Crimewatch Redux - Murders of Jason Swift & Barry Lewis (1985)

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  • @naznaz4508
    @naznaz4508 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Thank you. I would like to thank the person who compiled all the episode related to this Operation Orchid into one. Very much appreciated, RIP the poor little souls xx

  • @Pieternel2002
    @Pieternel2002 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Poor Jason has been treated unfairly by life. He deserved so much better. Hearing his story makes me feel so sad.

    • @jackiewilson4654
      @jackiewilson4654 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Heartbreaking 💔 poor Jason

    • @toffeeblue2201
      @toffeeblue2201 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That poor young man never had a decent chance in life 😢

    • @MzzJusta
      @MzzJusta 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      It’s the way the press described him as a ‘rent boy’ that always got to me. Jason was an abused child. And the way they described his death as occurring during a ‘homosexual orgy that went wrong.’ It was the orchestrated gang rape of a vulnerable boy. I’ve never forgotten poor Jason or little Barry and Mark. The gang were the most appalling and depraved pieces of evil filth. I still find it utterly sickening and heart rending.

    • @brockit79
      @brockit79 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MzzJusta It makes me wonder what goes on in the minds of people that can think it's anything but rape.

  • @zeddeka
    @zeddeka ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Jason Swift's story is absolutely heart breaking. Like so many other victims of this kind of thing, he lived a truly tragic life. The definitive book about the Sidney Cooke gang, 'Lambs to the Slaughter' discusses his life in some details. He'd come from a very chaotic family and had been in care before, perhaps the only happy time in his life. Sadly, he ended up on the streets looking for the love he never had. When he went missing, not one of his family went to look for him. Indeed, his mother didn't even pass on the postcard she'd received from him to the police. He'd previously been picked up in Soho and, tragically, at Heathrow Airport, just wandering round dreaming of escaping from his life.
    One of the most shocking things is what happened during the period he disappeared. Apart from being trafficked to Southend for a period, he spent most of that period living in Lennie Smith's flat - which was actually just a few metres from his sisters' flat. Lennie Smith was "pimping" him out at Victoria station and had pretty much convinced him that he was the only person who cared for him. It's also believed that a friend of Jason's was actually also in the flat when Jason was murdered, but that boy has never been traced. It makes you wonder what happened to him. Police investigations also traced men to Newcastle, Durham, Aberdeen and Wales, that they believed were also in the flat when the murders occurred. There was insufficient evidence to prosecute, although a small paedophile gang in Wales was busted as a result.
    As for Barry Lewis, he had a very similar start in life. Again, he came from a very chaotic family. His father had no contact, and his mother had a lot of problems, to the extent that she had actually given up caring for Barry during the week and a neighbour was looking after him. It's believed that Sidney Cooke abducted him, on his way back from working at a local fairground.
    It's all a really clear insight into what was going on in Britain back in the 20th century. It wasn't a golden era at all, despite what some people will try and tell you. Looking back, it was like very little had changed since Victorian times. Chaotic families, rampant poverty, child welfare virtually non existent, and a vice scene in our major cities that was often brazen. London in particular had serious problems with paedophiles and runaway kids around the various train stations and in Piccadilly Circus.

    • @jademelrose8765
      @jademelrose8765 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thanks for your comment, sheds a lot more light on the whole horrible situation these boy’s were in 😭

    • @nickgodfrey1148
      @nickgodfrey1148 ปีที่แล้ว

      Unfortunately this appalling treatment of children still goes on today with the grooming gangs operating for decades, those government files about child sex abuse that “went missing” and feeble sentences for paedophiles.

    • @KirstyLoomams
      @KirstyLoomams 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for sharing your comments. Please can I ask where you bought the book from? It's out of print now but I would like to read it.

    • @MsVanorak
      @MsVanorak 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@KirstyLoomams i got my copy second hand on ebay, i've just finished it and will be listing it to sell in the next couple of weeks (broke my foot so don't know when i will be able to get to the post). it fills in the gaps about these crimes. i'm definitely including imran from preston in the tally and linking daniel handley. the gay scene was national with many drifters, they all knew one another and before the days of internet there would be court case reports in regional newspapers of offenders that they could welcome into the fold.

    • @jeanettehinds4253
      @jeanettehinds4253 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I can't find it anywhere, except for eBay and it's£180 believe it or not​@@jademelrose8765

  • @katrinahogg7380
    @katrinahogg7380 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    This had me in tears 😭 we lived near to Barry and had been away for the weekend got back Sunday evening and everyone was looking for him. My son at the time was 8 so I've always been so grateful he wasn't out that weekend, there for the grace of god.
    RIP Barry ❤️🙏❤️

    • @Alessiasbackheal
      @Alessiasbackheal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Poor Barry 😔 bless his little soul

    • @armcollector6660
      @armcollector6660 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      BLESS his little soul he was so cute & just looked like a sweet little boy... I am so sorry for everyone that knew these children the POS that does these horrible things should NEVER be let out!!

    • @adonaiyah2196
      @adonaiyah2196 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What was he like

  • @buttonmoon1978
    @buttonmoon1978 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    This is one of the most tragic crimewatches I've watched.

