Four months later, he resigned from the Wiltshire Police force. She and Halliwell lived on the same street. 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"Further to the hearing, Steve Fulcher was found guilty of two counts of gross misconduct (the execution of his duty and inappropriate contact with the media) and received two final written warnings, but remained a member of Wiltshire Police. By effectively acting to ensure Halliwells life was preserved, I was potentially going to cause the death of his victim, he recalls. Four months later, he resigned from the Wiltshire Police force. It turned out to be the remains of Becky. DS Fulcher was found guilty of gross misconduct The following January Det Supt Fulcher was found guilty of gross misconduct and given a final disciplinary warning. Halliwell admitted he had murdered Sian, and directed Det Supt Fulcher and his team to her body near Uffington, Oxfordshire. Im terrified for that poor baby. Steve Fulcher placed Halliwell under surveillance and he was seen cleaning his car, disposing of materials in litter bins, and burning objects at night. Further to the hearing, Steve Fulcher was found guilty of two counts of gross misconduct (the execution of his duty and inappropriate contact with the media) and received two final written warnings, but remained a member of Wiltshire Police. The offending behaviour for Becky was cold and calculated. There was no sign of a baby when they came by". Lara Keay For Mailonline ITV's The Confession, tells the story of how Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher breached protocols to catch a killer. Halliwell, 55, had already admitted murdering Sian in Swindon in 2011, but DS Fulcher's intervention saw him confess to killing Becky Godden 20 years earlier as well. Then he turned to the officer in charge, DS Steve Fulcher, and said: Do you want another one? He then told them where he had buried BeckyGodden many years earlier. Spoken from the dock at Bristol Crown Court this month, these were the words of convicted murderer Christopher Halliwell as he finished cross-examining former detective superintendent Steve Fulcher, the man who had sacrificed everything his career, health and happiness to bring him to justice. Fulcher has lost his career, he works as a security consultant in Africa. Speaking on To Catch A Serial Killer - With Trevor McDonald, Elaine said: Steve did what I think any family member would want an officer to do for them.. June 9, 2015 - Halliwell appears at Bristol Crown Court and denies Miss Godden's murder. Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class. When Halliwells confession about the location of Beckys body was ruled inadmissible in court, other officers continued the hunt for more evidence and unearthed the trophy stash in 2014. When OCallaghan was reported missing on 19 March 2011, DS Steve Fulcher of Wiltshire Police was brought in to lead the case. Former cop Steve Fulcher says: Are you seriously telling me that on two occasions he brutally murdered two women and then theres nothing before or since?. Youre seriously telling me theres nothing in between or either side? On March 18, 2011 Sian O'Callaghan, 22, is murdered by Halliwell after getting into his taxi while walking home after leaving Suju nightclub in Swindon. But not before Halliwell, defending himself in court, gloated about how he had ruined Steves career. I can understand what happened to Fulcher happened to Fulcher. He had killed her two minutes after she got in his cab. In his book, Steve says: At the bottom of a pond that was 8ft deep they found Sian OCallaghans distinctive boot. And despite Karen Edwards best efforts, there have been no changes to arrest guidelines. But Fulcher had taken a different course: 'We drove for about 45 minutes trying to keep him in the moment. A re-investigation began and evidence re-analysed. Fulcher made the decision. Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher speaks at a press conference at Gablecross Police Station in Swindon on the murder of Sian O'Callaghan, MARTIN FREEMAN as Steve Fulcher and JOE ABSOLOM as Christopher Halliwell, Elaine Pickford, played by Sobhan Finneran, was grateful to DS Fulcher. By entering your details, you are agreeing to our terms and conditions and privacy policy. A Confession is based on the true story of Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher and the disappearance of Sian O'Callaghan. March 24, 2011 - Halliwell leads Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, of Wiltshire Police, to the locations of Miss O'Callaghan and Miss Godden's bodies. Two months later, dismayed at Wiltshires Forces disinterest in both reinforcing the charges related to Becky Goddens murder and other potential victims, Fulcher asked to be reassigned to the National Homicide Team. I was prepared for this his case wasnt defendable so it was the only thing they could do but I thought reason would prevail. Meanwhile, Halliwell's father lived a few streets from the home of chef Claudia Lawrence, who has been missing since March 19, 2009 - the same day as Halliwell killed Ms O'Callaghan. Steve Fulcher, the detective who put him behind bars, . Fulcher is more than qualified to reflect on how British policing has changed. It took a jury just two hours to find him guilty. 