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Britain's Countryside Killers Season 2 Episode 7
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00:00In the early hours of the 7th of June 2018, a body is found in Kirramir, Scotland.
00:07And they make a horrific discovery.
00:11The deceased has been found in a remote location, very little CCTV, no witnesses.
00:17Police are called to investigate this unprecedented crime.
00:21It wasn't a normal sort of crime.
00:24You don't see a police presence of that scale in a town like Kerry unless there's been something.
00:30Who's his friends? More importantly, who's his enemies?
00:33I think it's worth reminding ourselves that in the majority of murder cases, the victim and the killer are well
00:40known to each other.
00:42The victim's digital footprint reveals crucial evidence about the murder.
00:46I feel like it shows how calculated the whole thing was and how calm and composed she was,
00:53knowing ultimately what was taking place while she went home and relaxed.
01:26At first, he told him that it was so coincidence that every individual appears in the sky right,
01:40Kiri Muir, often known as Kiri, is an idyllic burr in Angus, Scotland.
01:46Angus is a rural county situated on the east coast of Scotland.
01:50It's known for its diverse scenery, right, from like rugged coastline and then more inland to like the Angus glens.
01:58There's a lot of farmland in the area and it's bordered by the Cairngorn Mountains.
02:02There's some rich history in the area in the form of Glam's Castle and Ardbroth Abbey.
02:11Kiri Muir's a small agricultural village in the Angus region.
02:15It's about a 35 minute drive from Ardbroth.
02:17Very nice place to live, great family place, very close-knit, very rural.
02:23Everybody knows everybody, one of the type of places.
02:25And not much goes on, especially when darkness falls.
02:29There's not particularly anything open.
02:31Nobody's really going about in a particularly family-friendly place to live.
02:37Kiri Muir is a lovely little town.
02:39It's the town I grew up in.
02:41Went to school there, all my friends were there.
02:43It's quiet, it's peaceful, it's pretty.
02:48We're famous for J.M. Barry and Peter Pan.
02:52Typically or historically, there's been a lot of farmers or tradespeople that reside in the area.
02:57And a lot of people that are commuters.
03:01You know, they're residents there, but they commute to local towns for work, so Forfa or Dundee.
03:06There's not a lot of crime that happens.
03:08The crime rate is very low.
03:10Violence in particular is particularly low.
03:13And serious violence is pretty much non-existent.
03:18But a shocking discovery is about to change everything.
03:22It was the early hours of Thursday, the 7th of June, 2018, when a couple of workers for the Royal
03:31Society of Protection of Birds arrived at Canordi Lock, a nature reserve, a number of miles away from Kiri Muir.
03:39And they make a horrific discovery.
03:42They discover a burnt-out car, and lying beside the car, a very badly burnt and charred human body.
03:51The police are called, and they descend onto Canordi Lock, and they meet a scene of horror.
03:59They look at the body, and they realize this person has been violently and horrifically murdered.
04:05One police officer said, in 26 years of police experience, he had never come across a body as badly disfigured
04:13and brutalized.
04:14There's a lot of aspects of policing that you just take, you know, for granted day to day, but something
04:19like that is extremely shocking, regardless of whether you're a police officer or not.
04:23It's not something that you see every day.
04:24And I think it really comes down to the individual in terms of how they were to react to that
04:28individual situation, just like any serious crime and witnessing that, or turning up to the aftermath of a serious crime
04:35like that.
04:36One police being contacted and attending the crime scene, it would have escalated the incident majorly, especially due to the
04:43steps that had been taken to cover up the crime that had been committed, the ultra-violence that was used,
04:48and in particular, the vehicle that had been burnt out.
04:53Police cordoned off the scene in the hopes of preventing information being leaked to the media.
04:59A decision that's made by the senior investigating officer, so that would be the person in charge of the overall
05:04incident and the overall murder case in this case.
05:07It's a decision that is taken after a lot of consultation and a lot of consideration in terms of what
05:13evidence or what information to release in order to ascertain what you could potentially get back.
05:20I was working, it was in the morning, I was contacted by a contact, to say, do you want to
05:27head out and about, there's an awful lot of police in Kerry, there's a helicopter over Kenordie Loch, there's something
05:33going on.
05:34So I went into the town, and there was police presence in the town, and went out to the road,
05:40out to Kenordie, and it was completely closed off by the police, there was no access along that road.
05:47Being local, I thought, well, I know other little places to take me in, trying to be smart, but no,
05:53the police had every access, even a little path, you know, that not many people know about, was all shut
05:59off.
06:00So it was a case then of, OK, what's happened through people in Kerry, through contacts, through friends, I was
06:08getting snippets of what had actually happened.
06:11But nobody at that point knew, and these stories, they grow arms and legs, and you've got to sift through
06:20to get to the actual, the truth of it.
