Murder Scene The Incident Room S02E02 The Girl in the Grave
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00:00The incident room is the heart of any major police enquiry.
00:08I am going to leave absolutely no stone unturned.
00:13Vicious attack, stabbed multiple times, it doesn't stand a chance.
00:17A place where evidence is gathered.
00:19I saw the car, saw the gun.
00:22We had DNA, we had blood at the scene. The evidence was overwhelming.
00:27Suspects identified.
00:30In my view, he was the last person to see Jayden alive.
00:33We're coming after them, we're now on a manhunt.
00:36Keep your hands out, alright? I've got a taser, okay?
00:39Murderers interrogated.
00:41I'll be honest with you, I don't care about where she is.
00:45He's involved, not only her disappearance, but her murder as well.
00:48And cold-blooded killers brought to justice.
00:51£1500 to travel from Manchester to shoot somebody dead.
00:57This is murder scene. The incident room.
01:06Tonight...
01:07Ben, you've been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping.
01:10I'm nervous. I'm nervous.
01:12This...
01:13A young woman is missing.
01:15And police suspect she may be dead.
01:18This is to do with Jayden Parkinson?
01:20Is that your ex-girlfriend?
01:21It is.
01:22We've got a prime suspect in custody.
01:25He was known for his history of violence.
01:28This is pointing towards murder.
01:31This is a detective and a father myself.
01:34I never thought that anybody would do such a thing.
01:37It's dreadful.
01:38Police are appealing for help to trace a girl who went missing from a city hostel on Tuesday last week.
01:57Thames Valley Police say it's thought the 17-year-old could still be in the area.
02:02Anyone with information should call 101.
02:06It's the 11th of December, 2013.
02:12Thames Valley Major Crime Unit launch an incident room.
02:18The man in charge is Detective Superintendent Chris Ward, who leads a team of 90 detectives and search team officers.
02:27I've been on the murder unit for over six years.
02:31I would not normally be involved in missing person cases until it got to a stage where there was significant concern about the person and where they are.
02:42This is Jayden Parkinson, a 17-year-old girl.
02:46Jayden was reported missing in the early hours of the 4th of December by One Foot Forward, which is the hostel that she was staying in.
02:53Jayden has not had any contact with her family.
02:58She's not had any contact with her friends.
03:00She appears to have completely disappeared.
03:05So seven days is a very long time for somebody to go missing.
03:08And I'm very concerned that somebody of that age has been missing this long.
03:12With a missing person or MISPA in police shorthand, those hours can quickly become days, weeks and months.
03:27It was a needle in a haystack where Jayden could be.
03:30The priority in any missing person investigation is to look at the lifestyle of the person that you're looking for.
03:37Things like, where should they be?
03:38Where do they normally go?
03:39What's their routines?
03:41What would you be expecting them to be doing?
03:43And, of course, are they still doing those things?
03:46It's really important that we do this job properly and we find Jayden.
03:49Jayden's mum, Sam, already fears something has happened to her daughter.
04:02I was ringing the police every day.
04:05In the beginning, I didn't think much of it because she kind of used to go missing a bit anyway.
04:10She was a pretty good kid, apart from she did that drinking and smoking phase like some teenagers do and not coming home.
04:22By the Friday, which is the 6th, that's when I kind of knew that something wasn't right
04:30because within 24, 48 hours she'd have contacted somebody at least, be a friend or myself, usually myself.
04:37But there was nothing, there was no hide nor hair ever.
04:42Nobody could find her, nobody could get hold of her.
04:47That made it a little bit more crikey what's occurred.
04:54One foot forward is a council-funded hostel supporting homeless young people.
05:01Sam tells detectives that Jayden had moved into a hostel a few weeks earlier.
05:07on the run from an abusive relationship with an older man.
05:14His name is Ben Blakely.
05:17He was 21, come from Reading.
05:21She met him because her friend Jake was his younger brother.
05:27I wasn't happy because of the age gap, but the more I pushed the fact that I didn't like Ben,
05:32the further away he took on.
05:35The pair had begun dating a year earlier when Jayden was still living at home.
05:42Very quickly, it became obvious to Sam that her daughter was being physically abused.
05:48I remember one night she'd gone down to the front to have a cigarette and come back and she had a mark on her face.
06:01I was up for some matter of view, she was like Ben just punched me in the face and spat at me.
06:04Sam feared Blakely was a man who used violence to control the women in his life.
