THE MANCHESTER 'PSYCHO' KILLER

in 2012 the streets of manchester saw one of the most tragic unprovoked and unexplained murders and the killer that branded himself a psycho made sure to stay as close to the crime scene as he possibly could so today's video is going to be another solved true crime kiss today we're going to be talking about the tragic murder of a nudge bead fair but quickly before we get into the case i do just want to thank our sponsors for making this video possible wild wild is a natural deodorant brand that i have been using for coming up on a year now i started using them last spring was when i made the switch their products are made from all natural ingredients including shea butter or shea butter we had this debate on twitter the other day i don't know how you pronounce it but it makes your skin soft makes your pits all moisturized and smooth and wild are all about sustainability which is the main reason why i love them all of their packaging is recyclable and to be fair the whole point of their 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was july 18th 1988 when a nudge was born in pune india and he came from a very happy family his mum and dad were still together they were still just a really nice family unit he had a sister as well i don't know if she was older or younger but they all got on really well a nudge was an incredibly bright student all the way through school he was so so smart he got insanely high grades in pretty much every single subject there really wasn't much that a nudge couldn't do or couldn't do well he just was like multi-talented he was good in academics he was good at sport he was good at like everything eventually he went on to university and again he excelled there he was like one of the smartest kids in the whole university but as a nudge got into his 20s he started to like the idea of maybe finishing his studies abroad going and studying in a foreign university meet new people explore a new country so he did his research and he decided that the best place for him to go would be england and so he started looking at all these universities in england and he found one in lancaster it was as soon as he found out he could do a masters in microelectronics at lancaster university that was what sold him that was the course that he was interested in that was what he wanted to do with his life so that was it in september of 2011 a nudge was 23 years old and he left india he left all of his family behind to come over to the uk for his studies he very quickly settled into university life he made friends very easy actually a lot of the friends that he made were other students that had come over from india so they could all relate to each other on a level that no one else really could he found a lot of people that he had a lot in common with and he made some really good social circles and he was also smashing his uni work at the same time of course he was very happy with this new life this new environment he settled very very well very quickly um all of his teachers at university loved him his tutors his professors one of them even said he was an outstanding applicant at the very beginning of a promising career so his first few months at university we're off to a cracking start and then december rolls around and it's time for everyone to go home for the christmas holidays but the only problem being for a nudge and his friends was that plane tickets back to india were so expensive over christmas and their students they don't have money to be spending on a plane ticket there and back so the boys weighed up their options and even though it would be sad to not be with their families for christmas they didn't really have much choice and besides if they all stayed in the uk together then they could at least have a christmas together so that's exactly what they decided to do they all came together and they decided that if they couldn't go home they were going to make it as special as they could over here and they were gonna celebrate together get each other presents and you know have christmas here together so in an attempt to make it feel like a special occasion and not just another day in their university accommodation the boys decided to travel to manchester for a few days and do christmas in manchester i think the main reason that they did this was because they really wanted to go shopping in the boxing deer sales the following day because everything is so cheap on boxing day actually it's not but this sales anyway in fact their plan was to wake up really really really early and set off walking into manchester city center to try and be like the first people there before the shops open so then they could get first dibs in the sales but as christmas day came to an end it was about midnight 1am ish and the boys were like why don't we just not go to sleep they didn't sleep and they decided to just pull an all-nighter and then walk out into the shops so just after 1am a nudge and 9 of his friends started walking into manchester city center and it was quite a walk for them i think the boys were staying more in like salford area which is about just short of an hour walk into manchester city center they could have got there within like 20 minutes if they'd have got a car but none of them drove and they didn't have the money for a taxi so they all decided to just walk at 1am and they were trying to follow directions on one of their phones because obviously they're not from the area they have no idea how to get into the city centre so they've got it up on their phones and they're all like walking following it and they get to odzell road in odds and the group noticed two boys walking on the other side of the road they were probably about the same age as a nudge and his friends and they didn't