06:22And, obviously, in touch with the police press office, to find out, not getting a lot at that point.
06:30But I think the one thing that people were aware of, that whatever had happened, it wasn't a normal sort
06:35of crime.
06:35It sounded pretty bad, it seemed pretty bad. You don't see a police presence of that, you know, scale, in
06:41a town like Kerry, unless there's been something.
06:45Detectives inspect the scene for any source of identification on the body or the car.
06:51The body had significant injuries in terms of cuts and blunt force trauma, and due to how badly burnt both
07:02the car and the body were, initial identification proved extremely difficult.
07:08The car was so badly burnt out and charred that there was no identifiable or distinguishable features about the car
07:15to lead to its identity.
07:17Registration plates of the car were not present, so the investigators were able to find the VIN plate or the
07:24engine number.
07:24And when police looked at that, it was registered to a white BMW N1, which is a relatively rare car
07:37in that part of Scotland, because it was a very expensive car.
07:41And that just made police believe, was this some sort of financial falling out amongst members of a criminal organisation?
07:49Regardless of whether it's attached to serious and organised crime or not, in that particular case, it was a serious
07:56crime that had been committed,
07:57regardless of whether it was associated to a larger crime group, whether that be from, you know, a big city
08:03or wherever.
08:04However, the process of investigating that doesn't change.
08:06You have an inner cordon and an outer cordon, and you really try and preserve the evidence as best you
08:11can.
08:12Unfortunately, due to the damage done to the car and to the body, there was nothing that could lead them
08:20to identifying who the body was.
08:23All documentation in the car had been burnt.
08:25The pockets or anything belonging to the individual had been burnt.
08:29They did discover a mobile phone, which, whilst burnt, they still had some hope they could get to work, but
08:36unfortunately they couldn't.
08:37What they did have, however, was the registration of the vehicle, which was registered to a man called Stephen Donaldson.
08:45But police, once again, didn't know if Stephen Donaldson was the registered owner of the car, or if he was
08:53the body found beside the car.
08:55That had to be established.
08:58Later that day, Stephen Donaldson's mum and dad reported them missing.
09:02They were worried because they knew that a body had been found at Connaughty Nature Reserve.
09:07They knew the previous night he'd been up that neck of the woods.
09:10He'd been up in that area.
09:11So they were fearing the worst.
09:14We actually got in touch with the police and reported Stephen missing.
09:19And after making contact with them, two detectives came to the house and took any information that we could give
09:29them regarding, like, any identifying marks that he has.
09:34And we told them that he had a tattoo on his shoulder.
09:38These tattoos were still visible on the remains that were found next to the burnt-out vehicle, and that provided
09:45a match.
09:46It was then confirmed that the deceased that was found, that was the body of Stephen Donaldson.
09:55Any death message, regardless, is really difficult to deliver.
09:59But on this particular case, given the severity of what actually happened to the victim in this case, it's made
10:05all the more harder.
10:07You're still trying to, you know, sort of exist as a family, because we've got the grandchildren there as well.
10:13And it was very, very difficult, and it was like walking on eggshells sometimes, you know.
10:23Everybody had their own feelings that were pretty much all the same.
10:27Disbelief, hatred for whoever's done this, all that kind of thing.
10:34But not really said much about it, if that makes sense.
10:39Police confirm the body to be that of Stephen Donaldson.
10:43But many other questions remain unanswered.
10:46Who did this?
10:47Why?
10:47And was this a once-off killing, or are there more to come?
11:02Kirimur, Scotland.
11:04On the 7th of June, 2018, the body of 27-year-old Stephen Donaldson was found brutalized beneath a burnt
11:12-out car.
11:12With no immediate leads, police need to learn more about Stephen to find out how, why, and who was responsible
11:20for his murder.
11:22Due to the limited investigative opportunities that are available at that time, the deceased has been found in a remote
11:28location, very little CCTV, no witnesses, apart from the workers that found him, but they can only offer little information.
11:36You have to build a picture of his life and get a background on him, who's his friends, more importantly,
11:43who's his enemies.
11:44Does anyone have a motive to harm Stephen?
11:47What has he been involved in the days and weeks leading up to his murder?
11:49And try and establish how he ended up in that car park at that particular time, and how he came
11:55about sustaining fatal injuries.
11:58Stephen Donaldson was a 27-year-old oil refinery worker.
12:02He worked offshore.
12:03He was from the town of Arbroath in Angus.
12:07He was a very popular young man.
12:10He worked very hard.
12:12He had a good job, which was well up ahead.
12:14Highly thought of by friends, family.
12:18He was someone who appeared to be extremely well-liked, funny.
12:21And, you know, friends have described him as someone who nobody had a bad word to say against.
12:29Stephen was a great kid, but just like any boy, he was mischievous, the same as everyone else.
12:34He loved sport, very clever.
