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24 Hours in Police Custody S04E04
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00:00okay all right just bear with me just want to just step out of the eye for a minute
00:13that's all
00:18buddy can he move away ladies yeah okay
00:26hello mate
00:32harder a lot harder now put all your body weight into it that's it really really hard
00:36you know i felt a pulse when we arrived i felt a pulse yeah
00:49hey we're gonna look after him man we're gonna look after him okay
00:53why did what's happening all i saw was on the floor who did it i don't know i don't know all i
01:00know all right one hit one hit
01:12any sudden moves yeah attempted murder
01:21once a suspect is in custody
01:25the police have just 24 hours to find out what really happened
01:30the time is really ticking who's innocent
01:35who's guilty we're good to go this is your opportunity to talk to me
01:42there's two sides to every single story
01:59uh hello there just been a clear alarm for a 30-year-old chap
02:08um he's been assaulted he's in respiratory arrest at the moment
02:14police put in cpr when we arrive we found that we'll be there number five minutes probably about three minutes
02:20as a police officer you go to jobs especially on a a weekend where somebody's been assaulted
02:40the majority of the time it's going to be the same incident someone's been punched
02:45and quite honestly they probably could all woke up and not worried about it the next day
02:50on this occasion on arrival when you hear the controller say he's still down
03:01it doesn't look good you get this huge sense of of how serious this job is about to become
03:13for this chap
03:19yeah
03:21well
03:23thomas
03:26thomas i can't even pronounce that
03:27thomas yuska
03:39as thomas yuska fights for his life in hospital detectives from luton cid start work on the case
03:45i'll tell you what we got then last night at about three o'clock in the morning there's some
03:54sort of altercation between the victim and four ic3 males one of these is then punching square in
04:03the face um punching to the jaw and he's then falling flat on his back and his head's hit the curb
04:10there's a few witnesses to the incident everyone's in bed at the moment and we can't hardly
04:15see anyone uh the main witness is a manager she's then seen one person who she knows and names as
04:22courtney describes him and says courtney has punched him once in the jaw
04:32right
04:35hello good morning very sorry to bother you at this unearthly hour is uh courtney in he is okay can we
04:40just come in for a sec okay there was an incident last night in dunstable okay intelligence believes
04:53that you are linked to that incident so at this moment in time i'm resting you on suspicion of gbh
04:58okay you do have to say anything but it may harm your defense to not mention when questioned
05:02something which you later align in court anything you do say may be given evidence you've never been
05:06arrested before usually we have to handcuff everyone that's arrested however as long as you remain
05:11decent okay i won't put the handcuffs on you he's going to sit in the back with you so just keep
05:16yourself behind you just stay at that level all right cool
05:19good morning good morning oh yeah bring them in
05:37uh over here please
05:50because of the incident that happened at the pub this morning please don't say anything just letting
05:53you know yeah um where there was a fight um a victim was involved in the fight and witnesses have named
06:00you and identified you as being involved in the fight all right don't say anything just listen to the
06:05the reasons why you're here thank you date of birth the 7th 21
06:19you've not been in custody before no
06:23do you work what do you do yeah i'm a civil engineer
06:27qualified or going through it yeah wow i never managed to get qualified that's some going mate
06:42at this moment in time honestly how you feeling at the moment
06:46yeah seriously
06:49just let you know if it was me standing there i've never been here before i'd be quite worried
06:52all right all right but worried yeah okay it's been proposed to take a non-intimate sample of
07:00it's going to be a hand wipe it's going to be fingernail scrapings
07:04there's also going to be a sample of blood taken from you all right
07:09yeah yeah so it's done by a doctor not by us and let's get the needles though oh yeah yeah you have to explain
07:16that's a doctor that's good well it's been it's a doctor if you could just pop down do you know
07:21where you're going doctor's room yeah it's a real misfortunate circumstance down here once
07:34just look straight ahead for me
07:38has he ever been in trouble for first time here civil engineer fully qualified
07:42i'm just saying i'll i speak to my son though my 15 year old and i've got my 12 year old
07:49i'll continually say to them i know they're not afraid of anything i said but if anything happens