06:14So when he come to knock on my door after that, I refused to let him in, I refused to let her out.
06:20And we had a confrontation at the top of the stairs and he was like basically I want to see her.
06:27I was like you're not getting into the house no more, you're done.
06:31You've punched my daughter in the face, you spat at her.
06:32So he spat at me in my face and I sit there and took it.
06:38He knew that I weren't for backing down.
06:42And that night she went out for another cigarette and didn't come back for weeks.
06:49And it just steadily got worse and worse and worse.
06:52Ben Blakely's criminal background check tells the detectives in the incident room that Sam's fears are well founded.
07:12We are aware that Ben Blakely has a significant history of domestic abuse against other young females.
07:17We have accounts from both Jaden's mother and staff from the hostel who've described Ben Blakely as being aggressive and threatening towards Jaden.
07:27Domestic abuse is common.
07:29There's also coercive control.
07:31I think particularly with a young person, they think it's a protective behaviour by the perpetrator, but actually they're being controlled.
07:38Whether it's their movements, what they wear, who they can speak to, isolation from family and friends.
07:42In the case of Jaden, we know that he took indecent images of her, he threatened to put those on the internet.
07:48He stole her phone.
07:50In a very short space of time, she has had the most appalling treatment from a violent, horrible individual.
07:56The detectives piece together a timeline of the weeks before Jaden's disappearance, focusing on the relationship with Blakely.
08:11I met Jaden on the 3rd of December to talk about her being pregnant.
08:18And my heart sank.
08:20And I was like, there is a photo of me and her that day, and you can see the absolute joy in her face and the absolute horror in mine of the fact that she's pregnant by Ben.
08:37But I think she was ready to be a mum.
08:45She was happy, she was glowing.
08:48That's what she wanted.
08:50The last place I saw her was on the steps of one foot forward.
08:54I gave her a hug.
08:56I said to her, come back home, we'll do this pregnancy together, I'll help you as much as I can.
09:00And she said, no mum, I don't want to bring no more drama to your door.
09:05The major investigation team are aware that Jaden's ex-boyfriend, Ben Blakely, has already been arrested and interviewed by local CID about her disappearance.
09:25Ben, you've been arrested on suspicion of killing that.
09:35I'm there, Ben. I'm there. It's crazy, isn't it?
09:38This is in relation to...
09:40To my ex-girlfriend.
09:42OK, I won't say her name.
09:44You tell me you've got the other woman's paperwork.
09:46I've got a lot of paperwork.
09:48This is to do with Jaden Parkinson.
09:51Is that your ex-girlfriend?
09:52Is that your ex-girlfriend?
09:53It is.
09:54During his interview, he was quite aggressive towards the officers and he was throwing it back on them that he didn't know where she was.
10:02Your CID...
10:05Go into work and go into hacking to her Facebook.
10:08You've got to find her now.
10:10Who's nicking me for kidnapping?
10:12I mean, you could just hack her and then find her like that.
10:16But more importantly, he didn't care where she was and then it was the officers' job to find her.
10:19Listen, I'll be honest with you, eh? I don't care where she is. I don't care where she is. She's got a new boyfriend. He's here with her. She's nothing to do with me now. I don't care where she is.
10:32There seems to be no empathy or concern about where Jaden was. That interview makes me believe that he's involved not only in her disappearance but potentially her murder as well.
10:43With no proof Jaden has come to harm or that Blakely saw her on the day she disappeared. Detectives must release him on bail.
10:53All of this points towards Ben Blakely. But you do have to keep an open mind because, of course, we're still not completely sure what happened.
11:02This is a massive amount of pressure now for me and the rest of the team.
11:08What I don't want is him out there free so he can tamper with evidence and conceal things that we may need to find out where Jaden is.
11:16But as the investigation ramps up, more horrific details of her abuse emerge.
11:27There was burns on her chest, cigarette burns.
11:31And Ben Blakely's lies begin to unravel.
11:35There's a CCTV capture of Ben and Jaden together. In my view, he was the last person to see Jaden alive.
11:42In Oxford, 17-year-old Jaden Parkinson has been missing for eight days.
12:06Pregnant and a victim of abuse, detectives fear her violent ex-boyfriend, Ben Blakely, is involved.
12:16But when questioned, he denies seeing her.
12:19They're nicking me for kidnapping and then you can just hack her and find her like that.
12:28I don't give a where she is. I don't care where she is.
