An Almost Perfect Murder (True Crime Documentary) | Real Stories

Albert Walker thought that he had committed the perfect murder and that he was going to get away with it scot-free he was very charming very engaging he was good he was very good it was almost perfect [Music] by they em prick some Harbor Devon two fishermen are getting ready to start work [Applause] [Music] the first Haul is disappointing so they sail another six miles out to an area rarely fished known is the roughs the nets are weighted down to make them sink to the seabed so they'll catch everything floating above after about an hour they start to haul in a man's body falls out with the fish [Music] which some coastal prison Coast Guard is efficient the discovery of the body was to be the start of an extraordinary investigation involving an international con man with a string of false identities but at first the Devon and Cornwall police thought they were dealing with a tragic accident the body was in remarkably good condition for being in the salt water it was dressed in a long-sleeve shirt trousers brown shoes they had no identification on it at all he was wearing a Rolex wristwatch it showed a time in the date that the date being the 22nd his pockets were turned out as if someone had got there before me and searched the pockets before me he might have fallen off a boat going up the channel and we get an awful lot of boats going up the channel but nobody was reported as missing at the time the well-preserved condition of the body suggested that it hadn't been in the sea for long the post-mortem revealed several injuries including a deep gash on his head when you're trawling and netting and you're lifting that that trawl onto deck there is a large possibility that that head injury could have been caused there the only distinguishing mark found at the postmortem was an unusual tattoo on the back of the man's right hand I tried to work out what the tattoo was but it had slightly smudged over the period of time and my initial thought was that it was a cluster of stars but the best clue to his identity came from his watch purely by chance my officer was talking to another police officer who said ah well if it's a relics watch if it's a genuine relics it'll have a serial number so he spoke to relics in London who said ah if it has been sent for service we might be able to tell you where it's come from then were able to tell us that in fact that what had been serviced on a couple of occasions in a jewelers in Yorkshire for the guy comes to Ronald Joseph Platt finally they were able to identify the dead man without the relics watch we would not have known who the body was we wouldn't have been able to identify and I would have helped it returned an open verdict eventually we managed to track his last known address down as to a place in Essex Ronald Platt had been a tenant at this house in Chelmsford when the local police contacted a landlord he put them in touch with the man Ron had given as a personal referee when he moved in a mr. D Davis I found mr. Davis introduced myself I was reluctant to tell him the reason for my call didn't want to be telling him that his friend was dead but ultimately he forced me to I was obliged to tell him difficult to judge persons reaction over the telephone but he didn't seem particularly shocked or taken aback and he didn't ask too many questions David Davis agreed to meet the police to give them background information on Ronald Platt temptations were nice man very amiable very soft short dressed very well but casually but you could tell that the clothes were expensive he had bearing of a man who knew what he was doing very confident I couldn't work out what nationality it was and he didn't say and I'd assumed he was an American he sat down and talked for a little while and he told me how he'd loan wrong money to set himself up in France in business in France and he as far as he was aware he'd gone we spoke about the tattoo on the back of Ron's hand and he said that that was a Canadian maple leaf he said he was sure he had a photograph of Ron and he would dig it out for me and forward him few days later David Tigers sent me through a photograph goes wrong circled and this is wrong as far as I was concerned that was the end of the Essex side of the inquiry Ron Platt had probably fallen overboard and drowned it was an unfortunate accident there were just a few last formalities before the case could be closed I wanted to speak to mr. Davis and he wasn't answering his mobile phone so I requested a colleague in Essex Police they asked Peter Redmond to attend mr. Davis's address and asked him to contact me I've never been to the village let alone the street before it was very rural and there's only four houses in the street and none of them have got names on so I went to the first pair and just knocked at the first door elderly couple answered and I said I'm looking for little London farm house they said no no this is little London house little London farm house he's next door who are you looking for and I said David Davis no it's not David Davis it lives there's Ron Platt David Davis was posing as his friend Ron planned the man police thought had accidentally drowned they