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Steven!
My name is Steven Clark.
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Steven, as a child, was hampered a bit
because of his lack of use of part of his body.
Doris had gone to the shop and not realising, Steven had followed.
So as I turned round, saw him, a lorry came by.
Next thing I saw, he was lying on the ground.
He was only two and a half, three, something like that,
and he was lifeless. It was hard.
It must have been very hard for him because he was so different from
the little boy before the accident to how he was when he came home,
so we just worked as hard as we could to get him better.
We moved from Surrey to Marske in 1991,
a very small fishing village at one time, not far from Middlesbrough.
When we came back, Steven would be 22 and Victoria 21.
The day that Steven went missing
was Monday 28th December 1992
and it will be imprinted on my mind forever.
I will never forget it.
Every morning, I look out the window,
26, 27 years. I've been looking for him all the time,
and it's still happening today.
He's somewhere.
He's not dead.
'Local news for Redcar in Cleveland. I'm Jeremy Gartland.
'Two people have been arrested on suspicion of murder
'in connection with the disappearance of Steven Clark,
'from Marske, who went missing in 1992 when he was 23 years old.
'Steven was last seen at 3pm after a family walk
'on Monday 28th December 1992.
'He went to use the gents' public toilets
'near to the pier on the promenade in Saltburn
'when his mum went to the ladies' at the same time.
'However, he was not seen coming out of the toilets
'and did not return home.
'Two people have been released on bail pending further investigation.'
The police will review a number of cold cases.
This case has been reviewed over the last two years,
and it has got to a point where I believe I've identified two suspects
who are responsible for Steven's murder
and they have been arrested.
They have been bailed from police custody
and inquiries are continuing this week with the investigation.
Hello, Julie, how are you? I'm good, thanks. How's it going?
I'm good. Do you remember that fascinating case,
that missing persons case I told you about? Yeah.
This is involving Steven Clark, is that right? Yeah.
So when I was in the police, a case came across my desk because
the missing persons charity asked for some help, for some publicity.
Unfortunately, didn't get a result, but 28 years on, he's still missing
and the police have now arrested the mum and dad
on suspicion of Steven's murder.
Oh, my word. That is significant, isn't it?
Yeah. It's an amazing development. They've now asked me for my help.
Joseph, so I'd like to talk about your arrest.
We were just about to start breakfast
and I was in my dressing gown,
and the front doorbell went, and there were the...
policewoman in uniform and three of the plain clothes men
and said they were the police.
"Can we come in?" So, brought them into the kitchen.
They asked where Charles was, so I said, "He's in the shower",
and they asked me to call him down.
So then he came down and the policewoman said,
"We are arresting you for the murder of your son, Steven,"
or words to that effect.
So when the police turn up at the door and they say,
"We're arresting you on suspicion of Steven, your son,"
what was your reaction to that?
I think I laughed. I said, "Just go away,
"start behaving yourselves." So you said go away...
Go away and behave yourselves. I was very abrupt with them. Hm.
Yeah, but you're a bit flippant, aren't you? Oh, I was.
It rubbed them up the wrong way.
Well, I don't care about them at all.
'Charles and Doris Clark walk along the seafront at Saltburn,
'outwardly, an ordinary and happy couple.
'But inwardly, they're in turmoil, reliving a nightmare.
'Their 23-year-old son, Steven, made this same journey from home
'a couple of miles away and simply vanished.'
Tell me about your first interview. What happened?
They were just querying this walk along the beach and again,
at the end I said, "I know my story and my story is true." She said,
"That's what it is, a story." They don't think you did the walk.
They think I didn't do the walk, that's just a made-up story.
She said, "What did you talk about?"
I said, "I can't remember all those years ago what we talked about."
They were saying also that could Charles be dishonest
and would he keep things from me to protect me?
And I thought, "Well, yes, he might do."
And did she say anything to you at the end of the interview?
Oh, at the end of the interview, she told me I was violent,
I was controlling, I was a murderer.
And, "Come on, Doris, tell us where Steven's body is,"
and words to the effect of put him to rest.
I can't remember whether we left the house together
or whether he went on ahead and I caught him up. I can't remember.
And we walked along the beach towards Saltburn.
How long would that take?
Erm... about 40, 45 minutes.