12:36He just loved cars, bikes as well.
12:39He had quite a few cars and two or three bikes.
12:42I was just like normal, better ahead if that's the word for it, you know.
12:48As part of the investigation, the investigators would have looked into the intelligence surrounding the victim.
12:54The intelligence surrounding anyone that appeared to be involved.
12:57Having done that, there was no ties to serious and organised crime.
13:01They had spoken to friends and family.
13:03They had done all their background checks in terms of what intelligence was available of the victim,
13:08of his, you know, close-knit group of friends and, you know, family even.
13:13But there was no ties to serious and organised crime on this occasion.
13:17However, whilst doing that, they still couldn't find a motive.
13:21It was a bit of a bizarre mystery.
13:24Who would want to do this to this popular young man?
13:27He was known as Stevie D.
13:29He was called a bit of a practical joker.
13:31He loved to laugh and made joy with his friends.
13:34The police could find nothing to point to an initial motive as the way this young man would have his
13:42life ended in such a horrific way.
13:43Stephen's autopsy reveals vital information about his murder.
13:49Stephen had sustained absolutely ferocious and devastating injuries.
13:55He had received several blows to the back of his head, his neck.
14:00These blows were given with such force that severed his spinal cord.
14:04He'd been stabbed, he'd been slashed and he'd had defensive wounds as well, showing that he actually fought for his
14:10life.
14:11He was unsuccessful, he was overpowered, and the violence was that horrific that eventually resulted in his death.
14:19Due to the position of some of the lacerations or how the attack had been conducted, it's been assessed that
14:25this may have even happened in his car.
14:26And that he was removed from the car after this took place.
14:30The level of violence that was used in Stephen's murder shows that it was personal.
14:36It wasn't a spontaneous act.
14:38An overkill, almost like someone that you know and you have a really strong hatred for.
14:44I don't think that's too strong a word to use on this occasion.
14:46I think as well, just given the fact that some of the wounds appear to have taken place whilst he
14:51was sat in a car.
14:52There's an element of him having been ambushed to some degree, or a surprise attack that's taken place.
14:58With most of the physical evidence destroyed, police turned to any available digital evidence.
15:04The police, when they initially looked within the vehicle, just for any signs of any evidence, they did find a
15:10mobile phone.
15:11But it was really badly burnt.
15:14Now, with some burnt mobile phones, depending on how badly burnt they are, you can take them apart, right?
15:21You can find the SD card or the memory, or you can access the actual card data itself.
15:27Now, sometimes that requires a bit of manipulation in terms of putting things back together.
15:32However, in this case, this phone was so badly gone that it was just not something that could be done,
15:38and there was no way that it could be analysed.
15:42The police, when they spoke to Stephen's circle of friends, were passed a very useful piece of information.
15:50They were told that Stephen's phone had recently been broken, wasn't working properly.
15:54He had taken it to an Apple store in Aberdeen, and the police went to that store.
16:02They examined their CCTV, and they could see Stephen there.
16:06When they spoke to the worker in question, who dealt with Stephen and his complaint, his inquiry, the worker confirmed
16:13to police that Stephen had backed up his mobile phone data and information on another device.
16:22That turned out to be Stephen Donaldson's laptop, and one police got into his laptop, and they found the mobile
16:30phone data, which had been backed up.
16:32They discovered that he had been in a relationship with a 19-year-old woman called Tasman Glass.
16:41So, in this particular case, with it being a murder investigation, you want to look at the broadest spectrum of
16:47data that you possibly can, right?
16:49So, you don't really want to rule anything out when it comes to the data, so it's just something that
16:54takes some time.
16:55Now, as the investigation develops, and as you begin to understand who are persons of interest, or who you really
17:06want to hone in on in terms of some of those communications that have taken place between the victim and
17:11potential suspects or persons of interest, you can start to narrow that data down.
17:16However, until such times, you do have a broader lens to start off with.
17:22So, it is something that takes time, and it has to be that way, because you can't start to filter
17:28out what could be, obviously, essential or important evidence.
17:33Police look into Tasman Glass to get a better picture of her and Stephen's relationship.
17:39Tasman Glass was 19 years of age, so she was a number of years younger than Stephen.
17:44They had met the year before. They had established a relationship relatively quickly.
17:49She was described by those who knew her as a normal young woman.
17:53She was an aspiring singer and actress.
17:56Police spoke to Tasman Glass, and she told them that on the night in question, Wednesday the 6th of June,
18:05she had been swimming with her friends Stephen Dickey, Callum Davidson, and Claire Ogston.
18:12She said that after the swimming was over, they went back to Callum Davidson's flat,
18:19and she left them to go and meet Stephen at Peter Pan Park in Kerrymoor.
18:26She said she arrived there and waited for Stephen.
18:30He didn't show up.