07:53i said you walk away i know but it's not that easy because if you punch someone
07:58you've got to understand that there's going to be consequences yes either way i said it may be that
08:03you're done it in self-defense which is fine if they fall over on it they're on a curve i said you're
08:07away five seven years i said no two ways about it where have you gone
08:21oh
08:37with courtney bachelor held in custody the police are waiting for the scan results
08:42to confirm the extent of thomas yushka's brain injuries he has not regained consciousness
08:47you're just hoping that the doctors come back to you to say that actually he's going to be okay
08:55he's going to be fine if you want to be able to feed that back to the control room he he's going
09:02to be okay good morning radio support it's ds tom steen over at luton
09:17zero chance survival
09:22the scan results show that thomas yushka is brain dead
09:28the only thing keeping him alive is a life support machine
09:33the police officers are called back to the station to help begin a murder inquiry
09:47hello and we've been called major crime we've just been called out for this job hello again
09:58i don't know if i changed the access it won't let me in either car park
10:02thank you sorry about that
10:07now that the victim of the assault thomas yushka has been declared brain dead
10:13officers from the major crime unit arrived to take charge of the investigation
10:18i'll see you again great hello
10:22major crime unit it's the more serious end of offences
10:29i have just shot about 30 detectives uh thereabouts so when something serious happens
10:36um you have those people available that can parachute in and pick up a crime like this and actually
10:43um be effective very quickly
10:46yeah no no no no i don't think please again i think we need to do it in the car
10:50hmm you don't expect it do you you don't actually expect to have to do that you do it in training
11:00you don't expect to do it
11:02you did well you did really well
11:04detectives begin by reviewing cctv collected from the nightclub and bars
11:15next to where the assault took place
11:17right let's get him coming out this guy with the white shirt and the man bag
11:23yeah we think we think that's your man
11:26okay yeah
11:27but we don't seem to have captured the incident
11:31as usual this camera's looking down towards the paved area um so if i run it and you'll see
11:42the problem just watch closely there i think that is our victim there i think i think he's got
11:49a man bag there on his right shoulder and he's down oh god i've gone from there when uh when i vic when
11:58when our victim is standing up looking across to a one two looks like three persons look into three
12:07persons and then when i press that the next one he's actually on the ground so i can't i can't really
12:15give an account of what's gone on there
12:19hi carrie
12:20with poor cctv the detectives shift focus to finding witnesses who can explain the sequence of events
12:29leading up to the assault
12:31yeah the witnesses i've got one two three four five six seven key witnesses
12:36what's the name of the other one that was
12:40got barry clay
12:41and he is supposedly right there when it happens i said behind him right okay he's behind the offender
12:48as he punches him so yeah um i left a voicemail with the girlfriend of courtney she works behind
12:54the bar she said um she'd been working last night and this um gentleman had been flirting with her all
13:00night at the bar i think courtney's then got involved um she says an argument's happened they've had an
13:05argument because obviously he keeps trying this guy kept trying it on with her um she doesn't actually see the
13:11she doesn't see the punch no but she sees like all the a lot of argument between them and why these two sort of sort of rubbed in the first place
13:19one of the managers of the nightclub has said to this guy he's friends with the guy in custody and may have seen
13:34part of it or certainly was there or thereabouts when the punch was thrown
13:39witnesses will always see little bits of what's happened but they won't have seen the full picture
13:45and by the time they've spoken to other people the gaps that they haven't quite seen get filled in by
13:51other people and the important thing is we get to them quickly before they have time to get their heads
13:58together and discuss things um do you know what's happened now okay he's in a bad way and we're looking
14:08at our own investigation hence why major crime unit now involved doesn't get any more service than that
14:13young lad lost his life we're going to need to get a statement from him obviously it's really
14:16important um would you be right to come down to the police station tonight courtney bachelor's girlfriend
14:24arrives at the police station to give her statement i'm going to ask you to tell me um in as much detail