really pay much attention to these two boys on the other side of the road like at all that was until when they got level with them one of the two boys turned and crossed the road over to a nudge and his friends so now they were forced to pay attention to this boy and he starts walking towards him and immediately they can tell he's angry for some reason he's looking for some sort of altercation here so this guy comes over and he demands that one of a nudge and his friends give him the time and so one of them does they check their phone and they're like oh it's 1 30 a.m and without saying a word this guy just looked at the group put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a handgun and before the group could even process what was going on this guy lifted the gun aimed it at a nudge and shot shot him straight in the head a nudge collapsed to the ground as the shooter screamed run to his friend and the two of them fled the scene and our nudge's friends were just left frozen absolutely paralyzed with shock and fear of course they tried to call an ambulance as quickly as they possibly could and instead of trying to chase after these attackers they decided to just stay with their friend who was now unconscious on the ground within minutes an ambulance arrived at the scene picked up a nudge and took him to the hospital where he was sadly pronounced dead on arrival he was just 23 years old his life taken in the blink of an eye with absolutely no explanation no reason why so police came down to the hospital to speak with oliver nudge's friends and get the details of what had happened that night however none of them could really give that many details because this had been such a quick attack it all happened literally in the blink of an eye so his friends didn't really get a good look at the shooter they could only give very vague basic descriptions like grey top white male in fact the description of the shooter was a white male rather short in stature slight build around the same age as a nudge and his friends probably early 20s and they said that he was wearing a grey shirt that's that's all they could tell the police and the description of the other guy the shooter's friend was even more vague because he'd stayed on the other side of the road he hadn't even come over close to the group but still the friends told police that he was also a white male with a slightly bigger build and he was wearing a black jacket and that's all they could tell about him as well so news of a nudge's murder started to break to the public that same morning not from the police the police hadn't posted anything yet it was just like word of mouth it was just traveling around the town and the police were actually really determined to keep what little information they did have under wraps they didn't want to release anything to the media yet because they didn't want them posting anything because for example if it got out that police were looking for a guy in a grey t-shirt then the murderer might see that panic and then go the extra mile to try and destroy this grey t-shirt or hide it or something and that t-shirt would inevitably have a lot of evidence relating to this case probably still on it so police didn't want to risk losing that t-shirt but by day two of the investigation the media had already become an issue in this case there was a lot of unconfirmed information being spread about for example when the media found out that a nudge and all of his friends were indian and the two attackers were white they suddenly took this to mean that it was a racially motivated hate crime and so that's what they started posting which it wasn't it wasn't confirmed at all at that point police had no idea what had happened so there was no way for them to say if it was racially motivated or not the media had absolutely no evidence that this was a racially motivated hate crime literally just the races of the people involved that was the only that was the only thing that gave them that idea even a nudge's friends were saying that they really didn't think it was a hate crime police said that it seemed a lot more like a crime of opportunity it didn't seem as though the killer had gone out intentionally looking for someone of a particular race to murder that night it seemed that they were just looking to murder someone anyone and a nudge was that person of course at this point in the case they they weren't going to rule it out it was still a possibility that this could have been racially motivated however they really didn't think it was in the days following a nudge's murder all of his friends took to social media to post all their nice memories with him all their condolences and and just nice puss to celebrate his life and it was actually through these social media post that a nudge's family back home in india found out about their loved one's murder they hadn't been informed by the police they found out by logging on to facebook and seeing people post that their son was dead in defense of the police in this situation i don't want to fully defend them because i don't know the exact details but they did try and get hold of a nudge's parents but because of the time zones and they had very like hectic work schedules they just couldn't get in contact with them for a couple of days and so unfortunately that is how they found out but this was just the first of many frustrations for a nudges family throughout this investigation right now they felt like the police just were not doing enough to find their son's killer remember i said the police were trying to keep as much of this investigation under wraps as possible they weren't releasing things to the media just yet well to a nudges family over in india who are only seeing the investigation through news articles it