to have a ride up in Holloway.

36:14I was saying, please no, let it be a hoax.

36:16Please no, Mark.

36:17Please no, Mark.

36:18And when I got there, I saw police fans, police cars and ribbons round the house.

36:25And I knew instantly that it was true.

36:30And then I started screaming and everything.

36:33I was saying, please let us go in and give him a cuddle.

36:36I didn't even get to kiss him goodbye.

36:40We didn't want to believe it.

36:42I actually was telling the police to get out.

36:44Because I broke down that bad and I was screaming and I was saying,

36:47this isn't true.

36:48Get out.

36:49Get out.

36:50It's not happening.

36:55Mark's family then had to endure the difficult task of identifying him.

37:00When we got there, we just, it wasn't Mark.

37:03It didn't look like him.

37:04I said, it's not him.

37:06It's definitely not him.

37:08It doesn't look like that.

37:10And we were screaming and breathing on the windows.

37:13He was saying, please come back.

37:17How could this be true?

37:18How could this happen to Mark?

37:20He was such a lovely person.

37:22The post-mortem into Mark's death revealed more than 80 injuries were inflicted on him.

37:27And he was left virtually unrecognisable.

37:30The first thing that the police said when they told us was this was brutal.

37:35This was prolonged attack.

37:38And it wasn't easy for them to tell us that.

37:41He has died from a single stab wound, but that's been part of a sustained and vicious attack, where he has sustained a number of other injuries as well.

37:54I believe that attack went over for a period of time.

37:57And I believe that it started in the late hours of Friday night into early hours of Saturday morning.

38:02He'd been punched many times, kicked several times, hit with a pool cue and tied up.

38:15I think he'd been tied up with a phone charger and moved upstairs and left in a bed.

38:19There was beating, biting, he was gagged.

38:32They told us that the weapons had been used.

38:37And that ultimately, the final blow, a knife through his back.

38:41On the 16th of December, 2016, 29-year-old Mark Shaw was tortured and beaten to death in his own home in Grangevilla, County Durham.

38:59The police now focus their inquiry on his close friends.

39:03His new girlfriend, Zoe Warren, was questioned by police as a witness and later released.

39:08But his friend, 22-year-old Kieran Aidy, who'd been reported to the police days earlier for smashing Mark's windows, was arrested and charged with murder.

39:21Then in March 2017, three months later, crucial new evidence emerged linking girlfriend Zoe Warren to his murder.

39:30A new boyfriend of Zoe Warren, who she got together with two weeks after Mark died,

39:34who told the police that she'd confessed to her role in the murder and boasted that she'd got away with it.

39:43Zoe Warren started to threaten the new boyfriend.

39:47She started threatening him because she wanted him not to give evidence or to withdraw his statement.

39:54In threatening this man, she probably had no conception at all that he would just go and tell the police that.

40:03She would be just thinking he'll be intimidated and he'll be scared of me and he'll stop.

40:09But he didn't.

40:10On the 9th of March 2017, following this vital new piece of evidence, Zoe Warren was charged with the murder of previous boyfriend, Mark Shaw.

40:24Zoe Warren had nearly got away with it.

40:29She'd covered her tracks well and had even played the grieving girlfriend days after Mark's murder by posting a heartfelt message about him on social media.

40:42The message, when I read it, it felt staged. It felt as if she had really thought about what she was putting in that message.

40:56And certainly, from our point of view, we didn't believe a word of it.

41:00She didn't want to be caught. She wasn't going to confess to this murder.

41:05She even put up Facebook posts afterwards, sort of saying that she'd had a deeper relationship with Mark than she had actually had.

41:18She's wanting to gain sympathy from other people, which she could then manipulate to get other things for herself.

41:25On the 4th of October 2017, the trial into the murder of 29-year-old Mark Shaw began at Newcastle Crown Court.

41:35It was the first time that Mark's family had laid eyes on his killers.

41:40To add to the grief Mark's family were experiencing, their behavior in court was shocking and distressing.

41:47Both Zoe Warren and Kieran Aidy had a criminal past.

41:50Warren had 24 convictions for 38 offenses, including shoplifting, disorder, criminal damage, as well as being drunk and disorderly.

42:00And Aidy had 36 convictions for 58 offenses, including dishonesty, criminal damage, burglary and aggravated vehicle taking.

42:09They also discovered the pair had been bragging about Mark's murder to friends around the estate.

42:20They'd gone to different people's house parties and told all these people what they'd done.

42:26And they'd said, I've done what I've done, she's done what she's done, and we've left them looking like the elephant man.

42:32Warren and Aidy may have been partners in crime, but it wasn't long before they started turning on each other.

42:40There does seem to be an admission from Kieran that he did bite Mark and he did beat him to some extent.

42:47But it seems that there was an admission from Zoe that she was the person who administered those two stab wounds at the end.

42:59And the way that she put it was almost as if it was a mercy killing, almost as if she was a good person for having ended Mark's life in that way so that he didn't have to suffer anymore.

43:11They both denied committing the final blow on Mark that ultimately killed him, but DNA from both defendants was found on the ankle ties that were used in the attack.

43:25On the 18th of October 2017, the verdict for the murder of Mark Shaw was read out in court.

43:31We were just sitting together. We all held hands. I could hear heavy breathing. I could hear, like, sobbing. We were all in almost a panic between us all.

43:47Zoe Warren and Kieran Aidy were both found guilty of murder.

43:51We were both sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term to be served of 17 years.

44:05I love that one. That's one of my favourites, that one.

44:08Despite Mark's killers being convicted and justice being served, nothing will alleviate the pain for his family.

44:15I feel like they've ripped a piece of my heart out. We have definitely got a life sentence.

44:20They can carry on with their lives. I've got someone missing in my family who I loved so much.

44:29Nobody could ever understand what this has done to our family.

44:35And it's just so painful for everybody.

44:40People say, you're not born evil.

44:43But with Zoe Warren, we truly believe she was born evil.

44:46She was born evil.

44:54Next tonight, here on Channel 5, we meet the families at their wits end in violent child, desperate parents.