that's peter bleksley . uh, be. that's peter bleksley. uh, now we know that brits like to queue, but surely this is ridiculous. >> you'll all have seen the viral video of the queues for the nhs in bristol this week, so we'll be asking one of the country's top dentists if we're sleepwalking into a dental health crisis . health crisis. >> we'll also be meeting this week's greatest briton , the week's greatest briton, the wonderful woman behind the animal charity curly tails, which rescues unwanted pet piggies and gives them a safe and loving home. we can't wait for that. can we.7 cut and loving home. we can't wait for that. can we? cut and it's very exciting as this week we're going to meet a very special guest. >> happens to be my wife, doctor emily. uh, she's going to be here telling us all about her brand new book. fantastic book called children's mental health called children's mental health called healthy mind happy. you are. >> and i'm so excited for that because it's already number one on amazon, isn't it? oh no. >> i got excited and

joining me now is former scotland yard detective peter bleksley peter. ou so much for joining bleksley peter. thank you so much forjoining me this much for joining me this afternoon. peter the question on everyone's lips is this man has got a serious facial injury. how is he still at large? why have we not found him? >> well , i we not found him? >> well, i think we. what? what we need to remember here is that as he came into the uk by concealing himself in the back of a lorry, having come originally from afghanistan . so originally from afghanistan. so in all likelihood he probably passed through many other countries on his way here. and consequently he's got quite a bit of exposure science of hiding himself away, particularly from authorities. so this is not his first experience of not wanting to be found. he's also got a fairly recent criminal conviction, so he's no stranger to the criminal justice system and therefore where he possibly has a network. we know that the police have recently searched five properties in connection with him, so he has conta

anyway, joining me now is former detective peter bleksley. now peter, some of . my bleksley. em well. they'll be getting in touch now, saying this whole theory about him jumping into the river. this is to cover the backsides of the met police, because basically, they're just not doing their job in finding him. what do you say to that, abdul shakoor azadi originally from afghanistan. >> who smuggled himself into the uk in the back of a lorry, who made multiple applications for asylum and in between two of those applications was convicted of two sex offences , who was of of two sex offences, who was of course wanted for a vicious, wicked , vindictive attack on a wicked, vindictive attack on a woman and two young children, dunng woman and two young children, during which a number of police officers and members of the pubuc officers and members of the public also got injured, is dead i >> -- >> how do you know? >> how do you know? >> end of story. >> end of story. >> how do you know? >> how do you know? >> because the metropolitan police have done exhaustive cctv, trawls and what

still joined by peter bleksley . peter, can we talk bleksley. st about the manhunt for abdul ezedi the press conference. their commander, john saville at new scotland yard , a significant manhunt yard, a significant manhunt under way? >> yes. i think commander saville told us a lot of what we might have expected of a manhunt where the fugitive is still at large, which, of course, he is. um, you know, he talks about a number of experienced detectives . yes, we would have expected that. we heard that search warrants have been executed . warrants have been executed. five executed overnight at. and the movements of the car will, of course, that vehicle will have been tracked on automatic number plate recognition cameras. so they back tracked to when started his journey when he started his journey down. notice that there were, i would imagine , premises that he would imagine, premises that he probably visited and consequently they've gathered some further evidence in relation to the attack. it would seem. but the crucial point is, once again , the pol

peter bleksley. sorry. lexi. peter bleksley. sorry. >> thank you.ebate. as we speak. there is a 31 year old son, severely injured woman who 24 hours ago was still under sedation . and of course, two sedation. and of course, two children were injured. mercifully less seriously than their mother. all of this , none their mother. all of this, none of this, should i say, would have happened if people had done theirjob properly. and perhaps clergy had not been duped . shame clergy had not been duped. shame on them all. you've failed the people of britain yet again . people of britain yet again. >> did they have indeed failed anybody wants to add before we go to the news is there anybody who missed out? anybody who is missed out? anybody want to no, no. to add anything to that? no, no. just the afghan. just want the afghan. >> point made earlier on >> the point made earlier on there afghans who helped there were afghans who helped us.the there were afghans who helped us. the soldiers , the us. the soldiers, the translators could be treated pretty shameful

. >> let's talk to former scotland yard detective peter bleksley, who's with us now. ell, round about 40 years ago, when i was on the drug squad at scotland yard, we arrested a man called david meaden in possession of 36 kilos of cocaine . kilos of cocaine. >> and at that time, that was the largest landslide seizure of cocaine 36kg. we're now talking about. cocaine 36kg. we're now talking about . 5.7 tonnes, 150 times about. 5.7 tonnes, 150 times bigger than that seizure that we had that made the papers in a big way back in the 80s, which just goes to show the growth of the industry, the illegal drugs industry is now the fourth biggest industry in the world. the demand for illegal drugs is colossal and will not go away. and this is just yet another example of the folly of having these drugs illegal. what we need to do to reduce harm to combat this industry, to wrestle it from the vice like grip of organised crime , is to legalise organised crime, is to legalise and regulate the industry . and regulate the industry. >> and that's hugely controversial , of course, but co

with me is former metropolitan police detective and crime expert, peter bleksley.