18:31She then said that she went home, conversed with her mother for a brief period,
18:35and she went to bed and went to sleep, and she said she didn't contact Stephen or attempt to contact
18:40him
18:40until the next morning when she said she sent him a text message.
18:45Tasman was expecting a child to Stephen.
18:48She had been treated very well by Stephen.
18:51He had bought her a new car, which she subsequently had written off,
18:55and he was owed £1,000 by her as part of the insurance payout, which she had not yet given
19:04him.
19:05So belief was that she was going to meet him that night to give him back the money that she
19:11owed him.
19:11The police were under the impression that this was the father of her child.
19:14They found her demeanor strange, unusually calm, cool, collected,
19:20bearing in mind her boyfriend and father of her child had been brutally murdered,
19:23and his killer or killers were still out there.
19:26The police were initially a little bit perplexed by this.
19:31The police want to verify what Tasman Glass is saying.
19:34As part of that process, they go to speak to the people she said she was with that night
19:38so they could verify her movements.
19:40That was Stephen Dickey, Callum Davidson, and his partner Claire Oxton.
19:46All three confirmed her account that they had went swimming.
19:49They went back to Callum and Claire's flat, and they were drinking beer, chilling out,
19:56and they said the Tasman had went to Peter Pan Park to meet Stephen,
20:01and the rest of them fell asleep around half past twelve.
20:05So that was their version of events, and the police then checked Tasman's Apple Watch.
20:13The Apple Watch was linked up to her Wi-Fi router at home,
20:18and the data from that router in connection with the Apple Watch
20:21indicated that she did arrive home just after 11 p.m., as she claimed,
20:26and it also took her heart rate, which was very normal, very stabilised.
20:31It wasn't peeking or going up or anything out of the ordinary.
20:33So police believed that she did go to sleep, as she said.
20:36So at this point, Tasman Glass is a witness,
20:39and her friends are at that point witnesses as well.
20:44So police then start to look at Stephen Dickey and Callum Davidson.
20:50Standard in any police investigation that you do,
20:53background checks on who is featured in the inquiry,
20:56and immediately Stephen Dickey and Callum Davidson.
21:01Our person's interested in the investigation, they're not suspects,
21:04they're not linked to witnesses at that time.
21:06They have only featured in the investigation so far
21:10after being named by Tasman Glass.
21:13It's been swimming with her the night that her boyfriend went missing.
21:17But red flags start to get raised
21:20when police start looking into who Stephen Dickey and Callum Davidson are.
21:24They're known as local bullies.
21:27They've been previously involved in violence and intimidation towards locals.
21:30Callum Davidson was previously charged with serious assault
21:33and was subsequently found guilty of assault to severe injury at court.
21:37So they're not nice individuals to start with,
21:40and more needs to be done.
21:41And they need to be looked into further
21:43to see what their connection, if any, to Stephen is.
21:47Police suspect Stephen's girlfriend and two men may have killed Stephen,
21:51but they need solid evidence to prove it.
22:05Police are investigating the brutal murder of 27-year-old Stephen Donaldson
22:11on the 7th of June, 2018.
22:14His girlfriend, 19-year-old Tasman Glass,
22:17provides police with a solid alibi,
22:19but suspicions arise about her and two friends.
22:23Stephen, Dickey and Callum Davidson were spoken to by the police.
22:27They provided almost identical version of events,
22:29which is suspicions in itself.
22:31They said that they had a few beers,
22:33went to sleep about half past midnight that night at Claire Oxen's house.
22:36As well as examining Tasman's Apple Watch,
22:41police also confiscate the phones of Stephen Dickey and others.
22:45When they examine Stephen Dickey's phone,
22:47they say that he hadn't received a phone call or a text message for two weeks,
22:53which is very strange and very hard to believe.
22:56Phones tell a lot in this day and age.
22:59Everybody uses a phone for this thing or that thing.
23:02So part of the inquiry team's investigation was to contact the phone company.
23:08There are several requests that the police can put into a phone company
23:11under what's called the Regulation of Investigationary Power Scotland Act.
23:15And one of these was a billing request.
23:19So a billing request is in-out call data.
23:21And in-out call data shows incoming and outgoing calls
23:26made to a particular phone number or made from a particular phone number,
23:30even if it's wiped from the phone by the user of that phone,
23:33the phone company's still going to show that in the logs.
23:35You can't delete it from there.
23:37The user can't delete it from the phone company logs.
23:39So the sheer amount of phone calls that were made to and from Stephen Dickey's phone
23:43contradicted what had been on his phone
23:45and just proved that he had deleted a vast amount of data,
23:49further proving his involvement in something shady that it went on.
23:53When an investigation like this takes place, a digital forensics investigation,
23:57and that data is acquired, it will be presented in what is effectively like a database.
24:02So you can look to filter on telephone numbers.