described person they knew is wrong plan as the person I knew is David Davis so it was quite happy that we were talking about one in the same person there was some foul play going on here somewhere it was just a case of trying to get my head round exactly what Detective Sergeant Redmond reported what he'd found to the devil police the importance of David Davis was rising within the inquiry and it became apparent that he possibly knew more than he was actually telling us the discovery that David Davis had stolen his dead friends identity was down to pure chance and it sparked an investigation that was to take them 3,000 miles across the Atlantic and two years of painstaking detective work to solve the mystery of Ron klain's death Ronald Platts body had been dredged up by a trawler of the Devon Coast the police went to visit his friend David Davis but by chance went to the wrong house and uncovered the double life of a man they thought was innocently helping them with their inquiries often reflected on why I come to the wrong house and what would have happened had I gone to the right one and epin there had he been there I'd have given him the message and then I come away I'd have spoken to David Davis as far as I knew and that would've been the end of it instead Detective Sergeant Redmond went back again to question the next-door neighbors about Davis and his family Frank and Audrey the elderly couple there told me how they'd moved in some some time ago there was Ron and he's much much younger wife and two very small children a baby in arms and the toddler about three they said that there was a connection with Devon because they understood that he had a boat that he used to sail regularly but without its name and a description to go on the police couldn't find the boat everyone had been sent out to re-interview witnesses to see whether they could add any little tiny detail which could make a difference to the inquiry they started with the fisherman who'd found Ron Platts body he informed us that in fact there was an anchor there had been trolled up in that same trawl which he'd given to a friend of his we traced that friend and the friend informed us that he'd given the anchor to his mother to sell a car boot sale in Brixham luckily for us the anchor hadn't sold at the car boot sale and it was still languishing in the garage of his mother and we were able to take possession of that complete with the price label still on for the car boots home at the time the police had no idea of the significance of the anchor but it was to become a key piece of evidence for now they needed to find out more about the history of David Davis's friendship with Ron Platt Ronald's brother informed us that he had a long-standing ex girlfriend Elaine Boyes who lived in the Harrogate area it wasn't until we spoken to Elaine that we started to uncover Ronald Platt the man and exactly how he lived his life Ron and Elaine had lived together for 10 years until 1993 he was very quiet it was very calm it was a very gentle fellow and he was just lovely was just a very caring came across as a very warm and caring man Elaine had photographs she'd taken of Ron wearing the Rolex watch but Ron's main treasured possession was his watch it was crazy about electronics and precision engineering he always wore it all the time even in the shower when the police spoke to me about Ron's death they explained basically that they'd found his body I just thought you know it's such a shame it's such a waste and I just felt lost really I felt that I couldn't believe it as well as telling the police about Ron she could also explain their connection with David Davis Elaine had met him five years earlier in Harrogate when he'd walked into the fine art auctioneers where she was working as a receptionist it was a very quiet day because I remember the telephone didn't ring and this man was there for about an hour and a half talking to me about well initially talking about the auction room and paintings and antiques he was very tall very broad very charming very engaging he was it was almost perfect conversation moved into what he was doing he you know that he was moving up to Yorkshire and I was looking for somewhere to live near Harrogate in the dales and they're not unbelievably at the end of the conversation he offered me a job I thought it's just amazing but then at the back of my mind I knew that I wouldn't be working for this man for very long because Ron and I were going to be going off to Canada and he said you you know that's fine he said I'll be able to help you save up to go to Canada because I'll offer you more money than you earning here he became friends with the couple [Music] Ron's relationship with mr. Davis was instant instantly hit it off within a few minutes of talking after they first met Ron Rock Hotel was bowled over by this man David Davis moved quickly and offered them a share in his new company the name of the company was Cavendish corporation which sounded very very grand he made Ron and I directors of his company and they explained that he didn't want to be a director because well he went into explanations about his wife that his wife was chasing him for alimony and it did so he didn't want his name