Jeremy Vine
Crimewatch presenter

The most important thing for me to say is thank you for your calls. There are detectives still taking your calls long after the programme has gone off air. 

Thank you as well if you just watch Crimewatch and these four episodes in September. We're back for more in March 2017 for more.

It's been an amazing experience to work on Crimewatch and to see the use to which this programme can be put by the police in getting crime solved.

Remember, the phones are open until midnight tomorrow – get in touch if you have any information that can help the police with their enquiries.

The unidentified body found in a woods in North Wales was someone's loved one and they deserve to know what happened to him. 

Police have a full DNA profile of this man so if you think you may know him, police will be able to test and eliminate suggested identities. 

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Metropolitan Police are offering a reward of £20,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of person or persons responsible for the murder of Andrew Oteng-Owusu.

If you have information please do not hesitate to get in touch. The lines are open. 

• Call Crimewatch on 08085 600 600
• Text 'CRIME' and your message to 63399
• Email crimewatch@bbc.co.uk
• Contact the Met incident room directly on 020 8721 4961

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Some useful pointers here, and good to know you're looking out for each other.

There have been lots of calls coming through about the CCTV and Wanted Faces featured tonight.

Possible names for the man wanted for the arson at the hotel in Watford:

Plus some potential names coming in for the men wanted for those series of pub burglaries:

 ...and on the wanted faces a number of calls and potential sightings of Wanted Face Komar Uddin. Police want to speak to him in connection to the rape of a teenage girl.

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• Aged 29
• Detectives in the West Midlands want to question him in connection to a robbery in which a man was assaulted and had jewellery stolen

• He has links to Wolverhampton and Birmingham, in particular the Sandwell area
• Singh is described as “well groomed” with a full beard and moustache

• Aged 52
• Links to Lancashire and Cheshire
• Detectives want to question him in connection with three aggravated burglaries in which the victims were either tied up or assaulted
• He has a Liverpudlian accent

In tonight's programme, we featured the case of Andrew Oteng-Owusu. Here, his mother speaks out about her son's murder.

Stay on this page for the next hour. We'll update you on all the cases featured tonight...

Whilst awaiting trial, Fairweather changed his account and denied any involvement in the murders.But by that time officers had made a significant forensic breakthrough. His DNA matched the profile that was extracted from Nahid's body. In January this year, 17 year old James Fairweather appeared at the Old Bailey. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, blaming the voices in his head. The jury believed he was in fact in control of his actions when he murdered Jim and Nahid. In April, James Fairweather was found guilty of murder.James Fairweather was sentenced to serve a minimum of 27 years. He is currently trying to appeal the sentence.

A 16 year old boy was arrested at the trail. Very early on the young man was claiming to have been responsible for the murder of Jim Attfield and Nahid Almanea. The teenager was James Fairweather.

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Here is the transcript of that call:

Operator: Essex Police Control Room

Caller: Hi, I wonder if you can help me. I’m actually on the Salary Brook erm the Longridge end of the trail where that murder was last year and there’s a very suspicious guy down there who’s just standing there, and it’s like obviously a dog trail and he’s just on his own and it’s quite a secluded area. Erm I don’t think there’s anyone around to have a look and he’s got like a, I don’t know, could be wrong but he’s got…

Operator: Right.

Caller: …a jacket that looks very similar to what was all over the paper and everything and it’s on the same trail as what happened err almost a year ago.

Operator: Okay.

Caller: Yeah.

Operator: What’s suspicious about him?

Caller: Well to be honest with you he’s on a bridge huh and yeah not a footpath…

Unknown female: (Indecipherable speech)

Caller: ..yeah he was stood behind some of the trees and there’s it’s obviously it’s only like a dog (inaudible) place. And I first went down on my own with my dog and I saw him sort of hiding..

Operator: Mm.

Caller: ..and it made me freeze…

Operator: Did you…

Caller: …thinking he’ll come out.

Operator: ..is he in a bush did you say sort of hiding?

Caller: No he’s practically he’s hiding, he’s practically, he’s on a bridge just practically yeah he’s sec, in a secluded area he’s not in the main bit and then I’ve come out with one of the other ladies that’s got a big dog and we’ve walked down there and he’s a little bit further into the bushes a little bit and…

Operator: Right

Caller: …yeah…

Operator: Yeah.

Caller: ..and it’s just like not the sort of person, person…

Operator: So Salary on the …

Caller: ..you expect to see someone.

Operator: …bridge in bushes?

Caller: Yeah it’s yeah it’s just and he’s got thick dark glasses I don’t if that makes, I don’t know it’s just something’s not right.

Operator: Okay.

Caller: Clearly not right.

Operator: Where did you say this was?

Caller: Well it’s on the, it’s on the Salary Brook Trail.

Operator: Salary Brook…

Caller: And..

Operator: .. Trail?

Unknown Female: Okay (indecipherable speech)..

Caller: Yeah it’s the Longridge end of the Salary Brook Trail erm yeah so it’s the little bridge that goes across into the Bowman's Ford.

Unknown female: (Inaudible)

Caller: It’s just there’s, there’s no you’d never see somebody down there that’s all.

Operator: Salary Brook Trail. I’m just looking for that location now. Is there, is any sort of buildings nearby that I can use as a reference point to put on my system?...

On 26 May 2015, a dog walker made a call which may well have saved her life.

Essex Police again turned to Crimewatch for help. Despite those repeated appeals nobody came forward and described who may have been wearing that jacket. A year passed and detectives were no closer to catching who was responsible for the murders.

At the time, police made an appeal for a man seen wearing a dark tan jacket of Italian designer style. A number of witnesses had come forward describing someone leaving the area wearing the jacket following Nahid's murder.

Nahid was found stabbed to death on a public path. She was from Saudi Arabia and was studying at the University of Essex. Nahid was on her way to the campus when she was attacked. As with Jim's murder, no weapon was found. Essex Police launched a second murder inquiry. 

There was some CCTV covering the area before she was attacked, but it didn't show anyone following her.

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On 29 March 2014, the people of Colchester in Essex woke up to the news of a brutal murder in a local park – the victim was 33 year old Jim Attfield. At the time Essex Police appealed for information on Crimewatch. 

A few months later, on 17 June, a 31 year old woman was also fatally stabbed.