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joining me now is former scotland yard detective peter bleksley, who been peter bleksley, who has beening this case from . it covering this case from. it started and spent a lot of time explaining things to us yesterday. a rather brilliantly peter, thank so much for peter, thank you so much for coming afternoon. um, coming back this afternoon. um, peter, now reward on coming back this afternoon. um, pet> yes, this dreadful attack did indeed happen on wednesday evening . and some of the footage evening. and some of the footage which has been released by the met pol

recall, in september 2022, well, i'm joined now in the studio by former scotland yard detective peter bleksleythem. i mean, the police don't seem to have the police don't seem to have the their own gaffers. the backs of their own gaffers. >> a former firearms officer. >> had that gun oil under >> i've had that gun oil under my fingernails gone through the training, years ago, training, albeit many years ago, and face those decisions out on the street. do i pull the trigger or don't i? so i'm fairly well placed to understand the frustrations that firearms officers are going through at the moment. and i'd like to make clear this story is very, very different from the story a few weeks ago when armed police officers laid down their weapons and didn't carry out their work. this story today is of about 10% of the entire metro police, armed firearms officer capacity saying this job is no longer for me and simply walking away from that work. >> and that is a lot of armed coppers who don't want to carry guns anymore . and the force has guns anymore. and the force has lost more than 250 authorised offi

we've now got peter bleksley in the studio. rmer scotland yard detective, and we're talking about this report into policing, uh, protests and, uh, the size and frequency of protests . it's and frequency of protests. it's oven and frequency of protests. it's over. the conflict in gaza have strained resources . it's been strained resources. it's been reported. peter, i'm sitting here in fear and trepidation . am here in fear and trepidation. am i am going to be seen to be islamophobic. um by by commenting on this , i mean this commenting on this, i mean this this is fact. this is not opinion. >> yeah. this is quite a wide ranging report. and what really needs to be done is to read between the lines of what is said, because the report stops short of making criticism of particularly of the police. and of course, the met police. but what it does say is very notably, is that policing of protests must be done without fear or favour. protests must be done without fear or favour . so that's fear or favour. so that's clearly hinting at th

that's peter bleksley . uh, be. that's peter bleksley.or the nhs in bristol this week, so we'll be asking one of the country's top dentists if we're sleepwalking into a dental health crisis . health crisis. >> we'll also be meeting this week's greatest briton , the week's greatest briton, the wonderful woman behind the animal charity curly tails, which rescues unwanted pet piggies and gives them a safe and loving home. we can't wait for that. can we? cut and it's very exciting as this week we're going to meet a very special guest. >> happens to be my wife, doctor emily. uh, she's going to be here telling us all about her brand new book. fantastic book called children's mental health called children's mental health called healthy mind happy. you are

sophie reaper gb news is. >> peter bleksley is still with us. ere, i think they were 15 at the time of the murder , um, should have their murder, um, should have their names released. yes >> it'sjust names released. yes >> it's just about a year coming up to the year's anniversary of brianna's brutal and utterly avoidable murder. brianna's brutal and utterly avoidable murder . these two avoidable murder. these two young people had murderous intent , and young people had murderous intent, and sadly, they carried that out. they had drawn up a list of other potential victims. killing was what they were going to do. and mrs. justice, the judge in this case is absolutely spot on when she says in the pubuc spot on when she says in the public interest that these two young people need to be named, they will both turn 18 next yeah they will both turn 18 next year. in any event. so any anonymity order would probably have been lifted at that stage. so yes , the public deserve to so yes, the public deserve to know. just who these lying men murderous people a

yard detective peter bleksley. so good to see you all this morning. i did want to start with this horrific story, actually, and this question that we're of nature we're asking today of, of nature versus nurture. i mean, peter, with your crime background, do you believe that people are are born evil to commit these kind of crimes? or do you think they are exposed to it and they become way? become that way? >> there are often >> well, i think there are often elements because the elements of both because the mindset of criminals often morphs and changes as they get older and their criminality changes. older and their criminality changes . for example, you might changes. for example, you might find a young person who might injure a pet or kill a pet. now thatis injure a pet or kill a pet. now that is so often a red flag and might later manifest itself in people committing very serious crimes against human beings, including murder. and so is that nature. did this child's kind of bad behaviour develop over years , or were they, in fact born that way ? well,