12:32That interview makes me believe that he's involved, not only her disappearance, but potentially her murder as well.
12:38I think Ben Blakely is a domestic abuser who's gone too far.
12:45But I need proof.
12:50With their prime suspect out on bail, the pressure to find Jaden ramps up.
12:56Starting at ground zero, Chris deploys extra officers to support the search in Oxford City.
13:02When Jaden was last seen to the current time, you know, where has she been? Who has she been with?
13:09I've got a large number of officers doing CCTV trawls.
13:13They're looking through evidence of phone contact.
13:17They are looking for witnesses and it's really important they get out there and do this job so that we can try and find Jaden.
13:22There are hundreds of hours of CCTV footage to sift through.
13:31There are moments when I think we may find her alive and there's other moments when I fear that we won't.
13:37After four days of working around the clock, detectives finally spot something.
13:42They have eyes on Ben Blakely.
13:47Closely followed by Jaden.
13:52I've seen it just before half past four, going through the barriers at Didcot Railway Station.
14:00This proves Ben was lying to his family, questioned him.
14:04He was with Jaden on the day she disappeared. I need to know why.
14:07It's the last sighting detectives can find of Jaden alive.
14:13After this, the trail runs cold.
14:17Later in the evening we have CCTV evidence of Ben Blakely coming back through the railway station.
14:24But this time Jaden's not with him.
14:26And that's what tips this from somebody who's missing into somebody who's potentially been murdered.
14:32Ben Blakely is our main suspect in this case now.
14:34We need to find him and we need to get him back in custody as quickly as possible.
14:41Suspecting Blakely of foul play, detectives re-arrest him.
14:46This time, it's under suspicion of murder.
14:50The detective and a father myself were very concerned about Jaden.
14:5322-year-old former boyfriend of missing teen Jaden Parkinson has been arrested in connection with her disappearance.
15:09Anyone with information should contact police on 101 in confidence.
15:12News of Blakely's arrest reaches those closest to Jaden.
15:19Including her childhood friend Remy, who was already concerned about their relationship.
15:27At the last few occasions that I saw her, she just seemed like she'd lost that spark in her.
15:36She'd come down for my grandma's funeral. That's when she first showed me a picture of him.
15:41From the get-go, there was something I didn't, like his eyes had a very sort of sinister look behind her.
15:49He was calling her and he didn't believe that she was where she said she was.
15:53And he was throwing around threats and things then.
15:56Where he was on the phone was just like, wow.
15:57But Remy discovered Blakely's treatment of Jaden went beyond verbal abuse.
16:07When she was getting dressed for the funeral, there was burns on her chest, cigarette burns.
16:15And that's sort of when she said that he had been physically harming her.
16:21It was very much, we're in love. He doesn't do these things because he wants to hurt me.
16:27It was my fault. I was extremely worried.
16:30I just kind of had this feeling it was just going to get worse.
16:39Back in the incident room, armed with the CCTV,
16:43specially trained Tier 3 interviewers draw up a strategy for a new interrogation of Blakely.
16:51I want to know where is Jaden and why did he come back through the railway station at Oxford?
16:58That night on the 3rd without her.
17:01Interviewing officers have asked him all these questions and he's not saying anything.
17:04So he's not cooperating at all.
17:05So he's not giving us any information about where Jaden may be.
17:09Which obviously makes me more suspicious that something's happened to Jaden because he's not assisting us in trying to find her.
17:14With my 20 years of experience as a detective, this is pointing towards Ben Blakely being responsible for Jaden's death.
17:24Jaden's missing persons case is reclassified.
17:27With no proof she's alive and Ben Blakely's abusive history, detectives believe he has killed her.
17:38They have 96 hours to formally charge him with her murder.
17:41The clock's really ticking now. We're on a really collapsing time frame and we've got a lot to do.
17:50So 96 hours is not long.
17:51I have to be able to present to the CPS enough evidence to charge him with an offence or he gets released.
18:04I just can't think about that at the moment of the possibility.
18:07Chris directs his team to refocus their inquiries south of Oxford to Didcot, a rural sleepy commuter town where Jaden was last seen arriving at its train station.
18:23So we've got huge teams of officers out here.
18:27We have a door to door plan.
18:29Every door will be knocked on and every occupant spoken to.
18:33Because it may be just more than one house we get that vital bit of information.
18:40Didcot is home to more than 34,000 people.
18:44Spanning large residential estates and miles of farmland.
18:49Covering the area on foot could take weeks.
