(Earth whooshing) (sinister music) (phone beeping) - [Operator] Thank you. Hello, police. - [Witness] Hello, I've just found... Oh my God, there's two.
There's two of 'em dead. - [Autopsy Technician] One
of the deceased has died as a result of blunt force
trauma to the head and chest. - The bodies of two men
are discovered in a house. Police launch a major investigation. - [Police Officer] I have to
say, it wasn't very pleasant, faces all crushed. - I mean, it just makes me
shiver thinking about it now. The inside of Waldek's t-shirt with the footprints in skin cells, that you could prove that two people jumped up and down on
him, bursting his heart, breaking almost every rib. (somber music) - [Narrator] On June the
1st, 2005, a Polish man and a distraught, English,
woman friend dial 999. They had just returned to his
home at Dunsmore Road in Luton to find his two Polish housemates lying on the floor brutally murdered. Bedfordshire police are quickly at the scene
- Yeah, quick visual. and begin what soon became a major international
double-murder inquiry. - [Police Surgeon] Okay, I
can confirm death at 20:20. - [Narrator] By sheer coincidence, the television crew were
filming at Luton Police Station when the 999 call came in. They picked up the breaking story. Four years of filming in Luton, London, the Hague, and Poland followed. (family member speaking
in foreign language) (family member speaking
in foreign language) - [Interpreter] The
whole family is suffering and will suffer for the rest of our lives, suffering which has been
caused by mindless killers. - [Narrator] This is
a murder investigation as it really happened. - On a major inquiry like
this, no one individual can hold all the
information in their head, unlike you see on most television dramas. - [Narrator] There are no
dramatized reconstructions. It's exactly what happened
- Yes, yes. at the time. - [Mary] Yeah, got eyeball now. - [Police Officer] Let's
get out. I'll let you out. - [Mary] You're under arrest
in relations to the murders of Andrzej and Waldek Markuszewski. You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defense if you don't mention when questioned something upon on which
you'll later rely on in court. Anything you do say may
be given in evidence. - [Andy] So I put it to you
that you told these builders, and the only way you knew is because you're the murderer.
- No, no, no. - [Narrator] It's the true story of tracking down cold-blooded killers. A story which reveals the highs and lows in the painstaking process of
bringing murderers to justice. (door slamming)
(somber music) (upbeat carnival music) May 30th, 2005. It's bank holiday Monday and Luton Carnival is in full swing. It's a popular annual spectacle which draws 100,000
people onto the streets. (upbeat carnival music continues) Caught on CCTV, two Polish brothers, Waldek and Andrzej Markuszewski, pick up some cokes and a bottle of vodka on their way to watch the carnival. (somber music) These are some of the last pictures to capture Waldek and Andrzej alive. Before the day ends, the man on the left, with an accomplice, will have
beaten the brothers to death. The next day, Tuesday,
Luton went back to work. Two normally reliable and hardworking men failed to turn up at the house where they were building an extension. But nobody else noticed they were missing. The following day, Wednesday
at 5:46 in the evening, Bedfordshire's call handling center received a 999 call
from a distraught woman. (phone beeping) - [Operator] Police emergency. - [Witness] Hello, I've just found, oh my god, there's two. Oh my god, there's two of 'em dead.
- There's what? There's two of 'em dead! - [Operator] Pardon? - [Witness] There's two
people dead in this house. - [Operator] Two people dead? - [Witness] Yeah,
there's two. There's two. 79 Dunsmore Road, Luton. I just brought my friend
home from hospital, and they're just there on the carpet. (police siren blaring) - [Narrator] Two minutes
later, an ambulance sets off, along with PC Adam Owers from Luton's Buxton Road Police Station. - I arrived at Dunsmore and there's two people standing outside. The front door was already open, so I pushed it open and went inside. And then I saw the two
guys laying on the floor. Then you could say their heads
were quite badly caved in, and their arms were all, sort of, distorted behind their
backs and things like that. So, that was it really, I
stepped over the first one, checked him, obviously he was dead. Went over to the next one,
checked him, he was dead. - [Narrator] With Adam
Owers was PC Victor Choi, a trainee who was enjoying his first day out of police training college. - It was my first job on section, first blue light job
with my tutor, PC Owers, and PC Owers went into the house. He asked me to stay outside. I remember my colleague's
face was very serious. In the previous few hours, he was all smiling and joking with me, but when he came out of that
house, he was very serious. And he radioed control and said, "We've got a double murder." (tense music) - [Narrator] Eight minutes later, an ambulance paramedic
confirms the two men are dead. 15 minutes later, and back at Buxton Road, a brief message alerts the