on any of the paperwork he said she was a very eminent GP in New York and he explained that she had lots of money and she was successful and this was his money and she was after it she was greedy this was his explanation and I believed you know I did believe it Elaine's job is to travel to Europe and view properties none of them was ever bought and while she was away she deposited money for her boss in his foreign bank accounts looking back in reflection he drew Ron and I into his own little his own little world you know in setting up the business and travelling to Europe and looking at properties and having this company that that was just a facade really but at the time he Lane never questioned Davis's respectability everybody said nice things the same sort of things that I believed and thought everybody thought it was a very nice he got involved with the local Harrogate Baptist Church he seemed very religious he often talked about God if somebody's religious you you trust them you believe in them David used to worship here very regularly most weeks he used to come he used to sit right down there in the same pew every week I found him a very pleasant guy I'd like to be able to say I had him sussed but I just didn't he was open it seemed to me he was helpful he wanted to be supportive to other people and I thought a noron good egg Elaine and Ron were invited to spend Christmas Day 1992 with David Davis and his daughter Noelle she seemed very much in awe of her father he was the one that did all the talking generally I mean she was she did come across quite shy but not not overly shy but she always used to look up to a father for approval and he gave the couple of generous gift in my Christmas present was a card that was a promise to purchase two tickets to Canada if we took them by the end of February and that would be February 1993 and that was a shock for me because I thought well that's only a couple of months how could we just suddenly open go to Canada in such a short time but when Ron read it he was amazed because it was his dream really I said why why do we why do I need to go so quickly and he explained that the UI's guys want to get on with your life Canada is is where Ron wants to be it's called an opportunity and he sort of sold it he sold the idea of Canada and he had a suggestion about how they could remain directors of his company he explained that it would be sensible to have rubber stamps made of our signatures so that when we were in Canada he could then use these stamps to send documents or checks or whatever and he also explained that he's done all the time in business so it didn't seem it didn't seem like there was anything wrong in that term Ron and Elaine set off for Canada and a new life in February 1993 but in lane didn't settle we didn't have a lot of money at all I couldn't work there Ron had difficulty at first in getting a job there and it was hurt and it was the middle of winter so it was a it was a struggle within five months Alain was back home to be bridesmaid at her sister's wedding Davis now a family friend was invited but when he heard that Alain wouldn't be returning to Canada and to Ron he wasn't happy you know he sort of said how much he liked Ron and how much he didn't want us to part and how every man deserves a second chance knew he'd tried to try his best to get me to go back but I wouldn't go back only days after the wedding David Davis was packing up and moving out of her 'got and Elaine found herself abruptly cut off I didn't have his details I didn't have his address all I had was a mobile number for him and so basically he just left what she didn't know was that from that moment on he started calling himself Ronald Platt and continued to do so over the next three years Elaine had little contact with him or her ex-boyfriend Ron Platt during that time she knew that Ron had returned to the UK but she was completely unaware that Ron's body had been dredged up in July 1996 and many Lane last spoke to David Davis three months after Ron's body had been found he didn't mention it at the end of the phone call I just happened to say Oh have you heard from Ron and he said it hadn't heard from him since June because he'd come to France it was only when she met the police that Alain realized that David Davis had been lying to her in the conversation with the police they did mention that they had spoken to mr. Davis as part of their inquiries and unfortunately David said he couldn't help them so as a response to that I said to the police I said how long ago did you speak to mr. Davis and they said weeks ago and it was that that triggered in my mind instantly I thought there's something wrong there's something very wrong David Davis who she had only spoken to a week or so earlier had failed to mention the fact that Ronald had been drawled up by a fishing boat in Devon Elaine suspected that he was involved in Ron's death so the next time he called she felt frightened I didn't know what to say because I didn't know whether I should make him aware that I know that room had died so that instantly threw me and then I thought well it's best you know it's best to be honest and say so I did and then his voice just changed because up to that