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By the detective who arrested Napper, this book looks at the emergence of criminal profiling. Alan Jackaman enters the mind of a psychotic killer and shows how media 'obsession' can hinder justice.

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Publié par	Waterside Press
Date de parution	16 septembre 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781910979853
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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Napper
Through A Glass Darkly
Alan Jackaman
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Napper: Through A Glass Darkly
Alan Jackaman
ISBN 978-1-909976-70-2 (Paperback)
ISBN 978-1-910979-85-3 (Epub ebook)
ISBN 978-1-910979-86-0 (Adobe ebook)
Copyright © 2019 This work is the copyright of Alan Jackaman. All intellectual property and associated rights are hereby asserted and reserved by him in full compliance with UK, European and international law. No part of this book may be copied, reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, including in hard copy or via the internet, without the prior written permission of the publishers to whom all such rights have been assigned worldwide.
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Published 2019 by
Waterside Press Ltd
Sherfield Gables, Sherfield on Loddon,
Hook, Hampshire, RG27 0JG.
Online catalogue WatersidePress.co.uk
Table of Contents
Copyright and publication details ii
About the author v
Publisher’s Note vii
Acknowledgements viii
Dedication ix
Introduction xi “Take him down!” 13 The Start 17 Scramble 23 The Case Settles 29 Who was Samantha? 39 The Day of the Murders 45 The Day After the Day After 51 No Suspect in the Frame 53 What Have We Got? 59 To Scotland 65 The Investigation Falters 69 A Breakthrough 77 Who is Robert Napper? 81 The Pre-arrest 87 Going Pear-shaped 95 At the Police Station — It Can Only Get Worse 103 The Interviews 109 The Charge 117 The Progression of Increased Violence 121 Other Incidents 131 Causes for Concern 137 What Else Had Napper Done? 141 Preparation for Trial 147 Meanwhile in Wimbledon 157 The Cases Collide … But No-one Knows It 163 The Lead-up to Another Murder 169 Convinced but not Convincing 175 The Cases go to Court 181 The Trial of Colin Stagg 187 Suspicions Abound 195 The Psychologists Have a Field Day 201 Tragedy at the Trial 209 A Surprise Verdict 217 The Long Haul 227 The Finishing Line in Sight 239 A Man Awaits His End 245
Index 247
About the author

Alan Jackaman spent over a quarter of a century as a police officer, mostly with the CID investigating murder. Born in Bury St Edmunds he joined the Royal Navy in 1966 serving in frigates for the next ten years from Aden to the South China sea, Singapore and the West Indies, during which time he qualified as a diver. After completing military service in 1976, he joined Suffolk Constabulary where he first experienced murder investigation.
In 1979 Alan Jackaman transferred to the Metropolitan Police Service, serving initially at Notting Hill. Appointed detective constable and posted to Clapham, he was made exhibits officer in the double murder of two drug-dealers. This led to his involvement in many other murder cases, some high profile. Selected as part of the first ever MPS dedicated Murder Investigation Team in 1994, he continued investigating murders until his retirement from active police work in 2002 by when he had received a commendation for his work in bringing Robert Napper to justice. He then joined the newly formed Murder Review Group, examining cold cases and advising on unsolved murders in London and nationwide.
In his spare time he enjoys sailing and is a qualified ocean yacht master. He is also a keen distance runner, skier and motorcyclist.
Publisher’s Note
The views and opinions expressed in this book are those of the author entirely by whom they are honestly held. Readers should draw their own conclusions about any claims made or facts and opinions stated or reproduced, concerning which the possibility of alternative perspectives, narratives, descriptions and interpretations should be borne in mind.
Acknowledgements
This book could not have been written without the help and memories of colleagues who worked with me during the critical phases of the investigation.
Special mention goes to Roger Boydell-Smith.
Also to the friendship and support of Jack Morrison.
Dedication
This book is dedicated to the memory of Samantha and Jazmine Bisset, who, although never met in life will always remain in my heart.