  • @imjustvisiting5397
    @imjustvisiting5397 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    27:36 Who was this homosexual? It's disturbing that the detective is describing sex between a child and an adult as a relationship. It's called abuse. My entire day is ruined, listening to that.

    • @donny121able
      @donny121able ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Its because on the crimewath appeal they asked men to come forward who had encounters with Jason and they wouldn't be reprisals, calling it abuse would also scare others coming forward.

    • @dshe8637
      @dshe8637 ปีที่แล้ว

      There was a lot of pressure from pedophiles to be accepted. Peter Tatchell was prominent in promoting it

  • @j0nnyism
    @j0nnyism 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    This one is perhaps the most frightening for anyone with sons. This gang is one of the most despicable gangs in crime watch’s history

    • @BrenMurphy1
      @BrenMurphy1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Search "The Family" murders in South Australia with Bevan Spencer von Einem. He was a similar paedophile with shocking killings.

    • @rach623
      @rach623 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agree. It’s awful. I’ve got 3 sons between 11&13 and it hits very hard.

    • @Loopyliverbird1984
      @Loopyliverbird1984 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have 6 sons aged 2,4,12,17 18 and 22 and this really scares me

    • @CharlotteGreen-rt8pr
      @CharlotteGreen-rt8pr 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I've 3. 19 17 15

  • @joshuaedwards4536
    @joshuaedwards4536 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Thanks for all these retro crimewatch uk videos, R.I.P to all those gone long before their time......🙏🙏🙏

    • @MM0SDK
      @MM0SDK 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's amazing how many kids were murdered from my childhood and never solved. We got some of the Ronald Jebson's though. RIP little ones. Glad that caught this scumbag.

    • @joshuaedwards4536
      @joshuaedwards4536 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@MM0SDK it was beyond belief to think what those disgusting less than sick depraved persons did to Barry, Jason and all the other poor innocent child victims, before they murdered them, judgement day is awaiting them all......

  • @christyd1144
    @christyd1144 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Jason wasn’t “associated” with the Gay community… he was 14! He was obviously being abused and used. So sad

    • @MsVanorak
      @MsVanorak 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      what puzzles me is that of all of his family, his special schools and care home stints - did no one ever question what had happened to his front teeth? time and time again (eg. hammersmith nude murders 1960s) people have been found dead with their front teeth knocked out because their abuser doesn't want to risk getting bitten - fellatio causing asphyxiation. tv documentaries can't directly say it but the books do.

  • @dshe8637
    @dshe8637 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    People claiming parents nowadays are too protective, need to remember cases like these

  • @Bazanadu
    @Bazanadu ปีที่แล้ว +28

    The murder of Jason Swift had a profound effect on UK society. Perhaps it was the reconstruction. I don't think any other crimewatch case included such a detailed portrayal of such a tragic figure. I remember my mother being particularly traumatised by it. You must remember that this was the period when Robert Black was still at large. Parents all over Britain were terrified for their children. The result was probably (and I'm not exaggerating) the largest reduction in childrens' freedom in history. The effect of these 1980s murders cannot be overestimated.

    • @sarah5893
      @sarah5893 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You're absolutely correct. Robert Black abducted & murdered 10 year old Sarah Harper from Leeds. She was going to the corner shop to buy a loaf of bread. That was the first time as an 11 year old i learnt that monster's really did exist and they live amongst us. All of a sudden we weren't allowed to go anywhere on our own, we weren't allowed to wander & roam around our estate nor could we stay out till it got dark anymore in the summer!

    • @Bazanadu
      @Bazanadu ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@sarah5893 I know. Caroline Hogg was last seen at Fun City amusements in Portobello, Edinburgh. I used to visit it regularly. It was near the Fine Fare supermarket so we used to make a day of it. I guess my situation was a bit different. My father was a psychiatric nurse at the Carstairs State Hospital. And I'll tell you this now. A lot of stuff was covered up. There were murders that the police and coroners said were misadventure etc.

    • @greatwhiteshark9192
      @greatwhiteshark9192 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@BazanaduThat's shocking...these people should be held accountable...such sad tadgic cases

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Great point - the 80s were really an appalling time in many ways. It's when child abuse and murder really started to make an imprint on the public perception. As someone said, it wasn't until the 1980s until the British public even started to like children. The UK had the highest rate of violent crime in Europe in the 80s and it showed. One of the cases that also always sticks in my mind was the murder of 15 year old Maartje Tamboeze by the Railway killers - they'd put a wire across a cycle path to make her dismount from her bike. That terrified me for years afterwards. Sadly, there are still so many child murder cases from that era that are still unsolved. Kevin Hicks, Vishal Mehrotra, Lee Boxell and Martin Allen who was abducted in broad daylight from a London tube station in November 1979 and never seen again.

    • @greatwhiteshark9192
      @greatwhiteshark9192 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@zeddeka just been reading bout those cases ..chilling!!parents worst nightmare coming true!!

  • @garryrandall99
    @garryrandall99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I was the SOCO at Chingford Police Station, I dug Barry out of the field, it has haunted me ever since.

    • @adonaiyah2196
      @adonaiyah2196 ปีที่แล้ว

      Details?

    • @13strange67
      @13strange67 ปีที่แล้ว

      Her useless bf is as much to blame

    • @Alessiasbackheal
      @Alessiasbackheal ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@13strange67 what ?