24:05Now you can, obviously, you'll have telephone numbers that attach to persons of interest
24:10or suspects or, you know, specific relationships that you want to,
24:13as part of the murder investigation, understand how those were
24:17and how that had played out prior to the incidents taking place or the murder taking place.
24:22Now, that can just be filtered in the same way that you can filter a spreadsheet
24:26and the text information will be there and it will be a letter.
24:33But it's Stephen's own device that reveals crucial information.
24:38Police further examined Stephen Dickey's phone
24:41and discovered that he had an app on the Apple phone called a Significant Locations app.
24:46That app can store information regarding your movements
24:49and places you're close to and places you have visited.
24:51When police examined the app data,
24:54they discovered that between 12.40am and 12.51am,
24:58the Significant Location was the Health Centre in Kerrymoor
25:03that Stephen Dickey's phone was near.
25:06That contradicts what he tells detectives,
25:09that by half past 12, they're all sleeping in the flat
25:12after having consumed some beers.
25:14When it comes to locating people based on their mobile devices,
25:18now, whenever you're carrying your mobile devices,
25:20you walk down the street, it's hitting different phone masks.
25:22So, it's hitting off the nearest phone mask effectively
25:26just to facilitate telephone calls at times.
25:29And that's how, you know, a triangulation can take place
25:32based on the location of that phone in relation to the location of that phone mask.
25:37As you're moving around with your phone and it is pinging those masks,
25:40there's timestamps that are associated with that.
25:42There can be, depending on whether it's, you know, 2G, 3G, 4G,
25:47there's like a, effectively, like a diameter circulation,
25:52effectively, like it can show you rough distances
25:55in terms of where you are in relation to that phone mask.
25:58And you can have the identification of that phone effectively
26:02that has made that request to that phone mask.
26:05The police then go to the CCTV cameras at the health centre
26:09and at 12.49am, they can see two distinct figures
26:15walking past the health centre,
26:17which matches the data on the Significant Locations app on his Apple phone.
26:21And the police assume that one of those people is Stephen Dickey
26:26and the other, presumably, is Callum Davidson.
26:31In this instance, it appears that it's been very, very simple.
26:35We've got CCTV of Stephen Dickey, we've got CCTV of Callum Davidson
26:38and they've got phone data,
26:40which contradicts what Stephen and Callum are telling the police.
26:44This appears on right away to be easy.
26:48It's not easy.
26:49It's very, very complicated.
26:50It's very complex.
26:51There has to be a CCTV coordinator appointed along with CCTV officers.
26:57They need to complete viewing logs.
26:59They need to seize the relevant discs.
27:02The footage isn't always available at that particular time.
27:04It can involve going cross-border.
27:06It can involve contacting other countries
27:09who store this data on clouds now.
27:11It's not always, even though the camera's in a particular place,
27:13doesn't mean to say that the physical evidence
27:16is going to be that particular place.
27:19There's also an entire intelligence department
27:22that's going to be doing downloads of phones.
27:25And you can imagine in this day and age
27:27that there is a vast amount of data stored on mobile phones.
27:30So it can take weeks, months, sometimes, to go through a single phone.
27:35So it's important that priorities are set right away.
27:39Specific dates are set and work back from.
27:42Specific keywords are used and searched through messages
27:46at particular times.
27:47You can't go through hundreds of thousands of WhatsApps and texts.
27:50Specific contacts are selected to focus in on,
27:54especially when analysing digital data.
27:57So as part of this investigation,
27:59the police seized Stephen Dickey's Apple Watch.
28:03And this was found to contain a lot of information
28:05that contradicted Stephen Dickey's version of events.
28:10Now, information that's contained within an Apple Watch
28:13is interesting and presents itself in a really user-friendly
28:17and readable manner for police when they investigate it.
28:20Again, effectively, like I alluded to before,
28:23presents itself almost in a database fashion
28:27where there's steps that are recorded under the Apple Health facility within the watch.
28:33So there's steps, there's distances, there's your heart rate,
28:37and it's all effectively filterable so that it can be read easily with associated timestamps.
28:43So when Stephen Dickey was stating that he was back within our house during that time
28:48and the analysis of the phone was found to have climbed 11 flights of stairs
28:53and had over 400 metres of movement.
28:57And this was always during a time that he had claimed to have been sleeping.
29:00Treasure trove of information and the police really relied on that a lot in this case.
29:07Police at this point decide to go back and speak to Tass McGlass
29:10and they go and visit her at her place of work, a local cafe.
29:13And they find this bizarre behaviour by Thompson.
29:16They find her standing there in the cafe preparing food
29:20and chatting to them very matter-of-factly, very generalised conversations
29:24as if she was talking about her next holiday or her next day off
29:27or her plans for the next day.
29:29Very strange reaction from her.
29:32In fact, it's almost said it was a sign of psychopathy
29:35because, again, this is the father of her, her expected child, her boyfriend.