So he walked to the gents' and I thought, "Oh, well,
"he's gone to the gents', I'll go into the ladies'."
But I do remember there were two young men standing,
almost the same place as I was,
they were with a little girl and one of them went into the gents'
and came out and then the other one went into the gents',
and I just thought, "Well, this is a sign of the times.
"They're not leaving the little girl by herself."
So I came out and just stood for a while.
Well, Steven didn't come out of the gents'.
And I thought, "Well, he must have made his way, going back home.
"I'll just follow."
You see, the one thing that jumps out to me
is I'm thinking to myself, did you not think of going in
or getting somebody to go in and have a look?
I never dreamt of doing that.
It would never have struck me
and I would never have gone to find him.
He was 23. So you wander off.
Where do you go? Well, I just went straight home then.
So, just met Doris, taken her back to the Saltburn toilets.
Questions, I need to know exit routes.
I want six weeks' newspaper articles from 28th December '92
to find out were there any witnesses,
and let's get state of mind of Steven.
What was he going through? Had they had an argument that day?
From childhood to when we went off to South Africa,
I was a big Middlesbrough fan, all my school days, and everything,
collecting autographs, following Middlesbrough.
I never went to many away matches, but I was always at Ayresome Park.
And whilst Middlesbrough has been a massive part of your youth
and growing up, it also has a massive significance
in relation to your son, Steven.
Steven, it does because... on this day here,
Monday 28th December 1992, I decided to go the football match.
I was talking to Steven about coming,
"But you're going to pay for this game." And then he changed his mind,
the little tight-fisted fellow that he was. Ha.
I said, "Look, Steven. I'm going off to the football match.
"Are you coming?" And he said, "No."
And, of course, you didn't know at that stage
the significance of the last time you saw him.
No. Oh, I would never have gone.
So I went, and that was my story, and that was the truth of it.
'Police have carried out large-scale searches of woodland
'and at a property in Marske,
'as they follow up a number of new lines of inquiry in the case.
'Two people have been arrested on suspicion of Steven's murder
'and are on bail, pending further investigation.'
I've got a copy of the warrant here.
It says, "I authorise the person or persons identified beneath to enter
"the specified premises to search for human remains of Steven Clark."
I treated it all as a joke when it started, this. I thought, "What?
"It's an April Fool carry on thing." It's got worse and worse and worse
and worse in that they came in the house, they kicked us out of here
for four nights, I think it was, and dug the whole place up.
Been in every cupboard. We've got no privacy left,
and it's been terrible.
But what can I say? It's their thought that we've killed Steven
and we're still on bail.
You found out later what they were doing. What were they doing?
They've looked all over the place for Steven, and they...
In the house? In the house, in the garden.
That shed that's over there was moved. It was taken down and moved.
They had dug underneath it and had a look for him.
They were looking for his remains?
His remains. That's apparently what they were looking for.
And the only way his remains could be in the garden
is if you or Doris put him there?
Yes. Nobody else comes in this house.
Morning, Julie, how are you? Good, thanks. Brilliant.
So I'm just going to pick your brains just on a couple of things.
One of the things I find interesting is a warrant to search the address
was obtained on the 8th September, they arrested on the 14th,
and then on the 18th, they searched the house.
It is no easy task nowadays getting a warrant, is it?
The scrutiny now is really, really intrusive.
You can't get a warrant just with one piece of information.
It needs to be corroborated.
They must have something else that's in all that information
that they've collected over the last 28 years
that helps to support that
in order for the magistrate to be able to say,
"I'm satisfied that you've got the grounds, that it's necessary
"and proportionate to go and do this."
So it's not a simple process, and it's certainly not a decision
that the SIO would've taken lightly.
And expensive.
Yeah, really expensive.
You know, tens of thousands of pounds to do each part of this.
When they're in their 80s, 28 years on,
gonna be arrested on suspicion of the murder of their son.
You have to have reasonable grounds
to suspect they committed that offence.
So, A, they must suspect that they've done it
and have something to support that hypothesis,
and, B, they have to show to the custody officer
that this is really necessary
that these two people are actually brought into our police station.
This anonymous letter, which was first known to the police in 1999.
That's the envelope, "Steven Clark incident room,
"Guisborough Police Station."
I vaguely do remember an anonymous letter,
but I've never seen an anonymous letter.