'He showed me a list of girls' names that he kept in his phone of those that trusted him as a taxi driver. Instead resources went into investigating me for years.. By then, Halliwell had been charged with Sian OCallaghans murder he had stabbed her to death before dumping her body and placed on technical bail (where bail is granted as the accused is already in custody) for the murder of the as-yet-unidentified woman. With his name so closely associated with the story he has found it hard to branch out, though in 2017 he was working for a private company in Mogadishu, Somalia. Thankfully, circumstantial and forensic evidence ensured Halliwell, 52, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012 for killing Miss OCallaghan. Jeff Pope's new ITV drama A Confession stars Martin Freeman as Detective Steve Fulcher, whose hunt for missing 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan led him into an extraordinary situation in 2011. 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BBC reporter Steve Brodie said of the detective's actions: 'At that stage there's absolutely no doubt under PACE [the Police and Criminal Evidence Act], Christopher Halliwell should have been charged on suspicion of murder, taken back to a police station and given access to a solicitor.'. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Worse was to come: as the year unfolded, Fulcher learned that Halliwells legal team would attempt to get the charges thrown out on the basis that Fulcher had not adequately followed PACE guidelines. As he sentenced him, the judge dismissed Halliwells defence as a cock and bull story and deemed him to be calculating and devious. He was allowed to keep his job, but later resigned. Ultimately, Halliwell confessed to two murders to Fulcher and led the police to the bodies of both Sian and Becky. 11:00 GMT 03 Sep 2019. Why on earth had this killer been given every conceivable privilege, while a brave, upstanding detective was hung out to dry? 'You're going to get rid of good ones as well? And then, out of the blue, the taxi driver said: "Do you want another one?". In January 2012, at a preliminary hearing, Mrs Justice Cox ruled the confession obtained by Fulcher was inadmissible at trial. Mr Fulcher believed the man's latest victim might still be alive and feared he might commit suicide without revealing where he'd abandoned her. Steve said: I am certain that in some remote corner of the world there is a 5ft hole with a dead woman at the bottom of it. I need help. Fulcher opened up on the case last year on ITV documentary To Catch A Serial Killer - With Trevor McDonald. The investigation into her murder was headed up by DS Fulcher who charged cab driver Chris Halliwell with the abduction of the office worker. Indeed, it was only thanks to Fulchers instincts honed from 25 years of painstaking investigations and cat and mouse detective work that two young murder victims had been found. He added: It wasn't ignorance on his part, it was a conscious decision by him to drive a coach and horses through recognised police procedure.. I offered to give them full and frank disclosure immediately. Latest weather models confirm that a bitter cold snap is on the way for Ireland. The following January Det Supt Fulcher was found guilty of gross misconduct and given a final disciplinary warning. As a result of being found guilty of gross misconduct in January 2014, Steve Fulcher was given a final written warning, which could have led to his dismissal if he'd fallen foul of any more. She too had been strangled. Once Halliwell was in custody, Fulcher was hailed by his superiors. ', But criminal defence barrister Sebastian Gardiner says: 'It wasn't ignorance on his part, it was a conscious decision by him to drive a coach and horses through recognised police procedure.'. So I thanked him and explained that he would be given his rights, taken back to the police station, 'I interpreted "you and I should have a chat" as some quid pro quo, I thought he would want the deal in terms of me catering for his family who would be affected by his incarceration.'