on-call scenes of crime officers, Karen Duncan and Elaine Reese. - What we've had is a report of two bodies being found in a house, so potentially we could
have a double murder. So, we're just gonna collect
the packaging from our stores and take what we think we might need. (radio chattering) You pop that one in there
and I'll pop that one on top. - Okay. - You don't get personally
involved on any emotional level. You're they're to do, what
most people would consider, quite a gruesome task. But, unfortunately, in our line of work, we see it quite a lot, so, you do become hardened to it over time. And you just go in there totally focused on what you're doing
and you get on with it, you don't actually think that there is a dead body lying there. They are, to me, another
piece of evidence. - Charlie-Kilo 3051. - [Operator] 3051? - Can you arrive myself
and 2952 at scene please, at Dunsmore Road? (tense music) - [Narrator] In the CID office
at Luton Police Station, the on-call detective
inspector is Alan Pastal. - In the past, when we
attended a scene of a murder, we used to go into the scene, we used to poke around,
have a look ourselves, because we thought we were the experts. Nowadays, we don't do that. The last thing we want to do is destroy the forensic
integrity of the scene itself. My initial role, on this occasion, is to deploy officers locally to see if they can come up
with some early information that we can respond to with a view to perhaps
making an early arrest. (police sirens blaring) - [Forensic Officer]
These are stepping plates that we'll put in to make
a pathway into the scene, for personnel that're
gonna be investigating it to go in and out of, and
everybody sticks to the path. You've got to make sure that
what you've got on the outside is not being brought in to
the inside of the scene, you want the inside of the scene to be kept as sterile as possible. At the end of the day, we
are looking for evidence to convict a person or persons that has been responsible for that crime. It has got to be right, and you only get the one
shot at it to get it right. (tense music) - [Narrator] Emerging from the scene, the police surgeon
confirms for the coroner that the two human beings
lying on the floor are dead. - [Police Surgeon] Obviously,
I can confirm death at 20:20. - [Forensic Officer] Where
am I at with this one? - [Narrator] The team of detectives gathering at Luton Police Station, will be briefed with video footage shot by a scenes of crime officer. - [Forensic Officer] Thank
you, what do we know then? - [Forensic Officer] The
bodies that we've got at the scene, had been subjected
to quite a violent attack. And they'd both had quite severe crushing to the heads and faces. We didn't know at that stage
what the victims names were, so, we referred to them, basically, as victim one and victim two. - [Forensic Officer]
There was a lot of blood on the floor, also on the walls, we were looking at
patterns of spray of blood. - [Forensic Officer] There
are no hard and fast rules how long a body will remain at the scene. Obviously, it's within
everybody's interest to get the bodies out,
sooner rather than later, but we need to be constantly aware of contaminating other evidence that could be around the bodies, and disturbing other evidence
that's around the bodies. So, in this case, obviously,
it was discovered on Wednesday, and the bodies weren't removed
until Thursday evening, so they were in there, sort
of, over a 24-hour period. (somber music) - [Forensic Officer] That's
taken a bit of a bashing. Somebody's been hit
against that, ain't they? - [Forensic Officer] Hmm.
Look on the radiator. - [Forensic Officer] Yeah,
I was looking at that, but, because we've said
earlier, didn't we, I wonder whether the radiator,
and this, is splashed. - [Forensic Officer] There's
quite a lot, isn't there? - [Forensic Officer]
Yeah, well that's come off when he's been stamped on, hasn't it? - [Forensic Officer] Hmm. - [Forensic Officer] It's
still dripping. Listen. (somber music) - [Narrator] On Thursday morning, Detective Superintendent Andrew Richer, is formally appointed to lead the inquiry. Aged 45, Andrew joined
the police from university with a master's degree in English. Now, 22 years into his career, he's been the senior investigating
officer on 10 murders. - The greatest privilege
for any detective is, in some respects, to investigate the death of another human being. A homicide offense is a line which we don't accept can be crossed, and, therefore, it's necessary that an offense of extreme violence resulting in the death
of another human being, will almost certainly
result in the offender being brought to justice. - [Detective] And we
can talk to the witness. - [Narrator] Along the
corridor from Andrew's office, Detective Sergeant Dave
Alexander has been appointed to head up the incident room. - The incident room itself, it's not the tool that
investigates and solves the crime, it's the tool that allows us to manage such a large investigation. The bulk of the people working the room are what we refer to as the indexers, and they are doing the registration, they are cross-referencing everything, which can be quite an arduous task. If you have a long interview