14:32as possible about what happened last night i want to know like roughly like what time was the white
14:38guy was like saying oh you're stunning you're beautiful i'm gonna take you out i was like right
14:44by the number and i was like i don't want to and he was like i can give you a reminder so he wrote it
14:49down and at the time courtney was at the bar and then he just took the paper and ripped it in half
14:56so talk me through then how this altercation at the bar um i could see the same saying outside
15:02that's sort of bouncing come over so you could hit who was saying outside outside and how was he saying
15:07it he was rowdy like you outside the guy sort of not head by him just put his head against court and
15:17it was like sort of screwing up and then the bar's come over and took the white guy outside
15:24i think thomas just left the club literally i turned my hand around and all i saw was a punch
15:30but i saw one punch okay i saw one punch okay that's all i saw it was just shoulder height
15:37it was just from there from his side straight up the law says that you could use a pre-emptive
15:44strike if you're in in in fear for your own safety um so long as you can you can justify why you felt
15:52that pre-emptive strike was proportionate in terms of the threat you faced then potentially you've done
16:00nothing wrong there i was like did you hit someone he was like yeah i think the guy that was talking
16:09to you and i was like what he was like he was gonna hit me he's gonna do something if you're gonna go
16:14for me and i was just like you've killed someone and he was like no i haven't i was like no you have
16:21no you have like but i just feel like it's my fault because that guy hadn't even started talking to me
16:29i don't feel like it's my fault
16:51with a number of witness statements still outstanding courtney bachelor's own account
16:55of the incident is now crucial to the investigation the first interview is important because really
17:03it's the suspect's first opportunity to speak to us and really it can be the interview where they
17:09nail their colors to the mast okay are you ready to go straight away right let's go do it
17:17often people faced with some serious charges and having legal representation will opt for
17:27a no comment and that's their legal right we might not have too much solid evidence to put at that point
17:35so why would you help the police by talking to us
17:39this interview is being recorded at luton police station and the time by my phone is 18 14 hours
17:52right courtney obviously what i'd like to know from your perspective what happened to you last night
17:59when you were out so you want the full story of what happened yes please you start where you feel comfortable
18:09i'm trying to feel the vibes i'm not getting any right fool and frank interview oh so they went into
18:22the club his girlfriend's behind the bar he said it's a new relationship he said he first notices this
18:29chap when he leans over the bar to get her attention she works behind the bar she's a good looking girl
18:35yeah so i expect guys to try and work magic or whatever they want to do it it has it does not
18:45bother me at all he gives hit this chap gives his telephone number to her he's writes it down and
18:52hands it over to her i walked up um as he gave it to her i just went like that she just gave it into
19:00my hand i just tore it up and walked off okay so then there's sort of a bit of an altercation
19:04where our ip comes across you don't really care about her and he's trapping off and then he said
19:11to me do you want to fight me outside um i said no he then got closer to my face to the point where
19:21his head was actually touching my head but he was putting a little bit of force into it
19:28the bouncers soon catch wind of this and actually removed him from from the club so he says
19:37i'm glad he's left he said you know he said i'm thinking about leaving i can see the other fella
19:42in front of me arranger pie he said he's been sort of held by the door by this the bouncers okay and what
19:50did you do then when i exited the club i walked straight past him he gave me a couple of little
19:57smacks or whatever he wanted to do i didn't entertain it i walked straight past him at this
20:03stage the bouncers have more or less let him go released him from the club he said at that point
20:10the bouncers they get diverted by something else and go back in which then they kind of left me and
20:17him um i still had to walk past him to leave the area uh he then again he said something else you
20:26wanted to fight me you wanted to fight me i said i never wanted to fight you he's got this man bag
20:32at which point he takes off and hands to his tall mate and it's like come on fight me he then as he
20:38took his bag off he then stepped towards me and i thought instantly he's going to come for me
20:47literally right now and i did hit him at that stage um and what level of force did you use to hit him