    • @KittyCatFurbabiesMaria1972
      @KittyCatFurbabiesMaria1972 ปีที่แล้ว

      So is the story of him being decapitated and head found in a bin not true ?

    • @MsVanorak
      @MsVanorak 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      no one should have to do that. sorry you had to but comfort yourself that at least he was found. mark tildesley has never been found and the family never got closure.

  • @michaelevans205
    @michaelevans205 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    According to Wikipedia, Sydney Cooke is still inside. At 96 years of age he's been consistently denied parole.

    • @KittyCatFurbabiesMaria1972
      @KittyCatFurbabiesMaria1972 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nobody can actually find out if he’s dead or alive

    • @colmmeade1824
      @colmmeade1824 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Rightly so sicko

    • @MsVanorak
      @MsVanorak 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      he's poorly and they want him to divulge the whereabouts of mark tildesley before he pops off.

  • @sugargliderdude
    @sugargliderdude ปีที่แล้ว +6

    remember when this was on the news in 1986 about his murder, i was only aged 12 then. 40 years later I still remember jason.

  • @cynthiatolman326
    @cynthiatolman326 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    How can people see a man carrying a semi-unconscious boy and don't think anything, let alone call 999 is beyond me. Not long ago a woman in the US was kidnapped from her home and a neighbor not only saw, but got a partial number plate and called police. She was rescued less than a day later, chained in the vehicle. She'd never have been rescued in the UK.

    • @theresahenderson3534
      @theresahenderson3534 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes, why is that? It makes me frightened to visit the UK knowing no one will come to my defense or aid if I needed help.
      In the US I've met three different lost visitors from the UK. I immediately helped them out to get them back on track and stayed with them until they got on their way. They seem surprised someone would do that for them. That's what we do in Texas. In fact there have been tourists who have lost everything and the local news channel would set up a bank account so people can help them out. Many people quickly donate. Once a couple lost everything and received over $10,000.00 in less than a week. In Texas we want people to think well of our fair city while visiting here, that's how we are in Texas.

    • @Annastesia1988
      @Annastesia1988 ปีที่แล้ว

      if it happened now... People would have taken photos, with their phone, plus cctv everywhere abd called the police, back then the bastards got away with it so easy, no DNA evidence either. Just remember the 30 odd people saw Jamie Bulger being dragged for miles by the evil ten year old shits, people back then seemed to not give a shit

    • @Dids010
      @Dids010 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Completely different times back then to now. Don’t judge the UK on how attitudes were back in the early 80’s! People are much more aware and likely to report this sort of thing now. It’s very sad…people didn’t like to say anything for fear of being seen to interfere. It’s infuriating. So sad. May they rest in peace 😢

    • @secretsquirrel5764
      @secretsquirrel5764 ปีที่แล้ว

      These cases are from the 1980s. Even allowing for the differences in population, the UK has nothing like the level of violent crime and serial killers that the US had in the 1980s and still has now. I have no doubt most people seeing the strange circumstances of Barry being carried around would call the police these days.

    • @StesiaAnna
      @StesiaAnna ปีที่แล้ว +1

      People didn't have mobile phones then..not as easy to just call the police, especially driving travelling

  • @jamesblood6799
    @jamesblood6799 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I don't understand why the lady that rented the caravan to Jason didn't ring the police if she thought he was only 12 surely to god alarm bells would have gone off in her head that it's not normal to rent caravans to 12 year old kids.

    • @theresahenderson3534
      @theresahenderson3534 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I watch a few of these Crime Watch shows. I noticed random people would hear screams, noticed strange things or even noticed people being abducted and not call the police or even come forward until much later when they hear someone is missing or murdered. I find that strange since people want others to come to their aid if they were in danger but do nothing when someone else is in danger.

    • @jamesblood6799
      @jamesblood6799 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@theresahenderson3534 Yeah i totally agree with you, i will never understand why people act like they haven't seen anything until it's to late.

    • @secretsquirrel5764
      @secretsquirrel5764 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I agree, but my only pause for thought is it was 1985.
      I vividly remember the change between the 80s and 90s when my own parents became much more protective and the culture seemed to shift. In the 90s, I suspect the lady would have thought she should call the authorities. But the 80s really were different, following on from earlier years. People didn’t intervene and kids ran wild.

    • @Annastesia1988
      @Annastesia1988 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      he was 14, but different times kids had more freedom then today.. plus she liked him felt sorry for him

    • @DeepSeaDiverHB14
      @DeepSeaDiverHB14 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My heart bleeds for these victims .
      The perpetrators should be made to suffer immensely . I wonder what happens in countries like Pakistan

  • @dilly1863
    @dilly1863 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Horrible! God please bless these dedicated policemen who must endure these types of investigations. It stays like a constant stain in their memories, for life, overshadowing their years of stalwart service to the community! How grateful we must be to them.

    • @Azimuth8687
      @Azimuth8687 ปีที่แล้ว

      And the BLM anarchists want the police defunded.

