@@lukemccrohon5152 I like watching them, but oddly enough I don't really think of it as nostalgia. I watch them as if it really was the original date of the programme, even though that doesn't make any logical sense.
Fantastic idea, I can’t understand why it stopped. I like watching these old ones it’s amazing how many didn’t get solved. I imagine the thieves like to watch the blags they carried out. Must be very odd watching someone play you in a reconstruction
@@Peter-ix1ym I think the internet has ruined it. Police forces use twitter and the likes nowadays. It changed to much and went very over dramatised I think. I often wonder if any of the criminals are watching these episodes in their old age!
Certainly a lot more crime online by clever people who hack into accounts etc. I still think the BBC could bring back Crimewatch plenty of cases like you say are still unsolved.
@@Peter-ix1ym It is indeed. A greyhound played me in a 1989 episode. As an Alsatian, I was furious for fifteen minutes. Then I forgot about it and just lay in my bed licking my testicles.
UPDATE: An arrest has been made in connection with the murder of Anthony Littler. A 58-year-old man was detained today (10th December) and bailed until January. This comes just FOUR DAYS after the Met launched a new public appeal for information about the case.
NEW UPDATE: A 54 year old man was detained on the 14th December on suspicion of the murder of Anthony Littler. They have also been bailed until the New Year!
Sue Cook is an excellent narrator, she does a great job on the Janice Weston segment. Learned recently that number plates purchased in the auto parts store were never put on Janice's car. Very strange. An lady called Jess Carter did an excellent and very interesting podcast on Janice's case. She refers to the plates not being put on the car in it. There are also other excellent informative podcasts available about Janice.
Thanks for the heads up on those podcasts about the Janice Weston case. I follow a lot of true crime pods but even the UK based ones seem to focus on US case so I'll definitely check out Jess Carter.
Thanks!! Love podcasts like that, will deffo look them up. There are some great ones out there. Just listened recently to "The Detective" podcast where the policeman turned investigator who broke the Jimmy saville case, mark Williams Thomas, looked into the case of Lee Boxell's disappearance. That one is well worth a listen.
@@justhannah3960 one podcast series that comes recommended if you haven't listened already - Just listened recently to "The Detective" podcast where the policeman turned investigator who broke the Jimmy saville case, mark Williams Thomas, looks into old cases. He's just done a very in depth investigation into the case of Lee Boxell's disappearance. That one in particular is well worth a listen.
I've been wondering that too and thought maybe the CCTV was always pretty clear but over time it gets grainer and worse. Let's be honest how often do businesses update their CCTV capabilities ?! I reckon most CCTV we witness are from devices which are from the late 80s or 90s that have been running for 20/30 years.
It is a pity they could not trace calls then. If someone had called Janice to make her change her mind about staying in London, and getting on the road instead, they could find out who it was.
CCTV was in hardly any places back then, but if it was, it tended to be state of the art because the only people who could afford it were protecting something highly valuable, or because there was some kind of terrorist threat.
I used to be a minicab controller for a company in Feltham. About 12 years ago. I moved to Feltham in 1984 and I knew those different minicab companies and where they were located. Such a shame that they didn’t have radios in the cars back then. It’s also about 2 miles from Hounslow to Feltham, not 4 miles that was said here.
@@gujh03 definitely not 4 miles. We used to do that journey every weekend to go shopping in Hounslow. We would get the bus from Feltham. Even the road signs said 2 and a half miles to Hounslow. From Feltham town centre. The journey is the same now as it was then.
RIP Janice. Time is running out for justice of her killer. It's sad how so many of these murders are still unsolved. Murderers going to their grave unpunished.
Did Crimewatch be on a Thursday night? I remember my mam watching this and when it finished she said “why can’t it be on every week” my mam loved this programme!
Looking at various articles on Google, it seems that it may have been a contract killing. He seems to have been moving in some very dangerous circles, and making enemies of them.
Anyone aware if those two frenzied cab driver murders were ever solved? A quick Google of the victims' names suggests the perpetrator is still at large, which is pretty inconceivable given you'd imagine he'd strike again at some point. Can find precious little on Anthony Littler's killing either.
The church arsonist rings a bell, so to speak. He's clearly aware of specific dates in the religious calendar. I was walking by my local church last Christmas day, and lo and behold, somebody had filled the blighter with stuffing.
In the Janet Weston case there was quite a bit of information that could make sense to someone, her apparent change of mind not to stay in London, her car being found in London, her handbag left behind or brought back to London, two apparent punctures in a short space of time, the place it occurred, a viscous assault, the place she was going, spare wheel missing, man having her reg plates made up, where and when he was having the plates made up, where and when her car was found, when she was last spoken to on the phone, how long it takes from her flat to where she was found, was the spare wheel change a red herring why she was found at that spot ? did she change it or move it in the boot before she left her flat? Taking her half eaten meal and half drunk bottle of wine yet she wasn't one for drinking and driving !
VHS video gives pretty good quality if you look after the cassettes. I've still got videos that were recorded in 1983 that haven't deteriorated much at all.
Yes, She was very advanced for the year 1983. Especially writing the book about computer data protection. She was an lady born well before her time. RIP
Not as far ahead as you'd be making out. The passing of the Data Protection Act in 1984 would suggest it was obviously becoming a big issue. You'd be amazed at how much information on people, even back then, was held on databases without a firm legal framework on storage or access. Her plan to bring out a book was a smart career move. Become established as a subject matter expert in a field where few lawyers would claim great knowledge and it's very good for business. She was clearly very smart and very shrewd, but to speak of her as though she were some being from another age is perhaps pushing it a bit.