18:53So Chris decides to launch a public appeal.
18:56Good afternoon and thank you for being here.
18:5917-year-old Jaden Parkinson has been missing for nine days.
19:04She was last sick at Didcot Railway Station on December the 3rd.
19:09Given our time missing and no contact with family, this is now a murder inquiry.
19:14If you saw or heard anything unusual, please come forward confidentially.
19:18Soon, the incident room receives an intriguing call.
19:31One that could change the course of the murder investigation.
19:34This calls from a taxi driver and what he's telling us is that on the 9th of December, he picked up a young man in the early hours of the morning at the end of a dirt track in a very rural part of Didcot.
19:49What he's also told us is that he helped that man load a suitcase, a blue suitcase into the back of the taxi.
19:57The taxi driver says that the suitcase was really heavy and he now thinks as a result of the media appeals that there may have been a body in that suitcase.
20:06The man's description matches Ben Blakely.
20:09And the taxi was booked using his phone, though the customer gave another name.
20:17The obvious questions that are going through in my mind is, what is he doing in Didcot at the early hours of the morning in a very rural location?
20:25And why has he got this heavy suitcase? And of course, what is in that suitcase?
20:28Detectives zero in on the area where the taxi picked him up, focusing in and around an outbuilding known as the Spooky Barn, which is also a place Jayden and Blakely were known to visit.
20:51So the Spooky Barn is within a very short walking distance from where the taxi driver picked up Ben Blakely with the blue suitcase.
21:02That's an area I'm really concentrating on now and we're really keen to see if we can find evidence.
21:11With a search like this, police can call in victim recovery dogs, specially trained to identify even the faintest trace of human remains.
21:21Those dogs have indicated, both inside the barn and also outside, near a wooded copse, that there's been the presence of a dead body.
21:36Forensic officers launch a search for evidence.
21:42Detectives now believe Jayden may have been murdered here.
21:47And Blakely has taken her body in a suitcase and moved it in a taxi to a separate location to hide her.
21:56I feel like my worst fears have been confirmed now.
21:59Jayden's actually dead.
22:03We need to find her body.
22:04As the investigation hits a turning point, detectives zero in on Ben Blakely's trail.
22:15I never thought that anybody would do such a thing.
22:19This is the first time in the UK that we know of that this has happened.
22:23It's dreadful.
22:24His lionyeta is now looking into this right and is and lies.
22:25He's definitely claimed that they are not.
22:26I don't disagree.
22:27He can see her body and irritation.
22:29If there is no happening.
22:30The woman grows Cryden.
22:32By the way, you have steps to define her abnormal outward logic,
22:33the Sim länger filled with four murders,
22:35and in Scotland, coincide while one battle Tro crib is there,
22:36and there is no consolands.
22:38December 2013.
22:41December 2013, a quiet Oxfordshire town is at the centre of a chilling murder investigation.
22:52Detectives believe 17-year-old Jaden Parkinson, who was pregnant, has been murdered by her violent ex-boyfriend, Ben Blakely.
23:00I don't care where she is. I don't care where she is. She's got a new boyfriend, he's here with her.
23:07But they have less than 72 hours to gather enough evidence to charge him, or he could walk free.
23:17Forensic evidence, in and around a derelict outbuilding known as the Spooky Barn, has revealed Jaden's dead body may have been here.
23:29Detectives now suspect Blakely has put Jaden's body in a suitcase and hidden it somewhere in the surrounding area.
23:37Whilst we've got this indication at the barn, this is a massive, massive geographical area in Ditkopp, and there's a lot of countryside here to look at.
23:51We need to find her body, and in order to do that, I need expert help.
23:54I've been working as a forensic archaeologist for 23 years, and over that time I've dealt with more than 200 murders.
24:09Drawing on years of experience, Carl Harrison aims to get inside the mind of Jaden's killer.
24:17People, when they're seeking to deposit a body and conceal it, they will seek out remote places.
24:25They will look for places that are out of view, so they're interested in concealment.
24:30So they will tend to use hedge lines or copses of trees.
24:34At this point, we would consider aerial imagery to make sure there isn't any obvious signs of change that might represent concealment, a grave in the ground.
24:48With the help of aerial images and intelligence coming into the incident room, we're able then to narrow down what is a huge area to ten potential locations that Jaden's body could be buried.
25:03With ten vast locations still to search, and time running out to hold Ben Blakely in custody, the door-to-door inquiry team deliver a dramatic breakthrough.