  • @suzyq4982
    @suzyq4982 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Poor little Barry .. and Jason and any other innocents who were murdered . so sorry . These two monsters made so many kids suffer. Rot in hell 🤬

    • @Hoffinator
      @Hoffinator 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There was a whole gang of them

    • @MsVanorak
      @MsVanorak 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      one of them - sidney cooke is stiil alive in his 90s

    • @MzzJusta
      @MzzJusta 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MsVanorak he’s the only one left. If only he’d admit where he buried little Mark Tildesley before he dies and joins the rest of those monsters in hell.

    • @MsVanorak
      @MsVanorak 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MzzJusta it's his power trip

    • @MzzJusta
      @MzzJusta 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MsVanorak yes

  • @Bazanadu
    @Bazanadu ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Additionally, it must be remembered that Sydney Cooke was born in 1927. These offences were in his late 50s. Gabb, understandably was convinced that these were not the only murders. It's chilling but he probably started his offending in the 1940s.

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka ปีที่แล้ว

      It's terrifying isn't it, and points towards how child abuse just wasn't on the radar at all until relatively recently. I think Cooke's earliest conviction was in the 1960s for molesting a boy in a cinema. He really is a link almost to the horrors of the Victorian age - he himself really is a product of the age he grew up in and he had been regularly sexually abused by his uncle. He fought in the war and had also been married. Places like Piccadilly Circus had been notorious since the 1800s for places to pick up 'rent boys'. It only really changed in the early noughties when it all went online instead. I'm sure Cooke knows an awful lot of things and it'll be interesting to see if anything comes out when he dies. He certainly knew a lot of people, and had been close friends with Ronald Jebsen, the 1970s 'Babes in the Wood' killer.
      There is a theory that the gang didn't start killing until Lennie Smith was involved. Cooke had previously used him as a rent boy but he had later joined the gang and Cooke had apparently grown to dislike him. Cooke even made an anonymous phone call to the police, tipping them off about Lennie Smith at the flat, no doubt wanting to be rid of him.
      Certainly though, he is a very, very nasty piece of work. Apparently he was mortified when Harold Shipman was brought into the same prison as him - he wanted to always be considered the worst one in there. He was supposedly jubilant when Shipman killed himself.

    • @MsVanorak
      @MsVanorak 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      he was got for fondling a boy in the cinema in the early 1960s and abused family members where he lodged as a farm worker in the 70s/80s but that has only just come to light. i think they were dubbed the 'dirty dozen' because of ruth ellis (last woman to be hanged uk 1955) who was being handled/mind controlled by a man called desmond cussen - as in imperial leather soap. so they cock-a-snook at the law working in their favour.

  • @ladylaois8184
    @ladylaois8184 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    He was being used trafficked! Seriously sad. Really got me. RIP Jason you poor lad. My heart goes out. 😊

    • @13strange67
      @13strange67 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Nonce had no children ( the Ukrainian 'wife' ) was initially arrested for being an accomplice

  • @susand9296
    @susand9296 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Poor, poor Jason. Your parents failed you sweetheart. The full details of what happened were not given for good reason. I hope you are at peace tonight darling.

    • @Hoffinator
      @Hoffinator 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The only people to blame here are those who killed him

    • @adonaiyah2196
      @adonaiyah2196 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Hoffinator something doesn't add up

    • @Hoffinator
      @Hoffinator 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@adonaiyah2196 You mean like why did the perpetrators get very small prison sentences ?

    • @happypug4663
      @happypug4663 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No the monsters are to blame not the family

    • @lisahenley600
      @lisahenley600 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You’re right specially his father. Big friggin failure all around

  • @Chloe-vi5mb
    @Chloe-vi5mb ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Why did Jason run away from his sister ? Why wasn’t the family out there looking for him and calling the police when he ran away ?

    • @donny121able
      @donny121able ปีที่แล้ว

      Probably because he was gay.

    • @secretsquirrel5764
      @secretsquirrel5764 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Jason was a neglected child with a chaotic home life and his parents were not looking out for him. Very sad.

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka ปีที่แล้ว +7

      He had an appalling life. Not one of them went to look for him. His mother didn't even report the postcard she'd got from him to the police.

    • @Ariadne76-k3d
      @Ariadne76-k3d ปีที่แล้ว

      I know. It seems like a very self-centered, foolish thing to do. Obviously he would have to turn to prostitution to survive, and that was likely to result in his death. And he stole from his sister, too!

    • @Ariadne76-k3d
      @Ariadne76-k3d ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@zeddekaHis sister looked out for him.

  • @idiotsimulator8055
    @idiotsimulator8055 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Those poor boys. Hideously raped and tortured by Cooke and his cronies. Why we even let these evil perverse things out of prison I'll never know, they won't, can't and don't want to change. I'm sure there's many more young teenagers buried somewhere. I think Cooke was charged with murdering another lad later on too. Rest in Peace Barry and Jason and Mark ❤

    • @MsVanorak
      @MsVanorak 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      vishal mehrotra, imraan vohra, lee boxall, mark tildesley, damien nettles, andrew gosden, kevin hicks, colin maxwell, stephen clark, stephen newring, michael monaghan, sean mcgann and others. nothing provenn nothing found - just names of missing or murdered. and i don't think they were gender specific.

  • @theresahenderson3534
    @theresahenderson3534 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Law Enforcement seems to look down on rent boys as if they enjoy this lifestyle. Yet, they had more respect when dealing with the renters of boys for their gratification. Seems to me they are more disgusting than any poor lost lonely boy. They are boys.