Seven years after Steve was missing, there was a letter came,
but I don't know anything about it. Right. And I've never seen it.
The police never showed it to me at all. Right.
Did they discuss it with you?
Never once discussed with me, until very recently. Right.
My interpretation of this letter, you or Doris are named in it,
and that is what has given rise to the recent police search
of your house and arrest.
Must be somebody, male or female, that knows us and Steven.
What did Steven have with him when he went out? Did he have like keys?
Wallet? I don't think he took anything, actually.
In terms of, obviously, investigating it,
one of the key elements would be was this pre-planned?
He would get some clothes ready. He would pack a bag. Yes.
He would take some items. Can you shed any light on anything missing?
I don't think he took anything with him whatsoever.
I-I don't think he pre-planned it.
Did you start thinking in those early days and weeks
about where he could have been and what could have happened to him?
I don't know. I d... I...
Cos you... Because you've got nothing to go on,
you...
Somebody just disappears,
what can you imagine?
What could I think of?
I couldn't think of anything, really,
that could have happened to him.
It's just... It's just so hard to live with.
And I think no matter who it is,
any member of your family, at any age who just disappear,
it's just so unbelievable
because you can't-you can't have a conclusion to anything ever.
It's just up in the air and with you all the time.
And he is a missing person.
I want to understand what your window of opportunity was.
How much time had elapsed between coming back from football,
killing Steven, and disposing of his body before the police are called?
Within ten minutes, I was out looking for him.
But I know he was last seen at Saltburn on the promenade,
by the toilets.
It's logical to go down to the beach and have a look, so I did.
Well, we'd reported it to the police,
but they said they didn't want to know for another 24 hours.
Steven! Steven!
So I mean, these sand dunes, it's not easy walking. No.
And he was a bit disabled, so he could have fallen,
stumbled, hit his head on a rock, all sorts of weird things.
Huge area to look for somebody.
Well, I've always had a dream since Steve was injured
that because of his disability, he could be locked in a crevice
or something in a cliff,
and not been able to turn around or wasn't flexible enough to get out.
And it worried me for... years, really. It still does...
that he might be stuck somewhere.
And I would have hated that.
So they are accusing you of murdering Steven,
but if you look at the timeline, so you go to the football,
you come back from the football.
Yep. You then are told that Steven's missing.
Yeah. That was before you go and search,
at around about 6.30... We'd have phoned the police.
You phoned the police? Yeah, we did.
The police can't confirm one way or the other
if there was a call that night or what time it happened
because no records from that time still exist.
So your window of opportunity, in order to have killed Steven,
is about an hour.
Oh, it's just... I don't know. Yes, it is.
In half an hour, you've killed him and you've disposed of his body.
He's got money in his bank account, which is still there.
He's got a savings account, which is still there and untouched.
The next day I thought,
"I'm going to go out again and look for Steven." I came down here,
there's a road behind you, just goes up the cliff.
I walked around there for about an hour, shouting my head off,
"Steven!" Shouting his name,
wondering if he's all right,
and nothing came.
I-I don't know if he's alive. If he is alive,
how did he get through those days? I wouldn't know at all.
I've no idea. I remember once on a television programme,
we were in Leeds, I think, Doris and I, making an appeal for Steven,
and this lady said she was so happy because her son, she was about 90,
had come back after 30 years of being missing.
And he was a director of a company 50 miles away
from where he was living. He said, "Oh, it was your 90th birthday,
"I thought I'd give you a call." No!
So you never know. People are strange machines.
We've not even moved.
We thought of going back to South Africa
and moving all over the place,
but we wouldn't because that's where he knows we live here,
and we're waiting for him to open the door.
'Hi, Mark. This is Paul. I got your answerphone message.
'I'll meet you on the clifftop. See you then. Bye.'
Morning, Mark.
Cold morning, but I suppose you're used to it.
What an amazing view. Beautiful, isn't it?
One of the theories I'm looking at
is could Steven have jumped over here, particularly bearing in mind
in the days after Steven's disappearance,
his dad walked this path with that thought process.
If he'd have gone over here, would he have been found?
I think he would have been found.
We do get a lot of people walking along the shoreline,
walking their dogs, and fishermen off this part of the cliff.
Steven's been missing 28 years.