or a long statement, they can be working on one document for a couple of days sometimes, just making sure, especially
when people are listing names. The database we use, HOLMES, it stands for Home Office
Large and Major Enquiry System, it actually has no link
with Sherlock Holmes, but I'm sure that has something to do with the letters they use. (somber music) - [Narrator] Around 30 detectives are already flooding the incident room with witness statements
from local inquiries. The man who found the
brothers has told the police he's an old friend of
the family in Poland, and reveals that Waldek
Markuszewski is a builder. Andrzej is a welder who
often helps his brother. After both of them had gone
through divorce in Poland, they'd come to Britain
to make a fresh start. An interpreter from Luton has
contacted police in Poland, who've had to break the terrible news to the victim's sister, Ella,
and younger brother, Mariusz. (Mariusz speaking in foreign language) - [Interpreter] The police came to me. I was the first one that they contacted, the first one that they informed. I made several phone calls to my sister, and the two of us, we didn't believe this. We thought, we thought, no,
this is some sort of mistake. (Ella speaking in foreign language) - [Interpreter] I mean,
all the time, I suppose, we were kidding ourselves
thinking that it's not them, that somebody has used their documents. The most upsetting thing
was that neither of them were answering their mobiles. (somber music) - [Narrator] The bodies
have now been brought here to the mortuary at Luton
and Dunstable Hospital. Andrew Richer is here to witness the post-mortem examinations. Karen and Elaine are here to assist the forensic pathologist. The Home Office provides post-mortem kits, containing everything
which might be needed to collect potential evidence for further forensic examination. - We always have two SOCOs
that work on a post-mortem, one to do what we call the wet side, which is directly from the
body to the exhibit table. And then we have a dry side SOCO, who then deals with the
exhibits, writing them in a book, so that they're all recorded properly and then they're all packaged and sealed prior to leaving the mortuary. Yes please. - [Narrator] There's a photographer and the coroner's officer who's here to ensure
all rules and guidelines are strictly adhered to. When everyone's ready, the
pathologist, Dr. Nick Hunt, will begin the grim task. - The post-mortem examination
on a job like this, really starts at the scene, and that involves me
making my own observations about the deceased and their environment, and also facilitating the
retrieval of trace evidence by the scientists and
scenes of crime officers. Really, it's that side of the work that leads to convictions and identification of
offenders and so forth. The next phase is the mortuary phase, and during that, we look at the bodies, in terms of the injuries
that they've sustained, look for any evidence of
patterns within the injuries that may link them back
to a particular weapon. Once that's complete, we move
on to the internal phase, which is the dissection phase, where I look for internal injuries and also evidence of
underlying natural disease that may be relevant to the
cause or circumstances of death. - [SOCO] Am I on the right of it? (phone ringing) - [Narrator] Thus far, little
is known of who the killer is or what the motive might be. (somber music) These are brutal and tragic murders, and it would be easy for
emotions to run high. But for Andrew Richer and his team, the professional approach demands that they remain coldly detached. - The bodies of the deceased don't strike me as being human any longer. Whatever it was that made that
person human has departed, and what you've got left is
the sort of husk, the shell. It's this kind of the concept
of the soul, I suppose. Has the soul departed? Or is, in fact, whatever
made that person human, has it now just deceased? That can touch on being almost a little
bit religious, actually. I'm not formally religious, I don't go to church on a regular basis. I guess, really, my sort of view would be what Hamlet says
to Horatio in Shakespeare, which is, "There are more
things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt
of in our philosophy." That's probably a misquote. But, I think there may well
be some kind of higher reason as to why we're here and that there may be something
beyond this existence. - [Police Officer] Okay, once
we put the name search in. - [Narrator] Back at the police station, the HOLMES database is raising interest in some possible suspects. Witnesses are saying two Polish men, Marek Miazga and Remigiusz
Piotrowski, known as Remig, have been in the company
of the murdered men. Both of them are known to be violent after they've had a few drinks. The teams swiftly execute a search warrant at an address they have for Marek Miazga. But there's no sign of him. - [Andrew] All right, morning everybody. - [Everybody] Morning. - Okay, major developments from yesterday. - [Narrator] Each day at 8 o'clock, Andrew Richer chairs the daily briefing for the Major Incident Team. - The number he gave
