Crime - Access Interviews

Dyanne Littler

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

A SHAKEN mum who almost wed Facebook sex killer Peter Chapman after he wooed her via the internet site told last night how he threatened to torch her house - and shoot her BABY. Trembling Dyanne Littler, 25, said after the rape monster was caged for murdering 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall: "He should be given a lethal injection or hanged."

David Calvert

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

A DAD was in hiding last night after he was wrongly accused of being James Bulger's murderer Jon Venables. David Calvert, 27, told of his torment over an online and text hate campaign.

Jack Straw

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

The Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, has defended his decision not to provide more information about why one of the killers of James Bulger, Jon Venables, has been recalled to prison. Venables, who was released on licence in 2001, was taken back into custody last week because of what Mr Straw said were "extremely serious allegations". A number of newspapers have claimed that Venables has been detained on suspicion of child pornography offences. Mr Straw said he was currently unable to provide more details about the case. But, pressed by Today presenter John Humphrys over the public interest in having more details released, Mr Straw hinted that more information might be revealed. "I understand your point and I will give further consideration to it during the day," he said.

Robert Thompson's Social Worker

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

Somewhere in Britain, possibly abroad, Robert Thompson would have doubtless watched the news last week with great interest. Perhaps the emotions that registered across his face as he did so were easy to read. Perhaps he even betrayed a flicker of remorse when his name was mentioned in passing. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1256109/The-social-worker-looked-Bulger-killer-release-gives-extraordinary-account-kid-gloves-treatment-inside-.html#ixzz0hUcyJ6qD Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1256109/The-social-worker-looked-Bulger-killer-release-gives-extraordinary-account-kid-gloves-treatment-inside-.html#ixzz0hUcvpF5A

Denise Fergus

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

The first question Denise Fergus asked when she was informed at 4pm on Tuesday that Jon Venables had been taken back into custody was: 'What has he done?' Had he harmed another child, she demanded to know. Had he hurt someone? How serious was it?

Nick Clegg

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

He’s meditated in America’s mid-west, he’s set fire to cacti in Germany, his 8-year-old son has a master plan to catch Osama Bin Laden and he could become the most powerful player at the next election. He’s Nick Clegg and he spoke to ShortList’s Andrew Dickens.

Ralph Bulger

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

James Bulger's devastated father has condemned the Government for putting the human rights of his son's killers ahead of those of the parents. Ralph Bulger told the Daily Mail Jon Venables being sent back to prison was 'one more kick in the teeth for James and his family'.

Taryn Dryfhout

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

The woman who reported a possible sighting of Madeleine McCann in New Zealand which was kept secret by Portuguese police said today she 'absolutely believes' it was the missing girl. Taryn Dryfhout was working on the tills at the Warehouse discount store in Dunedin when she saw the girl with a man, a woman and a boy. Ms Dryfhout told broadcaster TVNZ's ONE News: 'She told me that her name was Hayley and was quite apprehensive... and sort of stammered over her words when she was trying to think of her name. She was just very shy and afraid.'

Margaret Johnston

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

THE devastated mum at the centre of the tragic Black Bob love triangle told last night how her passionate flings with two men led to MURDER. Shattered Margaret Johnston, 34, revealed she blames HERSELF after jealous Jack Campbell, 59 - known as "Monkey Man" - was found guilty of murdering rival Bob Rose, 54, in Orkney.

Billy-Joe Kenney

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

A teenager has spoken for the first time of his remorse over the notorious bullying campaign that led to the suicide of a mother and her disabled daughter. “When I look back, I feel horrible,” Billy-Joe Kenney, 19, told The Times. “I was a different person then, hanging around streets, being horrible. I feel guilty. I know full well I could have done more to help, but I never done anything.”

Darius Guppy

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

In an exclusive interview, Old Etonian and Bullingdon Club member Darius Guppy tells of his colourful life and why he refuses to reinvent himself.

Ray Gosling

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

BBC reporter Ray Gosling said he has no regrets after admitting he helped his terminally-ill former partner to die. Mr Gosling was asked about the decision to smother his partner and whether he regretted publicly admitting it on the East Midlands Inside Out programme.

Ray Gosling

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

"Maybe this is the time to share a secret I've kept for a long time...". Ray Gosling has opened himself up to a police investigation, after admitting he suffocated a lover who was dying from Aids. Ray Gosling said he had smothered the unnamed man while he was lying in a hospital bed "in terrible, terrible pain". On the BBC's Today programme, he said that while he was not "making a cause" of assisted dying, there was a case for changing the law: "Sometimes doctors do it on their own. Sometimes people do it on their own. "And if it happens to a lover or friend of yours, a husband, a wife, and I hope it doesn't, but when it does, sometimes you have to do brave things and you have to say - to use Nottingham language - bugger the law." He told BBC Midlands Inside Out programme: "Maybe this is the time to share a secret that I have kept for quite a long time. I killed someone once. He was a young chap. He'd been my lover and he got Aids." Mr Gosling, 70, went on to explain what happened: "In a hospital one hot afternoon, the doctor said, 'There's nothing we can do', and he was in terrible, terrible pain. I said to the doctor, 'Leave me just for a bit' and he went away. I picked up the pillow and smothered him until he was dead. The doctor came back and I said, 'He's gone'. Nothing more was ever said." The broadcaster, who has made hundreds of radio and TV documentaries, said he had no regrets: "When you love someone, it is difficult to see them suffer. We'd got an agreement - if it got worse, the pain, and nobody could do anything. He was in terrible pain. I was there and I saw it. It breaks you into pieces."