In the news, it was that his mam and dad had been arrested,
which was a big... I think it was a big shock to everybody,
really. My daughter told me about it. I couldn't believe it.
What's that make you think?
I don't... I don't know.
It's just like, see, we've got a small area
and everybody knows nearly everybody.
It is a small community here, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah.
So for him to just disappear and nobody's seen him at all,
that's just a big mystery.
So from what I've been told and what I've found out,
I'm ruling out suicide.
Tell me, where did you go in terms of looking for him?
There were sightings all over the place.
People just... Give me a sense of the amount of sightings.
How many were there over the years?
Well, I think the missing persons had a lot of information,
didn't they? HE MUTTERS
And you've got a lot of information. Yes. That we could go through.
There must have been 50, 100... All the time.
All the time coming in bit of... Seen him somewhere.
The press, the publicity was really good.
This sighting puts him coming up from Valley Gardens.
Where does that go?
If you go left down there, it takes you to the beach
and to where Steven was seen in the toilet,
but I believe he came out of there with somebody
and he was seen by a girl that lives in the flats in Balmoral Terrace,
and that gave me great heart that Steven was around.
Where did you hear that from?
Well, I heard it from the police, and it was a girl that knew Steven.
Right. So it isn't a case of mistaken identity or something,
it's an absolute true story.
So that's a positive sighting.
A definite positive in my mind.
I want to read you the article that I've found.
So this is "Mystery Of Man Seen With Steven.
"Steven Clark, who lived with his parents, Doris and Charles.
"Cleveland Police say that Mr Clark was seen
"at the junction of Balmoral Terrace..."
Which is here. Yeah.
"..Windsor Road..." Yeah. "..with an older man."
"The companion was described as aged between 50 and 60,
"balding with grey hair and wearing a long grey coat and glasses."
Does that ring any bells? No, it doesn't ring any bells at all.
Charles, what's the significance of where we are now?
Centre of Redcar, by the clock. It's the main part of Redcar,
and it was where Stan Camaish saw Steven after he was missing.
Who's Stan Camaish?
Stan was a chap from Marske. He was aged about 60,
70, and Steve and I used to go in the pub and we got to know him.
So I've got a press cutting here that I've found, which says:
"Couples' plea to missing son. The 23-year-old went missing
"on December 28th during a walk with his mother in Saltburn.
"Although he was spotted in Redcar High Street,
"he's not been home since." Is that this sighting?
Yes, and it gave me confidence that Steven was alive.
And then no doubt in your mind, or in Stan's mind,
that that was Steven?
It wasn't a mistaken identity.
Joyce, I want you to tell me about that day that you were
in Redcar town with Stan
and he told you he saw Steven.
Well, I think he must've met me from work.
We went to wait for the bus stop
near the clock tower at Redcar and Stan disappeared.
Right. And he was back in a couple of minutes and he said,
"Did you see who I was talking to?"
And I said, "No."
He said, "Steven. You know, young Steven.
"He goes in the club, remember? The lad with the poorly arm."
And I said, "Oh, right, fine."
But it was days later when we realised
that when Stan had spoken to Steven,
he was actually registered as missing.
So you have no doubt that Stan told you he saw Steven on that day,
and it was after he was missing?
Yes, yes.
In Stan's first police statement, it says he saw Steven
walking towards Redcar town centre wearing a blue parka-type coat.
Then in 1999, Stan changed his account
saying he was about 30 yards away,
and he saw a man who walked in a similar way to Steven,
but that he did not see his face or talk to him.
'The detective leading the case of missing Steven Clark
'says that he has received
'significant information into the inquiry.
'A potential witness has come forward to report seeing Steven
'on Monday 28th December 1992 in the late afternoon.
'The man believed to be Steven
'was walking in the opposite direction towards the Ship Inn
'whilst it was still daylight.
'After seeing the appeal for Steven in 1992,
'the woman confirmed with her family that it was him who they'd seen,
'but did not think it was relevant to the case at that time.'
Between three or four in the afternoon,
just as it was getting dark on this road here,
I'd like anybody else with any other information
in respect of that sighting to come forward and tell us.
So this is from Cleveland Police, Detective Chief Inspector Shaun Page
believes that Steven was on his way home when he was seen,
and that he was alive between three and four and in Marske.