us as a contact number was related to a female. So, but he never turned up yesterday. - [Andrew] We've still got an open mind as to what may have happened, but this may be a dispute about money and that existing friction
between the two deceased brothers and some individuals in the town, has perhaps come to surface
on bank holiday Monday when the brothers and
these other individuals have both actually been
drinking quite heavily. And, therefore, this may
have led to the dispute sort of re-arising. - [Police Officer] He
bears the same surname. (tense music) - [Narrator] Andrew
Richer's still very keen to find Marek Miazga. Police have his mobile phone number, so a Polish interpreter
leaves a voice message asking him to come to the police station to answer some questions. It's anyone's guess if he'll
respond, but it's worth a try. A dedicated secure storeroom is set aside for what eventually will become
1,815 cataloged exhibits. Not all from the scene, but Dunsmore Road will dominate the lives
of Karen and Elaine for some time to come. - We were probably working
about 17, 18 hours every day, and I think we were
there for about 10 days. It became a bit of a
challenge, in the end, as to whether we could actually get to bed the same day that we'd got up, and we didn't achieve it
very often (laughing). - [Narrator] Much to the team's relief, the phone message works. At half past seven in the morning, Marek Miazga strolls
into Luton Police Station and tells the staff on the front desk a detective has asked to speak to him. By 7:35, he's been arrested
on suspicion of murder. (camera shutter clicking) - We have one man in
custody at this point, who was in company with the brothers on the bank holiday Monday, and his account is that he was with a particular other individual,
who's still at large. And we're making inquiries
at the present time to trace that individual
and arrest him as a suspect. (somber music) - [Narrator] Flying in from
the Polish city of Gdansk, about an hour's drive from
their small family farm, Mariusz and Ella Markuszewski
are still reeling from the shocking news. Detective constables Emma
Oliver and Carol Sampson have been appointed as
family liaison officers. Their principal role is to
build a comprehensive picture of the family background. But right now, their priority
is to take Mariusz and Ella to identify their brothers
at the hospital mortuary. (plane engine roaring) - Some people, especially men, find it very difficult to cry at times, so, you never know how people
are gonna act to grief. When we took Mariusz and
Ella into the chapel of rest, both of them broke down. It was the first sign that
they were really, really upset and uncontrollably crying,
and understandably so. - I put my arms around Ella
and said you know where I am, it's just, at the end of
the day, we're human beings. You can't, if someone sees
a family member lying, as in Ella's words, lying on the slab. - It's very difficult, but you have to try and
remain professional, but it does pull at your
heart strings, really. - Can you put? - [Narrator] The next
morning at Buxton Road, Bedfordshire Police chief
press officer Des Lawless, himself a former
Detective Chief Inspector, introduces Ella and Mariusz to the press. - Ladies and gentlemen,
this is going to be just a little bit different
to a normal press conference, because two of our guests who are here actually don't speak English. So the gentleman in the
middle is an interpreter, a Polish interpreter. And there's a few words they
wanted to express as well. - [Narrator] For many in the media, this is just another murder. - [Des] Which I'll read on their behalf. - [Narrator] But suddenly
the room falls silent to the whispered lament
of a bereaved family. (Ella speaking in foreign language) - [Interpreter] My brothers
bought me up in Poland, because in families where
there are lots of children, your siblings take care of you. (Mariusz speaking in foreign language) - [Interpreter] Regarding
as to what they were like, they were happy people. They were decent people. They helped a lot of
people over here as well. (Ella speaking in foreign language) - [Interpreter] We told
our parents, at first, that they'd died in an accident, but as the press started publishing more and more information, we had to slowly prepare
our parents to the fact that did not have a natural death. - Okay, thank you all very much. - [Narrator] Mariusz and Ella
must now fly home to Poland and decide just how much
of this tragic story they should tell their parents. Meanwhile, downstairs in one of Luton Police Station's interview rooms, DCs Andy Davenport and James Panter,
- Next one is 12 minutes. are unraveling Marek Miazga's web of lies.
- 34 minutes. - It's all about building
pressure on the suspect. You do wanna put that person
out of their comfort zone, because once you get them
out of their comfort zone, that's when you're probably
gonna get most of the truth. Mashak didn't leave the police station till very late Wednesday night. (interpreter speaking in foreign language) - [Andy] So as you said
you were certain about doing this interview at the start, it must have been Thursday
morning when he told you. So I put it to you, that
you told these builders, and the only way you knew is 'cause you're the murderer.