29:40She's acting very strangely.
29:41Anyone else would take the police to the side,
29:43would focus on what they're saying and try and help as much as possible.
29:46But she's very cool, calm, collected.
29:48But it was a worthwhile visit because she did tell the police
29:52that she had been having a sexual relationship with Stephen Dickey
29:56and that she and Stephen Donaldson had split up a number of months before in April.
30:02Police thought that they were dealing with a devastated girlfriend
30:06and a mother-to-be who was in love with Stephen Donaldson.
30:11But when Tamsin revealed that she'd been having sexual relations with another man, Stephen Dickey,
30:19it pointed to flaws in her initial statement
30:23and it made the police see her in a different light
30:26than just a witness trend who assists with their inquiries.
30:28I think it's worth reminding ourselves that in the majority of murder cases,
30:33the victim and the killer are well known to each other
30:37and that's something else.
30:39When the police were struggling to come up with the motive,
30:41they would have been aware of that.
30:44The police, now having been aware of the sexual relationship
30:48between Tamsin Glass and Stephen Dickey,
30:50decide to go back and speak to Claire Ogston again.
30:52And this is a major breakthrough in the overall investigation and its arc.
30:58Claire Ogston tells the police a completely different version of events
31:03from her initial statement.
31:04She tells the police that on the night in question,
31:08Tamsin Glass is visibly upset
31:10because she is receiving phone calls from Stephen Donaldson.
31:14She says that Tamsin Glass, Stephen Dickey and Callum Davidson
31:19leave their home and travel to Peter Pan Park.
31:25Davidson and Dickey come back in the early hours of the morning
31:29and they tell Claire Ogston that they subjected Stephen Dickey
31:35to a physical attack
31:36and that Tamsin Glass was present in the initial stages of the attack.
31:43During the course of the incident, it was found at Tamsin Glass,
31:47who had evidently had been there at the very start of this incident
31:51starting to take place,
31:54she left early, right at the very start of it,
31:58and returned home.
31:59And during this whole time, she's been wearing a smartwatch.
32:02When she returned home, she calmly entered the house,
32:06got ready for bed, spoke to her mum, went to bed
32:10and presumably had a good sleep.
32:14Evidence that was acquired from that smartwatch
32:17showed that, you know, her heart rate
32:20was at a low, you know, resting heart rate.
32:25Considering what she was involved in at the very start
32:31and ultimately what she walked away from to go home,
32:37I feel like it shows how calculated the whole thing was
32:42and how calm and composed she was
32:44knowing ultimately what was taking place
32:48while she went home and relaxed.
32:52But that sense of relaxation would not last long.
32:58After this new statement from Claire Oxton,
33:01police immediately go and arrest Stephen Dickey,
33:04Callum Davidson and, crucially, Tamsin Glass.
33:08Can you have me stand by your side, please?
33:13Do you want to speak with a lawyer in private
33:15before being questioned by the police?
33:18The reason you've been kept in custody
33:20is an allocation of murder.
33:23All three are non-committal during the interview process.
33:28They are very cold, led back.
33:30They give non-responses, like no comment.
33:33They aren't letting anything away.
33:35Is there going to be any signs of evidence
33:38linking you to the murder of Stephen Dickey now?
33:42Will your phone have any information on it,
33:45you know, any evidence or material relating to the murder?
33:48No, of course.
33:49No.
33:51Is there any reason for the police to have
33:53forensic evidence linking you to the murder?
33:56No.
33:58Police are particularly perturbed by Tamsin Glass.
34:02She sits there.
34:03She stares at the officers, straight through them.
34:06Very cool, calm, calculated, collected.
34:10There's no expression of emotion.
34:13At one stage, the detective asks her,
34:17does she know how serious this is?
34:20And she still doesn't respond with any kind of
34:23normal human reaction.
34:26OK, Tamsin.
34:28You've been responsible for the murder of Stephen Donaldson.
34:33You have been arrested on the suspicion
34:36of Stephen's murder.
34:38OK?
34:39How did he deserve to be left in that car park
34:43with these injuries?
34:46She was as cold and as calculating as can be.
34:49Were you involved in a plan to kill Stephen Donaldson?
34:51No.
34:53Was it so you would stop translating for the money?
34:56No plan.
34:58Stephen Dickey, I'll calm deaths and tell you
34:59what they've done.
35:01And if they did tell you, how did you react?
35:04Is it like you're sitting now, or would you have been shocked?
35:09Would you hear what I just said to you about?
35:11And your demeanour's still no change.
35:14And your demeanour's still no change.
35:15And we're still sitting there.
35:18What's coming?
35:19Emotionless.
35:21You can sit and stare me out, I like.
35:24I won't put him off.
35:28Tamsin for a 19-year-old girl.