looked like police weren't doing anything there was no new information about the investigation being released and so to a nudges family back home this was really disappointing little did they know that it was for the good of the investigation rest assured and i don't defend the police often but in this case they were really putting in the work they went out and found like hundreds of hours of cctv footage from the general area they took it all back to the police station they had like so many officers looking through hours and hours and hours of footage they wanted to try and figure out where the killer and his friend had come from or where they'd run off to because maybe that could help them figure out who it was although there wasn't actually any cctv footage of a nudge's murder there weren't any cameras on that road but there were in the area so they were trying to like piece together where the shooter and his friend had gone i also had a bunch of other officers out doing door-to-door inquiries asking neighbours if they'd seen or heard anything that night they were doing forensic tests they were doing an autopsy ballistic test to be able to figure out what kind of bullet what kind of gun had shot a nudge had been used to shoot a nudge rather and even though that is a lot of work that i've just listed to you these police officers moved fast in this case because within three days they'd made an arrest but actually not just one arrest five they had five different suspects in custody at this point in time and they wanted to interview all five of them and well you know figure out if they're the killer all of these boys were between the ages of sixteen and twenty and they all matched the descriptions that nudge's friends gave of the attacker and his friends so all five of these suspects were put through a very intense interview process however as time was going by police were really struggling to actually connect any of these five boys with the murder it was hard because there was really really little physical evidence to go off in this case they had no murder weapon they had no like definite cctv footage of the murder there were hardly any witnesses and the ones that did see it it was way too fast for them to even be able to help in this investigation so it was really really hard for police to be able to put anything on on any of these boys that they had in custody but then a few days later on new year's eve the 31st of december five days after a nudge was murdered on the 26th police released four of these five boys from custody and one remained twenty-year-old kieran stapleton had grown up on the orschel estate right where a nudge was killed it was a council estate or mainly a councillor state just west of manchester city centre and it didn't have the best reputation in fact it had really quite a bad reputation for like anti-social behavior rowdiness violence and kieran stapleton matched the descriptions that all of the nudges friends gave of the shooter and so police decided to look into him a lot closer they decided to pull up all this cctv footage again to see if they could spot kieran anywhere especially now that they knew he lived so close he lived on the estate right next to where a nudge was murdered and sure enough in the early hours of the morning on boxing day police saw two white males walking down the street in the direction of where the murder would soon take place and one of these boys on this footage looked a whole lot like karen stapleton but i mean they couldn't say that for sure because it still wasn't you know the best quality cctv picture they needed supporting evidence this wasn't this wasn't very strong and they didn't really have to look far for this supporting evidence because it seemed that karen stapleton in the days following the murder he'd gotten a fresh tattoo a teardrop tattoo on his face if you're unfamiliar with the symbolism behind teardrop tattoos it's a thing in gang culture for every teardrop that someone gets tattooed on their face that is one person that they've murdered so for every teardrop that's another kill and it seemed that kieran had got his first ever teardrop tattoo in the dares following a nudge's murder it really wasn't looking good for kieran stapleton at this point but things were about to get even worse when police found out that for the past few days since the murder he had been living in a hotel but not just any hotel a hotel that literally overlooked the murder scene overlooked the investigation that was going on below and that is so eerie for a killer to go and check themselves into a hotel room that they know will look over the devastation that they've caused he was doing that because he was enjoying it he wanted to be around the tragedy that he had caused well for police this was more than enough evidence for them to charge kieran stapleton with the murder of a nudge bear but they knew that he wasn't the only person that they were looking for remember he had a friend he was there with a friend that night and they both ran away together so now they needed to find him and it wasn't going to be that hard because they literally just asked kieran who it was and he said oh it was my mate ryan holden so now police had his full name they got straight in contact with ryan and right off the bat they noticed that ryan was scared he was nervous like he was visibly scared of the police and this investigation but as they got talking to ryan they realized that the reason he was scared was actually because of kieran he was scared of kieran and his connections he didn't want to snitch on his friend in case kieran sent someone to hurt him or his family because apparently kieran had some scary friends like some scary connections and ryan knew that so police evaluated how much of an