- No, no, no. So I've said to Marek, "I
think that you're the murderer. I think you've killed
your two best friends. I think you did it with Remig, and I think you've lied to
us during this interview and you are the murderer,
you're the one responsible." And it's about seeing
his reactions to that. - And is it? - Yep. - [Narrator] Andy and
James have already recorded six hours of interview with Miazga. - [Interpreter] I've learned. - [Narrator] It's their full time job. - It's not like "Taggart"
or "Inspector Morse," where the big man does the interview. It's not the senior investigating
officer who does it. - Me and James both work in
the CID office in Bedford, so you're dealing with
rapes, serious assaults, kidnappings, arsons with
intent to endanger lives, all the time, so you
get used to interviewing for the more serious offenses. The first thing you asked me, is this the man in London, Remig. We didn't even tell you the name. In the last interview, in the
final interview with Marek, we had evidence that he'd been arrested by Bedfordshire Police last month for a drink driving offense. And, when he'd come into custody, had given completely false details that the only name that
was even close was Marek, which he'd said was his middle name. So at the start of that interview, we gave him another chance, and we said, "We talked about
this name from Milton Keynes, and you said there were no other
names, is that still true?" And he said, "Yes." We said, "You would lie to us, would you?" "No," was his answer. So we bring out the passport
seized from his flat, and immediately, he's on the back foot. He realizes that we found it and he has to give an explanation for it. 'cause there's a picture
of him on the passport with completely different names. So, a tactic me and James used was saying, "Well, you've
made yourself look stupid in this interview now,
this is your last chance. You tell me what I'm gonna
pull out of my folder next." And he comes straight out
with, "I'm wanted in Poland for theft of goods from a
wholesalers, 2,000 pounds worth. I was let out of prison,
supposed to go back, I never did and I came to this country." It's all about making that
person out their comfort zone, and then you'll get something
that you don't know already. (somber music) - [Narrator] It's deeply
frustrating for the team, but after six hours of interviews, there's still no evidence to directly connect Marek
Miazga to the murders. But he is charged with
possession of the false passport and gets nine months in prison. (door slamming) The team can now concentrate
on Remig Piotrowski. Around 80 hours of CCTV from cameras all over Luton
town center have been seized. Viewing it requires great concentration. But it's providing solid evidence of who was with whom and when, as Marek Miazga, Remig
Piotrowski, and the two brothers spent the day of the murders together. CCTV of Remig Piotrowski boarding a London-bound train at Luton, suggest he may have
slipped through the net. But then, a police financial investigator produces video footage
from a bank in London, showing a man looking exactly like Remig using Waldek's cash card. Police constables Andy
Rivers and Vince Kindred went as part of an
undercover surveillance team, to watch a cash machine
in South Ealing, Broadway. Someone who they're
quite certain is Remig, is regularly using Waldek's cash card. - [Andy] The six of us got down there and positioned ourselves
the best we could, where we could view the card machine. - [Vince] It was dark, street
lighting was not very good. But we got in position good enough that we could actually see the banks. - [Andy] And we had good
information to say that if he was going to use that machine, it would actually chew his card up, so we knew the suspect who
we were gonna be looking for. We just turned up in the community and acted as one of those, drinking coffee, reading newspapers, but always looking over those newspapers to see if we see Remig walking past. We actually blended in quite well, 'cause the local police
actually stopped us. And turned myself over because, in fact, I was looking through the bins
trying to find some receipts from the cashpoints and
I actually got stopped. So, we blended in quite well. - [Narrator] Later in the investigation, it was discovered that Remig Piotrowski was living 100 meters away,
above a firm of lawyers. He just didn't use the cash machine when the surveillance team was watching. Day 26 brings the confirmation
Andrew Richer had feared. - [Andrew] We've now got
historic cell site analysis on Remig's phone which
shows where his phone is at the time that he makes certain calls. On the 16th of June, it
shows that he makes a call in the vicinity of Waterloo Station, and then about six hours later, the phone is in France and then in Belgium and then in Holland, and by the 18th of June,
the phone is in Poland. So we now believe Remig's
phone is in Poland, and if Remig's still in possession of it, then he himself is clearly in Poland. - [Narrator] With Remig
Piotrowski in Poland, things are looking bleak. But then, suddenly, a breakthrough comes as forensic scientist Nick Coogan at the Huntingdon Laboratories, makes an important discovery. - This is Waldek's t-shirt, so it's actually the front
portion of his t-shirt. At the crime scene, there were noted to be a couple of very
faint footwear marks on the outer surface. But on the inside, there was
some very clear footwear marks, and they'd been caused by
the transfer of skin cells from Waldek's chest and torso, onto the inside of the t-shirt. The reason for that was because he'd been
stomped on or kicked, and the force of the blows had caused some of the
skin cells to transfer. We had these marks photographed in our photographic laboratory under specialized lighting, in order to highlight the
marks as best we could. A number of shoes were submitted
during the investigation. None of them, however, were
found to match the marks on the front of the t-shirt. We attempted to identify the
footwear marks on our database, our computer database. It's a footwear intelligence database containing somewhere in the region of 13,000 different sole patterns. And in this particular instance, we never identified any
of the footwear marks on the front of the t-shirts. However, the critical
finding from my examination was that there were two sole patterns present on the t-shirt. And therefore, two people had
stamped on or kicked Waldek. - And then I think we'd
have to bring some of these text messages up,
- And say well, look. and say, "Well, why have
you been sending Waldek these text messages?" Which may just. - [Narrator] Everyone
interviewed thus far, has had their mobile phone seized and the SIM card analyzed. DS Mary Robinson is briefing
Andrew Richer on the results. - We've got a text message