So what they're saying is that
Steven was just up from your house on that Monday afternoon.
Do you think that supports your case
or do you think it supports the police's view
that you killed Steven?
I think that it supports our case
because it would be round about that time
when he would have come off the beach.
I didn't make a note of any of the times,
but I think that would tally with Steven leaving the gents',
getting off the beach and coming into the high street.
Cos they're saying it happened up the road,
that that new sighting is up the road
of him walking towards the house.
The house, yes. I don't know why he would be doing that.
There's this interesting sighting that the police have now got
28 years on - what do you make of that?
'Well, I've known cold cases where witnesses have come forward
'after many, many years. They've been really good witnesses as well,
'so it can be an absolute bonus investigation.
'But equally, you need to test what they're telling you.
'You know, is their memory jaded? Have they got it right?
'How do we corroborate the account after so long?
'Is it true what they're saying?
'So there's good or bad for it, yeah.'
And this witness is saying
they saw Steven walking towards the home address
between three and four o'clock on the day he was missing.
'Perhaps it's something else. It's another scenario.
'Perhaps he's out of the house
'because of an argument or something.'
Charles and Doris, of course, always deny that any argument took place.
Antecedents of Steven, I need to know his background.
How much of an impact was his disability? Was it just physical?
Was it mental? Did he have brain damage?
Did he present challenging behaviour to Charles and Doris?
Did Charles and Doris ever lose their temper,
hit him, strike out, get angry with him?
'Detectives investigating the disappearance of Steven Clark
'from Marske have released excerpts of an anonymous letter
'sent to them in 1999.
'Officers have previously appealed for the unknown letter writer
'to come forward and hope that by giving some parts of the letter,
'the sender may be revealed.'
Hiya, Julie. I'm just gonna run a couple of things past you.
They were both in the police force,
Charles for around six years, Doris for around eight years.
So Charles and Doris were 50 when Steven went missing.
They're in their 80s now,
and we mustn't be fooled into thinking old and frail now.
This is about when they were 50
and that's the point to which
they are being accused of Steven's murder.
JULIE: 'Yeah, that long passage of time
'makes us look at it through a different lens sometimes,
'doesn't it? It's not a little old lady or a little old man.
'These are people who would have been up and about and sprightly,
'like you and I are, and it's keeping that in context.'
'Hello, Mark. This is Doris.
'The police have just been and they've handed me a letter.
'I've opened it and I'm a bit concerned about the content.'
So, Doris, this letter sets out
that you're under investigation still for murder.
"You should know that the investigation into this matter
"will continue and full consideration will be given
"to all the evidence relevant to this case.
"It may also be necessary for you to undergo further interview.
"If this is deemed necessary, you may be arrested for that purpose."
Gosh.
So they... Basically, they released you from your bail conditions,
but they're telling you that
you're still very much under investigation for murder of Steven.
The nightmare continues, doesn't it?
There's no release at all.
SHE SOBS
Police investigating the suspected murder of a man from Marske
who vanished in mysterious circumstances in 1992
say there's been a significant development.
Steven Clark disappeared near his home.
Seven years later, an anonymous letter was sent to detectives.
The author claimed to know who was responsible for Steven's murder.
That person has now come forward.
"Police investigating the suspect murder of Steven Clark,
"who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in 1992,
"have now identified the author of an anonymous letter
"sent to police in 1999,
"which claimed to know who was responsible for Steven's murder.
"Detective Chief Inspector Shaun Page said,
" 'This is a significant moment in the investigation. For 20 years,
" 'we've been in possession of this handwritten anonymous letter,
" 'and now for the first time we've been able to speak to the author.' "
It's a blooming nightmare.
God, I just want it to go away. Go away.
I can't bear it much longer.
I can't.
They're villains. Listen...
Absolute villains, these... whoever it is.
Don't believe half this stuff. Anyway, it's up to you.
Can't help you any more. It's all right believing or not believing,
it's happening, isn't it? Wait...
And the police are absolutely determined to incriminate us.
We'll have to wait for the police to come round,
which they're apparently going to do,
and we'll face them when they come.
That's the end of it. The story hasn't changed.
Did you murder Steven?
Did I murder Steven? Don't be silly.
How are you feeling?
I'm worried, of course, I'll go to jail. But...