35:31To go home, go to her bed,
35:33and then provide a calm, no-comment interview
35:37is displaying psychopath behaviour.
35:40She showed absolutely no remorse whatsoever.
35:44Tamsin's apathy leaves investigators unsettled
35:47and without the necessary answers.
35:50Police are confident the three suspects in custody
35:53are responsible for Stephen Donaldson's murder,
35:56but without confessions,
35:57they'll need an airtight case to prove their guilt in court.
36:12Police have arrested three individuals in connection with the horrific murder of 27-year-old Stephen Donaldson
36:21on the 7th of June, 2018.
36:24His ex-girlfriend, 19-year-old Tasman Glass,
36:28and 24-year-old Stephen Dickey,
36:30and Callum Davidson.
36:31However, in questioning,
36:34none of them are cooperative.
36:35Police need to source further evidence
36:37to ensure a guilty verdict.
36:41CCTV inquiries were undertaken.
36:43Captures Callum Davidson,
36:45cycling throughout,
36:46carrying your town centre.
36:47Not a care in the world.
36:48Wearing quite distinctive clothing at the same time,
36:50at 2 o'clock in the morning.
36:52Were you out on the bike
36:54on the early hours of the morning?
37:01And we have CCTV evidence of where
37:04how was the house in that room?
37:07How was the house in that room?
37:08How was the house in that room?
37:10Forensic examination was later conducted
37:12of the bike Callum Davidson was riding.
37:15Bloodlifts were obtained from the handlebars
37:17and a DNA profile was obtained from the bloodlifts.
37:20The bloodlifts matched Stephen Donaldson.
37:24Which proves that Callum Davidson
37:26had to be in the vicinity of Stephen Donaldson
37:29when he was murdered.
37:31Bear in mind, police had no proof
37:33that Stephen Donaldson knew Callum Davidson
37:35or that Callum Davidson knew Stephen Donaldson.
37:38So this was a huge breakthrough.
37:40That's absolutely compelling evidence
37:42when you couple it with all the other strands
37:44of evidence that were there that night.
37:46Despite difficulties in questioning the trio,
37:48their motives eventually become evident.
37:51At the inception of the investigation,
37:53police weren't too hopeful.
37:54There wasn't a lot of evidence there.
37:56However, the hard work of the investigation team
37:58revealed multiple strands of evidence
38:01and not only one motive, but several motives.
38:04The first motive is that Tasman Glass owed Stephen money.
38:08He's been phoning her constantly,
38:10asking for his money back.
38:11She didn't want to give her it,
38:13or she wasn't giving her it.
38:30Another motive is that Stephen Dickey
38:33is now in a relationship with Tasman Glass.
38:36Stephen Dickey's ego's been damaged
38:38because his girlfriend's getting contacted by her ex.
38:41He doesn't like that
38:42and wants him out of the picture.
38:44And you've also got Stephen Dickey
38:47wanting him out of the picture
38:48because his ego can't handle it.
38:51We've been told that you were unhappy
38:53that Tasman's speaking to Stephen Donaldson.
38:56Were you jealous of their relationship?
38:58No, I don't know, Chip,
38:59as I told you from the start.
39:04I think it is a bit of jealousy.
39:06I think you're not happy
39:07that she's matching up to Stephen Donaldson
39:09and you're speaking to him on the phone.
39:12He couldn't contain his emotions
39:14during that interview.
39:15The other suspects that were interviewed,
39:17especially 19-year-old Tasman Glass,
39:19provided no comment on interviews,
39:20sat there emotionless
39:21and didn't give much away.
39:23When it's put to Stephen Dickey
39:25that he was a jealous type,
39:27immediately his ego gets the better off him.
39:29He tries to say, no, I'm not, no, I'm not.
39:31Denies any involvement,
39:33but it was confirmed
39:35that he was a jealous,
39:37unpredictable, violent individual.
39:42All three are tried
39:44for the murder of Stephen Donaldson
39:46beginning in April 2019.
39:50The trial took place at the High Court.
39:53Stephen Dickey and Callum Davidson
39:54both tried the coward's way out.
39:57During the murder trial,
39:58Stephen Dickey and Callum Davidson
40:00more or less turned on each other
40:02and blamed each other
40:03for Stephen's murder,
40:05suggesting the other one
40:06had inflicted the fatal
40:08or serious blows.
40:10I think,
40:12in most of these cases, however,
40:14the truth is somewhere in the middle.
40:15I think both men were equally to blame
40:17and both men were involved in the actual physical assault
40:20of Stephen Donaldson.
40:23The jury ultimately rejected
40:26both their respective positions
40:28and both were found guilty of murder.
40:32Stephen Dickey was sentenced to life imprisonment
40:34with a minimum term of 23 years.
40:37Callum Davidson was sentenced to life imprisonment
40:40with a minimum term of 24 years.