point it was upbeat and and he said oh I would like to come and see you at work I thought if I'm not careful he's going to be suspicious of me you know the fact that I don't want to meet him so I agreed to meet him for a coffee he was sort of saying things like how it said prayers for run on the way up on the train and how he shed tears for wrong because of Ron's death and it all seemed very shallow to me I could almost like he's like I could see that he was acting but she played along with him and when he left she rang the police they knew that if he was travelling home by train he would arrive at Chelmsford station at that point we decided that the inquiry was such that we would be arresting this man for murder when we could find him we set up at chumps railway station and the anticipation if in return [Music] he didn't come home that one the following morning I decided to drive past little London farm house to see if the car had returned or if there in his song of life there was someone at home I'd set and watched the house waiting for reinforcements because this man was American somewhere along the line someone said well he might be armed I'm not quite sure where that had come from but that decision was made that it would be done the arrest would be carried out by armed officers on the principle that we're arresting you for murder and we know nothing of the man but their suspect had other plans with the day allied four got that most I sent there a taxi pulled into little London Lane gentleman just came straight out he sat in the front seat beside me chatting away quite nicely just seemed like a very normal business chap friendly nice chap I phoned the taxi after Woodham Walter toured Ambreen jumpsuit we were talking about the big house at the top of the road that was just up from where he was when I know it's didn't the mirror that it was a police car coming up but very high speed behind me was lights flashing and I actually turned around and said to the gentleman's beside me I wasn't doing it wrong was I I noticed the armed response vehicle coming up far behind me come past me and they come past the taxi and pulled across in front of him and then the policeman came to the window point the gun at my passes yeah it's only big get out the car they called Davis out of the cab and fetched him round to the back hands on to the boo searched him I walked over to them I said good morning mr. Davis do you remember me he said don't yes support arresting you on suspicion of the murder of Ron Platt he reacted very calmly quietly never said a word did exactly as the policeman told him to do didn't seem angry at all he put his hands behind his back a very compliant fashion and they handcuffed him there was no emotion displayed at all he was taken to jumps at police station and it was at that point when he was searched as he arrived that in one pocket he was as far as the documentation was concerned he was David Davis in the other pocket he was run planning the police now had proof that he was using Ron plots identity but this wouldn't be enough to secure a conviction for murder then as they dig deeper into Davis's past they find that they've stumbled across an international criminal on Interpol's most-wanted list police had arrested David Davis for the murder of his friend Ron plant they were convinced Davis was guilty but needed more evidence to charge him at the point of arrest there was very little evidence that turned out to be used in court that we had at that time the majority of the evidence was in fact gathered after arrest and as a result of what we found during searches and further inquiries that we made Detective Sergeant Redman from the Essex Police drove to Davis's house to arrest the woman they thought was his wife she didn't appear terribly shocked she was more concerned with the welfare of the baby and the toddler and while she was packing the bag for the toddler the female officer who was with her notice that it seemed very heavy picked it up and looked and found a quantity of gold bars and cash just what a three-year-old needs for a night away and that was just the beginning Thomas fired 4:20 p.m. approximately on the 31st of October 1996 there's D and I'm about to film little London farm house in Woodham Walter in Essex they found 25,000 pounds in cash 8,000 Swiss francs 17 gold bars and paintings valued at 6000 pounds for that stage we still weren't sure who we were dealing with so documents were taken paintings were taken valuables were taken virtually the house was emptied the couple were taken to Devon for questioning he was very calm and very helpful prior to the actual official interview and after the official interview he was eager to help and and his ol attitude was that have you know I'm gonna help you I haven't done anything wrong to this man you know this is a tragic incident but when the tape was switched on all cooperation stopped whilst being interviewed he sat that and declined very politely to answer any of the questions that were put to him we got absolutely no information from him whatsoever so it was nose to the grindstone and let's try and prove a connection between the death of mr. Platt and mr. Davis who we had in custody the house search