actual risk this was for ryan like was he just making this up to get out of it or was he actually telling the truth and they realized that he wasn't exaggerating kieran and his associates were dangerous they'd killed before it seemed that kieran was now a murderer and there's nothing to stop them from killing again and so for that reason police offered ryan some sort of protection it wasn't like identity protection but they offered him some support and help and finally ryan felt comfortable enough to open up to police and tell them absolutely everything about that night so he started by telling the police that kieran stapleton had actually recently split up with his girlfriend just before the murder and he was not in a good way mentally he was in a very emotional state a very reactive state not in terms of like he was crying and like down and murphy more in the way that he was angry and he was lashing out on people he was mad at his girlfriend his ex-girlfriend i'm not sure what the exact reason for their breakup was however this was only one of many problems for kieran he'd obviously been kicked out of the house that he shared with that girlfriend so now he was kind of homeless he was staying with different people i think he went back to live with his mum or something but he'd also had his driver's license taken off him he was just going through it at this point in time he had a lot of things going on in his life that were just adding to this stress and he was becoming a very very angry person and he was taking this aggression out on everyone around him but the real kicker was when kieran found out that his now ex-girlfriend had been cheating on him when they were together and this just made him furious it absolutely sent him over the edge he was saying stuff to ryan like if i see him i'll kill him obviously meaning the guy that his ex cheated with i'm not sure why ryan and kieran were out walking the streets of manchester at 1 30 am that night but ryan remembers the first time he saw a nudge and all of his friends on the other side of the road immediately ryan said that he could tell that a nudge and all of his friends were not from around that area they weren't from that part of manchester they could tell because they were following directions on their phone and i actually have a direct quote from one of the boys who said they were all dark-skinned and not dressed like salford people a nudge and his friends hadn't even really noticed ryan and karen on the other side of the road they were all just too busy talking to each other laughing joking having fun so as they kept walking down the street and they got in line with the nudge and all of his friends kieran turned to his friend ryan and said hang on a minute and then he crossed the road over to where a nudge was ryan said he couldn't hear anything on the other side of the street he literally just stood and waited for kieran on the other side although he did see kieran lift his arm and kind of do a watch gesture as he was asking for the time but the next thing ryan knew he was watching kieran pulling a handgun out of his pocket and within seconds he shot a nudge and screamed run and so ryan had seen all of this in the space of a few seconds and he just panicked and ran with kieran so they ran back to kieran's astaire into kieran's house and when they got there ryan was very distressed he was panicked about this whole thing whereas kieran was quite the opposite he was very cool calm collected he even told ryan to chill the [ __ ] out ryan was just proper stressing to karen and karen said to him nah don't fold on me meaning like don't don't snitch on me don't don't give in so that was the full story according to ryan and that was the most information police had had in this whole case at this point kieran was already charged with the murder but this information was going to be very very useful at trial speaking of which he had his like initial hearing a week after the murder on january 2nd 2012. kieran appeared in court and when he was asked for his name he stood up and said kieran's psycho stapleton which is just cringy more than anything that was just his initial hearing the actual trial didn't take place until later that year but i thought it was important to say that because he's already bragging about the crime that he committed a week prior so as this court hearing was going on the biedware family back over in india they were growing very distressed because in hindu culture it's custom to cremate the deceased within 24 hours of their death and by now it had been a whole week since a nudge's murder and his parents just could not get police to release his body back to them in india so that they could give him a funeral and i mean they understood why they couldn't have his body because it was part of a murder investigation they needed to keep it there to do autopsies and tests and all this kind of stuff and his family understood that but it didn't make it any easier of course their hearts were breaking that they couldn't give their son the send-off that that they felt he needed and everyone in manchester just felt so so sorry for the beadway family this case is terrible in in so many ways but especially the fact that this family found out about their boy's murder on facebook people just felt so bad that this family were in a different country far away they weren't getting proper communication they couldn't be with their son they couldn't have his body like it was just so heartbreaking on so many different levels and the people of manchester wanted to show the beadveer family that they had their support that they were on their side and so on january 2nd of 2012 a candlelit vigil was held for a nudge beadway and it was such a turnout over 400 people turned up there were