25:17Officers have called at an address in this road, and it transpired to be the grandmother of Ben Blakely.
25:24Ben Blakely, and what she was able to tell officers was that Ben Blakely had been to her address a few days before.
25:32He was very agitated, she describes him as being very angry, and he had asked for a suitcase.
25:39She passed him a suitcase, emptied the contents out, and then he left the house with the suitcase.
25:44Detectives already have information from a taxi driver linking Blakely to a suitcase. Could this be the same one? And was it used to transport Jaden's body?
25:59She also describes him coming back a couple of days later with that suitcase, which was covered in mud.
26:07But the most important thing is that suitcase was in the shed of the grandmother's house, so the officers were there and were able to see it.
26:16It's a critical discovery for the investigation. Officers swiftly retrieve it for forensic analysis.
26:23Also, she was able to talk about two spades that were in her garden, and those spades hadn't been used for a long time.
26:31But she had noticed that they had now moved their position in the back garden, but they were also, and this is really critical, covered in very thick clay.
26:39So this became a really, really, really important breakthrough in the case.
26:43The forensic opportunities that may be within that suitcase, and what I mean by that is, you know, has Jaden been in that suitcase? Has a body been in the suitcase?
26:54ZONE RINGS
27:03Back in the incident room, tip offs from the public continue trickling in.
27:10We've had a call from Jake Blakely's landlady, you know, Jake Blakely is the brother of Ben Blakely.
27:17She is saying that Jake has attempted to wash clothes, which are covered in mud, and she thinks he's attempted to destroy clothing as well, which she thinks is really suspicious.
27:29Detectives waste no time and arrest 17-year-old Jake Blakely on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.
27:37When Jake was arrested, he was quite shocked and surprised.
27:40So Jake's being interviewed, so all the questions that have been put to him by the interviewing officers, he said absolutely nothing.
27:47What we know about Ben and Jake's relationship is that whilst they're quite close, that Ben is very controlling, he's been aggressive towards Jake before, and Jake is effectively in his shadow, and I think Jake's very scared of Ben.
28:02I'm hoping that whilst the detectives are interviewing Jake, given that he was friendly with Jaden, that he may have a pang of conscience and actually tell us what he knows, and hopefully we'll be able to find out where Jaden is.
28:17The pressure is building on Ben Blakely's younger brother, and it doesn't take long for him to crack.
28:29Once Jake had been interviewed, he produced a letter, and in that letter, he said that he believed the body of Jaden Parkinson was in the grave of his Uncle Alan, in All Saints Church in Didcot.
28:41This is a really shocking revelation.
28:47I don't think I've ever heard of somebody burying the victim of a murder within a pre-existing grave.
28:53This church was the last of ten potential sites of interest identified by aerial photography.
29:01I mean, for somebody who's looking to dispose of a body, of course, they may think that's a very clever move, because it's highly unlikely that the police would find that.
29:13The next steps now are to get to the cemetery, we need to treat that as a crime scene, we need to identify that grave, and then I need the professional help from Carl Harrison, the forensic archaeologist, to start looking at that grave.
29:27Great Western Cemetery, by All Saints Church in Didcot, is now the primary focus of the murder investigation.
29:39As a forensic archaeologist, I've advised and assisted with exhumations, where bodies have been formerly buried in cemeteries and require further investigation, but I think this is the only time I can think of where I've recovered a body from a grave that wasn't meant to be there.
29:59Carl and his team move quickly to locate the uncle's grave. Fresh soil disturbance suggests someone got there first.
30:15In approaching the grave, the first thing that we want to do is to make sure that we're not going to disturb anybody who's formerly buried within.
30:22We'll start by cleaning the top loose material off.
30:28I'm cutting the space that I want to dig in the middle, and take that down until I either reach a base, or until I locate human remains.
30:40As the team begin the grim task of unearthing Jaden's possible burial site, in the incident room, tensions are high, as Chris stands by for news.
30:52I always hope we're going to find Jaden, so I've always taken the view that the work I do is on behalf of the family, whether that's finding somebody's body and or, you know, trying to piece together what's happened to them, because the police are the only people that are going to be able to do that.
31:06And we can't always do it, but actually that's a really, really important job, and I take that very seriously.
31:13It's a complex excavation, as Carl removes soil, layer by layer.
31:19The unknown presents you, you don't know if there's something buried there, you don't know if this is going to be the one recovery that solves the case, as far as the police are concerned, or presents them with evidence that they can use.
