24 Hours in Police Custody: Ch4

[C69]

Well, Daniel is an oddball.

Surprised they didn't seem to consider using IP addresses to try to identify the source (especially when he was using the 101 text chat service).

Is 'bring your cat to work' a thing in the police now?

[rallycross]

It was an interesting episode but not that hard to work out me and my Mrs guessed the outcome within a few mins of watching.

It’s shocking how much police and emergency services time could be used up / wasted thanks to one nut case.

[CoolHands]

Total freak. He sounded like a moron from the moment the mother described him. If my daughter ever hooks up with someone like him god knows what I’d do.

Knew it was him as soon as he feigned innocence the first time police went to his house. It’s a miracle he didn’t kill her; luckily the police seemed more on it than with most stalking cases.

[Chauffard]

We all know police work isn't like an episode of The Sweeney, so this episode represents much of what is mundane and pedestrian in police work. Quite a robust jail sentence, probably due to the deliberate wastage of police time.

The highlight was the walk on part played by a handsome police cat.

[Ifinishposts]

DoubleSix said:

Tosh indeed.



Without wishing to be mean, this trainee DCI is utterly unconvincing too.

It always annoys me (perhaps I need to understand why it annoys me so much) when people laugh at inappropriate things.
The trainee DCI does it at the start of this episode.

Anybody that has tattoos on their face is just a bell end.

[fourstardan]

Being locked up for 4 years for sending a few donkey prn picks and death threats is quite the deterrent.

Obviously that was under the last government and this guys now out with a job in Phones4U with an ankle bracelet on.

[WhiskyDisco]

I think the sentence was right though.

[Melman Giraffe]

He clearly has mental health issues and a spell in prison isn't going to help this. I think he needed to be sectioned in a mental health hospital.

[fuzzymonkey]

The problem with all these cop shows, you know if they are guilty or not from the start of the show. If their face is blurred out then you know they are not guity. If they are not blured out then they were guilty....

[CountyAFC]

Was gonna watch it on catch up but doesn't sound worth it.

This used to be essential viewing. Shame.

[Wish]

He was shot to st and this could have ended in a much different way.
I was amazed he was bailed out…..


Did he have the pistonheads logo tatoo’d on his left side of his face?

[number2]

Bungleaio said:

The police have had to do a lot of work to track it back to him.

Fun fact, I've been in that interview room. Thankfully as I was surveying the building not because they wanted a word with me

That's what they wanted you to think .

Remember: "No comment." .

[hairykrishna]

fuzzymonkey said:

The problem with all these cop shows, you know if they are guilty or not from the start of the show. If their face is blurred out then you know they are not guity. If they are not blured out then they were guilty....

Or they agreed to let their face be shown. There's lots of police custody episodes where you start out thinking one person is the guilty party until more evidence is revealed.

[Shooter McGavin]

Daniel struck me as a massive narcissist and deserves to be behind bars so that he's not a danger to women whilst in the clink.

"Do you want a free solicitor?"

"No, I'll just try to lie and bullst my way out of this without one because I think I'm more intelligent than you" (I paraphrase, but you get the gist)

[Shooter McGavin]

DoubleSix said:

Without wishing to be mean, this trainee DCI is utterly unconvincing too.

Without wishing to be mean or too pedantic, surely she was a trainee DC?

A DCI is something of a more senior rank, no?

[gr86_driver]

I think he is a dangerous man and displays a lot of the early signs seen in people who go on to murder their partner/ex.

The scariest bit for me was all the writing he'd left on the walls. Lots of "together forever" and possessive statements. That's a huge red flag.

BBC News - Killers 'follow pattern' in domestic abuse cases
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49481998

[C5_Steve]

Whilst it wasn't the most exciting episode I think it was a very worth while one. I've someone close to me going through very similar and to say the police have been pretty much useless would be an understatement. Great to see this case get the attention and resources it deserves but it does seem he was caught simply because he was an idiot and slipped up rather than any serious detective work.

Fat too often these crimes aren't taken seriously enough and the harm it can cause the victim is massive. Pleased he got a stiff sentence given the extent of his behaviour.

[gr86_driver]

It's easy to say "it's only social media" but this was clearly stalking with the intention of coercing the victim back into a relationship. Given his comments about how women "mess you up" or similar PLUS his talk of not planning to grow old and add in the "together forever" scrawling on the walls and it's all a preamble to femicide or familicide / murder/suicide. Then when it happens everyone says it's impossible to prevent because it's a crime of passion when in actual fact there's a straight line from the earlier behaviour to the violence.

I'm glad they showed this episode, even if it wasn't that exciting.

[Jaguar99]

C69 said:

Surprised they didn't seem to consider using IP addresses to try to identify the source (especially when he was using the 101 text chat service).

If he was messaging/chatting from an unregistered pay as you go phone then tracing the IP address is no help

[LittleBigPlanet]

Like (some) others here, I thought this was an interesting episode-- this wasn't just a few messages or obscene photos, it was constant and getting worse.

The sentence seems appropriate. I was also staggered that he was let out on bail.

I hope he gets the help he (very clearly) needs.