40:43So Stephen Dickey
40:44since committed suicide in prison,
40:47so now only Callum Davidson
40:48will be available to apply for parole.
40:51Tasman Glass was given a 10-year sentence.
40:56Tasman Glass was found guilty
40:58of the lesser charge
40:59of a culpable homicide,
41:01very similar to what manslaughter is in England.
41:03It's the unlawful killing of someone
41:04when he didn't intend to kill them.
41:07And I think what's weighed the jury's mind
41:09on finding her guilty of a culpable homicide
41:12was that they didn't believe she was present
41:16when Stephen was actually killed.
41:18That was purely by Stephen Dickey and Callum Davidson.
41:22Tasman's lighter sentence
41:23is poorly received by Stephen's family
41:25and police alike.
41:26When she was sentenced
41:29to considerably lesser time
41:31than the two others,
41:34people were pretty angry at that
41:36and there was an awful lot of talk.
41:38She's got off lightly.
41:39She was the one behind all of this.
41:42And that didn't go down well at all.
41:47Very frustrating in terms of the sentences.
41:50When sentences are imposed,
41:52judges and law lords
41:53are bound by a set of rules and regulations.
41:59Sometimes you could be expecting someone
42:01to get a life sentence
42:01and never get out of prison.
42:03They could be sentenced to eight years and out and four.
42:06Particularly frustrating,
42:07especially in terms of serious crime.
42:10Without her getting Stephen there,
42:13this wouldn't have happened.
42:28I think the role of Tasman Glass in this murder cannot be understated.
42:35She is an integral part of this plot.
42:39She is very much centrally involved.
42:42I'm not so sure this murder happens without her input
42:47because Stephen Dawson did not know Callum Davidson or Stephen Nicky
42:53and they did not know him.
42:55Tasman Glass knew all three.
42:57Metaphorically,
42:59she puts
43:01the weapons
43:03in their hands
43:06because
43:07she is the one who mentions to Callum Davidson
43:10that she is, in her words,
43:11being harassed for the money
43:12by Stephen Dawson.
43:14She is the one that is having a sexual relationship
43:17with Stephen Dickey
43:17and taking the calls from Stephen Dawson
43:20in Stephen Dickey's presence.
43:22She was cold,
43:24cool,
43:26calculated
43:28during the interview process for a reason.
43:32And that's because she was deeply, deeply involved.
43:36I think her role cannot be understated.
43:40Digital forensics played a vital role
43:42in the solving of this murder case.
43:45We'd like to thank everybody involved
43:48and catching them,
43:51you know,
43:51and as I say,
43:53the sentencing apart from one,
43:55the work that the procurator fiscal done,
43:58all the rest of it.
43:59I just think
44:00everybody done their job excellently
44:03and
44:04without all the
44:07forensics
44:08and all the rest of it.
44:10I don't think they would have got away with it,
44:11but I think
44:12it would still lean towards them.
44:15But the forensics,
44:16obviously,
44:17they were the thing that
44:19nailed it down, basically.
44:22So, in this particular case,
44:23it was used for the very first time
44:25and it was
44:26groundbreaking at the time.
44:28I think, historically,
44:29cops have relied a lot on
44:31laptops or PCs
44:32and stuff like that,
44:33but now,
44:34with that move
44:35to more wearable tech,
44:37all of which
44:37connect to the internet,
44:40there's a lot more
44:41that can be examined
44:42by digital forensics investigators
44:44and
44:44adds more to their tool belt
44:46in terms of,
44:47you know,
44:48what can be investigated
44:49and where evidence
44:50can be acquired from.
44:52I have no doubt
44:53that this murder
44:54would have devastated
44:55Stephen's family and friends
44:57because he seemed to be
44:58an extremely popular,
45:00well-liked,
45:00and respected young man
45:01with a very bright future ahead
45:03and for him to lose his life
45:05in such a way
45:07robbed not just him
45:09of his future,
45:10but those who loved him,
45:12their futures with him.
45:17Sorely missed
45:19by family,
45:21friends,
45:23everybody just misses,
45:25you know,
45:26and it's an absolute waste
45:28of a life
45:30through the three people
45:32who,
45:33which,
45:34to me,
45:36I find extraordinary
45:37that
45:38a town the size
45:40of Curriemuir
45:40can have three people
45:42like that
45:43at the same time,
45:46you know,
45:46people that just
45:47didn't care about anything.
45:49Life obviously
45:50didn't matter
45:50and I just find it
45:52such a small town
45:54which is such a nice town.
45:56There was these three people there
45:58but I've just absolutely
45:59destroyed that community
46:00and the life
46:02of my son
46:03and affected
46:05all the other lives
46:06in the process.
46:46and I'll see you next time.
46:47I'll see you next time.
46:47I'll see you next time.
46:49I'll see you next time.
46:49I'll see you next time.
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