Illustrations
Location of the murders of Samatha and Jazmine in Heathfield Terrace. 28
Police appeal poster in the murder of Samantha and Jazmine Bisset. 38
Jazmine and Samantha Bisset. 44
An Adidas training shoeprint of the exact pattern found at the crime scene. 58
Police internal appeal notice. 64
A ex-GPO van of the kind seen close to the murder scene. 68
Green Chain Walk rapes appeal poster. 76
The outer door to Napper’s bedsit where he was arrested. 102
Robert Clive Napper. 136
Examples of Napper’s doodles. 145
Napper’s strange ‘doodles’ were studied closely by Christine Smith and the Bisset investigation team as were the curious markings on his two London A-Z s. 156
Rachel Nickell. 162
Colin Stagg (centre, holding paper) outside court after being acquitted. 194
Left: Photofit of the Green Chain Walk rapist. Right: Artist’s impression of a man seen near the Rachel Nickell murder scene. 199
More of Napper’s perplexing doodlings. 208
Some of the forensic evidence from Samantha Bisset’s flat as it was presented at Napper’s trial. 238
Robert Napper’s red toolbox. 244
Introduction
T his book was written to record for history the tragic circumstances which led to one man committing a sequence of vicious sexual assaults through to the murders of Rachel Nickell and Samantha and Jazmine Bisset. It has taken Alan Jackaman over 25 years to come to terms with what happened and he is now ready to relate his part in the downfall and imprisonment of Robert Napper.
The book, which contains a good deal of information not until now in the public domain, encompasses many intriguing aspects of the police investigations. In addition to a straightforward account of the solving of a heinous and complex series of crimes, it delves into media fascination with serious crime and demonstrates how the press may “latch on” to one murder whilst ignoring another, even more horrific one. It questions the strategic reasoning behind how the hierarchy of the police can be influenced by the intensity of media pressure as seen in the imbalance of financial support between the high profile Nickell investigation on Wimbledon Common and less public, more locally reported, Bisset enquiry.
The underlying reasons why Robert Napper became the psychotic killer he did are examined, from his troubled childhood to minor offending, progressing to serious sexual assaults, rapes and culminating in three brutal murders. It also looks at the emergence of modern criminal profiling in police investigations and its shortcomings.
The author has the benefit of having been appointed as an investigator on the Bisset case from the day of the murder through to seeing the case linked first to the Green Chain Walk series of rapes and (following Napper’s conviction for the Bisset murders), the unearthing of evidence to prove that the same man also killed Rachel Nickell.
Like the Bisset case in Plumstead, south east London, the murder of Rachel in south west London had become a “sticker”, following the early but misguided arrest and public vilification of the wrong man, Colin Stagg, an enticingly convenient “oddball” (who ultimately secured substantial damages against the Metropolitan Police Service). Until Alan’s team of detectives became insistent, no-one had connected the two sets of tragic events or linked them to the Green Chain Walk rapes and, as the book shows, sheer persistence is what at times kept that possible connection alive. The book shows how Alan Jackaman’s (and his colleagues’) determination ensured this even when faced with the disbelief of other officers and taunts such as, “It was Napper wot done it.” But Alan’s deep concern for Samantha, Jazmine and their family together with the terrible circumstances of their deaths and similarities with the Nickell case just would not allow him to let go.
Unusually, the story is laid out from the point of view of an officer of junior rank. Alan was simply a detective constable until given the (initially) temporary rank of detective sergeant for the purposes of the Bisset investigation. As a result, he is perhaps less inhibited than some higher in the police hierarchy when describing the problems which arise from “investigating on the cheap” or telling of the dramatic twists and turns of what seemed, in the Bisset case, to be the killing of an obscure mother and child in an unfashionable district of London. In contrast, the Nickell case, in the full glare of publicity, attracted major funding and the application of innovative (though what proved to be questionable) investigative techniques. The pressures on all three teams were enormous but the Bisset case and Green Chain Walk rapes were always poor cousins of the media-obsessed Wimbledon case.
The book follows the murder and rape cases from the start of each to the solving of a series of the twentieth century’s most notorious crimes and conviction of one of the UK’s most dangerous ever killers. It also looks into the dark mind of Robert Napper, his bizarre behaviour, delusions, family history, strange “ doodles” and the sheer “luck” that allowed him to remain free to continue his offending for so long.
Chapter 1
“Take him down!”
A lan walked out of St Paul’s underground and turned left toward the Central Criminal Court, more popularly known as the Old Bailey. The Decem