    • @gilliandey2490
      @gilliandey2490 ปีที่แล้ว

      I watched a Roger cook program from 87 .a judge said a pedophilie who collected child abuse images was no worse than a stamp collecter and he ended up doing 6 months.other pedophiles said the girls are willing and he was doing nothing wrong

    • @jaijai5250
      @jaijai5250 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I know the term is relevant for the time period, but they’re not rent boys. They’re victims of child sexual exploitation.

  • @simonyip5978
    @simonyip5978 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    London seems like a horrible and dangerous place in the 1980's.

    • @genuineperson3540
      @genuineperson3540 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It is in 2021 too.

    • @donny121able
      @donny121able ปีที่แล้ว +6

      How's it looking now 2023.

    • @danmills4432
      @danmills4432 ปีที่แล้ว

      Was way better than today's society.
      Try living in victorian London.
      Bad people inhabit all of history.

    • @genuineperson3540
      @genuineperson3540 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @KMartin-jf5kw Oh, but it is. It's getting worse too 😞.

    • @donny121able
      @donny121able 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @KMartin-jf5kw it's a dumping ground.

  • @MM0SDK
    @MM0SDK 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "I rather took to him really" Such a nice lad by the sounds of it, but a bit troubled and sadly met a terrible end. To think i only lived a few miles from him in Hastings at the time, when he was in that caravan. So glad we have DNA advances in technology now that seems to be a good deterrent

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It's the same story repeated time and time again. Kids growing up in unstable families, end up in care, and never have any emotional roots. They end up looking for the love and care they never had when very young, and it leads them into very dark places. So many kids who've been in recent abuse cases have had similar backgrounds.

    • @Alessiasbackheal
      @Alessiasbackheal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@zeddeka Absolutely correct , and what's even more sad is that Jason obviously had some special educational need too , he only got by because he was a streetwise city kid but that's no good if you are surrounded by such horrific criminals , in that environment he had no chance 😔

    • @Annastesia1988
      @Annastesia1988 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      and cameras everywhere too

  • @Alessiasbackheal
    @Alessiasbackheal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    These coppers look absolutely haunted , although they have seen some evil shit in their career , but this is probably not the half on it , they've almost certainly been told to shut mouths or lose everything they have ever worked for so these monsters in high places can keep things nicely covered up . Too sad

    • @adonaiyah2196
      @adonaiyah2196 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Many have said this is the worst case
      Apparently Jasons injuries were the worse the coroner had seen and he'd seen A LOT

    • @imjustvisiting5397
      @imjustvisiting5397 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@adonaiyah2196 What kind of injuries?

    • @adonaiyah2196
      @adonaiyah2196 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@imjustvisiting5397 what do you think

    • @imjustvisiting5397
      @imjustvisiting5397 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@adonaiyah2196 Right..Sorry, I asked that question. They didn't discuss the injuries in the private areas in detail. So, I didn't think about it.

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka ปีที่แล้ว

      Mate, you need to get over this paranoid conspiracy theory bull shit that child abuse is only carried out by shadowy elites. If we've learned anything from these cases it's that child abuse happens at all levels of society. The Sidney Cooke gang who murdered Jason and Barry were overwhelmingly working class, living in abject poverty, had all had traumatic lives, and several of whom had pretty bad learning difficulties. We know that poor areas with chaotic families are the hotbeds of where child abuse happens. Just look at what happened recently in the black country where 21 people on a council estate were arrested, or why Blackpool is the sex offender capital of the UK

  • @seanwheeldon9315
    @seanwheeldon9315 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    How could a human being used so cheaply

  • @nicolagoss9932
    @nicolagoss9932 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So depraved. I can’t imagine how these children felt in their last moments. It makes me want to weep for eternity.

  • @stokecasual9707
    @stokecasual9707 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    mad how he carried Barry around for time and no one questioned it

  • @dhss333
    @dhss333 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The 'celeb.', judicial, & political domaines are riddled with this type of outrage.

  • @armcollector6660
    @armcollector6660 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I wanna know why they NEVER put a wire on the guy in the same cell Leslie was confessing to? I believe so much more info they would've got & could've nailed all of them who ever does this to a child should die or NEVER see daylight again it's just SICK & DISGUSTING RIP TO ALL THE VICTIMS & I am scared to even think about how many victims their truly is!!

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka ปีที่แล้ว

      They apparently wanted to, but there was some kind of problem at the prison

  • @invisibleray6987
    @invisibleray6987 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What about the boy who disappeared at Paddington station 😮

  • @imjustvisiting5397
    @imjustvisiting5397 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I suspect Jason was being abused even before he met the dozen, possibly in the care home or by men in his family home. Where the hell was his father? WHY wasn't he protecting his child?

    • @adonaiyah2196
      @adonaiyah2196 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Me too no reason for him to just get up and leave his sisters place. How come they didnt notify the authorities of his disappearance

    • @imjustvisiting5397
      @imjustvisiting5397 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @adonai yah Jason was at an Islington care home where they took children to the seaside. In the months after Jason's death, a huge scandal broke out that care staff at multiple Islington homes were abusing children and Margaret Hodge didn't do anything to ensure the protection of those children on grounds that the reporting was"anti gay". A survivor of the Islington home abuse requested her files and Jason's files from the home, but they were destroyed purposefully. Jason also filed a complaint against a wealthy film editor, possibly Derek Jarman for sexually abusing him, but later suspiciously withdrew his complaint. All this information is from the spotlight on abuse, needle, and Cathy fox blogs.