20:58um i used what i thought was reasonable to make sure that he's not gonna just strike me straight
21:11back because otherwise you know he could have assaulted me or whatever i don't know certainly
21:18by his manner of being in the club and out club i definitely thought that was his intentions
21:24you feel you've been as truthful and honest as you can be about what happened
21:27yeah i have honestly okay and how are you feeling about it now
21:37horrific i wish like i never even went out in the first place
21:48grim sad isn't it yeah does he realize the implications yeah yeah yeah he comes across
21:55as a really nice fella really really nice fella and actually really personable
22:03stupid boy
22:08in my role i can meet people who are truly evil they have truly set about to create mayhem and
22:20have a campaign in other human beings lives this particular individual did not fit that category
22:30do you want to come back to yourself
22:35it's a hard thing in the sense of you know that it's going to affect somebody's life forever
22:41potentially if they're charged with an offensive murder and go to court and have to go through a trial
22:50then i don't think it can't it can't not leave a mark on you as an individual
22:55we'll have to go to the crown prosecution service tonight see whether they
22:58think that there's sufficient evidence for which to charge you okay so it would look like i expect
23:04i think so
23:12the police now need a charging decision from the crown prosecution service
23:32courtney bachelor has admitted to punching his victim but thomas yushka has not yet been officially
23:48pronounced dead
23:53what's your saying you don't think there's sufficient to charge him at this stage
23:57you're not doing this because you want to go to bed are you cheers then bye
24:12the police are instructed to bail bachelor while they continue their investigation
24:17it's a slightly more complicated one because there's too much outstanding still it's unknown we
24:22haven't viewed all the cctv we have still got some important people to see so he thinks an action
24:28plan bail and as i said it will be a very very short bail date because we don't want people out
24:34there that aren't charged for a defense as serious as this
24:38unfortunately uh there's still some inquiries that are outstanding so uh what will happen is you'll get
24:53a bail late to come back to this police station just a quick question because i've never done this
25:02well we're going to take you home we'll drop you home
25:05just going to turf you out and make sure you get home all right get up there all right thank you
25:10thanks for all your help sarge thank you
25:16now the suspect is bailed the police will have the time to test bachelor's claim
25:20that his punch was in self-defense
25:24it's very easy to have taken that first account and had empathy with courtney totally understand it
25:31the problem is you don't you don't see thomas thomas had a story give thomas a voice
25:42voice that's a voice and that's my job
25:54you don't see thomas Stephanie's in self-defense, our crush-house and that's the problem
26:07i'm just going to tell my story to her god
26:15this is thomas my brother
26:17between us you know when we were just kids he was like my tail everywhere if
26:26he's if he sees that me and my friends going somewhere I already can see that
26:32he's sneaking around and trying to not be spotted but go everywhere that I was
26:39going he always wanted to come to UK came in here and found a job and started to live
26:53the first thing to update you all on this morning is the sad news that Thomas has passed away in his
27:15sleep and it's now our job to look at whether or not there are homicide offenses that actually
27:28brought about young Thomas's death according to bachelor he says that he had no other option but
27:35to walk towards Thomas and that when he got to Thomas there were words exchange he felt that
27:42Thomas was about to attack him and therefore had a preemptive strike one punch to the face
27:50there's the element of an unavoidable coming together as he puts it he had no other option
27:56but to walk towards our victim who was waiting by the taxi rank and we have to question it because
28:01it's right that we question that okay who knows what the the real truth is but our job's going to be
28:08to try and find out exactly what happened okay so this family have got some understanding of what's
28:12going on there were elements of the suspect account that came across as very honest difficult for me to
28:23judge whether he was totally totally honest yeah I know you can kind of get sucked into believing the
28:30sort of first version of events that you hear yeah I mean it as the DI rightly pointed out you know you've
28:39got to think about the victims family they've essentially lost someone they love
28:43and they'll probably want somebody to pay for that they'll want some form of justice