..where's the evidence of anything? I'm not guilty of anything,
but I'm in the control of the police and I'm worried,
desperately worried.
Doris was telling me about her anxieties
when the doorbell goes, when the phone rings, that it's the police.
It's the police. It's a horrible time.
It's true, that wind's getting... It is, isn't it?
Very chilly.
So how are you coping, Doris? Er...
Not very well? Not very well, really. No. No.
It's, erm...
It's more than a nightmare. It's with me day and night.
I think I slept for about two hours last night.
You must keep going through things, and...
Over and over again,
and asking myself how and why this has happened.
Because... Yeah.
..whatever the police are thinking, it's just not true. No.
I would never harm Steven anyway. No.
Like most families, obviously we had our ups and downs,
but that's quite natural. Oh, I think every family do.
To think that I could murder Steven, it's senseless. Unbelievable.
It's senseless. I would never have done that.
Are you worried? Very worried, yes. Yes.
I mean, I've been worried since we were first arrested in September.
I mean, the reality is, Doris,
you could end up being charged and you could go to jail.
Yes, and that's a great concern, because I would hate to do that.
And what's the impact been on your health?
Well, I haven't slept very well.
I wake just about every hour through the night,
and as soon as I wake up,
my immediate thought is whether we'll be charged with murder.
Charles, in a matter of days, weeks,
you could end up being charged with Steven's murder.
I can't honestly believe that. It's a joke.
Have you ever hit Steven?
No.
I once got hold of him by the shoulders and said,
"Behave yourself," when he came in from the pub once.
And that was in March, not so long before he was missing.
Never hit him at all. But I said, "Oh, go off to bed," and he did.
Doris ever hit him? No. Never.
Charles, Doris, I want to talk about Steven
in the time before he went missing
and just get more of a feel about what was going on in his life.
There was something that was really important to him,
and he'd won an award, hadn't he?
He was given this award and it was presented to him by Andrew Neil.
From the Rathbone Society, Steven Clark.
'Steven's determination to succeed,
'despite a disability following a childhood accident,
'seemed to have paid off when he won a prestigious training award.
'Job prospects for the outgoing 23-year-old
'were beginning to look good, and the future looked bright.'
If this disability seemed to weigh massively on his shoulders,
it weighed big on your shoulders... Yeah.
So, how was it like for him?
Well, I mean, we always felt bad
about the number of interviews he had
and the fact that he was rejected
and I'm sure it must have affected him mentally,
and he must've got very frustrated. Yes, he would have done. He did.
But he also had another big upset, really, when your mum died. Mm.
Cos he was very close to her and she just loved him to bits.
Cos they were really, really close.
Those are big things to happen in your life. Your nan, gran dies,
you can't get a job, and they maybe... Huge.
..big turning points to say, "I need to do something different."
He started to socialise a bit by coming in here.
Yeah. And he maybe was wondering, "Where next?"
Mm.
Do you worry that people think you're a killer?
No.
I mean, I don't know how to worry about it,
but I don't even think of it.
Are you a killer?
No, absolutely not.
And I don't know how people think of it.
I mean, the press even haven't said we're a killer.
The police haven't said to me...
Well, the police do think you killed Steven.
Well, why don't they tell me and give me some...?
They arrested you on suspicion of murder.
They think you killed Steven.
Well, we haven't.
Overview of Charles, he comes across as a bit belligerent,
he's fairly pedantic at times.
He's jolly, he's happy.
He makes a laugh and a joke out of most things.
He does want to please you.
He plays down the seriousness
and the impact of what is going on at the moment.
And Doris, on the other hand,
presents herself as a very confident, deep, thoughtful,
caring, and kind person who considers things very carefully
in relation to what she says.
She is very thoughtful, quite different to Charles.
But Charles is very protective of her.
If Charles and Doris killed Steven...
..then not only are they the best actors that I've ever met,
but they've got me beat, because I don't think they killed Steven.
I've tried everything with them to break them.
Back and forth, repeating questions, asked in a different manner,
and they don't falter.
And I just can't see the two of them,
or individually, being involved in Steven's disappearance or murder.
'You've come through to my voicemail, please leave a message.'
'Hi, Mark, Charles Clark here.
'Just ringing to let you know
'that our solicitor is bringing with him the superintendent.
'He's coming around here to see us on Tuesday,
'so I'm just letting you know this. Bye.'