former scotland yard detective peter bleksley says the marches are having a massive impact on resources committee has said the organisers of these protests probably should be forced into giving more notice of them because literally they're telling the met within days that there's going to be 100,000 or more people on the streets of london. >> and of course, that's putting huge pressure on the police and their resources. >> in other news, there's been no breakthrough on negotiations for a gaza ceasefire, but qatar says it remains optimistic. it's after a proposal to swap israeli hostages for palestinian prisoners, and it was sent to hamas . several days of hamas. several days of multinational talks have been held in paris discussing the possibility of a temporary truce . reports suggest the deal would see all israeli women children under 19, elderly and sick hostages released in exchange for a number of palestinian prisoners under water. experts who supported the search for nicola bulley are joining the operation to find a toddler in leicester. two year old xylo maruziva fell into the ri

i'm joined now by former detective peter bleksley peter. welcome to the show .enacted in 1989, so , were first enacted in 1989, so, so a very long time ago. >> so and it's rather astonishing that it's taken this long for the home office for and senior police to realise that they're surrendering of the streets has in so many regards got us into this dreadful situation where the criminals , situation where the criminals, the lawbreakers, the anti—social people are in charge and this very much cuts across as your earlier story about knife crime, the streets have been surrendered. they need to be reclaimed, but when they are reclaimed, but when they are reclaimed, they need to hold that ground and never abandon them again . them again. >> and the trouble is, peter, it's okay. let's get an extra thousand bobbies. but where are they going to come from? most of them seem to be pencilled next from universities . from universities. >> there is a huge lack of >> yes, there is a huge lack of experience in policing and you've only got to go onto social media to see many, ma

. >> well, we can now speak with former scotland yard detective peter bleksley, whose son was actuallypeter, my instant reaction is this is a good thing. it did seem unduly lenient. the families of the victims were very clear that they thought it was too. yes and i echo your words entirely . words entirely. >> i'm in absolute agreement. although, as a former detective , although, as a former detective, i'm deeply concerned about the pleas that were accepted to manslaughter on diminished responsibility . and i know that responsibility. and i know that certain members of the families, of course, have gone public with their concerns about that . and their concerns about that. and what i would like to know is whether the investigation into these horrific , utterly these horrific, utterly unjustified and dreadful murders of barney grace and ian , whether of barney grace and ian, whether that investigation delved into any potential drug taking that may exist in calocane history, i don't know whether there was or whether there wasn't, but that investigation should have investigated that possi

few weeks time. >> let's speak to former >> well, let's speak to former met police detective peter bleksley welcome these new measures, peter, i wellome these new measures, peter, i we“ think they're necessary. >> i think they're necessary. not only because protesters have gone way beyond what is lawful protest, but also because we have a police service these days, which is so largely led by the fluffy woke , overeducated the fluffy woke, overeducated liberal kind of elite of policing that they spend more time in trumpeting the law than actually enforce it. and that does have an effect on the front line. if they feel they're going to be unsupported, then they want to be exactly spot on with whatever power of arrest it is that they're utilising. and these are very much needed. we've seen people climbing on war memorials. i'm glad that's being outlawed. it's utterly disrespectful. the blocking of roads by various protesters . roads by various protesters. yes, that's caused huge disruption. and the police have been very slow to use existing legislation. so perhaps this new legislation. so perh

, and peter . bleksleyill on the run. what's your feeling? >> well, it's about 12 hours now since we last heard from the metropolitan police and they showed a video of premises being searched newcastle , albeit searched in newcastle, albeit that was from two days ago and there wasn't really anything particularly fresh or important or in or significant that they told us they didn't. for example, explain an area or a town or a village or a city where they felt he may be hemmed in and hiding. none of that kind of information . they did say of information. they did say that dozens of people had contacted them, and clearly they know more than we do. sitting here this morning . but my fear know more than we do. sitting here this morning. but my fear , here this morning. but my fear, my concern is that he may be holed up somewhere if he's getting help . in other words, if getting help. in other words, if somebody is feeding him, clothing him, perhaps giving him medical attention, then he's going to be a lot harder