28:54the detectives begin to test bachelor's claim of self-defense by reviewing the CCTV of events leading up to
29:04his confrontation with Thomas Yushka that's a good one that's good so we look at the victim coming
29:12out first bag over shoulder bag over shoulder he's raised there for some steady he is going back out
29:21there he is that's who we believe to be Courtney going out victim the white shirt so
29:31now he's already come out there there is a suspect has already come out and walked behind so I'll go back
29:44because we missed him then right there he goes there he looks over see he looks over towards the victim says
29:56something there look see this heads turned to the left says something there and then he when he gets to the
30:03back of the back of him lucky points with his left hand
30:07so there's something going on isn't there
30:12to help them interpret the exchanges captured on CCTV the police turn their focus to the accounts of witnesses
30:24outside the nightclub right take you're one of the doorman at that's right cookies yeah what time did this
30:43all take place it was probably around 3 30 there was a group of maybe five or six black mixed mixed race
30:52lads and one Eastern European guy there'd been some sort of argument and the manager said to me
31:00can you escort this guy out he was all right he wasn't aggressive anyway or anything like that
31:05shortly after that I noticed a group of black lads mixed race lads left the premises the other doorman
31:12will lead was speaking to the group of lads and I'm telling them just leave it out sort of thing move
31:20away sort of thing the mixed race ladder apparently he was implying that the Eastern European guy called
31:27him a nigger or something yep and then at this point there was another radio saying another fight
31:34had gone off on the inside so I quickly turned my back run back to the club so at this point there was
31:41no one actually with the Eastern European guy we heard a noise and uh I heard the manager say oh my god
31:51he's just here at this point myself and the manager ran down to him and found the Eastern European guy on
31:59the floor and sort of group of black lads mixed race lads running away you say the group black lads are running
32:10away they licked it in the direction of Asda okay so across has the car park here you can hear the
32:17laughter as they were running off sort of thing obviously it's not the first time this happened
32:23I've seen it a few times here where some poor innocent guy has just been set up on by a group of lads like
32:31that it's my biggest bugbear but it's so difficult for us because obviously at the end of the night when the
32:38club's finished we walk we stand at the taxi at the taxi rack we get everybody in taxes we don't
32:43leave we've all gone home just to stop that but there's only so much so far you can take it isn't
32:48the team's review of evidence is complete they gather to compare statements taken from a handful of new
33:12witnesses that have since come forward okay right people are we ready to turn our attention into the witnesses that we've seen and I know there's a number of them out there
33:21uh so let's start shall we uh with what I think was the last two outstanding members of the suspects group
33:32Faye yeah um leek says he said that he walked over there and he could see courtney and the guy was
33:40squaring up to one another saw the guy take his bag off I saw him get hit and he fell backwards
33:46he's got them squaring up to each other yes these exact words are um courtney and the guy were squaring
33:54up to one another when we talked about waleed he's the the door staff that's with phil jasper at the
34:01club he gives a very very good account events if helen's done uncovering it his manager just says to
34:07him can you um just take out this male not aggressive doesn't try and resist in any way
34:14a few minutes later two males exit the club and as they leave they they're staring quite intently
34:24at the white male to such an extent that he says it's with attitude both males are calling the white
34:31male um a dickhead and other names as he moves towards them he hears the mixed race male saying
34:39um i'm going to smash him that's it okay none of the door staff are saying that this thomas is
34:50aggressive at the point of contact they're all saying placid and he's compliant certainly is
34:57different to what he tells us in his interview which if i'm right he said that he had unavoidable
35:02contact that he went for a cab and he thought he was going to get hit so he struck out that doesn't
35:07marry up does it no okay good thank you people thank you
35:12all right hi this hello hello how are you fine this is no reason i'm gonna run i know it's not
35:31very very nice for you to to talk about it um but what we like to get and what the court like to
35:39to get a feel for is the impact on you and also your mum and dad?