flowers there were letters messages notes everything so much was left all the bits and pieces the flowers the letters and everything were all arranged into a memorial for a nudge as well that people could go and visit and as soon as the beadway family found out over in india that this was going on in manchester they felt so comforted by it the day after the candlelit vigil the beadway family were actually flown over to the uk for a number of reasons so that they could help in the investigation so that they could go and visit the memorial for their son and most importantly so that they could get his body back and take it back over to india with them so that they could have a funeral finally but like i said while they were here in the uk they went and visited the memorial and they were just so taken aback by how much love and support was shown for their son they read as many of these little letters and notes as they possibly could one of them read rest in peace a nudge unlike your murderer who will rot in hell and a nudge's own mother wrote a very simple note to leave at the memorial saying to our dearest son a nudge from mummy and papa and our family so the next day the family flew back to india with a nudge's body and relatives back home in india had actually planned out this whole funeral for them while they'd been gone it was an open casket funeral and a nudge's body was going to be covered in flowers and carried around the streets of pune and the turnout was absolutely enormous the streets were just lined with people on top of people at the funeral a nudge's father got up and made a speech and i've got a little quote of that here when a nudge left india in september last year he was full of hope and ambition for the future we were all so very proud of him and nudge was our only son and we cannot comprehend this dreadful tragedy kieran stapleton's murder trial began in july of 2012 and he actually kicked it off by pleading not guilty to murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility but the prosecution quickly rejected this diminished responsibility excuse saying if you deliberately fire a loaded gun at someone's head you must intend to cause really serious injury or death kieran stapleton intended to kill and of course kieran's defense team had no argument for this because well because it's true how are they supposed to defend him on that so as part of his trial and everything kieran was given psychiatric assessments because they thought it could be possible that he had some sort of mental illness or disorder that had led him to do this so in these assessments it was noted that he had a lot of anti-social personality traits he didn't have anti-social personality disorder but he had a lot of similar traits like lack of empathy he was unable to feel guilt he didn't have much remorse so he had a lot of these traits but it wasn't enough to diagnose him the psychiatrist concluded that assessment saying that he didn't have any disorders or illnesses he was you know completely mentally sound and so for that reason his diminished responsibility excuse no longer stood and the prosecution actually asked kieran directly if he thought the results of his psychiatric assessments would mean he wouldn't have to go to prison you know if he got found to have like an illness or a disorder then he wouldn't go to prison and kieran responded to be honest i'm not bothered i love prison lock me up for 65 years the trial went on for five long weeks and as time went by kieran stapleton seemed to care less and less he was starting to like laugh and jerk and giggle in the courtroom when they were like saying all this stuff about the murder that he committed he was enjoying this whole thing mainly because it got him out of his prison cell for the day he loved going to trial every day because it was something for him to do oh i actually forgot to mention this earlier in the case but i need to tell you this at one point he turned to the jury and he said look at this face does it look bothered he's just so cringy more than anything after just 90 minutes of deliberation the jury came back and found kieran stapleton guilty of the murder of a nudge bear they rejected the diminished responsibility excuse of course mainly due to the way that kieran acted in the aftermath of the murder he got a teardrop tattoo literally just days after he checked into a hotel that overlooked the crime scene these are the kind of things that a killer will do when they're proud of what they've done not when they've you know committed a murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility so kieran stapleton was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 30 years so the soonest he can get a parole hearing at the very least is 2042 and even then he might not he probably won't be let out because let's be honest he's shown zero remorse if anything he's shown the opposite of remorse but that is all i have on this case thank you so so much for watching and thanks again to wild for sponsoring this video remember if you want to get 20 off of your order you can use the code neil 20 at checkout and there's a link down below in the description a huge huge thank you to all of my channel members for supporting me and helping decide the cases that i cover especially my tier 2 members whose names are all on screen right now if you want to become a channel member you can click the link to do so in the description or you can click the join button if you're on a desktop but yeah thank you so so much for watching if you enjoyed please leave a thumbs up and if you did enjoy you'll probably also enjoy this video i'm gonna pick you one out special or you can just subscribe to my channel 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Published: Mon Feb 14 2022