    • @adonaiyah2196
      @adonaiyah2196 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @imjustvisiting5397 ive been intrigued by jasons case since 2016 and i want to know everything possible. Theres many things which dont make sense in my opinion, mostly the environmental, circumstantial and motivation of the crime. The location is bizarre too ive been there 4 times at least

    • @adonaiyah2196
      @adonaiyah2196 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@imjustvisiting5397 what makes you think it was Derek jarman

    • @imjustvisiting5397
      @imjustvisiting5397 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @adonai yah I suspect it was Derek Jarman, because the timelines match. I did alot of research and Hampstead came up alot. I could be wrong, but this is what I concluded based on some of the content created by Derek Jarman particularly justifying the abuse of rentboys.

  • @TomLeach-dd8cl
    @TomLeach-dd8cl ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I was only 5 in 1985 but do remember this..especially Barry Lewis being in the paper . Really awful. Rip Barry And Jason 😢

  • @sarah5893
    @sarah5893 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    There's a book about Jason Swift & the Sidney Cooke paedophile ring: Lambs to the Slaughter. I read it back in 1995 & it still traumatises me what happened to that young boy & others like him.

  • @naznaz4508
    @naznaz4508 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Leslie Bailey was murdered in prison… the rest got more protection after this incident

    • @elle37gb31
      @elle37gb31 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      he was the only one convicted of Barrie Lewis, the police also thought there was at least 10 men involved in Jason's murder as well

    • @naznaz4508
      @naznaz4508 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@elle37gb31 I don’t understand why they protect each other for! If capital punishment was still in place, the crimes would definitely drop. Back in the 80s they got away with so much! Look at Jimmy Savile, gosh the massive send off he had! Wasn’t till years later all his secrets unraveled

    • @elle37gb31
      @elle37gb31 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@naznaz4508 Jimmy Savile was making the BBC lots of money and to be honest sexual abuse wasn't spoken about then, I read the book on these murders Jason's murder was so horrific the jury all cried but at the trail they tried to blame it on him a 14yr old vulnerable boy who went to a school for children with special needs was being blamed in court for his own murder none of them served more than 9yrs for his murder

    • @naznaz4508
      @naznaz4508 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@elle37gb31 the thing I don’t understand is why weren’t missing children headline news back in the 70s 80s?? Only thing that made headlines were the moor murders… it made me aware that When the culprits stated that there were over 20 children murdered, then there was the phone line that hoped to get the boys talking, but only for vast amount parents of missing children all got in touch. It wasn’t till late 90s & Millennium onward missing children would make headline news, for the media it’s be a field day as they’d just constantly pasted the front pages with eye catching headlines, the media really did spread the news and ppl were more alert.. such as the girls from Soham, April, Billie Jenkins…. Back in the 70s-80s there were politicians, police inspector and other senior members from all walks of like were all into this Paedophilia…

    • @elle37gb31
      @elle37gb31 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@naznaz4508 they were trying to do away with the age of consent just look at the amount of MPs that supported The Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) which was a British pro-paedophile activist group, founded in October 1974 and were legal upto when they disbanded in 1984 and class played a massive part as well, most working class kids were the victims, they still look down on the working class kids now

  • @andrew196809
    @andrew196809 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Martin Allen aged 12 1979 disappeared London, Sidney Cooke was interviewed by the police no conclusion, and of course Vishal Mehrotra 8 disappeared 1981 body was found police suspected Cooke and co.

    • @leighgladman1011
      @leighgladman1011 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Could be upwards of 20 plus boys bodies laying undiscovered around this country police said..all attributed to this gang of germs! The young Asian lad..he disappeared on charles an Diana wedding day I think..I dont recall ever there being a trial for him or any justice of any size or proportion..?..
      WHY? And never heard anything about a 12 yr old martin..??.. things regarding this dont add up for me..

  • @jeanettehinds4253
    @jeanettehinds4253 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What this piece didn't say was that there had been a fair near to where Barry went missing and that creature Cooke was seen there.

  • @naznaz4508
    @naznaz4508 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    “Robert Oliver was a pathetic individual…”’ gosh! The choice of words that was used then

    • @almadavis8274
      @almadavis8274 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      And the choice was spot on. Not only pathetic but barbaric.

    • @darvon906
      @darvon906 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Now days the main concern would be respecting his pro nouns and giving him a choice of male or female prison , 😢

  • @greatwhiteshark9192
    @greatwhiteshark9192 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Crimewatch was a brilliant show which probably helped the police loads.Always kinda scared me but made me kinda streetwise as a kid.... always remember the joy McKenzie murder for some reason..just stuck in my head...i was only 8...scared the crap outa me!