31:33He's not only looking for signs of a body, he's also seeking clues that could link Ben Blakely and his brother to the spades and suitcase recovered from their grandmother.
31:45You can see and feel different styles of digging, tool marks, so we can see patterns where a spade back has dug into the sides of the grave, and those tool marks will help us identify a tool individually.
32:01This painstaking process stretches on into the night, over ten gruelling hours.
32:10Through the course of the hours of excavation, you go through a series of emotions.
32:17Am I recording everything that I need to, in order to do absolute justice to this person's death?
32:26If I become swallowed up by those thoughts about loss and grief, I won't do my job as well as I should do.
32:35Half a metre down, Carl makes a grisly discovery.
32:44It's a body.
32:49Finally, you have that moment where you can touch what feels like human remains.
32:56It's an absolute change of gear for an investigation, in that we're now moving from search and investigation into case-building and lines of inquiry that come from it.
33:09The body is fully excavated and taken to a mortuary for post-mortem and formal identification.
33:17Choosing to bury Jaden's body in a cemetery reflects a desire to make sure that her body is never recovered.
33:28It's an area of ground that people do not go digging in because it's protected, and I think that speaks to the callousness of the choice that this was never about, at some point in the future, allowing access to her body by her family.
33:42Carl reports the tragic findings to the incident room.
33:49It's unbelievable. I never thought that anybody would do such a thing.
33:53You have a young girl in her prime that's been murdered, disposed of in a pre-existing grave, and in fact, this is the first time in the UK that we know of that this has happened.
34:03It's almost like the final part of complete disrespect for Jaden. It's dreadful.
34:07But there is a sense of reassurance, I suppose, that we're able to give answers to Jaden's family, as well as returning her body to them.
34:22Jaden's mother knew that there was a very good chance that Jaden wasn't alive, but actually hearing the news itself, nobody can prepare you for that.
34:29My world stopped that day, literally stopped dead, and I just didn't want to believe it.
34:45The next thing I know, I'm having to identify her body at the Jaya Hospital, mortuary.
34:52I just knew it was Jaden straight away because of the tattoo on her arm.
34:59We've got matching tattoos, which she picked the saying, never a failure, always a lesson.
35:09She looked asleep. She didn't look dead.
35:13She looked asleep.
35:16I touched her skin and she was so, so cold.
35:18I just broke down, told her I was sorry that I let her down.
35:32And that I would not stop till I got justice for her.
35:38That I wouldn't ever give up.
35:48Ben Blakely is now charged with murder.
35:52But as detectives attempt to secure his conviction, will this callous killer slip the hands of justice?
35:59Just before going to call, Ben Blakely is changing his story.
36:03He's now telling us he is responsible for Jaden's death.
36:07However, he's saying it's an accident.
36:10This is a guy that didn't plan this.
36:13Yeah, he did.
36:14The body of a teenager found buried in a graveyard has been formally identified as 17-year-old Jaden Parkinson.
36:43Thames Valley Police say tests will be carried out to establish how she died.
36:49Twelve days after pregnant teen Jaden Parkinson went missing,
36:54and just hours before detectives must release their prime suspect,
36:59the Crown Prosecution Service authorised charges against Ben Blakely for her murder.
37:05His brother, Jake Blakely, is charged with perverting the course of justice and her unlawful burial.
37:13Detectives must prepare the file of evidence to secure their convictions.
37:18You start to build a timeline of events now.
37:25We have CCTV of Ben and Jaden together just before half past four on the 3rd of December.
37:30From there, we have victim recovery dogs indicating there'd been a dead body near the spooky barn area.
37:42I think that's where Ben murdered Jaden or took her body after he'd killed her.
37:46A few days later, Blakely went to his grandmother's house to take the tools he needed to cover up his horrific crime.
37:56We have a blue suitcase which Jaden's body had been transported in, which is covered in mud,
38:02and that was transported by the taxi driver who gives evidence.
38:05The taxi driver picked up Blakely from near the spooky barn and dropped him off near All Saints Church.
38:12His brother, Jake, gave detectives a letter, which led them to Jaden's body in the cemetery.
38:19There were two people involved in excavating the grave where Jaden was found.
38:24Forensic analysis ties them both to the burial site.
38:28We have two spades and they have mud on it, which fits in with the mud at the crime scenes.
38:35I mean, this is really shocking.