. Since then, the Christopher Halliwell case has remained at the centre of his life. Instead of bringing Halliwell back to Gablecross police station in Swindon where he would have had access to a solicitor, Fulcher ordered his officers to take Halliwell to a nearby Iron Age hill fort called Barbury Castle. January 30, 2012 - Mrs Justice Cox rules the evidence of Halliwell's confessions to the murders of both women is inadmissible. A Confession viewers have been shocked by the twists and turns in the TV version of the horrific true story of serial killer Christopher Halliwell. The detective and suspect met at Barbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort near Swindon, where Fulcher believed Halliwell may be keeping Sian alive. Steve is no longer working for Wiltshire police, having left the force back in 2014, but his decision to hand in his notice wasn't one he made lightly. The worm, however, quickly turned. PACE is there for a reason. Natalie Corner For Mailonline For two days undercover police in 12 vehicles kept him under constant surveillance in the hope he would lead them to Sian. By now, the search for Sian centred round the nearby Iron Age fort of Barbary Castle. He was crying in the car, saying he was a sick f*cker, recalls Fulcher. Realising something was seriously wrong when Sian failed to come home or answer his texts, Kevin raised the alarm. Simone Lee was held captive in her home in Limerick by her former friend Christopher Stokes, who mercilessly beat her, placed bin liner over her head, and also poured boiling water over her before setting the apartment on fire on May 11, 2021. Senior investigating officer Steve Fulcher was found not to have followed procedures on the treatment of suspects, meaning Halliwell's confession was inadmissible in court. 14 Aug 2019 ITV ITV's A Confession throws up an unimaginable ethical dilemma that real-life Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher faced in 2011: break police protocol to catch a serial killer. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. All rights reserved. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. After his arrest, Halliwell revealed the location of Sian's body. The force arranged for an independent misconduct panel to convene. Halliwell had been spotted buying a large quantity of pills, so officers were sent in to arrest him. While others insisted it was actually brilliant detective work, with the mothers of the victims praising DS Fulcher for finding their daughters. He still believes he made the right decisions on that day. It was horribly tense. 'I would appeal to Christopher Halliwell if he wants to speak I'm willing to speak with him. Halliwell is thought to have killed Becky in 2003, while Sian was killed in 2011. Common sense did not win the day. By then he had amassed an impressive CV, presiding over dozens of large investigations. Martin Freeman plays Det Supt Fulcher, Imelda Staunton is Karen Edwards, Beckys mother, Siobhan Finneran features as Elaine Pickford, Sians mother. Her husband Glyn has spent 13 years in jail for her murder but maintains his innocence, with his lawyer saying he would be 'very surprised' if he had committed the crime. The lives of Sian OCallaghan, 22, and Becky Godden, 20, had been callously cut short by taxi driver Halliwell, who guided Fulcher to their bodies. Despite these hopes, Fulcher was wrong. Halliwell is serving life for killing Sian OCallaghan, 22, and Becky Godden, 20. The killer was finally brought to justice by Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, who discovered he had murdered a second victim while investigating the disappearance of Sian O'Callaghan. Joe Absolom plays the killer Christopher Halliwell. If Im right, well I take comfort from the fact that he hasnt been able to do that since 2011. A Confession is a six-part ITV drama. The senior investigating officer on the case was Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher (played in A Confession by Martin Freeman) and the events of 24th March would be the defining moment of his career. "Generally, we echo Fulcher's belief that there are other victims," Pope said, explaining the drama's approach to the question. He [was] kind of crawling up the walls. So he definitely killed Sian in March 2011, he definitely killed Becky early 2003. If the media outside the nick had found out, they would have had the headline of the year., News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. In September 2013, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found that Fulcher had a case to answer for "gross misconduct" for breaches of PACE and for ignoring force orders. Here was a man who indicated he might have more victims. The 2022 loss represents about 12% of the total portfolio. If she had traveled 12 miles in just half an hour, that meant the journey from Swindon Old Town could only have been made in a vehicle. "Because you don't want to mention a name and then give a family false hope. He had murdered before. The charge of murdering Miss Godden is formally withdrawn. The public needs to know what the police wont do if their own daughter went missing. 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