from Marek to Robert sent one or two days after the murders. "How are things?" It's from Marek to Robert and it says, "I don't know much about it
except Remig definitely did it." So, (laughing). But, of course, that in
itself isn't definitive, 'cause are they talking about the murders? I mean, when you look
at the thing in context and the timing, you think, "Well, what else are they
gonna be talking about?" But, you know, it's a
really good reflection of the nature of this
type of investigation. There's all this hard graft and, sort of, it's almost like sort of
prospecting for gold, you know? And you're panning
through all this gravel, most of it is just gravel, and then you're just turning
up these odd little nuggets of really valuable evidence. (truck rumbling) - [Narrator] The good news from Poland is that Remig Piotrowski has been found. He's been arrested for violent robbery, and he's now imprisoned in
the Polish town of Szczecin. It's time to pay him a visit. The first stop is
Szczecin's police station. Sergeant Jacokchomnuk is part of a Polish international
police cooperation team. - Morning. - [Narrator] His job is to
guide the Luton officers through Polish legal procedure, and help them set up an
interview with Remig Piotrowski in Szczecin's prison. (gate beeping) Ready with a list of questions, the team come face-to-face, for the first time, with Remig Piotrowski. Despite a serious attempt to question him, Remig exercised his right in Polish law to remain stony silent. - Right, we're gonna do a bag each, so, cross-contamination wise, you know. - [Narrator] Andrew
Richer's team are allowed to take a DNA swab from his mouth, seize clothing, and take
inked impressions of his feet and the way he walks. Everything is sealed in evidence bags before departing Szczecin. (vehicles rumbling)
(dog barking) - We first saw Remig, we were
in the prosecutor's office, and we saw a male
sitting out on the bench. And initially, I think the feelings were quite excitable really, 'cause finally he was a real person. I was sitting there looking at him and remembering seeing what
Waldek and Andrzej looked like and thinking, gosh, trying to imagine what he would have been
like and looked like, when doing the act. And it was quite difficult to do because he's 21-year-old,
slight build male at the end of the day. (somber music) - [Narrator] The murdered
men's parents have a small farm in the countryside around Grudziadz, a 13th century town standing
on the River Vistula. (bells ringing) Andrew, Emma, and Carol have
been invited to join the family at the brothers' gravesides. (man speaking in foreign language) (mother speaking in foreign language) (somber music) - [Andrew] We wanted to come to see where Andrzej
and Waldek were buried. (interpreter speaking in foreign language) - [Andrew] To pay our respects. (interpreter speaking in foreign language) - [Andrew] And also to
show that we recognize that the victims in the case such as this, must not be forgotten. (interpreter speaking in foreign language) (plane engine roaring) - [Narrator] Returning to Luton, the bags of evidence are dispatched to the Forensic Science Service
Laboratories at Huntingdon. The scientists lose no
time in getting to work. The post-mortem revealed
a pattern of shapes on Andrzej's crushed head, which are consistent with some dumbbells found close to the bodies. Remig Piotrowski's DNA,
brought back from Poland, has been matched to that
found on the tiny clips holding the weights onto the bar. Up until now, there has been
nothing to connect forensically the suspects to the scene of the crime. This is the moment the
team have been waiting for. But there's still a stumbling block. Marek Miazga is serving nine
months in prison in the UK for possessing a false passport. With Remig in a Polish prison, hopes of a trial where both of them can stand in the dock together
are looking a bit thin. Andrew Richer and his team fly out to meet Polish prosecutors at Eurojust in The Hague. - [Andrew] If you've got
one suspect in one country and one in another, you
ultimately have to decide how to bring them together, because it would be disastrous to try and run separate trials. Because it would be too easy for one to point the finger
at the other and vice versa. Because it's two Polish nationals that have been murdered in the UK, and it's two possibly suspects, there may be precepts under Polish law, which would allow the Polish authorities to deal with the case in its entirety. So there might be an option to consider the Polish authorities extraditing Marek to Poland, and they both stand trial in Poland. But I'm pretty confident
that in British law, that there'd be a precept
that would allow us to try British nationals for
murdering British nationals anywhere that that offense
occurred in the world. - The Polish court system
- Has it's own processes. and the procedure, yes, is
quite different, of course. It works in a different
way than in Britain. - [Andrew] I'm quite equitable either way if it ultimately gets dealt
with in the United Kingdom or it gets dealt with in Poland. I'm not too concerned
about which jurisdiction it takes place on, the important thing is that people shouldn't
get away with murder. - [Narrator] The meeting
is friendly and helpful. Both British and Polish prosecutors are firmly resolved to see justice done. (tense music) The case is building well now
that DNA puts Remig Piotrowski at the scene of the murder, and CCTV shows him with Marek Miazga, both before and after the time of death. But now, suddenly, there's a problem. Miazga came to Britain on the run after absconding from prison in Poland. On release from his nine month sentence in the UK for possession
of the false passport, a European arrest warrant
sent him back to Poland to complete his original sentence. Just when Andrew Richer's thinking Miazga's safely locked up in Poland, word filters through that a police officer has cautioned a man called Miazga for fighting in Luton town center. Marek Miazga is back,
and out on the streets. Andrew Richer has little choice. (radio chattering) A covert surveillance team is watching Marek Miazga's
last known address. - [Mary] All received
Dan, we're about to hear. - [Narrator] DS Mary Robinson
will make the arrest. - [Mary] So the plan, really, is to wait and see when he comes out and then just get him, and that's it, and take
him back to the nick. - [Barry] Yes, I definitely believe this is the vehicle he turned up in. It's not there this morning from what we could see up Brooke Street. We're just checking the
last night's footage, seeing if he's actually
left in that vehicle or if he's still in the premises now. - Yeah received, but I think... did you say you've got him in there up until 6 o'clock last night? - [Barry] Yes, so far we've
got him up to 8 o'clock last night and our vehicle was there outside.