38:37Both Ben and Jake have dug up their uncle's grave, which is one of the most awful things you could imagine,
38:44and have buried Jaden within that.
38:46I can't think of anything worse.
38:49All of these things put together build the picture now of exactly what happened.
38:55Perhaps Blakely thought he'd committed the perfect crime.
38:58Despite the mountain of evidence, detectives remain in the dark about how and why he killed Jaden.
39:06Just before going to call, Ben Blakely's changing his story.
39:18What he's now telling us is that he is responsible for Jaden's death.
39:23However, he's saying it's an accident.
39:26He's saying they were down in the area of the spooky barn, but particularly in the field adjacent to it is a small bridge about a foot high.
39:35He says he had an argument with Jaden about the fact she was pregnant, and he grabbed her around the throat.
39:42As a result of that, she fell on the floor and stopped breathing.
39:45He has then described how he tried to resuscitate her, but it didn't work.
39:55In a panic, he then dug a grave in the wooded area adjacent to the bridge and buried her body in there.
40:02And then came back through Oxford just after 10pm, and of course he was on his own because Jaden was dead.
40:11It's really shocking.
40:12He was in a position where he had nowhere to go, so he'd waited for us to get this evidence.
40:18He'd waited for us to find Jaden, because he probably didn't think we would.
40:22And then he's come up with this story.
40:30On the 23rd of June, 2014, the trial begins at Oxford Crown Court.
40:36Ben Blakely pleads not guilty to murder, but guilty to manslaughter.
40:44It was the most unusual hearing I've ever been to, and the reason for that was because of Ben Blakely's behaviour.
40:51He was verbally abusive.
40:54He made threats towards the prosecuting barrister when he was being cross-examined.
40:58He threatened to stab him with a pencil.
41:00He didn't like the fact that some of the evidence that was coming out,
41:03it was demonstrating that he was a domestic abuser.
41:06The pathologist talks about she had significant facial injuries,
41:09so that was consistent with her being punched and possibly kicked.
41:13It didn't fit in with his story, which was that he believed she died by falling off the bridge,
41:18because of course the bridge is only a foot high.
41:20The pathologist is really clear that wouldn't have caused her death.
41:22The only thing that is similar is the fact that she was asphyxiated and that she had marks on her neck.
41:29And that's consistent with his story of grabbing her around the throat,
41:33but not with the force that he describes.
41:35It was of a significant force, enough to kill her.
41:40It's totally contemptible.
41:41Jaden's mum, Sam, was also in court every day, desperate to understand what happened to her daughter.
41:54All the stuff that came out in court was just horrendous every day.
41:59And we're given a jewellery bundle in the morning.
42:02So you've got a little bit of warning, but it still doesn't prepare you for seeing things like the suitcase,
42:08the space, the spades that they dug the graves with.
42:12He'd beaten her up beforehand, she had a footprint on the side of her face.
42:17He tried his utmost for her not to be found, taking all her jewellery off, we've never found it.
42:22The underwire in her bra, so that if anybody used a metal detector, it wouldn't beep.
42:28So this is a guy that didn't plan this.
42:32Yeah, he did, 100%.
42:38After a trial that lasts five weeks, Ben Blakely is found guilty of Jaden's murder
42:45and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 20 years.
42:52He's also given a further eight years for burying her unlawfully in a graveyard.
42:58They couldn't prove the death of Jaden's unborn child due to body decomposition.
43:03Jake Blakely was found guilty of perverting the course of justice, receiving a three-year prison sentence.
43:13He has never accepted full responsibility for Jaden's murder.
43:18With everything we know, I'm very confident that Jaden was pregnant and I think the court accepted that she was as well.
43:24So not only did he take Jaden's life, but he took Jaden's baby's life as well.
43:30I hope he's never released because he's dangerous and I don't think he's going to change.
43:41It's her birthday today.
43:43She would have been 28.
43:47He should have got more than 20 years.
43:4920 years is a smack in the face.
43:51He's lost a grandchild too.
43:57He got away with just taking one life, not two.
44:01And I'll never forgive myself.
44:04How can I?
44:06And I think that my daughter was stood in that field while he was strangling her, thinking,
44:12I don't want to die.
44:14I'm pregnant.
44:16I don't know where's my mum.
44:18Then I wasn't there.
44:21And I know she'd have fought hard, really hard not to die.
44:34God, I hope he doesn't have a day's peace.
44:36I really do.
44:36God, I have a day.