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Charles, Doris, something really significant
is going to happen today. What's your anticipation?
Well, I'm hoping that the superintendent
who's coming to see us is going to say that,
"Sorry, we've made a big mistake
"and there will be no more investigations into this case."
And are you fearful perhaps that might not go that way?
Yes.
But then I've been fearful
since the first day I was arrested by the police.
It's caused me a lot of anxiety and a lot of upset and a lot of worry...
..and I've hated every minute of it. I think there are three options.
I think the strongest option
is they're coming to say that it's all over.
The other option is they're coming to tell you
that there's been a development in the case.
And the third option is that they're coming to charge you.
But we don't know, do we? No. No. We don't know.
Can we come in? Course you can come in.
We're not gonna sit in the garden. Well, it's up to you.
So the number one message is that you're released under investigation.
Yes. You understand that.
So you were On Bail, then it reverted to Under Investigation,
that's now No Further Action.
However, we still believe that Steven has come to harm.
Well... And therefore an investigation will still remain.
So we're not closing the case, we still believe...
Right, because he's still... ..he's come to harm.
We've not found him. Until we do, our hypothesis,
our working idea is that he has come to harm
from another person
and we're keeping very open-minded as to how he has come to harm.
So, I saw the police go in. What's happened?
We're free! You're free! Free! Can't believe it.
Yeah, we're free and released from all... Yes.
That's amazing, isn't it?
Completely free of all investigation from now on.
So it's really exciting.
So in my calculations, that's about 17 weeks
that you've been under investigation. Yeah, that's right.
And under pressure. Arrested for murder for Steven... Charged.
Under a lot of pressure. Yes. You must be... Ecstatic.
Such a relief. Brilliant! Yes.
Hi, Julie. 'Hey, Mark, how're you doing?' Good.
I've got something fascinating to tell you.
Out of the blue, police officer calls me
and they wanted to tell me
about the investigation into Steven Clark's disappearance.
They say there's no new evidence,
they acted not on one single compelling piece of evidence,
but when all taken together, it needed to be tested,
they say it was a sensitively planned operation
to arrest the Clarks
and that Charles and Doris's account over time has changed.
Charles and Doris deny this
and they can't confirm that Charles went to the football
although both Charles and Doris say that he did,
and the evidence from the new witness sighting
would mean that Steven had to have been killed after 4 o'clock.
All of that's brilliant to now know.
'We know that through reviewing lots of information
'that they would have had in those files,
'I describe it as being like a layer cake and each layer is added to it
'as you look at it. And that's what they've taken.
'They've made their whole big new cake and that's what
'they've gone with to create their hypotheses and to go forward
'to take the decision to arrest and get them into custody.'
We now know that anonymous letter supported the police hypothesis
that Steven had been murdered by Charles and Doris.
But here, this is the bit that's interesting,
that anonymous letter writer was a woman.
She had no direct contact with the Clarks.
The woman says she wrote it in good faith and the police accept that.
However, she did not know the Clarks at all and had no information
to support her claim.
'Well, for me that just says
'that that letter is now of absolutely no use whatsoever.'
And they searched the garden.
They say they found an area of significance,
although no remains of Steven were found.
Charles and Doris say they've no idea what this could be.
The police have now tested the evidence
with the Crown Prosecution Service
and they've concluded there is insufficient evidence to charge.
'The Crown Prosecution Services, they're the independent body
'and that we take all our material to, all the evidential case,
'but they're the ones that have to apply
'what's called The Full Code Test to see,
'is there enough to charge Doris and Charles
'and is it enough to charge them with murder?
'And what they're saying is it's not enough.'
And the police believe that Steven came to harm from a third person.
Proof of life inquiries have shown nothing
and the case very much remains open,
and that they believe someone out there has information.
'They do believe that he's either come to some harm or been killed,
'but the most important thing is they've still got an open mind
'and anybody out there could have that little nugget
'and they just need to be brave enough to come forward
'and share it with the police.'
Now we've got the other side of the investigation,
we've heard from Charles and Doris, we've now heard from the police.
This is new information, it's never been in the public domain.
Steven's still missing from home. We don't know where he is.
We don't know what's happened to him. No.
But we've still got hope that he's still around somewhere.
We'll find him somehow.
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