  • @deborahabbott9793
    @deborahabbott9793 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Horrific, those poor boys 😢

  • @matildamawele8603
    @matildamawele8603 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can't stop crying, about these innocent boys Jason Swift , Barry Lewis and other children😢😢😢😢😢 this is very touching

  • @mikestuart7862
    @mikestuart7862 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm very confused about this horrific crime. Why was this child missing for 6 months and nobody seemed to look for him. He was 14 years of age he should of been protected I feel very very upset about this poor child.

    • @djdeemz7651
      @djdeemz7651 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I watched a thing about him and apparently he would go off on his own quite often and would keep contact with his family... thing's were a bit different back then ..lads would do stuff like that and it would be fine just lads being lads ...times changed massively...you must also remember things like peadofilla were hidden and Taboo to talk about and people would turn a blind eye

  • @imjustvisiting5397
    @imjustvisiting5397 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Steve Nurcombe, Jason Swift's brother who worked in a gay bar said that Jason was not gay, then why does everyone keep insisting on that?

    • @donnamacauley4080
      @donnamacauley4080 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      To justify abuse. The police officer claiming he was in a relationship with an older man before, made no sense. A 13/14 year old cannot be in a consenting relationship with an adult
      He was clearly abused by that older man before he ran away

  • @Mary-ahern
    @Mary-ahern 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This case is so upsetting and disturbing pure evil . To think what terror, fear and pain these poor boys went through makes me so angry. .

  • @jeanettehinds2605
    @jeanettehinds2605 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    What was Jason running from? Something was happening.

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Having watched other documentaries, it seems he was a lost soul from a troubled background. It seems that he enjoyed travelling round as a kind of escapism. Because of his family life, he seems to have had no emotional roots. Bless his soul.

    • @susand9296
      @susand9296 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      His bedwetting problem MAY suggest he was abused before he ran away. He went from the frying pan to the fire, so to speak.

    • @adonaiyah2196
      @adonaiyah2196 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@susand9296 ive been thinking about this for a while. There's evidence of him being abused before this and the fact he was killed on the exact same estate his sister was living at the same time. I dont know how much they knew

    • @adonaiyah2196
      @adonaiyah2196 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@zeddeka escaping from what though

    • @Hoffinator
      @Hoffinator 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@adonaiyah2196 Makes you think was Jason known to Cooke and everyone else before they took him to that flat ?

  • @freddymars2014
    @freddymars2014 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why are the sentences so light? No justice for the victims, and the ability to re-offend upon release, what a sick joke...

  • @laceneil4570
    @laceneil4570 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Jason Swift's case reminds me of the case of Karen Price. Two poor lost souls, desperately searching for love and finding only abuse, exploitation and murder.

  • @kisha1682
    @kisha1682 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Jason ran away. Why?

    • @Ariadne76-k3d
      @Ariadne76-k3d ปีที่แล้ว

      It was certainly a very bad idea.

  • @martymcfly4654
    @martymcfly4654 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My aunt lived in the same area as little barry and she told me the police were forced to arrest sidney Cooke for his own protection cause people were looking for cooke with the intention of seriously or fatally injuring him

  • @benedicthlongwane7186
    @benedicthlongwane7186 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hopefully, the likes of Sir Jimmy Savile and his connections were also checked.

  • @jackiewilson4654
    @jackiewilson4654 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Does that photofit not look like one of man who took Martin allen?

  • @meggriffin94
    @meggriffin94 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Andrew Gosden

    • @patriceaqa288
      @patriceaqa288 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Exactly what came to my mind

    • @lisastickytuna8668
      @lisastickytuna8668 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      January, 2022, 2 b@sta@rds were arrested for his kidnap, trafficking and possession of indecent images.

  • @jeanettehinds4253
    @jeanettehinds4253 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What are the odds that Barry was playing out and walking home at the exact same time, in the exact area, the exact street as that creature Bailey?

  • @brockit79
    @brockit79 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just so heartbreaking, how a young and extremely vulnerable boy can be exploited like that - then he gets labelled a rent boy?! And that he had a 'relationship' with an older man? He was clearly groomed...just shows how society really views paed...philia.

  • @danmills4432
    @danmills4432 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In london in the 80s you used public toilets at your own risk.
    Freaky perverts were everywhere.
    Clapham common at night was a very strange place.full of dodgey MP's,doctors,soliciters and other apparently proffessional freaks.

  • @gracemcgeachie3366
    @gracemcgeachie3366 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Poor Jason. He never had a chance among these evil individuals. Awful to think of what he went through.

  • @matildamawele8603
    @matildamawele8603 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yeah very surprising that the lady that rented the lady didn't phone the police , very sad story😢😢😢😢😢

  • @DarkStar-wu9nq
    @DarkStar-wu9nq ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Real Police Officers back then who earn the respect they deserved
    Nothing like todays police
    These cops wouldn’t be told who to arrest and who to leave alone
    God bless all these policemen

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka ปีที่แล้ว

      You're bloody joking aren't you? If we know anything about the police back then is that they were corruption was absolutely rampant. Have you ever actually heard of the Daniel Morgan case?

    • @2639263926392639
      @2639263926392639 ปีที่แล้ว

      I fear your comment is based on utterly fantastical hope and propaganda. There are pretty good grounds to say you, and the currently 5 souls who endorse your unfounded comment are unfortuntaly naive. If you examine the case files of Kincora you will find evidence of cover up. And in the north Wales care homes scandal, 300 former care children wrote statements alledging the abuse was orchestrated and far wider than the care home staff. Those abused are often further betrayed by the very system that originally failed them. The truth is far darker than the rose tinted view you project.