35:49I don't know how to say it, just we're always speechless.
35:58Every day I'm thinking about him, just, you know, trying to live a life.
36:06Sometimes you forget, sometimes you think maybe he just, again, gone somewhere abroad, you know.
36:18And sometimes you just realize that you will never see him again and then your head is blown, you know.
36:27Yeah.
36:31I was thinking, oh, if I would go with him that night, then maybe it won't happen, something like this.
36:40But I can't blame anybody for this because, you know, it can happen anytime, anywhere.
36:52You can have an argument with anyone, anyone can hit you or you can, you know, fall anywhere.
37:00It's just, I see it as an accident, really, because they both, they both were arguing, not only one side.
37:14Of course, I can, I can't say it as a fact because I wasn't there, I couldn't see it.
37:23But I think so.
37:25So, Courtney's back into custody. What time?
37:40One o'clock.
37:42Next plan, I'd like to see is moving towards CPS.
37:46Seeking a charge of murder remand and then for them to make a decision on whether they think we've got the evidence for the murder or not.
37:52Ultimately, they could give us a manslaughter or we could charge on that.
37:57I think go for the, I think go for the full charge and the remand for the murder.
38:01Okay, let's just shut the door.
38:08Obviously, Courtney, there's been some developments, obviously, since you were last here at the police station.
38:13Thomas Juska has died and therefore I'm arresting you on suspicion of his murder.
38:16You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later align in court.
38:20And the thing you do say may be given in evidence. Do you understand? Okay.
38:27Uh, come and stand up here for us, please, here.
38:28What was the circumstances?
38:29Obviously, he was arrested on the 23rd of the 8th in relation to Section 8.
38:30Uh, Section 18 GBH.
38:31Yeah.
38:32The injured party is in the name of the police station.
38:33I think he was arrested on the 23rd of the 8th in relation to Section 18 GBH.
38:34Yeah.
38:35The injured party is in the name of the police station.
38:36He was arrested on the 23rd of the 8th in relation to Section 18 GBH.
38:37The injured party is a gentleman by the name of Thomas Juska. He was found to be brain dead.
38:38Therefore, um, the injured party is in the name of the police station.
38:39He was arrested on the 23rd of the 8th in relation to Section 18 GBH.
38:44Uh, come and stand up here for us, please, here.
38:50Uh, come and stand up here for us, please, here.
38:51What were the circumstances?
38:52Obviously, he was arrested on the 23rd of the 8th in relation to, uh, Section 18 GBH.
38:57Yeah.
38:58The injured party is a gentleman by the name of Thomas Juska.
39:02He was found to be, um, brain dead.
39:05Therefore, um, his life support was switched off and he subsequently died.
39:11And, um, therefore, I've arrested the gentleman on suspicion of murder.
39:21Okay, Courtney, you've returned on your bail today.
39:24Obviously, since that incident occurred at Club Cookies,
39:27the investigation has gone on and a number of witness statements have been obtained.
39:31And, obviously, other people who were there at the time
39:34have a different perception of what happened.
39:37So, the first statement that we're going to look at
39:40is a statement from Khalid, a door supervisor.
39:45Less than five minutes after I had brought the white male outside,
39:48a group of four to five males came out of the club.
39:51I recognised the mixed race male and the black male.
39:54These two were staring at the white male and appeared to have an attitude towards him.
39:58Was this you and Louis staring at Juska?
40:03And, as I was asking them to move on, I heard the mixed rail say,
40:09I'm going to smash him.
40:11You've raised your eyebrows and shaken your head.
40:17What do you have to say about that statement?
