Murder: Joint Enterprise

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This programme contains some violent scenes, very strong language from the start

and scenes which some viewers may find disturbing.

He would never have come to Nottingham if it had been up to him. You get that a lot.

"Fate f***ed me over."

CAR HORN BEEPS:

INDICATOR CLICKS

SIREN BLARES:

We were like sisters should be.

We were like the sisters people mean when they say two people are like sisters.

He bought us drinks. Um, he was wearing a denim jacket.

I said "Ignore him," but she said, "Why?"

- POOL BALLS RATTLE

- We were playing pool. He came over.

He said "Don't worry, I'm a priest."

She thought that was funny.

He said, um, the drinks were for two nuns who hadn't turned up.

She laughed. She said, "Would WE do?"

He wanted to put his name down.

Erin picked up the drink and drank it in a way that meant, yeah, he could.

Stefan. S-T-E-F-A-N.

I mean, I have done stuff.

Just cos I've done stuff, that don't mean... My nephew's getting christened today.

I'm supposed to be his godfather.

He'll have no godfather now.

We had the same tattoos. We were getting another one.

"When the sun shines, we shine together,

"told you I'll be here for ever."

She had sensitive skin.

She needed a couple of drinks first, and that's why we were in The Royal.

Look, I HAVE done stuff. I never said that I haven't done stuff.

- I'll f***ing show you, then, you f***ing prick!

- Argh!

But that does not mean that I did this.

She lent me her purse to buy pizza.

No comment.

No comment.

Look, they asked me over to play pool!

I-I was minding my own business!

I shouldn't even have f***ing been there.

I said, "Just ignore him." She should've ignored him, like I said.

You know, my mum warned me about Nottingham.

"Always grief," she said, "Nottingham."

She said, "It's there, look, right there, start of the word - 'Not'."

I remember that.

Grief.

Grief.

We lived together. Always.

Almost always.

Flat 4/5, Caxton House, Vernon Road, Basford, Nottingham.

- Since we were kids.

- CHILDREN GIGGLE

'Since we were kids.'

Stefan!

The chalk squeaked when he wrote his name.

I said it was "winner stays on".

Erin's the dead one.

She was looking at me.

Yeah, she'd look down the pool cue, and then just before she potted the ball,

there'd be a little look up at me. WOMAN LAUGHS

And they could play, both of them.

He was just minding his business at the bar.

And this pretty girl playing pool kept giving him the eye.

So he gets them a couple of drinks and he goes over.

'The youngest one, Coleen, she didn't want me there.'

He thought he was funny. A "priest."

"Very dry," he kept saying.

Everything that Erin said, he said it was "very dry."

I said, "Don't forget we're going for these tattoos."

The younger one wanted to go,

the older one didn't fancy it, the tattoo.

So, you know, he was being gentlemanly.

He kept on buying her drinks. Us.

So then Erin says, "Let's go and get some pizza."

It must have been, I don't know, 7pm?

Erin said, "Anything, as long as it's not pizza."

She didn't like going in there cos the bloke was a knob.

But Stefan grabbed her bag and went in.

- Didn't want to go in. "Would

- I

- go in?" Gives me her purse, right?

POLICE RADIO DISPATCH

So, when he came out, she said, "Give it back."

And he said, "I'll give it back at the flat."

So he knew our address cos he'd seen it on her licence.

She said, "Let's sit here, at the bus stop."

He said, "No, the flat."

He walked off with her bag and the pizzas.

I had a really bad feeling.

They weren't laughing now.

LIFT WHIRRS:

In the lift, it all went quiet.

Except, it was in the air, I'll be honest with you.

Coleen hadn't said a word for about an hour cos of missing the tattoo.

Then, erm, she cheered up all of a sudden.

Said, had I ever played spin the bottle?

He said, did we know spin the bottle?

- I said it was a game for kids. And he said, "Not the way

- I

- play it."

PHONE RINGS:

- 'Emergency. What service do you require?'

- You've got to come now, please.

- POLICE SIRENS BLARE

- 'Can you give me the address?'

I'm scared he's still here. He's hurt my sister.

- He's hurt my sister...

- 'Just stay calm.'

- He's hurt my sister!

He was arrested at 22:47

during a high-speed chase, driving the victim's car.

He wasn't from Nottingham, and he was driving away.

He said that a lot. For a while, it was either that or "No comment."

No comment.

No comment.

"I shouldn't have been in Nottingham," he said.

"I shouldn't have been in Nottingham."

Something his mother had told him.

If he hadn't been in Nottingham, none of this would've happened.

By which I took him to mean the murder.

Yeah, "Strip spin the bottle," she said.

"If it points to me, I take something off."

She was bollock-naked inside of 15 minutes.

She says, "If it points to me again, I start putting stuff on now."

This is Coleen I'm talking about.

Putting other people's stuff on.

He took the washing line off the balcony

and tied it round the bathroom door handle,

and pushed me in there and tied it somewhere so I couldn't get out.

He would never have come to Nottingham if it had been up to him.

You get that a lot. "Fate f***ed me over!"

She had my jacket on with my wallet in it,

and she went to the bathroom and locked the door and started singing.

So she couldn't hear me.

That's why I'm kicking the door.

And I could hear him... And I could hear her,

and I was shouting "What's he doing to you, what's he doing?"

And, yeah, I might have pushed her, but that was it.

I was shouting, "What's he done to you?

"What's he done?"

And I was shaking the door and shaking it,

and the washing line came off and I fell back.

He'd been to see a friend of his in Doncaster where he lives.

And this pal was just off to watch the Rovers away.

He said, "Why didn't Stefan get on the coach, and that way,

"he'd be out of the way of these young lads he was hiding from."

The Coppett brothers.

'She tried to open a can of lager, but the opener with the tab bit had snapped off,'

so she tried to push it in with her finger. She cut it, it bled like f***,

and that's how I've got her blood all over my fingernails and everywhere.

But I just f***ing left them to it. They're f***ing crazy women!

I thought he was going to come in.

And I was scared to go out.

I was...calling, "Erin...

"Erin."

Like a whisper.

It was only after they were well on their way that he asked who Rovers were playing,

and his pal said, "Nottingham Forest."

"Erin. Erin."

Shame for me they weren't playing Derby County. Her too.

Yeah, I might have pushed her but that was it.

"Fate f***ed me over."

I asked him if he had a thing about sisters.

Some men do.

Look, someone else killed her. I didn't kill her.

Someone broke in and killed her, but not me.

Someone got into their flat after I left and killed her.

Robbery gone wrong. Nothing more than that.

He went there for anything he could get and it blew up in his face.

I've not done anything I've not been f***ing caught for.

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