Waad Al Baghdadi

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

Ali Dizaei gulped down his Iranian stew, then pushed his chair back, flaunted a £50 note and waited for the belly dancers to begin... Long before they were introduced, Waad Al Baghdadi had the measure of Commander Ali Dizaei. They frequented the same Persian restaurant in West London and Mr Al Baghdadi, then a 20-year-old website designer, was able to observe the officer’s behaviour at close hand. He thought him bloated with self-importance. There was his swagger, his constant boasting, his habit of braying into his phone. Mr Al Baghdadi also noted with distaste how Dizaei gulped down his fesenjn - a soupy Iranian stew made with pomegranates - ‘in a dirty way, like an animal’ and afterwards pushed his chair back, set his feet wide apart and waited for the belly dancing to begin.

Carl Stotter

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

A BLAST of rancid air made Carl Stotter gag as the door to his host's dingy flat swung open. Ignoring the stench, the 21-year-old followed him into the humbly furnished pad and gratefully accepted a strong rum and Coke. The two had met earlier in the Black Cap gay bar in north London where Carl was immediately taken with the mousey-haired stranger. The man, in his mid-thirties, had listened intently as he poured out his heart about a violent past relationship. Carl had then naively accepted an invitation to go back to the mysterious man's flat - unaware that he was in the company of serial killer Dennis Nilsen. In February 1983 the twisted Scot was finally arrested for killing and dismembering at least 15 men and boys. There were so many victims that even Nilsen could not remember the exact number.

James Kilgore

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

James Kilgore spent 27 years on the run and time in jail for being part of the terror group that kidnapped Patty Hearst. Now he has plenty of regrets It’s a perfect early winter’s afternoon in the American Midwest and James Kilgore seems very much at home in a suburban study that opens on to a leafy garden. He also comes across as surprisingly well-adjusted for a man wearing a parole ankle bracelet after nearly seven years in jail — and 27 years on the run before that. Kilgore was one of the FBI’s “most wanted” fugitives for the part he played in the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a militant organisation that caused terror in 1970s America, carrying out bank robberies, murder — and kidnapping 19-year-old Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of the newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst.

Alastair Campbell

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

On Sunday 7 February Andrew Marr interviewed Former Government Communications Director, Alistair Campbell. ANDREW MARR: Now one thing the Iraq Inquiry made clear in recent weeks was the central role played by Alastair Campbell in the run up to the war. His appearance at the Chilcot Inquiry was as robust and unapologetic as that of his former boss Tony Blair's and continues to occupy an important Labour Party role in the back rooms. It's reported that he'll be in there, coaching Gordon Brown, and that he helped the Prime Minister in that interview we were mentioning with his friend Piers Morgan. In the meantime, Alastair Campbell's found time to write a new novel, one of which many reviewers claim has intriguing similarities to his own life. Alastair Campbell. It's a book, it's called 'Mayor', and it's about an obsessive following of an actress whose life is coming apart in the hothouse of the media. And I guess the reason some of the reviewers have said there's certain similarities is the main protagonist is quite an angry, driven guy who loathes the British media, and they're thinking, hmm, who does that recall? ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Yeah. Well I don't loathe the British media. I have a bit of a problem with the current media culture, and I think … You mentioned the Iraq Inquiry. I think the coverage of that has perhaps underlined my views of it. But I mean the novel is basically a novel novel. It's not a kind of issues novel. I've read the reviews saying that it's about me and Tony, and I have to be honest it never crossed my mind writing it. It's a story of a film star … ANDREW MARR: Well I'm relieved to hear that … ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Yeah, it would have been a bit odd.

Alastair Campbell

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

Alastair Campbell broke down on live television as he defended Tony Blair's 'honour' over the Iraq war. In an extraordinary performance on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Campbell struggled to contain his emotions when it was put to him that Mr Blair had misled parliament about the case for war. He cast his eyes to the ground, apparently trying to blink away tears. Mr Campbell complained that he had 'been through a lot' over Iraq and was upset by the 'constant vilification' of Mr Blair and himself. During several lengthy pauses, one lasting 15 seconds, the former Labour spin chief took a series of deep breaths while trying to compose himself.

Gary Tanaka

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

The London-based fund manager – whose £27 million donation to Imperial College won him plaudits and recognition – is now contemplating the prospect of life behind bars after a Manhattan judge said "the investment world needs to know this kind of behaviour cannot be tolerated".

Dubai rape vcitim

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:17 +0000

A BRITISH rape victim back home after a four-week nightmare in Dubai said last night: "My life's in ruins." The petite 23-year-old was arrested after going to cops with her concerned fiance to report the sex attack. But instead of listening sympathetically, laughing male cops TAUNTED her before THROWING them both in jail for two days. She was not allowed to leave Dubai until she signed papers to say the rape had never happened. In return, charges of having illegal sex with her fiance and drinking without a permit - which could have led to six years' jail - were dropped.