40:22What did you mean by that?
40:26What were you going to do?
40:29Why did you not take the opportunity to go and leave the area at that point?
40:36I'm now going to move on to the management and the bar staff.
40:42It looked like Thomas and Courtney were having the same conversation
40:45as they'd been having inside before.
40:47Was that the case?
40:49Had he come in and approached you again about Sarah and how amazing she was
40:54and how that he wanted to go out with her and wanted to take her away from you?
40:58Was that the conversation?
41:00Thomas never once put his hands on Courtney in a rude way or a forceful way
41:06that would instigate what then happened.
41:08In your first account, you said he was openly aggressive to you.
41:12Come on, fight me.
41:15Or was it a case of, he's irritated you so much that it's just...
41:20Go away.
41:22Don't go out.
41:24You could have left that situation and you chose not to.
41:29In fact, you chose to square up to him
41:32and when enough is enough, you chose to punch him.
41:37And there was no act by Thomas just before you punched him, was there?
41:44OK.
41:47OK.
41:48The time now is 16.07 hours
41:51and I'm switching the tape recorder off.
42:06God, it's warm in here, isn't it?
42:09He gave a no comment in the interview.
42:12I didn't think we guessed that, didn't we?
42:13Well, it's not a surprise, is it?
42:15I mean, we put everything to him.
42:17Each individual statement was read.
42:20It's just the fact that the day has dawned
42:22where he's got to kind of face the music.
42:25So, I think we're in plan A.
42:27OK.
42:28And we are going to top and tail a case summary
42:30and we'll go to the CPS and whether or not we charge today
42:32on the evidence we have.
42:33I think we're there at full code.
42:34I don't think we particularly need any more evidence.
42:36No.
42:48The police have concluded their investigation.
42:52The detectives must now call the Crown Prosecution Service once more
42:56to ask for a charge.
42:58We've got a case of Harvey Batchelor.
43:00It's murder.
43:05The victim was not aggressive.
43:07He was a happy drunk.
43:08He made no moves and then suddenly the guy punched him.
43:11So, in that sense, is that enough to say that is intent to cause serious harm?
43:15Because we suggest that saying I'm going to smash him is, but...
43:18Right.
43:28I would say then it's 100%, no matter what, a manslaughter at the very, very minimum.
43:34All right, thank you.
43:35The detectives have been unable to persuade the CPS
43:49to charge Courtney Batchelor with murder.
43:51Instead, they are told to charge him with manslaughter
43:54and bail him under curfew until the case comes to trial.
44:01Go, Courtney.
44:02Do you agree to comply with those conditions?
44:07Yeah, of course.
44:09OK.
44:11One thing, Courtney, you'll have to make sure tonight you go directly home
44:14because, obviously, you're within the curfew hours
44:15and your mum's picking you up, not us taking you.
44:20That includes going via McDonald's.
44:24Just in case it crossed your mind.
44:26That would be bad timing, wouldn't it, to get stopped there?
44:33Thanks a lot.
44:34Thanks a lot.
44:35Oh, it's not the app.
44:36You should go.
44:38Yeah.
44:39Okay.
44:43Bye.
44:45Bye.
44:46Bye.
44:48Bye.
44:50Bye.
45:00Bye.
45:03Bye.
45:05This person admitted that he hit Thomas, but only for the self-defense.
45:22Well, I guess that was the only thing that he could say.
45:28He wanted to show himself as a victim, I guess.
45:33I'm guessing that that guy is just a coward who picked the easiest way to finish this.
45:46I hope that he will get what he deserves.
45:52To be honest, I would like to go him to jail.
46:03There are no winners in this case.
46:07Courtney, from being a person of good character, is now potentially facing a criminal conviction and a prison sentence.
46:17But in my head, really, my sympathy would lie with Thomas' family.
46:24Courtney will come out of the other side of it, so his life will go on.
46:30But Thomas' won't.
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