had uncovered photos of Davis's yacht the Lady Jane with him on board but they couldn't find where it was mud then as Essex police were going through other evidence they'd collected there was another astonishing breakthrough we've made various notes on the big board and one of the notes was the lady Jane now the inspector in charge of the search team came into the room to be briefed and what's that that's the name of the bogie sit on that's damnum island I'm a sailor and I've seen that down at mainland in drydock and sure enough that's where it was and it was transported complete by road to their forensic science service they found traces of Ron Platts blood and hair on a cushion in the cabin and an empty carrier bag from a shop called sport Nautique I think if an examination was done on that unfortunately for us mr. Platts fingerprints were found on that carrier bag an anchor had been bought from the shop shortly before Ron's death the receipt was found during the hearse search we interviewed the staff at the shop who were able to tell us that it was two gentlemen that had come in that day and purchased the items but the anchor they'd bought wasn't suitable for the lady Jane and she already had one it was though identical to the anchor trawl dog with Ron Platts body and when the pathologist saw it he realized its significance [Music] the match of the anchor with the two injuries on the dead man's leg was perfect one look at the photograph you can say like this must have been in that position when this man was dumped into sea the pathologist had also noticed that the leather belt that Ron Platt was wearing had a pronounced kink in it and when it was examined they found deposits of zinc which matched the coating of the anchor I think he was hit over the head rendering him unconscious and then the anchor was attached to his belt and then Davis threw Ron apart over the side of the boat and what I ended up on the bottom of the same the evidence against David Davis was building but still wasn't enough to convict him of murder [Music] thinking he was American they sent his fingerprints to Interpol it was a turning point in the investigation within a few hours a huge piece of news came through to say in fact that the man we had in custody wasn't David Davis at all and in fact his name was Albert Johnson Walker he was a fugitive from Canada who was wanted by them for the theft of millions and millions of dollars and was actually on Interpol's most wanted list they discovered that Albert Walker had been living in Ontario with his wife Barb and their family the couple split up acrimoniously and he was arrested trying to break into the family home a month later in December 1990 Albert Walker who ran an investment company disappeared along with 3.2 million dollars of clients money Albert Walker absconded from Canada with his daughter Sheena it was the understanding by the Walker family that they were going on vacation a skiing vacation eventually when they didn't return in a reason amount of time especially with Barb Walker it was it was panic she became very very worried about the safety of her daughter a missing-persons photograph of Sheena who was 15 at the time was circulated worldwide mr. Walker we knew had traveled to England and then to Switzerland and at that point the the trail had gone cold so we really had no idea where mr. Walker was that was because Albert Walker had assumed his first false identity he became David Davis a man who'd been an investor in his company I think originally he used a false identity of David Davis possibly just to get out of Canada and and live as his first port of call in England once that identity had run its course he needed someone else and I don't think that he could believe his look when he stumbled across Elaine Boyes and Ronald Platt the police were starting to unravel Albert Walker's web of deceit he'd met Ron and his girlfriend Elaine after moving to Harrogate in 1991 within 18 months he'd befriended them made them directors of his bogus company and paid for them to emigrate to Canada next he moved 300 miles south to Devon with his new identity and his new wife when Judah tamati put an ad in the local paper for a cottage to rent it was a mr. and mrs. Ron Platt who contacted him he turned up with his very pregnant wife and loved the cottage loved the locations that it was just what they were looking for they moved into the middle of a row of cottages just across the yard from the farmhouse where Judith and her sister Carol lived he did come over as a slightly exaggerated character and I'd put that down I think two perhaps keeping up with a young wife the dyed hair and the very expensive dental job which I noticed almost immediately and the rather youthful clothes for a man of his age gave me the impression that he was trying to he was trying to keep up with a young wife ron was an amateur artist who displayed his work at home even when it gave a clue to his past life as David Davis my daughter who was studying art at the time remarked about a painting that he kept on an easel he said that it was one of his paintings and she remarked on the fact that it was signed David and he said oh that was a name they used to call me when I was