- Which way's he going? So again, just be aware
in case that vehicle sort of comes past your
location or anything. - [Police Officer] Have Dan on there. - [Mary] Yes, received, thank you. - [Barry] Stand by, stand by, stand by. Contact, contact, contact. Subject Marek Miazga is out from his van and walking down Hillside Road. On his own, he's a white male
wearing light blue striped top and dark jogging bottom. - [Mary] Yes, received, on route. - [Barry] Yes still there,
still walking, still walking on the near side pavement
towards Cromwell Road. - [Mary] Yes, yes, is he on his own? - [Barry] Yes, yes, by himself. - [Mary] You never know. You always expect the
unexpected, don't you? You just never know what it is that you're gonna be faced with. It was only myself and
another officer, you know, who could potentially
be faced by, you know, a very violent individual, and that's demonstrated by the way that he committed the murders. And there could be always be that risk that it could obviously
become very dangerous. We'll just go past a bit. - [Police Officer] He's
gone in to the shop, he's in the shop. - [Mary] Yes, yes. Yeah, got eyeball now. - [Police Officer] Let's
get out. I'll let you out. - [Mary] Hello, Marek. - [Marek] Hello. - We're police officers.
- Yeah. I want to speak to you. Can you put your stuff down? You come with me, yes? - [Marek] Yeah. - [Mary] Handcuff him. You're under arrest in relation to the murders of Andrzej
and Waldek Markuszewski. - [Marek] Really? You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defense if you don't mention when questioned something upon which you
will later rely on in court. Anything you do say may
be given in evidence. - [Marek] Okay. - [Mary] You'll come with us now. We go to the police station, yes? - Okay.
- Okay. - Just locking these for
our safety and yours, okay? - Thank you very much. Okay.
- Come this way. Yeah, Mary to Barry, one in custody. - [Barry] Well done, Mary,
we'll see you back at base. - [Mary] Make sure he
hasn't got anything on him. Check before we put in the car. In so far as him looking like a murderer,
- Got anything in there? no, it's like any member of the public. There's nothing about him particularly, that would make me think, "Oh,
he looks like a murderer." He's very athletic, isn't
he, very well-built, very strong individual. But, you know, you could find somebody who's perhaps a lot slimmer, whichever, who might perhaps well
be capable of, you know, perhaps murdering someone
- I'm gonna sit next you. in the manner that he did.