  • @abbie545
    @abbie545 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ironic how technology now helps catch these monsters and also helps them in their depraved behaviour

  • @ivanrainbird2416
    @ivanrainbird2416 ปีที่แล้ว

    i actually know one police officers on this case he said it's nightmare that sticks in your brain even in 2023

  • @jeanettehinds4253
    @jeanettehinds4253 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I thought and thought what Jason was running from. He had a nice home with his sister and after he ran away, he was sleeping on the streets. What could be worse than being assaulted by God knows how many men.

  • @matildamawele8603
    @matildamawele8603 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don't understand why was this child missing for 6 months no one was concerned , why the mother wasn't concerned this is very annoying don't really understand why people that saw that the young boy was an conso😢😢😢😢very touching

  • @davidoconnell4100
    @davidoconnell4100 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'll never understand how Cooke made it out of prison alive.

    • @joshuaaaron125
      @joshuaaaron125 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hes still in prison

    • @davidoconnell4100
      @davidoconnell4100 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@joshuaaaron125 I assume you're either not familiar with the case or being flippant.
      Cooke's sentence for the manslaughter of Swift was reduced to sixteen years on appeal in 1989, and he was paroled nine years later in April 1998.[19] He told an appeals court that Bailey was the ringleader of the gang.[20] Cooke's parole caused huge public outrage, which was exacerbated by a plan to move him to a hostel near two schools,[21][22] and the fact that Cooke himself admitted that he might re-offend if he was released. While in prison, Cooke refused to take part in any rehabilitation sessions.[23] Police refused to disclose the location to which he was to be moved,[24] smuggling him out of prison to avoid a vigil for his victims.[23] For the next nine months, Cooke lived in a suite of cells at Yeovil police station at his own request, rarely venturing out in public.[3]

    • @joshuaaaron125
      @joshuaaaron125 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@davidoconnell4100 he’s currently in a cat a prison so I’m not being flippant

  • @secretsquirrel5764
    @secretsquirrel5764 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The thumbnail is effing terrifying. So sorry Barry & Jason.

  • @ASDAPIX
    @ASDAPIX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    School headmaster looks like Trevor MacDonald

  • @1990-t1j
    @1990-t1j 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Gruelling but compusive viewing.

  • @traciemarsh1611
    @traciemarsh1611 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    rip barry and jason

  • @kg3718
    @kg3718 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Naturally the UK establishment dit not want this case to go further

  • @3zoomer
    @3zoomer 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jason took his monopoly set with him shows that he was still a young boy bloody tragic life😢

  • @suehoult9062
    @suehoult9062 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Law is an arse.

  • @brianford8493
    @brianford8493 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    WTF carrying about with a child WTF WTF!!!!???

  • @PC-lu3zf
    @PC-lu3zf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very very sad case.

  • @jackiewilson4654
    @jackiewilson4654 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So awful , to think he could have been caught at petrol station or on the road and Barry could have been saved 😢

  • @Maz-zb9uf
    @Maz-zb9uf 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why we keep protecting these men by realising them into the community to victimised children

  • @Littlemouse884
    @Littlemouse884 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is so bizzare how blatantly he abducted that wee boy in broad daylight and in front of people > obviously it was his confidence that threw people off 😬

  • @samyheath8103
    @samyheath8103 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    29:23 Paddy from Emmerdale 🤣 🤣

  • @kisha1682
    @kisha1682 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wonder why the kid didn't scream for help

    • @donny121able
      @donny121able ปีที่แล้ว +10

      He was drugged, also scared.

    • @secretsquirrel5764
      @secretsquirrel5764 ปีที่แล้ว

      Barry was terrified, but also he was drugged to be compliant.

  • @TrinaNixon-u4p
    @TrinaNixon-u4p 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    She rented a caravan to a 12yr old 🤔🤔🤔

  • @happyjack7948
    @happyjack7948 ปีที่แล้ว

    Stephen Barrell i lived not 50 yards from him and his family . real oddballs that lot

    • @bdave9012
      @bdave9012 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What age was he? What was his occupation?

    • @happyjack7948
      @happyjack7948 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@bdave9012 he was only about 12-14 at the time ..he`s family were gypsy`s ,thats what we all belived. strange all the family had heterochromia. none of them to bright but ok people . i think he was easy lead .

  • @AwesomeAngryBiker
    @AwesomeAngryBiker ปีที่แล้ว

    Believe sidney Cooke was caught for both these murders

  • @gilliandey2490
    @gilliandey2490 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Leslie bailey confessed repented if you like.i noted that most abused not all but some become abusers.a cycle .

    • @secretsquirrel5764
      @secretsquirrel5764 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Many male abusers claim to have been abused. It’s often not true. Also striking that female abuse victims rarely hurt anyone.

    • @Spectrescup
      @Spectrescup ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@secretsquirrel5764 Different dynamic

    • @nickcoppard5335
      @nickcoppard5335 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I am so angry at hearing sh17 like that especially from alleged experts

  • @zedjay81
    @zedjay81 ปีที่แล้ว

    Monsters.