at college but we thought nothing of it at the time the baby arrived in September 1993 and they continued to live at kestrel cottage posing as husband and wife for another year it was an occasion when we were in conversation and she called Ron daddy it's it left a mark I I noticed it but didn't altogether think he'd odd it was it seemed to me to be a term of affection I suppose really I can't really speculate on what roles they played when we weren't there but I have to say that they were very very convincing it never occurred to me at anytime that they weren't husband and wife never did that enter my mind and I think I went into shock when I found that it that in fact they weren't one evening he spoke to Carol about a new business idea he was considering he was interested in marriage guidance counseling and he asked me if I knew of any centers of counseling where he could take classes and I recommended one or two and over a period of months he attended would have been a very basic qualification have to say that I was quite surprised when he started talking about setting up his own counseling center at the end of 1994 they moved again this time east to Essex where the police were eventually to catch up with him here the fake Ronald Platt was exaggerating his qualifications to friends he made at the local Tennis Club he did say he was a psychologist and he was working somewhere near Brentwood but that really was as far as he wanted to go and so I I told him that there were a number of medical people who were members of the club who played tennis and I offered to you know introduce him and he wasn't quite so keen on that I found me quite friendly and quite likeable his wife on the other hand she was extremely young surprisingly young probably less than half his age and she was quite the opposite she never spoke in fact when when I spoke to her or asked her a question she always looked to him for permission to answer the question and I found that was very very strength the family lived in Essex for two years and another child was born there but the man locals knew is Ron Platt was about to lose control at his carefully constructed identity in 1995 he had news from Canada the real Ronald Platt was returning home to live in Britain he probably thought that by sending the genuine Ronald Platt to Canada he could then have a life-long identity that he could use with no comebacks but obviously that didn't turn out to be the case it was now two people living in a very small area by the name of Ronald Platt with the same day of birth and same documents and this is obviously a threat to his continuing freedom [Music] Canadian fugitive Albert Walker had plenty to hide and a motive to murder Ronald Platt I think on that day Albert Walker took Ronald Platt out as a friend on his boat maybe for a bit of fishing purely would be in tension I've taken him out there and killing him and dumping his body overboard I think Ron would've trusted him right to the end I don't think he will have had any doubts or fears otherwise I don't believe he would have gone on the boat it wouldn't have gone on the boat if he didn't trust him I'm sure Albert Walker was still protesting his innocence at his trial in June 1998 but the woman who everyone thought was his wife but was actually his daughter was about to be a key witness in June 1998 Albert Walker went on trial for the murder of Ronald Platt on the way into exeter crown court he hid his face but once inside he appeared confident that the case against him wouldn't succeed at no time did he really think that he was in difficulty he didn't think that anyone could prove that he had murdered this man no one witnessed the murder no one was able to say therefore for certain where it took place or how it took place the Rolex watch which helped identify Ron's body in the first place also provided a vital clue to the time with the murder the watch was water-resistant in self-winding but at the bottom of the sea and motionless it would stop after around 48 hours because the watch had stopped at 22nd day we were able to establish that in fact it would have entered the water on around about the 28th or the 21st of July there were more clues to be found in the computer memory of the boat Global Positioning System remarkably that was able to tell us Verte on the date in question that we were looking at that mr. Davis's boat had been out at sea in not a position far away from where Ronald Platts body had been trolled up Ron's ex-girlfriend Elaine Boyes was called to give evidence against the man she'd known as David Davis I thought I'm not gonna look at him I'm not purposely not going to make any eye contact but of course once I was in there I did glance and I looked at him I thought how much he'd aged and also he was gray but he still looked like the mr. Davis it was very smart very ground it was still mr. Davis Elaine's evidence was damning because she could explain the background to their friendship and why he had a motive for murder Ron Platt represented a real threat to Albert Walker because Albert Walker had been using Ron plant's name and details and if he'd had been exposed someone would have said who is this man who has been calling himself Ron plant