former scotland yard detective peter bleksley told us earlier he should have never been allowed to stay >> i'm not going to sugarcoat this at all. if anybody wants to appreciate the horrors that we have imported into this country , have imported into this country, courtesy of governments , courtesy of governments, courtesy of governments, courtesy of governments, courtesy of the home office , courtesy of the home office, courtesy of the home office, courtesy of the home office, courtesy of failings of the border force, just how much criminal vermin we have imported into this country. criminal vermin we have imported into this country . then go criminal vermin we have imported into this country. then go on to the internet and simply search asylum seeker convicted. there are a litany of cases of people committing the most serious crime . in the teenagers who crime. in the teenagers who murdered breonna . murdered breonna. >> gi are to be sentenced in publicly named for the first time, 16 year old brianna was stabbed to death in what was described as a sustained and violent assault in ches

former scotland yard detective peter bleksley says the marches are having a massive impact on resourceson to deal with these protests . protests. >> it's and policing doesn't just have another box of police officers , it can open. officers officers, it can open. officers are being taken from other commitments elsewhere and as the met regularly says, officers are being taken away from the communities that they police. so who's going to fill that gap? well, quite frankly, no body because there aren't enough officers to do that . officers to do that. >> in other news, there's been no breakthrough on negotiations for a gaza ceasefire. but qatar says it remains optimistic. it's after a proposal to swap israeli hostages held in gaza for palestinian prisoners. it was sent to hamas. several days of multinational talks have been held in paris discussing the possibility of a temporary truce, reports suggest the deal would see all israeli women children under 19, elderly and sick hostages released in exchange for a number of palestinian prisoners as underwater experts who supported the search for

yesterday, former metropolitan police detective peter bleksley told me a truly shocking story that sums on british streets. a man accused of stabbing a restaurant worker in london was detained by two employees of a firm called my local bobby wolfer, a private security service. the suspect was then taken to two uniformed police officers who simply refused to arrest the man, who just stabbed not only the person in the restaurant, but the man who attempted to detain him. and that story simply amaze me. and it appalled me , and i wanted to it appalled me, and i wanted to find out more about these services. so to that end , i'm services. so to that end, i'm now joined by david mckelvey, who's the co—founder of my local bobby and a former detective chief inspector in the met. thanks for joining chief inspector in the met. thanks forjoining us on the thanks for joining us on the show, david. and i just i just want to get you on today to say thank you for your work, but can you explain to us what my local bobby is? >> my local bobby is about putting , uh, community policemen putting, uh, commun

well, joining us in the studio now is former scotland yard detective peter bleksley peter good to seee of that, that you feel like they don't seem to have any current information? strangely ho. 110. >> no. >> the latest sighting him >> the latest sighting of him that told about and that we've been told about and that we've been told about and that seen from cctv that we've seen from a cctv image is 9:47 pm. last wednesday , nearly a week. it's wednesday, nearly a week. it's tuesday now. yeah. and okay, so somebody got arrested yesterday. but they've been released on bail. so they're clearly wasn't a raft of very obvious evidence and able to charge that person and able to charge that person and keep them in custody . this and keep them in custody. this information is getting . on for information is getting. on for six days and it'll be a week tomorrow. >> how can somebody particularly someone with an injury as prominent as that , just vanish? prominent as that, just vanish? >> well , two theories that the >> well, two theories that the police are working on, and they are the blatantly

the former scotland yard detective, peter bleksley, told us earlier he should have never been allowed to stay in the country to carry out the crime . country to carry out the crime. >> going to sugarcoat >> i'm not going to sugarcoat this at all. if anybody was , this at all. if anybody was, it's to appreciate the horrors that we have imported into this country , courtesy of governments country, courtesy of governments . courtesy of the home office. courtesy of failings of the border force. just how much criminal vermin we have imported into this country. criminal vermin we have imported into this country . then go criminal vermin we have imported into this country. then go on to the internet and simply search asylum seeker convicted. there are a litany of cases of people committing the most serious crimes as a potential deal to send migrants back to turkey, aimed at stopping small boat crossings seems unlikely to get the go ahead home office officials say. >> turkey isn't generally safe due to human rights concerns . due to human rights concerns. the setback follows the success of a

. >> peter bleksley something like that. he said exactly the same thing. where they've had stabbings where he is the shoplifting epidemic is out of control. >> if people stop the traffic on roads, that's a crime and that's out of control. >> it's lawlessness in this country. and as for mr freer, now who's decided to step down? i'm not quite as sympathetic as a lot of people are to him. politicians put themselves up there because they want to represent the people. if there's a crime wave in this country , a crime wave in this country, i'd say backing down on it is not the way show leadership. not the way to show leadership. i know, said. i'm not going not the way to show leadership. i kstand said. i'm not going not the way to show leadership. i kstand said next not going not the way to show leadership. i kstand said next election.) to stand at the next election. but , if you were but frankly, if you were running, , you know, a mayoral running, um, you know, a mayoral office in colombia or sardinia and the mafia are after you, i can understand the problem, b