- All right? - [Narrator] Whilst Polish prosecutors accept that Remig Piotrowski must must be handed over at some point, Poland's constitution prevents
him from being released from Szczecin Prison to stand
side-by-side in the dock with Marek Miazga. The British taxpayer
will now stand the cost of two murder trials. Marek Miazga arrives at Luton Crown Court for the first day of his trial. Prosecuting is Miranda Moore QC. - You have to have the
sympathy factor for the victim, the victim's family. Obviously, it's a hugely
traumatic experience, but you mustn't have a
trial based on sympathy. It has to be based on evidence, and for that, you have
to be completely detached and not get emotional, because
detachments and analysis is what this is all about, really. (somber music) - [Narrator] After the usual formalities and delays for legal arguments,
the trial gets underway. And Marek Miazga takes the
prisoner's chair in the dock. - Mr. Miazga came across
a little intimidating, and, indeed, witnesses spoke
of him being aggressive, and he was big, powerful. My personal view of him, very tough man. I could see him being a
career criminal in Poland, nevermind what he'd done in this country. - [Narrator] The honorable
Mr. Justice Keith decides that the jury should be told of four previous convictions
Miazga had had in Poland. - With the leave of the judge, in certain circumstances, the prosecution can let the jury know what sort of person they're dealing with. In both cases, these men had
a history of attacking people, particularly and quite unusually, attacking people when they were down. And of course, this
case was all about that, because we know from the forensic evidence that the killing injuries took place when the men were on their
knees or literally on the floor. - [Narrator] Merak's
standing in the witness box with an interpreter. It's far from ideal. - Cross-examining is a nightmare. I'll give you an example. If the question was, "Well, what can you tell me
about the death of Waldek?" and the answer comes back
through the interpreter, "I did not kill him." Now if that were in English, it could be, "I didn't kill him," "I didn't kill him," both of which have a completely
different connotation, the first being "I didn't
kill him, but I know who did," or "I didn't kill him,
but I really was there and know something about it." The other problem is
that it gives a witness, who is being put under pressure by the opposing side, thinking time. And often, when witnesses or defendants don't have thinking time,
the truth sort of pops out. (sinister music) - [Narrator] After two weeks
of listening to barristers, expert witnesses, argument,
and counter-argument, viewing CCTV and dozens of
distressing photographs, the foremen of the jury stands to give their verdict, guilty. (gavel thuds) - Here we are, two weeks
short of the third anniversary of the murders of Waldek and Andrzej, and we've at last convicted Marek Miazga of their murders in Court
Four at Luton Crown Court this afternoon, majority verdict 11-to-1. He's been sentenced to a minimum
of 25 years imprisonment. He'll be deported upon his release, which won't be until 2032 at the earliest. That is a fantastic result for the family. - [Narrator] On the 29th of May 2008, Polish authorities eventually return Remig Piotrowski to the UK. Eight months later, St. Albans Crown Court is chosen for the second murder trial. And the evidence is
presented all over again, evidence with some fascinating twists. - What we all called the
Agatha Christie moment, the clock having fallen off the wall and the batteries being dislodged, showing the time at which we knew, as far as you could do, the
murders had taken place. You don't get that. I mean, I know we all hear about it, but it happens so rarely. Now officers must have watched hundreds, if not thousands of hours of CCTV of Luton town center trying to pick up the two
defendants coming back into town after the murders. And when they did, what
did they see on it, but Remig Piotrowski's go
this trouser legs rolled up. You put that together with the evidence from the blood spatter expert, that the people that jumped up and down and kicked these two men,
effectively to death, would have had blood on them. Put two and two together,
and it makes perfect sense. Trousers down before the murder,
rolled down to the floor. Trousers rolled up after the murder. (somber music) - [Narrator] It cost over a million pounds to get the case to the first
day of the first trial, and involved 89 police officers. There were 1,815 exhibits,
596 witness statements. In the end though, the jury are unanimous
with their verdict, guilty. (gavel thuds) - Today within the last couple of hours, Remig Piotrowski has been
convicted of the murders of Waldek and Andrzej,
sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum 23 year tariff. We're just delighted
to have secured justice for the family of Waldek and Andrzej. - [Narrator] After three and
a half years, it's all over. But for Andrew Richer, there's
still one last thing to do. (dog yapping) A small team from Luton has come to give the Markuszewski family the closure they so desperately need. (family members speaking
in foreign language) It's not unusual for victims'
families to show gratitude. But the Markuszewskis
have laid on a feast. Suddenly, Waldek and
Andrzej's mother reveals why. (mother speaking in foreign language) - [Interpreter] The police
officer came from Szczecin and spoke to the family saying that the case is so complicated, that there is not a
police force in the world that be able to solve
this murder, this case. - I'm very sorry that that happened, that a police officer from Szczecin came to say that because
that was never our view. (family member speaking
in foreign language) - [Narrator] The feast goes on with more questions and more answers from both sides of the table. Then, suddenly, a treasured
shoebox is opened. - [Interpreter] This is Waldek. - [Mother] Waldek. - [Interpreter] On his
day, getting married. A month before Andrzej's death, when he came here to see the
family, he said goodbye to mom, and for no apparent reason, he came back and said goodbye second time. And mom said, "Why are you doing this?" And he said, his reply
was, "You never know, Mom." (dogs yapping) - [Narrator] The team must
leave for the airport, but not before one final
visit to the graves. (choir singing in foreign language) (family member speaking
in foreign language) - [Interpreter] The whole
family is suffering, and will suffer for the rest of our lives, suffering which has been
caused by mindless killers. During Christmastime,
the family get together and at the table we now have
two empty chairs and plates, for Waldek and Andrzej. (choir singing in foreign language) There is no punishment
that can justify the loss, no matter how severe. However, Andrzej and Waldek
will live forever in our hearts. (choir singing in foreign language)