the prosecution also called Sheena Albert Walker's daughter who'd been on the run with her father for six years posing as his wife and now the mother of two small children I think as an individual she'd come under the spell of her father and had been brainwashed into protecting him and unfortunately she was used as a bit of a psychic a bit of an alibi for him in various aspects of their lives together which is a sad thing when her father was arrested Sheena returned to Canada with the children two years later she was back for the trial she was able to state that she hadn't been aware that mr. Platt was in the Devon area shortly before his death at the time of the murder Sheena the children and Albert Walker was staying in a holiday cottage in Devon we said that it was highly significant that the defendant had kept from his daughter that he was seeing mr. Platt when mr. Plante was of course a friend of the family and we said that that was entirely consistent with mr. Walker having planned this murder but wanting to make sure that his daughter knew absolutely not about it and Sheena couldn't give her father an alibi for the day of the murder one point of evidence that Sheena did give on the witness stand was there on the day in question on the day we we suspected that the murder was committed she did confirm their father had been out on the boat it have been very bad weather and he come back late and wet that of course wasn't strong evidence in its own right but we said that that was important because it showed that was a day when mr. Walker had been on the face of it on his own each the material time and would have had the opportunity of killing mr. Platt and disposing of the body without anyone else discovering about it on day 8 of the trial it was Albert Walker's turn to take the stand when Albert Walker went into the witness box it was obviously something of an electric moment they weren't sure whether he was going to give evidence and I hoped and prayed that he would because I thought to myself that if he gives evidence people will see him for what he really is when he was on the stand he was very confident very charming again charming to the judge very relaxed mr. Davis he was the mr. Davis terrain you could obviously had a problem in presenting his case because he had to accept that he was a man on the run who was using a false identity but at the end of the day he had to accept that and it essentially said well yes I've done things that I shouldn't have done but I wasn't the murderer he admitted on the stand that Ron may have been murdered but it wasn't him you know there's no way it was him so he who thought he would get away with it and he gave his explanation for the evidence of Ron Platts blood on cushions in his yacht he said that mr. Platt had in some way knocked his head during the course of an incident on the boat but had nothing to do with anyone falling off the side side of the boat let alone a murder but for once Albert Walker failed to convince his audience the jury took just two hours to find him guilty Ron Platt murder he was sentenced to life imprisonment and when I heard the verdict I felt relief I felt elation I was so happy that he hadn't got away with it but Ron Platt murder had so nearly remained undetected Albert Walker was extremely close to getting away with it because the chances of trawling upper body within seven days of it having been put in the water in an area not very often fish was extremely remote had it not been for the Rolex watch with its unique number on Ron Platts wrist had it not been that the anchor by chance was picked up had it not indeed been for the fact that an officer went to a wrong house by mistake and discovered that Albert Walker was using a false name the police could simply have closed the inquiry said we found out to mr. Pilates and that would have been the end of the metal Albert Walker's trail of deception and false identities had fooled most people most of the time I still find it hard to believe that someone that could be portrayed to be such a nice kind person could have done this in fact I know that there are people that don't believe it that still refuse to accept that this has happened exactly it got been him he was good he was very good doing all that he did and passing himself off here I don't know anyone who I've spoken to here who had any particular doubts about him I found it very difficult to reconcile the Ron that I knew and was fond of with the man that was in the dog the man that they were saying all these things about and it wasn't the time I didn't believe that he was guilty as indeed he was proved to be it was just that I couldn't reconcile those two people in February 2005 Walker was returned to Canada to serve the rest of his sentence [Music] in all time that Walker was in police custody and during the trial he has never shown any remorse for what he's done to Ronald Platt and I think to this day he still shows no remorse he used me as a front for his business betrayed my trust and ultimately he murdered somebody that I cared very deeply about and spent a lot of my life with and you can't forgive that can you you is just pure evil you

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