A lot didn't in those days - a landline was expensive as you rented the instrument (telephone ) and the line itself , so it was common place that pensioners , students and young people living in 1 bedroom flats couldn't afford them. Also if there was no line installed at the property , you yourself would have to pay for "the bt man" to come and fit the line (engineer's visit) so all in all, in wasn't accessible for a lot of society.
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@@muk8804 not just 1 bed flats but bedsits, studios and HMOs. I used to write to Crimewatch UK but they never responded...
Yes I just watched and thought that, but they used to make them so real in the early years and the actors played the parts so well that's why they freak us when they're playing the attacker
Janice Weston's murder is so baffling. There are so many odd things about the case. The missing spare wheel and the man who had her number plate made up are just two bizarre things.
Great! Mini-cab murders now landed on Wikipedia thanks to CW (although I'm not sure about the name spelling: Hardeep? Mr Ross seems to pronounce it as Pardeep).
This link may be of interest, although it is basically a summary of the case(s) as presented by "Crimewatch". It even includes a link to this very page. www.reddit.com/r/ColdCaseUK/comments/ce31nn/the_mini_cab_murders_of_stephen_sylvester_and/
I think a lot more could have been achieved if cases were put on crimewatch a lot sooner than many were, where were you on Saturday twenty years ago sounds a daft question, I suppose some keep diaries though.
The Durham arson thing sounds a bit like Michael 'Mini' Cooper. Has he been investigated? He was a young 11 year old arsonist featured on the bbc in 1975 or so
Boys From The Blackstuff was fantastic! I didn't watch it on television, in around 2012 an old work colleague let me borrow his DVDs of the series (one at a time lol). I was hooked & although I haven't watched it since, I've never forgotten it! Would love to watch it again & with my son next time!
The janice weston murder is very sad and most odd. Assuming that her legal work didnt leave a grudge. And to additionally assume that her personal life was all good and healthy. Could it be a passing psychotic driver who stopped, asked her if he could help, he didnt like the response, and then commited the murder in a rage of anger? I think the number plate situation could have just been a remarkable coincidence? Maybe someone who saw her car parked up and looking to temporarily mask a stolen, same model car? I was too young to watch these early ones but remember the late 80s ones.
two punctures suggests prior stalking and vehicle tampering knowing she would be brought to a halt at a suitable place. something had to happen to make her set off on her journey when she had been planning to stay at home. a phone call from the builders working at clopton with some issue better solved with a personal visit? the weirdest thing is that her final meal was bread and wine.
The Janice Weston case remains unsolved, although the police reopened the case in 2018. There have been all kinds of theories over the years, ranging from her husband being responsible, to drugs having been hidden in the spare tyre of the car, to the possibility that Peter Tobin may have killed her.
Unlikely to be solved now. Did the hubby marry someone else soon afterwards? They had only been married over a year, so he hadn't even had time to get bored with her. It does sound like she was targeted because they said no sexual assault or robbery, so what would be the reason to kill a woman for nothing? It said she planned to stay at home for the weekend, so the trip to their new house was not planned. If they could find if anyone had called her, that would tell them why she got onto the road, also no-one could have known her car would breakdown on the journey.
Pretty sure he was away in a different country? I really doubt it was his husband. Why does everyone assume it is the husband when something like this happens
@@AngelDelight69 They mean her husband paid someone to kill her......yes he was in another country. Doesn't mean he didn't have her killed. Everyone assumes it's the husband because statistically it usually is. The Anne Heron case? Peter Heron did NOT do it....and he was charged. They just persecuted the guy because he had an affair. He had a solid alibi and none the less he was charged. Never went to trial tho. He is still trying to clear his name.
I don’t understand why nobody saw the Janice Weston murder, because it happened on a busy motorway - the A1, near the Brampton-Hut roundabout. The traffic was heavy, so somebody must have witnessed it, why on earth didn’t they do anything? they said there was blood inside the car on the windscreen, so the murderer must have attacked her in the car, but again - didn’t someone see it? or maybe because it was dark, they didn’t fully comprehend what happened, but if someone is attacking someone, how can you mistake that?? it does seem as though she was going to meet somebody, but who knows…There are some absolutely depraved individuals out there, who would do such a depraved thing? Terrible. Doubt it will ever be solved, now.
The maps in these really old appeals are terrible. I'm bad at reading maps and getting my head around geographies anyway, but these look more like minimalist modern art rather than maps to me!
Just shows how long ago it was, really. easy to forget that these episodes are from almost 40 years ago. Literally last century. The technology was very primitive.
On the taxi murders the investigating officer who is appealing on the taxi murders won't say why they know he's a tall person l think it's because the driving seat was not near enough the stirring wheel as it would have been nearer had it been the victims as l assume they we not tall enough to feel comfortable driving in the position the driver's seat was found
@@treasurehunteruk9718 exactly. Or her nails scratched his hands which were covered with oil. Is was definitely a man. It would be a rarity now to find a woman who could change a tyre never mind 40 years ago.
@@peteg9011 Especially since she was educated and not a 'hands on' type of person. She spent her life with her nose in books, so she wasn't the sort of person to get on her knees and get under a car, I think. Anyway, she was very wealthy, so those type of people pay someone else to do their grubby work. They keep their hands clean.
